It was a bit of a shame that the pursuing starship did not hit the largest Space Mine.
Even so, that starship was blasted more than a hundred thousand kilometers away.
The starships following behind were badly startled and all came to a stop.
But right after that, the pursuing starship erupted in rage. "Fuck, who are they looking down on by using antiques like Space Mines?"
What era was this? They were actually using Space Mines—wasn't that too insulting? But no matter what they said, once triggered, these things really worked! The pursuers could curse and rage all they wanted, but they could not deny that the mines had done their job.
The battle damage report came out quickly. That starship... was scrapped, with basically no repair value left.
There had been twenty-three people aboard. Four died on the spot, and six were seriously injured—five of them would be permanently disabled.
Nine suffered light or minor injuries. Only four people were essentially unharmed!
When the Space Mine exploded, the Mining Administration starship had been only a little over a million kilometers from the blast.
The Black Zone truly was that strange. The enemy thought they were four million kilometers apart, but the actual distance was not even half that.
After taking that hit, the pursuers became much more cautious. They slowed down considerably and occasionally fired probing shots.
Meanwhile, the Mining Administration starship was not far from them, maintaining a distance of around two million kilometers.
Ordinarily, it was impossible to observe that far in the Black Zone, but celestial bodies moved according to natural laws.
Although the environment here was chaotic and violent, the pursuers' trajectories could still be roughly calculated through various reactions.
The calculations were not necessarily precise, and they occasionally lost the targets, but overall,