Fraud-Busting Expert Sun Bad Blade 3

Lu Yan was quite interested in the person who had trapped Kou Xiao. Therefore, after ordering Ming Yu and the others to successfully subdue Kou Xiao, he attempted to forcefully extract him from the StarNet world.

During this process, he could feel that the mental strength of the person trapping Kou Xiao was on par with his own.

It took a considerable amount of effort, leaving Lu Yan's lips somewhat pale, before he managed to forcefully pull Kou Xiao out of the StarNet world.

However, because Kou Xiao's mental strength had been attacked within the StarNet world, he had already fallen unconscious.

"This time, our mission reward is going to be doubled," Ming Yu said, his mood quite pleasant. "Let's go, Brother Yan, we should head back to submit our mission."

To complete this mission, their team had first traveled to the garbage planet where Kou Xiao was hiding, and then spent a long time stationed in the StarNet world gathering intelligence. By now, they had already consumed a significant amount of energy and time.

Hearing this, Lu Yan lowered his gaze, suppressing the rare spark of interest that had arisen within him. Silently, using his smart ring, he sent a request to the teachers supporting them to return to the Imperial Military Academy.

Before the teachers arrived, Kou Xiao had already been taken away by the mecha soldiers stationed in the First Military District. Lu Yan and the others were soon picked up by a teacher from the Imperial Military Academy, who brought them aboard a hovering vehicle to head to the port and board an interstellar spaceship back to Imperial Star.

"Everyone did a great job this time. Not only was the mission perfectly resolved, but the target was also successfully captured." The teacher praised them repeatedly inside the spacious hovering vehicle.

To allow students to grow rapidly, the four major military academies of the Federation had each established cooperative relationships with the military districts supporting them.

These missions were posted irregularly, and students were free to form teams to accept them.

Examples included slaying certain interstellar beasts, gathering mutated plants, or assisting in the capture of low-risk fugitive criminals.

Generous rewards were granted upon completion, which was why many military academy students took on missions during their free time.

As for Lu Yan, he existed as a legendary student among the four major military academies. No matter the difficulty of the mission, as long as he led the team as commander, there was never one that couldn't be completed.

Consequently, students within the Imperial Military Academy were extremely eager to form teams with him. However, his demeanor was cold and aloof; he rarely befriended anyone, treating missions strictly as matters of business.

Whenever he selected teammates for a mission, he only looked at whether their abilities were suitable, never letting anyone onto the team based on personal relationships or bribes.

Furthermore, he had no need for any bribes whatsoever. The Lu family, to which Lu Yan belonged, was not only a super-aristocratic family on Imperial Star, but also controlled powerful forces such as the First Military District.

"Teacher, spare us the flattery. Since we over-fulfilled the mission, shouldn't our reward be doubled as well?"

Annoyed by the teacher's endless praise, Ming Yu only wanted to know how the rewards for this mission would be calculated.

Hearing this, the teacher smiled. "Open your smart ring space and see for yourselves; the rewards have already been distributed."

Hearing the teacher's words, Ming Yu quickly clicked open his light-screen interface. Not only were the originally announced mission rewards listed there, but there were also quite a few extra goodies.

However, while checking his storage space, he suddenly remembered the two protective charms that Wen Jiu had forcefully shoved into his hands earlier.

Ming Yu took one of them out and looked at it in the palm of his hand. Various characters he couldn't understand were drawn on the yellow paper folded into a triangle.

"What is this?"

As he was tinkering with the protective charm in his palm, he suddenly heard Lu Yan, who was sitting next to him, ask a question.

Lu Yan had been closing his eyes, pondering the mysterious person who had trapped Kou Xiao, when he suddenly felt that familiar mental fluctuation.

After sensing it carefully for a moment, he realized that the faint mental fluctuation was coming from the tiny paper triangle in Ming Yu's hand.

"It seems to be some kind of protective charm. The fortune-teller guy gave it to me earlier," Ming Yu explained briefly, immediately handing the charm to Lu Yan. "Is there something wrong with this thing, Brother Yan?"

Given that Lu Yan was usually indifferent to everything, this was the first time Ming Yu had ever seen him ask a question after spending so much time with him.

Honestly, Ming Yu privately felt that Lu Yan's lack of emotional expression had reached a terrifying degree. If he couldn't confirm that Lu Yan was a living human being, he might have believed the rumors that Lu Yan was a state-of-the-art intelligent robot of the modern era.

Meanwhile, Lu Yan picked up the protective charm and examined it, becoming even more certain that the mental energy attached to it and the mental energy that had trapped Kou Xiao originated from the same person.

It was given by that burly man at the fortune-telling stall earlier?

Yet he had secretly probed that person back then, and the other party's mental strength was not particularly high.

"It's nothing." Lu Yan's deep eyes looked out the carriage window, his palm gripping the protective charm tightly.

-

After Kou Xiao inexplicably vanished, Wen Jiu quietly watched as the security team members began handling the aftermath.

They confiscated all of Kou Xiao's stalling items and, after contacting their superiors, came over to question Wen Jiu about the details.

Unhurriedly, Wen Jiu recounted the incident once more and left some of her information before the security team members finally departed.

After they left, the onlookers who had gathered to watch the excitement also dispersed in all directions.

Wen Jiu checked the time, estimating that after setting up the stall for another half an hour, she would log off and return to reality to rest.

She wondered if she could close one more deal in this short amount of time.

"Fortune-telling and divination, drawing charms and writing characters! Fair prices, all inquiries welcome!"

She called out lazily. Occasionally, curious passersby cast glances her way, but not many believed in metaphysics enough to patronize her business.

Sigh, she wondered if her act of righteous bravery could earn her some bonus cash.

Just moments ago, she had heard the security team members state quite clearly that the middle-aged man was actually an escaped fugitive.

Wen Jiu cried out her wares for a while, but no one came. Calculating that the time was up, she stood up, dusted off her clothes, and prepared to pack up her things and log out of the StarNet world.

Just as she retrieved her chair, a red figure suddenly appeared right in front of her.

She looked up and saw that it was the woman who had tried to scam her out of money earlier.

"Sun Baadao!" Zhuang Rudie looked thoroughly disheveled at the moment, her cloak full of gaps slit by sharp weapons, and her skirt stained with filth. "Did you curse me behind my back?!"

With that, she angrily slammed her hand down on the table, and her hood instantly slipped off, revealing her delicate features.

However, Wen Jiu was in no mood to appreciate her beauty at the moment; after seeing Lu Yan, she suddenly felt that her aesthetic standards had been raised by a massive margin.

"You can't just talk nonsense. I, Sun Baadao, act upright and openly, and I never dabble in sorcery."

With that, Wen Jiu immediately packed away her table.

She really didn't understand why these people were all so fond of violently slamming their hands onto her little table, leaving her newly bought table full of cracks.

That little wooden table had cost her a full eight hundred star coins!

Because Wen Jiu suddenly retracted the wooden table, Zhuang Rudie's upper body, which had been leaning on it, lurched forward violently, almost causing her to fall flat on her face.

"I don't care what kind of sorcery you use, my luck has been terrible ever since I ran into you today!"