“The firepower has clearly weakened. It looks like we’ve created some distance!”
“I feel like we can activate the warp drive now!”
Zi Jiu and the others crowded the cockpit, watching the rear monitors of the spaceship, discussing the current situation incessantly.
But Lin Zhen squinted at the monitor projection, not feeling at ease despite the enemy’s reduced firepower.
Instead, a nagging sense of unease lingered in his heart.
If the enemy was really what he suspected—members sent by the Saints’ Hand Society to intercept and kill him to prevent his capture of Chatosi—they wouldn’t let him escape so easily.
But he thought Anvil was right.
To escape the pursuit, they had to activate the warp drive.
No matter what reserve move the enemy was preparing, taking advantage of this hard-won gap to activate the warp drive was definitely the right call.
“Senior Chicha…”
Lin Zhen slowly spoke.
“Going to activate the warp drive?”
Chicha’s voice rang out; he had completely seen through Lin Zhen’s thoughts.
“Yeah!”
“This really is a good opportunity! I’m switching the engine!”
Chicha said as he activated the warp drive.
In an instant, the spaceship dropped from subluminal speed, relying only on its previous inertia to maintain a relatively fast speed, which was still further decreasing.
And at this delicate moment when the warp drive had just successfully activated but hadn’t yet accelerated, Lin Zhen looked at the outer space scenery that was slowly revealing itself again due to the drastic speed reduction.
Alarm bells suddenly rang in his heart. He realized that making them switch to the warp drive and forcing them to slow down was exactly what the enemy wanted to do.
This was a blatant open scheme that they were bound to fall for!
“Not good!”
Lin Zhen shouted low, abruptly channeled star energy, and activated his supernatural power.
In an instant, layers of scale-like Grade 4 star energy metal rapidly grew from beneath the alloy on the spaceship’s surface, forming a slope at the position he anticipated the impact would hit, significantly reducing the force.
In moments, it covered the entire surface of the spaceship.
Then, the next second, a white streak of light flashed sharply past the right porthole.
It then turned and slammed directly into the slope formed by the star energy metal, sharply sliding off.
Lin Zhen’s response this time was incredibly timely.
All the star energy damage from the white streak’s impact was completely absorbed by the Grade 4 star energy metal.
Its long-gathered impact force was also greatly dispersed by the slope; most of the remainder was absorbed by the shock-absorbing alloy on the spaceship’s surface, similar to vibranium, which could absorb a large amount of impact.
The remaining small portion only caused the spaceship to tumble dozens of times, without suffering any serious damage.
Although due to the severe displacement of its attitude, the spaceship was forced to break out of its acceleration state, and needed to accelerate again to raise its speed above light speed using the warp drive.
But under such a terrifying blow, the spaceship being undamaged was already a blessing in disguise.
The deflected white streak traced an arc in space, then suddenly stopped right in front of the spaceship.
The flame-like streak dimmed as it lost speed.
The Evil Beast coldly watched the spaceship still flying forward after its tumble, smirked coldly, and abruptly raised his right hand, unleashing a powerful telekinesis with full force.
Crackle! Crackle! The Flying Harrier’s Level 3 star energy shield was triggered, abruptly forming a red film on the spaceship’s surface, struggling against the telekinetic force trying to directly penetrate the ship’s interior.
The star energy shield loaded on the spaceship, because it could be large in size, was entirely capable of withstanding several full-power attacks from five or six star energy users of the same level, driven by its internal energy source.
Yet even such a powerful defensive shield now appeared somewhat fragile; within ten seconds of contending with the telekinesis, it completely dissipated due to energy depletion.
“Even after five years, your sister Xi is still your sister Xi, the undisputed strongest at the same level!”
“Lao Xi is so ruthless. Don’t let Lao Zhen get scared to tears!”
“So according to this setting, Lao Xi can take on nine Level 3 star energy users by herself now?”
“The enemy just raised his hand, and the star energy shield couldn’t even last ten seconds before emptying?! What exactly is his supernatural power?”
Lin Zhen was indeed scared, just as the barrage said.
Being able to easily break through the defense of a Level 3 star energy shield meant that this assassin sent by the Saints’ Hand Society possessed Grade 4 strength.
It was even very likely a Level 4 star energy user.
In this Star Sea where Level 8 was just a legend, Level 7 was countable in the entire Empire, and Level 6 was already the strongest in most factions, Level 4 and Level 5 were undoubtedly the backbone of every faction, and could be called regional strongmen wherever they went.
And to deal with their group of Level 2 star energy users, the Saints’ Hand Society had actually sent a Level 4 combatant.
It was clear just how important they were considered!
The spaceship’s star energy shield dissipated and was unable to resist the enemy’s supernatural power, so Chicha immediately switched back to the curvature engine, accelerating the spaceship to flee outward.
But the Evil Beast abruptly raised his left hand, and an even more powerful telekinesis surged from within.
It actually directly pinned the spaceship that had just started accelerating in place.
Crack, crack! The scale-like star energy metal on the spaceship’s surface cracked inch by inch, as if the Evil Beast was going to crush it directly with telekinesis!
Such a familiar scene made Lin Zhen and the others instantly realize what the supernatural power of this white streak was.
Telekinesis! Wait, telekinesis! Lin Zhen’s heart trembled.
While continuously using his supernatural power to repair the star energy metal and release the impact absorbed by the shock-absorbing alloy to resist the forceful compression of the telekinesis, he also subconsciously looked up out the window.
Then he was completely stunned.
Although this enemy wore a mask, had a tall and slender figure, and was wrapped in thick, dim telekinesis, but that sky-blue hair, that familiar posture of using telekinesis…
How could this enemy be so, so similar… to Yun Ruoxi?
Lin Zhen was startled by himself. How could it be Yun Ruoxi?
She should have been locked up in the Asha Star system, used by Dr. Forefinger as a bargaining chip against him, right?
How could she appear here alone! But… She really looks like her!
Chicha manipulated the spaceship to try to escape the telekinetic grip, but Lin Zhen couldn’t help watching the Evil Beast, and the more he looked, the more he saw the shadow of that blue-haired little girl from five years ago.
Even the habit of slightly frowning and raising the corner of the mouth when exerting force was exactly the same as Yun Ruoxi.
After discovering that Lin Zhen was staring at the enemy in a daze, the others also curiously looked over.
And like Lin Zhen, Aili, who knew Yun Ruoxi well enough, also saw Yun Ruoxi’s shadow in the enemy.
Her eyes instantly reddened, and she murmured in disbelief:
“Sis… Sister?!”
“Wow, I was thinking that Lao Zhen and Lao Xi would go three hundred rounds, and only after punching the mask off would he realize he was fighting his wife, but I didn’t expect they all figured it out!”
“Indeed, they saw through it directly. I guess the main cast are all Lao Xi’s single-minded fans; they recognized her even with the mask!”
“If a blue-haired person likes to use telekinesis, isn’t that just Yun Ruoxi?”
“That’s true…”