No more than ten minutes later, Hong Mao jumped out of the engine compartment with a wrench in his mouth. There were only four people left in the cabin.
The indicator lights on the panel lighted up one after another, and the cosmic scavenger, which seemed to have been swept by strong winds and waves, resumed its power.
"I can only restore 60-70%." Time is tight and parts are scarce. As a non-mechanical student, it is not easy to do this.
"You've done a great job," Bing Can praised him, then turned to Ying Feng worriedly. From his angle, he could only see the motionless back of the other party in the cockpit, "Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Well, even if we restore 100% of the power, it's impossible to fly faster than the starship," Ying Feng said in a low voice, "This is the only way to buy time."
"If this is your decision, I will fully cooperate," he turned to call the red hair, "you drive, let go of the rope, and return immediately."
The scavenger disconnected from the escape pod, and the rope drifted erratically in space by inertia, as if trying to grab something. But its original owner turned around ruthlessly and left, and the spherical escape pod, like before, floated alone in the universe, like a planet without an orbit.
A huge black starship sailed over, swallowed it silently, and gradually disappeared into the darkness. If it weren't for the scattered fragments of the scavenger being hit floating here, no one would have discovered that it had happened here. what.
The escape cabin was sucked into the interior of the starship, which was originally a part of it. The mechanical arm accurately found the pressure valve. With the opening of the hatch, a tall man appeared in the circular field of vision.
Ling Xiao's dormancy was just for this moment. He flipped out of the airtight chamber the moment the hatch opened, and quickly assembled a weapon in the palm of his right hand. Taking advantage of the opponent's surprise, he aimed the gun firmly at his chest. .
"Don't move."
"How is it?" Bing Can saw the white light flashing from between Ying Feng's fingers, and knew that the soul crystal he had been holding tightly in his hand had been activated, which meant that Ling Xiao had already faced the enemy head-on.
Ying Feng closed his eyes, his sight was no longer here.
"There is only one person on the other side," he looked at the inner corner of the starship through his spiritual vision. The size of the starship was several times that of the retired ships they saw in the military academy, but there was only one living person within sight. The positions that should be worked by people are all done by machines.
"The other party must have never thought that we would dare to send someone to break into its territory alone, so he was not prepared."
"But there must be other people here. It is impossible to run such a large starship by machinery alone."
Ling Xiao confronted the man in front of him alone. Although the other party was being held hostage, he still stood there calmly and calmly. Except for the slight surprise at the beginning, he didn't take the man with the gun compared to himself at all.
The difference between them is not in weapons, but in age and experience, the maturity that has gone through great winds and waves, and the intrepidness of the world.
"It's you?" The tall man recognized the reckless young man.
Ling Xiao heard him say this, but he couldn't think of when he had seen him.
But now is not the time to question the identity of the other party. He pushed the gun in his hand forward and emphasized again, "Don't move, open your hand."
The gun activated by Ying Feng is powerful in short-range shooting, and can easily cut a hole the size of a bowl in the opponent's chest. Presumably the opponent must know this, and spread his hands generously, nothing in it. Ling Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let them go, don't go after them."
The man calmly looked at the uniform on Ling Xiao's body, "You're young, but you have a lot of courage. You are all your classmates on the junk ship with you, as long as there is an adult around, you can't do anything wrong. send you here."
"I'm already an adult," Ling Xiao straightened his back.
The other party responded with a disdainful sneer.
"Where are you taking Shang Yang?"
There was a dull thunder in Ling Xiao's mind.
He raised his head suddenly, "Are you too Yin?"
He never imagined that the person standing in front of him would be a national first-level wanted criminal who even the military could do nothing to him, a genius scientist who had lived for more than 400 years, Tai Yin. This person is still alive, so for so many years, he has been living on the starship to avoid the pursuit of the military, and the baby who was kidnapped by him is still fleeing desperately to this day.
Ling Xiao's hand holding the gun was full of cold sweat. Against this dangerous person, and how many people he couldn't see at the moment, how much chance did he have
He didn't let up for a moment, and at the same time cautiously looked around from the corner of his eye. Tai Yin's companion had not appeared until now, but Ling Xiao believed that he would not be the only person on this starship.
If I remember correctly, Dr. Zhishang is not a soul crystal user, so what about Tai Yin, who is also the chief researcher of the base? Even if he doesn't know how to use soul crystals, he is also the inventor of two generations of burning embers. He has single-handedly broken through the military's encirclement. In front of this person, he cannot be taken lightly.
But no matter what, he couldn't let Shang Yang fall into his hands again.
Ying Feng could see the scene at the scene, but couldn't hear their conversation, and could only barely recognize it from the mouth.
"What are they talking about?"
"That person seems to know Ling Xiao."
"What? Do you know him?"
"Never seen."
"They shouldn't be able to catch up, it's better to recall Ling Xiao as soon as possible," Bing Can always had an uneasy premonition.
"Well," Ying Feng used Qizi to summon, but Ling Xiao did not appear as expected. He was startled and concentrated again, but felt that the end of his mind was empty and he couldn't catch anything.
Bing Can stood up. Although Ying Feng didn't say anything, his expression told him that what he was most worried about had happened.
"They should have gone far, so you are left alone, don't you mind?" Tai Yin kindly reminded Ling Xiao.
The time is about the same as Ling Xiao expected. Even if he leaves now, Tai Yin can't catch up with them. Thinking of this, Ling Xiao's tone is much more relaxed.
"I wasn't left behind," he curled his lips, "your pawn is dead, but my pawn is still alive."
His words successfully made Tai Yin's face gloomy, "Your so-called battle plan should not be to send you to delay time, and then let your deed master call you back so naive, right?"
"Whether it's naive or not, it's a fact that you can't catch up with them."
"But you can't go back either."
Ling Xiao tried his best to show calm on the surface, but in his heart he had already begun to wonder, Ying Feng should have pulled him back long ago, but why didn't he do anything until now
Tai Yin knew from the look of him that he guessed right.
"Young people have never left their deed master for half a step, right? I really think that the deed master's ability is omnipotent. He dares to break into any place, and anyone dares to rob, without first weighing his own weight."
"Do you know what the summoning range of the deed master is? When they speeded up for the second time, you were no longer able to teleport to each other, and then the failure of the mind vision, and finally the voice of spiritual communication could not be conveyed. Speaking of which. It's a pity, in the face of distance, the blood deed is sometimes powerless."
Ling Xiao's face gradually turned pale, and Ying Feng's voice sounded in his mind almost as evidence.
— Something went wrong with the plan, I…
His voice stopped abruptly, and the scavenger had left the effective range of spiritual communication. Ling Xiao believed that what Tai Yin said was the truth.
"Now do you know why I'm not rushing to chase?" Tai Yin said with a victorious tone, "because they will come back sooner or later, unless they don't care about your life or death at all."
"How's it going?" Bing Can anxiously took a step forward.
Ying Feng's expression was complicated, "... The summoning seems to be limited by distance, and I have lost contact with him."
The scavenger made a quick stop.
"You said you couldn't recall Ling Xiao? Why didn't you find out earlier?" Hong Mao was about to turn around as soon as he pulled the lever, but he was stopped abruptly when he was only halfway through.
Hong Mao turned his head in surprise, Ying Feng stopped him, the other party's eyes flickered, as if there was a battle between heaven and man in his heart.
"What are you doing!" he demanded.
"Don't turn around, keep going." Ying Feng's voice was low, as if it came from the depths of his throat.
"What are you kidding?! Ling Xiao is there alone, do you know how dangerous it is?"
Ying Feng was silent for a few seconds, then said with difficulty, "I know."
"Knowing that you still want to stop me?" Hong Mao angrily said incomprehensibly, "Even if you only have three stars in your relationship, he is still your pawn, don't you even care about his life and death?"
The other hand was attached to the back of the red-haired hand, gentle and firm, "Ying Feng's decision is right, do as he said."
"Even you..."
Bing Can turned her head, and Hong Mao also turned around subconsciously. The unidentified baby was lying there. Although she received treatment, she was still unconscious.
Ling Xiao was on one side, and the baby was on the other. Without a single extra word, Hongmao already understood what they wanted to say.
This plan was made very hastily, but someone must have predicted anything that might happen in their hearts, which naturally included the one that Ling Xiao couldn't come back to.
This decision had already been made the moment Ling Xiao entered the escape pod. Every adult Tiansu would protect the young with their own lives, which was the foundation for the maintenance of their race.
Hongmao's hand holding the control rod began to tremble, feeling his struggle, Bingcan increased the strength in his hand.
He can completely control his Qizi to let go, but at this moment, he hopes that Qiansi can make his own decision.
"I understand."
As soon as the red hair closed his eyes, he pushed up the control lever in his hand, and the scavenger drove to the space station at the fastest speed according to the original route.
"No, you are wrong." The young man in front of Tai Yin said suddenly.
Tai Yin raised his eyebrows, not knowing where he was wrong.
"They're not coming back, not even if I'm here."
"It seems that your deed master and your companions have no more than the same feelings for you. They didn't come back to save you knowing that you were in danger."
"It has nothing to do with the quality of the relationship, the reason I have just said," Ling Xiao looked into his eyes calmly, "because I am an adult, I am always ready to sacrifice for the baby, I believe my companions You guys, will make the same choice as me. That baby is not Shang Yang, he has to escape from here at the risk of being lost in the universe, don’t you understand his choice yet?”
Tai Yin stared at him with a sinister expression, "I don't know how others choose, I only know that you will be in big trouble soon."
With a muffled sound, Ling Xiao fell limply to the ground and lost consciousness. When he fell, he revealed the man standing behind him, the sedative gun in his hand still smoking from the muzzle.
"Too slow," Tai Yin rebuked him resentfully.
"I'm just curious that you haven't come back for so long, so I kindly came down to take a look. I didn't expect you to be held hostage because of your stupidity. As a genius scientist, did you also run away on the day Shang Yang fled?"
"They drove a scavenger. I thought they were workers cleaning space, but I didn't expect it to be a student of Yutian. I was careless."
"Anyway, you also have hostages in your hands now, why don't you just let them replace them?"
"Don't be naive. The military won't exchange a baby for an adult. This person is useless at all, and will attract the military's firepower."
"Well," the man shrugged, "then I'll throw him out of here."
"I mean it's useless to me, but he's someone from Xinglou, and we have to make sure that he lives safe and sound," Tai Yin complained in a low voice, "Why did you run into him so unlucky."
"It doesn't matter if you lose it, and it doesn't matter if you keep it, so what should we do now?"
Tai Yin thought about it for a while, "Throw him into the escape pod, leave a transmission signal for him, someone will find him."
"It's really troublesome," the man wanted to pick up the gun on the ground, but the weapon disappeared the moment he left Ling Xiao's hand.
"... I'm most annoying those of you who use soul crystal weapons. You don't leave any spoils behind."
A mechanical alarm sounded from the loudspeaker, "The radar has detected that a flying fleet is approaching, do you want to change the course?"
Tai Yin let out a sigh, "It came so fast."
He turned around and walked quickly to the upper floor, shouting as he walked, "Don't worry about that person for now, if you throw him out now, you will be found. Shang Yang should have been sent to the nearest space station. We will hurry up and find him and leave here."
The maimed scavenger rushed into the space station, and the crew was already waiting near the runway.
"We have notified the military to go to the rescue. You have done a good job. Just leave the next thing to us. The superior ordered you to return to the ground immediately."
Bingcan and Hongmao, who helped lift the baby out of the cabin, didn't have time to say a word, but the scavenger in the parked state quickly fell out and drove into space while everyone was stunned.
Hong Mao angrily chased after a few steps, "Ying Feng, you idiot, what's the use of driving a garbage truck out? You should bring me!"
A two-person military warship quietly stopped beside him, and the hatch opened, revealing Bingcan in the driver's seat.
Hongmao's eyes lit up, and he jumped in. Bingcan pulled the control lever and once again sped away in front of the staff. The people who reacted rushed to chase, but they couldn't catch up with the speed of the battleship.
"My deed master is much smarter than Ling Xiao's deed master," Hong Mao smugly looked at the group of people behind as they ran and waved them to stop, "So I am much smarter than Ling Xiao."
"Causal relationship is not established," Bing Can started the second acceleration, he must catch up with Ying Feng as soon as possible, "The starship just now has a stealth system, even the military may not be able to find it."
Hong Mao immediately became nervous, "Then who can find it?"
"Ying Feng, if Ling Xiao is still in that starship, only Ying Feng can find it."