Sun He and Sun Li stood on a small earthen mound, only less than five meters apart.
"Captain Sun He," Sun Li smiled at the man in front of her, trying her best to conceal the excitement bubbling within her.
"Let's not beat around the bush then, let's both show our sincerity," Sun He pulled out a data card, a palm-sized data disk.
It contained data on a Xi Long-class interstellar fighter.
Sun Li's eyes flashed with a scorching intensity as she saw the data disk.
"Could you let me take a look first?" Sun Li asked with a smile.
Sun He simply clicked on the data disk, and the data disk immediately projected a series of data regarding the Xi Long-class interstellar fighter.
"Just look at it. This is the complete set of data on the Xi Long-class interstellar fighter. If you're going to make any demands about taking it back to have your engineers and technicians verify it, then forget it.
I hope we can at least have this basic trust between each other," Sun He looked sincere and frank: "Now please show me what I want."
Captain Sun Li smiled and took out a card.
"You should know this, this is the Galactic Alliance's interstellar savings card, it has two million units of crystal ore stored inside. You can withdraw this fortune at any starport or planet with this card."
As she spoke, Sun Li, to reassure Sun He, also clicked on the card.
The card projected an image, which showed detailed information about the wealth within the card, as well as some things that looked like anti-counterfeiting codes, proving that the card indeed contained two million units of crystal ore.
"Very well, Captain Sun Li is indeed different from that Hong Xiulian. Now let's exchange," Sun He said, taking the first step towards Sun Li.
Sun Li's lips curved upwards, suppressing her excitement as she walked towards Sun He.
The two extended their hands holding the data card and savings card, as if they were truly engaging in a normal transaction.
Their hands each grasped the other's card.
But at that moment, both of them seemed to freeze their actions.
They held the other's card but didn't release their own.
"Captain Sun Li, what do you mean?" Sun He maintained an innocent appearance, watching Sun Li whose smile twisted into a distorted expression.
Sun Li burst out laughing, "Hahaha... you stupid man, you wouldn't actually believe that I would hand over two million units of crystal ore, would you?
Fool, moron, trash. All I wanted was this data, if not for safely obtaining this data, I could have directly ordered the destruction of your Qing Yuan fleet."
As she spoke, a communication screen appeared on Sun Li's helmet.
"Grey Bear Fleet Fourth Fleet, obey my orders. Attack the Qing Yuan Fleet, eliminate them all!"
"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."
The communication on the other end was quite chaotic. It took a while for the figure of a secretary officer to appear.
"Captain, Captain! It's not good, we've been tricked. We're under attack from a star battle cruiser! We're under fire..."
Boom, boom, boom
The sound of explosions came through, and the communication was immediately cut off.
Sun Li's expression went blank, she was at a loss, frantically trying to contact them: "Hello, hello, what's going on over there, speak to me quickly."
"Don't waste your time, let me show you clearly," Sun He smiled and activated the projection function of his helmet.
An image of a star system appeared before the two of them.
In this star system, a battle was taking place.
The two sides in the battle were very strange.
One side had dozens of starships of various types, while the other only had one starship.
However, the battle situation seemed to be in favor of the dozens of starships that were at a disadvantage.
The lone starship, its main gun concentrated a beam of light, which in the next second pierced through an enemy starship, turning it into a burst of fireworks in the cosmos.
"This... this..." Sun Li recognized that the fleet in battle was her own.
The one that had just been directly destroyed was a T1-class heavy interstellar escort ship of her fleet.
"How about it? Captain Sun Li, do you like this gift?" Sun He smiled at her.
Sun Li's expression turned to anger, she stared fixedly at Sun He: "You... you... you did this on purpose."
"I did do it on purpose, but likewise, Captain Sun Li, you weren't sincerely going to trade with me either, so we're even in this," Sun He said with a smile.
"But you know, you're right in front of me now, I can totally capture you and use you as a bargaining chip.
Even if my fleet is completely destroyed, as long as I can leave with this fighter data, I can rise to prominence!" Sun Li grinned and released her grip on the card, striking Sun He in the face with her fist.
As long as Sun He's mask was shattered, he would soon suffocate to death.
However, unexpectedly, Sun He ducked to the side and actually dodged Sun Li's fist.
At the same time, Sun He delivered a powerful knee strike, hitting Sun Li directly in the abdomen. Although it was through the space suit, the space suit was just for light weight, unlike a battle mech, so it had virtually no combat protection.
Cough, cough
Inside the mask, Sun Li coughed up blood, clutching her throbbing abdomen, and collapsed on the ground.
Sun He collected the two cards in his hand, squatted down, and looked at Sun Li lying on the ground.
"Sorry, I went a little too hard just now. Looks like your ribs are probably broken, does it hurt a lot?"
Sun Li's bloodshot eyes looked at Sun He, disbelief in her voice: "You... you... how could you possess such... such strength."
Sun He smiled: "You probably thought I was just an ordinary man who hadn't received any enhancements, while you had used enhancement potions and your physical abilities far surpassed men.
You were thinking, even without hot weapons, you could completely subdue me, right? You were going to take the card from me."
Sun Li didn't say anything, but that was indeed what she had thought.
Sun He's hand grabbed onto Sun Li's mask, he looked at Sun Li's enlarged pupils and her terrified expression.
"Who said only you women can inject potions? Besides, I had a sparring match with someone on the Qing Yuan before, even five female soldiers who had used enhancement potions couldn't beat me.
How about it, surprised? Unexpected?"
Crack
The mask was directly crushed by Sun He, the special material glass fell to the ground, some of it cutting Sun Li's skin.
"I... I... I..." Sun Li's expression became pained, her face turning purple and blue.
"You shouldn't have, you shouldn't have coveted what was mine," Sun He stood up.
At this point, Sun Li had already suffocated and lay motionless on the ground.