Interstellar Number One Farmer: I Only Want To Farm!-Chapter 199 - 66: Self-Rescue?

Time was running out for her.

She couldn’t stay on the battleship; the plan had been long in the making.

The students around her showed expectant expressions. They needed a mainstay, not someone just to strategize but someone to bear the responsibility.

Xue Huiyi: "Did you bring Mechas? Can you take them out? First, ensure our Mechas are operational to guarantee our combat power."

"We can’t take out Mechas here."

"Everyone step back, let’s make some space."

The students squeezed to one side, and a Mecha appeared in the clearing. The person attempted to start the Mecha.

While it started, the safety cabin did not respond; he couldn’t enter the safety cabin.

"What’s going on?"

Xue Huiyi said, "The other side is guarding against us leaving with the Mechas."

A reasonable explanation.

But the logistics students in the crowd looked at each other; Teacher Liang had recently been giving lessons to the instructor, and some of them attended, coincidentally covering how to respond when signals are blocked.

"Then it shouldn’t be a problem; we’ve prepared disruptor tools and can manually override."

"Teacher Liang really had foresight, giving the lesson just before we left." In principle, the safety cabin cannot be opened from the outside, which can fend off Insect Man for some time.

But you shouldn’t do things too extremely; you need a backup plan.

The disruptor tool is a dedicated device to open the safety cabin. Press it in the right spot, and it can cut off the safety cabin’s power, disable the alarm, and enable manual opening.

School teachers usually don’t teach this; they tacitly let students discover it through practice.

Yet yesterday, Teacher Liang couldn’t help but discuss the related course.

Naturally, it was Su Xiaocai’s foresight. Two days before departure, during a meal with Sister Liang, she mentioned that some military personnel lacked this knowledge and suggested teaching it alongside other subjects.

Now that there are hundreds of safety cabin models, there are also many disruptor tools. Su Xiaocai believed it necessary to standardize these tools.

Otherwise, it would be challenging for a Maintenance Master to carry dozens of different disruptors to save lives on the battlefield. It would be more efficient to standardize a few specifications than to spend time searching.

Soldiers and Maintenance Masters paying attention to this would help promote its standardization.

Teacher Liang also found it reasonable, so she conducted the lesson.

Xue Huiyi almost couldn’t catch her breath; what bad timing for Teacher Liang to suddenly talk about such handling technology.

A bad premonition arose in her heart; hard-earned military merits might go down the drain.

No way! She’s a reborn person, a prophet, able to seize opportunities.

Her arms were bruised from squeezing, barely keeping calm. Xue Huiyi maintained a smile, "I looked at the star chart; I suspect the people in the control room want to take us to Huangyang Star, not kill us. In less than two hours, we’ll reach Huangyang Star. We need someone to notify the base to save us, right?"

Right.

But saying it was as good as not; they just wanted to hear specific plans.

So the students talked over each other and shifted the topic.

"Honestly, why all the fuss?"

"We’re just students; if they wanted to take us hostage, a few dozen would suffice. With three schools combined, nearly ten thousand people are here."

"Don’t guess crazy ideas."

"In fact, it’s all speculation. Why not go see the situation in the control room?"

"Trying to restore the signal and contact the base is safer."

"..."

Xue Huiyi, annoyed, told them to stop there, "My Mecha has a jammer, which won’t affect the safety cabin’s operation. It can be deployed immediately."

Xue Huiyi’s follower loudly agreed, "Really?" Could she go too? On the battleship, sooner or later, it would end.

"Yes, but I need someone to divert the control room’s attention, and I’ll leave through the ejection channel to a place with a signal to report."

The plan quickly gained everyone’s approval.

As for how to divert the control room’s attention, of course by causing destruction.

There are thousands of them; how many are in the control room?

Xue Huiyi was confident in her plan.

But here, only Xue Huiyi was equipped with a jammer, ready for action.

"Huixixi, are you really leaving alone?"

"I can go with you, to have your back," the follower hurriedly said.

Xue Huiyi’s teammates also didn’t want her to leave alone, sincerely worried about potential mishaps.

"Don’t worry about me; I’ll bring back reinforcements quickly. You just be careful." Xue Huiyi was noble in appearance, but in truth, she didn’t want others sharing her credit. Going solo to a place with a signal to send a message was a trivial action, but with later publicity, she’d get a lot of attention.

Many students were deeply moved.

They didn’t have time to make a detailed plan, so they decided on a crude and direct plan.

Some would create chaos to distract the control room personnel.

Another group would assist in opening the students’ Mecha safety cabins to regain firepower.

Finally, Xue Huiyi would avoid surveillance into outer space, away from the battleship’s jamming, to send a distress signal.

The task of creating chaos, Xue Huiyi suggested her team handle, "You can trust them; they have some command experience."

Being entrusted with such a task by Xue Huiyi, the two male teammates stood tall, modestly saying, "That little experience is nothing."

The students weren’t aware that the so-called command experience was just volunteering to lead teams in disaster relief areas, vastly different from battlefield command.

Under time constraints, with Xue Huiyi’s reassurance, they didn’t question further.

They immediately acted according to the plan.

In the control room, three people watched the monitors; once they saw the students act separately, they knew trouble was coming.

Being isolated on the battleship, they still wouldn’t comply.

Some students went to the power room to see if they could pause the ship’s power, some dismantled the circuits overhead, and others directly went to bang on the control room door.

Xue Huiyi’s teammate spearheaded the attack on the control room. He instructed his team members to shout at the cameras, first warning, then smashing the door, determined to blaze a trail without betraying Xue Huiyi’s trust.

Among the team, a few sharp-minded people found the temporary assault reckless; they didn’t believe the control room door could be easily breached.

If it were that easy to break open, Star Thieves wouldn’t only target civilian ships; military ships are far more valuable.

So this group stood at the corridor leading to the control room, observing for a while first.

These people never considered gaining merit; facing an enemy of unknown strength, they chose to be cautious to preserve their lives.

"Warning, warning, warning, advance further, and the defense counter system will retaliate."

"What system?" The students attempting to breach the control room didn’t react immediately, and the area around the control room door revealed "fangs."

Weapons emerged from the walls, aimed at the students’ heads.

Students turned pale.

Xue Huiyi’s male teammate raised a shield, "Don’t panic, we also have defense shields."

"If you force your way, don’t blame us for being rude." Those in the control room essentially confessed to ulterior motives.

One sentence ignited the students’ fighting spirit, "Let’s pull out our weapons and dismantle these arms. They’re taking us to Huangyang Star with ill intentions; we’d better disrupt their plans from here."

Without elders behind them, the impassioned students were eager to fight back.

The spies in the control room had unreadable expressions; though spies, they had never intended to harm lives directly.

"What should we do? If we act, public opinion will turn against us."

"Once we decided to take students as hostages, there was no turning back. Our mission is to send students to fight at Huangyang Star, to show the public that their protectors can’t adequately protect them. Sending students to the frontline is a wrong decision.

Only the New World, the New System, can create new gods and offer hope."

Their worldview was distorted beyond redemption.

The brainwashing was glaringly evident.