Return to Earth

"Baron Hua Xi Li, as far as I know, this high-quality Energy Block was left on an Uninhabited Star by a cargo ship. I received information about this when I was a pirate, but I was captured before I had a chance to plunder it. Don't try to hide it from the Earl."

"Of all the planets in this starry sky, at least 150 belong directly to Baron Hua Xi Li, including two habitable planets and four mineral planets. You must have amassed quite a fortune over the past thirty years. How can you even bring yourself to ask for a price like 1 billion Tianhe Coin?"

"It's just Poison Mist Mountain on the Aurora Planet. Does our great Earl Lin Zhen not deserve such a low hill? This matter is non-negotiable. The Poison Mist Mountain and the area within a thousand kilometers are our master's territory. If this cannot be achieved, then I think the Baron will lose control of this part of the starry sky."

"No need for the beautiful ladies, just give them cash. The master prefers money."

Vasily gritted his teeth as he stared at Stephen, feeling an intense hatred for this former Interstellar Pirate.

This incident wasn't caused by pirates, but in terms of actual losses, it was many times more devastating than being plundered by Interstellar Pirate.

After all, when pirates come, they can still take away the good stuff, but not now. Stephen knows everything about Virgo Constellation and can even calculate how much wealth he has in Vasily.

Moreover, the other party negotiated the terms one by one. He had accumulated about six or seven billion Tianhe Coin over the past thirty years, and five billion of them were directly extorted from him.

On an Uninhabited Star, there was a crashed cargo ship carrying high-quality Energy Block. He had only discovered it recently and didn't dare to sell it all at once. He wanted to sell it little by little, with a value of about 3 billion Tianhe Coin. In the end, 90% of it was taken to the Black Pearl by Lin Zhen's gang of pirates.

There's also the Poison Mist Mountain on Aurora Planet, a lucrative place that produces Poison Insect Crystal, which Lin Zhen shamelessly demanded be given to him as Warehouse District.

Even the beautiful woman he sent to Lin Zhen, hoping she could whisper sweet nothings in his ear, was sent away by Lin Zhen. He even demanded that Hua Xili give her cash in return, totaling 200 million.

Huaxili dared not speak out against Lin Zhen's greedy and insatiable Watermelon Sesame, otherwise, with Lin Zhen's cronies, they could have wiped out the Hua Xi Li Family without leaving a trace.

His wealth, accumulated over many years, was essentially taken away by Lin Zhen, and his heart was bleeding.

"Lin Zhen, you're so ruthless! Since you're so heartless, I'm going to make sure you're killed!"

********

"Hurry up and load the boat, get ready to depart."

Lin Zhen directed the crew to load the Energy Block onto the spaceship.

He was also holding a sales contract. Baron Hua Xi Li, the owner of this starry sky, was voluntarily selling the Aurora Star Poison Mist Mountain and the surrounding area of one thousand kilometers to Empire Earl Lin Zhen of the Empire for five hundred million Tianhe Coin.

Of course, there is a record of the money transfer. The two of them personally transferred the money at the Emerald Star branch, and the sale of the book was fair, genuine and valid.

However, the money was all paid by Hua Xili himself; Lin Zhen simply took his money, deposited it, and then transferred it to him.

He knew that Huaxili must hate him to the core, but Lin Zhen didn't care too much. Huaxili himself wasn't very strong, and the Aurora Planet was too far away from Earth. As long as he didn't find the wormhole, it would be difficult for him to reach Earth.

Poison Mist Mountain was placed under martial law, and this territory now belonged to Lin Zhen. Lin Zhen did not send too many people to manage it for the time being, but left two planetary level five experts Golden Eagle Silver Eagle, to guard it until he finished dealing with matters on Earth and returned.

Under the watchful eyes of the people of Aurora Planet, the Black Pearl took off.

To the people of Aurora Star, this count was not bad at all; at least he did not plunder or harm the people.

********

The Black Pearl has simply become invisible; the planet's technology cannot detect its Black Pearl. Now that the spaceship has more Energy Block, Lin Zhen can use them to his heart's content.

It burst out of the atmosphere and then turned back, entering directly into the depths of the Poison Mist Mountain.

Only a spaceship of the quality of the Black Pearl could remain unaffected by the Poison Mist.

Passing through the enormous cavern, we entered the wormhole directly.

After a few minutes of wormhole travel, the spacecraft burst out of Olympus Mons on Mars.

"Oh! What a beautiful starry sky!"

"Master, is this your hometown?"

"Fool, our master's home planet is Earth. We still need to travel for a while."

It took Lin Zhen more than a day, about thirty hours, to get to Mars, but the return trip was much faster, only seven hours.

"Let's go, destination Earth. I need to get back quickly; the situation back home is a bit tense."

"Yes, Master. The route has been set, and the estimated arrival time is six hours and forty-five minutes!"

Luo Ni agreed, and the spaceship suddenly accelerated, moving away from the surface of Mars.

********

"Four days have passed, and there's still no trace of Lin Zhen?"

Ya Xuan asked the staff with some annoyance that the progress had not been going well. Yan Qi Ye could not be found, nor could Lin Zhen. If these two were not captured, the Huaxia would never give up.

As long as the Huaxia people do not give up, other countries on Earth will still hold onto hope.

Countess Diana was already very dissatisfied with his progress, and if he didn't get an explanation from the count soon, he would be in big trouble.

"Baron Ya Xuan, I am very sorry, Lin Zhen has already fled to space. Our pursuit team went to look for him, but he seems to have disappeared into the starry sky. He may already be dead."

"Impossible! His name is still on the Heavenly Star Ranking. This guy couldn't possibly have gone far. This is his hometown, his family and friends are all here. Where could he go? Wait a minute!"

Ya Xuan's eyes suddenly lit up. "That's it! If we can't find Lin Zhen, we can capture his family. Yan Qi Ye has lived for hundreds of years and has no family left, but Lin Zhen is young. He has parents and a girlfriend. If we capture them, Lin Zhen will definitely appear."

"Sir, is this appropriate?"

"What's wrong with that? They're not citizens of the Empire, they're just natives without even ID cards. I can arrest them or kill them whenever I want."

The staff member fell silent, forgetting that this was not Emerald Star.

"But sir, we have already scanned the area before and found neither Lin Zhen's family nor his two girlfriends. If we don't find these four people, the others probably won't have much influence over Lin Zhen."

"I know. Based on my guess, Lin Zhen is a cunning person. The fact that he was able to warn the Huaxia in advance shows that he must have made arrangements for his family and moved them away beforehand."

"How do we find it?"

"Increase the scanning power and search every inch of the earth. His family must still be on earth. Once we find a place covered by energy, that place is very likely to be hiding people."

"Understood, I'll begin immediately."

The staff began operating the scanner, using scanning light to scan all the land on Earth.

Starting in Asia, the scanning beams left no corner unchecked, even uncovering underground air-raid shelters.

"No cases were found in the Asia Region."

"Continue scanning, Europe Region!"

"Lord Ya Xuan was not found in the Europe Region."

"They're quite good at hiding. Keep scanning the Africa region!"

"No results found in the Africa region!"

"Report: No findings in South America!"

"Report: No findings in North America either!"

The reports quickly returned to Ya Xuan. Only the Ancient God Ruins were not scanned; the rest of the area was scanned, but nothing was found.

Ya Xuan tapped her fingers lightly on the table. "They couldn't possibly live in the Ancient God Ruins. Lin Zhen's parents don't have that ability, and they certainly wouldn't live in the ocean, not in these five regions. So, only Australia and Antarctica can be considered as continents, and then there are the various islands. Don't overlook these places either."

The scanning light continued to operate, scanning every remaining landmass on Earth.

"Report: A shadowy area of one square kilometer has been discovered on the Australia Continent."

"Haha! This must be it. We searched the whole world and this is the only place we couldn't find. It must be the refuge Lin Zhen left for his family."

Ya Xuan clapped his hands excitedly. "It is said that Lin Zhen's two girlfriends have just entered the Stellar Realm, and his parents are only War General, whose strength is not worth mentioning at all. Send a squadron out now to capture them for me. Remember, capture them alive."

The squadron Squadron Leader was a Satellite Stage expert, leading ten Comet Stage fighters. Capturing Lin Zhen's family was simply a waste of his talents.

A spaceship departed the War Fortress and began its journey towards the Australia Continent.

********

Lin Zhen emerged from the seabed of Bermuda.

He could already sense the Life Scanner sweeping across the Australia Continent. His family was there, hidden with Baggio's help. The Ascetic Monks used secret methods to cover the Mutated Beast hides to block the scanner, but at this point, they would definitely not be able to hide it anymore.

As long as you are still on Earth, and as long as the other party is willing to search diligently, you will never be able to hide.

Lin Zhen has been cultivating Time Acceleration underwater and resonating with energy atoms for the past few days.

The abundant water vapor at the bottom of the sea allowed Lin Zhen to finally resonate with water atoms, which was the third type of energy atom he resonated with.

His Dantian Qi had long been accumulated to the point where he could break through, but he was still suppressing it and not resonating with the seven atoms. He was unwilling to break through.

These people acted a bit too quickly; in two hours, the Black Pearl would be returning to Earth.

These two hours absolutely cannot go wrong!

Lin Zhen took out his small aircraft and flew from the Bermuda Sea Area towards the Australia Continent.