novelraw Chapter 1155: Advance
Chapter 1155: Advance
A level-6 Star Beast, with 10 people collaborating and cooperating, it’s completely possible to kill it.
But, there’s no need.
Spending time on a level-6 Star Beast might succeed, but the gain isn’t significant, entirely unnecessary to waste time.
Therefore, when Yue Qiguang gave the order, Chu Jiaojiao and Shen Changqing, who were responsible for piloting the spaceship, immediately sped up, and in the blink of an eye, the spaceship shot out like a flash of lightning.
Zoom—
The level-6 Light Chasing Bird was striving towards the spaceship, about to collide, when the spaceship, glowing, zoomed twice, leaving its original position, quickly widening the distance from the Light Chasing Bird.
The Light Chasing Bird paused, flapped its wings a few times, and hurriedly chased after.
Chu Jiaojiao hummed: "Trying to catch up to your Sister Jiao Jiao?"
No way.
Zoom—
The spaceship increased its speed again, with the thrusters at maximum, in the Light Chasing Bird’s sight, the spaceship galloped away, unable to catch up, quickly disappearing into the sky, losing its trail...
The Light Chasing Bird lingered in the pitch-black space, momentarily a bit at a loss and bewildered...
...
As planned, the spaceship shook off the Light Chasing Bird, Yue Qiguang looked through the spaceship’s monitor at the silly-looking Light Chasing Bird that lost its target, feeling quite satisfied.
Then—
The spaceship suddenly shook violently.
Yue Qiguang frowned: "What’s going on?"
Public channel.
Shen Changqing, somewhat solemn, replied: "It’s an asteroid fragment not included in the predictions."
This asteroid suddenly darted over, leaving the spaceship with no time to react, bumping into it, causing a dent in the hull, and the spaceship was still shaking intermittently... Upon hearing the explanation, Yue Qiguang was a bit anxious and immediately turned to Ji You and Sheng Qingyan, saying: "What’s wrong with you two? Such a severe situation was not detected in advance?"
He began with a question.
Ji You and Sheng Qingyan heard this, remained silent instead of answering immediately.
In another compartment, Principal Hong and Dr. Luo sat opposite each other, with a tea kettle steaming on the table between them... Principal Hong took the kettle and poured boiling water into the teapot...
Dr. Luo chuckled: "Seems like a fight’s breaking out, internal conflict and discord will arise."
Principal Hong shook his leg, smiled: "Perhaps."
Then.
Ji You and Sheng Qingyan simultaneously pointed at the navigation chart, saying to Yue Qiguang: "Look here—"
"What?" Yue Qiguang leaned in closer, "What the heck is this?"
Ji You said: "We’re currently at this position, following the set course, we will continue along here."
"Right." Yue Qiguang puzzled: "So what are you trying to say?"
Sheng Qingyan covered her mouth, yawned, and said: "Continuously moving along this line, within 500 light-years, it’s all under our monitoring, an asteroid couldn’t just suddenly appear out of nowhere... which means this is an intentional accident..."
Yue Qiguang even more confused: "Can’t you simplify it a bit?"
"Told you his IQ is low, needs it simpler." Ji You muttered to Sheng Qingyan, and immediately said: "To put it briefly, someone’s messing around, and the perpetrator is—"
"Who?" Yue Qiguang stretched his neck, waiting for the answer, only to find Ji You suddenly shut her mouth at the critical moment. Yue Qiguang was quite speechless, "Can’t you be simple, straightforward?"
Ji You motioned to Sheng Qingyan with her mouth: "You say it."
Sheng Qingyan snorted: "Not dumb, not saying."
Yue Qiguang’s forehead veins popped, "Damn! You two just want me to beat you up?"
Yue Qiguang pointed to Liu Fufeng, who was sitting dumbly on the side, "Liu Fufeng, you say it."
Liu Fufeng: "Huh?"
Liu Fufeng shook her head, refusing: "I’m just an innocent bystander, don’t ask me such deadly questions."
Yue Qiguang felt awful, then heard Lou’s voice sound on the public channel, Lou cautiously: "Could... could it be interstellar pirates ambushing nearby?"
Ji You and others: "..."
Ji You raised her hand, stroked her forehead: "Didn’t expect we have an honest person among us."
Lance beside Lou rolled his eyes at him, teased: "Known you so long, just realizing you’re such an Iron Fool."
Lou completely puzzled.
Then—
Everyone heard Yue Qiguang clamoring on the side: "Not interstellar pirates, could it be someone on the spaceship? If it’s someone on the spaceship, it can’t be students, but—"
"Damn!" Yue Qiguang exclaimed, "It’s Old Man Hong who’s messing around!"
Ji You and others: "..."
Hong Old Man Principal Jiang’s face darkened instantly.
Principal Hong put down the cup, harshly: "You’ve got some nerve, huh?"
Yue Qiguang flinched all over, hurriedly: "Cough cough... slip of the tongue, mere slip of the tongue! My admiration for you, Principal, is like the endless river waters, the vast starry sky, eternally immortal..."
Principal Hong coldly: "Unnecessary."
Yue Qiguang cowardly shrank, pretending not to exist.
Principal Hong coldly challenged: "What evidence do you have to prove I’m the one messing around?"
Silence.
A stretch of silence.
...
At this moment, who dares to stand and point at Principal Hong, saying it’s your doing?
Not courting death?
Even the hardiest Iron Fools fear death.
Thus, the entire spaceship fell into a strange silence, and after the spaceship activated the self-repair function, it was still entrusted to Chu Jiaojiao and Shen Changqing, who followed the originally established course.
Ji You, Sheng Qingyan, Yue Qiyuan, Lou, Lance... all teammates performed their duties without being distracted. But Captain Yue Qiguang was more affected, he kept hunching, fearing Principal Hong would suddenly rush up to beat him.
And at this time, when everyone was unaware, the spaceship slightly deviated from the preset course.
But!
No one noticed in advance.
"Cough cough..." Ji You realized something, feeling something amiss but not finding anything wrong, thus she said to Yue Qiguang: "Little Guangguang, you are the captain, don’t be cowardly, temporarily ignore these, quickly pull yourself together, everyone’s future and fate are currently in your hands."
Yue Qiguang’s mind suddenly cleared upon hearing this, he hastily watched the monitoring, seeing the spaceship sailing steadily, breathed a sigh of relief, then checked the condition of the remaining nine teammates, found everything normal, then examined the spaceship’s hull damaged by the asteroid, replaced with a new one with no issues, Yue Qiguang pondered and said: "Everyone stay alert, especially Ji You, Sheng Qingyan, Liu Fufeng, you three must closely monitor any situations on the course, if there’s an emergency, be sure to give early warning."