242: Chapter 242 Yellow-haired fishing boat drags people into the toilet

"Fire!"

"Aim at this net, activate the Planet-Killer Cannon!"

Watching the Starship being dragged uncontrollably by an unknown object, Mai Guyao was stunned and thought of something terrifying: Jiang Chen, the Level 3 Lifeform.

Could a Level 3 Lifeform really be this terrifying?

And what on earth is this fishing net!

This was completely beyond his understanding.

Stunned, fearful, and panicked, he actually issued the most insane order to his subordinates.

[Planet-Killer Cannon No. 1, activating!]

On the Starship, a brilliant white energy pillar was rotating and brewing.

The next second.

A beam of white energy, like a white grim reaper, was fired, attempting to blast the fishing net open.

Swish!

The fishing net was right in front of them, with ten-meter gaps between the knots, but the white grim reaper had a caliber of twenty meters. It should have been unstoppable, piercing through the void.

However.

When it hit the fishing net, it was like falling into a stagnant pool, only emitting a sizzling sound of energy annihilation. The fishing net didn't even move, and the armor-piercing projectile was digested on the spot.

[Report Commander, the Planet-Killer Cannon's armor-piercing projectile cannot get out!]

The subordinate was dumbfounded at this scene.

This didn't seem to be just a fishing net; it was more like an energy net.

The knots were terrifyingly sturdy, and in the gaps between the knots, there was light blue energy covering them.

Under normal circumstances, it couldn't be seen, but once the fishing net encountered a massive energy attack, the rippling energy waves on it could be faintly seen.

"Where... are we heading now?"

Mai Guyao stood frozen in place, asking blankly.

The Starship was being dragged forward at the speed of the third cosmic velocity, nearly twenty kilometers per second.

Less than a minute meant over a thousand kilometers.

It was enough to be dragged back to Earth.

However, the direction the Starship was currently being pulled was not toward Earth, but toward Mars.

Mai Guyao couldn't see Jiang Chen's position with the naked eye, so he returned to the command room. By emitting electromagnetic waves, he detected Jiang Chen at the front of the fishing net. The distance between the two was over a hundred kilometers, but the direction the small fishing boat was moving was exactly the same as the direction the Starship was moving: toward Mars.

"What on earth does this guy want to do!"

Mai Guyao was furious.

An interstellar warship being dragged by a small fishing boat?

Does this make any sense?

It was like having a Lu Ban from a passerby dragging a Hua Mulan from FLY across the canyon.

Not only was Hua Mulan herself furious, even the river crab by the canyon was confused.

"Commander Mai, based on the current orbital trajectories of Earth and Mars in the Solar System, we are currently about fifty million kilometers away from Mars."

"In other words, even at this speed, it will take a month for the Starship to return to the near-space of Mars."

A staff officer said to Mai Guyao.

The reason the Starship could reach Earth within a week was simply because it was in space near the Moon, a location less than 1 million kilometers from Earth.

The Starship was near Mars, about fifty million kilometers from Earth, which was why it was intercepted by Jiang Haipeng halfway.

Therefore.

If Jiang Chen wanted to drag the Starship back to Mars, it would take at least a month.

"So, he wants to..."

Mai Guyao frowned.

The Starship was too far from Mars to be dragged back.

But the direction the small fishing boat was moving was indeed Mars.

Everyone suddenly thought of a situation: Jiang Chen didn't intend to drag them back to Mars, but simply wanted to drag them away from Earth.

Once dragged away from Earth, even if the fishing net opened and the Planet-Killer Cannon was activated, Earth would have sufficient time to respond.

"Prepare for battle!"

"Better to be shattered than to remain intact!"

After realizing Jiang Chen's intention, the last bit of madness ignited in Mai Guyao's eyes.

Even if he couldn't beat Jiang Chen, he still intended to take a group of Mars believers to perish together with Jiang Chen.

The scene of the small fishing boat dragging the Starship toward Mars was captured by the Starship not long after.

"What's the situation? Why did the ion beam stop?"

The terrifying ion torrent naturally stopped when the Starship was entangled by the fishing net. For the Starship in the distance that hadn't observed the fishing net yet, this was naturally very strange.

And then, less than ten seconds later.

Jiang Chen's small fishing boat activated the third cosmic velocity and rushed toward Mars.

As for the Starship, because of its stealth mode, it was not observed.

Therefore.

In everyone's eyes, the ion beam suddenly stopped, the Starship was nowhere to be found, and the small fishing boat was inexplicably flying rapidly toward Mars.

This bizarre scene left everyone unable to tell for a moment whether Jiang Chen was fleeing or pursuing.

[Report to the Starship, this is the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals Giant Spirit God. In the airspace where I am located, I captured a huge shadow flashing by. Based on my judgment, it should be the Starship. It is currently flying toward Mars at the speed of the third cosmic velocity.]

Just then.

Among the formation of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals spread out in the airspace, ready to intercept the Planet-Killer Cannon at any time, a mecha from one of the columns suddenly sent a report.

This mecha, called Giant Spirit God, was a Heavenly General of the Third Column, and its position happened to be at the outermost periphery.

Its recording system could emit invisible "electromagnetic waves" to scan the surroundings, and it could also use visible light to take pictures.

Its electromagnetic waves had long since failed, but just a moment ago, a black shadow, refracted by the faint starlight, allowed it to faintly capture some things through visible light.

So.

It transmitted the pictures and videos it had captured to the Starship.

There were only three pictures.

And a three-second video.

The pictures were all a black shadow, blurred because of the high speed.

As for the video, it could be faintly seen that this object that flew by suddenly was very huge.

And between Earth and Mars, who else could it be besides the Starship that was traveling at high speed?

"Confirmed, it is the Starship!"

"But why is it following behind the small fishing boat?"

"Could it be a pursuit?"

On the Starship, everyone looked at each other in dismay.

Previously, to avoid Jiang Chen's close-range attacks, the Starship not only activated stealth but also opened up distance and deployed light sword defenses.

Why was it actively chasing now?

This was clearly not right!

Why would an interstellar warship, capable of long-range kiting, track a small fishing boat at close range?

"The Starship hasn't even activated its ion beam! It's obvious that the Starship is not tracking Jiang Chen."

Tie Zhu, after repeatedly distinguishing these pictures and videos, came to an answer.

"Is it possible that the Starship has lost its combat capability and is now being dragged along?"

What?

The Starship is being dragged by the small fishing boat?

Once this judgment was made, everyone was stunned.

A few minutes ago, the small fishing boat was still being kited by the Starship, struggling to survive in the ion torrent.

How long had it been, and now the Starship had suddenly stalled and was being dragged by the small fishing boat?

"This, this can't be, right?" Even Xue Yao, who knew how powerful Jiang Chen was, was full of disbelief at this moment.

They hadn't even gotten close to the Starship yet; how did Jiang Chen make the Starship lose power?

"Otherwise, you cannot explain why the Starship is behind the small fishing boat without launching an attack."

"Moreover, judging from the speed, the Starship itself does not have the third cosmic velocity; this speed clearly comes from the fishing boat."

Tie Zhu stated the second piece of evidence.

Such a massive warship like the Starship was already very fast at the second cosmic velocity.

Most warships only had the second cosmic velocity.

Only the Starship would often sail at the third cosmic velocity, occasionally activating the Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Engine to move at 1% of the speed of light.

"Yes, the Starship doesn't have this speed."

Xia Zhongxun and the others finally confirmed why the Starship had gone silent and was following behind the small fishing boat.

It was that.

It had lost power.

"So, how did it lose power?"

Everyone looked at each other.

The entanglement in the last minute was ever-changing, and in deep space, electromagnetic waves could not capture the trace of the Starship, so only Jiang Chen and the Starship itself knew what had happened.

"Isn't the strangest thing that Jiang Chen is dragging the Starship toward Mars? What is this for? Going to Mars?"

Everyone fell into confusion again.

Just then, Tie Zhu pondered: "How does this look a bit like a blond delinquent on campus who wants to beat you up, but to avoid being discovered by teachers or damaging classroom desks, drags you to the restroom?"

"..."

Everyone was stunned, but soon they understood.

Although the Starship didn't know why it had lost its propulsion, the Planet-Killer Cannon, mecha formations, and other firepower inside were still present.

Jiang Chen dragging the Starship away from Earth and flying toward Mars wasn't really about going to Mars.

It was just planning to find a more empty, safer, and darker place... to board the ship!

"The Starship... oh no, Mai Guyao is about to get beaten up."

In everyone's minds, a picture flashed simultaneously.

That was, the blond delinquent small fishing boat dragging the weak and pitiful Starship to a void called the restroom, preparing to strike...

Only, everyone frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

Shouldn't it be the blond delinquent Starship dragging the weak and pitiful small fishing boat into the restroom?

Lunar Base.

Dragon Emblem.

Zhao Yinhu and his group also noticed the abnormality.

"What's going on, is the Starship low on firepower? Impossible, this ion torrent should be enough to last until Mid-Autumn Festival."

A Dragon Emblem elder was nervously watching the black dot of the small fishing boat, waiting for when it would disappear.

Suddenly, he discovered that the Starship had lost its firepower.

And the small fishing boat, after a brief pause, was flying toward Mars.

Zhao Yinhu frowned, pacing back and forth, thinking quickly.

Suddenly!

He stopped, his eyes lit up, looking at the small fishing boat in the void moving at nearly twenty kilometers per second, and slammed the table.

"Pass on my order!"

"Launch the Starship and track the Starship!"

[Yes!]

Everyone was stunned, then immediately responded.

It seemed that Lord Dragon Emblem had judged that the outcome was decided.

He intended to side with Jiang Chen.

At this moment, the Starship was above the Moon, about three hundred thousand kilometers from Earth.

With the current speed of the Starship, plus the fact that the two sides were moving in opposite directions, it was estimated that they would encounter each other in a few hours.

The Starship was officially launched to track them.

And at this time.

The small fishing boat, which had been traveling for an hour, had dragged the Starship from a position less than a thousand kilometers from Earth to over seventy thousand kilometers away.

At this position, even if the Starship activated all its Planet-Killer Cannons, it would take several hours to reach Earth.

It was enough time for Earth to respond in time.

Of course.

Jiang Chen wouldn't easily let the other side activate the Planet-Killer Cannon.

He was just preventing the other side from acting like a cornered beast, or even detonating the Starship, which might cause a huge disaster for Earth.

After all.

Last time, once he made a move, the entire Dragon God Academy was gone.

This time, fighting with an interstellar warship, if a huge energy explosion occurred at a distance of less than a thousand kilometers from Earth, it would not only destroy the space docks and logistics systems around Earth but might also trigger huge energy waves that would sweep across Earth.

In short.

Jiang Chen intended to be the blond delinquent, but he didn't intend to let the blood of the Starship splash onto the faces of his Earth classmates.

In the vast void.

The small fishing boat dragged the Starship to a patch of airspace.

This airspace was roughly between Earth and the Moon.

But it was a full seventy thousand kilometers from Earth and over two hundred thousand kilometers from the Moon.

Even if a high-energy battle broke out here, it would have no effect on the two planets.

Jiang Chen turned the small fishing boat around and pulled the Starship in the opposite direction.

Under the confinement of the fishing net, the Starship had originally been sliding forward by inertia.

But as Jiang Chen pulled in the opposite direction, the Starship quickly stopped.

"Prepare for battle!"

On the Starship, thousands of members were ready.

They were just waiting for Jiang Chen to board the ship, and then a life-and-death struggle would break out between the two sides.

However.

Jiang Chen was not in a hurry to make a move.

Instead, he drove the small fishing boat to the top of the Starship, with a distance of less than one li between them.

For a massive monster like the Starship, this was like nose to nose, and the breathing of both sides could be sensed.

Mai Guyao arrived on the deck of the warship and sent various radio channels to the small fishing boat.

[Three thousand three hundred and ninety-nine Martians!]

[Better to be shattered than to remain intact!]

Jiang Chen's communicator received the signal, and he smiled coldly.

They actually wanted to intimidate him into boarding the ship by perishing together!

However!

Jiang Chen did not intend to destroy the entire Starship with a terrifying thunderclap.

Because the Starship was an asset of humanity, not the Mars Base, and certainly not the exclusive property of Mai Guyao alone.

The so-called winning without bloodshed, being able to resolve the opponent without shedding blood, was the best way.

Especially when the opponent had already lost power.

Resolving the opponent's core counterattack force at the lowest cost was the best way.

Jiang Chen drove the small fishing boat, moving slowly, and replied to the Starship.

[Humanity spent thousands of years to emerge from a world ruled by theocracy. Mai Gurong, with his own power, let everyone in the Mars Base return to the feudal theocratic world of thousands of years ago. In his eyes, you are fish meat, which can be thrown into the furnace at will. The object you worship is not the future of humanity. It is not a sin for me to destroy him. Therefore, your first sin is invalid.]

[Second, regarding the issue that Lightning Qi powerhouses cannot be born, I can only say that it is indeed related to me, but I am not maliciously monopolizing it, because fifty years ago, I didn't even have a clue what Lightning Qi was. Furthermore, the current low content of Lightning Qi in the Solar System is only temporary. As the Solar System revolves in the left spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy and reaches other airspaces of the Milky Way Galaxy, the Lightning Qi content of the Solar System will reach a state of equilibrium, not forever unchanging. This second sin is also invalid.]

[Third...]

[...]

Jiang Chen refuted the seven deadly sins about himself from the Mars declaration one by one.

However.

Only after reaching the fifth one.

The furious Mai Guyao had already cut off Jiang Chen's microphone.

He looked around at the crowd and found that many people looked hesitant.

He immediately roared: "This is the enemy's psychological warfare. Pull yourselves together! As long as this kid dares to open the net and board the ship, we will activate the Planet-Killer Cannon and perish together with Earth and the Moon! Better to be shattered than to remain intact!"

Mai Guyao glared fiercely at everyone.

And at this moment.

The small fishing boat was less than five hundred meters away from the Starship, and the fine hairs on Jiang Chen's face could be seen with the naked eye.

This distance was equivalent to entering the absolute domain of the Starship.

It was no longer nose to nose, but closer to negative distance.

Whoosh!

Taking advantage of the opponent's psychological interference and their state not yet reacting, Jiang Chen used the Fusion Pill and Lightning Qi resonance, then quickly opened the fishing net and rushed in.

Boom!

Thunder and Jiang Chen boarded the ship simultaneously, and the thunder blasted clearly onto the muzzles of those ten Planet-Killer Cannons.

Making them lose their accurate firing channels.