No way. There was absolutely no way!
The entire Noble Council was in utter chaos. All the privileged figures of the Star Empire were trembling in fear. Good lord, one noble vanished every month. Who could withstand that? Besides, who knew if next time it would be one of them taking their turn?
He Zhao kidnapped people and collected money without the slightest restraint, putting the Speaker under immense pressure. Experts, masters, all kinds of advanced instruments and equipment—no matter how they investigated, the only result they got was a fleeting black shadow.
"No need to overthink it. These missing Noble Barons are exactly the same as the incident with the Twelve Governors of the Rank System. It must have been that damned Noble Hunter!"
"What we need is a solution."
"Once we confirm who it is, we only need to find him. The only thing I'm worried about now is whether those missing nobles are still alive and can come back."
In the virtual conference room, thousands of nobles discussed with worried faces.
The main problem was that the "Noble Hunter," ranked eighty-ninth on the Red Wanted Order, had whereabouts unknown to anyone. Back then, they had sent people to search the Rank System from top to bottom, practically turning the planets upside down, yet they had found not the slightest trace.
Not only that, Kerr Cloud, Interstellar Cloud, and Barro Belt, along with several fleets, had all been thoroughly investigated. Who knew how many space pirates and fugitives they had caught, but there had been absolutely no news of the most crucial person.
In the end, they had no choice but to let it drop.
There was nothing they could do. If they kept going, they would have to search Orion Arm, the Whirlpool System, and the Local