In the afternoon, Li Qing routinely clocked in and set reconnaissance and patrol targets, Li Qing picked up the book and studied again, occasionally raised his head to take a look at the situation when he was tired of reading, and chatted with several senior sailors in the bridge.

The vast majority of these officers are NPC humans, and there are occasionally players who are gifted enough to be captains or crew members, but they don't have them on board.

Many people think that they should have a good relationship with the crew, and they have nothing to care about.

Li Qing felt that there was no need.

Ordinary crew members don't need to have any relationship at all, they are clones, not natural people, and they are batch cannon fodder concocted through genetic technology.

The senior crew and the captain are actually similar, they die the same when the battleship dies, but they are the senior crew members on the ship, and they have the most contact with the commander.

Of course, this situation is only for ordinary captains and officers, and if it is the kind of elite captain with a blue name or above, it is different.

An elite captain with great talent has a very high increase in the combat power of the battleship, and such a captain will inevitably be taken seriously, and he must be taken seriously.

The next day, the vanguard fleet had already begun to jump, but it was not until the fourth day that Li Qing's escort fleet received the order to jump.

Like this kind of jump, if there is a flagship, it will make the flagship use field to wrap the entire fleet to jump together, and if there is no flagship, it is generally based on the battleship with the shortest jump distance in the fleet.

Half of this fleet is cargo ships, and it is impossible to have a five-stage jump engine, but it is not the lowest jump engine either.

When the transition was completed, Li Qing checked the jump distance on the star map and determined that all cargo ships were equipped with third-generation jump engines, with a maximum jump range of 30 light years.

The distance from the transit base to the outpost is about fifteen hundred light-years, which means that 60-70 jumps are required to reach it, given the variable distance between galaxies.

The cooling time of the jump engine is three hours, which means that it will take 210 hours or about 10 days to do non-stop.

But in fact, it is not so smooth, most of the areas can jump directly over, but some galaxies cannot jump over because of some special anomalies or special geographical environments, especially into the depths of the Zutar star field, which is covered with thick nebulae, and the jump engine will be greatly disturbed, and the low-level jump engine cannot be used at all, and can only rely on normal flight to pass through.

In the past few days, the fleet kept jumping, and it was about thirty light years in one jump, which was quite smooth, and did not encounter any obstacles.

But when they moved away from the transit base and entered the nebula of the Zutar Star Domain, Li Qing also saw a solid layer of gray dust in the starry sky for the first time, as if the entire starry sky was covered by a layer of fog.

It is worth mentioning that the command bridge of the battleship is not located in front of the battleship, but is generally located in the middle of the battleship, that is, the position of the central core module, which is generally surrounded by heavy surrounding, and some will have a small part prominent, but they are all wrapped in thick armor.

The reason why you can clearly see the outside of the glass when you stand in front of the bridge is because the spaceship's sensors, which contain a large number of detection and camera lenses, detect everything around it clearly, and then project it under the huge glass in front of the bridge, so it feels like the bridge is directly exposed, but in fact it is not.

If it is the command flagship of a large fleet, the internal shape of the bridge is round, and there is transparent glass on all sides, and when you enter the bridge for the first time, it will give people the illusion that the bridge is like a glass bead protruding from the hull, and you can see the starry sky of the battleship in all directions.

But in fact, the command bridges of these flagships are hidden deep inside the battleship, and it is impossible to see the command bridge unless the battleship's shield and thick armor are all broken.

To put it bluntly, from the outside, it is impossible to see the command bridge of the battleship, and the interior is only designed like this, which just gives the captain and commander a sense of experience across the starry sky.

It looks like there is a cold starry sky outside the thick glass, but in fact there is a thick alloy armor outside the glass.

The transition stage is quite safe, because the landing points are random, even if it is the same galaxy, the landing point will be slightly different from the star map, and this is slightly different, in the real starry sky, it is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of kilometers, even if there is an internal response, it is difficult to ambush.

Therefore, reconnaissance in the early stage is actually a formality, and the real danger is in the star field near the outpost.

Time passed in the jump, and on the ninth day, the fleet jumped again to the location, Li Qing saw the reconnaissance channel light up prompt, opened and projected a young man wearing the uniform of the expeditionary force, he had introduced himself once before, and knew that his name was Lu Qing and he was a member of the Tianhe Lu clan, he said expressionlessly:

"The fleet has arrived at the predetermined location, and there are many star systems that cannot even enter at sub-light speeds, and at the same time, this star field is encircled by a super-large pirate group called Rest, we have now entered the edge of their sphere of influence, from now on, the reconnaissance team cheers up, the reconnaissance range is expanded to at least one million kilometers, and every half an hour check-in means safety, and there is an accident by default when it overtime."

After posting the task, the man's projection disappeared, and Li Qing opened another branch channel with only two people, and said to Li Min:

"Let's still divide according to the past, I will be in front of you and behind."

"Yes."

The two destroyers quickly broke away from the ranks and flew into the distance.

The same arrangement as when he first set off, but this time he didn't dare to set up a patrol with the main fleet, but turned on the spacecraft sensor to the maximum, continuously scanning the surroundings, and even personally synchronized the radar scan map scanned by the sensor in front of him, and observed it with the crew in charge of the radar sensor.

In space, radar scans are centered on themselves, and the scan is a huge sphere of tiny lines in the center of the sphere.

"Dididi!"

A crisp siren sounded, and a red light lit up somewhere on the edge to the right of the scan, and he immediately looked over, and nineteen points of light appeared.

He immediately pressed his hands on the radar scan map and stretched it left and right, and the radar scan map was immediately stretched and expanded, and the nineteen points of light turned into the outlines of nineteen battleships composed of countless rays of light, and when he looked closely, he immediately recognized them as a pirate cruiser and two pirate destroyers, as well as seventeen pirate gunboats.

"Go around from the right and pause after a thousand kilometers."

The fleet immediately gave the order, the battleship trembled slightly, and the movement of the destroyer could be felt from the movement of the radar scan.

The battleship circled around to shorten the distance between the two sides, and included all the nineteen points of light in the scan map, feeling that there were no other warships behind the nineteen pirate ships, Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief and ordered:

"Send the radar scan back and keep the radar scanning."

In less than half a minute, Li Qing received an order from Lu Qing, who commanded the reconnaissance unit in the large fleet:

"Continue to observe for a quarter of an hour, and if there is no anomaly, give up the observation and return to the team."

"Okay."

Turning off communications, Li Qing ordered his subordinates to continue to observe at a distance.

Although the cruiser is one level higher than the destroyer, and normally the detection range of the same level 5 sensor is farther than the destroyer, the pirate ship does not need to expect how advanced the radar is, the characteristics of the pirate ship are clutter, and it likes heavy firepower, strong armor and light shield.

To put it bluntly, corsairs like various modifications to enhance firepower and strengthen armor, but the shield is generally weaker than that of regular warships.

On top of that, the Corsair's various functional accessories are not of a high level, from the reactor to the jump engine thruster, etc., the average level is lower than the player's configuration.

He kept his distance and observed for a full fifteen minutes, and until he left, the nineteen pirate ships did not find him, let alone a super-large caravan a million kilometers away.

Next, the caravan has been maintaining a normal movement, it seems that it does not want to jump, nor does it mean to enter the speed of light, the reconnaissance fleet has been staying in the distance, from time to time to encounter some large and small pirate fleets, occasionally Lu Qing will transfer several reconnaissance ships to a certain place to reconnoitre.

It was obvious that they knew this place well, as if they knew where the danger was.

Li Qing honestly obeyed the instructions and told him to go wherever he wanted, but while carrying out the task, he carefully wrote down Lu Qing's instructions, which were all the experience of commanding a large fleet, although it was only experience in reconnaissance.

Although there are only two ships now, there will always be a time in the future when you can command a huge fleet, and you can accumulate some experience now, so that you will not be overwhelmed by the time comes.

Lu Qing was born in the Tianhe Lu clan, which was a military lord with a stronger strength than the Qinghe Li clan, and he didn't know Lu Qing's specific background, but he could become the commander of one side in this large team composed of hundreds of noble gate lords, which was enough to show his excellence.

Time passed slowly, and although Li Qing had been vigilant, he couldn't help but relax after a long time.

At one moment, the communication channel suddenly opened, and before he could react, he heard a loud roar and a slight tremor coming from the channel.

Lu Qing's projection in the center of the light curtain had a gloomy face, and he commanded loudly:

"Everyone shrinks the reconnaissance range to 500,000 kilometers, cheers up and increases the frequency of reconnaissance, and notify me immediately if there is any abnormality."

He didn't explain that the sound of artillery bombardment just now was obviously at least the level of a large main gun, and it could be heard by them through communication, this must be an attack that directly attacked his battleship, which made Li Qing extremely surprised, you must know that Lu Qing was in the center of the caravan at this time, and he could be attacked, then....

He immediately sent a message to Li Lie to ask, and about ten seconds later, Li Lie sent back a message:

"Just now, there was a large pirate fleet rushing straight into the fleet, and it has already exchanged hands with the main force, but don't worry too much, you can still handle it."

Li Qingqi said:

"How could the pirate fleet rush over directly and get the news in advance?"

"No, it's just that there was a mistake in the reconnaissance on the other side just now, and a few pirate ships were missed, and the news of the fleet leaked."

"Uh...."

"By the way, don't make this kind of mistake, this trip is a collection of most of everyone's assets, I have invested more than 7 billion star dollars, what kind of accident is going to happen, when the time comes, it will be held accountable according to responsibility, and it will not be easy to mix in the future."

"I'll take notice."

Li Qing smacked his tongue, fortunately all his materials were stored in the universe in his palm, otherwise he would have to be nervous and worried.

Next, he inquired about the battle situation on Li Lie's side every half an hour, and roughly understood the situation there.

This rushing pirate fleet came from the Lester Pirate Group, with eleven battleships, hundreds of cruisers and destroyers, and nearly 2,000 pirate gunboats.

It's a pity that the escort fleet is stronger, not only the fleet is stronger on paper, but the quality of the warships is also higher, basically all of them are four-level and five-level configurations, and the most important thing is that the fleet commander is powerful.

The commander of the fleet is Yu Yuefei, this beauty of the Yu family not only has a purple epic commanding talent, but also awakens spiritual energy, the two abilities are superimposed, and the bonus to the fleet is ridiculously high, and it didn't take much time under her command to easily defeat almost a certain number of pirate fleets.

It's a pity that Li Qing was not in the headquarters and didn't see the fierce battle, and only intercepted a few pirate gunboats that had fled, which could be regarded as seeing blood.

After the battle, Lu Qing directly transferred the player who made the mistake back in the channel, and replaced him with a destroyer.

Although there was no punishment, he was transferred away in full view of everyone, which was not only very shameless.

The key is that most of the people in this fleet are from wealthy families, most of them are children of nobles, and the spread of this matter will definitely affect their reputation, and the reputation of the children of nobles is quite important, and the punishment can be more serious than the huge amount of money fined billions.

No one pleaded, and no one dared to intercede.

Not to mention the distance and the like, let's just say that no one is sure whether this is a mistake or deliberately letting people in, after all, it is as high as 2.8 trillion materials, and no one can guarantee whether anyone will have other thoughts.

You must know that although this Lester Pirate Group is only an NPC native-dominated force, but that was before, and now with the establishment of the outpost, this Pirate Group has become a force that players can join and open the reputation system.

This means that players can join this pirate syndicate, unlock prestige, and...

For pirates, successful robbery is the most direct way to increase reputation, and the stronger the target, the higher the value, and the more prestige will be increased.

And such a huge caravan, once the robbery is successful, not only can it gain super prestige, but the caravan's materials of up to 2.8 trillion star dollars can also make the ambition rich overnight.

Even if you can only get a portion of it, it's a staggering amount of money, and someone will definitely take that risk.