700 – Antimatter Missile
TL : GoldenLung
“Yuge, Xiuxiu, Qian Lei, Liu Feng. All of you will follow me to the two pirate wars.h.i.+ps to take a look. Zhuoan, you will be in charge of piloting the wars.h.i.+ps. If there is any news from the other side, inform them that we will exchange for something of equal value. Otherwise, we’ll destroy their two pirate wars.h.i.+ps in three hours.”
“Alright,” Ding Zhuohan agreed excitedly.
A black Sky Wing s.p.a.ce fighter shot out from the tail of the wars.h.i.+p and headed straight for the two captured wars.h.i.+ps.
There was no need for the pirates’ permission at all. Through remote control, they directly opened the rear cabins of the two reconnaissance wars.h.i.+ps and Lan Xuanyu’s team entered the first wars.h.i.+p first.
The Sky Wing mecha didn’t transform back into its mecha form, so that they could keep this secret. Lan Xuanyu and his team got off the wars.h.i.+p with their masks on and walked into the wars.h.i.+p.
The reconnaissance wars.h.i.+p could only accommodate 50 people. At this moment, they were already standing together and looking at the five of them with unfriendly expressions. They also held various soul devices in their hands.
Lan Xuanyu ignored them. Since these pirates had chosen to surrender, they would definitely not court death. The cannons of the 33 Sky Wings’ wars.h.i.+p were still aimed at them.
After a round of searching, there were indeed some good items. There were more than ten types of rare metals, with the smallest weighing over ten kilograms and the largest over a ton. Naturally, Lan Xuanyu stored them into his Ring of Fate without any hesitation. Then, he called his wars.h.i.+p over and took their homing missiles, interference missiles, capture sh.e.l.ls, and soul missiles.
They basically looted everything. Other than the pirates, they didn’t leave anything left in this reconnaissance s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p.
As expected, during the entire process, the pirates didn’t dare to voice their anger and didn’t dare to do anything at all. They could only watch Lan Xuanyu and his team do it. They didn’t want to die either!
They did the same for the other pirate wars.h.i.+p and plundered everything. The only pity was that they didn’t find anything looted by these two wars.h.i.+ps. This disappointed Lan Xuanyu. Also, the missiles they were equipped with weren’t of high quality. Of course, flies were meat too, and free enemies were sweet and sour. It was a waste not to want them! They should be able to sell them for money.
After returning to the 33 Sky Wings wars.h.i.+p, Lan Xuanyu used his spiritual power to probe the Ring of Fate and couldn’t help but praise in his heart, ‘It is still faster to s.n.a.t.c.h!’
Although there weren’t any particularly precious metals among the four tonnes they looted, there were quite a few types. Putting everything else aside, the energy provided by these metals was enough for them to compensate for their energy consumption this time with surplus remaining, not to mention those artillery sh.e.l.ls. They should be worth quite a bit.
Ding Zhuohan told Lan Xuanyu that the captain of the Purple Flame Pirate Group had contacted him again and cursed him. But Ding Zhuohan had immediately cut off the connection.
“Boss, what should we do now? Blow up these two wars.h.i.+ps? Otherwise, they’ll be a burden and we won’t be able to fly fast if we pull them,” Ding Zhuohan said.
Lan Xuanyu shook his head and said, “As the saying goes, ‘there is a way to steal.’ If we destroy them, would the pirates dare to surrender to us next time? We want to make a name for ourselves in the pirate world as a group that wants money and not lives. Only then will we have a greater harvest.”
“Then now…”
“Just fly slowly like this and continue flying towards our destination. The Purple Flame Pirates aren’t strong and will probably appear very soon. We will leave them with a deep lesson and intimidate the other pirates at the same time. Then, we will go to the Third Exchange Center.”
Just as Lan Xuanyu had expected, the Purple Fire Pirates that should be nearby returned in less than two hours.
A total of 11 pirate wars.h.i.+ps obstructed their path. The flags.h.i.+p in the lead was actually a Meteor-cla.s.s a.s.sault wars.h.i.+p. From its appearance, it was slightly bigger than Lan Xuanyu’s wars.h.i.+p.
The communication device jumped out again.
Lan Xuanyu picked up the call. On the other side, Shen Junjie’s cold face appeared.
“Kid, do you want to die? I’ll fulfill your wish. I’ll give you a minute to consider. Surrender immediately and we’ll spare your lives. Otherwise, just wait to be turned into cosmic dust.” With that said, the captain of the Purple Flame Pirates hung up.
Lan Xuanyu sighed and shook his head silently. He muttered to himself, “Pirates are cunning, but their brains aren’t working well! Why can’t they understand why we would dare to wait for them to come! Fire all the interference missiles.”
A small cannon cabin opened up around the 33 Sky Wings wars.h.i.+p and over a hundred interference missiles shot out and flew forward.
This was a very normal response in a s.p.a.ce battle. In a direct confrontation, they would first fire interference missiles to avoid being hit by more artillery fire.
Hence, the Purple Flame Pirate Group didn’t have any reaction. All the cannons were charging and ready to fire at any time.
As both parties got closer, the main thrusters of Lan Xuanyu’s 33 Sky Wings wars.h.i.+p suddenly went out.
Shen Junjie, who was in the Purple Fire Pirate’s flags.h.i.+p, revealed a sinister smile. ‘This is cowardice. What 33 Sky Wings? I’ll make you lose your wings this time. This pirate crew will no longer exist in the future. I won’t kill them. It would be a pity to kill them. I’ll just sell them for labor and we should be able to make quite a profit.’
“Go over and ready the capturing sh.e.l.ls. Let me see what kind of faces are hidden behind those stupid masks. I pray that there are some beautiful women on their wars.h.i.+p.” Shen Junjie waved his hand, and over ten wars.h.i.+ps immediately moved towards the 33 Sky Wings wars.h.i.+p.
Just at this moment, the main thruster of the 33 Sky Wings wars.h.i.+p that had just been extinguished lit up once again. Then, it suddenly turned sideways and turned around. Then, it ran away with their motors roaring.
Shen Junjie was taken aback. Only then did he realize that the other party had extinguished their main thrusters in order to turn around. This way, it wouldn’t attract their attention. With this run, the 33 Sky Wings wars.h.i.+p had even given up on pulling the other two captured pirate wars.h.i.+ps.
“You want to run? Stop daydreaming.” Shen Junjie shouted as he pushed his entire army forward with all his thrusters activated. He chased after Lan Xuanyu’s team.
He didn’t even look at those missiles and just didn’t fire the soul cannons. With the missiles around, it would be a waste of cannon fire. However, the missiles didn’t have any offensive power and only released electromagnetic waves. He was confident that he would be able to keep the opponent’s wars.h.i.+p.
From the bottom of his heart, Shen Junjie was actually unwilling to destroy this a.s.sault wars.h.i.+p. It was very rare to see a lone Meteor-cla.s.s a.s.sault wars.h.i.+p. If he could capture it, he would have another powerful wars.h.i.+p!
Hence, he was in no rush to attack.
The all-out acceleration of the 33 Sky Wings wars.h.i.+p was still very fast. The Purple Flame Pirates behind them caught up without hesitation.
They charged straight into the missile, knocked it aside, and chased after it.
Right at this moment, a faint light lit up in the missile, and that light only lasted for a moment. In the next moment, it was as if a black hole had appeared in s.p.a.ce, and the terrifying energy retracted in an instant. The three Remnant-cla.s.s reconnaissance wars.h.i.+ps dimmed and disappeared into s.p.a.ce.
Following that, the black hole suddenly expanded and exploded.
Although Shen Junjie’s flags.h.i.+p wasn’t the first to bear the brunt, it was right next to them! When the protective s.h.i.+eld came into contact with the black light, it immediately collapsed and energy poured out crazily.
The entire s.p.a.ce seemed to tremble violently at this moment, and that black ma.s.s immediately turned into a violent explosion.
The pirate wars.h.i.+ps were flung out one after another as b.a.l.l.s of flames exploded.
Under such a terrifying explosion, even the defense of a Meteor-cla.s.s a.s.sault wars.h.i.+p was blown up. A large piece of metal burst out and flames appeared. A huge hole bored into the wars.h.i.+p and it was flung out.
As it swung horizontally, it knocked into two other reconnaissance wars.h.i.+ps.