Chapter 33

The broadcast sound wasn’t particularly loud, but it stood out in this conference room.

The neural connection to the intelligence, like in families such as theirs, synchronizes the neural connections to prevent accidents.

At the moment of a person’s death, the worn neural connection emits a signal.

If the neural connection is destroyed along with the person, the comprehensive information before the destruction is transmitted to the main neural connection, where it is summarized.

This function of the neural connection is very convenient.

But Li Zhihui never imagined that one day he would hear from the neural connection about the death of his own brother and son.

He was about to stand up when the news was broadcasted. After hearing the report from the neural connection, he suddenly felt dizzy.

In a state of severe dizziness, his mind went blank, causing him to lose his balance and almost fall to the ground.

“Master!” The person behind hurriedly supported him, but they were also in a state of shock.

It had only been a few days since Li Zhihui left the Li family!

When he left, everything in the Li family was fine. How could this happen all of a sudden…

Li Quan himself had relatively low talent. If something happened to him, it could be explained.

You can stay safe and happy!

Especially Li Chi.

Not to mention the people of the Li family, everyone present knew that Li Zhihui cherished his two children the most.

Li Chi had extremely high talent, how could he inexplicably die!?

At that moment, the whole conference room fell into chaos.

Many people’s faces showed suspicion.

The Li family was engaged in the pharmaceutical industry, and Li Zhihui himself had always maintained excellent health. Compared to people of the same age, he was even more robust. But now, he was almost fainting from the sudden shock of the news.

After a while, he finally reacted.

Li Zhihui sat down in the chair behind him, his face pale and ugly. His first reaction was, “Impossible.”

Although the neural connection never made mistakes, he was unwilling to believe that his brother and son were dead.

But soon, the successive messages made him silent.

“…Confirmed, there was indeed a major explosion in the W-599 galaxy. The explosion occurred on a remote star designated as W-5993.”

This was an incident that occurred at an important alliance meeting, and it also involved one of the four major families, the Li family.

The patrol warship dispatched to investigate the situation dared not slack off. Within half an hour, all the information they knew had been transmitted back.

But when the investigation results appeared on everyone’s screens, an unusual silence fell over the room.

Li Zhihui looked at the lines of text and the real-time images being transmitted back, wanting to say something but couldn’t help but cough violently.

The first to speak was a key figure in the Li family within the alliance.

His face was grim as he pointed to the screen in front of him, saying, “Unmanned drone soldiers gone rogue, an explosion almost distorting space, Zhou Xiran.”

Especially the last name, the man suddenly looked up, glancing at one of the individuals at the head of the table, and said solemnly, “Shouldn’t the Zhou family provide an explanation to all of us about this matter?”

The room fell silent.

The person sitting at the head of the table didn’t respond, instead, others frowned and said, “Based on the current information, it seems that the other party used false identities.”

The person who asked initially sneered.

They all knew this obvious fact, but since the Li family joined the alliance, such a major accident had never occurred.

Just from the few pictures that had come through, the extent of the losses was evident.

Not to mention the loss of two high-ranking members of the Li family!

Even though they knew this had nothing to do with the Zhou family, how could they just accept it!?

Someone looked at the photos and asked in a low voice, “What about the footage from the scene? Why do we only have this blurry picture?”

The person in charge of the patrol warship was currently on the W-599 galaxy, remotely reporting to these high-ranking members through their neural connections.

He shook his head at the question, “The entire network of the galaxy suffered a hacker attack, and all monitoring footage was overwritten.”

“This remaining image was obtained from the individuals who attended the mechanical convention.”

The attack targeted only the Li family and didn’t touch others.

After the unmanned drone soldiers went rogue, these people either found hiding places or left the galaxy.

Even those who were hiding were found by the unmanned drone soldiers but were left unharmed.

It was just too chaotic at the time, and many people didn’t bother to look back.

The person in charge only managed to get this blurry image from one of them.

“We have conducted thorough questioning of all attendees of today’s convention,” the person in charge said with a slightly grim expression, “but due to the turbulence at the time, most of the images left behind are very blurry.”

From these blurry photos, only the fact that the perpetrator was a woman with red hair and wearing a Hanhai school uniform could be discerned.

The rest was difficult to distinguish.

“Xiran indeed attends Hanhai Academy,” after a brief silence, someone from the Zhou family directly responded, “But she hasn’t left the school gates these past few days.”

“We have informed Hanhai and are ready to cooperate with the investigation at any time.”

This incident was truly an unwarranted disaster for the Zhou family.

So the expression of the person in charge from the Zhou family wasn’t particularly good either. They made concessions and even agreed to allow the alliance to investigate Zhou Xiran within the school.

Even if the Li family was still dissatisfied, they couldn’t say anything more.

Seeing someone beside him about to speak, Li Zhihui directly restrained him.

His eyes were bloodshot, and he said with resentment, “This matter indeed has nothing to do with the Zhou family.”

“But don’t you all think that this kind of behavior, and the final explosion, bears a striking resemblance to someone’s handiwork!?”

As he shouted this, the room fell even quieter.

This was also the fundamental reason why many people remained silent after seeing the scene investigation just now.

Hackers, explosions.

These two words easily reminded people of an incident three years ago.

“If I remember correctly,” Li Zhihui trembled all over and said forcefully, “Chu Yunchi’s next target back then was our Li family.”

“A few months ago, the explosion in the highest surveillance, the alliance was convinced that Yunchi had died. Now it seems, was that information accurate!?”

As soon as this was said, everyone fell silent.

Many people’s gazes, intentionally or unintentionally, fell on Fang Yanli.

As a 3S-level dangerous individual, no one understood better than Fang Yanli.

Without speaking, the Minister of Alliance Security spoke, “Before An Ziayang death, he repeatedly confirmed that Chu Yunchi had died in the explosion at the highest surveillance.”

He looked at Li Zhihui, “Master Li, I understand that today’s events have made you excessively emotional, so your words may have gone too far.”

“But please don’t casually doubt the defenses of the highest surveillance or the possibility of Chu Yunchi escaping from there without outside help.”

Fang Yanli remained silent on this matter, which was also the recent answer given to him by the alliance.

Any further details would involve alliance secrets.

The Highest Office operates independently from the alliance and rarely intervenes in internal alliance affairs. These days, even the Commander-in-Chief of the alliance has been reminding him not to overstep his boundaries.

Fang Yanli looked coldly at the contents on the screen.

Li Zhihui regained some composure, but he still didn’t give up.

Regardless of who the other party was, whether it was Chu Yunchi or not, daring to do such a thing, even if he had to dig three feet into the ground, he would find the culprit.

Make her pay with her life.

He was about to speak, but at this moment, he heard the notification sound from everyone’s neural connections.

In recent times, many people in the alliance have developed a resistance to this forced notification sound regarding the slaughterhouse incident.

But now, it rang again, and many people in the conference room had unpleasant expressions.

And what made them even more unhappy was that this news came from the slaughterhouse again.

In the forced pop-up, there was a black-red interface with four large characters written on it: “Commission to be completed.”

At the same time, there was also…

For the first time, mechanical sounds appeared in the content released by the slaughterhouse.

It was the voice of a mechanical woman. Without hesitation, she said:

“Warmly celebrate the successful completion of the entrusted task since the establishment of the slaughterhouse.”

“Dear employer Tian Rui, are you still satisfied with the services provided by the slaughterhouse this time?”

Tian Rui.

When he heard this name, Li Zhihui’s eyes narrowed.

This was a small family that emerged last year, fantasizing about entering the pharmaceutical industry due to some research in their family.

In the interstellar world, the pharmaceutical industry belonged to the Li family.

Some people didn’t understand this principle, so he would make them understand.

The person in charge of cleaning up the Tian family happened to be Yu An, who died today.

But Li Zhihui clearly remembered that Yu An had said that the people of the Tian family were extinct.

How could the name of the Tian family’s patriarch Tian Rui appear again?

And what the other party said next made Li Zhihui no longer have time to think about any other questions.

Because, in the form of large characters, the slaughterhouse announced multiple crimes of the Li family!

Among them included the exploitation and oppression over the years using the family’s status and the status of core members within the alliance, as well as the slaughter of colleagues. The Tian family was not an exception.

Every step of the Li family was built on the flesh and blood of ordinary people.

And the most outrageous one was the truth behind the scenes involving the Li family in the mechanical congress.

The Li family offered high bonuses every year to launch the Mechanical Congress throughout the interstellar era.

This congress did not restrict families or identities and offered very generous rewards, making it seem like a very fair event.

“…Unfortunately, everyone who wins in the Mechanical Congress must sign a contract to receive the prize money.”

“After signing the contract, they will be sent to the Li family’s medical processing factory, where they will tirelessly manufacture the unique medical warehouses and…”

“On the premise of mortgaging their lives, produce medicine for the Li family.”

“These people, from the moment they enter the Li family, every minute and every second, even every cell on their bodies, must be exhausted for the Li family.”

“Manufacturing machines in a toxic environment, when people are still conscious, they are mechanical workers, and when they are unconscious, they are assigned to plant toxic materials.”

“Yinghaihua, this special material may not be clear to everyone. It is a Grade A material with severe toxicity. After being made into medicine, it can greatly nourish the body.”

“So, it has always been valuable but unavailable.”

“The final contribution of Li family’s workers is to sacrifice their own flesh and blood to Yinghaihua. Why let them work in a toxic environment? Because that is the nutrient of Yinghaihua. People who inhale toxins and then plant Yinghaihua will produce A+ quality!”

As soon as these words fell, there was an uproar across the entire star network.

The person in charge of the adjacent alliance network center was sweating profusely, trying various ways to cut off the broadcast during this live broadcast process, but none of them worked.

The opponent’s hacking skills were far superior to theirs, and the popup broadcast window was not a virus but merely a means of forced prompting.

Even those who didn’t want to watch could turn off the broadcast at any time, it was not compulsory.

They could only follow the network to trace the opponent’s IP address, but after a big circle, they unexpectedly found that the IP address was in this building.

After finding out the address, his hands were trembling.

Numb hands, accelerated heartbeat.

This feeling…no wonder Li Zhihui said so, it really resembled the incident with Yun Chi three years ago!

Fang Yanli looked coldly at the screen in front of him, with a cold light flashing on his face.

On the other side, Ji Fu did not directly leave the W-599 galaxy.

She was too seriously injured, her vital signs were declining rapidly, but she still had a trace of clarity.

Before the nearby alliance patrol warship arrived, she had the unmanned drone soldiers send her to another remote star.

Few people knew that the Li family had built a pharmacy on their own territory.

They started with the pharmaceutical industry and naturally attached great importance to these things.

The location of this pharmacy was very hidden. If it wasn’t for her allowing Qin Chu Yue to connect her system to the Li family’s control room, she wouldn’t have noticed this ordinary little asteroid.

It was equipped with a high-level defense system and had interstellar warships patrolling.

It was just that after she invaded, the entire system of the Li family was paralyzed, and the warships were all withdrawn.

At present, when the situation is chaotic, the people left behind by the Li family can’t care about this side either.

She broke through the defenses with the mech soldiers and Flame.

The unmanned mech soldiers killed two B-level guards at the door.

She directly broke through the firewall here with the access system and, using an exhaustive method, opened the door to the pharmacy.

Upon entering the pharmacy, a chill hit her face.

She could barely stand and slid to the ground near the door.

[System prompt, your vital signs are rapidly declining.]

This operation almost cost her half her life.

Her body, which could have lasted at least six more months, was now showing signs of decline. She didn’t need the system to remind her; she knew her condition was poor.

Her lifespan had been reduced by at least half.

She leaned against the door, the cold air seeping into her.

Using the last remnants of her strength, she released Flame.

As soon as Flame landed, it quickly operated the system, searching the pharmacy.

After finding the potent emergency medicine, it shattered the medicine cabinet and brought the medicine over.

Ji Fu took the medicine and drank it in one gulp.

Li Zhihui was afraid of death, so the medicines stored in her house were all top-notch.

The medicine took effect almost immediately upon entering her body.

She felt the temperature return to the half of her body that had cooled down, and she regained some strength. She looked at Flame’s search results.

There were many high-quality medicines hidden in the pharmacy, but there was no sign of the extracted talents, Lie Russell and Lan Russell.

As she had thought, such important things wouldn’t be directly placed in their own pharmacy by the Li family.

She then continued to speak to Qin Chu Yue:

“Continue.”

The evidence against the Li family was found by Qin Chu Yue in the control room.

As for the matter of extracting talents, Ji Fu chose not to disclose it.

Firstly, this matter was of great importance, and the people involved spanned all aspects of the alliance. If it were disclosed now, the other party could easily replace the Li family.

Secondly, there was no substantial evidence.

They found everything else about the Li family, even the accounts from many years ago, in the control room.

But the matter of extracting talents was not mentioned at all.

All she had was her medical examination report.

And with her personal medical examination report, she couldn’t accuse everyone of everything.

Thirdly, judging from the methods of the Li family and their backers, they didn’t care about human lives.

She didn’t know how many people like her had their talents extracted. Once this was made public, the other party would likely panic and kill everyone to destroy evidence.

So, it was better to use all means to conceal everything.

Those who could reach this level in the alliance must have a high position, and the means at their disposal were naturally unimaginable.

Currently, she was weak and couldn’t even save Ulan. It wasn’t suitable for her to confront the other party head-on.

But completely ruining the Li family was still possible.

She pressed the bone stud on her ear and said softly, “Issue a wanted notice.”

Qin Chu Yue paused for a moment, then smiled. She had only heard of the alliance issuing wanted notices. Never had she thought that one day they, the so-called criminals, would be able to issue such things.

She quickly operated on the light brain and listened to Ji Fu’s slow voice:

“Effective immediately, a bounty is placed on all members of the Li family throughout the entire interstellar range.”

“The reward price is one interstellar coin.”

Qin Chu Yue chuckled, “How much?”

One coin!

Thinking about it this way, she felt balanced. The alliance offered at least 3 million to catch her, but the Li family, from top to bottom, was only worth one coin.

The people in the alliance meeting room also saw this message.

The person in charge of the Li family behind Li Zhihui’s back turned from red to pale when he saw this message. After seeing this message, he couldn’t sit still and stood up abruptly.

“One coin?” he exclaimed angrily. “Do they take our Li family for fools!?”

Under the flood of information, Li Zhihui became calm.

He glanced at everyone present in the room and said coldly, “These are just provocative and absurd remarks from clowns.”

He didn’t believe that anyone would really be willing to act against him for one coin.

The organization called the Slaughterhouse, with its absurd actions, thought that by exposing these things, he would be affected?

Hmph!

The rules in the world were not about justice but about interests.

Even if his brother and son were injured by the other party, the value of the entire Li family to the alliance far exceeded the public opinion they were trying to influence.

They couldn’t be so naive to think that the Yinhaihua was used only by him, Li Zhihui, right?

Many people here were part of his interest group.

Yinhaihua was a convenience enjoyed by all the noble families.

Public opinion?

The anger of ordinary people?

What did that count for?

After calming down, Li Zhihui’s response to this live broadcast from the Slaughterhouse was nothing but mockery.

But he never expected that the other party would add one more sentence.

In the cold storage of the Li family, Ji Fu, holding onto her bone stud earring, said word by word:

“The first person to kill Li Zhihui, the Slaughterhouse will offer a special gift.”

Her expression was indifferent as her gaze quickly searched through these rare medicines, and she continued in a soft voice:

“That is, all the medical technology monopolized by the Li family all along.”

The entire meeting room fell silent.

The person in charge of the Li family suddenly turned back, his face full of panic as he looked at the family head.

Everything in the Li family, whether it’s the family itself or anything else, is built upon this thing.

He knew it, and Li Zhihui knew it even more.

Li Zhihui paused. When he raised his head again, what he saw was the fierce gazes of all the alliance members who had just been chanting slogans at him.

He felt like a sheep caught in a pack of wolves, with countless greedy eyes locked on him.

This feeling, which he had never experienced before, enveloped him, making him feel like he was on the verge of despair.

On the other end of the live broadcast, the person spoke calmly, “Well then, let’s look forward to good news from everyone.”

After Ji Fu finished speaking, she immediately ended the call.

From the Li family control room, they obtained the most valuable thing: the core medical technology of the Li family.

This thing required both medical vault and control room authentication to open.

And she had no intention of distributing this once monopolized technology to others to monopolize.

This was just a bait.

Ji Fu moved through the frozen pharmacy.

Li Zhihui believed in the law of the jungle. It remained to be seen how many people would still protect him under the lure of profit.

When the hungry pack of wolves had feasted on everyone in the Li family, she would reveal this medical technology to the public.

Those who wanted to monopolize it wouldn’t get a bite of this huge cake. Others might also be aware of this, but when it comes to profit… don’t forget, besides the monopolized medical technology, the Li family doesn’t have much power.

And those who have built a huge family system, thriving on the exploitation of the lower-class citizens, will eventually be devoured by this tempting cake.

Isn’t this the jungle law that Li Zhihui believes in the most?