Chapter 918: Try Laying a Finger on Me
"Alright, I don't have time to chat with you. You've got one song's length to decide—either surrender or become space junk. It's your choice!" Zhang Menglong stared coldly at Lunede.
"What an overwhelming presence!"
"Guys, this is getting exciting! Cue the background music!"
"Yeah, I remember that year when in another live broadcast, our so-called space fleet was utterly defeated by a single enemy ship. It's still kind of embarrassing when I think about it."
"Finally, we can hold our heads high, everyone. Humanity stands tall now, all thanks to Academician Zhang."
Once, they trembled before extraterrestrial civilizations. Now, without losing a single soldier, they could smash the invaders' heads in.
"We...we surrender!" Lunede's lips trembled violently before helplessly choosing to surrender.
What else could they do but surrender?
As Zhang Menglong said, the power gap between the two sides was too immense. Surrounded by this fleet, their chances of escape were smaller than Mars crashing into Earth.
As slaves, they at least had a chance to survive; but if they chose mutual destruction, sorry, the fish would be dead, but the net wouldn't even be broken.
"Bring a few warships over!"
This fleet consisted of 2,000 warships. Each fleet, with its operators and combat personnel, numbered in the hundreds, totaling around 500,000 people—definitely not a small number.
Zhang Menglong and a group of people boarded their warship for the first-ever encounter with aliens. Many warriors had excited glints in their eyes.
"Legion Commander, what do we do? Do we really surrender?"
"Hm, surrender?" Lunede sneered, "Didn't you see what our detectors showed? The soldiers on those warships are just ordinary people. I suspect this civilization accidentally acquired some valuable resources or treasures and somehow bought a batch of equipment."
Could a Level One civilization upgrade to a Level Five in such a short time? That's absolutely impossible. This is the most plausible speculation.
"Then what do you propose?"
"Heh, when their commander comes to accept our surrender, our warriors will strike back immediately and take control of their key members. Then, maybe this fleet will be ours!"
"But Legion Commander, have you considered if they've hooked up with some high-grade civilization, what do we do then?"
"Relax!" Lunede said confidently, "All relationships in this world are maintained by interests. Even if the Blue Star people have tied up with some advanced civilization, that civilization will only care about the resources or treasures. Do they really care who provided them these treasures and resources?"
"Makes sense!" If they could control Blue Star, then everything on it would be theirs. In the end, wouldn't they have the final say? This was a chance to turn the tables!
If they discovered Blue Star's secrets and contributed them to some bigwig, perhaps they'd have the opportunity to own such a fleet in the future!
The thought of this got everyone excited.
"Wait for my command. They might have extremely powerful weapons, we must seize the right opportunity!" Lunede said, "As long as we take down that young man from earlier, I think we'll be safe."
"Alright!"
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"What kind of lousy spaceship is this?" Zhang Menglong grumbled as he boarded the spaceship. This batch of warships was evidently battle-worn, with damage marks all over the exterior and very outdated internal facilities. "We'll melt it down and use it for construction on other planets."
"Yes, Academician Zhang."
"Let's go to the cockpit and meet these people." Zhang Menglong led the way inside.
"Hold on!" A warrior stepped in front of Zhang Menglong. "Academician Zhang, be careful, I fear there may be an ambush inside!"
In the eyes of these warriors, Zhang Menglong was just a wealthy and great scientist, without much self-defense capability.
"It's alright, they won't dare do anything." Zhang Menglong smiled calmly and confidently.
"To the people inside, open the hatch!" Zhang Menglong had Gou Dan scan to understand the situation aboard the command ship.
This command ship had over 500 people. Besides the operators and logistics personnel, the rest were the army's commander-level figures. Lunede was a Level Five medium life form, along with 200 Level Five elementary life forms. They were all gathered in the cockpit according to Zhang Menglong's surrender and disarmament requirements.
The hatch opened, and Zhang Menglong walked inside leisurely with his hands behind his back. "Camera crew, follow up. We're live!"
"Hahaha, is Academician Zhang really so charmingly arrogant?"
"Of course, we're calling the shots now, got to hold a high posture!"
"Isn't it dangerous? Academician Zhang is just an ordinary person, what if there's an ambush inside."
"What to do? I'm suddenly so nervous."
...
In the cockpit, all the personnel of this command ship had gathered. They weren't pulling any tricks because they couldn't in the face of a Level Five civilization's detectors.
"Is everyone here?" Zhang Menglong stood in front of them. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Zhang Menglong, and I brought together all these warships and Mobile Warriors!"
"So it was him!" Lunede secretly gave a signal to the people around him.
He glanced at the soldiers' weapons behind Zhang Menglong, which were the firearms commonly used by special forces in a Level Five civilization. Even a Level Five life form would be injured if hit directly.
There were hundreds of such armed soldiers behind Zhang Menglong! If the spaceship wasn't big enough, they wouldn't all fit.
"I have to say, you picked a bad day to come," Zhang Menglong smiled. "Honestly, we received news a few months ago that your fleet was coming, but you were so pathetic, not worth our time dealing with, so we accidentally forgot about you!"
"Hahahaha! Academician Zhang, you're brutally honest!"
"Don't the aliens need to save face?"
"You've already dealt with them, and now you're humiliating them too. Isn't that a bit too much?"
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"Oh, right, you guys are actually quite unlucky today. Our Earth's fleet is conducting a military exercise here today, and accidentally hit you. I apologize for that!"
"Tsk tsk, what a sly fox."
"I'm laughing to death. It's like accidentally running them over with a remote-controlled toy car and not even noticing."
"Teacher Pu is really upset, can we all forget about this meme after so many years?"
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Lunede was grinding his teeth in anger. He initially thought that this fleet was here to intercept them, something he could somewhat accept. After all, a Level Five fleet of this scale gave them enough face.
Who knew they were just conducting a military exercise here? This level of insult was certainly not small.
"Are you the leader?" Zhang Menglong approached Lunede.
"Take action!" Lunede didn't expect Zhang Menglong to be so bold, walking up to him without any guard. Did he really not know they were a group of highly combat-capable high-grade life forms?
"Academician Zhang! Be careful!"
"Damn! An underhanded move?"
But it was already too late. The abilities of a Level Five life form were beyond their imagination. Even Zhang Menglong himself had no time to react.
Of course, he hadn't planned to react. Would he dare walk up so directly if he weren't confident?
"Hey! Ouch ouch ouch!" Zhang Menglong yelled, as he found himself captured by Lunede. The other Level Five life forms immediately surrounded them.
"Blue Star people, listen up. I know this man is very important to you. From now on, if you want him alive, then everything here is under my command!"
"Let go of Academician Zhang!"
"Let's talk it out!"
"Don't worry!" Zhang Menglong endured the pain of his arm being twisted. "Threaten us? Go ahead, try doing something to me!"