Chapter 574 Buying Time.
"Queen, activate shields!" Samir shouted while watching the spaceships preparing for another salvo.
Meanwhile, inside the main spaceship, Captain Roger was tapping his finger on the armchair while eyeing a hologram that was zoomed in on the hole, rocks, and sprays laying everywhere.
"Zoom in on those sprays and give me their details." Captain Roger ordered Miss Kylie.
A moment later, a full page filled with information about those sprays was displayed before Captain Roger.
Upon reading that it was meant for dangerous types of bugs, he started to analyze the situation in this standoff, 'There must be dangerous bugs below that hole, forcing them to take such measures. Since it is written on the bottle that the effect lasts for 2 hours and that the sand hadn't fully covered them yet, it's safe to guess that they are still down there.'
'Since the number of bottles is 10, it is only natural to assume that ten individuals are currently below.' Captain sneered faintly, 'That's the reason, those in that spaceship are trying their best to take us down before we get here and their passiveness after we reached it.'
It was to be expected for a Captain of a pirates fleet to have remarkable intelligence since it was a dangerous business to run in this Era.
"Captain, do we fire?' Liam inquired.
"No, tell the fleet to change the aim to the hole and not pull off the trigger." Captain Roger smirked faintly, "Let's see if they will ignore our call this time."
The moment the order was taken into effect, Samir and Declan were left in great horror after spotting that the hole was being aimed at by tens of brightened weapons!
"Don't tell me they found out about the squad?!" Samir sweated a little from his forehead.
"Possib..."
Tsshshshs.
Declan got interrupted by scratching noises coming out of the spaceship's radio.
Following it was a line written on a hologram above it,]Operator Liam wants to make a contact.[
If he received such a message before, Samir would have ignored it in a heartbeat, but seeing their weapons aimed at the hole made him understand that ignoring them any further wouldn't bode well for his squad.
"Sir Felix, are you guys in the tunnel yet?!' Samir said with an agitated tone, 'The pirates have realized your existence down below and currently aiming at the hole. They are requesting contact, probably want to negotiate.'
Felix didn't even flinch when he replied, 'Accept their contact and do your best to prolonge it. If they wanted to negotiate, try making it as long as possible. I will be sending you some pictures of the herbal garden to show them so their greed would get in the way to destroy the ruins.'
'If you feel like you can't handle it, leave it to elder Declan, he should know what to say.' Felix ended the connection the moment he said so.
He was busy with his own issues down there.
Vrr vrrr
Upon receiving the pictures and some parts of the videos, Samir and Declan were the first to get shocked and marveled by the Herbal Garden's holy grace.
But, they weren't given time to appreciate it as one spaceship had fired off a warning shot near the hole, managing to lift the sand hundreds of meters in the sky!
Not wanting to test their patience, Samir quickly accepted the call.
"Captain, should we bombarded the are...Never mind, they have accepted it." Liam's disappointed voice traveled inside the cockpit, making Samir's and Declan's hearts skip a beat.