Xu Sili was also surprised when he received the news.
He just made a random arrangement, thinking that the abilities of the players might allow them to squeeze out some benefits from these captives.
Unexpectedly, they would directly take over the other person’s base?
Xu Sili was familiar with this type of thing.
After all, the Flaming Fox’s secret base was still in his space capsule. Of course, most of the things inside had been moved out, and there was basically only an empty shell left.
This base was too conspicuous and he hadn’t decided where to place it yet.
Since the Clive star thieves dared to send troops to deal with the Roland Empire, it was understandable to capture the enemy’s base after defeating them.
In any case, it was convenient to recover it with the fixed-point teleporter as long as he knew the coordinates.
The Roland Imperial Prison.
“Alai, can these two weirdos really make the emperor of the Roland Empire let us go?”
A prisoner huddled in the corner and asked his companion in a low voice.
“How should I know?”
His companion called Alai’s lips curled up as he asked, “What else can we do except trust them?”
They had been captured for half a month but hadn’t been mistreated during this period. It was as if they had been forgotten. No one came to interrogate them.
There were only four captured star thieves, and they were kept in two cells.
The cells located underground were dark and damp, with only a few wall lamps in the corridor providing a faint light.
The environment here wasn’t too bad, but being locked up without any chance to go outside for fresh air could definitely drive people crazy.
In particular, they experienced that tragic and nightmarish battle and would have nightmares every night as soon as they closed their eyes.
Even if they managed to fall asleep, it wouldn’t be long before they were awakened by one of their companions talking in their sleep.
Players were protected by the ‘holy light’, so even the bloodiest scene looked beautiful and harmonious to them. This meant they had no psychological burden.
However, the star thieves weren’t like that.
They witnessed the death of their former companions and the demise of the star thieves.
The leader of Clive led the star thieves out in full force, full of ambition and success. He never thought they would end up being completely wiped out!
It was really scary!
The people of the Roland Empire actually weren’t very strong. The problem was… none of them were afraid of death!
Alai still remembered a soldier from the Roland Empire. His legs were blown off by artillery fire, leaving only his upper body. However, he didn’t seem to feel any pain at all.
He laughed wildly and dragged a star thief to die with him before he died.
He laughed excitedly, as if he wasn’t going to die but had made a profit. He was simply a madman!
The problem was that he wasn’t alone.
Every soldier of the Roland Empire was as fearless as he was. Their methods of attack were extremely cruel and brutal, even worse than the star thieves.
It was chilling to think about it!
The Clive star thieves were completely finished. Alai and the others were in despair and could only endure all types of psychological torment day after day, waiting for their trial.
As a result, two weirdos showed up.
These two weirdos were naturally the players that Xu Sili deliberately let go so that they could enter the prison and find the captives.
The players’ goal was to repair the mecha, but one of them suffered from an occupational disease and directly threatened several captives. Then… Alai and the others confessed everything.
They even said that they knew the location of Clive’s base and were willing to act as a spy to help the Roland Empire take over the base!
The players who originally just wanted to repair the mecha thought, ‘Is there such a good thing?’
It didn’t take long for Xu Sili to find out about this.
In order to survive and gain freedom, these prisoners told them all the details of the base.
Unlike Flaming Fox, which had multiple bases, the Clive star thieves had only one base and it was an entire planet—of course, it was just an asteroid.
The universe was vast. In addition to the 266 nations and forces registered with the Interstellar Alliance, there were many uninhabited planets with little development value.
These planets didn’t belong to any nation. The Interstellar Alliance only registered them and didn’t take any further action.
The Clive star thieves secretly occupied one of them, and even used some means to erase all traces of the planet from the map of that area.
Thanks to the support of the Kvia Empire behind them, which provided them with various resources and information, Clive was able to operate on this asteroid for many years without anyone noticing.
However, these captives didn’t have a high status in the group. They only knew the approximate location of the base, but not the specific coordinates.
“We can lead the way! Even if we don’t know the coordinates, we just have to get to the place and we will know where to go!”
Alai and the others said so.
Xu Sili didn’t believe them.
An interstellar journey would take two or three months. How could he have so much time to spend with them?
As for sending players into the stars to look for it?
At present, he had no plans to open up the interstellar map to players. After all, if they went out to explore the world then who would clean up the interstellar beasts on Escher Star?
Most of the players returned to their daily lives after the team-building event of the Roland defense battle. Thanks to the high-damage weapons seized from the star thieves, their efficiency in clearing monsters was significantly improved.
There was also good news recently.
In the process of clearing monsters, they discovered a special cave. There were actually survivors living in the cave!
Just as Xu Sili had guessed before, there were many living beings like Turles and the sprite still struggling all over Escher Star after the disaster.
These survivors must have their own strengths to be able to survive in such a harsh environment for a hundred years. Xu Sili even suspected there might be future high-level mentors among them.
For example, the survivors just discovered by players.
They were a family of three who were all from the Roland Empire. Before the disaster, the husband and wife were powerful elementalists.
Relying on the resources they had accumulated, they managed to find a place to live after the disaster and gave birth to a daughter together.
Once the level seal was released, their strength increased significantly and their ability to survive in the wilderness also improved a lot.
Their situation was undoubtedly much better than that of Xenos and Silin, or the lonely Turles.
Now they had been taken back to the main city by players and would play a significant role in the development and improvement of elementalists in the future.
In short, due to this incident, the players’ enthusiasm for clearing monsters had been ignited again!
It was heard that every player in the group who found the family of three had directly learned several high-level spells. Was there anything more exciting than this?
Xu Sili was happy to see the enthusiasm of the players and would never do anything that distracted the players too much at this time.
He could fully predict that once the interstellar map was opened, these players would definitely disappear without a trace.
He had learned about this situation in the Future Forum.
Of course, he still couldn’t miss the fat piece of meat that was the Clive star thieves’ base.
The prisoners didn’t know the exact coordinates, but he wasn’t worried due to Xiao Wu.
Don’t forget that the Roland Empire had captured four enemy battleships.
Among these battleships, there was naturally information about Clive’s base.
After receiving the order, Xiao Wu searched carefully and quickly found the specific location of the base. He even sent all the information about the asteroid to Xu Sili.
The asteroid was no longer as barren as before after years of management and transformation, but the vegetation area wasn’t large.
This time, Clive brought almost all their assets with them, so there wasn’t a lot of equipment left in the base. There was only some heavy equipment and a few scientific researchers in charge of the modification of battleships and mechas.
To be honest, this base wasn’t very valuable.
What Xu Sili valued was the geographical location of the planet.
It wasn’t particularly far from Escher Star. After all, it only took the star thieves less than two months to get here in a super battleship.
The asteroid was adjacent to five or six nations. Coincidentally, two of them had established diplomatic relations with the Roland Empire.
If they could use this asteroid as a base, it would be much more convenient to trade in the future.
Moreover, Xu Sili wanted to do an experiment.
If a two-way teleportation circle could be used on a battleship in outer space, then… could it be used across galaxies?
If his conjecture was feasible, wouldn’t interstellar travel be much more convenient in the future?
After developing the fixed-point teleporter, he had tried it on Aunt Val’s spaceship. But perhaps Aunt Val was too far away from Escher Star or there were other reasons, but he failed in the end.
However, Xu Sili didn’t completely give up this idea. He started to think about it again the moment the players reported the hidden mission to him.
In any case, now he had the coordinates, a guide and he knew that the base was unguarded. Then things would be easy.
From getting the news and deciding to go on the expedition to gathering the army and setting off, it only took Xu Sili two days.
Led by Si Sheng, the selected elite players were turned into cards. Then they arrived at the asteroid through the fixed-point teleporter.
Alai was completely stunned when he was released from the card.
What happened? Why did he return to the base in the blink of an eye?
Then once he saw the Roland soldiers appearing one after another and quickly surrounding him, the thought of running away disappeared without a trace.
He couldn’t understand how he returned to the base in the blink of an eye, but under the kind gazes of these Roland soldiers, he quickly played the role of a guide.
The Clive base didn’t have a lot of defense forces remaining and was easily captured by players.
Si Sheng took advantage of this opportunity to patrol other places on the asteroid and eliminate all possible dangers.
By the time he came back, the players had gathered all the living people in the base. All the star thieves were killed, leaving only some poor people who were abducted.
“Marshal Si Sheng, what should we do with these people?” A player asked.
Si Sheng ignored him and went to the control room of the base. He inserted the data disk with Xiao Wu’s clone program into the console. Finally, thanks to Xiao Wu’s operation, he successfully connected to the Star Network and contacted the Roland Empire.
At the same time, Xu Sili discovered changes in his personal panel the moment the players took over the base.
[Snow Roland]
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Territory: Escher Star, Clive Star.
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