Chapter 452 All Clearance

"I'll lead the team to board!" Cheng Gan's voice rang out in the communication channel: "Five minutes, I guarantee I'll take the bridge of the main ship!"

"Roar! Capture prisoners? I'm an expert at this!" Thor excitedly hoisted his giant hammer onto his shoulder, the lightning around him crackling with excitement. "Don't anyone try to take it from me, I'm going to drag their captain out myself!"

Marcus transformed into a golden ray of light and landed beside Thor, a smirk playing on his lips: "Let's see who gets there first?"

"Let's compete!"

Just as this group was about to turn the capture of prisoners into a farce of vying for credit, Elder Lu's voice came from the command center.

"Everyone, everyone, calm down."

“Starships are important spoils of war, don’t rush to dismantle them.” He paused. “We need living, talking ones, that’s where their value is greatest.”

Zhou Jue ignored their noise; her voice filled all the channels, clear and cold.

“'Sky Sword' Squad, 'Sharp Sword' Special Forces, Knights Templar of France, responsible for boarding the ship.”

"Target: the bridges of three enemy ships; take control of all crew members."

"The rest of the units, remain in place and maintain the formation."

She looked at the constantly ticking countdown on the Kunlun Mirror and added a sentence.

"I don't care what methods you use, I want prisoners and ships intact."

"Received!" Cheng Gan responded, and was the first to transform into a sword beam, rushing towards the main ship that had lost power.

Thor and Marcus exchanged a glance, then transformed into two bolts of lightning of different colors and followed closely behind.

Hundreds of figures rushed out from various positions of the "Kunlun" fleet, like a flock of vultures swarming towards carrion, heading straight for the three pitch-black "beetles".

...

The bridge of the alien flagship was in complete disarray.

Sparks flickered between the broken wires, and the piercing alarm and red emergency lights cast flickering light on the captain's pale face.

He slumped into the conductor's chair, the light in his covered eyes completely extinguished.

We lost.

The defeat was inexplicable and utterly undignified.

He was deprived of his power, weapons, and connection to his home planet before he could even see what the enemy looked like.

"Captain..." the technician's voice trembled, "'Heartbeat protocol' activated, seven minutes remaining..."

The captain did not respond; he knew what that meant.

Seven minutes later, their coordinates, along with information about their ambush by an advanced civilization, will be broadcast as the highest-level threat alert across the entire Interstellar Alliance's public channels.

They will die, but these damned "ghosts" and "devils" will also face the wrath of the entire alliance.

This was his last and only revenge as a captain.

boom!

A loud bang interrupted his thoughts.

The heavy door of the bridge, made of a special alloy, was smashed open from the outside by a violent force.

Thor, carrying his lightning-cracking giant hammer, was the first to rush in. He looked around and his gaze instantly locked onto the captain sitting in the command chair.

"You're the one in charge?" he asked in broken Alliance Common.

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Gan led a group of cultivators in, their flying swords hovering beside them, their tips pointing directly at every crew member on the bridge.

The captain was stunned when he saw the group of people who had suddenly appeared, and the crew behind him were also stunned.

These people who rushed in...

Although they wore strange clothes and carried weapons that resembled cold weapons, their appearance...

Hair of various colors, skin of various colors, pupils of various colors, limbs, facial features... almost exactly the same as those of interstellar humans.

"What are you daydreaming about!" Thor didn't care about any of that. He stepped forward, grabbed the captain by the collar, and lifted him up from his chair. "Tell me! How do I turn off that damn countdown?"

The captain was lifted into the air, struggling in terror, uttering a series of rapid syllables that Cheng Gan couldn't understand at all.

"Language barrier!" Cheng Gan immediately realized, pointing to the blood-red countdown timer on the control panel: "Time is running out! Think of something quickly!"

A cultivator knowledgeable in formations immediately stepped forward to try and analyze the energy circuitry of the control panel.

But as soon as he reached out, he was bounced away by a weak electric current.

"No! Their technology system is completely different from ours; forcibly cracking it will only cause it to explode!"

"Fuck!" Thor roared, raising his hammer to smash it onto the control panel.

"Don't move!" Cheng Gan shouted sternly to stop him.

Another R&D staff member stepped forward, examined the signal for a while, and then shook his head: "This is a passive program; once triggered, it cannot be deactivated. However, we have already sealed off this area. Can this signal still be sent out?"

I don't know if I can post this, but I can't gamble on it!!

Time passed by, second by second.

【02:17】

【02:16】

The atmosphere inside the bridge was extremely oppressive. Everyone inside the starship was trying to figure out how to shut down the program.

Everyone's heart was in their throat as that number ticked by.

Cold sweat beaded on Cheng Gan's forehead. She could already imagine what kind of doomsday Blue Star would face once the coordinates were exposed. She glanced at Zhou Jue, who had been standing in front of the control panel 'pondering' ever since he entered the starship.

Zhou Jue was indeed communicating with the system.

"What's the progress?"

[Host, it's not a big problem. I'm taking full control of these starships.]

Give me ten more seconds. Once I have full control, I can terminate the 'heartbeat protocol'.

The system's voice rang in Zhou Jue's mind. Zhou Jue breathed a sigh of relief. She looked back at Cheng Gan's worried expression, and then at the anxious or frantic expressions of the others. She smiled reassuringly at everyone.

"It's alright now."

As soon as the words were spoken, the blood-red countdown that had sent chills down everyone's spine suddenly vanished from the bridge.

The flashing warning lights all turned green, indicating safety, and the piercing alarm stopped abruptly.

The entire bridge instantly returned to a stable operating state.

Thor stood frozen in place, hammer in hand, while Cheng Gan and all the team members were stunned.

what happened?

The captain, who was in Solty's hands, was even more shocked than they were.

He looked at the control consoles around him, at the familiar words and symbols on the light screens, which were rapidly being reassembled and overwritten.

“The ‘heartbeat protocol’ has been terminated.”

"Safety signal sent, code: Alpha-Gamma-7".

"Taking over the ship's main control system... 10%... 50%... 100%"

"Takeover complete."

The voices from the system and the starship's internal system sounded simultaneously, but the two sides had different feelings.

The captain shuddered in disbelief. This was the Interstellar Alliance's 'heartbeat protocol,' which, once activated, could not be deactivated without the captain's absolute authorization! But he hadn't authorized it at all!