Night of Despair

This is Liu Chixuan's ship. If it goes out to the Floating City, it naturally notifies him.

"It's my big brother returning." Ku Chan stated honestly.

"Your big brother? That Captain of the Savior Ship?" Liu Chixuan was taken aback. He had heard that Yu Hong went to the Phoenix Eye, a deeper and extremely dangerous zone of the Source Disaster Wind Disaster, which was already nearing the core area.

How long has it been, and he already came back?? So quickly??

"Alright, be safe. Lately, Margaret seems to be acting strange, causing trouble for you all over. With me here, she doesn't dare to make a move in the Floating City, but it's different if you go out." Liu Chixuan cautioned.

"I understand. I haven't done anything, and it's impossible for others to pin Margaret's missing goods on us."

"She hired a Prophetic Department master, spent a lot, and must have found some clues. It's unrelated to you, but whether it's related to your former group is hard to say." Liu Chixuan spoke calmly.

"I understand." Ku Chan nodded. "Please don't worry, teacher. I'll go and return quickly."

"Good!"

The communication cut off.

The spaceship slowly passed through the inspection gate, traversing layers of silver light circles, and then accelerated.

Whoosh.

The next second, the entire spaceship disappeared like a silver fish, and when it reappeared, it was hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

It passed through vast space regions, and soon the spaceship began to slow down, stopping about ten light-seconds away from the Floating City.

In the distance, a burning star quietly emitted brilliant golden radiance.

The silver spaceship stopped, with its surface flowing like a silver mirror liquid.

Ku Chan was waiting, the location of the magic connection was right here.

Soon, within half a minute.

A black meteorite, similar to a three-story building, quietly emerged at the edge of the spaceship.

The surface of the meteorite, black with specks of silver, appeared like a kind of metallic ore.

Hiss.

A rectangular door emerged on the meteorite's surface.

A viewing window appeared on the door.

"Ku Chan!" Yu Hong's face appeared behind the window.

Upon seeing this, Ku Chan immediately sighed in relief.

"Brother Yu!" He quickly sent a message. "It's good that you're alright!"

"I'm alright, but what's going on over there??" Yu Hong could still feel a trickle of Spirit Light constantly flowing into his body.

Though not much, it was continuous.

"Uh... if you're talking about others, Yiyi is fine, currently attending classes honestly at the academy. She's using my slot to attend some professional courses, simple and practical ones. As for others..." Ku Chan stopped mid-sentence.

"What happened to the others?" Hearing Yiyi was safe, Yu Hong was largely relieved and his tone relaxed a bit.

"Chi Xiao is wandering around outside all day, which isn't a big problem. The main issue is with Little Goddess Fisina and Little White Dragon Gabriela..." Ku Chan replied.

"What have they done??" Yu Hong asked.

"They couldn't accept failing the assessment, which I only discovered a few days ago. Fisina secretly established a Desire Club by distributing the Spirit Light Seed you gave her to many people..." Ku Chan lowered his voice.

"... Could it be..."

"Yes... just as you think, she gathered many goddesses and non-human races similar to her to provide erotic services...." Ku Chan said with an awkward tone.

"... But even so, I shouldn't be receiving Spirit Light returns from here." Yu Hong said puzzled.

"Ah... that might be because, just the other day, their club was raided by internal security forces of the Floating City, and many goddesses and non-human races were killed in the resistance."

"They dared to resist?" Quan He exclaimed from the side.

"True Monarch Quan He, you're here too!" Ku Chan was a bit taken aback.

"Mhm, continue, continue." Quan He seemed quite interested, listening intently.

"According to Floating City law, illegally obtained goods reaching a certain amount is a major crime, and Fisina and her group also avoided taxes... Regarding the resistance, if they didn't resist, they'd still end up as experimental materials when caught, so resisting or not makes sense." Ku Chan explained.

"But I can still sense Spirit Light feeding back to me. Does that mean they're still resisting? Are they that strong?" Yu Hong asked with doubt.

"Ah... the arrest ended the day before yesterday. Now, they might be forcing goddesses and non-human races to have abortions. Most of them didn't use contraceptive measures, and now they're all pregnant." Ku Chan guessed.

"....."

"...."

Yu Hong and Quan He remained speechless.

After a moment of silence, Yu Hong asked again.

"What about Little White Dragon Gabriela?"

"She was sent by Fisina to learn modeling, and just as she was about to complete it, the incident occurred. Luckily, she's still at her residence, and I asked a teacher to protect her." Ku Chan sighed.

"Forget it, since everything's fine, I'll leave. Originally, I thought I had come back urgently for a crisis, but it turns out...." Yu Hong felt it was the wisest decision he made not to bring Fisina earlier.

That one was indeed a troublemaker, causing such chaos even in the Floating City.

"Since you're back, won't you rest a bit longer?" Ku Chan felt reluctant. Although he had new friends, mentors, and classmates over here, Yu Hong was the big brother who had guided him through thick and thin, and the bond was different.

"No. Time waits for no one." Yu Hong was now in a hurry to return and continue cultivating, refining his traits, and accelerating his practice of the Qingyuan Heavenly River Miao Technique.

After chatting with Ku Chan for a while longer, the spaceship and the safehouse slowly parted ways, each returning to the direction they had come from.

A mass of colorful threads loomed around Black Black Spirit, beginning its entry into the Wind Disaster.

But in the next moment, an invisible pressure crashed onto the surface of Black Black Spirit.

Boom!!

The entire safehouse shook violently, and was held in place.

"Captain Yu Hong, hold on a moment!"

Suddenly, a cold, stern female voice penetrated the walls of the safehouse, reaching Yu Hong and Quan He's ears.

Accompanied by the voice, an ice-blue spaceship appeared, over ten times larger than Black Black Spirit.

The spaceship bore down on Black Black Spirit from above like a magnet, releasing an invisible force, firmly anchoring the safehouse.

Margaret and two other Water Element women appeared within the spaceship, looking at Black Black Spirit through its semi-transparent windows.

"Patrol Chief Margaret, what do you mean by this?" Yu Hong frowned, "I've never offended you, have I?"

This question was probing, probing whether she was here because of the missing goods.

"Correct, you haven't." Margaret, dressed in a silver-gray mage robe and holding a golden magic wand, had eyes gleaming with glaring blue light.

"I merely heard that you successfully entered the Phoenix Eye, and returned from there." She sneered twice.

"Last time you went in, you didn't succeed, and the ship was mostly damaged. Why this time, after going in and out, the ship is unharmed??"

"Such significant strengthening must be costly, right?" She indeed had not found out where the materials went, but the clues provided by the Prophetic Department master led her to suspect Yu Hong and his group.

Especially, what place could block predictions from a Prophetic Department master? Aside from the depths of the Source Disaster, it would either be other Floating City bigwigs.

She spent a fortune investigating traces of possible major players, but found nothing.

So, in matching the timing, the biggest suspicion naturally landed on the Savior Ship.

"Patrol Chief, what are you suspecting?" Yu Hong maintained a composed voice, showing no change in expression.

"Explain where you got the materials to enhance the ship." Margaret said coldly.

"Couldn't I have earned it from the Phoenix Eye?" Yu Hong smirked.

"It seems you won't give up until the last minute...." A flash of menace crossed Margaret's eyes. In pursuit of this matter, she already spent vast amounts of funds, energy, and time.

Even though she had no evidence now, the sudden enhancement of the Savior Ship was highly suspicious!

Therefore.... she intended to detain the ship for investigation.

If he was guilty, she'd eliminate him and the ship.

If not, she'd find out how he enhanced the ship quickly and to such an extent. It must have required a large amount of rare materials, and finding their source could make up for her earlier losses!

Therefore, whether Yu Hong was guilty or not, she didn't intend to let him escape.

Inside Black Black Spirit, Yu Hong also sensed this.

"It seems the Patrol Chief doesn't care about the truth, only what capturing me will get you."

"Since you understand, stop wasting words. Tell me, where did the materials come from?" Margaret stopped pretending and said bluntly.

Inside the safehouse, Yu Hong remained calmly composed.

"No matter where they came from, it seems you are overly confident in yourself, Patrol Chief."

"Enough, apprehend him." Margaret stopped speaking further, and tapped her magic wand.

A blue light started glowing at the tip of her wand.

The next moment.

The blue light burst into a bubble and exploded.

Screech!!

In that moment, with the two spaceships at the center, everything within a radius of thousands of kilometers in the surrounding space turned into an ice-blue expanse, in the blink of an eye.

"Absolute Freeze." At this moment, the Intelligent Spirit beside Margaret finally uttered the name of the spell chant.

Everything within the ice-blue zone stopped moving completely, entering a state of absolute stillness.

"Philis, go break down the door and bring him out." Margaret ordered.

Beside her, a Water Element mage slightly bowed, then with a flicker, appeared in the space outside the spaceship.

He raised a white magic wand with one hand, aimed at Black Black Spirit, and chanted a spell.

"Spell Technique Construction Initiating." The white speck-like Intelligent Spirit hovered beside his face, announcing.

"Array Foundation Construction Completed, Spell Technique Transmission Completed, Level Four Magic Cutting Blade, about to launch."

HISS.

A silver blade shot out from the tip of his magic wand straight for the door of Black Black Spirit.

Clang clang clang clang clang!!!

Though it was just a blade, at the moment of collision, it erupted into five consecutive rippling silver shock waves.

After the ripples dissipated.

With confidence, Philis moved forward, ready to enter through the door.

But....

The door of Black Black Spirit only had a shallow white mark on the surface.

Beyond that, there was no other trace.

"It's pretty tough, but no matter, as long as I can leave a mark, I can use cumulative spells to cut through quickly. Please wait a moment, Patrol Chief." Maintaining his composure, Philis said, though his facial muscles twitched slightly.

But as soon as his words fell, he saw the white mark on the door rapidly disappear, as if vaporizing....

"....." The calmness on Philis's face was starting to falter.