The Death List Novel - Chapter 557
Chapter 557 Fetter
‘”Captain” Dong Yue didn’t say anything, but her expression was a little anxious.
“Dong Yue, don’t worry. Our Apostle has a star projection prompt. Please trust my judgment!” Robin smiled and nodded at her, making the beautiful adjutant’s face look a little better.
“Robin, please follow me!” Qin Lun rolled his eyes at Robin and took her away from the bridge.
“You should know what I want to talk to you about, right?” In a secluded place, Qin Lun frowned and looked at her.
“I know!” Robin hesitated for a moment before smiling bitterly. “Sister Kelly used to criticize me for being lacking in self-confidence, tactful, and suitable to be a deputy Guild Leader of the staff, not a person who makes decisions. But I was always afraid that my own wrong decisions would cause death and injury to my companions.”
“So even if Dong Yue questioned your ability to scout earlier, you didn’t refute. Instead, you left the decision to me?” Qin Lun turned to stare at her and sneered, “As the supreme leader of Apostle, Guild Leader and the warship, he would rather endure the doubts of an aboriginal and subordinate adjutant than make a decision!”
“What do you know? If it weren’t for Sister Kelly’s insistence, do you think I would be willing to be the Guild Leader or partner with someone like you?” Robin’s expression suddenly changed and he couldn’t help but shout, “Since you’re better than me, why can’t you make the decision?”
“Since you know what kind of person I am, then you should know that I will not be responsible for the lives of the other members!” Qin Lun smiled sinisterly and took a step forward, almost sticking to Robin’s chest, looking straight into her eyes.
‘”Now listen carefully. If we’re in trouble on Planet X-352 and you can’t react in time on the Attack, don’t blame me for leaving the others behind. You know I can do it. Kelly won’t be able to threaten me even if I lose her current condition!”
“Alright, I understand!” Robin blushed, his tall chest heaving violently as he stared at Qin Lun angrily.
“Not bad!” Qin Lun subconsciously glanced at the white and deep ravine on the collar of the beauty’s uniform. Suddenly, he revealed a narrow smile and said with a pun.
“You … bastard!” Robin lowered his head and glanced at it. He stamped his feet in embarrassment and anger, then turned around and left.
Looking at the beautiful Guild Leader’s graceful swaying figure, the smile on Qin Lun’s face gradually subsided and his expression returned to its original state, as if nothing had happened just now. However, his heart immediately stirred and he shouted softly, “Who is it? Come out!”
“Young Master, yes, it’s me!” A helpless hunchbacked servant appeared at the corner of the secluded corridor. “I came earlier than you. This place is a dead end. I didn’t have time to avoid it …”
“Frank! What are you doing here? The battle was so intense just now. Aren’t you going to take a rest?” Qin Lun raised his eyebrows and asked doubtfully.
“I … I’m fine. I’m just too bored in the cabin. Come here and take a look at the starry sky!” Frank murmured as his gaze darkened.
“Too boring? Aren’t you going to play a few cards with them?” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he tapped on his temple with his finger, “I know … you’re homesick?”
“No, no, it’s not much different from Schiff and Didi!” Frank turned around and didn’t look at Qin Lun.
“You know I’m not talking about Devil’s horn’s family!” Qin Lun sighed softly. He walked over to his side and looked at the cosmic starry sky outside the corridor window without a focus. “Haven’t you gotten used to Apostle’s life for so long? Or perhaps Devil’s horn has made you lose your sense of belonging!”
Frank remained silent for a long time before asking, “Young Master, can we … can we still go back?”
“Go back? What are you going back for? What else is there to miss? You should know that Young Master Wellington, the real Wellington Stan, who grew up together, died the moment I crossed over!”
Kieran knew what the hunchback servant was talking about, so he replied expressionlessly, “Poor Catherine is dead, too. Apostle can’t go back to the historical storyline he experienced. There’s only yours, mine, Catherine’s tombstone, and three inhumanely rotten shells left!”
“Can’t you go back?” Frank was slightly absent-minded. His eyes were a little red as he bitterly said, “Young Master, you shouldn’t have said that …”
“Then what should I say, Frank Stan? Are you blaming me?” Qin Lun felt a burst of irritation in his heart, and his tone was a bit stiff. “If I had left you in that world, you would already be a pile of bones. Isn’t it good to do Apostle? There are so many stimulating new things that can make people forget all their unhappy feelings without sealing them!”
Frank lowered his head and said calmly, “Yes, Young Master, I was thinking too much!”
“Frank, you should be able to see who I am now! If you don’t want to stay by my side, then leave. My promise is still valid!” Qin Lun took a deep breath and said coldly.
“Young Master, I’ve never thought of it that way” Frank raised his head in shock, only to discover that Qin Lun had already turned around and left.
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The incident between Qin Lun and his two companions did not affect the assault of the Attack. With the help of eliminating eight blind spots opened by Napasar, the warship successfully broke through to the planet’s atmosphere. Perhaps Attack was right. Planet X-352’s arachnid base was just an empty shell, and they didn’t encounter any patrolling bugs along the way.
“Above planet X-352, the main engine of the battleship stops and cuts into the planetary synchronous orbit …”
“Captain, the main cannon room reports that the Type IV Particle Pulse Rail Gun has been cleared and preheated. The main cannon has locked onto the target. Request approval to charge …”
“Begin charging the main cannon. Countdown to 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8 …”
The main cannon of the Independent Warship did not need to be charged for such a long time. However, the main cannon of the Attack was somewhat special. It was the main cannon of a main cosmic warship, so the firing process was a bit complicated. Of course, its power was also enormous.
“Captain, the main cannon is fully charged. Fire Control Room requests firing!”
Following the commander’s order, everyone on the bridge turned their gazes to the projection screen of the warship.
On the screen, a huge cross-cursor pierced through the superradiant scope and aimed at a small blue dot on the planet’s surface, where the arachnid base was located.
It was different from what everyone had obtained before. When the researchers from the Attack Science and Technology Group carefully compared it, they discovered that the arachnid base was not at the bottom of the deep sea, as they had originally thought. Instead, it was at the bottom of a huge lake.
The lake looked down from the sky and was shaped like a full moon, so it was given the codename “Moon Lake”. However, everyone on the Attack knew very well that with the main cannon of the universe battleship, if the Zerg base was completely defenseless, then this “Moon Lake” would soon become a historical term.
The Attack, which was shaped like a submarine, opened its round and smooth front like a flower bud, revealing the black barrel of the battleship’s main cannon. A bit of blazing light inside grew from small to large, until it shot out like a drum.
The beam of light, which was almost a hundred meters in diameter, was blazing like a blazing sun on the projection screen at the moment it was fired, causing everyone to slightly squint their eyes.
The moment the beam of light touched the atmosphere, a powerful circular shock wave appeared out of thin air. Even the massive warship couldn’t help but tumble backwards, exiting the planetary synchronous orbit and sliding into outer space. It was not until the warship’s engineers in the engine room had fine-tuned the vectoring nozzle of the secondary engine that they were able to return to orbit.
Originally, it was a pure white pillar of light, but due to the friction of the atmosphere, the outer edge was covered with an additional orange flame. If someone were standing on the ground of planet X-352, they would definitely find a small sun suddenly appearing on the planet that was as bright as day.
The huge particle beam broke the originally tranquil Moon Lake region. Before the sound could be heard, the surface of the lake lit up with a flash of bright light and white smoke filled the sky. However, the white smoke made up of water vapor only lasted for a short moment, and the water molecules inside were once again decomposed by ultra-hot particle radiation.
“Boom!” The flammable gases produced by the decomposition of water molecules were instantly detonated, almost on par with the sound of a particle beam hitting the water surface, forming a loud explosion.
Accompanied by the following explosive shockwaves, the sound waves blew away all the trees and vegetation on the lakeside and burned them away in the blazing temperature. This process didn’t even take a second.
As for the arthropods in the lakeside forest and the aquatic creatures in Moon Lake, they were lucky because they didn’t even have time to experience the pain before the disaster ended.
The lake water was evaporated by the high heat of the particle beams and all aquatic life was extinct. Although the flow of high-energy particles is much less radiant than that of “polluting weapons,” the accompanying shockwaves and radiation particles can also turn the lake region into a man-made desert, barren for hundreds of years.
Cosmos warships are so destructive to planets, no wonder humans are more destructive than Jannamer in the eyes of some cosmic creatures.
On the large screen of Attack, the original Moon Lake and the forest beside it had disappeared, leaving behind only a circular pit that looked like a meteorite collision. There was only one thing left in this ring-shaped pit that had a diameter of more than a hundred kilometers.
The formerly ferocious and terrifying arachnid base on the projection was now like a flower bud that had been stabbed by a thick stick, turning into a scene of a remnant flower defeating a willow. It was also like a meat bun that had just been cooked, surging with boiling hot steam. Piles of insect corpses that had turned into black ash could be seen everywhere near the base.
Qin Lun and the others weren’t mistaken. Although the arachnids had set up a base on Planet X-352 one step ahead of schedule, they weren’t mistaken. However, this base had no military function. It was just a colonial station, and it had only recently been completed. Apart from a few engineers and scouts, even the various shields and turrets had not been completed.
“Charge with me and get rid of the remaining insects!” Before the bombardment, Qin Lun, who had already quietly entered the atmosphere, revealed a sinister smile of excitement.
Behind him was a dense array of air-borne armor. Apart from Robin and the others on the warship, all of the other Keith pilots, along with seven Apostle, were already here. The battle had just begun, and it had already entered its final stages.
Of course, the crowd celebrating the victory of the Attack did not know that while they were cleaning up Planet X-352, apart from the arrival of Faith, there were three other squadrons heading towards Planet X-352.