Breaking Through the Defensive Line

Breaking Through the Defensive Line

"Hold on!" Cun Te gripped the controls. The instant the hatch closed, he shoved them forward hard, and the YT-1000 shot off like an unbridled wild horse, accelerating violently toward outer space.

A large number of blaster bolts fired up from the ground, but those small-caliber blasters could no longer threaten a spacecraft at this altitude.

On several mountaintops, hatches disguised as ice-covered rock opened. Large Turbolaser Turrets rose from underground and began adjusting their firing angles.

Cun Te expertly spun and swerved the ship, preventing the Fire Control Radar from getting a lock. Several turbolaser blasts streaked past the ship, leaving Tang Xiao drenched in cold sweat.

The ship broke free of the atmosphere and entered outer space. At that moment, the several Generous-class frigates that had remained unmoved when they arrived were already in motion, closing in on them!

Dozens of Vulture droid fighters clinging to the frigates detached one after another. Their mechanical claws transformed into sharp wings, and they flew straight at them like vicious Vultures!

"Kunto! Get back here and help me!!" Cun Te shouted.

Kunto climbed out of the turret and took the copilot's seat. "But what about the turret?"

Spade had to stay in the cabin to keep the ship's systems running properly, while the T-850 had just dragged Semir out of the wrecked car and was keeping watch over him. Tang Xiao did not hesitate in the slightest. "I'll operate the turret!"

With that, he climbed straight into the turret.

"Listen. The screen on your left is the Fire Control Radar, and the one on the right shows target data. The foot pedals control the turret's rotation, and then you pull the trigger to fire." Spade's instructions came through the headset. "All right, you already know how to use the turret. Now shoot down those Vulture fighters first!"

"All right, I'll try." Tang Xiao grabbed the turret controls and pulled the trigger at the incoming Vulture droid fighters.

Whoosh~~~~ A green laser beam shot out, but it veered off to the side and hit nothing.

The Vulture fighters rolled nimbly aside, evading Tang Xiao's fire before opening fire on the ship! Though Cun Te did everything he could to dodge, several crimson blaster bolts still struck the ship, only to be blocked by the Deflector Shield.

The formation brushed past the Lancer, then the Vulture fighters turned around and pursued them from behind.

"We have to break through this blockade before we can escape the gravity well and enter hyperspace!" Cun Te said as he maneuvered the ship through the incoming fire.

More than seven thousand kilometers ahead, the three Generous-class frigates were turning. The Turbolaser Turrets aboard them had begun firing continuously in their direction. The turbolasers mounted on such massive warships were nothing like the blaster cannons on Vulture fighters. Even a glancing hit would mean the ship's destruction and everyone aboard dead!

Fortunately, due to the Generous-class frigates' design, most of their firepower faced forward from the bow. Until they completed their turn, Cun Te still had room to evade.

Cold sweat streamed down Cun Te's temples as he piloted the ship. He practically roared with all his strength, "I can only guarantee that we won't get hit by the warships! I can't spare any attention for those fighters. If we don't take them out, we're dead for sure!"

"I said I'll fucking try!" Tang Xiao cursed and fired again, but still failed to hit the target.

"What exactly did Semir do? The entire Makito planetary force is chasing us now!" Kunto cried out.

"Do you think something that made Hego personally come forward to commission it could be a trivial matter?" Tang Xiao replied while firing repeatedly, but his shots had little effect against the agile Vulture droid fighters.

Whoosh, whoosh~~ Several more blaster bolts struck the ship's shields. Spade's roar came from the cabin: "The shields can't hold much longer!"

"Concentrate all shield energy at the rear of the ship!" Cun Te shouted. "Administrator! You've awakened your power! You can do this! All our lives are in your hands!"

That's right! Calm down... calm down! I've already awakened the Force! The most iconic ability of Force users in Star Wars is foreseeing the future. That makes every Jedi Knight an outstanding pilot and gunner. So I can do it! I definitely can!

Tang Xiao forced himself to calm down. He took a deep breath, then another, closed his eyes, and tried to extend his senses outward.

It was a wonderful feeling. He seemed to feel that the ship he was in no longer existed, that he was standing in the dark universe itself. Just like... just like that dream he had when he had first crossed over...

He seemed to be an observer, looking down upon the universe and battlefield from an incredibly high vantage point, as though everything lay within his grasp.

He suddenly opened his eyes. His pupils were unfathomably deep, as if whirlpools were spinning within them. He lightly pressed the pedals, rotating the turret by seven degrees, then finely adjusted the firing angle with the controls. Everything was completed in less than half a second, smooth as flowing water.

He pulled the trigger. A green laser beam instantly tore through the darkness of space. At that moment, a Vulture fighter happened to be flying in that direction, as though it had crashed into the laser itself!

Amid a silent explosion, the Vulture fighter was instantly heated by the laser beam, its ammunition detonating as it exploded into a fireball that scattered through space. Vulture fighters simply could not withstand a direct hit from a laser turret. In this universe, larger meant greater energy output, a sturdier structure, and more powerful firepower.

The twenty-eight-meter YT-1000 light freighter stood on a completely different energy level from the mere 3.6-meter ultra-light Vulture droid fighter. Naturally, it took only one shot to destroy one.

"Yahoo!! Nice job!!" Spade cheered through the headset.

But Tang Xiao's expression did not change in the slightest. Neither joyful nor sorrowful, he merely watched everything unfold with indifference. In his eyes now, the flight paths of those dozens of Vulture fighters were no longer chaotic. Instead, clear trajectories appeared before him one after another.

How those fighters would fly, how they would evade, when they would fire—everything was within his predictions. Though he could only foresee their actions one or two seconds ahead, it was enough!

A fighter on the left would approach. At the same time, one below would accelerate and open fire. The fourth fighter on the right was about to launch a missile, while Cun Te would turn the ship seventeen degrees to the right before braking sharply to decelerate...

Countless pieces of predicted information converged in his mind, and he arrived at the optimal solution.

He pulled the trigger and fired!

One Vulture fighter was destroyed. Then, he allowed the ship's shields to take the blaster bolts fired by the Vulture fighter below, while rotating the turret to the right and intercepting the missile the instant it launched. The explosion's debris would destroy that Vulture fighter's sensors, turning it blind...

One Vulture fighter after another was destroyed by Tang Xiao. His efficiency was beyond imagination. In less than a minute, he destroyed thirteen Vulture fighters! The pressure on the Lancer instantly eased, allowing Cun Te to focus on dealing with the Generous-class frigates' attacks.

Inside the cabin, Spade stared at everything in stunned disbelief, even forgetting to cheer. But then he remembered his duties and roared into the microphone, "The shields are about to overload!!"

"That's enough! Kunto! Activate the hyperspace engine!" Cun Te shouted.

"Hyperspace engine, activated!" Kunto could not help shouting as he pressed the button. The space outside the ship was immediately replaced by countless streaks of light as they entered hyperspace.

In this higher-dimensional space, it was naturally impossible to see anything.

Right under the noses of the three Generous-class frigates, the Lancer entered hyperspace and departed in triumph!

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Bonus chapter image 1: Vulture droid fighter

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