translator: loop
proofreader: roki
One minute?!
This amount of time left everyone in the surveillance room stunned.
“What’s just one minute away? What’s one minute enough for?” Tang subconsciously dug at his ear and was dumbfounded, almost suspecting he heard wrong. An intelligent monitoring system was only so intelligent???
Just as he was stunned, the small door of the surveillance room was pushed open again. Jin crashed in with the small mop and said, “What’s going on? Who was screaming just now?”
His posture was still a bit awkward. The venom from the pricks on his butt had probably not been completely healed, but at least he could already run.
Chu Si raised his hand at Jin and signaled for him to wait for a moment. He opened all the drawers on the side of the console in one breath, and then swept away the scattered items on the desk, saying, “Remote wireless—”
Before he could say the word “controller,” Tang had already understood and jumped up. He picked up two black objects the size of coins from the corner of the windowsill and stuffed them into his hand.
“Take 20 seconds to collect your things, then gather in the courtyard.” As Chu Si spoke, they all flew out like their tails were on fire.
He then said to Jin, “You go straight to the courtyard.”
After finishing speaking, he opened the door and headed straight to the living room, carrying out the things he and Jin had landed on this planetary fragment with.
Sa’e came alone, and except for a handful of antimatter mini-bombs, he seemed to have nothing else with him. He didn’t rush around like the others, but instead stood in front of the console and quickly tapped out a program.
Then he plucked out the connected SkyEye and tossed it up and down, smiling like he was patting a dog’s head. “How powerful, why don’t you scream again when we collide?”
After saying this, he clasped SkyEye to his waist and left with two hands empty.
Everyone had arrived in the yard. 20 seconds was actually more than enough for such well-trained people, as all their belongings were already in their backpacks and they only needed to carry them before leaving.
Jin was wounded, and carrying a child was quite tiring. Just as Chu Si was about to speak, the little mop had already leaped down from Jin’s arms with the ferocity of a tiger. Judging from her physical strength, she was indeed several times more agile than her father, and fully demonstrated her ability to live without anyone’s supervision.
“This brat….” Le Pen and the others were all surprised.
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Chu Si thought for a second before throwing Jin’s black bag along with the rocket launcher to Sa’e Yang. Then he raised his hand and pointed: “Three o’clock, advance into woods.”
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The route that Chu Si picked was the fastest way to the docked Space Prison. They didn’t know what the hundred or so unidentified objects were, how big or how small they were, or whether they were a group of celestial bodies, space junk, or people. They didn’t have time to figure it out, and couldn’t determine what effect a “collision” could have.
If the result wasn’t earth-shattering, and they could still struggle, then it wouldn’t be impossible to find a way to the Space Prison and quickly evacuate the area.
They headed straight for the forest.
Of the two remote controllers Tang gave Chu Si, one was for feedback and the other for command input. The former looked like a dial with a row of buttons on its side, while the latter looked like earplugs.
As he ran, Chu Si inserted the earplugs and clamped the dial to his sleeves. He pressed a button on its side, and a holographic screen appeared above the dial, displaying hundreds of quickly approaching unidentified objects on a star map.
Oh, but they couldn’t be called unidentified objects anymore.
Half a minute after discovering them, the controller had already analyzed them.
A red warning flashed up on the holographic screen, and an electronic notification came from Chu Si’s earplugs: “Warning, 137 cosmic wanderers have been discovered. Expected direction of collision is shown.”
Chu Si glanced at the position marked by five stars on the map. His heart thumped, and he quickly braked his steps and said to the others, who were in the middle of running, “Stop! Change direction!”
“Why!” Tang was running too fast and couldn’t stop in time. He grabbed a nearby tree trunk to slow himself before turning and running towards Chu Si.
“They’re coming from the direction of the Space Prison.” Chu Si pointed to the holographic screen.
The voice in his earplugs continued: “Countdown, 5— 4— 3— 2— 1—”
Rumble—
When the outer layer of the dragon pillar, used to simulate the atmosphere of the original planet, was forcibly invaded by a foreign object, it would emit a thunderous sound.
From the sea of stars in front of them, bright yellow specks passed through the protective layer of the dragon pillar. They were densely packed and shot down at an extremely fast speed, like a rain of fire falling head-on.
This roaring momentum carried a strong sense of oppression, making people feel like they were going to be hit in the next second, unable to do anything but take two steps back.
But there was a considerable difference between what their eyes saw and the actual distance. Those fireballs roared and landed in a distant corner of the forest. When the first one landed, the entire ground shook, followed by the second, the third…
The entire fragment trembled incessantly, and the disturbance caused by the interference of the dragon pillar only exacerbated things. Everyone’s heart rate accelerated.
“With this kind of disturbance, I almost think I’m a little afraid…” Tang looked up at the streaming rain of fire and felt his heartbeat, muttering.
“Stop thinking, let’s go!” Chu Si spoke and turned to start evacuating in the other direction.
The term “cosmic wanderer” may have seemed a little lonely, but in reality, this was not the case. Those wanderers were originally from the same planet, but that planet had problems and could no longer be inhabited, so they completely abandoned it. A portion of the people from that planet scattered and immigrated to other livable planets, but a large portion refused to immigrate and wandered in space, becoming the first cosmic wanderers.
There were two types of cosmic wanderers.
One type, in order to ensure their survival, formed large invasion teams. They often looted the livable planets they passed by, considering it both plundering and revenge. This type of cosmic wanderer lived well, had abundant resources, and later on, became more and more like interstellar pirates.
The other type was employed by institutions on various planets to help collect scattered interstellar information in exchange for supplies and resources. They were somewhat similar to interstellar mercenaries.
All in all, regardless of which type they were, their sudden landing here was purposeful. People who floated around in space year-round without landing would become moody, irritable, unreasonable, and easily provoked.
Among the people present, except for Jin and his daughter, who may had never seen a cosmic wanderer before, everyone else had encountered at least some during their missions, and even engaged in gunfights with them.
Objectively speaking, 137 cosmic wanderers wouldn’t cause too big of a battle. But compared to their pitifully small group of 8 and a half, they were a large enemy force, and directly engaging in frontal conflict with them was definitely not a good choice.
Chu Si quickly calculated the time it would take for the wanderers to organize themselves after landing, wanting to plan a route. They could definitely not go to the base. With the remote controller, he could keep all devices in the base silent except for monitoring.
The safest way was to hide in the forest, avoid the wanderers along the way, and return to the Space Prison. No matter what, the Space Prison was at least cloaked and invisible.
But apart from this, there was a more rampant route they could take…
Just as Chu Si was about to speak, a tall figure brushed by him and walked to the front.
Without even needing to speak, just by looking at his figure, he knew it was Sa’e Yang.
This bastard suddenly turned around and raised his index finger at everyone behind him and shushed them, saying, “To Fort Barney.”
They all instinctively followed him and started running.
After sprinting for a moment, Tang suddenly realized who was speaking earlier, and his steps became a little hesitant. His voice sounded a little muffled under his mask, and he panted, “Fort Barney’s not close to here, and it’ll take half an hour to run over. That group… that group of shameless and unreasonable lunatics will use their usual aircraft. Even if they took a twenty-minute nap, they could still catch up with us. I don’t want to be chased like a dog!”
“Can’t we hide nearby?” Le Pen also tried to ask.
“Why don’t you show me how you’ll hide?” Sa’e Yang’s voice was still lazy, as if he wasn’t sprinting. “How can you hide in this forest? Wouldn’t it be the same as an ostrich burying its head in the ground?”
“By going to the Space Prison!” Though she said this, Le Pen was also a little afraid of Sa’e. She shrank back her neck and ran in an arc, hiding by Tang’s side.
Sa’e Yang, who was too lazy to pay attention, just sneered.
For others, the journey to the faraway Fort Barney was fraught with anxiety, but for Sa’e Yang, this was just enough excitement.
Chu Si knew him too well, and the so-called safer route was too boring and troublesome for Sa’e. Moreover, Fort Barney was a golden land, and no matter what type of wanderers were here, as long as they landed on the fragment, they would not let Fort Barney go.
If they instead chose to go back to the Space Prison, it would be equivalent to directly giving Fort Barney away and never coming back.
As he ran, Chu Si had already caught up with Sa’e Yang’s steps.
He glanced at Sa’e Yang’s back, then scanned the others from the corner of his eye. If Tang and his team talked too much nonsense, with Sa’e’s personality, he would likely dump everyone to the side and do everything himself.
At present, the eight and a half people were already at a disadvantage. Without Sa’e Yang, their combat strength would be greatly reduced, and the future wouldn’t look too optimistic.
So Chu Si opened his mouth and said, “I occasionally support democracy, so how about this: except for Sa’e Yang, if anyone else agrees to go to Fort Barney, then we will go.”
It was the first time everyone had seen such a shameless democracy, and they were all stunned: “…”
After the democratic Executive Chu finished speaking his nonsense, before he could announce the start of the voting, Sa’e Yang, who had sneered and stayed silent, suddenly slowed down half a step and grabbed Chu Si’s wrist. He lifted it and gave it a shake, lazily saying, “Look— another one here, let’s go!”
Chu Si: “…”
However, just as they ran to the hillside near Fort Barney, the wanderer’s aircraft were already at their backs. With a humming roar, they rushed over.
Oh, come on…~
Why the cliffhanger 😫
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