C145 – Long Beast Region

“Someone can prove it!” The scarred man immediately replied, “When I encountered him before, I almost opened fire with him, and then I didn’t fight because of certain reasons, and I also had a simple communication with him, and there was someone with me at that time who can prove that everything I said is true.”

“Who was that person?” He Yishu inquired.

 

“It’s two of my subordinates; I can call them in right now,” the scarred man said while canceling the battleship’s escape mode on the console. Then he pressed the bridge’s hatch with all his might, but unfortunately, no matter how hard he pressed, the bridge still didn’t move and didn’t have the slightest tendency to want to open, and it was only then that he remembered what the problem was. “Open the hatch; I can call him in now.”

 

“He can come in, but in order to prevent you from handing him any secret signals, I need you to complete another task.” He Yishu’s eyes glanced over the bomb that hadn’t been detonated and then glanced towards the life-saving cabin that had just been kicked several times by the man. “Please throw this bomb into the safe area; the so-called safe area means that in that area, even if the bomb explodes, it won’t cause damage to anyone.”

 

“But isn’t the bomb useless now? Why do you still need to go through the trouble of dropping it?” The scarred man was puzzled.

 

He Yishu raised an eyebrow: “It’s only out of action now; it doesn’t mean it’ll stay out of action; if you don’t want to be really blown up, you’d better do as I say.”

 

Although very reluctant, the scarred man was also very clear that in this situation in front of him, being tough wouldn’t solve the problem, but instead, it might make his situation worse.

 

Moreover, he was also truly afraid of death, so he could only agree: “I understand, but you must guarantee that it won’t be detonated during the process of me sending it away.”

 

“Don’t worry, you’re still of a tiny bit of use to me right now, but you’d better be honest too; if you attempt to escape along the way, I think you’ll be the only poor fellow to be killed by this bomb.” As He Yishu spoke on one side, he had already replaced the Han character rune card in the rune card slot with his hand; now the Han character rune cards that he had produced would normally only last for more than ten minutes.

 

After that, the scarred man had to hold the bomb and send it to a safe place, as He Yishu had said, while the subordinate he was talking about came to the bridge.

 

He Yishu once again put out Chris’s photo: “Have you seen this man? Where is he now? Please answer these two questions truthfully.”

 

Although he didn’t know what had just happened here, thinking that even the boss was obedient to this man, the subordinate naturally didn’t dare to play any tricks.

 

He took a closer look at the photo, then nodded: “I must have seen him before; although my memory of his looks is already a bit fuzzy, his hair color is very distinctive, so I shouldn’t be able to remember it wrongly.”

 

“What about the location?” He reminded him to answer the second question.

The subordinate thought carefully and replied, “It should be in the Long Beast Region; in the meteorite belt there is like a long beast that can eat people; that’s why it’s called the Long Beast Region by the pirates.”

 

“Very well, now you can go back to your own work station.” He Yishu was quite satisfied with the man’s answer.

 

After he left, Adrian asked He Yishu, “Are you sure that the range of effect of the rune card can extend that far?”

“I’m not sure, but soon we’ll know the answer; if that scarred man can come back alive, we’ll be able to add another new piece of data to our experiment.” He Yishu shook his head, not really caring about it. “If he doesn’t make it back, then at least we’ll be able to draw another conclusion as well, and that is that he must have been blown up.”

 

“You really are too bad,” Adrian sighed softly, “but it’s true that he doesn’t have to exist.”

 

But to both men’s regret, ten minutes later, the man rejoined the battleship.

 

“Now you guys can trust me, right?” Knowing that He Yishu must have asked everything that needed to be asked, the scarred man spoke anxiously.

 

“Don’t be in a hurry; first, let’s enjoy a fireworks display in the universe.” He Yishu smiled faintly. After recording the data of this one experiment, he placed the cosmic telescope that he had just prepared in front of him and then withdrew the control of that bomb.

 

Somewhere very far away, a bomb was detonated silently, like a gorgeous firework blooming in the silent universe.

 

It was beautiful—too beautiful, but fleeting.

 

After enjoying the bloom of this firework, He Yishu sighed and moved to the main topic: “The people from the military department are already on their way; prepare to be captured without hesitation.”

 

“You ……” The scarred man reflexively wanted to curse, but in the end he managed to control it, but the anger inside him was completely uncontrollable. “Didn’t you say you’d let me go if I promised to take you guys to find that person?”

 

“When did I give you such a guarantee?” He Yishu innocently spread his hands, “I’ve never said such words, but if we can successfully find that person, perhaps I can suggest that they spare your life.”

 

The scarred man was so angry that he slammed the console, but at this moment, he was obviously at a passive disadvantage and had no capital to negotiate terms, so even if he felt angry and fearful again, he could only force himself to calm down first and kept telling himself that he would definitely be able to find a chance to escape in the process of searching for that person later on.

 

About half an hour later, the people sent by the military department finally arrived, Adrian carefully reported the current situation, and then started another matter with He Yishu.

 

He Yishu didn’t tell the second prince directly about this matter; after all, the person hadn’t been found yet. If it was said too early, it would likely be a fleeting joy.

The scarred man and the subordinate who had also met Chris were sent to He Yishu’s airship, after which the airship set sail again, traveling towards the Long Beast region.

During this process, although the scarred man was looking for the right moment, he and his subordinate were completely restricted in their freedom of movement and couldn’t find a chance to escape at all.

The spaceship, which had already begun its return voyage, reversed its course, and after roaming the universe for three days, it finally saw the meteorite belt known as the Long Beast from afar.

 

“Is Chris in this area?” He Yishu asked the scarred man and his subordinate after carefully observing the interesting meteorite belt.

 

The Scarred Man’s gaze flickered slightly: “Once we cross this meteorite belt, we will enter the Long Beast area; this area has almost no pumice other than this meteorite belt, so it’s not difficult to find him.”

 

The subordinate staying with him seemed to want to open his mouth to say something, but in the end, he closed his mouth.

He Yishu’s gaze flicked between the two of them. “I’ve just observed; the meteorites in this meteorite belt look like they’re affected by some kind of magnetism, and they’ve been moving at high speeds, so if we want to go through it, it’s simply impossible, right?”

 

“But as you can also see, the range of this meteorite belt is very wide; if we want to bypass it, it will take at least ten times longer, and there will also be irregular vacuum vortexes in the vicinity of the meteorite belt, so if we don’t grasp the distance between intervals well, it will likewise be very dangerous.” The scarred man had already thought of the wording; he felt that these two people definitely didn’t understand this, so it’d be very foolish to fool them.

 

He Yishu raised an eyebrow. “But the most important question is, how do you think we should pass through this meteorite belt?”

 

The scarred man immediately replied, “Let me pilot the spaceship; I have experience; I have passed through this meteorite belt before.”

 

“So you mean that later on, our spaceship will travel through this meteorite belt and avoid these high-speed moving meteorites, right?” He Yishu’s expression became a little odd.

 

The scarred man nodded with a serious expression. “You may think that this situation is incredible, but for pirates, this is very common, because there are all kinds of meteorite belts hidden in the universe, and some of them are just floating relatively still, but more often than not, they are clearly restless.”

 

“I’m very interested in your proposal, as I’ve never traversed such a meteorite belt before.” He Yishu slowly smiled and looked at the scarred man with a smile, “but I don’t trust you, so I’m afraid there’s no way to put this matter of piloting a spaceship into your hands.”

 

“But do any of you have experience in this area?” The scarred man’s gaze coldly swept towards the others with contempt.

 

“It’s true that we don’t have any experience, but we have cheating tools.” He Yishu smiled faintly and poked at him calmly, “Do you think I don’t know what you’re thinking? Firstly, you obtain the right to pilot the ship, then after entering the meteorite belt, you purposely crash into the meteorite, causing great damage to the ship, then you can take advantage of the chaos to charge into the life-saving cabin and escape.”

 

“I didn’t think that at all!” The scarred man gritted his teeth and glared at He Yishu.

 

“Seriously, don’t you think your plan is simply full of holes?” He Yishu ignored the scarred man’s denial and shrugged, continuing sarcastically, “Even if you did obtain the right to pilot the spaceship, do you think we would enter the meteorite belt without any defense?” And do you think that after entering the meteorite belt, we will definitely hit a meteorite?
Well, even if we did go in and the ship did hit a meteorite, do you think you’d be able to get away with it? Or do you think that I can only have absolute control over the spaceship and battleship, but not these meteorites?”

 

The scarred man stared at He Yishu dead in the face but was speechless; he really hadn’t considered this.

 

He Yishu slowly put a rune card into the rune card slot, then handed the cosmic telescope to the scarred man: “Take a look for yourself.”

The scarred man struggled for a moment but still couldn’t help but take the telescope and look in the direction of the meteorite belt, and then he saw a scene that shocked him to the point where he didn’t know what expression to put on.

 

Those meteorites that had just been moving at a rapid pace—at this moment it was as if they had suddenly been frozen in place, turning into a state of complete stillness.

How was this… possible?

To be able to make a meteorite affected by magnetism and moving at high speeds stand still in an instant, how could this kind of power be possessed by a human?

No, even if it was the latest type of battleship, it definitely wouldn’t have this kind of strength!

 

Cold sweat once again covered the forehead of the scarred man. He slowly lowered the binoculars with a shaking hand, and his wide-eyed stare slowly turned towards the rune card in the rune card slot, as if he were looking at a lethal yet terrifying thing full of attraction.

 

“A rune card? Surprisingly…” the scarred man’s voice took on a tremor, “just a rune card?!”

 

It wasn’t that he hadn’t seen a rune card before, but how could a rune card possess such power? This was something he had never seen before at all, and he didn’t even dare think about it at all.

 

“Clever, that’s what a rune card is for.” He Yishu clapped his hands, “kindly” answering questions for the scarred man. “You see, as long as these meteorites remain stationary, the ship can easily pass through this meteorite belt, right?”

 

---