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american comcis _ tales of caltiveter _chapter_0407_part_02
Chapter 981
chapter 0407 part 2
Lane: Hmm???!!!
The scorching sun beat down, and the boundless desert made one feel desolate.
Especially within this group planning to abandon their homes and flee, the oppressive atmosphere persisted.
Even though Abad had quickened his pace, significantly increasing the speed of the entire team.
However, the shadows of two shuttles quickly appeared on the horizon behind them.
"Abad, what do we do now?"
Facing the two shuttles about to fly overhead, Diego looked at his friend, who claimed to have been a Space Pirate for decades, feeling somewhat at a loss.
"Make way for them and let them go first!"
Abad looked up at the shuttles flying towards them. These old models, in the past, he wouldn't even spare them a second glance.
But on this Planet, which was almost abandoned by interstellar civilization, these few shuttles were a dimensionality reduction impact.
He felt around in the abdominal cavity of his modified mechanical body. The limited energy source remaining made Abad abandon the idea of taking down these few shuttles.
He took the lead and changed Direction, leaving the path opened by the pack beast caravan.
Abad led the team to the shaded side of a nearby sand dune and ordered everyone to rest in place!
The refugees who had been traveling for most of the day felt as if they had been granted a great pardon.
Those who were utterly exhausted didn't care about the sand on the ground, which was hot from the sun. They collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily.
Diego took advantage of the moment he was drinking water to secretly observe the three customers he had picked up halfway.
Indeed, with Abad's reminder, he finally noticed something was off.
Unlike the many refugees who were eager to rest and drink water, these three guys were too calm, especially the one named Tang. His white clothes were so clean they hadn't even picked up any dust.
How was this possible? In this environment filled with yellow sand, let alone walking in the desert for most of the day, even standing outside for a while would result in shaking three pounds of yellow sand from your clothes when you returned.
Diego secretly observed Tang Song's clean clothes, which looked as good as new, using his water skin as cover. While astonished, a pair of clear black and white eyes suddenly appeared before him.
"Cough cough!"
Diego was startled. As a frogman, he was actually choked by the water he drank, coughing repeatedly!
Tang Song revealed a mischievous smile, "Hahaha."
The little plan that this Little Frog and his space pirate friend thought they were whispering naturally couldn't escape him.
However, Boss Tang, who prided himself on being magnanimous, naturally wouldn't bother with the two of them. Moreover, he had performed divination and calculated that these two still had a connection with him, and an opportunity of his seemed to be tied to them.
This was also the reason why Tang Song opened the Space Gate in front of this fleeing team and paid money to join them halfway.
A caravan walked along the desert trade route. Above the caravan, two shuttles circled at low altitude, protecting this caravan loaded with goods.
"These poor devils are quite sensible!"
On a specially modified shuttle, Fat Toad Geta drank a large glass of ice water. It took him a while to recover from the grief of losing his wealth.
Hearing the information relayed back from the two reconnaissance aircraft ahead, and learning that the fleeing scavengers had made way, the Fat Toad said disdainfully.
"Did you see clearly? Do those poor devils really have nothing valuable?"
Fat Toad Geta's greed was famous throughout the entire Planet. To describe him using Earth terms, he was the type who felt like he'd lost money if he didn't pick it up when he went out, the kind who would even taste the contents of a manure truck passing by his door. Having lost so much money this time, the already stingy him now wished he could scrape the ground three feet deep to make up for his loss.
"Old Master, Balun said that these people combined only have a few pack beasts, and there are quite a few of them."
The shuttle pilot communicated with the two reconnaissance aircraft ahead, then turned and spoke to the Fat Toad.
"What if there are many of them? Can any number of them withstand our energy cannon!" The Fat Toad patted his big belly indifferently, clearly not taking those poor devils seriously. Upon hearing that the team had a few pack beasts, he couldn't help but feel his index finger twitch with desire.
Even a fly's leg is still meat!
"Old Master, the energy cannon consumes our energy source reserves. What little those poor devils have probably isn't enough to break even. What if it attracts those monsters hidden in the sand..."
"Consider these poor devils lucky, then this Old Master will perform an act of kindness!" Whether it was hearing that robbing them wouldn't break even or fearing the monsters in the sand, the Fat Toad waved his hand: "Tell the caravan to speed up and reach Frog God Mountain as quickly as possible!"
"Yes, Old Master!"
Under Abad's deliberate avoidance, the two teams passed each other. About twenty minutes after the caravan left, Abad led his team back onto the trade route.
"Boom!"
Just as the two groups, one after the other, were hurrying along, and the sun was gradually dimming, a sudden explosion echoed throughout heaven and earth. In the distant sky, a giant mushroom cloud suddenly rose. Although they were a great distance away, the ground felt as if an earthquake had struck. The Earth trembled, and the people in the fleeing team stumbled and fell to the ground.
The startled pack beasts even carried their masters directly into the storm.
"That direction, is that the black Spaceship?"
The moment he heard the explosion sound, Diego instinctively moved closer to Abad. The modified human Abad looked at the rising mushroom cloud with a solemn complexion.
"The Self-Destruct Program on that Spaceship was activated. It looks like the Predator encountered a difficult enemy!"
Having been a Space Pirate who was active for a time, Abad naturally knew the Predator's custom. When encountering a troublesome Rival, Self-Destruct was their last backup plan, and also their glory.
And the existences that could force these Predator to Self-Destruct their Spaceship were clearly not something they could provoke.
Minutes ago, near Shadow Storm's crash-landed personal craft, under MODOK's command, a massive amount of mutated creatures surrounded the Spaceship.
As a monster resembling a sea cockroach tore open the Ship's Hull and was the first to rush into the Spaceship, the Spaceship's trigger-based Self-Destruct system immediately went to zero. The Spaceship's internal energy source system instantly converted the energy supply mode into Self-Destruct energy. The entire Spaceship instantly turned into a super bomb comparable to tens of millions of tons of nuclear warheads. The explosive energy wave instantly swept across hundreds of kilometers, and the energy flames instantly devoured thousands of mutated creatures.
Even MODOK, hundreds of kilometers up in the high altitude, was blown away by this energy wave. If he hadn't been wearing that golden armor, the aftershock of this energy explosion alone would have caused him to start bleeding from the seven orifices!
(End of chapter)
Lane: Hmm???!!!
The scorching sun beat down, and the boundless desert made one feel desolate.
Especially within this group planning to abandon their homes and flee, the oppressive atmosphere persisted.
Even though Abad had quickened his pace, significantly increasing the speed of the entire team.
However, the shadows of two shuttles quickly appeared on the horizon behind them.
"Abad, what do we do now?"
Facing the two shuttles about to fly overhead, Diego looked at his friend, who claimed to have been a Space Pirate for decades, feeling somewhat at a loss.
"Make way for them and let them go first!"
Abad looked up at the shuttles flying towards them. These old models, in the past, he wouldn't even spare them a second glance.
But on this Planet, which was almost abandoned by interstellar civilization, these few shuttles were a dimensionality reduction impact.
He felt around in the abdominal cavity of his modified mechanical body. The limited energy source remaining made Abad abandon the idea of taking down these few shuttles.
He took the lead and changed Direction, leaving the path opened by the pack beast caravan.
Abad led the team to the shaded side of a nearby sand dune and ordered everyone to rest in place!
The refugees who had been traveling for most of the day felt as if they had been granted a great pardon.
Those who were utterly exhausted didn't care about the sand on the ground, which was hot from the sun. They collapsed onto the ground, panting heavily.
Diego took advantage of the moment he was drinking water to secretly observe the three customers he had picked up halfway.
Indeed, with Abad's reminder, he finally noticed something was off.
Unlike the many refugees who were eager to rest and drink water, these three guys were too calm, especially the one named Tang. His white clothes were so clean they hadn't even picked up any dust.
How was this possible? In this environment filled with yellow sand, let alone walking in the desert for most of the day, even standing outside for a while would result in shaking three pounds of yellow sand from your clothes when you returned.
Diego secretly observed Tang Song's clean clothes, which looked as good as new, using his water skin as cover. While astonished, a pair of clear black and white eyes suddenly appeared before him.
"Cough cough!"
Diego was startled. As a frogman, he was actually choked by the water he drank, coughing repeatedly!
Tang Song revealed a mischievous smile, "Hahaha."
The little plan that this Little Frog and his space pirate friend thought they were whispering naturally couldn't escape him.
However, Boss Tang, who prided himself on being magnanimous, naturally wouldn't bother with the two of them. Moreover, he had performed divination and calculated that these two still had a connection with him, and an opportunity of his seemed to be tied to them.
This was also the reason why Tang Song opened the Space Gate in front of this fleeing team and paid money to join them halfway.
A caravan walked along the desert trade route. Above the caravan, two shuttles circled at low altitude, protecting this caravan loaded with goods.
"These poor devils are quite sensible!"
On a specially modified shuttle, Fat Toad Geta drank a large glass of ice water. It took him a while to recover from the grief of losing his wealth.
Hearing the information relayed back from the two reconnaissance aircraft ahead, and learning that the fleeing scavengers had made way, the Fat Toad said disdainfully.
"Did you see clearly? Do those poor devils really have nothing valuable?"
Fat Toad Geta's greed was famous throughout the entire Planet. To describe him using Earth terms, he was the type who felt like he'd lost money if he didn't pick it up when he went out, the kind who would even taste the contents of a manure truck passing by his door. Having lost so much money this time, the already stingy him now wished he could scrape the ground three feet deep to make up for his loss.
"Old Master, Balun said that these people combined only have a few pack beasts, and there are quite a few of them."
The shuttle pilot communicated with the two reconnaissance aircraft ahead, then turned and spoke to the Fat Toad.
"What if there are many of them? Can any number of them withstand our energy cannon!" The Fat Toad patted his big belly indifferently, clearly not taking those poor devils seriously. Upon hearing that the team had a few pack beasts, he couldn't help but feel his index finger twitch with desire.
Even a fly's leg is still meat!
"Old Master, the energy cannon consumes our energy source reserves. What little those poor devils have probably isn't enough to break even. What if it attracts those monsters hidden in the sand..."
"Consider these poor devils lucky, then this Old Master will perform an act of kindness!" Whether it was hearing that robbing them wouldn't break even or fearing the monsters in the sand, the Fat Toad waved his hand: "Tell the caravan to speed up and reach Frog God Mountain as quickly as possible!"
"Yes, Old Master!"
Under Abad's deliberate avoidance, the two teams passed each other. About twenty minutes after the caravan left, Abad led his team back onto the trade route.
"Boom!"
Just as the two groups, one after the other, were hurrying along, and the sun was gradually dimming, a sudden explosion echoed throughout heaven and earth. In the distant sky, a giant mushroom cloud suddenly rose. Although they were a great distance away, the ground felt as if an earthquake had struck. The Earth trembled, and the people in the fleeing team stumbled and fell to the ground.
The startled pack beasts even carried their masters directly into the storm.
"That direction, is that the black Spaceship?"
The moment he heard the explosion sound, Diego instinctively moved closer to Abad. The modified human Abad looked at the rising mushroom cloud with a solemn complexion.
"The Self-Destruct Program on that Spaceship was activated. It looks like the Predator encountered a difficult enemy!"
Having been a Space Pirate who was active for a time, Abad naturally knew the Predator's custom. When encountering a troublesome Rival, Self-Destruct was their last backup plan, and also their glory.
And the existences that could force these Predator to Self-Destruct their Spaceship were clearly not something they could provoke.
Minutes ago, near Shadow Storm's crash-landed personal craft, under MODOK's command, a massive amount of mutated creatures surrounded the Spaceship.
As a monster resembling a sea cockroach tore open the Ship's Hull and was the first to rush into the Spaceship, the Spaceship's trigger-based Self-Destruct system immediately went to zero. The Spaceship's internal energy source system instantly converted the energy supply mode into Self-Destruct energy. The entire Spaceship instantly turned into a super bomb comparable to tens of millions of tons of nuclear warheads. The explosive energy wave instantly swept across hundreds of kilometers, and the energy flames instantly devoured thousands of mutated creatures.
Even MODOK, hundreds of kilometers up in the high altitude, was blown away by this energy wave. If he hadn't been wearing that golden armor, the aftershock of this energy explosion alone would have caused him to start bleeding from the seven orifices!
(End of chapter)
