Chapter 1357 (1/2)

Chapter 1357: 444. Headquarters Reception_3

According to him, more than a year ago, he had hired the group to observe the vacuum bubble teleport signals near Mach’s Trusted Star System.

Once the signal appeared, the group would dispatch satellites to carry away the vacuum bubble safes that arrived in the area and deliver them to Mr. Skull.

But now, the satellite was missing, and it was unclear whether the vacuum bubble teleport signals had even appeared, let alone any vacuum bubble safes.

Distressed, Mr. Skull had no choice but to take matters into his own hands, finding the group’s advanced pilot, Great Practitioner, and issuing them a hiring order.

This order, when applied to the players, naturally turned into a hidden task.

Seizing the moment, Great Practitioner decided to pretend to help the group in their search for satellites and synthetic humans, secretly carrying out Mr. Skull’s hidden task.

Performing two tasks simultaneously and earning double the task rewards; how delightful!

Great Practitioner’s calculations clattered loudly, audible even in other star regions where Noland Lee was.

In fact, as soon as Great Practitioner’s ship approached the strawberry juice, Noland Lee had detected the skeleton hidden on board.

That’s right, this Mr. Skull was a member of the Tomb King.

His body exuded a rich, restrained scent of death, which, although he tried to contain, was accurately detected by Noland Lee.

“Very good, I knew I’d gain something by keeping an eye on the strawberry juice girl. I didn’t expect a member of the Tomb King to appear here.”

Noland Lee carefully observed Mr. Skull on the magic screen, silently contemplating.

The vacuum bubble safe mentioned by Great Practitioner was probably the one launched by the vacuum bubble emitter beneath Union City into outer space.

Mr. Skull and Great Practitioner would definitely not find it because it hadn’t been launched near Mach’s Trusted Star System at all—instead, it had been launched by Assassin Angel towards an area near Barren Universe.

As expected, over the next two or so hours, Great Practitioner and Mr. Skull took advantage of the chaos created by the players in the star system to fish in troubled waters.

They activated the high-power deep space scanner and scanned the Mach’s Trusted Star System thoroughly several times, but they were absolutely unable to find any spatial signals emitted by the vacuum bubble safe.