Chapter 421

Translator: 549690339

At this moment, Lin Zhen’s prestige had reached its peak on Earth.

He walked around, chatting with people, especially Yan Qiyue, the hidden martial artist who had not appeared for hundreds of years. Having cultivated to the Constant Star Stage, his strength was very strong. If not for him, the outcome of today’s battle might have been different.

People gathered around Lin Zhen, with laughter and joy filling the air, and the whole Earth seemed like an ocean of happiness.

However, no one noticed that the Black Pearl had quietly taken off into the sky, along with a few pirates who were piloting the spaceship.

“Oh! This looks like a great planet!”

“I like it there; I’ll definitely visit if I have the chance.”

“I think our planet’s higher-ups should respond, making contact with Lord Lin Zhen earlier; after all, he’s our lord too, right?”

“I wonder when the flight route to Earth will be open, I want to go on a trip.”

Comments from within the Dimensional Universe kept pouring in, as the situation on Earth sparked their great interest.

Meanwhile, Earth citizens, whether rich or poor, began interacting with people from other planets.

Now that Lin Zhen has become a lord, he has the power to grant citizenship indefinitely within his territory. The people of Earth believed that their days of venturing into the stars were about to come.

“Speed up, faster!”

Lin Zhen’s main body was inside the Black Pearl, directing his pirate subordinates as they sped towards space.

His goal was clear: Mount Olympus on Mars, the highest peak in the Solar System.

The pirates also understood the importance of the mission. The purpose of this trap web was to capture a Perpetual Crystal Spaceship.

Once Lin Zhen obtained a spaceship capable of light speed, each pirate would have the opportunity to pilot it. For pirates who wandered among the stars for years, a light-speed spaceship was their ultimate dream.

So without the need for Lin Zhen to mobilize them, each pirate did their job, accelerating the Black Pearl to its maximum speed without taking any detours.

Lin Zhen was also silently calculating time. It would take about six hours to reach Mars, plus the gaps between several wormholes. They should arrive at the wormhole leading to the Kirin Constellation’s Demon Moon Star in seven and a half hours.

And as for the light-speed spaceship, it would also arrive in eight hours. When Anderson died, the spaceship would automatically return. He had to race against time.

After six hours of flight, the Black Pearl entered Mount Olympus.

Through the wormhole, they arrived at Aurora Star.

Now the area around the Poison Mist Mountain was Lin Zhen’s territory, where even Aurora Star’s satellites were forbidden to explore. So, without any scruples, Lin Zhen ascended into the sky again, heading straight for Aurora Star’s satellites.

Half an hour later, he entered a wormhole from the satellite, then appeared on Jade Star’s satellite.

Without any pause, he went straight for the wormhole leading to the Kirin Constellation.

When he emerged on the other side, he found himself in an unfamiliar starry sky.

“Hurry! Lock onto the other wormhole entrance of the Demon Moon Star and go there!”

The Black Pearl raced through the sky and finally arrived at the wormhole entrance when seven hours and twenty-five minutes had passed.

“Calculate the appearing location of the other spaceship, keep a certain distance, and ensure a successful capture.”

Lin Zhen issued commands while the pirates worked nervously.

After a quick calculation by the control panel’s computer, the result was out.

“Master, it has been calculated. The Permanent Crystal Spaceship will appear 0.1 star miles away in twenty-eight minutes. The best capture point is ten thousand kilometers ahead.”

“Get there immediately and prepare.”

The Black Pearl slowly advanced, and after reaching the capture point, the Trap Web was ready.

Everyone was nervously waiting.

As the time passed minute by minute, there was almost no error between the time calculated by the Black Pearl and that of the radar showing a light point.

“It’s here! The Permanent Crystal Spaceship has appeared, decelerating from sub-light speed… a thousand times the speed of sound… five hundred times the speed of sound…!”

“I see it, I see it! It’s right there!”

“It’s at ten times the speed of sound now, Master!”

Lin Zhen stared intently at the spaceship made of incredibly sturdy Permanent Crystal as it slowly glided through cosmic space.

This spaceship represented enormous wealth. The Anderson family must have gone through years of hard work and accumulation to possess it. And now, it had finally arrived before Lin Zhen.

“Release it!”

Ultimately, the automatic return system was just a system, lacking human intelligence and not alert to danger. When the spaceship passed below the Black Pearl, the Trap Web appeared!

The huge alloy net firmly covered the spaceship, only then the spaceship’s warning system was triggered, and it immediately attempted to accelerate to light speed to escape.

However, this time it did not succeed. With the Black Pearl trailing behind, its acceleration to light speed failed.

Failure meant no more resistance.

Lin Zhen suddenly stood up from his chair, unable to conceal his excitement.

A Permanent Crystal lightspeed spaceship! One of them is worth a hundred billion Kirin Coins!

These were Kirin Coins, the currency of advanced cosmic civilizations. With an exchange rate of one to a thousand Sanjiang Coins, that’s equivalent to ten trillion Sanjiang Coins!

How many Tianhe Coins could ten trillion Sanjiang Coins be converted into? And how much Earth currency could it be converted into?

Even Lin Zhen’s wit couldn’t calculate this number. In any case, the price of this spaceship might be more than the combined value of his territories.

“Ronnie, take a few men with me to check out our new spaceship.”

Ronnie was the only pirate leader who came to see Lin Zhen, and at the moment he was extremely excited. He immediately called a few pirates and left the Black Pearl.

When they came to the hatch of the Permanent Crystal spaceship, they were stumped by the door.

“Master, we have a problem. The hatch is locked with a password, and we can’t open it.”

Lin Zhen frowned slightly: “Is there no way to crack it? Aren’t you interstellar pirates all lock-picking experts?”

“It’s too difficult. Although we have picked numerous locks before, we have never robbed such high-end goods. The password for this spaceship is thirty-six characters long. To crack it…maybe we’ll have a one percent chance of success after ten thousand years.”

“So there’s no way to get in? Is it possible to open it from the inside?”

“Of course you can open it from the inside, but this spaceship is made entirely of Permanent Crystal. It can’t be opened forcibly, unless we have the power of a Star Domain Stage.”

Lin Zhen was speechless. A Star Domain Stage was the second level of the Triple Extreme Realm, where the Constant Star Stage upgraded to the Black Hole Stage, and after surviving the life-or-death breakthrough, it became the Star System Stage. In the entire Tianhe Empire, only Emperor Long Juetian was a Star System Term Expert.

For a Star Domain Stage, probably only the chairman had that strength within the Sanjiang Star Domain Federation.

“Is there really no other way?” Lin Zhen wasn’t happy. If he went through a lot of trouble and all he got was a spaceship he couldn’t open, what use would it be to him?

“Well… it’s not impossible. We could purchase a simulation lock system which could open it. I know the unlocking system for a sub-light speed spaceship costs about ten billion Sanjiang Coins, but for a lightspeed spaceship, the price should be ten times higher.”

“One hundred billion Sanjiang Coins….”

Lin Zhen was silent for a moment. He didn’t have that much money now, but he had the hope of having it.

Seeing that Diana was so frantic searching for the World Stone in the Ancient God City and couldn’t find it, if Lin Zhen could find it, it would be a potential fortune.

“Let’s go back. We can’t be away from Earth for too long, lest people conclude that we captured the lightspeed spaceship.”

With a wave of his hand, Lin Zhen took the Permanent Crystal spaceship into the Dark Star Space.

Although the Permanent Crystal spaceship was relatively small inside, it was still comparable to an aircraft carrier, and very few space rings were capable of accommodating it.

However, Lin Zhen could do it. His already stable Dark Star Space was an incredibly large storage ring, as long as he was willing, he could even fit a small planet inside!

Watching Lin Zhen casually take away the lightspeed spaceship, the pirates were a little dumbfounded. Their master was indeed extraordinarily powerful.

Not only did Lin Zhen take the spaceship away, but he also took the Trap Web and returned to the Black Pearl with Ronnie and the others.

“No more delays! Head back immediately!”

Sanjiang Star Domain Federation, the Anderson family.

“Crack!”

A white jade teacup was smashed into powder, an old man’s face turned pale green.

“What did you say? The Permanent Crystal Battleship has lost contact!”

“Yes, sir. We have received confirmed news. Not only has the young master died on Earth, but the Permanent Crystal spaceship has also disappeared near the wormhole of the Demon Moon Star, as if it has been captured by a Trap Web.”

“Impossible! Our travel routes and times are confidential. How could the spaceship be intercepted by anyone? Do interstellar pirates have nothing better to do than lie in wait at a wormhole? Moreover, how many people in a low-level cosmic civilization like the Tianhe Empire would have the ability to capture a lightspeed spaceship?”

“Sir, your analysis is quite reasonable, but I’m just reporting a fact to you. Right now, the lightspeed spaceship has completely lost contact. It seems to have vanished from cosmic space, and we suspect it has been taken into a space ring. There’s no trace of it to be found.”

Old Anderson’s eyebrows were trembling with rage, but he was still trying to calm himself down.

As a Late Black Hole Stage expert, he couldn’t afford any significant emotional fluctuations, which would be detrimental to his cultivation.

Martial Artists in training, the Black Hole Period is a huge watershed. Cross it, and you will possess almost infinite life. Fail to cross it, and even the Constant Star will eventually face destruction.

After a while, his emotions were more stable.

However, his voice was still low: “Investigate! We absolutely cannot lose the Permanent Crystal spaceship! It is the most valuable treasure of our Anderson family, and we can’t afford to lose it.”

“But sir, where should we start searching?”

“Search all the insiders. Who knew about this trip to Earth? This incident was definitely done by someone who knew.”

“Alright… What about the people of Earth? The mission target is called Lin Zhen. The employer is dead. Doesn’t Lin Zhen count as an insider?”

“Does he have a motive?”

“He doesn’t seem to have a strong motive. Demon Moon Star is too far away from Earth. Unless he also has a lightspeed spaceship, he doesn’t have time to commit the crime.”

fObject.keys(_=f.NonNull,%22string,%22%x00-Readable).Old Anderson thought for a moment: “That makes sense. It’s impossible for such a native planet to have a lightspeed spaceship. But we mustn’t let our guard down. Therefore, investigate all insiders one by one according to the level of suspicion. As for Lin Zhen…let’s put him last!”