Chapter 3: Crisis Averted
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Under the massive tide of synthetic beings, the efficiency of clearing out the pirates was significantly improved.
[Area C5 has been cleared.]
[Area C12 has been cleared.]
[Area C27 has been cleared.]
Hearing the three consecutive reports, Li Wenyuan revealed a carefree smile.
He had cleaned up most of the intruders and had also interrogated one of them to find out the purpose of the pirates.
They had been chasing a cargo ship. A person whom their "boss" had specifically asked them to capture was on board that ship.
The spaceship ultimately crashed on this planet, and the pirates became greedy for the rare resources and technology on this planet when they saw them.
They had split into five small teams to plunder the resources, but now only the pirate leader was still left, struggling on his last breath.
"Increase the number of synthetic humanoids in Area C34. Don't let a single pirate escape."
[Progress has been arranged]
After giving the order, Li Wenyuan looked at Area C34, which had been mostly searched, and began to ponder.
Among this group of pirates, only the pirate leader stood out.
The other party seemed to have come for this area from the very beginning. Not only that, but he also destroyed the surveillance facilities along the way. He even quietly took care of a few synthetic humanoids before they went berserk, which puzzled Li Wenyuan.
He had witnessed the strength of synthetic humanoids. With the weapons of these pirates, the synthetic humanoids should still be fine even if they stood still and let the pirates shoot them for a whole day. So, how could they be killed so easily?
As he raised his vigilance, he also became increasingly curious about the means of the pirate leader.
Time passed, and a few minutes later, the synthetic humanoid reinforcements from other areas arrived at Area C34. Soon, only one place had not been searched.
Li Wenyuan was sure that the rest of the pirates were here, so he ordered the synthetic humanoids to surround the place.
At this moment, a group of pirates was squatting in the corner of a laboratory, not even daring to breathe loudly.
Beside them was the door of an engineering room. In there, the lights were on, but no one knew who was doing what inside.
After a while, the door suddenly opened, and a tall lizardman stepped out. Its eyes were bright, and there was a hint of joy on its protruding cheeks that only lizardmen could understand.
"Boss, did you succeed?"
"Yes"
Although the lizardman tried to keep its voice calm, it was trembling in the ears of others.
This was the leader of the lizardman pirates. Now that it had solved a big problem on itself in the laboratory, it was in a good mood.
"It's that magical? The technology of these lost civilizations is really amazing..."
"But of course. Otherwise, why can the coordinates of a lost planet be sold for such a high price, and even trigger a war between interstellar civilizations? "
At this point, the pirate leader's tone changed and he said with a serious expression, "We need to leave this place before the defense system is fully activated. The synthetic humanoids are a sign that there will be more dangers waiting for us."
After saying this, the pirate leader still had some lingering fear.
When it realized that this was a lost planet, the greed in its heart had long been thrown to the back of its mind.
It had long heard of the mysterious technology of the lost planets. Other than catching the person who was named, it only had one purpose in coming here, and that was to solve the problem with its genes.
Having been born a slave, it had been planted with a vicious genetic imprint that was rooted in its bone marrow and blood, forcing it to obey the orders of a higher-ranking person to commit all kinds of crimes and form a pirate team to become that person's secret power.
Unfortunately, its instructions to its men had not been effective. When it noticed that it had lost contact with all four groups of its men, it realized that this seemingly harmless lost planet had undergone an unknown change.
The best choice was to leave immediately by spaceship, but it was simply unwilling to give up after finding a solution.
As such, it ordered the pirate mothership that was parked in outer space to fly to this planet, while it used the equipment in this laboratory to perfectly solve its genetic problem.
Now was a good opportunity to escape.
After taking a deep breath, the pirate leader's eyes became fierce, and it took out a strange machine from its arms as it said, "Get ready, we're going to break out! The mothership is coming!"
When the other pirates heard him say this, they immediately perked up and got into battle stances.
Then, the pirate leader pushed open the door of the laboratory. As expected, he saw a black mass of synthetic humanoids.
Seeing this, he activated the strange machine in his hand without hesitation.
With that, the glowing red eyes of the synthetic humanoids suddenly stopped moving. Then, the red light in their eyes gradually disappeared. They had been forced to shut down!
The pirate leader was overjoyed, not only due to the powerful effect of this strange machine but also because of the enlarging pirate mothership in his field of vision.
"As expected, that black-market merchant didn't lie to me! This weapon from a level 2 civilization is indeed very effective against robots!"
At this moment, he felt that his money was well spent.
Li Wenyuan, who was in the data world, was now in a dilemma. He was not sure how to deal with the remaining pirates.
He didn't know what the machine was, but it was indeed powerful. It had made most of the synthetic humanoids he controlled shut down instantly. Those synthetic humanoids that he had lost contact with must have been the work of that machine as well.
This made Li Wenyuan, who had no other means of attack for the time being, feel a little troubled.
"Do I have no choice but to let them go like this?" He was very unwilling to give up and began to rack his brain for a solution.
Fortunately, a new system message appeared almost immediately.
[Weapon of a level 2 civilization detected.]
[Weapon level locked and lowered to level 4]
[More administrative rights have been granted.]
Li Wenyuan's eyes lit up when he heard this. He looked at the automatic defense system, which had been fully charged and could be activated at any time.
From just now, it had been displaying that he didn't have enough authority, but now it seemed that he could finally control it.
"Activate the automatic defense system."
[The progress has been arranged.]
[Elementary-armed synthetic humanoids are now available.]
[Space interceptors have been activated.]
[Planetary shield generator activated.]
...
[Automatic defense system, fully activated.]
After the order was given, the synthetic humanoids who had been shut down suddenly moved again. They raised their heads in unison, and the dangerous red light in their eyes instantly locked on to the excited pirate leader, making him shiver.
Seeing that the synthetic humanoids had gained the ability to move again, the flustered pirate leader hurriedly activated the strange machine in his hand, only to find that it had lost its effect this time.
A blue shield flashed across the synthetic humanoids' bodies and blocked the strange machine's influence on them, which terrified the pirate leader.
He looked up at the sky and placed his hope on the mothership, only to find in despair that a blue beam of light had descended from the sky, shining on the mothership, making it unable to move.
This was an interception beam launched by a space interceptor. In the era of high-speed aircraft, the device caught many speeding drivers. Now, it had become a part of the automatic defense system.
The pirate leader knew that the killing machines would not let him go. In desperation, he finally shouted, "I am Grand Duke Yinxing's subordinate! If you kill me, he won't just stand by and do nothing!"
He hoped that the person behind the synthetic humanoids would hear this and spare his life for Grand Duke Yinxing's sake.
The synthetic humanoids indeed paused when this threat was voiced, but it was only for a second.
Li Wenyuan, who was in the virtual world, thought for a moment and immediately ordered the attack. He knew that letting the other party go would only bring greater disaster.
Judging from their greed for this place, he knew that this planet must have an extremely high value for reasons that he didn't know about.
Letting these pirates go was tantamount to spreading the news of "there's treasure here" to the entire interstellar space. By then, there would be no second result other than increasing numbers of enemies.
In contrast, if he killed this guy now, he would only offend Grand Duke Yinxing for the time being.
At Li Wenyuan's command, the synthetic humanoids standing at the front raised their hands and pointed at the trembling pirates.
With a flash of light, high-energy beams shot out from the palms of the synthetic humanoids, ending the lives of these lizardmen in an instant.
The warning panels constantly flashing in front of Li Wenyuan finally reduced in number.
He continued to look at the remaining matters to be dealt with, feeling that there was a long way to go.
"God Lord, to think I have to follow a 996 working hour system on my first day of transmigration."
Sighing, Li Wenyuan called up the energy management interface.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone