"Impossible, they wouldn't do this."
The sturdy man shouted.
"Your saying it's impossible is useless. Have you all received the notification?"
Guo Xuyang said as he looked at the men.
"It doesn't matter if we say anything. We'll all be going to heaven together soon anyway."
"Even if we say something, it's useless. So why say anything? We just have to accept our fate."
A plump man said.
"What are you talking about?
Aren't we going to find our comrades?
What exactly is going on?"
The remaining man asked.
"Stop pretending. You're their leader, aren't you?"
Guo Xuyang said as he looked at the last man to speak.
"How did you figure that out?"
The man asked directly.
"You're the most composed among them.
But the way you looked at that dark kid earlier gave you away."
Guo Xuyang said with a smile.
"I didn't expect you to be so capable. You truly are the one who brought back so many spaceships."
"You know about that too?
You're willing to kill someone like me who has contributed so much to the country's technological development. I don't know what else you wouldn't dare to do?"
"There's nothing we can do. Who told you to be so outstanding?"
"You'll have to die with me soon. Are you really okay with that?"
"I never planned on returning alive when I agreed to do this."
"Is that so? Did I dig up your ancestral graves or defile your women? Why do you hate me so much?"
"It's just that you did things you shouldn't have done."
"Weren't those just the parasites I exposed?
These people who eat without contributing are just burdens alive."
"Therefore, you must die today."
The man stared at Guo Xuyang and said.
"That's not something you get to decide."
"I don't believe you can escape."
"Did you forget? This ship has escape pods."
"Escape pods can't withstand such a powerful explosion.
Besides, how do you know the escape pods are functional?"
"Don't you have a backup plan for yourselves?
Or rather, don't you have a backup plan for yourself?"
Guo Xuyang said with a half-smile.
Hearing Guo Xuyang's words, the man's expression changed drastically.
He didn't know how Guo Xuyang knew so much.
This was top secret.
He planned to head to the escape pod shortly and lie down, waiting for the ship to explode.
If Guo Xuyang hadn't said anything, his actions would have been justifiable, people would just think he was afraid of death.
But with Guo Xuyang saying this, he would have to face the accusations of the other men.
As expected, the dark, sturdy man looked at him.
"Did you know from the beginning that this spaceship would explode?"
"Don't listen to his instigation. How could I possibly know this spaceship would explode?
Besides, our missions were all the same.
As long as we completed our tasks, we'd receive a lot of money.
What about beautiful women and villas, weren't they all things within reach?"
The man said.
"You must not listen to his attempts to sow discord."
"This spaceship has two escape pods. One is functional, and the other is not. You can go and check."
Guo Xuyang said to the other men.
"If I'm wrong, then consider I said nothing."
Hearing Guo Xuyang's words, the dark, sturdy man prepared to stand up and check.
However, the man reached an escape pod before him. He opened it and was about to lie down.
Guo Xuyang wouldn't let him have his way. He directly delivered a flying kick, sending the man to the side, and then lay down inside.
Seeing Guo Xuyang enter, the others outside became anxious.
Just then, the spaceship started up.
The faces of the five men immediately turned pale.
They knew that what Guo Xuyang had said was likely true.
Guo Xuyang didn't wait for the spaceship to explode. He directly teleported to a bedroom in a villa outside Kyoto.
This was the location Guo Xuyang had sensed through the middle-aged officer's phone before boarding the spaceship.
Just a few minutes after Guo Xuyang left the escape pod, the spaceship exploded.
The massive explosion shocked many people at the base.
They hadn't expected something like this to happen.
Xu Dahai, lying in his hospital bed, was also stunned. Only now did he realize how naive he had been.
He used to feel that he was capable of anything and that no difficulty was insurmountable.
While family was indeed a warm harbor, it couldn't contain his far-voyaging ship.
But at this moment, he realized how insignificant he was.
The giant ship he thought of himself as was less than a small paper boat in the eyes of others, discarded as easily as it was boarded.
But what about Guo Xuyang?
The spaceship exploded, could Guo Xuyang escape?
He struggled to get up, but the intense dizziness rendered him immobile.
"Boss, the plan has been executed."
The man said from behind the large sofa.
"Those who follow me prosper, those who oppose me perish.
Give the order to clean up the loose ends."
"Yes. What about those businesses?
And Jiang Qixin, Li Shengyun?"
"Leave them for now. Too much too soon.
After this matter settles down, we'll play with them slowly.
Let them know that some people cannot be moved just because they wish to."
"Understood." The man agreed and withdrew.
Guo Xuyang watched the man leave and made a phone call.
On the other end of the line was the middle-aged man who had instructed him to continue the mission.
After receiving the order, the middle-aged man went to a room and then organized personnel to go out.
Guo Xuyang stood silently by the window, watching the old man and the other man leave the villa, get into a car, and gradually disappear into the dark night.
He had already vanished from the spaceship.
He had altered his appearance, transforming into an ordinary person whom no one on the street would notice.
The old man smoking a cigar clearly had an extraordinary identity.
He wanted to see how many more figures like him were around the old man.
Killing a snake and not finishing it off leads to disaster; he wouldn't do such a thing.
If he was going to do it, he would do it cleanly and decisively, uprooting the problem entirely, ensuring the opponent had no chance to retaliate.
Because he knew his people couldn't withstand the other party's retaliation.
Jiang Qixin hadn't expected to receive the grim news so quickly, nor did he expect the other party to be so ruthless, using the spaceship as their burial ground.
He believed in Guo Xuyang's abilities, but when the bad news arrived, he couldn't help but tremble all over.
These people were too crazy; seven lives had just been lost.
No, at most five, not seven.
When Guo Xuyang left, he had specifically instructed him to protect Xu Dahai's safety.
Just then, his phone suddenly rang.
"Hello? Dahai? Are you alright? Where's Yangzi?
What? You weren't on the spaceship? That's great.
Yangzi was on it? What happened?
I understand."
Jiang Qixin hung up the phone dejectedly, unsure how he would explain this to Guo Xuyang's family.