Chapter 413: Chapter 412 Too Late
Five minutes later.
The warship rose into the sky, with countless Shilin Race’s artillery fire coming from below, seemingly trying to shoot the warship down again...
Unfortunately, those clumsy and unwieldy attacks had limited accuracy, and even if they hit, the specially made Watchtower class Battleship was not something these attacks could break.
When Xu Lingjun stowed away the mecha and entered the warship.
What he saw was the ship’s doors wide open, with the people from Han Yun City and others wearing protective suits that could insulate against all viruses, throwing out one corpse after another.
Obviously, the sudden attack from Ultraman was like a giant shock, akin to an elevator plummeting from hundreds of floors high, and these people were flung out before they even had the chance to activate the anti-gravity devices, being crushed into pulp—or was it gravel?
The people from Han Yun City who came in weren’t there to kill but to clear up the debris.
Xu Lingjun had just come in when Han Yun City, wrapped like a dumpling, directly tossed him a protective suit, saying, "Hurry up and put it on; the entire ship is filled with stone dust now, be careful not to get infected."
Xu Lingjun took it and put it on himself.
Watching as the group threw the bodies of the Shilin Race downwards... at this height, those Shilin Race people could no longer catch up, they could only watch with rage as their clansmen were thrown down one after another.
After throwing the bodies.
They used a vacuum cleaner once more, and then cleaned up again... then sprayed disinfectant all over the room.
Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief and took off their protective suits.
Everyone’s eyes turned to Liu Dong.
Liu Dong was taken aback, a look of surprise on his face as he asked, "You... why are all of you looking at me?"
Han Yun City said seriously: "We need to inform the Polar Star Battlefield about the Shilin Race on Xuyun Star as quickly as possible."
Liu Dong asked: "So?"
"All the pilots we came with have already died. You’ve been a veteran in the Polar Star Battlefield, don’t you have some experience piloting a warship?"
Liu Dong couldn’t help but curl his lips and said, "If you put it that way, Your Highness, then even if I swept the floor in a hospital for a lifetime, I should have no problem operating on a surgical table? This isn’t about being experienced or not; it’s about never having the opportunity to interact with these things."
"Then where is the current destination set for this warship?"
Han Yun City turned to Zhao Yang.
Zhao Yang replied vaguely: "I’m not a student of the Interstellar Academy; I don’t know how to pilot a warship."
Xu Lingjun said: "I’ll do it."
He waved.
Releasing Nano 85, Xiaoya had already consciously entered it, the iron robot voluntarily sat in the main pilot position, and a crisp female voice said: "Master, leave it to me, the target is Polar Star Battlefield, we will arrive in a month."
"Alright, thank you for your hard work."
Xu Lingjun watched Xiaoya operating the instruments, and a thought suddenly crossed his mind.
It’s inconvenient that Xiaoya doesn’t have her own body...
It seems that when we return, I’ll have to find a way to give Xiaoya a body of her own.
But a life-sized body seems a bit unsuitable, as it’s not convenient to carry around. Maybe I can make her a smaller version, modeled after Sister Yaya, about palm-sized, wouldn’t that be better?
It would be convenient to carry...
Hmm, better discuss it with Sister Yaya when I get back.
Seeing the warship starting to break out of the atmosphere, the Shilin Race people below no longer had a chance to chase them up.
Han Yun City patted Xu Lingjun on the shoulder and said: "I have something good to show you."
Saying that, he led Xu Lingjun deeper into the warship.
The Watchtower class Battleship was a warship, not a sparrow, with all its organs perfectly intact.
Inside, there was a cage, completely isolated by alloy steel glass on all sides, not even a mosquito could fly in... and at this moment, inside, a tall Shilin Race person was quietly half-sitting and half-lying within.
Noticing the two approaching... he did not say a word, nor did he speak, just a pool of blood had already settled below him, clearly showing he was seriously injured.
"Is he..."
Xu Lingjun couldn’t help but brighten his eyes in surprise and said: "Isn’t this the leader of the Shilin Race?"
"Is this an unexpected surprise?"
Han Yun City laughed and said: "Before, we just wanted to take back our own warship and leave this planet, but unexpectedly, this leader of the Shilin Race was also here, and almost all the Shilin Race people were killed in the shock then, but this person was only left with broken legs since he used two of his confidants as a shield."
"Does it really matter if he’s dead or not?"
The Shilin leader, who could clearly hear Xu Lingjun and Han Yun City’s conversation, sneered and said: "Do you still dream of getting any useful information from me? You’d better kill me outright, otherwise, if you give me a chance, I will spread out like a plague, and that is a consequence you cannot afford."
"I actually don’t quite understand, what does this so-called transformation truly mean?"
Xu Lingjun glanced at the Shilin Race person and said: "You should be human, shouldn’t you? Since you’re human, even if your body changes into another form, did your mindset truly become transformed too? Can you completely abandon your former identity and follow your new kind in hatching plots against your once-belonged-to race?"
"I have only hatred towards my former race, no sense of belonging, so the acceptance of my new identity happened much quicker than you’d imagine, even quicker than I imagined."
The Shilin leader looked at Xu Lingjun and asked back: "What is a sense of belonging? Don’t you think it’s just a vague and hollow concept? Just because they are labeled as humans, should I have a sense of belonging to them?"
He asked: "Young man, when your parents, children, all your family members are dead, and the so-called humans clearly had the ability to help but only watched them die, how can you feel any sense of belonging to these murderers? When your home becomes empty and devoid of a single person that matters, is it still your home?"
"The battlefield is full of touching and tragic stories; your experience is not uncommon."
Han Yun City sneered and said: "I once watched helplessly as my comrade jumped in front of me to shield me from gunfire, I once had to scoop out flesh from my fallen comrades just to survive and kill one more mysterious race to avenge them. If you want tragic stories, I can tell you a dozen with just a blink, but that does not justify your betrayal of humanity."
"Indeed, you depended on each other, yet I suffered betrayal from my own people. I did nothing wrong, yet ended up like this, I don’t hate them, but what crime did my family commit to not even being allowed to survive?"
The Shilin leader sneered and said: "I’m not afraid of telling you the truth... it’s too late. I did indeed want revenge on Blue Star, and in fact, I’ve already succeeded in getting revenge on Blue Star, it’s all too late now; do you want to send a message back? It’s unnecessary; it’s too late."
Xu Lingjun asked: "Since it’s too late, do you not want to share your grand revenge plan with me first?"
"You will know soon enough."
The Shilin leader shut his eyes.
Then at this moment, Xu Lingjun suddenly frowned and signaled to Han Yun City, and they came out.
"Looks like we need to find a way to make this guy talk~after all."
Han Yun City frowned and said: "He must know some very important information."
Xu Lingjun said: "Xiaoya found some crucial information, a video left by Li Cheng before he died, which these people never got the chance to grasp after gaining the warship before we retook it, so these videos were preserved."
Han Yun City, hearing this, brightened his eyes with surprise and said: "Then hurry up, it might be related to their goals!"
"Mm."
Xu Lingjun took one last glance at the Shilin leader who was still quietly lying there and recalled his words that it was already too late. An inexplicable premonition of unease arose within him.
