Chapter 90.2

Along with their actions, noise flooded Cen Zhen’s spiritual network. After being surprised, the auxiliary police immediately regained their composure and devoted themselves to the pursuit.

Their behavior obviously angered ShouHe. The best indication was that he teleported back into the cabin within 30 seconds after the spaceship accelerated, as if to say: You think you can escape like this?

Five minutes and twenty-seven seconds, Pan glanced at the countdown progress bar of the jump. He felt time elongating within every minute and every second. Fortunately, there were no birds or other flying objects in the sky except the three of them. He only needed to concentrate on getting away from the other two spaceships.

A whole five minutes. Counterattacking alone definitely would not be enough to drag it out that long. Cen Zhen patted Lian Yu’s back in the violent air turbulence, indicating that he should start talking.

Lian Yu shook his head frantically to indicate that he couldn’t do it. He felt heartburn whenever he saw ShouHe.

Cen Zhen sighed and said with his eyes, ‘No wonder you are not the protagonist of this novel, and just a villain who died early. Generally, in such a critical moment when the gap between the enemy and us is huge, the protagonist can rely on a righteous speech, giving the powerful enemy a sudden brain twitch, thus turning defeat into victory.’

Lian Yu did not appreciate such a complex meaning from Cen Zhen’s eyes, but if he couldn’t do it, Cen Zhen couldn’t do it, who else could? Thus, Lian Yu and Cen Zhen simultaneously looked at the real male protagonist YaoJin.

YaoJin held the safety rope tightly to fix his body. He saw ShouHe getting closer and closer to Enfei, and saw that his two friends stood in the corner like a computer system that had crashed, staring at him with a very strange look. He gritted his teeth and suddenly shouted: “Mr. ShouHe, I have a question for you!”

ShouHe ignored him. He held Enfei’s arm firmly and took out two finger buckles from his back. After countless generations of evolution, the handcuffs of the Star Police have become a simple and compact, yet highly functional, finger buckle with electric shock paralysis and other functions inside.

“Mr. ShouHe, as an interstellar detective, is the justice you implement really correct? Putting a wrongly accused good man in jail is what you consider to be doing your duty?”

“…I’ve said it before.” ShouHe actually stopped and looked back at YaoJin, “Whether he is wrongly accused or not, the judge and the law will judge. As an interstellar policeman, what I have to do is to bring all suspects back to face the law.”

“If the judge can really perform his duties impartially, if all the procedures can really be fair and open, if there is no collusion, how could he be wrongly imprisoned?”

“Then how do you know he’s innocent and not just making up stories?” ShouHe asked. “Should I give up arresting him just because you say he might be innocent, even though it’s baseless? I can have the Star Police intervene in his case, facilitate a retrial, and gather evidence to prove his innocence, but I can’t let him go at this moment.”

“Sir, have you ever considered the possibility this tiny suspicion could cost an innocent life?” YaoJin removed his oxygen mask and asked clearly, “He’s a Zerg. He’ll probably be deported back to his country and held in a Zerg prison. It’s a long way from the Star Police headquarters. Even you, Mr. ShouHe, can’t guarantee his safety. Will he really still be alive by the time the Star Police intervene?”

“It’s also possible that if I let go of a top-tier wanted criminal, I’ll cause the tragic deaths of even more innocent people.” ShouHe’s heart was as solid as a rock, unwavering in YaoJin’s questioning.

“So multiple lives are clearly more important than one?” YaoJin asked. “Should one person always sacrifice themself for the sake of a group?”

…..

Cen Zhen looked down at the countdown and realized that if they continued arguing, the timer would expire. Five minutes wasn’t enough time for their debate. Meanwhile, countless spiritual tentacles invaded the entire spacecraft. Cen Zhen didn’t rashly attack Shouhe’s spirit. Instead, like a patient hunter, he lay dormant, quietly accumulating tentacles.

In the cockpit, Pan’s attention remained intensely focused. He no longer had time to check the countdown. His arms were moving so fast that afterimages appeared, his palms slick with sweat, but his movements became increasingly skillful.

Jiu was primarily responsible for launching the attack with the arsenal, but with Pan’s treacherous and unpredictable trajectory, it was difficult for missiles other than tracking missiles to hit them. Since the enemy couldn’t hit them, and they couldn’t hit the enemy either. Jiu, no longer willing to resort to violence, obediently assisted Pan, his gaze fixed firmly on the countdown. At the fifteen-second mark, he reopened the hatch.

10, 9, 8…

Cen Zhen suddenly launched an attack, simultaneously sending a dense swarm of spiritual tentacles into ShouHe’s mental sea. Lian Yu also charged forward, using the same attack pattern as before, aiming to knock ShouHe out of the hatch.

From the moment the tentacles sank into ShouHe’s mind, Cen Zhen suffered an extremely intense mental backlash. Every movement felt like thousands of needles piercing his head. He felt like he was hitting a stone with a soft egg, and even heard the phantom sound of the tentacles cracking.

ShouHe frowned at the noise in his mind, but even so, he was certain he wouldn’t fall into the same trap twice. He turned around and steadily caught Lian Yu’s fist. However, he was outnumbered. YaoJin’s S-rank Sentinel’s physical strength also breaks out, striking directly at ShouHe’s most vulnerable abdomen.

Enfei fired his needle bullet, laced with insect poison. These bullets were extremely precious, with no refills after each was used. He would never use them unless absolutely necessary. Thanks to the Sentinels holding him back, the needle bullet struck ShouHe’s shoulder.

After all, he had good intentions and didn’t aim for ShouHe’s heart.

6, 5, 4……

The insect poison instantly stained ShouHe’s right shoulder, turning it purple. Veins bulged, oozing with green poison. It also momentarily paralyzed ShouHe’s mind, but only for a moment. The poison, which could instantly kill an elephant, had little effect on him.

But with this fraction of a second of slack, Cen Zhen finally found the stone’s only weak spot with his last egg and plunged in fiercely.

3……

ShouHe’s eyes widened, incredulous as he lost control of his body.

2……

Lian Yu kicked ShouHe off the spaceship, his face etched with the glee of revenge.

1……

As everything slowed down, ShouHe’s eyes suddenly rolled, staring intently at Cen Zhen, whose face was as pale as paper.

The spaceship vanished right before ShouHe’s eyes, and the radars of the two police spaceships following closely behind shrieked, signaling they had lost their target.

At that moment, accompanied by intense tinnitus and a flash of white light, Cen Zhen lost consciousness and fell into darkness.

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Original Author’s Note:

ShouHe: I’m just like a tool, discarded after you’re done using me, even beaten up before tossing.

Cen Zhen: …Next time you come to the White Tower, I’ll take you out for some fun.

ShouHe: Your word! I’m coming right away.

Lian Yu: No no no no!!!!!!!!!!!!