The silver-white spaceship continued through the void.
In the control room, the screen displayed the enemies' positions.
"The nearest enemy is already approaching 790 million kilometers. The second nearest is now 990 million kilometers away..."
The enemies were using high-powered Large Detectors, completely sacrificing concealment to improve detection performance. Naturally, they could not escape the Large Detector in Dongguan's possession, which had a range of one billion kilometers.
Dongguan remained in his seat, refining the Cloudmist World without responding.
Qiong adjusted the ship's course according to the enemies' positions, delaying contact with them as much as possible.
Activating their Large Detector effectively exposed their position to the enemies as well, but the positioning signal source inside the Cloudmist World treasure had already been guiding the enemies to them.
Both sides traveled at roughly the same speed, extremely close to light speed, though environmental resistance prevented them from actually reaching it.
The nearest enemy was nearly 800 million kilometers away, a little over five light-minutes, but since the Qiongluo Ship was also fleeing,
it would take even longer to actually catch up.
Another three minutes passed. The nearest enemy was now only 500 million kilometers away. More importantly, the detector had detected a third group of enemies.
Another five minutes passed.
"Still not done?" Qiong was growing anxious and looked at Dongguan, who was still calmly refining the Cloudmist World.
"Done." Dongguan opened his eyes and reached out to touch the White Statue. His hand sank straight inside, extracting a black signal transmitter resembling a USB drive.
"This is it."
"Qiong, how are things?" Dongguan asked.
"The nearest enemy is only 200 million kilometers away. The detector has detected five groups of enemies. One consists of three previous groups that merged, and another consists of two previous groups that merged," Qiong