Karl's attention

"Then why didn't you call on the Great Clock to check their identities directly on Blue Star?"

Feng Lei asked cautiously, "With your abilities, you should be able to..."

"The angels are still on Blue Star."

Sno cut him off, a trace of apprehension underlying his tone.

"If I rashly use the Great Clock to examine the information in Blue Star's dark plane, there's a strong chance they'll detect the energy fluctuations."

"I don't want to expose My God Karl's arrangements over such a trivial matter."

Xiong Lu and Feng Lei exchanged a glance and asked no more questions.

Sno walked up to the main console, braced both hands against it, and said gravely, "Bring up Blue Star's dark-plane information. I won't use the Great Clock. I'll just run a scan with your shipboard system. Its computing power is somewhat lacking, but it's still better than going in blind."

Xiong Lu nodded, then turned and waved to the operator.

Streams of data switched rapidly across the screen as a three-dimensional projection of Blue Star's dark plane slowly rotated and expanded on the holographic display.

Sno stared fixedly at the screen, searching among the densely packed information nodes.

He had to know who that young man really was.

At last, he spotted Qin Feng in two information fragments.

One was in an alley in Juxia City, and the other was on Sumari's private island.

"So your name is Qin Feng."

Sno murmured to himself, his voice low and cold beneath his mask.

He had finally learned his opponent's name.

But the man's origins remained a complete mystery to him.

The two records only showed what Qin Feng had done and whom he had interacted with, offering no explanation whatsoever of where he had come from.

What was more, he was close to the angels.

Sno's fingertip paused on the screen for an instant before he slowly enlarged a section of energy-spectrum data.

Golden waveforms spiraled upward across the screen, their distinctive features glaringly obvious.

His pupils abruptly contracted.

Galaxy Power?!!

He had always found Qin Feng's dark energy waveform familiar. Now he finally understood why.

These dark-gold fluctuations were almost identical to Ge Xiaolun's genetic signal.

"Lord Sno, how can there be two Galaxy Powers?"

Xiong Lu's voice came from beside him, carrying an unmistakable hint of panic.

Beneath his iron-gray faceplate, his electronic pupils flickered with unease.

In the Taotie's intelligence system, Ge Xiaolun had always been the sole carrier of Galaxy Power.

According to their earlier combat simulations, when the war broke out, that recently awakened Galaxy Power would at most be a somewhat tougher meat shield, posing no substantial threat at all.

But this Qin Feng before them...

A chill instantly ran down Xiong Lu's spine.

They could handle a Galaxy Power who was a meat shield, but what were they supposed to use against a Galaxy Power with a god-level guard and a Celestial Computer?

"I don't know either."

Sno said gravely, "However, you needn't worry too much. Judging by how he conducts himself, he probably isn't one of the People of the Super God Academy. In the coming war, he most likely won't take the initiative to attack you."

Hearing this, Xiong Lu and Feng Lei exchanged a glance and simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Qin Feng stayed out of the way, subduing a mere Blue Star would be a piece of cake for the Taotie.

In their eyes, Blue Star's conventional armed forces were no different from paper.

The only things they feared were the Super God Academy's batch of Super Soldiers who had yet to mature, and the possible intervention of the Angel Civilization.

Just as the two had steadied themselves, the space directly ahead of the bridge suddenly rippled faintly.

An illusory figure slowly emerged.

The man had handsome, pale features and wore a loose black robe with his hood pulled low. His bearing was as still as a deep pool. He did not look particularly tall or imposing, yet he exuded a pressure that made others afraid to look directly at him.

The instant Sno saw the newcomer, he bowed almost instinctively.

"Welcome, my god!"

Xiong Lu and Feng Lei followed immediately, both prostrating themselves without even daring to raise their heads.

Karl lifted a hand, signaling for them to rise.

His gaze fell on the dark mark on Sno's right shoulder, and his brow shifted slightly.

"Sno, are you injured?"

Sno straightened, his head still half lowered, his voice heavy with self-reproach. "My god, I was incompetent and allowed those two to take Crocodile God Soton away. Please punish me."

Karl did not speak immediately.

His gaze passed over Sno and settled on the holographic projection of Blue Star's dark plane above the main console.

On the screen, the information fragments involving Qin Feng were still slowly rotating.

The two Galaxy Power waveforms were displayed side by side, like two vines growing from the same root system.

Karl watched silently for several seconds, an inscrutable gleam flickering deep in his eyes.

"Sno, this is not your fault."

He spoke, his voice as calm as a bottomless lake.

"There is something strange about this newly appeared Galaxy Power. It is understandable that you were no match for him."

Sno's lips moved, but he offered no rebuttal.

"However, this incident has exposed you to the angels."

Karl shifted the subject, a faint note of warning entering his voice. "To prevent Divine Kaisa from coming to demand that I hand you over, do not show yourself on Blue Star for the time being."

"As you command, my god."

Sno bowed in acknowledgment.

He hesitated, but ultimately voiced the question weighing on his mind.

"My god, I do not understand where this second Galaxy Power came from. More importantly, will he affect your coming plans?"

Karl fell silent for several seconds.

His phantom swayed gently in midair, his gaze seeming to pierce millions of light-years to look upon the surface of that blue planet.

Then he spoke slowly, his voice still calm but carrying an unquestionable certainty. "No matter where he came from, he cannot stop my plans. Morgana has already arrived on Blue Star. Once she has the confidence, she will join forces with me to eliminate Divine Kaisa."

"As for that young man, let him play with the angels for now. Once Divine Kaisa falls, I will have someone deal with him."

After reviewing Blue Star's dark-plane information, Karl was now deeply interested in Qin Feng.

Whether it was the unknown system of power or the Galaxy Power genetic data, he wanted it all!

Meanwhile, at the Super Soldier Company's base.

A cool-white screen of light covered an entire wall, replaying the battle between Tara and Sno on a loop.

Du Kao sat in a wheelchair, his legs covered by a thin blanket, his complexion somewhat better than it had been a month earlier.

Yet his sunken eyes and the occasional twitch at the corner of his mouth still betrayed the lingering effects of that psychological trauma.

His hands rested on the wheelchair's armrests, his fingertips tapping the metal intermittently as his calm gaze rested on the screen.

Ryze stood beside him with his hands behind his back, his usual carefree smile absent for once.

His brows were tightly furrowed, his gaze repeatedly sweeping over that frame.