Chapter 1329: Chapter 1076: Selling Oneself
A man wielding a Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannon was robbing pirates everywhere! The incident immediately caused a huge stir in the entire pirate industry, and as the first target of Long Yi’s robbery, Yahola naturally couldn’t ignore this matter. And after a thorough scrutiny, Yahola discovered that his subordinate, Mahal, had actually had dealings with this man named Long Yi!
Speaking of which, Mahal was also the first victim when Long Yi appeared. At that time, Long Yi suddenly appeared on that Cosmic Stone-rich planet, killed many people, and even stole their most important Battle Armor, narrowly damaging his spaceship. And now, he was wielding a Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannon to rob all pirates?
Ever since that incident, Mahal had been demoted by Yahola. He no longer served as a squad leader but as an assistant to Yati. And it was Yati who told Yahola that Long Yi had appeared. At that time, Long Yi’s identity was that of a debt collector for Mahal’s creditor and also a Bounty Hunter.
Being related to Mahal twice, Yahola couldn’t help but become suspicious. So he immediately summoned Mahal back, planning to ask him about the matter in person. However, the pirates who were sent out came back to report to Yahola that Mahal had left a few days ago using a mission as an excuse, taking a group of brothers loyal to him and a spaceship, and still hadn’t returned!
So, you plan to go against me, Mahal?
At this time, Mahal’s reasons were very simple: Yahola was insatiable and never cared about the lives of his brothers. So he decided to take his brothers away to start a new Chapter. Many of those loyal to him were also very fearful of Yahola, and they despised him because the Group Leader was not only temperamental, but also gave his subordinates very little benefits. Although they held the title of the third-largest pirate group in the Plane, the life of the base-level pirates was far worse than those ranked below them. Those underlings had long thought of leaving but did not dare to due to Yahola’s authority. Now that Mahal had stepped forward, they were naturally happy to follow him.
What they didn’t know was that Mahal had his unspeakable woes.
Mahal thought that if he just dutifully stayed by Yahola’s side and waited to see what Long Yi would do, that would be enough. But to his complete surprise, Long Yi turned out to be so high-profile in his activities throughout the Plane! As the direct victim of both incidents, Mahal was of course the most suspect.
He was pushed to leave against his will.
In a short period, all three major pirate groups had been harassed by Long Yi. In the end, in a very rare move, the three major pirate groups issued a joint statement: they would offer two bounties— one for Mahal, where the person who found or captured him would receive a huge reward, and another for Long Yi, the person who found him or captured him or got hold of his Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannon would receive an astronomical sum.
Mahal had a substantial bounty on his head, but his men were not stupid; no one would betray him. Because those who betray their own usually end up in a very tragic place, they might not only fail to receive the bounty but might even lose their lives.
What garnered even more attention, however, was the bounty on Long Yi’s head. It was a terrifying figure, hundreds of times the bounty on Mahal, and apart from that number, his pair of Mini Cosmic Stone Light Cannons had their separate bounty, an amount that even rivaled that on Long Yi!
This news naturally also reached the Azure Sky Empire. When the Emperor of Azure Sky received this information, he rushed to find Isrile and Ruosha, and asked them what to do about it, both girls answered consistently: just pretend not to know.
This left the Emperor quite puzzled, because to him, both Isrile and Ruosha were very fond of Long Yi, and their relationship was extremely close. Now that their favorite person was being hunted by pirates all over the Plane, weren’t they going to do something? Wouldn’t they deploy their Giant Beast Battleships and Whitestar to eliminate the pirates?
Clearly, they had no such plans; in fact, they planned to do nothing at all.
Then the Emperor of Azure Sky found Ai Lin and Giant.
At this time, on the periphery of the Azure Sky Empire’s star circle, Ai Lin and Giant were calibrating a Cosmic Accelerator. Brought from the Lower Plane, once this Cosmic Accelerator was activated, it immediately detected several signals similar to cosmic acceleration, but those signals had been hidden. People in this Plane had never heard of the Cosmic Accelerator. According to Long Yi, the Giants should have put these Cosmic Accelerators into standby hidden mode when they left. So now Ai Lin really planned to use this accelerator to restart all the accelerators above this Plane.
When the Emperor of Azure Sky found Ai Lin and told her about Long Yi being hunted throughout the Plane, Ai Lin just smiled faintly and nodded, saying, "No worries, ignore him. If he is about to do something, there must be a reason for it. Let him figure it out on his own."
It was then that the Emperor of Azure Sky realized that the girls were not worried about Long Yi; rather, they were just too confident in him.
