"A Hutt?" Amir confirmed.
"Yes. Zaku the Hutt inside is the ruler of this district. Dead Hand has to pay him a lot of money every year too," Corsi explained.
Amir nodded.
The assassin droid had actually brought the item here. Was this Nuruddin's instruction, or the droid's own decision?
Or perhaps the assassin droid had betrayed him. Maybe it had been one of the Hutt's subordinates from the very beginning.
There was no time to think carefully. Amir wanted to order the spider droid to discharge electricity before the assassin droid entered the palace, but before he could act, a figure wrapped in a robe suddenly rushed out from a side alley, covered even more tightly than Amir himself.
That figure charged straight at the assassin droid, flinging out a rope that wrapped around the droid's body.
Because they were close to the palace, the assassin droid had relaxed its vigilance somewhat. It was directly caught by the rope, and the case in its hand slipped and fell.
The robed figure slid across the ground, caught the case, then turned and ran without looking back.
The assassin droid twisted madly, trying to break free from the rope. Its one uncontrolled arm also raised and fired in the robber's direction, but its aim was completely off.
And the robber even had the leisure to turn back and glance at the assassin droid. Even from not far away, Amir could feel the provocation and mockery he was giving off.
Seeing this, 32 was about to give chase, but Amir had already acted.
The moment he saw this scene, Amir had used telekinesis through the Force and begun to control the situation.
The case gripped in the robber's hand suddenly popped open while he was completely unaware. The item inside was immediately exposed.
The assassin droid saw this and was utterly confused, its entire circuit board practically full of questions. But it did not know the reason and could only chalk it up to coincidence.
But what happened next could no longer be explained as coincidence.
Inside the case was indeed the thing Amir had seen in Joan's records: a slab-like object resembling a circuit board.
Calling it a circuit board was not quite accurate. It looked more like a piece of crystal, except the outside of the crystal was covered by a layer of mechanical devices. In some exposed areas, it looked like circuits through which energy flowed.
Another crystal.
Amir increasingly felt how miraculous the various crystals in this world were.
Not only were there things like kyber crystals, which could resonate with the Force, there were also crystals that could be used as energy sources, technology, and even vessels for souls…
Just like the one before his eyes.
Amir sensed some kind of consciousness inside it.
However, compared with a Jedi Force spirit, this consciousness was chaotic and incomplete, like a damaged program running in a strange way.
The moment Amir opened the case, it awakened.
Amir immediately controlled it with telekinesis through the Force, but he felt powerful resistance from it.
In the end, Amir still came out on top. He firmly controlled the crystal plate in midair and made it fly rapidly toward him.
The robed robber who had intercepted it had only turned his head and run a couple of steps when he realized something was wrong. His arrogant expression vanished instantly. He quickly lowered his head and saw that the case had already opened. He was only holding half of it, while the other half dangled toward the ground. The thing inside was long gone.
He raised his head and saw something flying away into the distance. It was a flat, plate-like object, flying straight into the hands of a masked man standing on a nearby rooftop. Beside that man stood a droid that looked difficult to mess with, as well as a child.
What kind of strange group was this? He had never heard of them!
However, he had seen that mask before!
He could not remember exactly who it belonged to, but no matter who it was, he had to seize that relic.
This thing had already been marked with an enormous price. He had only gotten this opportunity by accidentally overhearing a conversation between Zaku the Hutt and the assassin droid. If he could get his hands on it, it would be a vast fortune.
But the person on the rooftop only lowered his head and glanced at him before turning to leave. The assassin droid, which had just broken free of the chains, immediately turned and aimed its gun in Amir's direction. But in the next second, it was engulfed by a massive electric current and instantly collapsed to the ground, paralyzed.
The robed man was startled. By the time he recovered and thought back on everything that had just happened, he suddenly lost the desire to chase after them.
Or rather, he lost the courage.
He slowly walked over to the assassin droid and crouched beside it. At that moment, the droid's vocal unit was murmuring.
"Sirdan…"
Right. He remembered now. That masked man was called Sirdan!
At that moment, on a rooftop elsewhere, a male humanoid creature with an indescribably ugly face slowly opened his eyes and shivered. Where was his trench coat? He was feeling a little cold…
Amir held the crystal plate as he walked, sensing it along the way.
He could indeed sense something similar to a soul within it, but it was not active. Aside from the resistance he felt when controlling it with the Force, there was no other reaction.
Finding nothing more, Amir sent Joan a communication request.
It connected instantly.
"Where's the item?" Joan asked directly.
"I got it. The one on my side should be the real thing," Amir said.
"Mm." Joan responded, then brought the case she was carrying in front of her. While running, she tried to open it.
Unlike the case taken away by the assassin droid, the one in her hand was a safe box. Opening it would take some effort.
Finally, unable to crack it, Joan resorted to violence. If it had been earlier, she might have worried about damaging it, but now, a fake did not deserve careful protection.
So she directly locked both hands onto the two sides of the case. Under her tremendous strength, the case began to deform at the seam. After twisting to a certain degree, the internal mechanism was finally destroyed, and the case automatically unlocked and opened.
Then Joan saw a portable holoprojector. This kind of holoprojector was very common. People usually used it to record images or information.
There was only this one item inside the case.
Joan pulled out the projector, slowed her steps, then turned around.
After only a few seconds, the two Imperial Inquisitors caught up, panting heavily.
Valera had long since noticed Joan's movements. When she saw that there was only a projector inside the safe box, she was extremely surprised, but from Joan's reaction, she realized Joan seemed to have expected it.
"The thing inside is fake?" Valera asked.
"Mm. The real one is with Amir." After saying that, Joan looked at the Imperial Inquisitors.
At that moment, the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister were also staring at the damaged case in Joan's hand.
"Stop chasing." Joan took out the holoprojector from the case. "There's only this thing inside. There's no so-called relic."
The two of them immediately felt as if they had been played like monkeys.
"Nuruddin!" the Fifth Brother snarled, gripping his lightsaber tightly.
Then he looked at the three people in front of him, his fury growing even stronger.
"Maybe Nuruddin already ran off with the item. Are you sure you don't want to go after him?" Joan said mockingly.
Although the Fifth Brother very much wanted to kill the three people before him, his fear of failing the mission still suppressed that desire. Dealing with the three of them would not be easy.
What made it even more frustrating was that, even now, he had not clearly seen the faces of these three people.
"I'll make you pay for this!" After leaving that threat, the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister turned and left.
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