Baron's Death

They really couldn't keep chasing. The four main ships were battered and scarred, and the two Small Ships were in terrible shape as well. One of them could barely move at all.

Small Ships were faster than main ships, but if this one went even a little faster, it might fall apart.

As for the two main ships that had joined later, one needed to protect everyone and clean up the battlefield along the way.

The sole remaining main ship needed quite some time to clear out the scattered stragglers nearby.

Meanwhile, Qu Jianlei was scanning the area, checking for any hidden observers he had failed to detect earlier. It was part of tying up loose ends.

This sort of thing was hardly rare. As the old saying went, "When you talk by the roadside, someone might be listening from the grass."

He had been through many space battles before and had never worried about anything like this, but that did not mean he had been less vigilant in the past.

In the end, most of his previous battles had been chance encounters on a smaller scale. Who would be bored enough to eavesdrop? In truth, people listening from the grass were rarely doing so by accident. Most had come with an agenda.

But with a battle on this scale, who knew how many people wanted information as soon as possible?

So even if the ambush had erupted suddenly, there was no guarantee that nobody had been secretly watching.

After all, quite a few forces on Gem Blue Star had probably already guessed that a battle was brewing between the two sides.

There were likely more than one or two people who knew Qu Jianlei had been ambushed. Otherwise, where had those two Armed Merchant Ships come from? To put