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Chapter 770: Deadlock
Chapter 770: Deadlock
"Ah, so that's how it is!" Manina exclaimed, suddenly understanding everything.
If the intruders were from the Blue Star, then everything made sense.
Manina's study, the highest-security location in the entire Scorch Sun Empire, was not so easily breached. Not even the intelligence agency "Sky Eye" of the Lankt Alliance could infiltrate this place.
But the Blue Star people were different.
Their power system came from the Holy Silver Federation, which was entirely different from the Scorch Star's power system and could be considered a higher tier of strength.
The previous encounters with Su Yu and his companions had also confirmed that the Scorch Star's technological means and psychic detection spells were completely ineffective in locating these hidden Blue Star people.
If they were Blue Star people, it made sense that they could infiltrate his study undetected.
Moreover, the Blue Star people were indeed making large-scale "visits" to the Scorch Star, with over twenty of them arriving just three days ago.
"Xion," Manina turned to his intelligence minister after piecing it all together. "If this intruder is indeed from the Blue Star, how do we catch him?"
Xion thought for a moment before replying, "Your Majesty, my advice is to have the God-tier powerhouses catch them."
"God-tier powerhouses?"
"Yes," Xion nodded. "The Blue Star people's [Stealth] and [Invisibility] skills have always been a headache for us. Our peers simply can't counter these abilities.
"However, we might be able to rely on the God-tier powerhouses. No matter how advanced the Blue Star people's invisibility skills are, they can't escape the level suppression.
"Once our ancestors and Lord Plaunt return, they will surely be able to quickly locate this hidden Blue Star person!"
"That makes sense," Manina agreed with a nod.
Seeing the emperor's approval, Xion breathed a sigh of relief. "What we need to do now is prevent this Blue Star person from escaping. As long as he doesn't leave the palace, we'll be fine."
"How do we prevent him from escaping?" Manina asked.
"It's simple, Your Majesty," Xion replied respectfully. "My suggestion is to order the high-tier powerhouses currently searching the palace to stop and position themselves around the psychic shield as a human wall, guarding it tightly. I don't believe this Blue Star person can break through it!"
The AI, eager to show her worth, projected a 3D map of the palace while Xion spoke, marking a circle around the psychic shield on the northern side.
Manina glanced at the map and nodded to Xion. "Very well, do as you suggest. Once we catch him, I will grant you the title of Viscount."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!!" Xion was overjoyed.
The title of Viscount?
It was like the heavens were raining down a windfall of fortune!
...
The scene shifted back to Zhong Feng.
After successfully controlling the entire flock of birds, he directed them to fly toward the northern side of the palace.
The rear garden was located on the northernmost end of the palace. If he could reach the edge of the psychic shield on the northern side under the cover of the birds, he could easily cross the shield and escape.
What puzzled him, however, was that during the flight north, he hadn't encountered any flying Scorch high-tier powerhouses.
"Strange, where are those Scorch people? Could they have given up on searching for me?" he wondered.
But as soon as the flock reached the northern edge of the psychic shield, he immediately understood what was happening.
Seeing the densely packed figures standing in the psi shield area in the distance, Zhong Feng's heart sank.
"Damn it, all the Skrulans have gathered here! No wonder I didn’t see anyone on the way. Who came up with this terrible idea!" Zhong Feng, who usually maintained a high level of composure, couldn’t help but curse a couple of times.
The Skrulans were truly going to any lengths to prevent him from escaping! From what Zhong Feng could see, the psi shield enveloping the palace had been activated to its peak state, increasing its thickness from about one meter to ten meters.
Countless dazzling golden lights flowed on the inner side of the shield, turning the entire sky into a golden hue.
On the inner side of the psi shield, a vast number of Skrulan cultivators stood shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, forming a solid human wall on the ground.
Most of these “human walls” were composed of third- and fourth-stage Skrulan cultivators, while the high-level fifth- and sixth-stage cultivators flew in the sky, weaving a large net in the air.
Each Skrulan had activated their mental energy, which combined to form an impenetrable “wall.”
With his current strength, Zhong Feng had no way to break through this “wall” and escape.
...
Standing on a branch about 300 meters away from the “wall,” Zhong Feng was completely stunned.
How could he possibly escape now? The Skrulans were determined to trap him to death!
If Manina III and Plante returned in four hours, then...
His body involuntarily trembled lightly. The current situation was almost a dead end for him.
"Fine, I'll check other areas. Maybe the defenses are only tight here, and they might be lax in other places, giving me a chance to escape," Zhong Feng thought to himself.
He wasn’t the type to sit and wait for death.
In this critical moment, his survival instinct was fully engaged.
Under his control, a flock of several hundred blue-white birds took to the sky, flying toward other parts of the palace.
...
In the next half hour, the flock flew to the eastern and western sides of the palace.
Zhong Feng was looking for a gap to escape, but the results left him utterly disappointed.
From the defensive arrangements on the eastern and western sides of the palace, the defenses were no weaker than the northern side, and they were getting even stronger with time.
One could say that for every minute, the difficulty of escaping increased by at least 5%.
Zhong Feng infused magic power into the Mirror Flower Water Moon Stone to determine the farthest distance for generating a clone. The result was that the Mirror Flower Water Moon Stone could generate a clone up to 50 meters away.
That meant if Zhong Feng truly wanted to escape, he had to use this item within 40 meters of the palace's psi shield.
Using the Mirror Flower Water Moon Stone would also generate a certain amount of magic power fluctuations, with the distance of clone generation, the fluctuations increased.
In summary, he dejectedly concluded that escaping through the psi shield was impossible.
To get out, he had to think of another way.
"What should I do?" Zhong Feng's brows knitted tightly.
This was arguably the greatest crisis he had faced since coming to Skrul.
If the Skrulans knew he was Zhong Feng, the minister of a department, and the actual controller of 3000 fifth-stage mercenaries, he would never be able to return to Blue Star again!
(End of Chapter)
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