Chapter 1282 - 358: Handling (2)

The test personnel, which refers to those who died on the war front.

Then comes a detailed identity list of the deceased personnel.

Just looking at the identities doesn’t reveal much, but if you connect it with the communication record discovered by Chen Ming, which was deleted, between the Vice Admiral’s faction and the deployed members.

It sufficiently proves his suspicion; he doesn’t need to spend further time hunting for other clues.

The situation is already very clear.

After hearing about Chen Ming’s engagement, the two Vice Admirals, who once clashed in the battle zone with Chen Ming, arranged for personnel to retrieve Cheng Xinghai’s archive.

And they had someone take the archive data to the front line deliberately to meet their demise, so the Mechanical Race could acquire this information.

Furthermore, they maliciously ensured that the Mechanical Race would likely obtain the information.

They placed the information on ships with important technology.

Normally, the Mechanical Race wouldn’t trust something that might be fake news disseminated by the Empire.

But at the very least, the Mechanical Race would record such news, and their Mother Ship would employ this tactic when driven to desperation.

Although ultimately it didn’t work, they confirmed some new information.

If Cheng Xinghai continues to stay on the battlefield, he may encounter more danger.

But no worries, Chen Ming is capable of protecting Cheng Xinghai.

And the real culprit responsible for this problem, he’s about to meet them.

Chen Ming confirmed Tao Ying and her family’s relationships through the battle zone’s database and confirmed their current address.

With a destination now set, the remaining tasks are simple.

The spaceship left the Space Station once again.

In space, it split into several new ships, jumping to different locations.

One ship jumped to a place Chen Ming was extremely familiar with.

The planet where his Insect Race plasma ability originally came from, the birthplace of the Aurora Wind Spirit species.

Due to the Aurora Wind Spirit, this planet is perpetually enveloped by magnificent auroras, and it is also a planet rich with species.

It is recognized as one of the Empire’s most valuable tourism planets.

Settlers on such a planet don’t need much introduction regarding their identities.

Of course, it’s not the Vice Admiral or Tao Ying, but Tao Ying’s retired Admiral father.

Chen Ming’s spaceship easily bypassed the planetary defense installations and entered one of the eight colonies on the planet’s surface.

And flew out to the suburbs of this colony.

Here lies a standalone, beautifully scenic manor.

At this moment, the manor is shrouded in the darkness of night.

Chen Ming’s shuttle boat landed directly in the manor’s parking lot.

The engine’s roar dissipated into the air within centimeters, and its lights were absorbed internally.

Just like the several Space Stations he visited consecutively minutes ago, no one detected his presence.

Chen Ming easily entered the manor’s interior.

He bypassed the workers and guards within the manor, encountering a slight unnoticed skirmish.

He found the room of the manor owner, the retired Admiral presumably named Tao.

And he pushed open the master bedroom door, turning on the light after entering.

The light just illuminated the room.

Admiral Tao immediately turned over from the bed, pulled out a pistol from the nearby cabinet, aimed at the direction of Chen Ming’s Power Mechanical Body, pulled the trigger, and simultaneously shouted someone’s name.

"Are you looking for him?"

Chen Ming’s voice sounded.

The front of the Power Mechanical Body suddenly opened, revealing the personal guard of the retired Admiral confined inside, a Level 3 Psychic.

His expression was full of fear.

He couldn’t comprehend what happened after he noticed possible intruders in the manor.

Needless to say, for a retired Admiral, a Level 3 Psychic was a rather good setup.

But before Chen Ming, anyone less than a Level 6 Psychic was meaningless.

Chen Ming casually tossed out the Psychic who had been terrified into silence from the Power Armor, asking, "You know who I am, right?"

Admiral Tao dropped the emptied gun casually.

Before Chen Ming, he opened the nearby wardrobe and changed into a military uniform.

"Changing into a military uniform is pointless. Since I’ve come all this way, you should know what I’m going to do."

Chen Ming spoke in a very calm tone, as if casually discussing breakfast, yet the words were extremely threatening to Admiral Tao.

"I know you’re old, you’ve experienced what there was to experience, enjoyed what there was to enjoy, unburdened and fearless of implicating children, so you did this, right?"

"Harm doesn’t extend to family when they aren’t involved in political filth, but your child seemed to have been a Vice Admiral before, right?"

Admiral Tao didn’t speak, only nodded slightly, and led Chen Ming to the next-door study.

He sat behind the desk, pulling three items from the drawer.

A revolver with ornate embellishments, a bullet also engraved with intricate patterns, and a sheet of white paper.

Admiral Tao slowly loaded the bullet into the revolver, rotated the bullet to the firing position, pulled down the hammer, and placed the gun on the desk.

Then he picked up the pen on the desk and began writing something on the white paper.

Chen Ming stepped forward, picked up and examined the revolver.