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Arc 2 – Slag that Interstellar Admiral
Chapter 46

Scarlett Star was named after the late Princess Scarlett. Princess Scarlett loved the beauty of this planet the most during her lifetime as it would always be surrounded by clouds and mist and the plants on this planet were dense and tall. Those lush forests made people feel as if they had entered the land of the giants and the negative ions on this planet that are several dozen times more than those of other planets was another one of its biggest features. Everyone who comes to this place would involuntarily feel relaxed.

This planet was the princess’s property when she was alive, but she had died young and, with no children and no partner, the ownership of the planet was returned to the Emperor — that is, her brother. The Emperor subsequently converted half of it into a tourist attraction while the other half was used for the nation where many schools and research institutes were built.

Planet Blick is one of the military’s representative planets and is located close to Scarlett Star. After the meeting, the starship carrying a group of generals and admirals travelled over to the teleportation point on Scarlett Star, preparing for their travel back.

While the others left, Louis’s starship remained behind with no intention to move.

The staff at the teleportation point asked several times but the aide once again sent them away. When he returned, he saw Louis sitting in the co-pilot seat, looking calmly at the vast galaxy ahead.

Aide: “Admiral, if you don’t want to go back now you can take a rest or go out to enjoy Scarlett Star’s scenery.”

“I’m waiting for Edmond’s reply. Once I’ve received his reply, I can decide on the next destination.”

The aide heard this and responded to show that he understood.

Major General Edmond had set off a day earlier than Louis. If they calculated the time now, he had been in the Death Galaxy for more than a day. Logically speaking, news should’ve already been sent back. Louis looked at the silent communicator and frowned.

After about half an hour, the communicator finally lit up. Louis made the others leave first before picking it up. Edmond wearing a military uniform appeared and said to Louis solemnly, “Admiral, you were really spot on. Those rebels knew about my whereabouts and they tried to ambush us with their heavy weapons!”

Louis’s heart sank in an instant. There was a moment of silence before he asked, “How did those rebels react when they saw you?”

Edmond was older than Louis, but his mind was still like that of an immature boy. He scratched his head, “React…….they didn’t react much. They started attacking as soon as they saw me. It took me a while to deal with them all.”

No reaction.

What did that mean? It meant that they knew who that person was, so they didn’t need to react.

Louis had a total of seven mechas, named after the seven archangels. He had taken along his most commonly used Michael and Gabriel with him while the escape mecha Raphael was given to Shao Ze’an. As for his spare mecha Uriel, it was given to Edmond to use before he left.

Edmond’s spiritual power was also grade S so he could use his mecha. He had asked Edmond to pilot his Uriel into battle and Edmond did as he was told. The final result was that the rebels didn’t react specially when they saw Louis’s exclusive mecha.

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The conjecture he had was now confirmed but Louis still didn’t believe it. He raised his eyes and asked, “What heavy weapons did the rebels use?”

Edmond listed out several heavy weapon names. As he named them, he thought internally: Those rebels really went all out this time. They had taken out their most powerful and most expensive ones, the ones they would use when dealing with Admiral West and Lieutenant General Shao. Since those weapons were used against him, did it mean that his strength has been recognised by the rebels?

The more Edmond thought about it, the more he felt that it was the case. He was secretly pleased, and this emotion was revealed on his face. When he finally recovered from his happy mood and saw the expression Louis had on the opposite end, he couldn’t smile anymore.

……..

Edmond looked at him fearfully, “Ad-admiral…..Did I say something wrong?”

No, nothing was wrong.

Those heavy weapons are the most powerful weapons and they were used specifically to fight against long-range combat mechas, that is, Michael.

The target of the rebels this time was very clear. They had come for Louis.

The only person who knew of this false news was Shao Ze’an but the rebels knew about it and had also attacked with big fanfare. That was enough evidence in itself.

Louis had previously suspected that intel was being leaked. There had been times were mistakes were made and they had to reschedule or change their plans at every turn while the rebels, as if they had all suddenly become retarded, would make some incomprehensible actions. The military headquarters had been paying close attention to these incidents and after analysing, they discovered that these strange behaviours of the rebels could always be linked back to the military plans that they had to reschedule or change. Although they couldn’t succeed, the severity of this problem was already impossible to ignore.

There was a spy in the military headquarters and this spy was also very powerful, in a high position, or he wouldn’t have been able to access so much confidential information.

Once they discovered this, the first thing they checked was those who have had the information go through them, but they had completely overlooked those who could access these secrets going through that avenue.

For example, although he is not working in the military headquarters, the wife of the admiral who could enter and leave at will.

Louis’s current expression was extremely poor. Edmond had been in life and death situations with Louis many times before and knew that he was someone who wouldn’t show any changes to his expression even when he is on the verge of death so when he saw such an expression now, he was stunned, “Admiral, did Alorin do anything else? Did you make me pilot Uriel to confuse them, but they didn’t fall for it? Don’t be discouraged. I’ll return and we can take them down together……”

Before he could finish speaking, Louis had already turned off the communication interface. He was in a very bad mood and didn’t want to hear Edmond chattering noisily.

Edmond who wanted to show his loyalty: “………”

After turning off the communication interface, the entire room immediately turned quiet. Louis remained sitting in the co-pilot seat with his eyes lowered, hiding the turmoil in his heart.

He looked calm but his right hand had already crushed the armrest.

Louis was a clever man. As long as he manages the find a clue, he can figure out all the ins and outs of the rest in an instant.

There was no doubt that Shao Ze’an was stealing information for the rebels. That time when the aide suddenly threw the documents out the window, he had thought that Shao Ze’an was being naughty and wilful and was deliberately teasing the aide. Think back now, he realised that it wasn’t because of that. If he wanted to stop the damages from occurring after the information was leaked, the only option was to destroy the plans in there. That way, it would not bring the Empire any harm.

On one hand, he stole information but on the other hand, he tried to destroy it. Such a contradictory approach could only mean one thing.

Shao Ze’an was held hostage.

The rebels had used a certain method to make Shao Ze’an work for them, and because of that unknown method, he couldn’t ask for help and could only be constantly threatened day and night and forced to become a traitor.

All of this probably started since he returned to the main star, or possibly even earlier.

After realising this, the armrest that had been crushed by Louis was now directly broken off the chair.

The aide stood quietly outside, waiting for Louis to call him back him. Suddenly, there was an unusual vibration in the air. The aide’s actions paused, and he subconsciously glanced at the soldiers next to him. Those two soldiers were Louis’s personal soldiers and their strengths are also very high. The three of them exchanged a look, all revealing similar shocked expressions.

One soldier and the aide rushed in while the other immediately ran to the power room. Fortunately, there were no people below A-grade on the starship. If Admiral West’s spiritual power was to go berserk here, everyone at most would just be in pain for a while and if not that, it would be some minor internal injuries and bleeding which would be fine if they entered the treatment capsule for a while.

But the power room couldn’t withstand this! An S-grade spiritual power going berserk could easily destroy a skyscraper with level 7 protection. If the admiral can’t control himself and destroys the power room, they can only buy tickets for commercial starships to go home and would also need to write many reports explaining what happened to the starship.

………

Chi Zhao’s spiritual power was higher than Louis’s, but his lethality was much lower because at that time he hadn’t learned how to use it. Even if it went berserk, it could only affect a small area. Louis on the other hand was different. He had been trained for decades and had been under strict self-control day in and day out. Right now, almost half of Scarlett Star was affected.

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The teleportation point suffered the most. Two starships were in the middle of teleporting when it was attacked by his spiritual power, instantly distorting time and space. They had originally wanted to go west but in the end, they were sent east.

……….

While Scarlett Star suffered, Chi Zhao was about to go to sleep and, in another room in the Shao residence, Madam Shao and Mister Shao had a looked of incredulousness after hearing their eldest son’s inference.

“Xiao An is being held hostage? But how is that possible? He has been at home the whole time and is with his classmates in college and Louis at home. If someone is holding him hostage, everyone should be able to tell!”

Shao Zelin knew that it sounded unbelievable, but this wasn’t a conclusion he had reached without much thought. He had felt that something was wrong a while back and after observing for several months and the interaction he had just now, he finally felt that his conjecture was correct.

West’s whereabouts was known by all high-level military officials. It is known that he is going to a military meeting in behalf of the main star but Shao Ze’an had told him just now that Louis had said that he was going to do something related to Alorin.

Shao Zelin couldn’t say exactly what kind of person West was, but he can tell that West truly likes his younger brother. If it was a military secret and West lied to his younger brother, it was excusable, but there was no need for him to lie about this kind of thing. For what reason did he lie to Shao Ze’an?

There were only two possibilities. One, West did something that wronged his brother or two, he wanted to take this opportunity to test his brother.

Louis cheating would be something that would only happen if the sun rose from the west instead of the east so that only left the last possibility; West is testing out his younger brother.

Originally, this plan should’ve been seamless, but no one expected the workaholic Shao Zelin to suddenly ask for leave and return home. As a result, his lie was discovered by the others.

Shao Zelin explained one by one the flaws in Shao Ze’an’s actions and combined it with the incidents in the military as well as the Louis’s various actions. Once connected, everything made sense. There were no loopholes to his conjecture.

Mister Shao frowned. Madam Shao still couldn’t accept it because she didn’t want to accept it, “Xiao An would definitely not betray the country! Even if someone held him hostage, he……why didn’t he tell us? Why didn’t he ask us for help?”

At the beginning Madam Shao’s tone was still forceful but when she reached the end, her voice grew small and helpless.

“Because he can’t tell us, mother. Think about it, if he had the opportunity and ability to ask for help, would he let himself continue to be threatened by them?”

Shao Zelin didn’t mention any specifics, but Madam Shao understood his meaning.

Her youngest son was being threatened and the thing that is held hostage could be anything; perhaps his life, perhaps his family, or perhaps his lover. In short, he couldn’t act rashly. As long as he is disobedient, those rebels would immediately take away his most important things or maybe kill him immediately.

Madam Shao’s face instantly became pale. She couldn’t say another word. The room became deadly silent. Mister Shao slowly raised his head. He looked a lot older than before.

“Xiao An said that he was unconscious for a while in Death Galaxy and when he woke up, he found himself in Morris’s laboratory. Is it possible that Morris did something to Xiao An?”

Shao Zelin silently shook his head, “I don’t know. Anything is possible but they are all just guesses unless Xiao An tells us himself what happened.”

Madam Shao who was in a stunned state suddenly stood up, “I’ll go find him. I’m his mother. He will tell me about it.”

Shao Zelin frowned. Just as he was about to stop her, his father moved faster and held her back, “Calm down! Xiao An was held hostage but we never noticed and he hasn’t gone anywhere apart from college or home. Do you know what this means? It means that someone is watching him nearby, perhaps they are people we don’t expect at all, or perhaps…..they didn’t send anyone over and had done something to Xiao An such that they can monitor him the entire time. If you go now, you may alert them and possibly cause your son to lose his life!”

Hearing her husband’s words, Madam Shao collapsed onto the ground in despair.

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