The Company-level Warship towing the battered Battalion-Class Ship faced its biggest inconvenience not in power, but in its inability to cloak!
Along the way, they inevitably encountered starships from other teams.
Such a bizarre combination naturally aroused others' curiosity, and some even tried to intercept them.
The Company-level Warship's response was direct firepower warnings, giving it somewhat of the air it had when it first entered the Black Zone.
But with the military now involved, the various starships had grown much bolder.
A few starships even responded, claiming, "We suspect your ship's identity."
No matter how forceful the Company-level Warship acted, even landing cannon fire on them, some starships continued tailing them after retreating.
Fortunately, Qu Jianlei seized the time to hastily repair the Battalion-Class Ship's power system.
The barely usable power system finally allowed the Battalion-Class Ship's Main Gun to fire.
The Main Gun's energy had still not reached its limit, but breaking through a Company-level Warship's defenses was no longer much of a problem.
By then, four Armed Merchant Ships had gathered behind the two starships!
After circling around a massive abnormal Energy Mass, the Company-level Warship released the Battalion-Class Ship and entered stealth mode again.
The four starships caught up and found the lone Battalion-Class Ship, along with energy fluctuations at its Main Gun port.
At once, all four starships made evasive maneuvers and hurriedly declared, "We only wanted to verify something!"
But the Battalion-Class Ship fired without hesitation, its Main Gun striking an Armed Merchant Ship squarely.
That merchant ship had the thickest armor of the four and had raised its protective shield to the maximum.
The Main Gun had also struck the most durable part of the Armed Merchant Ship.
Yet even so, the single shot made its protective shield tremble violently, nearly collapsing.
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