So.
Not long after the Royal Battleship of the Shannan Kingdom arrived at its destination.
An invisible ripple passed through space.
The Sky Peng Horizontal arrived without a sound!
"We made it!"
Seeing the scene before him.
Wu Baiyi let out a cheer.
This was a barren star system.
A barren star system was one that basically lacked valuable mineral resources and had no habitable planets.
Such systems were quite common in the universe.
Generally speaking, when the various nations of Kindling Human Civilization counted the administrative galaxies under their jurisdiction.
They did not include barren star systems.
Naturally.
Most of these barren star systems were sparsely visited—because they had no value.
Yet for that very reason, they often became bases for Star Pirates and other underground forces.
Of course.
Since the Shannan Kingdom had chosen this barren star system as a fallback location.
They had surely made preparations.
For example.
They might have arranged for a "Star Pirate group" to use this barren star system as a base!
When the Sky Peng Horizontal arrived in this barren star system.
The Royal Battleship of the Shannan Kingdom they had been tracking was working with several other warships to easily wipe out a number of vessels.
It was obvious.
A considerable portion of the Star Pirate group originally based in this barren star system consisted of Shannan Kingdom sleeper agents.
The ones being wiped out.
Were the real Star Pirates!
As for why they were sure something was fishy about this barren star system.
The reason was simple.
Wang Dong and the others would never believe.
That the Royal Battleship of the Shannan Kingdom, while fleeing, would have the leisure to go hunt down Star Pirates.
And then, in such a short time.
Manage to split a Star Pirate group from