Chapter 1263: Pushing the limits (first update to congratulate the cute master Mingyue)

"I actually encountered the sale of captives," Qu Jianlei said, dumbfounded.

He always felt that it was something in the history books and was far away from him.

Especially in this life of the empire, he has never been merciless towards his enemies, and now he only has an additional "ransom" option.

However, he still refused outright, "If you want to buy prisoners, you can wait until the matter in the black zone is over!"

After all, he can now extract a lot of information from the prisoner's mouth, and he will not make the mistake of capitalizing on the enemy.

Okay, Briarbloom may not be an enemy, but it's still a contender.

He won't insist not to sell, but it can't affect his actions.

The second thing that Thorns Blossom wants to know is of course the whereabouts of the magic weapon.

Qu Jianlei won't go into details, but he won't cause trouble for himself either.

He just said, "If we really find the magic weapon, is it necessary to continue to stay in the black area?"

He felt that his two answers had clearly demonstrated his intentions.

The former is to show that he has no intention of gaining government capital - I agree to sell people, but it is not suitable now.

The latter revealed his true purpose - we are here for the magic weapon, and we will definitely leave once we get it!

He consciously expressed it very clearly, but others have to believe it, right?

"Trading after leaving the black area? Haha, by then, not to mention that the value of the captives will shrink, who can guarantee that they will sell them?"

"It's hard to say whether he got the magic weapon or not. If he leaves now, won't it be confirmed that he got the magic weapon?"

Things in the world are always so ridiculous. He feels that his attitude is very clear, but he can't help but others always have other interpretations.

Faced with his reply, Thorny Flowers came up with a new condition: We hope that the two teams can cooperate.

We admire your team's unique inspection technology very much. If you are willing to transfer it, we can pay the corresponding remuneration.

In addition, once the cooperation is fruitful, except for returning the magic weapon to its original owner in exchange for the reward, everything else can be easily discussed.

"What's inexplicable?" Qu Jianlei felt that the person who made this request was crazy and couldn't understand human speech?

A few days later, the other two teams also sent messages, also asking for cooperation.

Is this an attempt to blackmail you? Qu Jianlei was really annoyed, but he decisively refused.

Next, the consequences of rejecting all teams appeared. The Digital Phantom fleet was targeted by everyone.

At first, the starships they encountered were just sarcastic, but later, someone actually flew with them.

Anyway, everyone has agreed that the five major teams should not start war lightly.

Previously, except for 1314, there were only four digital Phantom starships equipped with imitation divine consciousness equipment.

Now the other seventeen ships are all equipped with similar equipment - really just similar, the only thing that is the same is the "detection type".

There is no way, there is no long-lasting secret in the world, especially in this kind of group cooperation.

Moreover, once word spreads about treating this kind of difference, some centrists who were originally able to win over will instantly become alienated.

Qu Jianlei realized this relatively early and asked Xiaohu to develop a replica and start processing it himself.

In fact, it is not just a replica. In addition to its appearance, it also emits some detection waves and can issue alarms for abnormal situations.

It's just this kind of "abnormal situation", which is quite Buddhist, focusing on doing whatever you want.

Because the control end is controlled by Xiaohu, the abnormal situations selected are not too ridiculous, but there are no rules at all.

But one thing is absolutely the same - the self-destruct device.

After gradually issuing it to other starships, 1314 can also receive alerts from time to time.

However, at this time, we no longer dealt with the situation on site. We rushed to record the location in time, and then arranged for the starship to call the police to continue the inspection.

Many starships have strong curiosity, but Qu Jianlei will not give any explanation.

He just emphasized that if everything goes well, we will return the confiscated materials when the inspection is completed.

——Those with outstanding performance will receive some feedback privately, but we will not announce it to the public.

The main thing is just a piece of cake, but it doesn't come without any price.

Not only did Ship 1314 have a lot more tasks, Qu Jianlei also had to pretend to reward individual starships from time to time.

However, compared with these costs, Qu Jianlei felt that everything was worth it.

It is enough to have a few starships to help search the black area. At least it can greatly save the time of the team members.

And the big cost he had to pay was just to give back what he had stolen.

Now other teams have also learned that the Digital Phantom fleet has a special detector that seems to have miraculous effects.

There will definitely be someone who tries to trick the detector, but it is still inconvenient to take action rashly before breaking out.

If another team were to change, the four major teams would probably have taken a stab at the evil hand - this is a dark area anyway.

But the Digital Phantom... has powerful artificial intelligence, and no one can guarantee that it will not be detected after it is taken.

And not just any force can afford the revenge from the Digital Phantom.

If the grudge is too deep and spreads to the entire empire outside the black zone, then... it really needs to be seriously considered.

It doesn't matter if the seriousness is just a yin and yang of sarcastic remarks.

Accompanying the flight... is not impossible. The black zone belongs to everyone, not your team!

However, when he was accompanied by a flight companion for the first time, Qu Jianlei realized the other party's intention - to cut flesh with a dull knife?

He would never get used to this kind of problem, so he immediately rushed over with two company-class ships.

The opponent had three starships, and his own only had two, but by the time he arrived, it was five versus three.

He said very simply: I don’t care what your reasons are, I only give you two choices now.

Either get lost or I'll blow you up - once I open fire, I won't take any prisoners!

The other person explained a few words, saying that he didn't mean it, and then left in despair.

As the core ship of Digital Phantom, we must give face - neither artificial intelligence nor the supreme being can be insulted!

However, less than a day after the incident, the second accompanying incident occurred again.

Ship 1314 arrived again, expelled the opponent, and made it clear: It has happened twice, and we will open fire the third time!

Is it possible to hide the tactics of tired soldiers from him?

However, less than a day later, the third accompanying incident occurred!

After receiving the alarm, Qu Jianlei smiled helplessly and said, "Are you becoming a public enemy?"

But it doesn't matter anymore, etiquette has been reached, and if he doesn't forcefully break the situation, he won't be him anymore.

Accompanying the flight this time are still three starships, belonging to the Thorn Blossoms team.

After the 1314 ship arrived, it only said one sentence, "This is the third time, we have already warned you!"

The other party felt something was wrong as soon as he heard it, and immediately explained, "It's just a coincidence. What's the third time? This is the first time such a coincidence."

"That's because others didn't notify you. No wonder I am!" Qu Jianlei gave the order directly, "Every ship pay attention... open fire with all your strength!"

Not only his three starships, but also the two starships being flown by were equally unhappy, and upon hearing this, they also started fighting mode.

The starship with blooming thorns and flowers really didn't expect that the other party would actually hit them as soon as they said they would.

They have the word "thorns" hanging on their heads.

Although their power in the black zone is not as good as that of the Bright team, the Bright team would not dare to be disrespectful when they meet them!

Even two starships related to the Thorns broke away from Bright's requisition and joined the Blooming Thorns, but they did not dare to stop them.

The good thing is that these three ships are also alert enough, the strength of their protective shields has been increased very high, and their gun muzzles are also in a charged state.

——Everyone has spent so much money in the black area that they don’t care about this small consumption now.

Facing the siege, the three starships launched a counterattack, and at the same time tried their best to explain - of course, there must be some threats.

But in just two minutes, they no longer dared to act recklessly, and the power system and fire control system failed one after another.

Of the three starships, two have quite strong digital defense capabilities, otherwise the time would only be shorter.

On one of the starships, there seemed to be a person who made the final decision. He simply stated that this time we admit our failure and are willing to compensate!

At this point, all eight starships have ceased fire. Because the battle was still short, there was almost no damage to each starship.

When Qu Jianlei heard this, he snorted coldly and spoke directly on the public channel.

"Both of you... I have already stopped the starship, are you still waiting for me to do it again?"

The two accompanying starships were stunned when they heard this, "This... do you want to continue fighting?"

Qu Jianlei replied calmly, "This is the third incident of accompanying a flight in three days. I warned them that it will never happen again!"

The two starships being accompanied suddenly realized that because they had been searching separately, they had not heard about the previous two incidents.
To be continued...