"Adam." Malcolm said in a low voice, "Shepherd’s connections are remarkable; killing him would have the biggest impact."
"Are you out of your mind?"
"Trust me, it’s best to kill him." Adam looked at Gutierrez.
"You need to give me a reason." Gutierrez was noncommittal; an X Level Life Form is invaluable.
"I will give you a satisfactory answer afterward, but I must kill him now." Adam looked directly at Gutierrez, "I guarantee it in the name of the Holy Emperor of the Empire."
Gutierrez furrowed his brow slightly, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Hemod..."
As soon as the name was called, Gutierrez stopped again, looking displeased, "Who let you in?"
It seemed like someone had broken into Gutierrez’s room; the quality of the Star Alliance personnel was deteriorating.
Adam and Malcolm instinctively thought.
Gutierrez’s side had already muted, and they couldn’t hear anything.
"Urgent intelligence from the servant room." The officer reporting at the front desk was sweating profusely, his body trembling.
"Bring it here." Gutierrez sensed something was wrong and extended his hand, causing the smart terminal in the officer’s hand to drop into his own.
At a glance, he stood up abruptly, his face changed dramatically, "Is this real?"
"The other side provided a series of video materials, supposedly from internal members of the High-level Life Form Union..." the officer quickly reported, "According to our analysis, the accuracy of the message is over 90%..."
"Immediately dispatch all available X Level Life Forms to those coordinates." Gutierrez promptly issued a series of orders.
After gesturing for his subordinates to leave, his face changed, and he then connected to the virtual meeting room.
Shooting a glance at Adam and Malcolm, he said flatly, "Hemod, follow my instructions, don’t question it, take Kashmir’s Spear and the Star Alliance people, and withdraw first."
Two almost tangible gazes fell on Gutierrez.
Malcolm immediately berated angrily, "Adam’s gone mad, and so have you, Gutierrez, what are you doing!"
"Withdraw now, do you want to become an interstellar laughingstock?"
"I’m not mistaken, Hemod, leave with your people now." Gutierrez emphasized again, before looking at the two, a cold smile slowly appearing on his lips, "Soon you’ll know what I’m doing."
He didn’t give the two a chance to react and ended the communication immediately.
Adam took a deep breath, Malcolm’s face was ashen.
...
Hemod’s face was inscrutable, with Kashmir’s Spear in hand pointing toward the central area, the surrounding X Level Life Forms had already surrounded Anduin and the others.
Anduin’s mind was still somewhat chaotic, and he couldn’t help but look at Li Ming, as if to ask, where’s your mentor?
"Wait..." The one who stopped everyone this time was Hemod, his expression changing as he withdrew Kashmir’s Spear and finally said flatly, "Star Alliance people, come with me."
Go? Where?
Everyone couldn’t help but look over.
Li Ming’s heart relaxed slightly; it seemed there were no issues on that side. The previous "game" really made him uneasy.
"Don’t you understand my words? Star Alliance people, come with me! Withdraw!" Hemod’s voice was like thunder, also filled with anger.
First deceived by Adam, and now having to withdraw, he was also quite displeased.
Withdraw... troops?
The Empire’s representative’s cheek twitched, unable to hold back, "Hemod, what the hell is going on?"
"Who told you to withdraw?" the Federation representative reprimanded.
Why withdraw again?
Anduin’s face bore an indescribable expression; this series of changes left him not knowing how to react.
The Star Alliance’s X Level Life Forms slowly followed, also quite hesitant.
When the action plan was drawn up, it wasn’t like this; how did it become a "game" on site, and now troops need to withdraw.
Hemod ignored everyone, he was very displeased too, directly leaving through the door, turning into a flowing light heading further away.
The other Star Alliance members saw Hemod wasn’t pretending, they didn’t delay either and hurriedly followed, reducing the number of on-site X Level Life Forms by one-third instantly.
Anduin’s face changed as he suddenly raised his hand, a large number of runes surged forth.
The surrounding X Level Life Forms immediately surrounded and reprimanded loudly.
But it was only discovered that the palace overhead was gradually becoming transparent.
The previously sprawling Star Alliance fleet was actually withdrawing toward the perimeter, gathering a large number of media ships around.
"Are they really going to withdraw?"
Empire and Federation people were perplexed.
This time... it should be Azure Dragon’s doing, Anduin cautiously speculated.
Li Ming also looked up toward the departing Star Alliance fleet; as soon as they withdrew further, Reynolds and Mikhail could isolate the inside and outside, wrapping things up.
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