Chapter 1357: 444. Headquarters Reception_3
According to him, more than a year ago, he had hired the group to observe the vacuum bubble teleport signals near Mach’s Trusted Star System.
Once the signal appeared, the group would dispatch satellites to carry away the vacuum bubble safes that arrived in the area and deliver them to Mr. Skull.
But now, the satellite was missing, and it was unclear whether the vacuum bubble teleport signals had even appeared, let alone any vacuum bubble safes.
Distressed, Mr. Skull had no choice but to take matters into his own hands, finding the group’s advanced pilot, Great Practitioner, and issuing them a hiring order.
This order, when applied to the players, naturally turned into a hidden task.
Seizing the moment, Great Practitioner decided to pretend to help the group in their search for satellites and synthetic humans, secretly carrying out Mr. Skull’s hidden task.
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Performing two tasks simultaneously and earning double the task rewards; how delightful!
Great Practitioner’s calculations clattered loudly, audible even in other star regions where Noland Lee was.
In fact, as soon as Great Practitioner’s ship approached the strawberry juice, Noland Lee had detected the skeleton hidden on board.
That’s right, this Mr. Skull was a member of the Tomb King.
His body exuded a rich, restrained scent of death, which, although he tried to contain, was accurately detected by Noland Lee.
“Very good, I knew I’d gain something by keeping an eye on the strawberry juice girl. I didn’t expect a member of the Tomb King to appear here.”
Noland Lee carefully observed Mr. Skull on the magic screen, silently contemplating.
The vacuum bubble safe mentioned by Great Practitioner was probably the one launched by the vacuum bubble emitter beneath Union City into outer space.
Mr. Skull and Great Practitioner would definitely not find it because it hadn’t been launched near Mach’s Trusted Star System at all—instead, it had been launched by Assassin Angel towards an area near Barren Universe.
As expected, over the next two or so hours, Great Practitioner and Mr. Skull took advantage of the chaos created by the players in the star system to fish in troubled waters.
They activated the high-power deep space scanner and scanned the Mach’s Trusted Star System thoroughly several times, but they were absolutely unable to find any spatial signals emitted by the vacuum bubble safe.
A vacuum bubble safe is no ordinary transport container; its spatial signals absolutely cannot be masked by any anti-detection device.
If they couldn’t find the spatial signal of the safe in Mach’s Trusted Star System, then it could only mean one thing:
The safe had already been moved somewhere else by the Star Thieves!
“Damn Star Thieves!”
Normally reticent, Mr. Skull spoke after coming to conclusions, bitterly cursing the Star Thieves, apparently blaming them for this operation’s failure.
Turning his head, his dark eye sockets stared at Great Practitioner and he said in a suppressed tone:
“Everyone leave the cockpit, I need to use your ship’s computer to contact the Metal Creation Group.”
“As you wish, sir,” responded Great Practitioner, signaling secretly to the players around him and quickly leading them out of the cockpit.
After the cabin door closed, only Mr. Skull remained in the cockpit. noveldrama
The skeleton twisted off his right index finger, removed the fingernail cover, and inserted it like a chip into the ship’s computer slot.
A holographic screen popped up after three to five seconds.
The holographic image did not change into a human appearance; instead, it spread like a tide, quickly filling the entire cockpit.
Countless numbers and lines swayed and twinkled in the air, weaving an immense virtual image ocean around Mr. Skull.
Controlled by an invisible power, the lines coalesced into a door right in front of Mr. Skull.
The door opened, and a ghostly white figure emerged from within.
Above the figure’s head, similar to a player’s nickname, floated a line of text:
Headquarters, Receptionist No. 7143.
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