Capítulo 1016: Chapter 789: Still Not Letting Go of Me
When Mu Fan turned around, Princess Yuexi was already quietly standing at the entrance of the command cabin, her pale hand gripping the handrail tightly.
“You…”
Mu Fan genuinely hadn’t sensed Yuexi’s arrival, he clearly remembered securing her in her seat.
Yuexi’s face showed no panic, in her beautiful and clear eyes there was a glimmer of hope. She shook the ancient ring on her ring finger.
“I just want to reassure you all.”
“Daisendari… must have invited you for a drink, right?”
The pale tip of her ear was exposed in the golden hair, without trembling, the charming face inexplicably elicited a sense of pity.
“It certainly will.”
Mu Fan’s tone was affirmative, it was a promise between men.
“I also want to join, I want to invite you to the best Snow Bud Wine in the palace.”
The future Duchess and descendant of the Wood God clan, Yue Xi Jialanuo De, solemnly said to Mu Fan at this moment.
Mu Fan didn’t know that in the Babon Duchy, Snow Bud Wine was known to very few, as it was a gift prepared by the Royal Family for their adult children. After coming of age, this Snow Bud Wine was to be given to the most trusted person, as the most precious gift.
It represented trust where one could entrust their life.
Yue Xi Jialanuo De’s Snow Bud Wine had always been hidden at the source of Snow Lotus Spring in the Wood God Palace.
Mu Fan just saw a somewhat stubborn young girl, grinning.
“Alright.”
The beautiful Princess Yuexi smiled like a blooming flower at this moment.
“Daisendari has already agreed and is fulfilling the promise, now it’s my turn.”
“Yuexi, do you know this location?”
Mu Fan pointed at a spot on the light screen.
Yuexi’s clear gaze fell forward, looking at the planet shrouded in cyan mist, which was the second planet Mu Fan had seen earlier.
The route set by Daisendari circled halfway around the current first planet, then moved inversely to reach the other side of the second planet.
“Mystic Bird Star, Tree God Valley. I know… that’s the realm of the great Tree God, where apart from birds, nothing else can fly.”
An instant image of this region appeared in Yuexi’s mind.
“Is it some inexplicable electromagnetic barrier, or a chaotic gravity domain?” Black muttered to himself.
…
In space, the frantic [Slicer] resembled a ghost, with its massive zigzag dart array, it briefly blocked the advance of those assault ships.
Councilman Lu’s face was ominously dark.
Under Colonel Jiang’s command, the firepower unexpectedly decreased rather than increased, making the evasion of Moon Language more and more effortless.
With the nuisance of the [Slicer] hindering, the Moon Language spaceship was about to escape their firing range.
“Colonel Jiang, our time is limited, we just received inside information that the Babon Forbidden Army has already mobilized, they’re on the third planet, and my Sparrow Fleet has all gathered as agreed at the border of the Gardot Empire. If caught by the Forbidden Army now, we won’t be able to resist with just these forces!”
The scale of sixty warships should have been more than enough to suppress a single Moon Language, but the opponent’s sudden escape caused the biggest variable in their plan.
Now, successive changes keep occurring.
Lu Lie suddenly felt the difficulty of this challenge was terrifyingly high.
Colonel Jiang, with a calm gaze, glanced at an inconspicuous corner of the light screen, where four heavy gunships had already entered the atmosphere.
Their arc flight distances were much shorter than the larger angle of the Moon Language!
So these four warships, which had always gone unnoticed, were actually inching closer to Moon Language.
Now, Colonel Jiang’s calculations are actually about the stop time of the so-called tree barrier mode.
“How many minutes has the engagement been going on?”
Colonel Jiang suddenly asked.
“9 minutes 17 seconds.”
A nearby adjutant accurately responded.
Hearing the answer, Colonel Jiang turned to face Lu Lie.
“Councilman Lu, the elite mecha army trained by the Empire for you is equipped on the firepower ship, is that correct?”
Lu Lie was not an idiot, he almost forgot about those four dispatched gunships upon hearing this sentence, he instantly reacted.
With barely two seconds of thought, he immediately replied, “Of course, a total of 124 mechas, all are A-grade. They are all dead soldiers I trained myself; they are my most elite, cold-blooded warriors!”
In the A-grade division, there are three levels in total: A, AA, AAA.
Back then, Mu Fan encountered the Broken Axe Star Thief Group on Loga Star, the mecha [Thunder Slash] which vaporized half of RX-16 in one blow was an AAA-grade non-mass-produced mecha, the pinnacle of the Warrior-class mecha.
Now, the current A-grade has just crossed the threshold of the Warrior-class.
This means 124 Warrior-class mechas.
If matched with 124 battle-hardened mechanical masters, they would certainly deserve the title of elite.
This kind of power, back when Mu Fan grew up on Loga Star, could almost sweep across the entire planet.
So, there was an air of arrogance in Lu Lie’s eyes.
“Good, very good.”
Colonel Jiang raised his watch, checked the time, and then looked indifferently at the light screen again.
When thirty seconds passed, he spoke coldly into the communicator: “Begin charging, disengage the fish concealment mode in ten seconds.”
A brief response sounded amidst the static noise: “Received.”
The bows of the four fish-shaped artillery ships began to emit a faint blue light.
Their trajectory finally prepared to break through the atmosphere again.
The human heart is the most unpredictable data; Black had accounted for all variables but could not compute the commander’s wisdom.
However…
As the most formidable intelligent life, it had perfected the collection and calculation of objective data to its peak.
When a vortex began to appear on the distant surface of the atmosphere, Black immediately noticed this anomaly!
The vortex appeared, the clouds brightened, and blue light flashed.
At this moment, the withered yellow state of the Tree Barrier mode finally disappeared, and the coating of the Moon Language Spaceship turned deep green again.
This series of changes occurred in less than 2 seconds.
The time available for Black to prepare was even less than 1 second.
“You cunning old fox!”
An angry curse echoed in Mu Fan’s ear.
“Hold on!” Black could only manage to remind Mu Fan with these two words.
Then, catching everyone off guard, the entire spaceship suddenly twisted.
Four brilliant blue beams shot out from the atmosphere of the planet at an oblique angle behind them!
From four angles, they directly locked the position of the Moon Language Spaceship.
The light flashed by, and the three sets of engines on the left side of the Moon Language, which had just sidestepped, were engulfed by the blue light stream.
Inside the spaceship, a booming explosion sounded.
The whole ship was swept to the engine group’s corner, instantly losing balance and nearly spiraling out.
Even with the dynamic balancing device, the continuous 360° rotations had far exceeded the threshold of stability parameters.
The two maidservants had obediently fixed their bodies to the safety post beforehand.
However, Yuexi had already walked behind Mu Fan.
In that instant of imbalance, the girl had no time to react, and her body was suddenly flung out.
Mu Fan turned back sharply, his knees bending, and with explosive power from his strong muscles, he immediately darted backward.
He grabbed the girl flung in mid-air, her delicate, boneless thin hand clutched tightly like someone drowning, grasping a life-saving branch.
Seeing that the back of the girl’s head was about to hit the ground, Mu Fan forcefully pulled Yuexi into his embrace, twisting his body in the air, his back slamming heavily onto the ground.
Yuexi’s long, golden, silky hair fanned out in the air, and as her delicate earlobe brushed past Mu Fan’s cheek, it instantly turned bright red, the color of blood almost dripping.
The ancient simple cyan ring on her left index finger, with a water-blue gem, emitted a misty glow, enveloping both herself and Mu Fan.
Mu Fan’s muscles tensed, all set for impact with the ground, yet his back felt as though it had landed on a bed of cotton, without any pain.
Huh?
Mu Fan was somewhat bewildered.
And in his arms, Yuexi’s face was already flushed red, buried firmly in Mu Fan’s chest, refusing to lift her head.
So embarrassing!!
What’s happening…
Mu Fan was somewhat dazed.
Now, lying on the ground, unharmed, holding a graceful, charming girl in his arms.
A faint, sweet, like fruity wood fragrance wafted from Yuexi’s body, which was pressed against him, to his nose.
Mu Fan felt the person he was holding was supple and soft.
Back then with Nuonuo, it never felt like this…
The sensation made Mu Fan’s whole body tense.
So, at this moment, Mu Fan’s brain experienced a temporary shutdown.
Under Black’s strong control, the Moon Language Spaceship, quickly recovering from spinning, finally stabilized.
With a soft moan, feeling the strong arms still tightly wrapped around her waist, Yuexi finally lifted her head, face as red as a ripe apple.
Her eyes, pure as clear water, were now like a shy deer, not daring to meet Mu Fan’s gaze.
She softly and shyly murmured, “Why haven’t you let go of me yet.”