1354 Obvious Plo (1/2)

After confirming Jiang Fei's identity, Alexis' fleet quickly deployed a welcoming party to safely guide his shuttle to dock with Redstone.

Alexis jumped at Jiang Fei and questioned him as soon as he returned to the bridge.

”Fei! Where have you been!?”

The shuttle that he drove back was clearly something that he could never afford. Something must have happened during his absence.

”I was chasing after the Galactic Specter and failed tremendously since the patrol ship was too slow. On my way back, I stumbled across my master,” said Jiang Fei, purposely introducing his master.

Alexis gasped. ”Your master?”

Jiang Fei had only just come from Earth and trained to be part of the Valsalrian Army. The only master of his that Alexis knew of was Ottogackt, and surely he would not be in this system.

”Yea, he spotted me using the patrol ship and was mad about my appearance. So, he gave me the shuttle so as to not embarrass myself,” said Jiang Fei.

”When did you get yourself a master? How am I only hearing about this now? That thing is something that even I can't buy, how could your master just give it away like that?” asked Alexis, doubting Jiang Fei's words.

”Hehe. My master is… well… not the most honest person since the things he owns are never bought.”

Jiang Fei scoffed. The mere thought of Theon buying something was laughable.

”Never bought…? Who is he?” asked Alexis suspiciously.

He had a bad feeling about Jiang Fei's master and immediately thought of someone…

”His name is Theon. I'm sure you have heard of him,” said Jiang Fei, grinning from ear to ear.

”Heh… I knew it…” said Alexis, laughing bitterly.

Theon was the first person that came to mind when Jiang Fei mentioned that his master never bought anything that he owned. Alexis already had his suspicions about Theon and Jiang Fei since Sarila told him about their little adventure in his own treasure vault.

Even though he didn't want to have anything to do with that plunderer, Alexis remained adamant about building a relationship with Jiang Fei. Perhaps Jiang Fei would be kind enough to help Alexis persuade Theon to stop robbing his vault.

”Commander, what of the war? What is the situation now?” asked Jiang Fei.

From what he saw while he was docking on Redstone, he concluded that it had been a while since their last sortie. To make things worse, most of the patrol ships were gone, only half of the Corvette class ships were left, and a few Destroyers were missing, presumably destroyed.

Alexis sighed heavily as he sat down.

”Aino… the bastard sent my fleet to be damned twice. Just look at it! I've lost more than half of my ships and soldiers! Argh…”

Alexis sulked as he complained. He had tried everything he could to get as far as possible from the fight but alas, he had eventually run out of tricks.

Aino vaguely remembered the incident with the blockade and refused to let go of his anger towards Alexis. As such, he used his authority as a Chief Fleet Commander to assign Alexis to carry out suicide missions.

Nevertheless, being the war veteran that he was, Alexis had managed to survive both death missions and return alive, albeit battered and bruised.

”Commander, we have received a transmission,” said the captain of the Hypercruiser.

”Speak of the devil!” Alexis roared disgruntledly as he laid back on his chair.