"What?"
Gold Tooth kicked the mechanic aside, picked up the binoculars, and saw that the two reconnaissance planes overhead had actually turned north.
He suddenly remembered that he had often operated along the northern route lately, attacking passing merchant ships and civilian vessels. These Shrimp were clearly still patrolling according to routine; they had not noticed anything unusual.
Yet right beneath their noses, a massive fleet flickered in and out of sight within the sea fog.
It definitely was not the fog concealing the fleet. No sea fog could hide something so enormous. Naturally, all of this was thanks to the masterpiece of the fleet's chief mechanic.
The machine he had developed could create a field that distorted light. Anyone looking into the field from outside could see nothing but an empty stretch of sea. And the field's range was immense, enough to conceal the entire fleet.
But the device had one flaw—
Its energy consumption was terrifying. The instant it activated, it drained all the electricity from Fangili Port.
To carry and operate this device, Malefic had undergone even riskier engine modifications. While increasing its power, they had also made engine failure so likely that mechanics had to watch it almost every second.
Even so, Malefic's engines could only barely sustain the machine's operation. With it activated, Malefic's speed dropped to its lowest point, and the entire fleet could only crawl forward like snails.
So if the humans discovered this operation beforehand and set up an ambush along the way, Gold Tooth would have nowhere to cry.
This time, he was truly going all in. Victory or destruction.
"They really left..."
Gold Tooth muttered as he lowered the binoculars and picked up the communicator.
"Fly Boss, your boys don't need to take off. The Shrimp are gone."
"Then when