The Second Apprentice (Part 1)
They had entered Tusken Raider territory!
Jing Fang maneuvered the speeder bike with agility, maintaining his speed while skillfully evading every shot.
The Tusken Raiders held deep hostility toward all other inhabitants of Tatooine. Of course, that hostility went both ways. The Tusken Raiders had long plundered nearby settlements, and some of the bolder ones even robbed transport vehicles. In retaliation, those residents organized counterattacks, sometimes even hiring mercenaries to bomb Tusken Raider strongholds from starships.
So the moment anyone entered Tusken Raider territory, their ubiquitous sentries and snipers would immediately attack, killing the intruders and stripping them of everything they had.
But none of that meant anything before Jing Fang. The speeder bike evaded every shot, and even when he could not avoid one, he merely swung a fist, his punch wind blowing the bullet away. Nothing could harm him in the slightest.
Jing Fang charged straight into the Tusken Raider tribe. The tribe had been built into a small mountain, with countless cave dwellings excavated into its slopes. They lived within them normally, and whenever enemies invaded, those caves became their best hiding places.
Thus, even under starship bombardment, the Tusken Raiders could survive with remarkable tenacity.
In fact, most bounty hunters were unwilling to take on such jobs—who knew whether several anti-air missiles might suddenly fly out of those caves one day? After all, who knew what the Sand People had robbed lately?
Jing Fang leaped off the speeder bike and rushed up the mountain. Tusken Raider warriors charged at him with howls. Some carried looted blaster rifles, some wielded homemade gunpowder weapons, and others simply used sturdy, spiked clubs.
One end of these clubs was fitted with spikes, while the other had four sharp flanges. They were fashioned through repeated processing,