The Enigmatic Dees Family

In the Universe Sea, Undersea Forbidden Zone, inside a spaceship that is currently at sea.

A burly man nearly three meters tall sat cross-legged in the cockpit, his eyes fixed on the spaceship's operational route map.

"Bigge, go and rest. You haven't slept for a week," a tabby cat said, squatting at the cockpit door.

"I can't sleep..." Bigge shook his head. "I hope Hake will be alright for a while. We'll arrive at Brick Star tomorrow. I don't know if the damaged video footage can be successfully recovered."

"Hake's disappearance is not your responsibility." Tagore walked slowly to Bigge. "There are two possibilities for his disappearance. One is that he left on his own. The other is that he was kidnapped. But Hake's strength is not much weaker than yours now. If he was kidnapped silently, it doesn't make much difference whether you are here or not."

"But Lily entrusted you two to me, so I should take good care of you." Bigge shook his head. "The captain will be back in three months, and I must find Hake as soon as possible. The captain will definitely be disappointed to know that we lost Hake."

"I wonder how Gu Ding has fared in the Gate of Purgatory these past few years. That prison is said to be the most terrifying in the entire human Universe Sea. Although there's never been a successful escape, Gu Ding should be able to do it, right?" Tagore clearly had a lot of confidence in Gu Ding. "With the Sea Emperor's help, we wouldn't have had to travel so far just to repair a video file this time."

The next day, the spaceship landed on a blue planet.

Bigge and Tagore appeared on a small island in a flash. After confirming their location, they took a few steps forward and knocked on the door of a house.

An Old Lady with a cane and thick reading glasses opened the door. When she looked up and saw Bigge, she seemed startled, her mouth opening and closing without uttering a word for a long time.

"Grandma, who is it?!" A young man's voice came from inside the house.

"Giant... giant..." The Old Lady paused for a moment, then squeezed out the word.

"Giant?"

A young man who looked to be around twenty years old, wearing a T-shirt, walked into the living room. He was visibly stunned when he saw Bigge in the doorway. "Who are you? I'm Federal Government employee. You've illegally entered my home; I can call someone to arrest you!"

His words were clearly a show of bravado masking underlying weakness.

Bigge, however, nonchalantly slipped into the house. "Hello, Mr. Tek, my name is Bigge. I know you work for the Federal Government Information Department and are currently on vacation, which is why I've taken the liberty of contacting you to ask for your help."

"Bigge ...you're Bigge from the Gu Ding Pirate Crew?!" The other person reacted quickly upon hearing Bigge's name, then their gaze fell on Tagore on Bigge's shoulder. "He's Tagore?"

"Yes, I am Tagore," Tagore replied.

"He can actually talk!" Tek looked at Tagore with a strange expression.

"I've always been able to speak, but that doesn't matter. Mr. Tek, we need your help." Tagore reiterated that the two of them had come to him for his assistance.

"I refuse. No matter what methods you use to force me to confess, I will not tell you anything. As a member of the Federal Government's Information Department, I have long been prepared to sacrifice myself." Tek's eyes immediately became wary as he looked at Bigge and Tagore.

"We don't need any information from you. We're here because we hope you can help us fix a surveillance video." Bigge said, taking a video surveillance device out of his Storage Space.

"You really don't want to get classified Federal Government information from me?" Tek looked at Bigge with some suspicion.

"No. You should know that our Pirate Crew isn't the kind of hate organization, and we're not interested in conspiracies," Bigge nodded.

"But your captain, Gu Ding, is still imprisoned in the Gate of Purgatory. Don't you want to get information about the Gate of Purgatory from me and then go and rescue him?" Tek continued to press.

"The three-year agreement is up in a few months, and Gu Ding has a way to escape. We don't need to worry about him," Bigge shook his head and smiled. "If he hasn't shown up by the time the three-year agreement is up, then we'll consider rescuing him."

"Alright then, what kind of video do you want me to fix?" Upon hearing this answer, Tek finally lowered his guard.

"Our companion Hake went missing a week ago. This video footage should have recorded what happened to him, but it was damaged due to the magnetic field emitted by the true God. That's why we came to you, hoping you can help us repair this video footage so we can find out what happened to Hake."

"Okay, I can help you, but I have one condition." Tek readily agreed, but it was clear he didn't intend to help for free.

"Tell me what you want, and I will try my best to meet your needs," Bigge asked, nodding.

"I need the signatures of all members of your Pirate Crew, not now, of course. After you reunite, you can have your crew sign them and mail them to me." Tek smiled at Bigge.

"That's all you're asking for?" Bigge looked at Tek with some suspicion.

"Is it not allowed?" Tek Bigge, feeling a little uneasy.

"It's possible, I just didn't expect you to be one of our fans."

"Yes, Liliath and Elsa are both my goddesses!" Tek said, his eyes practically sparkling.

"It's true that those two girls have changed a lot in the past few years." Bigge occasionally saw news about the two on SkyNet and knew that they had grown into great beauties and had started their own websites with a large number of fans on SkyNet, but he didn't expect that they also had fans in the Federal Government.

"If you can help us get this done, we can even arrange for you to meet with Lily and the others," Tagore tempted.

"Give me the thing. I can fix it in an hour, no, within half an hour!" Tek immediately stretched out his hand, looking at Bigge with an excited expression.

Bigge handed the entire monitoring system to Tek.

"Great, the whole surveillance equipment is here. That makes things much easier." Tek nodded in satisfaction. "You guys sit down for a bit and make yourselves at home. I'll go to the workroom; I should be able to get it done in half an hour."

After saying that, he left quickly.

Bigge had no choice but to sit down on the sofa in the living room and wait.

The Old Lady who had just opened the door pulled out a Cat Teaser Stick from somewhere and started teasing Tagore, "Little kitty. Little kitty..."

Tagore simply curled up and went to sleep. Out of sight, out of mind. In the past, he would have already lost his temper, but this Old Lady was clearly just an ordinary person, and he couldn't afford to get angry.

Less than half an hour later, Tek returned to the living room with the monitoring device, but his expression was not good.

"The repair failed?" Seeing the expression on his face, Bigge felt something was wrong.

"The repair was successful. However, I watched the entire video, and your companion Hake was kidnapped." These words from Tek were not Bigge and Tagore wanted to hear.

As Tek spoke, he connected the monitoring device to the video player in the living room, and the image was quickly projected onto the screen.

In the scene, a group of men in black wearing hats first surrounded Hake. Just as Hake was about to fight back, a White Robed Man appeared. The man said something to Hake, and Hake subsequently gave up resisting and followed the group away.

"Why can't we hear them talking?" Bigge asked, his brow furrowed.

"They're using telepathy, which the surveillance cameras can't capture," Tek explained.

"Can't you even see a face clearly?" Tagore noticed another problem.

"Yes, not a single face was captured, so facial recognition or lip reading is impossible. These people clearly knew the location and angle of the surveillance cameras; they did it very professionally." Tek nodded. "However, I found a clue in the glasses of someone nearby."

As Tek spoke, he zoomed in on the image and extracted the view from the glasses of a passerby, then performed a series of processing steps to make the image clearer.

"This is..." Bigge frowned, he could only see the sleeve of the White Robed Man.

"Although the glasses only reflected the White Robed Man's left inner shirt cuff, this cuff wasn't a commodity sold on the market. The mark on the cuff was a family emblem— the Dees Family of the Assassin Family." When he mentioned the Dees Family, Tek's expression became serious.

"You know anything about this family?" Bigge immediately deduced that Tek must know something.

"The Dees Family perished dozens of epochs ago. This family existed for an extremely long time, dating back to Ancient Era. Moreover, in Ancient Era, this family was one of the most powerful families among the Human Race. From ancient times, this family has always been the overlord of the assassin world. It can be said that in our plane, the origin of the profession of assassin in the entire human world. The Assassin Family and organizations of later generations were all created by their family branches and various disciples."

"This family's power lasted until the Near Ancient Era, when the entire family suddenly vanished without a trace. No one knows why; no one has seen any members of the Dees Family since. Later, various speculations arose throughout the Universe Sea. Some said that their family might have offended a powerful being they shouldn't have, and were wiped out overnight. Others said that their entire family migrated to other planes. No one knows the real reason; they only know that they disappeared, as if they had never existed."

"Could those cufflinks be fake?" Tagore asked another question.

"That's possible. Although the symbol belongs to the Dees Family, it could be used by someone else. After all, they've been gone for dozens of eras, and nobody knows what the real Dees Family cufflinks look like," Tek nodded. "However, whether it's real or not, anyone who's associated with the Dees Family is probably not easy to deal with."

"We know that, thank you. Could you send me a copy of the design for those cufflinks? And if possible, could you provide us with as much detailed information as possible about the Dees Family?" Bigge patted Tek on the shoulder. (To be continued~^~)