The sudden appearance of these eight mechanical arms was completely unexpected by Chai Yue and the others.
Then, they discovered the spaceship was moving, and not under their control!
The spaceship they were on was being dragged by the enemy!
"Madam!"
Wang Xuance was completely stunned by this sudden change.
"Target those mechanical arms and ram them! Save Madam at all costs!"
The remaining spaceships were originally prepared to charge the enemy fleet, but now, their targets had to be changed temporarily.
The Xianyu coins in the energy cores of each ship were nearly depleted. Once they fired, they would be stranded.
The remaining Xianyu coins could only sustain their flight for about three minutes at most.
The battle had reached a point where everyone felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
Suddenly, Wang Xuance noticed that the enemy's Warrior-class spaceships had also stopped firing and were converging on the spaceship where their leader was located.
He instantly realized something.
"Their energy is also gone!"
"This is our last chance, we must not let them escape!"
Without energy, those enemy ships would absolutely not be able to continue the entanglement!
Therefore, the reason those Warrior-class spaceships had gone silent was self-evident!
Gathering the remaining energy to allow that Dreadnought-class spaceship to escape from here!
Ge Luoyang would not arrive for about another hour. At this moment, their only reliance was themselves!
Ship after ship of Spore-class spaceships pressed forward fearlessly, but they could not get even an inch closer to the enemy ship.
The energy collected from the Warrior-class spaceships gave the enemy ship the capital to fire once more!
Wang Xuance and the others watched helplessly as the enemy ship broke through the encirclement, dragging their own flagship, and fled towards the depths of space.
"Everyone! Pool all the Xianyu coins on your ships for me, immediately!"
If the enemy could do it, there was no reason why he couldn't!
The massive hull of the Dreadnought-class spaceship dictated its enormous energy consumption.
Moreover, it was dragging Chai Yue's spaceship beneath it. To achieve high-speed flight was impossible!
If there was enough energy to support it, Wang Xuance believed he could definitely catch up and hold out until reinforcements arrived.
At this command, the other Spore-class spaceships quickly converged.
Soldiers in spacesuits threw Xianyu coins into the cabin and then left.
"Old Wang, count me in!"
Xue Rengui, holding more than twenty Xianyu coins, walked into the control room and said to Wang Xuance.
Wang Xuance refused without even thinking: "No, you have to stay! Without Xianyu coins, these spaceships will become targets floating in the void. I won't be at ease if no one is watching!"
"Stop messing around! If we can save Madam, everything else is secondary. If we can't save her, how can I face Duke with any face! Hurry up and set off, the enemy ship has already disappeared!"
Xue Rengui plopped himself into the chair in front of the control console, showing no intention of leaving.
Wang Xuance genuinely didn't want to bring him along, but Xue Rengui was right. In less than a minute, the enemy ship had already traveled an unknown distance.
If they continued to bicker, there would be no point in chasing them anymore...
"Sit tight!"
Wang Xuance glared at him fiercely.
The next moment, the spaceship sped off in the direction the enemy ship had disappeared.
The Spore-class spaceships, now without energy, could only remain where they were, drifting in the void, waiting for Ge Luoyang and the others to arrive.
One chasing, one fleeing.
The two sides flew for an unknown distance. Fortunately, the signal of Chai Yue's spaceship had never disappeared from Wang Xuance's radar.
After Xi Tong's optimization, the maximum speed of the Spore-class spaceship was only one hundred times the speed of sound.
However, the enemy's Dreadnought-class spaceship could reach a maximum speed of one-thousandth of the speed of light!
Such a vast difference made catching up to the enemy ship akin to a fool's dream!
If Chai Yue and the others had not persevered, using the flagship's propulsion in reverse, these radar signals would have long since vanished!
But even this was only for the present moment. The remaining Xianyu coins they had wouldn't last for ten minutes!
Wang Xuance pursued relentlessly. As he saw his spaceship and the enemy ship displayed on the radar getting closer, a flicker of hope ignited in his heart.
Eight minutes later, the enemy ships, one towing the other, reappeared in sight, accompanied by another of the enemy's Dreadnought-class ships providing escort.
"Leader, we have pursuers!"
Upon hearing the voice from the communicator, the leader of the Biggers instantly tensed up and quickly asked.
"How many?"
"One ship!"
"What?!"
This number almost made his heart leap out of his throat.
Just one ship dared to pursue them. Could it be an Invincible-class spaceship?
"What class is it!"
He instinctively pressed for an answer.
"Warrior-class!"
The reply from the communicator nearly infuriated him to death.
Warrior-class and Dreadnought-class, two classes of spaceships, with a difference in size of more than a thousandfold. Who gave them the courage to pursue?
Could it be that one Warrior-class spaceship was truly a warrior?
"What are you reporting for, you idiot! Why aren't you being clever and destroying them for me?"
"Yes!"
The escorting Dreadnought-class spaceship quickly changed direction and moved to intercept Wang Xuance.
Without energy to fire, it could only rely on its massive size and speed advantage to engage in a brute force ramming attack.
But though the Spore-class spaceship was small, it possessed its unique advantage: extreme maneuverability!
Wang Xuance controlled the spaceship, darting around the enemy's ramming attempts like a monkey.
But at this moment, Xue Rengui volunteered.
"I'll go out and deal with this broken ship, you go save Madam!"
Wang Xuance looked back. He saw that Xue Rengui had already put on his space suit, strapped on a demagnetizing pack, and had a plasma gun hanging from his waist.