This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 265: The Strange Reaction to Deyes's Death
As soon as I stepped into the reception room, I felt an oppressive feeling. A burly figure like a wall stood not far away.

He was casually wearing a custom-made suit and his muscles were as strong as iron.

The most eye-catching thing is the two sturdy arms extending from under the ribs and embracing the abdomen. The exposed skin is as black as petroleum.

He has a shiny buzz cut and wears black sunglasses.

"Sir Reina." Horndir closed the door and nodded slightly.

"Your Highness Horndil." Reina looked quite casual as he took off his sunglasses and placed them on the table.

Horndil reached out and motioned for Reiner to sit down.

"Forget it. It's too big and inconvenient to sit up." Reina shook his head.

Horndir then said, "I heard that you found the murderer who assassinated my father near the Land of Stars, and fought with him?"

"That's right." Reina sneered, "Dark Night from the Land of Chaos."

"His gun is the only thing worth mentioning, but it's a pity that it's destroyed."

"Star Killer? Did you catch him?" Horndill asked tentatively.

Reina's eyes wandered, and then he shook his head: "No, after all, he is a rat who is good at assassination, and he is still very good at escaping."

After that, he quickly turned to another topic, "Your Highness, the main reason I came here this time is because of the core ruins of the Ascendant."

"His Highness Lionheart said that you have intelligence about the Torch Organization and can provide relevant assistance."

Horndir's heart trembled, as if it was being grasped, and then a ball of anger rose up, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother is really well-informed, I do have someone who can provide relevant information."

Now that Reina is here, there is no point in shirking responsibility.

Reina grinned, "That's good, Your Highness should have my contact information, just notify me directly when the time comes."

Horndil had no expression on his face. When Reiner was about to leave, he suddenly said, "I heard that father has woken up?"

"You're asking me?" Reina looked confused. "You're the Grand Duke's son, why don't you just go and see him?"

Before Horndil could say anything, Reiner left.

Before the butler sent him to the door, he heard a dull sound coming from the reception room behind him.

"Ha..." He grinned.

.........

On a desolate planet somewhere, a yellow-black storm raged on the surface, and the thin atmosphere was full of holes.

Dead silence is the eternal theme here, but it was broken today.

The void near the surface of the ground suddenly twisted, and then a crack was torn apart as if it was a difficult childbirth, and a bloody figure fell out of it.

Cornette was lying on the ground gasping for breath, and one could clearly see the huge wound on his chest that almost cut open his heart.

There were burn marks all over other parts of his body, his left eye was just a black bloody hole, and his right eye was also covered with cracks.

"Hiss--" Cornette let out a low roar, and the flesh and blood on half of his body was twisted, and finally another figure was forcibly split apart.

"Ambush! The Star Ring Guards are here, Asmara is here in person, and five A-level life forms are chasing and blocking us. They knew we were coming!"

Kovis gnashed his teeth and his physical condition was very bad, even more miserable than Cornette.

"There's a traitor! There's a traitor inside!" Koves' words were filled with suppressed, crazy rage.

"There are only a handful of people who know the specific goal of the operation." Cornett said coldly, "Except for the three of us, almost no one knows."

"No one knows how it was leaked?" Corvis' eyes were gloomy. "Fernand, I have suspected him for a long time."

"Enough!" Cornett shouted angrily, his chest was like a bellows, and the slightly healed wound was torn again.

Ke Weiss was silent for a moment. "The information the subordinates know is scattered, unless someone can thread the needle and put together a lot of puzzle pieces."

"It was fine before. Is it those big mechanics?"

Cornett remained silent. Kovis sighed, "What a pity! The sacrifice was not even completed before it was interrupted. All the materials were wasted. The loss is too great."

"Cough cough..." Cornette couldn't help but feel angry, and the wound was opened again, spitting out blood.

"Apart from those people, I can't think of any other possibilities. I underestimated them. Even if they were being monitored, the methods those great mechanics could use were extraordinary." Cornett said in a cold voice.

"No matter what the cost, I want to know who is behind this!"

"What about the sublimation particles?" asked Kovis.

"This time, we're lucky to be able to save our lives." Cornette said in a cold voice, "Let's talk about it when we get back."

In contrast to the miserable scene here is another brilliant starry sky.

Under the black curtain dotted with stars is the outermost structural ring of an unconventional warship, with five continuously rotating ring-shaped alloy skeletons and a heart-like fortress in the center.

The Star Guardian is an unconventional main ship of the Itlan civilization. It is named separately and belongs to the highest-level main ship. It already has some trends of being an interstellar fortress.

Slender frigates can be seen all around, forming a loosely structured firepower matrix with this unconventional warship as the center.

The atmosphere in the main ship's command room was lively.

"Commander, we captured fifty-six people this time, including four Apostles. We also seized three thousand pieces of boiling blood alloy and sixteen tons of other materials."

"We didn't suffer any losses." The commander of the battle report paused, "If a little energy loss is counted."

As he finished speaking, he glanced at Asmara cautiously, and a slight smile appeared on his delicate face.

The others then burst into laughter.

"What a pity that Konnit got away." Prince Baijan shook his head and spoke at an inappropriate time.

Asmara's expression calmed down. "They sacrificed dimensional creatures beforehand. We don't have any space-based blockade methods, so there's nothing we can do."

"I understand, it's just a pity." Prince Baijan explained with an ugly forced smile on his face.

Behind him, Ford frowned. Asmara had an insider inside the Torch Organization, which really gave him a lot of advantages.

However, he was unable to contact Li Ming for the time being, and was even less able to get in touch with Qinglong to get any information. He could not trade and could only worry.

"Your Excellency, if you had taken action just now, you might have been able to capture the leader of the Torch Organization." A deputy commander said, "Commander Asmara needs to be in control of the situation, but why are you just standing there and watching?"

Asmara had a clear upper hand, and someone immediately jumped out to squeeze the Baijani prince.

"What a pity..." someone else echoed.

Prince Baijan's expression remained unchanged. If he was really angry, he would have fallen into the trap of these people.

He just glanced at Ford who was lowering his head, and couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

Last time, he deliberately leaked the information that Asmara had an insider in the Torch Organization, just to let Ford pass this information to Li Ming, and then let Li Ming pass it to Qinglong.

As a result, it seems that the desired result was not achieved.

Asmara was very proud of himself, and several people under Prince Baijan looked embarrassed and uneasy. At this time, an intelligence officer hurried over to report, with a grim look on his face, and carefully passed through the edge, as if he didn't want to attract attention.

But then another person followed closely, looking extremely panicked and making a lot of noise, attracting everyone's attention.

"Commander!" He knelt on one knee, and although he was reporting to Asmara, he was facing the Prince of Baijan.

Asmara frowned and looked up at the intelligence officer who was walking carefully towards her along the wall. The other officer had an unpleasant expression on his face and shook his head subconsciously.

Prince Baijian's heart was slightly moved, and he immediately scolded, "What's the matter with you in such a hurry? Report it quickly."

"Yes!"

The other party lowered his head, deliberately not looking at Asmara, and shouted loudly: "After detailed inspection, the seized boiling blood alloys are all specially imitated model blocks, and have no value at all!"

In an instant, the entire command room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop, and the smiles on most people's faces froze.

Ford looked up suddenly, quite surprised. The most valuable items were the boiling blood alloys, but they were actually fake?
Prince Baijian exhaled slowly, as if he was drunk, a blush appeared on his cheeks, and then quickly disappeared. He frowned and said in a deep voice: "Is this true? If the news is wrong, even if I kill you, it's not enough."

"Multiple material officers from the Logistics Department verified that each piece had been re-inspected more than ten times."

Asmara's cheek twitched, but quickly subsided, leaving her face expressionless. In the silence that filled the command room, Prince Baijan sighed, "It seems that we have all been fooled by the Torch Organization."

"Huh? What do you mean?" The subordinate who was originally suppressed quickly interrupted.

Prince Baijan spoke quickly: "If the commander-in-chief's news is true, since this batch of boiling blood alloy is a model, where is the real boiling blood alloy?"

"Are these people baits? The real plan of the Torch Organization may have been completed elsewhere."

Every word pierced Asuma's heart, erasing all her merits.

In the command room, everyone looked at each other, seeming to be hesitant to speak.

We mobilized a large force this time, but ended up being plotted against by the Torch Organization?

"But the captured people are definitely not wrong, and the leader of the Torch Organization was seriously injured and escaped." Someone couldn't help but refute.

"This is exactly what I am worried about." Prince Baijan looked worried.

"Using so many people as bait, the Torch Organization's real purpose must be something serious."

Asmara's men were so embarrassed that their faces turned red, but what supported Prince Baijan's statement was that the boiling blood alloy was all fake.

This means that the Torch Organization already knew that they would ambush and took advantage of the situation.

They all became clowns, including Asmara.

Asmara's face turned pale. Although she still had something to refute, it was no longer meaningful. She said in a deep voice, "That's enough. Integrate the fleet and return to the Land of the Stars!"

Surprisingly, Asmara was actually counter-plotted, Ford muttered.

Inexplicably feeling something was strange, he looked up and saw Prince Baijan looking at him with a gratified look.

Ford was even more confused.

.........

Leaving the core laboratory, Deyes walked through the corridor inside the main base with an expressionless face and returned to his room.

As he walked, strange looks kept falling on him, and he could even hear people murmuring quietly, but he had become accustomed to it. Since Brot's death, this scene had often accompanied him.

Returning to the room, closing the door, and sitting in the cramped shadow, Deyes exhaled, with half of his face hidden in the darkness.

The other half of the cheek illuminated by the faint light suddenly twisted, filled with resentment and cruelty, twitching slightly.

"Qinglong, sooner or later..." He gritted his teeth, "Sooner or later...I will kill you, kill you!"

As he had expected, his position plummeted after Brot's death.

Even the good old Benny changed his attitude towards him a little, becoming a little bossy and even commanding.

He is a proud man, how could he endure such humiliation?

But for the sake of his own life, he had no choice but to compromise, and every time he experienced this kind of thing, his resentment towards Qinglong would increase.

This twisted emotion brewed in his heart, becoming more and more resentful.

"It's been half a month since I last contacted Asmara, and I don't know what the situation is over there." Deyes thought, and couldn't help but try to contact Asmara.

The only good news that could comfort him was that the plan was progressing steadily.

The call was quickly connected, and he couldn't wait to ask, "Your Highness Asmara, what's the situation over there? Have you stopped Connit?"

"Mr. Deyes..." Asma's voice was cold and silent. He did not respond, but asked, "Can you tell me what is going on inside the Torch Organization?"

"What do you mean?" Deyes was stunned and didn't quite understand.

"I followed your instructions, found the location, waited for Cornett, ambushed them, and seized a large number of items."

"Then..." Deyes was increasingly puzzled, "Why did you..."

"Because the 3,000 pieces of Boiling Blood Alloy that were seized were all model pieces, all fake!"

Asmara's voice suddenly rose, her suppressed emotions bursting out, her anger rising as she snapped, "What makes you think that there's no price to pay for deceiving me!"

"Fake?" Deyes was stunned, his eyes trembling slightly, and a bone-chilling chill suddenly rose in his heart, spreading throughout his body from the inside out.

The next moment, the communication link was interrupted. It was not a hang-up, but a forced interruption.
He looked down blankly and saw that his smart terminal was cracked in the middle and the screen went out.

A familiar voice suddenly sounded in the room: "Things turned out like this."

The voice was both familiar and strange, like a nightmare.

In an instant, his hair stood up, his body stiffened, and he turned around abruptly. His face was pale and distorted, his eyes darted left and right, and he roared in fear: "Who, who is here, who is it!?"

The next moment, invisible gravity fell, and Deyes felt that he was suppressed by a mountain. His pupils gradually became bloodshot, his skin turned red, and his cheeks turned the color of liver.

At the same time, with a horrified look in his eyes, a figure slowly emerged in his shadow, and then gradually became clearer.

"Qinglong!?" Deyes could no longer speak. His teeth seemed to be glued together. He was just roaring in his heart. A feeling of dizziness surged into his head.

I don’t know if it was due to lack of oxygen or the overwhelming impact, but my mind was clear and I even felt like I was suddenly enlightened.

My previous suspicion was correct. Qinglong just had a way to lurk around me, and all my plans were under his watch!

With the chill all over his body, he didn't even bother to think about what this method was.

I couldn't help but wonder, why did Qinglong allow himself to contact Asmara without exposing her?

A huge fear exploded in my heart, confusion and shock mixed in my heart, and none of this could be explained.

Li Ming had no desire to waste time talking to him as a dagger had already pierced his head.

The severe pain made Deyes unable to think of anything. The last thing he saw was Qinglong's eyes that were as calm as the Dead Sea.

(End of this chapter)