49: Enemies meet on a narrow road

Inside the Natural Selection's cockpit.

"Brother Mo, look! It's those bad guys' ships!"

Gu Nianqiu's small face was pressed against the viewport, pointing at the distant fleet's outline, faintly visible in the darkness, and shouted excitedly.

There was no fear in her voice, only an eager excitement.

"Exactly! Let's wipe them out!"

Gu Zhixia also walked over, holding her Six-Harmony Long Spear, her cold and beautiful phoenix eyes glinting with icy killing intent.

"They must be out of ammo and supplies by now. At a time like this, let's see what they'll do!"

Lin Mo looked at the distant fleet, which had fallen into a deathly silence, a playful smirk curving his lips.

"It seems we're truly fated to cross paths."

Just then, a communication request abruptly flashed on the control panel.

It was from the Longxiang Fleet.

Lin Mo glanced at it and gestured to connect.

The screen lit up, and Long Yuan's pale, bloodless face appeared again.

His eyes were sunken, his lips chapped; the calm demeanor of a cultured tyrant he once possessed was long gone, replaced only by a forced composure.

"We... need to talk."

Long Yuan's voice was hoarse, clearly exhausted physically and mentally by everything he had endured.

"Let us go."

He spoke with difficulty, each word seemingly draining all his strength.

"I'll give you all the good things I've accumulated these past few days."

Lin Mo leaned back comfortably in the captain's chair, saying nothing, merely watching him with an amused expression.

Long Yuan took a deep breath, as if having made a decision.

"I have several unique gems, and several crystal cores of different attributes, all rare materials."

Lin Mo finally spoke, his tone flat, yet it was like a knife, accurately piercing Long Yuan's pride.

"If I destroy you, won't all these things still be mine?"

Long Yuan's body stiffened abruptly, the muscles in his face twitching uncontrollably.

He stared intensely at the excessively young man on the screen, his eyes instantly bloodshot.

He hadn't expected this man to be so ruthless, unwilling to leave even the slightest room for negotiation.

Lin Mo leaned forward slightly, the smile vanishing from his face, replaced by an icy chill that could freeze the soul.

"Before, you were so aggressive, with your fleet encirclement, and singling out targets."

"Now, don't blame me for being merciless."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Mo unilaterally cut off the communication.

The screen went black.

The next second, the Natural Selection's bow, its red high-energy laser module, instantly charged up.

A dazzling red light, like a sword of judgment from hell, shot fiercely towards the distant Longxiang Fleet!

Boom—!

The red beam of light accurately struck the hull of an S-class frigate.

The frigate's armor was instantly melted and pierced, leaving a horrifying giant hole, but it quickly recovered, distributing the damage.

On the flagship's Bridge, piercing alarms blared frantically.

[Dealt 500 damage to the Longxiang Fleet, remaining durability 87641 / 160000]

Looking at the numbers popping up on the panel, Long Yuan's eyes instantly widened.

Five hundred points of damage!

How was that possible!

His previous laser attacks only dealt one hundred points of damage each!

And the beam was clearly not as powerful as it was now!

"Boss! He... his weapon has upgraded!"

Thunder Tiger let out a high-pitched shriek, his voice filled with incredulous fear.

Before they could react.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two more tracking missiles, trailing flames, whistled out and slammed heavily into another ship.

Boom!

[Dealt 500 damage to the Longxiang Fleet, remaining durability 87141 / 160000]

Another five hundred points of damage!

"Boss! What do we do?!"

"If this continues, we'll be beaten to death!"

Wang Ye's voice was already on the verge of tears.

Despair, like icy seawater, instantly engulfed the entire Bridge.

Long Yuan gritted his teeth, his jaw clenching audibly.

Run!

He had to run!

A hint of desperate determination flashed in his eyes.

He closed his eyes again, ignoring the tearing pain in his brain, frantically squeezing out his last shred of mental energy.

"Hidden Dragon... in the Abyss!"

Hum—

A deep blue water curtain once again spread out from the flagship, enveloping the entire shattered fleet.

Pfft—

Long Yuan suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his body swayed, almost collapsing to the ground.

His face was no longer just pale, but a deathly gray.

Forcibly using this skill again had caused almost irreversible damage to his spiritual origin.

But he couldn't care less now.

Enveloped by the water curtain, the entire Longxiang Fleet began to rapidly sink, plunging into the bottomless dark sea abyss.

"Trying to run?"

Lin Mo frowned, watching the rapidly sinking blue light curtain.

He had no intention of letting them go just like that.

"Brother Mo is so handsome!"

Gu Nianqiu's starry eyes had not dimmed; she hugged Lin Mo's arm tightly, her face full of adoration.

Lin Mo's thoughts locked onto the special skill in the fire control system.

[Overclock]!

"Activate."

Hum—!!!

The Natural Selection's bow, that red laser emission core, instantly surpassed the sun in brightness!

The next second, it was no longer a single beam of light!

Instead, like a breached flood, it transformed into a dense storm of red light beams, ten shots per second, pouring frantically onto the sinking blue light curtain at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—!

The piercing sounds of air being torn merged into one, like the roar of death!

The sinking Longxiang Fleet was instantly completely enveloped by this deadly barrage of light!

[-500! -500! -500! -500! -500! ...]

Within a second, ten damage notifications furiously flooded the screen!

The Longxiang Fleet's remaining eighty thousand-plus durability points, like ice and snow under a scorching sun, rapidly melted at an unbelievable speed!

Seventy thousand... sixty thousand... fifty thousand... in just ten seconds.

When Overclock ended and the high-energy laser module went into overload paralysis, the Longxiang Fleet's shared durability had been forcibly reduced by a full fifty thousand points!

Every ship beneath the water curtain became scarred and tattered; some ships even had half their hulls directly vaporized by the laser storm, on the verge of breaking apart.

But that deep blue water curtain ultimately carried this near-destroyed fleet, completely sinking into the deep sea shrouded in black mist, disappearing from sight.

"Ah, what a pity, they still got away."

Gu Zhixia sighed, her voice filled with reluctance.

Lin Mo's expression, however, was calm; he slumped in the captain's chair, feeling his mind clear.

"Don't worry."

His voice was a little tired, but exceptionally firm.

"He won't escape."

"There will be plenty of opportunities to deal with them, sooner or later."

Lin Mo's gaze returned to the boundless, heart-pounding darkness outside the window.

"The most pressing task is to find a way to get out of this damned black mist first."