After hearing what Xu Yuanliang said, Zheng Cheng looked a little embarrassed. As a member of a gang on the planet, he valued people's loyalty more. He was very dissatisfied with the way the Star Pirates were doing. They were just like fence-sitters, following whoever was stronger.
companion?
Humph! Such a person doesn't deserve to have a companion!
Zheng Cheng's eyes revealed a hint of disgust: "Lin Tao, I don't recommend accepting them."
All the members of the Blood Wolf Gang present were personally selected by Zheng Tuo. They were loyal to the Blood Wolf Gang and were able to become users of the gene-enhancing drug. Like Zheng Cheng, they looked at the three people with disdain in their eyes.
Lin Tao smiled slightly. In later life, he had read many novels about star pirates and understood the temperament of star pirates very well. It was precisely this characteristic of star pirates that made him yearn for the life of star pirates.
Lin Tao was confident that with his strength as a mecha master, he would be able to win over a large number of capable subordinates and thus stand at the top of the star pirate world.
Of course, Lin Tao was just thinking about it.
Seeing Lin Tao's expression, Zheng Cheng knew what he was thinking, and could not help but frowned: "Lin Tao, they..."
Lin Tao waved his hand and looked at Xu Yuanliang: "Now, there should be quite a few space pirates surrounding Mingyuan Star, right?"
"In addition to the Xinyang Star Pirates Group where we are, there are at least five more groups of Star Pirates heading towards this star region." Xu Yuanliang spread his hands and then clasped them in front of his chest: "There is nothing we can do about it. You guys played big on Mingyuan Star, and we plan to follow behind and take advantage of the situation."
"However, the video of you destroying the giant spaceship on Mingyuan Star has made many space pirate groups afraid to go directly to Mingyuan Star. Although Mingyuan Star is located in a remote corner, there are five mining stars in its territory. All the space pirates are aiming at these five mining stars, ready to make a fortune."
Xu Yuanliang was full of admiration for Lin Tao's strength. In the past, they would not have dared to imagine that he could sink a giant starry sky ship with a mecha, and now they showed even more respect.
All five mining stars are targeted by the Star Pirates?
Zheng Cheng was shocked, and all the members of the Blood Wolf Gang looked at each other in shock.
"Who are the star pirates?" Lin Tao asked calmly.
Lin Tao had some understanding of the Star Pirates, and had already thought of this when he met the Xinyang Star Pirates.
Feeling Lin Tao's calmness, Xu Yuanliang was still a little surprised. He turned around and looked at the two star pirates Wu Zhi and Wu Jun, then his eyes fell on Lin Tao again.
After the two looked at each other, Xu Yuanliang suddenly showed a strange smile on his face: "Captain Lin Tao, before you nod and acknowledge our identity, we are still members of the Xinyang Starry Sky Pirates, so there are some things that can only be mentioned briefly."
Obviously, if Lin Tao hadn't accepted them, they would rather die than reveal any information about the pirate group.
"Don't even think about it! We——"
Zheng Cheng shouted coldly, but before he could finish, Lin Tao reached out to stop him from speaking. Seeing this, Zheng Cheng could only snort coldly and shut his mouth.
"Before that, I want to confirm one thing." Lin Tao said.
"Go ahead." Xu Yuanliang nodded.
"Will you reveal anything about me before you meet someone stronger than me?" Lin Tao asked.
Upon hearing this, Xu Yuanliang and the other two raised their hands to their chests at the same time. This action startled Zheng Cheng and the others, and they quickly aimed their hot weapons at them.
"We are all Star Pirates. We swear in the name of the Star Pirates to be loyal only to the strongest."
Xu Yuanliang and two other people swore in unison.
After hearing the oaths sworn by the three people, Zheng Cheng's face darkened, and even the Blood Wolf Gang members present showed strange expressions.
What kind of oath is it to be loyal only to the strongest?
This is just like being defeated by Lin Tao today, but in the blink of an eye, being defeated by another person stronger than Lin Tao. Isn't it equivalent to turning against him on the spot?
"I'll take you in."
Lin Tao nodded to the three of them. The performance and oath of these Star Pirates were exactly the same as in the Star Pirates novel, without any changes.
"Lin Tao, they are——"
Zheng Cheng didn't seem to like the Star Pirates and was very disgusted with accepting the three people.
Lin Tao waved his hands. Although he didn't have time to practice ancient martial arts, with his current strength, there was no one in the entire Interstellar Federation who could be his opponent.
Moreover, in later materials, the mecha masters who were famous and recorded in history during this period were basically in the Interstellar Federation or the Eight Great Families. These people had no good feelings towards the Sky Pirates, so how could they lower their status and recruit the Sky Pirates as their subordinates?
As for the star pirates, it seems that few of them can be recorded in history.
so--
Once Xu Yuanliang and the other two surrendered to Lin Tao, there would be almost no day in their lives when they would turn against him.
Lin Tao signaled to the three people to get off the cockpit, and then instructed Zheng Cheng: "Repair their mechas. They will still be driving these three mechas in the future."
Although these three machines are all humanoid, they are improved versions of the Tianjia Shenjiang and can no longer enter Lin Tao's eyes.
Zheng Cheng was fond of the Black Tiger mecha that Lin Tao was using at the time, so he asked the people from Sixiang Company to help modify it so that it had performance similar to that of K223.
The Blood Wolf Gang members who own mechas on the spaceship all use K223 mechas, so how could they look down upon the mechas of the Star Pirates?
The three star pirates followed Lin Tao to the bridge of the spaceship. After making some arrangements, Zheng Cheng also followed quickly behind.
"Zheng Cheng, this is the video I recorded. You can add those recorded by the previous spacecraft to make a video." Lin Tao said as he sent it over through his watch.
Zheng Cheng nodded quickly.
"Video? What video?" Xu Yuanliang was confused. Suddenly, something clicked in his mind and he exclaimed, "Is it the video of the battle that killed us?"
"Hmph! You're smart." Zheng Cheng sneered.
Lin Tao frowned slightly, stopped, and said to Zheng Cheng: "Zheng Cheng, no matter what their identities were before, they are now with us and are considered ours."
If left unchecked, this will cause great trouble to Xu Yuanliang and the other two, and in the end, it will only backfire. Lin Tao does not want to see this result, so he has no choice but to remind Zheng Cheng.
Since Lin Tao had spoken, there was nothing Zheng Cheng could do even if he was dissatisfied with the three people in front of him. Moreover, he trusted Lin Tao and was quite open-minded. He apologized to Xu Yuanliang and the other two on the spot.
Xu Yuanliang and others waved their hands repeatedly, and the two sides let the matter go.
"Lin..." Xu Yuanliang originally wanted to call Lin Tao by his full name, but then he changed his mind and thought about how he had surrendered to Lin Tao. After remembering how the Blood Wolf Gang called Lin Tao, he quickly changed his words: "Brother Lin, you recorded the battle video just to make the Star Pirates retreat."
Lin Tao nodded and said, "You don't have to call me Brother Lin, just call me by my name."
Lin Tao doesn't take his reputation seriously as it is just an external thing.
"No." Xu Yuanliang waved his hands repeatedly: "Now that we have surrendered to you, we naturally cannot be like before."
The Star Pirates also have their own rules that cannot be crossed.
Seeing his expression, Lin Tao changed the subject: "What good ideas do you have for getting the Star Pirates to retreat?"
Xu Yuanliang nodded quickly: "If Brother Lin is assured, let us do this video."
"Oh?" Lin Tao was surprised, but thinking that the other party was originally a Star Pirate, he probably knew more about the Star Pirates than he did, so he nodded on the spot: "Zheng Cheng, take him with you to process the video."
In the evening.
After post-production, Lin Tao watched the video and was very satisfied. Even Zheng Cheng was quite surprised.
As a Star Pirate, Xu Yuanliang had channels among the Star Pirates. In less than two hours, the video fell into the hands of all the Star Pirates.
The New Sun Pirates.
Main ship, bridge.
Cai Yuanzu, the leader of the Xinyang Star Sky Pirates, was once a powerful mecha master, but he had been behind the scenes for so long that all the muscles in his body turned into lumps of fat and his belly swelled into a ball shape.
Directly in front of him was a huge screen, on which was playing the battle video edited by Xu Yuanliang.
Watching the contents of the video, although there was no change on Cai Yuanzu's fat and round cheeks, his eyes were like a wolf, almost turning into a sharp sword, penetrating into the video and turning the mecha inside into pieces.
The crew members around were all stunned when they saw this scene, not daring to breathe.
After editing, the content of the video has basically only the battle scenes left, and the timeline is no more than two minutes.
There were two battles in total. The first one was the process of Lin Tao driving a mecha against more than 50 mechas of the enemy. This video was captured by the spacecraft and shot from three different angles.
Xu Yuanliang displayed the images from three angles on one screen at the same time. However, he blurred the aircraft driven by Lin Tao, making it impossible to see clearly the model of the aircraft he was riding.
In the video, only three of them came back, and in less than thirty seconds, more than forty out of more than fifty machines turned into fireballs on the spot.
The second battle lasted more than a minute.
And within this minute, forty seconds of it showed the video of Lin Tao chasing the enemy's eight mechas. Although a lot of footage was edited out in the middle, an experienced mecha master could guess what happened from the video.
Not until the power of the eight mechas was completely consumed did the picture change again, as if it had turned to the cockpits of all the mechas at that time, but the picture froze on the energy indicator dials of all the mechas for nearly three seconds.
Lin Tao's mecha, plus the eight mechas of the Star Pirates, a total of nine pictures, just occupy the entire screen in a nine-square grid.
The energy indicator panels on the eight small screens around the system had turned dark gray, indicating that the system had run out of energy. Only the energy indicator panel in the center was still indicating 63%.
Three seconds later, there was an encounter between the mecha and the spaceship. The entire battle took only forty seconds.
Although Lin Tao's battle with the three spaceships lasted about two minutes, Xu Yuanliang handled it very well. Not only did he blur Lin Tao's body, but even his fighting method was blurred, making it impossible to see how he sank three spaceships in just forty seconds.