The transfer of Captain's authority was complete. Wang Dong immediately gained command of the two armed robots behind him.
But Wang Dong took no action against Yuan Shu. He continued to treat him with respect.
"Mr. Yuan, is there anything else you'd like to tell me?"
As if.
What did Intermediate Body Tempering Technique mean?
Once Beginner Body Tempering Technique was mastered, one was already close to the limits of the human body.
After breaking through to Intermediate Body Tempering Technique, one could be considered "superhuman" in a sense.
Even with his severe injuries, Yuan Shu would have found it no harder to crush an ordinary person like Wang Dong, who had never practiced Body Forging Technique, than to crush an ant.
A mere two armed robots couldn't make Wang Dong feel safe.
"One last small request.
"There isn't much time left. I hope I can spend what little time I have remaining aboard War Axe without being disturbed, so that my soul can become one with War Axe for all eternity."
Yuan Shu nodded in satisfaction.
"Please rest assured. I'll make sure of it. However, from what you've said, War Axe is still being pursued. I'd like to look through the information you left behind and find a solution as soon as possible."
Wang Dong continued speaking respectfully, a trace of concern in his heart.
Last time, Wang Dong hadn't dared to make such a request. Instead, he had passively waited for Yuan Shu to reach the end of his life before attempting to control War Axe.
As a result, while he was waiting, the Jin Family's warships searched the vicinity, noticed something unusual in this star sector, and eventually found War Axe.
The stealth-capable add-on module aboard War Axe was still in its cooldown period and couldn't be activated immediately.
In the end, Wang Dong had relied on his familiarity with the terrain to play hide-and-seek with the Jin Family's search vessels. He had only managed to buy enough time for the module's cooldown to end, allowing him to reactivate the stealth function and temporarily shake off pursuit.
But in the process, War Axe had been badly damaged by the Jin Family's warships and had lost all initiative. This planted the seeds for the desperate, risky actions he would be forced to take later.
To avoid wasting this precious time again, Wang Dong made a different choice now.
"That's fine. You're the captain now, so it's your right. It seems you really are good at accepting and adapting to things."
After a brief pause, Yuan Shu spoke with some relief.
Wang Dong let out a long breath.
Good. I've firmly grasped the first turning point in my fate.
The matter was settled for the moment.
At that moment, after gaining Captain's authority, Wang Dong felt something in his mind was very different from before.
"Carrier acquired. Self-check in progress... Self-check complete. Carrier is qualified. System functions successfully activated."
This was the notification that the Warship Game Auxiliary System in Wang Dong's mind—his "cheat"—had been fully activated!
Mysterious characters streamed across the system interface in his mind.
"Permanent Function Two: High-speed Human-Machine Data Interaction, activated."
In the next instant, Wang Dong sensed a warm flame within War Axe establishing a mysterious connection with him.
That was the ship's core.
Through this connection, he could clearly sense the state of the entire warship.
It was like using the system's scanning function to examine a warship in detail. At that very moment, the overall structure of War Axe and the condition of each module all appeared in Wang Dong's mind.
It was as if the warship had become an extension of Wang Dong's mind. With a single thought, he could receive a vast amount of information.
"Query the basic data of this warship."
"Beep. This warship is the Fire Seed Destroyer War Axe. Its performance parameters are as follows: Main Cannon LV.2, Armor LV.2, Engine LV.2, Sky-Scanning Radar LV.1, Hull Structure LV.0, Energy Shield LV.2. Overall rating: Fire Seed Destroyer LV.6. Remaining Source Points: 12. Source Point acquisition rate: 25%." "Add-on modules: Flying Colt Warp Device LV.0, Quantum Entanglement Brainwave Control System LV.0, Mirage System LV.0." "Armor damage: 38%. Hull damage: 4%. Schematic follows..." "Main cannon ammunition remaining: 123 rounds. Secondary cannon ammunition remaining: 2012 rounds. Energy remaining: 2298. Living supplies remaining: 393 units."
Whether conveyed through spoken dialogue or displayed as written data, it would take at least ten seconds to relay such a string of information to Wang Dong.
But now, with the Warship Game Auxiliary System in his mind fully activated, the exchange of data took only an instant.
It was as if the human brain had become a computer, capable of processing a large amount of data in a short time.
As a result, the improvement in control efficiency was like night and day.
It was clear that captains with and without an auxiliary system were practically two different species.
In his previous life, Wang Dong had marveled at the warship auxiliary system for a long time after it was activated.
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