Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!-Chapter 875 - 621 crash!_2

The man could only offer a bitter smile upon hearing her words. "The initial purpose of establishing the Star Alliance was to mediate injustices and conflicts occurring in every corner of the universe. Miss Catherine, your statement is truly biased against our Star Alliance."

"Hmph! Then vanish from here!" Catherine sneered coldly, driving him away. "The internal affairs of our Stellar District are none of your Star Alliance's business!"

The man sighed again, silently hoisting the long gun he carried. "That's why I said it from the start... Don't get me wrong, I just don't want to die a humiliating death during the collapse of Satellite City!"

"Bang!"

Another deafening explosion rang out, and yet another guard mecha's core was pierced by a single shot.

"Let's take care of these real threats first, and then we can discuss my mission, shall we?" The whirlwind created by the bullet ruffled the man's coat as he flashed what he thought was a dashing smile, glancing sideways at Catherine in an ostentatious manner.

Catherine raised the single-edged sword in her hand, unleashing another surge of energy.

While jointly slaughtering the members of the Dagger Society, she did not forget to mock the man with biting sarcasm. "Dream on! With these people, I don't need your help at all."

Despite her words, neither held back in their assaults.

Dozens of guard mechas and hundreds of Dagger Society members were mowed down like grass under their hands.

In moments of life and death like this, no one present was a saint who cherished life.

Eventually, the two of them arrived in front of the Dagger Society leader, who was barely alive and only managing to stay upright by leaning against his failing mecha.

The man from the so-called Star Alliance asked curiously, "What's the deal with their Peak Alliance? Why would they associate with garbage like you? Without even a single 'planetary-level' expert in your ranks, you still dared to mess with Miss Catherine?"

Even among planetary-level experts, Catherine was considered to be among the top tier.

Otherwise, how else would the Bauhinia Republic entrust such an important artifact—something the Peak Alliance valued so highly—to her, alone?

In front of a planetary-level expert, conventional firepower and combat strength would have to reach an extraordinarily abnormal level to pose a threat at all. ƒгeewebnovёl.com

Without experts of comparable rank to tie her down, these Dagger Society goons stood no chance of trapping someone as fierce as Catherine.

Yet, the questioned Dagger Society leader, his face filled with ashen deathly pallor, still sneered arrogantly. His milky white eyes, like those of a dead fish, stared fixedly at the pair before him. Scarlet bloody foam gurgled and poured continuously from his mouth. "You're all going to die... You will all die."

Catherine frowned slightly. "What do you mean?"

"The real killings… it was never meant to come from us…" The Dagger Society leader tried to laugh but was unable to make a sound and could only force a dry grin.

Before he died, he had to see the despair on their faces that would satisfy him. To drag two planetary-level experts to the grave alongside himself—this would be his life's one accomplishment!

"You all know we're trash, so wouldn't the Peak Alliance know that too? Just wait! Haha, just wait! Hahaha!"

"Quit acting mysterious!" A sharp glint flashed in the Star Alliance man's eyes; he was too lazy to waste words on the leader anymore.

"Screeeech… screeeech…"

The massive steel platform, which had its supports destroyed, creaked as it dangerously swayed.

The eerie sound in the stillness caught Catherine's attention.

"Screeeech… screeeech…"

Staring at the slowly collapsing steel structure in the darkness, Catherine's gaze turned swiftly icy.

"Their target is the entire Freeport!"

The man glanced around indifferently. "It can't collapse, right? While the structural layers of Freeport are important, with the minor level of damage they've caused, at most, only some areas would be affected. It shouldn't be enough to threaten the entire Freeport."

"The real killing move isn't in their hands!"

"There's no explosive pre-installed across the entire structural layer either, is there?" The man scratched his head, puzzled.

As someone being hunted, Catherine naturally hadn't had the luxury to investigate the concealed intricacies of Freeport in detail.

But standing as a distant observer, a lurking predator trailing the Peak Alliance's pursuit of Catherine, gave him a broader picture to assess the scene.

It was quite evident that he hadn't spotted any additional plans or traps orchestrated by the collaboration of the Peak Alliance with the Dagger Society.

Even during this ambush, none of the Peak Alliance's own elite experts had shown their faces.

"No! It's not explosives!" Catherine closed her eyes. Every critical moment during the Peak Alliance's pursuit flashed vividly through her mind, aligning into a crisp timeline.

"It's Freeport itself! They deliberately steered me toward Freeport! Here, there has to be a setup—something they're confident can trap me!"

Post-event analysis would be pointless now.

If the Dagger Society leader could reveal at this juncture that they had other measures, it could only mean… those measures were already inevitable.

...

"Boom!"

In the dark, hollow expanse of space, a blinding burst of fire erupted, not far from the Freeport space station, shattering the void.

Every ship, whether already fully boarded or in the process of boarding, and even those just leaving the port, seemed to freeze mid-motion—like they had been struck by a Paralysis Skill and forcibly halted in place.

Everyone!

Whether crowded in the boarding corridors, sitting in the cabin waiting to escape, or stuck at the fringes of the docking platforms unable to move forward—all stared blankly at the black void before them.

The firework-like explosion was the most glaring spark in that endless darkness.

"Were they attacked?"

"An ambush?"

"Is someone stopping us from leaving?!"

"Maybe it's a problem with their own ship?"

Countless speculations surged through everyone's minds at once.

Before these thoughts could spread into rumor, yet another departing spaceship exploded violently at a safe distance from Freeport, bursting into another brilliant firelight in space.

Wild Wolf, who had squeezed onto the "Black Pearl" with Bai E, stared in horror at the second explosion's site.

His expression turned dazed. "Another one blew up!"

If the first ship's explosion could be chalked up to coincidence or an internal issue, the second consecutive destruction could no longer be dismissed as such.

Someone was covertly preventing everyone from leaving Freeport.

And yet, no one had seen the form of attack, let alone figured out how to counter it.

"They're deliberately trying to kill us all!"

"What the hell did I do to deserve this?!"

"I've been saving money for ten years—ten years!—just to visit Freeport's famous Pleasure House, and now this happens before I even got to experience it!"

"What do we do, what do we do, what do we do?"

"Where's the governor of Freeport? Say something!"

"Who pissed off some big shot? Just own up already—don't drag us all to die with you!"

Chaos erupted among the crowd, voices spreading like wildfire.

The din became so loud that even people standing inches apart struggled to hear each other.

Bai E's gaze fell toward the direction of the second exploding ship, his expression blank.

For some reason, his perception seemed to momentarily return to the sharp insight he once had when his attributes were at their peak.

The first explosion had caught him off-guard, but during the second, Bai E had been prepared, allowing him to observe the entire process clearly.

To his eyes, the second ship hadn't suffered any external attack. Rather, it looked as though… it collided with some sort of invisible, transparent barrier.

The gradual structural deformation, spreading slowly from the front of the ship to its midsection, was short but unmistakably distinct to him.

It was as if… as if there was an invisible, impenetrable obstruction that neither the ship's sensors nor the human eye could detect.

Both of the ships had exploded after colliding with this utterly "indestructible" barrier!