At 10:30, during the martial law across Eimeral, Feng Lianzhu took the stage as the representative of the graduates to deliver a speech.
As Feng Lianzhu predicted, in the second trial verdict, five death row inmates were resentenced to 20,000 years in prison, and the properties officially announced were pitifully small. It is believed that in a few more years, these 20,000-year sentences will be reduced through various means.
The positions, rights, and family backgrounds of these death row inmates are too powerful. Ms. Seril alone owns ten planets, and even though many ordinary residents live on these planets, her governance over these ten planets is even higher than that of the Alliance.
The Alliance cannot execute a lady with private soldiers. Once she rebels, even if the Alliance can suppress it, the Alliance will be greatly damaged.
Coincidentally, this lady is the Ms. S whom Feng Lianzhu is familiar with from the underground arena.
Laurie, representing the Imperial Army, took the blame for causing a commotion in the underground arena. Feng Lianzhu understands why he did this: first, to establish a new image, the Imperial Army bravely ventured into the underground arena for the public; second, to conceal the existence of the Kirates dragon from the Alliance. It seems the Imperial Army has not given up on the fat dragon, wanting to capture him before he comes of age, of course without letting the Alliance know about this.
As for Feng Lianzhu’s attitude towards this, it was indifferent. Even if they scoured the entire star system, they would not find the fat dragon.
Pang Kirates is hidden in a mountain of gold designed by a gaming company that Feng Lianzhu hired, safe from harm.
Actually, most of the audience in the underground arena that day were killed by the fat dragon. In order to vent for Feng Lianzhu, the dragon forcibly took the quantum bracelets from the contestants and put them on the audience members. Those who were forced to wear the bracelets were either dead or half-mad. Ms. S was lucky to escape this disaster, which was fortunate indeed.
But that was the end of their luck. The Imperial Army would not let these people live.
Feng Lianzhu checked the news online, and the public was very dissatisfied with this verdict, with many strongly demanding a retrial and questioning the fairness of the Supreme Court.
There was a lot of noise online, and the Alliance seemed to want to suppress these messages. However, they understood that blocking was worse than channeling. If they forcibly suppressed speech at this time, with the Imperial Army watching closely, they would lose a large portion of the public.
It was also at this time that Feng Lianzhu received a message from Laurie. Coincidentally, this day was when Feng Lianzhu left the Science Academy to attend the graduation ceremony of the Alliance Academy, conveniently not inside the Science Academy. If it were the Science Academy, all communications would be monitored, and the source of the signal could be easily traced, possibly exposing Laurie.
He probably chose this timing to contact Feng Lianzhu, using the account of Eimiral.
“Major General Laurie, you’ve come to planet Eimiral?” Feng Lianzhu raised an eyebrow slightly.
A top-level fugitive with a bounty of two billion star coins appearing in the capital of the Alliance, that took quite some courage.
“There’s an operation I couldn’t avoid, and now I’ve been promoted to General Laurie,” Laurie said with a hint of pride in the video.
Laurie’s rank has fluctuated a lot this year. Starting as a Lieutenant General, demoted to Major General after being severely beaten by Feng Lianzhu and requiring ransom, and now promoted to General again due to the underground arena case, it has been quite the roller coaster.
“General, it seems you haven’t fulfilled our original agreement. Why were those death row inmates resentenced? I believe with the influence of the Imperial Army in the Alliance, sentencing these people to death shouldn’t be that difficult, right?”
Feng Lianzhu had been studying law intensively for the college entrance exams and knew that the decision of the second trial was determined by a jury vote. The Imperial Army could have easily manipulated the outcome by planting their own people in the jury.
Laurie frowned: “You… seem to have changed a lot?”
He had only met Feng Lianzhu three times, and each time the change was quite significant. The first time, Feng Lianzhu barely spoke fluently, like a kindergarten child; the second time, he overwhelmed everyone with martial force but his way of thinking and style of action were somewhat naive. At that time, Laurie thought that if Feng Lianzhu continued to improve at this pace, it wouldn’t be long before even he could not predict Feng Lianzhu’s intentions. Although he had concerns, Laurie thought it was too early, as one’s growth couldn’t possibly be so rapid. To his surprise, by the third meeting, Feng Lianzhu had become unfathomable.
Laurie was worried, fearing that he couldn’t deceive Feng Lianzhu this time. Initially, he thought…
“You know I have special abilities, and you want my help to assassinate those five death row inmates, right?” Feng Lianzhu said.
Laurie was startled, realizing his plan had failed. Even if he could deceive Feng Lianzhu into acting, it would come at a great cost.
“What do you think?” Laurie looked at Feng Lianzhu, his disdain gone, replaced with caution.
“I agree,” Feng Lianzhu said, “but I need a list, which you’ll have to prepare for me.”
“What list?”
“The list of Imperial Army intelligence operatives lurking in the Science Academy attempting to steal gene enhancement data. I won’t harm them; I want them to do something for me on the night of the third day, then escape from the Science Academy within a set time.”
He had no intention of harming the lives of the operatives. Instead of letting them get caught and implicated, it was better to have them escape from the start, diverting the Alliance’s attention, thus reducing suspicion towards the Botanical Science Academy.
Laurie’s expression twisted, “What are you planning, what do you know? Those operatives are our painstakingly trained agents, who managed to infiltrate the Science Academy for core secret operations. I absolutely cannot agree.”
“If they agree to cooperate with me, they might even save their lives, and the Imperial Army won’t lose too much talent; if not, there’s no other outcome but being exposed and tortured to death by the Alliance.”
Laurie, shrewd as he was, knew that Feng Yuansi’s account belonged to Feng Lianzhu. The news about the top scorer of the college entrance exams being admitted to the Science Academy had been a big deal. At first, he wondered why Feng Lianzhu wanted to join the Alliance Science Academy when he initially came to testify for the Atavists.
Through this conversation and considering Feng Lianzhu’s subtle relationship with the Kirates clan, Laurie immediately guessed his purpose: “You’re after the dragonling specimen! Dream on. We’ve lost so many operatives, only to steal a small piece. The Alliance’s defenses are impenetrable; you won’t be able to get your hands on it.”
Feng Lianzhu wasn’t planning to steal it but to destroy it entirely, although he wouldn’t tell Laurie. Instead, he said, “Then I’ll assume you’ve given up on those operatives. Go assassinate the death row inmates yourself. Don’t be too sad when you hear the news of their deaths in a few days; it’s your choice.”
“Wait!” Laurie, seeing Feng Lianzhu about to end the call, hurriedly said, “I agree, but when we return to the Primitive Star, you have to share some of the dragonling specimen with me.”
Feng Lianzhu barely held back a laugh, calmly saying, “Fine, you exchange it with supplies. Whatever is needed for the construction of the Primitive Star, you send it over, and I’ll give you the specimen according to the amount of supplies.”
Of course, he was lying, but this made it more believable.
If he agreed without hesitation, Laurie would never believe such good fortune would just fall into his lap. He might even guess Feng Lianzhu’s ultimate goal was to destroy the specimen from his indifferent attitude. Bargaining made it easier to believe, especially since Laurie knew Feng Lianzhu cared greatly about the development of the Primitive Star.
Sure enough, after a while, Laurie agreed. After some thought, he reasoned that although a few operatives would be exposed, if they could successfully retreat, the loss wouldn’t be significant. Moreover, exchanging a bit of supplies for the dragonling specimen, a long-desired item by the Imperial Army, was a great deal.
Looking at his somewhat naive face, Feng Lianzhu couldn’t help but think, once he was like a blank slate before Laurie, and now he could easily deceive him.
ใCongratulations to the host, Feng Lianzhu, on grasping “Strategies”, awarded ten thousand points. You are now among the top ranks of humans.ใ
Feng Lianzhu wasn’t too concerned about the points anymore. He wondered, “System, don’t you think I’m evolving too fast? Learning knowledge is one thing, but integrating it seamlessly is another. It seems I’ve absorbed the knowledge without any barriers, and my intelligence has increased exceptionally fast.”
ใThe host currently does not have the right to inquire.ใ
Not authorized to inquire indicates that the rapid increase in his intelligence indeed has a reason behind it and is not the norm.
Feng Lianzhu felt something was amiss but couldn’t pinpoint what exactly was wrong, so he had to set aside his concerns for the time being.
He agreed to help Laurie with the assassination of a few death row inmates. Today, at 10 AM Eimiral Star time, these inmates were to be transported to a prison planet, which was the last chance to assassinate them. The Imperial Army was ready, but the Alliance was on high alert. To be safe, Laurie sought Feng Lianzhu as backup.
10 AM was also the time of the graduation ceremony, and at 10:30 AM, Feng Lianzhu was scheduled to speak on stage.
The Alliance Academy was 4500 kilometers from the interstellar port, and no transportation could return in time. Laurie said he would arrange for someone to take Feng Lianzhu’s place to speak, as he had a biological simulation mask and could find someone of a similar build.
Feng Lianzhu refused Laurie’s offer and only asked for a golden mask.
At 9:30 AM, he acted very nervous, running to the bathroom repeatedly, causing the surrounding teachers to joke about him being too young and getting nervous about speaking on stage.
At 9:45 AM, Feng Lianzhu, dressed in a graduation robe, entered the 50th-floor bathroom of the teaching building. There, he changed into the skin of the Golden Winged Peng, put on the golden mask, and flew out of the bathroom window.
The Golden Winged Peng was extremely fast. He spread his golden wings and flew thousands of meters high, aligning himself with the direction of the military interstellar port and flying at high speed.
Relying solely on the speed of the Golden Winged Peng wouldn’t have been enough to get there in time, so Feng Lianzhu flew to a deserted area, a few strands of his hair fell, and he used the recoil force of the Black Scale Arrow to accelerate, arriving at the interstellar port within ten minutes.
By then, the death row inmates had already arrived at the interstellar port. The Imperial Army’s several attempts to attack along the way were all thwarted by the Alliance forces. Unexpectedly, at 9:55, just as the inmates were about to board the warship, a golden light appeared above the interstellar port.
Five objects, like obsidian, hit the five inmates accurately. Their bodies exploded without harming anyone else.
The golden light did not linger. After assassinating them in a matter of seconds and leaving at a speed that even the Alliance’s radar struggled to capture, the Alliance quickly dispatched warships to chase, but they had no idea what weapon was used for the assassination.
At 10:05 AM, Feng Lianzhu, wearing his graduation robe, walked out of the bathroom on the 50th floor of the Alliance Academy’s teaching building. He kissed his long hair, ran to the auditorium’s backstage in five minutes, and prepared for his graduation speech.
The ceremony host teased him, and student Feng Yuansi shyly blushed.
At 10:30 AM, while Eimiral was under martial law, Feng Lianzhu went on stage to give a speech as the representative of the graduates.
The assassination operation was seamless.
Author’s Note:
Fat Dragon: Walking is already pretty good; it’s time to practice running!
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Yesterday, some readers wondered why Fat Dragon couldn’t walk when he had previously impersonated Feng Lianzhu.
That time, Fat Dragon wasn’t transformed into a human but was covered in fake skin, which is a kind of system black technology. He was still a dragon and even used his invisible tail when attacking. Now that he has truly transformed into a human, it’s understandable that he would feel uncomfortable.
There will be another update at 12 tonight, love you all (ใฅ๏ฟฃ3๏ฟฃ)ใฅโญ?๏ฝ
I guess Laurie is a good gauge at how mc has rapidly progressed ( oยด โฝ `o )๏พ mc is on a whole diff level now