The Interstellar Queen of Scavengers

Chapter 1686: Chapter 1686: Viper

X-N3848 Cockpit.

Shen Changqing’s hands were placed on the control panel, unconsciously gripping it tightly. Chu Jiaojiao, Yue Qiyuan... everyone’s expressions were extremely serious, all of them staring intently at that cabin door.

Behind the door.

What kind of situation is it exactly?

No one knows.

Layers of protective shields completely seal it off; even an ant, a microorganism, cannot get in, and anything with any form of physical substance cannot escape.

But——

Can it withstand that monster?

No one felt assured, not at all.

Unable to see the situation inside the security room, everyone’s expressions were extremely grave, each brow tightly furrowed, their mood heavier and more apprehensive than those waiting on death row. Yet, for the time being, no one openly expressed their inner anxiety.

At that moment, Sheng Qingyan suddenly spoke up, asking Chu Jiaojiao beside him, ”Jiaojiao, what method did you use with that dead poor guy to kill the monster?”

When Chu Jiaojiao first heard this question, she found it a bit odd but couldn’t figure out exactly why. So, she replied, ”I just chopped it with a knife.”

Sheng Qingyan’s pupils widened: ”How did you chop it?”

Chu Jiaojiao suddenly understood what was odd earlier—the guy spoke without ’oh’; it was an ’oh oh’ monster speaking without ’oh’, no wonder it felt a bit off.

Chu Jiaojiao pushed aside those miscellaneous thoughts and explained seriously, ”It’s just the usual way of killing Star Beast, but the opponent is formless and intangible, making its figure and exact position hard to capture. So I relied on intuition!”

While Chu Jiaojiao spoke, the others couldn’t help but lean in and listen intently.

Chu Jiaojiao said, ”My physical strength surpasses spiritual power. During the battle, often my spirit didn’t sense it, but my body had already intuitively made the optimal choice. When I saw Ji You’s expression was too strange, as if something was binding him, unable to move at all, I didn’t hesitate and acted straight away.”

Seeing everyone looking at her seriously, Chu Jiaojiao said, ”My experience is, if the situation is dire, trust your intuition! Because trusting your intuition means trusting yourself.”

While speaking, Chu Jiaojiao raised the knife that was placed beside her, waving it in her hand, and said, ”Just like now, I trust Ji You, and I trust myself... Since we aren’t afraid of obvious enemies, why fear hidden ones? It’s quite possible their real strength is inferior to obvious enemies.”

As soon as these words fell, Yue Qiguang immediately clapped, loudly saying, ”Exactly! Daddy thinks the same; that thing might just be too weak, that’s why it lurks sneakily, afraid to directly confront us daddies!”

At that very instant, the air pressure around suddenly dropped.

With the pressure drop, it seemed the air was turning cold as well. Shen Changqing, Yue Qiyuan, Liu Fufeng, Sheng Qingyan all simultaneously felt a chill on their scalp; only Chu Jiaojiao and Yue Qiguang were still clueless, Yue Qiguang said, ”What’s up with you guys? Daddy only spoke the truth, look at you all like you turned into paupers overnight, I wasn’t talking about you.”

”Shhh~” Liu Fufeng pinched his goosebumps, looked around slightly anxiously, then reached out, covered his mouth, and whispered, ”Don’t talk nonsense.”

Yue Qiguang: ”???

Talk nonsense?

Yue Qiguang thought to himself which part of his words were nonsense? Which sentence was nonsense? Sneaky creatures definitely lack enough strength.

”Smack~” Yue Qiyuan jumped up, slapped Yue Qiguang on the head, and said, ”You’re not dealing with people, don’t use your below-average human IQ to say presumptuous things.”

”Aliens, can’t be judged by human common sense? Perhaps they just like to hide around, right? Cough cough...” After saying this, Yue Qiyuan immediately looked around and whispered, ”I’m just casually saying, don’t overthink it.”

”Who are you telling not to overthink?” Yue Qiguang glared at him.

Yue Qiyuan glared back at Yue Qiguang: ”Didn’t you feel the air got colder by a few degrees?”

Yue Qiguang looked puzzled: ”No, I didn’t feel anything.”

Then.

Yue Qiguang turned to the others, finding that apart from Chu Jiaojiao and himself who were bewildered, the others were all hunched over, acting as if the air were ice-cold.

Yue Qiguang’s throat rolled a bit; initially, he wanted to say something more, but at that moment, he closed his mouth, chose to follow his instincts.

The surroundings were quiet.

The sound of a needle drop seemed to clearly enter the ears.

Here...

Could there also be a monster hiding?

So apart from the one in the security room, is there actually another one stealthily infiltrating here? Although Yue Qiguang pretended to be cowardly, his mind couldn’t help but start thinking.

Was it because he and Chu Jiaojiao couldn’t sense anything due to low spiritual power?

Yue Qiguang felt a bit dejected at this thought. Although Chu Jiaojiao could precisely kill a monster with battle intuition, what about himself?

What about his combat intuition?

Why... can’t he feel a thing?

Just at this moment——

The air around seemed to get colder by a few degrees again, everyone’s expressions turned extremely grave——

If the opponent has only one, but can attack from all directions thanks to invisibility, being scattered is definitely not a good idea.

If there are multiple opponents, adding their invisibility and ghostly attack tactics, being dispersed in such a confined space just means feeding the enemy one by one. Shen Changqing’s face turned serious, pondered for a moment and said, ”Everyone, get closer to me.”

Once he spoke, Chu Jiaojiao, Yue Qiyuan... all moved closer to Shen Changqing.

In the air, that kind of formless and intangible cold feeling continued to invade the consciousness of Shen Changqing, Yue Qiyuan, Liu Fufeng, Sheng Qingyan, the four spiritual power experts.

Although Sheng Qingyan’s physical strength and spiritual power were both just Double A, his strength was undeniably formidable. Where no one could see, Sheng Qingyan’s efforts surpassed anyone’s, especially in spiritual power training... And due to his extra proficiency in micro-control of spiritual power, Sheng Qingyan’s sniping skill was first-rate; even on the frontline his sniping ability could fully adapt to the complicated battlefield conditions.

At this moment ——

Sheng Qingyan clearly sensed an icy cold in the spiritual world, like a venomous snake, targeting him.

He sat beside Shen Changqing, dangling his legs nonchalantly while his hands held an energy sniper rifle, the black muzzle casually facing the ground. Despite the constant invasion of the cold, Sheng Qingyan’s expression remained utterly nonchalant, even lazily relaxed.