CH 78

Chapter 78: Low Profile Arrival

Nielsen’s million credit reward was destined to go undelivered.

Andre and his two subordinates struck first and took the lead to abolish the starship with the most lethality of the interstellar pirates group and took the lead in destroying the most lethal starship of the interstellar pirate group. Following that, they varied tactics to launch a fierce attack on the pirates’ mecha team.

The three cooperated with each other, covered each other, and fought a beautifully cooperative battle.

Andre mainly used the fire and wood abilities. The destructive power of the fire was incredibly terrifying, while the wood energy gave him tremendously strong resilience, not to mention his own excellent physical fitness. When fighting with mechas, quickly became difficult to find an opponent. His two subordinates were also not simple. One person had fire and earth abilities, capable of both defending and attacking. When combined with Andre to attack, he could be described as invincible. The other was water and wood. Although he wasn’t too strong in terms of attack, the field control capability of water-based abilities were not to be not be underestimated. Only if he was responsible for field control and cover could Andre and the others fight without worry.

In the interstellar pirate group, there were naturally also ability users, but they didn’t have the infinitely replenishing abilities of Andre’s race. As such, the effective combat power that could be maintained was really limited. During the battle, it was easy to fall behind.

“Damn! A bunch of trash! Can’t even beat three people!”

Nelson couldn’t bear it and went to battle with Andre himself. His mecha was the latest GTX7 series, which was quite expensive. Naturally, it was much better than ordinary mechas in terms of ability transmission and boosting.

Nelson’s abilities were earth-based, and his attack power was average, but his defense was very strong. He was able to use earth abilities to restrain Andre’s wood attacks while he used the large-caliber energy weapon equipped to his mecha to open fire on Andre.

Nelson was worthy of being the leader of the interstellar pirates group. In terms of mecha combat, he did have some capability. Unfortunately, Andre was hit by a photon torpedo, and the mecha took the direct hit.

“Hahahaha! Go to hell!” Just when Nelson was about to give Andre a fatal blow, his mecha was wrapped in a layer of ice and couldn’t move.

Obviously, it was Andre’s subordinate who could use the dual abilities of water and wood. Under the cover of him and another person, the injured Andre returned to the camp smoothly.

As mentioned before, Andre’s mecha adopted a sensory control system. Once the mecha was injured, the operator would often suffer similar damage. Thus, when he came out of the mecha, his entire shoulder was stained with blood, and his protective clothing was completely damaged.

However, thanks to the large amount of wood energy that Andre had absorbed before, his wounds had already basically healed. As long as he received some basic treatment, he could return to the battlefield to continue fighting.

Nelson also thought about saving the country through a curve [1], and wanted to directly take Andre’s camp so that he couldn’t return to replace his mecha. Unfortunately, the camp’s energy shield was extremely difficult to break, and there were many anti-aircraft weapons that prevented him from approaching.

The next battle was sort of a war of attrition, but Andre was wealthy and used the jade that he had long-since horded without any distress. He also preferred a very brutal fighting style and finally drove away Nelson and the remaining pirates.

“Damn! Withdraw! Everyone withdraw!” Nelson finally realized that Andre was a very difficult bone to gnaw, and if he continued to fight, it would only cause both parties to lose. Although the conditions offered there were very generous, no matter how much money was made, it was worthless if you had no life to spend it with. It wasn’t easy for his pirate group to develop to its current scale. If he continued to fight, his loss would be even greater. There must be more than one interstellar pirate group in the huge interstellar space. Once he was weak, he might be blackmailed by others!

Besides, he also got the money from the other side. He had tried his best to do what he had to do. He didn’t want the mining planet anyways. Plus, he also grabbed two small ones not long ago…

Nelson comforted himself like that while retreating like his pants were on fire.

Andre and the other three returned to the camp. Although the three of them had the support of jade energy, the battle had consumed a lot of their mental and physical strength. As such, after they came out of their mechas they immediately went back to rest.

It was almost evening when a slowly approaching starship appeared on the camp’s radar.

When the starship entered the range of Oaks, it sent over a landing request.

Someone immediately asked Andre for his instructions, and Andre guessed that this should be the trader Victor had found for them.

The starship quickly landed not far from the camp. After the cabin door was opened, a strange-looking alien came out from inside… They looked like a white jellyfish with a human face. The round head occupied one half of the body, and the lower body was full of sea blue tentacles. When walking, they left behind a lot of water stains.

Andre had almost completely recovered by this time, so brought his subordinates over in person, with Lin Luo and Xing Mo among them. After all, Andre could not leave them there. After he went to the main planet, he would have a way to send them back to the Empire.

After Lin Luo approached, he smelled the fishy smell of the sea, and subconsciously sniffed.

“What’s the matter?” Xing Mo asked in a low voice.

“No, I don’t know… I smell something good. I want to eat something…” Lin Luo stared at the jellyfish person and swallowed hard.

The jellyfish person also felt a certain sense of crisis, opened their mouth and muttered a bunch of alien language ​​that he didn’t understand. Anyway, it definitely wasn’t a formal Federal language. If it were, Andre wouldn’t be have needed to debug the translator.

After a brief exchange, the two sides reached a consensus. The jellyfish person was a member of the Shea race, named Sisi, who lived on an ocean planet. There was also a newly unearthed vein of jadeite on the seabed of their planet, and Sisi was a trader who made a living by selling that jadeite ore.

The Tobys had a great demand for jade and also liked to buy rough jadeite, so Sisi often brought freshly mined jadeite to this star field to do business with the Tobys who would happily pay. This time, Sisi also deliberately contacted Lord Victor, the great nobleman of the Toby tribe in advance, but hadn’t expected such a big event to have happened to the Toby tribe. Lord Victor asked Sisi to come and pick up the famous Lord Andre and return His Excellency back to the main planet.

Although Sisi was a foreigner, they still had a certain understanding of internal struggles. As they had been in contact with the Tobys for some time, it was clear that the real rights were in the hands of the nobles. If Sisi was willing to help them, they would certainly give a lot of benefits.

As the saying goes, “Whoever achieves great things should not be afraid of risks.” Sisi was anxious to have the opportunity to develop a good relationship with the Grand Duke Andre to gain more benefits.

Because of the sudden death of the old king when Andre was not in the country, Brad took the opportunity to win over the little noblemen and firmly consolidated his power. The main planet’s defenses were very tight, and idlers were not allowed to enter or leave at will. Only Sisi, who officially had nothing to do with the Tobys but often traded with the Tobys, could enter the main planet under such strict monitoring.

However since Sisi wanted to come to the Tobys the guards would likely inspect their starship, so Andre wouldn’t be able to take too many people. On the bright side though, as Xing Mo and Lin Luo were not from the Toby clan it was okay to bring them.

Therefore, in the end, Andre only took two subordinates, as well as Lin Luo and Xing Mo. The others were left on the Oaks star.

Lin Luo’s new little follower, Ollie, exchanged communication numbers with Lin Luo so that when Lin Luo returned to the empire he wouldn’t forget to contact him. After that he reluctantly watched them leave.

Oaks wasn’t far from the main planet, so if they were to move at full speed it would only take three hours to reach it.

Sisi’s starship wasn’t too big, but it carried a lot of goods. The warehouse was filled with a lot of water, stone, and jadeite, and there was also a lot of valuable jade. Andre didn’t even blink his eyes as he bought the whole batch of jade, and Sisi’s mouth couldn’t be closed out of shock.

Lin Luo was very interested in the water stone jadeite produced by Sisi’s home planet. The skin of these jadeite was thin and waxy and seemed to lack fog. Additionally the bottom structure and the color that could be seen looked good. He chatted with Sisi in hope that after the establishment of a trade route between Andre and the Empire was formed, Sisi could also transport the jadeite produced by their home planet to the Empire for sale.

Sisi was naturally eager to have a relationship with the rapidly developing Empire.

Before setting off, Sisi had already contacted Victor, told the other party about their estimated time of arrival, and also hinted that a certain someone had successfully been picked up.

Thats why after entering the main planet it was Victor’s people who came to inspect the Sisi starship. However, just in case, Andre and his two subordinates still hid in the warehouse, using a large amount of jadeite to cover their figures.

Fortunately, the people were Victor’s people, and they didn’t trouble Sisi much.

Sisi parked the starship in the designated area and paid for someone to come and help carry the goods, while Andre and his two subordinates took the opportunity to mix into the crowd.

The next part had nothing to do with Lin Luo and the others. They only needed to stay behind and pretend to be doing business with Sisi. In order not to cause trouble to Andre and the others, Lin Luo and Xing Mo naturally agreed and treated it as if they were visiting.

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[1] 曲线救国 – QūXiàn JiùGuó – idiom, winning by using unusual or indirect methods