The Celestial Sharp Government was quite dissatisfied with the response from the Anomalous Management Division: You created this mess yourselves, and now you want Celestial Sharp to pay for it?

This is an entire habitable planet! A one or two-day flight suspension isn’t a big deal, but for three or five days... just bear with it.

However, an indefinite suspension is... truly despairing.

What about the Anomalous Management Division? This endangers the entire planet’s economy and livelihood; can you handle that?

The Celestial Sharp Government was not happy, but they wouldn’t directly oppose the Anomalous Management Division’s suggestion.

They indeed continued the flight suspension but at the same time, they complained to the Central Government: the demands from the Anomalous Management Division are really too much.

This is a normal procedure within government sectors; if a problem can’t be solved internally, it should be reported higher up.

However, the Star Domain Government also didn’t back up Celestial Hook—people in government, who wouldn’t kick the can down the road?

They informed the Celestial Hook Government: this matter should still be carefully negotiated between you and the Anomalous Management Division.

Our only stance is that Celestial Hook’s economy and livelihood can’t be affected, but neither can the requests from the Anomalous Management Division be ignored.

You must know, the Anomalous Management Division’s current operation is massive, and their losses are severe. The local government cannot become their obstacle.

As for how to negotiate, and to what extent it’s considered win-win—well, we trust the wisdom of the Celestial Hook Government!

The government over at Celestial Hook was angry enough to want to curse, but there’s nothing they can do; the tone set by their superiors was just like that.

You just move your lips and talk, without even giving any guiding opinions. It’s easy to preach from the sidelines.

However, the Celestial Sharp Government really had no choice; they could only continue the flight suspension but privately did not prohibit rumors from spreading.

This was the demand of the Anomalous Management Division, and even the Central Government wasn’t supporting us, so when the suspension will end... who knows!

An abnormal celestial phenomenon? Impossible! The time of an abnormal celestial event can be roughly analyzed, but human factors can’t be helped.

Just as the rumors were spreading wildly, Qu Jianlei contacted the Paranoid from Celestial Hook again through Little Lake.

The plan of actions for the two planets was agreed upon from the start, with the purpose of responding to each other.

Over at Celestial Sharp, there are more Supremes, making it difficult to attack.

Moreover, with lower-level Awakened like Bentley participating, to facilitate leaving the scene, Celestial Sharp would initiate first.

After Celestial Sharp launches the attack, it will definitely attract the high attention of the Anomalous Management Division, and the alertness of other planets will relatively loosen.

Then the Paranoid would seize the opportunity to launch an attack, and the Anomalous Management Division would be caught in a situation difficult to manage.

As a result, the possibility for Qu Jianlei and his party to escape from Celestial Sharp would significantly increase.

As for the Paranoid possibly being trapped on Celestial Hook... it’s not much of a matter.

This one’s Spiritual Power is strong, and he’s alone, so the difficulty of smuggling isn’t very high.

Even if he fails to smuggle, his understanding of the Imperial is far superior to others, making the odds of him being detected very low.

The Paranoid himself does not reject such an arrangement; he even believes this is Rhodiola rosea’s acknowledgment of his strength.

This series of plans mostly achieved their goals, but the final result was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Who would have thought that the Celestial Sharp Government could be so cowardly, unable to provide a final deadline for ending the flight suspension?

Qu Jianlei and his party spent a fortune to take a private starship here, and they also planned to leave this way.

However, no matter how powerful the forces behind the private starship are, can they withstand an official suspension?

In fact, this private starship didn’t even feel the need to take the risk—since everyone can’t leave, just stay a little longer.

But for Qu Jianlei and his party, continuing to wait would gradually increase the danger.

By the time reinforcement from the Anomalous Management Division truly arrives, it would be even harder to get away.

For this reason, Qu Jianlei contacted the Paranoid to know his situation.

"I’m fine," the Paranoid straightforwardly responded, "right now it’s inconvenient to smuggle, but getting out is a matter of time."

"However, things on your side don’t seem good... the other people’s cultivation level is a bit low."

After thinking, Qu Jianlei said, "Anyway, just act accordingly; it would be great if you could eliminate one or two more Supremes."

"That’s a bit stretching it," although the Paranoid is arrogant, he has a clear understanding of his abilities.

"I can try, but the difficulty is quite high... unless I plan to expose myself."

"Protecting yourself is the priority," Qu Jianlei responded without hesitation, "I’ll also think of a way on my side."

"That’s the kind of talk I like to hear," throughout the Paranoid’s life, he got used to carrying all kinds of expectations, often unable to refuse.

Now Rhodiola rosea surprisingly can understand his inconvenience, such a feeling is really rare.

Supremes are also human, facing heavy pressure, they too can have headaches.

Only, most times, when they want to complain, they have nowhere to do so, thus have to be strong themselves.

For the Paranoid, the understanding of his companions prevents him from having to move forward bitterly, and such coordination is very pleasant.

So he declared, "I will choose the timing, but it takes time."

Qu Jianlei hung up the communication, helplessly pouting: The problem is, what everyone lacks the most is also time.

Since he can’t completely rely on the Paranoid, he must take the initiative to strike himself.

He issued a command to Little Lake, "Hype up the suspension of flights, guide public anger toward the Anomalous Management Division."

For Big Head Butterfly, stirring things up isn’t too difficult.

It’s not great to always speak anonymously, but it can also steal some people’s IDs to speak—let’s just call it hacking behavior.

The key is that it’s responsible for initiating, and once the topic is stirred up, naturally there will be others following suit.

It even used the shock style commonly seen on Blue Star’s network.

"Let me tell you a groundbreaking secret: The so-called abnormal celestial phenomena at Celestial Sharp recently are actually..."

"Shocking, a certain Planet Government is actually..."

"Someone said just one sentence and ended up dead with nineteen knife wounds at home, you must learn how to speak..."

Honestly speaking, shock style in the Imperial isn’t something rare, it’s just a gimmick to catch eyeballs.

However, the Imperial is relatively strict about speech control, especially paying close attention to information barriers.

So the stir Little Lake created is really not small, and it didn’t take long for public opinion to start fermenting.

Who would want their own planet to be artificially grounded? The worst part is, the suspension’s duration is... indefinite!

Many poor people who can’t afford interstellar travel all spoke out against it, with real resentment everywhere.

What’s wrong with not being able to travel interstellar? They live at the lowest tier of society, more sensitive to the rising prices!

There are also some whose work involves the export of goods from Celestial Sharp Star.

Reduced demand naturally leads to stopping production and laying off work, and income accordingly decreases.

Especially hateful is, there’s capital taking advantage of the situation, creating chaos with people of interest pushing it, causing market turbulence.

The nature of capital doesn’t need much to be said, even without chances they’ll artificially create them, let alone now when it’s a real thing?

The Imperial isn’t a complete market economy, the territory is too vast, so proper control of the market is necessary.

But at this time, the Celestial Sharp Government adopted a laissez-faire attitude, no idea whether due to grievances or vested interests.

However, while the Central Government didn’t bother with prices, nor care about halts of production and work, they did respond to public opinion.

Post deletions, bans, etc., did show up, with quite significant force.

Yet wanting to completely eradicate them would be impossible, Little Lake’s ability to fuel the flames has improved considerably.

But the next thing that caught Qu Jianlei off guard happened: Customs Enforcement Division activated artificial intelligence.

This thing not only deletes posts, bans speech very intelligently, it also weaves data chains trying to trace the mastermind behind it all.

Little Lake has already swallowed this guy’s data fragments, and knows how to handle it smoothly, slipping away effectively.

However, it’s ultimately far inferior in computational power, so during evading, its work efficiency is impacted.

When Qu Jianlei discovered this, he almost cursed: What’s the Anomalous Management Division’s issue that you, Customs Enforcement, are meddling?

He could imagine it, Anomalous and Customs are both directly managed by the Imperial, so cooperation between the two departments isn’t difficult.

Yet this still made him feel indignant: I just let you Customs Enforcement off now you jump out again to show off?

Then don’t blame him for being impolite, you should know inflating public opinion is just the smoke bomb he released.

Is public opinion important? Of course, it’s important, but what does it matter before the violence apparatus?

On the night the artificial intelligence appeared, Qu Jianlei went alone to the main base of the Celestial Sharp Star Customs Enforcement Division.

Normally, the main guard of Customs Enforcement is rather strict.

But at this moment, the armed forces of the Customs Enforcement Division were also sent out, assisting the Celestial Sharp Government in guarding star ports and maintaining order.

Even the artificial intelligence at the main division was helping the Government to douse flames, so the main division’s own defense capability inevitably decreased.

After Qu Jianlei silently infiltrated, he found a Customs Enforcement Warship that was relatively intact.

Because the entire planet was on hold, the deployment frequency of Customs Enforcement warships greatly decreased to less than 20% of before.

Some of the warships were used for maintaining order, but some took the opportunity to begin repairs and maintenance.

This warship was just finished being maintained, had a small amount of power but nearly no ammunition.

This is the standard waiting status of warships with no combat requirements—the real ammunition must be controlled.

In the dark, Qu Jianlei entered the warship, controlling Little Lake, quietly severed its connection with the outside world.

Then he released a set of massive battery packs—starting the warship makes too much noise, using batteries is safer.

With this power, Big Head Butterfly quickly checked the status of the warship and found all equipment in good condition.

However, it also found an intelligent terminal in the process of being activated.

Without hesitation, Qu Jianlei put away the smart terminal,

Then he took out the modified terminal and some ammunition.

"Little Lake, first finish delivering the ammo, then maximize the thrust, forcefully take off!"

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