"Officers, you're finally here!"
Ge Xiaolun, who had still been grimacing on the ground, sprang up as if pumped full of adrenaline the moment he saw those three blue police uniforms.
Clutching the back of his head where it hurt from the impact, he rushed up to Qilin at the front in a few strides and pointed at Liu Chuang, who lay sprawled on the ground. "Officer, this guy brought people along to harass a girl, and he hit me! I was standing up for her!"
Just then, Liu Chuang got to his feet as well, swearing and grumbling that he couldn't care less about being some God of War.
Clearly, he too had activated the super gene inside him.
"Oh, when did you three officers get here?"
"Behave! Squat down!"
A young policeman beside him used his baton to keep him back.
Liu Chuang didn't dare resist and obediently squatted off to one side.
Seeing this, Qilin gave her colleague a slight nod. "Take the victim's statement first."
"Officer, arrest these thugs first! They're the ones..."
Ge Xiaolun was still babbling on.
Qilin turned to him, raising an eyebrow slightly. "You're involved too. Stay put. You'll come back to the station with us later."
"I..."
Ge Xiaolun choked on his words. Meeting those scrutinizing eyes, he inexplicably lost most of the bravado he had gained from having the police behind him.
He scratched his head, only then remembering to look for the figure at the mouth of the alley who had helped him.
"Huh? Where'd he go?"
The mouth of the alley was empty, the night breeze sweeping a few dead leaves along.
Qin Feng, who had been standing beneath the streetlight, and that warrior who stood nearly two meters thirty tall had vanished without a trace, as though they had never appeared.
Qilin turned her head as well.
Professional instinct made her immediately scan all the alley's exits.
It was open at both ends, with high walls on either side. When she came in, she had checked both of its only exits and confirmed that no one else had entered or left.
A faint chill crept up her spine to the back of her neck.
"Captain, the girl said someone else helped her just now, and he had a giant in armor with him?"
Her young colleague came over and reported in a low voice.
Qilin frowned and lowered her eyes. "Seal off the scene first. Get the intersection's surveillance footage."
Meanwhile, on the sea dozens of kilometers away.
Inside the Black Great Wall project's command center aboard the aircraft carrier Giant Gorge, a massive holographic star chart slowly rotated.
Dressed in military uniform, Du Kao stood before the main console with his hands behind his back, his thick brows deeply furrowed.
On the floating screen before him, footage of Tara sending Liu Chuang flying with a single punch played over and over.
"Have you found out where they went?"
He asked in a low voice, his gaze never leaving the screen.
Beside him, Lian Feng's fingers danced rapidly over the illuminated keys, dozens of data windows cascading down before her like a waterfall.
A moment later, she stopped, her expression turning unusually grave.
"No, General."
"The Deno Three system mobilized every nearby satellite and ground monitoring node, but within the second they disappeared, every signal showed a blank discontinuity resembling quantum tunneling."
"What's more, the energy that warrior used was very strange. It wasn't the dark energy we're familiar with at all."
"Based on the Deno Three system's reverse calculations of the energy fluctuations at the instant that warrior struck, the energy contained within him was enough to rival a third generation divine body!"
At those words, Du Kao immediately fell silent.
Still, from the footage just now, he surmised that Qin Feng and his companion might be refugees fleeing some fallen civilization.
After all, Blue Star at its current stage couldn't produce beings like these.
That deduction eased the unease in his heart somewhat.
If they were merely refugees seeking a place to settle, that would actually make things easier.
A third generation divine body?
Even the Super God Academy's strongest combatant currently on Blue Star amounted to no more than that.
If he could win them over, they would provide immeasurable help in resisting the approaching Taotie Civilization.
He was even rapidly calculating what attitude and terms he should offer to make Qin Feng and his companion willingly put their lives on the line for him.
"General."
Lian Feng's voice interrupted his thoughts, carrying a hesitation he rarely saw on her face.
"There's something I must make clear to you."
"What is it?"
Du Kao's tone was calm, still immersed in his own self-assured assumptions.
"I compared the super gene that young man awakened just now against our records."
Lian Feng paused for half a second, each word seeming to squeeze out between her teeth.
"It's Galaxy Power."
"Galaxy Power is Galaxy Power. What's so... Wait."
Du Kao's pupils abruptly contracted, and he jerked his head up. "What did you say? Galaxy Power?!!"
"Are you certain?"
Lian Feng's expression remained unchanged. She simply enlarged another data window and moved it to the center of the main screen.
A brilliant golden energy spectrum wound through the darkness like a young dragon awakening.
"General, I can't guarantee anything else, but I would never mistake Galaxy Power's dark energy signature."
"What's more, his reaction just now clearly indicated that he had entered his dark plane."
Hearing this, Du Kao's breathing suddenly grew heavy.
What was Galaxy Power?
The puppet through which they, the Deno Remnants, would legitimately gain sovereignty over Blue Star in the future, and the weapon the Super God Academy would use against the ultimate fear!
Although they still held a backup copy of Galaxy Power's genes, what good were genes alone?
A Super Soldier without a dark plane was nothing but an empty shell!
And constructing a main god-level dark plane required vast quantities of resources.
Back then, the Super God Academy had only succeeded in building one for Galaxy Power by relying on the Angel Civilization.
Otherwise, it wasn't even certain whether Galaxy Power could have been successfully developed.
This was also why they hadn't cultivated a second Galaxy Power.
After all, those strict requirements stood in their way. Even if they had the idea, they couldn't act on it.
But now he was being told that another one had appeared?
A Galaxy Power absent from their records, who also possessed a main god-level dark plane?
Du Kao's temples throbbed.
He pinched the bridge of his nose, paced back and forth for a couple of steps, then abruptly stopped.
"Mobilize all the Deno Three system's computing power immediately. Scour Blue Star and find him!"
Lian Feng didn't carry out the order immediately. Instead, she said hesitantly, "General, we're currently at a critical point in the Taotie invasion. Most of the Deno Three system's computing power is monitoring their interstellar routes."
"If we pull it all back now, we won't be able to predict the Taotie's next target."
"If they take advantage of that gap to launch a surprise attack..."
"At a time like this, who cares about those Taotie?"
Du Kao suddenly raised his voice, a barely perceptible trace of panic suppressed within it.
"If we can't find this man, all our years of effort will have been wasted. Even the Super God Academy won't let me off!"
Du Kao was somewhat afraid.
This Galaxy Power who had appeared out of nowhere had completely disrupted his plans.
If the angels learned that there was another Galaxy Power out there.
Heaven only knew whether they would continue investing in Ge Xiaolun.
At that thought, Du Kao felt the situation was getting beyond his ability to contain and hurriedly opened Ryze's dark communication channel.
Little did he know that while he was reporting the situation to Ryze, Qin Feng had already quietly appeared aboard the Giant Gorge.
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