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Chapter 602 - 472: Powerful Central Control · Oct 13, 2026

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601 Chapter 601 - 471: Soothing Incense 2026-10-13
602 Chapter 602 - 472: Powerful Central Control 2026-10-13
603 Chapter 603 - 473: Truly Wealthy 2026-10-13
604 Chapter 604 - 474: Big Sister Hao-Mai 2026-10-13
605 Chapter 605 - 475: Strength and Weakness 2026-10-13
606 Chapter 606 - 476: Community 2026-10-13
607 Chapter 607 - 477: The Persistent Yin Soul 2026-10-13
608 Chapter 608 - 478: Breaking the Deadlock? 2026-10-13
609 Chapter 609 - 479: Forced Suicide 2026-10-13
610 Chapter 610 - 480: Bizarre Death 2026-10-13
611 Chapter 611 - 481: Speechless 2026-10-13
612 Chapter 612 - 482: Compensation Doesn’t Matter 2026-10-13
613 Chapter 613 - 483: Misfortune Comes in Waves 2026-10-13
614 Chapter 614 - 484: The Corrupt Will Remain Corrupt 2026-10-13
615 Chapter 615 - 485: A Bit Too Ambitious 2026-10-13
616 Chapter 616 - 486: Disgusting Scum 2026-10-13
617 Chapter 617 - 487: Reversal 2026-10-13
618 Chapter 618 - 488: Logic Bomb 2026-10-13
619 Chapter 619 - 489: Nights Aglow with Wine and Song 2026-10-13
620 Chapter 620 - 490: Skills 2026-10-13
621 Chapter 621 - 491: Brought It on Themselves 2026-10-13
622 Chapter 622 - 492: No Room for Willfulness 2026-10-13
623 Chapter 623 - 493: Indecisiveness 2026-10-13
624 Chapter 624 - 494: Paying a Visit 2026-10-13
625 Chapter 625 - 495: Cameo 2026-10-13
626 Chapter 626 - 496: Pressure 2026-10-13
627 Chapter 627 - 497: Unbeatable Teamwork 2026-10-13
628 Chapter 628 - 498: So Powerful It’s Hopeless 2026-10-13
629 Chapter 629 - 499: Acting in Unison 2026-10-13
630 Chapter 630 - 500: Successive Incidents 2026-10-13
631 Chapter 631 - 501: Shockwaves 2026-10-13
632 Chapter 632 - 502: Far from Over 2026-10-13
633 Chapter 633 - 503: Appalled 2026-10-13
634 Chapter 634 - 504: No Way Out 2026-10-13
635 Chapter 635 - 505: That’s It? 2026-10-13
636 Chapter 636 - 506: Raising the Price on the Spot 2026-10-13
637 Chapter 637 - 507: Adventurer 2026-10-13
638 Chapter 638 - 508: Infernal Affairs 2026-10-13
639 Chapter 639 - 509: The Trap 2026-10-13
640 Chapter 640 - 510: Slaughter Unleashed 2026-10-13
641 Chapter 641 - 511: Sending a Warning 2026-10-13
642 Chapter 642 - 512: Dragged Into the Water 2026-10-13
643 Chapter 643 - 513: Cover 2026-10-13
644 Chapter 644 - 514: Courting Death 2026-10-13
645 Chapter 645 - 515: That’s Just Too Wicked (Happy New Year’s Day) 2026-10-13
646 Chapter 646 - 516: Definitely Unfavorable (Second Update) 2026-10-13
647 Chapter 647 - 517: Facing It 2026-10-13
648 Chapter 648 - 518: Sinner 2026-10-13
649 Chapter 649 - 519: No Indulgence 2026-10-13
650 Chapter 650 - 520: Pragmatism 2026-10-13

In fact, the role of the Soothing Incense is not just to aid in cultivation; it inherently possesses considerable anesthetic and hallucinogenic effects.

During interstellar travel, the life support pod provides excellent protection, filtering out most harmful gases.

However, filtering the Soothing Incense is difficult, as it doesn’t cause any severe harm to the human body.

And on some long journeys, there truly are some odd superpower warriors who use the Soothing Incense during travel.

There are quite a few such people; since they have nothing else to do, lying in the life support pod is quite uneventful.

But from another perspective, this is a low-level mind-confusing potion that star thieves often use to hijack starships.

Yet, it repeatedly evades prohibition, mainly because the supporters of the ban are ordinary people, and the opponents are superpower warriors.

In such circumstances, how can it possibly be banned?

Fangcao noticed someone using the Soothing Incense, and her eyebrows slightly furrowed—this is going to mess up the starship I’m on, who are you trying to mess with?

However, she didn’t enter the life support pod, having discovered the situation early on, so she wasn’t trapped.

So she didn’t see the need to fuss over it.

As for whether Black Heaven will be affected... she thought not.

But seeing this proud guy stumble once would be quite amusing.

However, nothing happened afterward.

Five hours later, the jump ended, and the starship emerged from the passageway, facing a vast starry sky.

There was still another day and a half of travel before they could land on Star No. 4.

The reason it takes so long is that the jump point cannot be too close to a habitable star.

At this moment, two beams of light swept past, and two dark blue warships appeared in view.

”XS9643 starship, decelerate, XS9643 starship, decelerate, this is Customs Enforcement Division patrol, this is Customs Enforcement Division patrol...”

Compared to the massive starship, these two warships were pitifully small, their size barely reaching a fifth.

Yet no one dared to underestimate these two; they were genuine warships, with strong defense and even stronger firepower.

Passenger starships have defense systems; in these rampant star thief years, who wouldn’t bring some defensive items when traveling?

Even if they were reluctant to spend this money, the Imperial insurance company would remind them.

If you don’t even want to spend the basic investment, how can we undertake the policy?

Starships also have offensive weapons, but generally speaking, they are of a defensive nature.

Some cargo starships, due to carrying valuable cargo, may equip some large weapons, but they are still civilian types.

Those using large standard weapons are not purely civilian starships but rather armed commercial starships.

The use of such starships must accept military oversight and inspection.

XS9643 starship is primarily passenger-carrying, with incidental cargo, and can only obediently decelerate when encountering customs enforcement patrol ships.

As the two dark blue warships quickly approached, Qu Jianlei opened the life support pod.

After he came out, he looked around and then asked in a deep voice, ”Who is using the Soothing Incense?”

”I don’t know,” Fangcao shook her head, ”It looks a bit strange, could it be directed at you...”

At this, she almost laughed. The hallucinogenic effect of the Soothing Incense is only targeted at ordinary people or modified warriors.

Even against C-level warriors, it’s not necessarily effective, and for B-level, it can at most cause a moment of daze.

The Black Heaven in front of them looks like a modified warrior, but Fangcao knows well that he’s at least an electromagnetic B-level.

At most, it might be something... she wasn’t entirely sure, but using Soothing Incense for an ambush is definitely a wrong choice.

Qu Jianlei shook his head, muttering under his breath, ”Truly inconsiderate.”

He had already perceived it; the person using the Soothing Incense was a robust middle-aged woman, earth attribute B-level.

Still, using Soothing Incense while being B-level during a jump... shouldn’t they be taking Nutrient Injection?

Anyway, it wasn’t his business; the woman seemed indifferent to his perception and wasn’t likely to be of any skill.

Then Qu Jianlei glanced outside the porthole, furrowing his brow, ”Checking smuggling on a passenger starship?”

”Pretty rare, right?” Fangcao smiled helplessly, ”Not sure what these people are thinking.”

As they spoke, the two warships docked with the starship, ”Lower the gangway, lower the gangway.”

As the gangway lowered, the two warships docked with the starship.

Soon after, two teams of Customs Enforcement personnel in dark blue uniforms walked in, fully armed with helmets.

They began checking passengers room by room, and others went down to inspect the cargo hold.

Qu Jianlei furrowed his brow and asked in a deep voice, ”Do they have the right to search?”

”Theoretically, yes,” Fangcao looked at Qu Jianlei, her expression a bit odd, ”But superpower warriors have privileges.”

She genuinely wanted to laugh; the Customs Enforcement Team has great power but must also maintain corresponding respect for superpower warriors.

This guy, clearly at least a B-level, is now pretending to be a modified warrior... this is self-inflicted.

Qu Jianlei thought for a moment, then sighed, pointing at his backpack, ”Can I say this is your luggage?”

Fangcao looked at him with a mix of tears and laughter, ”Is there anything illegal?”

Qu Jianlei thought again, ”Forget it, let’s take it one step at a time.”

The backpack contained some miscellaneous items, but the most important thing was... Kushnier’s storage space!

The Empire does possess instruments capable of detecting storage space!

The storage bag resembling a sachet was hidden inside a pack of cigarettes, sealed away with a sticker, seemingly undetectable at first glance.

Moreover, the inner layer of the cigarette pack contains aluminum foil, which can block certain detection instruments—it can obstruct some spiritual perception.

But the detection instruments held by the Customs Enforcement Team, those are another matter.

If they truly discover it and recognize it as Kushnier’s relic, the consequences would be...

At this moment, he felt a bit regretful. Had I known such a thing would occur, I surely would have hidden the sachet on Star No. 3.

Given his caution of always establishing a secret camp wherever he goes, hiding the sachet on Star No. 3 was quite reasonable.

Yet, he had traveled on starships multiple times without ever having had anyone inspect storage space—not even the storage talisman was checked.

Moreover, with the malice Star No. 3 held towards him, he didn’t plan on returning anytime soon, which is why he brought the sachet with him.

The most crucial aspect was that he wished to ponder over what kind of design this Qi Gathering Array really was, and whether he could utilize it himself.

If useable, that would be wonderful; if not... then he’d have to make improvements.

Originally, everything was meticulously planned, yet ultimately he hadn’t foreseen encountering a Customs Enforcement Division inspection on the starship.

Seeing Black Heaven in a low mood, Fangcao smiled slightly, ”Forget it, consider it part of my luggage... May I have a look inside?”

She wished to help Qu Jianlei too, but... one must at least glimpse what might be inside, right?

If you have a couple of Divine Text Documents stashed, wouldn’t that implicate me too?

She was aware Qu Jianlei had a storage talisman, so if he were to carry prohibited items like Divine Text Documents, they’d surely be in the storage talisman.

But her request was quite reasonable; while helping you take the fall, let me at least glance at it.

At this moment, the Big Head Butterfly appeared in Qu Jianlei’s mind, saying, ”Take out the vortex.”

Both the vortex and the Baofeng were in Qu Jianlei’s backpack, these two portable terminals were not large, convenient to carry.

The crux is that those keeping an eye on him know he possesses two formidable terminals; suddenly disappearing, it’s hard to explain to others.

Qu Jianlei had no idea what Xiao Hu meant, so he got up, took out his backpack, removed the vortex, and handed the backpack to Fangcao.

Fangcao opened the backpack briefly scanning inside and then perceived, chuckling, ”You don’t have much stuff.”

Sure enough, with her spiritual power, she couldn’t perceive the storage space inside the aluminum foil—or rather, she hadn’t deliberately tried to perceive it.

Qu Jianlei silently noted this favor in his heart.

If the sachet were to be discovered later, he absolutely wouldn’t let the other party take the blame—Qu would never betray a friend.

However, the next moment, he observed something peculiar, the vortex had quietly activated.

Indeed, it was silent, but as an A-level, Fangcao, being so close, still sensed it.

She asked in surprise, ”What’s going on?”

Qu Jianlei calmly replied, ”I suspect someone wants to steal my data, clearing it up.”

”It’s not a suspicion, it’s a certainty,” Xiao Hu spun slowly in his mind, ”There’s a powerful central control nearby.”

Are you serious? Upon hearing this, Qu Jianlei was genuinely startled, ”How powerful, compared to you?”

”Don’t speak, busy now,” Xiao Hu rarely used imperative sentences, ”Stronger than a Star Realm central control.”

Oh my, Qu Jianlei gasped internally upon hearing this.

He, inside, knew very well, Xiao Hu dreamed of configuring a large-scale machine, wanting to surpass Star Realm’s central control.

Now, a central control stronger than Star Realm’s unexpectedly appeared, what level must it be?

He yearned to continue questioning, but hearing Xiao Hu now say it was busy—then surely it’s not a typical sort of busy.

Now is definitely not a time to interrupt it, hence he merely asked one more thing, ”Need to absorb the crystal?”

”No need,” Xiao Hu answered straightforwardly, with a gentle voice carrying an undeniable tone.

About ten minutes later, two Customs Enforcement Team members came in, both modified warriors.

Their uniforms and helmets possessed a certain degree of resistance, ensuring short-term survival in space.

However, this block does not impede their perception of Fangcao’s power, ”Hmm, an A-level, surprisingly?”

After verifying Fangcao’s identity, one warrior holding a portable terminal scanned her body and luggage.

And... then no further action was taken, indicating that the equipment was slightly inadequate, unable to perceive storage space.

Qu Jianlei breathed a silent sigh of relief, and then he realized he had miscalculated.

When the terminal scanned him, it emitted a piercing sound.

The Customs Enforcement Team members glanced at his chest, chin raised slightly, ”What’s inside? Take it out!”

Qu Jianlei sighed helplessly and reached into his bosom, producing a pile of storage talismans, numbering seven or eight.

The expression of the two Customs Enforcement Team members instantly changed.

They were not unfamiliar with storage talismans, but this many piled together... was indeed exceedingly rare.

Crucially, the other party was merely a modified warrior; what’s the purpose of bringing so many storage talismans?

Even Fangcao, upon witnessing this, was slightly stupefied: How extravagantly rich are you?

One Customs Enforcement Team member finally regained composure, directly calling out, ”Business-class 303 has a situation, business-class 303 has a situation!”

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