Wandering Meteor-Chapter 115: A Scene of Drama

Boundless Universe.

Earth Civilization’s thirty escape pods were accelerating away.

Behind them chased a colossal Cosmic Battleship measuring one hundred thousand meters.

The Cosmic Battleships of the Double Star Civilization were equipped with the most advanced Annihilation Engines, allowing even such massive vessels to swiftly accelerate to half the speed of light—150,000 kilometers per second.

After all, the Double Star Civilization has been a second-level civilization far longer than Earth Civilization and had more mature applications in various aspects of Annihilation Technology, including the Annihilation Engines.

Thus, the 25th Squadron of the Double Star Civilization was somewhat faster than the escape pods, gradually closing the distance under these circumstances.

When the distance between them reduced from ten astronomical units to nine, eight, seven... to one astronomical unit.

The Captain of the 25th Squadron of the Double Star Civilization immediately issued an attack command, and the Cosmic Battleship fired a hundred-meter-wide electromagnetic gun at the last escape pod.

The electromagnetic gun, moving at the speed of light, could reach one astronomical unit in about eight minutes, though it would lose some potency during flight and pursuit. However, when the electromagnetic gun struck the last escape pod, it still spanned fifty meters across and obliterated the small pod into pieces.

"Damn it! These cursed aliens!"

Inside one of the escape pods, Wan Liqi saw her companion being sacrificed and couldn’t help but curse furiously.

She then took initiative to contact the other escape pods to share some information and opinions, alleviating some emotional stress together.

Unfortunately, her efforts were of little avail under the incessant pressure from the Cosmic Battleship of the Double Star Civilization. As they gradually approached, multiple escape pods were destroyed by Energy Weapons; within three to four months, a total of eight pods were destroyed.

But now, they were left with only twenty escape pods.

This was because during the escape, some accidents occurred.

Two escape pods had tremendously bad luck as they were hit by meteorites from the side, causing the pods to break apart and the personnel inside to quickly die in the vacuum of space.

Wan Liqi reported these incidents to Earth Civilization every time.

Earth Civilization was aware, but due to the great distances, their responses were limited to providing comfort, encouragement, and quietly accruing rage—offering no practical solutions.

Time passed in this increasingly desperate situation day by day.

Everyone inside the escape pods was tormented during this time, their spirits drained and their bodies wasting away, growing weaker day by day.

Just then, they were met with another devastating piece of news — the pursuing Cosmic Battleship was now within 300,000 kilometers.

At such a distance, the Energy Attacks launched by the Cosmic Battleship of the Double Star Civilization could catch up to the escape pods in just a second, rendering them utterly unable to dodge given their structure and speed.

So, after the Double Star Civilization destroyed another five escape pods, eleven of the remaining people in the fifteen pods couldn’t bear it anymore—five of them decided to sacrifice themselves. They restarted the propulsion systems of their pods, controlling and steering directly towards the oncoming Cosmic Battleship from behind.

Even though Wan Liqi and Earth Civilization kept persuading, even commanding them not to proceed, they could not alter their decision.

At that moment, the resolved and gaunt faces of those five had an extremely determined expression, flying into the flame like moths to light, undeterred by the known outcome.

This was because they knew very well that nobody would survive until the rescue ships arrived if things continued this way, hence they could only sacrifice themselves to buy some time for the others.

"Heh, thinking that merely five escape pods could destroy a Cosmic Battleship or buy some time? How naïve!"

Upon hearing the report of this scene, the Captain of the 25th Squadron of the Double Star Civilization coldly scoffed. Immediately following, the Captain ordered the launch of a capture net.

"The five capture nets accurately ensnared the five incoming escape pods, then the Cosmic Battleship retracted and controlled the net heads, forcibly reducing the impact speed of the escape pods.

Eventually, the escape pods and the Earth People inside were captured alive by the Double Star Civilization.

Originally, these five individuals planned to sacrifice themselves to buy time for their companions, but unexpectedly, they did not perish. Instead, they were captured alive by the Double Star Civilization without buying even a brief moment of time for the others; their initial two objectives completely unmet.

Such is the unpredictability of life, changing in unfathomable ways.

Furthermore, a very dramatic scene unfolded at this moment.

After capturing the five escape pods, the warships of the Double Star Civilization fired three energy attacks, directly destroying the last three escape pods.

Unexpectedly, those who resolved to die did not die; those who desperately fled perished.

It seemed like a malicious joke by the Double Star Civilization, seemingly toying and mocking the Earth People inside the escape pods with such acts.

Now, twelve escape pods were still fleeing at an exceedingly high speed.

But upon seeing those who went to face death did not die, while those intent on escaping were killed by the Double Star Civilization.

The remaining twelve people in the escape pods instantly realized that this was all intentional by the Alien Civilization, aimed at sending them a message.

Surrender might lead to survival, while fleeing leads only to death!

Upon realizing this, ten of the twelve escape pods began to turn around and headed straight towards the Double Star Civilization’s Cosmic Battleship.

At such a moment, it was unclear whether these ten escape pods’ occupants wanted to survive, or genuinely wanted to sacrifice themselves to buy time for their companions.

In any case, it was very dramatic that both objectives were actually achieved.

The Double Star Civilization spent some time capturing the ten escape pods coming from different directions, allowing the two frontmost escape pods to distance themselves.

Wan Liqi’s escape pod was one of them.

After gaining distance, she immediately reported the situation to Earth Civilization.

Given the intelligence of Earth Civilization and Lu Chen of Constant Star, it was immediately clear to them that this was an act of manipulation by the Alien Civilization.

This made the shared life community of them intensely furious, directly placing this Alien Civilization on their death list.

However, they did not blame the ten people in the escape pods.

They understood that wanting to survive is one of any living being’s basic instincts. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Moreover, Earth Civilization had long established regulations similar to this; in interstellar travel, besides the main mission, the most important thing is survival.

Because only through survival could Earth Civilization possibly find and rescue them.

Thus, Earth Civilization not only did not blame them but also appreciated the cleverness of those ten individuals.

During a crisis, they knew how to adapt, preserving their own lives while also preventing their companions from becoming captives; indeed, this was the best possible outcome in the worst scenario.

However, the twenty-fifth fleet of the Double Star Civilization clearly was not willing to let the final two escape pods escape. Considering they had already captured fifteen escape pods, the last two seemed unimportant. Therefore, the twenty-fifth fleet then launched two massive electromagnetic gun attacks, each hundred meters wide, at the two distant escape pods.

Given the speed of the escape pods, it was impossible to evade such formidable energy attacks.

Therefore, after launching the energy attacks, the twenty-fifth fleet of the Double Star Civilization directly ordered a course reversal to return home."