Chapter 47
Péngs picked up a few good pieces of equipment that Húde had dropped, fleeing while gasping in his heart.
Under the wails of the second wave of sirens, only Péngs, standing at a distance, managed to escape by a stroke of luck.
However, he hadn’t run more than twenty meters when he felt as if an arrow had struck his knee, a ‘-10’ damage notification popping up above him.
Péngs didn’t pay it any mind and continued to flee…
It wasn’t until he died under a mental ray that he realized he had no idea how the BOSS had tracked him down.
…
Half a day later, Méijiā, the third board member of the Mǎkù'ěr Group who usually didn’t care about affairs, looked at the two pale-faced board members across from him, along with a bunch of department heads who were hardly in better shape.
He rubbed his bald head in frustration:
“You’re telling me that our group’s core talents, the ones we’ve been nurturing, have all been wiped out in the Wànjiè… twice?”
“…”
Around the same time, a spaceship carrying the Mǎkù'ěr Group’s secret smuggled bioweapons was captured by the planet’s gravity and descended into an internal port of the group.
**Chapter 32**
This time, the Mǎkù'ěr Group suffered another heavy loss, with a significant number of personnel killed. Even though the second time they were killed within ten days counted as only 0.5 times the kill count, Yè Bǎi’s honor points in the assassin guild had reached 531, allowing her to level up to a Red Robe Assassin.
However, reaching the Red Robe Assassin level meant that the town’s forces would dispatch specialized hunting teams to capture her. Yè Bǎi had to be cautious in her movements; encountering a hunting team in the wild would be a troublesome affair, as killing NPCs that weren’t Blood Gods wouldn’t yield attack bonuses or hunting rewards.
Thus, she didn’t return to the assassin guild but instead directly stored her spoils in the town’s warehouse.
This time, Yè Bǎi made only one round trip between the town and the outside, but in terms of gains, it was even greater than the last.
Even if Húde acted cautiously and carried no resources, it didn’t matter; at this stage, the most valuable thing on a player was their equipment, and it was impossible to face a BOSS without bringing their best gear.
After all, as long as Yè Bǎi could ensure she wouldn’t be killed, she would always come away with something.
The vast resources acquired by the Mǎkù'ěr Group in the Wànjiè had recently been allocated to Húde, who had received a mission in Bǎihuā Town. He used these resources to obtain over fifty standard crossbows, feeling quite pleased as he headed out to hunt BOSSes with his new gear…
In the end, all of that equipment ended up in Yè Bǎi’s hands.
With this batch of equipment, Yè Bǎi even managed to offset the consumption of a spell scroll.
Yè Bǎi organized the warehouse, keeping useful materials and equipment of fine quality or above. These items would be brought back to her territory for construction and crafting, while the less desirable items were sold to NPCs in Tùtè City, netting her 35 silver coins.
Thanks to this significant clearance, Yè Bǎi also gained a fair amount of goodwill in Tùtè City, allowing her to enjoy a 10% discount in some shops.
Just as she finished organizing the warehouse, Yè Bǎi received a reminder from her alarm clock and immediately logged off.
From the information she had received from the technician earlier, today was the day the spaceship would arrive at Mǎkù'ěr Star. She had estimated the time and set the alarm accordingly.
As soon as she logged off, Yè Bǎi sensed something with her mental energy and was instantly alarmed.
She was still in the nutrient pod, but the environment around her was no longer on the spaceship; instead, she was fixed onto a moving mechanical track, being transported forward, unsure of where she was headed.
It seemed they had already arrived at Mǎkù'ěr Star! Yè Bǎi’s heart sank. Even though she had set her alarm an hour early, reality had arrived even faster. The efficiency of the Mǎkù'ěr Group was astonishing; she couldn’t help but wonder how much her actions in the Wànjiè would impact this colossal entity…
The foundation of the planetary group was truly terrifying!
Yè Bǎi felt the situation was dire, unaware that the Mǎkù'ěr employees on the same spaceship were all lying in the group’s hospital, receiving treatment—
There were ten group members on the smuggling ship, two C-level and eight D-level psychics, who had suffered mental injuries due to dying in the Wànjiè. After waking up, the staff switched the regular mode to emergency mode, hastening their return to Mǎkù'ěr Star, which was why the spaceship had arrived early.
…
“Beep!”
“Beep!”
The mechanical sounds grew closer, pulling Yè Bǎi’s attention back. She slightly extended her mental energy, broadening her sensing range to figure out what was happening.
In the next moment, as she saw more, Yè Bǎi’s scalp tingled, and she felt an extreme discomfort on a physiological level—
All around her, above, below, left, and right, were tracks like these, differing only in direction and the size of the nutrient pods being transported.
The source of the sound ahead was a doorframe-like detection device.
The track pushed the nutrient pods through the device, seemingly conducting some sort of assessment, after which the mechanisms at the bottom moved, sending them to different locations.
The intelligent beings inside these nutrient pods looked like canned fish, being sorted and allocated to different channels.
Yè Bǎi used her identification ability on the various items around her, but aside from the effective information that the area was filled with a ‘Level 4 Energy Defense Magnetic Field,’ she didn’t gain any further insights.
Clearly, moving in this environment wasn’t a good choice; she was evidently still within the Mǎkù'ěr Group’s internal environment. If anything went wrong, she would likely be suppressed immediately.
“Beep!”
As the track moved, the detection device approached Yè Bǎi, sending her previous ‘cellmate’ onto one of the tracks.
Having remained still, Yè Bǎi noticed that the nutrient pod of the cellmate, after passing through the track, had a new piece of information displayed on it.
‘Value 12-F Level - Ordinary’
Value?
This seemed to be the Mǎkù'ěr Group’s identification label for smuggled bioweapons…
Yè Bǎi’s heart stirred with a guess. Watching her own nutrient pod pass through the detection device, she immediately used identification on it.
‘Value 156-F Level - Limited Edition’
Now Yè Bǎi was completely certain; passing through this detection device was how all nutrient pods received price and quality labels.
The F level clearly corresponded to psychic levels, while the ‘Limited Edition’ label… in light of Yè Bǎi’s situation, was likely related to the rarity of the species.
Perhaps due to its higher value, Yè Bǎi was sent to another track. There were no other nutrient pods around her, and after following the track for a while, she seemed to reach a checkpoint, where several nutrient pods reappeared.
Yè Bǎi immediately released her identification ability and scanned them one by one:
‘Value 172-C Level - Ordinary’
‘Value 154-C Level - Ordinary’
‘Value 268-C Level - Uncommon’
…
‘Value 485-B Level - Rare’
B Level!
There was actually a B-level psychic?! Yè Bǎi was astonished; the Mǎkù'ěr Group’s operational capabilities were surprisingly strong. Although she didn’t know how powerful a B-level psychic was, considering that A-levels could suppress star systems, it was clear that B-level psychics wouldn’t be ordinary.
It seemed she was fortunate to be a ‘Limited Edition,’ allowing her F-level psychic ability to enter this row of ‘shelves.’
Yè Bǎi cautiously extended her mental energy toward the vicinity of that nutrient pod.
Then she suddenly paused. No, she had seen D-level Mǎkù'ěr staff before; their psychic forms extended about an inch outside their bodies. If the individuals in these nutrient pods corresponded to their labels in terms of psychic levels, she should have seen their substantial psychic forms first.
Carefully probing with her mental energy a few times, and finding no alarms triggered, Yè Bǎi extended it toward those nutrient pods for further investigation.
This time, Yè Bǎi clearly glimpsed the specific conditions of the nutrient pods containing powerful psychics.
These intelligent beings, varying in size, lay in different nutrient pods, each exhibiting their own racial characteristics based on a humanoid form, unlike the ‘cellmates’ Yè Bǎi had seen earlier, who were all in a state of deep sleep and anesthesia.
Yè Bǎi could distinctly see the pain etched on their slightly contorted faces.
What shocked her even more was the state of their psychic forms.
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