After a long time, Zhang Weihua and the others did not receive any information from the other fleet, not even a trace of radio waves.

Zhang Weihua and they knew that this time they might really encounter the legendary space pirates, although in so many years of space trade, Zhang Weihua and they had never encountered space pirates, after all, because the Ming Empire had just established diplomatic relations with the major civilizations in the galaxy, the route between the Ming Empire and the major civilizations in the galaxy did not exist before this, so naturally there were no space pirates.

After the Ming Empire stepped onto the big stage of the galaxy, due to the establishment of diplomatic relations with major civilizations, the routes between the galaxy and the major civilizations have also been established one after another, and the routes between the Ming Empire and the Protoss civilization are the busiest, after all, the Ming Empire is the closest between the major fifth-level civilizations in the galaxy and the Protoss civilization.

Although he has never encountered space pirates, this does not mean that he does not know the existence of space pirates, after all, whether it is on TV or in movies, their business often appears, and even he has a lot of information about space pirates from other civilizations, so although he has never met space pirates, Zhang Weihua is no stranger to him.

As a cosmic merchant, he has long been prepared to encounter cosmic pirates, after all, he often walks by the river without getting his shoes wet, he has never encountered cosmic pirates in more than 200 years of cosmic trade, which is already God's mercy on him, so he never expects that he will not encounter cosmic pirates when he trades with other civilizations in the universe.

What's more, many of the other cosmic trade merchants of the Ming Empire have encountered cosmic pirates, but fortunately, there have been no casualties.

However, the fleets of other civilizations that came to trade with the Ming Empire suffered serious losses.

Although Zhang Weihua knew that they might really encounter a space pirate this time, Zhang Weihua was not afraid, although the other party's spaceships were all real space warships, and all of them were space warships with a fifth-level civilization level, but one thing Zhang Weihua was sure of was that the other party's scientific and technological level definitely did not reach the level of the Ming Empire.

Because Zhang Weihua clearly told him from the radar of the battleship that the size of the opponent's largest space battleship was no more than the space battlecruiser he was currently on, and the opponent's largest space battleship was only more than 200 kilometers, while the other sizes were only about 100 kilometers, and these space battleships could barely reach the standard of a fifth-level civilization.

Although the number of space warships on the other side was large, this was not a reason for him to be afraid, after all, as a cultivator of the Jindan period, even without the help of the power of the spaceship, he was absolutely sure that he would be able to break through safely, not to mention that there was also a newest space battlecruiser of the Ming Empire in his team.

You must know that the Ming Empire is a fifth-level top-level civilization, even if it is the wrong cosmic battlecruiser in his hand, it is not as good as the latest cosmic battleship of the Ming Empire's military, but compared to a fifth-level primary civilization cosmic battleship, it is definitely much stronger, even if there is only one such warship in his own hands, if the other party really only has so many spaceships, then the next victory or defeat is unknown.

However, one thing he can be sure of is that it is impossible to drive away or destroy the other party unscathed this time, after all, no matter what, the other party's spaceships are all spaceships with a fifth-level civilization level, and all of them are real space warships, and he only has one real space battleship in his hand, and the rest are a few space-armed merchant ships, and even a pure civilian transport ship with no offensive power.

"Boss, this strange fleet is flying towards us at a fast speed, and they are very fast, according to the radar, they have reached 90% of the speed of light."

At this moment, Zhang Weihua received a report from Xiao Liu that the other party's fleet had already flown towards them at a sub-light speed.

Of course, if the other party is a fourth-level civilization space fleet, or a quasi-fifth-level civilization space fleet, then Zhang Weihua and they don't have to pay attention to them at all, just start the warp engine and leave directly.

But the other party also has the level of a fifth-level civilization, so it is obvious that the war between them and the space pirates is inevitable, because as a fifth-level civilization, whether it is the Ming Empire or the other side's space pirates, they will definitely be able to attack the spaceship that is sailing at warp speed.

You must know that the spaceship in warp speed navigation cannot be attacked at all, and can only be defended, and even the defense is very weak.

Therefore, wars between fifth-level civilizations rarely use warp speed under normal circumstances, and once they are ambushed, the consequences will be very serious.

Seeing that the other party was flying towards him quickly, Zhang Weihua first asked Xiao Liu to start an unmanned space shuttle ship and fly towards the mainland of the Ming Empire.

This kind of space shuttle is specially used to transmit information, after all, the universe is so big, and the farthest communication distance that the Ming Empire can do now is only a few hundred light years, or even less than 600 light years.

The gap between 600 light years and the entire galaxy is too big, and this range is only a drop in the ocean, so the Ming Empire specially developed this kind of fast space shuttle ship in order to achieve long-distance rapid information transmission.

This kind of fast space shuttle ship is not large, not even as big as a large space shuttle, but its speed is very fast, and the fastest speed of this space shuttle can reach 95% of the speed of light.

And this kind of space shuttle can carry out high-speed warp navigation in space, the shuttle is an unmanned shuttle, plus the material to create the legendary level is very special, so when this kind of shuttle is warp in the universe, it is far from being comparable to other space warships, and his speed can reach hundreds of times the speed of light.

Although this kind of cosmic shuttle is very easy to use, it is only the current transition product of the Ming Empire, after all, the Ming Empire has begun to develop a new communication hand, that is, hyperspace communication, after all, the Ming Empire has now entered the threshold of space technology, and hyperspace communication is no longer an unattainable thing for the Ming Empire.

In fact, the theoretical research of hyperspace communication has entered the demonstration stage, so it will not take long for ultra-long-distance communication to be realized for the Ming Empire.

Then he took his armed merchant ships and headed towards the opposing fleet, while the transports that had no attack power accelerated in the direction of the Protoss civilization.

After all, transport ships without attack power, although due to the technology of the Ming Empire, also have strong protective power, but they can't play much role, so he directly ordered these spaceships without attack power to escape directly.