Former Interstellar Mercenary In Urban Cultivation World
Chapter 1228: The Price of Spying

Chapter 1228: The Price of Spying

Even though they had brought Noriev’s most advanced weaponry, in the eyes of the Crimson Moon Dynasty, it was probably inferior to one of their mid-tier weapons.

Sharif did not expose his thoughts and merely smiled politely.

Blair stayed for a short while before leaving.

Later, envoys from two other star systems also came by, one after another.

However, the other star systems remained indifferent.

Those star systems were all stronger than the Erythar Star System.

From their perspective, it should have been Erythar who visited them first.

Although Erythar Star System was not what it used to be, Sharif still led a delegation to pay visits.

Their current enemy was the aliens.

If the major star systems could work together amicably, then visiting to strengthen diplomatic ties was worth doing.

It wasn’t as if they would lose face over it.

Shortly after Sharif’s group left, the guide arranged by Miralles arrived.

The guide was sent by the Crimson Moon Dynasty.

Whatever questions they asked, it was likely that their inquiries would be reported to the higher-ups by the end of the day.

When Amalia came downstairs, she asked some simple questions, mostly related to daily life.

Things like transportation—completely normal questions.

The guide did not find anything suspicious.

These were the same questions other envoys had asked before, so he answered them one by one.

After leaving, instead of returning to his own quarters, the guide, as expected, went straight to report to his superior about the questions asked by the Erythar Star System’s envoys.

The Crimson Moon Dynasty analyzed their questions for behavioral patterns, trying to determine if they harbored hidden motives.

However, it was all in vain—the questions were things any normal person visiting Planet Omicron would ask, just like any ordinary tourist.

"The people sent by the Crimson Moon Dynasty are unreliable. We can only rely on ourselves," Kenny Lin lay on the bed with his hands behind his head.

Amalia scanned the room, her gaze lingering on nearly every spot that concealed surveillance devices.

At the same time, in the monitoring room connected to the surveillance, those watching the feed felt a chill run down their spines under her gaze.

She didn’t just make eye contact with them once—she had looked directly at them dozens of times.

It wasn’t just that she had detected the surveillance; it was as if she could see through the screens, straight at them.

"Did she notice us again?" a young man grumbled.

He hadn’t seen Amalia looking directly into the feed.

"Yes," a middle-aged man exhaled heavily.

"So what if she noticed? It’s nothing but a futile struggle. With our empire’s technology, people from these backward star systems dreaming of detecting our advanced surveillance is just wishful thinking."

The young man scoffed.

This wasn’t the first time a star system had discovered their surveillance.

Several of them had noticed it before.

But what could they do?

After being discovered, the usual response was simply to dismantle the devices.

The Crimson Moon Dynasty wouldn’t offer any compensation, and in the end, they had no choice but to accept the situation.

In the face of overwhelming power, weakness itself becomes a crime.

The young man had always been proud of his empire.

The middle-aged man wanted to say something but didn’t know how.

He couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something unusual about the man and the woman on the screen who had just discovered their surveillance.

Ordinary people could indeed detect some of the monitoring devices placed in their rooms.

However, the Crimson Moon Dynasty’s technology was far ahead of the other star systems.

Some envoys from other star systems could detect a few, but not all, because some of the surveillance devices incorporated their most advanced technology and were even placed outside the rooms.

A sudden flash of insight struck him, and the middle-aged man shuddered as he stood up.

He finally realized what was wrong.

The man and the woman on the screen seemed to have noticed even the satellite surveillance placed outside.

At that moment, the young man noticed his movement. "Captain Arjun, what’s wrong?"

Just as he was about to stand up, the machines in the entire room suddenly exploded, and electric sparks filled the air like fireworks.

The young man’s body convulsed violently as a powerful electric current surged through his body from every point of contact with the machines.

He was caught off guard.

The electric currents continued surging into his body as machines in the storage room kept exploding.

It didn’t stop; instead, the currents grew even stronger.

When the explosion sounds finally ceased, all that remained on the ground was the charred corpse of the young man.

The middle-aged man, who had managed to hide in a corner and miraculously survived.

He only dared to crawl out after the chaos settled.

He stared in horror at Zayan’s corpse.

With Zayan’s physical endurance, such electrical currents shouldn’t have been enough to kill him.

Yet, he had died from them nonetheless.

The explosion in the storage room attracted the attention of nearby residents.

A crowd of people gathered downstairs, trying to locate the source of the blast.

Meanwhile, Amalia slowly withdrew her extended finger.

"You really shouldn’t mess with quiet people," Kenny Lin said with a smirk. "When quiet people get angry, even I have to step aside."

"I wasn’t angry," Amalia said calmly.

"That’s even scarier. If you’re not even mad and someone already ended up dead, then if you do get angry, won’t there be corpses everywhere?" Kenny Lin clicked his tongue.

"I just don’t like people testing my limits over and over again," Amalia explained.

Even without destroying the surveillance, they had ways to ensure the Crimson Moon Dynasty couldn’t hear or see anything.

However, the previous incidents had clearly not convinced the Crimson Moon Dynasty that they should be treated as equals.

"Yeah, yeah, I don’t like it either. If you hadn’t acted, I would have. What about the others?"

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