It was a battlefield that had long since fallen silent.
The wreckage of more than a dozen sunken warships had been caught by the magnetic field formed by the three moons of a large terrestrial planet, after drifting behind the orbit of Planet 4 in the 354 system. Now it lay scattered across this planetary island, looking at a glance like a graveyard made from the corpses of warships.
The Lone Ranger even found two heavy cruisers among the wreckage.
Needless to say, in this vast expanse of the Dawn Nebula, the only fleet capable of threatening the Empire's medium-sized combat ships could only be Yang Xiyi's fleet.
The scene was undeniably a clear-cut victory, but the Commonwealth had not gotten off without a cost. The Lone Ranger soon discovered that the wreckage also included one of their own Blazing Sun-class destroyers and one Forest Ranger-class cruiser.
Judging from the bullet holes and traces of residual energy on the wreckage, the battle had taken place about three days earlier.
But Yang Xiyi's fleet was a group that had mastered the art of hide-and-seek, and they had been extremely quick about covering their tracks. They had left behind almost no gravitational residue from the main fleet's jump away.
"Another piece of good news, and another piece of bad news," Yu Lian murmured.
The good news was that Yang Xiyi's fleet seemed to be in decent shape. They still had the combat strength and morale to wipe out an Imperial patrol fleet in a short time and then get away.
The bad news was that they had lost two more warships. Playing hide-and-seek with the Empire was a high-wire act, and there was no way to replace the ships and personnel they lost.
Then Little White said, "The Lone Ranger also reported