After being fed to top-tier orcs, I became the darling of the entire intergalactic world.

Chapter 340 Hunter and Prey: Your Choice Doesn't Matter

Sangis came prepared this time, determined to leave Lyra and the others in this star system.

Knowing she couldn't escape, Leila's gaze hardened as she fixed her target on Sangis. Even if she died, she would take him down with her!

"Brothers! Charge! Kill one, you're a winner; kill two, you're a double winner!"

At Leila's command, they headed straight for Sangis.

Sangis scoffed at her overestimation of her abilities, pulled out a photon gun, aimed it at Lyra, and prepared to take care of her before she could reach him.

"Kill all the Federation troops, and you'll be rewarded!"

"Yes!"

Compared to the aggressive rebels, the federal army led by Lyra was like a besieged beast.

Even the fiercest enemy cannot withstand thousands upon thousands of enemies.

"I'll fight with you!"

Just as Leila charged toward Sangis, ready to take him down with her, a sudden change occurred.

Sangis's photon gun aimed at Lyra was blocked, and an energy cannon shot from behind Sangis, but Lyra and the others were not affected at all.

"How is this going?!"

When the energy cannon dissipated, Lyra finally saw the shield wall that had appeared out of nowhere. On the other side of the wall were the rebels, who had been blasted to pieces by the energy cannon.

The shield wall is the latest achievement of the Federation's research and development. It is expensive and disposable. Lyra was sent on a mission before she was assigned a mission. Could it be that Federation reinforcements have arrived?

"Colonel! It's a space pirate!"

Star thief?

With her subordinate's prompting, Lyra focused her gaze on the person confronting Sangis, who appeared to be Elius's confidant.

But why are they here?
"Commander Sangis, my chieftain specifically sent me here to thank your army for taking care of him during this time."

Elius's confidant, Talon, smiled, but his eyes were filled with murderous intent as he looked at Sangis, clearly having been ordered to deal with him.

"Do you intend to completely sever ties with our army?!"

Sanjis never expected that his seemingly foolproof mission would be disrupted by an unexpected obstacle.

Could it be that Elius has already reached an agreement with the Federation?
"We never cooperated, so how can we talk about a complete break?"

Talon sneered. The number of people they brought to besiege Sangis this time was more than twice the number of people he had brought to intercept and kill Leila.

Don't you like to bully the weak with the many? Why can't it be done when it's his turn?

"Enough with the nonsense! The leader has ordered that every single rebel be killed!"

As Talon finished speaking, the pirate army launched a massive attack. Before Lyra and the others could react, another wave of pirates took them aboard a warship and away from the battlefield.

Army against army, general against general.

Talon's target is Sangis.

"You planned this all along, didn't you?!"

Now that things have come to this, what doesn't Sangis understand?

Lyra and her group of Federation soldiers were merely bait to lure them out. The real force responsible for besieging them was the space pirate legion led by Elius!
"Isn't it a bit too late to realize this now?"

Talon disliked wasting time and, regardless of whether Sangis was trying to stall for time, decided to just blast the enemy away first.

Seeing this, Sangis could only try to escape first, send the message back, and then make further plans.

Neither the Federation nor the space pirates intended for him to leave alive.

"Colonel! Our reinforcements have arrived!"

After discovering the enemy, Leila immediately contacted reinforcements in the rear.

Lyra, who thought she would never receive reinforcements, was surprised when the pirate army descended from the sky and reinforcements arrived quickly.

"Damn it!"

Caught between a rock and a hard place, Sangis, now the prey, cursed incessantly, utterly helpless against his impending fate. It wasn't until one of his henchmen died protecting him, his dying words a reminder to surrender, that Sangis finally understood and raised his hands in a moment of clarity.

"I surrender! The Federation has a rule against killing prisoners of war!"

Sangis is planning to use federal law to escape punishment.

Hearing his shameless remarks, Lyra, who was standing in the spaceship and keeping a close eye on the battle, slammed her fist against the wall, feeling resentful but helpless.

"Are we just going to let him go like this?"

Leila truly didn't want the wicked rebels, especially bastards like Sanjis who had countless lives on their hands, to live.

But Sangis was right. The Federation does not kill prisoners of war. Since he had already surrendered, the Federation had no reason to kill him on the spot.

Compared to Lyra's resentment, Talon seemed to have anticipated this situation and laughed heartily.

"Surrender? Commander Sangis, aren't you being incredibly naive?"

"What do you mean?!"

Sangis, sensing the hidden meaning in Talon's words, knew something was wrong.

"The people who attacked you today are our space pirate legion. What do they have to do with the Federation?"

Along with Talon's words came a merciless energy cannon, which not only caused Sangis to fall to the ground with wide eyes, but also left Lyra speechless with astonishment.

Is this even possible?!

"...Colonel, they...they won't kill us to silence us, will they?"

The Federation soldiers, misunderstanding Talon's meaning, silently approached Lyra and warily looked at the space pirates on the spaceship.

"Colonel, find a chance to escape later, we'll deal with them!"

Sangis died in an extremely absurd way, without heroism, only resentment, while the remaining rebels were wiped out by the space pirates.

The Federation troops, who had only acted as mascots and hadn't actually done anything, did not stop them, clearly having received orders in advance.

"Colonel Lyra, you may come down now."

Talon walked to the vicinity of the spaceship and gestured for Lyra and the others to come out.

Lyra, who had a vague idea of ​​what was going on, did not refuse. Instead, she led her men down from the spaceship and faced Talon.

"Today's events were caused by a conflict between the rebels and space pirates. When the Federation forces arrived, they only saw the bodies of Sangis and others, and were unaware of the cause and effect. They were only responsible for cleaning up the battlefield."

When Talon uttered his string of words, the Federation soldiers behind Lyra were all dumbfounded, their minds filled with the thought, "This is possible?"

In contrast, Lyra was much more receptive.

"……it is good."

Seeing that Lyra didn't ask any further questions, Talon nodded in satisfaction, turned around, and led his pirate army away from the battlefield in a grand procession.

Lyra's men only truly believed these words after all the space pirates had left.

"Colonel, we are now..."

"Didn't I just say to clean up the battlefield?"

Leila took a deep breath, ordered her men to clean up the battlefield, and then boarded the reinforcements' warship.

She needed to figure everything out, but she knew the answer wasn't with Talon.

"Talon reports back that the mission is complete."

While Liang He was still frantically uploading data, she suddenly received a message from Elius. She stopped what she was doing and pondered her next steps.

"Sister, what's wrong?"

Liang Jia looked curiously at the quantum computer in Liang He's hand, but she was very mindful of boundaries, simply asking questions without directly looking at her information.

"Waiting—"

"Drip drip."

Before she could finish speaking, Liang He's personal terminal beeped.