Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high! Chapter 879 879: 623 Alienation2

"Alright!" The spy wasn't one to waste words.

Understanding the urgency of the situation, he only occasionally muttered sothing to adjust his mindset, but his actions were never delayed by it.

"This is a repair station, right? If it works, turn on the power for ." The spy, climbing swiftly up the scaffolding, shouted at the baron below.

The baron remained where he was, staring at the spy with an odd expression. "It's just a support fra. I didn't even plan on repairing anything here. Why would there be two full repair stations installed here?"

"..." The spy's face darkened, his movents pausing for a mont.

After a brief silence, he burst out with a coarse curse, "Fuck!"

"Find people! Get soone imdiately! Anyone with strength, lend a hand. If you can repair, get on it. And go grab a few cranes! Without professional repair stations, how the hell am I supposed to fix these beasts? And it's two of them!"

Catherine wasn't surprised at all. She had just received a ssage over her earpiece from Freeport's top leadership, and her expression relaxed a bit. "We've been searching for them… and they've already been found."

...

A motley group of individuals, escorted by a squad of Freeport guards, was moving quickly in a specific direction.

Among them, Wild Wolf, caught in the reverse-moving crowd, spoke with a curious tone to the leader he had just started following. "Boss, can you really repair chas?"

"Repair chas?" Bai E's eyes drifted into a trance, recalling a distant ti. "I guess I can… although I haven't done it in ages. No idea if I'm out of practice."

According to that clown-like voice, all of his power had been stripped away. He wasn't even sure if his technological or academic skills had also been completely removed.

When he consciously tried to recall, fragnts of theoretical knowledge and practical standards on cha structures were still in his mind.

But when it ca to actual hands-on work, who knew if it would be up to par?

Especially since higher-level skills were a bit mystical. Like "Rapid cha Repair," which had so connection to Spiritual Energy—those capabilities defied simple knowledge-based explanations.

What Bai E wanted to figure out most was whether he could still use these skills.

Even if he could, using planetary technology to repair interstellar chas—Bai E wasn't sure if the two would be compatible.

If they were from entirely divergent technological systems, the skills might not be useful after all.

He didn't know.

So Bai E decided to just take a look at the situation. Maybe there'd be a gap where he could actually help.

Wild Wolf kept nervously glancing back at the silent ships docked at the port. His eyes were filled with reluctance. "But, Boss, does this an we've totally lost our shot at getting on one of those ships?"

After all, boarding a ship was the only way to survive in this cold universe.

If they stayed on Freeport and it got attacked and dismantled, there'd be no chance of survival!

Right now, every ship had returned to dock due to the invisible barrier isolating them. But the mont there was a breakthrough in the situation, those sa ships could launch again at any second. Staying aboard a ship clearly offered greater odds of survival!

Quickening his pace, Bai E shot Wild Wolf a sideways glance. "If you're scared, go back by yourself."

Wild Wolf shook his head vigorously, "No way! Since I decided to follow you, there's no way I'm leaving you behind!"

Bai E shook his head slightly and explained further: "The current situation is simple: either the unknown attackers intend to silence everyone on Freeport, or Freeport finds a way to fight back and escape the enclosure of that barrier. There's no third option."

Even if Bai E didn't fully grasp the basic rules of the universe, he believed that the essence of human nature should be the sa everywhere.

Judging from people's reactions, this kind of thod—sealing an entire space city—likely wasn't sothing common even in the universe.

The forces behind this extraordinary barrier obviously had no intention of letting anyone escape. Their goal was for Freeport's inhabitants to perish and beco nothing more than a floating heap of cosmic debris.

In this kind of situation, being aboard a ship or staying in Freeport was essentially the sa.

Now that they had no choice but to stay on Freeport, the only way to possibly survive was to do whatever they could to support Freeport. Only by doing so could those with real power stand a chance of carving a path out.

However, as the technician team was being escorted, a chilling voice rang out across Freeport through the public speakers—

"Attention, everyone on Freeport! The Psychic Energy Canopy has been deployed. You have one hour to hand over the traitor, Catherine! She has stolen critical data from our Peak Alliance. Surrender Catherine, and we will leave imdiately! Otherwise, every single one of you on Freeport will pay for her cri with your lives!"

"Attention, everyone on Freeport! The Psychic Energy Canopy has been deployed…"

"Quick, cut the signal!" At the sudden broadcast, the Freeport administrators gathered in the Do Hall fell silent for a brief mont.

The announcent repeated once before one sharp-thinking staff mber managed to hastily cut the feed.

The hall was blanketed in heavy silence.

Everyone exchanged glances, unease flickering in so of their eyes.

"They're lying!"

"Don't believe their bullshit!"

"There are infiltrators inside Freeport!"

So of the leaders, clear-headed and quick to grasp the situation, spoke up imdiately to stop anyone from being driven to rash, dangerous thoughts.

"Catch the infiltrators imdiately! Don't interfere with the Star Alliance spy's mission!"

"Yes, yes! Also, calm the civilians! Don't let them disrupt the plan!"

On the surface, the voices of support seed unanimous.

Even those harboring ulterior motives wouldn't openly rebel at a ti like this.

But as the crowd began to disperse, certain individuals clearly carried entirely different intentions in their gazes.

Though the Freeport staff had reacted swiftly, the ssage in that chilling voice had already reached the ears of everyone on Freeport.

Hearing this sudden announcent from where he stood in the crowd, Bai E's expression darkened, realizing that the attack from the orchestrators of the so-called "Psychic Energy Canopy" had already begun.

This tactic? Classic divide and conquer.

Even ti was no longer on their side.

Not far away, the sounds of unrest were already audible.

"Stop them! They're helping Catherine repair her cha to escape!"

"Grab Catherine! We're not dying with her!"

"The cha is in the C-Zone port warehouse! That bitch Catherine will be there! Let's grab her and prove our loyalty to the Peak Alliance!"

...

Inside the storage depot, a few people had also heard the commotion rippling through Freeport.

Even with the warehouse walls providing sound insulation, the utterances outside were perfectly clear amidst the warehouse's eerie quiet.

Catherine's gaze flickered, her eyes cold and piercing.

Noticing a chilling shift in the air, Baron Norwitz stepped back half a pace with a sheepish smile, raising his hands in a conciliatory gesture toward Catherine. "My lady, you know I'm not one of those fools. The Peak Alliance clearly doesn't intend to spare a single soul here. I'm completely and firmly on your side!"

Catherine glanced at him without a word before looking upward toward the Star Alliance spy working atop the scaffolding, running basic diagnostics. "Move faster!"