Gu Ya gripped the guerrilla captain's collar, lifting him with one hand, and said coldly, "No kneeling!"
"Get up! No one is allowed to kneel!"
The villagers slowly stood up.
Qi Ji bent over and offered a hand to the old woman beside him, smiling kindly, "Grandma, hurry and get up."
"These spare parts and instruments are all gifts from Brother Gu. Everyone, let's get busy and put these away properly!"
Gu Ya turned back and said to Qi Ji with a smile, "Now, do you believe it?"
"I believe it, I believe it!" Qi Ji shouted joyfully.
The few of them returned to the large tent. Gu Ya sat in the host's seat and said plainly, "Time is short, so let's make it brief."
"I need you to contact other reliable guerrilla teams and form an alliance. This task must be handled with extreme caution."
"These three encrypted communicators can be used to contact me if needed."
Gu Ya placed the communicators on the table after speaking.
The guerrilla captain nodded solemnly and said, "Your information will be relayed by informants within the city. We all know there's someone named Gu Ya in the Xianxia Kingdom, far across the ocean."
"We've been hoping to meet you one day! We never expected you to actually appear."
"Brother Gu, don't worry! From now on, we will follow you and fight against Black Star!"
Gu Ya stood up, extended his hand to the guerrilla captain, and said, "Remember your words. I will notify you when the operation begins."
"Oh, and one more thing, Qi Ji, I'm taking him with me."
...
"Eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you."
Qi Ji looked up, his cheeks puffed out, and said with a cute smile, "Brother Bai Zhan, this is too delicious. I haven't eaten anything this good in a long time!"
Bai Zhan · Hen pushed his own portion towards Qi Ji and said indifferently, "You can have mine too."
"Thank you, Brother Bai Zhan! But you don't have to, if you give it to me, you won't have any."
"Eat up, eat more, and grow stronger."
After speaking, Bai Zhan · Hen walked out of the room and waited in the corridor.
Not long after, Gu Ya emerged from the adjacent room. Through the crack in the door, Ye Ying could be seen inside.
Beside Ye Ying lay an egg-shaped cryo-chamber, within which a person seemed to be lying.
Bai Zhan · Hen stared at Gu Ya and asked, "What are you planning to do next?"
Gu Ya frowned and said, "One of my intelligence agents is still missing. I need to find her."
"I checked her file within the Black Authority, and it wasn't terminated, just that crucial information was blacked out."
Bai Zhan · Hen stroked his chin and calmly said, "Then there's only one possibility: she was recruited by a Black Star secret department and is currently in a period of encrypted silence."
Gu Ya was also somewhat uncertain about Fu Ya Fang's capabilities, to go from a low-level external clerk to a Black Star secret organization.
Bai Zhan · Hen said, "Tell me her information, and I'll help you investigate."
"No, I must handle this myself. I need to know the exact location of the Black Star Intelligence Department," Gu Ya replied.
"Heh, you should have said so earlier." Bai Zhan · Hen showed a rare smile and said:
"The Black Star Military Intelligence Department primarily deals with overseas intelligence, encompassing military affairs and all countries worldwide. Its jurisdiction is vast, and its power is immense. It's located on the 72nd floor of the Black Authority Tower."
"The Internal Affairs Intelligence Department primarily targets domestic matters. It's located on the 39th floor of the Black Authority Tower."
"The Supervision Department primarily targets the interior of the Black Authority Tower. It's on the 53rd floor of the Black Authority Tower."
"There's also a more mysterious intelligence department, whose name and location are unknown. It is mainly aimed at Xianxia's Special Ninth Division."
"You need to figure out first which specific department she was absorbed into."
Gu Ya said, "Three of them, right? That's easy. You investigate the Internal Affairs Intelligence Department, and I'll investigate the other two."
Bai Zhan · Hen said with a hint of disdain, "Can't you count? I clearly said four departments."
Gu Ya smiled and patted his shoulder, "The Supervision Department has already been taken care of by me."
Bai Zhan · Hen: "???"
"Let's go!"
The two of them hurried away from the consciousness lifeform research institute, parting ways towards their respective targets.
Bai Zhan · Hen had experience in intelligence warfare and a method to infiltrate the Internal Affairs Intelligence Department. Coupled with the unique silent space instrument provided by Gu Ya, it made him even more secure, with nothing to worry about.
After another day and night without sleep, Gu Ya's spirit remained vigorous.
He took a hovercar to the exterior wall of the 71st to 72nd floors of the Black Authority Tower, retracted the hovercar,
The wind howled outside the tower, and the temperature plummeted.
Gu Ya summoned his exoskeleton armor, grabbed onto the guide light strip of the hovercar lane outside the wall, and gazed into the distance.
It was late night again. The city was shrouded in boundless darkness.
Distant skyscrapers stood quietly and mysteriously. Below, among the forest of buildings, hovercar traffic had become sparse.
Gu Ya let out a light breath, pushed hard with both hands, and simultaneously ejected micro-flames from his feet, soaring to the 72nd floor.
Using [Code Tampering], he successfully opened a hovercar bay door, releasing several micro-robots to block any visible surveillance.
Next, he deployed a metal detector. After confirming the absence of invisible surveillance, he squeezed through.
"Starting from here."
Gu Ya placed a hand on the alloy blast door actuator. Suddenly, his head began to fracture,
Like scattered pixels, the fragmented pieces of his body vanished into thin air.
After a few seconds, Gu Ya's body became invisible.
But his consciousness, through the data stream of the actuator, merged into the total data stream of the entire Black Star Military Intelligence Department.
Countless characters flew past his eyes.
Gu Ya intercepted any random stream and could see its entire content.
"As expected..." Gu Ya thought, "Black Star is secretly brewing a war of invasion against Xianxia."
"A lot of intelligence about Xianxia is being gathered here."
"Hmm, some of the intelligence is even about Xianxia's high-ranking officials."
However, these were of no use for now. The most crucial thing was still to find Fu Ya Fang.
By analyzing and tracking dense data targets,
Gu Ya finally located the main server receiving data,
Located in the absolute center of the Military Intelligence Department, within a massive liquid nitrogen cooling chamber.
All data flowed here, was filtered, screened, and saved, then sent from here to their respective terminals.
Even in the dead of night, this server was still receiving and sending tens of thousands of intelligence reports per second.
Behind each of these intelligence reports, there was the potential for the lives of one or several people.
To be more cruel and dark, imagine this server as a container filled with wronged souls.
Gu Ya quickly searched for Fu Ya Fang's whereabouts amidst the ocean of data.
But to Gu Ya's disappointment,
There was no information about Fu Ya Fang.
"This means it's basically possible to rule out Fu Ya Fang being here."
"It's been almost two weeks since I arrived in the Black Star Empire, and so many things have happened, yet I still haven't found her."
At this moment, a piece of intelligence concerning Gu Ya himself appeared in his view.
Gu Ya thought for a moment and began to search for his own name, God-Powered, and other information related to himself.
He wouldn't have known if he hadn't searched.
So much information was uncovered.
Gu Ya gazed at the thousands of intelligence reports about himself, his heart slightly shaken.
"Black Star's research on me is truly exhaustive."
Immediately after,
A piece of intelligence about the "Chongli Sect" appeared in one of the classified intelligence reports about Gu Ya:
[As investigated by the Chongli Sect, Gu Ya has already infiltrated the Black Star Empire.]
When Gu Ya searched for "Chongli Sect,"
Hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports simultaneously appeared before him.
Although these intelligence reports were electronic, when stacked together, they became as high as a small hill.
And at the highest point of the "small hill," the most classified intelligence report read:
[The Chongli Sect has found a way to kill Gu Ya.]
[The method is as follows......]