From the moment Zhong Lizi returned to Star Gate Base, many people had been secretly monitoring her. After Zhao Layue appeared, that surveillance intensified to an unimaginable degree. The military launched several Synchronous Satellites specifically to monitor that underground street, with warships also standing by at all times.
Nothing happened. Both sides maintained the peace until Zhao Layue wanted to go to the Capital Planet, and was met with a shot from a Laser Main Cannon.
The milky-white pillar of light tore through the atmosphere and grazed the edge of Shou'er City's cliff as it plunged underground. A middle-aged man mowing a lawn on the outskirts of Shou'er City was startled, while the welders toiling on the alloy cliff were so frightened they nearly fell. Fortunately, they were secured by exceptionally sturdy Safety Ropes.
Back then, Jing Jiu had first been targeted by a Long-Range Electromagnetism-Enhancing Gun, then faced a warship's Laser Main Cannon. Today, these things happened simultaneously.
This showed that it was not a test. Those people truly did not want Zhao Layue going to the Capital Planet.
Light traveled at the fastest speed in this universe. No one could mount a defense after a Laser Cannon fired, not even Jing Jiu. He had been able to evade those Laser Cannons outside the Sacrificial Hall because he had been monitoring the Blazing Sun Warship's command system all along, and reacted before the Laser Cannons activated. Zhao Layue could not do that, so she could not anticipate the attack. Although her body had been tempered by immortal qi, it was different from Jing Jiu's, after all, and could not turn back as much of the Laser Cannon's energy as possible. How would she respond?
She had her own early warning system, and this did not refer to Big One,