Sky-cracking Rider-Chapter 1312 - 1278: Longinus Lost Again
After spending a few days in the "Boundary Pearl" Life Space, Chen Fei did not wait for Minante to find someone to establish a gray gang in the local area of "Denggao" City.
On one hand, the personnel had already been dispersed, the residential areas were relatively scattered, and many people were busy dealing with everyday necessities like food and fuel, leaving few idlers. On the other hand, something unexpected happened on the Blue Star, forcing Chen Fei to return early.
According to Murphy's Law, bad things often come one after another.
The Longinus lost from Tuiana's sovereignty still hadn't been retrieved, and at this critical juncture, yet another Longinus went missing from the Africa Continent.
Not only Chen Fei, but even the sovereign authorities wanted to curse.
The Longinus lost from Tuiana was an unexpected event caused by a coincidence of many factors. Who could have thought that a few commoner kids with awakened special abilities would dare to target the "Dimensional Gate" and boldly steal the Longinus.
Subjectively, Tuiana had no intention to lose its Longinus.
The lost Longinus on the Africa Continent was not due to internal turmoil causing the "Dimensional Gate" to be undefended and exploited by outsiders, but because a big shot in power, for some unknown reason, ordered the Longinus used for positioning to be pulled off the "Dimensional Gate", and then both this person and the Longinus vanished without a trace.
According to the strict management system of the "Dimensional Gate", once a Longinus is installed, regardless of whether it's in an open state, it's not allowed to be removed. In fact, the "Dimensional Gate" itself is not as important as the Longinus. The Longinus is the common property of all humanity on Blue Star, not belonging to any single sovereignty or individual.
But someone went ahead and did it anyway, leading to the loss of Longinus because of the audacious and reckless actions of a power figure on the Africa Continent and the failure to enforce the "Dimensional Gate" management rules. This is unforgivable, beyond what words like "stupidity" can describe.
The mastermind behind it has not yet been concluded. It may have been secretly orchestrated by the "Sagali" civilization, or it might have been the illegal forces driven mad by the allure of the real and fake Longinus. Since they couldn't find the Longinus lost from Tuiana, they simply dismantled one from another "Dimensional Gate."
The money-crazed would never care about others' lives or deaths.
The situation with the Longinus lost from Tuiana, combined with the chaos of authentic and counterfeit Longinus, is like opening Pandora's Box; many things happen at either zero or countless times.
In this way, none of the "Dimensional Gates" on the entire Blue Star are safe.
It's not about being burglarized, rather it's like someone could have the same ideas as the sovereignty of Africa, looking to make a fortune by secretly pulling off Longinus from the "Dimensional Gate", and then disappearing to live freely without caring about the subsequent disaster, civilization's survival be damned.
The council of the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee recommended reclaiming all "Dimensional Gate" management rights to be unified under the joint forces' control, to prevent such loss incidents from happening again.
This proposal, seen as closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, received support from many sovereignties.
Before the proposal was passed, Chen Fei, who had just returned from the "Boundary Pearl" Life Space to the South Continent of America, received an order from the Blue Star Global Joint Defense Committee Headquarters to dispatch a substantial number of Combat Mech units to help guard the "Dimensional Gates" distributed across the Blue Star, especially to ensure the security of the important Longinus.
Originally, this task could have been managed by the Combat Mechs controlled by the digital intelligent structure "Cybertrom," whose safety and reliability far surpassed the old AI "Adam." But now the main body of "Cybertrom" is collapsed and still unrepaired, those Combat Mechs using Cybertrom's derived subunits have collectively declined in intelligence, unable to fulfill these tasks, so it was entrusted to Chen Fei, while hoping he could, as before, restrain the Great Demon King "Adam."
However, there is reassurance in that neither Chen Fei nor "Adam" would have improper thoughts about the "Dimensional Gate" and Longinus due to having better options (Stargate). With no conflict of interest and a common goal of retrieving the Longinus, they are indeed the most suitable choices to guard the "Dimensional Gate" and Longinus.
The Global United Defense Committee Headquarters' high-level council, which Chen Fei personally reformed, is not entirely composed of straw men and is more than just a timid puppet show, but rather it's performing its original, intended function.
In fact, the council members do have some skills, and if willing to be responsible, it wouldn't have come to Chen Fei, the tyrant, throwing around in the Desert Peninsula where right and wrong abound.
After receiving this directive from the Global United Defense Committee Headquarters, Chen Fei showed no hesitation, promptly dispatching his Mechanical Army to "Dimensional Gates" around the globe to aid in the defenses, rather than fully taking over, since AI also has its weaknesses and is not adept at handling complicated and rapidly changing situations.
He didn't intend to use the opportunity to bargain for more benefits, considering he had already freeloaded enough and caused quite a bit of trouble, he should do some proper things, or else constantly taking advantage without loss could deplete the sovereigns' patience and tolerance, eventually tallying up.
Training troops for a thousand days, using them in one moment.
The Global Joint Defense Committee Headquarters' order was actually just in line with Chen Fei's intent, as it facilitated bringing all "Dimensional Gates" on the Blue Star under his supervision, preventing the recurrence of mishaps akin to the sovereignty on Tuiana or the Africa Continent.
If one Longinus was lost here today, and another there tomorrow, not only would it be an endless pursuit, but losing so many all at once would be overwhelming for Chen Fei, and the probability of the "Sagali" Civilization succeeding would multiply rapidly. By then it would really be a case of my house door always open, inviting guests at will, and it wouldn't be right if the Blue Star Civilization didn't perish.
Chen Fei didn't stay in Socotra Island to guard his small turf, but personally took charge on the South Continent of America, keeping a close eye on the lost Longinus to leave no opportunity for the "Sagali" Civilization. Without this threat, he wouldn't care who's setting up a "Dimensional Gate" illegally to earn big through illicit channels, since internal threats are never greater than external ones coveting civilization.
Moreover, the Soul Research Team of the Cangqiong Star Silan Dynasty had made significant progress, not only confirming the true existence of the soul but also successfully extracting and preserving soul energy.
Although more applications of soul energy have yet to be developed, this discovery in a sense proves the fundamental purpose of the "Sagali" civilization's continuous devouring of other intelligent species' civilizations, meaning there's no potential for peaceful coexistence between these parasitic species and other intelligent species.
Whether it's humanity on Blue Star, or intelligent species on Cangqiong Star, their position against the "Sagali" parasitic species is mutually exclusive: it's either us or them.
"We recovered another counterfeit Longinus last night, unfortunately, not one of ours."
The intelligence trader Kraken took some time to secretly meet with Chen Fei on the outskirts of Chapala City to report on the recent progress.
On the walls of the meeting room, several Longinus are mounted horizontally, seventeen in total, each with a tag at the end noting its source and history.
Among them, ten are high-quality fakes personally produced by Chen Fei, equipped with recording, networking, and positioning functions, while the other seven were discovered during retrieval as counterfeits, much cruder compared to the former, lacking additional features, and showing noticeable differences in size and weight compared to the genuine ones.
In order to recover these "Longinus," over fifty illegal forces were uprooted and annihilated.
"Collecting so many counterfeits is meaningless unless you investigate the clues of those secretly creating illusions to confuse the sight."
