Chapter 1076 - An Organization That Should Not Have Appeared in This Era (1/2)

Han Xiao looked at this quickly approaching fleet. There were no organizations’ symbols on their spaceships, so their identity was unknown. Han Xiao was confused.

Seeing that the enemies did not plan to stop, Han Xiao was prepared to fight.

However, as he was just about to attack, a crack opened at the space wall not far away again—Clotti had arrived.

The next moment, this fleet stopped moving.

“What’s going on with this fleet?”

Han Xiao looked at this fleet wondering. This time, Clotti flew over, so he turned to him and greeted him.

“Your Excellency Dark Lord.”

“Hmm, Black Star.” Clotti nodded slightly. He then turned to look at the barely alive Traveler under Ames’ foot and asked, “How did you meet him?”

“Just a coincidence…”

Han Xiao briefly explained what had happened.

After Clotti heard the story, even his eyes slightly twitched on his usually expressionless face as he softly said, “Well, that’s really unfortunate.”

After he thrashed the Evil Convergence, he had lost track of Traveler. He was just thinking about how he was going to continue chasing after Traveler, but to his surprise, Traveler was so unlucky he met Black Star right after.

He was not curious about why Han Xiao was there. Clotti was not concerned about other Beyond Grade As’ private matters.

“I heard your mission is to kill him?” Han Xiao asked.

Clotti nodded. “Traveler is just one target. The Ruler’s order is to kill if capturing isn’t possible. If captured, he will be publicly executed, which will be broadcast live to the entire universe… Oh, and also interrogate who hired him.”

“You have other hunting targets too?”

Clotti glanced at him and said, “Just some neutral Beyond Grade As who like to be mercenaries.”

“Are they related to the attack on Hila?” Han Xiao was curious.

“Whatever the dynasty says.” Clotti’s tone was completely carefree.

Han Xiao was speechless. Those neutral Beyond Grade As who were marked as targets were most probably innocent in this matter, but unluckily for them, they became the dynasty’s tools to set an example.

Dark Lord was indeed loyal to the dynasty; he showed no care for it at all. The difficult environment these neutral Beyond Grade As lived in could be seen clearly from this matter.

Han Xiao then thought of the Super Star Cluster civilizations and understood. The targets the dynasty had chosen were probably those who were hired by the Super Star Cluster Alliance. Using the attack on Hila as an excuse, the dynasty clearly decided to intimidate the others and cut away the Super Star Cluster Alliance’s feathers.

At the same time, they might hope to imitate the Tragedy Of The Pinnacles to reduce the number of Beyond Grade As using the incident as an excuse.

Han Xiao shook his head, changed the topic, and said, “I interrogated him earlier and got the identity of who’s behind this.”

“Who?”

The communication between the two of them was not private; Traveler heard it too. His expression changed instantly as he stared at Han Xiao nervously, afraid he would spit out the Star Arc Civilization.

However, he saw Han Xiao give him a look.

Traveler instantly understood and hastily interrupted him.

“Sorokin! He hired me to attack Black Star Palace to divert Black Star’s attention and provide indirect assistance to the federation and the church!”

“Him? Isn’t he just a pure businessman?” Clotti frowned and was a little surprised. He glanced at Han Xiao and said, “Do you think that’s believable?”

“I think it’s quite believable. Traveler is just a neutral mercenary; he wouldn’t attack me out of nowhere.”

Han Xiao smiled.

The Star Arc Civilization was indeed related, but Han Xiao had signaled Traveler to hide his identity and blame everything on Sorokin. This way, the dynasty’s hatred would not be diverted and would all go to Sorokin.

Anyway, Sorokin was actually involved, so there would definitely be proof.

Although the Great Mechanic Han was a soon-to-be shareholder of the Limitless Financial Group, he would not help Sorokin just for the sake of dividends. Furthermore, he only just knew that he was secretly plotting against him.

Hence, he wanted to borrow the Crimson Dynasty’s power to cause some trouble for Sorokin, at least make the upper echelons be cautious about that guy.

“… I’ll tell the Ruler. However, I’ll still have to take Traveler back for further interrogation,” Clotti said.

Han Xiao nodded, turned, and patted Ames’ thigh, signaling her to raise her leg. Then, he took out the Spacetime Amber and sealed Traveler up.

While doing this, Han Xiao pointed at the fleet not far away that was trying to stay unnoticed.

“By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask, are they your troops?”

Hearing this, Clotti was stunned for a moment. “I thought they were your men.”

He noticed that this fleet was the fleet he had just met earlier as soon as he arrived. Seeing that Han Xiao was together with this fleet, he had thought they were on the same side and that he misunderstood earlier, so he did not pay much attention.

However, from Han Xiao’s perspective, he only gave the coordinates to Dark Lord, and this fleet arrived right before Dark Lord. Hence, he thought this fleet belonged to him.

Both of them had thought this fleet belonged to the other person. Only then did they realize it was a third party.

Having realized that, Clotti opened the public channel and yelled, “Who are you? Why are you following me‽”

From the way he looked at it, having met them twice, the only explanation was that they were following him.

At this time, inside the command room of the fleet, Law and Fay were both going mad.

Initially, they had locked onto Black Star and were just about to attack. However, to their absolute surprise, the first peak Beyond Grade A they marked on their radar moved at the last second and arrived in this secondary dimension.

This sudden situation messed up their plan. The two of them hastily told the fleet to stop and did not dare fire.

Seeing that Black Star was on the same side as the other peak Beyond Grade A, the two of them realized how tough the situation was. If they attacked, things would become much more difficult, and there would be a lot of uncertainties.

They only wanted to attack when Han Xiao was alone, so they wanted to make an excuse and retreat to find another opportunity.

Hearing Clotti’s question, Law had no choice but to use the excuse he gave when they first met.

“Your Excellency Beyond Grade A, we didn’t expect to meet you again. We only came here to explore because we detected special energy here, but we never thought it would be you again. We’ll leave now.”

Then, Law was just about to tell the fleet to turn around and leave, but this time, Clotti stopped them and said with a cold tone, “Never mind one time, but this is the second time, and you’re still using the same excuse. Do you think I’ll believe you?”

Clotti did not believe in coincidences. He had already suspected their identity earlier, but back then, his focus had been on the mission, and he did not want to get involved in meaningless trouble. Now, however, Traveler was already dealt with, so he did not plan to let this mysterious fleet go again.

“It really is a coincidence. We’re just a civilian exploration team…” Law had no choice but to continue faking it.

“Then it’ll be easy. Stop your ships and let us search them. If there really isn’t a problem, I’ll let you leave,” Clotti said with a deep voice.

Hearing this, Law and Fay exchanged looks and communicated with each other telepathically.

“What should we do now? They won’t let us go easily. Are we really going to let them into our ships?”

“You know that’s impossible.”

“Then it looks like we have no choice…”

The two of them were both in an extremely bad mood. They completely did not want to attack in this kind of situation.

However, they had already exposed themselves, and there was no way they could let them board their ships.

Law clenched his teeth and slammed the table.

“Fire!”

…

After Clotti proposed to board and investigate, this mysterious fleet suddenly stopped responding.

After waiting for a few seconds, seeing that they were still silent, Clotti said with an even more serious tone, “This is your last warning. If you do not reply within ten seconds, I will crush you!”

Han Xiao was watching Clotti communicate with this mysterious fleet. He thought that they had come for Dark Lord, so he just watched on.