Chapter 347: Successful Escape
Jiang Qin quickly reached the spaceship’s tail bay, singing as she ran.
Before getting into an escape pod, she reminded everyone, "When we launch, you need to throw the Light Computers playing my song as far away as you can, as quickly as possible.
Every escape pod must toss out at least one. It might be enough to distract it!"
If the giant tree focused its attention on the singing Light Computers, it would most likely leave them alone.
As for whether they could actually get away in the escape pods, that would come down to luck.
Fortunately, each female was protected by forty or fifty people. As long as they could land successfully, there was a high chance they could hold out for rescue.
...
The tail bay door slowly opened. All the escape pods had sealed their hatches, leaving only a narrow gap. The strongest warriors were tasked with tossing the Light Computers and closing the hatches at the right moment.
This step was also crucial.
If they couldn’t seal the hatch within three seconds, everyone inside the escape pod would be in danger.
Fortunately, the Federation’s warriors were all experts who had undergone extreme physical training.
With the command, "Launch!", all one hundred escape pods shot out from the tail bay.
Along with them, more than a hundred Light Computers were flung out in various directions.
The tree’s woody vines, which had shot out in an instant, seemed to hesitate. Faced with a choice between the silent targets and the noisy ones, they chose to snatch up all the Light Computers.
The hundred-plus Light Computers were each playing a different song.
When all the little singing gadgets had been swept up and deposited on its branches, the giant tree felt like it might be going deaf.
It was like a thousand ducks were quacking inside its head.
It couldn’t even distinguish the individual sounds anymore, but it still remembered that this was that beautiful sound it had heard.
Annoyed by the racket, its roots twisted together in frustration.
After accidentally crushing several of the noisy little gadgets, it became hesitant, afraid of breaking them all.
But it was too loud. It was just too loud!
Finally, unable to bear it any longer, the giant tree simply retreated from this terrible place.
It no longer had any desire to chase after the things that had flown away. ’What if... they’re more of those awful, noisy things?’
’So scary, so scary, so very scary!!’
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Everyone cheered once they were certain the escape pods hadn’t been ensnared by the giant tree.
To avoid being wiped out all at once, they had scattered in multiple directions, so now they were mostly separated from one another.
Still, the pods flew in small clusters, with several others nearby.
After all, with only a few general vectors to choose from, some had inevitably ended up on the same trajectory.
The warrior at the helm didn’t join the celebration. Instead, he said calmly, "We’ve escaped its grasp, but we’re not completely safe yet.
That tree has an incredible attack range, and we’re still within it."
What he didn’t say was that the escape pods had very limited power. They had to find a planet to land on, and soon.
Fortunately, everything went smoothly.
Only when the escape pod was a great distance away did everyone finally break into relieved smiles.
Lan Yuyan’s expression also softened, as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
Now, all they had to do was find a nearby planet to land on.
The warrior at the controls asked, "There are quite a few planets nearby. Where should we land?"
Everyone looked toward Jiang Qin...
Jiang Qin said, "...Uh, you all can decide. Just pick whichever planet feels the safest."
The Beastmen, who were seasoned veterans of many campaigns, generally had an instinct for gauging a planet’s level of danger.
While not always perfectly accurate, it did help them steer clear of some of the most dangerous worlds.
Thus, the warrior at the controls quickly locked onto a planet for landing, managing to do so while the escape pod still had a third of its power remaining.