VCRMM: Chapter 413

In the vast sea of stars, an ordinary-looking spaceship was sailing alone.

This was a remote route that few people traveled through.

There were no habitable planets nearby, so they would need to take a long detour to go to any nation.

Moreover, this route was surrounded by asteroid belts, making it difficult to navigate and prone to accidents. Only experienced captains could guarantee safe passage, so it was naturally excluded from ordinary fleets engaged in interstellar travel.

However, this type of route was very popular among interstellar star thieves.

The ordinary spaceship sailing on this route was naturally a modified one belonging to Blood Dance. It was well disguised, but when traveling outside, star thieves generally didn’t take the main route to join in the fun.

After suffering a great loss at the hands of Roland’s tour group, the Blood Dance group became more cautious. They had been circling through remote routes for the past three months and didn’t return to the base immediately.

The people of Blood Dance didn’t know that the Flaming Fox base was also destroyed by Roland, but the bases of two major star thief organizations were lost and one of them completely wiped out. This made them much more cautious and vigilant than before.

Blood Dance had traveled this route many times. The captain was experienced and wasn’t worried about the danger of the asteroid belt. On the contrary, the complex terrain here could help them shake off possible tracking.

Of course, the traitor was actually on the ship the whole time. No matter how roundabout the route, they couldn’t get rid of the traitor.

But today, they encountered an accident on this route.

After successfully passing an asteroid belt, the detection system discovered a suspicious black fog appearing right in front of the channel.

The light in the universe was dim, but it wasn’t completely dark. However, the black fog was like a black hole, dyeing the area completely black. The edges were still wriggling and spreading in all directions.

The captain of Blood Dance wasn’t careless and ordered the pilot to carefully bypass the black fog.

There were all types of strange creatures in the universe. There were many mysterious phenomena that science couldn’t explain so far. When facing the unknown, the best way was to stay away from it.

However, they couldn’t escape this time.

Once Blood Dance’s spaceship circled far away from the black fog, the star thieves in the control room sighed with relief, thinking that the matter was over.

However, they didn’t notice that when the spaceship deviated from its original course, a small black insect flew out from a piece of rubble that the spaceship passed by and landed on the tail of the spaceship.

The little bug was directly exposed to the complete vacuum of the universe, but it wasn’t affected at all. It was even full of energy. Its pair of sharp mouthparts forcefully pierced the spaceship.

The materials used in Blood Dance’s modified spaceship could withstand artillery bombardment, but it was easily broken open by the mouthparts of this little bug.

After biting into the metal shell of the spaceship, the black bug’s tail vibrated violently as if sending some type of signal.

The black fog, so thick that no light could be seen, seemed to have suddenly discovered its target and quickly drifted to this side.

The originally clumped up black fog slowly turned into a black belt and its movement speed was also increasing.

The detection system of the Blood Dance spaceship quickly discovered the abnormality. The pilot in the control room finally saw what the black thing was.

It turned out to be a swarm of countless black insects!

The area wasn’t large, but judging by the number, there were definitely tens of thousands of them. They were moving very quickly!

Once the detection system discovered something was wrong, it was too late. Blood Dance’s spaceship was bitten by these black bugs before it could enter the jump state.

In less than a minute, the tail cabin was damaged. It was very dangerous to do a space jump in this state, so the spaceship had to give up.

“What are these?”

As they watched the surveillance camera in the tail cabin, the captain quickly sounded the alarm and asked the star thieves to go forward to eliminate the bugs.

The tail cabin was usually where cargo was stored. It had a device to isolate it from the ship, so even if it was damaged, it wouldn’t have too much of an impact. The bad thing was that the power room was right next to the tail cabin.

Once the power went out, they could either abandon the ship and escape, or wait and ask for support from headquarters. Both of them were very dangerous to the star thieves.

In the surveillance footage, black bugs were seen crawling in from the hole, frantically gnawing at everything they encountered. The hole in the hull was rapidly getting bigger.

The star thieves waiting nearby had arrived, but just as they were getting close and before they could take any action, the bugs originally gnawing at the hull flew toward the star thieves in front.

They were star thieves with rich combat experience. Even though they were caught off guard, they made the correct response.

Before coming in, a star thief activated the protective shield and his entire body was covered in a layer of transparent light. The bugs that bit the light shield were electrocuted and their movements became slow for a while.

However, this didn’t stop the other bugs.

The star thief was quickly surrounded by dense black bugs, and his movements became extremely difficult. He couldn’t even move.

Once the defensive shield failed, the fate of this star thief could be imagined. The entire cabin was filled with the sound of bugs and the star thief’s terrified cries for help.

However, his companion who was one step behind was also unable to take care of himself. Faced with so many bugs, ordinary laser guns were completely useless. Despite his strength, he couldn’t stop the bugs from attacking him.

Fortunately, thanks to the captain’s command, the subsequent star thieves drove the micro mechas, covering their bodies in metal shells. Then they sprayed extremely high-temperature flames at the bugs.

Under this offensive, the swarm of black bugs was finally stabilized.

Luoye Ranchen, who was hiding in the metal wall and watching, felt his head tingling.

“F*k, I’m going to throw up. These bugs are too unfriendly to those with trypophobia, right?”

As for his teammate, Wutui Techang was an earth-type warrior. He couldn’t blend into the metal wall and could only see through Luoye Ranchen’s perspective.

He didn’t feel anything much and his focus was on something else. “This miniature mecha is really cool. It would be great if I could steal one.”

Micro mechas were undoubtedly much smaller than normal mechas that were often tens of meters high, but they were more flexible and had a stronger supportive performance. They could increase the user’s strength, speed and defense, maximizing their force.

This was equipment that hadn’t appeared in Starry Sky Age so far, or one that players hadn’t come into contact with yet.

The two of them were lurking in the spaceship and were fortunate enough to see it.

After all, the spaceship had limited load-bearing capacity. Ordinary large mechas were placed in the space hub, while the star thieves usually used micro mechas on the spaceship.

During the boring interstellar journey, practicing with micro mechas was usually the favorite daily activity of star thieves.

Compared to the tall and bulky mecha, this miniature machine was simply a dream machine.

At this moment, watching the star thieves operating the micro mechas to kill bugs, they almost drooled. The only thing that supported his boring life on the spaceship for the past three months was stealing a micro mecha.

As for the bugs that suddenly appeared, Wutui Techang didn’t take them very seriously.

Luoye Ranchen wasn’t as careless as him. When looking at these bugs, he always felt that they had encountered an important plot.

Otherwise, why do this for no reason?

So, he hid in the metal wall and used detection on a bug.

[Black Food Beetle (Norma)]

[Level: Lv 1.

HP: 2000/2000

Characteristics: Eats anything, not picky about food.]

Luoye Ranchen, “……”

Perhaps because the level difference was too big, there was an additional characteristics description compared to when detecting other creatures, but the description was a bit naughty.

Eats everything and wasn’t picky about food?

This feature sounded a bit scary, but it really lived up to the word ‘food’ in its name.

Luoye Ranchen’s expression was somewhat solemn.

The health of a single bug wasn’t high, but there were too many of them. If these bugs increased, it would be difficult to deal with them.

After thinking of the locust plague in reality, he felt himself go numb. Moreover, seeing these bugs flying in from outside, it was obvious that they could survive in the universe.

Fortunately, these bugs did seem to have weaknesses. They were afraid of fire attacks.

As Luoye Ranchen was summarizing the characteristics of these bugs and preparing to record them and share them on the forum, the star thieves had found a way to deal with them. Therefore, they rushed in with the micro mechas and killed the bugs with the high-temperature flames.

The bugs weren’t very intelligent and didn’t avoid the flames when encountering them. Instead, they rushed over in groups and were burned to ashes.

Unfortunately, the two star thieves who rushed in at the beginning weren’t rescued.

By the time the star thieves eliminated the bugs, the two unlucky star thieves had been eaten by the black bugs until only their bones were left. Then they were burned by the flames and not a single trace of them was left.

The crisis was successfully resolved and the star thieves sighed with relief.

As for the death of two companions, it had no impact on the desperate star thieves except for them cursing.

The tail compartment was severely damaged, which caused even greater problems. Fortunately, the power room was preserved.

The hull was damaged, so interstellar jumps were impossible. It was easy for the spaceship to disintegrate during the jump, which would be the end. So this Blood Dance ship could only start its slow journey back again.

As for this accident, no one took it seriously.

Encountering various unknown dangers was very common in space travel, but there was no need to worry too much if they could be dealt with.

The only people who cared were Luoye Ranchen and Wutui Techang.

It was because both of them triggered a mission.

[Ding~ Triggered the interstellar main quest, Mysterious Black Bug.]

[You encountered a black bug and found that this matter seems to be more complicated, so you decided to investigate further.]

[Mission Description: Please collect clues about the mysterious black bug.]

[Mission Reward: Unknown.]

D*mn, it was actually the main quest?

Wutui Techang hadn’t paid much attention to it, so he was completely confused. The first step didn’t look complicated, but it was obviously a serial mission and there must be more to come.

The question was how to collect clues?