Buzz — — Buzz — — Buzz — —
Sparks of electricity danced among the broken walls, illuminating the darkness around them from time to time.
There was no sign of life in the darkness. After some time, the system's voice sounded, "System repair complete. Channel 1 is ready."
As soon as the voice fell, the control panel returned to normal. All the screens rose automatically, and the probes in the sky shot down rays. The remote real-time projection was being generated, and Faiers' image quickly appeared.
He scanned the surroundings and couldn't help but ask, "Officer Jia Hua, what happened? Why was the communication cut off for a minute?"
Jia Hua crawled up from the pile of rubble and helped Lan Bing up at the same time. Both of them were unkempt and unkempt.
In the explosion just now, he made the right choice. He quickly activated the Flaming Sun Shield to block Lan Bing's path. However, the heat shield couldn't withstand the energy wave from the Black Stone Knight's explosion. Fortunately, the two Tyrael armors were at the epicenter of the explosion and offset most of the energy. The Flaming Sun Shield only served as a buffer. In the end, the energy wave buried Jia Hua and Lan Bing in the rubble.
At this moment, the command hall looked like a graveyard. The two Tyrael armors were full of holes, and the dozens of soldiers who came to support after hearing the news were turned into ashes. In the big pit in the distance, Ji Ming's limbs were separated, and his body was in pieces. As for the control equipment, they were all scrap metal. Dust and bones were everywhere. Only the control panel in the center wasn't damaged.
It was also because of the control panel that people didn't misunderstand. Was this the core command hall of the Falcon Spacecraft or a graveyard?
A monstrous anger rushed from the bottom of Jia Hua's feet to his head. To be beaten up like this by a laborer was simply a great humiliation. However, this anger disappeared without a trace when he saw Lan Bing's tattered clothes and dusty face.
"Miss Bing, are you okay?" Jia Hua asked with concern.
Lan Bing waved her hand, indicating that she was fine. The wound on her face had automatically healed, but it didn't seem to be completely healed this time. There was still a small red mark on her cheek, causing a flaw to appear on her beautiful face.
"Miss Bing, your face …" Faiers asked with concern. He knew that Lan Bing was an Ice and Biochemical dual cultivator.
Lan Bing raised her left index finger and placed it on her left cheek. She said coldly, "I'll leave this scar on my face as a reminder to never forget what happened today."
There was a thick murderous aura in these words. Jia Hua immediately turned around and personally operated the main control panel.
"That Songqing has continuously activated the Qu Shadow Transmission in a short period of time. The two transmissions just now were done at high speed, so they must have consumed a lot of energy. They can't have gone far."
The star map immediately rose. The red dot that represented the Songqing Spaceship had already turned around and was escaping quickly according to its original route. With the Falcon Spaceship's speed, it would definitely not be able to catch up.
Lan Bing stared at the map. "They won't be able to escape."
Jia Hua said, "Oh?"
Lan Bing said, "They're still flying in the direction of the Silent Star."
Jia Hua took a closer look. The Songqing Spaceship's route was faintly pointing towards the outer circle of the K8 system. The general direction was towards the Silent Star.
Faiers said in a low voice, "The interceptor ship will reach you in nine minutes. If they don't change their course, they'll be within the firing range of our ship's cannons in two minutes."
Jia Hua hesitated. "But Ding Meng took a box, and we don't have a target to analyze. The interceptor ship won't be able to activate the Qu Shadow Transmission."
Lan Bing walked forward and reached out to operate the main control panel. "Don't worry. Even if the Songqing Spaceship is blown up, we'll just have to spend a little more time searching for the fragments in space. The box will definitely be found."
"Are you sure you want to fight?" Faiers asked hesitantly.
Lan Bing's expression was so cold that it was almost frozen. She said without hesitation, "We can't let this Ding Meng escape alive again. This time, he must die!"
Two minutes later, a battleship that looked like a dolphin flew out of the darkness. It looked like a strange fish that had crawled out of the deep sea. This was the Soaring Eagle No. 2 Falcon Dragon Interceptor Ship that was supposed to receive the Falcon Dragon Spaceship.
At this moment, the bridge's command hall was brightly lit. Dozens of workers were busy at their posts.
Lan Bing, Jia Hua, and Faiers' remote real-time projections had already been transmitted here. Facing the three officers, Bayona didn't dare to be negligent. Even though she was the commander of this Falcon Dragon Interceptor Ship, in reality, everyone knew that she was Lan Bing's direct subordinate.
Seeing the usually high and mighty Miss Bing's disheveled and dusty appearance, she really didn't have the courage to ask what had happened before. She could only obediently carry out her orders.
"Miss Bing, the ship's cannons are fully charged. The target has been locked onto."
Lan Bing uttered coldly, "Fight!"
The steel plates at the bottom of the interceptor ship automatically opened up. A black square cannon was lowered. The sharp nose of the cannon at the front of the cannon shot out a straight and bright light beam into the depths of the universe.
Although it was called small, in reality, it was just a visual difference. The diameter of this railgun was 20 meters long. Any spaceship below the warship class would have a hard time escaping once it was locked onto.
On the other side, Songqing's spaceship was still moving at high speed. Bayona looked at the real-time image displayed on the radar and was very puzzled. Songqing's speed was extremely fast, but the interceptor ship was still able to catch up. There was no need to use the expensive ship's secondary cannons to attack.
Of course, she didn't know that Lan Bing and Jia Hua were in a state of anger. They swore that they would definitely kill Ding Meng. Being robbed was secondary. The main thing was that they had been played by Ding Meng and Xin Jie. A flight sergeant from the Norse Empire and an interstellar refugee from the Black Gold Base had turned the Falcon spaceship upside down. This was really too embarrassing.
In front of Chu Yifeng and other colleagues, you could be useless and they wouldn't laugh at you because of that, but you couldn't lose face. Otherwise, everyone would look down on you.
The railgun hit the flying Songqing's spaceship without any suspense. It was like a light beam directly welded onto an olive body's butt. Then, it started to burn.
At this time, Bayona was even more puzzled. Songqing's spaceship was an advanced exploration spaceship unique to the Norse Empire. Speed was its biggest advantage. The reason why it was fast was because of its rich energy reserves. Therefore, it could use energy-consuming systems like Qu Ying Transmission. At the same time, it also derived a strong defensive ability.
Logically speaking, Songqing should have deployed an energy shield to resist the impact after being hit by the railgun. The principle was very simple. It was nothing more than increasing the energy consumption and using energy to buy time to escape. At this time, the attacker would analyze the structure of the defense and increase the energy of the railgun or change the attack method. However, this Songqing's spaceship was very strange. It didn't accelerate to escape or deploy any defensive measures. It was like a paper airplane. In less than five seconds after being hit by the railgun, the entire spaceship emitted sky-blue crystal flames. It was obviously going to disintegrate.
Jia Hua snorted coldly. "I knew it. They used Qu Ying Transmission many times and used too much energy. Now, they don't have any extra energy to defend."
Bayona frowned. She really couldn't refute Jia Hua. After all, she was an officer. Her judgment was: Even if this Songqing had used Qu Ying Transmission many times before, it shouldn't have become like this in a few seconds. The only explanation was that the other party used the remaining energy for other systems.
But the question was, where did they use it?
She couldn't tell. She could only wonder in her heart.
If she could ask this question on the spot, then the ending of the matter would be different.
In the depths of space, a tattered mutated fish spaceship was flying slowly. In the cockpit, Ding Meng and the others stood by the control panel and watched the real-time image on the screen. Songqing's spaceship began to disintegrate under the railgun attack in just five seconds. Then, the railgun stopped firing. The spaceship, surrounded by crystal flames, fell into the atmosphere of the Dead Silent Planet like a blue fireball …
Xing Yi turned to look at Xin Jie again. She couldn't remember how many times she had turned her head. This time, she was full of admiration.
When Songqing's spaceship activated ion drive and took off from the Dead Silent Planet, Sleman and the youngster also returned to the Blazing Shark spaceship. The Blazing Shark activated its stealth system and followed behind Songqing unhurriedly.
After Ding Meng killed a bunch of people on the Falcon, he teleported back to Songqing. Xin Jie used the last of the backup energy to teleport everyone to the Blazing Shark spaceship behind him. It seemed like a simple operation, but it required precise control of time.
The Black Rock Knight's self-destruction couldn't be more or less. At most, it could interfere with Jia Hua and the others for one or two minutes. After Songqing turned around, they had to catch up to the Blazing Shark in one minute and thirty seconds. After this time, they wouldn't be able to teleport in time and would be blown to pieces by the railgun.
This was where Bayona's doubts came from. In fact, she had also thought of this point. The crew on Songqing might have used Qu Ying Transmission to teleport to other places, but there were no other ships nearby. This was mainly because the Blazing Shark had entered stealth mode and didn't activate ion drive. The Falcon's radar wouldn't be able to detect it for a while. Only Soaring Hawk No. 2 could detect it when it flew up.
Of course, by the time the interceptor met up with the Falcon, the Blazing Shark would have already drifted far away. They wouldn't be able to catch up even if they wanted to. This was probably something that Lan Bing and the others would never have thought of.
In the end, the main reason was that Lan Bing didn't treat Sleman as a human. Since he had issued the mission, he should have fulfilled the bounty. It was fine if he didn't, but he even threatened to deal with Ding Meng. However, Ding Meng kept his promise. If he said he would save them, he would definitely save them. Even if he only saved Sleman and the youngster, it was still better than everyone dying from poison.
Many things were usually like this. If there was a cause, there would be an effect. If there was a good deed, there would always be a good deed. If Ding Meng didn't save Sleman and the youngster when he returned to the ground, Sleman wouldn't have cooperated with Xin Jie afterward. Then, everyone would be doomed. If Ding Meng saved Sleman, he would undoubtedly have saved everyone on both ships.