"Damn," Adam cursed before sliding along the wall to the edge of the energy shield, where he peeked around it and looked into the docking bay.
Inside, he saw two shuttles parked near the energy shield, though there was enough room for another two or three.
Large crates and miscellaneous packing equipment lined two of the walls while being stacked atop one another.
Personnel carried the smaller packing equipment back and forth, while the larger ones and crates were moved using specialised machinery.
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Shit, so much for it being empty.]
[LadyErkath (Aqua Primus): Told you.]
[Celebrityhunter69 (Earth): How's the streamer supposed to sneak past all of them? There's gotta be a dozen or more people working there.]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): I suppose he could just stun them all.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Or kill them.]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): A bit dark, don't you think?]
[Lizziethetruepower (Palaxia): This place is more organised than I was expecting.]
[Whitehorn (Darah 5): Well, you can't just dump stuff anywhere.]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): I don't mean that; I mean how all the workers are wearing the same uniform.]
[StealthAssassin9 (Earth): Oh, that's true now that you mention it.]
[Justiceistruth (Earth): Is that important?]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Not really. It just shows that Flamyre is organised and disciplined like any other wealthy family.]
[Lizziethetruepower (Palaxia): Because it is a wealthy family. Fiere Lucent might have connections with the secret organisation, but on the surface, she's just a rich individual who likes to keep to herself.]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): True.]
[HackerSu (Angels Mercy): Is she married then?]
[Lizziethetruepower (Palaxia): Err, that's a good question, @Spector]
As Adam was scanning the docking bay, he saw the notification in his chat of Lizzieasking him a question.
He pulled his head back before asking, "Does she, Spector?]
[[Avalible data on the Universal Subspace Network shows that Fiere Lucent is not married, though evidence does indicate that she has had questionable relations with several notable individuals.]]
"Questionable?" Adam asked.
[[Available data suggests that Fiere Lucent has met several of these individuals multiple times, both at public gatherings and in private.]]
"Ok, anyone we know?" Adam asked.
[Celebrityhunter69 (Earth): Oh, oh, oh, gossip, give us the gossip.]
[[Not directly, though there are a couple of individuals that might be of interest.
Odaka Toki and Arisu Kasai.]] Spector replied.
[MercheadAnderson (Palaxia): Who?]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): No idea, his streamer's doing that annoying mute thing again.]
[Celebrityhunter69 (Earth): Nooooo, my gossip.]
[OfficialKasumi (Aqua Primus): Means it's someone important.]
[StealthAssassin9 (Earth): How do you figure?]
[OfficialKasumi (Aqua Primus): Well, it wouldn't mute it for just anyone.]
[StealthAssassin9 (Earth): I guess.]
[HackerSu (Angels Mercy): We have this fucking conversation every time, how do you always forget you stupid dick?]
"Who?" Adam asked.
[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Even the streamer didn't hear. Kekeke.]
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): More likely, he doesn't know who his AI is talking about.]
[[Odaka Toki is Kasumi Toki's mother while Arisu Kasai is the Reynard Galaxy's Universal Senator.]]
"Seriously?" Adam asked in surprise.
[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Look how surprised the streamer is, must be someone big. Kekeke.]
[Phoenixempress (Fenix Nest): Something certainly shocked him, that's for sure.]
Adam frowned before ordering, "Pass this information on to the others."
[OfficialRowena (Spector): Spector already did, darling.]
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"Well, this is certainly surprising," Aphrodite remarked before asking, "Do you think Kasumi knows about her mother's relationship with this Fiere Lucent?"
"Do you think she or her mother knows anything about that organisation?" Stacey asked.
"I'm certain Kasumi knows nothing about this secret organisation," Rowena replied before adding, "Though I'm not so certain about the other two."
"Understandable," Lorelie replied before asking Rowena, "have you ever met Kasumi's mother or Senator Arisu Kasai?"
"No," Rowena replied while shaking her head.
"So what do you plan to do?" Stacey asked.
"Obviously, I need to tell her, but how do you tell a friend that her mother might be collaborating with terrorists?" Rowena replied.
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After seeing Rowena's message in his chat, Adam put the matter aside before peeking into the docking bay again.
As he did, he saw that one of the dockworkers had just passed the energy shield and was now approaching a group of stacked crates.
The crates just happened to be stacked in a way that would hide the dockworker from his colleagues.
Noticing that none of the dockworkers was looking in his direction, Adam took the opportunity and dashed through the energy shield before following the dockworker while pulling out his force staff.
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Oh shit, here we go, here we go.]
[HackerSu (Angels Mercy): Looks like he's going after that dockworker.]
[OfficialMuriel (Aqua Primus): What for? To interrogate him?]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Why? What could a mere dockworker tell him?]
As the dockworker stepped behind the crates, Adam raised his force staff towards him and pushed a section of it.
A flash flared from the force staff's tip before a blue energy bolt hit the dockworker in the back, causing him to collapse, unconscious, to the floor.
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Huh! I thought he was going to interrogate him.]
[Superior4horns (Vinox 3): Dumbass. You said it yourself. What could a mere dockworker tell him.]
After arriving next to the collapsed dockworker, Adam crouched down next to him while pulling out the form change bracelet.
Adam held the bracelet over the dockworker while saying, "scan outfit."
A beam of light emitted from the form bracelet and quickly ran over the unconscious dockworker.
[Phoenixempress (Fenix Nest): ???]
After the beam of light vanished, Spector suddenly stated, [[Outfit scan complete. Please choose a name for the outfit.]]
"Dockworker," Adam replied.
[[Outfit registration complete]] Spector announced before adding.
[[You can now equip outfit: Dockworker Outfit]]
Adam slid the form bracelet over his combat armour before saying, "equip Dockworker Outfit."
As Adam finished speaking, the form bracelet glowed before breaking apart and covering different sections of the combat armour.
They then began to expand and reconnect until they covered the combat armour in an exact copy of the dockworkers' outfit.
After the form bracelet finished transforming, Adam lowered his helmet, which retracted back into the combat armour since it looked out of place with the dockworkers' outfit.
[OfficialMuriel (Aqua Primus): Holy fuck, he used that strange bracelet thing to copy the dockworkers' uniform.]
[RealOtaku (Earth): Bro just went full Hitman.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Welcome to Flamyre, 47.]
[NonpareilRaphilia (Aaru): What's Hitman? And 47?]
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): It's a game here on Earth where you assassinate targets. Agent 47 is the main character.]
[SciFifanboy (Earth): Did you all get your outfit bonus for First Light for beating Le Chiffre?]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): Bastard poisoned my drink, got my revenge though.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): So do another play-through and poison his eye drops.]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): Ohh, good call.]
[Phoenixempress (Fenix Nest): People, can we focus, please?]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Right, right, sorry.]
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): I figured it could copy other outfits after seeing him wearing the green hero saviour outfit before, but copying them straight from the wearer!]
[MercheadAnderson (Palaxia): It's definitely a powerful tool for anyone wishing to sneak in somewhere.]
Adam held his uniband over the unconscious dockworkers before asking, "anything interesting?]
[[Scanning.]]
[[Negative, nothing of interest.]]
Adam nodded before looking around and mumbling, "now where to hide you?"
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): In the crate.]
[RealOtaku (Earth): Agreed. If he's going Hitman style, he needs to dump the body in the crate.]
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): Remember, streamer, you can only store a maximum of two bodies in it.]
[NonpareilRaphilia (Aaru): Now what are you people on about?]
Standing up and moving towards one of the smaller nearby crates that the dockworker appeared to have been approaching.
[RealOtaku (Earth): Ah ha ha, he's gonna do it, he's gonna dump the body in it.]
[Animefangirl (Earth): Should we start calling the streamer Agent 47?]
[1000yearsofdeath (Earth): Considering how many lovers he has, I think Agent 69 would be better. Kekeke.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): I'm surprised the perverted astronaut didn't think of that lame joke.]
[Puntanghunter69Ver2 (International Space Station): I'm ashamed to admit I didn't.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): That's not something you should be ashamed about. Also, why does an astronaut on the International Space Station have so much free time?]
He examined it for a moment before finding a red button on the side, which he pressed, causing the crate to hiss before the top and front opened.
Inside were hundreds of small bricks stacked neatly.
"What's this?" Adam asked while picking up one of the bricks and examining it.
The brick was engraved with a small logo of a larger circle surrounded by nine smaller circles.
[NonpareilRaphilia (Aaru): Hang a second. Isn't that the logo the Nogitsune inscribes on Combrzalite?]
[OfficialKasumi (Aqua Primus): …]
[Animefangirl (Earth): When you say Nogitsune, do you mean that Kitsune race? That's so Anime.]
[[Combrzalite.]] Spector replied.
"Combrzalite?" Adam asked in surprise as he saw what chat was saying on his HUD and remembered seeing the conversation in his chat earlier.
[NonpareilRaphilia (Aaru): I knew it, first the cloaked ship detection grid and now this crate full. How did this Fiere Lucent get her hands on so much of it?]
[Phoenixempress (Fenix Nest): It's definitely strange. Even races on friendly terms with the Nogitsune race can only get limited amounts.]