Turning the Tables

28, Turning the Tables

A car?!

No one had ever imagined that this would be what greeted them! They could not understand why anyone would put a car inside a spaceship! The more than four-meter-long wreck of a car was thrown out like a toy. The caught-off-guard mercenaries opened fire, but the blaster bolts all struck the car to no effect.

Clang!!! The wrecked car knocked several mercenaries over, scraping across the floor in a shower of sparks.

Some of the mercenaries who had recovered immediately unleashed fierce fire toward the hatch. Blaster shots whistled through the air as several red bolts pierced the mist toward the other side.

But an invisible force suddenly enveloped them, and several more mercenaries had their Blaster pistols ripped from their hands without warning. Before they could retrieve their weapons, ratatatatat!!! A burst of crisp gunfire rang out, and several mercenaries at the front fell.

A burly man emerged, holding an assault rifle in one hand. His aim was incredibly precise, and a single burst of fire brought down five or six mercenaries. The blaster bolts fired at him tore his artificial skin full of holes and damaged the metal endoskeleton beneath, yet he remained standing.

"It's a robot!!" the mercenaries cried out as they saw the silvery mechanical structure beneath the man's damaged skin.

Ratatat! Ratatat! T-850 showed no mercy. After emptying his assault rifle, he discarded it and pulled two more assault rifles from behind his back, continuing his sweeping fire.

Tang Xiao, Cun Te, Kunto, and Spade followed behind him, each holding an assault rifle and firing wildly ahead without any regard for aim!

No matter how many advantages blasters had, the mercenaries were armed only with single-shot Blaster pistols. Before assault rifles capable of automatic fire, they could only yield.

Ratatatatatat!! Dense bullets sprayed toward them like a torrent. Another four or five mercenaries fell into pools of blood, while the rest could only hide behind cover and fire from the shadows.

Tang Xiao focused and locked onto a Rodian mercenary hiding behind a crate. He raised his hand and grabbed at empty air, and the mercenary's gun immediately flew from his grasp. The mercenary instinctively tried to pick it up, but the moment he stuck his head out, a bullet blew it apart. Blue blood sprayed everywhere.

T-850 marched at the very front without fear, allowing blaster bolts to strike him again and again. His artificial skin peeled away, revealing the skull-shaped mechanical endoskeleton beneath. His red electronic eyes constantly rotated, locking onto targets before opening fire!

A blaster bolt hit his left eye, blowing the electronic eye away, but he still aimed with his remaining eye and put a bullet through the brow of the Bosa mercenary who had fired at him.

His assault rifles ran dry again. He threw them aside, drew two Pistols from his waist, and continued shooting.

Bang! Another blaster bolt struck his right arm joint, instantly blasting the arm into two pieces. T-850 swung his severed arm and, with a clang, smashed the man so hard into the bulkhead that it caved inward.

"Die, you metalhead!" Another mercenary suddenly rushed out from behind him, aiming his Blaster pistol at the back of T-850's head.

But before he could pull the trigger, the blaster flew from his hand.

The next second, his head burst apart like a watermelon!

At the very start of the battle, the Falin woman saw that things were going badly and scrambled toward the cockpit, shouting as she ran, "Close the docking bay! Now!!"

The moment her words fell, there was a bang, and a bullet grazed her cheek before entering the back of the pilot's head in front of her.

Brains splattered across the floor.

Behind her, Tang Xiao blew on the smoking barrel of his revolver and said coldly, "If I were you, I'd get on my knees immediately and put my hands over your head."

The Falin woman obeyed without hesitation. Her face was filled with terror. "Don't kill me! This wasn't my idea! Don't kill me... This was Black..."

"I don't want to hear it!" A violent emotion suddenly spread through Tang Xiao's heart. A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes. Bang!! The Falin woman fell into a pool of blood.

Tang Xiao sighed, tossed away the pistol, and leaned against the bulkhead beside him, feeling somewhat weak. He had never even killed a chicken in his life. Why had things become like this? Why had he raised his hand and blown someone's head off so easily?

And he had not wanted to kill her in the first place. He had wanted to capture her and ask about Black Han-Damask II... Yet...

Could it be that what I awakened was the Dark Side Force? The thought appeared in Tang Xiao's mind for no reason.

At the same time, the other Grosrok Class 720 freighter realized something was wrong. It turned around, accelerated, and tried to flee.

"Leave no roots behind! Cun Te! Get to the cockpit, take down that ship!" Tang Xiao abruptly came to his senses and shouted.

"I'm already doing it!" Cun Te had already kicked the pilot's corpse aside, but the pilot's brains had smeared across the control console, and he could not tell what the buttons did for the moment.

But at that moment, a sudden change occurred!

Light suddenly flashed in space beside them. Then a huge warship dropped out of hyperspace and instantly appeared before them!

It was a Munificent-class communications frigate bearing the emblem of the InterGalactic Banking Clan!

"Fuck! Makito's pursuers!! How did they catch up to us here!!" At the sight of the 825-meter-long giant vessel, Tang Xiao felt as if he had fallen into an ice pit, his entire body going rigid. "Cun Te, can we still run?"

"I don't think so." Cun Te gave a bitter smile.

The Turbolaser Turrets aboard the Munificent-class frigate began adjusting their angles. Then they targeted the fleeing Grosrok Class 720 freighter and opened fire!!

The merciless barrage instantly struck the freighter. No sound came through the vacuum of space, but the explosions made the brutality and devastation of the attack abundantly clear!

With only one shot, the thirty-eight-meter freighter was destroyed. Its Deflector Shield was completely useless against an attack of this magnitude.

After firing that shot, the Munificent-class frigate made no further move. It merely opened its hangar doors and remained quietly in place.

Then Tang Xiao's heart suddenly skipped a beat. He looked at the Munificent-class frigate, his gaze turning profound. He vaguely saw a deeply hidden darkness aboard that warship—boundless darkness...

Shaking his head, Tang Xiao said, "All right. I think we're safe for now. Kunto, you and Spade try to operate this freighter. Cun Te, T-850, we're going back to pilot the Lancer. Then we'll board that warship. It's time to make the delivery."

The Lancer and the Auro class freighter flew one after the other into the somewhat narrow hangar of the Munificent-class frigate. Once the ships had landed, hundreds of fully armed B-1 battle droids surrounded them.

B-1 battle droids were a type of robot that looked exceedingly crude. Massive interstellar corporations such as the InterGalactic Banking Clan and the Trade Federation loved using these cheap, effective, and plentiful robots, whether for combat or any other kind of work.

Cun Te took the storage device and walked at the front. Tang Xiao mingled among the others, trying not to draw attention to himself.

Bonus chapter image 1: T-800 in battle