As for the Broad-Spectrum Silence, Deng Zhengqing and William Banner were naturally shocked by it—so shocked that they didn't even know where to begin asking questions.
Take Banner, for instance. His minor had been in engine braking and ship dynamics, and when he first enlisted, he'd been assigned to the engineering department. By some stretch, that made him half a ship engineer. When it came to seeing a big ship, no one got more excited than engineers like them.
If he didn't have more pressing business, he'd have stayed holed up in the main engine room and never come out.
Deng Zhengqing also genuinely felt that, compared with the Commander's grand adventure in the Abyss Nebula, the legendary expedition of their raiding fleet suddenly seemed rather ordinary.
Feifei, however, thought her friends were still being far too modest.
"The revolutionary significance of your expedition can't be overstated. But we'll save those lofty words for when our leader gets back and can say them to you himself." Feifei smiled. "That's right, the Silence has plenty of mysteries left to unravel. He's not short on supplies, cruising range, or space."
Annie Romanova added, "In fact, we're rather short on people aboard our ship right now."
Deng Zhengqing nodded slightly, seeming to breathe a sigh of relief. Beside him, Banner didn't even bother to hide his delight.
And in front of his old classmate and his commanding officer's deputy (wife), the raiding fleet's acting commander naturally held nothing back. He quickly gave them a detailed account of their current situation, including what they'd been through since losing contact with Command.
Broadly speaking, things had gone much as Yu Lian and the others had guessed. The raiding fleet had suffered more than fifty percent casualties, fought across several border star regions, and been hunted