Imposter Young Master
Chapter 954 - 959: Retaking the Asteroid Base

Chapter 954: Chapter 959: Retaking the Asteroid Base

Half an hour later, the transport ship of the Red Dragon Pirates had entered the signal recognition zone, and the Asteroid Base began releasing signals to guide the transport ship’s course.

More than ten minutes later, the transport ship had entered the interior of the Asteroid Base.

"Recently, some people have been impersonating us, the Red Dragon Pirates, so we need to conduct a check. Everyone, put down your weapons and come out of the transport ship," Li Tian transmitted the command.

Shortly afterwards, the door of the transport ship opened, and about forty or fifty members of the Red Dragon Pirates, including Yang Gang, descended, having passed through the weapons detection scanner, none of them were carrying weapons.

After confirming there was no one left inside the transport ship, Li Tian led hundreds of armed militants carrying laser guns and other light weapons into the port of the Asteroid Base and tightly surrounded Yang Gang and the others.

"Who are you?" a member of the Red Dragon Pirates asked, his face drastically changing.

"Who? Haha, well, considering you’re about to die, I’ll tell you," Li Tian paused, a grin spreading across his face, then continued, "Your boss has already sold the base to us, the Cobra Pirates."

"What?!"

"Haha, be as angry as you want, you’re going to die soon anyway," said Li Tian before raising his laser gun.

Just then, someone ran over in a panic and said, "Brother Tian, there’s nothing on the transport ship."

"What?!" Li Tian’s complexion shifted, sensing something was amiss, his glance at the Red Dragon Pirates became even more uneasy.

These people were smiling, yes, smiling!

Especially that man who looked like a leader, his smile was one of scorn.

"Could it be a trap we walked into?!"

Li Tian shook his head, "No, no, they don’t have weapons on them, AP particles are very scarce in space, and even the most powerful superpowers are useless out here. Why are they so relaxed and composed? It’s an act, it must be an act!"

As Li Tian said, inside planets below the atmosphere, AP particles are abundant. But in the vacuum of space, AP particles are extremely scarce. Superpowers are almost useless in space. This is also one of the main reasons why the people of Pandora neglect superpowers.

Li Tian took a deep breath, then burst out laughing: "Without weapons, you’re just pretending. Brothers, fire!"

But just at that moment, a burst of lilac light erupted from Yang Gang’s body, and after the light faded, Li Tian and the members of the Cobra Pirates were utterly taken by surprise.

The Red Dragon Pirates had vanished to be replaced by dozens of combat mechs.

Li Tian was quick to react, immediately shouting loudly, "Quick, to the hangar to pilot the mechs!"

But it was clearly too late.

Dazzling blue beams shot from the cannons of the mechs, and Li Tian, along with hundreds of the Cobra Pirates who had almost no defensive equipment, were killed instantly.

"First Squad, head directly to the base control room. Second Squad, to the mech warehouse to prevent the enemy from piloting mechs; Third Squad, to Port Two, don’t let the enemy’s ships get away. Squads Four, Five, and Six, sweep the base for other enemies," Yang Gang commanded simply and directly.

"Yes!"

Ten hours later, the Red Dragon Pirates once again had full control of the Asteroid Base.

The process seemed lengthy, but it wasn’t due to the inefficiency of the Red Dragon Pirates; rather, the natural Asteroid Base was simply enormous.

The entire asteroid had a diameter of about 1000 kilometers, with the base located some 500 kilometers inside the asteroid, arranged in an irregular rectangular layout. The average length was 500 kilometers, the average width 300 kilometers, and the average height approximately 10 kilometers. It was constructed from the natural caverns within the asteroid, capable of docking over a hundred large and medium starships, each weighing millions of tons.

After taking control of the Asteroid Base, Yang Gang began to tally the spoils of war.

In addition to a large stash of food, medicine, and Crystal Cores seized from the Cobra Pirates stored here, there was also a beautiful spaceship.

This spaceship was docked at the base’s 5th port. Its design style tended towards retro: the entire hull was silver-white, shaped exactly like two interlocking saucers. The top saucer featured three spiral bands, each band dotted with numerous spots, one right next to another. From each spot emerged beautiful lights. In fact, each light was fairly ordinary, but arranged here, they produced a feeling of intense awe!

The lower saucer was similar. Only, it was much smaller. The light emitted by both saucers came together, creating an overall elegance that was simply stunning.

The spirals on both saucers slowly rotated, adding even more of a dreamy feel! Anyone with the slightest lack of willpower would find themselves hopelessly entranced by such beauty!

The spaceship’s tonnage was not large, and within a fleet of civilian vessels, it would be on the smaller side. But this highlighted another of its features – tremendous speed! Not only was it equipped with a subspace jump drive, but it also came with advanced curved acceleration power!

Curved acceleration power is the latest technological achievement of humanity, ensuring that under normal cruising mode, the spaceship can maintain speeds a thousand times that of sound.

Currently, on Pandora’s commercial flights, the average cruising speed under normal conditions is 100 times the speed of sound, but curved acceleration power can increase this speed tenfold.

Yang Gang took one look at this spaceship and fell in love with it, so he decisively stored it within the Heavenly Ripple Ring to claim as his own.

Retaking the Asteroid Base was of great significance to both Yang Gang and the Red Dragon Pirates.

To prevent a mutiny at the Asteroid Base, Yang Gang reset the programs, taking emergency control for himself.

Should another rebellion occur, Yang Gang could initiate the emergency control program, at which point a large number of combat robots within the base would suppress the mutiny according to Yang Gang’s orders.

After ensuring the Asteroid Base was utterly secure, Yang Gang set off in the new spaceship, returning to Pandora Star.

He was going to confirm Shen Jing’s information in Lu Fu Country.

Activating the ship’s autopilot, Yang Gang stretched lazily while gazing at the interstellar scenery outside the window.

Brilliant nebulae floated in the distant sky, much like the neon-lit nightscapes of the capitals of the Four Great Empires, resplendent and magnificent.

Planets of various sizes emitted a mesmerizing glow, their surfaces subtly revealing the dark bulk of their lands and the silver sheen of their oceans, making the entire planet look like a lotus flower enshrouded in celestial mist.

The horizon’s edge was still a swath of pitch-black, with the occasional star embedded within the planetary rings sending streaks of light gliding across that profound and distant skyline.

The spaceship gliding through this vast universe was like a leaf floating on an ocean, or like a beam of light shuttling through space.

Through the ship’s Super Scanner, Yang Gang was deeply captivated by the magnificent cosmic vista.

This seemed to be the first time he truly observed the vastness of the universe. Back on Earth, due to technological limitations, only telescopes could be used to gaze into the dazzling cosmos. Even after arriving on Pandora, he had always been grounded until today, when he finally witnessed the majesty of the universe.

The ship indeed was fast, using a subspace jump only once, and traveling the rest of the way in normal mode, it covered a 30 billion-kilometer star domain in less than half a day.

However, a tragedy occurred as he broke through the atmosphere to return to Pandora’s surface.