Turbulence

After boarding the War Axe, he planned to rely on his pre-rebirth accumulations, using outstanding performance and a small lie to gain Yuan Shu's increased trust.

He considered trying to bypass the Yuan Family's secret medicine.

However, after careful consideration, he rejected this idea.

What if Yuan Shu saw Wang Dong's exceptional performance and raised his expectations, changing the requirement from killing a direct descendant of the Jin Family to destroying the Jin Family entirely? Or what if he didn't use the Yuan Family's secret medicine but some other, more stringent method?

What to do?

This wasn't an impossible scenario.

Therefore, Wang Dong ultimately adopted the most conservative plan with the fewest variables.

He would continue to play dumb and take command of the War Axe.

Only after gaining command of the War Axe would he initiate a strategic retreat slightly earlier than planned.

With this slight head start, Wang Dong piloted the War Axe into the depths of the asteroid belt, easily evading the Jin Family's warships.

This perfectly concealed his presence while also preventing the War Axe from being heavily damaged, maximizing its combat power.

Under normal circumstances at this point, the most important thing Wang Dong should do was to review the information left by Yuan Shu in the ship's mainframe.

The pre-rebirth Wang Dong had indeed done just that.

The more information one possessed, the clearer the understanding of the situation, and the more methodical one's decisions would be.

The current Wang Dong, naturally, no longer needed to pore over the War Axe's logs to learn its combat methods.

His decades of experience fighting the Jin Family made him intimately familiar with the War Axe.

To put it bluntly, Wang Dong could complete the entire process of using the restroom on the War Axe with his eyes closed.

So far, Wang Dong's plan was proceeding smoothly.

"Since I've avoided direct contact with the Jin Family warships, I just need to wait for these two additional modules to complete their buffering, and then I can return to the Mine Overlord Type 2 and resume mining operations.

This way, I can completely extricate myself from today's events and remain an ordinary interstellar miner.

The only potential hidden danger is whether the legendary vengeful Jin Family will vent their anger on the miners in the mining area because they couldn't find the War Axe's whereabouts.

They wouldn't need to target a specific miner; a few random main cannon bombardments would suffice to trigger a chain reaction in the gravitational turbulence of the nearby airspace.

In such a situation, the mining area would be like hell mode; mining spacecraft operating in close proximity wouldn't be able to withstand it."

Wang Dong calmly deduced.

But with so much time having passed without any incident, this potential threat could be ruled out.

Wang Dong stared intently at a small virtual screen on the right side of the command deck.

He had specifically pulled it up to display the data from the micro-probes he had deployed earlier.

Two hours ago, the results had come in.

After the Mie Particle effect in that area disappeared, the more than ten micro-probes he had deployed transmitted their observational data.

Less than an hour after Wang Dong had commanded the War Axe to execute its strategic retreat, a Kindling Warship, also of destroyer class, had appeared there.

"It really was Sima Decao."

From certain details of this warship, Wang Dong recognized it as the very person who, in his previous life, had soundly defeated him, a rookie captain.

If he said he didn't want to get revenge immediately, that would be a lie.

However, Wang Dong was quite self-aware.

He truly couldn't defeat them yet.

Sima Decao, a direct descendant of the Jin Family, was backed by his family, and the share of resources he received was far beyond ordinary imagination.

His flagship had a comprehensive evaluation rating exceeding LV.11.

Compared to the War Axe's LV.6, it was an entire tier difference.

In a head-on engagement, the War Axe's main cannon, unless it landed ten consecutive hits, wouldn't even be able to breach the enemy warship's energy shield.

Conversely, the War Axe's energy shield might not be able to withstand two consecutive salvos from the enemy.

Of course, while a direct confrontation was impossible, it didn't mean there were no other options.

In his previous life, even though the War Axe had been heavily damaged, after temporarily escaping pursuit, Wang Dong had spent days pondering and had indeed found a method.

Leveraging his familiarity with the celestial environment, Wang Dong found a suitable ambush zone.

Asteroid belt mining areas often experienced gravitational turbulence.

Some hidden gravitational turbulence was internally in a state of relative equilibrium and was usually unnoticeable.

However, when external factors caused a disturbance that reached a certain threshold, it could erupt suddenly.

These hidden and powerful turbulence zones were considered the greatest traps by interstellar miners.

Relying on his years of experience navigating the mining areas, Wang Dong found such an area with powerful gravitational turbulence.

He had previously planted a large number of space mines on asteroids at a certain distance from this location.

Because it was within the asteroid belt, the effective detection range and accuracy of the warships' sky patrol radar were greatly reduced. The space mine traps Wang Dong had set were difficult to detect due to the distance.

Subsequently, Wang Dong commanded the War Axe to slightly reveal its presence, and it was immediately tracked by the Jin Family warships that had been searching nearby!