Huo Yier left with many spaceships.
Of course, there would still be some.
However, for Gaixi, this was already the best outcome.
"Help the rear fleet, do not get entangled with the enemy, maneuver."
"They are actually more anxious than us."
The urgency of their current fleet was to escort; in essence, it wasn't about leaving.
Whether fighting here or elsewhere, the destroyed enemy warships were real.
Gaixi didn't mind having a battle with the enemy here.
Distant battlefield.
A huge electric current continuously spread out, looking like a giant lightning tree.
"Contact the rear fleet, what happened?"
"Lightning shouldn't appear in a vacuum."
Lightning, to put it plainly, is the result of electric charges breaking through a medium; in conventional space, the medium is irregular, causing lightning to be irregular.
In a vacuum, there is no such medium; the path of electric charges in a vacuum should be to fly directly away, making it unlikely for flashes to appear, and even less likely for such brilliant and standard lightning phenomena to occur.
The only explanation was that the area was no longer a vacuum at that moment.
"We asked, and Ship Secretary Shim responded that a large amount of matter is being generated out of nowhere, possibly from the super-microscopic world."
"This is a phenomenon where energy from the super-microscopic world collectively materializes into the macroscopic world."
"The enemy likely instantly created a miniature, temporary civilization's home universe there."
"They are trapped."
Gaixi instantly understood the situation there.
"The solution is to blow away that matter with an energy wind, but I'm afraid we don't have that much energy."
"But never mind, let's try it first."
The front fleet and the central flank fleet combined only had 90,000 warships.
Plus the energy loss from excessive acceleration.
To blow away the matter there, the only way was to concentrate on blowing away a portion of it.
The particle wind pushed through.
The matter cloud there indeed reacted.
The matter cloud created by the Advancing Civilization was fixed, while the particle wind blowing through it moved extremely fast, close to the speed of light.
Without surprise, that mass of matter was directly blown into a large hole.
The warships inside followed the particle wind and rushed out.
However, at this point, less than 130,000 warships remained.
The time was short, with 80,000 warships lost.
The enemy was still perfectly fine.
"We can't win."
Gaixi instantly came to a conclusion.
In a head-on battle, the enemy was terrifyingly strong.
Whether in defense or offense.
"Let's break into pieces."
The spaceships had already left the battlefield area by about 30 astronomical units.
Not too far, but at this distance, it would most likely cause some hesitation for the enemy.
All Gaixi wanted was this hesitation.
All warships scattered, flying away in countless directions: east, west, south, north, up, and down.
"Ship Secretary, they are chasing the retreating citizens."
As expected.
The enemy could not disperse their fleet; that would risk being defeated one by one.
Since chasing the warships was not cost-effective now, they would go kill the ordinary spaceships.
This was certainly not their primary objective; what they truly wanted was still to force the warships to return for rescue.
"Does anyone in the fleet have a home in Arasi zr Zr22?" Gaixi asked.
The officers shook their heads.
"The warships that followed us were all ones we brought initially."
"That's good."
Gaixi announced the abandonment of the citizens.
"Notify Huo Yier to separate from the fleet."
Protecting citizens was indeed a mission, but compared to citizens, warships were more important.
This was also a decision made out of necessity.
In the fleet, there were also some people Gaixi had spoken with; although not very familiar, they were not entirely strangers either.
If possible, Gaixi certainly hoped they would live.
But this was a battlefield; there was no room for such sentimentality.
"It seems I am not on the same path as Gao Yuxing after all."
...
Fleet.
Huo Yier was leading the fleet towards the CHY224 navigation channel.
Receiving the information, he knew that Gaixi had given up.
"It seems the Advancing Civilization's strength is stronger than imagined."
He understood Gaixi.
If it was possible to create some entanglement, Gaixi would be very willing to tie down the enemy there.
Initially, she must have had that thought.
But the strength displayed by the enemy was too great; meaningless sacrifice was unacceptable.
"Let all spaceships disperse; don't gather in one place anymore."
"The enemy warships are coming; it should be very soon."
Soon after the message was sent, Huo Yier received news that spaceships in the rear were being attacked.
The number destroyed was 3.7 million.
They had no resistance capability.
Although spaceships were only slightly smaller than warships, they could only compare to warships in terms of energy storage and thrusters.
Defense, attack—on the battlefield, the current numbers were the result.
"What about us?"
The captain of the adjacent warship asked.
He was very nervous, hoping to leave here quickly.
After all, he was not those ignorant citizens; he knew the speed of the enemy warships.
They would catch up very, very quickly.
"Let's also disperse; don't give the enemy a chance to wipe us all out."
"We are heading towards the Elkton navigation channel."
Huo Yier had been the protagonist in so many lives; he had been a savior many times.
But he also knew that so-called salvation, without absolute ability, was completely futile and meaningless, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
Fleeing was the most correct choice.
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