Chapter 175: The Black Hand

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Sophia followed the manticore and staggered back to the center of the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

To be on the safe side, Sophia used a spy tool to disguise her face a little, and by the way, asked the Void Apostle to help hack the city's surveillance system......

Out of the corner of her eye, Sophia twitched a little as she watched as the Manticore approached a large restaurant, and on the top of the restaurant were written five large words - "Atmospheric Restaurant".

"Okay, I admit it."

Sophia looked helpless and walked in.

The manticore walked straight to the stairs, apparently going to the box upstairs, and Sophia couldn't follow directly, so Sophia had to release the mark magic on the manticore, and stayed in the hall on the first floor to wait, staring at the staircase...... You can also have a bite to eat by the way.

After all, as far as the Void Apostle was concerned, there was no backdoor to use in this "atmospheric restaurant...... Or rather, the manticore wasn't qualified enough to know where that back door was.

Interesting...... Sophia munched on the delicious food in her mouth, her eyes narrowing slightly, as if she were moving at the restaurant's high-secrecy back door, or as if she were moved by the deliciousness—or both.

However, Sophia doesn't care too much about this backdoor, after all, it has little to do with her goals.

Ten minutes later, the manticore walked down the stairs with a smile on his face and left the place in high spirits.

"This guy...... Who are you seeing here? ”

Sophia struggled a little internally, and she hesitated for a moment between continuing to track down the murderer from her previous life and tracking down the mastermind he had just met, but she soon made a decision.

"I won't forget to avenge the revenge in my previous life, but I'm really more interested in the guy behind the scenes......"

Sophia got up to check out, following the marks left by the manticore's mark on the manticore's body to a box on the third floor. After looking at the camera installed in the hallway, Sophia smiled and gave the command inside the psychic connection.

[Hack this camera and find out the guy who entered this box before!] 】

Within a few seconds, the Void Apostle sent back the message, and looking at the man in black in the photo, Sophia searched her memories again......

Oh, this guy just went out five minutes ago!

Sophia pulled out a small transparent bottle from her pocket, which seemed to contain a liquid-like substance like mercury - it was a nano-level bug.

Sophia smiled.

The manticore just now has too strong intuition, I can't put a bug on him, can't I pretend to be a guy who runs errands in the middle?!

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"My lord, I've told the manticore to put the finishing touches on it. It's just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that the other party asked for 30 million federal dollars as the reward for this mission......

"Just 30 million still need to tell me?" A man's laughter lasted for a long time, and only after it stopped did he continue in a calm tone, "Don't mention this little money in the future, I'll add more money to your account...... As long as you genuinely help me. ”

"Yes, sir."

"Well, I have one more thing for you to do - take a trip to the Krum Zone, and I'll tell you what to do when you get there......"

"Yes! My lord! ”

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"Oh, what a big shot."

Sophia pressed her ear, and the sound from the bugging device made her feel a big stone in her heart fall to the ground.

-- The person who spoke to this errand boy was a relative of the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Federal Empire, and who was closest to him.

To be sure, what he meant meant meant was what the Deputy Minister of Finance meant.

Of course, in the memory of Tajo in his previous life, this deputy minister of finance was not a good person.

The suppression of newcomers, the promotion of cronies, and the intertwined power have almost controlled one-third of the federal finances. As for the Minister of Finance - after he defected from the Federation, it was learned that he was a puppet at all, a puppet firmly controlled by the Deputy Minister!

As for how the puppet escaped, we will not mention it for the time being, he is even inextricably linked to arms dealers and underground forces in neutral regions...... The deputy minister has almost single-handedly covered the financial aspects of the federal axe, and even the federal military department has nothing to do with this person.

As you can imagine, this guy is a fierce man.

As for the Krum sector, it is located on the federal border, and is full of mercenaries, drug (HX) dealers, smugglers, arms brokers, and interstellar pirates. Since the situation is quite chaotic and the struggle between countries and between organizations is taking place there, it can be said that there is no matter what.

There is constant fighting there all year round (although they are all small), ships are reluctant to pass there, and due to the activity of (hx) private criminals, the Federation has also set up many checkpoints there, and the security level is much higher than the ordinary border, and ordinary people cannot go to the Krum Star Zone......

"It's a bit tricky...... Sophia begins to think about the possibility of riding the errand runner's ship, but she eventually abandons the plan and decides to get through.

- Directly aboard the subspace special service ship, Sophia followed the errand trick (hey, hey!) The spacecraft "flew fast" towards the Krum Star Sector.

After arriving at the federal border, the ship rested in an asteroid belt and installed a layer of camouflage material on the outside of the ship before carefully flying out of hiding.

It traveled along a specific route, dodging the radar of a dozen waves of patrolling Union ships almost every second, and then at an astonishing speed (compared to the world's high-speed ships, Sophia didn't even turn on five percent of the engines of the secret service ships) to reach a hidden corner of the outermost part of the border, near the Krum sector.

Ten minutes later, a fleet of federal patrols flew by, ignoring the stowaway boat under their noses, and replied with all seriousness that nothing unusual had been found at the federal outpost...... Then, the patrol fleet watched as the stowaway ship swaggered out of the federal border and into the Klum Sector.

“…… It's really, it's the same everywhere. ”

Sophia looked helplessly at the few points of light on the radar that represented the Federation patrol fleet, she knew that this kind of thing could not happen, but she was still disgusted by the fact that the axe was linked to the stowaways - but at least Sophia had done this kind of smuggling work more than once when she was a ghost agent......

"Tsk...... Anyway, keep up. ”

It is also unclear whether the stowaway boat was let go this time because of the order of the Deputy Minister of Finance, or whether the patrol fleet itself received "benefits" before letting it go......

Sophia rubbed her head and gave the order to the special service ship, officially entering the Krum Star Zone.