Inside Safe Zone 05.
Lin Yu looked up at the sky in some surprise, watching the multitude of Other Shore Starships lifting off.
As the Starships accelerated, their thousand-meter jets of flame made the fleet look like a meteor shower rising from Earth, piercing the darkness in a wash of blue light.
"I never thought that kid would actually survive."
As soon as he finished speaking, a Dragonkin resembling a green dragon slowly turned beside him and glanced his way.
"Wasn't your rule-breaking help the reason he survived? Without your warning, how could he possibly have escaped?"
"Never mind anything else. If you hadn't told him the Star Voyager had entered, the Star Voyager would have killed them all long ago."
At Green Dragon's challenge, Lin Yu raised an eyebrow and smiled.
"I didn't help him."
"He figured out on his own that the Star Voyager had entered. Once he'd guessed it, I had no reason to deny it. After all, the Starshatterer Alliance broke the rules first by using me as a stepping stone."
Watching Lin Yu deny it outright, Green Dragon frowned.
"Really? Then what about the Jamming Stone?"
"Lin Yu, you should know perfectly well that doing this will anger the Starshatterer Alliance. Sooner or later, they'll trace it back to you. Given how they operate, they won't let it go."
"Even if you've joined the Patrollers, you'll still be in trouble."
Faced with Green Dragon's warning, Lin Yu shrugged indifferently.
"It was just a trade. There's no rule against trading, is there? I tagged along with that kid and earned a few points. I didn't have anything else to give him, so a stone would have to do."
"As for trouble? This little matter isn't enough to make them mobilize in force. To put it bluntly,