Chapter 1842: Chapter 1246: Murderous Intent in the Dark Night
For everyone on Coruscant, tomorrow’s celebration is the most concerned topic.
And some people are even more concerned about this topic.
A figure quickened his pace, crossed the street, and arrived at a secret chamber deep in an alley, where several cloaked figures were already waiting.
"How’s the situation?"
"The target has arrived. Chancellor Palpatine has placed them in the lakeside villa."
"Are you sure?"
"Confirmed, leading is the Great Judge himself!"
"Great!"
Upon hearing the report, another person also became excited.
"When will we act?"
"Tonight! For tomorrow’s celebration, Chancellor Palpatine has mobilized a large number of security personnel, and right now the lakeside villa is very poorly guarded, it’s simply a godsend opportunity for us!"
"Very good."
Upon hearing the report, the leader made a decision.
"It’s tonight, we will completely eliminate this evil entity of the Tribunal and rescue the Galactic Republic from their evil hands!"
"Yes!!"
However, just when these Jedi Knights were being generous and passionate, they had no idea that their target was actually nearly dead.
"Cough cough cough... Water, water, water!!"
Ann clutched her neck with one hand, her face ashen, her mouth wide open, while Mary hurriedly poured a glass of water and handed it over. Only after Ann grabbed the glass and gulped down several mouthfuls did she catch her breath.
"Phew... phew..."
"Are you okay, Miss Ann?"
"I almost died..."
As she spoke, Ann looked at her dinner in front of her with lingering fear.
"What is this stuff? Is this food for people?!"
"Ah ha ha ha..."
Seeing Ann’s look as if she narrowly escaped death, Mary also smiled wryly. In fact... she had the same thought as Ann.
Is this food for people?
To be honest, it’s very rare to see these generally well-mannered young ladies forced into such a state, but you can’t blame them. In fact, when dinner was brought in, Duanmu Huai just ran to the side to open a Mage’s Mansion to eat burgers and drink cold soda. Only Ann and Mary thought it was impolite not to eat one bite of the meal made with good intentions... Well, looking back, impolite or not, staying alive is more important.
"Is this the food of the Galactic Republic? This is too deadly."
As she spoke, Ann once again looked at the plate in front of her. On the plate was something that looked sticky and gooey, similar to mashed potatoes. However, the color of these mashed potatoes was unusually weird, with white at the bottom and purple on top, not looking like something edible. Not to mention the thing next to it that looked like rotten fingers or the blood-red and thick soup next to it, steaming and looking like it was made with human blood as a broth base...
"Ugh... Just now, that mouthful went down, it was sticky, slimy, cold, felt like it was stuck in my throat, neither going up nor down, felt like worms were wriggling... Ugh... No, I need to go to the bathroom!"
After saying this, Ann turned her head and ran. Seeing this scene, Mary also felt a lingering fear. Fortunately, she was timid and took a little longer to mentally prepare, letting Ann be the scapegoat; otherwise, she would probably be in the same situation.
"That’s why I said, you actually dared to eat this stuff. Having manners is a good thing, but having manners shouldn’t mean risking your life."
Duanmu Huai stuffed a burger into his mouth and then picked up the soda next to him, gulping it down, looking extremely satisfied.
"I thought it might just look dangerous, but maybe it would taste good..."
"No dog would eat this stuff."
Duanmu Huai snorted disdainfully. Although he has no particular requirements for food, he still has his tastes. Generally, food is expected to look, smell, and taste good, which is also Duanmu Huai’s standard, and he wouldn’t consider anything lacking in any aspect as gourmet. Take stinky tofu, for instance. Regardless of its taste, Duanmu Huai eliminates it based on the smell alone and wouldn’t take a bite of it.
Similarly, with this dinner in front of him, whatever it tastes like, just by its appearance, there’s no appetite, who would eat it?
Anyway, he wouldn’t eat it; he might as well go for a family bucket meal.
"Could it be poison, someone poisoned it?"
"I don’t think so..."
Right now, Anya also came out looking exhausted.
"I just asked Lumiaire about it, and she told me that because this world has very rich experience in space travel, they’ve designed synthetic foods specifically for consumption during space voyages. Later in the Galactic Republic, this kind of synthetic food became a symbol of status and position. In the view of those in the Galactic Republic, consuming raw ingredients that haven’t been processed is considered barbaric, and given the different physiological characteristics of each race, the types of food they can consume are limited... So usually, when hosting esteemed guests, they need to use this super-molecular synthesizer to produce synthetic food suitable for any race..."
"Then there probably aren’t many good chefs in this star territory."
Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes with a cold snort. Thinking about it this way, they might as well find someone to travel to this world, awaken the God of Cooking system, then improve the dietary habits of the Galactic Republic, and finally succeed in becoming the God of Cooking of the Galactic Republic... Alright, this is just from reading too many online novels, but in this star territory, awakening the God of Cooking doesn’t seem to be very useful?
"I’ll just eat a chicken leg... Mr. Knight...!"
"Alright, alright, here’s one for you."
Seeing An’s mournful expression, Duanmu Huai handed over a fried chicken leg. An took it, took a bite, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Phew, if tomorrow’s banquet has the same stuff, I really wouldn’t know what to do..."
"Uh..."
Hearing An’s sigh, Mary also changed her expression, then sat down and silently picked up the French fries.
If you can eat, eat more now; at worst, you won’t eat tomorrow.
As for Ogis, she just calmly sat beside Duanmu Huai, drinking tea, as she was a puppet and naturally didn’t eat meals...
After this less-than-stellar dinner, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. Although the food in different worlds does vary, it’s rare to find food as unappetizing as in this world... An and Mary were severely affected, they went to their dreams to comfort their battered souls.
And in this pitch-black night, several shadows silently appeared within the massive mansion.
"There’s really no defense at all."
One of the Jedi Knights gazed in amazement at the empty hall, looking incredulous. When they snuck in earlier, they found the external defenses here were almost non-existent. Of course, although from the logical perspective, Chancellor Palpatine had to prepare for tomorrow’s celebration and had marshaled a large number of personnel, so the defenses being weak was understandable.
However, the Jedi Knights did not think so. They unanimously agreed that any evil force capable of puppeteering Chancellor Palpatine and easily destroying countless planets and lives would not be penetrated so easily. Perhaps the enemy had already set up numerous traps or guards inside!
After all, to the Jedi Knights, figures like these evil overlords must be very mindful of their safety, afraid of being assassinated. After all, those evil leaders they previously besieged always filled their surroundings with layers upon layers of guards, afraid they didn’t have enough people.
And as the most evil of them all, the Tribunal should naturally be more formidable than those evil forces.
However... there really is no one?
The Jedi Knights looked at each other in bewilderment, feeling a bit nonplussed. Even if it was guarded every three steps and watched every five steps, they wouldn’t be afraid. In fact, they would find it normal. But now that not even a ghost was in sight, this was very abnormal!
"Could it be that our plan was leaked?"
"What do we do now?"
The Jedi Knights felt like they were in a game reaching the final boss’s lair but found it deserted inside, just like experienced players could guess a CG cutscene would probably follow. This strong fishy feeling made them uncertain whether to proceed.
If the plan really was exposed and this was just a trap, what then?
Wouldn’t they be walking right into it?
"Proceed as planned."
The lead Jedi Knight hesitated for a moment, then made a decision.
"Based on the information I have, there are four people living here. Among them are three girls. You go and detain those three girls, while we find that evil overlord and eliminate him!"
"Isn’t that... problematic?"
Hearing that they had to handle the three girls, the other Jedi Knights felt troubled. They had seen images of Duanmu Huai and the others, and to be honest, apart from Duanmu Huai, the three girls didn’t look like bad people, at least not like the bad people they were familiar with.
"There shouldn’t be an issue."
The lead Jedi Knight nodded.
"If I’m not mistaken, that little girl should be the sister of those two girls, and those two girls were probably forced by that Great Judge to be here with him. Perhaps he just wanted to have a good time here, coupled with the fact that this is Coruscant, he didn’t anticipate anything happening, so there were no guards arranged! So, you just need to rescue those three girls, and as for the evil Great Judge, we will take care of it!"
"Understood."
The two Jedis receiving the command found it reasonable, so they nodded, then turned to rescue the innocent girls imprisoned by the evil boss.
Meanwhile, the lead Jedi Knight pulled out his lightsaber, staring intently ahead with a serious expression.
"Let’s go!"
He had made up his mind; this time, he must eliminate this Demon!