Chapter 358 Desert Storm Troopers surround! Paul in unparalleled mode!

"It seems that you know this place very well. You can walk so easily in the sand sea area where there are no landmarks to refer to."

Paul smiled beside him.

"Of course."

Din Djarin replied without looking back: "I am the best bounty hunter in this area and one of the people who knows the best about Tatooine. Maybe the local snakes here don't know as much as I do."

Although Din Djarin has just started working as a bounty hunter, he cherishes the opportunity to be a bounty hunter and is working hard to build up his reputation.

After all, on Mandalore, his compatriots are still oppressed by the empire and are traded like slaves, but he can stay out of it in such a precious place.

Din Djarin was not a native Mandalorian, he was just an abandoned baby adopted and raised by the Mandalorian tribe, but he always believed in the Mandalorian creed and followed the Mandalorian way of life.

The bounty hunter profession is not only a traditional profession passed down by the Mandalorian tribe, but also Din Djarin's current breadwinner, so he will desperately improve his professional abilities.

Soon, under the leadership of Din Djarin, Paul and his team arrived at a moisture farm smoothly.

This is one of the few farm areas on Tatooine. On this extremely arid desert planet, farmers can use moisture condensation technology to maintain the humidity of underground farms to grow crops.

When the farmer Owen and his wife Beilu saw the outsiders visiting, they hurriedly came out to greet them, but there were no robots following the two Rebel Alliance beside them.

"Hello, are you Owen Lars, the owner of this farm?" Captain Cassian took the initiative to say hello, trying to keep his tone as calm as possible.

"Yes, I am Owen Lars."

Owen looked a little nervous. Looking at the strangers with various weapons and a heavily armed Mandalorian in front of him, he would inevitably think of bad things.

"Don't be nervous. We are here just to find out whether you bought two robots from the Jawas, an R2 mechanic robot and a human-like translator robot."

Cassian asked aloud.

"Is this the case? Are you the owner?" Owen blinked.

The Jawas are a scavenging tribe native to Tatooine. They are considered local garbage men. They like to pick up all kinds of garbage and assemble it themselves, and then sell it to others in exchange for supplies.

Therefore, people who buy things from the Jawa people know the origin of the goods well. Now that the owner has come to visit, Owen can only admit that he is unlucky.

"right."

Captain Cassian nodded and said, "Those two robots fell from our spaceship, and we need to bring them back now."

In this regard, Owen had no choice but to apologize and let everyone go inside and wait for a while, because the robot had been taken out for repairs by his nephew Luke Skywalker and would not be back for a while.

"Okay, I'll excuse you two."

In desperation, Paul and his team could only temporarily enter Owen's home and wait patiently for Luke Skywalker to return.

During this period, the old couple Owen and Beilu brought out meals made from their own crops and entertained the members of the Rebel Alliance, hoping to put an end to the trouble.

Cassian didn't want to come to the door to cause trouble, so he didn't refuse the other party's kindness. Everyone slowly spent a few hours in a relatively harmonious atmosphere.

However, while everyone was busy eating and resting, the robot K-2SO responsible for standing guard outside suddenly noticed an Imperial Stormtrooper approaching in the distance, and it immediately issued an early warning:

【Guys! We're in trouble now! 】

Captain Cassian immediately stuck his head out and looked into the distance with the telescope he carried. He saw a Desert Storm trooper on the horizon, quickly heading here.

"Is it possible that these stormtroopers are here to hunt us?" Cassian asked.

"No, there was absolutely no way anyone was following us when we came here. I wouldn't be so slow that I wouldn't notice that I was being watched."

Din Djarin is very confident in his anti-tracking ability, otherwise he would not be able to work as a bounty hunter. He has always been confident in his professional abilities.

The Master Chief also nodded and agreed: "We didn't leave any traces along the way. It's impossible for the Imperial Army to follow us all the way."

The biggest advantage of the landspeeder that Paul and others boarded was that it would not leave any traces on the ground.

Because the land speeders were driven by anti-gravity devices instead of wheels to pull them forward, there were no conspicuous traces left on the ground.

"It seems that the imperial army also found some local tongues to ask questions, and then they came to the door."

Paul quickly realized the problem. The Jawas' desert crawlers would leave traces. The Imperial Army must have found traces of the Jawas near the crashed spaceship.

They only need to capture a few Jawas and question them, and they will quickly learn the whereabouts of the robots. This is no slower than Paul finding a bounty hunter!

"What should we do next? Should we escape first?" Qin Erso looked at everyone nervously.

Paul turned around and looked at the Owens and his wife who were also nervous and frightened in the room. It was easy for them to leave here.

After all, the Imperial Army has not caught up with them yet, and even if it does, it will not be their opponent.

But if Paul and others just leave, Owen and Belu will probably be brutally killed by the vicious imperial army.

"You must leave here, otherwise something bad will happen!" Paul explained the situation outside to Owen and wanted to take the two away.

However, Owen shook his head and resolutely said he would stay: "No, Luke hasn't come back yet, we can't abandon him, let me explain to them, it will be fine."

Owen's life's hard work has been poured into this moisture farm.

As an honest and hardworking farmer, he can't easily abandon his property and wander around like the rebels like Cassian.

If he escapes with Paul and others, Owen will definitely be on the wanted list, and even his own farm will be burned to ashes by the imperial army.

"Hurry up, there's no time!"

While the two sides were arguing, the desert stormtroopers had already arrived near the moisture farm. As soon as they came up, they held blasters and shouted at the house:

"Listen, everyone inside, come out quickly, or we will shoot!"

As more and more stormtroopers surrounded them, Paul knew that they could no longer escape, and could only stay to clear out the trash outside!

In desperation, Paul had to draw the lightsaber at his waist and reveal his identity to Owen:

"This is where we come from. The stormtroopers outside will not let you go."

Seeing this, Owen's eyes widened immediately. Of course, he could recognize the lightsaber, and he also knew what it meant for the man in front of him to draw the lightsaber.

"You are a Jedi Knight, so aren't you members of the Resistance?!"

Owen had heard about the battles that took place in the Empire these days, and knew the news of the Battle of Jedha and the Battle of Scarif.

But he didn't expect that wherever this gang went, they would be hit by the disaster of the Imperial Army's star explosion. It would actually run to his doorstep. It was really... so unlucky!

Paul remained silent without denying it. Now they could only defend this farm until Luke Skywalker came back.

"I'll give you one last chance. If you don't come out after the countdown of three seconds, we will raze this place to the ground!"

"3, 2..."

The stormtroopers who were waiting outside impatiently had not counted to 1 when the door inside was suddenly kicked open, and Paul, holding a lightsaber, rushed out instantly.

In an instant, the stormtroopers who had prepared to shoot in advance immediately poured countless dense blaster beams towards Paul.

But Paul quickly turned the lightsaber in his hand and bounced all the oncoming blaster beams back.

Now it was the turn of the desert stormtroopers to be dumbfounded. They watched helplessly as the beams they shot were reflected back along the original path, shooting themselves upside down.

Before the shooting, no one would have thought that there was a Jedi Knight hiding inside, otherwise they would never act so rashly.

After this round of crazy shooting, the Imperial Stormtroopers successfully caused more than half of their own people to be killed. The remaining survivors hurriedly stopped firing and began to call for rescue.

Seeing that the battle had already started, the other members of the Rogue One team immediately pointed their weapons at the Stormtroopers in front of them and killed them one by one.

At this moment, Luke, who had just come out of the house of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, was walking home with two robots.

The two robots beside him were the silly robot R2-D2 that looked like a trash can, and the golden humanoid robot C-3PO.

Luke Skywalker, who had just repaired the two robots and was in a good mood, suddenly saw a damaged desert crawler halfway.

There were dozens of Jawa corpses scattered around the car. Luke saw a few familiar faces. Those people were the Jawa merchants who sold the robots to him!

"It was done by the Imperial Army."

At this time, Master Obi-Wan, who was accompanying Luke, expressed his own judgment based on the post-war traces left at the scene:

"There are not many criminal gangs on Tatooine, and there is no need to use heavy blaster weapons to attack the Jawas."

Obi-Wan knew the Imperial Army's style of doing things. The actions of these brutal soldiers have always been hateful.

"Why did they massacre the Jawas?"

Luke didn't understand how a scavenger tribe like the Jawas could offend the domineering Imperial Army.

But soon, Luke turned his head and looked at the two robots behind him, and immediately realized why the Jawas were in trouble.

"Not good--!"

Luke suddenly thought of something terrible, and hurriedly ran home. Since the Imperial Army killed the Jawas who sold robots.

Then Uncle Owen, the buyer, would definitely be implicated!

Luke didn't care about Obi-Wan and the two robots, and took the land speeder alone, rushing home at full speed.

Obi-Wan wanted to dissuade Luke, but it was too late. Luke, who was driving the speeder, disappeared in a flash, leaving Obi-Wan and the robot in a daze.

The moisture farm was already in chaos at this time.

After the suspected Jedi Knight Paul reappeared, a large number of imperial reinforcements began to rush here and surrounded the entire farm.

Fortunately, most of Owen's moisture farm was surrounded by underground buildings, just like the igloos of the Eskimos, with only a roof exhaust exposed on the ground.

The whole farm was like a natural shelter, which allowed Owen and his wife, Beru, to hide under the ground for a while.

Qini and Jyn Erso stayed to take care of Owen and the others, while the rest of the team came to the ground and started a fierce battle with the Imperial Army.

This anxious offensive and defensive battle will not stop until at least Luke Skywalker returns, and Paul will lead everyone to retreat.

Before that, they could only hold on and stay here to mediate with the imperial army.

Din Djarin, who could have stayed out of the fight, now had to join the fight.

The Empire Stormtrooper's style of doing things is that he would rather kill ten thousand by mistake than let one go. Now that he has a relationship with the Rebel Alliance, he will also be listed on the Empire's wanted list!

In order to survive, Ding Djarin could only join forces and come to Paul's side.

At this moment, the blaster sniper rifle behind Din Djarin exerted great power.

Once fired, no matter which part of the Stormtrooper's body is hit, it will be blown to pieces, leaving only broken white armor on the ground and bursts of blood-mist and scattered flesh.

This is a bounty hunter after all, so the quality of the explosive weapons and equipment on Din Djarin is comparable to that of the firearms of the Empire's elite troops.

At this moment, while Ding Djarin was looking for a bunker to fight alongside Paul, he complained in a gloomy tone:

"My mission is just to guide you, this is not included in the contract."

Jia Lin did not directly say that he would not have taken this job if he had known better. He still liked Paul's Adamant knife.

But to lose his job and become a wanted criminal in the empire is somewhat unreasonable. That’s why Din Djarin hinted to Paul intentionally or unintentionally—you need to pay more!

Paul was also a veteran who had been working at the grassroots level for many years and had rich experience. He instantly understood what the other party meant. He casually threw two pieces of gold to Ding Jialin and said:

"It's not too late to take this job now. I can afford it no matter what price you ask. Anyway, you have to help with the work."

At this time, Paul has been promoted to the head of the operations team of the All-Heaven Advance Team. He can allocate the operational funds of the Development Department and even arrange members on his own.

That is to say, it is a member of the advance team of any giant company!

Nowadays, Paul can be regarded as a powerful official who wants money and people, and he can still afford this promise.

It's not difficult to make a bounty hunter your own, you just need to pay enough.

On the other side, Baez Mabus, who was holding a heavy submachine gun, opened fire one after another. In this desert area with a wide view, such heavy weapons have excellent room for use.

Several beams of explosive energy poured down like falling stars, causing devastating damage among the Desert Stormtroopers. The firepower of the Rebel Alliance temporarily suppressed the Imperial Army.

In addition, Chiru, who had launched a cold arrow in the dark, relied on his accurate and deadly crossbow to kill several Imperial Stormtroopers who were manipulating heavy weapons.

Everyone in the Rogue One team works well together, but the sandstorms in this wasteland are getting bigger and bigger, and a sandstorm sweeping the entire land seems to be coming.

Normally, everyone would be looking for a shelter to wait for the sandstorm to subside, but the unmoved Imperial Army continued to send in a large number of Desert Stormtroopers.

Various types of heavy armor, AT series walkers, and heavy tracked tanks unique to desert areas all appeared in Paul's sight.

Although in daily use, the vast majority of people on Tatooine will choose land speeders with anti-gravity properties for transportation, this is not the case for the Imperial Army.

Because the anti-gravity device cannot stabilize the recoil of the artillery, if you want to stabilize it, you must add additional thrusters to offset the recoil, which will invisibly increase the manufacturing cost.

Therefore, the empire's armored forces still rely on various walking machines and heavy tracked armored vehicles.

After these elite armored units joined the battlefield, the firepower of the Rogue One team was instantly outmatched.

Even the blaster sniper rifle in Din Djarin's hand was unable to penetrate the armor of the Empire's tanks.

Without specialized anti-vehicle armor-piercing projectiles, the blaster shells in his hands alone would not be able to destroy the shield plate armor designed to protect against blaster beams.

"It's broken, we have to retreat as soon as possible."

When he saw that the sniper rifle in his hand was helpless against the armored vehicle on the opposite side, Ding Djarin once again felt the gap between the world and the battlefield very clearly!

In the arena, his guns and knives can easily take down countless criminal gangsters, but on the battlefield, the empire's steady stream of troops will easily destroy any hero's pride.

At this moment, the empire's armored forces were rapidly encircling them, and even the intensifying sandstorm could not stop their advance.

The fine flying sand and gravel would at most interfere with the accuracy of the Imperial Army's artillery, but every time they fired, the positions of Paul and others were blown into dust, making it impossible to see the enemy ahead.

Soon, the war zone formed a hellscape burned by artillery and ravaged by sandstorms.

Both sides could only see the blaster beam flashing back and forth in the thick dust mist. As for where it was flying, no one cared at all.

"No, this is an open desert area. We have no place to slowly fight guerrillas with them. We can delay it for a while longer."

Paul looked at the situation on the battlefield. Thanks to the dust storm, the visibility in the entire area was extremely low. The human eye could only see at a distance of 10 meters at most.

Even armored tanks can only drive forward at a snail's pace and constantly calibrate their direction based on intelligence.

Otherwise, it is easy to run over one of your own, or run in the wrong direction and get lost.

At this moment, Paul pulled out the hard lightsaber behind him and rushed out alone. He saw bright blue beams of light dancing gracefully in the dim sandstorm.

The Desert Stormtroopers could only see a beam of light constantly interspersing through it, reaping their lives as if the god of death were coming.

Even if you are sitting in a heavily armored tank, you may suddenly be pierced by the sword hole next to the carriage, pierce your head, and die suddenly in the cockpit.

In this battlefield environment with extremely low visibility, Paul used his ability to predict and swim back and forth like a fish in water.

If Darth Vader was present, he would be able to capture the nimble Paul in no time.

But at this time, this group of ignorant Desert Storm soldiers had no idea what kind of terrifying opponent they were facing.

When the sandstorm gradually dissipated, only Desert Stormtroopers and unmanned armored vehicles were left all around the battlefield.

The members of the Rogue One team didn't even see clearly what Paul had done. They only heard the howls of Stormtroopers echoing in the dust.

After that, there were only dead bodies on the ground and armored vehicles paralyzed on the spot. No one could believe that Paul was much stronger than before after only two months!

In fact, Paul himself has gathered the cutting-edge research results on spices from giant companies around the world, and any controllable and reliable spice improvement products will be given to him first.

This is the benefit of being organized and entering the system.

The reason why V back then was able to show unparalleled power was precisely because he had gathered the most cutting-edge technological achievements of giant companies.

Before Paul acted just now, he drank a small bottle of the latest improved version of the spice, which can stimulate his own potential in a short period of time and quickly increase his combat effectiveness.

As for the consequences of compensation...

After the mission is over, there will naturally be nursing home staff from giant companies who will repair Paul's injuries.

Everyone looked at the Imperial Stormtrooper who died inexplicably in the sandstorm and the driver of the armored tank who had died long ago. Everyone looked in disbelief.

"What on earth did you do? Why did you become stronger after just a while? You're not bald either...!"

Captain Cassian looked at Paul's flowing slightly curly hair, which was glowing with golden brown luster, and he couldn't help but ask.

Din Djarin on the side also looked at Paul very curiously, trying to eavesdrop on Paul's details.

Paul just laughed at this: "When you join my team, you will naturally understand how I become stronger."

Din Djarin is confused, but Captain Cassian is seriously considering whether to take the Rogue One team to join the giants of the universe.

Comparing the Rebel Alliance and the world's giants, both in terms of strength and resource control, there is a huge gap.

Once the Galactic Empire is overthrown, the power that comes to power will be this giant company in the world no matter how you look at it.

Since the company's establishment and welfare benefits are destined to be a carrot and a pit, it's better to follow Paul now and get the establishment quota of a giant company in advance!

In this way, when the new "Universe Empire" is established, he can at least have a drink of broth.

"Okay, let's clean up the battlefield quickly and see if there is anything we can pick up and use. The Imperial Army will not just give up."

Chilu reminded everyone.

Although Paul had turned on the Musou mode just now and dealt with the desert stormtroopers, reinforcements from the empire would arrive at any time, so they still had to leave as soon as possible.

"Just wait a little longer. The Imperial Army won't be here for a while now. We'll wait until the Luke you're looking for comes back."

Din Djarin suggested.

He knew that there were not many Imperial troops stationed on Tatooine. Even if they were to regroup as quickly as possible and rush to the depths of the desert, it would take at least five hours.

"Okay, let's go back and take a rest first. We'll talk about it later when Luke and the two robots come back."

Paul gave the order and immediately received the support of everyone. I don’t know when he became the real captain of the Rogue One team.

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