What was the situation?
The eldest prince saw the star thieves fading like a tide in the sky and couldn’t help rubbing his eyes.
What happened?
They were clearly about to win. Why did the Blood Dance star thieves run away?
He wasn’t a battlefield idiot. He might’ve never participated in any large-scale battles, but he watched the Genius Competition every day. Naturally, he didn’t think it was his mecha team that had defeated the star thieves.
However, it was even less likely that he would think a small civilian ship from Roland would scare the other party away. It was probably…
Something happened inside the star thieves?
Both the players on the spaceship and the audience watching the live broadcast looked at the scene in front of them blankly.
What happened to these star thieves?
Why did they suddenly retreat before victory?
The players’ perception of Roland’s military prowess was stuck in the closed beta stage, and the Starry Sky blowing up a spaceship of the Bewatt Empire—
Yes, they still thought it was a spaceship.
In fact, what the Starry Sky blew up at that time was a warship from the Bewatt Empire. It was only one of three.
Moreover, in the process of resisting the beast wave, Roland didn’t dispatch the Starry Sky. Therefore, the players were mistaken about the Starry Sky…
No, it must be a lack of knowledge.
Now watching the star thieves suddenly evacuate, no one thought that the star thieves were afraid.
However, that was right. They were afraid.
Yelena stood in front of the command podium. She was no longer in high spirits as she stared at the black spaceship flying into the sky from the port of the capital of Sigta.
There was deep apprehension and a bit of fear.
She would never be mistaken about this black spaceship.
On the way to Kechibal Star, the opponent’s firepower directly smashed a military warship into waste. It was so powerful that anyone who saw that scene would no longer be able to regard this black ship as an ordinary ‘civilian spaceship.’
At one point, she wanted to hook up with the person who modified this spaceship. Unfortunately, she didn’t catch up at the time. Later, they were wanted by the army of Kechibal Star for no apparent reason and she forgot about it.
It wasn’t until she successfully escaped capture and returned to Blood Dance’s headquarters that she saw a video from the defected members of Flaming Fox.
In that video, the black spaceship appeared again.
But this time, the black spaceship didn’t move. The one who really took action was the blond-haired man who emerged from the spaceship.
Just watching the video, Yelena felt it.
This was a real peerless powerhouse. Let alone her, even the top ten masters of Blood Dance combined might not be able to match this person.
She could only be thankful that it was Flaming Fox who offended that man. She also gloated over the fact that Flaming Fox had been robbed of their base.
However, she never expected that Blood Dance would one day encounter this black spaceship!
Moreover, the owner of the spaceship rejected the olive branch thrown by Blood Dance!
The moment she discovered the existence of the Starry Sky, Yelena immediately tried to get in touch with the spaceship. The mysterious black spaceship might’ve appeared on Sigta Star, but it wasn’t necessarily connected to Sigta Star.
As a result, after Xiao Wu asked Val for instructions, he not only refused but directly intercepted their information.
Val didn’t have the slightest fondness for the star thieves.
Let’s not talk about what they did on Sigta Star. Just talk about the time when she and Dr Ding Mingyu were kidnapped by Flaming Fox.
She couldn’t wake up, but she could actually sense what was happening in the outside world. The star thieves took her as a hostage and forced Old Ding to stay in the star thieves’ organization to work for them. She knew everything about it.
Val didn’t know how much that fool Ding Mingyu had suffered. He never told her, but he was already old. Even so, he had to follow the star thieves around and had no personal freedom.
This in itself was very painful and dangerous.
Due to this encounter, Val’s opinion of the star thieves dropped to the extreme. What’s more, they were now openly invading the friendly nation she planned to establish diplomatic relations with.
The minerals produced by Sigta Star were mainly used in space-related fields. For example, this special mineral was indispensable when it came to the jump function of the spaceship.
Of course, other planets also produced it. However, Sigta’s geographical location was relatively remote. Add the Interstellar Alliance’s help and Sigta could gain a foothold in the interstellar world without being annexed by other nations.
In Roland’s situation, it was naturally better to form an alliance with a small nation where they could gain enough respect, achieving mutual benefits and common development.
According to Val’s understanding of Sigta Star, it was rich in minerals but there was very little land suitable for agriculture. It had long relied on imported food.
As for Roland, what they weren’t lacking the most right now was food. There was even the interstellar beast meat with a super high nutritional value.
The establishment of diplomatic relations this time was related to whether Roland’s first interstellar trade could be achieved or not.
She had a huge sum of money on her and Snow had opened a small store on the Star Net, but did such a huge empire have to rely on the emperor to make money?
Val hoped to rely on the power of the people to develop Roland’s interstellar trade path. This would have huge benefits, no matter whether it was revitalizing the local economy or improving people’s living standards.
It wasn’t only the economy, but also education that needed to keep up.
Now that they had entered the interstellar age, countless civilizations in the universe were trying to adapt and face new challenges every day. She didn’t want Roland to rest on its laurels.
They were already far behind. If they didn’t catch up, how long would it take for their civilization to catch up with others?
Therefore, it could be said that Val attached great importance to this trip to Sigta.
Now this group of abominable star thieves was trying to destroy her plans!
Joan, who was standing beside Val, seemed to sense something. He couldn’t help looking up at her.
His mother felt… a bit different?
Val was staring at the evacuating star thieves in the sky, her purple eyes narrowing slightly.
“Xiao Wu,” she said. “I heard from Snow that you like fireworks very much?”
Joan blinked.
Fireworks? What was that?
The image of the little robot appeared on the light screen. He looked a bit shy and excited. “Yes, fireworks are very beautiful!”
Val nodded and clicked on a few targets on the light screen. “Let’s take a look at these flowers first?”
She selected a few ships of the Blood Dance group.
They were retreating while retrieving the released mechas.
There should be no unity within the star thieves. There were still a small number of star thieves who were slow to retreat, and were even fighting against the mechas of Sigta’s army.
“No problem!” Xiao Wu said with a bit of excitement.
Val nodded in approval. “Without further ado, don’t let them run away! Since they dare to come, let them never come back!”
“Yes!”
Xiao Wu’s emotions were aroused. He immediately carried out the order with great enthusiasm.
As a result, the Sigta people below and the onlookers saw the black spaceship, which had been leisurely just now, suddenly start to accelerate.
During the acceleration process, people watched as the originally ordinary spaceship opened all the splints and huge cannons of different calibers poked out from both sides of the spaceship.
Under the gaze of the people of Sigta, this little black sheep finally showed its fangs.
This fierce beast woke up and didn’t give the star thieves any chance to react. Almost in the next second, the muzzles of the cannons gathered their strength and fired.
A huge flame spurted out, destroying the troops in front of them except for the army of Sigta.
Boom boom!
This wasn’t out in space. The explosion in the sky was deafening. Along with this huge roar, ships with the star thieves’ flag turned into powder!
The large ships that Val targeted, including a warship, all turned into brilliant ‘fireworks’ that bloomed in the sky.
If Xu Sili was here, he would find that the Starry Sky’s firepower had increased again!
Below the battlefield, everyone’s jaws dropped in shock, including His Majesty Anta and Prince Uta.
Was this a civilian spaceship? Who were they joking?
Had they ever seen a civilian spaceship directly destroy a battleship? Had they ever seen a civilian spaceship move so fast despite having so many firepower systems installed?
Even the well-informed King Anta was stunned for a while before closing his mouth.
Then he looked at Prince Uta.
Even though his father didn’t say anything, Prince Uta still felt his contempt and quickly closed his mouth. However, he still couldn’t believe his eyes when looking at the performance of Roland’s spaceship.
Then he thought about what his father had said before. The money they spent to assist Roland wasn’t as much as what was spent on training the mecha team.
At that time, he felt that the two things weren’t comparable. Now when he saw that his side had lost nearly half of the mecha team in just half an hour, he realized…
These two things really couldn’t be compared!
In the sky, the star thieves who hadn’t retreated were also confused. They hadn’t taken Yelena’s warning seriously. Spitting out the fat that was about to reach their mouths?
Thus, their retreat had been reluctant. However…
D*mn!
What level of firepower was this? Their warships didn’t even have a chance to escape, and were directly bombarded to the point where nothing was left!
However, after all, they were a group of desperadoes. They didn’t feel sad and angry at the death of their companions, and immediately started to flee.
Driving a mecha could also pass through the atmosphere, but it consumed too much energy. They might run out of energy as soon as they left the planet, so they chose to escape to the ground.
After arriving in the city, they would kill a few civilians randomly to create chaos. Then they would take the opportunity to put away the mecha to remain anonymous for a while. This would allow them to be safe!
The five players on the Starry Sky were still in a state of shock and excitement from the explosion just now. After seeing the star thieves running away in all directions, they couldn’t help having guesses.
“They should be left for us, right?”
“Is the gameplay of the new map to catch star thieves?”
“It feels okay. They should drop mecha parts and then we can assemble a mecha!”
“Wow, that is great!”
However, what they didn’t know was that—
In the control room, Val looked at the star thieves running away in all directions and asked, “Xiao Wu, can you capture them all?”
“There are too many people and it is impossible to accurately predict everyone’s escape route,” Xiao Wu said in an embarrassed manner.
Val frowned. “We can’t let them get to the ground or the people on the ground will be in danger.”
The woman hesitated for a moment. She glanced at Joan beside her, before looking away and saying in a deep voice, “Switch to manual mode immediately!”
“I will help you. I’ll kill everyone I can!”
“Manual mode?” Xiao Wu was a bit surprised but did as Val said.
The control device of the spaceship’s firepower system rose from the control platform. Val chose the more traditional control lever, stared at the escaping star thieves and started shooting.
Val seemed to be a different person. Her original gentleness was no longer present. Her voice was solemn, and her operations were smooth and precise.
Bang, bang, bang!
Within her range, small fireworks soon exploded in the sky.
Xiao Wu never expected that Aunt Val would be so powerful! He felt that he couldn’t lose, so he set off fireworks even harder.
Joan, who had been staying by Val’s side, looked at the bad guys on the light screen who were killed by his mother one by one. Then he looked at his mother like she was radiating light.
He was a bit proud but also a bit lost.
At this moment, he suddenly missed his kitten. He wanted to hold his kitten and say, ‘Mom doesn’t seem to need my protection either QAQ.’
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