"The Immigrant Ship encountered an Alien Fleet, and the two sides exchanged fire?"
Fang Zheng was quite surprised when he received the news.
"What was the outcome?"
"We successfully repelled their attack."
Anya quietly gave her answer.
"All right... then what was the reason? Why did they start fighting? Have you found anything yet?"
"Yes."
Hearing Fang Zheng's question, Anya nodded.
"According to the investigation, someone tampered with the interior of that alien warship. Once activated, it immediately sent a signal to the outside. At the same time, if it detected a specific enemy, it would immediately open fire."
"So this wasn't an accident, then."
Hearing that, Fang Zheng immediately came to his conclusion. If it had been an accident, doing something like that clearly wouldn't have been worthwhile. In other words, they had likely intended to divert trouble elsewhere from the beginning. Of course, perhaps they hadn't known humans existed at the time, but they might have anticipated that another civilized race would come along?
In any case, now that war had already broken out, there was no point discussing that.
Still, space was infinite. Anything could happen. As long as there were no serious casualties, Fang Zheng had no intention of getting involved.
"How did the battle go?"
"The enemy retreated, and we suffered no casualties. The Immigrant Ship fleet is operating normally. The VF squad performed admirably, especially Asuka and Rei Ayanami, who did very well in battle."
At that point, Anya made a point of mentioning it. Naturally, Fang Zheng was pleased, but after giving it some thought, he immediately asked the important question.
"What is their civilization level?"
"Level three, and they don't have shield technology."
"Oh... level three."
Hearing that, Fang Zheng was instantly relieved. A mere level-three civilization that had not even developed