342: Lingchan's acquaintance

In one corner of the Universe, Misty Rain Lapp Star.

Within the Super Mechanical City, countless pristine mechanical buildings stood tall, densely packed throughout the entire Mechanical City.

Numerous spacecraft hovered in the air, carrying various strange and unique-looking Lapu People, shuttling through the streets.

All of this showcased the prosperity of technological civilization.

This was one of the most important large Mechanical Cities with a Governing Body on Misty Rain Lapp Star, overseeing thousands of Mechanical Cities of all sizes in the surrounding area.

The function of the Governing Body was to divide regions; a planet was divided into several vast Governing Body jurisdictions.

In the core area of the Mechanical City, deep within the vast planetary Governing Body, a secret room was protected by multiple layers of encryption.

Inside the secret room, a Lapu person wearing a Governor's robe and exuding a cold aura activated the ecological instrument.

Instantly, a 'zzzzzz' sound of electromagnetic interference echoed in the quiet secret room.

Immediately after, the communication successfully connected.

"He has already reached the Second Prison Zone?"

"Very good, very good, accelerate the plan as originally intended!"

"We don't have much time left. Once he makes a Breakthrough to Rank Five, we will have no more opportunities!"

The Lapu person in the secret room frowned slightly, a hint of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Understood, I know what I'm doing."

After a pause, he added, "If it really comes down to it, I naturally have a final trump card."

The person on the other end said helplessly, "Let's hope so. Your Highness is truly not an easy person to deal with, wasting so many of my arrangements."

"I will help you one last time, and then we are even."

"Tursas, one of the Seven Marquises, I will give you the real-time coordinates of his main fleet. You can talk to them; I think he will be very happy!"

After a secret conversation, the communication abruptly ended, and the secret room fell silent once more.

The Lapu person tilted his head slightly, his eyes somewhat distant.

He murmured to himself, "I didn't expect to still fail to eliminate Your Highness. Your Highness is still that awe-inspiring existence after all..."

As his thoughts drifted, images of him and the previous dozens of generations of Misty Rain Lapp Star Governors venturing through the stars side by side, engaging in battles, surged into his mind like a tide.

A moment later, he suddenly snapped back to reality, his gaze becoming firm again.

"Someone, prepare Rank Six Armed Equipment for flight!"

"Wait, never mind, I have to go out alone!"

"During my absence from Mechanical City, the staff group will handle government affairs!"

After giving his instructions, he activated the energy within his body and flew out of the planet, then summoned his Armed Equipment Mecha and warped towards a certain direction... "This fifth level holds extremely dangerous major criminals. Thank you for your trouble, Warden Xia."

"This is the access key for the prison level, take it."

"Thank you for your kindness, Commander-in-Chief. This Junior will certainly do his best."

It must be mentioned here that the Empire had already made other arrangements for the original Warden of the Fifth Prison Level.

When she left, she also took a large number of criminals with her.

Soon, the handover was completed, and Xia Mulin left.

Since he knew the other party had been bribed, he didn't need to do any other work. He immediately went to the Fifth Prison Level to check the situation... For safety, he specifically brought Ling Chan and Livia to accompany him as secretaries.

As an Acting Warden, arranging for two secretaries was just a matter of a few words.

Less than five minutes after he spoke, someone delivered two sets of warning-style secretary uniforms.

Once the two women put them on, they immediately exuded a heroic and dashing aura.

In addition, a group of newly assigned prison guards also went with them.

From the landing platform of the passage, they went all the way down to the Fifth Prison Level.

It must be said that the sheer size of the entire prison zone was indescribable; each prison level was like an underground fortress.

However, it was filled with neat, extremely strict dark cells.

Clang!

When Xia Mulin and the others arrived, a large crowd of Fifth Prison Level guards had already gathered in front of the landing platform.

At the front of the line were a group of Mechanical Guards, equivalent to prison guard captains, all with energy ranks of three or four.

At this moment, many of them looked at the overly young Xia Mulin with disdain.

An Acting Warden with a mere Rank Three energy dared to come to the Fifth Prison Level. They truly didn't know how to write the word 'death'.

He directly copied the memory of one of them, then waved his hand, signaling the crowd to disperse and go about their business, not to interfere with his inspection of the prison level.

"Mechanical Guard-level personnel, follow me to inspect the prison level!"

After the command, even if those Mechanical Guards were displeased, they had to obey the order.

"Warden Xia, these cells are for low-risk criminals, all with Rank Two energy, totaling 355 people."

"These are for medium-risk criminals, all with Rank Three to Four energy, totaling 76 people."

"These are for high-risk criminals, all with Rank Five energy, 23 people."

Xia Mulin nodded; these numbers matched the information in the access key.

The entire Fifth Prison Level was exceptionally large. Each criminal, even low-level ones, except for Rank Five criminals, had five to ten times the number of guards of the same level watching their cells.

The most important reason Xia Mulin was eager to inspect the cells was, of course, to see if there were any good traits to copy, and incidentally, to see if any criminals were plotting mischief.

Kalontaro, energy rank four.

Former Empire official, crime: betraying the Empire, forming the Kalontaro Fleet, intentionally plundering merchant fleets within the Empire, causing countless innocent spacecraft to crash and passengers to die, unforgivable!

Alisqini, energy rank three.

Crime: creating and using overloaded mental potions to control others, devouring 2315 young Lapu, unforgivable!

Yambato, energy rank three.

Crime: forming the Bato Wanted Fleet, intentionally plundering merchant fleets within the Empire, causing countless innocent spacecraft to crash and passengers to die, unforgivable!

Ledepu, energy rank five.

Former Starfleet Lieutenant Colonel, crime: betraying the Empire, joining the Tursas Wanted Fleet and holding an important position, leading his troops to attack Empire fleets, plundering Empire planets, causing the deaths of a large number of Empire soldiers and Lapu People, unforgivable!

"Ling Chan? Ling Chan! Is that you?"

Passing by a high-risk criminal's cell, a man's surprised shout came from inside.

Hearing someone call her, Ling Chan stopped and turned, looking towards the source of the sound.

Xia Mulin followed her gaze. Inside the cell, that Ledepu was also staring at Ling Chan, his eyes complex.

"Madam, do you know him?" Xia Mulin asked softly.

Ling Chan shook her head, "No."

The other party might not know that her memory was temporarily sealed, but Xia Mulin knew.

He had been troubled by knowing little about Ling Chan's true situation, but now, he could finally learn more about his wife's true circumstances.

"System! Copy memory!"

[Ding! Your opponent's memory has been copied!]

Instantly, Ledepu's memory was analyzed.

After reading the other party's memory, Xia Mulin, who had been slightly annoyed, immediately calmed down.

"What's going on? Turns out he was just my wife's former simp, and the kind who failed to grovel."

However, upon this inspection, Xia Mulin unexpectedly discovered a major event in the other party's memory—this guy was secretly plotting mischief, preparing to cooperate with some undercover prison guards to cause chaos.

They even planned to coordinate an inside and outside attack to break into Cold Crow Prison and release all the criminals!

"I need to plan carefully; perhaps I can use this opportunity to kill that Commander-in-Chief..."

...Billions of Void Realm away, Li Jinian looked at the next Fellow Countryman.