Great, I'm surrounded by villains.

Duan Mingyuan contacted the security chief, Mr. Coyote Twelve, who was collecting information about everyone who had been attacked.

"Something strange."

Not long after, Coyote Twelve walked out of the infirmary with a serious look on his face.

The first few people who were slightly injured argued with the accompanying personnel who questioned them and were then beaten up by the crowd. However, that was just a way to vent their emotions and the accompanying personnel did not want to make a big deal out of it. Although the patients who were sent in had bruises all over their bodies, they were not seriously injured.

But the injured who were sent in later, some seriously injured and some almost losing their lives, were different.

"They were all attacked without any warning, and we didn't see the attackers' faces clearly. The attackers' purpose was also very clear, and it didn't look like they were simply venting their anger."

The sudden appearance of so many injured people was undoubtedly a dereliction of duty on his part.

He admitted that he and Mocking Dove had been intimate in the room for a while in the morning, but the security personnel of the Gear Hotel were all professionals and should not have been unable to detect a few armed attackers. Coyote Twelve now wanted to question his subordinates in the monitoring room, what was wrong with their eyes?

"It should be an organized and purposeful attack. They seemed to know the victim's route and avoided patrolling security personnel and surveillance."

"What is the purpose?"

Duan Mingyuan was a little confused.

Well-trained, yet without causing harm to the lives of the wounded.

Take this patient suffering from "dehydration" for example. If her attacker had been more "professional" and stabbed her directly in the neck, she would not have been able to stumble here covered in blood.

“Maybe this is their purpose.”

Arriving outside the infirmary, Coyote Twelve was finally able to light a cigar. "The injured were all the entourage of the invited directors last night. For them, this was an act of revenge. For those who are wavering in their stance, such an act is likely to push them to the opposite side."

That's his opinion.

He felt that someone was making a big fuss about the suspicions among the directors, and the beneficiaries behind it were easy to guess.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Gear Hotel.

Tang Qianqian and Yang Ping stopped, or rather, an uninvited guest who suddenly came out from the corner blocked their way.

These people were wearing loose windbreakers, sunglasses and masks, and they were holding iron rods and knives, and they looked like they were not good people.

The retreat route behind him was also blocked.

There were four people dressed the same way. They said nothing, and after confirming the "target", they surrounded the two people in a pincer attack.

"who are you?"

Tang Qianqian asked, but no one answered.

"I advise you to stop it immediately!"

The four men ignored Tang Qianqian's warning. Their purpose was obvious. They waved iron bars and knives and rushed towards the two like street thugs in a fight.

The next moment, the weapons in the hands of several people deflected in a strange way, hitting the faces of their companions who were caught off guard. Some people accidentally tripped at this critical moment, and their faces hit the ground, and several teeth flew out. In less than a second, the four of them fell to the ground wailing.

The wounds were torn and the severe pain made them lie on the ground unable to move.

"I have already advised you to stop."

Tang Qianqian sighed.

If these people had listened to her advice, they would not have suffered such physical pain.

They had heard about the attack on the entourage a long time ago. The reason why she and Yang Ping appeared in the corridor at this time was a typical sting operation. In order to ensure safety, they used their best trick - calling for their master's wife.

But today, the master's wife hit him much harder than usual. Tang Qianqian saw that the man who tripped had his nose sunken in. It was not difficult to imagine how painful the fall was.

Jiu Yue went upstairs with a cold face. For her, covering several floors with a barrier was no problem at all.

The third prince believed that these attackers were not the directors’ entourage, but assassins planted by the Silver Lotus Family, with the purpose of muddying the waters and further causing conflicts among the directors.

She bent down and removed the mask from one of them.

However, the face that came into her sight made her stunned for a long time - although her face was disfigured by a blow from an iron rod, she could still vaguely recognize this face, as she had seen it in the restaurant before.

After some inspection, the facts did not seem to match the third prince's inference.

These four people were all members of the director's entourage and were staunch opponents. After their faces were revealed, they glared at them viciously, making it look like a simple act of revenge.

She sent the four people who were caught red-handed to the department where Coyote Twelve was located. However, the result of the interrogation left Coyote Twelve confused.

The four admitted that they had attacked the entourage of the "traitor" directors, and that there were other people like them in the hotel who also took action.

They believed that the directors were unable to rebuke the traitorous behavior of the eight directors due to the situation and lack of etiquette, so they could only teach these cowards a lesson on behalf of the directors.

They were not instigated by anyone; this was a completely spontaneous act to "punish traitors."

"Am I wrong?"

After the interrogation, Coyote Twelve leaned back in his chair and fell into deep thought.

Could it be that this incident was not actually a conspiracy of the Chamber of Commerce?

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 283 Abnormal Things

This is not a good sign.

The directors' entourage were the first to get involved in internal strife, and they spontaneously formed an organization to attack the traitors. In their view, this was a just punishment, and Duan Mingyuan and Jiu Yue, because they attended the banquet last night, made the Blue Star delegation also the target of the attack.

The worse news is that when the "traitors" learned that their colleagues had been attacked, they also formed corresponding resistance organizations and began to launch a planned counterattack.

A serious summit could easily turn into a farce of mutual attacks or even assassinations.

September arrived at the restaurant of the Gear Hotel early and caught three of the directors' entourage who were trying to poison the food. The results of the poison test made Coyote Twelve even more depressed - the doses of poison detected were enough to kill a person instantly, which meant that these people were no longer satisfied with venting their anger, but took assassination actions.

It seemed that all of a sudden, these elites selected from various planets turned into extremists, completely throwing negotiation and game behind their backs, and only primitive violence and killing could resolve their demands.

Duan Mingyuan, who returned to his room to rest at noon, was also attacked.

The attacker was a nine-tailed fox, which jumped up from the corner the moment he entered the room and kissed and nibbled him. Duan Mingyuan couldn't dodge in time and his cheeks were wet from the attack.

This is the third time in one day that Jiuyue has taken on the form of a nine-tailed fox.

Compared with the previous implicit form of acting coquettishly and pretending to be pitiful, September is now much more "offensive". The essence of the emotion has not changed, but the nature of the mischievous fox is being revealed more and more.

As a scholar of fox demon research, no one knows the difference between the "attack" of the auspicious fox and the evil fox better than Duan Mingyuan.

He suppressed September who had been trying to pounce on him and had to rethink the problem.

With the previous experience of the directors’ entourage, could it be that the changes in September were also influenced by some unknown force?

He felt that Coyote Twelve's initial guess was not unreasonable. Those who could participate in this summit were all elites selected from various planets. Most of them had the experience of participating in interstellar conferences more than once. Even if they had the idea of ​​"making the traitor pay the price", they would hide it in their hearts without making a sound.

If they really want to take action, they will take advantage of loopholes in the rules, instead of being like a hot-blooded young man in his twenties who simply puts on a mask and picks up an iron rod to beat people.

There is no way such an impulsive person would be qualified to attend the summit.

While Duan Mingyuan was thinking, Jiu Yue, who was lying on the bed, hugged his arm and kissed and bit it, leaving a row of thin teeth marks on it. Her red pupils stared at him straight, and the thought of "wanting to pounce on him" was written directly on her face.

"Just give in this time. It won't cost you anything."

This seems to have become September's recent obsession.

"What made you like this?"

Duan Mingyuan was puzzled, but he vaguely grasped the essence of this series of changes.

There was some invisible force that intensified people's thoughts and pushed them to put them into practice. Even Jiu Yue, a veteran who had obtained a senior professional title, was affected.

"It's love!"

September didn't notice anything unusual about herself at all, her eyes sparkling as she answered without hesitation.

Although the "Lucky Fox Training Manual" mentions that everything needs to be done step by step, humans are usually a reserved and conservative group, and expressing past events too directly may scare them, but September decided to put these red tapes behind him for the time being, and it might be interesting to occasionally adopt the expression method of the unlucky fox.

The hands holding Duan Mingyuan's arms increased their strength.

Jiu Yue coaxed and lied, "Mr. Mingyuan, don't be too conservative. You should try something new once in a while!"

At this moment, Duan Mingyuan suddenly understood another accusation against the evil fox in "Fox Demon Tales".

The author classifies evil foxes as extremely dangerous monsters. Since ancient times, there have been rumors that evil foxes can suck the essence of humans. Once you are liked by an evil fox, they will focus all their attention on you. Since fox monsters are jealous by nature, they will often take some unconventional measures to keep you by their side.

To put it in today's internet terms, most foxes have yandere attributes.

Jiu Yue's yandere side of the fox was gradually revealed due to some influence. Duan Mingyuan couldn't help but suspect from her slightly fanatical eyes that once the other party achieved the goal of "knocking her down", she would add some plays such as "binding" and "eye hiding".

In her words, these are all new things.

But since these new things did not conform to the current positive atmosphere, Duan Mingyuan had to stop the little fox from going astray.

He placed his palm on September's forehead, and the warm life energy slowly transferred into the latter's body.

The red light in her eyes gradually dissipated, and the tails behind her also dissipated one by one. The whole process lasted for about a minute. During this process, Jiu Yue squinted her eyes unconsciously. When she opened them again, her eyes became clear again.

She seemed a little dazed. She stared at Duan Mingyuan for a moment, then looked around. When she realized that she was sitting on the bed in a duck position, she suddenly realized what was going on.

"Mr. Mingyuan, don't be so impatient. You'll tear your clothes."

He lifted the corners of his clothes with both hands.

"You are totally mistaken."

Duan Mingyuan had to stop Jiu Yue again. What he had just changed was only Jiu Yue's nature as a fox, helping her return to normal, but he did not change her thoughts.

This proves that there have always been some ulterior motives in the little fox's mind.

"Oh."

Jiu Yue stopped in disappointment. She vaguely remembered that she had caught the criminal who tried to poison lunch. She thought that Mr. Ming Yuan came to her during lunch break to reward her.

It seems that not enough bad guys have been caught.

In order to find out the source of the influence, Duan Mingyuan and Coyote Twelve agreed to meet in a coffee shop.

This cowboy bebop was in a state of low spirits. In his own words, he hadn't slept the entire night before and so many bad things had happened this morning that even a body made of steel couldn't withstand it.

As for the reason why he didn't sleep all night, he didn't elaborate.

"I said, how could I be wrong?"

After listening to Duan Mingyuan's analysis, he slapped his thigh.

As expected, the villain is the Chamber of Commerce, which makes much more sense. They used some ability or tool to influence the people in the venue, thereby provoking infighting among the directors' entourage.

"It's really ironic that all those rhetoric about peaceful development is just a cover."

Coyote Twelve also read the news released by the media yesterday. In the news, it was said that the current head of the Silver Lotus Family had held consultations with the directors of the summit on the future peace and trade prosperity of the universe.

But in reality, they just wanted to sow discord between the two sides from within and cause the Sixteen-Star Summit to disintegrate from within.

This is his problem.

Coyote Twelve conducted self-criticism and introspection. For a moment, he actually believed the evil of the Chamber of Commerce and thought that the Semites were going to take a step back and get through the meeting in a peaceful manner.

"The anomaly began after the family's flagship arrived. If they used some kind of tool, the device was most likely placed on the Semitic flagship."

Coyote Twelve said, "The question is, how on earth are we going to get on their flagship?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 284 Laurel

How to board the flagship of the Silver Lotus Family?

This sounds like an impossible task.

As the ship of the current head of the family, it is equipped with the most stringent security system in the entire universe. Only those who are invited by the family can board the flagship.

But as far as Coyote Twelve knows, no one other than the Shemitah has ever boarded the flagship named "Laurel". Even within the Shemitah, only a few people at the top of the Chamber of Commerce have ever been qualified to board the flagship.

After yesterday's banquet, the current head of the family, Morgan VII, returned to the flagship and had no plans to return to the Gear Hotel before the summit officially ended.

The decoration of the luxurious restaurant on the top floor was also removed, and Morgan VII seemed to intend to stay on his ship, patiently waiting for the meeting to end.

Perhaps he had already foreseen that no matter what twists and turns occurred in the process, the outcome would definitely develop in the direction expected by the Semites.

Because the changes in this universe have always been like this.

As long as they have wealth and power, they are in control of their destiny, and destiny will always develop in the direction they expect.

Despite this, Coyote Twelve still used his connections to invite over an expert in boarding warfare whom he knew.

What Mockingbird and the Eastern Front were most proud of was the close combat boarding battles, and they had used this tactic to bring down more than a dozen of the company's battlecruisers.