The Way Back to Civilization - Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Death Descends From the Sky

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Everything happened so quickly that no one could react.

All that was left of the noisy battlefield was the tiny cruiser and the figure of the steel behemoth. The main engine of the pirate cruiser had been destroyed by the impact of the missiles and was completely paralyzed.

Just as Gu Fan was about to connect to the other party’s communication channel to establish communication, but because they were probably scared out of their wits by the huge difference in strength between the two sides.

Not long after, more than ten escape boats were ejected from the rear of the cruiser one after another and fled towards the desert planet at high speed.

At the same time, Xue Feng reported calmly.

“The technology template has gone offline. It’s presumed that someone took it out and brought it into one of the escape boats.”

“We can use the light spears to disrupt them. It’s estimated that 33% of the escape capsules will be paralyzed by the energy shockwaves, and 67% will be directly destroyed.”

Hearing this, Gu Fan rejected this idea without hesitation.

“No, it’s too risky.”

Gu Fan did not expect these guys to be so decisive.

Originally, he planned to negotiate with the pirate with the technology template. If the pirate was willing to obediently hand over the template and explain his origins, he did not intend to make things too difficult for him.

However, it was obvious that those foolish pirates did not understand his sincere kindness.

The so-called template referred to a group or groups of integrated chips that stored precious scientific and technological data.

They are the culmination of technologies that preserve and record human intelligence, and also the key to ensuring that some important equipment works properly. In addition, each technological template has different characteristics.

In the past, these precious templates would be stored in technological arks, linking human technology to the various colonies through the Internet, so that all compatriots could use the wisdom stored in them to learn, and all the factories and departments connected to them could use the knowledge to produce.

Gu Fan guessed that perhaps it was precisely because the Wither Disease that had lasted for a hundred years had caused a violent upheaval in human civilization that these precious technological templates were scattered throughout the universe with the waves of chaos.

Looking at the escape boat that was gradually disappearing into the planet’s atmosphere, Gu Fan naturally would not let the other party off so easily.

Not far away, after being abandoned by the pirates, the merchant spaceship that had lost its power was also captured by the planet’s gravity. At this moment, it was turning into a meteor and quickly falling to the surface.

This was a desert planet with a dry climate. According to the data transmitted by the sensors, there were pirate gathering places on the surface of the planet. There seemed to be quite a number of them, and some parts of the planet also had fortifications and heavy weapons.

Since the other party was unwilling to give it to him, he could only go down and get it himself.

After tidying up the sleeves of his military uniform, he looked at the button with the eagle emblem on his wrist and said calmly.

“Have the Iron Man Legion get ready. We’ll also begin the Titan’s awakening ceremony.”

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“Squeak squeak squeak!!!”

Accompanied by a dull rumble, the luxurious cargo spaceship wrapped in flames fell into the desert on the surface, leaving a long ravine on the hard sand and stone ground.

When everything returned to normal, the rats in the cabin were already in a mess. What was worse was that when they tried their best to crawl out of the wreckage of the cargo ship, a convoy of bandits comprised of lizards was already approaching.

Looking at the modified armored vehicles not far away, the rats hiding in the wreckage of the warship seemed to be in a panic. Although there were some basic caravan guards among them, the low-power laser rifles in their hands were clearly not a match for those lizards. Some timid fellows had even begun to use their instincts to dig holes in the sand and stone ground.

Everything in front of him made Ramchi, as the head rat, feel irritated. At the moment, it was standing on the ruins piled up by the outer armor of the warship, and its ears were filled with the chirping of the rats.

At this moment, a few long-tailed rats ran over on all fours. They were wearing armor that had been temporarily modified from scrap metal. One of them had half a flower pot on its head.

“Boss! Our big guns and cannons are gone!”

Ramchi was clearly angered by these words. He waved his tiny rat fist and shouted.

“Damn it! Damn it! Go tell those boys to keep their mouths shut! If they don’t have guns, use rocks! If they don’t, they still have teeth!”

“We can’t let these lizards take the goods away!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the lizards in the distance had already fired at the wreckage of the spaceship.

Under the continuous firing of several machine guns, the unarmed clan rats wailed and hid everywhere, but in the end, they could not escape the baptism of bullets.

On the other hand, the mice’s counterattack was very weak. The low-powered lasers could not penetrate the armor of the lizard’s head at all. Instead, they attracted an even more ferocious counterattack.

The lizard heads were not in a hurry to attack. They just fired meaninglessly at the spaceship in front of them provocatively. As they gradually approached, Ramchi could already hear the arrogant laughter of the rude creatures.

If this continued, defeat was a certainty. Even if the rats in the cargo hold stomped their feet in anxiety, they could not change the fact that they were about to be turned into lizard food.

Some desperate rats had even built a simple altar with the wreckage of the battleship and began to pray for the help of the gods.

“Oh… Great Horned Rat above…”

However, at the same time, an accident happened.

It was unknown if the prayers had really worked, but just as the lizards roared and broke through the fragile defense line and were about to kill their way into the internal cabin of the ship, a roar in the sky instantly attracted everyone’s attention.

Flames and lasers mixed into a strange glow in the distant sky. With a few muffled explosions, the huge wreckage of the building fell from the sky like a meteorite and burned with raging flames.

Such a scene shocked everyone present, especially those lizards that were staring at the orange-yellow sky above them in disbelief.

It was the Orbital Space Port that the Piras Brotherhood was proud of. At the same time, countless black iron cans fell along with the debris of the space port.

Before the people present could figure out the situation, with a deafening sonic boom, a large number of black iron cans had already fallen around the spaceship, smashing holes of varying depths in the hard sand and stone ground. Some of them even landed in the middle of the bandit convoy.

It was only then that the lizards saw clearly for the first time that the black iron cans were actually thick orbital airborne capsules.

As the cabin door suddenly exploded, several humanoid “creatures” in heavy black armor walked out.