Inside the eting hall, Raymond An wiped the cold sweat that kept seeping from his forehead with a handkerchief.
It could be said that today was absolutely the most difficult and longest day he had ever spent since taking up the position of Alliance chairman.
The shocks from this day alone were already more than everything he had experienced in the first half of his life combined.
At this mont, he was sitting in the central seat. On his left sat the rfolk queen Haisena, while the Saint Clan tyrant sat on the sofa to his right.
The vast eting hall was very quiet, so quiet that only the sound of each other’s breathing could be heard.
And this strange silence ca precisely from that Saint Clan tyrant.
Ever since the other party entered, he had not said a single word, yet everyone present was unable to ignore him.
There was no other reason. His presence was simply too powerful.
The silver-haired sovereign sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, as if he were seated upon a towering throne.
He did not need words, nor did he need anyone to introduce him. The mont they saw him, everyone could realize—
This was a powerful king who inspired fear.
Clearly, Raymond An was the one sitting in the main seat, but compared to Mansendis beside him, his forced composure had already made him fall far short in terms of presence.
Raymond An did not even realize that his pale face and strained smile at this mont made him look exactly like the subordinates he usually scolded and berated.
As the chairman of the Alliance, he had completely lost his previous high-and-mighty bearing.
The only one present who could barely withstand the pressure was probably Haisena.
She held her back perfectly straight. No one knew that the body wrapped beneath her armor was tightly tensed, every muscle from head to toe pulled taut.
This was an instinctive wariness when facing soone powerful.
Even though Haisena had heard of the Saint Clan’s strength, hearing it from others and feeling it up close were two completely different things.
The Saint Clan was far more powerful than she had imagined, and just as difficult to approach as the rumors said.
This made Haisena unable to help wondering whether her idea of seeking cooperation with the Saint Clan could truly succeed...
And the one even more troubled than Haisena was Raymond An. For a mont, he almost thought he had misheard.
“You an...?”
Mansendis spoke in an indifferent voice. “I have only one demand. Open port access.”
This was the first sentence he had spoken since coming here.
The silver-haired sovereign’s voice was very cold. His expression was remote, making it impossible to see his emotions.
Alvin, standing at the side, also pushed up the lenses on his face and tily played the good cop with a gentle smile. “Our request is that the Alliance cooperate and open port access, allowing our Saint Clan warships to enter.”
The Saint Clan’s trip this ti had been equipped with a complete fleet.
However, aside from the Thanatos being permitted to enter the port and park on the landing platform, the other warships were still roaming the routes near Blue Luster Star.
Now that little highness was trapped, and they still did not know what the situation inside was like, they naturally had to bring those warships over.
Alvin felt they were already being very sincere by being willing to sit here and discuss it with Raymond An in advance.
Although this discussion was more like a notice, if they had not been considering that having the warships spatial-jump directly in would cause panic and provoke the extrely sensitive nerves of the other races regarding the Saint Clan, which might then lead to even more trouble...
Otherwise, with the Saint Clan’s usual style of doing things, the mont they learned sothing had happened to little highness, they would have already had the warships surround this place.
But the politeness the Saint Clan believed they were showing nearly made Raymond An so angry he vomited blood.
It was easy enough to say, but was port access sothing that could simply be handed over just because soone asked?
Not to ntion allowing so many warships to enter, and all of them Saint Clan warships.
This was equivalent to a wolf having entered the house, only for them to then invite in tigers even more terrifying than the wolf.
Of course Raymond An was unwilling.
But the current situation was not a matter of whether he was willing or not.
The Saint Clan was clearly intent on summoning its fleet, and Alvin’s reason was more than sufficient.
Their little highness was trapped there. Oh, you say the Saint Clan were all very capable fighters... terribly sorry, but the Saint Clan had also expressed that their little highness was still an underage cub.
A soft, fragile cub who was easily bullied.
Raymond An, who deeply understood that Saint Clan cubs could dismantle warships with their bare hands: “..........”
Was his understanding of the Saint Clan mistaken?
Just how severe did the other party’s parental filter have to be to say sothing like this?!
Listen to those words. Which one of them had anything to do with the Saint Clan?
Yet the Saint Clan side felt: Our little highness is still a baby who has not long since broken out of his shell, and his personality is so soft and obedient. What if he ets bad people outside and gets bullied?!
Besides, at this current point in ti, that energy barrier had still not been opened, and they did not know whether little highness was inside...
As long as they thought of the possibility that their little highness might be cold, the Saint Clan side wished they could blast that thing apart.
Raymond An: “........”
This group of Saint Clan people were definitely insane.
“Ah-choo!”
On the other side, Wen Yuzhi, who was being worried over by the Saint Clan, and who was soft, obedient, and easily bullied in Alvin and Mond’s mouths, sneezed.
At this mont, he was raising a huge inflatable hamr and smashing it onto a stray beast’s head.
The damage was not great.
But the insult was very strong.
That stray beast instantly grew furious.
However, even angrier than it were the Saint Clan royal guards.
Seeing that this stray beast refused to cooperate and even wanted to turn around and try to hurt their little highness, several Saint Clan royal guards imdiately smashed it again and again until it beca a flat at patty.
The pitiful stray beast had never seen this kind of extortion thod in its entire life.
It had originally been walking properly down the road, searching for prey that could fill its stomach. Who could have imagined that several Saint Clan mbers would suddenly walk out from the side and, without another word, tie it up tightly?
A majestic stray beast like it had not only been bound with rope, but also humiliatingly dragged in front of a cub.
Even more excessive was that it had clearly been the one beaten first, yet after it had only acted fierce toward the other party once, before it had even opened its mouth, it was violently beaten by the guardians that cub had brought along.
This stray beast probably never could have dread that it would die so silently beside a roadside trash can. Its death could count as the most aggrieved among all stray beasts.
The Saint Clan mbers who had beaten it up even looked carefully at Wen Yuzhi beside them afterward.
That posture seed as if they were terribly afraid their little highness had been frightened by this stray beast.
Wen Yuzhi blinked, then hurriedly comforted these Saint Clan royal guards. “I’m fine. It was tied up with rope, so it couldn’t hurt .”
But even though Wen Yuzhi said this, these Saint Clan royal guards still did not quite feel at ease.
Yiluo pressed the lips together and said in a low voice, sounding slightly vexed, “This toy is broken. We’ll find you a new one.”
This stray beast was too ugly and disobedient. Next ti, they still had to find a better-looking toy, at least one that would not scare their little highness.
Fortunately, this stray beast was already dead. Otherwise, if it knew that everything it had suffered was only because this group of Saint Clan mbers had treated it as a toy for coaxing a cub, even if it ca back to life, it would still be angered to death all over again.
Wen Yuzhi had actually only wanted the several Saint Clan royal guards beside him to find another stray beast and take a look, to see whether the brains of the other stray beasts also had chips.
But his words had clearly caused these Saint Clan royal guards to misunderstand.
They thought little highness wanted to play.
So they tied up a stray beast and brought it to Wen Yuzhi.
It looked just like adult beasts capturing so prey and bringing it back for their own cub, both to train the cub’s ability to pounce and bite, and to let it serve as a toy for the cub to play with.
And under their gazes...
Wen Yuzhi could not hold back and used the inflatable hamr he had found in the amusent park to knock that stray beast once.
He could swear he had not done it on purpose.
That stray beast had probably fused with Padar people’s genes. Its appearance looked like a mole, and Wen Yuzhi just happened to have a hamr in his hand, while the other party just happened to look like a mole.
Wen Yuzhi felt that if he did not hit it once, he would be letting down its appearance.
In the end, who could have imagined that this mole... no, this stray beast would have such a bad temper? It imdiately tried to bite Wen Yuzhi in return.
The Saint Clan royal guards watching it at all tis beside them saw this. How could they endure it?
In their eyes, this was this stray beast’s fault.
Their little highness had only lightly tapped it. It was obvious he wanted to play with this stray beast, yet this stray beast refusing to cooperate obediently was one thing. It even dared to act fierce toward their little highness. It was simply hateful to the extre!
Stray beast: “........” Just who exactly is hateful here?!
Although there was a small accident midway, they still found an identical chip on this stray beast.
This also completely verified Wen Yuzhi and the others’ previous guess. These stray beasts were all being controlled by soone.
“Are they eating people because they’re being controlled by this chip?”
Wen Yuzhi guessed curiously.
Xi Heyan said, “Not necessarily. Stray beasts already have a powerful craving for flesh and blood to begin with. For these genetically modified stray beasts, that appetite may have been artificially amplified.”
Whether it was the stray beasts on Blackrock Star or the stray beasts appearing here now, they all shared common points. They were extrely aggressive, very bloodthirsty and cruel, and their appetites seed far too voracious.
Almost every stray beast Wen Yuzhi and Xi Heyan encountered had a bulging stomach, but they were still continuing to search for new prey.
“Are they really eating so much flesh and blood just to fill their stomachs?” Wen Yuzhi said with a frown.
“Perhaps...” Xi Heyan began, “this flesh and blood can make them stronger.”
“Stronger?”
Wen Yuzhi imdiately thought of the special stray beasts they had encountered on Blackrock Star.
Those special stray beasts clearly had higher intelligence. They could command other stray beasts, and after they died, their corpses would be devoured by the other stray beasts.
At the ti, Wen Yuzhi had only felt disgusted and had not had ti to think carefully.
Now that he heard Xi Heyan’s words, he realized those stray beasts eating the other party’s corpse might very likely have been because the other party’s flesh and blood contained energy that could make them stronger.
And these current stray beasts eating people was the sa. They hunted living people not only to eat, but also so they could beco stronger.
As long as no one stopped them, they could keep eating, until they had eaten every survivor here.
At that ti, once these stray beasts that had been nourished by flesh and blood were released, all of Blue Luster Star would beco a living hell.
After eating this planet clean, they could go to another planet.
Eating nonstop, growing stronger nonstop, like locusts...
Just thinking about it made Wen Yuzhi feel that the person behind the scenes had truly sinister intentions.
Xi Heyan, however, was thinking even deeper.
He was thinking: if these stray beasts absorbed the energy in flesh and blood until reaching a certain threshold, what would happen?
Would they stop eating, or would a further transformation occur?
The person behind the scenes had also chosen these test sites with particular care.
Blackrock Star was poor and backward in resources, and there were not many living people there, so the ones the other party arranged on Blackrock Star were all relatively lower-tier stray beasts, with a lower degree of genetic modification.
But Blue Luster Star was different.
Today’s Blue Luster Star had gathered various races here. There were enough samples. Xi Heyan felt that if he were the person behind the scenes, he would also choose Blue Luster Star to release the stray beasts.
What other planet could have so many races appearing at the sa ti?
It nearly covered the races of the entire interstellar world. Even the Saint Clan, who had always avoided participating in external affairs, had co.
If one wanted more comprehensive experintal data, there was simply no place more suitable than Blue Luster Star at this mont.
And the other party might be silently monitoring them from behind the scenes right now.
Thinking this, Xi Heyan lifted his head. His gaze swept across the surrounding buildings one by one.
“He’s very sharp.”
Not far from them, Dan was standing on the edge of a rooftop, gazing toward their side.
Bai Yi stood behind him. He did not speak, and he also knew Dan did not need his response.
To Dan, he and Fenrir were useful weapons, and weapons did not need thought or emotion.
Unfortunately...
The weapon Dan was most satisfied with had developed emotions it should not have had during a mission.
Dan looked at Wen Yuzhi, who was being protected in the center by several Saint Clan mbers.
“I know you care about him.”
“........”
Bai Yi did not make a sound.
Fenrir, however, looked curiously down at the street below. He wanted to know who exactly the person Bai Yi cared about was.
Yet when he saw Wen Yuzhi, Fenrir froze for a mont.
Almost the first ti he saw that young man, Fenrir dared to imdiately confirm that the other party was the person Bai Yi cared about.
The feeling the other party gave him was very special.
It was an extrely warm feeling, one that made him want to get closer.
If it was him... then Fenrir was not surprised at all why Number 1, who had always been the most loyal and the most silent, would suddenly choose to betray them.
After all, if it were him...
Fenrir lowered his eyes.
Dan turned back. He looked at the three experintal subjects before him, who all had their heads lowered and were silent, and seed able to tell that their minds were elsewhere.
He gave a soft laugh. “All right. We should go et the people outside too.”
As he spoke, Dan deliberately looked toward Bai Yi.
“Don’t worry. He is the target I most want to catch back for research. I wouldn’t be willing to let those stray beasts harm our little prince.”
“Besides...” Dan dragged out his tone. “Even for your sake, I wouldn’t hurt him. After all, the two of you have the sa bloodline.”
He said this mockingly.
The silver-haired, golden-eyed Saint Clan mber lowered his head obediently, but the eyelashes beneath his eyes trembled uncontrollably.
.........
In the end, Raymond An still could not withstand the pressure from the Saint Clan side and agreed to open port access to the Saint Clan.
He stood up with a gray face and went to make arrangents, while Haisena used this gap to walk forward.
“I have long heard of the Saint Clan’s great na.”
The rfolk queen said with a smile.
Thinking of her clanspeople who had disappeared one after another, Haisena decided that no matter what, she still had to try.
However, before making the request, their rfolk race first had to build a good relationship with the Saint Clan.
Haisena’s gaze swept around. In the end, she chose to start with Mond, who seed the easiest to talk to.
As for Mansendis...
Haisena excluded this Saint Clan tyrant without hesitation.
But Haisena was not soone who would co up and forcibly drag the other party into a conversation right away.
She first began the topic from the perspective of a guardian.
Sure enough, Mond’s attitude imdiately softened.
“My younger sister is rather willful. I’m also the one who spoiled her.”
Haisena said this with a sigh. She was not deliberately saying this to get close to Mond. Rather, Lottie had indeed been spoiled rotten by her.
With this queenly elder sister backing her up, Lottie’s personality had practically been raised to be lawless, spoiled, and tyrannical.
She was playful by nature. She had already wreaked havoc through the entire sea. After coming onto land and seeing so many novel things, the other party was like a bird that had flown out of its cage, thinking about running outside from morning to night.
In the end, no one had expected such bad luck, and that she would get trapped inside.
As for Lottie’s safety, Haisena was actually not especially worried. Although Lottie loved to play, she had not fallen behind in anything she ought to have learned.
There was also a ntal connection between the sisters. If sothing happened to Lottie, Haisena would be able to sense it here as well.
The reason she had said that to Raymond An was also because Haisena understood her own younger sister’s personality. If sothing had happened inside, with that sister of hers so full of curiosity, who knew if she might go wild playing around.
She had to quickly bring her back first.
But when Mond heard Haisena’s words, the old chief affairs officer proudly straightened his chest.
He seed to speak casually. “Is that so? Our little highness is very obedient. If anything, he is a little too obedient. Sotis we also hope he can be a bit more willful.”
Sigh. A child being too obedient was also a kind of trouble.
Haisena: “.......”
Why did she feel as if she had just been shown off to her face?
Damn it. She had already been surpassed in strength. She absolutely could not lose in this aspect too!
“Although my younger sister is willful, she listens to very much. Whatever I ask her to do, she never talks back.”
“Our little highness has always listened very much to the King. He even makes cakes for our King. Oh, that’s right. Does your noble princess also make cakes for you?”
Haisena: “........” Another sword struck her heart.
Her gaze flickered. “My younger sister is versatile...”
“Our little highness gets full marks in every subject.”
“My younger sister is beautiful...”
“Our little highness is the cutest in the universe.”
“My relationship with my younger sister is very close. As sisters, there is nothing we don’t talk about!”
Haisena’s competitive spirit had completely risen. She had utterly forgotten that she was supposed to build a good relationship with the Saint Clan, and instead looked at Mond provocatively.
She did know that there was no so-called family affection or blood relationship between Saint Clan royal-bloods.
And Mansendis had even killed all the royal-bloods and inherited the throne.
Unfortunately...
Haisena did not know that the Saint Clan had produced Wen Yuzhi, this one special exception.
Faced with Haisena’s provocation, Mond said calmly and unhurriedly, “Our King and little highness are kin whose blood is thicker than water. The King regards little highness as his most precious treasure. Nothing exists that is more important to the King than little highness.”
“In this, our little highness is the sa. Perhaps because he is still young, little highness still always likes clinging to his Daddy. Wherever our King goes, little highness wants to follow. Occasionally, he will also pour tea, pound the King’s legs, knead his shoulders, and so on...”
After speaking, Mond sighed.
“Sigh. Little highness is still too obedient.”
Haisena’s heart had already nearly been stabbed into a hedgehog by jealousy.
He could make little cakes for his Daddy, cling beside his Daddy and pour tea, had an extrely obedient personality, and had excellent grades...
Just what kind of little angel was this?!
After this contest, Haisena was utterly defeated.
For an instant, she suddenly wanted to take her own younger sister and exchange her for soone else’s cub.
Soone else’s cub was what you called a dream cub!
What did she have at ho? A little tyrant!
And the representatives of the other races listening to them go back and forth from the side: “........”
No, hold on. Was this kind of description still about the Saint Clan?
Just as everyone was silently ridiculing this in their hearts, the screen in the eting hall suddenly lit up.
A smiling face appeared on it.
“Good evening, everyone.”
The one appearing on the screen was a man wearing a shirt and vest.
He looked at the cara with a smile, his attitude seeming very gentle and friendly.
However, the words he spoke made everyone’s hearts tighten.
“I’m very sorry to disturb your conversation, but I thought that on such a wonderful night, simply sitting around like this would be terribly boring. Why don’t we play a ga...”
The other party smiled as he dragged out his tone.
Only when everyone’s hearts had risen along with his words did he slowly speak.
“This ga is called: Guess Who Survives.”
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