A Lion Hunting a Rabbit

In this kind of straight-to-the-target pursuit, they could not stop to toss a bomb at the other side, so all they could do was trade insults.

Time was plentiful anyway. Interstellar travel was like that; it took an extremely long time.

Even at thirty-eight times the speed of light, crossing interstellar distances still took months. For example, the target star chosen by the Human fleet was roughly twelve light-years from their departure point. Even at full speed, the journey would take nearly five months.

For those five months, they ate and slept well, conserving their energy to give the Orange Star Civilization something big when the time came.

Time slowly passed. In the blink of an eye, five months had nearly gone by. Watching the star grow larger and brighter through the optical view, Yue Yuan stretched his limbs.

Ever since the Orange Star Civilization had foolishly sent some ships to investigate the coordinates Humanity had provided five months ago, Humanity had occasionally sent them taunting messages, saying their intelligence was on par with those fools from the Dynamic Image Civilization. It seemed the Orange Star Civilization was even more enraged now.

The Orange Star Civilization had not believed it at first, but with the thought that it might be true and there was no harm in taking a look, they had still sent ships to investigate. As a result, Humanity had never stopped using it against them.

That said, the Orange Star Civilization's way of doing things was rather tough. They seemed to consider force first in everything, only thinking of other methods when force could not solve the problem for the moment. More importantly, they had no credibility whatsoever. Their previous cooperation with Humanity, followed by secretly informing the Dynamic Image Civilization, was proof enough.

Besides, they had