Chapter 793: Chapter 787: Calculations End
The communication was quickly established, and looking at Jasmine Davis on the screen, Barry spoke in a deep voice: “Lady, you should know that the situation here is already known to the inspection bureau and their fleet will arrive soon. You wouldn’t stay here too long, would you? Admittedly, your threats are effective. But if we co up with a few billion star credits, families who produced these hundreds of warships for us are many.”
“Oh, so you’re not agreeing then.” Lucy Watson looked not surprised at all. If the other party were frightened by their threats, that would be strange. After all, the total price of those warships was only 2.4 billion star credits. So when Lucy threatened them, she really only aid to cause trouble.
Their disagreent was expected anyway.
“Not exactly. After all, we worked hard to produce this factory. How about this: I give you 1 billion star credits, you leave our family’s territory. Otherwise, you won’t get anything anyway except for causing destruction. Besides, you dare not linger here too long, right?” said Barry in a deep voice.
He was confident that they’d agree. The reason was simple: 1 billion star credits was a colossal number even for large pirate crews. The so-called three pirate crews would find it astronomical too. But he had never heard of the Black Rose Pirate Crew among the top 20 space pirates.
But not everything in this world is predictable. The beautiful pirate lady, who Barry originally thought would agree, did not. She revealed a wicked smile over the communication line and said in a low voice, “50 billion star credits, and we can agree with you and leave your territory. Otherwise, like you said, we will destroy it. Although we would get this fee, we can cause damages equivalent to this amount. And for you—”
Stopping right there, Lucy Watson smiled and continued, “To you, 50 billion damage would cost 100 billion or even 120 billion to fix. I can give you an opportunity to consider it. We will wait here 24 hours. If we don’t get your answer within 24 hours, don’t bla us for our lack of manners. Rember, that’s 50 billion. And by the way, the unit is star credits, not anything else.”
After finishing her speech, Lucy simply cut off the communication. Looking at the interrupted communication in front of him, Barry was so angry that he swept away everything on the desk next to him.
The room fell silent. No one dared to say anything. After a while, Barry raised his head and said in a low voice, “Tell Mussell Evans, give him 12 hours. If he can’t get rid of them, he doesn’t need to co back.”
“Yes, Chief,” everyone imdiately responded.
Although the order was given, Barry had a bad feeling. This bad feeling had started when he found out his warehouse had been destroyed. Pirates had never targeted their warehouse before, and coincidentally, right after he had just received an order, they showed up. Barry wondered if these happenings were conspiracies, but he couldn’t think of that right now. He had to handle this urgent situation first. If he failed, his family would never recover.
As for the pirate, Barry was puzzled. They granted him 24 hours. But his family’s territory was not very large, only a few planetary systems. In such a small area, any warship could quickly warp to the factory’s location. Even if the inspection bureau’s warship wasn’t quick, at least his family’s warship could catch up.
The Aitken family’s warship was not very powerful, only two battleships, two cruisers, and four patrol starships. Regardless, even this fleet wasn’t sothing ordinary space pirates could deal with.
If needed, they could attack directly. Even at the cost of losing a few warships, Barry would not allow themselves to be blackmailed. As for the Black Rose Space Pirates, he had never heard of them before. Who knew what their warship looked like? It could be a converted ard trade ship.
This was not unlikely. Most space pirate ships were converted from ard trade ships or transport ships of logistics companies. Even converted interstellar passenger ships were not rare. The combat ability of these civilian ships couldn’t compete with standard warships.
But since the other party was willing to wait, they had been given a chance. “Chief, don’t worry too much. Since those space pirates want to end their lives, we will send them to et their God.” A soldier wearing sothing similar to a uniform approached, confidently speaking to Barry.
“Hopefully so. But tell Mussell and the others to be careful not to capsize in the gutter,” Barry pondered a bit, then warned.
This was the only fleet in their family. If it were wiped out, nothing could stop the other party.
Receiving the command, Mussell Evans imdiately convened his fleet. Mussell wasn’t an Aitken man but had entered into the Aitken family’s army through his own efforts from a planet under the Aitken family. These people couldn’t enter the Aitken Family’s core circles but were eligible for high positions.
Like him, who was responsible for the whole fleet. For Mussell, being a part of the Aitken family didn’t matter because his family lived on these few planets, and he was well-treated here. Also, he considered that he had been carefully nurtured by Aitken.
Mussell was very loyal to the Aitken family. However, loyalty didn’t make a qualified soldier. At least by earth standards, these private fleets of nobility fell short. Not in terms of skills or others, but in military qualities and strategic planning. He had a long way to go to beco a qualified soldier.
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