After everyone went their seperate ways, Hongjuan was going to visit a friend of his living in this planet. This friend was also a noble elemetavor but he had not taken any official noble position in any of the nations. Instead he was working as a technician in this border planet.

As for the reason why he was visiting this friend of his, that was because Hongjuan had a request for him. When he had pledged his loyalty to the Li family, they had added some functions in his terminal through which they were able to monitor the state of his planet which was suppose to be his private and very sensetive information. But to show their loyalty to the Li family, all the low ranking nobles joining them needed to do this.

But now that he had betrayed them and was working with someone who wanted to be enemies with the Li family, having this function in his terminal was extremely dangerous. That was why he wanted to remove it.

But removing it was not simple. Only someone expert in this field could do that. And this friend whom Hongjuan was planning to meet was one such expert. So with his help he wanted to remove this function.

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As an expert technician, this man was living in a very wealthy part of the planet. That was also quite a bit away from the city where Elena and other were shopping. But intra planetary Teleportation was available for all the inhabitants of this world and as only the inhabitants were eligible to use this, the cost for it was also not that high.

With the help of this teleporter, Hongjuan was able to reach his friend's place in no time. His meeting with him also went very well. The friend showed his superb capability and in less than an hour, he managed to remove the spying function from Hongjuan's terminal. Hongjuan needed to pay a hepty sum for this job but still he was happy with the speed in which he was able to get rid of this big trouble.

So after coming out of his friend's house, he was feeling quite happy and relaxed. So before going back to the city where Elena and the others were, he was planning to have some food in this part of the planet. He had only been supplied with nutrition fluid when he was asleep in the ship, so he was craving some good food.

But as he was trying to find a good resturant, suddenly a cube made of multicoloured block appeared before him and started shining with rainbow lights. Hongjuan immediately recognised what this item was and his face turned pale. But before he could go away from the cube, it activated. Then with a flash of briliant multicoloured light, Hongjuan and the cube completely disappeared from that location. As if he had never been to this place before.

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After seeing Hongjuan visiting the house of a famous technician, Ma Zhu and his two helpers had immediately became sure that he had definitely betrayed the Li family. Then when they lost access to the records of his planet, this became a certainty. Immediately all three of them decided to not wait anymore and to capture him for interrogation. As for the question of if he would be killed or not, that would depend on his answers.

So to capture baron Hongjuan, they decided to use a gadget called "Shifting Cube". This was a one time use instant teleportation gadget that could forcefully teleport someone to a previously designated location. With this gadget, they teleported Hongjuan to a secret room inside a house of this planet that was under the Li family's control. Here, they would be able to take their time to interrogate him properly and thoroughly.

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After Hongjuan disappeared from the middle of the city, he suddenly found himself in the middle of a dark room. But before he could react to this unexpected situation, suddenly three rings made of blue light restrained his whole body. Seeing them he immediately recognised these to be the suppression chakrams. They were gadgets which were invented several decades ago but still nothing had managed to match their ability in restraining people. So knowing that it would be useless, Hongjuan stopped struggling.

He could very well guess who was behind all this but even he had not expected such a fast response. It had not even been a whole day since his return in this world, so he was thinking that he had some time in hand. But it turned out that it was only his wishful thinking.

Soon Ma Zhu and the two secret agents appeared before him. Hongjuan was not familiar with the secret agents but he did recognise Ma Zhu. He was one of the high ranking nobles who had also joined the Li family like him. So Hongjuan was familiar with his face.

From his appearance here, it became completely clear who was behind everything. And at the same time, Hongjuan also understood that now that he was captured, his outcome would not be a good one. That made his face to go pale in fear.

Seeing that look of fear, Ma Zhu and the two agents started laughing. Then with a serious expression, Ma Zhu asked Hongjuan who were behind him and why had he betrayed the Li family. In a situation like this, Hongjuan knew that staying silent would bring terrible consequence to him but even telling them the truth would not save his life.

In that case, after greeting his teeth, he decided to not betray his current alliance. He was aware that even with him gone, Elena would be able to reach the royal family of Wu and then the conspiracy of the Li family would come to an end. So he was sure to be on the winning side. So if he did not betray them, even after his death, there was a high possibility that the royal faction and specially that powerful lady named Elena would take care of his family.

Banking on this possibility, Hongjuan kept his mouth shut. This made Ma Zhu a bit surprised. After seeing how easily this man had betrayed the Li family, he was expecting him to also betray his current allies like before. So his unwillingness was a surprise to him.

But Ma Zhu did not think too much about it. There were various methods to make someone unwilling to be obedient and he had the perfect tool for that. Ma Zhu took out a small container from his chest pocket and inside the container, there was a small bug. Seeing this bug, Hongjuan's face turned even paler and his whole body started shaking.

This bug was not a regular one but was a special kind of bug created by the means of artificial genetic mutation. It could go inside someone's brain and could take control over the host's body completely. Hongjuan's consciousness would still be there but his memory bank and body movements would be completely under the bug's control. That was a more scary thought to someone than even dying.

But just as Ma Zhu was about to put this scary bug in Hongjuan's gem on his forehead, someone appeared before him and stopped Ma Zhu's hand. Then a melodious voice spoke up -

"I will request you gentlemen to stop here. This man is currently working with me and is getting extremely scared of this little bug. Him getting any more scared would not be good for us as he would not be able to guide us properly in the future. So I will appreciate it if you all could refrain from making him more scared than this."

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