Chapter 41 Counterattack

Chapter 41 Counterattack

The mechs from behind were closing in, while the large spaceship ahead seemed to be panicking and taking any path available.

As Xiuzhu nervously maneuvered the spaceship, he loudly cursed Luo Ke Tang En as a madman.

Just then, the communication system crackled with static, indicating that the mechs from behind were trying to establish a connection, but the signal was intermittent due to the electromagnetic storm.

Curious, Xiuzhu still accepted the call.

Then he heard Luo Ke Tang En's familiar voice, slightly hoarse, "Stop... I need to inspect... no... I will... open fire..."

Though the message was broken up, Xiuzhu understood what he meant.

Xiuzhu sneered, "You can try. If you open fire, I'll kill Ji Jing."

Unfortunately, the communication on Luo Ke's end was also intermittent, only picking up words like "can," "fire," "I," and "kill."

Inside the Black Panther, Luo Ke narrowed his gray-green eyes. In the next instant, an energy cannon hit one of the spaceship's thrusters.

After wandering in space for so many days, Luo Ke's patience had been worn thin by the space pirates.

So now, when dealing with suspected pirate forces, he would simply use force if they did not comply.

In fact, he had not received Ji Jing's distress signal and did not know that Ji Jing was on this spaceship.

He only noticed the spaceship acting suspiciously and running upon seeing him. His professional instincts told him something was wrong with the ship, so he followed it.

With the thruster damaged, the spaceship lost balance and scraped against a large asteroid, leaving a long gash on its surface due to the high relative speed.

Although only the outer protective shield was breached, the spaceship's alarms sounded like death calls.

Looking back at the black mech, it had activated its collision shield and moved with extreme agility, unaffected by the spaceship's erratic movements, almost as if the spaceship was clearing the way for it.

Xiuzhu was furious.

He called over two trusted assistants, handed the controls to one, and ordered the other to operate the firepower system, instructing them to fire at the mech behind without hesitation.

Then, Xiuzhu stormed towards the cargo bay, intending to drag out Ji Jing to threaten Luo Ke Tang En.

He wanted to make the Sword of the Empire fall here in this star system!

To ensure Luo Ke Tang En's body would remain among the asteroids, never returning to his homeland!

Thinking this, a cruel and exhilarated smile appeared on Xiuzhu's face.

But before the smile lasted three seconds, he nearly stumbled.

His subordinates' piloting skills were clearly inferior to his own. The spaceship must have collided with another asteroid, causing a loud thud followed by violent shaking.

While the spaceship kept firing at the Black Panther, it never managed to hit the agile mech.

It could be said that compared to the massive spaceship, the mech was too nimble to dodge, especially when controlled by Luo Ke Tang En.

However, due to the spaceship's ample firepower, the mech had to maintain some distance, not closing in as closely as before.

Inside the spaceship, Xiuzhu held onto the wall, slowly making his way to the cargo bay door amidst the shaking.

After using his palm print to open the door, he saw the escape pod, which was now wrapped tightly in a capture net, rolling back and forth due to the shaking but protected from severe impacts.

Suddenly, the spaceship tilted forward, and Xiuzhu quickly grabbed the door frame to prevent himself from falling back into the corridor.

The "cocoon" in the corner rolled towards him due to the tilt.

Xiuzhu: ...

Fortunately, Xiuzhu quickly closed the cargo bay door, preventing the escape pod from rolling into the corridor.

Once the spaceship regained stability, Xiuzhu breathed a sigh of relief and approached to untangle the capture net around the escape pod.

The material used to make the capture net was incredibly strong, even knives couldn't cut through it, unless burned.

Since Xiuzhu intended to use Ji Jing to threaten Luo Ke Tang En, he couldn't burn the net and had to patiently untie it.

Unfortunately, the environment inside the spaceship was unstable, with constant shaking and tilting.

If not for Xiuzhu's 3S physique, he would have been flattened by the rolling escape pod or fallen hard.

After about ten minutes of struggling, Xiuzhu finally managed to peel away the layers of the capture net from the escape pod.

Fortunately, Ji Jing was still lying inside, seemingly unconscious.

Xiuzhu's lips curled up as he reached to open Ji Jing's escape pod and dialed the spaceship's internal line with his optical brain.

"Connect me to the mech's video communication," he instructed the control room personnel.

Despite the electromagnetic storm, the internal line was stable and clear. As instructed, the personnel fired at the mech while sending a video communication request.

The video call connected, but the image was blurry. Simultaneously, another energy blast from the mech arrived.

Another thruster was damaged, causing the spaceship to shake more violently and slowing its progress significantly.

This large spaceship had six thrusters, and now one-third of them were damaged.

Xiuzhu's roar echoed throughout the cargo bay and the communication channel, "Damn you, mad dog! Do this again, and I swear I'll kill Ji Jing!"

He did not mention Luo Ke Tang En's name, perhaps instinctively not wanting Ji Jing to hear it.

At this moment, the escape pod's hatch was already open. Ask Xiuzhu cursed as he reached out to strangle the unconscious Ji Jing.

But just then, the young man's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and a flash of purple light flickered in his originally black pupils.

Ask Xiuzhu felt his mind go blank, and he became momentarily dazed.

It wasn't until he felt a sharp pain in his neck that he snapped back to reality.

Then he was shocked by the scene before him—

The launch port was slowly opening, and he found himself pinned down by Ji Jing, who...

had grown a pair of black curved horns on his head, a slender tail behind him, and a pair of black wings.

The tail was wrapped around Ask Xiuzhu's neck, and the bones of the wings were stained with blood.

That was from when Ji Jing had used the bone tips of his wings to cut Ask Xiuzhu's throat.

Unfortunately, Ask Xiuzhu, being a 3S physique, didn't seem to die so easily.

However...

Ji Jing gave him a gentle smile, his face like a blooming flower, "Good luck!"

As he spoke, he retracted his wings and tail and lay back into the escape pod.

The moment the escape pod's hatch closed, the launch port fully opened.

The air in the entire carrier pod was instantly sucked out, creating a semi-open vacuum environment.

The escape pod slowly slid out of the launch port, and Ji Jing inside waved at Ask Xiuzhu and blew him a kiss.

—Goodbye, you sick freak!

If cutting your throat couldn't kill you, what about a vacuum environment?