"Why would the Interastral Peace Corporation come here?" Oleg asked, puzzled.
"If they're here to cause trouble, we'll beat every last one of them!" Seele said fiercely. "Interastral Peace Corporation, whatever! We're not afraid of them!"
Among the crowd, Blade nodded slightly in approval.
March 7th clenched her fists and waved them:
"Beat every last one of them!"
Stelle, however, sounded confused:
"Wait, we never said where we were going when we left the Xianzhou. And the Xianzhou has no reason to sell us out to the Corporation. What's going on?"
As she spoke, she looked at Kafka.
Kafka and Blade's combined bounties were almost twenty billion.
Was that why the Corporation had come?
But Kafka shook her head:
"This has nothing to do with us. If the Corporation were coming to arrest us, Elio would have warned us in advance. We haven't received any warning, which means they're here for this planet."
March 7th couldn't help feeling bewildered:
"How did the Corporation find out Jarilo-VI's coordinates?"
"Don't forget, seven hundred years ago, Jarilo-VI was still an advanced interstellar civilization. It only lost the ability to take to the skies after the Eternal Freeze arrived," Chu Mu said calmly. "Jarilo-VI must have dealt with the Corporation back then. The Credits still remaining in Belobog are proof."
Svarog spoke up then as well:
"There are Corporation chips inside my body."
"The Corporation's technology is so complex," Clara said quietly. "Those tiny squares contain countless circuits. Once they break, Clara can only find old parts to replace them. Clara can't repair them. Many of Clara's friends have gone dormant because they're missing these crucial components."
And the components inside Svarog weren't even among the Corporation's most advanced models. They didn't even qualify as military-grade-
They came from civilian food-delivery robots.
The Corporation's