CH 92.2

TL: Hua

Grepa did exactly what Clarice had speculated.

When he found that no one responded to the messages he sent and that neither Taka nor Savi could be contacted, Grepa felt a little heavy in his heart. Although he knew that something might have happened to these two people, he still persisted in contacting three other peripheral members who were recruited to support them.

Of course, the result was the same; they were still out of contact.

He completely lost contact with the five agents sent to him.

Grepa’s face was terrifyingly gloomy, and he almost immediately thought that his actions this time had definitely been exposed. As far as he knew, those few agents weren’t strong-willed people who had received professional training and achieved good results. As long as they were tortured a little, they would definitely reveal all their plans and retreat routes.

Considering this, he immediately sent a message to Andrew requesting a direct retreat and canceling the plan.

As for Andrew, whether he just got out of someone’s bed or was still on standby because of Mr. Speaker’s order, it’s very fortunate that his message was quickly answered.

What’s unfortunate is that Andrew’s mind didn’t become clearer due to the importance of the task. He was still so muddle-headed that Grepa couldn’t help but want to kick him into a mud pit.

Looking at the sentence sent by the other party, “Proceed with the plan, report back to me after confirming your suspicions, and then evacuate according to your plan,” Grepa almost ground his teeth into dust.

But there was nothing he could do. The first level of officialdom was beyond him, so in the end, he could only hold back his anger and reply, “I understand.”

But people always think of a way out. Although going to that already-exposed rendezvous point was a foregone conclusion, Grepa still tried to leave a way out for himself.

He contacted the person that Andrew had recommended to him before; unlike the five agents who were exposed and arrested, the person who was responsible for picking him up was specially trained and had a certain reputation among them.

“Grepa: There’s an 80% chance that the meeting point has been exposed. Minister Andrew asked me to confirm that the situation was true before evacuating. Remember to follow me at all times. If something goes wrong, take me away immediately.”

“a: Understand.”

After receiving the reply from the other party, Grepa felt relieved.

He simply packed up his things, put everything in the room that might reveal his identity into the space button, locked the door, and left the house where he had lived for many years without looking back.

He paid great attention to avoiding surveillance cameras all the way and took the most remote road with the most forks in the east and west to reach the suburbs. It happened to be two fifty-five at this time.

There were still five minutes left before the time agreed upon by both parties, but there was no one in the deserted suburbs. Grepa was now 100% sure that his action had been exposed, so he sent another message to Andrew. While hiding in the shadow between the two buildings and looking out, he eagerly waited for the other party’s reply.

Three o’clock in the morning.

That dead bloke, Andrew, had gone off to do something again. Grepa had no choice but to walk out of hiding place and take a few pictures, then send a message to the agent to come over as soon as possible.

Less than a minute after the message was sent, a starship he had already seen photos of appeared in the sky.

Grepa’s eyes lit up, but it was obvious that the one who was faster than the starship was Ji Mingjiang, who seemed to suddenly emerge from the ground.

Just as Grepa was about to walk a little further to meet up with that person, he suddenly felt a wave of mental power coming from behind him. The nerves that had been tense all the time since he knew that the five people had been exposed made him directly roll away from where he was.

As soon as he stood up from the ground in disgrace, he looked up and saw two particularly familiar figures.

“Ji Mingjiang, and…Clarice.”

He gritted his teeth and looked at the two calm people in front of him.

“Have I seen you before?”

Ji Mingjiang, however, didn’t recognize who the person in front of him was at first, so he asked with some confusion.

Then, without waiting for the person opposite to speak, he waved his hand easily and said very coolly, “It doesn’t matter; it’s not important. It’s three o’clock in the morning. Are you going out for a walk?”

He raised his eyes and glanced in the air, then added, “You also want to take a walk on your own starship?”

Ji Mingjiang didn’t immediately recognize the person who had previously caused trouble for him and Clarice, but Leiden’s professionalism didn’t allow him to forget.

“Grepa.”

He looked at the vigilant and angry person opposite and said in a calm tone, “I didn’t expect people from the Federation to even infiltrate the Primary Beastmen Protection Center.”

“Ha, there are a lot of things you don’t know.”

The starship was hovering directly above, and seeing that they didn’t have any weapons, Grepa had no worries and continued mocking them. He must plant a seed of doubt in this cruel emperor’s heart before leaving.

The hanging ladder descended straight down. Grepa leapt and then lightly climbed upwards for a few steps. Then he hung in the air with an arrogant and comfortable expression and waved to the two with his free hand, “Goodbye. Even if you catch those five agents, what’s the use? They don’t know anything; you two just spent the whole night in vain.”

“Not always.”

Ji Mingjiang said it in a very light tone.

The next second, just as Grepa had turned his head and put both hands on the hanging ladder to climb up, the scene he caught in his peripheral vision made his eyes widen in horror.

Ji Mingjiang, who was still on the ground a second ago, is now jumping upwards quickly by using the convex parts of several tall buildings.

This…is this still a mermaid? !

No, to be precise, ordinary people cannot do this under normal circumstances!

Grepa stared at the approaching figure with his eyes wide open.

“Idiot, why are you still standing there?! Come up here quickly!”

Of course, the person driving the starship also noticed Ji Mingjiang’s actions. He turned on the speaker in the starship and scolded angrily.

Gritting his teeth, Grepa immediately turned his head and climbed up.

The starship hovers in mid-air with an upward trend. The top is still a long way from Grepa. The wind at three o’clock in the morning is more aggressive than during the day, and the rope ladder, with no attachment point at the bottom, swayed in the air with a frequency and amplitude that seemed to make one’s legs go weak.

“Still want to go up? Come down here!”

Not long after the starship pilot finished his scolding, Grepa hadn’t even climbed too far up. Although Grepa could only vaguely see Ji Mingjinag’s figure, the voice that rang out in his ears was very clear.

The starship still has basic lights on.

Then a shadow suddenly covered the top of his head.

His expression suddenly changed drastically, and he immediately released one hand and wanted to take out any weapon from the space button to fight back. At the very least, he had to knock down the mermaid, who also had half of his body outside the rope ladder.

That’s what he thought.

It was also what he did.

But of course, Ji Mingjiang wouldn’t let his enemies realize their wish.

With half of his foot hooked on the rope ladder, Ji Mingjiang easily let go of his hand and bent down to avoid Grepa’s stab. Then he quickly turned around and hit Grepa’s wrist with one hand, snatching away the weapon and forcefully removing the space button he was wearing on his finger.

“It’s the knife again. Why do you Federation people like to use knives so much?”

Ji Mingjiang said, a little incredulous. After all, in this era where all kinds of laser weapons are emerging in an endless stream, people who like to use cold weapons are very rare.

“Gentleman, who looks familiar but I really can’t remember when we met, you can go down first.”

Although he heard Clarice calling this guy’s name just now, Ji Mingjiang, who was really too lazy to recall on what occasion he had seen him, still called him that.

Seeing the other party try to defend himself, Ji Mingjiang didn’t give him a chance. He raised the corners of his lips slightly while taking off Grepa’s other hand.

Grepa, who just wanted to curse: “…”

Damn it, where did this psycho come from?

“Eh? Why don’t you go down yet? Clarice is still waiting for you down there.”

Looking at Grepa, who had both hands opened by him but whose instep was still stubbornly hooked on the rope ladder, Ji Mingjiang sighed in a pretentious manner.

Then he looked at the other person’s angry expression and mercilessly kicked him with his foot.

“I’m going to f*ck you…” You sick psycho!

Grepa finally couldn’t hold back the curse, but all his words were blown away by the howling wind in the air.

Ji Mingjiang glanced down and then withdrew his gaze. He believed that Clarice would definitely be able to make Grepa, a very crucial character, land on the ground unscathed.

The key point now is… He looked at the starship with the lights on above his head, his eyes full of curiosity, interest, and amusement.

He still doesn’t know the difference between the Federation’s starships and those of the Empire.

At this time, the pilot, who was sitting in the cab and saw the movement of the two people on the rope ladder below through the monitor, cursed secretly and then directly chose the option of giving up the rope ladder.

The palm of his hand pressed the “Disconnect Rope Ladder” button without hesitation, which also meant that Grepa had also been completely abandoned in the Empire.

The rope ladder that had completely lost its traction could no longer be said to be a ladder. It directly became a limp rope that wrapped around Ji Mingjiang’s body and fell downward with him.

“Ha, go to hell.”

The person in the cabin cursed viciously.

No, it shouldn’t be called a curse, he retorted to himself.

After all, isn’t it the right thing to fall into a puddle of mush after falling from such a high altitude?

However, the pilot, who was still feeling smug that he could return today and take sole credit for the endeavor, soon wore the same expression as Grepa before.

He looked at the real-time scene on the monitor in horror.

The mermaid who was entangled in the rope and falling rapidly still had a wild and wanton smile on his face, which was very conspicuous even in the darkness with only weak light. Then he threw the knife he had just taken from Grepa in the direction of the starship.

“!”

In a panic, Edmund hit the driver’s seat and let out a long grunt. But at the moment he stood up, the display screen in front of him was instantly filled with dazzling red warnings.

The rapid mechanical sound echoed throughout the cabin.

It’s obviously a synthetic electronic sound without any emotional tendency, but at this time it conveys a panicked emotion to people.

[Warning! Warning! The starship has been attacked, the starship has been attacked. The location of the attack is being investigated. ]

“Are you kidding? It’s just a short knife…”

Edmund murmured in disbelief. At this time, he even suspected that the starship was in disrepair and was broken.

But the alarm system without interactive functions wouldn’t care about his thoughts, and the program still ran with a consistency that made Edmund despair.

[Warning! The engine of the starship is damaged and will stop moving in ten minutes. It is predicted that there is a 99.8% chance of crashing directly. The pilot is requested to take rescue measures and organize the orderly evacuation of the personnel inside the starship. ]

[Warning! The starship is seriously damaged, please organize an evacuation quickly! Current countdown, 9:47]

Fortunately, Edmund is the only one in this starship now, and nine minutes is enough for him to evacuate.

He listened to the alarm sound in his ears with a pale face, his eyes still fixed on the monitor.

What does one starship count? He just wanted to see it with his own eyes. He wanted to see Ji Mingjiang get entangled in ropes and fall to the ground in embarrassment, into a puddle of flesh in front of Clarice! ! !

With this thought in mind, Edmund even forgot all about Andrew’s instructions to act covertly and directly switched on the starship’s searchlight.

A large beam of light lit up from underneath the starship, shining past Ji Mingjiang and down to the ground.

It seems to have pointed out a path to death for Ji Mingjiang.

And just as Edmund’s expression grew more and more frantic, he saw Ji Mingjiang seemingly frown because of the blinding light and then turn around in midair.

He turned around!

Edmund watched almost blankly as Ji Mingjiang turned over and straightened up in the air as if he could fly, and then untied the rope around him seemingly very calmly.

Then he turned his head and glanced at him—glanced at the monitor that was supposed to be very hidden—and raised his lips into a smile.

The soft rope seemed to have regained strength in his hands. He threw it straight to the building nearby and wrapped it around the protruding railing outside.

“Goodbye~”

He gestured towards the starship, tightened the rope, swung himself, and then effortlessly kicked his feet against the wall before sliding down along the rope and wall.

Finally, he landed firmly on the ground.

Edmund’s desire to kill has never been as high as it is today.

Because this mermaid, who had already left his illuminated area, actually walked back into the circle of light after he landed!

He actually walked over on his own initiative!!!

“F*ck!”

[Warning! Pilots, please organize the orderly evacuation of the starship in a timely manner!]

[Current countdown, 8:23]

The cold but urgent alarm and countdown sounded again. Edmund glanced at the monitor, gritted his teeth, and reached out to hold the propulsion lever.

In eight minutes, flying is faster than running. He doesn’t believe that the monster Ji Mingjiang can catch up with him!

He couldn’t die here. He had to go back and report the matter to Mr. Andrew and Mr. Speaker.

—About the bizarre mermaid Ji Mingjiang, the capture of the five agents, and… He glanced at the monitor… and Grepa, who had just been captured and tied up by Clarice.

Also, Grepa’s exposure and early failure to report the truth.

Hehe, he didn’t believe that Grepa, a guy who watches Ji Mingjiang’s live broadcast every day, didn’t know how weird this mermaid is!

Knowing the truth and not reporting it means… betraying the Federation!

The propulsion lever was pushed to the bottom by him.

The yellow and red warnings intertwined and overlapped before his eyes, and the sound of the alarm in his ears became even more piercing. Edmund’s eyes were bloodshot, staring intently at the blank area on the map, his palms sticking to the propulsion lever and refusing to let go.

Finally, with a “boom,” a cloud of orange-red fireworks exploded in the air, and the heavy black smoke stood out against the night.

A landing device with a person crashed to the ground in a wretched manner.

“Cough, cough, cough.”

The smoke still choked Edmund’s throat. He slumped to the ground and coughed twice before pulling out his communicator in this posture.

Tap to open.

“Grepa has been exposed and arrested. Please formulate a silence plan as soon as possible.”

Sent.