Jin Shuo felt annoyed as the annoying patrol ships surrounded him, but then he thought it was unlikely.
"For you? Isn't that making a mountain out of a molehill?"
"I'd like to know just how much the person behind this assassination attempt paid, to make them willing to send a multi-trillion-dollar Class A cruiser to kill you?"
Immediately following, with a loud "whoosh!" and "bang!", the laser cannon on Zhou Ye's starship fired a laser at one of the small patrol ships.
Then the small patrol boat was blown to pieces!
Jin Shuo kept a close eye on the battlefield: "Did you see that? That small patrol ship alone is worth the price of an A-class mech!"
"Around one billion, I guess."
No sooner had the words left his mouth than another small patrol ship was destroyed, blooming like a beautiful flower in space.
Then, one after another, the mothership following behind released several small patrol ships, which circled around them and kept firing. However, Zhou Ye intercepted them all. Those that he couldn't intercept were rammed directly. The patrol ships that were rammed couldn't withstand the impact and were forced to be destroyed.
At the same time, the plasma cannons on the mothership were aimed at the medium-sized starship where they were located.
"Holy crap! What do we do? Are they planning to just blow us up?"
Jin Shuo was extremely nervous at the moment, not expecting the other party to be so ruthless, while Lin Yiran felt guilty upon realizing something was wrong.
It's all her fault; she dragged them down with her.
So she offered, "Why don't you send me out? They only want me anyway. As long as I get out, they won't do anything to you!"
Jin Shuo immediately interrupted Lin Yiran: "Don't talk nonsense! I'd like to see if they're really planning to kill someone?"
Lin Yiran: "Don't talk nonsense. Look at their attitude. So what if they kill someone? It feels like they have no intention of letting us go home alive today."
Jin Shuo: "No! If they weren't planning on letting us go back alive, they could have just launched a trajectory missile from the beginning. Our dilapidated starship's defenses couldn't withstand that at all. The fact that they didn't choose to do that means their goal wasn't to kill you, but rather..."
"Capture alive?" Lin Yiran suddenly understood.
No wonder they were so willing to release small patrol ships; they were trying to deplete their firepower. Once their firepower or energy for navigation was exhausted, the starships would be forced to stop, leaving them at the mercy of others.
"See that? That's the fiftieth patrol ship already, and they have so many small homing missiles. The other side doesn't seem to care at all!"
"It must have cost at least 10 billion, Lin Yiran. Your life is really worth a lot." Jin Shuo couldn't help but admire her.
It's one thing to be on the assassination list, but I didn't expect someone would actually be willing to pay such a high price to capture her alive. But what about that little bee from last time?
Jin Shuo seemed to remember something. If the goal was to capture Lin Yiran alive from the beginning, why send Little Bee to kill her?
This doesn't make sense logically.
He squinted at Zhou Ye, whose subordinates were rapidly maneuvering the starship.
Judging from his proficiency, it seems like he's been exposed to this stuff since he was a child. Who can be exposed to starships and mechs from such a young age? Usually, only rich kids like him, or people who have attended military academies since childhood, have the opportunity to come into contact with such luxuries.
Thinking of this, Jin Shuo smiled to himself. That's right, why didn't he think of that in the first place?
Because the background Zhou Ye had discovered was quite ordinary: a graduate of an ordinary military academy, from an ordinary family, orphaned, and an immigrant from the Eighth Star System to the Ninth Star System. He had initially assumed Zhou Ye was a self-taught S-class mecha pilot, which was why he was so desperate to recruit him into his team. But what if he was wrong? What if Zhou Ye had been hiding his identity from the beginning, and wasn't some self-taught mecha pilot at all, but rather a mecha pilot who had received rigorous training and dedicated development since childhood?
Besides, he wasn't an S-class mecha pilot; he only found out today that Zhou Ye was a 2S-class mecha pilot.
There are very few Federation 2S-level mech pilots; the total number recorded is no more than ten.
Everyone has a rich background.
A 2S-level mecha pilot like this is simply not someone that an ordinary person can train.
so……………………?
Amidst his busy schedule, Zhou Ye glanced up at Jin Shuo with a disdainful look: "Stop looking, their target is me."
Upon hearing this, Jin Shuo laughed, while Lin Yiran was shocked.
What? What?
They even changed the players halfway through?
Jin Shuo laughed, a knowing look on his face: "I knew it. If their target was Lin Yiran, they would have killed us from the start. Why would they have bothered to stop us?"
"The reason they chose to intercept us is because there are important people on our starship. They can't harm them, or rather, they have a use for them. That's why they've gone to such lengths and used so many patrol ships to slow us down."
"Then who could this person be? Of course, it's our 2S-level mecha pilot, the esteemed 2S-level mecha pilot Zhou Ye! You really kept your identity a secret well. I used all my connections back then and still couldn't find anything unusual..."
Zhou Ye glanced at Jin Shuo and pointed to a yellow button on the control panel: "Instead of discussing my identity with me, you should think about how we can escape this encirclement. Our starship is out of power; if we keep dragging this out, all three of us will die."
Jin Shuo, like a dead pig unafraid of boiling water: "Being able to die alongside a respected 2S-class mecha pilot, I feel I have no regrets in this life, it's worth it!"
Zhou Ye was furious: "There's still one spot left in my 2S mech co-pilot position. If I take Yi Ran with me, you'll be all alone on this starship. Who knows who will die then?"
Jin Shuo waved his hand dismissively: "2S mech? Acting like nobody else has one! Pfft, I have one too!" His particularly arrogant expression was also incredibly irritating.
As he spoke, he took out a spatial button from his Star Brain: Earth-type Combat 2S Mech Stormer.
The 2S mech was designed by Master Mu himself back then.
Seeing this, Zhou Ye laughed and said, "I knew it..."
"Alright, let's hurry up and leave. Don't delay. Let's draw the pursuers away and give your men a way out."
Lin Yiran was completely dumbfounded by what she saw. How could they all be so secretive?
Who have she encountered all these people? One 2S mecha manufacturer wasn't enough, and now she's got a 2S-level mecha soldier too?
She remembered that Jin Shuo had always claimed to be an S-class mecha soldier.
He had been concealing his true abilities all along.
That's normal, though.
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