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Chapter 451 The Predator Trapping Plan (50)

The Thorne family possesses top-notch technology in manufacturing everyday military equipment.

The Thorne family attacked Z7113!

They somehow obtained the black box and already knew that the real murderer who killed Griffith Thorne was Andrei.

So, they killed Andrei too!

Thinking about this, Edmund was almost furious.

While he was angry, he also sensed a crisis.

The only person who has persisted in searching for the black box for so many years and has finally found it is Qin Shao.

The black box must have been sent by Qin Shao to the Thorne family.

In one of these two families, the eldest son was killed, and in the other, the eldest grandson was framed for ten years. Both of these individuals were the most valued heirs of their respective families.

Will they join forces against me?

Although Edmund was arrogant, he knew very well that even a weakened camel is bigger than a horse, and if Thorne and the Qin family joined forces against Winston, he had no chance of winning.

He had to find a way to resolve this crisis as soon as possible; otherwise, if it erupted into a full-blown conflict, the Winston family would only face being divided up and devoured.

He carefully analyzed the Thorne family's actions this time. Whether it was killing Andrei or launching a sneak attack on the Z7113 mining planet, the Thorne family had done everything flawlessly.

Knowing that Andrei had killed Griffiths and possessing evidence, the Thorne family did not publicly record the request for a military court to arrest and try Andrei. Instead, they chose to act quietly in private, demonstrating that they had reservations.

Could it be that they couldn't reach an agreement with the Qin family and were unable to cooperate?

Since they already had a deep-seated, irreconcilable feud with the Thorne family, and since the other party had resorted to underhanded tactics, they might as well strike first and catch Thorne off guard.

If we can kill the elite group at the Thorne family's centralized power center in one fell swoop, the rest will be no threat.

Having made this decision, Edmund quickly urged his men to plan a night raid.

The following night, Istfin, the largest city in the entire galaxy, suddenly experienced a massive power outage, and even the interstellar communication array was disconnected.

In the latter half of the night, the Thorne family mansion was attacked, and the military base headquarters was subjected to heavy bombardment. In addition, more than 20 high-ranking officials were assassinated by bounty hunters and assassins.

Gunfire erupted in the capital like fireworks all night long.

Yan Zhen and Haier squeezed together on the same tattered chair, watching the images on the floating screen of the quantum computer as if they were watching a movie, using the surveillance cameras of Thorne and the military base that Haier had hacked into.

Haier switched cameras with lightning speed, striving to present the most exciting scenes to Yan Zhen.

The two watched and discussed, "Who was that one who just collapsed?"

"It looks like old Thorne."

"Is it him? He doesn't look quite like the person in the file."

"The information you're looking at is from several years ago. Old Thorne has aged considerably in recent years; he's almost bald."

Qin Shao brought over two glasses of water, glanced at the corpse of a man in pajamas on the screen whose chest was almost shattered by a shell, and said, "This is Griffith's uncle. He's thirty-four years old this year. His family has a bald gene, so he looks older."

After saying that, Qin Shao handed a glass of water to Yan Zhen.

Yan Zhen took it: "I see."

Haier subconsciously reached out to take the other glass of water from Qin Shao's hand, but Qin Shao pretended not to see it, picked up the glass, and took a sip himself.

Meeting Haier's speechless gaze, Qin Shao kicked him aside and sat down next to Yan Zhen.

There was only one dilapidated chair in the whole room. Yan Zhen and Haier could barely squeeze together to sit, but Qin Shao was much stronger than Haier. When he sat down, Yan Zhen was almost pushed to the ground.

Qin Shao quickly reached out and helped her up.

After Yan Zhen settled down, he narrowed his eyes.

When Qin Shao saw her displeased expression, he immediately stood up sensibly.

Yan Zhen took the chair all to himself and called Haier over to continue switching cameras.

Having watched the battle for most of the night, Yan Zhen, who didn't know much about the planet's fighting strength, could tell that Winston intended to wipe out the main force of the Thorne family in one fell swoop.

Both the personnel and equipment deployed were top-of-the-line.

But the Thorne family's ability to maintain a foothold on a super planet like A001 shows they are no pushovers.

Caught off guard, they quickly recovered and began to fight back against the attackers, soon recognizing them.

The battle continued until dawn.

Yan Zhen, who had been watching all night, was so sleepy that her eyelids were drooping. When she heard the gunfire outside stop, she and Haier, who was also exhausted, climbed onto the upper bunk and went to sleep on the lower bunk, covering their heads with their blankets.

They didn't know how long they had slept before Qin Shao shook them awake.

"Get up quickly, we have to get out of here!"

As soon as Qin Shao finished speaking, the roar of fighter jets overhead grew louder and louder, followed by the sound of artillery shells falling nearby, the shockwaves shattering the windows of the slums.

Yan Zhen was startled. She had just opened her eyes and hadn't even reacted when Qin Shao lifted her down from the upper bunk and covered her head with his coat.

Qin Shao hoisted her onto his shoulder with one hand and carried her shoes with the other, hurrying downstairs.

Yan Zhen couldn't see anything because her coat was over her head, but she could vaguely hear Haier's disheveled voice behind her: "Sister! Brother-in-law! Wait for me!"

Running downstairs, Yan Zhen was shoved into the co-pilot's seat of the aircraft parked in the basement by Qin Shao. Just as Qin Shao started the aircraft, Haier stumbled over and, a second before takeoff, jumped off a stick and threw himself into the back seat.

The aircraft roared out of the slum building, and three seconds later, the building was razed to the ground in a deafening explosion.

Haier was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

Yan Zhen was also taken aback: "We've been exposed?"

"No." Qin Shao steadily piloted the aircraft into the air, tilting the fuselage to narrowly avoid a small, frantically fleeing spaceship flying towards him. "Thorne and Winston have broken off relations and started fighting. They're bombing indiscriminately now. We need to find another place to watch the battle."

Overhead, countless large spaceships and fighter jets circled, dropping bomb after bomb.

This city, hailed as the center of a super-planetary civilization, gradually became devastated amidst the sounds of artillery bombardment.

Qin Shao piloted the aircraft for thousands of kilometers in one go, until he was completely far away from the area affected by the war, before choosing a small city to land in.

When Haier opened social media, all he saw were discussions about the sudden conflict between the two families.

However, the news was a mix of truth and falsehood.

Yan Zhen chose to ask Qin Shao, who had been paying close attention to the situation after she and Haier fell asleep.

Qin Shao explained, "The brief truce this morning was due to negotiations between representatives from both sides. While they were meeting, I anonymously sent the contents of the black box to Old Thorne."

After he finished speaking, Yan Zhen could already imagine what was going to happen next.

The Thorne family was ambushed in the middle of the night, suffering numerous casualties. When they fought back, they discovered that the attacker was Winston.

After fighting all night without a clear victor, and seeing that continuing would only result in heavy losses for both sides, they decided to temporarily cease hostilities and negotiate peace.

But during the peace negotiations, old Thorne received a message from Qin Shao and was shocked to learn that his most valued heir ten years ago had been killed by Andre of the Winston family.

With old grudges compounded by new ones, the two sides "naturally" began fighting and started indiscriminately bombing the entire city of Istfin.