National Star Sea Era...

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In front, Song Li, with a somewhat stiff expression, turned his head, blinking his eyes continuously, trying his best to signal Song Yufeng to stop talking.

Although Song Zhihao was an elder of the Later Jin clan who was promoted to the Zhulu ship a few decades ago, he was already a powerful figure in the family, otherwise it would not be his turn to guard this "large thunder stone vein".

If you really anger this person, you won't be killed on the spot, but the other party will have too many ways to attack you secretly, and you may even be seriously injured on the spot.

Song Yufeng seemed to have completely ignored Song Li's gesture, and he continued talking.

This also completely exhausted the patience of Song Zhihao in the sky. As the new elder of the family, he has already stepped into the ranks of seniority. In recent decades, he has been respected by everyone and can call the shots with his words and actions.

How could he endure Song Yufeng's repeated provocations and questioning?
"The evidence is irrefutable, but he is still making trouble and disrupting the order. According to the family law, he should be abolished and expelled from the family!"

As he spoke, the fourth-order pressure that he had just restrained surged out again, pressing down on the old body of Song Yufeng below.

"Zhihao clan elder, no!"

Song Li really didn't expect Song Zhihao to react so strongly. Abolishing the ancestral torch and expelling him from the family were punishments for extremely serious crimes. Song Yufeng's previous behavior was far from this.

However, Song Zhihao ignored Song Li's changed expression. His eyes were gloomy and his attitude was extremely firm.

And before his own pressure was about to take full effect on Song Yufeng, he added one last sentence lightly.

"Please ask the ancestor to administer justice? As the guardian who has full authority over this thunderstone mine, here, I am the ancestor!!"

The words were calm and there was no sense of incongruity coming from Song Zhihao's mouth, as if it was really as he said, in this thunder stone mine, he, Song Zhihao, was the sky above everyone's head.

Behind Song Li, there was no fluctuation in Song Yufeng's turbid eyes. Under the gaze of Song Zhihao, Song Li, Song Lu, and a large number of miners around him, he slowly took out an object from his ancestral orifice, a jade stone emitting a faint black light.

The moment Song Zhihao in the sky caught the faint black light emanating from the jade, his pupils shrank first.

He seemed to have thought of something.

The coldness and viciousness that had originally gathered on his face receded slightly and turned into a hint of suspicion.

But before he could think any more, Song Yufeng, who was only holding the jade stone below, spoke again.

"Please, ancestor, do justice!"

As he spoke, before the life pressure from the sky came down completely, the phantom energy in his body surged and slowly poured into the jade in the palm of his hand.

With the infusion of these strands of dark energy, the jade that originally only emitted a faint black light suddenly emitted a strong black glow, and the jade quickly floated up from Song Yufeng's palm.

The next second, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of creatures in the Thunder Stone Mine, an eternally dark black light obscured the entire sky of the mine. When the black light dissipated again, a projection of a warship of astonishing size appeared in the sky of the Thunder Stone Mine.

"Song clan, meet Master Chi!!"

Seeing the shadow of the warship blocking out the sun above their heads, all the Song family members at the Lei Shi Mine bowed in unison.

Inside the Tianxu Cangqiong projection, Song Chi ignored all this. He lowered his gaze to Song Yufeng, who was covered in blood.

"What happened?"

The voice was projected through the battleship and resounded over the entire mine, but Song Chi was somewhat surprised.

Song Yufeng was the manager of the family's Longji branch in Chenxing Yanglu when he first arrived there. At that time, he had just been included in the family sequence and his reputation was not yet well-known, but under such circumstances, the other party still tried his best to assist him and helped him a lot.

At that time, he took the initiative to say that he was showing kindness to the other party, which was also the reason why he later gave the other party a projection emperor stone.

He originally thought that this projection emperor stone would be used in the alien star field, but he did not expect that Song Yufeng used it here, which really surprised him.

However, since the other party has already been activated, he naturally would not say anything and directly asked about the specific situation that had happened here before.

Below the projection of the Tianxu Cangqiong, Song Zhihao, who had recovered from his shock and panic, quickly spoke:
"Song Zhihao, the new captain of the Zhulu family, has met Chi Zu. This is what happened..."

Before he could finish his words, a powerful psionic energy suddenly emanated from the projection of the dreadnought, surrounding Song Zhihao.

At this moment, Song Zhihao was just like Song Yufeng before, his whole body was under extremely strong pressure, but Song Chi knew his limits, and this pressure only made Song Zhihao stop talking, but did not cause him any injuries.

After all, he doesn't understand the cause and effect of the incident and cannot judge who is right or wrong.

"Let him speak!"

After receiving Song Chi's signal, Song Yufeng quickly repeated the entire incident in detail.

After hearing this, the pressure emanating from the warship projection above the mine became even heavier, making it difficult for all creatures in the mine to even breathe.

Inside the battleship projection, Song Chi's soul that was projected together was now filled with anger. The oppression emanating from the entire battleship projection was ten or a hundred times stronger than that from the outside world.

As Song Yufeng said before, there was someone in this thunder stone mine who was stealing and embezzling the clan property. The key point was that after being discovered, they killed the discoverer on the spot without any scruples, and even turned against Tian Gang, directly pinning the blame for embezzlement of clan property on a dead man. It can be said that he was covering the sky with one hand.

If this was true, Song Chi simply couldn't imagine that under the leadership of several people who worked hard to govern the family, the family had become corrupt to this extent?

Thinking of this, he turned his gaze and looked at Song Li in front of Song Yufeng.

He had some impression of this person.

"Are you from the Inspection Hall?"

"Reporting to Grandpa Chi, your grandson Song Li is currently the captain of the 6th Inspection Team under the Inspection Hall."

Hearing this, Song Chi nodded slightly.

"In that case, then tell me, is what Song Yufeng said just now true?"

Song Li did not reply immediately, but organized his words carefully, and then under the gaze of Song Zhihao, who was staring at him with gloomy eyes, he slowly said:

"Replying to Grandpa Chi, I am not sure whether it is true or not, but there are indeed many suspicious points in this case."

Without Song Chi asking, Song Li continued to talk about several suspicious points that he thought of.

"First of all, Song Xing was killed by the elder of Zhihao clan himself, on the grounds that Song Xing embezzled clan property. But even if that was true, there was no need to kill him directly. They captured him and then handed him over to the Inspection Hall. All clan members knew that this was the most reasonable way. He was not a captain of the same level who could be suppressed with a flip of his hand, but he was killed directly. The elder of Zhihao clan's move did have a certain meaning of trying to cover up something."

"Secondly, according to our investigation, Rong Xing did sneak into the depths of the mine, but Manager Song Lu did the same."

"Finally, according to the family data we retrieved before we came here, Manager Song Lu's warship has always been in the lower middle level of the same level in the past two hundred years. However, after falling into this thunderstone mine, not only was it quickly promoted to a cruiser, but the combat power of his warship is also extremely strong among cruisers of the same level. Coincidentally, he seldom explores alien star regions and basically stays in this thunderstone mine for many years."

When Song Li clearly stated the three doubts word for word, Song Lu on the opposite side suddenly glared and immediately retorted:
"Captain Song Li, did you see that I rarely participate in alien exploration? I happened to obtain a lot of rare items during an alien exploration several decades ago. Isn't it normal that the combat power of my ship is higher?"

Song Chi was too lazy to pay attention to this meaningless excuse. He withdrew his hand and removed the dark energy around Song Zhihao, allowing him to regain the ability to speak.

"Zhihao, do you have anything to say about these points? Think about it before you answer!"

Faced with Song Chi's plain inquiry, Song Zhihao's heart tightened. He had a very deep impression of Song Chi, and he was also very clear about Song Chi's status in the clan.

But his answer was very quick.

"Chi Zu, you can't just listen to one person's words about this kind of thing. The reason why I killed Song Xing is because he has embezzled a huge amount of clan property in recent decades. There are more than a hundred low-level thunder crystals and more than ten mid-level thunder crystals. It is unforgivable!" "As for Song Lu, I don't know anything about this person."

In the projection of Tianxu Cangqiong, Song Chi was distracted and a sneer flashed across his lips.

"Okay, since you said it yourself, as a senior member of the family, I naturally believe you, but..."

He changed the subject and looked at Song Lu below.

Understanding the meaning of his words, Song Zhihao breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes turned, and then he said softly:
"Master Chi, since this person is a suspect, do you want me to send someone down to interrogate him?"

Song Chi shook his head without hesitation.

"No, I can make him speak."

As he spoke, a faint light shot out from the projection of the Tianxu Cangqiong.

The dim light accurately penetrated into the center of Song Lu's eyebrows, whose face was pale.

The next second, the expression on Manager Song Lu's face suddenly changed. He was no longer nervous as before. Instead, he looked up and looked respectfully at the projection of the Tianxu Cangqiong in the sky, as if the Tianxu Cangqiong was everything to him at this moment.

"Chi Zu, this..."

There was a hint of shock in Song Zhihao's eyes, but he concealed it well and quickly came back to his senses.

Song Chi ignored his reaction and asked first:
"Let me ask you, does Song Xing have a grudge against you?"

When the first question was asked, Song Lu seemed to have changed into a different person and replied respectfully:
"Your Excellency, yes!"

Song Chi then asked the second question again.

"Why did Song Xing die?"

"My Lord, he was killed by the elder of the Zhihao clan himself."

Below the battleship projection, Song Zhihao's breathing had slowed to the extreme, and unknowingly, he clenched his fists tightly.

However, this did not stop Song Chi from asking the third question:

"Why do you want to kill Song Xing?"

"My Lord, because Song Xing..."

At this point, Song Lu's voice stopped abruptly.

Seeing this sudden movement, Song Yufeng, Song Li and others below all changed their expressions and looked up with doubts.

Coincidentally, a faint voice had also been heard from the projection of the Tianxu Cangqiong at this moment.

"Have you signed a confidentiality agreement? How interesting!"

Song Chi was talking to himself, and his tone suddenly changed.

"Zhihao, what do you think?"

This sudden change in the tone startled Song Zhihao, who was already becoming increasingly nervous.

At this point, most people who are interested can guess what happened.

Taking advantage of the moment of horror, another faint light shot out, this time it no longer fell on Song Lu's eyebrows, but on Song Zhihao.

The two bursts of dim light naturally came from the [Master-Servant Contract] component.

The [Master-Servant Contract] component focuses on the voluntary consent of both parties. If it is signed by force, the success rate will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, Song Chi took advantage of the moment when his mind was distracted and shot out the light of the contract in order to increase the success rate. In addition, he was two levels higher than the other party, and finally successfully completed the signing of the contract.

As Song Zhihao's frightened expression suddenly turned back to respectful, Song Chi quickly gave the order.

"Tell us the whole story without leaving out any detail."

"Yes, Master."

After signing the master-servant contract, although Song Zhihao did not lose his subjective consciousness, he was completely unable to resist the orders of his master, Song Chi, and in the end he could only tell the whole story in detail.

"Hahaha, this is the new generation of elders in the family. They embezzle family property, kill clan members indiscriminately, and are selfish... It's disgusting!"

After hearing Song Zhihao say in person that he was the one who appointed Song Lu to secretly trade for the [Thunder Crystal], and that he killed people directly to cover up after being discovered by Song Xing, Song Yufeng below burst into thunderous laughter.

This laughter was filled with deep sorrow, hatred, and indescribable heart-wrenching pain.

Once upon a time, this old man loved his family so much. He was proud of being born into the Dinghai Song family and dedicated his whole life to his family.

How could he have imagined at that time that the family he loved so much would become so rotten in just a few hundred years.

Song Chi did not stop him, or perhaps he felt the same way at the moment.

He remembered very clearly that the family's atmosphere in the past was much better than it is now. There might have been conflicts between the different branches, but that was definitely healthy competition within the rules, and it was definitely not like it is now.

After a long silence, his hoarse voice rang out over the entire mine:
"The family has grown too fast in the past few hundred years, and its strength has indeed increased a lot, but I didn't expect that it would also produce many parasites and scum. The family will soon give all members of the family a satisfactory explanation for this matter!"

After that, he made some new arrangements for the subsequent management of the thunder stone mine.

After doing all this, the virtual hull of the Tianxu Cangqiong slowly turned from virtual to real, carrying Song Zhihao and Song Lu, including Song Li, Song Yufeng and others, back to the Dragon Ridge Continent tens of thousands of light years away.

Dragon Ridge Sacred Mountain, Dragon Whale Temple.

After listening to everything Song Chi recounted, the six people in the hall all looked extremely ugly.

This kind of situation is extremely rare in the family's more than 3,000 years of inheritance, not to mention that the initiator is a captain of Zhulu.

Before, it was hard for them to imagine.

"This matter must be dealt with as soon as possible, and I think this may not be an isolated case!"

"I agree. The family has developed too fast in the past few hundred years, so fast that many young members of the family are very impetuous and extravagant. The family's atmosphere has indeed been greatly affected in recent years."

"We miscalculated after all. We only focused on improving the family's strength, but ignored the management of the family, which allowed some people who were not satisfied to emerge and enjoy the fruits of their labor."

"Investigate, and conduct a thorough investigation. All those who are corrupt and commit serious crimes must be executed after a thorough investigation. We must not let them go unpunished!"

"Otherwise, after ten thousand years of inheritance, the Longji Song family will be in ruins!"

(End of this chapter)