Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr When the clerk opened his eyes once more, there was no longer any trace of sadness in them, only endless ruthlessness. Since Hollow Ground had left the hope of survival to them, then he must complete the mission Hollow Ground had given him — protect his team members and successfully escape from this place.
The clerk stared coldly at those enemies who were beginning to panic. Ignoring the injuries on her body, she forcefully channeled her spectre power, which was already close to exhaustion, and frantically wiped out the consciousness of these people. Let these people become sacrifices for Hollow Ground...
However, the forceful use of his spectre power caused the clerk to pay a painful price. For the following period of time, he would no longer be able to use his spectre power. Still, the clerk felt that it was worth it!
Seeing that the clerk had wiped out all the enemies, the commander and his adjutant instantly breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at their team members who had luckily survived, they felt as if they had been given a new lease on life. However, their hearts soon sank again, because the clerk had told them that he would lose his spectre power for a short period of time. In other words, he would no longer be able to protect them. Continuing to stay here would probably be dangerous, because no one knew if that unknown faction still had other spectres.
Hearing this, the commander made a prompt decision to lead everyone away from this place. Along the way, he did not forget to send a message to his companions who had stayed behind to control the starship and escape from the Swift Dragon base according to the original plan.
Although they were unsure where this unknown faction had come from, they already knew that the Swift Dragon base was under the enemy's control. Their mission could be considered to have been more or less completed. Additionally, the commander was afraid that there might still be other spectres in the base. For the safety of his team members, he needed to lead them away from this place as quickly as possible.
Little Four, who had been secretly monitoring them, immediately intercepted this message and forged a reply from the people who had stayed behind to execute the order to the commander.
Meanwhile, at the spaceport of the Swift Dragon base, the Federation soldiers who had already moved out first had taken control of the starship without much difficulty. They did not know that the reason it had been so easy was because Little Four had wiped out all the top Caesar hackers controlling the base in one fell swoop. Otherwise, even if they still had another hacker to cover for them and create false information, they would still have been discovered by the enemy hackers monitoring the base.
They waited patiently on the starship for the commander to arrive. When they had taken control of the starship, they sent news of their success to the commander. However, the commander's team seemed to have encountered some difficulties. They only hurriedly sent a message of "wait patiently", which made them feel uneasy.
Sure enough, it was not long before they found that the Swift Dragon base had become heavily guarded. They were beginning to investigate the NPC survivors in the temporary camp. This made them even more anxious and worried. They were anxious that they might be exposed soon, and they were even more worried that it would be extremely difficult for the commanders to sneak back to the starship.
However, after waiting for about half an hour, the commander sent another message: We have arrived. Open the emergency channel and board the ship. The arrival of this news made the soldiers who were left behind feel relieved.
The commanders boarded the starship quietly. The journey was so smooth that they couldn't believe it. There were many times when the other party was about to discover them, but strangely, they were attracted by something and turned in another direction. Unable to understand, they could only think that they were extremely lucky today, which was why they were able to escape danger time and time again.
To ensure safety, the Federation soldiers who had arrived early had already killed all the NPC soldiers on duty on the starship. This made the commander's team who had boarded the starship instantly relax. They did not hesitate and went straight to the main control room of the starship. Without too much manpower, they could only ensure that the starship opened safely and could not be bothered with anything else.
The commander, who was anxious to meet up with his comrades, did not notice that not long after they left the emergency channel, the channel opened silently once more. Ling Lan, who had been following behind them all this time, quietly entered the starship.
Little Four had already taken control of this starship at the first instance and very quickly found Zilong and the others' hiding place.
Ling Lan did not hesitate and walked straight towards Zilong and the others' hiding place. Her previous setup was already complete. Now, all she needed to do was wait patiently for these Federation soldiers to activate the starship and bring them back to the central district.
On the way to meet up with Zilong and the others, Little Four did not forget to take credit for himself in the mindspace. This was because the communication between the Federation soldiers and the Federation soldiers was actually fake. He had intercepted all of it and used the perfect timing to send it out again, wiping out all of his work.
The moment they arrived at the main control room, the commander did not even wait to catch his breath before instructing his team members to immediately operate the various key programs of the starship. After all preparations had been made, he ordered the starship to start up.
When the starship had been lying still, the NPCs of the Swift Dragon base had not noticed the situation here. But when the starship suddenly started up, the loud roar of the engine and the energy reaction instantly woke up this quiet spaceport. Everyone in the Swift Dragon base understood that their starship had already been controlled by an unknown faction.
This infuriated the upper echelons of the Swift Dragon base. They decisively sent out the base's armoured guided missile troops to fire a barrage of artillery shells at the starship, attempting to destroy it before it could start up.
Everyone on the starship watched nervously as the starship started up. For the starship to successfully start flying, it needed to charge up to 100% of its energy, and the charging time required three minutes. Everyone knew that these three minutes of charging time could very well determine whether they could escape from the Swift Dragon base or not.
"Commander, they've fired the attack missiles," reported the team member monitoring the radar when he saw the warning of an attack coming from the radar screen.
"Activate the protective shield first." Several thoughts flashed through the commander's mind before he finally gritted his teeth and gave the order.
"Yes, sir!" Another team member in charge of controlling the defence system decisively activated the protective shield. The 10% of energy that had already been charged instantly dropped to rock bottom. In other words, the starship would have to start charging again.
However, the commander's order was correct. The activation of the beam shield prevented the many incoming missiles from damaging the main body of the starship. Even so, the violent explosions of the missiles sent the people on the starship reeling from the tremors.
In the third mecha cabin of the starship, Ling Lan and the others were already seated in the standard mecha of this starship. They had already been secured in place, and the anti-shock system of the mecha itself was more stable than that of the starship. Even though they could still feel the tremors, they were not as wretched as the people in the main control room.
Seeing this, Zilong's loud voice rang out in the team comms channel once more, "Hells, this mission is really too exciting. No matter where we go, it's always so thrilling."
"If it's not thrilling, can it be called SSS-rank?" replied Han Jijun calmly, instantly silencing Zilong.
A few faint chuckles rang out in the comms channel — it was Xie Yi, Lin Zhong-qing, and the others. Other than Boss Lan, only Han Jijun could make Zilong shut up.
The others were fine, but Chang Xinyuan was rather nervous. He could not help but ask, "We'll be fine, right?"
Ever since Ling Lan had reminded them that if they died here, they would revive at the Swift Dragon base and would not be able to return to the central district, Chang Xinyuan had been reminded of his terrible mecha piloting skills. He was afraid that if he died here and dragged the team down, they would have to trouble Boss Lan and the others to come back and save him in the end.
"No, the protective shields have already been activated. The anti-air missiles of the base are not very harmful to the starship," replied Ling Lan calmly. Everything that had happened in the control room was being fed back to her mindspace by Little Four.
Ling Lan's words silenced the team members. They knew that escaping from the Swift Dragon base was not as simple as Boss Lan had said. Every base had an ultimate weapon to deal with starships and powerful mecha. They could only hope that the highest commander of the Swift Dragon base would be wary of the soldiers on the starship and not activate that weapon.
Finally, the starship was fully charged and the commander said happily, "Activate at low speed!"
With this order, the team member in charge of operating the starship slowly pulled up the nose of the starship and the starship slowly rose into the air.
Meanwhile, at this moment, the officers in the command headquarters saw this and looked anxiously at the highest commander of the Swift Dragon base, waiting for his final order.
The highest commander calmly zoomed in on the image of the starship and then slammed his palm down on the screen, ordering, "Activate the ultimate weapon, the magnetic energy beam cannon."
The moment this order was given, everyone's expression changed. Even though some people felt that it was somewhat inappropriate, in the NPC world, the strict hierarchy made the junior officers not dare to raise a single word of objection.
At this time, the starship was already several hundred metres above the ground. As long as it climbed to an altitude of 2000 metres, it would be able to switch from low speed to high speed and then escape the gravity of the base planet to truly enter outer space. At that time, they would be truly safe. Everyone in the starship's control room began to break out in cold sweat. This was because this was often the most dangerous time for a starship, the moment when it was most vulnerable to ground attacks.
Suddenly, the team member who was monitoring the surroundings shouted with wide eyes, "The base has activated the ultimate weapon. We will be shot down..."
Hearing this, the commander lunged over and saw that at the edge of the base, a large mountaintop that had originally looked like a barren mountain had suddenly split open. A massive cannon barrel was slowly rising up from the bottom. Although only the tip of the barrel was visible, the commander knew what it was with one glance and his face instantly paled.
If the starship was destroyed, although they would not truly die, their resurrection point was at the Swift Dragon base and they would definitely become the enemy's prisoners before long. The commander was not confident that he could successfully lead his team members to escape a second time. By the time headquarters discovered that the situation was not good and sent people over to rescue them, it would be at least a month later... what worried the commander even more was that if the unknown faction still had spectres hiding in the Swift Dragon base, they might really die here.
Right then, the adjutant who had been standing quietly behind the commander suddenly spoke up, "I'll go."
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