However, after putting aside any subjective thinking and thinking carefully, Li Qing felt that this time he was intercepted by pirates because of the lack of chance.

The reason is very simple, if it is an internal ghost, it must know the strength of the escort fleet, and it must know how strong the talent of the fleet commander Yu Yuefei is.

And although this wave of pirate fleets is quite large, it is still far from robbing this caravan, and it is impossible for another fleet of this size to do it.

Therefore, this can only be said to be a routine robbery that happened to coincide with a pirate group.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no ghosts in the fleet, and judging by the value of this caravan, it is definitely worth someone to take the risk, although it is unlikely.

Then, just as Li Qing expected, Lu Qing constantly emphasized the importance of reconnaissance in the channel, constantly reminded them to pay attention, and when they finished cleaning up the battlefield and returned to the road, they also asked them to increase the number of reconnaissance warships, and Li Qing also transferred the frigate he had placed in the team to ensure a distance of 5,000 kilometers from the destroyer and expand the reconnaissance range.

After another two hours, the rotation system was even readjusted, and their squad, which was originally divided into six groups of two, with one group per day, was now forced to play two groups at a time, and six rounds became three rounds to increase the reconnaissance range.

Listening to Li Lie, there is a sub-base of the Lester Pirate Group in this galaxy, as well as a large number of refreshed pirate small bases, with a strong interference and interception force field, just before the wormhole leading to the next galaxy, causing them to be unable to use faster-than-light to travel, let alone jump away directly, they can only fly over slowly, which takes more than half a month.

Being in this galaxy, which is full of pirates, they must expand their reconnaissance range to prevent being caught by the main force of the pirate sub-base.

But this has nothing to do with Li Qing, because he is going to take a turn off.

The two battleships returned to the Grand Fleet, handed over to the four people who took over, and then set the two battleships to follow the large force.

Although this galaxy is in the pirate sphere of influence, and there are pirate ships everywhere, the starry sky is too empty and vast, and they have reconnaissance ships to avoid pirates, so they have not fought for a day.

This was the case for the next few days, every three days when it was his turn, four times in a row and twelve days without encountering a few pirates, if it weren't for the fact that the fleet had been in a state of constant combat, unknowingly thinking that this was a safe galaxy.

There was no battle for more than ten days, and the battleship kept following and had nothing to do, so he accidentally upgraded several shipbuilding-related theoretical skills by one level, from LV7 to LV8, and by the way, he entered the universe in the palm of his hand, completed the finishing work of ten frigates, and restarted the construction of the second batch of frigates.

There were no accidents, and the huge fleet left the system without alarming the pirate base.

Coming out of the wormhole, the vanguard defeated a pirate fleet of more than 200 warships around the wormhole, plunged headlong into the starry sky, and two hours later began to activate the hyperspace engine into a sub-light state.

The rest of the journey was full of intermittent faster-than-light sailing, which took about a month or so before the fleet stopped in a galaxy and rested in place in a strange starry sky.

At this time, Li Lie told everyone in the channel:

"Brothers, be careful, the last level is over, and after that, it will be the range of the outpost patrol."

Li Qing asked:

"Do you want to fight?"

Li Lie nodded:

"It is estimated that there will be a dozen or so galaxies in the next row that are a key junction area connecting the transit base and the outpost, the Lester Pirate Group has a large base here, and the Shata Tribal United Civilization also has an outpost here, the forces are intricate, all kinds of monitoring and detection equipment are everywhere, it is impossible for such a large fleet of ours to sneak around, there will definitely be conflicts."

"Shata tribal union? Is it an alien civilization? ”

Li Lie nodded:

"Yes, it's one of the three major alien civilizations we need to face, and its home planet is a large swampy planet, and most of its main species have evolved from arthropods, which are extremely warlike."

Li Qing suddenly became interested and said:

"Can you elaborate on that?"

At this time, Li Qi on the other side suddenly uploaded a document and said:

"This is the basic information of the joint civilization of the Shata tribe, the other two civilizations are a little far away, and the information is not complete, you can take a look at this first and understand it."

"Thank you."

Li Qing received the information, touched his fingers, and a strange creature model taller than a human popped up in front of his eyes.

At this time, there was a clear sound of 'tick', and Li Qi sent another piece of information, saying:

"This is the basic information of the Lester Pirate Group, as well as the large and small forces around the outpost, you can take a look at it by the way, I believe you will soon have a certain understanding of the outpost."

He quickly thanked him and looked at it carefully.

According to the data, the alien subject called the Shata Tribal Union is not a single species, but consists of a total of eight species, so its civilized form of government is called the Tribal Union.

It is estimated that in the era of the planet, several tribes have not divided the winner or loser, and no one can do anything about it when they enter the nuclear age later, so they can only form a coalition government to enter the space age.

The home planet of the Shata tribe union is a swamp planet, that is, a planet with swampy waters as the main body, the planet is very warm and humid, which is very suitable for arthropods to survive, and more than one arthropod species have evolved intelligence in hundreds of millions of years of evolution.

Li Qing's fingers touched and turned the page back and forth, and one by one different species appeared in front of him, a total of eight species, all of which were strange.

There are shrimp people who look like people standing up, beetle people who look like cockroaches, and there are also species that can't be referenced on the earth.

To be honest, if it weren't for the information, many of the people he saw didn't think it was an alien.

Speaking of which, it is rare to see alien species in the United Empire of Mankind, not that there are no alien civilizations in human civilization, there are, how can there be no alien civilizations within the range of thousands of light years, but most of the civilizations that have been discovered have been extinct by human beings, and only a small number of species that have not come out of the space age and look in line with human aesthetics are still retained, their home planets are occupied and developed, and those species are kept in the reserve, and they are not allowed to learn advanced civilizations or leave the reserve at will.

It may seem tragic, but compared to the complete extinction of other conquered species, it is good to survive.

The universe has never been warm, and while it is not as terrifying as the laws of the Dark Forest, the contact between civilizations is mostly war.

After all, there are too few living planets in the universe that can naturally give birth to life, and the number of living planets is directly related to the strength and evolution of civilization.

There is a saying that it seems that the number of living planets is related to the national fortune of the entire civilization.

It's just that this statement has not been confirmed, but judging from the fact that any force that wants to be promoted to the military master must occupy more than one living planet, this statement is not completely unfounded.

After all, many big forces have enough resources to transform more than one planet, and transform the barren planet into a habitable planet exactly like a living planet, if this statement is not true, it is not necessary to have a living planet to be promoted to military master.

Therefore, if you encounter a living planet in the starry sky, if there is an alien civilization on it, it means a war.

As for the Lester Pirate Group, it was originally a force formed by some criminals from the three major alien civilizations, pirates and smuggling groups, and a group composed of thirteen powerful forces.

With the arrival of humans in this area, attracting a large number of human pirates, the strength of this pirate group has also increased, and now three new human forces have been added, a total of sixteen forces.

Players can join this faction and gain prestige, which will allow them to reap some of the benefits that are unique to the faction.

Of course, the pirate camp is more than a few pirate players, they don't expect much benefit from a pirate force at all, they value the convenience of being a pirate.

Join the pirate camp and not be actively attacked by pirate monsters as long as they don't actively attack in the wild, which can make it easier for them to do a lot of things.

It is said that if the prestige and status in the pirate camp reach a certain level, or if you can unify a pirate force to become the pirate king, you can even temporarily control and command the pirate monsters, and occasionally the pirate monsters will take the initiative to join their command.

It's uncertain whether this is true or not, but it does spread among pirate players that the Pirate King is a claim.

In the Zutar Star Field, near the outpost, the strongest are the Imperial Expeditionary Force, the Lester Pirate Group, and the five major forces of the three alien civilizations, but in addition, there are some small and medium-sized forces, most of which are some cross-galaxy super corporations.

For example, the Central Union, some top arms dealers, some super insurance companies, top industrial conglomerates, and so on.

Among them are not only the companies of the human camp, but also some neutral forces belonging to other civilizations in the Pan-Human Interstellar Alliance.

These mega-corporations have little interest in seizing planets and becoming military masters, they just want to make money, and wherever there is war, they will be there.

Each of these mega-corporations can unlock their own reputation system, and there are some unique benefits to increasing their reputation.

Li Qing didn't study it for long, because the fleet had already come to the vicinity of the wormhole, and through the wormhole, it was the most chaotic star field near the outpost.

If there is an idea for someone to fight a caravan, the greatest possibility comes from here.

This time, the fleet directly transferred the main force with fourteen battleships, and seconded a group of battleships from other teams to form a wing, and burrowed headlong into the wormhole.

The remaining warships and merchant ships were all parked outside the wormhole and waited.

And this wait, that is, a full three hours, before the three small fleets returned from the wormhole one after another, this was the signal predetermined before, and the three small fleets must all return in sections to be considered safe, and the remaining warships began to prepare to enter the wormhole.

The time it takes for a battleship to travel through the wormhole is actually uncertain, the shortest is half an hour, the highest is two or three hours, and if the other end of the wormhole is very far away, the crossing time will be longer.

Li Qing followed the army for an hour and a half to pass through the wormhole, when the sensor showed that the countless kaleidoscope-like wormholes in the surrounding void slowly turned into a void, he didn't have time to observe the surroundings and was surprised to enter the temperature of this galaxy with a steep drop, the light curtain in front of him popped open, and Lu Qing appeared in the communication channel and ordered loudly:

"Li Qi, Li Qing, Li Min, Li Zhenghai, Li Xiaolu, a few of you will set off immediately and reconnoiter in the original direction in the form of a team."

Half a minute later, more than a dozen large and small warships broke away from the team and formed a small formation to drill into this strange starry sky.

Through the detection screen of the battleship's sensor displayed on the bridge glass, as if directly observing the outside through the glass, Li Qing found that in addition to the ubiquitous dust clouds in this starry sky, it also contained a faint blue mist, under the influence of this dust cloud and fog, not only the detection range of the spacecraft's sensors decreased by nearly 30%, but even the flight speed decreased by 20%.

But that's not the point, the point is that Li Qing found out as soon as he entered

As far as the eye could see, the entire starry sky seemed to be covered with a layer of thick fog, and the distance was gray.

At this time, Li Qi's voice came from the channel:

"Li Qing, you haven't been to this galaxy to pay attention, this galaxy is also called the ghost galaxy, it is said that there is a crack in the center of the galaxy that leads to an unknown subspace, from time to time there will be some subspace monsters similar to ghosts gushing out and wandering in the starry sky, that thing is not afraid of kinetic energy attacks, ignoring the shield armor and directly entering the battleship, only energy weapons such as laser cannons can be injured, but the power will also be greatly weakened, if you touch that thing, if you are equipped with an energy weapon on the ship, immediately set fire and kill, if it is a kinetic weapon, Immediately turned around and approached Li Min's side, both of us were equipped with energy weapons. ”

"Ah, and that kind of thing?"

"The universe is so big that there are no wonders."

"By the way, there is a small probability that something called ghost crystals will be condensed after this thing is killed, it is very valuable, one is worth at least one million, so there are many players who specialize in configuring pure energy weapon warships to hunt in this galaxy, so you have to pay attention to screening whether the player you find is an enemy."

"Okay... Belch. ”

As soon as the words fell, Li Qing suddenly looked at the picture transmitted by the sensor, and a pale blue and white shadow was looming in the blue mist-filled void.

He leaned in to take a closer look, and said to himself:

"Is this it?"

"Li Qing, there is a ghost approaching you, hurry up and approach me or Li Min."

He didn't feel much of a threat from this pale blue and white shadow, but even if Li Qi's reaction was so big, he didn't dare to take risks, and decisively ordered the fleet to retreat.

But as soon as he withdrew, the ghost seemed to have spotted him, and his body flickered, turning into a streamer of light and shooting towards him.

He immediately transmitted the picture to Li Qi:

"That guy seems to have spotted me."

Li Qi immediately replied:

"Approach me, do you have any energy weapons on the ship, concentrate fire to attack and intercept."

"No, I'm all kinetic weapons."

"That...."

Li Qi looked at the suddenly accelerated ghost in the sensor transmission screen and was silent, and Li Min shook his head in the light curtain on the other side and said:

"It's too late, look at the speed, this is a ghost above the second level, and it is estimated that it will be gone when we rush over."