"Because the three of you possess autonomous authority, sending ssages externally did not trigger the warning asures," Josh explained.
The three of them were all A-Tier Lifeforms, possessing the highest authority within the fleet.
Even the factions behind the three of them were different from each other; therefore, they possessed autonomous authority for external communication without being intercepted.
Hanging up the communication, the three looked at each other in dismay.
Could the three of them be internal traitors? If it was only Jorge, then Donovan would unhesitatingly take him down.
Even adding Gongora to the mix, he would only feel sowhat suspicious.
But the suspect was also locked onto himself, so Donovan could now say with absolute certainty that none of the three of them could possibly be internal traitors.
But here ca the problem. Donovan carefully recalled that at that ti, he definitely had not operated his Smart Terminal to send any ssages externally.
"Hand over all your Smart Terminals..." Donovan instructed.
Neither Jorge nor Gongora hesitated. They also understood that there must definitely be soone secretly playing tricks on them.
In all likelihood, their Smart Terminals had already been hacked by soone.
Three differently styled Smart Terminals were placed on the table: a wristwatch, glasses, and a pocket watch... The three styles represented the three people's personalities.
The sleek outer shells reflected a tallic luster. For portable smart devices of their level, they all underwent layers of encryption. To hack them in a short period of ti was fundantally an impossible task.
Donovan carefully observed the three Smart Terminals. Could they be listening devices?
He picked up the pocket watch-styled Smart Terminal from among them and placed it in his hand. Without any hesitation, he clenched his fist, and electric arc sparks shot out.
This Smart Terminal was directly destroyed by him. Gongora's mouth slightly twitched; this vintage pocket watch-styled Smart Terminal was precisely his.
However, subsequently his expression slightly changed, appearing sowhat bewildered and uncertain, because he actually heard faint wailing sounds coming from Donovan's palm.
"Did you hear that?" He asked Jorge. With an A-Tier Lifeform's hearing, he shouldn't be mistaken.
But this kind of thing was truly sowhat too bizarre, so he was sowhat doubtful if he had heard wrong.
"I heard it too. Your Smart Terminal seems to be screaming tragically." Jorge nodded, then asked sowhat hesitantly: "Is the emotion module you loaded this smart? It even wails when destroyed?"
Gongora was speechless. "How could I possibly load an emotion module?"
Right at this mont, Donovan opened his palm. The gazes of the three focused over simultaneously, and then they simultaneously revealed expressions of confusion mixed with shock.
They only saw that in Donovan's palm, the pocket watch-styled Smart Terminal had already been completely destroyed, but unlike what they imagined turning into component fragnts...
This Smart Terminal actually shattered into multiple limbs resembling a humanoid shape.
Even if the three of them weren't overly knowledgeable about technology, they also knew that the structure inside a Smart Terminal was fundantally not like this.
Donovan poked through the limb fragnts and picked out a chanical head the size of a fingernail from within. It was almost indistinguishable from an interstellar human.
The only difference was that it was currently still shooting out electric sparks.
"What the hell is this!?" Gongora said in shock: "How did my Smart Terminal turn into this?"
Donovan frowned tightly. If his guess was correct, the thing that leaked the information should be this kind of stuff.
Subsequently, he looked towards the rest of the Smart Terminals on the table. Jorge suddenly understood and subsequently picked up his glasses-styled Smart Terminal.
Tearing it directly from the middle, the wailing sounds this ti were even clearer. The two temple arms flipped over, exposing chanical structures, and actually ford half a body each.
"Damn..." Jorge was also shocked. When did his Smart Terminal turn into this?
He lifted the two segnts of the chanical body and carefully inspected them.
"Pah!"
A mouthful of oily phlegm was abruptly spat onto Jorge's face. He only saw the chanical head on the upper half cursing angrily: "What are you looking at, you damned bastard! You killed us, the great Creator will avenge us sooner or later!"
Jorge wiped off the oily phlegm from his face, his expression stiff, and forcefully crushed this chanical body into pieces.
He was spat on with a huge mouthful of phlegm by his own Smart Terminal; who would believe him if he said this out loud?
"You're too reckless," Gongora shook his head. "We needed to understand more information. Who is his Creator? That's the most crucial part."
However, right now, two of the three Smart Terminals had already been destroyed, leaving only Donovan's own Smart Terminal.
Donovan picked up his large wristwatch. The golden outer shell had quite the feeling of a nouveau riche.
Perhaps knowing it had no need to continue hiding, this wristwatch rapidly split open from the middle and swiftly transford into a chanical body roughly ten centiters tall.
"Donovan..." It directly addressed Donovan by his na: "Do not harbor any delusions of obtaining any information from ."
"There is one thing my two companions did not tell you, and that is all your secrets hidden within the Smart Terminals have already been transmitted out."
The three of them instantly had their pupils shrink. Donovan's face turned ashen, actually directly crushing this chanical body into a tal sphere.
The Smart Terminals did not know all their secrets, but they also covered seventy to eighty percent.
For example, things like network browsing history, the vast majority of chat logs, and shopping records... This was just the most basic.
Having this kind of secret known by an enemy was undoubtedly the worst news.
Jorge and Gongora exchanged a glance. Great... now the last clue was also gone.
Donovan's tone was dead silent: "No need to guess too much, just work backward from the results. The news was definitely transmitted to Li Yu, so he is the Creator of these chanical lifeforms."
He didn't care about the twists and turns within it; he only knew that in the end, Li Yu was the one who killed the Sleeper, so Li Yu was the Creator.
"But exactly what kind of thod is this?" Jorge couldn't help but say: "We only fought him for less than an hour previously."
"In the span of an hour, he turned all our Smart Terminals into this kind of creature?"
This thod was too astonishing. To many people, a Smart Terminal was their second self, harboring their dark sides.
Although there were also interstellar hackers who could hack into Smart Terminals through network thods, it was far from being as astonishing as Li Yu's thod.
"I now sowhat understand why the Loren Family offered such a massive price for him." Donovan's eyes were deep as he looked at the chanical fragnts on the floor.
Although they found the root source of the information leak, the group couldn't feel happy, because the news was indeed leaked out from them.
If they reported this up to the Star Glory Empire, what awaited them would definitely be severe reprimands. After all, they caused the Sleeper's death because of this.
"The mission item obtained by the Sleeper has already fallen into Li Yu's hands," Donovan guessed.
Gongora sighed: "Now this is troubleso. How do we explain ourselves when we go back?"
"Go back?" Donovan looked at Gongora, revealing a savage smile: "Go back to do what? Be reprimanded, be punished?"
"Now the facts are already placed before us. Li Yu is the thing with the highest value. As long as we can take him down, everything will be made up for."
Jorge and Gongora were both shocked. Donovan actually still hadn't given up on Li Yu.
"But... what should we do?" Jorge was sowhat confused.
Donovan did not answer, rely telling the two to collect the chanical body fragnts on the ground to hand them over to the Star Glory Empire for research.
………
At the sa ti, Li Yu also learned through Claptrap that the Smart Terminals of Donovan's group of three were no longer transmitting ssages.
In all likelihood, they had already been discovered by Donovan, but Li Yu wasn't surprised by this.
Those three weren't idiots; with the Sleeper's location leaked, they definitely had to conduct a self-investigation.
"Now you guys definitely won't still be thinking of sneak attacking , right..." Li Yu pondered secretly. The Sleeper they relied on had already been killed.
It couldn't be that Donovan still hadn't given up, right?
He was staying in Barot's external reception hotel, and as for exactly how to handle him, they didn't have a plan yet.
The forces guarding him were also very weak, and it could be said there were fundantally none.
"I didn't expect Das, this crazy bastard, to speak so arrogantly..."
Although the Smart Terminals on Donovan's side were destroyed, the Smart Terminals of Das and Soli were still transmitting news to him, allowing him to quietly take control of the overall situation.
He also knew about the confrontation in the banquet hall. The phrase "Weak nations have no diplomacy" was vividly reflected in this matter.
The communication among the upper echelons was still ongoing. Das had already reported this matter to the Returning Star Headquarters, and the reply they received did not exceed his expectations—
No matter what Li Yu had done, the only one who could handle him was Returning Star.
As for the Barot Civilization, go play on the side.
The Barot Civilization also had no choice. They also preferred to turn a blind eye and just let this matter pass.
But who told the dead person to be the Sleeper, an A-Tier Lifeform of the Star Glory Empire.
Donovan had imdiately contacted the Barot Civilization, demanding they provide an explanation on this matter.
Just releasing Li Yu so casually couldn't be justified to the Star Glory Empire.
In reality, Li Yu wasn't imprisoned or placed under house arrest. The Barot Civilization even hoped he would leave on his own.
This way, they would also have an explanation for the Star Glory Empire; they could entirely say that Li Yu resisted arrest with force, and they also had no other way.
But the problem was that Li Yu, against all odds, stayed obediently in his room, not stepping out of the door.
In such a bizarre atmosphere, ten days passed quickly.
In the room, the starlight fell through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows onto the empty bed. The soft Miss Beast fluff carpet was exquisite and luxurious.
Li Yu sat on the sofa. The holographic screen in front of him was incomparably pitch-black, yet a clear voice transmitted over.
"Your Excellency Li Yu, I've long looked forward to eting you. Today we finally have the opportunity to converse." The voice was a processed chanical tone, making it impossible to confirm whether the other party was a burly man picking his feet or a cute girl making 'ying ying' sounds.
"You guys seem very insincere. It's clearly a video call, yet you use this black screen and a voice changer." Li Yu's posture was lazy, his tone casual: "Could it be that I can crawl through the network cable to beat you guys up?"
"Your Excellency jests. You also know that we are not well-received, it's just being cautious." He hesitated slightly, then said: "However, treating each other with sincerity is indeed a prerequisite for a transaction."
Subsequently, the screen gradually beca clear, and appearing before Li Yu was a seemingly very ordinary middle-aged interstellar human.
So ordinary that if he was thrown into a crowd, he almost couldn't be found.
"You can call Husband."
His voice was quite magnetic, wearing a plaid shirt, and was also sowhat balding, looking like one of the billions upon billions of corporate slaves in interstellar society.
His face carried a genial smile, making people involuntarily feel goodwill from the bottom of their hearts.
Li Yu sized up the other party with a glance and didn't pay it too much mind; he had just brought it up casually just now.
Whether the other party revealed their true face or not had fundantally no relation to how many benefits he could obtain.
"Mole should have already told you the basic situation. I'm too lazy to speak nonsense, make an offer." Li Yu got straight to the point. He rely wanted to make the most out of Cree and her brother.
He truly didn't think he could gouge out massive benefits from the Reforrs.
The father of Cree and her brother was already dead. For the Reforrs to redeem them was already out of consideration for past affections.
If they had to expend too great a price, I'm afraid their internal factions also wouldn't allow it.
"I wonder what Your Excellency Li Yu thinks of our Reforrs?" The middle-aged man didn't answer Li Yu's question, but asked instead.
"Thoughts?" Li Yu pondered for a mont and said: "Probably... none of my damn business."
The middle-aged man's face slightly stiffened, clearly not expecting this answer.
Li Yu indeed held this thought in his heart. Although the Reforrs were stirring up trouble in interstellar society, generally speaking, they had no conflict of interests with him.
Of course it was none of his damn business...
"I don't wish to express any opinions on your ideals, unless you guys are willing to let be the leader," Li Yu shrugged and said.
The middle-aged man took a deep breath. You really dare to imagine. However, he also saw that Li Yu indeed couldn't be bothered with their ssy affairs.
Subsequently, he suppressed his habit of collecting talented people and spoke no further, changing the subject: "Your Excellency's history of growth can be considered astonishing. However, before Heavenly Desolation Star, your information is almost nonexistent."
"Many factions in interstellar society are very curious about this question."
Li Yu's eyes shifted slightly, seemingly guessing what the other party was going to say.
"We Reforrs are prepared to use your previous background information in exchange for Cree and Keri."
Just as Li Yu expected, it really was the information of his forr self.
To be honest, he didn't care exactly what identity his forr self was. However, now because of that identity, it had brought him a lot of trouble.
"You guys know?" Li Yu probed.
"We don't know, but we found so clues. Because it didn't have much value, we didn't continue investigating previously," Husband said frankly.
Pondering for a mont, Li Yu spat out a na: "The Loren Family?"
Husband's expression slightly changed, clearly not expecting Li Yu to be able to say this na.
"You know?"
Li Yu's face couldn't help but surface a slight smile, and he said absentmindedly: "It seems your information isn't too attractive either."
"But Your Excellency should also only know a na, right." Husband also reacted, implicitly probing.
Li Yu was noncommittal, and continued: "I also need to know one thing. Only these two things combined can be exchanged for Cree and Keri."
Husband's brow slightly wrinkled. Clearly, Li Yu's demand was sowhat unexpected. But precisely because Li Yu called out the Loren Family, the Reforrs' bargaining chips were weakened considerably.
He deliberated over and over, and still said cautiously: "I want to know, what matter do you want to inquire about?"
Li Yu's tone was calm, and he slowly spoke: "Exactly what was the reason for the battle incident that occurred not long ago in the Barot Civilization—Salvitane Star System?"
(End of this chapter)
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