Bai Zhongqi was piloting a different small landing craft from the one he had originally used to land on Taoran Star. To avoid the pursuing beasts, Bai Zhongqi was now using an upgraded version from the Yinglong Cruiser, which boasted better maneuverability and a full stealth capability, and was also somewhat larger.
As the landing craft took off, Bai Zhongqi caught a full view of the Bei Mountain surroundings and was somewhat shocked to see that nearly a hundred thousand Stiff Ghosts had gathered around it. Masses of the walking dead were converging on the main peak of Bei Mountain from all sides, reminiscent of scenes from the film "Resident Evil."
However, these Stiff Ghosts weren’t brainless monsters; they were humans who had undergone severe mutations and decay. They possessed intelligence and emotions. Such a massing on the mountain had to be orchestrated by someone.
Nan Ma marveled at the large numbers of Stiff Ghosts and remarked, "After the Star Alliance kicks the benefactors out of Taoran Star, I suggest Your Majesty turns Taoran Star into a tourist destination for exploration and adventure within the Star Alliance. There’s no shortage of fun things here. With all sorts of monsters and these Stiff Ghosts, wouldn’t this be the perfect real-life set for our Flashpoint Company?"
Bai Zhongqi had no interest in such banter with Nan Ma. He was determined to deal with the benefactors. Given that Taoran Star had proven to hold so many mysteries and valuables, coupled with its vast land area and planetary resources, Bai Zhongqi was set on making Taoran Star one of the Administrative Stars of the Star Alliance.
In the First Universe, Iridium Star had transformed planets full of dangerous creatures into Administrative Stars, although it required a great deal of effort. To eradicate or relocate a large number of creatures to reserves was a cumbersome and massive project.
On the landing craft, Bai Zhongqi and three Autochthonous Warriors were responsible for piloting the spacecraft, while Nan Ma and another were questioning two of the benefactors. Bai Zhongqi had already decided to abandon the numerous captured underlings of the benefactors. Right before leaving the top of Bei Mountain, Bai Zhongqi ordered two bionic soldiers to enter the crashed benefactors’ flying saucer with repair tools.
The flying saucer boarded by the two benefactors was not too badly damaged. After an inspection, it was determined that although the shield was down and the propulsion system had sustained some damage, simple repairs should enable it to fly again.
"So, Your Majesty plans to use this flying saucer as our cover?" Nan Ma inquired.
Bai Zhongqi nodded in acknowledgment and said, "We shall depart in the landing craft and seek an opportunity, but there are still many flying beasts and other detection methods of the benefactors in the skies. They have over a hundred flying saucers on Taoran Star and can surely conduct a sweeping search. To hide, we need to be crafty. Repairing this flying saucer and having it fly at high speed in the opposite direction can at least help us draw away some of the pursuers."
Bai Zhongqi had come to understand that the benefactors on Taoran Star were essentially in the dark. The interference with communications within the Taoran Star atmosphere was so intense that it was alarming. The benefactors relied on quantum communication and could not perform remote information transmission. On this planet, information was basically transmitted physically.
The benefactors could not even determine the specific locations their flying saucers had reached. The saucers could only use electromagnetic waves for communication and mutual confirmation within extremely short distances and essentially lost contact beyond visual range.
These flying saucers even had to rely on the antiquated method of starlight navigation to fly on Taoran Star.
The two bionic humans didn’t take long to finish the repairs on the flying saucer. By that time, Bai Zhongqi in the landing craft had already flown hundreds of kilometers away, and the Stiff Ghosts besieging the mountain had mostly reached the middle slopes.
"If we don’t deal with this situation, I’m afraid very few of the survivors in the shelter on the mountain will remain alive," Bai Zhongqi said.
The Bionic Human piloting the Flying Saucer attacked the Stiff Ghosts surrounding Bei Mountain after lifting the saucer into the air. To ordinary people, Stiff Ghosts were extremely strong and hideously deformed, which made them terrifying. But to the fully armed Flying Saucer, these ground-bound Stiff Ghosts were nothing more than targets.
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The weapons equipped on the Flying Saucer by the benefactors were not comprehensive. Apart from the small Grating Cannon and Electromagnetic Cannon, there was only one type of incendiary weapon, which was obviously intended to suppress large numbers of infantry. As a slavemaster civilization, the benefactors had clearly used the Flying Saucer to deal with those races who resisted their "benevolence".
The Flying Saucer promptly set half of Bei Mountain ablaze. Many of the Stiff Ghosts climbing the mountain had been doused in highly flammable fuel, and even though Stiff Ghosts lacked the nerve endings to feel pain, they were still afraid. After all, they were once the living, afraid of death.
By that time, the hunting groups from the shelter that had come for the big market had chosen other routes to descend the mountain. Many had abandoned large vehicles in favor of motorcycles with better maneuverability, trying their best to avoid the vicious Stiff Ghosts. Those who were out of luck were the vassal races of the benefactors; Bai Zhongqi had left them on Bei Mountain, and after the Flying Saucer launched incendiary bombs, most of the vassal races also turned into barbecue material.
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After executing this action, the Flying Saucer didn’t stay any longer and immediately started its engine, flying in the opposite direction from where Bai Zhongqi and his group had departed.
Not long after the Flying Saucer had flown away, two of the benefactors’ Flying Saucers arrived at Bei Mountain.
Seeing Bei Mountain engulfed in flames, the people of the benefactors were somewhat shocked.
"Eight Flying Saucers crashed, seven of them. Did the Earthlings really shoot them all down?"
"What about the remaining one? There’s no trace of the two lords’ personal vessels. Why are there traces of our own incendiary bombs being used? Was it the two lords who burned these Stiff Ghosts?"
"Neither Lord Shen Shen Zhe Ru Pu nor Lord Jing Ya Zhe Ji Yang Bo are present? This is troublesome."
Several military officers of the benefactors’ vassal races were also feeling apprehensive at this time. The main military force of the benefactors’ civilization were actually their vassal races. The benefactors had lost the ability to independently wage war many years ago; they controlled a portion of loyal and staunch vassals by creating divisions among different vassal races and managing them differently, allowing them to deal with other races.
In battle, the primary duty of all vassal race officers was to ensure the safety of the benefactors. Now that two benefactors were missing, even though, theoretically, it was not related to them, there would definitely be trouble if it came to accountability.
The officers of the vassal races immediately landed their Flying Saucers and started to search for clues.