Jade Venerable saw us muttering among ourselves and could not help saying gloomily, "Let's think about what to do now! We're being escorted to the Main Star Domain! The captain said we'll definitely be treated as spies!"
"Oh? How are spies usually dealt with?" I asked curiously.
"Men are taken to the frontier wastelands to excavate Chaos Stones, while women are brought into the Main Star Domain. Supposedly, they're made into playthings!" Jade Venerable said nervously.
I frowned and hurriedly had the captain brought over. "Is what you said true? Do you have any basis for it?"
"Your Venerable! I'd only heard about it before, and I even scoffed at the claim! But now, it sounds like it might actually be true!" The captain's face had gone deathly pale.
He had also been recommended by the merchant guild. If it had not been because of me, he definitely would not have let the ship venture into the Infinite Star Sea.
I looked at the seven or eight armed warships outside the lens and said, "If that's really the case, what are we waiting for?"
"Hey, don't do anything reckless. They're armed warships, while we're only a merchant ship! Never mind the weapons installed on their ships—the Originforce cultivators inside all have military-grade earth-essence artifacts." Jade Venerable grabbed hold of me.
"You, contact their leader now. Tell him we have a business deal to discuss." I looked toward the captain.
The captain was unsure what to do and could only hurriedly order the crew to establish contact.
Soon, a phantom appeared within the merchant ship's communications network.
The other party was extremely burly and looked like a soldier. He surveyed everything around our merchant ship before finally fixing his gaze on me. "You're the true power behind this merchant ship? Didn't