Chapter 155

Just as he was preparing to say something more.

Xu Zi'an suddenly felt a stir in his heart, and his expression turned solemn in an instant.

Without a word, he immediately focused all his attention on the "Little Wife" Radiant, which was scouting ahead.

After sensing the situation, he jumped over without the slightest hesitation.

With 100 Wealth Points consumed, Xu Zi'an had already appeared in the cockpit of the "Little Wife" Radiant.

The moment he jumped over—

"Beep, beep, beep—"

"Unidentified target detected. 99% probability of being interstellar pirates!"

Accompanied by the light-brain's alert.

Xu Zi'an looked toward the area displayed on the detection radar.

He saw that the detection radar had already scanned quite a few starships marked in red.

There were over thirty starships in total!

And all of them were hidden behind a derelict planet nearby!

They were clearly preparing an ambush.

And the target of the ambush...

It went without saying.

It must be them.

This area did not yet belong to the empty reaches of the universe, so there were not only derelict planets but also quite a few asteroid belts.

There was no doubt.

This group of interstellar pirates must have placed mini-detection radars in some area they had passed through.

After detecting the trail of their fleet.

They set up an ambush at the pulse jump point.

In other words...

As soon as they performed a pulse jump.

When they came out, they would happen to be right here!

And they would happen to enter their ambush circle!

This was also a common ambush method used by interstellar pirates.

Perhaps it was because the stealth function of the Radiant was too formidable.

Or perhaps they had discovered the "Little Wife" Radiant but did not intend to make a move.

To avoid alerting the enemy, they were waiting for the merchant fleet to appear here.

Therefore, even though the Radiant had appeared for a while now.

They still remained completely motionless.

Xu Zi'an carefully observed the information displayed on the detection radar.

There were over thirty ships that could be detected.

And there were certainly others that could not be detected.

Based on the level of the Radiant's detection radar.

What the Radiant could not detect were basically high-level assault ships and above.

Or even destroyer-class ships!

That meant...

This group of pirates.

Was at least a medium-sized pirate group.

He pondered for a moment.

Just as the "Big Wife" Radiant on the other side was about to enter the pulse jump state.

Xu Zi'an jumped back in a hurry.

He then immediately opened the general communication channel and said at once: "Wait!"

The merchant fleet and the escort fleet, who were preparing to perform the pulse jump, stopped the jump immediately upon hearing this.

Manager Lin asked hurriedly: "Radiant, what happened? Did you discover something?"

Manager Lin's tone was somewhat nervous.

The captain of the Spear also immediately asked: "What's wrong?"

The others all waited for Xu Zi'an's answer.

Xu Zi'an said in a deep voice: "I have a very bad premonition."

"I have a feeling that we are highly likely to encounter an attack during this pulse jump."

"I have been through many battles, but without exception, my premonitions have been accurate, and they have saved me more than once!"

"So I trust my premonition very much."

"At the same time, just before the previous two pulse jumps."

"When we passed through an asteroid belt."

"I seemed to vaguely see traces of what looked like detection radars."

"However, they were hidden, so I didn't pay much attention at the time."

"Now that I have suddenly developed a strong premonition, I have suddenly become certain that those must have been detection radars!"

"Therefore, I believe we should strengthen our guard and be ready for battle at any time!"

These words...

Were of course nonsense made up by Xu Zi'an.

However, although he knew he was talking nonsense.

These people did not know.

Because the nonsense Xu Zi'an spoke had a basis; it was not fabricated out of thin air.

Sure enough, Xu Zi'an's words made everyone surprised.

But no one doubted the truthfulness of his words.

Because in the universe, those who have been fighting and killing for years actually do have such premonitions!

And the premonitions are often very strong.

Such things have been exposed more than once.

Some of them had even had such premonitions themselves, which had saved their lives.

He pondered for a moment.

The captain of the Spear suggested in a deep voice: "Regardless of whether the Radiant's premonition is accurate or not."

"I believe we should increase our vigilance."

"Even if the premonition is wrong, we won't lose anything."

"So I suggest that this time, we reduce our jump distance by another 0.03 light-years."

"We will fly across this 0.03 light-year distance directly!"

"After all, interstellar pirates always calculate the target's precise jump landing point!"

"As long as we don't enter their landing range, it's hard to say who will be ambushing whom!"

The words of the captain of the Spear were unanimously agreed upon by everyone.

Only Manager Lin smiled bitterly: "Captain Spear, I think, wouldn't it be better if we just took a detour?"

"After all, we don't know the opponent's combat strength..."

Before the captain of the Spear could speak.

Another fleet captain immediately said: "Manager Lin."

"I believe you also understand that for us doing escort missions, the reward is not actually that important."

"What we value more is obtaining a large amount of evolution points while earning the reward!"

"Of course, we won't just foolishly charge in."

"We will follow the captain of the Spear's suggestion, and we will dispatch a few starships with the best stealth performance to sneak over."

"If the opponent's strength is not strong, we will fight."

"If the opponent's strength is too strong, we will run!"

“In any case, rest assured, I won’t disregard the caravan just to obtain evolution points.”

“Besides, none of us are looking to get ourselves killed.”

Manager Lin gave a helpless smile and said, “Alright then, I agree to your plan.”

“I think 0.03 light-years might be a bit short; how about shortening it by about 0.05 light-years?”

The captain of the Spear ship said with a smile, “0.03 light-years is truly enough.”

“Unless the opponent is a cruiser!”

“But I don’t think that’s very likely. If we increase it to 0.05 light-years, the travel time will be too long.”

“By then, the other side will definitely grow suspicious, and it won’t be suitable for our counter-ambush.”

Manager Lin thought for a moment.

It did seem to be the case.

He immediately had no objections.

He agreed to everyone’s plan.

Suddenly!

The entire caravan began to take action.

The jump distance was set.

They jumped toward that direction.