: Deep Infiltration
About 1 kilometres radius around the government military base had been ravaged by a large amount of robot beasts. The damage was not only on the surface, it extended underground. The cracked earth, rampaging monsters, rolling smoke and fireworks, not to mention the dead bodies and scrap metals left behind a war, it painted a grisly picture… there was no need to consider the possibility of survivor.
“Looks like there is no need to land anymore…” Pi Li dance hero said darkly.
“Erm… I have a few questions…” Feng Bujue chimed in. “What is the population number on this planet? How many percentage of this planet is occupied? And how many military bases are there on this planet that can be contacted? Where are they respectively?”
“I’ve investigated all that on the way here.” As Pi Li Dance Hero answered, he pulled out the data on the screen. “based on the league’s database, Ja Ja Ja Ja has a total population of 250 million and a colonization rate of 14 percent. Of course, only the highest military grade base has the galactic travel and communication device…” He paused. “But the base that sent us the signal is not the one that they have registered with us at the league…”
“Oh, now that is not that strange.” Feng Bujue said.
“How so?” Pi Li Dance Hero asked.
“Yes, it’s normal. This base before us is undeniably a secret military base… or else it wouldn’t be built in the middle of nowhere.” Feng Bujue said, “The government of Shrugging Planet will not report resources like this to the galaxy alliance or USL. Even if this place is discovered… they can cover it up easily by calling it a military secret.” He shrugged. “But now, this secret has somehow been useful. If not for the existence of this secret base, this planet probably wouldn’t be able to send out a distress signal.”
“How so? They still have the main official base, right?” The Tap Monster asked.
“The answer to that is simple…” When Brother Jue was analysing, he could not help expose his arrogant tone, “Prof Sui’s first step in his plan will naturally to conquer Ja Ja Ja Ja’s highest military base. The first step of any plan is very crucial, the smoother it went, the easier the rest of the plan will follow. With the evidence before us as an example, if Prof Sui’s plan was smooth and movement fast, he could have conquered the whole planet before the government had the chance to call for outside help. And he… has obviously accomplished that.
“The fact that Prof Sui has managed to hack into the Curry’s channel is a proof of that. The local government has collapsed. Prof Sui must have taken over the planet government’s resources and thus he was able to capture our location at first notice and infiltrate our system.”
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“Oh! I get it now!” The Tap Monster said, “Even though Doctor Sui took down the government, but he did not know about this base beforehand. When he found out at the government database and sent his army over, the people at this secret base had already sent the distress signal to us.”
“Yes.” Feng Bujue nodded. “Unfortunately… the commander here still reacted a bit slow… I believe once the base lost contact with the main government, I believe he was thinking along the line of…’something has gone wrong with the communication system’.” He extended his neck and glanced at the army on the ground, “He did not realize the severity of the situation until the army was at his door. At that point, he threw caution to the wind. He used the secret base’s device to send SOS to the mother planet and USL.”
Pi Li Dance Monster interrupted. “Something’s not right… Assuming Prof Sui took down the local government 1 hour ago (This superhero had stayed at Earth before he consciously used Earth’s time system to chat with Feng Bujue that originated from Earth), then why didn’t he use this planet’s galactic grade defence mechanism to attack us?”
Brother Jue put on the bridge of his nose out of habit and looked down the distance, he said calmly. “Hmm… there are two possibilities to that. The first is… he can’t. Because to activate this kind of high grade system, he will require the high ranking officer’s safety key, something like a command, fingerprint or an actual key… you should know more about this than I do, in case, that is how it works back on Earth; the second possibility is… the defence system has been destroyed by his own robot beasts army during his conquest.”
“Hmmm… that makes sense…” Pi Li Dance Hero nodded.
“Since now we are already in the ozone layer, the prof has lost the chance to damage us while we were in space.” The Tap Monster said, “He is no match for us in close combat.”
“Indeed, for now, we only need to determine the prof’s location.” Pi Li Dance Hero agreed.
“if there is no surprise… he should be at the local government’s highest base.” Feng Bujue reminded.
“Yes, you’re right.” Pi Li Dance Hero answered and set the spaceship’s new destination. “I will pilot the ship to Ja Ja Ja Ja’s capitol.”
“Erm… There are only the three of us…” Feng Bujue narrowed his eyes, “Who knows how many such robot armies are there, there might be even more advanced army, perhaps we should come up with a battle plan or try to sneak in…”
“Not necessary.” Tap Monster interrupted. “Don’t worry, the Poker. As long as you’re with us, you’ll be fine.”
[Hey hey… what is with this confidence…] Feng Bujue thought. [Just how powerful you two are. Don’t tell me aliens can cheat in this universe…]
“Okay then…” Feng Bujue answered casually.
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The spaceship flew for another period of time before they reached Ja Ja Ja Ja’s capital. During this moment, Brother Jue left to use the toilet, of course, it was not because he needed to but he wanted to find a secluded place to practice yakyuken. When he returned to the cockpit, The Curry arrived above a city. 1 minute later, Pi Li Dance Hero pressed on the controls and had the spaceship still over the city. Then he stood up and said, “let’s go down.”
“Ha?” Feng Bujue was stunned. “We just jump down like that?”
“Yes.” Pi Li Dance Hero answered. “Do you not know how to fly? Don’t worry, we can carry you…”
“No… that won’t be necessary.” Feng Bujue said in a hurry, “I’m not afraid of a fall but I mean… is it okay to park the spaceship like this? What if it is shot down?’
“Don’t worry, I’ve set it on autopilot.” Pi Li Dance Hero Replied. “After we jump down, the spaceship will fly back on its own to the league. Other than that, I’ve sent a request to the headquarters, the reinforcement and rebuilding teams are on their way. When we’re done, they should be here by then. Then we can take a ride with them.”
“Oh… he he he he…” There was endless bitterness in Brother Jue’s laugh. “Okay… then…” He said that but internally he was crying, [Why did I ask them ‘whether they need help or not’… Now I’ve dug a grave for myself! It’s too awkward for me to say ‘I want to go back in the spaceship’ now! And I’ve just been to the toilet… I can’t even use that excuse anymore!] Either way, Brother Jue did not have much choice. Now he could only follow these two, abandon the ship, jump into the midst of the enemy and fight…
The three walked through the central pathway and soon reached the hatch that would deposit them outside.
“Are you sure you don’t need our help? Falling at this height can be very dangerous.” Before the hatch opened, the Tap Monster turned to ask.
“Don’t worry… this is one thing I’m good at…” Feng Bujue replied calmly. That was true. Theoretically speaking, as long as he landed on his feet, it did not matter how tall he fell from.
“Oh, good.” Tap Monster smiled.
Pi Li Dance Hero opened the hatch. Even though the spaceship had lowered to several thousand metres, the wind was whipping, howling gale called in their ears and it caused them to worry. Pi Li Dance Hero shouted over the wind. “I’ll go first. The Poker, you follow behind me.” Looks like he was still worried so he arranged for the Tap Monster to close up the rear. After all, they did not know the Poker that well. If he fell to his death, that was another problem.
“Sure.” Brother Jue said but he was cursing inside. [Damn it! The plan of faking a fear of height at the last moment and then being dragged away by the spaceship is now gone!]
Actually Brother Jue’s plan would not have worked, because the autopilot worked on ‘weight’. Unless he could find something that was as heavy as himself and threw it out the hatch in a short period of time or else the spaceship would not leave. Even if he used Geppo, and jumped back and forth in 2 seconds, it wouldn’t work. As long as the weight difference was too big, the spaceship would stop moving.
At this point, it was worth nothing that… as strange as the name was and as unassuming as it appeared, The Curry was a USL spaceship, it had the safety system designed by Toad Man. Like this autopilot return to base system, it could prevent enemy from infiltrating the spaceship. Other than that, the spaceship had many other awesome designs like optical camouflage and deep sea diving… but Brother Jue still hadn’t been exposed to them.
At this point, the readers should understand… why Pi Li Dance Hero and Tap monster would scoff at Prof Sui’s robot army but was so shocked that the professor could hack into the spaceship’s com system…
Back to the story, as Pi Li Dance Hero left the hatch, Feng Bujue and the Tap Monster followed. The 2 seconds after they left, the hatch closed. The gravity on this planet was weaker, Feng Bujue felt that when he was falling.
Other than that, he noticed something else and that was… below the three of them within a 3 km radius, already a group of robot beasts gathered and ready to chomp them into pieces…