Everyone knew that the asteroid belt was dangerous. Plus, there were some magnetic field disturbances here that increased the difficulty of flight. Therefore, most people would slow down after entering the asteroid belt to ensure their safety. However, right now, the pursuit in the asteroid belt was incomparably crazy.
Shattered asteroid fragments shot out in all directions like cannonballs, and the occasional shockwave would shatter and shatter everything within its area of effect. Many aircrafts were caught in the shockwave and destroyed indiscriminately. However, this did not cause the pursuers to stop or retreat. They kept on chasing after the spaceplane in front of them.
"Can we go any faster?!" Knight looked at the aircrafts that were chasing closely behind them on the screen. It looked like they were really going all out. The hardest people to deal with in this world were lunatics, lunatics who didn't care about their lives.
"No, we're still in the asteroid belt after all, and the magnetic field and disturbances around us are too troublesome. Add to that the spaceplane's size, this speed is already reaching its limit. If we increase our speed any further, we won't be able to guarantee our safety. If we crash into those asteroids, even if it's just a slight graze, the people behind us will seize the opportunity and destroy the spaceplane." Ci Jincheng said solemnly.
They were all anxious. They had obtained the vaccines for the eighty-six viruses, but it wasn't easy to leave this place safely. After all, that planet was in the asteroid belt. Even leaving was troublesome, and they couldn't enter warp speed under these circumstances. It really wasn't easy to shake off the pursuers behind them.
Kang Man was sweating profusely. Although Knight and Pride were currently assisting with piloting, his thoughts were highly focused right now in order to avoid wave after wave of increasingly concentrated shockwaves and cannon fire, as well as the scattered fragments and asteroids in front of them. The enormous amount of calculation in his brain and the control of his hands had reached their limits. Although he was tired and exhausted, he couldn't switch out now. This wasn't the time, any mistake would cause all of his previous efforts to go to waste.
Silin opened the detailed star map of the asteroid belt, looked at the distance between their current location and the edge of the asteroid belt, and then looked at the pursuers behind them. He turned around and said to Ci Jincheng and the others, "If we don't consider avoiding the enemy's cannons and shockwaves, and increase our speed by half, do you have the confidence to avoid the asteroids?"
Ci Jincheng thought for a moment, "Yes."
"We can!" Knight answered without turning his head.
Pride's reply was the same.
"That's good." Silin took off the thick protective suit and prepared to leave the control room.
"Hey, where are you going?" Feng Haicao stopped Silin and asked.
"Create some trouble for those people behind us. We're almost at the edge now, but looking at the behavior of those people in the base, I reckon that there will be a large-scale explosion next. At that time, it'll be difficult to avoid it."
"Cause trouble? Right now, those fellows are rushing over here as if they're not afraid of death, and there are so many of them … "As he spoke, Feng Haicao suddenly paused and looked at Silin in shock." Don't tell me you're going to go out alone to cover their retreat? "
Silin looked at his idiotic expression and replied, "I'm not that noble."
With that, Silin walked out.
"Hey, Silin, are you confident? Do you need help? "Long called out.
Silin did not turn around. He made a "don't worry" gesture.
"What is that guy planning to do?" The other people in the control room asked.
"I don't know, Czedow. Do you know what that kid Silin is planning to do?" Long looked at Czedow.
Czedow looked up and calmly swept his gaze across the people around him. Then, he took out a book and fell silent.
Everyone: "..."
Silin walked toward the exit. By the time he got close to the exit, his body was already covered in armor.
"Turn off the protective shield," Silin said into the communicator.
After the aircraft's protective shield was turned off, the hatch opened. Silin flipped over and held onto the aircraft's outer shell tightly to prevent himself from being thrown out. The exit was above the aircraft at a forty-five degree angle. Right now, Silin was stuck to this inclined surface.
"Hey, Silin, are you okay? Do you want to slow down?" Knight asked from the communicator.
"No need. Just stay in your previous state."
Silin stuck close to the aircraft's outer shell and slowly flipped over to face the pursuers behind him. With a shake of his hand, a cannon appeared in his hand.
Some of the asteroid fragments created by the shockwave bomb had hit the aircraft's surface. Since the protective shield had been turned off, a couple of holes had been created. A fist-sized fragment smashed half a meter away from Cillin. Looking at the crater it created, if it had hit a person, even if they were wearing protective clothing or armor, they would at best be left half-dead.
The shockwave wouldn't stop, and the aircraft couldn't lock onto its target even if it was fast enough. This was also why the people on the aircraft didn't bother to shoot.
Silin held the cannon in his hand and searched for the best spot to use it.
The aircraft traversing through the asteroid belt would sway slightly from time to time due to the debris caused by the shockwave. Its surface was already full of holes. Fortunately, the aircraft's quality was reliable. So far, it was only a few 'superficial wounds'. On the other hand, Cillin, who was holding the cannon barrel, did not seem to care about his surroundings at all. Even when the fragments collided with him a few times, or when he avoided an asteroid in front of him, Cillin did not seem to care about any of this. He did not even think about it. Right now, in his eyes, there were only the fighter aircrafts that were chasing after him, and the asteroids that were randomly distributed around him.
Now's the time!
A white net that seemed to be weaved out of lightning spread out from here. There wasn't just one. Three large 'nets' were spread out from three different directions. After shooting, Silin immediately entered the hatch.
"I'll leave it to you guys!" Silin lay on the ground outside the hatch and said to the people in the control room on the other end of the communicator.
Kang Man and the others who were piloting the aircraft didn't have much energy to pay attention to what was happening right now. They only knew that there was a powerful force coming from behind, and it was very destructive.
Lung and the others who weren't piloting the aircraft could clearly see that the white 'lightning' weaved into a giant net, slicing the asteroids and the pursuing aircrafts into pieces. Every collision would result in an explosion of energy. When these energies were stacked together, it was like a huge bomb. The stacked and strengthened explosion spread out in all directions. The asteroids were blown to smithereens, and the aircrafts within the explosion range were no longer visible. They disappeared in the explosion and turned into cosmic dust.
After Silin entered the hatch, the aircraft's protective shield was activated again.
The aircraft shook even more violently, but it didn't slow down. Pushed by the explosion, the aircraft's speed instantly increased. The people piloting the aircraft felt their adrenaline soar to the limit.
It wasn't just the people piloting the aircraft. Even Lung and the others who were watching from the side felt suffocated by the tension. There were a couple of moments when the aircraft almost brushed past a couple of asteroids. They didn't even have the time to catch their breath before the 'almost collided' situation happened again and again.
Lying at the hatch entrance, Silin didn't get up. Last time, his entire arm was almost crippled after firing a single shot, but now he had fired three shots in one go. His entire arm was numb and numb, and his entire body was overwhelmed by intense exhaustion.
Cillin decided that he might as well lie on the ground and rest for a bit. Even if Kang Man, Knight, and the others were too busy, Czedow and the White Spirit were still helping them from the shadows. If even they couldn't hold on together, then they had no choice but to resign themselves to fate.
Silin closed his eyes and counted the time. The moment Silin opened his eyes, the aircraft had exited the asteroid belt, entered warp speed and left this place.
It was only now that everyone began to breathe carefully. Their nerves were too tense just now, so much so that they couldn't even breathe properly. They could hear their own hearts pounding and their veins pressing against their blood, and they were still a little dazed.
As for the people piloting the aircraft just now, their arms were shaking.
"What the … fuck! That scared the hell out of me! "
Knight lay on the chair and stopped looking at the control panel. After the aircraft entered warp speed and set up autopilot, Feng Haicao and the others came over to take over the control panel.
Judging from the current situation, the people behind them hadn't caught up to them yet.
Lung pinched his arm. Thank goodness I'm still alive. I didn't crash into those asteroids and end up as a decoration for the stars.
"Hey, Silin, are you alright?" It was only now that everyone had the chance to pay attention to Silin. It was because Silin hadn't entered the control room yet.
"I'm alright." Silin had already taken off his armor and staggered inside, "I'm going to rest for a bit."
The box containing the vaccine had been stored away by Ci Jincheng. Those instruments were also beginning to analyze the vaccine and create more vaccines based on it.
"Are you really alright?"
"I'm fine." Silin walked into his own lounge, "Call me if there's anything urgent."
"Mn, rest well."
Right now, Knight and the others were tired as well. They really needed a break. After enduring the particle storm head-on and going through this stressful event, everyone needed rest and self-recovery.
After Silin entered the lounge, Huimao crawled out of Mengchi Aro's' cloak 'and signaled Mengchi Aro to go to Silin's lounge. Mengchi Aro didn't say anything and walked in the direction Huimao pointed.
When they arrived at the entrance of Silin's lounge, Huimao hopped off and asked Mengchi Aro to sit beside him for a while. It then entered Silin's lounge by itself.
Silin sat by the bed instead of lying down to rest. It seemed to be waiting for Huimao.
Huimao looked at Silin and jumped onto the bed after making sure that Silin wasn't heavily injured.
"Is that thing done?" Silin asked.
"Yes, it's done." Huimao opened his mouth and spat out a transparent liquid container that was 30 centimeters tall.
There was an object the size of an egg in the transparent liquid container. It was moving as if it was going to come out.
Cillin opened the can of liquid, and the thing inside came out and climbed up Cillin's outstretched palm.
Silin smiled as he looked at the thing in his hand.
"Is this thing really useful? It doesn't look like the Nightmare Tapir. Isn't the Nightmare Tapir very small? This thing is too big, "Huimao commented on the thing that crawled out of the liquid container.
The reason Wheeze didn't participate in the operation this time was because Cillin had given it a mission. Certain conditions were needed for the thing inside the liquid tank to grow, but those conditions were too harsh. In fact, a single violent shake might cause the thing to stop growing. Therefore, Cillin had given the liquid tank to Wheeze. Therefore, the gray cat began its "incubating" life for a period of time. It nested peacefully inside Mengi Aro's "cloak" and slept.
Fortunately, the thing grew very fast. It grew from a tiny grain that was barely visible to the naked eye to its current size in such a short time.
Silin took a good look at the thing in his hand quietly. In terms of size, there was indeed a huge difference between it and the Nightmare Tapir. However, it looked 80% similar to the Nightmare Tapir in terms of appearance. Moreover, its genes were more than 99% similar. After all, it was the Nightmare Tapir that was born from it.
Yes, the thing in Silin's hand was all sorts of genetic information that Silin decoded based on Chamounidin's records. After connecting it with the information that he obtained today, it was the ancestor of the man-made Nightmare Tapir. In other words, it was the so-called primordial before it was modified by the virus.
This primordial body could help Cillin locate the Dream Tapir. No matter if it was the Dream Tapir's mother, the Dream Tapir's offspring, or even the Dream Tapirs that had been split into a few generations, it could sense them as long as they were within a certain range.
Silin named this primordial Emperor.
The primordial being called "Emperor" stayed in Cillin's hand for a while. Then, it followed Cillin's order and burrowed into Cillin's palm. The protruding skin gradually subsided, and it was impossible to tell that a thing the size of an egg had just entered his palm.
Due to the Nightmare Tapir's tiny size, it was difficult to catch them. According to the information that they had gathered earlier, it took them a lot of effort to catch the Nightmare Tapir that had split from its offspring. He could only control the virus after he had the Nightmare Tapir under control. If the virus didn't work, then he could only rely on the Nightmare Tapir.
While Silin was thinking, he noticed that Huimao had suddenly quietened down beside him. He looked over and saw that the cat was propping up its ears. The fur on its ears was trembling, and it was obviously eavesdropping on something. Moreover, it looked more and more impatient with disdain and contempt. It was probably something bad.
As expected, it didn't take long before Ci Jincheng contacted Silin to discuss some matters with him.
Everyone was gathered in the control room. Just now, Ci Jincheng had told them the new news he had received. Communication had become much smoother after they left the asteroid belt, and they were in a hurry to contact the army they were in for support. Knight, Pride and the others had their own channels of understanding as well. They didn't need Ci Jincheng's additional explanation.
According to the news Ci Jincheng had just received, his father had asked him to hurry to Sector J's planet, J-C335. Something had happened there. It was said that senior senator Besor had been infected with more than one virus there.
Ci Jincheng wasn't the only one. Knight and Pride had also received the same order when they contacted their fathers. The main reason they were worried about Besor was because they wanted to obtain Besor's support. This was because Besor had always been a famous neutral party in the League of Stars's political scene. If they could obtain Besor's support at a time like this and make him owe them a favor, they believed that they would be able to obtain Besor's vote in the future.
The army never separated from politics. Although it looked like the eight corps were the ones causing the most trouble right now, the few big families in the political scene were secretly making big moves as well. It was just that they were keeping a lower profile compared to the army. The power and ability in their hands couldn't be ignored, and the more support they received in the division of power in the future, the higher their chances of success would be.
They finally had an opportunity like Besor and it just so happened that Ci Jincheng and the others had obtained another set of vaccines at this time. Not only that, on the day before they contacted their families, a research team had obtained 62 types of vaccines while they were researching the descendant 'Nightmare Tapir' that they had captured after much difficulty. Although there were a few overlaps with the vaccines Ci Jincheng and the others obtained, this was undoubtedly a great chance and a great hope.
Double insurance!
Knight, Ci Jincheng, Pride and the others were in an alliance with each other. Therefore, if they could obtain Besor's support at this time, their alliance would undoubtedly become even stronger.
Right now, the vaccine they obtained had sent the analyzed information to all parties, and they could synthesize the vaccines based on this information. The cure and prevention operation had begun, and just like the politicians were clamoring for, the counterattack against the 'Nightmare Tapir' had begun. After that, they would have to rely on their own abilities to get support.
There were still a few other important suspected bases on the star map they obtained from Monchiaro, but Ci Jincheng and the others had already contacted their own army. Naturally, there would be people taking action. What they needed to do now was to use this set of vaccines to save Besor, and hope that the virus Besor was infected with would be within the range of the vaccine's effects.
"Someone from planet J-C335 has arrived to receive us. After all, the equipment on the spaceplane isn't complete, and the analysis information is limited. If we want to understand the virus better, we'll have to start with this set of vaccines for more detailed information. The person receiving us will take a part of this vaccine for analysis and research, and the other part will be used for rescue. Of course, the first person to be rescued is that old man Besor," said Knight. He was also explaining to everyone the reason behind their actions.
To be honest, Knight did not have a good impression of Besor at all. In the political scene, people like Besor were either conservatives or cowards if they were to put it nicely. He had never participated in the competition of those big interest groups, and he even abstained during the voting on the 'miracle'.
He abstained twenty years ago, and he abstained again this time. Knight felt like he had swallowed a fly in his heart when he realized that he had to save a person like this first to obtain the vaccines he had gone to great lengths to obtain.
"Sector J? That place seems to be a heavily infected zone right now. " Lung frowned and drummed his fingers on the table. He didn't look as sloppy as he usually did, and he looked a little quiet.
"Right now, almost all of the trade zones are heavily infected zones. However, the ones infected are basically the civilians. Those with some power have armed their own territories and guarded them with three layers of defense." Kang Man's eyelids were drooping, and his voice was low and emotionless. However, his words sounded very resentful.
Even if everyone was unwilling, Besor's priority in assigning positions to the committee as a senior senator was enough to move everyone's hearts. It was no wonder that Ci Jincheng and his family had asked them to hurry over and rescue him, afraid that someone else would beat them to it.
Silin sat on his seat and listened to their conversation. He rubbed his palm and said, "Then let's go."
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