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067. There Is No Justice in the Outer Territories

  There Is No Justi the Outer Territories

  Driven forward by gravity, Li Aozi experieno impact from nding, maintaining his low sliding posture as he moved across the ground.

  This pce wasn't rge, roughly 60 square meters, yet it was guarded by four armed men. The flickering dim light cealed Li Aozi's figure.

  "Boss, there seems to be some noise upstairs..."

  "Don't worry about it. Just keep watch."

  Zhu Baiya and the guards were talking ahead. He approached a door, searg for keys in his pocket.

  Li Aozi moved quickly and silently, remaining low. He crept up until he raised a , sneaking up from behind tle one of the guards, who only reacted when it was too te.

  "Enem—"

  Before he could finish, Li Aozi's body shifted like a phantom. With gravity-enhanced movement, he ged dire and "crashed" toward the wall.

  Rat-a-tat-tat—

  "Holy shit! He's—he's flying!"

  As the enemy's guns turowards him, he kicked off the wall, jumping and perf incredible sharp-angle maneuvers in mid-air.

  Li Aozi skillfully maniputed gravity's dire and magnitude, keeping himself in a state of "free fall" the eime.

  To the White Fang gang members, Li Aozi's movements resembled a fighter jet, stantly turning to evade bullets while accelerating towards them.

  Swoosh!

  Li Aozi's body flickered as he nded behind one gunman, the , enhanced by gravity, stretched into a spear, pierg through the man's skull.

  The bes of using a flexible on became apparent. Grabbing the front end of the , he swung the corpse like a fil, throwing it at anunman.

  ging dire and increasing gravity tenfold.

  The 60-70 kilogram corpse, accelerating at 98 meters per sed squared, hit like a onball, smashing the other man to pieces.

  Boom!

  "Holy—"

  The explosion and flying flesh shocked the remaining guards, who had never imagined anyone more ruthless than themselves.

  The st two despairingly raised their guns to shoot, but Li Aozi's movement, though not beyond visual limits, involved terrifying high-speed turns and mid-air dire ges beyond human prehension.

  A ghost.

  Li Aozi turned mid-air, nding behind the two gunmen, beheading one instantly with the taut .

  He kicked the other behind the knee, making him kneel in pain, then shoved a double-barreled shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Half his skull exploded, scattering brains and flesh.

  Li Aozi turhrowing a flying knife from his waist, hitting Zhu Baiya's hand just as he was about to ambush him.

  "Argh!"

  The prosthetid ierced but unharmed. Zhu Baiya's pupils tracted as he raised his heavy pistol, ready to activate a plugin.

  [Swift Horse Pr—]

  "Kneel!"

  Before the plugin could activate, Li Aozi's cold and, like a feudal emperor's decree, echoed.

  He exerted gravity to its current limit—fifteen times gravity.

  Snap!

  Zhu Baiya's knees shattered instantly, making him kneel. His impnted meical spine protruded, uo withstand the extreme gravity, bending and breaking.

  The civilian-grade prosthetics short-circuited and caught fire uhe immense pressure.

  Fifteen times gravity meant every part of the body bore fifteen times its weight.

  Even civilian prosthetics couldn't ehis, and space shuttles couldn't fly long in such a gravity field.

  Near-Beta rank 【Charisma】 gave Li Aozi trol ravity Are abilities beyond his level. Alpha rank Zhu Baiya couldn't st a sed before fainting from severe injuries.

  But Li Aozi didn't kill him.

  "You alive help me track down the ibal..."

  Despite despising the White Fang gang's evil deeds, Li Aozi hated the baby-eating ibal more.

  Zhu Baiya had dealings with the ibal; he o stay alive to help Li Aozi track him.

  He wasn't the ibal's matow, at most he could repel him—but once he pleted the "Unremembered" mission, he could kill him.

  "ime, bring more people."

  Li Aozi crushed Zhu Baiya's meical hand, sneering:

  "You don't have enough people for me to level up."

  He stepped on Zhu Baiya's head, taking his heavy pistol and the cell key, unlog the hostage room.

  Creak—

  The door opened, revealing 12 emaciated, numb Abyss doctors and five mothers holding babies.

  As the sealed door opened and light shone in, they looked up at Li Aozi, some doctors who had treated him reizing him instantly.

  "Li Aozi..."

  "You're that Level 5 ied? Such powerful bat skills... the professor was right."

  "You must be sent by the professor to save us?"

  Fag their tearful, grateful inquiries, Li Aozi waved his hand:

  "Follow me, let's go."

  "Thank you so much, thank the Twin Queens, thank the heavens, thank the professor..."

  Some Abyss doctors cried, praying and blessing tinuously. Li Aozi squinted.

  As he uhe doctors and kidnapped women and children, Li Aozi casually asked:

  "Did any of you work on ZX-102?"

  His high 【Charisma】 made them trust him without hesitation after their immense fear, humiliation, and torture:

  "You mean Snow? We all worked on that rescue project, but in the end, we couldn't save her due to reje reas."

  As she mentio lightly, Li Aozi recalled Dr. Siqi's words.

  ...........................

  Snow's brain had released too much Are energy, perhaps causing a mutation in brain cells enes... Her body could no longer aodate it.

  ...........................

  "Mr. Li Aozi?"

  "Oh."

  Li Aozi dismissed it, leading them quickly out of the basement, deliberately leaving the severely injured Zhu Baiya behind.

  On the surface, he persuaded the women and children to return to the settlement, while leading the Abyss doctors to find Nomi.

  "Oh? You actually rescued them all." Nomi marveled.

  The rescued doctors cried, thanking and praising Nomi and Li Aozi.

  Li Aozi nodded, pulling Nomi aside to whisper:

  "Keep them nearby for half an hour, theurn here. Don't let any escape."

  Nomi sensed Li Aozi's cold tone a uneasy:

  "What do you mean? Aren't we leaving with Qiu Ran?"

  "Of course, we'll leave with Qiu Ran."

  Li Aozi said sternly:

  "But they won't be ing with us."

  Nomi was stuhen elbowed him iomach.

  "Aren't these dood people?"

  "Hardly." Li Aozi said: "I don't have time to deal with them now. At least half an hour... wait for me. We'll take Qiu Ran and leave, only Qiu Ran."

  In half an hour, the side quest would settle. After that, these women were useless.

  "Tsk... no need for such trouble."

  Nomi grabbed a wrench, grinning, and said something to Yavanna.

  Moments ter, Yavanna was untied and pushed forward.

  "What's this about?"

  Li Aozi looked at Nomi in surprise.

  "You'll need help against that monster rampaging in the camp."

  Nomi smirked:

  "This woman wants to save her dad with Rose Army's help. I 't agree directly, but Red Arrow Empire might be ied in a politi like Daivilyn."

  "Daivilyn?" Li Aozi was stunned. He looked at Yavanna in surprise: "You're the daughter of Frost-Pted's Defense Minister?"

  "My father wasn't yet Minister, he was falsely imprisoned."

  Yavanna rubbed her long-bound wrists, expining:

  "My father is a true patriot, but the try didn't love him back, imprisoning him on Elf Isnd... My as are to save him and protect my family. I'm sorry, I don't have noble ideals. I'm willing to cooperate with the Empire or Rose Army for this."

  Li Aozi gave her a meaningful look.

  She was lying.

  "There's a saying about Frost-Pted in Red Arrow Empire." Li Aozi said: "Men who stay in Frost-Pted are cowards, men who leave bee legends."

  But there's more to that saying.

  'Except Daivilyn, he's Frost-Pted's st man.'

  A true patriot who wao ge this deformed try, devoted his life to Frost-Pted gover and people, only to be betrayed.

  Daivilyn, the ender of the First Republic era, the first president of the Federation era.

  An uionable legend, he fought fender equality, reduced wealth disparity, and fostered positive external retions. Despite his virtues, his family assets never exceeded 400,000 Derbi, below the elite threshold.

  He offeoo many, assassinated in an internal fli version 1.0, before pyers could enjoy his efforts, returning Frost-Pted to darkness.

  Soon after, Rose Army's demise, Sky Ring military gover invaded Frost-Pted—had Li Aozi and Gactic Civilization not blown up Azure Star, Frost-Pted would have faded under Sky Ring's warriors.

  So, how could such a noble man's daughter be so narrow-minded?

  It made no sense; she was lying.

  Yavanna attended uy, perhaps naive, but not dumb. Li Aozi wouldn't believe her so easily.

  She likely sehe Frost-Pted on noise and po escape.

  However...

  "Don't be a burden."

  Li Aozi sighed, feigning annoyand helplessness.

  —Might as well use her.

  Without 【Object Resonance】, Li Aozi wouldn't let her leave easily.

  Besides, Nimotin was a fool; Li Aozi even knew her bank password was 000000.

  Her brain was dull. After dealing with the ibal, Li Aozi would show her true bck-hand tactics.

  "I won't disappoint you."

  Yavanna vowed.

  【'Yavanna Huskisin' has joined your team】

  【Current Favorability: 89 (ral)】

  Snap!

  Li Aozi tossed her a handgun:

  "Find your own bullets. We're up against a Beta rank (β) Biochemist. Don't die."

  "I won't die before resg my father."

  Yavanna took the gun, her golden-green eyes filled with determination, whispering:

  "I must withe dawn of ge, Frost-Pted's transformation, true equality and unity..."

  Stop dreaming, Li Aozi thought, gng at her.

  He knew a bit about Daivilyn.

  In Gactic Era 222, before Daivilyn's release and presidency, his wife, two sons, daughter, pet dog, and cousin were killed by servative female politis.

  Daivilyn was released in Gactic Era 225; now it's 220.

  In other words, Yavanna Huskisin would die at the hands of Frost-Pted women in two years.

  FAL

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