Chapter 144 Settling the Score

Outside the palace on the grass, the royal woman, Mo Yun, the steward, and the guards were incredibly terrified. On one hand, they were shocked that the esteemed Minister of Finance, Lu Nador, had been publicly executed. On the other hand, they feared that this Lord Wu Ming might kill them as well.

"What is Lord Wu Ming doing?" They were puzzled, not daring to move.

After Xu Jingming killed Lu Nador, he stood in place, slightly tilting his head and closing his eyes.

"Repay kindness for kindness, avenge hatred for hatred."

"From this point on, it's settled." Xu Jingming felt incredibly comfortable, as if he had completely sorted out the cause and effect. His compatibility with the Shadow of the Void Abyss in his heart was increasing, and he naturally received more high-dimensional information.

"Without visualization, I'm already receiving so much high-dimensional information?" Xu Jingming was secretly surprised. "Sorting out cause and effect has such great benefits."

Whoosh.

With a step, Xu Jingming had already soared into the sky, disappearing from this private planet, Lu Liu Star.

In a distant area of space, Xu Jingming sat cross-legged on a floating meteorite.

"Visualize the Void Abyss!"

After sorting out cause and effect, Xu Jingming focused on visualizing the Void Abyss figure for the first time. The Shadow of the Void Abyss, which had always existed in his heart, suddenly became much more majestic and clearer with the visualization. A large amount of high-dimensional information instantly impacted Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness.

"Boom." The terrifying aura swept across all directions, annihilating the meteorite and impacting space.

This time, Xu Jingming did not deliberately search for the star pirates' lair planet, so no lives were lost.

******

Lu Liu Star.

Xu Jingming's status was noble, and his strength was unmatched. After killing Lu Nador, he left, and no one dared to stop him.

However, the others on the planet who wanted to leave could not.

"Buzz~~~" The planet's security defense system had already enveloped the entire planet, preventing all departing spaceships from leaving.

Among the many spaceships were Mo Yun and other high-ranking figures, as well as some people who had come to bribe Lu Nador. At this moment, they were all panicked and wanted to leave as soon as possible.

"The planet's owner, Lord Lu Nador, has been killed. The Primordial Research Institute and the Cosmic Human Alliance are already aware of the news. From this moment on, Lu Liu Star is prohibited from all entry and exit, awaiting the arrival of the joint investigation team from the Primordial Research Institute and the Cosmic Human Alliance!"

The security system's intelligent voice echoed throughout the planet.

Lu Nador was willing to spend a lot of money for his own safety. Whether it was the civilization-level intelligent robot, Guardian, or the similarly valuable security defense system, they were quite powerful. Although they couldn't stop Xu Jingming, they could block these spaceships.

"We can't leave." Inside the spaceship, the royal woman Mo Yun shook her head.

"Master, Lu Nador's death has nothing to do with you. It's just a bit of a delay," said the maid beside her.

Mo Yun glanced at the maid and sneered, "What do you know? The Primordial Research Institute investigation team and the Cosmic Human Alliance investigation team won't give me any face. They will conduct thorough interrogations… We're going to suffer."

"Thorough interrogations? Lord Wu Ming killed him. It has nothing to do with you," the maid said.

"They wouldn't dare to interrogate Lord Wu Ming," Mo Yun shook her head.

The maid blinked.

.........

On Lu Liu Star, spaceships could only land, and various figures could only wait helplessly.

Just over three hours later.

A black spaceship arrived, broke through the atmosphere, and entered Lu Liu Star's internal airspace. The spaceship door opened, and a group of humans wearing black uniforms flew out. They looked down at the planet.

"The Primordial Research Institute investigation team hasn't arrived yet?" The leaders of this group were an old man and an old woman. The old man's face was full of wrinkles, but his back was straight, and he had a cold, murderous aura.

Having been in the Cosmic Human Alliance's official law enforcement agency for a long time, he was used to being forceful.

"The Primordial Research Institute isn't like us; they don't have a long-term standing action team." The plump old woman smiled amiably. "They only form temporary action teams when the source lifeforms of the research institute are involved, so they will be a little slower."

"Hmph, wasting time." The old man was quite dissatisfied.

"According to orders, they will definitely arrive within six hours. Let's wait a little longer," the old woman said. "When both investigation teams arrive, we can conduct a joint investigation."

This was also to ensure that the rights and interests of source lifeforms were not infringed upon.

For investigations targeting source lifeforms, in addition to the official investigation team, an investigation team from the affiliated top force must also be equipped. The two investigation teams supervise each other to ensure as much as possible that the source lifeform is not framed or wronged.

"The Cosmic Human Alliance investigation team has arrived."

The various figures on Lu Liu Star guessed this when they saw the spaceship from afar. However, this investigation team did not land but waited patiently in mid-air.

Two more hours passed.

Another silver spaceship traveled through the void and six figures flew out of it.

The Cosmic Human Alliance's official investigation team immediately went to meet them.

The Primordial Research Institute's investigation team consisted of a tenth-level source lifeform and five source lifeforms. The leader was a long-eared man, none other than Mr. Yang.

"Our official investigation team has a total of 22 people. This is our team leader, Bai Feng, and I am the deputy team leader, Yi Yunna," the plump old woman said with a smile.

"By order of Vice President Chi Meng, Mr. Yang will be the team leader and form a temporary investigation team to be responsible for the Wu Ming killing Lu Nador incident," a source lifeform from the Primordial Research Institute said. "We must ensure that Lord Wu Ming is not subjected to any false accusations and ensure that the entire investigation process is open and fair."

"False accusations?"

The leader of the official investigation team, Bai Feng, had a cynical look on his old face. "Wu Ming contacted the Emperor of the Yuan Star Civilization, Lu Nador, through the virtual world network, and killed Lu Nador during the public contact! There is no false accusation in this matter."

The leader of the Primordial Research Institute's temporary investigation team, Mr. Yang, finally spoke and said with a smile, "Wu Ming did kill Lu Nador. But why he killed him still needs careful investigation."

"First of all, I need you, the Primordial Research Institute, to bring Wu Ming here," Bai Feng said. "I need him to cooperate with our investigation."

"Bring Wu Ming here?" Mr. Yang shook his head gently. "I'm sorry, we can't contact him."

"Can't contact him?" Bai Feng was stunned. "We, the officials, can't contact him either! What exactly is going on with this Wu Ming? He killed someone and won't cooperate with the investigation!"

"He has the right to remain silent," Mr. Yang said with a smile.

"But he has the obligation to cooperate with the investigation!" Bai Feng said angrily.

"You can pursue his failure to cooperate with the investigation and ask the officials to punish him," Mr. Yang said. "The official punishment of a tenth-level limit source lifeform, and a meritorious one at that, will probably require a month of review. And it also needs to be approved by the Primordial Research Institute..."

"You're ruthless enough."

Bai Feng was annoyed.

"You three royal families are reckless and arbitrary," Mr. Yang looked at him. "Sometimes, you need to be punished."

Bai Feng became even more angry.

The three royal families had a deep penetration into the Cosmic Human Alliance's officialdom. After all, they were the families of three supreme realm experts and had a high say. Although with the long years measured in hundreds of millions of years, the population of the supreme realm's families was countless, the three supreme realm experts deliberately restrained the influence of the three royal family groups.

However, the three royal family groups themselves still tried to maintain their own privileges.

Bai Feng, for example, was a member of the Abyss Civilization's royal family. On the matter of the royal family being killed, they also stood from the royal family's perspective and had to suppress the arrogance of these source lifeforms.

"Investigate."

Bai Feng looked down below. "Interrogate everyone on Lu Liu Star who is related to this matter and find out the entire truth!"

"Yes." The investigators behind him responded in unison.

"We will assist in the investigation," Mr. Yang said with a smile. "Just ensure that the official investigation team does not make false accusations."

"Yes," the five source lifeforms behind him responded.

..........

In space, Xu Jingming, who was sitting cross-legged, opened his eyes. His eyes seemed to contain a vast universe.

"After sorting out cause and effect, I'm receiving more high-dimensional information." Xu Jingming felt joy in his heart. "Although the path of imitation has future troubles, it is indeed rapid in the early stages."

I don't have a legacy. To obtain enough high-dimensional information from the Void Abyss lineage, this is the fastest way."

"The next step in the imitation method… is to take disciples." Xu Jingming thought.

After sorting out cause and effect, the next step was to imitate the behavior of the Void Abyss Master to bring himself closer and closer to him, to increase the compatibility.

"Actually, I can already vaguely sense the intense emotions and strong will of the Void Abyss Master, but I dare not imitate them." Xu Jingming sighed inwardly. After communicating with Secretary-General Hei Tian, he learned that.

After the imitation method appeared, the first trouble was uncontrollable abnormal emotions! If it continued, another consciousness would appear in the uncontrollable emotions. Then it would be completely over.

Therefore, Xu Jingming dared not imitate the emotional and will aspects.

"First, imitate the behavior and imitate the superficial aspects as much as possible to receive more high-dimensional information," Xu Jingming thought.

...........

Virtual world network, personal space.

"The Cosmic Human Alliance investigation team is contacting me?"

After Xu Jingming's consciousness went online, he discovered that the other party was trying to contact him. "Unfortunately, I set up a whitelist. Only those on the whitelist can contact me. Others are blocked."

"Buzz."

Xu Jingming contacted Seventh Uncle.

"Young Master," Seventh Uncle's phantom appeared beside him.

"Seventh Uncle, I'm preparing to accept 30 disciples. Have you screened them all?" Xu Jingming asked.

"50 have been screened. The detailed information will be sent to you, Young Master. You can choose 30 from them," Wu Qi said. Although Xu Jingming asked him to directly screen 30, Wu Qi felt that such an important matter as accepting disciples should be left to the Young Master after his initial selection.

Xu Jingming quickly received the information of 50 candidate disciples.

He glanced at it and understood the millions of words and a large number of video materials.

"Let's go with these 30." Xu Jingming decided instantly. Wu Qi's son and daughter had already been confirmed, and now he had only selected 28 more talented young people.

******

After three days of detailed review, the official investigation team was forced to modify some of the investigation information in the face of the Primordial Research Institute investigation team's repeated rebuttals of evidence.

"Investigations should be fair and impartial," Mr. Yang said, signing his name personally. "If you weren't biased, we would have signed and agreed long ago."

"Hmph."

Team leader Bai Feng was quite annoyed.

The investigation materials they provided earlier omitted some information that was beneficial to Xu Jingming and added some that were helpful to Lu Nador. This simple omission and addition, without any falsification, completely affected the severity of the incident.

The Primordial Research Institute investigation team was supervising together and understood all the investigation information. Therefore, they would not agree to anything unfair and would provide rebutting evidence.

With sufficient evidence and reasons, they could rebut.

As a result, it took three days for both parties to sign and agree to this investigation material.

In fact, with the Cosmic Human Alliance's level of technology and the Primordial Research Institute's skills in the mental aspects, it was very simple to interrogate some ordinary people. They would unknowingly reveal everything.

Logically speaking, the interrogation could be completed within a day. It took three days entirely because of the dispute between the two investigation teams.

"The Primordial Research Institute sent Yang over here, obviously to fully protect Wu Ming. However, how much can you influence the Cosmic Human Alliance's official trial?" Bai Feng reached out and gently tapped, uploading the data to the officials.

"Buzz." Mr. Yang also uploaded this data to the Primordial Research Institute.

.........

Primordial Research Institute headquarters, still that secluded small building, second floor.

Vice President Chi Meng, who was wide and plump, sat at his desk. A light screen appeared in front of him, displaying the detailed investigation materials of this incident.

As the acting president, he was now the highest person in charge of the Primordial Research Institute! After all, the president was out exploring in high-dimensional space for long periods of time, and each consciousness descent required a considerable price, so naturally, he would not waste his energy on these trivial matters.

"This kid, Xu Jingming." Vice President Chi Meng looked at the materials, a smile appearing on his wide, plump face.