Bigge Awakens
Less than an hour after leaving Titan Star, Sea Emperor docked the Golden Eagle on a nearby Administrative Star.
Bade and his group of Interstellar Pirate poured out of the Golden Eagle and headed towards the port, looking for a ship they could leave on.
Seeing so many Interstellar Pirate jump off a military spaceship, many people in the port assumed that the prisoners held aboard the Golden Eagle had escaped.
Robert spent only a few minutes dyeing parts of the entire white spaceship gold, giving the whole spaceship a fashionable gold and white color scheme, and quickly erasing the military markings as well.
Sea Emperor easily erased the military's serial number; the whole process took less than five seconds.
Bade and the others accidentally saw Robert painting the spaceship and realized that the small robot, which was only half a meter tall, was a repairman on the Gu Ding ship.
Coloring a spaceship requires special treatment to alter the atomic arrangement of the metal on its surface, a task typically performed by skilled repairmen. For a spaceship as large as the Golden Eagle, it would take several repairmen several hours to complete such a task. But Bade saw that Robert had colored over 60% of the spaceship in less than a few minutes, and he began to envy Gu Ding for having so many capable crew members.
The Golden Eagle only stopped at the port for a few minutes before sailing away after the dyeing was completed.
"Bade, it looks like you're definitely not going to be able to hold onto your Rookie King title this time." An Luo, who was always outgoing and friendly with everyone, came over at the most inopportune moment and patted Bade on the shoulder.
Bade glanced at him sideways without refuting. He knew that once Sharp and Emily returned to military headquarters, the bounties on his group would definitely increase, and Gu Ding's bounty would inevitably increase the most, surpassing his own. He even had a vague feeling that even if Gu Ding entered the Universe Sea in the future, he would probably be able to stir up a storm in that vast Universe Sea.
On the Golden Eagle, the Sea Emperor's analysis of Liliath's blood test results has come back.
"This toxin is a new type of artificially synthesized toxin. There is no record of it in my database, but according to the composition analysis, most of the components of this toxin are human bodily fluids. It should be that person's special ability to transform their own bodily fluids into a toxin. In this case, only the toxin antibodies in that person's body can detoxify Lily. Another method is to obtain the antibodies to this toxin from a person with an all-around immune constitution, but people with this special constitution are very rare, and the chance of finding one is very slim."
"But I have some better news. This toxin is transmitted slowly through the brain nerves, and if brain activity decreases, the transmission speed will slow down. Normally, this virus would spread to Lily's entire brain in about a week. But if brain activity decreases, Lily's survival time will be extended significantly."
"Reduced brain activity could be dangerous," Gu Ding expressed his concern.
"My plan is to use the simplest quick-freezing technique. I have very detailed information on this in my database. Besides, given Robert's precision, I don't think there should be any problems." Sea Emperor thought it was very feasible. "I calculated that even the shallowest quick-freezing can increase Liliath's survival time to one month."
"Since that's the case, let's give it a try. A week is indeed too short; I'm worried it won't be enough. A deal involving the Dark Magic Domain doesn't sound like a good thing at all. Using Lily as a bargaining chip means the other party in the deal is likely Lily's family. Lily's parents are gone, and the remaining people might not be willing to compromise for Lily sake. Besides, I can't entrust Lily's life or death to a group of strangers." Gu Ding felt the situation was not optimistic, and finding an antidote for Lily himself seemed to be the most reliable solution at present.
"Also, Bigge alright?" Gu Ding had been focused on Liliath, and only now did he notice Bigge lying on the cabin floor, still unconscious.
"His body suffered severe injuries, and his consciousness has been shut down. I also scanned his physical condition before, and his injuries are healing very quickly. Although it can't compare to your High-Speed Regeneration, it's not far off, and he is expected to wake up tonight."
"Since that's the case, let him lie down. Let's deal with Lily's matter first." Gu Ding was relieved to hear that Bigge was alright.
Robert was called back to the Main Cabin, and Sea Emperor explained the plan to quickly freeze Liliath to him. Robert agreed without raising any questions.
Under Gu Ding's watchful eye, Robert quickly used his freezing ray to freeze Liliath's entire body. In addition, he spent less than half a minute creating a golden box and placing the frozen Liliath inside. The golden box was decorated with blooming summer flowers and leaves, and beautifully designed tassels, making it look like a finely crafted work of art.
"In this insulated box, as long as it doesn't leave the spaceship and get exposed to sunlight, and there's no external or internal force acting on the ice, it can stay frozen for at least thirty days," Robert explained after completing all of this.
Gu Ding sat beside the golden box, staring blankly at the ice for hours on end, not saying a word, and it was unclear what he was thinking.
For the past few hours, the Golden Eagle spaceship had been traveling at full speed, in order to reach Tanpo Star as quickly as possible, as Gu Ding had instructed.
"Bigge has woken up," Sea Emperor, slightly worried as he had never seen Gu Ding like this before. However, the good news of Bigge's awakening gave him another opportunity to strike up a conversation.
"Hmm," Gu Ding simply nodded without much further reaction.
Bigge, lying on the ground, slowly opened his eyes. Seeing the unfamiliar surroundings, he was slightly surprised. But he was soon even more surprised to discover that he was actually in a spaceship. Judging from the internal outline alone, the spaceship was at least dozens of times larger than the previous Grey Eagle.
Bigge sat up, looked around, and saw Gu Ding sitting on the sofa not far away.
Gu Ding simply nodded slightly at him, "You're awake."
"We escaped?!" Bigge was somewhat surprised. He knew that among those pirates, besides himself, none had the Combat Strength to contend with Sharp and Emily. After being suppressed by Sharp, he had passed out and had no idea what had happened. But normally, Sharp should have swept through the port without encountering any obstacles. So, they should have been captured by the military by now.
Gu Ding wasn't surprised to hear this question, because given the circumstances, the chances of his group escaping were indeed slim. "Yes, we escaped!"
"Is this the military's Golden Eagle?" Bigge looked up at the ceiling height and the vast Main Cabin area, and immediately concluded that this must be the Golden Eagle belonging to the Military Department General.
"From now on, it will be ours," Gu Ding nodded and corrected.
"Using the military's spaceship? Isn't that a bad idea? Won't we be hunted down by them?" Bigge seemed a little worried.
"I bought it from Sharp. Sea Emperor has erased the serial number, and Robert has also made some modifications to the appearance. Besides, we're already in the border river, so the military won't easily follow us."
Hearing Gu Ding's words, Bigge shook his still slightly aching head and stood up. He then noticed Liliath frozen inside the golden cabinet in front of Gu Ding. He immediately rushed over, "Lily, what happened?"
Gu Ding then recounted the entire sequence of events that had occurred while Bigge was unconscious. Sea Emperor even sent Bigge some video footage from the battlefield during that period.
After watching the video, Bigge looked down with some concern at Liliath, who was frozen in ice, and asked, "Is there any way to cure the poison?"
His question was clearly directed at Gu Ding.
"I'm looking. Nisos told me to go to Tanpo Star. He said there should be someone there who can help Liliath. I plan to go and ask." Gu Ding was still relatively optimistic. After all, as a member of the Saint Speech Clan, Nisos's prophecies were rarely wrong. He was the one who had told him before that Liliath would not die.
"The prophecy of the Saint Speech Clan shouldn't be wrong, right? Lily will definitely be alright." Bigge thought that since the Saint Speech Clan had said so, Liliath must be saved. "I'll go check what's in the fridge. You haven't eaten since this morning, have you...?"
The next morning, the port of Titan Star was bustling with activity as more than thirty military ships quickly docked.
This time, the leader was another high-ranking general from the military— Bruce, who was usually a very playful person. But on this day, he appeared unusually serious, even exchanging only a few brief pleasantries with his two old friends, Sharp and Emily. His usual sarcastic jokes were nowhere to be found.
Bruce was acutely aware of the gravity of this incident. Over four thousand military personnel had died, and with two generals in command, they hadn't even captured a single Interstellar Pirate. If other Universe Country found out, the Long Teng Universe Country would be utterly disgraced. Such a serious event would undoubtedly leave a significant mark of failure in the files of Sharp, Emily, and others.
Sharp, Emily, Nisos, Walter, and the rest of the military personnel quickly boarded the ship.
More than thirty spaceships docked for less than ten minutes before taking off and heading back to the military headquarters. (To be continued.)