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Chapter 358: Desert Storm Troopers Surround! Paul in Warrior Mode!

"It seems that you know this place very well. You can walk so easily in this sand sea area without any landmarks."

Paul smiled beside him.

"of course."

Din Djarin replied without even turning his head: "I'm the best bounty hunter in this area, and one of the people who knows Tatooine best. Maybe the local tyrants here don't know as much as I do."

Although Ding Djarin has only been working as a bounty hunter for a short time, he cherishes the opportunity to do this job and continues to work hard to build his reputation.

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

Din Djarin is not a native Mandalorian. He is just an abandoned baby adopted and raised by the Mandalorians. However, he always believes in the Mandalorian creed and follows the Mandalorian way of life.

The bounty hunter profession is not only the old profession passed down by the Mandalorians, but also Din Djarin's current livelihood, so he will do everything he can to improve his professional skills.

Soon, under the leadership of Ding Jarin, Paul and his team successfully arrived at a moisture farm.

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 in order to grow crops.

When farmer Owen and his wife Belle saw outsiders visiting, they hurried out to greet them, but the two robots of the rebel alliance were not following them.

"Hello, are you Owen Lars, the owner of this farm?" Captain Cassian took the initiative to step forward and greet them, trying to keep his tone as calm as possible.

"Yes, I am Owen Lars."

Owen looked a little nervous. Looking at the strangers in front of him who were carrying various weapons and a fully armed Mandalorian, he couldn't help but think of bad things.

"Don't be nervous. We are here just to find out if you bought two robots from the Jawas, an R2-type technician robot and a humanoid translation robot."

Cassian asked out loud.

"Yes, that's true. Are you the owner?" Owen blinked.

The Jawas are a tribe of scavengers native to Tatooine. They are well-known local garbage collectors who like to pick up all kinds of garbage, assemble them themselves, and then sell them to others in exchange for supplies.

Therefore, people who buy things from the Jawas are well aware of the origins of the goods. Now that the owner has come to them, Owen can only blame himself for his bad luck.

"Correct."

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

In response, Owen had no choice but to apologize and asked everyone to go into the house 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, sorry to bother you two then."

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

During this time, the old couple Owen and Bello used meals made from their own crops to entertain the members of the Rebel Alliance, hoping to calm the situation.

Cassian had no intention of causing trouble, so he did not reject the other party's kindness. The group spent a few hours slowly in a relatively harmonious atmosphere.

However, just as everyone was busy eating and resting, the robot K-2SO, who was on guard outside, suddenly noticed that there were Imperial Stormtroopers approaching in the distance, and it immediately issued a warning:

【Guys! We are in trouble now! 】

Captain Cassian immediately stuck his head out and looked into the distance with the telescope he carried with him. He saw a group of Desert Storm Troopers on the horizon, rapidly rushing towards this side.

"Are these stormtroopers coming to hunt us down?" Cassian asked.

"No, there is absolutely no way that someone was following us when we came here. I am not so dull that I don't realize that I am being followed."

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

The sergeant also nodded, expressing his agreement: "We didn't leave any traces along the way. It's impossible for the Imperial Army to follow us all the way here."

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

Because the landspeeders rely on anti-gravity devices for propulsion rather than wheels to pull them forward, there will be no obvious traces left on the ground.

"It seems that the Imperial Army has also found some local tongues to question, which is why they came to our door."

Paul quickly realized the problem. The Jawas' desert crawlers would leave traces, and the Imperial Army must have discovered traces of the Jawas near the crashed spacecraft.

They only need to capture a few Jawas and question them, and they will soon find out the whereabouts of the robot. This efficiency is no slower than Paul's search for bounty hunters!
"What should we do next? Should we escape first?" Jyn Erso looked at everyone nervously.

Paul turned around and looked at the Owens, who were equally nervous and frightened in the house. It would be easy for them to leave here and walk away.

After all, the imperial army has not caught up with them yet, and even if they did, they would not be their match.

But if Paul and others just left like this, Owen and Belu would probably be brutally killed by the vicious imperial army.

"You must leave here, or something bad will happen!" Paul explained the situation outside to Irving and wanted to take the two of them away.

However, Owen shook his head and said firmly that he would stay: "No, Luke hasn't come back yet. We can't abandon him. Let me explain to them. Everything will be fine."

Owen has devoted his entire life to this moisture farm.

As an honest and hardworking farmer, he could not easily abandon his property and wander around like the rebels like Cassian.

If he escaped with Paul and the others, Owen would definitely be on the wanted list, and even his own farm would be burned down 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 arrived, they pointed their blasters at the house and shouted:
"Listen carefully, 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 and clean up the trash outside!

With no other options, Paul had to draw his lightsaber and reveal his identity to Owen:

"This is where we come from. Those stormtroopers outside won't let you go."

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

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

Owen had heard about the battles that had taken place within the Empire in recent days, and knew about the Battle of Jedda and the Battle of Scarif.

But he didn't expect that this gang would be destroyed by the Imperial Army's star-blasting disaster wherever they went, and that they would actually run to his doorstep. It was really... so damn unlucky!
Paul remained silent without denying the answer. Now they could only guard the farm until Luke Skywalker returned.

"I'll give you one last chance. If you don't come out after the three-second countdown, we'll 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 beams of blasting energy towards Paul.

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

Now it was the Desert Stormtroopers' turn to be dumbfounded. They helplessly watched as the beams of light they had shot were reflected back along the original path and shot many of their own people to the ground.

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

After this round of crazy shooting, the Imperial Stormtroopers successfully killed more than half of their own men. The remaining survivors hurriedly ceased fire and began to call for rescue.

Seeing that the battle had already begun, the rest of the Rogue One team members immediately pointed their weapons at the Stormtroopers in front of them and took them out one by one.

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

The two robots next to him are R2-D2, a silly robot that looks like a trash can, and C-3PO, a humanoid robot covered in gold.

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 traces of the war left at the scene:
"There aren't many criminal gangs on Tatooine that can use heavy blaster weapons to attack the Jawas, but there's no need for that."

Obi-Wan was well aware of the Imperial Army's style of doing things. The actions of these brutal soldiers were always hateful and outrageous.

"Why are they massacring the Jawas?"

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

But soon, Luke turned his head and looked at the two robots behind him, and immediately realized what caused the Jawas to get into trouble.

"not good--!"

Luke suddenly thought of something terrible and hurriedly ran home, since the Imperial Army had killed the Jawas who were selling robots.

Then Uncle Owen, the buyer, will definitely be implicated!
Luke ignored Obi-Wan and the two robots and rode the landspeeder alone, heading home at full speed.

Obi-Wan tried to dissuade Luke, but it was too late. Luke, driving the speeder, disappeared in a flash, leaving Obi-Wan and the robot in a daze. The moisture farm was already in chaos.

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 Irving's moisture farm is surrounded by underground buildings, which are like an Eskimo igloo, with only a roof exhaust exposed above the ground.

The entire farm is like a natural shelter, allowing Owen and his wife Belle to hide underground in peace for a while.

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

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

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

Ding Jialin, who could have stayed out of the fight, had to join the battle.

The Imperial Stormtroopers' style of doing things is that they would rather kill ten thousand people by mistake than let one escape. Now that he has a connection with the Rebel Alliance, he will also be on the Empire's wanted list!
In order to survive, Ding Jarin had no choice but to join Paul's side.

At this moment, the blaster sniper rifle behind Ding Djarin exerted tremendous power.

With each shot, no matter where the stormtrooper hits, the opponent will be blown into pieces, leaving only broken white armor on the ground and bursts of blood mist and flesh.

After all, this is the bounty hunter's bread and butter, so the quality of the blaster weapons and equipment on Din Djarin is comparable to the firearms of the Empire's elite troops.

At this moment, Ding Jialin was looking for cover and fighting alongside Paul, while complaining in a gloomy tone:

"My mission is only to lead you. This is not included in the contract."

Jia Lin didn't say directly that he would not have taken this job if he had known earlier. He still liked Paul's adamantium knife very much.

But it was a bit unreasonable to lose his job and become a wanted criminal of the empire, so Ding Djarin hinted to Paul intentionally or unintentionally - he needed more money!

Paul was also an experienced veteran who had worked at the grassroots level for many years. He immediately understood what the other party meant. He threw two gold pieces to Ding Jialin and said:

"It's not too late to take this job now. I can pay you whatever price you want. Anyway, you have to help with the work."

At this time, Paul had been promoted to the head of the operations team of the Advance Team of the Heavens. He was able to call upon the operational funds of the pioneering department and even arrange members on his own.

That is to say, they are assigned to be members of the advance team of any giant enterprise!
Paul is now a powerful official with both money and connections, so he can afford to make this promise.

It's not difficult to turn a bounty hunter into your own use, you just need to pay him enough.

On the other side, Betz Mabius, armed with a heavy submachine gun, fired continuously. In this desert area with a wide view, such heavy weapons have great room for use.

Several beams of blasting energy poured down like falling stars, creating devastating damage among the Desert Stormtroopers. The firepower of the Rebel Alliance actually suppressed the Imperial Army for a short time.

In addition, Chirrut, who was shooting arrows in secret, used his accurate and deadly crossbow to continuously shoot and kill several Imperial Stormtroopers operating heavy weapons.

The Rogue One team works well together, but the wind and sand in this wasteland are getting stronger and stronger, and a sandstorm that will sweep across the entire area seems to be coming.

Under normal circumstances, everyone would look for shelter and wait for the sandstorm to subside, but the imperial army remained unmoved and continued to send in large numbers of desert storm troopers.

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

Although most people on Tatooine would choose landspeeders with anti-gravity properties for daily transportation, this is not the case for the Imperial Army.

Because the anti-gravity device cannot stabilize the recoil of the artillery, in order to stabilize it, additional thrusters must be added to offset the recoil, which will invisibly increase the manufacturing cost.

Therefore, the Empire's armored forces still rely on various walkers and heavy tracked armored vehicles.

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

Even the blaster sniper rifle in Din Djarin's hand could not penetrate the Empire's tank armor.

Without special anti-vehicle armor-piercing bullets, the blaster bombs in his hands alone would not be able to destroy the shield armor that is specifically designed to protect against blaster beams.

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

When he saw that the sniper rifle in his hand was useless against the enemy's armored vehicle, Ding Jialin once again felt very clearly the gap between the rivers and lakes and the battlefield!
When he is in the underworld, his gun and sword can easily deal with countless criminals, but when he is on the battlefield, the empire's endless stream of troops will easily destroy the heroism of any hero.

At this moment, the Empire's armored forces were rapidly surrounding them, and even the increasingly severe sandstorm could not stop their advance.

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

Soon, the battle zone turned into a hellish land burned by artillery fire and ravaged by sandstorms.

Both sides could only see the blasting beam flashing back and forth in the thick dust and fog, and no one cared where it was flying to.

"No, this is an open desert area. We have no place to slowly engage in guerrilla warfare with them. We can still delay it for a while longer."

Paul looked at the situation on the battlefield. Due to the sandstorm, visibility in the entire area was extremely low, and the human eye's visual range was at most 10 meters.

Even an armored tank can only move forward as slowly as a snail at this moment, and constantly calibrate its direction based on intelligence.

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

At this moment, Paul drew out the hard lightsaber behind him and rushed out alone. He saw the dazzling blue beam dancing in the dim sandstorm.

The desert stormtroopers could only see a beam of light constantly interweaving among them, reaping their lives like the god of death coming.

Even if you are sitting in a heavily armored tank, it is possible that the sword hole burned through the side of the car will suddenly pierce your head and you will die suddenly in the cockpit.

In this battlefield environment with extremely low visibility, Paul can use his predictive ability to move back and forth like a fish in water.

If Darth Vader were present, he would have quickly captured the agile Paul.

But at this moment, this group of ignorant desert stormtroopers had no idea what a terrifying opponent they were facing.

When the sandstorm gradually dissipated, all that was left around the battlefield were desert stormtroopers and unmanned armored vehicles.

The members of the Rogue One team didn't even see clearly what Paul did. They only heard the wails of the stormtroopers echoing in the dust.

Afterwards, there were only dead bodies all over the ground and a paralyzed armored vehicle. No one dared to believe that Paul had become much stronger than before in just two months!
In fact, Paul himself has gathered the cutting-edge research results of the world's giant companies on spices. Any controllable and reliable spice improvement products will be provided to him first.

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

The reason why V was able to display a level of power that was unprecedented back then was precisely because he himself had gathered the most advanced technological achievements of giant companies.

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

As for the consequences of compensation...

After the mission is completed, the staff of the giant company's sanatorium will naturally repair Paul's remaining injuries.

Looking at the Imperial stormtroopers who died inexplicably in the sandstorm, and the drivers who had long been dead in the armored vehicles, everyone had expressions of disbelief.

"What on earth did you do? How come you became stronger after such a short period of time? You're not bald...!"

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

Ding Jialin on the side also looked at Paul curiously, trying to eavesdrop on Paul's background.

In response, Paul just laughed it off: "When you join my team, you will naturally understand how I became stronger."

Din Djarin was confused, while Captain Cassian was seriously considering whether to join the Universal Corporation with the Rogue One team.

Compared with the Rebel Alliance and the Global Corporation, there is a huge gap between them in terms of strength and resource control.

Once the Galactic Empire is overthrown, the regime in power will undoubtedly be this giant global corporation.

Since the company’s establishment and welfare benefits are destined to be unique to each person, why not just follow Paul now and get a position in the giant company in advance!
In this way, when the new "Universal Empire" is established, he can at least have some meat soup.

"Okay, let's clean up the battlefield and see if there is anything we can pick up. The Imperial Army won't just give up like that."

Chirrut reminded everyone.

Although Paul had just activated the invincible mode and dealt with those Desert Storm Troopers, the Empire's reinforcements could arrive at any time, so they still had to leave as soon as possible.

"Wait a little longer. The Imperial Army can't get here for a while. Wait until Luke, whom you are looking for, comes back."

Ding Jarin suggested.

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

"Well, let's go back and rest for a while until Luke and the two robots come back."

Paul gave an order and immediately received everyone's support. He didn't know when he had become the real captain of the Rogue One team.

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(End of this chapter)