A Warning

It took more than two weeks to finish moving everything from the abandoned space transfer station and all the treasure sites where Zoshan Taro had hidden his loot.

The tracking devices and anti-tracking measures had failed. When they carried out the operation, the other side had directly hacked the entire tracking system, turning it into nothing more than scrap metal.

Three modified spacecraft held the surrendered pirates. Apart from food and water, their destinations had already been set.

The three modified spacecraft were each headed for a different nation. Upon arrival, they would automatically send a signal for that nation to dispatch its military and take them away. As for the pirates' fates, they would be left to the relevant authorities of those nations.

Inside Long Fei's office, three mercenary colonels stood trembling before his desk. Long Fei said nothing as he handled documents, as though the three colonels were not even there.

The office temperature was only around twenty-four degrees due to the cold air conditioning, yet the three colonels were drenched in sweat, their hands trembling slightly.

After finishing the documents, Long Fei did not spare the three colonels a glance. He rolled his neck, leaned back in his executive chair, and closed his eyes.

The three colonels barely dared to breathe, much less ask anything. Seeing their boss's attitude, they were extremely uneasy.

"Do you know what you've done?" Long Fei asked with his eyes closed, reclining in his executive chair.

"We do." x3

All three colonels answered at the same time, their voices trembling.

Long Fei took out a bank card and pushed it across the desk toward them.

"Take it."

The three colonels' hands shook, and none of them dared take the bank card.

"When I tell you to take it, take it. Or are my orders no longer effective?"

"Yes, Boss." The colonel in the middle nervously picked up the bank card from the desk.

"If there's a next time, it won't just be a warning. You understand what will happen to you. Dismissed."

"Yes, Boss." x3

The three colonels saluted. After leaving the office, each wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. They knew their boss had decided to pretend nothing had happened.

"I never expected the boss to have such terrifying methods."

"So everything we did was under the boss's watchful eye."

The three colonels saw fear in one another's eyes. They sheepishly shrank their necks and hurried back to their posts.

Why did the three colonels behave this way?

It turned out that the three colonels had originally been ordered to retrieve the treasures hidden by Zoshan Taro.

However, upon seeing the countless treasures, greed took hold of them. They secretly pocketed part of the treasure and even called in trusted subordinates to take part in the scheme.

But when the three colonels returned to their offices shortly after beginning the operation, they found a message file on their computers. When they opened it, they saw videos of themselves secretly discussing how to steal part of the treasure, as well as footage of their actions.

They had been so frightened that they could not speak. The message also specified when they were to go to their boss's office and meet him.

That was when they realized there were their boss's informants within the mercenaries, though they had no idea who they were.

Running was impossible. If they tried to flee, the boss's informants would certainly move as well. They had no idea how many informants there were.

Moreover, their trusted subordinates had already turned against them. The subordinates had been warned and given only two choices: either be dealt with, or keep watch over their superiors. And if they chose the second option, not only would the boss act as though nothing had happened, they would also receive a reward of one hundred thousand universal credits.

Thus, the three colonels had practically been escorted back under guard. Of course, no one else noticed anything on the surface; they merely thought the three men had returned after carrying out their orders.

The anonymous bank card Long Fei had pushed toward them contained three million universal credits.

Long Fei's actions had been like those of an ancient emperor: a slap followed by a piece of candy.

The three colonels also understood Long Fei's message: whatever tricks you tried to pull, I saw them all clearly. This time was only a warning.

Long Fei could have dealt with the three colonels, or directly announced their crimes to the entire Skywing Mercenary Group.

Why did Long Fei not want to do that? The main reason was that he did not want to cause unnecessary unrest. What the Skywing Mercenary Group needed now was unity among all its members.

Furthermore, the Skywing Mercenary Group truly needed manpower at the moment. The three colonels were still quite capable at handling matters, so with people needed right now, Long Fei decided to spare them for the time being.

There was another, more important reason: Long Fei had publicly declared that he would not interfere too much in the Skywing Mercenary Group's operations. So long as Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming did not bend the law for personal gain and cause losses to the Skywing Mercenary Group, Long Fei would not step in to handle matters himself.

If he handed this matter to Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming, Li Jiaming would feel that he had failed in his duties. He would also discover that so many people within the mercenary group he managed were the boss's informants. That would make Commander-in-Chief Li Jiaming feel that the boss did not trust him, creating distrust between the boss and his employees. After considering this, Long Fei decided to handle these matters in secret.

Long Fei behaved this way mainly because, after starting a company several years ago, he had read books on how to become a qualified boss and how to become a chairman capable of keeping employees in line.

In his previous life, he had also occasionally watched historical dramas about emperors and studied some imperial methods.

The way he had just put the three colonels in line was one of the imperial methods he had learned from those historical dramas.

A few days later, Sakchi reported on the company's progress and also told him that Mika'ang Nation's attitude toward them had gradually changed over the past few days.

At first, when the Skywing Mercenary Group intended to crusade against the Sea Wolf Pirate Group and requested intelligence from the Mika'ang Nation authorities, Mika'ang Nation had been somewhat perfunctory. A mercenary group that worked for money actually wanted to do such thankless and exhausting work. In any other nation, hearing of such a thing would have seemed absurd.

Therefore, the Mika'ang Nation authorities had only provided a rough location for the Sea Wolf Pirate Group.

After obtaining additional intelligence from other forces and pinpointing the exact location, the Skywing Mercenary Group immediately launched its campaign against the Sea Wolf Pirate Group.

The result shocked all the factions: the long-established Sea Wolf Pirate Group, which had run rampant for years, was actually wiped out.

At first, the various nations did not dare believe it. That was until Mika'ang Nation and two other nations received signals telling them to take custody of the surrendered pirates.

The Mika'ang Nation authorities were the most shocked. The Sea Wolf Pirate Group, which even they feared, had actually been destroyed by the Skywing Mercenary Group.

The Mika'ang Nation authorities' attitude toward the Skywing Mercenary Group changed.