CH 68

“Do it!” Xing Mo suddenly shouted, and his whole body rushed out like an arrow from the string. Metal instantly wrapped around his entire fist, and he knocked the nearest interstellar pirate on the ground with a single punch.

“Ahhhhh!” Following Xing Mo’s order, the others raised their energy guns and began to shoot interstellar pirates closest to them.

“Hey! What are you doing?! Are you crazy?!” The pirate boss in the red mask yelled, but no one listened to him.

The sudden action of Xing Mo and others stunned these interstellar pirates. Many pirates were hit by the energy bolts and fell unsuspectingly.

“Fu̲c̲k̲! There’s something off with these guys!!” After all, the pirate boss was still a bit capable, otherwise he wouldn’t be the leader of this group of interstellar pirates. He quickly saw the problem, “Their masks are reversed! The people attacking are the ones with flipped emblems!”

In order to distinguish Xing Mo and the others from the real interstellar pirates, they deliberately wore their masks upside down. If one didn’t pay attention, they wouldn’t notice it. If only one or two of them were to wear them upside down, it still may have gone unnoticed that they were worn wrong, but because so many people did it at the same time it was easy to see through.

Although they were seen through, Xing Mo and others still did not remove the masks. These masks were equipped with translators, which was more convenient to wear and could cause confusion to the enemy.

After being alerted to the discrepancy, the interstellar pirates also reacted quickly and started to counterattack. The two sides fought extremely fiercely.

The pirate boss wearing the red mask finally couldn’t help but burst out after seeing more and more of his boys fall down. He rushed to engage Xing Mo, who seemed to have the strongest combat effectiveness. When Xing Mo threw his fist at the other person, the pirate boss caught Xing Mo’s fist and snorted coldly, “Hmph, as a metal-type ability do you really think you’re so great? If LaoZi doesn’t show off, are you just gonna pretend I’m fake?!”

They saw that the pirate boss’s palms began to glow slightly, and the metal wrapped around Xing Mo’s fist gradually turned crimson. It turned out that this pirate boss was a fire type ability user, and fire abilities are the direct counter to gold type abilities

However Xing Mo, who should have been in pain, only sneered. An ice-blue light began to emerge from his fist, and a layer of solid ice enrobed his arm under the pirate boss’s incredulous gaze.

“Sorry, but in my eyes you really are a fake.” After Xing Mo finished speaking, he punched the pirate boss’s frozen arm with his left fist and shattered it like glass.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…” The pirate boss screamed in pain, held the stump of his severed arm and knelt down on the ground, “No, no… impossible… you, you are… a dual, dual…”

“No one move. Move again and I kill him!” Although Xing Mo only put his hand on the head of the pirate boss, after the scene just now no one dared to take his threat lightly.

When the remaining interstellar pirates saw this, they hesitated and stopped while watching Xing Mo.

“Who installed the bomb? Where? How can it be removed?” Xing Mo asked coldly.

“Ah, whoever dares say anything, I’ll kill ‘em!” The pirate boss said sharply while enduring  the pain.

Xing Mo snorted coldly, and frigid air flowed over the pirate boss’s head and into his body, turning his face pale. Even his teeth began to chatter.

The interstellar pirates looked at each other, but no one spoke.

Xing Mo narrowed his eyes slightly. He didn’t think that this pirate boss had such high prestige in the eyes of these interstellar pirates. He gave one command and his men really didn’t dare say anything.

“If you don’t speak up, you’ll all have to die.” There were very few interstellar pirates left standing on the field by that point. Xing Mo’s words were really not alarmist, “If you are willing to honestly explain, you can wait for the Empire’s army to arrive. I will hand you over to them. The laws of the empire are strict and I believe they should be clear to you. I don’t dare say anything else, but at least you’ll be left with your lives.”

Because these people were all wearing masks, Xing Mo couldn’t see their expressions, but through their twinkling eyes, he could see their inner turmoil and hesitation at his words. After all, you only have one life to live. If given the choice, no one will be willing to die.

However, at this moment the pirate boss spontaneously combusted. He actually exploded his own body with his abilities. Holding the idea of ​​dying together, he turned around and rushed towards Xing Mo as fast as he possibly could.

“Be careful! He’s a third-level ability user!” Xie Dong suddenly exclaimed when he saw this. Only a third-level ability user could force their abilities to the break point, then release all the built up power in their body in an instant. To do so is extremely dangerous, but the damage that can be caused is undoubtedly huge.

Xing Mo was also taken aback. He obviously underestimated the strength of this pirate boss… The skyrocketing flames engulfed Xing Mo in an instant…

“Oh my God!” Chen Yi couldn’t help screaming.

However, the next moment a hand stretched out from the flames, and suddenly swept the raging inferno away. The turbulent heat wave blew everyone present back a distance and the air was scorching hot like a sauna, and even became difficult to breathe. Fortunately, everyone was wearing combat protective clothing, so no one was injured.

“Brother!” After Lin Luo stood himself up with the help of the nearby wall, he looked in Xing Mo’s direction in surprise.

“I’m fine.” Xing Mo stood in place unscathed while everything around him was scorched by the flames. Even the pirate boss had been severely burned by his own power and was dying.

“How, how is it that… you, you… are… actually… a triple element…” The pirate boss glared at him, wheezed out his final words in a hoarse voice from his severely burned throat, then convulsed. After a few moments he rattled out his final breath.

Everyone immediately looked at Xing Mo with respect and awe. Multi-line ability users were extremely rare. On one hand, they were difficult to detect, and on the other hand, they needed to absorb the energy of multiple elements at the same time to upgrade. It was extremely difficult for them to upgrade, but the benefits were also obvious. The energy they needed to absorb was several times that of single-line ability users, so the combat power they could exert in battle was also several times that of single-line ability users. All of the multi-line supernatural beings recorded in the history of the empire had all become famous warriors.

And now, an extremely powerful triple-line ability user was standing in front of them alive at that very moment.

“Right, so… the bomb was installed in… the main engineering compartment.” After the leader died and after seeing the power of Xing Mo, the remaining interstellar pirates finally gave up the struggle and confessed the location of the bomb. “But I don’t know how to dismantle it… it will explode in about ten minutes.”

“There is a bomb on the warp core in the main engineering compartment. Once the bomb is detonated, it will cause a series of explosions, and the entire spacecraft will be destroyed!” Xie Dong said anxiously, “Ten minutes is too short, and the escape pod is too close to main engineering. By the time we assemble even if we eject immediately I’m afraid it will be within the scope of the explosion…”

Xing Mo frowned and thought for a while, “Immediately notify everyone to come and gather on the main bridge, we’ll use the pirate’s battleship to evacuate!”

The interstellar pirates’ GX battleship was very good, especially in terms of speed. Only by escaping in the pirates’ GX battleship can they withdraw from the scope of the explosion in time after the starship explosion begins.

“But the GX battleship can only hold sixty people…” Xie Dong said hesitantly.

“That’s in a combat state. If you abandon all heavy weapons, there’s absolutely no problem with carrying hundreds of people.”

“Great!” Xie Dong’s eyes lit up and he quickly made his way to the control room.

After entering the control room, Xie Dong made a shipwide announcement in the Imperial language to all the survivors in hiding to gather at the main bridge as soon as possible. He made it clear that the shuttle ship would explode within ten minutes and had to be evacuated immediately.

Xing Mo forced the interstellar pirates to open the docking hatch of their battleship, then smoothly took it over. Without the pirate boss, he could not enter the main system as the master controller, and could only enter the auxiliary control mode. Fortunately, both weapons control and spaceship piloting was able to be controlled through the assist mode.

Xing Mo turned off the signal-shielding device, and at the same time disassembled the two large pulse cannons and photon cannons and discarded them directly, successfully reducing the weight of the battleship by nearly six tons. There was absolutely no problem with sitting another fifty or sixty people.

The survivors moved quickly, and the modifications were completed within six minutes. Including the interstellar pirates who survived, a total of more 120 people all boarded the GX battleship.

Xing Mo quickly activated the battleship engines, closed the docking hatch, and flew forward at the fastest speed.

The bombs used by the interstellar pirate directly detonated the warp core in the main engineering compartment, which contained at least a ton of energy liquid. After the explosion, the energy released by it was comparable to the explosion of a nuclear weapon. When the energy liquid exploded, it not only released a huge amount of energy, but also exploded extremely quickly. It was able to blow up the entire shuttle ship in almost just a few seconds and generated a high-pressure shock wave that quickly spread.

When the battleship had flown for a certain distance, people clearly saw the extremely shocking and thrilling explosion scene on the observation screen of the battleship.

First they saw the huge shuttle that had become just a black spot in the distance suddenly light up like a light bulb. Then it became brighter and brighter until finally, the light exploded violently and turned into bright white light, spreading rapidly through the surrounding space.

The battleship was moving at full speed, but the corona of the explosion was still getting closer and closer to them. While blindingly bright light pierced people’s eyes, it also made them feel an incomparable fear and desperation.

However, just as the light was about to envelop the battleship, the spread of the light came to an abrupt end, and the GX battleship managed to escape the scope of explosion.

The escape just now was too thrilling. Almost everyone had held their breath, and it was only at this time that the survivors finally breathed a collective sigh of relief.

It’s just that they seemed to relax too early. The battleship’s main system suddenly activated, sending out a digital messages containing a string of unknown characters. A huge spatial tear suddenly appeared in front of them. On the other side of the spacial tear against the dark black backdrop of space they could see dozens of the same model GX battleships and hundreds of new mechas.