Chapter 349: Pirates? (2/2)

Lu Yin looked at her, lifted a hand, and used his star energy to create a chess board. “If there were a thousand pieces on this chess board that belonged to you but then someone suddenly took a few, how would you react?”

“I’d cut off the hands of the person who touched them,” Mira answered matter-of-factly.

“Why?” he asked.

Mira arched an eyebrow. “What’s mine is mine. Nobody has the right to take it away from me.”

Lu Yin nodded and sighed. “Exactly, what’s yours is yours. And I imagine that Arbiter Wen feels the same way.”

After hearing Lu Yin’s metaphor, Mira’s expression suddenly changed before she stood up and hurriedly left.

Lu Yin smiled as he watched her leave.

Puyu had made the wrong move. If he had simply worked with a few organizations to pressure Lu Yin, then Arbiter Wen might have followed along and given some kind of punishment to Lu Yin to further pressure him. However, Puyu had banded together with over a hundred different organizations, revealing the large amount of influence that he wielded in the Outerverse Youth Council. Those organizations should have sided with the Ten Arbiters, but Puyu had been able to mobilize them all by himself. These Outerverse organizations were essentially a handful of chess pieces out of a thousand that the Ten Arbiters controlled. It was no wonder why Arbiter Wen would be annoyed that his chess pieces had been mobilized by someone else.

Puyu had been too impulsive, or perhaps he had been driven mad by Lu Yin. The recent events had led to Puyu desperately trying to take care of Lu Yin once and for all. Unfortunately, he’d gone too far.

The next time Mira saw Wen Sansi, her heart lurched; he appeared to be in a bad mood.

“Sir,” Mira started.

Wen Sansi grunted in acknowledgement. When he saw the list of organizations that had banded together on his screen, something had flashed across his eyes. Puyu was truly capable since he had gathered so many organizations in just a few days. How were they benefitting from him? Is this really all just to punish Lu Yin? Puyu had gone overboard.

“Puyu isn’t someone who’d be easy to control. It’s said that he wants to challenge the top ten of the Top Hundred Rankings and wants to become one of the next Ten Arbiters,” Mira said.

Wen Sansi burst out in a fit of laughter. “Become one of the Ten Arbiters? And just how is he going to do that? None of us are dying.”

Mira opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but then, Wen Sansi raised his hand to stop her. “Each one of the Ten Arbiters has attained a great number of connections and benefits to reach their position. Him receiving a spot? Who can force that? Age is just a number. So what if you’re in the top ten on that list? There’s still a huge gap between us.” After saying that, Wen Sansi stood up. “Make some preparations. We’re returning to the Innerverse.”

“What about Puyu and Lu Yin?”

“Ignore them both. They can handle this on their own. Zhenwu sent someone over as well, so things are about to get very messy. Though, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.” Then, Wen Sansi disappeared.

Mira stared at the place where Wen Sansi had been standing with bright eyes. It was no wonder why Lu Yin had been so delighted by the news. Puyu had gone too far, but that had actually improved Lu Yin’s situation instead.

Puyu had been waiting for Wen Sansi to punish Lu Yin, but the only answer he received from the Arbiter was, “You talk too much.”

Puyu froze when he saw Wen Sansi’s response and felt indescribably humiliated. He’d done everything that he could and had even used the power of Darkstar Gorge to cooperate with various Outerverse organizations. Even if he wasn’t able to completely destroy the bastard, his plan had been to thoroughly humiliate Lu Yin. After all, Lu Yin was a part of the Council of Astral Academy, which meant that Puyu had to be completely ruthless when dealing with this person. However, this was the unfortunate result.

Puyu abruptly smashed his gadget to bits and howled in fury. He was a member of the Outerverse Youth Council and only a single step away from becoming one of the next Ten Arbiters. However, this last step was too difficult to take! It frustrated him to no end that these people could humiliate him as they wished. No matter what, he had to become one of the Ten Arbiters. Regardless of if it was Wen Sansi or Lu Yin, he’d destroy them both.

At that moment, a pale-looking man walked over. It was the person known as Vulture, the Corpse King from the Neohuman Alliance who had fought with Lu Yin in the past.

Puyu had no idea what this person’s true identity was, and Lu Yin hadn’t exposed him yet. This was the time bomb that Lu Yin had left next to Puyu.

“Something strange just happened, my lord,” Vulture reported coldly.

Puyu was still furious, so he answered in a terrible tone, “What is it?”

“A large number of pirates have suddenly appeared at the Grandtop Weave, Lars Weave, and Woori Weave, and they’re attacking the space stations of various organizations. They’ve caused a lot of damage,” Vulture answered.

Puyu frowned. “What does that have to do with us?”

“The organizations that the pirates have been attacking are all those whom we cooperated with to put pressure on Lu Yin.”

Puyu suddenly stood up, and his expression drastically changed. “What? All of them?”

“Most of them,” Vulture replied.

Puyu had a cold look in his eyes. “Be precise. All of them, or most of them?”

“Most of them,” Vulture answered.