Leo looked at the ingratiating second secretary before him and let out a soft laugh.
"To be honest, I'm really happy to have obtained this Golden Core. If you hadn't destroyed that underground Collection Room base, I might have been prepared to let you off."
After saying this, the faint smile on Leo's face turned cold again.
Looking down, he saw that the Collection Room base where he had just been standing—the base that had originally housed the Golden Core—had vanished completely in the smoke.
Although such a powerful self-destruct device posed no threat to Leo, the attitude it represented was another matter.
The Kro Civilization still wanted to kill them. That made Leo somewhat furious.
If they had behaved a little better under his pressure, Leo might even have let them go.
But as things stood, the Kro Civilization had never given up on killing him.
Regardless, the cause of this matter lay with the Kro Civilization, while the consequences were in Leo's hands.
The second secretary before him immediately said in trepidation, "M-My lord, that was a decision made by the underground base itself. It has nothing to do with the rest of us."
"N-No... it wasn't... It was caused by the program itself. No one controlled it. The program was set to do this. We hadn't had time to modify it before it activated."
The second secretary hurriedly explained this to Leo. Although he still didn't know exactly what had happened, he had to make his attitude clear.
Leo looked at the second secretary and shook his head. "Forget it. I really am in a good mood. As long as you give us the things you possess that contain powerful Life Force, we can consider our business settled."
With that, Leo flipped onto Red Whale's back.
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