Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 49 - 039. Leo Runrun Zi

Chapter 49: 039. Leo Runrun Zi

Nimotin sneered, "I knew it, your resume and identity are contradictory, I intentionally asked some extra questions."

Li Aozi remained silent, his face covered in frost, yet still perfectly composed. That was not surprising; Nimotin interpreted this as a final struggle.

She walked around Li Aozi with a self-satisfied air, the barrel of the gun in her palm continually encircling his head.

She had not found any weapons on him, and the implanted plugin in her brain detected no cybernetic or metal implants on Li Aozi—his body was clean.

"Just as I thought—the Rose Army was a ruse; you spared no effort to infiltrate the Outer World, seeking to find the Red Arrow Empire’s contact, didn’t you?"

Li Aozi raised his head, looking at her squarely, his grey eyes completely calm.

Nimotin sneered:

"It seems, then, that the identity of Li Aozi is also fake—tell me, since when have you been infiltrating Frost Plated?"

She was in no hurry to take him away now. Given Frost Plated’s predicament, it was normal for a mole from the Rose Army to emerge, but dealing with a spy planted by the Red Arrow Empire—that was absolutely a big fish.

Nimotin had long wanted to return to the Fourth Rule headquarters in the capital. Who wanted to take the blame all 365 days a year, running around the country, begging bread through storms of bullets—whereas in the capital, it was a world of stupor and luxury, incessant and effortless, and all she would have to do was read newspapers and sip tea while earning a salary like a petty thief.

Living every day like it was a festival was truly "living a year in a day"; wasn’t that delightful?

However, Li Aozi answered in a way that derailed Nimotin’s interrogation.

"Madam, have you forgotten your original intention?"

Li Aozi spoke with ease, showing no signs of panic or confusion at being outed, his gaze fixed on Nimotin’s eyes throughout.

This supreme self-confidence, coupled with his powerful Charm, swept up others in a completely different aura, his calm yet forceful tone compelling people to listen and to ponder the deeper meanings and implications of his words.

The essence of "Charm" is the attraction toward external things.

On a macro level, this attraction significantly increases others’ attention and favoritism toward him.

On a micro level, attraction also makes every word he utters and every detail of his actions influence and interfere with the thoughts of others.

People with high "Charm" attributes, even by casually saying "potatoes are tasty," can cause a huge shock to the market; scholars would delve into the philosophy and connotations of potatoes, general populace would rush to buy potatoes, politicians would use potatoes to implement new policies, and charitable organizations might even organize fundraising for potatoes.

Li Aozi’s "Charm" attribute had a high yield of 27 points, surpassing Nimotin’s mere 5 points in Will. Whatever Li Aozi said, the judgement of "Charm" was instantly successful, and because of the attribute crushing, it would have a fivefold effect.

This is the advantage of a Main Attribute Specialty.

"My original intention?"

Nimotin was taken aback, immediately plunged into thought.

What was she here for? To find the Rose Army.

Finding spies planted by the Rose Army at the borders was her main task.

Now then, Li Aozi was a spy from the Red Arrow Empire—but conventionally, that was not her concern.

Handling foreign spies, especially the balanced infiltration among the Four Nations, was the job of the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Fourth Rule, not for someone in field operations like herself.

The more she thought about it, the more wrong it seemed, causing her unease.

On one hand, Li Aozi’s words had a profound effect on her.

On the other, she realized something: the Red Arrow Empire and the Frost Plated Republic were old rivals, their enduring antagonism set within the context of the Four Nations. Who didn’t consider the other a potential adversary?

Moreover, the Erga Coast of the Red Arrow Empire was at least 4000 kilometers away from Frost Plated.

But the Rose Army was an immediate calamity; their recent series of fierce attacks greatly undermined national border security, inviting opportunism from the other three nations.

Nimotin might be somewhat foolish, but she at least knew her duties.

She wasn’t at the border to handle a spy from the Red Arrow Empire, nor was she there to catch a bank-burning Security Guard, or to stop smugglers—although the latter was indeed important. Ultimately, her main task was to capture members of the Rose Army.

Why capture Li Aozi? Because Agent Yawen had found out that he was claiming to be from the Rose Army.

Now they had found Li Aozi, but he was not from the Rose Army...

Nimotin always felt there was some problem, but she couldn’t pinpoint it.

"Madam," just as Nimotin was conflicted, Li Aozi spoke solemnly, "We are all people of the Four Nations, and it’s entities like the Rose Army that pose the real threat to us."

Li Aozi’s words enlightened Nimotin: indeed, rebels against the Four Nations were always their common enemy.

The discrepancies among the Four Nations could be shelved; even occasional wars, which helped reduce surplus population and distract from societal issues, were manageable.

So should Li Aozi be captured? Perhaps, but it wasn’t necessary.

Moreover, not capturing him might even leave a good impression on the Red Arrow Empire.

After all, in the espionage business, how many are clean?

Bribery, buying off, kidnapping, assassinations, instigating rebellions, inciting wars, and supporting proxies—these were too common.

Keeping an ace up one’s sleeve here—who knew when it might come in handy?

At the moment Nimotin wavered, Li Aozi delivered another assist:

"In fact, I do have an understanding of the Rose Army’s deployments at the border, enough to help your country..."

Nimotin’s eyebrows raised.

With "your country" being mentioned, she immediately determined: Li Aozi was clearly laying his cards on the table, no longer pretending; he was indeed a spy from the Red Arrow Empire.

Now, he had recognized the situation and knew that he had to trade some information that did not involve the Empire’s interests to salvage his own losses—a spy’s death in Frost Plated would undoubtedly be a loss for the Empire.

Li Aozi deliberately did not complete his sentence; he raised his eyes and scanned around, his gaze purposely lingered on the police officers who aimed their guns at him for a moment.

Nimotin pondered for a moment, deciphering Li Aozi’s intent, and then slightly waved her hand:

"Stand down the alert."

The police officers naturally did not dare to disobey an order from a Law Enforcement officer Fourth Rule, and they lowered their gun muzzles, standing with their weapons slung at an angle.

Ding... Ding...

The crisp and faint knocking sound rose, no one paid attention, as the storm outside whirled with sand and stones, frequently making similar noises.

However, Li Aozi was well aware that this was the sound of Nomi getting ready, striking the vehicle body with a wrench.

It was time.

Li Aozi’s gaze flickered, and he whispered again:

"This matter is very important, I can only tell you alone."

"Okay."

Nimotin, without a second thought, as an Alpha Stage "Assassin" dressed in a professional agent combat suit, facing an ordinary man who hadn’t undergone any body enhancement, it was impossible for him to trick her.

Li Aozi subtly shifted his body, his eyes swept past the waste lake behind Nimotin.

"Let’s hear it. The whereabouts of the Rose Army..."

She slowly bent down, one hand resting on Li Aozi’s shoulder, with her left ear close to Li Aozi’s cheek.

Li Aozi slightly tilted his head, a golden ring of light appeared in his eyes, his hands dropping down, his right palm wrapping around his left elbow, twisting his shoulder, ready to dislocate his own shoulder at any moment, while leaning close to Nimotin’s ear, he said:

"(Civilization Red Arrow) The Twin Queens are nothing but whores that anyone can bed, you (purify society)! Fuck you!"

Nimotin was momentarily stunned.

The next moment, it was as if she had plummeted into the abyss behind her, swiftly moving backward, the surrounding officers screamed, all tumbling backward, directly falling into the waste lake.

Gravity direction reversed!

"Arcane Energy!"

Nimotin roared.

She reacted very quickly, immediately grabbing Li Aozi’s shoulders.

However, she only heard a crisp "snap" sound, Li Aozi’s shoulder, as if it had broken, slid out of her palm!

"Damn it!"

Nimotin was stunned—Li Aozi had dislocated his own shoulder just to prevent her from catching him.

Her body, parallel to the ground, fell rapidly; she tumbled twice, her synthetic body firing a grappling hook that clung to a nearby pile of scrap metal, she swung forcefully, finally landing on the ground.

This fall was perilous; Nimotin broke into a cold sweat—just 15 centimeters from her feet to the scalding waste pool.

The temperature there was extremely high; a few policemen had fallen in, screaming as their skin ulcerated, a large amount of toxic substances invading their bodies, already breathless.

Damn it...

Nimotin exerted force from thin air, her feet scrambling on the ground like climbing, clumsily rising to her feet.

She pressed the communicator by her ear, shouting loudly to the female agents on the hill who were not affected:

"Open fire! What are you waiting for?! Kill him!"

The female agents then came to their senses, each drawing their guns to shoot, but Li Aozi immediately dived into the car, Nomi had already turned over to the driver’s side, stomping hard on the accelerator, the assembly vehicle forcefully plowing through two obstructing officers, the steering wheel violently turned, they immediately climbed up the sand dunes, speeding away.

"There’s not much fuel left in this car! Go back! Back to Qiu Ran!"

Li Aozi sat in the passenger seat, urging on, gritting his teeth, setting his bone back in place, but his shoulder still bleeding profusely, missing a large chunk of flesh.

Just now Nimotin’s casual grab had directly caused him to lose 35 health points.

"Hold tight!"

Nomi, wasting no words, turned around and dove into the valley, with headlights lighting up behind them, two law enforcement Fourth Rule modified vehicles like dark beasts, madly chased after them.