At TK043 Space Fortress, the Jiangyuan High-speed Destroyer steadily docked at its spaceport berth.
To its right, the Jiangyang, a destroyer of the same class, had already opened its landing bay doors.
Behind the two destroyers followed a battered Light Frigate—the Gray Fish.
This warship, which had originally belonged to the star pirates, was the spoils of Jiangyuan and Jiangyang's emergency rescue mission!
Though for the vast Holy Light Empire, or even the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet, such an outdated retired frigate was of no value whatsoever. They would even have to pay extra to send it in for dismantling.
But the significance of capturing it lay in the possibility of analyzing the equipment and data aboard this Star Pirate Warship, following the vine to find the melon—catching the big fish, or uncovering those connected to this band of star pirates.
Yet when Wang Chen returned to the base with his comrades, he clearly sensed that something was off about the atmosphere there.
It was as if something major had just happened.
And it turned out Wang Chen had not imagined it. By evening, he received the news.
It turned out that besides Jiangyuan and Jiangyang, the Seventh Rapid Response Fleet had dispatched even more warships to put out fires everywhere, because several routes under TK043's jurisdiction had been attacked by star pirates, and quite a few merchant ships had been hijacked.
In other words, the same situation had occurred multiple times at nearly the same time!
The Seventh Rapid Response Fleet had no choice but to pull most of its forces out of port, leaving the interior of TK043 Space Fortress dangerously hollow.
As a result, a massive riot broke out in TK043 Space Fortress's Star Prison. A group of serious offenders escaped, and a large number of guards