Chapter 988: 1010, head to Skru Star_2 Chapter 988: 1010, head to Skru Star_2 …

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As they talked, the troop transport spacecraft carrying them arrived at its destination–the villa to the east of Donna’s house.

Under the control of the automatic pilot function, the spacecraft landed steadily on the ground in front of the villa.

Donna had moved the space teleportation device into this villa several months ago, so that the returns of the Blue Star Cultivator-players wouldn’t disturb her sleep.

Since she had already arranged to teleport to the Skru Star at this time, Su Yu saw Donna, through the spacecraft’s porthole, walking toward them as the spacecraft landed.

But now, Donna was hugging her arms, her face serious, pondering something.

“Donna, senior!” Su Yu teleported out of the transport with a flash, greeting her as he reached her side.

Donna, preoccupied with heavy thoughts, replied to Su Yu with a simple “okay,” then turned and walked toward the villa without a backward glance.

“Senior, what happened?” Su Yu, sensing something was off with Donna, hurriedly asked.

“It’s nothing, junior.” Donna glanced at him and shook her head. “Mona has arrived. I didn’t expect the Hymn to actually send her! Why send someone I least want to see? It really is problematic!”

“Mona?” Su Yu was startled.

However, he quickly realized that Donna’s “Mona” might be the God-Level pinnacle powerhouse sent by the Hymn to Skru Star.

Upon reflection, it seemed quite likely.

After all, aside from the three of them, there were no other Holy Silver People participating in the great war between Blue Star and Skru Star.

But he didn’t expect Donna to actually know this new God-Level pinnacle, and from the tone of her voice, it was not just an ordinary acquaintance!

Su Yu immediately wanted to continue asking, to find out what the deal with this “Mona” was.

Donna seemed to see through his thoughts and turned back to say coldly, “Don’t ask me who Mona is. If you don’t want to see me lose my temper, then don’t ask!”

“Eh… okay?” Su Yu said, awkwardly touching his nose.

If Donna didn’t want to talk about it, then he simply wouldn’t ask.

If he ever got the chance to visit Lin Ke, he could try to get some information out of him on the side.

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The party of 26 left the transport spacecraft and entered the basement of the villa without incident.

Upon entering the basement, the Sixth Order players all looked tense, but Tina and the others were excited.

They were all thrilled to be about to set off for Skru Star.

“Everyone, don’t be too tense,” Su Yu tried to reassure his fellow players. “We Blue Star Humans have been to Skru Star so many times and only sacrificed four players in total. So, keep a level head; there’s a high chance you’ll return alive.”

“But Su Yu,” said one player in broken Mandarin from the crowd, “weren’t all four sacrifices from the last trip to Skru Star?”

“Uh… yes, that’s true,” Su Yu admitted.

Hearing Su Yu confirm it, the Sixth Order players became even more nervous!

They wondered how many sacrifices would be required this time after four had been sacrificed on the last perfect run through the secret realm.

They wondered how many of them would make it back.

Su Yu could only helplessly shake his head at this, unable to assist; the players would have to overcome this on their own.

He and Zhong Feng took out the “Lunar Positioning Stones” and distributed the stones to each person.

With these stones, there was no need to teleport randomly. They would be sent directly to the underground caverns beneath the Royal Capital of Makadun.

The players and cultivators each took a positioning stone, clutching the white stones tightly in their hands.

But when Su Yu offered positioning stones to Tina and Alyssa, they both flatly refused him, not accepting the stones.

In response to Su Yu’s puzzled look, Tina explained, “Nemesis, we plan to teleport to random locations without using the positioning stones.

If any of the three of us are teleported into a populated area of the Skrull people, we will greatly attract their attention.

And our goal for this trip is to draw the attention of the Skrull people!”

That goal had been decided by the two of them, along with their cat, during the flight on the spacecraft.

Su Yu hadn’t assigned them any tasks but let them go to get familiar with the environment and enjoy the sights.

However, the two of them along with their cat felt they should use their ability to “resurrect” to do something.

On Skru Star, they were the true “players,” who could act recklessly without much concern for the consequences.

Their goal was set to “capture the attention of Skrull people,” for which they had also laid out specific implementation details.

Alyssa and her two companions didn’t ask for a positioning stone, and Su Yu did not insist.

Standing to one side, Donna had already grown impatient.

She directly activated the space teleportation device and said to everyone, “You will be teleported away in half a minute. I wish you all good luck! Su Yu, let’s go outside, don’t get teleported away too.”

After speaking, she pulled on Su Yu’s sleeve, and the two of them left the basement together.

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A dozen minutes later, in Emperor Manina of Raging Sun’s study on Skru Star.

At this moment, Manina was checking the online public opinion in his study.

Following the conclusion of that press conference, the United Government’s reputation was unprecedentedly good!

Now, one couldn’t find a single anti-war voice on the entire network; the public’s support for waging war against Blue Star People was at 100%.

Moreover, what pleased him even more was that Cindy Doppler and Makadun III had admitted their mistakes!

The press conference took place two hours ago, and one hour after it ended, Cindy Doppler and Emperor Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang successively admitted their mistakes on their social media accounts.

The apologies from both were quite consistent. Their general message was–
“Previously, they were anti-war because being against the war was better for the average people. The fruits of victory from a war would be reaped by the higher-ups in the United Government. The average people not only gain nothing but also have to bear enormous sacrifices.

But now, they realized they were wrong.

The Holy Silver Federation sent a God-Level peak expert to support them; what reason did they have to oppose this war?”

Cindy Doppler and Emperor Hongwu expressed, “From now on, they are willing to abandon their anti-war stance and instead support the United Government in winning this war.

For this reason, they sincerely apologize for their previous actions.”

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Of course, their public stance was not their true opinion but a strategic retreat.

They first shifted to support Manina, going along with public opinion.

Later, when Manina revealed any flaws, for instance, the moment he carelessly mentioned the “principle of fairness in war” himself, they would then blow the trumpet for a counterattack, and the damage they could inflict on Manina would be much greater!

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The apologies from Cindy Doppler and Emperor Hongwu immediately stirred a huge commotion online!

After all, the Anti-Alliance Organization had quite a bit of influence online in the past, always confronting the United Government, and the majority of the underprivileged classes supported them.

Now that they had come forward to apologize, it was naturally going to set off another wave of public opinion.

People were discussing everywhere:
“Did you see that? The Anti-Alliance Organization has apologized!”

“I saw it. I follow Cindy Doppler’s personal account and saw it the moment it was posted.”

“It feels unbelievable! The Anti-Alliance Government actually switched to supporting the United Government! Is the sky about to change?!”

“They couldn’t oppose it even if they wanted to. The Holy Silver Federation has come out to support us in this war, how could the Anti-Alliance Organization go against the Holy Silver Federation?”

“But this also proves the stance of the Anti-Alliance Organization; they truly stand with us, the common people!”

“Yes, the Anti-Alliance Organization had valid reasons for opposing the United Government before, and now they have equally valid reasons for supporting them. Therefore, they should not be maligned or reviled.”

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Online, the United Government’s diehard supporters welcomed the Anti-Alliance Organization turning away from their past, and even those who were originally anti-war did not vilify them as traitors but expressed understanding. Sarcasm and ridicule were scarce.

But after all, this was a major event, so it was causing a big stir online.

Emperor Manina was overjoyed!

He was unaware that Cindy Doppler and Emperor Hongwu were employing a feigned retreat; he actually thought they had sincerely turned to support him.

Therefore, Emperor Manina posted a flurry of statuses on social media, praising the two for being sensible and recognizing the bigger picture.

He wrote on his social media account: “In the past, there were many conflicts between us, but now these conflicts are all in the past! From now on, everyone is united, working together to conquer Blue Star!”