Chapter 235: Start!


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    At this moment, Ying’s group was still in harsh negotiations with the space merchants on the merchants’ ship. Not only were they being treated like convicts, thenguage and tone employed by the merchants got increasingly condescending. Under these circumstances, Ying’s expression became severe. Ebon, Liu Bai, and Wa Luo, as the ck Star Unit’s members, werebat veterans, so they knew things were going south. Stealthily, they moved closer to Ying, on high alert.


    Ying whispered to them, "Sadly, Zhang Heng has been sent back to the Hope. We could’ve had him read the situation for us. These aliens don’t seem too friendly to me."


    Ebon scoffed, "Let them try. I’ve noticed their weapons; even though they look different from ours, they’re still Gaussian weapons. I didn’t see any sma weapons. Do they think we ck Star Troopers are paper tigers? We’ve killed millions of zerg aliens; I don’t believe we can’t handle this room of merchants."


    Ying waved his hand, signaling Ebon to stop talking. He observed the faces around them closely... Even though he was unfamiliar with alien facial features, he could tell that the aliens were looking down on them.


    Suddenly, the hall quieted down. Even though Ying had no clue what had happened, he knew it couldn’t be something good. In the next second, aser fence appeared around the lowered tform they were in, effectively trapping them within.


    A few seconds ago, far away from the space merchants’ mother ship, the Hope lost its light. Even though the power returned in a matter of seconds, the space merchants’ ship opened its hangar and about 10 giant spacecrafts and more than a thousand smallerbat crafts surged towards the Hope.


    A few seconds after theser fence trapped Ying’s group, a series of tentacle arms appeared from underneath the ground. The mechanical arms were sturdy and fast. They bound Ying’s group in only a few minutes. Even Ebon couldn’t react fast enough to escape from the arms.


    The arms were made from some incredibly powerful metals. Even with the space armors’ aid, they had difficulties tearing off the bindings. Furthermore, the arms went for human joints like elbows and wrists, making it extremely difficult to exert force.


    After that, smaller arms appeared. They started working on the business experts and apanying workers’ normal spacesuits. Very soon, the small arms peeled the spacesuits off the people’s bodies. It was unknown what the atmosphere inside the spaceship was like, but after their spacesuits were removed, the few people groaned, gasping for air before faintingpletely.


    The smaller arms didn’t stop. They turned towards the others, the remaining ck Star Troopers. Their first target was Ren Tao.


    Ren Tao gave a knowing smile as if the truth had suddenly dawned for him. He stopped struggling and told Ying and the rest behind him with a smile, "I suspect that the air in the spaceship will make human beings faint. No clue whether prolonged exposure will be fatal or not, but to be safe, please help me get into my space armor after I’ve fainted. If not, I’lle back to haunt all of you."


    Ebon roared back at him, "Are you kidding me? Can’t you see were immobile too?"


    "No." Ren Tao smirked. "We’ll be free in just a minute."


    As he said this, the smaller arms started working on his space armor. They took only few minutes to pull Ren Tao out of his space armor. At that moment, Ren Tao stuck his bound hands into his shirt and a snow-white ck Dragon baby appeared in his arms. He threw the baby dragon at the mess of arms without hesitation and yelled, "Sleepyhead, it’s time to wake up and sh through those arms!"


    The baby dragon was woken up due to being tossed roughly to the floor. The moment he woke up, he started chirping inint. However, he knew that something was wrong as soon as he opened his small eyes. He sucked in a few deep breaths, but his small nostrils kept twitching. Almost instantly, his body tensed. Like an angry kitten, he hissed threateningly at the aliens beyond theser fence.


    Ren Tao finally copsed, grasping his throat. The baby dragon was actually very intelligent. He had been feeding on the new’s unique, legged fish, so his IQ was higher than monkeys’ and orangutans’. His intelligence was on par with a seven-year-old human child. He cleverly avoided going near theser fence and focused his aggression on the metallic arms instead. He was so small and fast that the arms were unable to keep up with him.


    ck Dragon...


    It was truly befitting of its super species name!


    Ever since leaving the new, the research on the ck Dragons’ evolutionary system hadn’t stopped even though progress was cially slow. The main issue was the ck Dragons’ unique gic quality, namely its gic enhancement quality. It was hard for man to envision why a peaceful environment like the new would breed a super species like the ck dragons. It undermined the human understanding of evolution.


    Even at this moment, the ck dragon showcased its incongruities to mankind’s evolutionary knowledge.


    Even though it was only a baby dragon, its teeth and jaw strength were strong enough to directly chomp through the metallic arms. Not only that, he waspletely unaffected by the electricity that leaked out of the destroyed arms. He worked through the arms one by one until few of the ck Star Troopers were released from their bindings.


    One of them was Ebon. With a mighty roar, he pulled out the sawde on his waist and hacked at the remaining metallic arms. A series of metallic ngster, all the ck Star Troopers were released. Ying yelled, "Ebon! Get 5 troopers and start cutting through the ground! If we can’t go out, we’re going down! Liu Bai, take another 5 and get the others back into their spacesuits and space armor. The rest follow me and we’ll make quick work of the remaining arms!


    "Let’s do this!"


    Back on the Hope, many people were startled by the sudden albeit temporary loss of power. People were shocked and afraid because they were, after all, in space. Who knew what would happen next?


    Eva’s parents, who were resting and cooking, stopped what they were working on when the lights in their house shed. They started fretting when Eva walked out of her bedroom sleepily, rubbing her eyes. "Mom, Dad, it’s going to be fine. Everything will quiet down soon enough. By the way, please remind the aunty thates with the needles to do it with less force and more uracy after I fall asleep. Her first shot will miss the artery and the second shot will miss from her shaking hands."


    Eva yawned and returned to her bedroom, leaving her surprised parents behind. She closed the door lightly and hopped onto her bed. Then she pulled her teddy bear into her arms, lied down, and slept snuggled against the bear.


    After the temporary power outage, Yao Yuan instantly knew that something had gone awry. He yelled at the ten ck Star Troopers that were guarding the meeting room, "Detain them! There is something very suspicious about these space merchants! Detain them!"


    However, the troopers didn’t move. The space merchants startedughing in their ownnguage while the troopers tried to speak above each other, saying, "Sorry, Captain, we can’t move. The space armors arepletely offline!"


    With that, Yao Yuan knew that something was truly off. He turned to the Defense Unit soldiers and ordered, "Fire! Kill them all!"


    The Defense Unit soldiers carried low power Gaussian rifles, the kind that wouldn’t prate the spaceship’s walls, so their power was not as strong as the originals’. The 20 soldiers heard Yao Yuan’s orders and pointed their guns at the alien merchants. However, they were toote. The bullets bounced off the electromaic shields that appeared around the merchants. The gori alien leaped over the meeting table while other aliens rushed towards the soldiers. The only alien who remained seated was the big brain alien. He continued cackling in that strangeugh of his.


    At that moment, a voice issued in Yao Yuan’smunicator. "Captain! We’ve lostplete control of the Hope. All the systems were hacked. The merchants used a code simr to something from old Earth and have taken control over our central mainframe! Everything is down!"


    The four-armed goris mmed into the Defense Unit soldiers. Their strength was so great that one fell swoop of their arm practically bent and cut a human soldier into two. Either that, or the soldier was sent flying into the wall and sttered in a mess of guts. With their incredible strength and speed, 3 alien goris took 7 seconds to decimate 20 Defense Unit soldiers!


    Yao Yuan understood that the time for words was over. Suddenly, a series of footsteps appeared from outside the door. However, they sounded too mechanically uniform to Yao Yuan’s ears. There was only one possibility. After the merchants had taken over the central mainframe, they used it to control the empty trooper space armors.


    Yao Yuan leaped to one of the troopers’ sides and pulled out the sawde on his waist. Right at that moment, an alien gori charged towards him. Yao Yuan leaped backwards, and with a twirl of his write, the gori was split into two sections and fell to the floor. Yao Yuan’s eyes were overcast with chilling vengeance.


    "Don’t think that we Homo Evolutis arepletely useless without the space armors...


    "Killing the likes of you is as easy as pie!"