Another half hour passed, and Xia Ping and the others had long since left the base and returned to the residence.
By then, the Fite Family patriarch and many of its upper-echelon figures had finally arrived. When they reached this vital base, they could hardly believe their eyes.
A base spanning dozens of kilometers should have stood here, but now it was all gone, leaving only an empty expanse. There was even a pit over a hundred meters deep in the ground.
It was as if someone had dug up the entire base and carried it away, leaving behind only a few broken walls and ruined remnants.
They immediately spotted a group of Fite Family guards nearby and hurried over to question them.
"Who did this? Which damned bastard did this? Where is my base? Where did the Fite Family's base go?!" The Fite Family patriarch was beside himself with rage as he interrogated the guards.
"Reporting to the Patriarch, it was Yang Budong. It was that newly appointed Planet Governor, Yang Budong, who did it."
A Fite Family member shouted, "He came to our base and claimed we were illegally selling slaves, saying he wanted to arrest us. We refused and fought back, so we were wiped out. The base commander and the others all died because they resisted."
What?!
Upon hearing this, the Fite Family patriarch's body went limp, and he nearly collapsed onto the ground. Those people had all been the Fite Family's elite, yet now every one of them was dead. The loss to their family was devastating.
After all, talented people were hard to come by—especially talented people who were utterly loyal. Those were rarer still.
"Even if the base commander and the others were wiped out, where did our Fite Family base go? Why