Communications from the Horned Mouse are still echoing through the ship's communication channels.

In the midst of an increasingly violent explosion, the screams came and went like waves, and it sounded like someone had dropped the communicator in a rat's nest.

"Squeak Squeak!!"

When Gu Fan rushed back to the command room, Xue Feng, who had already been charged, was displaying the screen detected by the sensor on the central holographic platform.

In the picture, a medium-sized ship with a delicate and ornate golden texture is being harassed by a plundering fleet consisting of 35 frigates and 3 cruisers.

The place where the battle took place was in a nearby star field, and the specific location was in the orbit of an unknown planet, and at this moment, Yukikaze, who was observing the battle situation from the side, gave his own judgment.

"According to the battle situation and the analysis of the communication on the scene, the attacking party should be a pirate, they did not attack the core area of the ship, but accurately paralyzed the opponent's power and counterattack ability."

The intent was clear, as they intended to capture the unfortunate merchants' ships and take the cargo for themselves.

Even after nearly a thousand years, the tactics of these pirates have never changed, and they are still so old-fashioned.

According to the star map, the ship is still more than 1 AU away from the combat area between the two sides, in other words, whether to help the merchants or not, the decision is completely in Gu Fan's hands.

Staring at the image presented in the holographic scene, reason told him that he should avoid all unnecessary trouble, after all, the former enemy of humanity may still exist.

Gu Fan didn't believe that for such a powerful human civilization, how could it really be wiped out because of an inexplicable disease, in his opinion, there must be manipulation by foreign races behind it.

Just as he was about to give the order to ignore the conflict and wait for the engines to return to their best condition before leaving the sector.

Suddenly, a reminder popped up on the main screen caught his attention.

[The presence of Tech Template C238 has been detected.] 】

Engineering technology templates for the C series?

Seeing the familiar code, Gu Fan incredulously turned his gaze to the battlefield again, and wondered if there was something wrong with the ship's system.

But in the next second, I saw that one of the pirate cruisers actually shot out a wave of ghostly light from the bow of the ship.

Soon, the dark green beam of light wrapped around the merchant's hull like a rope, and effortlessly dragged the ship that was still trying to break away towards the center of the pirate fleet.

Seeing this actual scene, Gu Fan couldn't help but feel that his eyes lit up, there was no doubt that the pirate cruiser was using human engineering technology - heavy particle traction beam.

It can greatly improve the efficiency of the ship's recovery of resources in space, and if you can equip the engineering ship you have with these traction beams, the effect will be very gratifying.

It's just that Gu Fan is a little strange, why would such a precious scientific and technological achievement appear in the hands of a group of pirates?

Could it be that the technology that once belonged to mankind has flooded the universe to such a point?

All of a sudden, things seemed to start to get interesting.

For Gu Fan at this time, he was eager to know where those pirates got this kind of thing.

At the same time, he himself longed to obtain this precious scientific and technological heritage, after all, there was a high probability that there were hidden samples of technology that he had not mastered.

After a brief consideration, Gu Fan immediately got up and gave an order to Xue Feng, who was controlling the battleship on the side.

"Change the bow orientation, set the navigation target to an unsheltered space within 500 kilometers outside the battlefield, and confirm the sovereignty over there."

The so-called sovereignty refers to the owner of the current star field, generally speaking, even the weakest space civilization will try its best to build some infrastructure on the territory it owns, so as to prove that it is the master of this star field, which is almost the instinct of any intelligent being.

And when an exchange of fire occurs in such a place, regardless of the cause, it often leads to serious consequences, at least in the past in the galactic code written by humans themselves.

"It was confirmed that the target star sector was an unowned domain, and according to the secondary transmission results of the sensor, the ship found a cluster of man-made structures in the planetary orbit 1.3AU away, which is presumed to be a pirate military port, and the technology estimates that it is about 2.8 civilization levels."

Hearing Xue Feng's report, Gu Fan smacked his lips in some surprise.

Those guys are actually just a bunch of barbarians who haven't even reached the level of Level 3 civilization?

It's no wonder that they didn't reverse engineer the technology template they obtained, but simply moved it out and used it as it was.

After all, for a race civilization of this level, it is a fool's dream to understand human technology.

To put it mildly, even a zero-element powered bread machine in the Queen of Glory's staff quarters would probably be a magical or even miraculous existence for them.

Now that he has figured out the details of the other party, he is still in such an unrestrained ownerless star field, so he doesn't need to be timid for the time being.

At the same time, looking at the merchant ships that were being attacked, suddenly a plan began to slowly emerge in his mind.

"Each artillery group has entered a state of first-level alert, calibrated the firing elements, and is fully prepared for firepower."

"Goal-setting, leave no room for life except for the merchant and the cruiser that keeps the technology template."

Looking at the fleet that seemed to be made of space junk, he only heard Gu Fan say coldly.

"Accurate shooting in the first round ensures that the most targets are eliminated in the first place."

They are just a bunch of pirates who are not protected by the law, which means that they have no need to show mercy.

What's more, those crystallization of wisdom that originally belonged to human beings, he just wanted to take back what belonged to him from the hands of these low-level insects.

As for the mood of the bugs, that wasn't something he needed to think about.

This battle is regarded as a warm-up exercise for the Queen of Glory, and it is also the first performance that symbolizes the return of mankind to the cosmic stage.

As the words fell, the battleship's massive and complex engines were being revived.

At the same time, the light spear and macro cannon were already locked on to their respective targets with thousands of secondary artillery arrays, and the ship's sensors projected the pirate's figure into the increasingly restless fire control program.

At this moment, Gu Fan could clearly feel it.

This ancient warship, which has been dormant for a thousand years, is eager to carry out a merciless, all-out slaughter......