Chapter 47
The shape-shifter and woman each owned a spatial ring. Xia Fei was not courteous and retrieved both. They were already dead, so what use would it be to just leave such things behind? Besides, warriors obtaining spoils of war was only natural. The rules and regulations for the assessment did not mention that candidates were not allowed to take other candidates’ things. If people were allowed to kill, looting items should be a given.
After collecting what he could from the three corpses, Xia Fei and Xiao Yu returned to their hiding place in the vegetation.
Xia Fei retrieved a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Xiao Yu as he took out a Hongtashan cigarette for himself and lit it up. Taking a deep puff of the stick, he let the smoke fill his lungs for approximately 30 seconds before exhaling it all out.
Xia Fei poured out all the things inside the two spatial rings, as a mess of items instantly appeared upon the sandy soil.
Xiao Yu blinked with a surprised look on her face as she exclaimed, “Big brother Xia Fei, did you do your magic again?”
Xia Fei patted Xiao Yu’s head, “Come, help big brother search through these items and find that token for the second round.”
“Okay!” Xiao Yu diligently began to rummage through all the items as Xia Fei’s eyes shone. He had unexpectedly discovered a golden egg among these things, and it looked similar to that egg that contained the Killer Machine from before.
Xia Fei quickly picked it up from the ground and began examining it.
“Those three were actually rather poor. There’s nothing good on them aside from the Golden Cicada,” Phantom shook his head and said.
Xia Fei chuckled. He had also retrieved two spatial rings, one of which had a storage space of one cubic meter, while the other had roughly 0.5 cubic meter. Adding both together would amount to around 100 million star coins, and including the Golden Cicada, it was already quite the profit for Xia Fei.
Xia Fei kept these things properly before giving Xiao Yu a Snake Eye Berry, as he ate one himself.
Xiao Yu was curious and mimicked how Xia Fei ate his berry, stuffing the Snake Eye Berry into her mouth. The moment she took a bite, Xiao Yu’s face revealed a bitter look, “Big brother Xia Fei. This fruit isn’t tasty at all.”
Xia Fei could not help but laugh, reaching out to Xiao Yu pouting face and lightly pinched her cheek, “Although this isn’t very tasty, it is very beneficial to your body. Eating it will make Xiao Yu grow big and strong.”
Xiao Yu obediently nodded, forcing herself to finish the Snake Eye Berry as she tilted her head and asked, “Does this fruit come in chocolate flavor?”
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Beyond Earth’s orbit, a whole fleet of warships was stationed to safeguard this Crisis grade assessment. These were the ships that belonged to the Endaro Star Region Adjudicator Union Branch’s 5th Fleet.
When the Adjudicator Union decided to dispatch the mighty 5th Fleet to Earth, even the Union’s internal department had quite a bit of an argument over it. Many did not understand the need for a strict security presence for this assessment.
The 5th Fleet consisted of four Raven-Class battleships and 24 Thorax-Class cruisers. There were also other smaller ships in this fleet, and they numbered in the hundreds. The cost to send a fleet of such a size through space was unimaginable for ordinary citizens, and that alone accounted for more than 80% of the assessment budget.
However, President Robert completely disregarded all suggestions that sought to reduce this cost in favor of opting to dispatch the mightiest fleet against the consensus of the board and his resolute attitude on this baffled everyone.
The 5th Fleet layered themselves with Earth at its heart of the formation like layers of a metallic wall.
But what the 5th Fleet commander did not realize was the presence of a Helio-Class covert ops stealth ship cruising in the darkness of space somewhere 1 light year away from Earth.
This stealth ship had been retrofitted from a frigate, losing a majority of its weapon systems for the sake of several advanced electronic systems.
Not only could it conduct a covert investigation on specific targets, but it was also even capable of intercepting signals and communication of the other party. Furthermore, it could also stealth against the backdrop of the vast space, making it impossible for anyone to discover its presence.
This Helios-Class stealth ship had no serial number or a name, lacking any identification that a spaceship ought to possess. In fact, there was no information on this ship even if someone were to search the Alliance database for it.
Countless electronic devices were busy working in the monitoring room. Every bit of information that was being broadcast to the Adjudicator Union from Earth was being intercepted by this ship.
In this universe, intercepting information was not a particularly difficult task, and what mattered was how to decrypt it.
Every organization and planet had its own unique encryption system with hundreds of millions of digits, so it was definitely not easy to crack. Even the most powerful computer required more than 10,000 years to finish decrypting it.
People would rarely attempt to crack an encrypted system because the other party would have already swapped for a new system before someone could even be done with the initial encryption program.
Yet the monitors inside this monitoring room were all displaying the information that the Adjudicator Union was transferring, from the candidates’ information to the orders from the higher-ups; nothing was missed.
Furthermore, the Adjudicator Union had only just started using this 12.8 billion bit encryption system from the start of this year!
The largest screen was simultaneously showing the video of over a dozen candidates, with one of them being an approximately 12 years old short-haired girl who was very cute with a delicate little nose and a pair of doe eyes.
The video showed the girl munching on a Snake Eye Berry as she asked Xia Fei, “Does this fruit come in chocolate flavor?”