Colonial Suit

The fresh blood that splattered out immediately transformed into a cloud of black mist, wriggling as it returned to Qiao An's body. Qiao An's face paled slightly, but it quickly returned to normal.

"Who is it!?"

"Who destroyed my clone?!"

He was currently standing at the top of a tall tower, with a man in a white combat suit standing beside him. Seeing him suddenly spit out blood, the man frowned. "What's wrong?"

"My clone has been destroyed!" Qiao An replied with a dark expression. "The one I left on Marie Holstein!"

"How could that be?" The white-clothed man was slightly taken aback. "Marie Holstein, if I remember correctly, is just a small planet in the Sixth World. If it weren't for the possibility of finding the ruins of Crodir there, your space pirates wouldn't have set up a branch there. You left a clone there; don't tell me you also want to search for the legendary ruins?"

"I'm not interested in the ruins; I just discovered an interesting pair," Qiao An replied coldly. "An interesting couple with potential. What's interesting is that the woman is a space pirate with amnesia, and the man is a space mercenary."

"You really have a twisted sense of humor," the white-clothed man said with a wry smile. "But regardless, that is still the Sixth World. How could your clone be destroyed?"

"How would I know?" Qiao An replied irritably, his face darkening. After a moment of thought, he said, "No, I feel like something isn't right. I need to go take a look."

"Are you kidding me?" the white-clothed man asked in surprise. "This place is so far from Marie Holstein... Wait, you're not going to use that, are you? Is it worth it?"

"I need to see for myself to be at ease," Qiao An said, ignoring the white-clothed man's words and closing his eyes directly. The space in front of him twisted, forming a dark vortex. Qiao An's body trembled slightly as he sent his thoughts into it.

Ultra-long-range consciousness transfer!

This was an extremely dangerous technique that only Meteor-level experts could possibly use. Through this technique, Meteor-level experts could transmit their consciousness to their clone's location in a mysterious way, as if seeing everything through a divine eye, ignoring the barriers of space and time. However, this technique was extremely unstable because it involved several disciplines such as mystics and anti-space particle physics. Carelessness could cause the split consciousness to dissipate. Most frighteningly, this technique belonged to advanced mystical techniques, and each use consumed a huge amount of life energy, which could not be compensated by any medicine below the Third World.

In other words, if Qiao An used this technique, he would suffer a great loss of vitality. The problem was that he was a Meteor-level expert with a short lifespan. Such consumption of vitality would reduce his lifespan by at least three months. No wonder the white-clothed man said it wasn't worth it.

But regardless, Qiao An felt unwilling. One of his clones was destroyed in the Sixth World; it was as if someone had slapped him hard in the face, especially in front of the white-clothed man. Qiao An couldn't swallow this insult.

So, under the white-clothed man's gaze, Qiao An's consciousness quickly disappeared into the space-time vortex.

On the other side, on Marie Holstein...

Black energy was spreading, as if living snakes were struggling to escape from Blood Pupil. Consciousness clones were virtual beings, essentially immortal. As long as they were given a little time to condense, they might be able to recover.

Unfortunately, he was facing Blood Pupil, a man who concealed the most ravenous soul in the entire universe.

Blood Pupil stood quietly in the spreading black mist energy, slowly raising his left hand and making a grabbing motion. Without any visible anomalies, countless black energies instantly entered his left hand as if they had encountered a black hole. Perhaps because it still possessed some residual consciousness, it even emitted ear-piercing screams.

But no matter how unwilling the black mist energy was, it didn't even have a chance to resist. It was absorbed cleanly in a moment. Looking at Blood Pupil's left hand again, some black lines had appeared on it, but they disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Blood Pupil touched his left hand, a look of satisfaction on his face. Then he turned to walk towards Robbie and the others.

"Are you all right?"

"We're fine," Robbie took a deep breath. Blood Pupil's performance earlier had really frightened him. He hadn't expected him to become so strong in just one year. He had defeated that terrifying enemy in just a few seconds. What surprised him even more was that Blood Pupil had been at ease from beginning to end, with an indescribable confidence and ease.

What... what is his strength now?

Robbie was puzzled, but he didn't show it on the surface. He just looked back at the Gemini siblings. "I've accelerated their metabolism. They may fall into a deep sleep for a short time, but it will be beneficial to their injuries."

"That's good," Blood Pupil nodded. In fact, his enhanced cells were a unit with extremely fast metabolism. So he knew the effect of this metabolism better than Robbie, and he also knew that too fast a metabolism was actually a consumption of life.

However, with the sub-body seeds he had given the Gemini siblings, this consumption was insignificant. (Note: The sub-body consumes energy, but it can also use the host's digestive system to generate energy. The effect depends on the development of the sub-body. In the end, it can not only meet its own needs but also provide a great supplement to the host.)

"Then where are we going now?" Robbie stood up and moved his left hand. His left arm had also been cut by the clone, and it was a little black at the moment.

Blood Pupil glanced at him, extended his left hand, and swept it over his wound. The black energy toxin disappeared without a trace.

Then he gave Robbie a slight smile.

"I have a plan. But we still have to wait a while."

"Still have to wait?" Robbie frowned. The destruction they had caused on Marie Holstein had already made the space pirates lose face. Perhaps reinforcements were on their way. Why not leave now? Did they have to kill all the space pirates on Marie Holstein, so that the space pirates could never raise their heads again?

If that were the case, even if they returned, the space pirate headquarters would definitely issue a wanted order. Letting the same group of space mercenaries destroy the same branch twice was something the space pirates couldn't afford to lose.

However, Blood Pupil did not answer him, but turned around and quietly faced the scene of the battle just now.

Of course, he wouldn't tell Robbie that a terrible consciousness was crossing the constraints of time and space and descending on this planet.

It was an extremely mysterious feeling that had transcended ordinary spiritual power. Even Blood Pupil could barely feel some of it after becoming stronger this time. But that was enough. Because he already knew who this consciousness belonged to from the energy reaction he had just absorbed.

Lord Qiao An... You... you still came?

Looking at the clouds in the sky, a faint smile appeared on Blood Pupil's face.

He was no longer the same as he was a year ago. Qiao An, who had shocked him like a high mountain and a vast sea at that time, had now become not unattainable. It was just that he didn't want to fight him head-on yet. Because he had not yet reached the Meteor level, and his chances of winning against such a strong man who had already entered the Meteor level were not high.

But then again, if it was just a thought...

Lord Qiao An, do you really think you are invincible?

Raising an eyebrow, Blood Pupil didn't prepare and suddenly raised his left hand, pressing it towards a certain point in the void.

Robbie stood behind him. At this moment, he seemed to see some black lines suddenly appear on Blood Pupil's left hand, but they disappeared without a trace in an instant, making Robbie think he was seeing things.

But what Robbie didn't know was that Blood Pupil's press not only caused black lines to appear on his left hand, but even some appeared on his neck. The pupils of his eyes turned blood red in that instant, rotating like two vortices. It was just that the whole process was only a moment, and he was facing away from Robbie, so he was not noticed.

But regardless, Blood Pupil's press was extremely ruthless!

A black light flashed, and Blood Pupil's left hand burst into flames. There were faint, ear-piercing screams in it. Then, before Robbie could react, the empty sky in front of him suddenly twisted, and a mysterious consciousness exploded!

This was not the hidden consciousness from before, but the consciousness that was completely shattered by Blood Pupil. So even Robbie could feel it, and he could also detect the malice and horror in it. In an instant, he only felt a chill in his body, as if he had been targeted by a poisonous snake. This feeling came and went quickly, disappearing without a trace in an instant. When he looked up at the sky again, where was there any abnormality?

"That... that was..." Robbie was stunned for a moment. He felt that he couldn't believe it. "Lord Qiao An?"

Blood Pupil nodded slightly, turned around, and showed a smile. "His clone was eaten by me. He was a little unwilling, so he came to take a look."

"But now there's nothing to worry about. I've returned his clone to him. He should be satisfied."

"You..." Robbie opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

At the same time, on the other side of the universe, on that huge tower.

Qiao An's body suddenly trembled violently, and a painful distortion appeared on his face. This abnormality appeared so suddenly that the white-clothed man beside him didn't have time to help him. He shook violently and knelt on the ground with a thud. Large mouthfuls of blood spurted from his mouth, but it no longer turned into black mist.

"What's wrong with you?" the white-clothed man asked in a startled voice.

"It's him!! It's actually him!!!" Qiao An's face twisted violently, as ferocious as a ghost. He struggled desperately and roared.

"He actually turned my clone energy into a weapon to attack me!! He destroyed my consciousness channel!"

"What!?" The white-clothed man was finally surprised. Absorbing the clone energy of a Meteor-level expert and turning it into a weapon to counterattack? Even he had never heard of such a method...

What kind of enemy did Qiao An encounter?