Chapter 204
Rong Yuan had just entered a new room when an explosion occurred at the connection of the spacecraft.
In fact, the 18th floor is probably the place on Liukasao where one can feel most like a spaceship. The other floors are extremely wide and tall, with numerous buildings, shops, roads and holographic images of the sky, making one feel like they are in a city on a habitable planet.
But the 18th floor is like an ordinary transport spaceship, with long, winding passages connecting various rooms on both sides. There are doorplates outside the rooms, with names such as [Liukasao Personnel Information Room], [Lounge], [Weapons and Equipment Archive Room], and [Interstellar Alliance Important Information Compilation Room] written on them, so that people can know what these rooms are used for at a glance. The height of each room is not hundreds of meters like other ship floors, but only between four or five meters and thirty or forty meters.
As for the room full of crystal lattices and brains that Rong Yuan had just destroyed, he later found a sign with the word "Ochi" hanging outside the door on the other side, which was quite straightforward.
Most of the doors were locked, and some of them were busy working. When Rong Yuan walked past the door, they didn't react at all, as if he was invisible in their eyes. Even if Rong Yuan walked in front of them, they would question or scold him, and at most they would just choose to take a detour.
Among these people, Rong Yuan saw Todd, Mapu, Lloyd, Baili Yun... and even Lao Xia, Yinmu's confidant, whom he had only met once!
And there's more than one!
"They're all clones."
Alpha's voice came from the headset.
"Although most clones are like newborns, their temperament, hobbies, habits, abilities, etc. are difficult to be exactly the same as the original during the training process, and they only have a high degree of similarity. But these people are different."
"If the original's IQ is 100, the IQs of these clones are between 95 and 115. According to records, those with an IQ below 95 are considered defective and will be disposed of in about seven months."
"Also, although all the clones here have been given as much intelligence and execution power as possible, their individual wills have been erased, so they will only follow orders and complete their work wholeheartedly, and will not respond to anything other than work."
"These people appear to be human beings, but they are nothing more than tools."
Alpha said coldly.
After Rong Yuan destroyed the Ochi system, Alpha quickly took over the intelligent management system of the entire spacecraft without causing any disturbance, so now ninety-nine percent of Liukasao is transparent to him and there are no secrets.
Except for one place.
"There are no surveillance or other types of intelligent devices in the central area of the eighteenth floor. The person you are looking for should be there."
"I suppose so."
Rong Yuan responded and followed Alpha's instructions, walking towards the central area.
He knew that when he destroyed Ochi before, he should have alarmed the person behind the scenes, but for some reason, the other party did not react at all and just let him approach step by step.
Was that person confident and felt that he could not pose a threat to him? Or was he relying on something else?
Rong Yuan didn't think much about it, but wherever he walked, the lights went out, the pipes exploded, and even countless tiny cracks appeared on the ground and walls.
The shrill alarm sounded throughout Liukasao, and countless people exclaimed:
"Singer is coming!"
"The pirates are coming!"
"Run for your life!"
Banjin pulled Muter, and Shadao held a picked-up iron rod. Several people hid in a pharmacy on the street, looking outside nervously through the window.
The crowd on the street was like crazy; some fled in panic, some fell to the ground crying, some took the opportunity to smash, loot and rob, some fell to the ground groaning with blood, and some frantically searched for their lost family members.
Even though they hadn't even seen the shadow of the pirates, panic and fear had already dragged everyone into hell.
All of this stems from the terrifying reputation of the Singer Pirates in the Interstellar Alliance.
The strength of the Singer Star Pirates can be ranked in the top ten in the alliance. Its warships, mechas and various weapons and equipment are more powerful than some small countries that only occupy a single-digit number of habitable stars. Of course, it is certainly incomparable with the real big forces in the alliance, such as the Landia Empire. But according to rumors, the fleet of the Singer Star Pirates has no fixed base, and has been wandering in the star sea at will, looting when it encounters a suitable target.
Because they come and go like the wind, and stay away from the important strongholds and troops of the major powers and chaebols, and their power is so great that ordinary troops can hardly protect themselves when they encounter them, let alone eliminate them, so no one has been able to do anything to them.
In fact, with such a vast star field and countless population as the Interstellar Alliance, the destructive power that a pirate group can cause is extremely limited. Although there are many pirate groups in the Alliance, for most ordinary people, even if they take a spaceship every week, the probability of encountering a pirate once in their lifetime is much lower than the probability of choking to death while drinking water.
Therefore, generally speaking, the reputation of a pirate group is often only spread in a small range near the star field where it is active. People in other places may only occasionally see its name in the news on the star network, but they neither care about it nor understand it.
The reason why the Singer Pirates have such a widespread and terrible reputation is because of their extremely cruel style.
Most pirate groups are only after money. Generally speaking, they will leave after robbing a spaceship. They will not stay for too long, and will not hurt many people. As long as people do not resist, their lives will basically not be in danger. If they encounter them, they will just think they are unlucky. Not many people will even contact the official forces to report it.
After all, the starry sea is boundless, and star pirates are like a drop of water in the ocean. Even the big countries find it difficult to find and completely eliminate them. Even if people report to the police, usually there will be no results.
But the Singer Pirates are different.
They were like locusts, destroying everything they saw - there were few survivors wherever they passed, all property was looted, and any spacecraft they could not take away, including the lifeboats on board, were destroyed. All spacecraft that encountered them eventually became aimlessly floating space junk, with corpses with horrified faces scattered among them.
Only two kinds of people can survive this group of pirates.
One type is high-level talents who possess rare and advanced knowledge or skills. Singer will force them to join his star pirate group and work for him, and anyone who refuses will be brutally killed by him in the end.
Another type is young and beautiful girls. It is self-evident what they have experienced. After suffering all kinds of torture, Singer occasionally [shows kindness] and sends them into the lifeboat and turns on the distress signal on all channels, exiling them to the sea of stars. If they are lucky enough, they can be rescued before the energy of the lifeboat is exhausted. After being rescued, these girls become the best propaganda tools for the reputation of the Star Pirates.
That's why everyone was so panicked at this moment .
Although Liukasao also has its own fighting team as a guard, but... with only more than 8,000 people, whose biggest role has always been to maintain law and order, can it be a match for the Singh Pirates that have dominated the alliance for many years?
If the fighting department could have attacked quickly, or if officials from Liukasao had come forward to maintain order, perhaps people would not have panicked so much. But the alarm sounded for a long time, and the situation became more and more chaotic, but no reliable people came forward.
"They're all dead! They're all dead!"
Ban Jin saw a man covered in blood and running in the middle of the street with a terrified look on his face. He grabbed a random person and shouted, "The ship owner's family is dead! Lord Odemi's family is dead! Salami's family is dead! They are all dead! They are all dead!"
The man he caught was an adventurer who had no idea who the ship owner, Odemi, and Salamir were, and was not interested in what the man was saying. He just wanted to escape. He kicked the man away and ran away.
But Ban Jin and others not far away were shocked. They all knew what those names meant on this level.
——No wonder no one has come to tell everyone what to do until now. It turns out that all the people on the eighth floor who could give orders have died.
Shark Dao gritted his teeth and said to Ban Jin, "You guys hide here. I'll go ask that guy to see if he knows anything else."
After saying this, he kept a vigilant eye on the pedestrians hurrying on the road, dodged all kinds of messy obstacles, and rushed straight to the person lying motionless on the ground.
"Hey, how are you? What was that you just said? You..."
Shark Dao turned the man's body over and was stunned.
The man's eyes were staring upwards like a dead fish, and he had lost his spirit.
He is dead.
Warm blood was still flowing down Shardao's fingers, but the amount was very small. I don't know how far this man ran in panic on the street after being seriously injured before he fell down in this place.
Shardaao cursed angrily, put the man on the ground, turned around and ran back to Banjin and Muter.
In the short time he was gone, two teenagers, about 17 or 18 years old, set their eyes on the package on Ban Jin and approached them with ill intentions. Seeing the tall and strong Shark Dao running back, the two teenagers spat, did not dare to entangle, and turned around and ran away.
"We have to leave immediately!" Shardao said hurriedly, "Liu Kasao is in chaos and can't stop the Pirates at all! If we want to survive, we have to find a way to get on the airship or lifeboat and leave immediately!"
What he said was the only way to survive that most people on Liukasao could think of. It was not that no one had thought of resisting, but when there was no way to organize a resistance force, such an idea was no different from committing suicide. Moreover, the weapons that the people on Liukasao had were strictly restricted by the spacecraft. Even if they all united, they were no match for a combat mecha.
Ban Jin knew that the solution Shardiao mentioned was to rob. But even if Shardiao was a star in the arena, he could still be killed by a cold gun in such a chaotic situation, not to mention that there were the two of them dragging him down.
Without the two of them, Shardao's chances of escaping successfully would undoubtedly be greater. Rationally, Banjin knew that he should persuade Shardao to escape on his own, but... looking at Muter beside him, he couldn't say such a thing.
Ban Jin said shamelessly, "Well, it all depends on you, Shardao!"
Shark Dao didn't think as much as he did. He patted Ban Jin's shoulder and said with an effort to look confident, "Don't worry! With me here, there will be no problem."
The two were about to take Muter away, but they saw the old lady take a step back to avoid Ban Jin's hand and said calmly: "Wait, don't panic."
Ban Jin's face turned pale. Shardao said anxiously, "Oh, my old lady, it's already late. Let's run for our lives first and talk about other things later, okay?"
How many times throughout the day had he seen the old lady talking about Ban Jin in a roundabout way? How could he not know that there must be some kind of relationship between them? Most likely, it was his brother Ban Jin who made a mistake. But at this moment, he could not be willful, so he could only run over and try to forcibly carry the old lady on his back.
"etc!"
Muter slapped his hand away, found a place to sit down, and said stubbornly: "My son hasn't come to pick me up yet! I promised him that I won't go anywhere! I will definitely wait for him to pick me up!"
Ban Jin's face turned pale and he stood there at a loss, not knowing what to say.
Shardao was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead. He said, "Old lady... No, I should call you Auntie. Can I call you Auntie? It's already this time. The space pirates will come in soon. Can we just let them do what they want?"
Muter pursed her lips stubbornly and even turned away, refusing to look at him or leave. She just said, "My son said he would send someone to protect me! I believe him! If you want to leave, just run for your life! Anyway, it's not the first time that I've been abandoned!"
These words were full of meaning. Even in this anxious moment, Shardao subconsciously turned his head to look at Banjin. He saw that his face was as pale as a dead man, his body was shaky, and he knelt down in front of Muter's back.
At this moment, Shark Dao suddenly had an epiphany and knew what was going on.
Although Muter had her back to Banjin, her eyes suddenly became wet as if she had seen what he had done. She covered her mouth with her scarf and bit her lips hard to prevent herself from crying out loud.
For a moment, the three of them were distracted and completely forgot about their surroundings. At this moment, a hovercraft above them was suddenly hit by something, and the vehicle lost control and rushed towards the three of them diagonally!
The terrified shouts around woke up several people. When Banjin saw the hovercraft in the air, he forgot everything for a moment. He just crawled to Muter's side and hugged her with open arms!
"boom!"
The hovercraft exploded into a ball of sparks in the air, with fragments flying everywhere, but not a single one of them hit the three people.
A tall figure in a cloak came over, calmly blocking the debris of the hovercraft from all directions, pulled down his hood, looked at Muter calmly and said:
"I'm sorry to have frightened you, Mrs. Muthal. Are you hurt?"
