This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 52 Space Pirates, Star Tier 2

"They're out."

Back in his original universe, Ye Yang breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, he suddenly felt that the premonition of some kind of crisis had disappeared.

"Ye Yang! Oh no! There's a dilapidated pirate fleet a million kilometers away!" Babata exclaimed again.

"What's wrong? Are their spaceships very powerful?" Ye Yang also became nervous.

"No, their spaceship is extremely rudimentary, basically just a frame with an engine attached. But they saw us emerge from the dark universe! This means that if any of these space pirates reveal this, your identity as a descendant of Meteorite will be immediately exposed!"

Babata grew anxious: "I'll prepare the ship's weapon systems immediately. If we detonate all their ships, these space pirates will be trapped in this region of space whose coordinates are obscured for life!"

The spaceship's virtual exterior view was activated and a large area was zoomed in, allowing Ye Yang to see the dilapidated fleet 100 million kilometers away.

"Wait a minute..." He suddenly smiled. "Don't these guys recognize our spaceship? They're actually coming right up to us?"

Babata also realized what was happening and burst into laughter: "What an ignorant bunch of barbarians! With their meager equipment, they were chased by a third-rate fleet from the Silver Blue Empire, yet they dare to plot against this Black Dragon Mountain X81?"

"This is a C5-class spaceship. Their lousy weapons couldn't penetrate it even if they attacked for a thousand years."

Babata immediately started the ship's engines, changed direction, and pretended to want to escape, but his acceleration was not as fast as that of the dilapidated fleet.

However, the spaceship's weapons were already fully charged.

In particular, the B6-level individual laser cannon above only needs 50 seconds to charge. In the original storyline, it was this thing that pierced through the head of the Golden Horned Beast with a single shot.

Meanwhile, the Sandstone Pirates...

"Hahaha! Who would have thought a big, fat fish would fall from the sky!"

A planetary-level eighth-tier martial artist was making strange noises.

"Boss, the fact that this spaceship suddenly appeared from the dark universe means it must have discovered a way to break through the 'Void Zone'!"

"As long as we can capture the people inside the spaceship and extract the method to crack the coordinates, this area spanning thousands of light-years will be ours to roam freely, brothers!"

Another planetary-level ninth-tier mentalist exclaimed excitedly.

"Um."

The leader of the sandstone group, with a single horn on his head and skin as rough as rock, smiled and nodded.

His name was Zanbi, and he was originally an ordinary citizen of a remote, inhabited planet on the fourth spiral arm of the Silver Blue Empire's galaxy.

However, at that time, he was extremely talented as a ninth-level planetary being. The planetary lord said he wanted to take him as his apprentice, but in reality, he wanted to sell him, this threat, to slave traders.

After receiving a tip from his companion, Zambi seized an opportunity to escape. Decades later, he broke through to the first level of the Hengxing realm and returned to seek revenge on the planet's lord.

After killing a planetary lord who was also a first-tier star level through a sneak attack, he and a group of accomplices began to work as interstellar thieves on the route near the void region of the fourth spiral arm.

They have consistently opposed the local forces of the Silver Blue Empire.

Now, he has reached the second tier of the Hengxing level and has considerable influence.

Finally, we're getting close...

"Roar!"

A member of a planetary-level Tier 2 pirate group yelled and pulled out a weapon that was already fully charged, firing it directly at the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship.

However, the attack that could instantly penetrate A7 grade alloy only spread out a circle of particles on the shell, which was made entirely of C5 grade 'yttrium' pure metal, and in the end, it didn't even leave a trace.

Immediately, all the members of the Sandstone Group were stunned.

"Damn it! This spaceship is deliberately feigning weakness! Quick! Turn around!"

Realizing he had kicked a hornet's nest, Zambi's expression changed drastically, and he immediately ordered his spaceship to turn around.

As for the other space pirate ships? Zambi didn't warn them; they were perfect targets.

Zambi's years of experience traversing the stars once again gave it the upper hand.

As the various weapons on the Black Dragon Mountain spaceship opened fire, one pirate ship after another was detonated, becoming sparks in the silent space.

"A spaceship has escaped! Let's go after it!"

Babata was excited to have wiped out the group of space pirates in less than five minutes. He piloted his spaceship to chase after the only one that had successfully escaped and was accelerating.

「B6级单兵镭射炮蓄能中……49、48、47……3、2、1，发射！」

Babata's excited time announcement rang out, but Ye Yang did not see the beam of light because this was in the space between star systems, where there was no matter scattering.

But just over ten seconds later, the space pirate ship, which was still shooting out light and accelerating wildly in the distance, trying to enter the dark universe, suddenly exploded into a ball of fire.

"Haha, now none of them can escape. But we still need to find and kill these guys one by one to prevent them from spreading the message through the virtual universe."

Babata's blood-red eyes flashed with murderous intent.

"Okay, you can take the spaceship over there and clean up the battlefield. I'll take care of the wreckage here."

Ye Yang, feeling restless and eager to experience the methods of these cosmic bandits, also wanted to see for himself.

"Alright! But remember to be careful, always keep the Moyun Vine Battle Armor covering your entire body!" Babata only reminded him once and then said nothing more.

The weapons on these ships were all very weak; none of them reached Class B.

Ye Yang's Cloud Vine had already been cultivated to the first level of the Eternal Star, and with the addition of three Silver Flow Guardians, even an Eternal Star level wouldn't be able to kill Ye Yang, so Babata was quite at ease.

As for cosmic-level beings... cosmic-level beings are extremely rare. Every primordial civilization in the universe would fight to win them over. How could they possibly have fallen so low as to have to make a living as interstellar bandits?

……

"Cough cough... Damn it! This is troublesome." Zanbi, dressed in dark alloy armor, flew out from a patch of twisted and melting metal, casually tossing away the corpse of a planetary-level eighth-tier warrior.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and noticed that the pursuing spaceship suddenly stopped accelerating and relied on inertia to fly... This was a sign that a long-range attack was about to be launched and that it was being targeted!

Zambi quickly grabbed one of his men and pulled him in front of him before jumping out of the spaceship.

The laser cannon was indeed powerful, instantly blasting the dilapidated spaceship apart. A piece of twisted, molten metal flew out at high speed, killing the planetary-level eighth-tier warrior who was blocking Zambi's way.

Looking at the corpse slowly floating in space, with its B1-grade alloy armor slightly distorted, Zamby's expression turned extremely ugly.

Although he was wearing B5-grade alloy armor, the force of the twisted spaceship frame could still have injured him; fortunately, he grabbed a shield to cushion the impact.

Just then, a burst of mental energy swept across the space!

The five or six planetary-level crew members who were on the same spaceship as Zambi and had also miraculously survived the explosion were initially moving away from the wreckage in terror.

Suddenly, everyone stopped moving and their expressions became blank.

Zambi, who noticed this instantly, immediately looked in one direction warily.

A human clad in fiery red alloy armor and covered in a purplish-black battle suit stood on the wreckage of a slowly rolling spaceship.

"Eight people are still alive, hmm... there's even one at the second level of the Constant Star Realm?"

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