Chapter 266: Chapter 185: Cosmic Pirates

Mingyuan learned from the Cosmic Pirates’ crew member about what happened to him during the decryption game.

Someone had informed the Oasis Alliance that the Empress of Mechanical Star had passed away, and conveyed to them that the grand treasure had been discovered by others first and was now hidden somewhere within the Mechanism Royal Court, prompting the pirate leader to demonstrate sufficient professionalism and immediately gathered all the hands on Mechanical Star, heading straight for the Mechanism Royal Court.

"Mirage" was easily torn open by the pirates’ flagship after losing the control of the Empress.

And what was to happen next was just like the countless other planets they had visited.

Looting, first come first served, as long as they grabbed it, it was their spoils of war.

Apart from the grand treasure, there were innumerable artifacts left by the great craftsmen on Mechanical Star, each worth a fortune that could fetch a seven-figure price at the Chamber of Commerce’s black market.

Even the adventurers joined them, and the mood on the flagship was intensely fervent, but just as they were about to drop the second tactical nuke on the Gear Hotel, an aberration occurred.

The control system collapsed for unknown reasons, and the armory exploded for reasons unknown.

Right after, someone took advantage of the chaos to board the flagship.

The surveillance showed a cybernetic man, still wearing a retro cowboy hat, as if he had just run off a film set.

The weapon was a revolver, which looked like an antiquated relic, but fired with astonishing fierceness, effectively annihilating the support troops including the Combat Captain almost as soon as they faced each other.

Only a few people boarded the flagship with the cybernetic man, and it was hard for them to imagine that such a small group, not even enough to form a squad, would dare to confront one of the strongest Pirate Gangs in the universe.

"The strongest Pirate Gang?"

Mingyuan became interested, as any Cosmic Pirate who owned a flagship like this wouldn’t just be a small fry.

"This is Fortress Number."

The pirate crew member truly had no idea where the man before him had sprung from, to not even have heard of the renowned "Fortress Number."

Their captain had spent a large amount of looted materials on purchasing weapons and armaments to build this military fortress, which was in no way inferior to a Universe Company war cruiser, equipped with enough firepower to level a nation in an instant.

"Our captain is the well-known ’Tyrant’ Actus!"

The crew member emphasized his tone, trying to intimidate this country bumpkin who had apparently not seen much of the world, by recounting the captain’s glorious deeds, "Our captain is the kind of hard case who has bombarded his own Mother Planet. If you’re smart, you’ll let me go now, and I can pretend I never saw you!"

"Bombarded his own Mother Planet, why?"

Mingyuan immediately asked.

The pirate crew member’s vision went dark; he felt certain this man’s thought processes were significantly flawed.

He had cited the captain’s fearsome reputation, damn it, not to prompt Mingyuan to become a ’why’s man’. Ever since they met, the other’s questions hadn’t stopped, from their plans to big and small matters aboard "Fortress Number," and now he was dragging the topic to the captain.

"Because the Corporation secretly allied with the Rebels of Captain’s Planet to launch an armed insurrection. You must have heard of the Universe Company, right? Our captain isn’t afraid of even the company, he fought a fierce battle with them, and although he was forced to leave his Mother Planet, he bombarded it before he left, blasting the entire city to bits, leaving nothing for the company!"

The crew member recounted as though listing his family treasures.

In his eyes, winning or losing wasn’t important, anyone who dared to oppose Universe Company was considered a big shot with a resounding reputation across the universe.

"I see."

"Now that you know, you better get off the ship before the captain finds out."

"That won’t do."

Mingyuan decisively refused and walked to the damaged breach on the deck, beginning repair work.

He was very satisfied with the flagship, and the damaged breach wasn’t too large, it could be restored to its original state with some simple emergency repairs.

"You do know the consequences of offending the ’Tyrant’, right?"

Although he couldn’t move his body, the pirate still struggled to speak.

"Hmm, understood,"

Mingyuan nodded, "Don’t just stand there, come over and give me a hand."

This man must be insane!

The pirate had no idea what Mingyuan was there to do; he hadn’t started a massacre as soon as he stepped on deck, like the half-mechanical man, but instead began to repair their flagship.

He didn’t want to deal with Mingyuan, let alone have anything to do with a madman, yet his body started moving involuntarily.

His mechanical arm transformed, with the palm visibly morphing into repair tools at a speed visible to the naked eye, while his feet turned into grappling hooks that allowed his body to hang from the ceiling, making it easy to repair from all angles.

The pirate screamed and shouted, but his voice was quickly drowned out by gunshots from farther away.

His identity meant nothing on this ship; no one would come specifically to rescue him.

At this moment, the crewman felt that only his head still belonged to him; his torso and limbs had become machinery controlled by someone else, and the man who had turned him into this state was carefully repairing the damaged areas of the flagship, treating it with the care as if it was his own property.

"What, what exactly have you done to my body?"

The pirate shrieked. He had followed this flagship to countless planets but had never seen such a bizarre event.

Terror and humiliation.

Such words are usually spoken by those who have been plundered, yet now the positions had been reversed.

"Flesh Curse, it is a unique contagious disease from Mechanical Star, the symptom is the gradual transformation of the body into machinery,"

Without turning his head, Mingyuan shared his medical knowledge with the pirate.

The people of this planet feared the Flesh Curse like a plague, while Mingyuan thought that if used properly, the disease could be quite convenient.

For instance, right now, he had gained a universal repair tool person.

However, his answer apparently did not settle the pirate crewman’s nerves, as his shrieking became even more piercing—he had certainly heard of the Flesh Curse and knew it to be an incurable terminal illness; if not for the sudden and unexplained stop of the "Cocoon" process, they were all ready to leave Mechanical Star.

Even the captain was unwilling to stay longer on a planet riddled with plague.

"Let me go! What exactly do you want to do?"

"Help me finish repairs, and I’ll let you go,"

Mingyuan was a reasonable man, but the crewman didn’t seem too bright, so to avoid further screaming, he explained a bit more, "As for what I want to do, isn’t it obvious? Your flagship is quite nice, a good ship, it shouldn’t be wasted like this."

The crewman’s mouth gaped open, but before he could make another sound, an arc of light passed through his waist, granting him eternal release from his terror.

The body, cut in two, fell straight to the ground with a dull thud.

"You must be the intruder they talked about, right?"

The figure, which had bisected the crewman at the waist, revealed itself behind Mingyuan.

Covered entirely in metal, both arms modified, the palms featured two cavities from which deep blue lasers were emitted.

Those prosthetic eyes were locked intently on Mingyuan.

The newcomer didn’t intend to give Mingyuan any time to explain and, without waiting for a response, transformed once again into a streak of light, charging directly at Mingyuan.

"Well then, let’s start with you."

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