Almost at the same moment Liliath was attacked, Sea Emperor warned Gu Ding in his ear. "Liliath has run into an opponent!"
"What?!" Gu Ding nearly cried out. "Didn't your surveillance show that there was no one else?"
"Not another person..." Sea Emperor was about to explain when a voice behind Gu Ding interrupted him.
"Are you still going to keep running? Your companion snuck into the shipyard and was discovered. I don't think you need to waste any more time luring me farther away." Kepu's voice came from nearby behind Gu Ding. He was already less than ten meters away.
"You knew all along?" Gu Ding felt that his plan had gone terribly wrong. He had been completely outplayed.
"I was only guessing. At first, I didn't know how many of you there were." Kepu shook his head. "But I knew one thing: you came to the shipyard for only one reason—to find a usable spaceship and leave this planet. I couldn't think of any other purpose."
"And there were usually only two ways to get that spaceship. One was to kill me, then you could simply fly away in the ship. Of course, that method only worked for people stronger than me. The second was to sneak aboard and steal the spaceship while I was away. Since I would never willingly leave the ship's side, such a plan usually required at least two people. One person had to lure me away, while the other took the ship. Clearly, you chose the second method."
"To prevent that second possibility, I had two options. One was to stay by the spaceship and ignore your provocations, forcing you to enter the shipyard and fight me head-on. But I couldn't bring myself to ignore someone else's challenge. So I chose the second