The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 949: Chapter 949: Terror

In silence, the spaceship traveled at a very steady speed, and soon it would cross a Jump Point, entering another part of the starry sky. Within this area of starry sky, there were 12 habitable planets within a 10-light-year radius, and the Alliance Military had stationed troops nearby, making it much safer than the starry sky where they encountered the Red Crown Bird Group. The tense nerves of Ji You and his companions relaxed slightly, but until they truly entered the Jump Point, none of them dared to fully relax.

Next.

The pilots rotated again, and it was Ji You and Sheng Qingyan’s turn.

Ji You and Sheng Qingyan entered the cockpit, replacing Chu Jiaojiao and Shen Changqing.

Once Ji You sat in the main pilot seat, Shen Changqing advised, ”We expect to enter the Jump Point in about 10 light minutes. According to the monitoring information from behind, the Red Crown Bird Group is still gathering and continuously heading toward that place... The reason is unclear for now, so we must not let down our guard.”

Ji You nodded, ”Hmm.”

Looking at Ji You’s handsome face showing faint signs of fatigue, with noticeable dark circles under his eyes, Chu Jiaojiao felt slightly distressed and said, ”Ji You, if you find anything unusual, don’t push yourself; I will be standing by.”

Indeed.

She didn’t plan to rest.

Even if she were to rest, it would have to wait until they truly entered the Jump Point and exited from it smoothly.

Ji You thought for a moment and said, ”You and Shen Changqing should rotate for sleep. You must rest, because without rest, we won’t know what we might encounter in the next second, and we need to maintain the best battle state.”

Chu Jiaojiao listened and nodded, ”Alright. I will rotate rest with Shen Changqing.”

Chu Jiaojiao and Shen Changqing lifted their feet to leave, and suddenly—

The spaceship jerked violently!

”Boom—”

”Boom—”

”Boom—”

Ji You, Chu Jiaojiao, Shen Changqing, Sheng Qingyan... all their faces changed, ”What the hell!”

”What happened?”

”What’s going on?”

Ji You tightly checked the spaceship’s monitoring system and found nothing.

Nothing at all.

The spaceship’s monitoring system didn’t capture any abnormal situation; it only recorded the spaceship suddenly shaking violently as if blown by a gust of wind.

But—

Where did the wind come from?

Before the incident, the energy field around was extremely stable, with no abnormalities, and this Cosmic Storm seemed to have no source, emerging as if out of nowhere.

All the unknowns equate to danger.

...

Ji You didn’t dare to think more, she drove the spaceship, immediately heading towards the Jump Point, when suddenly, a terrifying force swept in, startling Ji You so much that she shuddered all over, her whole body trembled, her hair stood on end, her hands and legs weakened.

Clang—

Not only Ji You, but Sheng Qingyan, Shen Changqing, Chu Jiaojiao... all at this moment, their bodies weakened, collapsing onto the floor. As everyone fell, they struggled to stay calm, but their bodies kept trembling...

Yue Qiguang pinched his thigh violently to slightly dispel that trembling, then swore, ”Who!”

”That shameless person dared to ambush your daddy?”

”Come out!”

...

As Chu Jiaojiao fell to the ground, she swiftly leaped, leaning against Ji You’s back. She raised her hand, holding onto Ji You’s seatback, nearly gritting her teeth trembling, saying, ”Ji You, don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

”I can replace you at any time.” Slowly and steadily, after finishing the sentence, large beads of sweat appeared on Chu Jiaojiao’s forehead.

Shen Changqing felt weak all over, his spiritual power seemed on the verge of exploding, not daring to move at all, yet he tried hard to stay calm, crawling slowly towards the monitors, saying, ”I’ll guard the monitor.”

Crawling behind Shen Changqing was Yue Qiyuan, ”Me too.”

Sheng Qingyan stayed silent, his hands trembled uncontrollably, as he shook, he aimed, but the turret shook continuously, unable to accurately target anything, yet Sheng Qingyan continued trying...

Liu Fufeng curled up in a corner, shivering...

Ji You tingled all over, her hair stood on end, every cell vibrating, terrified... She didn’t even have the energy to open her mouth and say a word, yet Ji You’s hands remained firmly, holding the spaceship’s control keys tightly.

Her partners were all there.

Lives were on the line.

Even facing an 8-level Viper Worm, Ji You never felt this kind of fear, she couldn’t spare any mind to think of anything else at this moment—

Spirit Space.

Six Spiritual Threads, at this instant, all shivered together, curling up...

Sixth tightly held onto Fifth, Fifth held onto Third, Third held onto Second, Second held onto Boss, Boss was entangled with the four threads, unable even to breathe properly, and even more infuriating—

Fourth, at that moment, leapt off Fifth’s head, jumping into Boss’s mouth to hide... Just fitting between Boss’s two large front teeth, making it impossible to close his mouth.

Boss: [Aoo—]

[Fourth, come out quickly, I need to close my mouth.]

Fourth: [I won’t—]

Boss and Fourth said just this bit, and then both shut up together, Boss even shrank violently, shrinking, shrinking, shrinking...

Huge enough to almost burst the Spirit Space, Boss was now smaller than even a fine needle, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth dared not make a sound and hurriedly followed Boss’s actions, shrinking their bodies to nearly invisible...

Silence.

Complete silence.

Even eerily silent...

The Six Spiritual Threads, since Ji You discovered them, had never seen them this scared, even pretending before, now they were genuinely intimidated...

What exactly is it?

Ji You’s hands tightly grasped the control keyboard, she almost used all her strength to say a complete sentence: ”Everyone follow my command—stay quiet.”

One word out.

Chu Jiaojiao, Shen Changqing, Yue Qiguang, Yue Qiyuan, Sheng Qingyan, even Liu Fufeng, who joined the team for the first time, all stopped at Ji You’s words.

Ji You’s voice was very light, very light: ”Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t listen, and even don’t think, relax... We... we can make it through.” The Six Spiritual Threads didn’t even get the chance to warn Ji You of the problem before this situation happened... and given their posture, they completely had no opportunity or time to report the situation or issue an alert themselves...

Seeing their performance, Ji You didn’t think more, immediately followed suit, the Six Spiritual Threads even more worried about their lives than herself, just matching their performance, replicating and doing it.

The spaceship quietly hovered in the starry sky...

Silence.

Silence around.

...

It seemed the entire spaceship and space had completely come to a halt.