<h4>Chapter 1341: Seeking Revenge</h4>


    Zhang Lie seemed shocked. "Can you optimize this recipe further?"


    The recipe for Potion #5 had just been devised in the third realm. How was the airship able to improve upon it? It could hardly possess the recipe for Potion #6—Zhang Lie would never believe it.


    The airship''s robotic voice continued, "Improvements can be deduced using the airship''s artificial intelligence."


    In other words, the airship itself didn''t have an improved recipe; this would only be a guess.


    "Will it be reliable?"


    "If the airship operates at minimum functional capacity, without ess to high-speed flight andbat abilities, the improved recipe will take 24,000 hours to optimize."


    In other words, a thousand days.


    "Maintaining high-speed flight andbat abilities will cause the improved recipe to take 240,000 hours to optimize. Would you like to begin analysis and optimization?"


    "Do so."


    The airship''s robotic voice continued, "The airship only has sufficient reserves for a hundred days of operation. This analysis and optimization will take too long at present. Please provide sufficient resources."


    Zhang Lie replied, "We''ll have a look at other spots in the airship before dealing with the problem of energy consumption."


    ording to Bu Wentian, the airship could transform the vast majority of resources into energy for itself; it wasn''t picky.


    Zhang Lie and Li Qianlin walked out of the medicinal researchboratory and into the neighboring nt greenhouse.


    There was a little garden in the interior of the airship, within which all manner of nts were being grown. Steel racks lined the walls all around, filled with nts covered in ss.


    Next, they went to the airship''s living quarters.


    Zhang Lie was shocked by the scale of the living quarters. He hadn''t expected the interior of the airship to be sorge. It was almost the size of a small city, and wasrger than the exterior of the airship itself.


    The robotic voice exined, "Spatialpression techniques have been used in the interior of the airship to amodate more travelers. Furthermore, the nts and vegetables grown within the airship allow for self-sufficiency."


    Zhang Lie asked curiously, "Why not do the same for the medicinal herbs around here?"


    "Spiritual herbs have certain requirements as to their environments, and not all such herbs can thrive in a spatiallypressed environment. Weaker lifeforms will have to consume special medication from time to time lest they suffer from repercussions."


    After touring the interior of the airship, Zhang Lie and Li Qianlin returned to themand center, then flew toward Lin Lingfeng''s settlement.


    Because there weren''t sufficient energy resources, there was no need to leave the airship on the spot to analyze and optimize a recipe for Potion #6. There would be plenty of time to do so once enough resources had been found.


    The airship moved particrly quickly, and it was at Lin Lingfeng''s settlement in the blink of an eye. Once again, there seemed to be amotion. Thick clouds and fog covered the settlement.


    The airship''s robotic voice sounded, "Energetic fluctuations ahead."


    Zhang Lie asked, "Can you scan it?"


    "Targets have been disyed on the radar."


    Zhang Lie saw arge group of red dots via the radar, including arge red triangle at its center.


    "What do the symbols mean?"


    Zhang Lie wasn''t an airship pilot, and neither had he spent much time in an airship. He was naturally unfamiliar with the disy, and wasn''t sure how to read it."


    The robotic voice continued, "Special energetic fluctuations in white fog detected, with the ability to disrupt vision and maosensory organs. Clear the area of fog?"


    Li Qianlin asked curiously, "Are we going somewhere special?"


    "Lin Lingfeng''s settlement used to be an ordinary city," Zhang Lie replied. "It looks like they''re in danger again.


    Lin Lingfeng and her settlement was indeed in danger, severe danger at that.


    The gic hunters had been repairing their battered city walls when cloud and fog suddenly surrounded them. Huge quantities of fog gushed out. The gic hunters had no time to react before the fog enveloped the city. Lin Lingfeng assigned some hunters to check out the scene, but none who had been dispatched returned.


    Just then, the cloud formed a human face. Its voice resounded across the fog, as though it were a heavenly deity.


    "Weak, puny ants, I am the son of Cthaat, member of Eternal Sun. I bear you no enmity, but my brother was killed not long ago. My father is enraged, and has tasked me with finding the culprit."


    In order to investigate the death of Cthaat''s son, ck Swamp, the sea of clouds, another of Cthaat''s sons, had headed to the nearest human settlement to ck Swamp''s haunt.


    "Hand this person over and I''ll let you all go."


    The sea of clouds transformed into Zhang Lie.


    The ck swamp was naturally linked to the nearest human settlement around.


    The hunters murmured to each other, making a fuss. Many recognized just who the figure was.


    Lin Lingfeng''spanion remarked in surprise, "Isn''t that...?"


    Lin Lingfeng pushed herpanion aside and leapt up onto the city walls. She shouted toward the sea of clouds'' face: "Sir, we are unfamiliar with this purported murderer you use. Even if we did, we would hardly hand over apanion just because you will it. We gic hunters work together—we''re united."


    Against such a massive threat, Lin Lingfeng knew that the most important thing to do was to stabilize the situation.


    The sea of clouds'' face formed a long sigh. "I didn''t want toe, but my father bade me do so. You seem to have just sent a few people out of the city. Conveniently, I picked them up."


    A few Milky Way hunters were hanging in the sky, the sea of clouds forming a seal around their bodies.


    "I''m a pacifist, and I''d rather not fight—nor use any cruel tactics against you. If you hand over the culprit, I''ll return these people immediately. One life for the lives of many—it''s a good deal, is it not?"


    Lin Lingfeng cried out, "Sir, I don''t know who this is!"


    The sea of clouds asked, "Don''t you think it cruel?"


    "What?"


    "To watch yourself be killed by yourpanion. Isn''t it a regretful thing, a cruel one?" The sea of clouds rumbled. The leftmost person held in stasis suddenly began to shriek. His body seemed to bepressed by an unknown force. His blood burst into a mist of red droplets that seeped out from his skin. Hetransformed into a parched corpse immediately."


    Lin Lingfeng widened her eyes, unable to believe what she was seeing.


    The sea of clouds had killed someone, just like that! As it had stated, it considered them nothing more than ants.


    The sea of clouds sighed. "What a cruel race. He must be rather upset even in death. You could have saved him with just one piece of information—but you chose not to. Take a look at his despair, his pained gaze. He must have loathed you moments before his death."