"Huh, we actually captured the Chaser of Light?"
Wang Dong was a little surprised.
Actually, the earlier talk about treating the Chaser of Light as a luxury interstellar cruise ship had mostly been a joke.
He truly hadn't been sure whether the Chaser of Light would choose to self-destruct if the situation turned against it.
After all, the Chaser of Light belonged to a band of space pirates.
The Fireseed Human Civilization Alliance's conventions stipulated that senior officers aboard Star Destroyers who gave up the option of self-destruction and surrendered voluntarily were entitled to guarantees such as personal safety.
But those conventions weren't completely inflexible.
For example, when dealing with space pirate bands, they were often applied with several caveats.
The Fireseed Human Civilization Alliance authorities also frequently turned a blind eye to such cases.
In fact, according to his estimates,
unless the Sky Peng Horizontal took the initiative to call for the Chaser of Light's surrender and offered clear guarantees, the odds of the ship choosing to surrender were less than twenty percent.
Yet, against all odds, the Chaser of Light had chosen to surrender voluntarily.
For a moment, Wang Dong even wondered whether he'd made a serious mistake in his earlier calculations.
But a report from the front lines soon made him realize that the problem wasn't on his end. Something had gone wrong aboard the Chaser of Light.
"You're saying Empress Dowager Xiao is aboard the Chaser of Light?
And she has a say in half of the ship's decisions?"
After confirming it repeatedly and receiving Lieba's repeated assurances, Wang Dong finally accepted that reality could be more outrageous than fiction.
"The Three Harmony Group coveted a secret medicine formula in Empress Dowager Xiao's possession.
So after Tuoba Kuohai defeated her, he took her with him.
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