Chapter 38: The Empire’s Lessons

　　Lina looked at the picture on the projection screen expressionlessly.

　　That was a corner of the battle area on the planet’s surface that they captured.

　　The energy level of the beam falling from the sky was weakened by the atmosphere in the first few microseconds. However, when the energy beam reached the surface and a transmission channel was established, the energy that was continuously sent out was almost undamaged.

　　The figure was vaporized.

　　The molecular structure is destroyed by high-energy ion beams.

　　quilt...

　　Lina had some tinnitus.

　　The moment she witnessed Hanton being vaporized, she could hear no other sounds, only bursts of tinnitus.

　　”Sir ... sir!”

　　The young intelligence officer woke Lina.

　　”explain.”

　　”Target No. 1 was confirmed to have been killed by the main gun of the pirate ship! The news we just got is a bit confusing. The pirates had a conflict over the treasure buried by Kolev. Target No. 1 was also involved. It seems that he was killed in the conflict. Kimo, the current leader of the Black Dragon Pirate Group, in order to retaliate, the pirate group used its main gun to attack target No. 1 ... just now.”

　　Lina took half a step back, raised her hand to hold on to the safety guardrail on the side, her face was pale and bloodless.

　　”Sir? You need to rest.”

　　Lina suddenly said: “Biosensor! Use the biosensor to collect the information there!”

　　”The biosensors did not respond, and the energy from the pirate ship’s main gun destroyed everything.”

　　”Sir, according to the records we stole from the other side’s pirate ship, Target No. 1 really angered these pirates.”

　　”And sir ... we captured a little signal from the positioning device ... It seems to be the positioning device that remained in Target No. 1’s body and has not been metabolized. The product we developed exclusively sent a weak signal before he was destroyed...”

　　There was silence inside the battleship for about half a minute.

　　”They destroyed Hanton, they destroyed Hanton ... More than a year of my efforts were ruined by them,” Lina murmured, “Kill them.”

　　The captain asked: “Sir, what is the target we want to attack?”

　　”Pirates! Attack these bastard pirates!”

　　Lina’s expression was a little out of control, her pale cheeks were a little more flushed, and her slender body was shaking constantly.

　　”Don’t let them leave! Break through their defensive shield! Let them turn into dust in the universe now, immediately! Even if we take away a share of the merits of annihilating the pirates, we won’t let these more than three months wait in vain!”

　　The captain shrugged slightly: “You made the wisest decision in the past three months.”

　　Immediately afterwards, the captain’s voice became high-pitched, precise, and full of male power.

　　”Charge all the guns! Charge the protective shield by 20%! Target the opponent’s flagship first!”

　　”Release electronic interference! Let these crude pirate ships park there!”

　　”Fire at will!”

　　The entire ship was activated almost instantly, the bridge became lively, and dozens of laser beams appeared outside the portholes.

　　These beams are just to consume the opponent’s protective shield energy.

　　Battleship main gun recharges!

　　Battleship warms up with full firepower!

　　Just after entering the invisible boat in the high-altitude clouds, Hamilton looked at the projection screen shaking back and forth in front of him and looked at Kolev.

　　Before he could say anything, his eyes were attracted by a beam of light appearing outside the atmosphere.

　　Dozens of laser beams simultaneously hit the two pirate ships with the strongest firepower.

　　”Hey!” Kolev yelled with eyes wide open, “They’re attacking my ship! Oh! Damn it! Why don’t the rest of the bastards run away!”

　　”There must be electronic interference,” Hamilton reminded. “The battleship is too close to them.”

　　As soon as they finished speaking, the protective shield of a pirate ship had been breached.

　　However, the battleship had only just completed its energy dispatch.

　　The curved armor on the front half of the battleship became ‘pitted’, and a 1-meter-caliber gun barrel filled with a strong magnetic field quickly stretched forward in the center of the front face of the ship, and the gun barrels were lit up one after another.

　　On the periphery of this gun barrel, there is a circle of smaller-caliber gun barrels that are pushed forward simultaneously. This is the main and secondary gun combination of the Dawn-class battleship.

　　Charging is 30% complete.

　　Minimum shelling standards.

　　The main and secondary guns simultaneously ejected bright particle beams, like streaks of blue lightning, lighting up the sky outside the planet.

　　”Don’t do this! Oh, no! No no! My ship!”

　　Kolev shouted, trembling all over.

　　The three-hundred-meter-class pirate ship main ship was almost instantly pierced by a blue beam of light!

　　A few seconds later, a violent explosion spread outward from the concentrated area. The pirate ship violently disintegrated, and a fusion reaction was triggered at the bombarded part of the hull. No one could be seen in the explosion.

　　Kolev covered his eyes in despair.

　　Hamilton said: “The Guel Alliance is using practical actions to persuade you to wash your hands.”

　　The stealth boat was hidden by the clouds and headed towards the horizon at high speed.

　　Kolev kept mumbling, his old eyes gradually losing focus; on the projection screen in front of him, a battleship was encircling several pirate ships.

　　”This is a massacre! A massacre initiated by the Guel Alliance!

　　”Oh, my ship, the ship I have worked for half my life. Although they are all very old, and I have made several times more wealth than these ships, but ... oh, I can still leave some for Mimili. What? She wanted so badly to become a successful pirate like me, sailing freely in the vast galaxy.

　　”Oh! God, your little lover is so vicious!”

　　Hamilton could only smile bitterly in sympathy.

　　But they never stopped the stealth boat.

　　The Feinan is not stealthy, and they need to use this small boat to leave Orheif as soon as possible. Whether the planet can be used to avoid the battleship’s radar search has become the key to escape now.

　　The battle in outer space ended in just over ten minutes.

　　The silver-white battleship slowly retracted its gun barrels, and the elegant curved outer armor appeared again, but the thick naval guns under the ship’s hull were not retracted at the same time.

　　”What are they going to do?”

　　Hamilton asked softly, staring closely at the observation angle Kolev had obtained with the drone.

　　Kolev slumped in the passenger seat, as if he had lost all his dreams, and kept mumbling: “It’s really time for me to retire. I can buy a manor, invest in some real estate, and collecting rent is actually not bad.”

　　On the projection screen, two landing craft were wrapped in firelight and quickly landed on the surface, collecting information around the magma cracks on the earth.

　　Ten minutes later, the two landing craft returned to the battleship. Before they could get into the rear cabin of the ship, a blue beam of light fell from the sky and struck the ruins of the city below.

　　The attack point happens to be the coordinates where the bionic robot vaporizes.

　　Immediately afterwards, beams of light were intensively bombarded downwards. The firepower of the battleships was poured out on the ruins of the city below, and large rain clouds quickly appeared in the sky.

　　Naval gun autopsy?

　　Hamilton’s facial muscles twitched slightly, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

　　This means that he is completely dead in the eyes of the Guel Alliance. All he needs to do next is plastic surgery - to restore his original appearance and change his name from Hanton back to Hamilton, so that he can gain real freedom!

　　That is, some of the old people around me have suffered heavy losses.

　　”The plan worked, Kolev.”

　　Hamilton said warmly: “We are now out of the crisis. We don’t have to worry about our lives. All information is buried in this battleship. No one will doubt that we are faking our own death.”

　　”Yes,” Kolev sighed, “So I just unilaterally lost nearly 1 million federal dollars in assets.”

　　”I still owe you one million, which is enough for you to live in your old age.” Hamilton looked at the sky that was getting closer and closer. “Everything is possible when you are alive. Don’t be discouraged, my wise first mate.”

　　Drip, drip.

　　A red light spot suddenly appeared on the projection screen in front of Hamilton.

　　”Captain,” the cold electronic synthesized voice of Molly 2 suddenly sounded, “Abnormal fluctuations in gravity have been detected.”

　　”What gravitational anomaly?”