Chapter 507: Survivors (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Outer space...

The war was still continuing. The plasma spewed from the ground was a fatal attack for these space warships without protective shields.

Countless warships were hit by plasma as they passed over this nameless planet, falling as a result. Countless pieces of space junk floated outside the planet, forming a beautiful and spectacular landscape.

Sporadic counterattacks were launched from the space warships, and the occasional falling bomb meant the planet's surface could not be peaceful.

Tara was in a terrible mood. She had originally thought they had reached Planet K and could land, but it turned out to be an interception from the Zerg, and this interception was quite terrifying.

Looking at the gorgeous fireworks on the horizon, Tara's mood became even worse. Every blooming firework represented the fall of a space warship, and accompanying it, it was possible that hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people were suffocating to death in space.

"These damn bugs," Tara cursed hatefully.

"Don't let a bad mood ruin your performance." The captain looked at Tara from above and said with a stern expression, "It's useless to say anything now. Bring out your level, strive to escape this damn battlefield—not for yourself, but for the thousands of soldiers inside the warship."

"Yes." Tara saluted the captain, and her whole person cheered up. Her bad mood seemed to fade away along with it.

*Boom! *

With a loud noise, the ship shook, the red light of the alarm flashed, and the ear-piercing sound echoed in everyone's ears.

"Oh no, we've been hit." Almost in an instant, the captain stood up. "Everyone, go to the escape pods. We're landing."

They were too far from the planet, and with the warship hit, it could no longer support a forced landing on the planet. So, the captain made a prompt decision to abandon the warship and take the escape pods to leave.

Others hurriedly put down the work in their hands. No matter what they were doing before, at this moment, they all rushed out, looking for escape pods to escape from this warship that was about to be destroyed.

"Run!" Tara followed the crowd and fled toward the escape pods. Suddenly, blue light and red flames came out from a doorway, and steel blocks and iron pillars fell from the ceiling, scaring the crowd into screaming.

"Damn, this door won't work." Tara hurriedly changed direction and walked toward the other side. Fortunately, the road was smooth, allowing her to successfully find an escape pod.

"Here, here, there's an escape pod here." Tara called out to the crowd while fastening her seatbelt, wearing a safety helmet, and operating the escape pod one after another with a man.

*Boom! *

Another loud noise. Blue light emerged from the steel floor of the warship, accompanied by red flames.

"We're leaving here immediately." Tara closed the door and immediately started the escape pod. With a *rumble*, they rushed out. After they rushed out, a violent explosion occurred behind them, and the entire warship turned into silent fireworks in space.

"That was close." The man behind saw the brilliant fireworks the warship had turned into and couldn't help but sigh.

"We haven't completely escaped danger yet." Tara's gaze condensed as she turned on the communication equipment, constantly sending signals downward.

"B63 escape pod, two people in the pod, requesting support."

"Stop asking for help first. Scan the terrain and find a landing point."

*Boom! *

While the two people's words were still echoing in the escape pod, the escape pod trembled and began to lose control.

"What's going on? How could this happen?" The feeling of relief from escaping was destroyed completely.

"System, start the self-check program," Tara said, then turned her head and said to the man, "It was probably hit by something. Maybe it was plasma, or maybe it was fragments ejected after the warship was destroyed, or maybe it was meteorite fragments."

"But no matter what, seeking rescue is what we should do. If possible, try to rendezvous with others. On a planet full of bugs, you wouldn't want to become food."

Hearing this, the man immediately felt ashamed. What he had just thought about was only what should be done right now, while Tara was thinking about what should be done afterward. The difference in their foresight was clear at a glance.

"But don't be too happy too soon," Tara said to herself. "Since the bugs set up an ambush here, the number of bugs on this planet will absolutely not be small. After all, this place is very close to the bugs' base camp, Planet K."

"I don't know if those people can hold out."

"I suggest that after we make contact, we move toward them quickly. One more person means one more bit of strength."

"This..." The man hesitated. If he were a little more selfish, he should wait until the situation below became clear before going, or at least avoid fighting the bugs head-on. After all, their fuel could still last for a few hours.

It was just that he also understood that the control stick was in Tara's hands now, and she made all the decisions. If he didn't have a better reason to refute, the final result wouldn't change, and he would have played the villain for nothing.

"System self-check complete." The cold, mechanical synthetic voice sounded in the small space of the escape pod, but what it brought was bad news. "The tail wing of the airframe has been attacked and has cracked. It is recommended to land immediately and find tools to repair it."

"Damn, how could this happen?" Hearing the system's words, the man's face changed drastically, and he cursed loudly.

Still thinking about how to persuade Tara to let Tara fly a while longer, he no longer had the mind to think. The damage from the escape pod itself forced him to land.

"Tara, we must land immediately, otherwise we will fall into outer space and become corpses," the man said. Without equipment, drifting in outer space with a normal human body and suffocating to death was his only fate.

"I know." Tara pressed the control stick and accelerated toward the planet. "This is B63 escape pod, two people in the pod, requesting support, requesting support."

"This is B63 escape pod, two people in the pod, requesting support."

Tara repeated it again. As the escape pod entered the planet's interior and was about to land, she suddenly pulled up, operating the escape pod to fly in the sky above the planet.

"What are you doing?" The man looked at Tara in surprise, not understanding why Tara wouldn't land. You must know that the escape pod's tail wing already had cracks and could collapse at any time because it couldn't withstand the pressure. At that time, they would both fall to their deaths.

It could be said that landing as soon as possible was the right way now. Every minute of delay in the sky added a point of danger. Tara operated the control stick. "But this planet is full of those ferocious and ugly bugs. Facing them, the two of us will only be dead for sure. So we must request support and rendezvous with others. Only then can we try our best to survive and wait for rescue."

"System, give me a self-check of the escape pod's tail wing. I need all the data on the tail wing." Tara added. Trying her best to rendezvous with others didn't mean being reckless. When the escape pod could still hold up, naturally, she had to seek rescue. But when the escape pod couldn't hold up, she wouldn't force it. When it was time to land, she would land without the slightest hesitation.

"System is self-checking. Found that the escape pod's tail wing has cracked. It is recommended to land."

"System, no need to report the current situation of the tail wing to me. Report to me again when the situation of the escape pod's tail wing changes," Tara said.

Although she was paying attention to the tail wing at all times, if she let the system's voice keep sounding, it would still affect her mood. She still remembered the captain's words: Don't let a bad mood ruin your performance.

"If you want to present your most perfect performance, don't be disturbed by anything," Tara muttered in her heart, gradually forgetting everything. Her hands constantly operated the escape pod to fly in the sky inside the planet, while constantly transmitting signals to the outside.

"This is B63 escape pod, two people in the pod, requesting support."

Sentence after sentence was spat out from Tara's mouth and sent out through signals, hoping that someone could receive the signal and contact her.

But unfortunately, no matter how she shouted, she couldn't attract any attention, as if on this planet, aside from bugs, there were only more bugs, and all humans had been wiped out.

She knew deeply that the reason this situation appeared was because there were too few soldiers, and also because her flight speed was too slow.

"Received. We are the search detachment. Please have B63 escape pod land immediately."

A heavy voice came over, making the escape pod, which had been quiet with only one voice, boil over. The two people, who had been somewhat desperate because they were gradually losing hope, suddenly had new hope, and their despair was swept away.

"I'm coming over immediately," Tara said hurriedly.

"Warning, escape pod tail wing damaged. Please land immediately." Just as the system's voice finished speaking, the escape pod trembled, and then crashed toward a mountain peak.

"What on earth happened?" The man seemed to want to stand up, but the seatbelt made it impossible for him to stand. He only saw the escape pod accelerate toward the mountain peak, and the horror in his heart could not be expressed in words.

Not seeing hope was terrifying, but suddenly falling into despair when seeing hope was even more terrifying. Now he was in this situation. Just as he was about to rendezvous with the soldiers and be protected, the escape pod suddenly went out of control, causing his entire heart to slide into the abyss.

"It's all your fault, it's all your fault! Why did you have to keep flying in the sky?" The man suddenly roared. The blow from despair to hope and back to despair made his emotions lose control. He blamed everything on Tara, thinking that if it weren't for Tara's insistence on flying in the sky, this wouldn't have happened.

"I..." Tara gritted her teeth, tears falling secretly in her eyes. The process from despair to hope and back to despair not only hit the man, but also hit her. But she understood that she couldn't give up on herself; she still had to make a final effort.

"I will absolutely not give up until the very last moment."

Tara gripped the control stick, trying hard to operate the escape pod, wanting to pull the escape pod up, but no matter what she did, she couldn't change her fate.

"Am I really going to die?" Tara let go of her hands, looking at this scene before her in despair, watching the escape pod crash into the mountain peak, making a *rumbling* sound. (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 508 =====