Chapter 264

"Did you guys fight often in the past?"

The captain said, "No, this is my first time participating in a real battle. We … only practice once every few years. Most of the time, we take part in patrols on the sea routes."

Guo Shier asked, "Are there pirates here?"

The captain was surprised. "What? Pirates? "

Guo Shier explained, "It's the robbers on the waterway."

The captain came to a realization. "You're talking about space pirates. There are very, very few of them here. Space pirates usually stay far away from our fleet. They are very timid and rarely dare to enter the territory controlled by starships. Therefore, space pirates basically live between the two Star Nations. They rob fleets that trade across the Star Nations, and they only dare to attack small fleets. They don't dare to touch large commercial fleets because there will be more powerful starships escorting them."

Guo Shier nodded. From this point, it could be seen that the power of the Star Nation was still quite a deterrent. He said, "If we go from here, we just need to pass through a stargate … Are you familiar with this stargate?"

The captain said, "I've passed through it a few times, but I've always been a passenger in a transport ship. I've never personally driven a starship over. The stargate's management is very strict. If we go over like this … we might be destroyed by the defense fortress of the stargate."

Guo Shier chuckled. "You don't have to worry about that. We'll take care of the defense of the stargate. Hehe."

Li Ran turned around and asked, "Do you have the defense map of the stargate here?"

The captain smiled bitterly and said, "How could I possibly have the defense map of the stargate? I'm just the captain of a small starship. The commander of this stargate is at the same level as the commander of our fleet … I can't come into contact with that level."

Guo Shier smiled and said, "It's fine. How long until we reach the stargate?"

The captain said, "Seven more starhours, very soon … We'll enter the defense detection range of the stargate soon. Many detectors will appear. As long as we enter, the stargate will know. This stargate doesn't allow attacking starships to enter without special reasons … We'll be warned very soon and have to show our pass."

Wang Dayang said disapprovingly, "Just clean it up!"

The captain was very disdainful. This detector was only the size of an adult. It was impossible to find it in space. How could it be cleaned up? He said, "I … we can't clean it …"

Wang Dayang also despised the captain. He said, "You just focus on piloting the starship. We don't need you to clean up the detectors." Then he asked, "Who's going to clean up the detectors with me?"

Li Ran thought for a moment and said, "Hmm, clean up the detectors first. Leave two people on the stargate. Everyone else go. I don't know how many detectors there are. I hope it won't be too much trouble."

Qi Wuzhen raised his hand and said, "You guys go. I don. I don. I don."

Guo Shi 'er said, "Shimu, you stay with Zhen Jie. The rest of you go."

Mo Nier nodded with a smile.

After a few hours, the captain said, "We can go clean up now. Should we stop here and wait?" One star hour was equivalent to about three hours.

Li Ran said, "This is a sea route … Everyone, don't get it wrong." He demonstrated the route once to prevent anyone from getting lost. He then said, "We'll circle around the starship and destroy all the detectors we find along the way. We have to be fast. Hmm, Captain, after we go down, you can rush to the stargate at full speed after a while, got it? "

The captain said, "Yes, yes. I will go at full speed in a moment."

Other than Qi Wuzhen and Mo, everyone else got out of the starship. They each took a direction and flew forward. Serxlyn was still following Guo Shier.

Through the soul waves, Guo Shier soon found the detector. He popped out the assembled runes one after another. Those runes quickly turned into a ripple invisible to the naked eye, flew to the side of the detector, attached to it, and after a few seconds, silently turned the detector into ashes.

Everyone used their own methods. Each person was in charge of one side. They pushed forward at a speed no slower than the starship.

The starship's captain was surprised to discover that the stargate's defensive detectors had disappeared. This was because the starship had already entered the stargate's detection range. According to regulations, the stargate should have sent out a warning, but the command module did not receive any information. In other words, Li Ran and the others had indeed cleared the stargate's defensive detectors.

He was shocked. How powerful did they have to be to do this? Even a fleet would have a hard time cleaning up so many detectors. They only had five people, but they had cleaned up this part of space. This was beyond his imagination.

Qi Wuzhen and Mo Nier were whispering to each other. Qi Wuzhen was a cold person, but Mo Nier was different. She liked to socialize with people. She had many tricks and a sweet mouth. Along the way, she admired Qi Wuzhen from the bottom of her heart. This woman was too powerful. In this team, only she could stand side by side with Li Ran. Therefore, Mo Nier had been trying to befriend her.

No matter how powerful the five of them were, they could not clean up all the detectors. Moreover, the loss of the detectors meant that there was a problem along the way. The stargate reacted quickly. It activated a large-scale scan and soon found this sneaky small starship. It immediately sent out a warning.

At this time, the small starship was close to the stargate. There was about one star hour left. Li Ran and the others quickly gathered and rushed toward the stargate. Once they exploded with speed, even the small starship could not compare to them.

At this time, the stargate had already sent out an intercepting starship. It was a medium-sized starship and 20 attack planes.

The captain was so nervous that his head was covered in sweat. This was because Qi Wuzhen had smashed the communicator with a slap, not allowing him to communicate with the stargate at all. Qi Wuzhen said calmly, "Rush over. Don't worry about anything else. Just rush over."

The officers in the command cabin were all sweating. They had never dared to think of rushing through the stargate. The stargate had a strong defense. If they rushed through, the stargate would immediately launch a long-range attack when it saw that the warning was ineffective. They could not resist it at all. With the defense of the small starship, once it was locked on, it would not even be able to escape.

Qi Wuzhen was already familiar with the characteristics of long-range attacks. She did not seem to care at all. She said, "As long as you listen to my orders, you will be fine!"

At this point, the captain had no choice but to listen. He said, "Yes, I will listen to your orders!"

Qi Wuzhen nodded with satisfaction. She said, "As long as you listen to my orders, don't worry. None of you will die." She released her soul fluctuations and began to probe the area in front of her.

Guo Shier and the others rushed over. They had no intention of tangling with the starship, instead launching their own attacks. The medium-sized starship did not expect to be attacked. It had been peaceful for too long. In an instant, the medium-sized starship was torn apart by the five. As for the attack planes, Guo Shier only released a ring of soul waves and they went out of control. If there was nothing in front of them, it would be fine. If there was something in front of them, they would crash into it.

The five wasted no time. After destroying the medium-sized starship, they immediately rushed toward the stargate. They had to destroy the bastion first. It was too much of a threat to the starship.

At this time, the bastion defending the stargate began to launch a long-range attack, aimed at the small starship.

Qi Wuzhen was the first to notice. She had noticed the bastion the moment it locked onto the starship. She immediately said, "Turn! Now! Immediately! "

The captain gave the order. The starship veered to the left, activating its acceleration system. A dozen seconds later, a beam of light brushed past the starship. The captain wiped the sweat from his brow. Qi Wuzhen ordered the starship to return to its original course.

The small starship kept changing directions, dodging one attack after another. Only now did the bastion begin to pay attention. After a series of missed attacks, they realized something was amiss. Logically speaking, once such a small starship was locked on, there would be almost no time to adjust its course. But now, this small starship could immediately change its course almost at the same time the fortress launched an attack, causing the lock-on to fail. This ability really made the fortress commander depressed to the extreme.

If it weren't for the fact that they needed the starship to pass through the stargate, Qi Wuzhen wouldn't have been willing to be beaten like this. She was furious, and her face grew cold. The entire command cabin was silent. All the officers were suffocated by Qi Wuzhen's aura. However, all of them admired her to death. Her dodging skills were too amazing. Everyone was thinking, "How did she do it?"

After a few more dodges, the bastion's long-range attacks increased in intensity. At first there was only one, but soon there were three, then four. That meant there were four long-range cannons firing at the starship. This gave Qi Wuzhen a headache. The starship seemed to be out of control. Up and down, left and right, erratic and erratic. But each time it managed to evade an attack.

Qi Wuzhen cursed. "Goddamnit! Are you done?! Go down, go down! Hurry! "

The officers were all sweating profusely. They were all frightened. Seeing the attacks graze past the starship, they all knew that as long as one of them hit, all of them would be finished. In outer space, there was nowhere to run.

Li Ran's group of five finally approached the bastion. Seeing the barrage of attacks coming from the bastion, Li Ran's face grew cold. "Spread out, kill it!" he said.

A large number of small floating metal spheres equipped with automatic weapons floated around the fortress. They were all equipped with automatic attack weapons. Once they were activated, they would automatically attack all living things in the surroundings. In an instant, these metal spheres formed a crisscrossed shooting net.

Guo Shier's Moonblade flew out and instantly broke through the net. Hundreds of defensive metal spheres were destroyed. He put his hands together, and the Moonblade suddenly multiplied into a thousand, a thousand into a hundred, a hundred into one, until it became a giant blade a thousand meters long. After casting a few more incantations, the crescent blade was raised. Following his hand gestures, the crescent blade slashed down.

The bastion was built on a large meteorite, welded together with the remains of many starships. Its shape was strange, like a giant monster. Countless tentacles extended out, and there were countless automatic defensive metal spheres floating around it, making it look even more strange.

When Guo Shi 'er's Crescent Blade slashed down, a huge crack immediately appeared, and the metal balls on the periphery exploded one by one. The Moonblade cut through the thick alloy defense, all the way to the inside of the meteorite.

Guo Shier made a few more hand signs, and the Moonblade rose again. The surviving soldiers immediately fled in all directions in fright. What a joke, destroying a defensive area with one slash. Who would dare stay here?

Another slash followed. This time, it was aimed at a large defensive turret. There was a long-range attack cannon there. At that moment, the long-range attack cannon fired, and the entire space was illuminated.

With one slash, the large defensive turret shattered. In an instant, everyone in the turret was killed, including the long-range attack cannon. It was also cut in half.

Li Ran, Wang Dayang, and Deadwood attacked at the same time. Deadwood, especially, was ruthless. In a few breaths, he destroyed a long-range attack.

Wang Dayang's soul trembled. "I'm going in!"

Deadwood followed him into the bastion.

Li Ran's soul trembled. "Shier, we'll stand guard outside! Enemies are coming! "