Chapter 1141 Judgment!

After three days, the merits rewarded for the battle were announced.

All of the meca clans in Base Nebula received a third-rank group award, while the mecha clans who had fought in the battle received a second-rank group award based on the battle reports. Some mecha clans had also received a first-rank award. Mecha operators who performed well were also awarded with individual awards for their achievements.

Lingtian, which had put in the most effort and could even be considered the determining factor of the entire battle, was not mentioned even once during the announcement of the rewards. There was only a small tidbit explaining that Lingtian Mecha Clan's achievements and rewards hadn't been arranged and would be publicly announced in the next few days.

Lingtian Mecha Clan weren't weirded out by this. Wasn't the battle on Planet Haijiao the same as well? After every battle, the military awards and merits always had difficulty appearing on their laps.

They understood that it was because their regiment commander was always making great surprises. These surprises were so large that the military couldn't quickly digest it. Only after the military or rather the entire Federation ran around in circles, would they be able to even get a glimpse of their awards.

Without mentioning other people, just the foreign affairs officers, who were at the Intergalactic United Nations, would be berated with insults and questions every day. They even had a few times when they were in handcuffs. They were so disheveled that they couldn't even maintain the impression of being foreign affairs officers.

Thus, all the departments in the military, especially the foreign affairs department of the government didn't really have a very good impression of Lingtian. When Lingtian was mentioned, they would think of those audacious bastards... it was a love and hate relationship.

In this situation like this, how could the military's higher-ups give out awards so easily? They still had to try their best to nitpick and try to find problems with their perfect result in order to find ways to decrease their military merits. The lower the merits, the better they would feel. Doing this wasn't any beneficial to them but they still wanted to do this just for the sole reason of looking at a defeated Lingtian. These higher-ups would be extremely exhilarated when that time does come... or not.

However, Lingtian wasn't scared. Lingtian wasn't a step-son with no connections or anything as there was still the big boss standing behind them. General Ling Xiao was definitely not going to allow the military to give them any less than they deserved.

During the time Lingtian was waiting for the final results, Ling Lan wore her uniform and took Li Lanfeng, Zhao Jun and Li Shiyu, who didn't show up much, to Piercing Arrow's camping ground.

"Major General Ling, welcome to our camp." After receiving the notification, Yu Wei led a portion of his leaders to welcome them.

"Regiment Commander Yu, sorry for the intrusion." Ling Lan nodded calmly towards Yu Wei and followed him into his camping ground.

Everyone sat in the living room of the command center. After sitting down, Yu Wei asked Ling Lan for the reason why they were here today.

Ling Lan glanced at Li Lanfeng nonchalantly.

Li Lanfeng understood and said, "Regiment Commander Yu, we came here to see someone. We have some things we'd like to ask him."

Yu Wei's curiosity peaked. "Who are you looking for?"

"Zhang Han!" Smiled Li Lanfeng.

Zhang Chao looked at Li Lanfeng with a stunned expression on his face and said anxiously, "Leader Li, how do you know my brother's name? Is this visit because of the leather whip? I've already taught him a lesson for disrespecting your subordinates."

"It's not because of that. We just want to ask him if he knows someone," Li Lanfeng explained in a warm tone.

Hearing this, Zhang Chao was no longer worried and said, "Alright, I'll call him over here."

Zhang Chao quickly contacted Zhang Han for him to come to the command center as there were very important visitors who wanted to ask him something.

Not long after, Zhang Han arrived. Once he entered the living room and saw that Ling Lan was sitting in the main seat, his expression changed. His footsteps slowed down and his shoulder started slouching down.

"You good-for-nothing, get over here." Seeing Zhan Han's cowardly posture, Zhang Chao became angry and shouted towards him.

Zhang Han put his head down, slowly walked towards Zhang Chao and said weakly, "Elder Brother!"

"Major General Ling has something to ask you. Answer him well." Zhang Han's helpless expression made Zhang Chao feel sorry for him, so he held in his anger and prompted him with care.

"Yes, I understand." Zhang Han nodded and walked in front of Yu Wei and Ling Lan and then saluted. He waited for the hard-hitting questions.

Seeing Zhang Han standing on attention, Li Lanfeng spoke, "Second Lieutenant Zhang, do you know Major Wang Junzhi?"

Zhang Han had a blank expression on his face. "No, I don't know him."

Li Lanfeng turned on the virtual screen on his communicator and showed Wang Junzhi's image.

"Second Lieutenant Zhang, think carefully, have you seen this person before?" Li Lanfeng was very patient with his words.

Zhang Han thought for a while and after a few seconds, he shook his head again. "I'm sorry, I really don't remember."

Seeing this, Zhang Chao quickly added, "Although my little brother is a bit useless, he doesn't really go out that much other than going out to buy daily necessities. He would stay in the camping ground most of the time so he won't know many people from the outside. I never heard him speak of this person so he probably doesn't know him."

In reality, even Zhang Chao felt that the person in the image was unfamiliar. After all, Base Nebula was like a large city and every clan had their own location to set up camp. Some were even built away from the center of the base, so a lot of people might not even see each other even after retirement.

Li Lanfeng seemed to not want to let up and continued to ask, "You also haven't met him in the virtual world?"

Zhang Chao thought deeply for a moment before shaking his head with determination. "No, I definitely hadn't seen him before."

"Alright, thank you, Second Lieutenant Zhang. Now there's another thing that we hope you can cooperate with us." Li Lanfeng no longer focused on the matter about Wang Junzhi. He just gestured to Li Shiyu for him to come over.

Li Shiyu walked in front of Zhang Han and said politely, "Second Lieutenant Zhang, please cooperate with my examination of you."

"Why?" Zhang Han performed a guarded stance.

"I have to make sure you were in a conscious state when you answered those questions just now," Li Shiyu took out an evaluation booklet and said helplessly.

Li Shiyu was conducting this examination because there were countless types of medicinal agents in the market. Some medicinal agents could even successfully control a person's thoughts and force them to answer only about what they wanted to fool the investigators. Thus, all documented questionings needed the evaluation of military doctors. This was to confirm that all of the answers made by the person in question were answered in a conscious state.

Hearing this, Zhang Han instantly loosened his guarded stance and didn't refuse Li Shiyu's examination of him.

After the evaluation, Li Shiyu nodded towards Li Lanfeng and then returned beside Ling Lan.

Li Lanfeng stood up and smiled towards Yu Wei. "Sorry, Regiment Commander Yu. We will need to take Zhang Han with us."

Yu Wei was stunned. Zhang Han was even more stunned as he shouted, "Why?"

Zhang Chao was also stunned and said, "What's the meaning of this?"

Li Lanfeng smiled but didn't speak. Li Shiyu, who was standing beside Ling Lan, spoke up, "Although Second Lieutenant Zhang doesn't have any mind-numbing medicinal agents in his system, he still has something else controlling him."

After hearing this, Zhang Han's expression's darkened instantly, "You're lying.

"According to data I have examined, after around 10 days, you would have to use that thing again. Otherwise, you would suffer a fate worse than death." Faced with Zhang Han's anger, Li Shiyu calmly spoke out about what he had determined.

Chapter 1142 Interrogation

After hearing those words, Zhang Han's face turned pale as a sheet... Seeing Zhang Han's pale face, Zhang Chao knew something was wrong and immediately shouted, "Zhang Han, what are you hiding?"

Faced with Zhang Chao's intense look, Zhang Han only bit his lip as his face scrunched up in pain.

"You're not a very good older brother..." Li Lanfeng shook his head. "You don't really know your little brother. Your little brother has a lot of secrets. Right? Second Lieutenant Zhang, or rather Mr. Spectral User Zhang?"

"Spectral user? Spectral ability user!" Zhang Chao could hear the memories of his precious little brother shattering apart like glass. The useless little brother in his memories was a spectral ability user?

"Little Han, is this true? Why didn't you tell us?" Zhang Chao felt as if a sharp knife had been stabbed into his heart as he screamed out loud. His little brother actually kept such a big secret from him and everyone in their family.

Hearing his elder brother's questions, Zhang Han just laughed coldly in response. "Didn't you and every single one of the family always think of me as useless? In their eyes, they only saw you as a good son they are proud of."

"How can you say that about mom and dad?! They love you!" Zhang Chao couldn't believe what words were entering his ears.

"Heh, they'll only give me some of their care and affection when they suddenly remember it once in a while." Zhang Han's face turned red in anger. He screamed angrily, "I don't f*cking need such cheap love."

A hint of wild vengeance showed on Zhang Han's angry face. The look Zhang Han was giving him caused Zhang Chao to back up a few steps and fall into a chair behind him. He didn't know how to deal with this version of his little brother, it was as if he had turned into a total stranger.

Right at that moment, Zhang Han suddenly turned around and rushed towards the door of the living room.

Boom! A silhouette suddenly flew backwards from the door and landed onto the ground.

Zhang Han held his chest in pain and looked ruthlessly at the soldier standing at the door who sent him flying back. It was Zhao Jun!

"Second Lieutenant Zhang, you should learn to be a little smarter. Don't do anything useless." Li Lanfeng walked beside him and knelt down. "Although your strength isn't bad like your elder brother, for you to still think of escaping with domain realm masters around you... You're really daydreaming here."

"What can you do even if you capture me? I have already sent out all the available information about Lingtian. You guys are too late." Zhang Han knew he couldn't get away so he decided to let it all out.

Zhang Han's words suddenly awakened Zhang Chao from his trance. He immediately stood up and rushed towards Zhang Han. He held him up by his collar and shouted angrily, "You bastard! What nonsense did you do?"

Zhang Han glanced at Zhang Chao coldly and then slowly forced Zhang Chao's hand away from him. "Don't you think it's disgusting that you're acting all concerned about me now?"

Zhang Chao's eyes narrowed as he forced out his words through his gritted teeth. "What the f*ck did you just say?"

"Cleaning up after me. Didn't you always hate it? Didn't you want me to completely disappear from your sight? You think you hid your hate, your disgust and your contempt well from me? Sometimes, you don't even try to hide it..." Zhang Han smiled but it was deathly cold. "Them as well. They always hoped that such a useless son didn't exist. That way I won't embarrass them in front of others. Even though they hated me so much, they still had to pretend to show concern for their son. I find it hilarious every time I see all your fake smiles and concern"

"Scram!" screamed Zhang Han. "What I do is my own choice! It has nothing to do with you."

"Zhang Han!" Zhang Chao shouted angrily while holding back his tears. The wounds of his heart were showing in his eyes. Although he indeed hated Zhang Han's uselessness, he was still his little brother and his mom and dad's son in the end. How could they not care for him? However, their love for him, in his eyes, became all fake. These series of events took a huge toll on Zhang Chao's heart.

Zhang Han turned towards Li Lanfeng and coldly said, "Didn't you people come here to take me away? What are you waiting for?".

Li Lanfeng smirked. "Lingtian is a humane mecha clan. Isn't it nice for you brothers to resolve your resentment first?"

Zhang Han laughed coldly, "I don't have anything to say to this stranger." After he said his piece, he closed his eyes to show that he didn't want to see anyone or speak to anyone.

Li Lanfeng looked at Zhang Chao apologetically and then gestured at Zhao Jun to take Zhang Han back to Lingtian's camping ground.

Zhang Chao stood on the side in a daze. When he saw Zhao Jun dragging Zhang Han up from the ground, he quickly dashed to him, held onto Zhang Han's arm with his trembling and said with a desperate expression on his face, "I just want to ask one question, did you... did you betray the Federation?"

He could only think of this reason. Otherwise, Lingtian's regiment commander wouldn't take two leaders and a military doctor and come to Piercing Arrow personally to capture such a small member of their clan.

Zhang Han slowly opened his eyes and scoffed, "Don't you already know?"

This answer immediately froze Zhang Chao's heart. There was no hope now... he was in despair

At that moment, Ling Lan stood up and spoke to Yu Wei, who was completely stunned by what was happening in front of him, "Sorry for the trouble, Regiment Commander Yu."

Before Yu Wei could react, she vanished completely without a trace.

Zhao Jun, Li Lanfeng, Li Shiyu and Zhang Han also disappeared at the same time.

Not long after, they returned to Lingtian's command center in their camping ground and entered a small conference room.

After noticing some movements in the small conference room, Luo Chao walked out of her office. After seeing it were Ling Lan and the others, her face lit up and she smiled. "Regiment Commander, you're back."

"Have Qi Long and the others come back yet?" Ling Lan asked indifferently.

While they went to Piercing Arrow, Qi Long, Luo Lang, Xie Yi and Han Jijyun took her orders and went to the mecha clan, where Wang Junzhi was stationed, to arrest him.

"Not yet." Right as Luo Chao answered, they heard movement from outside the conference room.

Xie Yi was dragging someone into the conference room with Qi Long, Luo Lang and Han Jijyun following behind him.

The person that was dragged in was indeed Wang Junzhi who received information about Lingtian and sent it out from the virtual world.

Wang Junzhi trembled slightly when he saw Zhao Jun holding Zhang Han. However, he quickly calmed down. Afterwards, he saw Ling Lan who was sitting on the main seat of the room. He instantly shouted, "Major General Ling, I'm innocent. I'm innocent."

Ling Lan glanced at Luo Chao. Luo Chao understood what her look meant so she quickly walked out of the small conference room and closed the door behind her.

"Sit!" Ling Lan gestured to Zhao Jun and Xie Yi to let go of the two people and pointed towards two chairs in the conference room.

The sudden politeness made Wang Junzhi and Zhang Han look at each with fear but the two of them still calmed their nerves and carefully chose a chair to sit on.

Qi Long, Li Lanfeng, Zhao Jun and the others all randomly chose a chair to sit on after the two of them had sat down.

However, Wang Junzhi and Zhang Han discovered that they had chosen positions that surrounded the two of them. If they were to make any sudden movements, they would be put down the instant they moved.

After everyone sat down, they all activated their communicator's virtual screens to document the interrogation.

Wang Junzhi and Zhang Han's eyes meet each other again. They were both thinking and calculating how they would get out of this situation.

Chapter 1143 An Excuse!

"Actually, we can just use a sedative to interrogate the two of you. However, doing so would also cause you two unrecoverable injuries," said Ling Lan nonchalantly with her legs crossed. "So please, do spare me my time and speak for yourselves."

"I will only give you one opportunity to explain as clearly as possible to me. It would be up to yourselves to see whether you can survive after this all ends." After saying her piece, Ling Lan not even spared them another glance as she started to read the documents Luo Chao had prepared near her seat earlier.

She didn't like doing such tedious work. Just looking at the numerous different documents already made her head spin. Unfortunately, in her position, she couldn't avoid it.

Zhang Han thought for a moment before he raised his head up high and carefully said, "Actually, we didn't want to do anything. We were just interested in Lingtian that's all."

It was as if his words went into deaf's ear as Ling Lan just continued looking intently at the documents in her hands. "Those words that could fool a child aren't necessary here."

Teces

"Haha!" A chuckle from the side of the room entered their ears. What Luo Lang perceived as funny was not so funny to others.

"Luo Lang, ultimate level day training for one day!" Ling Lan didn't even move her head as she gave out his punishment.

"Ul-..." Luo Lang looked at his Boss with a terrified look. That was his Boss's level. He would definitely die on the training ground if he went through with that.

Xie Yi decisively put his hand over Luo Lang's mouth to muffle his gasp of terror.

Hearing the slight gasp, Ling Lan sent a glare at him from the corner of her eyes. She could see Xie Yi had sweat running down his forehead while he looked at her with a fawning expression.

Ling Lan's finger started lightly tapping the tabletop which caused the entire conference room to turn completely silent. The sweat on Xie Yi's forehead ran down even faster, even Luo Lang had woken up from his daze and had his head down in terror. He didn't dare to make any more noises. He was afraid if he made a scene again, his punishment would multiply.

One day's worth of the ultimate level was already going to bring to the brink of death. If it was to multiply, he would definitely die.

Everyone in the room was worried about Luo Lang. Ever since they returned from the battle with Caesar, Boss had become even more ruthless with their training. The standard day training had leveled up to an enhanced edition, and it was already making their days a living hell. The ultimate level... even Qi Long, who was considered to be someone with a monstrous physical constitution, didn't have the confidence that he would be able to handle it. Two days... They didn't even dare to imagine how terrible the final outcome would be.

The chilling atmosphere in the conference room also terrified Zhang Han and Wang Junzhi. Could they actually successfully leave