Disdain

After both sides arrived at the preset battlefield, Wang Dong commanded the War Axe to disperse Mie Particles, obscuring the battlefield. With a stance of fighting with their backs to the river, they engaged in close-range artillery combat.

The artillery fire from both sides caused the disturbances to rapidly exceed the limit values. The local stable equilibrium within the strong gravitational turbulence was broken, and the turbulence suddenly erupted.

The gravitational turbulence itself was incapable of harming the Kindling Warship, which possessed tough shields and armor; at most, it would cause some trouble.

However, a large number of asteroids, pre-planted with space mines, were quickly drawn into the battlefield by the influence of the turbulence.

These were the true trump cards.

The space mines, which had simple friend-or-foe identification capabilities, dealt heavy damage to the Jin Family warships caught in the trap.

Facing an opponent whose engine module was heavily damaged and had lost all mobility, Wang Dong struck while the iron was hot, ultimately sinking it.

He then successfully obtained the antidote.

This removed the hidden danger of the Yuan Family's secret medicine within him.

Objectively speaking, Wang Dong's ambush plan was quite well-executed.

The results were the most direct proof.

He had successfully defeated an opponent who was a level higher than himself.

If this were a virtual match in the Star Domain Network, it would have been a perfect victory.

Unfortunately, reality is reality.

At the time, the inexperienced Wang Dong believed that ambushing a warship in a complex airspace like an asteroid belt would be done without anyone noticing, and it would be difficult to find any traces afterward.

He didn't realize, however, that Kindling Warships also had something akin to a "black box."

The failure to completely destroy the evidence meant that the Jin Family warships sent later were able to find the "black box" by following a special signal.

As a result, the entire process of this ambush fell into the Jin Family's view.

In the eyes of the subsequent Jin Family commander, Wang Dong exposed quite a bit of information during this ambush.

Firstly, the Captain of the War Axe had changed; it was no longer Yuan Shu.

According to Sima Decao's regular reports, Yuan Shu had sustained fatal injuries. The Jin Family's Heart-Piercing Dagger was the best guarantee.

Even with extreme measures, Yuan Shu's remaining lifespan after being wounded would not exceed twenty-four hours.

Therefore, the ambush, which took place several days after the incident, clearly wasn't commanded by Yuan Shu.

Furthermore, the style of this ambush was distinctly different from Yuan Shu's previous combat style.

It could be deduced that Yuan Shu had transferred the command authority of the War Axe to someone else before his death.

Secondly, the new Captain of the War Axe was clearly very familiar with the conditions within the asteroid belt mining area. So familiar, in fact, that they were completely aware of the highly stealthy invisible gravitational turbulence.

This allowed them to devise such a practical ambush.

With these two conditions combined, and considering the mining area where the War Axe was located at the time of the incident, the identity of the War Axe's new Captain was almost self-evident.

Besides the local miners who were conducting mining operations in the area at the time, who else could it be?

Thus, Wang Dong's identity was essentially half-exposed.

Before his rebirth, with the few additional modules on the War Axe, Wang Dong originally had the opportunity to lie low, at least not to be discovered by the Jin Family so quickly.

His actions, in the end, were forced by the Yuan Family's secret medicine that Yuan Shu had injected into him.

To achieve the conditions and obtain the antidote within a short year, the Wang Dong of that time couldn't find a better method and could only take a risky gamble.

The gamble succeeded, but the consequences were severe.

Not only did it leave clues, increasing the probability of Wang Dong's identity being exposed.

It also further worsened the condition of the already heavily damaged War Axe.

As a result, Wang Dong dared not use the functions of the ship's auxiliary system to enter the dimensional space to obtain origin points until the War Axe was repaired.

And there were no factories in the mining star domain and its surrounding areas capable of repairing a Kindling Warship.

Wang Dong also could not reveal his identity as the Captain of the War Axe.

Therefore, a significant period that should have been for development was wasted.

This time...

Wang Dong smiled playfully.

Who said the direct descendants of the Jin Family were so hard to kill?

Who said his only choice was the tough nut Sima Decao?

Furthermore, were the restrictions set by Yuan Shu on the War Axe's Shipborne Optical Computer truly only unlockable by fulfilling specific conditions?

"You little brats from the Jin Family, I'm not playing games with you this time. We'll meet again far in the future!"

After his rebirth, Wang Dong's vision and knowledge were no longer limited to a small corner. He now had the capital to escape this small chessboard.

He clearly recognized that continuing to entangle with the Jin Family at this stage was extremely dangerous and completely unnecessary.

Up to this point, relying on the intelligence advantage brought by his rebirth, Wang Dong had managed to hide himself well from the Jin Family's sight.

As long as the War Axe did not appear again and Wang Dong himself didn't slip up, the Jin Family would not focus their attention on Wang Dong for the time being.

As time passed, give Wang Dong some time to develop.

Let alone a mere direct descendant of the Jin Family.

Even if it was the entire Jin Family, Wang Dong dared to flip it over for you to see!

Of course, these were just grand pronouncements (empty talk); if you took them seriously, you'd lose.

Strategically, one should look down on the enemy, but tactically, one must still take them seriously.