Chapter 779: 779
Chapter 779: He's Coming!
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
Xiao Xuance paused for a moment and observed the reactions of the 'real Immortal Cultivators' .
Everybody was as strongminded as he expected . They did not even blink .
Satisfied, Xiao Xuance continued . "I know that it was quite risky for everybody to come here without alarming your own sect . Let's cut to the chase and invite Captain Xiao Yushan, leader of the 'Dragon Slaying Operation', to explain the latest developments . "
Xiao Yushan was the young man with dense hair whom Xiao Xuance had summoned twenty days ago .
He was a member of the Xiao family and had been under the tutelage of Xiao Xuance when he was growing up . Naturally, he had accepted Xiao Xuance's ideology and become a staunch Immortal Cultivator .
The Dragon Slaying Operation was a set of plans to deal with the unexpected reappearance of the Dragon King Battlesuit . Search, localization, defense, siege, assassination, and manipulation, every procedure had dozens of backup plans .
Xiao Yushan stood up quickly without any ado and bowed to everyone .
Dozens of light beams were hovering behind him . He was wearing a jade ring on his right index finger, which shot out a scarlet ray as he pointed at the light beam and said, "Three days ago, we discovered part of the debris of 'White Horse', the medical starship that went missing more than half a month ago, at the periphery of the Swooping Eagle Space Zone . By analyzing the spiritual energy residue and the remaining materials, we estimated that White Horse collapsed due to a very serious explosion .
"The explosion was too fierce to have been an accident . Besides, there had not been serious cosmic storms around the Swooping Eagle Space Zone recently . Therefore, we came to the conclusion that the explosion was man-made .
"We set the Swooping Eagle Space Zone as an important area of investigation and devoted a lot of resources for the search, only to come up with nothing .
"There are three space zones near the Swooping Eagle Space Zone that are all within reach of one space jump . If one boarded a quick carrier, they could travel between them within one to two days .
"We found a lot of valuable clues in the Mystic Cloud Space Zone, which is next to the Swooping Eagle Space Zone .
"First, let's do some calculations .
"Jumping from the Spider Den Space Zone into the Swooping Eagle Space Zone before blowing up the starship would take one to two days .
"Putting on a faked appearance in the Swooping Eagle Space Zone, sneaking into a high-speed carrier, and leaving for the Mystic Cloud Space Zone would take another one to two days .
"All things considered, that would have been three to five days in total .
"Exactly six days after the Dragon King Battlesuit reappeared, seven hospitals of the Mystic Cloud Space Zone were broken into . Medication worth of millions was taken . The local sects investigated the case for days but found no leads at all . They were only sure that it must have been done by an expert .
"After our thorough investigation, we found that the seven cases had something in common . In the inventory of the stolen items, there were a lot of medications that were designed to pacify the soul .
"Fellow Cultivator Yin Pingzi of the Feathered Snakes Brotherhood is a spectral Cultivator who passed away more than a hundred and thirty years ago . He has done profound research on the arts of reincarnation and possession .
"According to Fellow Cultivator Yin Pingzi, such dark arts are extremely perilous . Even if it works out, the body will experience strong rejection reactions in the first couple of years . If the user is not careful, their soul will still be expelled out of the body .
"The weaker the possessor's soul is and the stronger the body of the victim is, the more intense the rejection reactions will be . They will have to take a lot of medicines to pacify their soul and maintain the stability of their body . "
When Xiao Yushan got to this part, one of the Immortal Cultivators tapped the table and said, "Fellow Cultivator Xiao, if I may interrupt .
"We get what you are trying to say . Your team believe that Bai Xinghe has reincarnated and fled to the Mystic Cloud Space Zone . He broke into the seven hospitals for the soul-pacifying medicine only . Other items he took away were just distractions . "
"Exactly . " Xiao Yushan nodded and said, "The members of the Dragon Slaying Operation and part of the star brain's computational ability analyzed for an entire day . This is the most likely possibility . "
"If so—" The Immortal Cultivator narrowed his eyes, which were as sharp as swords . "The medicine in general hospitals are mediocre after all . If the man was really Bai Xinghe's reincarnation, he would definitely have the capability to sneak into the local sects of the Mystic Cloud Space Zone and steal better drugs, wouldn't he?"
Xiao Yushan shook his head and said, "This is exactly why Bai Xinghe was smart . Stealing medicines from Cultivation sects would have been too obvious and exposed him .
"In comparison, stealing the normal medicines from general hospitals was much more low-profile . Nobody would overthink it .
"In fact, if we had not known which starship he ran away on, we wouldn't have locked onto the Swooping Eagle Space Zone so quickly, and if we hadn't concentrated tremendous resources and computational ability in this place, such minor cases definitely would've been neglected by us, considering the vastness of the Flying Star Sector .
"It's true that the medicine is poor in quality . That is why he went to seven hospitals altogether .
"Retrieving the essence from abundant mediocre medicines should be enough for his use temporarily . "
The Immortal Cultivator who suspected him pondered for a moment and said, "Alright . You've convinced me, Fellow Cultivator Xiao . Please continue . "
Xiao Yushan nodded . The light beams behind him changed . He said, "For the sake of confidentiality, the scale of our organization has been kept small . It is nowhere near as large as the Temple of Immortals, which serves as our disguise . We don't have many spare hands in the Swooping Eagle Space Zone . Most of the time, we can only collect and analyze the public information .
"However, the Black Spider Tower has been developing in the Flying Star Sector for hundreds of years and is more or less associated with the underground worlds of the major space zones .
"Over the past years, Spider Den has been on the decline . The smugglers, drug dealers, and gamblers have been restraining themselves, seeing that things were not going well . However, the Black Spider Tower has enough evidence of their crimes to force them to cooperate .
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