The First Interstellar Energy Gambler

Chapter 127: (Title Was A Spoiler)

The patrol ship that the military used was very fast. It only took twenty minutes for it to arrive at the target location, which was a deserted colony planet. There were some abandoned houses that could be lived in, as well as vegetation and water sources. For wanted fugitives it was a good hideout and resupply location.

“Leave two people to guard the patrol ship, and the remaining people will pair up and disperse to search.” Xing Mo ordered.

“Then… what about you, Captain?” Gu SiYan couldn’t help but ask.

While the crew happened to be in even numbers and could be grouped in pairs, that left Xing Mo as captain to act alone.

Xing Mo suddenly frowned, “I don’t need backup, you just need to perform the task. You don’t need to worry about other things!”

“Yes, Captain…” Gu SiYan secretly gritted his teeth in reluctance.

The team members followed Xing Mo and got off the patrol ship then as per Xing Mo’s order, they divided themselves into pairs. They quickly dispersed in different directions according to the route they had planned ahead of time, while Xing Mo also set off in a separate direction alone.

Xing Mo paid great attention to the signs on the ground along the way, checking whether there were any footprints or suspicious traces.

Suddenly, he heard an extremely small noise, like the sound of dead leaves being turned over.

His right hand immediately pressed the button of the personal force field device around his waist, while his left hand had already condensed a small ball of fire.

He stood quietly and held his breath, listening carefully to all the sounds around him. Even the sound of the breeze blowing on the leaves didn’t escape his notice, but no other movement came.

Xing Mo stood for another ten minutes. Once he saw that there was no further change in his surroundings, he gradually relaxed and shook his head gently, as if bemoaning the fact that he was now just a soldier.

He continued to walk forward. By the time he had walked out of a distance of about fifty or sixty meters, an energy beam suddenly shot straight toward his head from behind.

In the midst of the light cast from the energy weapon’s fire, Xing Mo suddenly ducked and narrowly avoided the deadly beam before he quickly turned back around and countered with an ice ball.

The ice ball turned into a ball of pure frost the instant it hit the ground, which caused the assailant who had been about to flee to instead slip on the ice under his feet and nearly fall.

However, the assailant wasn’t a simple person. With a flip of his palm, his hands turned into sharp claws and grabbed the tree trunk beside him, thus stabilizing his body. On the tree trunk where he had grabbed it he had gouged out claw marks almost ten centimeters deep.

Obviously this assailant, like Lin Luo, was a beastkin descendant of the first generation of genetically engineered people and had the ability to transform into a beast.

Xing Mo frowned deeply when he saw this. According to the intelligence sent by the military, the escaped felon wasn’t a descendant of the first generation of genetically engineered people. He had always threatened and attacked ordinary civilians with energy guns, and mainly preyed on easier targets such as the elderly, women, and children. Vicious but timid as a mouse, he had never confronted people in the army head-on, but he was very good at escaping. This attacker’s situation was obviously different from the target described by the intelligence report.

“Who are you? I’m Xing Mo, the captain of Imperial Patrol Team Twelve! Your actions just now constitute the crime of obstruction of justice and endangering the lives of others. Please surrender immediately, otherwise I will take the necessary measures.” Xing Mo issued a loud warning and at the same time sent an alarm signal to his team members.

“Ha ha.” The attacker let out a low, hoarse chuckle. He was wearing a hood and mask, as if he had been prepared for a while.

Xing Mo felt an aura of danger. He lowered his head and shot a quick glance at his light brain. As expected, the alarm signal hadn’t been sent out at all.

He sharply realized that he had fallen into a trap! The other party had clearly had everything planned for a long time, and the attacker likely had have other accomplices who might be attacking his team members!

Although the fugitive had committed many crimes, the targets of the crime were ordinary civilians, and there was no substantial threat to them as formally trained soldiers. That’s why the military headquarters only sent their single patrol team out for the arrest. If it had been a criminal who was extremely dangerous, they would definitely have sent another team as support.

These people deliberately used the fugitive as bait to lure the team out to come and arrest them. Meanwhile, these people had been waiting here for the opportunity to strike!

“Who are you people? What’s your purpose?!” Xing Mo asked as he moved into an attack stance.

“Ha ha.” The man’s gloomy low laugh was still the only answer to him.

The next moment, the assailant had already rushed towards Xing Mo’s direction at an incredible speed as their sharp claws on both hands gleamed with an icy cold light.

Xing Mo enabled the protective energy shield on his battle uniform and neatly avoided his attack. He pressed his right hand on the assailant’s back, and before he had time to react, released a raging flame.

The man screamed and took off his coat in panic and embarrassment. Without his hood, his red hair was immediately revealed.

===========Translator’s Corner===========

[Title] 竟是陷阱 – Jìng Shì Xiàn Jǐng – ‘It Was Actually A Trap’, thus why I didn’t list the title. Maybe other people guessed, but I didn’t think it was obvious enough to put it right in the title.