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Chapter 1016: Chapter 550, Unknown Battle Group

Under the fierce firepower of two combat barges, three Alliance battlecruisers were hit again.

Instead of prioritizing engines and shields, the enemy chose to first focus on powering up their weapon systems, completing target locks and concentrated fire, which is very impatient.

However, it was also effective.

In the damaged state, Bai Qifan, as the Fleet Commander, realized the situation had almost reached desperation.

Although the three battlecruisers subsequently activated their engines and shields, the Flying Wing among them suffered significant damage in the previous strike.

Moreover, unfortunately this time, the damage to the Flying Wing indeed affected its speed.

After launching their engines, the three battlecruisers began to flee, while the two combat barges of the Fury Fleet pursued closely, fiercely firing before the distance widened.

Of course, the three battlecruisers were not just fleeing without fighting back.

Weren’t you taking risks by activating firepower and engines first, which delayed your shields?

This was also a great time for a counterattack.

The two combat barges also took several solid hits.

However, the flagships of these two battle groups do not lag in armor compared to proper battleships; even without shields, one endured one shot and the other two shots without any particularly apparent issues.

Afterward, with the shields activated, it was even more so.

This further proved Bai Qifan’s previous judgment completely correct: relying on three battlecruisers was not enough to confront the enemy head-on.

But worse, in the subsequent chase and escape, the Alliance’s damaged Flying Wing not only failed to resolve the issue but its damage situation became increasingly dire!

According to the report, in the most recent shot, not only a power bay was damaged, but several regions where pipe repair crews were stationed were affected by internal explosions, with severe personnel casualties.

The lack of available personnel made it impossible to control the ship’s losses immediately, and with the intense operations of subsequent ships, they continued to spread wide.

In the current situation, a very painful choice lay ahead of Bai Qifan: Should he abandon the Flying Wing?

If the Fury Falcon he personally occupied and the Korolya next to him moved at full speed, they could escape the Fury Fleet’s pursuit. But doing so would surely doom the increasingly damaged Flying Wing left behind.

But if they continued to cover for each other, the entire fleet severely impaired by reduced speed would be endlessly entangled by those two Interstellar Warriors’ combat barges, all the way to the warp point, without any chance of shaking them off.

Before the warp point, they might barely linger at the enemy’s extreme range, making it so that the enemy’s overall hit rate wasn’t too high. But reaching the warp point and entering warp state, switching engines, would be the critical moment.

If they couldn’t escape the enemy, it could end with all three ships going down together!

What to do?

Abandon one ship to save the other two or risk taking all three together?

Bai Qifan’s anxiety made him feel somewhat numb all over his body.

Then, an unfamiliar communication request came through.

“Are you Alliance ships?”

A somewhat strange, raspy voice rang out in the bridge center as the signal connected.

Simultaneously, in front of Bai Qifan, the speaker’s ’face’ appeared on a virtual screen.

The quotes because the face was obscured by a helmet; yet the helmet itself was already very recognizable:

It was the helmet of an Interstellar Warrior MK.8, Sky Eagle Type Power Armor.

However, this set of paint was something Bai Qifan had never seen before.

The only Interstellar Warrior he ever encountered was Phoenix. Each of his three battlecruisers housed a hundred.

At this moment, the head that appeared in front of him, with only part exposed, showed a silver-gray helmet with a streak of blood-red at the forehead.

The unfamiliar Interstellar Warrior, and its cold, emotionless words, made Bai Qifan, amid nervousness, feel hope from this peculiar change.

He admitted, “Yes, we are the Alliance. May I ask…”

Before he could finish his question, the other party interrupted, proposing the next question: “Are those pursuing you the traitor Fury Flame Battle Group and New World Torch Battle Group?”

Upon hearing the word ’traitor,’ Bai Qifan felt further at ease.

He replied, “Yes, may I ask…”

Yet again, before he could finish, the other side silently cut off the communication.

Bai Qifan was bewildered, what was going on?

He could infer from the term ’traitor’ that this group of unknown Interstellar Warriors must be on his side.

But apart from that, he knew nothing about them.

Who are they? Where did they come from? What’s their purpose? How strong are they? Can they help him?

All of this remained unknown.

But the unknown can also have its benefits.

In the current fleet’s situation, any help was good.

Five minutes after the communication ended, the Star Speech Psychic transmitted information: a rapid fleet was suddenly detected appearing on the flank of both fleets.

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