bioinnovel Chapter 57 Encountering Ato Again
Chapter 57 Encountering Ato Again
After leaving the transit station, the transport ship plunged into deep space.
Li Yao concealed his tracks, maintaining a safe distance from it and chasing after it from afar.
The transport ship's route was not particularly secretive, and its speed was not fast; it seemed to be deliberately waiting for something.
Li Yao activated his Eye of Insight from behind, penetrating the ship's hull to see the internal situation.
Inside, dozens of high-specification cargo boxes were neatly stacked, each filled with premium resources.
There was refined dark iron, high-purity energy crystals, and several boxes of rare ores and weapon parts, etc.
The value of this shipment is enough for a spacefaring civilization to accumulate wealth over a century.
Two and a half hours later, the transport ship made a brief stop on a grayish-brown asteroid.
Li Yao looked up and saw several exquisitely designed small shuttles rising from somewhere on the planet and docking with the transport ship.
A short while later, the shuttle returned, and the transport ship continued its journey.
The group of people who came over to inspect and hand over the goods just now should be the buyers.
Thinking of this, Li Yao frowned slightly.
Since the other party can afford this batch of goods, it means that they are not weak. So why didn't they send an escort fleet?
Instead, they just sent a few people over to go through the motions, and after the pilot took over the transport ship, they flew back directly.
This is very abnormal.
Li Yao temporarily suppressed his doubts and continued to follow.
As he followed, he saw a cluster of red dots suddenly appear on the star map as the transport ship passed through a sparse area of scree.
"They're here," Li Yao thought to himself.
Several pirate ships of varying sizes emerged from behind the rubble and surrounded the area in a fan shape.
The blue warship at the front stood out the most, its main gun barrel glowing with a ghostly blue energy aura.
At that moment, a panicked voice came from the transport ship's cockpit: "We've encountered pirates! Requesting backup! Repeat..."
Before he could finish speaking, the pirates unleashed their cannon fire.
Strangely, the energy blasts fired by the pirates were not aimed at the target; instead, they grazed the transport ship's shields and exploded on nearby rubble.
Even more strangely, the transport ship only symbolically activated the small energy cannons on its sides, firing two shots, and its accuracy was absurdly poor, missing both shots.
After firing two shells, the transport ship's energy shield automatically shut down, and communications were cut off. Immediately afterwards, a white flag was raised at the bow and waved.
Upon seeing this, the pirate ships immediately swarmed forward, skillfully cutting off the transport ship's power system and using tractor beams to drag away the cargo boxes one by one.
The pirates didn't even bother to inspect the cargo; they didn't even open the boxes before carrying it away.
The whole process was quick and efficient, ending in less than ten minutes; they were clearly a group of habitual offenders.
Finally, the transport ship's crew were forced into escape pods and ejected, while the pirate fleet turned and headed deeper into the scree belt.
Li Yao watched the whole scene from beginning to end and realized something.
The entire transport of this batch of high-grade resources was shrouded in mystery.
The buyer didn't send escorts, nor did they resist when they encountered pirates, while the pirates didn't harm anyone or rob the ship, only taking the goods. It looked like it had been rehearsed beforehand.
He showed no courtesy to the pirates, immediately activating his Eye of Insight to meticulously scan every ship in the pirate fleet and even reviewed the hidden information of each crew member.
It was discovered that all of these people were disguised, and their coded messages were encrypted in layers, making it impossible to trace their origins.
"interesting."
Li Yao immediately understood. With the means to evade the angel's eye of insight, coupled with the information he had previously discovered that seemed to be about a demon, it seemed that the demon was undoubtedly behind this matter.
He decided to follow them and see what was going on.
The pirate fleet meandered through the scree belt, passed through a dense asteroid field, and finally sailed into the back of a giant asteroid.
Li Yao hovered in the distance, and a vast cluster of bases came into view.
Inside, dozens of warships, ranging from light frigates to heavy combat ships, are moored in man-made docks.
In addition, the asteroid's surface is covered with turrets and energy shield generators, as well as several large-caliber planetary defense cannons with their dark muzzles pointing straight into deep space.
Li Yao muttered to himself: Is this a pirate base?
This is clearly a military fortress for a small fleet.
The pirates who just robbed the goods were just a tiny, insignificant force here.
He also saw that the patrolling guards on those warships were carrying standard energy weapons, marching in unison and displaying strict discipline, and did not look like a rabble at all.
Li Yao sneaked in quietly.
He used wormholes and dark planes for cover, bypassing layers of sentry posts and penetrating deep into the core of the base.
In a huge underground warehouse, he saw the cargo boxes that had just been hijacked, now piled up with other supplies.
Meanwhile, deep inside the warehouse, several low voices could be faintly heard talking.
Li Yao secretly moved closer.
Through the corner, he saw several tall figures, all with dark red skin and curved horns.
Clearly, these are all ugly demons.
They were still wearing standard demon armor.
This indicates that they were not ordinary demon skirmishers, but rather regular combat units under Morgana's command.
At this moment, the demons were surrounding a holographic screen, which displayed a star map, with the location of the blue star highlighted.
Li Yao gleaned several key phrases from the demons' conversation: "Queen...resources...Blue Star..."
A hint of joy appeared on his face; sure enough, this connection led directly to Morgana.
Immediately afterwards, he heard a series of heavy footsteps coming from deeper inside the warehouse.
Upon hearing this, all the demons turned around at the same time, lowered their heads, and knelt on one knee.
A three-meter-tall figure emerged from the shadows.
Upon seeing who it was, Li Yao was overjoyed.
What the hell!
Demon Atto!
What a small world!
Over there, Ato's dark red eyes swept over the demons present, and he asked them, "Have you inspected the goods?"
Upon hearing this, a demon immediately raised his head and respectfully said, "Lord Ator, all of them have been put into storage, the quantity matches, and there is no problem with the goods."
"Keep collecting," Atto said calmly. "The Queen needs a lot of supplies on Earth; this is just the beginning."
"Yes."
After saying that, Ato turned around and walked outside.
In the corner, Li Yao stared intently at Atuo's back, his hands unconsciously clenching into fists.
My great achievements, don't run away!
He quickly scanned the area, confirming that there were no other dangers nearby, Morgana was not there, and the strongest person was Ator, who had just upgraded to the third generation of divine body.
So he immediately removed his concealment and stepped out of the shadows.
"Long time no see, Ato."
Li Yao's voice was loud enough to be clearly heard by everyone.