Lu Yin stared at Thousand Eyes. "Do you know the identity of the Pirate King?"
Thousand Eyes' gaze turned cold, then he shook his head. "I don't."
"Then how do you contact him?" Lu Yin asked.
Before Thousand Eyes could answer, Lu Yin said, "I contact him through Uncle Ghost."
Thousand Eyes' eyes widened as he stared at Lu Yin in disbelief. "You—you know Uncle Ghost?"
Lu Yin's lips curled into a smile. He stood up. "Uncle Ghost, Da Chong, the brothers who are never quite clean, and Big Sister."
"Ghost Horse Third, Lame." Thousand Eyes named two more people.
Lu Yin continued listing several names. They were all members of Big Sister's mercenary group. They had fled to the Outer Universe with him, but had since returned to the Cosmic Sea.
Thousand Eyes was astonished. "Who are you, exactly? How do you know people from the Leien Battle Group?"
Lu Yin smiled. "Because I'm a member of the Leien Battle Group."
Thousand Eyes' jaw dropped. It felt as if his entire worldview had been turned upside down. The man before him was the leader of the Eastern Frontier Alliance and the regent of the Great Yu Empire, a man at the very peak of power, as upright and spotless as they came. He had distinguished himself in the Iron Blood Territory and even rescued the Spirit Interpreter Research Association. He had also forced an assassins' organization to back down. A man like him should have been honorable and selfless, putting others before himself and radiating righteousness. But what was this supposed to mean? This guy was a pirate?
Wei Rong's purge of the pirates across the eastern territories hadn't made Thousand Eyes lose his composure, but the revelation of Lu Yin's identity had. How was that even possible?
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