Chapter 126 Two Life Signals

Situ Linchen's virtual image descended directly into the command room of the First Assault Fleet, his face grim.

"How much longer until we reach our destination?" he asked in a deep voice.

The marshal's image suddenly appeared, startling the assault fleet commander, who immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Reporting to the marshal, 90 seconds left!"

Situ Linchen impatiently reached out and tapped the conference room table.

Tap, tap, tap.

He remained silent, his gaze fixed on the main view shared by the assault fleet.

This unusual move left the subordinates in the command center looking at each other in bewilderment, barely able to breathe.

They couldn't hear the voice in Situ Linchen's earpiece and didn't know what had happened.

From their perspective, all they saw was Marshal Situ Linchen, who was usually as calm and composed as a mountain, now with his brows furrowed and his eyes filled with suppressed anger.

What major incident has occurred? Could it be that the alliance's core has been compromised?

As the countdown to the operation ticked away, the lavish and glamorous Romantic Hotel grew ever larger in Situ Linchen's view.

Finally, the assault fleet hovered in stealth mode above the hotel.

The fleet commander, a veteran of countless battles, calmly and swiftly issued orders:

"First team, rappel down and seal all windows on the top floor!"

"The second team will storm in through the elevator shaft and seal off all internal exits on the floor!"

"Thermal imaging activated, scanning the target room!"

Controlling such a private building would be a piece of cake for him.

Fully armed team members descended from the sky like ghosts, silently attaching themselves to the building's exterior wall, without disturbing a single hotel guest throughout the entire process.

"Reporting to the Marshal, the top floor is sealed off. Two life signals detected in the target room, with no signs of armed conflict."

Situ Linchen's eyes were pitch black.

Two life signs...

"Enter," he forced out the command through clenched teeth.

"yes!"

Upon receiving orders, the commander personally led the team. A series of dark figures, moving with standard tactical stealth, reached the door of the wedding suite.

With a soft "click," the access control system was technically breached, and the assault team members filed in.

Situ Linchen saw the scene inside the room through the helmet camera of the on-site commander.

A large, pure white bed. The bed canopy is a semi-transparent, Roman blind-style gauze.

Every corner of the room was filled with fresh, vibrant pink flowers.

Numerous flower petals were carefully scattered on the sheets and carpet.

In the room, there were only Ning Shuyin and Zhou Zhiheng; there was no one else.

There wasn't even a trace of an argument or fight inside.

His gaze swept over the pink rose pinned to Ning Shuyin's chest.

"Zhou Zhiheng!" Situ Linchen's icy voice came through the commander's communicator, "What did you just do to her?"

The commander of the assault fleet was filled with question marks at that moment.

When he received the emergency rescue order, he anticipated any danger that might occur in the room.

High-energy weapons, ruthless bandits, hostages tortured to the point of death...

But he never expected to see this scene.

The air was filled with a sweet fragrance, and the floor and bed were covered with flower petals.

His "rescue target" and "suspect" on this trip, one nodded to him, while the other didn't even bother to turn his head back.

This looks nothing like an emergency rescue scene.

This clearly looks like an interruption to a young couple's date.

When faced with Situ Linchen's questioning, Zhou Zhiheng simply chuckled.

He turned around, faced the commander's camera, and said innocently, "What did I do to her? Of course, I brought her here for a team-building activity."

His smiling face was clearly a provocation.

The meaning couldn't be clearer: Look, I can be here with her. And you, you can only rage helplessly on the other side of the screen.

Situ Linchen stared at Zhou Zhiheng's smug attitude and felt that he had underestimated him before.

He once thought that this young tycoon heir was nothing more than a spoiled child, and emotionally naive, not worth worrying about.

But now, he realized he had underestimated his opponent. With just a slight oversight, he had brought Ning Shuyin to this place.

Fortunately, judging from Ning Shuyin's calm expression, she was not in danger and did not show any ambiguous behavior with Zhou Zhiheng.

At that moment, her eyes were sharp and decisive. Ignoring the subtle exchange between the two men, she turned to the assault team member and said with a serious expression, "Close the door."

Then, pointing towards the dressing room, he said, "The target's ability is invisibility; he's in that room. Arrest him immediately!"

"Execute!" the commander immediately ordered.

Situ Linchen, far away at the spaceport, already understood and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. This was a capture operation, nothing more.

He cleared his throat and ordered into the communicator: "Secretly escort the captured prisoners to Alice Space Station. I want to interrogate them personally."

Alice Space Station, a military restricted area.

The highest-level interrogation room. There are no windows, only seamless superalloy walls and blindingly bright white lights.

The goat was strapped to the interrogation chair. Though he was not free, his face held an arrogant air of arrogance.

"Marshal, I am the strategist of the King of the Outer Star Region. I advise you to release me now, otherwise everything you have done to me will be recorded by the Court of Usurpation, and it will be regarded as a provocation against the Outer Star Region by the Alliance."

Situ Linchen wasn't buying it at all.

"Provocation? You must be joking with me. Without Caesar, the Outer Starfield is a complete mess, and I could take it over easily. Do you think the Alliance cares about that antique pirate ship?"

The goat's expression changed, realizing that talking about diplomatic immunity in front of Situ Linchen was useless.

But he remained resolute and refused to reveal Caesar's whereabouts.

Outside the one-way glass of the interrogation room, Ning Shuyin carefully put away the fully charged black box calculator in her hand.

She turned to Mu Ze and said, "Secretary, could you let me in? I want to talk to him."

"Miss Ning, please wait a moment while I go and consult the Marshal."

A few minutes later, Ning Shuyin walked into the interrogation room.

The goat looked at her with disdain: "What? The marshal can't interrogate me, so he has to use his beauty to seduce me, Miss Ning? My old body can't take that."

Ning Shuyin ignored his sarcasm, slowly walked to the interrogation table, placed her hands on the table, leaned forward slightly, and calmly looked at the goat.

"A-Star Third District Youth Hospital, Building B, 5th Floor." A string of addresses came out of her mouth.

The arrogance on the goat's face vanished, replaced by unease and fear: "You...you...!"

He didn't continue.

Ning Shuyin didn't give him a chance to think, and continued, "The You family is controlling you through your daughter's life support. If you die at our hands, do you think they will continue to pay exorbitant medical bills for your daughter?"

"Besides, now that we know this information, tell me, should we protect her or kill her?"

The goat's body began to tremble: "No! Don't! Please, I'll tell you anything, please don't touch her."

Over the next half hour, the goat revealed the whole truth.

"When Caesar went to deal with that multicolored black, I gave him a wrong navigational beacon; that airspace was very close to the Alliance."

"Since he's so close to the alliance, why did he lose contact?" Ning Shuyin pressed.

"Because... there is a Penrose triangle at that coordinate location that has not been discovered by the Alliance."

Upon hearing the Penrose Triangle, the expressions on their faces changed.

This is a space with an infinite loop of triangles, like a staircase that can never be climbed.

“That space can counter Caesar’s teleportation ability. It’s a staircase with no end in sight; no matter how he teleports, he’ll always return to the starting point until his ability is exhausted.” The goat finished speaking, his face pleading, “I’ve already told you, please save my daughter.”

"Why would the You family do this? Aren't they afraid of perishing together with the alliance?" Situ Linchen asked.

By tricking Caesar into that space, it's as if he also left that dangerous high-dimensional particle there.

That distance remains a huge threat to the league.

The goat raised its head: "Marshal, do you really think the You family is the only traitor in the Alliance?"