Claire bluntly told Hua Lei, "If you're interested, you can have it!"
Hua Lei froze for a moment, then said, "Just in case—I mean, just in case a Federation fleet passes by, it'd be too suspicious not to take it."
Claire paused, then laughed. "All right, you're right... though it's really only useful to you."
Hua Lei never imagined that her words would come true.
Half a day after they left, a Federation fleet really did pass by.
One relatively intact Battalion-Class Ship led two Battalion-Class Ships in decent condition and five Company-level Warships.
This fleet had just fought the Alien Race. At the height of the battle, enemy reinforcements had arrived, forcing them to flee in haste.
They had not fought badly, but their gains were limited because they had retreated too hurriedly to clean up the battlefield.
Fortunately, the military's battlefield observation equipment did not lie. Most of their battle merits could still be confirmed; they simply had fewer spoils.
As they passed through, they unexpectedly discovered a ruined Outpost Nest.
The warships immediately began collecting spoils. They took not only the nest wreckage, but even the Asura corpses.
As the soldiers put it, battle merits were one thing, but seized goods were extra income. They could not just let them go to waste.
Unexpectedly, the more they cleaned up, the more curious they became. Fine, perhaps the nest wreckage had not been worth taking—but they had even passed over the corpses of six-armed Asura? Fortunately, all the Asura heads were gone, along with the nest marks. Otherwise, they would really have wondered who had done this.
Even so, this fleet's strength was simply terrifying—who had ever seen anyone throw around resources so lavishly?
After some discussion, the soldiers decided to follow them and see just how strong