After getting the universal translator, the ladies were finally able to start communicating normally in this world, so Elena told them that they were free to walk around in the market as they wished. She also gave all the ladies so pocket money to spend in the shops. The amount of money that Elena had given them was not much but it was enough to buy anything that was not super expensive.
The ladies were very excited about this but Hongjuan advised them to not buy anything from here except for foods. That was because all the items in this planet were extrely expensive and they would be able to get those sa items for cheap in other planets. Even with his status as a noble, according to Hongjuan, they had actually paid almost 10 percent more to buy the translators. And without him here, for a regular otherworlder, those sa translators would have an even higher price tag which would be 30 to 40 percent more expensive.
Hearing this the ladies decided to not waste money here. They all were very rich in their world but here they had a limited amount of fund. So it was better to spend that carefully. And it was not like they had nothing to look forward to. Hongjuan said that the food prices were almost the sa in all the planets with their very advanced technology to turn any biomass into food easily. So the ladies would be able to enjoy a lavish al for a very cheap price anywhere in this world. That was a very good news for Elena as a foodie.
While everyone went to wander around the market, Elena visited a shop that was selling communication devices. These were the smartphone like device that Hongjuan was using. To function properly in this world of CHANGXIA, having this device was very important.
Elena was planning to give each of the ladies one of these but not in this borderland planet. Hongjuan told them that the communication devices here were extrely overpriced and after reaching his domain, they would be able to buy it for almost half the price. So Elena was planning to give the ladies this device after reaching Hongjuan's planet.
But still Elena was interested in it and so she ca to check their features. After analysing quite a few and seeing how useful they were in this world, Elena actually ended up buying one for her own use without waiting to reach Hongjuan's planet. It did cost her a little bit more but Elena was fine with it. It was Hongjuan's money anyway so she did not care. As a noble, Hongjuan should have a strong financial base. So this little loss should be nothing to soone like him.
As soon as Elena got her hands on the device, she imdiately activated it and connected to sothing called Astral Link. The astral link had the sa function as internet on EARTH. But it was even more advanced. She then imdiately started to search anything and everything that showed up in her feed.
As the Elentavor's had a stronger ntal capacity, the Astral Link was able to send a huge amount of information inside their brain in a very short amount of ti. And as Elena's own ntal capacity was greater than the elentavors, she was also able to accept the information at the highest possible rate.
That was how, even without scanning the whole world with her senses, Elena was able to get a large amount of information. She did learned a little about all the nations of this world and she gave special attention to the Grand Wu Empire. She tried to find out as much as she could about them.
According to the information in the Astral Link, the Grand Wu Empire had a decent reputation in this world. They had been established hundreds of thousands of years ago and quite a few brilliant persons had appeared in this nation. The national power of the Grand Wu Empire was also considered to be not bad.
But it was not comparable to the top powers of this world. And Elena also tried to find the relatioship between the ducal and the royal families but she was unable to find anything useful in the Astral Link about this topic. Almost all the sources just ntioned that the relationship between the two sides was very good and stable.
That made sense. No nation would allow their internal troubles to leak to the outside. Elena was sure that Hongjuan was not lying about the intention of the ducal families and a power struggle was definitely going on in the Grand Wu Empire. But she was not aware about how large scale this power struggle was. Knowing that was extrely important for Elena to make her future plans.
Even though Elena was not with the ladies, she was still keeping an eye on all of them. Even the spaceship and Hongjuan were under her observation. That was why, Elena soon noticed that three suspicious people had appeared in the city and were following Hongjuan.
Elena secretly analysed them and was quite impressed by their strength. All three of them were strong enough to match a powerhouse in the late 5000 with their equipnt and that was before they got any kind of power boost. Elena was sure that these people also had sothing like the golden dragon of luck that Hongjuan had and with it their power should increased even more.
Even then, with her true strength, Elena should be able to defeat them without much trouble. But before taking action Elena wanted to see what these people wanted to do. So while she still kept an close eye of these suspicious of people, she did not imdiately take any action.
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Following Master Li's orders, Ma Zhu t up with two of his subordinates who would be his helper for this mission. The secret agents of the Li family had different ranks and these two who would be assisting him had the rank of 4 star agent. So they were best of the best, only below the 5 star leaders of the organisation.
With them, Ma Zhu used teleportation waypoints to make their journey faster. Only high rank nobles and their subordinates were capable of using this. Not only that but a teleportation waypoint could not carry too many people at the sa ti so a large group of people or large items like a spaceship could not be transported by this thod. But for a small group like theirs, this was the best and the fastest option.
After reaching the city, they used the influence of the Li family to check the records of the city adminstratiom. From that they found out that the ship called "Grey Swan", in which their target had travelled was getting a maintainance and would stay here for almost a day. Hearing that Ma Zhu imdiately started to make a plan to capture their target, baron Hongjuan.
Finding him was easy with the help of the city administration and after finding him, Ma Zhu and his two companions imdiately started to tail him. They could attack him and take him out at any ti but before doing that they wanted to see what this man was planning to do here.
So that was how mantis was stalking the cicada but did not knew that an oriole was behind him.
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