Wandering Meteor-Chapter 6: Courting Death and Loving It

The kilometer-class flagship belongs to the Iron Base Civilization's expedition fleet.

They had previously visited the Solar System but failed to find the landmark object—Earth.

They even thought that Earth Civilization had detected their arrival and fled in advance, so they immediately followed the signal source.

Along the way, they intercepted several messages sent by Wandering, which left the Iron Base people speechless after they were deciphered.

Because each intercepted message was a series of images, and these images all seemed to be of the same meteorite, with the last photo showing that they encountered a meteor catastrophe.

The Captain of the Iron Base Battleship believed that only a civilization of level two or above could withstand such a massive meteor shower.

The Earth Civilization they detected hadn't even reached level one, so even if the people of Earth fled in that direction, their fate would be sealed.

As for the Wandering probe, it was also undoubtedly doomed.

"Pass on my orders, reduce speed, no need to chase, they are certain to die!"

Just after the Captain gave the order, the Iron Base people detected intense radiation and energy fluctuations ahead, indicating that a battle had taken place.

At the same time, they intercepted another message from Wandering.

After decoding, they found another photo showing that the other party had actually survived the meteor catastrophe.

The Captain and the other Iron Base looked at each other, not understanding what was going on.

To figure out the reason, the Captain had no choice but to change the order and commanded the battleship to chase at full speed.

They activated the other two nuclear fusion engines, instantly boosting the battleship's speed to the maximum, and soon caught up with Wandering ahead.

"Reporting to the Captain, we have caught up."

The Iron Base reported to the Captain: "But there is no fleet of Earth Civilization, just a probe and a small asteroid!"

"How is that possible?"

The Captain was puzzled: "The energy fluctuations we detected earlier should indicate the fleet combating the meteor catastrophe, continue scanning to see if they are hiding?"

After another scan, the Iron Base people helplessly shook their heads: "Reporting to the Captain, no biological traces have been found within a light-year."

"If that is the case, then take that probe back. It should hold some information that might help us find the whereabouts of Earth Civilization!"

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The Captain immediately ordered two fighters to dispatch and bring back Wandering.

Lu Chen had long noticed the huge battleship chasing from behind, but after realizing it wasn't human, he lost interest.

Moreover, considering that they were rare life forms in the vast Universe, Lu Chen didn't attack the Iron Base Battleship; he remained silent as a small asteroid.

But to his surprise, these Iron Base people were overstepping their bounds, actually trying to lay hands on Wandering.

Lu Chen decided to give them a warning.

He controlled gravity to lock onto the two dispatched fighters, suddenly increasing the gravity increment.

Before the fighters could issue an anomaly alert, they crashed heavily onto the asteroid, turning into two fireballs!

The Iron Base aboard the battleship were shocked!

The Captain wondered: "Did those two fighters have a malfunction? Why did they crash directly?"

"It shouldn't be possible, the fighters are regularly maintained, but the specific reasons might only be known after examining the wreckage!" an Iron Base person said.

The Captain instructed: "Then dispatch eight more fighters, two to capture the probe and the remaining six to land on the asteroid and bring back the wreckage of the crashed fighters."

Eight fighters flew out of the battleship, each carrying out their respective tasks.

"Not enough of a lesson, huh? You think Wandering is something you can mess with?"

Lu Chen noticed that these Iron Base people did not heed the warning and were still trying to tamper with Wandering; he was furious!

He once again used Gravity Increment, causing the two fighter jets approaching the Wandering to crash directly onto the asteroid.

At this time, the other six fighter jets had not yet landed on the asteroid and witnessed this shocking scene, stopping in midair in fright.

The Captain immediately inquired, "Are you six alright? How did those two fighter jets crash again? Did you check them before you set out?"

"Reporting to the Captain, we checked them, and there were no issues with the fighter jets, but somehow, those two still crashed!"

The six surviving pilots reported in succession.

"Could it be that the detector is playing tricks?"

The Captain narrowed his eyes slightly and commanded, "Fighter jets number seven and eight proceed to capture the detector, the other four remain on standby!"

The outcome was the same as before, as soon as fighter jets number seven and eight approached the Wandering, a bizarre malfunction recurred, and they plummeted straight onto the asteroid.

This confirmed the Captain's suspicion, and he said with a chilling voice, "As I thought, there is something strange about this detector, it cost us four fighter jets and four pilots. You four destroy the detector first, then proceed to salvage the wreckage."

"Yes!"

Four fighter jets fired a missile each towards the Wandering.

"If you're all so eager to seek death, then I'll grant it to you!"

Lu Chen was enraged in an instant and quickly used gravity control to dodge with the Wandering.

Regrettably, a missile still hit one of the Wandering's boom arms, destroying the nuclear fission engine and causing the Wandering to fall towards the asteroid surface, lopsidedly!

This had completely crossed Lu Chen's bottom line.

He was alone, wandering in the universe, and the Wandering was his only companion.

He had long considered the Wandering as a brother, and now someone dared to harm his only brother!

In his fury, he directly caused the four fighter jets to crash onto the asteroid and locked the gravity onto the kilometer-sized battleship at a farther distance!

"Bad news, Captain, the battleship has detected a gravitational anomaly and is falling toward that asteroid!"

The Iron Base people had not yet reacted to the news of the four fighter jets crashing when they found that the massive battleship was also malfunctioning!

The Captain stood inside the control room, his face sullen, "Damn it, it's not the detector that's strange, it's that asteroid!"

"It seems like that asteroid has locked onto us, quickly increase speed to break free from its gravitational bind!"

As all three nuclear fusion engines were fully ignited, the battleship's descent halted, and it slowly began to ascend.

At the same moment, the Captain personally pressed the nuclear weapon launch button, planning to destroy the mysterious asteroid, perfectly exemplifying the thrill of living on the edge!

Boom!

An Iron Base Nuclear Bomb hit the asteroid directly, setting off a chain of terrifying explosions that formed a crater over a thousand meters wide on the asteroid's surface and a massive mushroom cloud rose into the sky, with the shockwave ravaging much of the asteroid!

"You all can go to hell!"

Lu Chen, completely enraged, concentrated all gravitational forces onto the kilometer-sized battleship from every direction.

The Iron Base people, still awaiting the good news that the asteroid would be destroyed, couldn't believe that the gravity affecting the battleship was skyrocketing at an alarming rate!

"Warning, the battleship is being pulled by a gravity strength of 100!"

"Correction, the battleship is being pulled by a gravity strength of 200!"

"Correction again, the battleship is being pulled by a gravity strength of 300!"

"..."

In an instant, the gravity strength escalated to 500, and such a strong gravitational pull would require at least a 500km/s escape velocity to break free!

The battleship was nowhere near capable of achieving such speed and was directly pulled by the terrifying gravity towards the asteroid. With a "boom," it completely crashed, and the kilometer-sized battleship, along with the Iron Base people inside, was totally annihilated GG!