Chapter 293
Kanasen was overjoyed, but on the surface, he was afraid that others would see that he was as exhausted as they were, and he was launching a sudden counterattack. He tried his best to control his physical condition and dared not relax completely. His eyes were filled with jealousy and hatred as he stared at the hostages who knew from Greyliff's words that they were trying to keep them alive with Qin Su to buy themselves more time to live.
Even though he had a weapon, the hostages who stopped trying to seize it did not threaten him in the slightest.
But... Kanasen looked at the groups of three or five people who had turned their eyes away from him, and didn't quite understand why they had suddenly all turned on their personal Optical Brain.
Kanasen kept one eye on guard duty and the other scanning his own screen. Although it wasn't very useful, he secretly pondered the situation, keeping the Optical Brain on to control the weapon running.
Amidst a pool of crimson blood, countless survivors, who tacitly agreed to take a break, successively activated their personal Optical Brain. These Optical Brain had been activated the moment they regained consciousness, attempting to contact the outside world. Now, just like before, they had lost all signals and could not send any messages, but they could still check the temperature, humidity, weather, and other information as usual.
Before long, everyone saw that their personal Optical Brain showed a real-time temperature of 45 degrees Celsius.
Having lived a life of luxury for so long, they are used to comfort, but even if they had to stay in such temperatures for a short time, they wouldn't feel too uncomfortable.
The problem isn't whether they can handle it, but rather...
Everyone's eyes fell on the corpses lying haphazardly on the ground. Details that had been previously overlooked were magnified in the face of the abnormally rising temperature. The ground drainage system had been shut off at some point, and the water that had fallen on them earlier, which was already two centimeters thick, was now mixed with blood and chunks of flesh.
The ventilation system throughout the space seemed to have stopped working, and the air was filled with a strong stench of blood.
Only about half an hour has passed, so the situation isn't that bad yet. But in this temperature and humidity, the entire space will ferment and develop the unique, sweet, putrid smell of corpses within a day. Even people who are used to bloody killings would find it difficult to endure such a smell for long.
Moreover, with so many corpses, one can only imagine the stench.
Instead of being riddled with bullets, they were suffocated by the stench. Staying in such an environment for a long time, with maggots everywhere and Virus breeding, they would either die from the stench or from Virus or wound infections. In an instant, everyone's face turned pale, and some regretted their impulsive actions that had led to the current predicament.
The place is big enough that if they hadn't been so impulsive and had thought of these things beforehand, they could have kept the corpses that died during the live stream in a corner for a while longer.
Who knows, if they just wander around, their people might come and rescue them.
Countless eyes turned fiercely toward Greyliff.
If Greyliff hadn't deliberately said something hurtful to them, there wouldn't have been so many corpses.
"What are you looking at me for?" Under the protection of Norian and the others, Greyliff was in Kanasen's blind spot. Facing the questioning gaze from his 'comrades,' he sneered disdainfully, "Who do you think turned up the temperature? Who deliberately left this water?"
"Wake up! Qin Su has been forcing us all along. Even if we did nothing at first, Qin Su would still use other methods to force us to act according to his default path."
After his mockery, Greyliff, wanting to finish them off while they were exhausted, softened his voice and began to bewitch them. "It's too late for regrets now. In my opinion, to get out of here as soon as possible, we can only grit our teeth and press on, taking advantage of Kanasen's current exhaustion, and continue..."
Kanasen couldn't see Greyliff's men, but he could hear his voice. He strained his ears to hear Grellif inciting the others to attack him again, right before his eyes. Just as he realized the unusually hot weather and the resulting problems, he didn't have time to think further and hurriedly shouted at the crowd, "What? Have you forgotten that you were in this terrible situation because you listened to him? Do you want to be tricked by him again? You're unarmed, but I have plenty of ammunition. Think it through. If you continue fighting, you're still no match for me; you'll only die sooner. It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. What if your men come tomorrow? In just one day, even with a lot of corpses, they won't rot to the point of stinking to death. Rather than coming up here to die now, you might as well take another gamble and wait until tomorrow."
Those swayed by Greyliff listened to Kanasen's words, and their physical and mental exhaustion made them waver once again.
"We're all in the same boat," Greyliff warned menacingly. "Kanasen is more obedient than a dog to Qin Su; surely no one actually believes him?"
When it came to his own life, Kanasen was unyielding. "What's wrong with waiting another day? It won't affect you, will it? Besides, have you forgotten? Greyliff is a member of the Federation. All the members of Class 6, which Qin Su personally brought out, are in the Federation. You can imagine the relationship between Qin Su and the Federation. How do you know that Greyliff isn't Qin Su's spy, hiding among you to sow discord and send you to your deaths as soon as possible? By that logic, Greyliff is even closer to Qin Su than I am."
Greyliff was so affected by Qin Su that he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Hearing Kanasen put him and Qin Su together, he felt intensely insulted and gritted his teeth. "Trying to cover it up? We're not blind, we can see it clearly. In terms of your interpretation of Qin Su's eyes and actions, (Class 6 doesn't even have you..."
Kanasen and Greyliff engaged in a heated exchange, each with their own valid points, while the crowd's eyes lingered on the two, wavering between them.
Qin Su moved aside the scene of Greyliff and Kanasen fighting each other next door, retrieved the scheduled notification from his memo, and anxiously checked it again.
The students left Atopulai Palace, assembled their available troops, and headed to Kamila Planet. Based on the distance to the farthest planet within the Federation's jurisdiction from Kamila Planet, it would take approximately two days. He saw no need to further intensify the conflict by increasing the temperature in the adjacent space; the originally planned temperature of 45 degrees Celsius was sufficient.
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"Phew... finally separated, I feel so much lighter." Lailisi quickly walked away from the hatch and towards the inside, her mouth never stopping, "Why are you all acting so strangely? A-Mu, you've always been a quiet person, I could tolerate you not saying anything, but Samuel, why don't you talk to me either? A-Yin, you did talk, but why did you keep secretly elbowing me? And that Blumer, I don't even want to talk about him, why does he keep winking at me? I asked him if there was something in his eye and he just glared at me? Is Zhao Jin crazy? I say something and he says something back, it should be a good thing, but he always ends up being sarcastic and contradicting me..."
He Muzhi, Lin Yin, and Samuel followed behind, watching as Lailisi walked briskly ahead with her head down, getting far ahead of them in just over ten seconds. Clearly, she had no intention of giving them a reply and was only complaining in dissatisfaction.
As they passed the door leading to the dining cabin, Samuel blinked, Lin Yin nodded, and Samuel slipped away.
In the quiet Passageway, only He Muzhi and Lin Yin remained for a moment. The two were already used to this mode, and they moved in unison to look at the content on the Optical Brain pages that they had opened.
"Peng Jianlin has repeatedly emphasized his relationship with the Yin Family, it seems too deliberate. I suspect it's Smoke Bomb to mislead us. Three weeks ago, when I attended the Qi Family's banquet, I clearly heard someone say that he was turned away at the Yin Family, while the Yin Family seemed to be..."
"I'm pretty sure now that Varien and Qiu Yu are Sophia..."
The two walked and talked until they reached the living room of the small private Spaceship. They saw Halton not far away, nodded to him in greeting, and then sat down to continue their conversation.
They already knew that Halton was in control of the Spaceship that came to pick them up. Halton could know anything he wanted to know about what he did or said on the Spaceship. They had also discussed Halton's situation before. Since Halton was, in effect, the teacher Qin Su found for them, if they couldn't even trust the teacher Qin Su specifically found for He Muzhi, then everything they were doing now was a joke. They unanimously agreed that there was no need to deliberately hide anything.
Halton: "..."
Is this something he can listen to? The two of them acted so openly and casually, as if they didn't consider him an outsider, that Halton didn't have time to think about it before he had already heard most of it. But when he glanced at them and saw that they were using Lailisi's complaints as background noise and him as background noise, it didn't seem so strange, and he immediately felt relieved.
Lailisi: "Are they all out of their minds, or are they deliberately making snide remarks because they've been wronged somewhere...?"
"Calm down, calm down." Samuel trotted out from another door, first giving Lailisi a bottle of water, then distributing the ones he was carrying to the others present, including Halton.
Halton leaned against the edge of the aisle door with his arms crossed, and said while they were drinking water, "Since I'm in a very good mood today, I'll pretend I didn't hear what you said. But you should be more careful in the future; many things are not appropriate to say in the presence of outsiders."
Samuel immediately disagreed. "Teacher, you're not an outsider..."
Upon hearing the word 'teacher,' Halton's dead memories began to assault him. He was waiting for Samuel to finish speaking, preparing to say something, when he heard Samuel's voice abruptly stop. Immediately afterward, he saw Samuel's switched-off Optical Brain suddenly turn on by itself, and the voices of the others who had been speaking also disappeared.
Halton immediately thought of the rumors about Qin Su's habits, and his eyes quickly looked at the other three people present. He saw that, like Samuel, they all had another Optical Brain page that had suddenly opened in front of them.
'It's highly likely that Qin Su is the one.'
Having made up his mind, Halton looked at the empty space in front of him. He first silently opened his personal Optical Brain and saw that his conversation with Qin Su had stopped a long time ago. Then he looked at the other four people with a mournful gaze.
A glance confirmed it: different fates on the same boat. Everyone else present had something, but he didn't, and it was because there were fewer people.
Halton restrained himself from approaching, trying to stay firmly in place, but curiosity compelled him to speak, "What's going on? Is it Qin Su? Is it?! What did Qin Su tell you? Is it something I can know?"