The Ultimate Divine Class-Chapter 624 - 22: Abyss Demon Coin, Spirit Court Guard

"Buzz——"

A sudden, urgent, strange sound startled Lu Yuan from his meditation.

Opening his eyes, Lu Yuan's pupils slightly contracted.

He saw that the originally bright and spacious Cultivation Room was now under an uncertain red hue. In the center of the room, a giant, deathly pale skeletal head silently emerged.

The skeletal head had a black eyepatch over its face, and upon seeing Lu Yuan, it immediately let out an ear-piercing cackle, "Jie jie jie."

"Is this... a virtual image?!"

After a moment of surprise and suspicion, Lu Yuan quickly discovered the truth behind the red light and the skeletal head. His expression returned to calm.

Other than being frightening, it posed no substantial harm.

However, the Cultivation Room was now in such disarray that it was clearly impossible to continue cultivating.

Lu Yuan turned to leave the Cultivation Room, only to find that outside was equally filled with flickering red light and the occasional eyepatch-wearing skeletal head suddenly appearing.

The lighting and audio systems throughout the entire spaceship seemed to have been completely overtaken by these two things.

Listening to the countless eerie laughter echoing and the unsettling red light dazzling his eyes everywhere he went, Lu Yuan couldn't help but feel a bit irritated.

He reached out to take out his personal terminal and lightly tapped the terminal screen.

"Lu Feng!.. Did you secretly use the spaceship's AI to watch a virus-infected video?!"

This shout had quite a miraculous effect.

A few seconds after shouting, the red light and skeletal head before Lu Yuan's eyes disappeared completely.

The interior of the spaceship returned to its original serene and harmonious state.

Lu Yuan's expression softened slightly, and as he turned around, he faced Lu Feng, who was standing there with no expression.

Lu Feng seemed to have a slight twitch at the corner of his eyes while looking at him.

"What just happened?"

Lu Yuan seemed to forget the content of his previous shout at Lu Feng and naturally asked Lu Feng for the reason.

Lu Feng took a deep breath and replied solemnly, "The spaceship's system was attacked externally; a virus took the opportunity to infiltrate... But it's been fixed now."

"External attack?"

Lu Yuan frowned slightly, "Who is attacking us?"

Lu Feng looked into Lu Yuan's eyes and softly spoke two words.

"Space pirates."

"Space pirates?!"

Lu Yuan's eyes instinctively narrowed.

This term was familiar to him.

Before setting out, he had done some homework on the various situations he might encounter during long interstellar travels.

Among them, space pirates were one of the troubles that space travelers least wished for and were most likely to encounter.

These fierce and vicious, bloodthirsty space desperados were like jackals roving through space. Once a passing spaceship was targeted by them, it meant endless trouble would ensue.

They would continuously attack and harass the spaceship, forcing it to change its course.

Then they would gradually deplete the spaceship's power, waiting for the right moment to pounce.

They would forcibly blast open the spaceship's hull, steal everything valuable inside, capture everyone on board to sell as slaves, or kill them directly.

Finally, the entire spaceship would be dragged away, dismantled thoroughly, leaving nothing behind....

In Duoling's annual statistics on spaceship disappearance and damage incidents, those caused by encounters with space pirates accounted for almost seventy percent of the total.

Lu Yuan initially joined the Eternal Day Commerce convoy mainly to prevent encounters with space pirates.

A top commerce fleet like Eternal Day Commerce possessed defensive capabilities that ordinary space pirate groups wouldn't dare provoke.

Indeed, the first half of the journey proved to be safe and smooth, but inevitably the trouble still came. Just two days after leaving the Eternal Day commerce fleet, they encountered space pirates.

Despite knowing they're in the midst of a crisis, Lu Yuan wasn't terribly alarmed.

He quickly headed to the spaceship's observation deck and looked out through the porthole.

In the pitch-black, silent starry sky, dozens of spaceships, including his own, were flying quietly.

Without exception, the surface of each spaceship was covered with an Energy Protection Shield.

Aside from this, everything seemed normal; there were no strange occurrences, and Lu Yuan didn't see any traces of the space pirate group's spaceship.

"You won't be able to see them."

Lu Feng walked to his side, watching the view outside the ship with him.

"They are hiding in the shadows now, and won't come out for the moment.

By infiltrating the ship's outer system defenses, they let you know you've been targeted, forcing you to open the protection shield and prematurely consume the spaceship's energy.

This is their usual tactic...."

Lu Yuan watched the silent view outside for a moment, then turned his gaze back, speaking indifferently, "What did those on the other ships say?"

After leaving the Eternal Day Commerce convoy, their convoy formed a new small group.

According to Lu Yuan's knowledge, this convoy also had a key leader now.

The other people in the convoy had also paid the leader a certain amount of fee in advance.

Now, encountering a situation, the leader of the convoy has the responsibility to find a solution.

"I've contacted them, Purple Crystal Commerce only asked us to open the protection shield and stick close to the fleet."

Lu Feng replied, "But they should have called for reinforcements already. What I'm worried about now is..."

Lu Feng frowned and said, "Purple Crystal Commerce might choose to temporarily change the route due to the space pirates. If that happens, we don't know how many days it'll take to reach Lilva Star..."

After listening to Lu Feng's analysis, Lu Yuan nodded without expression.

He was in a foul mood.

Originally, he thought he could reach the destination in a few hours, but now because of the space pirates, the time has suddenly become long and uncertain.