The players all activated the filter of their armor, making them immune to the poison gas. They looked at Han Xiao and waited for orders.
"That captain used his authority to lock onto the spaceship's navigation system. I'll hack into the spaceship's system and change the route. You guys blow up the alloy door. Some of you go to the main engine room and insert this chip. The rest of you, capture Sylvia and her accomplices."
Han Xiao opened his palm. With a flash of lightning, a black chip flew out of his pocket.
"Understood."
Herlous nodded, put away the chip, and swung the Battleship Slicing Blade. Flames gushed out, and the blade hit the alloy door. With an ear-piercing sound of tearing steel, a hole was cut open. Dozens of armored players raised their guns and fired. The alloy door was soon riddled with holes and collapsed.
In the poison gas, everyone walked out of the main control room. In front of them was another locked alloy door. The people who were separated earlier were all trapped in the middle of the passage. Many of them were poisoned, and their lives were hanging by a thread. Dekker was among them, but Sylvia had disappeared.
The players took out gas masks and put them on these people. Dekker was barely breathing. After catching his breath, he burst into tears.
"I-I was forced. That girl used my family to threaten me and forced me to cooperate with her. I really had no choice. I'm sorry, I'm sorry …"
"Cut the crap. Where's Sylvia?" Herlous asked.
"She's the accomplice of that captain. She used her authority to open the alloy door and ran away, leaving us here."
Bang!
Herlous slapped Dekker until he fainted. "Tie him up. The captain might want to question him later."
Gunshots rang out. Everyone used brute force to break through the alloy doors. They were not slow at all. Sylvia had turned the spaceship into a trap, but the spaceship itself could not trap them. This was the difference in strength.
Han Xiao guessed that Sylvia's next move was to be the first to reach the escape capsule and escape before the hyperdrive. At the same time, she released all the emergency escape capsules and trapped everyone on the spaceship. However, he was a Mechanic, so he could seize control of the spaceship. This was the loophole in Sylvia's plan.
Opening up the spaceship's system, Han Xiao's fingers flew like they were a blur as he keyed in countless codes. Very soon, he had infiltrated the system's backend and was met with resistance from the alarm system. In the past nine months, he had purchased some new advanced knowledge, such as the advanced artificial intelligence technology, which made up for the shortcomings of the network technology. That black chip was an even more powerful auxiliary artificial intelligence. After it was inserted into the mainframe, the speed of cracking the system would be doubled.
Alarms buzzed and the ship's systems echoed.
"System intrusion detected! Please stop your actions immediately! "
Because of the limited time, Han Xiao did not go around the alarm and chose to use brute force to solve it.
"Hmm … the thirteenth generation network firewall of the tak series, the forty-seven bit algorithm of the 'silver light' sequence, randomly generated password wall. Quite advanced." Han Xiao did not stop. As he hacked, he said, "It will take about five minutes to break through this system, but there are still two minutes before the hyperdrive mode. Sylvia will be taken away in the escape capsule before then. Aroshia, go and catch her."
Hearing this, Aroshia turned into energy and left through the wall. Metal walls were meaningless to her. Only energy barriers could stop her from going through walls.
Everyone started to move. Han Xiao stayed in the main control room and focused on cracking the system.
…
"Damn it, how did I get exposed? How did Black Star know me?"
Hurried footsteps echoed in the bridge. Sylvia hurriedly ran, using the captain's authority to open alloy doors one after another, and closed them after she passed through.
The gunshots in the distance were getting clearer and clearer, like the sound of a death knell. It meant that she did not have much time left. Once a direct confrontation occurred, she would not be able to fight back.
It was a race against time. Sylvia did not dare to stop. The moist heat was squeezed out by her constricted lungs again and again. She ran until she was out of breath.
In order to complete the trap, she used all her savings to hire a freelance assassin. She also found out about Han Xiao's whereabouts through the intelligence network of an organization. Sylvia knew very well that she was too weak. If she wanted to deal with the Black Star Mercenary, she could only rely on such schemes. She originally wanted to turn this spaceship into Black Star's grave … Unfortunately, she could only try to protect herself now.
Do you regret it?
A voice echoed in her heart. Sylvia bit her lips.
Many images appeared in her mind. Her father's doting eyes, happy memories from her childhood, seemed to be plated with a layer of warmth.
However, the image shattered like a mirror, and the flames engulfed these memories. The mercenaries descended from the sky and scattered the flames, destroying everything. If his father had not sent her away in advance, he would have died tragically under the rain of bullets.
After the mercenaries surrounded her, her father was sent to prison. She had been through many hardships for a long time before she could return to her father's stronghold. Her father's stronghold was like a home to her, but now there were only charred ruins left.
She still remembered that when she was young, she liked to hide under the shade of an old tree and spend lazy afternoons. However, that tree had been burned to ashes, emitting an unpleasant smell. The once dense shade of the tree was only left with bare black branches.
Every time she thought of this, an uncontrollable anger would ignite, burning her nerves and making her lose her rationality.
In order to take revenge on this group of mercenaries, it's worth the danger! Sylvia gritted her teeth.
Soon, she arrived at the escape pod. There were more than ten emergency escape pods inside.
The captain had just arrived from the other side and complained, "You didn't tell me there would be such a big risk. I want to increase the reward."
The turbulence of the spaceship became more and more obvious. Once the spaceship entered the hyperdrive state, it would be impossible to use the escape pod unless they wanted to be torn to pieces together with the escape pod. Sylvia hurriedly pulled down the manual latch of the escape pod. In the sound of the airflow, the extra escape pods were released, leaving only the last two.
Just as the two were about to enter, a golden light lit up behind them. Aroshia, in her light form, had passed through the wall and arrived just in time.
"Let's go!"
Sylvia gritted her teeth. Just as she was about to enter the escape pod, the captain suddenly pushed her from behind and threw her towards Aroshia.
In this critical moment, he did not care that Sylvia was his employer. He wanted to use this to buy time.
In mid-air, Sylvia turned around in shock. She did not expect the captain to betray her so suddenly.
Hum!
A ring of energy spread out. Sylvia was sent flying before she hit Aroshia. She slammed into the wall and fell to the side, her expression twisted in pain.
Aroshia straightened her arm, and her forearm turned into a golden energy wave. She swept it like a whip, and the shells of the two escape pods were melted, leaving behind a red hole. It was obvious that they could not be used anymore.
The captain's expression changed drastically.
Boom!
The alloy door collapsed. Herlous and the other players arrived and surrounded the two.
At the same time, the spaceship suddenly shook and entered hyperdrive.
"It's over …"
Sylvia closed her eyes in despair.
…
The poisonous gas slowly dissipated, and the locked alloy doors opened one after another. The spaceship stopped its hyperdrive and floated quietly in space.
Breaking through the spaceship's system was only a matter of time for Han Xiao. After controlling Sylvia, he did not feel any pressure and easily took over the captain's authority.
At this time, the entire spaceship was under his control. He canceled the navigation to the Star, and the crisis was naturally resolved.
Sylvia felt that her plan was fatal. In reality, it was not much of a threat to the current Black Star Mercenary. With the mercenary group's strength, it was enough to break through the situation. Han Technician did not panic at all. Sylvia was still too young and inexperienced at this time. It would not be so easy for him to screw up.
The interface notified them that the mission was completed, and they received 1,200,000 EXP. The players were elated.
The matter came to an end. All the crew members were gathered in the cabin hall, surrounded by mercenaries with guns aimed at them. In the middle were Sylvia, Dekker, and the captain, all tied up tightly.
Han Xiao sat on the sofa with his elbows on his knees. His upper body leaned forward, and he slowly scanned the three of them. His aura was like a dragon crouching down, and it was very oppressive. It was like a three-way interrogation. The crew members and the workers present did not even dare to breathe loudly, even if they were not the targets of the interrogation.
Dekker hurriedly explained the situation. A few days ago, the Terrell Group had prepared the resources for Floating Dragon and confirmed that he was in charge of the handover. After that, he was found by Sylvia and forced to cooperate.
"For you to be able to know our whereabouts, there must be other organizations helping you behind the scenes. You're just a little girl. You don't have such a huge intelligence network." Han Xiao was expressionless. "Furthermore, you were able to bribe the captain to take the risk to deal with a mercenary group. You must have relied on the power of that organization …"
Sylvia stared at Han Xiao with a stubborn face. It was as if she had made up her mind not to say anything and was not willing to lower her head in front of her enemy.
Bang!
A gunshot suddenly sounded.
Green smoke curled up from the muzzle.
Spots of blood splattered all over Sylvia's delicate face. Her body trembled, and she turned around to look.
She saw that there was a bloody hole in the captain's head. The shocked expression froze on his face, and he slowly collapsed. The pool of blood slowly expanded.
The captain had thought that Han Xiao would interrogate him and was still thinking about what to say in order to save his life. However, Han Xiao was not interested in him at all and directly gave him a bullet.
His eyes were wide open, filled with unwillingness.
The corpse suddenly changed shape and turned into another man. This was the Esper Ability of Disguise, which was especially suitable for infiltration. Herlous' eyes sparkled. "I guessed correctly. There is indeed an Esper with the Disguise Ability."
Seeing this, Han Xiao immediately guessed what had happened. "Looks like the original captain died a long time ago and was replaced by this person with the ability to disguise himself. He's an assassin hired by you. The one who poisoned the wine should also be him."
Sylvia bit her lower lip and turned her head away to not look at the corpse. Even though she was still stubborn, her body could not help but tremble, and her eyes were filled with undetectable moisture.
Only when faced with the fear of death did she behave like a young girl.
"You … You should kill me too!"
Sylvia closed her eyes and tried her best to put on an expression as if she was not afraid of death.
"I don't object to that."
Han Xiao did not comment. The hot muzzle pressed against Sylvia's fair and smooth face. Through the muzzle, he could clearly feel that Sylvia was trembling more and more violently.
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