Chapter 467

Wake up....

Human!

Zhang Jie suddenly opened his eyes; these few sounds were not Xiao Jiu's, but the Nightmare in his mind.

It was the Nightmare that woke him up.

While your partner hasn't noticed you! Quickly awaken your Ship Life! I don't want to die with you!

Nightmare shouted, Zhang Jie covered his painful head, and looked around.

Xiao Jiu lay quietly beside him, and in the distance there was a ship burning with thick fire.

Damn....

Zhang Jie struggled to get up, placed Xiao Jiu on his back, and ran toward the firelight.

Qiong's ship hull was pierced; if the Space Component connection isn't severed in time, she will die on this nameless planet.

It's clear that, during the time before Qiong's crash, she ejected him and Xiao Jiu.

Soon he saw the fiercely burning ship; Zhang Jie threw off Xiao Jiu and hurriedly ran toward the ship.

Familiar with the location of the Space Component, Zhang Jie, ignoring the pain of the scorching flames, forcibly pulled the manual lever to cut the connection, and a figure was ejected.

Fortunately, although the material's strength didn't meet Qiong's blueprint requirements, the blueprint's designer obviously considered various situations; the Space Component's core was protected by excellent fire-resistant material, so Qiong wasn't buried here.

But the situation remained bad; that laser was aimed at Qiong's core, yet Zhang Jie was a self-taught guy, and he had altered the core's location.

Damn! Why isn't your Ship Life waking up yet?

Wait! I'll go give her two slaps!

After the Nightmare finished speaking, it fell silent; instead, Xiao Jiu's head moved unconsciously, and then she suddenly woke up.

Ah!

Humans... where are the humans!

I'm here!

Zhang Jie picked up the shrunken Qiong, waved at Xiao Jiu; fortunately he had brought an extra Ship Life, otherwise he would really have died here.

Quickly deploy the ship body! Let's leave this place!

But the people behind him wouldn't let him have his way; they had lured him here to kill him, and surviving a fall from ten thousand meters altitude already counts as great luck.

As several energy cannons fired, Zhang Jie reacted quickly, immediately deploying the Position Shield and, as an afterthought, pulling out the antimatter gun to fire a faith shot.

Faith shot, as the name suggests, whoever gets hit counts!

As a large amount of matter was instantaneously decompressed, Zhang Jie faintly heard several screams and more intense gunfire, but the worst was still not this.

Damn it, hurry up and leave! The entropy disaster is coming!

The Nightmare in his mind had already become agitated; I don't know when it became like this, even though it's obviously something that occupies Zhang Jie's brain for thought.

I want to too!

Meanwhile, Xiao Jiu clutched her head, trembling all over; she didn't know what to do, could do nothing, and merely crouched fearfully behind Zhang Jie, muttering incoherent delirium.

At this moment, lasers and a hail of bullets had engulfed Zhang Jie, but the Position Shield remained steadfast.

All that can be said is that the value of the Position Shield keeps increasing.

Xiao Jiu!

Deploy the ship body! Destroy them!

The constantly shivering Xiao Jiu finally reacted, hurriedly deploying the ship body, deploying the Position Shield, and rushing swiftly toward the enemy.

Faintly, Zhang Jie heard the sound of metal clashing, human screams, and Xiao Jiu's unique detonation sound...

As Xiao Jiu made a loop and returned to the starting point, Zhang Jie pulled out the antimatter gun, sprayed bullets, silencing the opposition, then hastily opened Xiao Jiu's hatch.

Meanwhile, the Nightmare in his mind kept urging him; Zhang Jie glanced toward the horizon, where a black surge was approaching at extreme speed, and just that glance caused him to fall into a daze.

That blackness differed from the Nightmare's substance; it was more like a kind of black that doesn't exist in this world at all, a variegated black.

It seems the stronger a person's spirit, the more easily they become dazed upon seeing this; it was Xiao Jiu's sudden takeoff that woke him.

As altitude kept rising, Zhang Jie could see that black substance reach his feet in the blink of an eye, extending black tendrils toward the ship.

Even Xiao Jiu's speed couldn't match it!

Zhang Jie thought for a moment, placed Qiong in another cabin, reached out to open the ship's hatch, held his breath, and fired wildly downward.

The energy and matter that an antimatter explosion should produce, when hitting the entropy disaster, merely caused its body to emit a blue halo, but Zhang Jie still heard an indescribable insect scream.

Fortunately, antimatter indeed counters the entropy disaster; after Zhang Jie fired a few shots, its speed noticeably slowed, and Zhang Jie and Xiao Jiu finally escaped danger.

Huuu...

Zhang Jie let out a long breath, both hands trembling.

To be honest, it was a bit exciting, but mostly he was panicked, after all he had never encountered such a situation before.

Not to mention the human female hasn't been found; even the strongest combatant Qiong was ambushed, and it's unknown whether she can survive.

When they built Qiong's ship according to her blueprint, they hadn't installed a Position Shield at all; if they had, Qiong wouldn't have crashed in place.

It was his fault, Zhang Jie's.

Zzz...

Hey? Xiao Jie? Xiao Jie!

Are you still there? Are you?

A familiar voice came from Xiao Jiu's broadcast; it was the human female!

Zhang Jie instantly became excited; the human female had contacted him, which meant she was temporarily safe!

His nose tingled, and Zhang Jie shouted loudly.

Mom!

Hey! Xiao Jie, stay put there! Mom will come pick you up!

Well...

Humans.... I'm so useless....

I couldn't help with anything....

While Zhang Jie was checking Qiong's body, Xiao Jiu opened her mouth silently.

Zhang Jie's hand stopped, and he turned his head doubtfully to look at Xiao Jiu.

What do you mean?

If it weren't for you, we three would have died up there.

No... I... I'm actually completely useless...

Um, it's not your fault.

The only one injured was Qiong, while Xiao Jiu, from these words, read a different meaning.

Although Zhang Jie had been comforting her, isn't this just admitting that she really is useless?

Although Xiao Jiu knew Zhang Jie didn't mean it that way, she still felt awful, but she didn't say anything else.

For safety, Zhang Jie deliberately had Xiao Jiu move farther from this star system; half a day later, he saw the flowing light getting closer.

The human female has arrived!

(A bit late, today I ate a steak and almost got killed solo, Ark 250 didn't yield silver-gray, lately I've been really unlucky...)