Reunion with Enterprise

Alice's Ghost Fleet landed steadily in the target starfield amid the spatial distortion brought by the jump.

The fleet emerged from an artificial wormhole of the Alunta Empire and entered an utterly unfamiliar sea of stars.

According to headquarters' orders, the Fifth Fleet needed to complete the encirclement of Enterprise here.

Alice fiddled with the equipment as she told Shen Sui the information she had received from headquarters. "The Alunta Empire doesn't seem to know which direction Enterprise JieJie broke through in yet. But as long as she shows herself, we'll definitely receive word immediately."

She sounded noticeably more exhausted as she spoke.

Although Alice's psychic power had grown to a truly terrifying level, the burden on her mind was equally immense.

Maintaining a fleet assembled entirely from fragments was indeed an extremely taxing task.

In fact, by this point, the Ghost Fleet had already completed its primary mission.

With its help, Alice had successfully used the Alunta Empire's artificial wormhole to reach Enterprise's vicinity.

Although they still did not know Enterprise's exact location, with the encirclement tightening by the moment, a final battle between the two sides was inevitable.

When the time came, Alice only needed to keep monitoring the Alunta Empire's communications, and sooner or later she would find Enterprise's exact position.

At a time like this, in order to ease her burden somewhat, releasing part of the starships—or even most of them—from their maintained state seemed like a good choice.

However, Alice ultimately abandoned that plan.

She intended to keep the Ghost Fleet active until she reunited with Enterprise.

When that happened, she could use these starships to have a proper fight with the Alunta Empire.

That opportunity came very quickly.

A report from the First Fleet came through the communications channel.

They had already tracked down