Abyss Solo-Chapter 48 - : 034 Yang Ming’s Plan_2
Chapter 48: 034 Yang Ming’s Plan_2
“Remember to take the Genetic Stabilization Liquid on time,” Kolev reminded, “if you suddenly go berserk, my old bones can’t withstand your thrashing.”
Yang Ming smiled, adjusted his seat to sleep mode, and soon started snoring loudly.
“Alright, I’ll get the video ready for step four of the plan.”
Kolev licked his fingers and, humming a tune, turned on the camera and the script in front of him.
The plan Yang Ming devised was divided into three parts.
The first part was rather cumbersome, involving preliminary work, twice deploying spores, setting up an ambush on Oer Hairy, and obtaining a bionic robot to pretend to be dead.
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—At this moment, they had already completed a significant portion and were steadily progressing.
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The second part, Kolev’s treasure.
This was Kolev’s favorite part and the main reason he was willing to spend a lot this time.
“Cough, ahem.”
Kolev cleared his throat and adjusted the video parameters to make himself look like he was in his forties or fifties, full of vitality.
“Hey, kiddos! Hello there!
“Are you surprised to see me? This is a little program I’ve hidden in the ship systems, triggered after my heart stops beating.
“Yes, one must always plan ahead, especially in our line of work…”
Outside the Feinan’s porthole, the silent Milky Way brought twinkles from a billion years ago.
Accompanied by the old man’s gentle, cheerful voice, the clock hands sped up, pointing to the moment when ‘Yang Ming’s plan’ officially began.
…
“No news from Kolev yet?”
The haggard Lina stared at the screen in front of her, her skin having lost its usual luster due to consecutive sleep deprivation.
The intelligence officers working beside her shook their heads simultaneously, their matching uniforms giving them a uniform appearance.
“Sir, this waiting seems a bit too passive. Kolev is already in his seventies, he might have retired with his daughter by now.”
“Keep waiting. Finding Kolev is the only way we can locate the number one target.”
Lina leaned back on the couch; her forehead, which had been hit a few months ago, still ached slightly.
“Don’t worry, I will give you an excellent review on your performance assessment.”
The young officers perked up instantly.
Suddenly.
“Sir!”
One young man stared intently at the screen, speaking rapidly, “Incoming message from Intelligence Point 362! Kolev spotted!”
“Where?”
Lina sprang to her feet, her slender body a bit unsteady, and immediately rushed behind the young man, staring intently at the projection screen.
The screen showed an image.
Kolev, in a sharp suit, with a shaved beard, wearing sunglasses and a hat, walked down a well-lit corridor, his shoulder lightly pressed by a large hand.
It was Hanton’s hand!
Hanton, dressed similarly to Kolev in a cap and sunglasses, continuously looked around vigilantly.
Lina nearly cheered.
The displayed location was ultimately identified as a bank vault area.
Two overly respectful attendants invariably glanced nervously at the wealthy client and the young man following him.
“What are they doing?” Lina asked, “Location! Where is it?”
“Olhaif Planet, at a private bank! My God, they’ve been hiding on Olhaif Planet!”
“Prepare to jump immediately!”
Lina shouted loudly, and responses quickly came from all over the bridge.
And as Lina turned around, the surveillance video from the bank, just reaching its ‘climax’.
With help from the bank staff, Kolev found the safety deposit box he had been renting long-term.
The two staff turned away, Kolev turned back to negotiate with Hanton, but Hanton just quietly watched him.
The two men were at a standoff for several seconds.
One of the attendants sneakily pressed the alarm button on his watch.
Just then, Kolev opened the safe, took out a briefcase, and placed it on the ground. As he lifted the briefcase, his hand suddenly reached inside the safe.
He pulled out a laser pistol and spun around to shoot at Hanton!
Hanton’s reaction speed was almost inhuman!
He quickly dodged, avoiding the deadly shot just before Kolev fired, and while Kolev was still unresponsive, he slammed Kolev against the safe, effortlessly snatched the laser gun, and grabbed the briefcase from Kolev’s hands.
The bank alarm sounded.
Hanton cursed a few words in Imperial Language under his breath, clutching the small-framed Kolev and a briefcase, and hurriedly rushed out of the vault area.
Seeing this, Lina’s breathing became somewhat rapid.
They had internal conflict!
Was it because of Kolev’s wealth?
“Sir, please sit down! Buckle up!”
“Hurry, move fast!”
Lina quickly settled down, her gaze never leaving the video.
“How long ago was this?”
“An hour ago. It took us some time to get the internal bank video. It was all encrypted… Oh, there’s more news!”
The young Intelligence Officer shouted excitedly:
“Fifty minutes ago, Target One took Kolev hostage and confronted the local police, and both sides began to shoot. Kolev was injured, but Target One escaped with the injured Kolev.”
“Half an hour ago, they fled the main city area, driving an airship towards the desert region.”
“Fifteen minutes ago… they are taking off! Commander! A hundred-meter class pirate ship is leaving Olhaif Planet at full speed! They are escaping again! Olhaif’s patrol ships dare not move forward to stop them!”
Buzz—
The battleship began to warp.
A faint double image appeared in front of Lina.
These ten-odd seconds of waiting seemed so long!
Space returned to normal, and the massive battleship appeared in a newly minted Star Domain, with the projected image of Olhaif Planet hanging in the center of the bridge’s display.
“Search for the target ship!” the captain bellowed, seeking presence.
“Locked on! It’s a light gunship modified into a pirate ship, identified as a Merchant Escort Ship! The enemy is trying to escape the planet’s gravitational influence to warp!”
“Catch it before it warps!”
Without any hesitation in her voice this time, Lina commanded, “Charge the ship guns! Capture its warp information!”
“The ship guns are charging!”
“There’s no time, Commander! It’s going to force warp!”
Whoosh!
Lina felt as though she could hear the sound coming from the screen, as the clamp-shaped ship vanished again before her eyes.
But soon, her rigid expression revived.
“We caught the enemy’s warp field! It’s a short-distance warp! The technology is crude, we can catch up!”
“Chase them!”
Lina’s knuckles turned somewhat white.
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Inside Feinan, which had just completed the warp.
Yang Ming and Kole exchanged glances, each revealing a slight smile.
Kole said, “I’ll lead them on a chase, the course is already set. You go quick, put the decoy into the closet and fix the outer shell, we need to rush back before Kimo gets to Olhaif!”
“The First Officer can’t command his captain.”
Yang Ming pushed away from the chair, running towards the robot whose heart area had been shot through.
He effortlessly peeled off its outer skin, revealing a silver-white skeleton, and placed it properly inside a metal closet.
Yang Ming adeptly adjusted the mechanical makeover device, selected a preset sample, and chose a limb skeleton adjustment sample.
When he pressed the start button, Yang Ming felt a flicker of anticipation.
After all, this thing also carried his path forward.
“Did those five pirate ships receive the video?” Yang Ming asked.
“Don’t worry,” Kolev smiled, “They should be staring at the ship system’s reboot screen by now, waiting for those ancient systems to reboot. It’s been four years, and they still haven’t spent the money to update the ship operating systems.”
Yang Ming smiled wryly.
He remembered the computer lab at his hometown school when he was a student.
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Meanwhile, at the pirate base in the asteroid belt, inside a pirate ship docked at the shipyard.
The seven or eight pirates on rotation duty on the bridge were staring at the projection screen in front of them, caught in tense zoning out.
Their ship… seemed to have blue-screened.
