The Last Cat in the Universe
Chapter 69
After throwing the pot, Yue An ran away. Judging from the direction he was heading, he was indeed heading straight for the cafeteria.
The five-hour battle was a little stressful for the soldiers who had been fighting on the frontlines for a long time.
Although their gene levels were generally high, their fatigue did not disappear because of this.
When the cannon fire gradually subsided, the cooks on each ship were already busy preparing a feast to reward the soldiers.
They could not possibly let the soldiers who had returned victorious from battle to eat nutrient drinks, right?
If anyone dared to do such a thing, the two Marshal would be the first to crush them.
The cafeteria had fast food that was easy to store and easy to prepare. It tasted very good, so when Yue An ran to the cafeteria, the entire cafeteria was filled with the aroma of food.
Yue An was the closest to the cafeteria, so he was the first to enter.
The middle-aged man standing behind the counter smiled and said, "Xiao Yu An is also on the battlefield today?"
"Nope."
Yue An waved his hand. His eyes never left today's menu. He even replied casually, "I'm in the command room today."
The middle-aged man was shocked for a moment, then he praised, "Amazing."
Yue An raised his head and smiled at him. He ordered the first 20 dishes on the menu, then found a seat and sat down.
The food could be served by himself or by a robot. When sailing in space, the number of people needed to be reduced. Therefore, many convenient robots were brought along to save manpower and space.
Yue An chose to let a robot deliver the food because he still needed to think about the information he had just obtained.
There was no doubt that the Prophet and the staff officer were the same person.
There was also no doubt that the Prophet was not in good health and could not follow the army.
Yue An was not too surprised by these two points.
However, how bad was the Prophet's health? Yue An still had to ask the people in the interrogation team to help him.
Yue An was not sure if the ambush this time was a result of the Prophet's divination, or if it was because Ji Xiuyun did not hide his route after leading a large group of soldiers to the Eighteenth Star System.
After all, with such a weak constitution, the possibility of him not being able to read fortunes was quite low.
However, Yue An felt that the Prophet was quite influential in the Free Army to be able to send a vanguard force of 600 mechas and six standard frigates.
Everything else aside, this was a waste of money and resources.
A person of unknown origin who had never shown his face in public was able to mobilize such a force. Yue An thought that the Prophet must be very trusted by the leader of the Free Army.
It was five years ago when the Prophet's tactics were first revealed to the public.
In five years, to be able to run to the position of a faction's trusted aide, if it wasn't because of genuine feelings, it was because the benefits were tied too tightly.
. that...................... t........... the Prophet............................
… He shouldn't be that stupid, because that person might be counting on the cat to save his life.
If he really told others about this, the Yue An might not even be able to get away with it. With his weak constitution, he might not even be able to compete with the cat's fur.
However, he could not rule out the possibility that the leader of the Free Army and the prophet truly appreciated each other.
Yue An sighed as he ate. He felt very worried.
It was all Kitty's fault for being too cute, causing everyone in the universe to fight over her.
If that was the case, it was truly a sin.
Yue An felt that it was more appropriate for a person like him, who was full of evil and bloodshed, to squat on the head of Ji Xiuyun, who was able to withstand the bloodshed, to act like a tyrant.
Yue An thought for a while and finished all the food on the table before the others entered the canteen. He even took two rolls and walked towards the deck while eating.
The commander of the First Army, who had been abandoned by Yue An, naturally had to deal with some post-war matters.
He had to clean up the battlefield and take in prisoners. Although his subordinates were handling these matters, he was still the one who reviewed the reports and handed them over to the Marshal.
Now, the commander of the First Army was heading straight to Ji Xiuyun's office. He wanted to ask Yue An about the scapegoat he had thrown at Ji Xiuyun.
To be honest, most of the confidential information was not considered a secret to the commander of the First Army.
Yue An's resume before he was adopted was also very clean. It was impossible for him to have his own intelligence network.
However, when Yue An negotiated with the leader of the Free Army's vanguard unit … Let's call it a negotiation for the time being. During the negotiation, the commander of the First Army was a little confused when he heard Yue An's question.
He had never heard of any of this before!
This was not logical!
Ji Xiuyun obediently accepted the scapegoat. He raised his head and nodded slightly at the commander of the First Army.
"Marshal!"
The commander of the First Army saluted and said bluntly, "I beg you to tell me about the information Yue An mentioned in the command room."
Ji Xiuyun paused for a moment. He put aside the history of the evolution of words and asked, "For example?"
"For example, he seemed to know the Free Army's staff officer … or rather, the prophet very well." The commander of the First Army did not try to avoid the topic at all.
"Oh." Ji Xiuyun nodded calmly. "He tricked them."
The commander of the First Army was stunned by this reply. "You know about it too?"
Ji Xiuyun nodded.
"Then how did you know that the staff officer and the prophet were the same person?"
"The same thing as the nine people who ambushed them."
Marshal Ji took out the array that Yue An had drawn on his desk and waved it in front of the commander of the First Army. "Yue An guessed it blindly."
To put it bluntly, Yue An was tricking them.
They never expected Yue An to be an honest fool.
Everything was exposed once he tricked them.
The commander of the First Army thought about it and accepted this explanation.
He glanced at Ji Xiuyun and saw that the Marshal did not seem to mind or be displeased. He continued to ask, "How did you know that he was not in good health?"
Ji Xiuyun's mind worked quickly. He did not even blink. "Why didn't you release such a useful military general to expand our territory? If it were you, would you do the same?"
"No." The commander of the First Army shook his head.
Ji Xiuyun gestured for him to continue speaking.
The commander of the First Army continued, "Unless there is a reason why he can't come out."
The commander of the First Army understood at this point.
What could be the reason why he could not come out?
It was most likely that he was seriously injured or had a chronic illness that prevented him from joining the army.
With modern medical technology and genetic evolution, many diseases that would have killed ancient humans were no longer a threat to modern humans.
However, humans were not the only ones who had evolved.
Viruses were also evolving.
In addition, the universe was vast and there were many unexplored places. It was not surprising that there were thousands of diseases.
"So, Yue An wants to lure that staff officer over?"
The commander of the First Army looked at Ji Xiuyun and nodded. In his heart, he felt that it would be good if they could get rid of this person. Although they had deciphered the new strategy that Yue An had used in the past, who knew if Yue An had left a way out for himself?
"Then … why did they say that they want your cat?"
Ji Xiuyun was very straightforward. "I don't know."
As Ji Xiuyun said this, he turned his head and looked at the outer layer of the protective deck where the captives were gathered.
He saw Yue An running over with his Meow Meow mech.
Yue An was here as a precaution.
He suddenly remembered that since Yue An knew how to set up formations, it was not impossible for him to bring along some large scale weapons that could not be detected by the detectors.
He brought his black mech and stood on the head of the mech. He approached the outer layer of the protective deck.
A passageway was connected to the protective deck. The passageway was no longer a vacuum. It was a gravitational environment suitable for human survival.
The young man squatted at the entrance of the spacious passageway, his pitch-black military uniform almost blending into his mech. His little white head turned vigilantly, and his soft white hair floated gently in the air.
Yue An's appearance did not affect the logistics team who were using the scanners to check the captives' equipment.
They only raised their heads and saluted him. Then, they continued with their work.
Yue An's blue cat eyes scanned the few captives one by one.
These captives who chose to surrender in the end did not receive the respect of the soldiers.
After their identity microchips were taken away, they would be exiled to an ore star. Now, they would conduct a preliminary examination on these captives.
Yue An squinted his eyes and scanned the captives a few times. Finally, he looked at a man who was standing at the end of the line.
The man was looking around the passageway with a ferocious expression on his face. His eyes were filled with impatience.
Yue An heard Ji Xiuyun's voice from the mech.
Ji Xiuyun listened to the mech's communication channel and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I'm catching mice."
Yue An transferred the communication channel to his optical supercomputer. He jumped into the passageway and headed straight for the man in the middle of the line.
"You …" The man was instantly on guard.
However, in front of Yue An, being on guard was useless.
Ji Xiuyun had just opened the surveillance screen when he saw Yue An holding down a captive. He was unusually bold and unrestrained. He tore open the captive's clothes and reached his hand into the captive's torn collar.
Ji Xiuyun: …
Ji Xiuyun:????
Why is he Fei Si?!
Why is he Fei Si?!
Ji Xiuyun was in disbelief.
Ji Xiuyun could not help but say, "Yue An, you …"
"Found it."
Yue An pulled out several crumpled pieces of paper from the man's inner lining. These pieces of paper looked quite old, but they didn't become thinner or brittle. At a glance, one could see the heavy traces of time on them.
Apart from that, he also found two low-quality and shockingly small spirit stones.
Yue An finished searching the captive's belongings and made sure that the captive no longer had that strange feeling. Only then did he let go of the captive.
Yue An pretended to stuff the two spirit stones, which were only the size of a fingernail, into his Heaven and Earth Sleeve.
Then, he slowly opened one of the crumpled pieces of paper.
It was covered with scribbles.
Ji Xiuyun glanced at Yue An's expression. He thought for a moment and did not say anything.
Yue An thought for a while and opened the other crumpled pieces of paper. His expression became as cold as Ji Xiuyun's usual expression.
"It's you, right? You're the one who contacted us." Yue An looked at the man whose clothes he had stripped off.
He had noticed this man the moment he opened his mouth.
The man spat and glared at him fiercely.
"Did you tell your dying prophet?" Yue An asked him.
The man did not say anything.
"It doesn't matter if you didn't tell him. He's going to die, not me." Yue An put the pieces of paper into his Heaven and Earth Sleeve.
Then, before anyone could react, he grabbed the captive's collar by the collar and pulled open the door at the end of the tunnel. Under the captive's terrified gaze, he threw the captive, who was not wearing any defensive equipment and had a large amount of skin exposed, into the vast universe.
Yue An angrily closed the door and turned to walk into the main ship's cabin.
Ji Xiuyun looked at Yue An's expression and frowned. "Yue An?
What's going on? "
"Four Rolling Thunder Talismans, two Fire Talismans, one Teleportation Talisman, and two Spirit … Energy Crystals used to activate the talismans."
Yue An was furious. "If I hadn't come to take a look just in case, half of your ship would have exploded!
If it had been a frigate, it would have exploded! "
Yue An took the talismans and entered the ship's cabin. "I'm super fierce!" was written all over his face.
His skin was tough, so he was not afraid of this kind of explosion. However, Ji Xiuyun was different. Although Ji Xiuyun's body was much stronger than a human's, if she had to face a huge explosion at such a close distance, she would lose a layer of skin even if she did not die.
If something were to happen to Ji Xiuyun, where would he go to find such a suitable human being?!
If Ji Xiuyun died, who would pay for it?!
The more Yue An thought about it, the angrier he became. However, he also felt lucky.
He decided to find a place with no one around later and throw all these talismans to the teleportation location through the Teleportation Talisman.
It would be best if the teleportation talisman's destination was the Free Army's headquarters!
This cat will send them to heaven!