Arms of Orion, Death Nebula.

Somewhere in an area where there is no spatial turbulence.

With the emergence of gravity waves, a large number of insect mounds arrived here through jump.

Not only the four major civilizations couldn't understand, but even these female insects couldn't understand why Merhaidi suddenly issued a retreat order.

In fact, the reason why it suddenly ordered the evacuation was a sign of its high intelligence.

At the beginning, the enemy only had more than 200 warships, which was not a problem for McHaidi at all. In addition, the other party was unprepared, and the Starry Sky Zerg directly controlled the situation without even paying much price.

But soon, this situation changed, and support from the other party began to appear continuously.

Sometimes there are dozens of battleships...

Sometimes hundreds of battleships...

However, McHaidi did not have any worries, because it could see that these supporting warships were rubbish, and even ordinary warworms could easily kill them.

After all, there is no shield system, and the weapon system is pitifully weak. It is completely different from the original 200-odd warships.

Therefore, even if within ten hours, support continued to arrive, and even if the total number of warships added up, nearly two thousand battleships arrived, it was not enough to make it vigilant.

Until the four major civilization garrisons from the floodlight star system arrive...

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Although the survey fleet was beaten by the Star Zerg from the very beginning, McHaidi never felt that his opponent was weak.

On the contrary, he believed that the initial fleet was very strong, much more powerful than the warships that came later.

It can be seen from the loss of 38 worm graves alone that even though they were completely suppressed, the opponent still destroyed 38 worm graves under his command.

Therefore, when it discovered that more than 200 such warships had arrived, it decided to retreat.

After all, he did not have the ability to foresee and could not know that more such warships would come later.

You must know that the forces in its hands are limited. If it continues to fight a war of attrition like this, the consequences will be difficult to predict.

Of course, although this is a very important reason, it is not the whole reason.

On the other hand, Mahdi was already on the verge of evolution.

For thousands of years, it's not that it doesn't want to evolve, it's that it's unable to evolve.

Because all the creatures it can find in the Death Nebula have been eaten up.

Although it retreated this time, it had gained a lot from the ten hours of fighting.

At this moment, it was looking at the delicacies that were being brought to it by the war bugs, and its saliva was even drooling, dripping onto the ground.

Although most of them are lifeless, and many are just broken pieces, it doesn't matter.

The important thing is that as long as you eat all these highly intelligent creatures, you may be able to break through the last window and be promoted to a second-level female insect.

By then, it will be much easier to deal with the warships outside.

Therefore, there is no need to foolishly engage in this battle with the opponent with unpredictable results when the situation is unclear.

After a while...

Continuous screams continued to be heard from the central cavity of the insect mound.

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A few days later.

It is 1,700 light years away from the Death Nebula.

Yutian star system.

"Captain, we have arrived at the outskirts of the Yutian star system."

"Have you found any traces of the Scorpion Pirates?"

"No!"

"Sure enough, is it the same as what was said in the intelligence..."

After hearing Fu Wanting's report, Jiang Xingchen began to think.

According to the information obtained by Su He, the Scorpion Pirates Group is different from the other two pirate groups. Generally speaking, the Interstellar Pirate Group will not occupy a star system as a base.

After all, the fundamental survival of interstellar pirates is to prevent other civilizations from finding your home base. Otherwise, you will definitely be encircled and suppressed by a certain civilization or multiple civilizations.

But the Scorpion Pirates are a strange group. Unlike other pirate groups, they directly occupy the Yutian star system as their home base.

Of course, the civilized garrisons around them have not thought about encirclement and suppression, but the problem is...

As long as the army approaches here, the Scorpion Pirates will disappear completely. Even if they search the entire Yutian star system, they cannot be found.

After they withdraw, the Scorpion Pirates will immediately launch revenge on these civilizations that participated in the encirclement and suppression.

They may focus on your merchant ships to rob them, or they may attack your lone warships, etc.

As time went by, no one dared to launch an encirclement and suppression of the Poisonous Scorpion Pirate Group.

This is also the reason why the Scorpion Pirates have occupied the Yutian star system for hundreds of years and continue to rob fleets, but they still survive to this day.

"Keep moving forward, target Loulan star orbit!"

"Yes, Captain!"

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at the same time.

In an asteroid belt in the Yutian star system.

"Old man, which civilization's battleship do you think this is? There is no matching result in the database?"

The leader asked the people beside him.

Although he called him an old man, no matter how you looked at it, the person standing next to him at the moment looked like he was less than thirty years old.

"Wait a minute!"

His eyes continued to stare at Hou Yi in the picture, with a trace of confusion flashing in his eyes.

In fact, the appearance and style of this battleship is inexplicably familiar.

And at the next moment, he seemed to notice something. He quickly came to a console and started to operate it with his hands.

Soon, the battleship in the picture was zoomed in, and a close-up of its side was given.

"Hou Yi Hao..."

"Descendant?"

"Is this really... or is it a trap?"

Looking at the three words "Houyi Hao" in the picture, he fell silent...

Although he wanted to contact the other party directly to confirm his suspicions, he did not dare to act rashly.

But if this was a trap, then all the hard work he had put in over four hundred years would be lost in one fell swoop.

On the side, the leader also saw the three characters Hou Yi in the picture. After all, the picture had been enlarged to such an extent that he would be really blind if he couldn't see it.

However, he also understood why the "old man" hesitated.

"Old man, let me go there. Even if I am discovered, at most I will just jump away and escape, and then come back after a few months."

"Well, that's good too!"

After pondering for a while, the "old man" nodded and said.

"But you must remember that if anything goes wrong, jump immediately!"

"I know, I know, old man, you are getting more and more verbose."

After waving his hand, the leader walked out of the room directly.

More than ten minutes later.

The bridge of Houyi.

"Captain, a cruiser was found, distance 9200."

"Well, where did it come from?"

After hearing the radar officer's report, Jiang Xingchen asked.

"It's unclear. It appeared on the radar out of thin air, and no trace of the jump was detected!"

"Captain, an unknown cruiser is sending us a communication request!"

Just as the radar officer finished speaking, the communications officer spoke immediately.

"Captain, doesn't this look a little like the Scorpion Pirates?"

"You are right. According to the intelligence, the Scorpion Pirates never communicate with ships of other civilizations, let alone initiate communication requests."

After hearing Fu Wanting's words, Jiang Xingchen nodded in agreement.
To be continued...