Chapter 1429: Chapter 537: Coming and Going at Will (Part 2)

After listening to the other party’s lightning-fast explanation, Ren Zhong pondered for less than a second, then said frankly, "Got it. Sorry for causing you trouble."

After hanging up the communication, Ren Zhong sighed inwardly and actually blamed himself a little.

In fact, there was a special edition of the military treatise authored by Zheng Tian, and it was meant specifically for Ren Zhong.

Zheng Tian had only added one extra sentence for him: a benevolent man is unfit to command troops.

The subtext of this sentence was that Ren Zhong should stop participating in frontline command, lest he mess things up.

Ren Zhong deeply agreed with Zheng Tian’s warning, but when the moment came he still failed to keep his mouth shut. Even though he had said in advance he wouldn’t interfere, he still wasted some of the frontline Commanders’ time.

Ren Zhong secretly clenched his fist, warning himself once again that he absolutely must not make the same mistake again.

By this time he had already moved with ease through a large stretch of the Pakuiao Pirate Group’s Central Army Headquarters fleet.

Fudin’s interception order came late, but it came.

After all, the Pakuiao Pirate Group was one of the Five Elder Clan who had roamed the Shattered Star Ring for many years. Although they had been caught off guard, they were not completely unable to fight back.

On his return route, Ren Zhong began to run into an endless variety of interception attempts.

Because his Battleship’s remaining energy was now low, he could no longer use Short-range Jump recklessly as he had before.

Facing the overwhelming incoming fire, his Battleship’s Shield was struck repeatedly in a very short time, the reserve energy plummeting rapidly, and for a moment the situation actually seemed rather precarious.

The situation on Ren Zhong’s side was also reported to Fudin Pacquiao.

Fudin was very satisfied with the performance of the Pakuiao Pirate Group’s elites, and through the Staff Department he again issued orders to the front line, demanding that the Central Army Headquarters, no matter the cost, destroy this claw-shaped Warship and absolutely not allow it to just run back so easily.

The reason he gave publicly was as follows: he believed the claw-shaped Warship must be Earl Red Blade’s trump-card Warship. Once it was destroyed, it would surely deliver a heavy blow to the enemy’s morale, so even if it disrupted deployments, they still had to stop the enemy.

Of course, whether his real concern was that he might fall victim to the enemy’s decapitation tactic was something probably only he himself truly understood.

Because the enemy had adjusted their operational approach and begun to intercept at all costs, the pressure Ren Zhong faced grew greater and greater.

He thought briefly, yet from afar he still managed to grasp the thinking of the completely unfamiliar Fudin Pacquiao.

Ren Zhong did not panic; he even simply shut down the Triangular Battleship’s force field shield, further reducing the Warship’s target profile.

This bold move proved remarkably effective, causing many long-range-targeting pirate Warship Energy Weapons to miss entirely, while the evasion probability against Missiles doubled, allowing him in one burst to punch through a dense firepower net that the pirate Central Army Headquarters had painstakingly constructed.

However, he soon had to face yet another interception net, this one formed by elite pirate warriors.

It was too late to restart the force field shield, so Ren Zhong played a trick, diverting most of the power supply to the Gravity Engine, locking onto the gravitational Source ahead, then accelerating at full throttle.

Gravitation acts mutually; by using the enemy as a gravity slingshot, he himself also became a gravity slingshot for the enemy.

Suddenly encountering a powerful gravitational field at relatively close range put enormous strain on the Pirate Alliance’s individual vehicles.

Some pirate individual vehicles whose assembly quality did not meet standards even broke apart on the spot.

The originally airtight interception formation fell into brief chaos, exposing a small gap in the fire line.

Ren Zhong quickly shifted power back to the medium engine and the small Energy Weapons.

The Triangular Battleship began a rapid course change, then surged forward, and during the acceleration its hull surface sprouted a dense array of mid-range beam cannons, which opened fire in all directions with extremely high precision.

The Triangular Battleship had been aiming precisely at the weak point of the defensive line, and with this explosive outpouring of firepower, it caught these elite pirates completely off guard.

But Ren Zhong still did not pass through unscathed.

During the breakthrough, the Triangular Battleship was struck multiple times in succession.

Each time it was hit, part of the ship’s structure would peel away.

Sometimes the damage was blasted off; sometimes it was Ren Zhong who actively jettisoned the damaged structures.

By the time he finally completed his acceleration and pierced this interception line, the Triangular Battleship had shrunk by a full size, damage marred it everywhere, and sparks were spraying all over the ship.

Yet what greeted him was a massive incoming wave of radioactive barrage Missiles rushing straight at his bow, forming an all-encompassing interception line with no blind spots.

In a conventional war, this single volley of barrage Missiles from the pirate fleet would have been enough to instantly annihilate a battle formation composed of a hundred large Warships, which showed just how heavily they were investing.

Ren Zhong’s Warship looked battered and miserable, but it was inherently a modular combination structure, and its core section remained intact.

Without hesitation he activated the Short-range Jump he had long prepared, easily leaping across this firepower net and leaving behind in place a large amount of damaged outer hull components, like a cicada shedding its shell.

By now the Warship was down to only a medium size, but its speed kept increasing; it plunged once more into the enemy formation ahead, and in the next ten minutes repeatedly used Fold Jump and the cicada-shedding trick, finally breaking through the layered defenses in the form of a small Warship about three hundred meters long, then vanishing into the distance.

"Damn it! He really got away! What the hell is with this ship!"

The frontline Commander of the pirate group responsible for the interception plan was stomping his feet.

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