At this moment, inside the giant base, Plante was speaking with Emperor Marnina XIII and Lanqi via video call.
Seeing the Blue Star Humans leave their spacecraft, Lanqi exclaimed in surprise, "Lord Plante, your prediction was spot on! The Blue Star Humans really did disembark!"
Marnina was equally incredulous. "They actually got off the spacecraft! Lord Plante, how did you know they would fall for it?"
"It was nothing." Plante shook his head disdainfully. "I knew the Blue Star Humans would make that choice. As expected, they did."
Before coming to the Alps Psionic Spring, Plante had already guessed that Su Yu would make this decision.
As for the Giant Psionic Spring he had previously guarded, he had not set any traps there either.
It could be said that he had gambled that the Blue Star Humans would not go to the spring he had formerly guarded—and he had won that gamble!
"Since the Blue Star Humans have arrived, proceed according to the original plan." Plante said this to the communication screen before shutting off his communicator.
In the sky, Blue Star's vanguard force—Chancellor Cao, Su Yu, and the others—had already arrived.
Piloting his red mech, Plante flew to a position level with Chancellor Cao and called out with a distant smile, "Mr. Cao Cao, it has been a long time. I hope you have been well!"
Chancellor Cao and the cultivators beside him were all taken aback upon hearing this.
That was because Plante had spoken in the Blue Star language—pure, fluent Chinese, without any machine assistance.
It seemed that this enemy, Plante, was no longer as arrogant as before. He had begun learning the Blue Star language in an effort to understand them. That was not a good sign.
"Lord Plante, it has indeed been a long