CH 73

Looking at the interstellar pirate group that surrounded their starships in such a domineering attitude, Andre couldn’t help squinting his eyes.

“Has mecha charging completed?” Andre asked his subordinates through internal communications.

“Yes, Your Excellency Andre, both mechas have completed energy import and can be used normally.”

“Understood.” After finishing the call, Andre took off his jacket, revealing the combat protective clothing he was wearing. The close-fitting design outlined his strong muscles perfectly.

Andre looked at Xing Mo and Lin Luo and said, “I am sorry, please excuse me. You two can rest here for a while. If you feel hungry, I can ask someone to prepare some food for you.”

Xing Mo and Lin Luo:…

There is a mecha team of interstellar pirates watching and Andre was gearing up to fight, but what he said seems to be as if inviting them to watch entertainment. Was that really okay?

Andre didn’t seem to feel the entanglement between the two of them, since he took out a piece of TieLongSheng jade from his space button. This piece of jade was no stranger to Lin Luo, after all, he cut it himself.

It’s just that he didn’t understand why Andre suddenly took out this jade.

However, the next moment, Andre opened his mouth and took a big bite of this TieLongSheng jade.

Bite… a… a… bite…

Xing Mo and Lin Luo suddenly became confused. Although jadeite was said to be not as hard as some stones or metal, it still had a certain degree of hardness. Just biting on like that made them both feel a toothache in empathy for Andre.

However, Andre seemed to be okay and bit into the jade bit by bit. Listening to the clicking sound from his mouth, both of them felt a little panicked.

After Andre finished chewing the whole piece of jade, he opened his mouth and spit out a pile of black stones. A small door on the wall of the main control room suddenly opened, and a small cleaning robot got out of it, quickly cleaned up the debris on the ground, and went back into the small door.

After eating the jade, the color of his skin has deepened a lot, from a reddish brown to a dark taupe, with a faint green cast, as if the energy in the jade was absorbed by him in this way…

Andre nodded towards them, then strode out of the main control room and walked towards the mecha cabin.

Andre’s mecha was specially designed. Unlike the common manual input control system, it had a sensory control system, that is, the control mode that the mecha had could directly respond to human actions. This kind of mecha has strong requirements for the driver’s physical fitness. Once the mecha is injured, the operator will often suffer a certain amount of damage. At the same time, this type of mecha also has a fast response time, high synchronization rate, and obvious advantages in combat.

Andre got into the cockpit of the huge silver-gray mecha. After the mecha bay door opened, it flew out quickly.

During this period, the interstellar pirates had not stopped attacking the starship, but the starship’s energy shield was extremely strong. Coupled with the counterattack of the four arrays of heavy weapons, they were not able to get close to the starship, and the battle had fallen into a stalemate.

After Andre’s silver-gray mecha appeared though, the situation quickly reversed. Andre’s mecha rushed towards the mecha team of the interstellar pirates group at an extraordinary speed, like an eagle rushing into a flock of chickens. His mecha was not equipped with large-caliber energy weapons, instead only a slight white light flickered across the fingertips of the mecha’s hands. That white light was his weapon.

That kind of light was also a type of photon weapon. It had extremely strong lethality and penetration. If facing a ranged weapon, a person could use their mecha’s dexterity to try and dodge the shot, but if the weapon was installed on the fingertips of the mecha, it would become a weapon for close combat. Once caught, there would be no escape.

Andre swiftly shuttled through several bursts from photon weapons. In the face of such intense artillery fire it was inevitable that he would be hit, but he seemed to be completely unaware and was not affected at all during the battle.

He unexpectedly launched an attack on the mecha closest to him, and easily dismantled the opponent with the mechanical arm loaded with melee photon weaponry.

Wherever he went, there was almost no armor left. His combat power was outstanding.

Lin Luo was stunned watching from the main control room, and he couldn’t think that Andre, who looked handsome and well-mannered, had such a merciless style in battle.

Xing Mo slowly narrowed his eyes. When he was in the military academy, he had also watched many fighting videos of Federation mecha fighters, but none of them had the combat effectiveness of Andre.

Maybe… it was related to his special way of absorbing energy? After all, he had never seen anyone who could directly consume jade to absorb the contained energy.

Although Andre showed great power and destroyed multiple mechas in a row, he also began to accumulate damage. The mecha was penetrated by photon torpedoes and black smoke began to come out.

But Andre still insisted on fighting until his energy was almost exhausted before returning to the starship in his mecha.

“Your Excellency!” Immediately several crew members rushed over, opened the cockpit of the mecha, and helped Andre out of it.

When Andre walked out of the mecha, there was hardly an uninjured area on his body. Most of the strongly defensive protective clothing was damaged and his back was badly burned and dripping blood, giving off a charred smell.

“Andre! Are you okay?” Lin Luo and Xing Mo didn’t expect that he would be injured so badly, and immediately ran out of the main control room.

“I’m okay, don’t worry.” Andre waved his hands at the two of them, and his crew member helped him to a chair. A member of the ship’s medical staff in white clothes ran up quickly with a medical kit, cut the remaining pieces of the broken protective clothing with scissors, and slowly cleaned his wounds.

After the blood was washed away, they saw a startling scene. The wound on Andre’s body unexpectedly began to heal slowly, and the color of his skin slowly returned to its previous reddish brown.

Andre didn’t seem to feel the pain, and while he was waiting for recovery, he made a few stretches. It seemed that the thrilling battle just now was just a kind of exercise for him to relax his muscles and bones.

“Any of you want to go out and try?”

“I’ll go!”

“Let me go!”

Each crew member was very enthusiastic, as if going out to fight was a very fun activity.

“Raymond, go ahead and clean them up.” Andre pointed to a man with a red-brown skin just like him.

There was a hideous scar on Raymond’s face, which looked very fierce. Current beauty technology had also reached a peak alongside the rapid development of science and technology. Such a wound was able to be removed with little effort. Therefore, for Raymond to keep this scar would seem to be deliberate.

He nodded, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised which made his hideous scar look even more frightening.

At this time, Andre took out a piece of red bean jade from his space button and threw it to Raymond.

Raymond, like Andre, ate the jade with chuckle, then spit the impurities out, as his skin began to change and became an even brighter red…

Now Xing Mo and Lin Luo pretty much understood that this should be a unique way for aliens like Andre to absorb elemental energy.

The reason why Andre’s injury was able to recover so quickly must be related to the healing energy of the wood element in the jade.

The reason why Raymond’s skin turned red should be due to the fire element.

Their simple and crude way of absorbing elemental energy is much more convenient than their Empire’s…

Plus Andre had such a terrifying combat effectiveness. Likewise, it would also have been unwise to underestimate Raymond. As for the other members of the starship, it was likely that they all had the same ability.

From that point of view, if all these people were able to drive mechas, what kind of terrifying force would that be?

It’s a pity that their starship was too small, and that there were only two mechas able to be loaded. Otherwise, there might not be enough interstellar pirate mecha squadrons to watch at all.

After Raymond chewed his piece of jade, he strode over to another mecha.

The battle that followed was simply a replica of the previous battle. Raymond, who absorbed the fire element, was even more fierce and wild than Andre. His flame seemed invincible, and he first destroyed eight of the opponent’s machines in one fell swoop.

In the end, he even threw a big move at interstellar pirate group, throwing several fireballs in their direction, then suddenly exploding them when the mechas dodged in a panic.

The exploded flames rushed to the surrounding mechas, and the power of the flames generated by his ability was extraordinary. Even mechas made of superalloy were directly burned through.

Raymond’s move undoubtedly gave the Star Pirates a huge blow, completely disrupting their formation.

“Open the hatch, take Raymond back! Auer, start preparing for the jump!” Andre ordered his subordinates to open the hatch, while letting people prepare to start the jump.

“Yes!” The crew were very fast, and while responding to Raymond, they began preparations for the jump.

When Raymond was rescued from his mecha, his injury was similar to Andre’s, but he obviously couldn’t recover by himself because he couldn’t absorb the wood energy, so the medical staff brought not only the medical kit, but a complete set of first aid equipment, as well as various therapeutic agents.