Perhaps Yang Xiyi really was someone favored by the spirit of the universe. Just three minutes later, a second unmanned interstellar transport ship came through the stargate, carrying tens of millions of tons of desperately needed fleet supplies.
This time, two Yang Fleet destroyers had already drawn close to the stargate. It was as if they could clearly see with the naked eye a transport ship shaped like a ribbonfish forcing its way out of the deep-blue liquid shell of a gas giant. At first glance, it looked like a ferocious giant beast leaping out of an abyssal sea.
All right... compared to the gas giant the stargate was disguised as, the transport ship was tiny too—at most, like a mosquito poking its way up out of an ocean. Naturally, they couldn't see it with the naked eye, but they could at least watch a high-definition live feed from a radio telescope with no delay.
By rounding up, that counted as seeing it with the naked eye, of course.
The destroyer crews let out cries of amazement, which quickly turned into exhilarated cheers.
"Destroyer Ant-Man 277 requests permission to make a test passage."
"Destroyer Gladiator 121 requests permission to stand by and observe."
The crews' requests quickly reached the Tianshu Laboratory.
Since the request came from Yang Fleet's soldiers, Yu Lian had no reason to object. Still, he suggested to Yang Xiyi, "You're going straight to a manned passage test? I thought you'd at least use a drone."
"I'd love to be cautious, but we really don't have much time. Thirty hours ago, we even exchanged fire with the fleet of Viscount Metige, who's been tracking us. Heh. After getting promoted to major general, he seems to have awakened an unshakable fixation on me."
"...Metige? Neat Metige?"
"Oh, you know