Chapter 2210: Sheng Yi
Within the core region of the Wuxian•Beimianzuo Great Wall, the Beren Corridor!
Compared to other core areas, the concentration of the Wuxian Torrent here was lower, making it one of the rare calm zones!
For the entire core region, such safe routes were extremely scarce!
This path through the core area was well-known among the ferryman community!
After all, there were only a few routes like this.
As for why it was called the Beren Corridor, it was because the first person to discover and successfully traverse this smuggling route was named Beren!
It was directly named after him and has been used ever since.
At this moment, at the Xingwaizi of the Beren Corridor, a large-scale firefight was erupting!
Seven specially modified Solar Wind-class armed starships were besieging over a dozen high-mobility Fengniao-class small starships!
The main cannons of the starships fired continuously, unleashing full power. Brilliant death rays shone brightly, and the cannon barrels were glowing red-hot!
The armaments of those dozen or so Fengniao starships couldn't compare to the Solar Wind-class at all. Their firepower was completely suppressed!
They couldn't even escape!
Because the Solar Wind starships had already launched space glue bombs early on, preventing the Fengniao ships from warping away!
The dozen or so Fengniao starships could only rely on their high mobility to perform difficult maneuvers in the air, dodging the artillery bombardment from the starship group!
They were completely blocked inside the Xingwaizi, with the fierce current of the Wuxian Torrent behind them!
Ahead were seven starships and over a hundred thousand personnel!
It was like having no way to heaven and no door to hell!
On the Fengniao side, there were only about thirty thousand accompanying mercenaries, who were now doing their utmost to resist the enemy's assault!
Some mercenaries didn't even hesitate to join forces to block the starship's cannon fire, just to protect their own Fengniao ships!
Casualties were mounting rapidly, and it was clear they couldn't hold out much longer. The battle was exceptionally fierce, with many planets shattered into pieces!
Floating all across the starry sky were planet fragments, starship wreckage, and incomplete corpses!
On the battlefield, a demonic purple eye remained wide open, watching every corner of the scene!
Below the demonic eye stood a female member of the Jing clan, clad in heavy silver-lead armor!
She had a humanoid form, with a head of chestnut-brown hair reaching down to her waist. Several strands were braided and tucked behind her ears, and she wore a metal rose hair ornament on her head!
Her face was beautiful, her figure perfect—even in the heavy silver-lead armored suit, her curves were still evident!
In her hands, she held two long golden spikes with rings at the ends, both stained with blood!
Notably, one of the Jing woman's arms was a bionic mechanical limb, incredibly stylish!
Though she was extremely beautiful, she looked quite battered, with several bloody scratches on her cheeks and blood at the corners of her mouth!
Her bright, watery eyes were wide open, taking in everything on the battlefield as she directed her mercenaries in fending off the enemy!
(╯⊙益⊙╰) "Sister Sheng! We can't hold out! Run! If we don't go now, we won't be able to escape!"
A Titan clan member swung a giant axe as he roared in persuasion.
Sheng Yi narrowed her eyes: "How do we leave? If we lose this batch of cargo, even if we escape, we won't survive!"
"You all know that in this ferryman business, your life is tied to the cargo!"
Beside Sheng Yi, a spherical portable AI was flying around. It was painted with a black bow tie pattern, making it look like a gentleman.
A gentle male voice came from the AI.
Õ "Reporting to the valiant and stunning sweetheart young miss: This battle's data has been fully analyzed!"
"Our victory rate is 0.00021%! The situation is still under control. However, for the sake of your life and property, please retreat in time, dear~"
Sheng Yi looked disgusted:
(￢皿￢ꐦ) "Dear your sister! This is no time for the butler setting! Switch to combat mode!"
Xiao Shen: "Combat mode activated! Note: This AI does not believe this will be of any help to the battle."
Sheng Yi ground her teeth: "Shut up! If you're not helping, don't make trouble!"
Just as she finished speaking, a sinister wind struck from behind. Sheng Yi, as if she had eyes on her back, instantly spun around!
Her pupils changed shape in an instant!
The Abyss clan assassin who had emerged from the shadows had his dagger thrust downward, but it was frozen in place!
"Ambush me? I've got eyes all over my body, girl! When I was running smuggling jobs, you were still spitting up milk! Die~"
The Abyss clan member was terrified, his own movements out of control as he raised his dagger and fiercely stabbed it through his own skull!
Just as Sheng Yi dealt with the Abyss clan member, a Heiyao clan warrior with a war hammer had already closed in!
"You're the one who's going to die!"
Sheng Yi directly raised her right mechanical arm, and the energy shield on it instantly blossomed, barely blocking the hammer blow!
"Energy Counter!"
"Boom!"
The Heiyao clan member was sent flying. Seeing even more mercenaries charging at her,
Sheng Yi clenched her teeth. Her mechanical arm clanked and transformed, turning into a pitch-black cannon barrel!
"Steady Gaze!"
Instantly, everything within her line of sight was frozen. The stellar power furnace built into the mechanical arm ran at full power!
High-temperature plasma cannon fired immediately, enveloping all the charging mercenaries!
"Boom!"
A scorching blaze swept across the starry sky!
Seeing the nearly depleted energy gauge, Sheng Yi's heart ached again.
Just then, on one of the Solar Wind starships, a Gamma clan member waved his hand!
"Gamma Cannon!"
A dark green energy beam nearly a hundred kilometers in diameter shot out, even enhanced by the gamma-ray bursts in the Wuxian Torrent!
The blast slammed fiercely into the most densely populated area in the center of the battlefield!
Countless mercenaries were blown to pieces, and even a nearby planet was shaved by a third!
The already precarious battle situation became overwhelmingly one-sided.
The Titan struggled over, covered in blood, clearly heavily injured.
"Sister Sheng Yi! Let's go! We can't break through!"
Sheng Yi's eyes darkened. Damn it! How did they find out?
She had kept the entire smuggling route confidential. No one knew except herself, including the timing!
Yet they were still intercepted!
This was no coincidence. The other side had clearly come prepared!
At the bow of the Solar Wind starship stood a Dark Soul clan member wearing a golden Source Material battle armor!
He was slender, with skin black and shiny. His features could be considered handsome, though it was hard to make out his facial details because he was so dark!
His head was also a bit large!
Around him floated nine bright white triangular energy bodies—clearly tamed triangular entities!
He spoke:
(◕͡°͜ʖ͡°) "Sheng Yi! Don't force yourself. Why not just accept your fate?"
"I appreciate your talent and can't bear to kill you. Come work for me, Black! The future's limitless!"
"My patience is running thin. Don't reject my kindness! Sure, I like my women a little wild, but if they're too disobedient, I don't like that!"
Sheng Yi narrowed her eyes, forcing herself to stay calm!
"Black! Is your Wuhai Group insane? Do you know whose cargo this is? How dare you touch it?"
"Normally, if we met on the road, I wouldn't mind giving you a cut. It's just the usual loss in smuggling."
"But not Lord Xuansé's cargo! He belongs to the Ninth Sequence Chaos Clan, the overseer of the Beimian Xingkong Kuangchang's Chaos Clan, a super mine lord!"
"If his cargo is lost, not to mention me, even you and your Wuhai Group won't get off easy. Everyone dies!"
Black sneered: "Lord Xuansé's cargo, right? I know! Of course I know!"
"Refined Source Material metals, right? I don't have the habit of opening blind boxes! It's precisely because I knew that I came to intercept you!"
"I didn't waste three Solar Wind-class starships chasing you down for nothing! And I have to say, you've got guts, little girl. You take some incredibly dangerous routes!"
As he spoke, greed filled Black's face: "But if we get our hands on the goods, three starships will be worth it—not even a fraction of the profit!"
Sheng Yi gritted her teeth: "You know and you still dare? Aren't you afraid Lord Xuansé will..."
Black sneered again: "What's there to be afraid of? The bold starve, the timid die!"
"People like us small mine lords only have individually contracted poor mining areas—hardly enough to go around! If we don't do some dirty work, how are we supposed to support our crew?"
"Once this job is done, we'll be set. Lord Xuansé finds out? What can he find out? In this Wuxian Torrent, can you even get a message out?"
"Besides, even if the goods are lost, do you think Xuansé would dare to make a big fuss? It's smuggling after all—can't be exposed! Hahaha~"
Black laughed wildly: "Be smart and accept your fate. Why make yourself so miserable?"
"It's not your cargo anyway! How much is Xuansé paying you? Why are you risking your life for it?"
Sheng Yi ground her teeth. On an ordinary smuggling job, she would have run long ago.
But not this time. At least, at least she had to secure part of the cargo!
Her gaze shifted, her purple pupils rapidly scanning the battlefield.
"My confidentiality work was perfect. I'm an old hand. My planned route could never have been leaked. How did you find us?"
Black smiled: "I really didn't know your planned route, and it's true that you can't communicate in the Wuxian Torrent, but..."
Sheng Yi's pupils contracted sharply. She was about to turn, but it was too late!
The Titan standing behind her had deep red muscles extending from his arm, forming a blood-colored blade!
He ran Sheng Yi straight through from behind!
Blood gushed from her mouth like it was free, and her face paled visibly!
"Xiao Shan! You..."
The Titan's body erupted with crimson muscles, wrapping around him completely, transforming him into a grotesque, blood-red monster!
Inside the Titan's body, there was actually a Parasite Entity!
The Parasite leaned close to Sheng Yi's ear, its eyes bloodshot, extending a long tongue to lick the blood on her cheek!
"The boss doesn't like women who are too wild! How did we know? What do you think?"
Sheng Yi spat out large mouthfuls of blood, her eyes filled with hatred. Had Xiao Shan been parasitized even before the mission?
It was true that no messages could be sent within the Wuxian Torrent, but a Parasite Entity could synchronize information through its parasite avatars, couldn't it?
Every move she made was under their surveillance? No wonder she was trapped!
At this moment, Sheng Yi's consciousness was fading, her life force rapidly draining...