After hanging up the video call, Pei Zhenyue looked up to see his adjutant walking in, looking dejected and disheveled.

“Didn’t catch him again?”

Adjutant: “His butler said he went out to play chess with an old friend.”

He had gone twice, and both times had been turned away.

Instead of getting angry, Pei Zhenyue smiled.

“No need to go anymore. Wait for him to come find me himself.”

The adjutant hesitated. “Since we already have evidence of his crimes, why not arrest him directly?”

Pei Zhenyue stood up and poured himself a glass of water.

“Right now, the most important thing is to stabilize the situation outside.”

Adjutant: “But if we don’t control him, what if he realizes something is wrong and causes trouble again—”

Pei Zhenyue took a sip from his thermos.

“That’s why you should go to the technical department right now and shut down the Bai family’s network.”

The adjutant’s eyes flashed. “Cut off the internet?”

Pei Zhenyue smiled. “Cut off half of it.”

---

Golden Shark Constellation, Planet J23.

Meng Dahu was leading the rescue team from the Vulture Legion to evacuate victims.

“Big Bro, there are so many elderly and children, how can just a few of us make it in time!” A red-haired lackey was exhausted, soaking wet with sweat, panting while sitting on a pile of rubble.

Seeing this, the others couldn’t walk anymore either. They braced themselves on their knees and looked at Meng Dahu.

“Are these beasts crazy?! Screaming day and night, do they work in three shifts?!”

“I haven’t rested for 49 fucking hours! I never worked this hard even when robbing people!”

“If this goes on, forget about saving others, we’ll need someone to save us.”

Meng Dahu coughed a few times, his ribs hurting from the effort.

Two days ago, during that sonic wave detection thing, he didn’t know it was that dangerous. Now everyone was coughing every day, and they had all lost a few pounds.

“Get up and work! They’re ranking us in the group chat. Do you want us to be at the bottom?!”

The lackeys wailed.

“What happens if we’re at the bottom?”

Meng Dahu roared with a rough voice: “What do you think happens?! Work for free, no rewards, and forget about getting household registration!”

Mentioning household registration, everyone perked up a bit.

“For the household registration, charge!”

“We’re already here, get up and party!”

They rushed into an elderly residential area, threw disabled elderly people onto their backs, and ran out.

The elderly people were originally lining up waiting for rescue, but instead, a group of colorful delinquents arrived and started snatching people, scaring them half to death.

“You, put him down!” An old man chased after them, running tremblingly.

“I’m warning you, the army is coming soon, don’t mess around!”

“Old Chen doesn’t have any family; kidnapping him won’t get you any money. Please, I beg you.”

The lackeys were already tired, and running with people on their backs left them with no strength to speak.

One of them stopped to explain a few words, only to hear a fellow lackey run past and say:

“Don’t explain. Wasting that energy isn’t worth it; better to carry one more person down. Finish the mission early and go back to the car to enjoy the AC.”

The lackey thought about it. Makes sense.

Old Chen, who was being carried, had difficulty walking. Encountering a beast tide, he had already despaired. He didn’t expect to wait for the legion’s rescue, but the hope that had just ignited was shattered again. He couldn’t help shedding two lines of old tears.

“I’m not worth any money, boohoo—”

The lackey carrying him turned his head and shouted in disgust.

“Old man, cry if you want, but don’t wipe snot on me!”

A rescue vehicle was parked downstairs.

Several people queued up to send the elderly onto the vehicle.

Just as Meng Dahu got out of the car and his lackey was about to put the old man in, they suddenly heard a roar. A massive amount of dust hit them in the face, instantly reducing visibility to within a meter.

“Cough cough cough—”

“What’s the situation?! Who threw a bomb here?!”

“What is Vulture doing? Their aim is too bad!”

“I, I can’t breathe!”

Amidst the complaints and the cries for help from the elderly, Meng Dahu felt his head swell.

“Hey, speed up—”

Halfway through his sentence, he suddenly heard a bird call. His hair stood on end, and he looked over stiffly.

The dust gradually cleared. The 16-story building next door had collapsed, leaving only half standing. A Level 3 mutated eagle with a wingspan of ten meters was perched on the building, looking at them like prey.

Meng Dahu’s chin trembled uncontrollably. He pulled out his sidearm and fired a few shots wildly in that direction.

“Run, run, run, run fast!”

Things like eagles, even if only Level 1 mutations, were hard to survive against once encountered.

They were extremely fast, and their sharp talons could pierce a person’s shoulder blades, instantly carrying them off the ground.

Even if one was lucky enough to escape, if not eaten, they would fall and die.

The panicked screams around them heightened the elderly people’s fear, causing them to cry and shout uncontrollably.

The eagle spread its wings, screeched, and suddenly dove down.

“Ahhhhh—!”

“Get in the car!”

“Get down!”

Meng Dahu squatted against the vehicle body, cursing the ancestors of the Vulture Legion in his heart.

“Listen to my command, shoot together on the count of three! One… two…”

Boom!

An explosion sounded in his ears. A wave of scorching heat spread out, picking up dust from the ground and filling the sky again.

Meng Dahu was stunned for a moment, then cursed loudly.

“I haven’t fucking counted to three yet, you guys—”

The lackey hiding behind a pillar pointed at the sky and shouted: “Big Bro, we didn’t shoot, it was a bomb!”

Meng Dahu looked up abruptly, just as a blood-stained feather drifted down, blocking his vision.

Through the feather, he vaguely saw a pure black warship.

He yanked the feather off, his eyes wide.

That model, no mistake.

It was Extreme Shadow!

“We, we’re saved!” Meng Dahu almost cried. “Our backer is here!”

The warship landed in the open space of the residential area, and a group of people walked down.

The elderly people, ravaged by the dust, had no other hope but to look after each other and see if they would live long enough for the legion to save them.

Seeing the warship land, their shattered hope reignited.

“Look, it’s a warship!”

“The legion sent people!”

“Wait, look, those people coming down aren’t wearing military uniforms!”

In the smoke, a group of people disembarked from the warship. The alpha walking in front wore a white shirt, sleeves rolled up casually, buttons not done up properly—he didn’t look like a soldier at all.

Just as the elderly felt they were doomed, a large creature suddenly came down behind the group.

They rubbed their eyes and looked carefully.

“Oh my, that dog is huge.”

“A dog? Could they be the Extreme Shadow Star Pirate Group?”

Hearing the words “Extreme Shadow,” everyone’s eyes lit up.

“Then we’re saved!”

“Extreme Shadow is great. I heard they save people everywhere; they’re very enthusiastic. I saw it on the news!”

Meng Dahu, who heard the entire conversation: “…”

Your misunderstanding of Extreme Shadow is too damn deep.

Chi Yao swept a glance around and looked at Meng Dahu, who was squatting on the ground unable to get up.

“It’s you.”

Meng Dahu grinned sheepishly. “Hehehe, B-Boss.”

Chi Yao: “Tell your people to help them onto the warship.”

Meng Dahu used the car to pull himself up. “Okay!”

Chi Yao turned to Fang Liang behind him. “You’re in charge of registration. Hand the list to Vulture later.”

Fang Liang nodded. “Yes.”

With Chi Yao there, like a stabilizing needle in the ocean, just standing there without saying anything made Meng Dahu’s lackeys feel at ease. Even the elderly felt inexplicably secure, and the scene was unusually harmonious.

Faint bird calls came from the distance. Having just experienced the attack, everyone’s scalps went numb.

Meng Dahu turned his head—as luck would have it, another Level 3 mutated eagle.

This one didn’t even pause; within two breaths, it had already rushed to a very close distance.

Everyone instinctively tensed up and reached for their guns.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out. The mutated eagle plummeted straight down, smashing onto the collapsed building next door. Its wings flapped twice, then it stopped moving.

Meng Dahu’s group looked at Chi Yao, then at the pistol in his hand, utterly stunned.

One shot kill!

And using a small pistol at that!

Boss is awesome!

Chi Yao holstered his gun and looked over.

“What are you stopping for?”

Everyone: “…”

Meng Dahu coughed dryly and silently carried an old man onto the warship.

Guided by Extreme Shadow lackeys, they placed the people in the passenger cabin.

Old Chen, having been put down, smiled. “You guys are very familiar with Extreme Shadow? If you said so earlier, we wouldn’t have been so scared.”

An old man nearby chimed in: “Exactly. You looked so fierce and didn’t say where you were from, causing us to misunderstand. Thanks for earlier.”

Meng Dahu thought he was hallucinating.

Since when did the words “Extreme Shadow” change from “bad guys, commit all kinds of crimes, dangerous” to “enthusiastic, reassuring, peace of mind”?

He wiped his face, lifted his chin, and gave himself a thumbs up.

“We are the Fierce Tiger Star Pirate Group. Remember this: just like Extreme Shadow, we are good-hearted star pirates!”

Coming out of the passenger cabin, Meng Dahu wore a long face, feeling very down.

Doing the same job as star pirates, Chi Yao could be recognized by everyone, while it was so hard for them to even do a good deed.

In the corridor, the lackeys were discussing Chi Yao’s shot.

Meng Dahu walked over and huffed, “The gun in his hand is Xuan Feng (‘Black Phoenix’), not an ordinary pistol.”

The lackeys immediately gathered around.

“Is that gun very powerful?”

“I think I’ve heard of it. It’s famous in the black market! It was auctioned for a sky-high price back then!”

“No wonder it’s so powerful; it turns out the weapon is good.”

“If we had that kind of weapon, we could also blast a Level 3 eagle in one shot!”

“Fire one shot and lose an arm. You’d get to fire two shots at most in your lifetime.”

Meng Dahu led them outside, sneering. “You think anyone can be a Boss?”

---

In the main cabin, Chi Yao had people circle the areas close to the front line but far from the Vulture troops. After the warship was full, they flew towards the Vulture fleet carrying the people.

Fang Liang walked over. “Boss, the sonic waves detected nearby are all normal.”

“Mm.”

Chi Yao switched to the sonic wave detection window. “After delivering the people, we’ll go take a stroll on the battlefield.”

A lackey waved to Chi Yao from not far away.

“Boss, we’ve contacted the Vulture commander.”

Chi Yao rested his chin on his hand and beckoned to the monitoring console. A video window popped up on the console.

“You really came?!”

On the screen, Huang Hao looked at Chi Yao with surprise.

Chi Yao: “Could it be fake?”

Huang Hao grinned slyly. “Our Vulture’s combat strength isn’t just talk. You have a good eye, knowing to come cling to my thigh.”

Chi Yao crossed his arms in front of him.

“Indeed not bad, just a little bit worse than Flying Dragon.”

Huang Hao’s smile stiffened.

Chi Yao: “How is the sonic wave testing going? Give me the data.”

“Give it to you?” Huang Hao sized him up. “Internal military data, inconvenient to leak.”

Chi Yao smiled. “I was just asking casually. If you don’t give it, does that mean I can’t get it?”

Huang Hao: “…”

Curses reached his lips when his terminal suddenly rang. He opened it to see a system-wide message from the military department: All deployed legions must actively cooperate with Extreme Shadow to clear the beast tide.

Legions cooperate with a star pirate group?!

An hour later, the Extreme Shadow warship docked with the Vulture main ship.

Ignoring the surprised gazes of the patrolling soldiers along the way, Chi Yao familiarly entered the command cabin.

Huang Hao watched him walk in, inexplicably feeling that he was different from the last time they met at the military headquarters.

But he couldn’t say exactly where the difference lay.

He thought a star pirate like Chi Yao, who enjoyed humiliating officers, would definitely play tricks upon arrival. Unexpectedly, the other party didn’t even look at him and went straight to the monitoring console.

“Pull up the data,” Chi Yao said.

Hearing no response for a while, Chi Yao turned his head to look over, his eyes impatient. “Don’t understand?”

Just one glance scared Huang Hao so much he almost leaked pheromones.

Even though Chi Yao smelled of no pheromones from inside out, he still gave people the feeling of radiating Alpha pheromones all over, making one’s hair stand on end.

Huang Hao operated on the monitoring console, locking onto two locations on the magnified map.

“According to the results of the sonic wave detection program, here and here.”

Huang Hao pointed at the screen. “I sent people to check. They couldn’t get close to this place; the mecha system would report errors as soon as they approached.”

Chi Yao noted down the coordinates.

“I’ll handle this place. Apart from that, do you have the ability to solve the beast tide?”

Being asked this by a star pirate leader was tantamount to humiliation. Huang Hao’s face turned green then red.

“Of course I can! Vulture is a first-class legion—”

Chi Yao raised his hand to interrupt.

“Then I’ll leave after handling it. I leave this place to you.”

Huang Hao: “I was responsible for clearing this planet anyway.”

Chi Yao gave him an indifferent look.

“Your rescue deployment isn’t thorough enough, and your frontline defense is lacking too. If you continue fighting at your current pace, you’ll be calling for backup in less than a week.”

Huang Hao: “…”

The eavesdropping officers nearby: “…”

Indeed, the fight has been very frustrating.

Thinking was one thing, but verbally, Huang Hao resolutely refused to bow his head.

“I understand fighting better than you.”

Chi Yao pointed to one of the virtual screens on the monitoring console showing the frontline defense deployment.

“Defense doesn’t just mean blindly defending. Your layout looks impenetrable, but it’s actually full of holes…”

Huang Hao was initially dismissive, but a few sentences clearly analyzed the pros and cons. As he listened, he became serious.

He nodded unconsciously. “I also felt something was missing here, but changing the layout now might cause the defense line here to collapse.”

Chi Yao: “The solution is very simple, just—”

Huang Hao turned to look at him: “Hm?”

The other officers also looked over in unison.

Chi Yao smiled. “Did you think I would tell you?”

Huang Hao’s expression stiffened: “…”

Chi Yao turned around dashingly, waving his hand without looking back.

“Why would a general who understands fighting as well as you need guidance from a star pirate like me?”

Huang Hao looked at the screen, then at Chi Yao’s retreating figure: “…Don’t go! Just, just guide a little bit is fine too!”

“I can, but—” Chi Yao turned his head slightly. “My fee is very high.”

Huang Hao: “…”

It was half an hour later when Chi Yao came out of the command cabin.

Inside the cabin, the officers looked at the modified plan on the screen, then at their commander sitting in the command seat with a glazed look, exchanging glances with each other.

“I didn’t expect the plan Chi Yao gave to be really better than the original.”

“He actually really understands.”

“But he’s only been here a few hours, right? We didn’t give him any data in advance, yet he could produce this plan with just a glance at the analysis chart?”

“With our original plan there, he just modified it on that basis.”

Actually, the changes weren’t big, but they were like the finishing touch. With these changes, the entire battle line was thoroughly linked up, doubling both defensive and offensive capabilities.

Huang Hao: “…”

It’s fine if I can’t beat Jing Xi, but good lord, now I can’t even beat a star pirate.

So angry!

Reaching the coordinates, Chi Yao flew a fighter jet down by himself.

Xiao Hei: 【Cannot descend further. The fighter’s power system is already malfunctioning.】

At an altitude of one thousand meters, Chi Yao leveled the joystick and discovered several moving trees in the mountain area via the monitor.

There were no beasts in this area, making these few trees appear particularly abrupt.

Chi Yao opened a window and had Xiao Hei transform into a sniper rifle.

Xiao Hei: 【The distance is a bit far. Can you hit it? Or should I make a trip down there.】

Chi Yao aimed over there and pulled the trigger.

“No need. You’re too expensive; can’t afford you.”

Xiao Hei: 【…】

Chi Yao counted down ten seconds in his heart.

At the count of three, the sonic wave intensity weakened significantly.

Soon, those trees stopped moving.

Chi Yao holstered the gun, opened the fighter’s cannon port, and fired tracking missiles at that spot.

Boom!

That patch of forest was blasted into billowing smoke, fire filling the sky.

Chi Yao turned on the fighter’s communicator and said to Fang Liang: “Let them go down and test.”

Fang Liang: “Yes.”

---

Vulture Main Ship.

Huang Hao hadn’t recovered from the blow when a subordinate reported: “The beast tide’s activity level suddenly dropped significantly. Half of the beasts are resting on the spot!”

Huang Hao stood up abruptly and switched to the real-time battlefield monitor.

“How did it suddenly—”

Another subordinate came to report.

“Sir, the abnormal sonic waves disappeared!”

Huang Hao’s eyes flashed. He clicked on one of the coordinates marked in red. Before his eyes was a leveled mountain forest, and beside the forest, a Extreme Shadow warship was docked.

“No way—”

Huang Hao muttered to himself.

How long has it been, and it’s resolved? This easily?

As soon as the Extreme Shadow fleet left Golden Shark Constellation Planet J23, rescue videos about Extreme Shadow circulated rapidly online.

【Extreme Shadow: On the way to rescue today as well [Video.jpg]】

【Extreme Shadow actually arrived faster than the legion, simply incredible! [Image][Image]】

【Ahhh finally it’s my turn to be saved by Extreme Shadow! Signal is bad, came up to scream, Chi Yao is so handsome!】

【Heard he came, I knew I could definitely find videos online. Leaving satisfied.】

At the same time, Chi Yao was video calling Jing Xi, discussing the next planet to go to.

The split bodies found on each planet were different; they could only judge their strength by sonic wave intensity.

For the ones that were too strong, even if Extreme Shadow lackeys went over with the agent, they couldn’t get close, so he still had to handle it.

Halfway through the conversation, Chi Yao’s terminal vibrated. He glanced at it; it was surprisingly Pei Zhenyue.

He answered casually: “What instructions now, Lord Commander?”

“How would I dare instruct you.”

Pei Zhenyue huffed lightly. “When you’re free, go online and repost the status I just posted. I’ve edited the caption and sent it to you.”

Chi Yao: “…”

Jing Xi: “…”

Being stared at by them, Pei Zhenyue cleared his throat.

“Then I won’t disturb you two. Don’t forget.”

The discussion online was intense when Chi Yao suddenly posted a new update. It was a repost of a netizen’s Extreme Shadow rescue video and a list of names, accompanied by text.

【In times of national crisis, the Star Pirate Group is fully cooperating with the military to clear the beast tide. If you encounter the Star Pirate Groups on the list on the battlefield, please trust that they have the ability to escort you to a safe place.】

As soon as the update was posted, it immediately attracted a large number of netizen comments and likes.

“Hahahaha Extreme Shadow feels more and more reliable.”

“Feeling safe with Extreme Shadow around (dog head emoji)”

“Chi Yao talks more and more officially, so not used to it hahahaha”

“Dying of laughter, star pirates traveled thousands of miles to rescue at our doorstep, while the garrison at our doorstep is slacking off somewhere unknown.”

Pei Zhenyue scrolled to this update, very satisfied.

Upon refreshing, Chi Yao had actually posted another update—a photo and a few words of caption.

In the photo was the big dog Ying Weilooking at the camera with a dumbfounded face.

【The previous update cost an advertising fee of 100 million Star Coins.】

Pei Zhenyue: “…”