After Rebirth, Married to a Deadly Enemy - Chapter 45

The reason Wang Ping chose the blue warship was that among the two warships, the blue XY-1 model warship was slightly faster. Facing the three medium-sized warships on the opposite side, it was certain that they couldn’t win in a fight, so his initial plan was to run.

 

Wang Ping had been a warship pilot in the military, and he had rich experience in piloting warships in space, dealing with enemies, and evading attacks. Their only advantage now was that it would take more time for the medium-sized warships to adjust their direction, so he had to seize this opportunity to escape with Mr. Bai.

 

They emerged in a position sandwiched between two warships. Wang Ping skillfully maneuvered the warship and successfully broke through the encirclement under the cover of gunfire. However, in space, even though the XY-1 model warship’s speed was not inferior to the medium-sized warships, there was no cover in space. Being caught up with was only a matter of time. Not to mention being caught up, even if they continued to be bombarded with energy cannons, Wang Ping wouldn’t be able to evade all of them.

 

They needed to find cover.

 

Wang Ping activated the radar and searched the nearby stellar conditions. About half a minute later, he found a small asteroid belt.

 

There it is!

 

Wang Ping’s eyes lit up. He piloted the warship towards the asteroid belt. After flying for about five minutes, a moving asteroid belt filled with debris appeared in front of the warship.

 

“Do we want to enter the asteroid belt?”

 

Since escaping from the warship, Wang Ping had been fully focused on avoiding danger. Mr. Bai had been quiet all along without saying a word, so much so that when he suddenly spoke, Wang Ping only just realized that there were others on the warship besides himself.

 

“Mr. Bai.” Wang Ping turned to look at Bai Xiangxing, only to see him tightly gripping the armrest of his seat, with bruises on his forehead and arms. “Are you injured?”

 

“I’m fine, just bumped into something when the ship was flying too fast just now,” Bai Xiangxing said, then turned and sat in the back seat, fastening his seatbelt.

 

The situation just now was too urgent. He hadn’t had time to fasten his seatbelt, and he was thrown out by the sudden change in direction of the ship. But he didn’t make a sound, afraid of affecting Wang Ping’s piloting. Now that the warship was more stable, he dared to speak.

 

“Are we going into the asteroid belt?” Bai Xiangxing continued to ask.

 

“Yes, our firepower is not as good as theirs, so we can only find cover. In the asteroid belt, small warships have an advantage,” Wang Ping said. “But rest assured, I am very skilled in piloting, even inside, we won’t hit any asteroids.”

 

“I trust you,” Bai Xiangxing smiled.

 

If it weren’t for Wang Ping, he would have been taken away by the star pirates by now. Besides, even if Wang Ping’s piloting skills were not good, the asteroid belt was their last resort.

 

The two didn’t chat much, and soon they arrived outside the asteroid belt. Wang Ping took advantage of a gap between two asteroids and piloted the warship into it. Shortly after they entered, the three pirate warships also rushed over. At this moment, the advantage of the small warships emerged, as the size of the medium-sized warships made it impractical for them to enter the asteroid belt.

 

“Boss, they’ve entered the asteroid belt. What should we do?”

 

“Should we also pilot small warships into it?” someone suggested.

 

“But with that Wang Ping by his side, who used to be in the Storm Corps, are you sure we can win by going in?” The leader of the pirates wasn’t a fool. The Xinshi Security Team had only a few people, but with just one small warship, they easily wiped out two pirate groups. Anyone with eyes could see that under equal conditions, the security team of the Xinshi must be stronger.

 

They had been running before because the firepower of the small warships couldn’t match their medium-sized warships. But if it was also a small warship, even if it was one against three, inside this asteroid belt, they might not necessarily win.

 

“But we can’t just leave it at that. By now, the Interstellar Guard must have received the news. With Bai Xiangxing’s identity, the Interstellar Guard will definitely rush over at full speed,” someone reminded from below.

 

“How long will it take for the nearest Interstellar Guard to arrive?” the leader of the pirates asked.

 

“Two hours.” They had planned to act here in advance. There were no particularly prosperous planets nearby in this star field, and the Interstellar Guard’s equipment level was not high. Even space patrols were lazy. So, when they received the news and flew over, it would take at least two hours.

 

“Two hours is enough to blast them out of this starry sky.” The leader of the pirates’s eyes were deep. “Second and third, go to the other side of the asteroid belt, shift positions, and bombard this asteroid belt for me. I don’t believe they can stay in there forever.”

 

Bai Xiangxing had to die. They had come this far, and if they didn’t kill Bai Xiangxing, they would have no way out.

 

In the asteroid belt, Wang Ping found a position where both sides were covered by asteroids, and his tense heart finally relaxed. “The people on the ship must have spread the news. We just need to hold on here until the Interstellar Guard arrives.”

 

“How long will that take?” Bai Xiangxing asked.

 

Wang Ping glanced at the nearest planet in this area and estimated, “This star field belongs to the patrol range of Star K. If they are patrolling nearby, they should come over soon.”

 

“Okay.” Bai Xiangxing had just nodded when there was a loud bang, and the warship seemed to have been hit by something, causing it to shake.

 

“Damn it!” Wang Ping cursed. He manipulated the warship to descend rapidly. Almost at the same time as he descended, a powerful force smashed the asteroid on his left, blasting it into countless small pieces.

 

Bang bang bang…

 

The sound of asteroids hitting the hull of the warship kept coming, and the alarm inside the cabin continued incessantly. Despair appeared in Bai Xiangxing’s eyes.

 

Three minutes earlier,

 

Just as the ship’s captain hesitated whether to pilot the ship to the nearest planet for docking or wait for rescue, a huge black hole suddenly flashed in front of the cockpit.

 

“Captain, a black hole.”

 

The captain had just cursed when, just as he had escaped the danger of being captured by the star pirates, he was about to encounter a cosmic disaster. A red military warship suddenly emerged from the black hole.

 

It was a space jump!

 

Space jumps required extremely large amounts of energy and hardware infrastructure. Currently, only the military could use them, and only in extremely urgent situations.

 

The captain had been piloting ships for over ten years, but it was the first time he had seen a space jump in space. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been so panicked when he saw the black hole.

 

While he was still in shock, the communication channel in the cockpit was forcibly connected, and a handsome face full of murderous intent appeared on the video. “Where’s Bai Xiangxing?”

 

Bai Xiangxing? Wasn’t Bai Xiangxing the person the star pirates were looking for?

 

The captain immediately replied, “He went that way.”

 

At the same time as he spoke, the captain immediately projected a beam of light to indicate the direction for them.

 

And in the instant the guiding light appeared, the warship shot out from beside the spacecraft with a whoosh.

 

“Boss, there’s a small asteroid belt ahead. Wang Ping must have taken Xiangxing into hiding among the asteroids,” Liang Chen searched the stellar conditions in that direction and immediately provided the destination.

 

As military personnel, in the same situation, he would also pilot a warship into the asteroid belt. That was their only way out.

 

“How far?” 

 

“At our speed, about two minutes,” Liang Chen said.

 

“Prepare for battle!” Shi Zhen’s voice echoed solemnly.

 

“Yes.”

 

The members of the Flame Squad quickly put on their equipment again, even though their energy was only at thirty percent. But they had no problem dealing with a star pirate gang.

 

Two minutes, on ordinary days, were so short, but at this moment, they felt like a lifetime.

 

Finally, they saw the asteroid belt and also saw a medium-sized warship indiscriminately bombarding the asteroids in the belt.

 

“These guys, do they want to sink Xiangxing’s ship directly like this by smashing the asteroids?” Liang Chen’s eyes turned red. He was about to rush to the console to fire the cannons at the warship, but as he turned his head, he saw Liu Qing already sitting at the console. Then, a beam of high-energy particle cannon shot towards the warship.

 

“Where’s the boss?” Someone suddenly noticed that Shi Zhen was missing.

 

At this moment, Shi Zhen’s voice suddenly sounded from inside the powered armor: “Blast open the cockpit.”

 

“Yes.” Liu Qing seemed to understand, and then another shot was fired, aiming at the nearby medium-sized warship, blasting open the cockpit from the side. Then they saw a figure jump into it amidst the dazzling gunfire.

 

“There are still two warships, kill them all.” At the same time as the leap, Shi Zhen’s voice sounded again in their ears.

 

They had received information about three medium-sized warships, but there was only one here, so there must be two more on the other side of the asteroid belt.

 

Inside the asteroid belt, countless asteroids had their trajectories altered by the artillery fire. If the three medium-sized warships continued to bombard like this, they would be sunk in a matter of minutes, then pierced by countless asteroids, exposed to the vacuum of space.

 

Fight!

 

They were already waiting for death, so why not take a chance? Perhaps they could take someone down with them before they died.

 

Finding a gap, Wang Ping endured several asteroid impacts and flew out from below. He was about to search for the location of the star pirates to see if he could take a warship with him before he died, when he suddenly noticed that the three warships that had been relentlessly bombarding them were now emitting thick smoke and attempting to sneak away.

 

And behind them, a fiery red warship was frantically firing.

 

That was the Storm Legion’s warship.

 

That emblem was also his former glory, and he wouldn’t mistake it.

 

“Boss, it’s the Storm Legion, the Storm Legion,” Wang Ping shouted excitedly.

 

It was Shi Zhen.

 

Bai Xiangxing recognized the fiery red warship when he saw it. It was Shi Zhen’s warship, and the people on board were the Flame Squad, the personal guard of Admiral Shi Zhen of the Alliance.

 

How could Shi Zhen be here, and just passing by?

 

At this moment, Wang Ping had already connected to the communication of the Flame Squad, and Liang Chen’s voice sounded in the communication: “Xiangxing, Xiangxing, are you okay? Are you hurt?”

 

“I’m okay, Boss, just a minor injury for Xiangxing,” Wang Ping replied for Bai Xiangxing.　

 

“Brothers, Xiangxing is injured, let’s kill them all,” Liang Chen said, and immediately, the communication channel was filled with roaring sounds. Then they saw dozens of figures wearing powered armor flying out of the warship, one by one, diving into the almost shattered warship.

 

This was not enough with just bombardment, they intended to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

 

Wang Ping was so excited watching this that he wished he could immediately open the airlock and jump out too, but after some thought, he restrained himself.

 

Inside the first star pirate ship, Shi Zhen killed everyone controlling the ship as soon as he rushed into the cockpit. After cutting off the firepower of the warship, he fought his way out against the flow of the ship. These star pirates probably thought that with so many of them, they could easily take down Bai Xiangxing, but to their surprise, there wasn’t a single person wearing powered armor in the cockpit, and they were easily slaughtered by Shi Zhen.

 

He kept killing until the end, and even the star pirate leader had put on powered armor, but in front of Shi Zhen, who seemed like a god of death, he had already lost his courage.

 

“Don’t, don’t kill me, I surrender.”

 

Shi Zhen didn’t kill him because he remembered what his father had told him, that the star pirates were using the lives of a whole ship to force them to hand over Bai Xiangxing, so these star pirates were deliberately targeting them. If they were to be killed, Shi Zhen wanted to find out the truth first.

 

Just then, Liang Chen’s voice came through the communicator: “Brothers, Xiangxing is injured, let’s kill them all.”

 

Shi Zhen couldn’t hold back and kicked the man out of the warship, directly into space.

 

Shi Zhen paused for a second, then said into the communicator, “Don’t kill them all, leave one alive.”