Shadows of the Deep Space
Chapter 271: Shock (Second Update)

Chapter 271: Chapter 271: Shock (Second Update)

The Suture Beast had no time to dodge and its left head was instantly pierced by a red long spear, splattering viscous fluid.

Its only remaining head let out a furious roar as the Kais biological reaction skyrocketed, and its body cells writhed.

"Dodge!"

Tang Xuan issued a warning immediately.

Su Ming decisively controlled the Mecha to retreat. At that moment, the Suture Beast’s body protruded sharp black flesh cone spikes, but unfortunately, its attack missed.

As Su Ming and Tang Xuan retreated, they simultaneously fired a beam at the Suture Beast!

Boom~

The Suture Beast took two hits, leaving two gaping holes in its body.

Seeing this, Mia controlled the Green Wing Mecha, raised her dual Beam Sabers, and fiercely charged at the Suture Beast.

"Die, bitch!"

Crack!

Mia’s saber slashed at the Suture Beast’s neck, decapitating its last intact head, followed by another strike that split its body in two.

"Opportunity!"

Seeing this, Rhein and others rushed out, lifting their firearms and firing intensely at the Suture Beast.

Bang bang!

A barrage of bullets hit the broken body, sending flesh flying everywhere.

The Suture Beast’s body began to shrink as it tried to forcibly heal its wounds.

Unfortunately, Su Ming wasn’t going to give it a chance. Without a moment’s hesitation, he controlled the Gun Knight and charged forward, thrusting his spear into the Suture Beast’s body.

"Die!"

Along with the red long spear piercing into the body of the Suture Beast.

The Kais biological reaction of the Suture Beast hemorrhaged, its viability dropped below fifty percent, and it began to lose mobility.

Tang Xuan then controlled the Green Wing Mecha, swinging the Beam Saber repeatedly, cutting the creature into pieces.

She then lowered the Beam Cannon, adjusted it to scatter mode to dissolve and decompose the remaining corpse, and only after doing all this did Tang Xuan finally take a small, relieved breath.

"Phew, finally dealt with it. Tang Xuan, you’re not hurt, are you?"

Mia asked cheerfully.

Tang Xuan remained silent for a few seconds, not responding to Mia but speaking to Su Ming instead.

"Su Ming, thank you for coming to support us. We’re heading to a safety refuge point now. We must go!"

Ignoring Mia, Tang Xuan thanked Su Ming and the others, then turned and led her students away.

"Seriously, why the grudge? It’s just a class Su Ming covered for you, nobody knew there’d be trouble, and it’s not like they weren’t saved."

Mia grumbled irritably in the squad channel.

"It’s okay! Teacher, it’s not like her dislike for you is new, and Rome wasn’t built in a day."

Su Ming consoled Mia with a chuckle.

"Whatever, who cares if she likes me. Let’s go!"

Annoyed, Mia controlled her Mecha and turned away, heading toward refuge point NO.17.

Su Ming and the others followed suit.

Just then, Alfam’s calm voice came through the third squad’s channel.

"This is Alfam. I’ve led the squad to NO.12 safety refuge point. This refuge has been breached with no survivors!"

"Understood!"

Captain Wang Sheng responded solemnly.

Then two more teachers reported.

"Refuge point NO.8 is damaged, no survivors!"

"Refuge point NO.21 is damaged, no survivors!"

...

Su Ming and the others felt increasingly heavy-hearted as they heard the news, fearing there might be few survivors left on this ship.

At this point, Mia spoke with gravitas.

"Let’s focus, we’re approaching refuge point NO.17 now."

"Yes!"

Su Ming and his team immediately concentrated, not dwelling on anything else.

They soon arrived at the entrance of refuge point NO.17, which resembled an underground garage entrance, sloping downward.

Mia led Su Ming and the others to the entrance door where a thick metal security door met their gaze.

Rhein, looking at the security door said excitedly,

"The door is intact, there might be survivors inside."

"Then let’s open it quickly."

Zhang Yi said nervously,

"We can’t just recklessly open it."

Su Ming and Mia said in unison,

"Ah?"

Zhang Yi was also slightly stunned.

"The life-sustaining device outside has been shut down, the environment is extremely harsh; if they aren’t wearing protective suits, they’ll die. Moreover, recklessly opening it is very dangerous; you have no idea whether there are living people or monsters hidden inside."

Mia, very experienced, explained the reason to Zhang Yi and the others.

"What do we do now?"

Angel asked, somewhat at a loss.

"I’ll do it!"

Su Ming controlled the Mecha to walk up to the safety door and knocked on it.

A muffled sound was transmitted inside.

At this moment, inside NO17 Safety Refuge, groups of people in protective suits were hiding in terror; the moment they heard the noise,

one by one, their faces showed extreme fright, they fearfully said,

"Is it a monster?"

"Don’t make a sound, absolutely do not make a sound."

...

The knocking sound continued, more rhythmic this time.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The originally terrified people, hearing this rhythmic knocking sound, all perked up their ears; the fear on their faces gradually faded, replaced by surprise.

"It must be our people, the rescuers have come!"

"Quick, quick! Respond to them!"

...

At this moment, a man wearing Second Generation Exoskeleton Armor rushed to the sealed door and, lifting his gunstock, vigorously knocked on the safety door in rhythm to respond.

Su Ming and the others, hearing the response, joyfully said to Mia,

"There are living people!"

Seeing there were living people, Mia then said to Rhein,

"Rhein, get out of your Mecha and check if the safety door’s intercom can still be used. If it can, try talking to them to find out the situation inside and see if we can open the sealed door."

"Okay!"

Rhein opened the Mecha cockpit and jumped down; he rushed to the right side of the safety door and opened a concealed cover, revealing an intercom.

He tried pressing the call button; a voice, tinged with a cry, really came from the intercom.

"Are you the rescuers?"

"Yes, we are here to rescue you."

Rhein immediately replied.

At this moment, voices filled with excitement came from the intercom.

"We are saved!"

"We’ve finally waited for the rescue."

...

"Please calm down, everyone. We will definitely rescue you, but now we need your cooperation,"

"You say!"

"Firstly, the Nautilus’ life-sustaining device has already stopped working. Are you wearing protective suits? Can we open the safety door?"

Rhein hurriedly inquired.

"We can’t open it directly; only very few of us are wearing protective suits, the rest aren’t!"

"Then how many people are inside?"

"I’m not sure how many people there are, roughly over ten thousand!"

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Rhein, hearing the number, almost had his jaw drop to the floor.

Su Ming and the others, hearing the number Rhein repeated, were also dumbfounded.

"This..."

"My goodness!"

"How can there be so many survivors?"

....

Angel and the others were all stunned.