Chapter 1161 Finding a Needle in a Haystack Is Where We Excel
The universe was extrely enormous. Even if one had extraordinary individual strength, without a force large enough, one would not be able to achieve much in the galactic society.
The Black Star Army was among the top ard forces in the Galaxy. They had manpower, resources, money, ships, and everything. As soon as Han Xiao’s highest order was given out, the Black Star Army’s n in the Shattered Star Ring started executing the order imdiately. They searched through one Star System after another and locked down all kinds of transportation hubs to find Aesop’s whereabouts. The Floating Dragon Island’s troops were also mostly dispatched.
Clearly, such a big movent could not stay hidden. It quickly attracted the attention of the entire galactic society. With just a little research, they knew that Dragon Emperor’s elder had gone missing. To search for just one person, the movents of the Black Star Army indirectly affected dozens of Star Systems.
Such a deep search impacted the operation of so public facilities, which so galactic residents had slight problems with. However, given that it was from the Black Star Army and even the local civilizations did not do anything about it, of course, the ordinary residents did not dare do anything too. Other than dispatching troops everywhere, the Black Star Army also issued a bounty for Aesop through the local dia channels, making use of the power of the people.
A large monetary reward would be given to anyone who could provide any real leads to Aesop, such as witness reports, transit records, and many more. If anyone could capture Aesop alive and give him to the army, the reward would be an outrageous 135 million Enas. Ordinary galactic residents would not be able to even spend all this money in their lifeti. It was also humongous for so dium to small ard organizations.
As the saying went, with a high enough reward, people would step up sooner or later. So dium to small organizations joined the search team, and a ton of free rcenaries started looking too. Even so galactic pirates and scavengers were searching secretly, hoping to acquire the reward and clean their ledgers. The local galactic residents of the Shattered Star Ring also kept an eye out.
For the ti being, Aesop had beco the focus of countless organizations in the Shattered Star Ring.
In the past, Han Xiao was on his own and hardly had any forces; being able to capture Aesop was mainly thanks to Feidin’s luck. Decades later, his army had grown into a giant. There was no need to play hide and seek with Aesop like he used to; he just had to make use of his resources, and it would beco extrely difficult for Aesop to go anywhere.
Even though Aesop’s foresight ability was very powerful, all he could do was move with extre caution and stealth in this kind of situation, not daring to appear in front of ordinary people.
Of course, these were just the basics. Han Xiao’s core thod of finding him was Rody’s prophecy, alongside As, Feidin, Nero, and Harrison’s luck, on top of his own Virtual Technology continuously calculating the possible coordinates Aesop might head to so that he could narrow down the search area.
Dark red sandstorm shrouded the sky like a red piece of cloth placed over the entire planet.
Through the low visibility sandstorm, a man in a heavy protective suit was walking alone on the red desert. The raging storm drumd his body like hamrs.
This man walked a few hours like this when, suddenly, a teor-like spark of light penetrated the sandstorm and plumted toward this man. He stopped and looked up, an approaching small spaceship reflected on the ally mask of his protective suit. Hu!
The spaceship slowly landed before this person and released an air force field with a fifty-ter diater, blocking the sandstorm and creating a clean area.
The hatch opened. This person stepped onto the spaceship without hesitation, dusted off the sand all over his body, and took off the heavy protective helt. An old face appeared. It was Aesop.
“You’re the ones here to fetch ?” Aesop patted the helt.
“Yes, we’ll be responsible for getting you out of the Shattered Star Ring.” The captain approached him. “Don’t worry, we’re professionals, certainly reliable.” Aesop nodded with approval and said, “The single person space cabin that sent here has yet to be destroyed. Go destroy it on while you’re at it. If it lands in Black Star’s hands, it’ll be a prophecy dium. Don’t leave any clues like that.”
Due to the Black Star Army’s lockdown over the Shattered Star Ring, he could hardly go anywhere. He was barely able to find a space cabin and landed on this desolate planet and waited for quite a long ti before this spaceship arrived to pick him up.
“No problem.” The captain nodded.
The spaceship took off, ca to a desolate desert area not far away, and discovered the tal space cabin that was half buried in the sand.
Bang!
Two explosive light beams shot out of the spaceship and destroyed the spaceship. The fla only lasted for an instant before being extinguished by the raging wind, leaving only tal fragnts shattered around that were gradually buried by the sand. After completing this task, the spaceship turned around, rose up, and took off into space.
At the sa ti, Manison, who was in the Prival Star River, received the ssage. He opened the surveillance footage, and it showed Aesop in this spaceship.
“They finally picked him up...”
Manison looked at the screen.
For confidentiality purposes, this spaceship that had gone to receive Aesop had hidden its organization symbol. It actually belonged to an organization called ‘Milder Ard Transport’, one of the secret organizations Manison had planted in the Shattered Star Ring.
Not long ago, the Modo Civilization had officially pulled him into the plan, shared so information with him, and asked him to help.
Modo Civilization only did so because of the lack of a better choice. The lockdown of the Black Star Army was too tight, so they could not make any moves in the Shattered Star Ring and could not secretly transport Aesop out at all. They were almost discovered multiple tis. Hence, they decided to borrow the chanic Emperor’s n and have him take over the ‘delivery’.
“Modo must have used the Soul Swapper on Aesop and made him escape deliberately.”
Of course, in the information the Modo Civilization provided, the existence of the Soul Swapper was not ntioned. They only said that they controlled Aesop using so kind of mind control thod and did not explain further. However, they did not know that Manison had known about the Soul Swapper since long ago, so he understood what was used on Aesop instantly.
Manison had no plan of stopping Modo’s mission. He even planned to cooperate with it fully.
Although Aesop was one of the Ancient Ones, he had quit the organization long ago. The Ancient Ones were mainly Eternals. Beyond Grade As were a part of it, but not all mbers were Beyond Grade As. There were quite a number of unique mbers with special abilities but weak combat capabilities just like Aesop.
Although Manison did know Aesop, they were not friends, so he did not mind Aesop dying.
On this matter, his interests aligned with Modo. There was a chance using Aesop’s death to plot against Black Star would force him to disobey the Peace Treaty of the advanced civilizations. This way, Black Star’s reputation would be severely damaged, and the great image the three Universal Civilizations had been building for him would collapse. That was exactly what Manison hoped to see, so he was willing to cooperate.
However, all of this was just the cherry on top. Manison’s main goal was still the Soul Swapper.
“Aesop is now in my hands. He’s definitely co into contact with the Soul Swapper at a relatively close range. Through searching his past whereabouts, the rough search area can be determined. Through cross-referencing the records, the Modo Civilization’s secret fleet that transported the Soul Swapper can be found. The person who’s now controlling Aesop’s body should be one of the Modo Civilization’s n. Maybe I can hypnotize him and question him.”
He did not know that the Soul Swap Twins had already escaped. He thought that the Soul Swapper was now being transported back by the Modo Civilization, so his search direction was already inaccurate.
Not long after the spaceship transporting Aesop left, another fleet visited this dark red desolate island. The Black Star symbol was engraved on their exterior armor.
Inside the command room of the main ship, Han Xiao, As, Feidin, and the rest gathered. This was a fleet commanded by Han Xiao personally.
“Hmm, this is the planet, exactly the sa as it is in the prophecy. It’s also one of the locations that overlapped between the areas chosen by Feidin, Harrison, and Nero.”
Han Xiao looked down at the planet’s surface.
Rody’s prophecy did not work all the ti, but any information that he gave was crucial, and Feidin and the others had the help of the Advanced Luck Glow. Under Han Xiao’s instructions, they randomly selected so coordinates in the various search areas, and Han Xiao focused the investigation on the places where their choices overlapped.
Although they had yet to get any leads, Han Xiao was still confident in this thod.
What he did not know was that he had only just missed Aesop multiple tis. This thod was indeed very effective. In a way, luck was truly invincible.
“Scan this planet. Report any abnormalities to .”
As Han Xiao gave the order, spaceships departed from the fleet one after another and circled the planet using all kinds of detection devices to scan the planet without missing a spot.
Normal readings showed on the screen before Han Xiao. There did not seem to be any abnormalities. However, after quite so ti, so exciting news finally ca from one of the spaceships. “Sir, we have discovered an extrely weak radiation signal in the desert. The sources of it are scattered and buried a few ters under the ground. Do we dig?” “Dig!”
The image on the screen quickly changed into the view from this battleship. The suction device at the bottom of the ship sucked out plates of burnt black tal fragnts that looked like parts of a destroyed machine.
“Report, radiation source found. Analyzing... analysis complete. This should be the wreckage of a type of space cabin that was destroyed by an explosive energy cannon. Affected by the energy, a certain amount of radiation was left in the wreckage that’s gradually weakening. The radiation will completely disappear in a few days.”
“Looks like we’re not too late.” Han Xiao’s eyes sparkled.
If they had arrived a few days later and the radiation had disappeared, they would not have been able to find this wreckage. With this, not only could it act as a dium for Rody’s prophecy, it could also be used with [Bold Explorer). One could see the future, and one could see the past. Very soon, this pile of space cabin fragnts was transported to Han Xiao. Han Xiao picked one fragnt up, looked at the burn marks on it, and said, “It doesn’t look like an attack, more like a deliberate attempt to destroy evidence, probably not wanting to leave any clues to us... Unfortunately for them, we’re lucky.” Han Xiao grabbed the fragnt in his hand and activated (Bold Explorer).
Ripples appeared in his vision, and his vision instantly changed. He saw a space cabin falling down from the sky and landing on the surface of this planet. The hatch opened. A man wearing a heavy protection suit walked out from it and slowly walked away.
Although he could not see this person’s appearance, he felt it was most likely Aesop.
Like ti had been shortened, not long after, a spaceship appeared above the space cabin, launched two explosive light beams, and shattered it into pieces. The images stopped abruptly here, and Han Xiao’s sights returned to normal.
This footage was short but quite informative. “This is indeed a space cabin left by Aesop. A spaceship appeared after to destroy the clue, which ans it was here to fetch him...”
Han Xiao recalled the appearance of the spaceship in the footage. It was not a common model but a high-speed spaceship known for its hyperdrive speed. It was expensive to build, and not just anyone could afford it.
“Phillip!”
“I’m here, hum... Please give the order, master.”
“Search all the people and organizations in the Shattered Star Ring who possess the Featherlight Grade spaceship. Don’t leave anyone out, and focus on any organization that has a stronghold near this area.” “Ah?” Phillip batted his large eyes and made a pitiful expression. “That’s a lot of data, hum... It’ll occupy a lot of computing power, hum...”
Han Xiao gave him a stare and said, “Then hurry up!”
Phillip reluctantly took out a progress bar from his pants, placed it upright beside him, and created a large box filled with paper. He then jumped in and started searching. The progress bar started moving at the sa ti.
After quite so ti, the progress bar finally finished. Phillip’s head extended out from the box. He spewed the pieces of paper out from his mouth with an illuminated piece of paper in his hand. He then filled his mouth with air and angrily said, “Humph! Found it, hum! Take it, take it!”
“A lot of tricks you have.”
Han Xiao rolled his eyes, switched into quantum network vision, and retrieved the search results.
A large amount of data instantly flew into his head like a tsunami, blocked by the dam built by Han Xiao’s brain capacity and computing power that did not even shake in the slightest. He quickly started browsing through it.
“A total of thirty-seven million and thirty-one matches... Hmm, let take a look.”
Han Xiao quickly filtered in his brain, browsing through all of the records in less than two seconds and morizing all of it. Only Virtual chanics would be able to use this ‘dumb thod’ to lock onto suspicious targets... When he had the ability to filter the entire haystack, finding a needle would not be that difficult anymore.
Most of it was data with no value, but one organization that was emphasized had attracted Han Xiao’s attention.
“Milder Ard Transport... I seem to have an impression of this na.”
Han Xiao narrowed his eyes. He searched through the mind palace inside his brain, and the mories ca up. ... I got it! This organization is one of the chanic Emperor’s subsidiary organizations that was exposed in my previous life.
Han Xiao’s expression beca solemn.
Although he had no final confirmation, his intuition told him that this was most likely the organization that transported Aesop away.
Doesn’t this an that old b*stard Manison is involved in this too?
Han Xiao was not planning to question the chanic Emperor. It would be a waste of ti anyway as he definitely would not admit it.
All kinds of thoughts flashed past his mind. Han Xiao turned to the others and said with a low voice, “Have people monitor the Milder Ard Transport closely... No, monitor all the organizations I’m going to na. I want to know their recent movents, but don’t startle them. Monitor them extra closely, and don’t make any moves without my order!”
Han Xiao had always known so of the organizations that the chanic Emperor had secretly planted in the Shattered Star Ring. Originally, he did not want to let the chanic Emperor know this, but now that he seed involved in this matter, Han Xiao decided to take asures and monitor all of the subsidiary organizations that the chanic Emperor had in the Shattered Star Ring!
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