On flight N-177.
Lu Zhou, who withdrew his gaze from the porthole, sighed softly.
"It seems that they don't intend to let me go home."
Lu Zhou glanced sideways at Professor Leonard, who almost shrank under his chair. He was silent for a while and spoke to him in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
"We have to find a way to escape from here."
"Escape? How are you going to escape? " Professor Leonard's eyes widened and he asked in a low voice, "Don't do anything stupid, they are just after money. Generally, this kind of air pirates will let people go after taking the ransom."
Lu Zhou looked at Professor Leonard, who had a look of fear on his face, and gave him a helpless look.
"I don't know what the spacecraft in the 22nd century is like, but the thruster should still be electric thruster. There may be differences in the route, but the flight logic should not have changed much from my time. According to the current speed and flight state, they are using life compression to decelerate … I don't know how much fuel is left, but it is very difficult to decelerate by 80%. "
Especially judging from the continuous thrust coming from behind, this civil transport ship, which had an unknown amount of energy left, was still moving at full speed.
Lu Zhou couldn't help but have a headache.
He thought he was the kind of person who was very troublesome and insulated. When he came to this 22nd century, he encountered all kinds of sh * t troubles.
If only Wang Peng was here …
Lu Zhou looked at the trembling citizen of the Da Ying Empire next to him. After being speechless for a while, he sighed silently in his heart.
He knew that he couldn't count on this guy. He quietly used the index finger of his left hand to open the cuff of his right hand by half an inch, revealing a small bracelet. At the same time, he observed the environment in the cabin, looking for opportunities to save himself.
There were only two things he could use.
A magnetic slingshot with decent lethality, and a nitrogen shield that he hadn't used yet, and he didn't know if it was good or not.
The robot sent by Xiao Ai could barely be regarded as a help, but at this time, it was too far away. As something between luggage and people, it was on standby next to the luggage compartment.
Moreover, that guy was only a bodyguard sent by Xiao Ai. He was not remotely controlled by Xiao Ai. In the face of these armed militants, his chances of winning were still unknown …
Just as Lu Zhou was thinking about how to get out of this situation, a baby's cry suddenly sounded in the cabin.
It was also this cry that caused his originally tense heart to jump up to his throat.
"Shut it up."
With a hint of cruelty and impatience, the hijacker in the kinetic skeleton standing in the cabin cast a cold gaze at the woman holding the child.
The moment he looked at her, the woman's face lost all color and turned as pale as cement ash.
"… I'm really, really sorry. The child … he might be hungry. I, I … "
In a stuttering voice, the woman looked at the hijacker and pleaded.
However, the pleading voice did not manage to restore some humanity to those cold eyes.
Instead, it glowed with a cruel light that was almost beast-like.
"I'll give you 10 seconds to shut it up." With a cruel smile, the man raised the muzzle slightly and pointed it at the baby in her arms. "Or, I'll help you."
The woman suddenly panicked and begged.
"No … I beg you, don't do this …"
“9。”
The countdown had begun, with a hint of a teasing tone.
Under the pressure exerted by the hijacker, the woman holding the child was completely panicked.
She desperately covered the child's mouth, trying to stop the child from crying. However, the more she tried, the more uncontrollable the child's crying became.
Leonard's face was pale, and his trembling lips seemed to be struggling with something.
However, after some struggle, the fear of death finally defeated the little sense of justice in his heart. In the end, he did nothing, just like most people would do at this time.
"Wait a minute!"
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the side. A girl with shoulder-length hair, who seemed to be of Chinese descent, raised her hands and stood up, trembling with fear.
Almost as soon as she stood up, the hijacker pointed his gun at her.
This action also made everyone in the cabin feel as if their hearts were in their throats. They were afraid that he would pull the trigger and let them see the scene of flesh and blood splattering everywhere.
Fortunately, the hijacker did not shoot, but the words he said seemed to be one step away from shooting.
"You interrupted my countdown, I hope you'd better start for me."
"He's just a child, this will only make him cry more and more …" Although afraid, the girl still said with a trembling voice, "Can you let me … calm him down?"
The hijacker raised his eyebrows. He seemed to have thought of something interesting, so he pointed the muzzle to the side.
The girl breathed a sigh of relief, held the seat next to her, and carefully walked to the side of the woman holding the baby. After giving her a reassuring look, she took the baby from the desperate woman's arms.
The girl tried to overcome her fear and calm herself down. She held the baby in her arms, hummed a lullaby softly, and patted the swaddling clothes with her hand.
Soon, the soft voice calmed the crying. The originally noisy baby's voice became weaker and weaker. Its breathing became even again, and it fell asleep in the swaddling clothes.
"Here."
She returned the child to the woman, and the girl gave her a reluctant but reassuring smile.
"Your child … is very cute."
The woman looked at her with grateful eyes and said with a choked voice.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, I just —"
The coughing sound from the side interrupted this touching scene.
"Have you forgotten the situation you're in right now?"
Hearing these words, the girl's whole body stiffened.
She looked back at the hijacker and the muzzle aimed at her. She maintained a surrender posture and spoke with a trembling voice.
"I didn't mean to offend you … I'll go back now."
"Who told you to go back?" The hijacker had a cruel smile on his face. "That's a different matter. I haven't settled the score for interrupting my countdown yet."
The girl's heart was desperate. Her lips trembled, and she couldn't say a word.
The woman holding the child sitting next to her wanted to plead for her savior, but she couldn't say a word when she saw the bloodthirsty expression on the hijacker's face.
The hijacker smiled cruelly and raised the muzzle to the short-haired girl's forehead.
"I'll give you a chance. If you can accurately tell me how many seconds have passed, I will spare your life.
"Or, you can think about it after you go down."
How can I answer this?!
The girl trembled, and sweat oozed from her forehead.
Professor Leonard, who had been peeping from the beginning, had a premonition of what kind of bloody picture would come next. He couldn't bear to close his eyes.
However, just when everyone believed without a doubt that the girl was done for, a buzzing sound suddenly came from the side.
There was no time to defend.
There was no time to even react.
The side of the hijacker's helmet made a crisp sound without warning.
Like it was hung there by a pointed hammer, the flat helmet suddenly dented from one side and broke out from the other side.
Before he could say his last words, the hijacker tilted his head to the side as if his head was pushed, then he fell to the ground silently.
The girl covered her mouth with both of her hands, suppressing the scream that was about to come out of her throat.
Just when she was completely confused about what happened, a rather handsome man sat up from his seat not far away.
Above his right wrist, there were a few small metal balls about the size of half a peanut circling around in a disorderly manner, as if they were being held up by some invisible force field.
Looking at the dumbfounded juniors in the cabin, Lu Zhou gave them a reassuring smile. He then made a silent gesture, walked to the side of the corpse, and picked up the rifle that had fallen to the ground.
Lu Zhou held it in his hand and fiddled with it for a while. He looked back at Professor Leonard and walked back to him.
"Do you know how to use this thing?"
Professor Leonard's lips trembled. It took him a while to squeeze a sentence out of his throat.
"The safety is on, just pull the trigger."
"I see, it seems that the weapon hasn't changed."
"What are you going to do?"
"What else can I do besides snatching the spacecraft back?"
"Are you crazy? Do you know how many hijackers are on board? "Professor Leonard stared at him with widened eyes." You will kill everyone! "
Lu Zhou smiled faintly.
"Do you think you won't die if you don't do anything?"
At the current speed of this spacecraft, these hijackers did not intend to let them go back alive.
If he had to choose a way to die, he would rather choose a more dignified way.
Just when Lu Zhou was heading to the luggage compartment, intending to wake up the robot sent by Xiao Ai, Ruzas, who was standing in the cockpit, suddenly had a fierce look in his eyes.
On the screen, the team member marked No. 3 had turned gray.
At the same time, the voice of his teammate came from the communication channel.
"No. 3 disconnected … heart function stopped."
"Got it." The index finger of his right hand gently pushed the safety, then put it on the trigger. Ruzas' smile gradually became bloodthirsty and cruel.
"Let me see which restless fellow is stirring up trouble behind the scenes …."
(End of this chapter)
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