For Ino to act single-handedly and snatch chestnuts from the fire, she truly needed to plan carefully. Just as she was calculating her trump cards, a burly figure entered her line of sight.
She hurriedly hid in the shadows and soon saw a bald muscular man, 2.47 meters tall, with knotted muscles and an overwhelming sense of oppression.
Nappa?!
Ino was quite surprised. How did Nappa end up working under King Cold?
Then came great joy.
Looking majestic and imposing, but in reality strong on the outside and hollow on the inside, Nappa was absolutely her best helper at this current stage, bar none.
...
Nappa was in a wretched state. After leaving Vegeta, his days had become harder and harder to get by.
Others saw their lives getting sweeter by the day, but his life was only getting more bitter.
Frieza held too deep a prejudice against Saiyans. Nappa really didn't dare to hang around there, fearing that one day the tyrant would be unhappy and extend a finger to crush him to death. Yet, he didn't dare to take missions to conquer remote star sectors either, afraid Frieza would think he was trying to run away—even though he actually was trying to run away...
Salza had died in battle. This news alarmed Cooler, who then contacted Frieza. The two brothers reported to their biological father, believing there was a force in the universe targeting their family, and that this force was related to the Saiyans. Thus, Nappa was sent as a messenger to King Cold's side.
Nappa had no intention of going back; he planned to honestly work a job here instead.
"Nappa, it seems your recent days haven't been going well. You haven't changed your combat uniform in a long time, have you? I could smell that sour stench from a mile away."
He had just come out of the bar inside the spaceship and turned a corner in the metal corridor when he saw a short figure standing in the shadows of the pipes. The figure was full of hostility, eyes revealing killing intent.
"Vegeta?!" Nappa almost pissed himself.
He hurriedly turned his head, looking left and right behind him.
"How can you be here? Do you have a death wish?"
In order to study S-Cells, Ino had collected Vegeta's blood in the past. Now transformed, her expression, movements, and tone were imitated to perfection. Even Nappa, an old subordinate who had followed him for over a decade, couldn't spot a flaw.
She mimicked Vegeta's manner, speaking with characteristic grandiosity: "What are you afraid of? I am already a Super Saiyan!"
Nappa's face was filled with inexplicable shock.
Really? I don't believe it!
Ino stared at him intensely. "I have already found a way to revive the Saiyans. What about you? Will you follow me, or follow these enemies who caused the Saiyans' destruction?"
Son Goku didn't care at all about whether the Saiyans were revived or not. He considered himself a warrior of Earth, a child adopted by the Earth martial artist Son Gohan. His friends were people like Bulma, Master Roshi, and Oolong; Saiyans had nothing to do with him.
Vegeta was different. When the Saiyans were slaughtered by Frieza, he was already six years old and had memories. Moreover, he was the Prince; once revived, he would be the master. His desire in this regard was very strong.
In the original timeline, Vegeta was easily hoodwinked by Broly's father and son duo, arrogantly following them to the South Galaxy to engage in some revival enterprise.
In this timeline, he also always harbored rebellious thoughts, but there were too many experts on Frieza's side. He couldn't even beat the likes of Dodoria and Zarbon, so he could only endure in silence.
If Ino were handling this matter as herself, she would be making official promises to Nappa right now, drawing a big pie in the sky first—whether he ate it or not would be his business.
But Vegeta obviously wouldn't draw pies. To maintain her persona, she could only look coldly at Nappa, awaiting his answer.
After the Saiyans were destroyed, Nappa had followed Vegeta for so many years. Aside from having nowhere else to go, he actually still held a portion of loyalty.
Now, with the uncertainty that King Cold and Frieza might execute him at any moment, he naturally had to consider a way out.
Vegeta's leg to hug was a bit small, but having hugged it for so many years, he felt he could continue to hold on.
"Fine, I'll listen to you. Just like before, what do we do?"
After listening to "Vegeta's" plan, cold sweat streamed down Nappa's face. This was too dangerous!
He spoke hesitantly, "I'm afraid I can't do it..."
Ino sized up his bald head. "It's fine. I gained a lot from the battle on Earth. Although those guys have weak battle power, some of their martial arts are quite excellent. Among them, there is a move very suitable for this head of yours."
Nappa rubbed his bald head. What move was related to his head?
...
On the other side of the ruins.
King Cold, 3.3 meters tall with purple skin and knotted muscles all over his body, was still directing his subordinates to break the seal on the core area of the ruins.
Although he also had a design with two horns on his head, he had absolutely no relation to the Otsutsuki clan. He had entered these ruins through information searches, forcibly blasting open a path to get inside.
The diagrams representing Kaguya and Isshiki, which Turles had once seen, had long since been blasted into slag by his energy cannons.
Frieza attracted attention from all sides in the open, while King Cold conducted his own plotting in the dark.
From his ancestor's records, he had gained a rough understanding of the battle between the Majin and the Supreme Kais. To him, a battle that happened five million years ago was practically a myth. Hundreds of years ago, an ancestor had once obtained a piece of a Supreme Kai's remnant soul. Unfortunately, that item was later lost. The ancestor only left behind the sentence "Beware of the Super Saiyan" before kicking the bucket.
Relying on those few words from back then and his own years of painstaking searching, King Cold finally found another piece of the West Supreme Kai's remnant soul inside a cosmic vortex.
Both sides harbored dark designs. After testing each other, this exploration operation of the Otsutsuki God's ruins came to be.
The remnant soul wanted to use the power of the World Tree to reshape a body for itself, while King Cold wanted to take both the remnant soul and the World Tree into his own pocket.
He sat on his throne, leisurely drinking ice wine, while his subordinates desperately attacked the final gateway here.
It was similarly covered in Rinnegan and overgrown with vines.
Various ocular techniques fired out madly. The group of space pirates was beaten until they cried for their fathers and mothers; some died instantly before they could even be treated.
With King Cold's strength, if he took action personally, breaking this gateway wouldn't be difficult. But he just liked watching his subordinates risk their lives; he liked watching them try every possible method to please him.
Ino used the Solar Flare to use trickery, while over here, he was piling up human lives.
Aliens with battle powers of one or two thousand, or two or three thousand, died batch after batch.
The pupil power on the great gate seemed to have weakened considerably.
King Cold pondered for a moment and ordered his subordinates, "Call that Saiyan who came to deliver the letter to join the suicide squad and break the gate. I remember that Saiyan also has a battle power of 4,000, right? What was that guy's name again? Something like...?"
Frieza could name all his subordinates. In this regard, his father was a notch inferior. King Cold thought for a good while but couldn't recall Nappa's name.
Just as he was wondering, a subordinate suddenly arrived to report: "Great King, that Saiyan Nappa says he wants to offer you a treasure."
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