Chapter 567 The Three Gates!
"SPREAD OUT!" Captain Roger shouted an order for his entire fleet, forcing them to break the formation and retreat as far as possible!
Since those spaceships were quite small and their alloys were light, their mobility was their greatest strength!
Hence, only a few spaceships had ended up joining the celebration with big explosions, happening in the middle of space.
Captain Roger's spaceship and the rest managed to evade the rainbow beams just barely.
"Who did we lose?!" Furious, Captain Roger asked while banging his fist against the armchair.
The sight of his fellowmen's spaceships turning into giant balls of flames was too painful to watch.
"We lost the Falcon-9, Silly Billy, and Mother Load." Liam reported the spaceships' names.
Captain Roger tightened his fists, feeling like his heart was going to explode in anger. Two of those spaceships carried the most pirates in the fleet, numbering a total of 45.
if he added the other 10 pirates in the last spaceship and the 18 pirates inside the first two scouting spaceships, then he had lost 73 pirates from merely two attacks!
This was the biggest loss he had ever experienced in his life!
"Captain, should we continue retreating?" Liam inquired.
During their small talk, their spaceship had already crossed hundreds of kilometers away from Felix's spaceship and the planet.
The other pirates' spaceship was also still retreating with no intentions of stopping.
Captain Roger narrowed his eyes at the hologram that was showing him Felix's spaceship and admitted with suppressed fury, "We can't destroy it face to face with its shields and overwhelming weapons."
"So?"
Captain Roger glanced at Miss Kylie and said, "So, we keep splitting like this and go around it to scout the planet."
"Why the planet now?" She asked again.
"Because they are not chasing after us." Captain Roger sneered, "If they had a feud with every pirate crew they see then they should have chased us even if we are split up."
"Since they remained in the same place, it only meant that there is something below there that needed to be guarded by them from any intruders!"
Liam and Miss Kylie raised their eyebrows in surprise at his thought process but when they revisited the facts, it did make sense!
"That's why they killed our two scouting spaceships immediately after getting close to the planet." Miss Kylie exclaimed.
Captain Roger nodded his head and stressed, "We need to reach the planet at all cost."
"Orders?" Liam inquired.
"Relay the order to the others, tell them to pick a unique direction to enter the planet. We will do it all at once to confuse that guard dog." Captain Roger informed.
When the order was sent, Samir was left in a great panic after seeing through his radar, all pirate spaceships splitting even further instead of grouping up.
Before long, most of them had exited the premise of his radar, turning them into ghosts!
'Leader Malak, the pirates have decided to split up.' Samir immediately reported with an agitated tone, 'I believe they might bypass me and enter the planet.'
Malak stiffened in her place after hearing this message, forcing the others to stop as well.
They were still in the labyrinth and they had just experienced two nasty traps, almost killing Nicci and Khodri. So, they really didn't want to hear any more bad news.
'We need to speed up even more. The pirates had chosen to go around Samir.' Malak stressed while increasing her speed.