Chapter 1657 - 1658: Mischievous Mentality
And these "Minotaurs" were exactly that type of enemy.
Their impact power was immense, but their way of fighting was simple, and their physical strength was terrifying. They could not only shake mountains, but even displace the ground itself.
"Either find their weak point and strike, or use some extraordinary method to boost our own attack power." Rose made her judgment.
Their appearance already made their meaning very clear. When the Giant Wolf was blasted apart by several of Ye Lingyun's tidal waves, Carl sent out his hidden servants.
After that, the enemies Heroic Soldier Company would face should be of this type. If Rose could find a way to defeat it, then what mattered even more was figuring out how to defeat this new class of enemy!
"Come get me, Monster!" Rose seemed to completely ignore the drain on her own computational power, and faced the enemy with a mischievous mindset.
However, the Minotaur only glanced at her coolly, showing an intelligence and tactical thinking totally at odds with its huge head, and kept charging toward the camp that wasn't fully prepared.
"Ha, Little Weiwei, this time you underestimated the enemy." Seeing Rose use such a "naive" tactic, Ye Lingyun almost couldn't hold back his laughter and bent over.
If it were that gigantic Minotaur monster out of myth, her method might have worked.
But she seemed to have forgotten that the universe has a history of over ten thousand years. A cosmic civilization that Carl had accepted as a corrected one—how could it possibly lack even the most basic tactical thinking?
Rose clenched her fists. Fortunately, no teammates were here to see her. Otherwise she would've lost a lot of face. But stopping their impact right away was more important than her pride.
That massive body structure, a full-speed charge—it represented a frontal wave of unstoppable kinetic energy. Unless she shifted their space someplace else, she seemed at a loss—obviously, analyzing their body structure was out of the question.
"Speed?"
A line of thought suddenly flashed through Rose's mind; lately she'd been testing out a new combat capability.
And then—!
In an instant, it vanished from its original spot. When it reappeared, Rose had already moved several boulders from a landslide to right in front of the Minotaurs.
"Stupid Earth woman! You think these flimsy mountains can stop us?" The Minotaur didn't even factor the obstacles in and kept charging.
Sure enough, their bodies were harder than stone. They smashed straight through, blasting the boulders apart and hurling giant rocks into the sky with the impact.
"Now!" Rose could also use her ability to rapidly space-shift the boulders, but the initial velocity was what demanded the most computation. It was better to use this cunning method—let the Minotaurs provide the initial speed for a "cannon blast" to strike them.
The stones immediately started shuttling through space, returning again and again via stacked spatial jumps.
Although their mass couldn't compare to the Minotaurs, after infinite acceleration they carried enormous kinetic energy!
Rose had used this tactic before—back then the target was a warship cannon, whose outer alloy and explosive power were far greater than stone. But this time she didn't need to break through a ship's hull.
By comparison, no matter how tough the Minotaur monsters were, they were much more fragile.
"Now you're the ones who scorned your enemy! Time to pay the price." Seeing that the speed "cannon" she'd set up was ready, Rose immediately shoved the stones into the Minotaurs' path, smashing them head-on!
The rocks themselves couldn't withstand the impact, but at that moment the boulders completely dumped all the kinetic energy that had built up inside them into the charging bodies.
Go!
Countless streams of blood sprayed out behind them, and the stones even punched through the Minotaurs' bodies at extreme speed!
"How could I die under a mere ordinary rock…" A Minotaur staggered forward dozens of steps on pure inertia before finally collapsing. With injuries that bad, no one could have saved it.
"Phew!"
"What's wrong? That first battle took a lot out of you?" Ye Lingyun appeared behind her, and Rose suddenly went weak and toppled onto his fine, solid chest.
"Lingyun? When did you get back?" Rose was startled; she hadn't expected anyone to be able to sneak up on her. But when she heard his voice and turned to look, she let out a long breath of relief at the sight of Ye Lingyun.
But right after that—
Hancock's head was lifted high, her back bent in tension. She stared at Ye Lingyun, stunned. She had no idea how this stranger had learned the greatest secret of the three sisters!
"Who are you? How do you know that!"
Hancock clenched her fists. The thought of killing him surged up the moment it crossed her mind. Anyway, killing a man had never been a big deal to her before.
She just needed to figure out what he was thinking, whether this man had accomplices, and what his true purpose was.
"You don't need to be that on guard. If I really meant you harm, I wouldn't have let myself get surrounded on the Nine Snake Pirate Group's ship."
Hancock ground her teeth and said, "Who knows what's in your heart! Maybe your boldness comes from already having your next move prepared, and since we haven't spotted it yet, how are we supposed to stop your schemes?"
She was not about to simply and naively trust Ye Lingyun. If she didn't carefully observe his co-conspirators, the current Empress would turn Ye Lingyun into a stone statue on the spot.
"It's simple. From now on, I'm willing to join the Nine Snake Pirate Group, and I guarantee I won't pose any threat to you in the future. Isn't that enough to show my sincerity?"
Ye Lingyun raised his hand and confessed frankly.
"Huh?" Hancock exchanged a look with her two sisters. Ye Lingyun's statement that followed caught them off guard.
Had they really misunderstood him?
"I think it's hard to trust him! We know nothing about this stranger."
"Yeah, the Nine Snake Pirate Group has never taken a man as a crew member! How are we supposed to explain that to the other sisters? What about when we're off-duty? Are you really going to bring him back to the island?"
The second sister, Sandersonia, and the third sister, Mary Gorod, stepped closer to Hancock and began to scrutinize him. Though their viewpoints differed, their attitude toward Ye Lingyun was uniformly distrustful.
Yet Hancock looked straight into Ye Lingyun's eyes. Even though her sisters had voiced their opinions, she didn't immediately state her own; she was still wavering.
Hancock did not answer at once, leaving Sandersonia and Mary Gorod staring at her in surprise. Did she have another idea?
"Maybe… we try it. A man's own proposal is the easiest way to accept him." Hancock slowly spoke her decision and thoughts.
Given her personality, no matter who she faced—ally or enemy—she was extremely willful. With her overwhelming strength and stunning beauty, she didn't care about anything that might enrage Navy Headquarters.
Only one thing was enough to make her enter a state of completely calm reflection: the secret the three sisters had hidden for so many years. It was a pity that they wouldn't even let the people closest to them know!
"Since we can't guarantee that even killing him would keep the secret from leaking, we might as well accept him and keep him close where we can watch him. As for the Nine Snake Pirate Group's rule of never admitting men in the past…"
"He already knows our secret anyway! As for the other sisters, as long as it's the Empress's decision, they're sure to accept it!"
Sandu Sonia and Mary Gorod looked at each other, sighing silently in their hearts. Since Hancock had already made the final decision, they had no choice but to accept it.