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The audience's emotions were still lingering on the joyful atmosphere of Renyi and Xiao Jiu tearing apart the "Lord of Desire" and Ivanka's famous scene in the pool.

Meanwhile, Sakura's live stream room erupted from its somber mood.

[Baka! Bastard! Jack Morrison!]

[This is murder! This is a blatant provocation against our great Sakura Empire!]

[Sato-kun... he just wanted to live!]

Soon after, some calm analyses emerged:

[Wait... why did Morrison say, "I believe your upline has already told you"?]

What does it mean to say, "Next time, let someone else who listens"?

[So this was premeditated? We hope you can give us an explanation!!]

The American audience saw it clearly as well.

While Morrison did bring them many benefits, his behavior was ruthless and made many people uncomfortable.

[Oh my God, has Morrison gone mad? He killed our ally?]

[This is going too far, even though he's useless...]

[You idiot upstairs, didn't you hear? That guy will turn against us. Morrison is cleaning house, and it's the right choice!]

[That was the right choice, you piece of shit! It was the same thing last time you used Udj as a shield! We are a civilized nation, not barbarians!]

Blue Star.

Michael's encrypted communicator rang.

"Your Excellency Michael," came the humble voice on the other end of the phone, with a slightly strange accent.

"I'm very sorry to have caused Colonel Morrison trouble."

Michael spun his swivel chair expressionlessly:

"Just dispose of the waste."

"Hey! It was our mistake!" Even through the telephone line, Shioichi Wan'e's back seemed to be bent over.

"We misjudged Jiro Sato's loyalty. Rest assured, next time, we will select the most resolute elites who will absolutely obey any order from Colonel Morrison!"

"Yes, I want results."

Michael didn't say anything more and hung up the phone immediately.

......

【The Ocean Era】

"I need this intelligence."

The four followed the trail. The enhancements to their bodies from the evolution points and the long period of adaptation had made them accustomed to seeing in the dark.

About four or five kilometers away, Renyi suddenly stopped and blocked the people behind him.

"The trap has been triggered."

There was an unnatural depression in the ground ahead and several torn vines.

Ivan took two steps forward and peered into the pit.

"Hey, it looks like we really fell in."

He dragged the body out of there.

It was none other than the missing Jiro Sato.

His eyes were wide open, and his chest and abdomen were pierced by several wooden stakes, a gruesome death.

"Amen." Aurora made the sign of the cross on her chest.

"...Tsk, what a poor bastard." Ivan scratched his head, his tone a bit heavy. "Could he have really been trying to run away, but in his panic, he stepped into a trap himself?"

Renyi silently squatted down and tore open his clothes, which were soaked with blood.

"No," he said.

The spikes of the trap did indeed pierce Jiro Sato's body; such an act would certainly have been fatal to a living person.

But the edges of those wounds were very smooth, without any tearing caused by struggling in excruciating pain.

There was no reaction in daily life.

This refers to the spasmodic contraction of muscle fibers when living tissue is punctured.

That is:

"He was already dead before he fell in; this is post-mortem injury."

[The frog from Arai keeps touching your belly!]

[So someone killed him and then staged his death as an accident by putting him in a trap?]

[Although I'm not sad, to be honest, I can't seem to feel happy...]

[The cherry blossom area is in chaos, the comments say it's Morrison's doing! I just got here!]

[Huh? Aren't they supposed to be allies with Sakura? Are they fighting amongst themselves?]

[Let's go, let's go eat some melon seeds over there!]

Randomly select a few pieces of glowing moss to use as lighting.

He didn't use the corona stone because it was too conspicuous, and he didn't want to be a sitting duck.

The pale blue glow dispelled the darkness in the small area, making the corpse's unseeing face appear even more ashen.

Carefully examine him from head to neck to chest...

"Um?"

There was a small red dot on the chest where the heart was located, where the blood had congealed. When the body was turned over, there was a similar red dot on the back of the chest.

"That's the real cause of death."

Any can be determined.

The one who killed Jiro Sato was a human, and it's most likely Morrison.

As for the reason...

Perhaps he was silenced because he refused to cooperate.

He reached out and closed Sato Jiro's wide-open eyes, and as the blue light enveloped them, the corpse vanished.

[Decomposition successful!]

[You have obtained: 20 Fresh Meat Chunks, 1 Complete Human Skeleton, and 1 Echo]

"Hydra...this stuff is bad luck. Next time you can take all the human flesh, I don't need it..."

To harbor any grudges in one's heart

He was met with a cold, automated system response:

[Already stored in the warehouse.]

Fine... I'll give it to you, but you don't want it. If you're so capable, then don't try to withhold my money! o(︶︿︶)o

"We will maintain vigilance for the next few days and refrain from going out."

He stood up casually. "Since the other side thinks they've gained the upper hand, let them make the first move."

The game has begun, but the players are far more than just those in [Ocean Era].

......

Blue Star, a port.

The sound of the steam whistle lingered under the night sky.

"Hey, hurry up! This stop is only for 60 minutes!" a brown-haired waiter shouted to his companion who was about to disembark.

"Okay, okay!"

The young Asian waiter straightened his bow tie, winked mischievously, and said, "If my supervisor hadn't asked me to bring you a bag of 'balloons,' I wouldn't have bothered getting off the ship to make this trip."

"Wow, even an iron tree can bloom! With whom?!" Curly-haired boy asked curiously.

"I'll tell you when I get back, and I guarantee you'll be in for a big surprise."

"Damn it, you only said half of what you wanted to say! Then hurry up and come back!"

The waiter waved with a smile, quickly walked down the gangway, turned into the staff passage, and his figure soon disappeared through the side door of the waiting hall.

Ten minutes later, passengers began boarding.

Several serious-looking passengers exchanged a silent glance, then dispersed and headed towards the ship's staff living area.

"Waaah—"

The cruise ship's horn sounded again as it slowly sailed away from the dock and disappeared into the deep night.

In a corner of the waiting hall, two men who had been staring at the cruise ship simultaneously looked down at their vibrating phones.

"The target is not on the ship! Operation failed!"

The two men's expressions changed drastically, and they sprang up almost simultaneously, rushing towards the entrance of the hall.

"Bang!"

The heavy glass door was suddenly pushed open.

Before they could catch their breath, their eyes swept across the sparse crowd and departing vehicles on the dock with hawk-like eyes.

"He's definitely still nearby! Split up and chase him!"

Just as the two were about to go their separate ways, one of them was suddenly knocked off balance by a force.

"Hey! Watch it!"

A sexy female voice with a perfect accent, tinged with annoyance, rang out.