Now, Ye Chong was faced with a difficult problem. Based on the route map given by Commander Fid, Ye Chong and Shang could confirm that there would be at least 5 fleets of pirates along the way. A fleet of civilians like this was no different from a sumptuous meal for pirates. Oak Leaves Mech Squad and Red Lion Mech Squad had suffered great losses in this battle. If not for Ye Chong and Shang, they would probably have been wiped out.
Without Coxcomb's escort, the probability of the fleet reaching Csebesini Galaxy was less than 10%.
Truth be told, Ye Chong did not care about the lives of the others. They were just strangers to him. According to Shang, in the movies, there were always people called chivalrous people who cherished life and upheld justice. With Shang's detailed explanation, Ye Chong finally understood that there was such a thing called justice in this world, a hypocritical and meaningless thing. Shang was obviously interested in this topic, but Ye Chong did not give him the chance to speak.
For some reason, Ye Chong did not want Grandpa Qian to know that he was here. Perhaps, I'm better off living alone, Ye Chong thought desolately.
Ye Chong was a decisive person, and hesitation was not his style. Soon, he made up his mind. The living were always more important than the dead. He believed that if Papa was still alive, he would support his decision.
With his mind made, Ye Chong and Shang quickly began their work. Shang quickly redesigned a route map. While this route was much longer than the original, it avoided the areas where pirates gathered. Shang cursed the original route designer for being an idiot as he designed the route map. Ye Chong, on the other hand, ran around the ship, taking out all the energy cells from the warehouse. There were a lot of energy cells near the hatch where Shang had sniped the last time. There were also a lot of energy cells near the electromagnetic cannons. If a battle were to break out, the Coxcomb itself would not be able to sustain long term firepower. Only Ye Chong, the coolie, could do the work of replacing the energy cells.
Commander Fid and Commander Claudia were discussing.
Claudia spoke first, "We're in a bad situation now. If we don't replenish our manpower, the rest of the journey will be troublesome. "Claudia frowned. Red Lion Mech Squad and Oak Leaves Mech Squad were basically crippled. They did not have much fighting power left.
Fayde's expression was equally ugly. The difficulty of this journey had far exceeded his expectations.
Many people were not prepared for the sudden arrival of chaos.
However, the fact that the two of them could still sit together and discuss was a blessing in disguise. Fayde was also helpless against the current situation. How could it be easy to replenish the manpower? In such a short time, it was impossible to form a fighting force, and if there were pirates mixed in, it would be even more troublesome.
At this moment, Fid's assistant said in surprise, "Captain … Captain, the Coxcomb has sent us a map."
The two looked at each other in surprise. Fid's assistant had already displayed the route map on the holographic screen. A route that they had never thought of was marked on the star map, and the destination of this route was a residential planet called West Hunter in the Csebesini Star Field.
Fid and Claudia looked at each other. What was the owner of the Coxcomb up to?
"Wow, Ye 'zi, our Bing Bing. Tsk tsk, what a pair of beautiful legs. Slender, long, and powerful. Hehe, Ye, too bad you didn't see it, Bing Bing's two-timing just now. Heavens, so beautiful! " Shang was so excited that he kept howling. Shang was in charge of monitoring the entire fleet. Of course, most of his attention was still on Grandpa Qian's starship. Shang was also using his power to his advantage. His blue electronic eyes never left Rui Bing.
Ye Chong could not be bothered. He was in the middle of an important experiment. The corrosive properties of the Letters of the Sisters were beyond Ye Chong's expectation. No wonder it was listed as one of the 12 most corrosive plants in the chip given by Lunatic Guan. A single drop of the liquid could penetrate through a 10 cm thick starship's armor in less than a minute, and it spread rapidly.
What Ye Chong needed to do now was to use the liquid to cultivate new Letters of the Sisters. It was not a difficult task for him. Truth be told, this kind of work was not difficult for any second-year alchemy student.
The cultivation went smoothly. It was a waste to use such a top-notch alchemy lab to cultivate plants. However, the advanced culture fluid in the lab greatly shortened the growth period of the Letters of the Sisters. In a short period of time, Ye Chong had dozens of Letters of the Sisters. Ye Chong observed its living habits every day. As an alchemist, this was a necessary task. Ye Chong also studied the secretion pattern of the Letters of the Sisters.
With the resources at hand, Ye Chong's first thought was how to use them in combat. Making full use of every resource was a good habit he had developed on Trash Planet. The Letters of the Sisters of the Sisters had the same potential. Its corrosive properties, if used properly, could be very lethal.
This was the first time Ye Chong had actively thought about alchemy. What he needed to do now was to increase the corrosive properties of the Letters of the Sisters. As an alchemist, even if he was just a beginner alchemist, Ye Chong could still think of a lot of ways to solve the problem.
For example, he could constantly change the environment of the Letters of the Sisters to cause them to mutate, and then select the Letters of the Sisters that fit the criteria. Or he could use the liquid as raw material to formulate a more corrosive solution.
Ye Chong chose the second method. The first method would take too long for Ye Chong at the moment. Fortunately, formulating solutions was also one of Lunatic Guan's strengths. All the bone strengthening solutions Ye Chong used were developed by her.
In fact, there was a lazy way. Ye Chong still had the Guan Family's automatic analysis system given to him by Lunatic Guan, and he could easily look up the formula. However, Ye Chong did not plan to do that. Lunatic Guan had already warned him not to rely too much on the system, and probably no one knew better than Ye Chong what it meant to have the most reliable things.
If one wanted to reach higher heights, the most important thing was to think and explore. While the automatic analysis system could help him skip this step, it was not a good thing for him.
Ye Chong recalled all the knowledge he had learned, and tried to connect the dots.
Shang was still spying on Rui Bing every day. This was one of his daily pastimes. His biggest regret was that there was no holographic camera in the bath area.
Ye Chong was still immersed in his research. No matter the situation, Ye Chong believed that Shang would react quickly. So he did not have to spend all his time on Grandpa Qian and the rest. Of course, this statement was immediately met with strong disdain from Shang, who called him a guy who didn't know how to appreciate the situation.
Almost everyone was curious about the Coxcomb. Until now, it did not seem to have any intention of leaving. Could it be that it was planning to escort the entire fleet? Everyone in the fleet was grateful to the mysterious Coxcomb. Without it, they would all be at the mercy of the pirates.
Fayde and Claudia had finally figured out the purpose of the route map sent by the Coxcomb. They quickly changed their original route and notified the entire fleet in the shortest time possible.
What puzzled Fayde and Claudia the most was that every time they requested to talk to the other party, there was no response at all. And the ship did not contact them anymore, only flying silently in the middle of the fleet.
Shang actually wanted to talk to them, since Claudia was also a beauty. Although in his opinion, she was far from being comparable to Bing Bing, she was still a rare beauty. Shang's interest in beautiful women was always the greatest. However, Ye Chong strongly objected to it. So Shang continued his daily life of spying.
Ye Chong looked at the bottle of reddish-purple solution on the table. His eyes that were usually calm showed a tinge of excitement. After all, this was his own work in alchemy. This highly corrosive liquid was named "Shang Water" by Ye Chong. It was much more corrosive than the Maiden's Creed. All the alloys Ye Chong had on hand could not withstand the corrosion of this liquid, even the alloy that was fused with black gold.
"Ye, why is my name in this thing?" Shang was curious.
"Oh, it has something to do with its full name," Ye Chong said plainly.
"Its full name? What's its full name? "Shang asked with great interest.
"Shang's saliva," Ye Chong answered succinctly.
"Ye, you are ruthless!" Shang gritted his teeth as he finished speaking. He was so angry that he fell on his back, his blue eyes blinking in a disorderly manner.
Ye Chong had no time to pay attention to Shang, who was on the verge of going berserk. He liked the name. To him, Shang's saliva was much more terrifying than this liquid.
Ye Chong seemed to be naturally sensitive to combat and weapons. The corrosive power of the Death Water was beyond his expectations, and it gave Ye Chong yet another terrifying weapon in his hands. Ye Chong made the shell of the auxiliary projectile with skeletons, and filled it with gaseous Shang Water. He also added a self-locking dart to the projectile, so that it could accurately lock onto the enemy. The projectile was also equipped with a micro engine that could adjust its direction automatically.
One had to admit that this was an extremely terrifying weapon. The shell of the projectile made of skeletons could hide the enemy's holographic scanning system. With the lock-on system and micro engine, it was a unique weapon for sneak attacks.
The corrosive bomb was highly praised by Shang, but at the same time, Ye Chong was robbed of the naming rights and named it "Beauty's Trust".
Ye Chong made Beauty's Creed like crazy every day. In Shang's words, it was a shame to have only a few dozen Beauty's Creed in such a huge warship! However, Ye Chong also felt that Beauty's Creed was a very effective weapon, and the amount was too little.
To be honest, Ye Chong felt sorry for the loss. After experimenting, he found that the quality of the skeletons used to make the shell had little effect on its overall performance. However, the skeletons he had were all rare, and it was too extravagant to use them to make the shell. However, since he could not find any better materials, Ye Chong could only choose the more common skeletons.
Shang even designed a launch tube for Beauty's Creed. Ye Chong was exhausted and had to get up again to modify Coxcomb. Fortunately, the modification of the launch tube was easy, and Ye Chong finished it quickly.
When Ye Chong counted the fruits of his labor, he was surprised. Without realizing it, he had made 260 Beauty's Creed.
Fid and Claudia were surprised. They were now very close to Csebesini, and would enter Csebesini Galaxy in about three days. For the rest of the journey, they actually didn't encounter any pirates, which made them feel very strange.
How could they know that the spread of news in the pirate world was much faster than the spread of general news? On the second day of the battle, almost all the pirates knew about a starship called Coxcomb. The starship not only had a sniper mech pilot who could single-handedly destroy 300 advanced mechs, but also a clown mech that could move in the dark. The pirate leader died under the clown mech's parrying spear, even though he was heavily surrounded.
The destruction of a pirate clan was not big news to the pirates, but the pirate clan that was destroyed this time was much stronger than the other pirate clans expected. And the most unbelievable thing was that such a powerful pirate group actually died in the hands of two people. Moreover, even the boss was publicly killed in front of everyone. The death of a boss would be regarded as a great humiliation in every pirate crew. His successor would always take revenge for the boss as their first goal, but none of the survivors of this pirate crew had ever talked about revenge. Whenever the clown mech and the terrifying blue ray of death were mentioned, the other pirates could even feel their former comrades trembling!
There was no need to provoke such a powerful person! This was the consensus of all the leaders of the pirate clans, and was why the rest of the journey was smooth sailing. As for the smaller groups of pirates, they did not dare to provoke such a large fleet.
Fid and Claudia did not know the reason behind this, but they were very happy now. The success of this mission would greatly increase the reputation and level of the two mech squads. It would also help them build up a good reputation among the civilians. Moreover, with the generous remuneration, the expansion of the two mech squads was only a matter of time.
Not far ahead was the last warp jump point of their journey. Once they passed through this warp jump point, they would enter Csebesini Galaxy. The current Csebesini Star Field was like a paradise among the five major star fields. Here, the government still exercised its authority, so the security here was the best among the Five Major Star Regions. The locals still lived peacefully, as if they were not affected by the flames of war.
During this period, many residents from other galaxies had migrated to Csebesini Galaxy, and this put a lot of pressure on the local government. However, the local government still tried their best to accommodate the migrants, and the government's practical attitude was praised by the migrants. The influx of a large number of people and the favorable environment allowed Csebesini Star Field to enter the track of rapid development during this period.
As long as they passed through the warp jump point, everything would be a success! Fid and Claudia looked at each other, and saw the excitement and joy in each other's eyes.
Just as everyone was cheering for their safe arrival, a black fleet suddenly appeared in the void not far away from the fleet.
"Report, a large civilian fleet has been spotted ahead."
"Hmm, looks like we're not that lucky. Order the Sixth and Seventh Warships to destroy all civilian ships, leave no survivors. The rest of the warships maintain their course, we need to reach the next warp jump point in 5 hours, "an emotionless voice said. After a pause, he continued, "Send Thorn as well."
"Yes sir!"
Soon, the last two warships of the fleet changed direction and headed towards the huge fleet.
Shang noticed the fleet immediately. Standing in front of the holographic screen, Ye Chong could not help but feel his scalp tingling when he saw the fleet. It was a fleet of 7 warships. Ye Chong recognized them as the Black Cove's warships at first glance from the shiny black hulls.
Heavens, a fleet! This was the most powerful force Ye Chong had ever seen. To Ye Chong, a warship was a large combat unit. He had encountered a few warships before, whether it was the MPA or the Sanctuary, it was always a single warship. However, what appeared before him was an entire fleet of warships!
The fleet did not notice anything, and Ye Chong remembered that their holographic scanning system could not detect the Black Cove's warships.
However, Shang was faster than Ye Chong, and quickly sent the message to Fid. Almost immediately, all the starships received the order to accelerate to the warp jump point ahead as fast as possible.
Coxcomb slowly flew out of the fleet, towards the two warships. Coxcomb's speed was too slow, and it was not suitable for escape. Instead of that, it was better to stay and fight, at least Grandpa Qian and the rest would have a higher chance of survival.
It was not that Ye Chong was sacrificing himself for the sake of others, but it was just the optimal result of his calculations.
Ye Chong exhaled forcefully, and calmed himself down. He knew that he would not be able to escape from 7 warships, but he was confident that he could drag one or two warships down with him.
This was the Coxcomb's first battle!
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