Amir quickly found Joan, Valera, and Millisyn waiting at a certain location.
"Corsi?" Millisyn saw the little boy following beside them.
"These are your things." Corsi returned the backpack and blaster pistol he was carrying to Millisyn.
"Here." Amir handed the crystal plate to Joan.
Joan tossed a small holoprojector back to Amir.
"What's this?"
"The fake from the safe box." After saying that, Joan lowered her head and began studying the crystal plate. She did not ask Amir anything. She trusted her own judgment.
"This matter is over. Kahahlman has already helped himself to all my data anyway. In short, thank you for your help. I'm going back to research." After saying that, Joan had no intention of staying and turned to leave.
Amir looked at Millisyn. "You were pretty brave this time. Be careful in the future."
Millisyn, who had thought she was about to be scolded, lifted her head in surprise. This time really had been rather dangerous. She had not listened to Joan's advice and had run alone into Dead Hand's camp.
"If there's danger in the future, remember to contact me," Amir said. Then he picked up the holoprojector in his hand.
Valera leaned over. "I've been curious about what's inside this holoprojector for ages, but Doctor Joan is always like this. She never cares about anything unrelated to research. Hurry, open it and let's see!"
Millisyn also looked over curiously.
Under everyone's expectant gazes, Amir pressed the switch.
The holoprojector was rather old. There were some rust stains on its casing, but it still worked well enough. After flickering a few times, it projected the image recorded inside.
It was an utterly ordinary photograph. There were two Rodians in it. Amir recognized one of them. It was Nuruddin, the boss of Dead Hand. The other was a child of only four or five years old.
It was a group photo.
"What is this?" Millisyn frowned as she looked at the holographic image. "He looks familiar."
"Familiar?" Amir had a hard time distinguishing the differences between species that looked very different from humans, unless he knew them and was very familiar with them.
But Millisyn was quite good at it.
"That child looks like Machei."
"Machei?" Amir felt the name sounded a little familiar.
"Back on Guderian. He's one of the people you rescued. Mona introduced me to him."
Amir remembered. It was a Rodian boy who, like Millisyn, had come out of the cruiser. He was a little older than the other children and behaved more calmly. On Guderian, he helped Mona take care of the other children.
"Does he look that similar?" Amir asked. Although he remembered the child, he still could not see it.
"Very similar!" Millisyn nodded. "Could Nuruddin be Machei's father?"
Amir froze. Could it really be such a coincidence? Speaking of which, he still did not know what Nuruddin's child was called, but he did know that his child had been taken away by Imperial Inquisitors.
The Imperial Inquisitors and Gideon were fully connected. In that case, the probability that Nuruddin's child was Machei was actually very high.
Without Millisyn's confirmation, Amir would never have thought of this, because Rodians were still quite common in the galaxy.
"Looks like I have to make another trip." Amir put away the holoprojector.
When he raised his head, he found that Valera and Millisyn were both looking at him with expectant eyes.
"You two want to go too?"
"Mm-hmm!" The two nodded hard.
Millisyn said excitedly, "If we help Machei find his dad, he'll definitely be happy, right?"
Amir turned his head and did not answer that question. He looked at Corsi.
"I'll have to trouble you to lead the way again."
Inside Dead Hand's camp.
With the support of one of his subordinates, Nuruddin stood beside a wall buried beneath a pile of debris.
The people around him all raised their blasters, waiting for movement from the ruins.
They had more or less heard of the Imperial Inquisitors' infamous reputation and knew that the person buried under the rubble probably would not die so easily. So they did not rush forward recklessly. They all waited in silence.
Even Nuruddin, who was the most anxious, did not move. The rest of them were in no hurry to charge forward. Even though that head was worth a lot of money, dead men could not spend it.
They did not have to wait long. The chaotic heap of objects piled in front of them began to tremble. Starting from the outermost layer, pieces slowly floated up, and then some larger parts at the top also rose and automatically fell aside.
Lindsey limped to Nuruddin's side and took the subordinate's place, supporting his brother.
"What the hell is all this? It's more ridiculous than those storybooks we read when we were kids!" Lindsey said as he watched the bizarre scene. Then he also raised his blaster.
"I know I was wrong, brother. I won't care about Dead Hand anymore. Machei… poor kid. Sigh. Today, no matter what, we're going to take down this Imperial Inquisitor!"
Nuruddin still had no expression, but the hand supporting Lindsey tightened slightly.
The two brothers supported each other, blasters in hand, quietly staring ahead.
Finally, the pile of ruins gradually shrank. As a cargo container was pushed aside by a tremendous force, half of a Pau'an's body was revealed, several streaks of blood on his bald head.
In an instant, everyone on the field activated their blasters. Dense blaster bolts poured down like a torrential rain.
At that moment, Nuruddin's face had already twisted. He was like a desperate old beast, venting the unwillingness in his heart. He roared furiously and fired with all his might.
But he knew there was no way to change anything anymore. Everything he had lost in the past because of his cowardice and fear would never return!
Countless heart-rending nights, countless long and agonizing hours, had tortured him endlessly.
Was he truly strong enough now?
Everything he was doing was still nothing but atonement, nothing but a so-called release he gave himself. How desperately he wished he could use his own suffering to bring back the smile on that innocent child's face.
Nuruddin walked forward step by step, as if he were about to throw himself into that desperate storm.
Lindsey also realized something was wrong with his brother. He braced him with all his strength and dragged him backward.
Shouting, roaring, red light, and smoke twisted together, assaulting Nuruddin's mind.
But at some point, all the noise seemed to freeze. The world became deathly quiet. Only the images before his eyes continued to flicker.
"Nuruddin! Nuruddin! Brother!"
Lindsey's voice was like a bolt of thunder in the dark clouds. After a flash of blinding light, the sound crossed a vast distance before reaching his ears.
It was Lindsey… his younger brother. He would always remember those scenes from childhood. This foolish boy had followed him through the underworld, surviving death again and again. Whenever they earned even a little pay, he would be overjoyed and run off to a cantina to drink himself into a stupor.
Until Nuruddin met that woman. Until he had Machei. Then the war ended too. He had thought everything would settle down, that Machei would grow up normally, that Lindsey would find a job at the port…
"Nuruddin!" Lindsey dragged him to the back.
The gunfire had already stopped. The blasters had finished their first wave of attacks.
Nuruddin's mind cleared again, but he did not respond. He only stared at the ruins that had been concentrated under fire with blood-red eyes.
But the result disappointed him.
In the smoke, a smear of scarlet emerged, accompanied by a buzzing like a venomous insect's tremor.
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