Chapter 419

Chapter 419: Unable to Contact

After a month, Yi Chen returned to the blood-colored planet.

The expeditionary army completed the integration of the first target area after resting for about three months.

They had already begun preparing to invade the second target area.

Yi Chen controlled his flying treasure and arrived back in the outer space of the blood-colored planet.

In the Milky Way, he had reached the peak of understanding the principles of heaven and earth required for the new skill.

Therefore, upon returning, he extracted luck from the principles of heaven and earth while keeping an eye on the movements of the expeditionary army.

He began studying the energy circulation pathways for the new skill, progressing rapidly due to his powerful talent.

…

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

The entire star cluster remained engulfed in flames of war, and the situation was tense.

The human federation easily defeated the Angel Alliance, which struggled to defend itself.

The other tribes remained indecisive, constantly observing from the sidelines.

The Milky Way, on the other hand, appeared calm.

Of course, the calmness was only superficial.

No matter how brilliant the accomplishments of the Federation Military were, or how many Angelic Beings and Frost Tribe members they killed, the public remained most concerned about Yi Chen’s whereabouts and the contents of the Sixth Skill Teaching.

This was the core interest of the entire human federation.

Unfortunately, the Federal Parliament and the military had not released any relevant good news.

In fact, over a month ago, the Federal Parliament and the military had already drafted the content of the good news the public was eagerly awaiting.

They just never released it.

However, as time went on, the once confident leaders of the parliament and military grew increasingly anxious.

There was no choice; the Tree-Dwelling Tribe was too unreliable!

They faced repeated failures.

And these failures occurred even when they had strong confidence in their plans.

This caused the leaders of the parliament and military to lose faith in the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Logically, since they already knew Yi Chen’s approximate location and it was not on a route to the Tree Star Cluster, they could almost determine that Yi Chen must be hiding along this route in the Milky Way.

With over three hundred Tree-Dwelling Tribe members, all at least level 160, conducting a thorough search, they would surely find Yi Chen’s hiding place.

Yet the leaders of the parliament and military lacked confidence.

Moreover, when they tried to contact Morris more than half a month ago to inquire about the progress, Morris had only provided a dismissive response.

As they endured a little more than half a month with no good news, the leaders of the parliament and military decided to reach out to Morris again after discussing it.

They understood that, due to repeated failures, Morris started to believe in the rumors that the star cluster was incompatible with the Tree-Dwelling Tribe and even hesitated to engage with them further.

Frequent contact with Morris surely made him feel annoyed.

But concerning the most important interests of the human federation, they had no choice but to reach out to Morris for updates.

Otherwise, the constant waiting, enduring endless agony, and feeling of disappointment were unbearable.

Under the gaze of many parliament and military Giants, Lu Qingxian took out the communicator.

He gritted his teeth and sent a video call request to Morris.

After a moment, just when everyone thought Morris didn’t want to pick up, his virtual image appeared before them.

“What do you want?” Morris asked coldly.

“Envoy!”

Lu Qingxian and the other Giants attempted to be composed, but they couldn’t help showing faint, flattering smiles:

“Sorry to disturb you during your breakthrough, but it’s truly unavoidable. We mainly wanted to ask, it has been a month and a half, and the Tree-Dwelling Tribe members have also searched several areas.”

Lu Qingxian didn’t dare to directly ask Morris about the progress; instead, he explained:

“Is it possible for us to send scouts and warships to those previously searched areas to find any clues related to Yi Chen?”

“Go if you want to!”

Morris didn’t refuse this time.

In his view, it could be a good supplementary action.

After all, the advanced technology of the human federation had unique advantages in tracking and searching.

Since they were searching areas that had already been explored, there was no risk of startling Yi Chen into fleeing.

“Alright!”

Lu Qingxian was overjoyed.

Morris swiftly ended the video call.

Lu Qingxian and the others had achieved their goal and didn’t mind the abrupt cutoff.

As long as they had Morris’s approval, that was enough.

In terms of intellect, even a thousand Morrises combined would not be a match for the parliament and military.

Behind the parliament and military stood thousands of think tanks providing strategies.

They planned to send scouts and warships to previously searched areas to look for any traces related to Yi Chen.

Most importantly, they needed to know the search progress of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe team.

This way, they could legitimately send people to inquire about the Tree-Dwelling Tribe by using Morris’s order as the reason.

They would be able to easily understand the detailed progress and wouldn’t be left in the dark, anxious and uneasy like before.

The military’s Marshal Iron Blood quickly took out the communicator to contact the commander of the reconnaissance fleet, who had already been arranged, to inform him to lead the fleet to search for the Tree-Dwelling Tribe’s whereabouts.

Meanwhile, the group waited in the conference room for news.

They waited for more than three hours.

An anxious Marshal Iron Blood took out the communicator to contact the commander of the reconnaissance fleet and inquire about the situation.

What he heard made him feel a vague sense of unease.

The fleet commander had sent out hundreds of small reconnaissance ships and over ten thousand reconnaissance drones, but they hadn’t found a single Tree-Dwelling Tribe member along the search route.

That seemed a bit ridiculous.

The Tree-Dwelling Tribe team had more than three hundred members.

Though they were powerful, their energy shields didn’t have the capability to block the scanner’s signals.

There was no way these drones and ships couldn’t find a single Tree-Dwelling Tribe member.

“Could it be that Morris has such poor character that his subordinates are just pretending to follow orders and not actually searching for Yi Chen?” a military Giant speculated with a grim expression.

“Even so, they should at least be putting on a show along this route. After all, we can’t be sure Morris won’t suddenly check on the progress.”

“Yes! What if…” a parliamentary Giant recalled the incident of Tosman being killed and said in fear, “What if all these Tree-Dwelling Tribe members were taken out one by one by the Shadow King?”

At that, everyone inhaled sharply.

That would be extremely bad news.

If that were the case, Morris would be a god-level liability.

He would be making various foolish mistakes.

He had just made the rookie error of allowing the Shadow King to escape after Tosman’s assassination, and now he was making another mistake by letting the Tree-Dwelling Tribe members scatter without considering that they could be eliminated one by one by the Shadow King.

Marshal Iron Blood could only command the reconnaissance fleet commander to increase the search intensity.

After waiting for over an hour, he checked in again.

Still, not a single Tree-Dwelling Tribe member had been found.

There was no choice left.

Everyone looked at Lu Qingxian in frustration.

Whether it was due to Morris’s subordinates pretending to follow orders or them being entirely wiped out by the Shadow King, neither was good news for them.

Relatively speaking, the latter was worse.

Lu Qingxian could only brace himself and contact Morris again using the communicator.