Chapter 605 Adam: My courage is greater than yours!
"That's what we need them to think." Adam's face flickered. "Don't worry, I just want to confirm certain things. The final result will still go according to the previous plan."
"If we delay any longer, Qinglong might really take action." Malcolm frowned and reminded.
"He doesn't stand a chance," Gutierrez said confidently. "The moment he shows up, the Kashmir Spear will strike him."
"The last time we sacked the Holy Castle, it was proven that he was no match for the Titan Relics."
Malcolm said coldly: "Is he an idiot then? Why did he have to let Li Ming come?"
Adam stared at the screen and whispered, "Hermod, tell him we're willing to take another step back, but we must hand over an X-class lifeform and explain it to the outside world."
At the scene, Anduin frowned slightly, "Hand over an X-level lifeform?"
Hermod was impatient, wondering what the Holy Emperor of the Empire was up to.
However, Gutierrez did not object, so he had to follow the other party's orders and go ahead.
Hermod said in a deep voice: "Yes, we need to give an explanation to the outside world. This is the final bottom line. After handing over an X-level life form, we will leave the Chaos Star Gap."
The X-level life forms of the three major civilizations were at a loss.
Brother... there are thirty of us still standing here, why are you retreating?
Handing over an X-level life form is the end of this matter? That's not unacceptable.
Anduin's gaze naturally swept over Sven, who had already hidden in the corner, trembling.
But Hermod beat us to the punch, "We need to appoint this person."
"Who?" Anduin's face changed. Since the other party said so, he might have reached an agreement with Qinglong.
You won't hand him over, will you?
"Sheffield."
Kashmir's gun was pointed at Sheffield. His face froze and he asked in astonishment, "Me?"
Sheffield? Anduin breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had a pretty good relationship with the other party.
However, Qinglong's method was quite impressive as he only paid one Sheffield to resolve the matter.
The three great civilizations came in such a mighty force, but only took away Sheffield, which was somewhat inconsistent with interstellar expectations.
Li Ming's face changed slightly. Something was wrong, absolutely wrong.
What exactly is going on? Why did the three major civilizations regress inexplicably and specifically want to take Sheffield away?
If Sheffield is taken away, who will prepare the gene seed for him?
"Mr. Sheffield, please come here." Hermod urged.
Pointed at by the Kashmir gun, Sheffield's body stiffened, his face changed, and he shook his head helplessly with a wry smile.
I didn't expect that I would be the one who was abandoned.
He also has good connections and can adjust to level X gene seeds. In the eyes of the three major civilizations, he is indeed more important.
Qinglong has achieved this, and he must have used every possible means.
However, he had only taken a step forward when Li Ming suddenly spoke up, "Wait, he can't go with you."
"Huh?" Anduin looked at her in surprise, and Sheffield's heart skipped a beat.
Hermod frowned slightly.
"Ha..." Adam couldn't help but grin, staring at Li Ming with a serious expression on the screen.
As expected, that X-level gene seed is of extraordinary importance.
He was almost 80% sure that Li Ming was Qinglong.
The reason he went to such lengths was to confirm this matter.
Malcolm and Gutierrez both looked at the excited Adam, but then heard him say, "Hermod, just kill Sheffield!"
Since it was determined that the gene seed was of extraordinary importance, there was no need for Sheffield to exist.
"Kill Sheffield?" Hemod blurted out, showing that he was shocked.
Adam negotiated conditions and made concessions, but in the end he asked me to kill him directly?
Li Ming suddenly looked at Hermod, someone was directing him from behind.
It didn't seem like a coincidence that they were targeting Sheffield, and after I opened my mouth to stop him, it seemed as if they were waiting for me to speak.
Could it be...
"Kill me?" Sheffield retreated a long way, energy surging from his body, activating the palace's internal defense mechanism. Runes intertwined, and his face turned grim. "I want to see Qinglong!"
He felt something was wrong. After all, he was an X-level life form and was proficient in gene seed modulation. There was no need for the three major civilizations to kill him.
What kind of agreement did Qinglong reach with the three major civilizations?
"We still want to see Qinglong, please let him come." Hemod said impatiently.
Hmm? Anduin realized something was wrong and his expression changed slightly: "Didn't the Azure Dragon make a move?"
"Who told you that Qinglong took action?" Hemod asked back.
Anduin was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously asked, "Why are you retreating when Azure Dragon hasn't made a move?"
"Back off?" Hermod said indifferently, "I'm just playing with you guys."
Qinglong didn’t take action?
In the corner, Sven, who felt that his future was bleak, suddenly raised his head and regained his spirits.
"Okay, the game is over." Hemod didn't intend to listen to Adam's orders anymore. He raised the Kashmir Spear and said coldly:
"This is an ultimatum. Surrender or die. Everyone... give me an answer."
Anduin felt an indescribable fucked-up feeling in his heart. What were the three major civilizations trying to do? Were they trying to play tricks on him?
You're not going to kill me again? Sheffield was in a state of turmoil, unable to make sense of the situation.
Li Ming remained silent at this moment. He probably guessed who was the leader of this game.
He stared at the Gun of Kashmir, it should be about time.
"Hermod, why don't you do it?" Adam frowned and urged, "Sir Gaius, you kill him."
The imperial representative Gaius's expression changed slightly, but he saw Hermod stretched out his other hand and blocked him.
"Adam," Malcolm said in a deep voice, "Sheffield has a lot of connections. Killing him would probably have the biggest impact."
"Did you suddenly lose your mind?"
"Trust me, it's better to kill him." Adam looked at Gutierrez.
"You need to give me a reason." Gutierrez remained noncommittal. An X-level life form was of extraordinary value.
"I will give you a satisfactory answer later, but first I must kill him." Adam looked directly at Gutierrez. "I promise this in the name of the Holy Emperor of the Empire."
Gutierrez frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Hermod..."
As a result, Gutierrez paused as soon as his name was called out, his face displeased, "…Who let you in?"
It seems that someone broke into Gutierrez's room. The quality of the Star Alliance personnel is getting worse and worse.
Adam and Malcolm thought subconsciously.
The sound from Gutierrez's end had gone silent, and they couldn't hear anything.
"Emergency information from the attendant's office." The officer reporting at the front desk was sweating profusely and his body was shaking.
"Give it to me." Gutierrez realized something was wrong and stretched out his hand, and the smart terminal in the other party's hand fell into his hand.
Just looking down, he suddenly stood up, his face changed drastically, "Is this true?"
"They provided a series of video footage, likely from members of a higher life form organization..." the officer said quickly. "According to our analysis, the accuracy of the information is over 90%..."
"Immediately mobilize all available X-level life forms to go to that coordinate." Gutierrez immediately issued a series of orders.
After waving his men away, his expression changed, and then he logged into the virtual conference room again.
Glancing at Adam and Malcolm, he said calmly, "Hermod, follow my instructions. Don't have any questions. Take the Kashmir Spear and the Covenant and retreat first."
Two gazes that were almost tangible fell on Gutierrez.
Malcolm immediately shouted, "Adam is crazy, and you are crazy too, Gutierrez, what are you doing!"
"Withdraw now, do you want to become the laughing stock of the universe!?"
"I'm not wrong, Hermod. Take your men away now," Gutierrez emphasized again before looking at the two men. A sneer slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth. "You'll soon know what I'm doing."
He didn't give the two people time to react and ended the call immediately.
Adam took a deep breath, and Malcolm's face turned pale.
…
Hermod's face was gloomy and unclear, and the Kashmir Spear in his hand was pointed at the central area. The surrounding X-level life forms had surrounded Anduin and his companions.
Anduin's mind was still a little confused, and he couldn't help but look at Li Ming, as if asking, where is your teacher?
"Wait..." This time it was Hermod who stopped everyone. His expression changed, he retracted the Kashmir Spear, and finally said calmly: "People of the Star Alliance, follow me."
Go? Where to?
Everyone couldn't help but look over.
Li Ming felt a little relieved. It seemed that there was no problem over there. The "game" that happened before really made him feel uneasy.
"Don't you understand me? People from the Covenant, follow me! Withdraw!" Hermode's voice was like thunder, filled with anger.
First he was fooled by Adam, and now he has to withdraw his troops. He is also very unhappy.
Withdraw...troops?
Gaius' cheek twitched, and he couldn't help it, "Hermod, what's wrong with you?"
"Who told you to withdraw your troops?" the federal representative scolded.
Why the withdrawal again?
There was an indescribable expression on Anduin's face. He couldn't react to this series of changes.
The X-level life forms of the Star Alliance followed slowly and hesitantly.
This was not the case when the action plan was formulated. But when we got to the scene, it was all "games" and we had to withdraw our troops.
Hermod ignored everyone and was very unhappy. He walked out of the door and turned into a stream of light and went farther away.
Seeing that Hermod was not acting, the other members of the Star Alliance did not delay and followed him. At that moment, one third of the X-level life forms at the scene were gone.
Anduin's expression changed, and he suddenly raised his hand, and a large number of runes emerged.
The X-level life forms around immediately surrounded him and shouted at him.
But he only discovered that the palace above his head gradually became transparent.
The Covenant fleet, which originally occupied a large area, actually retreated to the periphery at this moment, and a large number of media spaceships gathered around it.
"Why are they really going to withdraw?"
The people of the Empire and the Federation were confused.
This time... it should be the Azure Dragon's trick, Anduin speculated cautiously.
Li Ming also looked up at the departing Covenant fleet. He just had to wait for them to move away so that Reynolds and Mikhail could isolate the inside and outside and make a fool of themselves.
………
"Sir, are we really going to retreat?"
In the office, the officer who issued the order asked hesitantly, "The attendant office speculates that this news comes at the perfect time. I'm afraid it has something to do with Qinglong."
"Humph." Gutierrez sneered, "Not only is he not insulated, I'm certain he's behind this."
"Then you still..."
"Because this action is essentially a retaliation, the benefits we can gain are limited. We also have to compete with two other civilizations for Li Ming. We might as well take this opportunity to find out the secret of the Red River Star Stream."
Gutierrez said in a deep voice, "They're definitely not willing to reveal their secret to me so easily. By not showing a high profile at the beginning, they'll delay it even longer, giving them time to move on. Then, they'll have fewer opportunities like this."
As soon as he finished speaking, a virtual screen popped up on the smart terminal in front of him, showing Adam and Malcolm.
"Look at how difficult these two old friends are." Gutierrez waved his hand, and after his men left, he waited for a while before answering the call.
"Gutierrez..." Malcolm said with a serious expression:
"We have an agreement. You cannot use the matter of the Holy Castle and Azure Dragon to threaten us to reveal the secrets of the Red River Star Stream."
The two of them followed Gutierrez and received a report from the Domination Laboratory. Naturally, they were shocked and angry, but for now they could only negotiate with Gutierrez.
Gutierrez shook his head calmly. "I didn't make any threats, but the coordinates have already been delivered to me. Are you asking me to turn a deaf ear to them? Then do I still want to be the chairman of the Star Alliance?"
"Can't you see Qinglong's hand in this?" Malcolm emphasized loudly, "He's going to turn the tables!"
At this juncture, the coordinates of the Dominant Laboratory were suddenly leaked, and the direct beneficiary was Qinglong, who could be identified even without evidence.
"So what if I can see it?" Gutierrez asked.
This is Qinglong’s cleverness. Even if he could see it, could he pretend that it didn’t happen?
Malcolm stared at him coldly, but Adam suddenly spoke, "The body of a Dominant-class Titan is stored at those coordinates."
Gutierrez looked at it suddenly, confused and surprised.
"Adam!" Malcolm shouted.
Adam turned a deaf ear to it, his expression calm, and continued:
"We found the body deep within the Red River Star Stream. We're currently studying it and suspect we've found a path to the ultimate life form. We can allow you to join us and share all the research data."
"A Dominant-class corpse...an ultimate life form..." Gutierrez digested the sudden information and murmured, "This secret is more important than I thought."
Malcolm's breathing was rapid. He had just exchanged views briefly with Adam.
That's not the case. They have been researching it for several years, and they just exposed it to the Star Alliance without even discussing the conditions?
What happened to Adam? He started to act differently from the plan from the very beginning.
Gutierrez calmed down a little and was also surprised. He thought it would take a long time and cost more.
The other party will be reluctant to reveal the secret to him.
He was even a little unsure whether he could really know the secret this time.
After all, the situation in the Holy Castle is still going on, so it is impossible for a real fallout.
But unexpectedly, Adam told all the secrets right away.
Adam's eyes were dark. "I only have one request. Get your people back. If Qinglong tries to turn the tables, we'll crush him!"
"Also, I want Li Ming."
(End of this chapter)
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