205 The Black Phoenix Revealed Its Chicken Feet [Combined Chapter – Please Subscribe!]

The chief information officer of the park fleet was named Teng Wanjun. Because of his crossed eyes, he wore sunglasses year-round.

Crossed eyes can be corrected, and he had tried. But once fixed, his ability to read code sharply diminished, so in the end, he reverted to his crossed eyes.

As the chief information officer of Behemoth Park, his professional skills were outstanding.

Yet, because of his crossed eyes, he had long been troubled by issues of marriage and love.

After the star beast escape incident, to strengthen information defense, he expanded the information office, recruiting several capable aides—and conveniently hired a few attractive female secretaries.

Hei Mei was one of them.

Though Hei Mei was a rare beauty with dark skin, her appearance and figure were quite good, her personality docile... and she even knew a bit of basic spirit runes, at an elementary level.

He believed she was the perfect life partner tailored for him.

Once, after work, he gave Hei Mei a Phoenix Blood Diamond worth two thousand spirit stones, earning a rare chance to drive her home.

He planned to seriously pursue her once all the star beasts were recaptured within the park.

But now, the plan had to be brought forward.

Hei Mei pressed a gun against his temple.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the others in the cockpit had already collapsed, unconscious.

“Hei Mei, what exactly are you doing!”

“I thought you already knew my identity when you gave me the Phoenix Blood Diamond. Turns out, you really don’t understand a thing.”

“Who exactly are you?”

“I am the Black Phoenix, Guli Zhuque. Now, either you help us star beasts escape from Zuan Star Cluster, or you die. I’m having your deputy take us away... I will marry him afterward.”

“You... you don’t even have humanoid features?”

“I burned them off, just to get close to you. Thank goodness you still have some genius talent, otherwise, I’d never find a wife in this lifetime.”

“That’s impossible. The blue-winged dragon people are fifty meters tall, how could a level sixty-eight Black Phoenix possibly revert to a normal human form?”

“Because Vincent and Irfan have returned, I can now freely switch bodies like a black dragon.”

As she spoke, the Black Phoenix’s left hand gradually transformed into a huge phoenix claw, wrapped in black flames... revealing talons.

“You... if I help you, will you really marry me? Who are Vincent and Irfan?”

“Vincent is the father of all mutant star beasts. Irfan is our elder brother; he’ll arrive soon. As long as your talent isn’t a bluff, even if I don’t like you, I will marry you—Vincent needs talents like you.”

“I’ll think about it.”

Once the expedition began, the screen in the lower right corner no longer showed the information officer’s feed but switched to the giant wheel’s view.

The park director had no idea the information officer was being hijacked.

At that moment, the director’s attention was fully focused on the battle in the Meiyu Planet’s underground caves.

The fight within the caves was intense; the Centipede ship and the Lone Ranger were clearly unable to hold out much longer. The Lioning was still contemplating life.

The director asked the information officer:

“Teng Wanjun, do you have any means—like dispatching your swarm of bee drones to support us?”

Teng Wanjun glanced at the Black Phoenix and resolutely opened the microphone.

“My bee drone swarm is still in the experimental phase. Forcing them into battle would only risk friendly fire. Their individual explosive power is currently too weak; even if they infiltrate the blue-winged dragon’s body, they can’t cause effective damage.”

The director sighed helplessly and then asked Lioning:

“Captain Lu, do you have any ideas?”

Lu Chen didn’t answer the director but instead asked the information officer:

“Why was your voice trembling just now? Are you feeling unwell?”

Suddenly, Lu Chen’s treasure map displayed a target, and the target’s strength was similar to that of the blue-winged dragon.

If he guessed correctly, it must be the Black Swan or Guli Zhuque appearing suddenly.

The target’s location was exactly in the direction of the information ship.

He suspected the information officer had encountered some accident...

Considering the information ship could control the giant wheel, he understood the situation.

Now that the treasure map had revealed a target, if he secretly informed the director, they might capture the enemy red-handed and he could earn an extra discovery bonus.

But he had an even bolder plan.

The information officer hurriedly replied:

“I just had a cup of iced coffee to wake up, but my stomach feels a bit off. It’s a minor issue.”

Lu Chen smiled and said:

“Don’t worry, you don’t have to answer personal questions like that.”

He was now one hundred percent sure: the information officer had been hijacked and betrayed.

But strangely, the director was totally unaware.

This meant the person hijacking the information officer wasn’t a giant star beast or titan.

Most likely, it was an ordinary person who had infiltrated the information ship!

An ordinary human appearing on Lu Chen’s treasure map...

He immediately understood and closed the microphone.

“This is bad—the Black Swan, Guli Zhuque, or some high-level star beast has the ability to transform into a normal human and has infiltrated the information ship to hijack the information officer!”

Aili fell into deep thought.

Gloria panicked.

“Then why don’t you hurry and notify the director? If the director dies, who will we get the bounty from?”

Aili guessed:

“Maybe the captain wants to use their enemy’s scheme against them...”

Lu Chen paused.

“Oh, right, I do want to turn the tables!”

He quickly reviewed his recent plan and instantly thought of a better modification.

“Aili is right—I want to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely change the tide of battle!”

Gloria excitedly asked:

“Can we get Dragon Pills?”

“Maybe.”

Lu Chen reopened the microphone and spoke openly to the director:

“Director, I just thought of a plan. It’s a bit risky, not sure if I should say it.”

“What plan? Go ahead, don’t hold back!”

“Meiyu Planet is essentially a hollow egg, held together only by the planetary array embedded in the shell. If I suddenly destroy the planetary array, the planet will collapse.”

“Are you crazy? If the planet collapses, how can we survive?”

“Didn’t I warn you in advance? Besides, you’re all tunneling experts—get the ships to take off early and burrow into the planetary shell’s soil before the collapse fully starts. It’ll be safe. But the massive blue-winged dragon will find escape difficult. It won’t die outright but will be severely injured. Then we can dig it out from the ruins.”

The conference room fell completely silent.

The Lone Ranger was the first to speak.

“This plan is feasible, but I have to personally do the sabotage to the planetary array.”

Lu Chen was slightly taken aback.

“Personally? Could this woman be someone important?”

“You’ll do it,” the director said with difficulty. “The Centipede ship can’t withstand the blue-winged dragon’s attacks. Even if I go up, it won’t help; the dragon will quickly kill me and Santi Peter, then focus all its fury on you. Unless you can reach the underground array and sabotage it within a minute, the plan won’t succeed.”

The director’s expression remained grim.

“That said, planetary arrays are typically at least level fifty, and Meiyu Planet’s is even level eighty. Though it’s old and poorly maintained, even I can’t guarantee I can destroy it. Your ship struggles with tunneling; are you confident you can break the array?”

“Absolutely. I have a level forty armored tunneling rig designed for treasure hunting. A month ago, on the True Spirit Continent, when my cultivation was barely in the teens, I piloted a level twenty armor to break into a ten-thousand-year-old dragon warship ruin. After just over a month at sea, I’ve earned thirty thousand adventurer points by scavenging and unlocking treasures. If the planetary array has even the slightest flaw due to age, my armor’s hacking program can forcibly infiltrate it and cause a short circuit collapse.”

The centipede man bit his teeth in the tornado, dodging the blue-winged dragon’s attacks, and exclaimed:

“You? Seriously?”

The Lone Ranger woman suddenly spoke:

“Were you the one who hacked into the Adventurer Association’s news server half a month ago?”

“This...” Lu Chen hesitated, realizing the Lone Ranger already knew the truth.

“No need to explain. Let’s do it.”

The director nodded and asked the centipede man:

“What do you think, Santi?”

Santi was worse off than the Lone Ranger in the tornado; after all, the Lone Ranger could escape by sacrificing limbs, but if the Centipede lost limbs, its speed would sharply drop, making escape impossible.

“I’m about to die, what else can I say?”

Lu Chen immediately addressed everyone:

“Alright, I’m heading back to the surface to dig at the planetary array. You all escape in the opposite direction and lure the blue-winged dragon away.

“The hardest part is locating the weak point in the planetary array; that will take some time.

“From now, I only need you to hold out for fifteen minutes at most.”

With that, Lu Chen turned and headed back to the ground.

Dark clouds pursued him, but were slower than before, showing that away from the small sun, the blue-winged dragon’s climate control was weaker.

“Good!”

The Lone Ranger sheathed her light sword, severed her left arm, and threw it at the blue-winged dragon.

The dragon, thinking it was another nuclear warhead, hastily dodged.

The Lone Ranger and Centipede ships took advantage, breaking out of the tornado and fleeing opposite to Lioning’s direction.

Just as the blue-winged dragon was about to pursue them, it received an urgent message from Guli Zhuque.

“Hurry and stop Lioning. That ship is preparing to destroy the planetary array, aiming to collapse the planet and trap you!”

“That weakest adventurer ship? Is the intel reliable?”

“This isn’t just anyone. Vincent said the captain of that ship swallowed the Shadowless Whale Pearl from the Mist Sea Star. If we can capture him, it could be an unexpected gain.”

“When will Irfan arrive?”

“In ten minutes.”

“Good.”

The blue-winged dragon immediately turned to chase Lioning.

Meanwhile,

Inside the information ship,

Information officer Teng Wanjun suggested to the Black Phoenix:

“Now that the blue-winged dragon has suddenly turned to chase Lioning, the director will surely suspect us. It’s unwise to raise the giant wheel to flight immediately. Better to wait for the planet to collapse. I’ll find an excuse and fly the giant wheel away amid the chaos.”

The Black Phoenix thought this man was quite clever.

“If you dare to play tricks, you’ll be the first to die.”

The information officer sighed:

“Star beasts escape instinctively. I only hope you kill fewer people.”

The Black Phoenix was calm.

“Vincent has a greater plan. As long as you don’t block us, we won’t retaliate against humans.”

...

Lioning had already landed and entered the jungle.

At the same time, because it was being pursued by the blue-winged dragon, Lu Chen received a risk alert.

However, it only indicated some risk; it did not warn him to avoid it outright.

“Santi, Su Yan, the blue-winged dragon is chasing me! Hurry and come help ambush it!”

The Centipede and Lone Ranger ships were forced to turn back and re-engage the blue-winged dragon.

If the blue-winged dragon’s target was Lioning, the combined forces of the Centipede and Lone Ranger ships had a good chance, at least no immediate danger.

Still, the centipede man cursed:

“Damn, does this dragon have intelligence or what?”

Lu Chen smiled:

“More than intelligence. It might even have allies infiltrated among us.”

The centipede man’s face instantly darkened.

“Director, what’s going on?”

The director frowned deeply.

She had thought of this possibility too.

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