"Confess and be lenient, resist and be stern!"

Lu Xiaoyao kicked one of the three tied-up people in the face, her expression fierce, completely ignoring the groans of pain from the person beneath her foot.

"You motherfucker, taking money from the Zerg, you really think being human is too easy? Why don't you just slit your throats and reincarnate as bugs!"

Dong Lei followed suit, whipping with a vengeance. This wasn't the underground city; on the surface, the biggest fist ruled!

The howling sandstorm outside perfectly masked the commotion inside.

Dong Lei and Lu Xiaoyao were both prime examples of reckless fools. Asking them to investigate was either a matter of extracting confessions through torture or forcing compliance with brutal interrogation.

Anyway, Lu Xiaoyao and the others knew that these three were ultimately executed, so they must have done something wrong!

The problem now was whether they would talk or not.

"I really don't know!"

Even though Lu Xiaoyao had beaten them black and blue, the three hadn't revealed anything.

"Don't know? If you don't know, why did you run when you saw us? What are you guilty about?"

Lu Xiaoyao pressed down harder with her foot, and the person beneath her immediately cried out. Then, Lu Xiaoyao heard the man shout, "Bullshit, why wouldn't we run if you were chasing us?!"

"Hey!"

"If someone suddenly rushed to your door, wouldn't you run?"

Another person yelled, a venomous look in their swollen eyes. When Lu Xiaoyao saw it, she slapped him directly across the face.

You can't indulge bad people!

"What are you looking at!? Would I arrest you if you hadn't done anything wrong? Colluding with the Zerg, you've got some nerve!"

Lu Xiaoyao looked down at the fat man she had slapped, grabbed his collar, and questioned him with a chilling gaze, "How much of a deposit did they give you, and when were you supposed to hand over the deployment map of the Guangyu Star System?"

When Lu Xiaoyao and Dong Lei had been beating them and talking about colluding with the Zerg, they had thought the two were just bluffing. Such secretive information hadn't been uncovered by previous investigations, so how could these two know?

"Whoa, they're guilty! Look! Their expressions!" As Dong Lei excitedly pointed at them and shouted, the three subconsciously looked away. Then, they heard, "Wow, they really have a guilty conscience, turning their heads as soon as they hear that~"

The three: …

Damn it, they really were bluffing!

…

"The upper management of the underground city actually consists of three people…"

After leaving Feng Li, Mingmei and Mu Chen returned to the treehouse and carefully analyzed the information Feng Li had given them.

"The Beastman-Human hybrid, Heck, is specifically in charge of security in the underground city;

Feng Li is responsible for the entire Outer Star Sea's network construction, especially the dark web, due to his strong mental power as a Zerg-Merfolk hybrid;

The distribution and management of resources in the entire underground city is handled by the human, Youkelian."

Mu Chen presented the three people's profiles on the optical computer in front of Mingmei and said in detail: "Heck's father violated a Federal Human girl, causing her to become pregnant and die in childbirth. His father was executed under federal charges.

Heck grew up in an orphanage and was constantly ostracized and bullied because of his half-beast form and mixed-blood identity. After adulthood, he slaughtered the entire town, including the orphanage, and fled to the Outer Star Sea."

Heck's experience, while sympathetic to some extent, was not a reason for his final rampage and massacre. Mingmei looked at the information and didn't know what kind of mental state he was in now.

"Because of his SS-level physique and super recovery ability, Heck is almost the number one in terms of combat power in the Outer Star Sea. Therefore, in the underground city, no one dares to openly resist Heck in security management."

"We can skip Feng Li for now. The main one is the human, Youkelian, he is a two-hundred-year-old monster."

Although the average lifespan of people in the Interstellar Era is between 300-500, in a place like the Outer Star Sea, living past 100 is considered a long life.

Living to be over 200 and spending over 100 years in the Outer Star Sea... who wouldn't overthink it?

The words "full of schemes" were practically written all over Youkelian's face.

"Heck's and Feng Li's ages combined aren't as old as Youkelian's alone," Mingmei muttered. "But what mistake did he make?"

"He didn't make a mistake."

"Huh?"

Previously, Feng Li wasn't willing to elaborate on these two people's affairs; he simply gave a brief introduction and sent the information to their optical computer for them to read.

Mingmei hadn't had time to look at the detailed information about Youkelian, but at least her suspicion of him had increased infinitely in her heart.

"He was captured by space pirates when he was on a starship, and then he was brought to the Outer Star Sea. After that, he settled down here."

After Mu Chen finished reading the information, his incredulity was almost the same as Mingmei's.

That's it?

You're just that casual?

Captured and then... just settled down here?

The Outer Star Sea isn't some kind of paradise!

What was he thinking?

"Is this information accurate?"

Mingmei even suspected that Feng Li was deliberately stirring things up.

"At least that's what the current information says."

Mingmei even personally looked at the optical computer. After reading it, Mingmei's expression became even more complicated.

"I think this person is still suspicious." Mingmei rubbed her chin, still feeling that Youkelian was really hard not to suspect.

What kind of normal person gets robbed and then develops in the Outer Star Sea as a matter of course?

Shouldn't he be thinking about how to get back?

How did he directly become a top leader in the underground city?

…

Meanwhile, Youkelian, who was suspected by Mingmei and the others, was still living a good life outside the game.

Yan Hui looked at the middle-aged man with glasses and a refined appearance in the Star Network virtual space and couldn't help but sigh at how unique this person was in the Outer Star Sea.

"Mr. Yan, I'm old."

"Yeah, can't tell."

Yan Hui wasn't impressed by the other party's sigh. Back then, they could only rely on the force in Feng Li's hands in the Outer Star Sea. However, he never expected that the key clues to find out the mastermind behind the scenes would be provided by this person.

Yan Hui didn't believe that he didn't have any other ideas. If he really felt old, he could just find a hole and lie down.

Facing Yan Hui's forced compliment, Youkelian shook his head with a smile: "With Lisa's departure, she took away all my enthusiasm. I can only say that I have lived up to everything Lisa asked me to do to get to where I am today."

Youkelian's peach blossom eyes, with a hint of fine lines, looked at the void, remembering the first time the girl with cat ears appeared in front of him.

So agile and lively, like a ray of warm sunshine in winter, shining on his cold heart.

Even though the other party was smiling and holding an energy gun to his head at the time...

Looking at the other party's expression, Yan Hui suddenly remembered a friend he had known many years ago, who stubbornly refused to transform into a human and wanted to disappear into the world as the crystal core gradually shattered. Before that, he often went to a mountain, sat there in a daze, his expression similar to Youkelian's.

"You gave up the new achievements you just obtained in the scientific research field for your wife? You don't care about all the glory and fame?"

Yan Hui had investigated Youkelian, and his citizen status in the empire had always been displayed as missing.

Instead, Youkelian raised his eyebrows, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and said, "At that time, I remember my mentor said not to publish it in my name?"

In their circle, he only learned about his mentor's reputation after he became his student.

Because of the other party's power, he was just a poor student. Accepting the arrangement of fate, he took a sum of money used to "shut him up" and went out to travel and relax.

But he never expected that he would be robbed while relaxing, and his life would start a new journey.

"Ah, your mentor was probably more unlucky than you. Before he could modify your information, he went out to a gathering and died in an accident."

Not everyone was as powerless and easy to bully as Youkelian. He was purely walking at night and met a ghost, and was directly killed by the revenge of an illegitimate son of a large family.

"Is that so…"

Hearing this news, Youkelian smiled helplessly, without showing much disappointment.

He was not interested in hearing about what happened when he was not around. Getting straight to the point, Youkelian suddenly asked, "I heard that you… have a way to bring people back from the dead, is that right?"