Xi Tong, unlike Fang Er's confusion, was practically beaming with joy.
"Damn it! What great stuff!"
"Where did Big Fang get so many good things!"
"Look, this is such pure energy!"
"Trade, trade!"
"Hahahaha.........."
Chest after chest of Fairy Coins were ruthlessly exchanged for points, the balance on her panel rising faster than during her gold rush days.
Having exchanged only a hundred thousand Fairy Coins, her point balance had already reached a trillion!
"Come on, this little broken ship should still have room for improvement!"
"Let me show you what a bug looks like!"
Looking out the window at the pursuing spacecraft, Xi Tong's lips curled into a cold smile.
The next moment, the ion cannon, previously capable of only single shots, became as ferocious as a carrier's CIWS.
"Bang bang bang bang bang..."
Azure energy rounds poured out like a torrential rain towards the unidentified spacecraft.
"No, this is impossible!"
"This firepower is not something a spore-class spacecraft can achieve!"
"Quick, call for reinforcements!"
For the "people" on those ships, capturing Xi Tong should have been a simple matter, but everything that was happening before them exceeded their expectations.
They dodged the ion cannon fire while calling for help from their mother ship.
On the mother ship, thousands of miles away from the battlefield, the alien commander was stunned when he received this news.
"Proceed at maximum speed, I want to see what's going on with my own eyes!"
Neither the reports from the spacecraft nor the distress calls could give him a clear understanding of the situation.
In just two minutes, his ship had traversed thousands of miles of void and arrived at the periphery of the battlefield.
Staring at the awe-inspiring spacecraft, sweat beaded on the commander's forehead.
He recognized the ship before him; it was a spore-class spacecraft unique to Andromeda.
Its characteristics were low cost, short construction time, and rugged durability.
But its drawback was insufficient firepower!
However, the current situation shattered his understanding.
This was no longer a small broken ship used merely for transportation...
This thing could rival a Dreadnought-class vessel.
In the Milky Way, spacecraft classifications from bottom to top were Warrior, Dreadnought, Invincible, and World-ender.
Although the classification names differed from Andromeda's, they roughly corresponded.
(Warrior = Spore, Dreadnought = Eternal Storm, Invincible = Emperor, World-ender = Star)
The ones he had sent out earlier were Warrior-class spacecraft.
What should have been vessels of the same class were now being overwhelmed by this woman, one against a hundred, and even in a crushing manner.
This was a reality he couldn't accept!
"Fourth Fleet, withdraw immediately!"
"Fire control room, activate the electromagnetic pulse cannon, I want that ship!"
If he could capture that spacecraft, he would surely receive a substantial reward upon his return!
"Boom!"
As soon as his order was given, another Warrior-class spacecraft was blasted into oblivion.
Of the hundreds of Warrior-class spacecraft in the Fourth Fleet when it set out, more than half were now gone!
The Molynan, which required over a dozen people to operate, was being handled by Xi Tong herself with incredible flair.
The energy core's Fairy Coin reserves never dropped below 50%, and the mountain of Fairy Coins in the system warehouse allowed her to splurge endlessly.
She didn't realize that Fang Er had intended to use these funds to hire mercenaries!
And now she was frittering them away chest by chest...
"Boom!"
Another enemy ship was destroyed, and her attention was caught by the massive vessel that had suddenly appeared on the battlefield's periphery.
"Slurp..."
"So big!!"
"I like big ones!"
"Now, I declare, you are part of Fang's family!"
With that, she closely followed the retreating spacecraft and charged towards the Dreadnought-class vessel.
But in the next moment, she felt a sense of foreboding.
This premonition was soon validated when two beeps sounded from the control panel.
"Warning, warning, electromagnetic pul..."
Before the warning could be fully broadcast, all equipment in her spacecraft went dead, and the lights dimmed instantly.
Simultaneously, crackling sounds were heard.
The electromagnetic pulse round had instantly stripped the ship's shield and hit the hull, paralyzing the entire vessel.
Xi Tong's body also stiffened, her hair standing on end, making her look like the Golden Haired Lion King.
"Damn it! Playing dirty!"
At that moment, she felt as if she were about to die!
Fortunately, her consciousness was now merely inhabiting this body. If she had still been connected to the system's core, she would likely have perished!
Her ship now a wreck, she darted to the cabin door, pulled it open, and leaped out.
Her body drifted in the dark expanse of space, but this was merely the beginning.
Sister Tong was furious!
"Swish!"
She conjured another spore-class spacecraft with a wave of her hand, but she didn't enter it!
Instead, she tossed out hundreds of Minuteman IIIs.
The commander of the spacecraft hadn't even figured out what she was doing when she flashed into the ship's interior.
The moment she entered, she yanked out the control wires inside the cabin door and immediately used the wiring to control the spacecraft.
The next second, the spacecraft sped away.
The Minuteman IIIs were activated for detonation the instant they were deployed.
The vacuum of space meant the missiles didn't need launchers.
Moreover, a target as large as a Dreadnought-class vessel, and attacked at close range, rendered coordinates unnecessary!
Just as she had moved tens of miles away, the hundreds of Minuteman IIIs simultaneously spewed fierce flames from their tails.
"Whoosh... whoosh... whoosh..."
Hundreds of Minuteman IIIs shot in unison towards the Dreadnought-class vessel.
From the moment she left the Molynan to the occurrence of all this, less than ten seconds had passed!
With reactions akin to a Qilin chip, everything was exceptionally smooth.
The commander of the Dreadnought-class vessel had just reacted when he saw a dense swarm of missiles flying towards him.
"Intercept, intercept quickly!"
In truth, he didn't need to give the order; the Dreadnought-class vessel's own defense systems had already begun to counter and intercept automatically.
But it was too late!
Over a hundred nuclear missiles detonated simultaneously a thousand meters away from the Dreadnought-class vessel.
There was no mushroom cloud, but the spectacle was more震撼 than any mushroom cloud.
The immense fireball made the center of the explosion as blinding as the sun.
The intense flash, lasting only an instant, was followed by high-intensity gamma rays and ionized radiation.
Xi Tong had already retreated nearly a hundred miles, but her ship was still disabled by the incoming ionized radiation, just like it had been hit by the electromagnetic pulse cannon.
If even she was affected, the Dreadnought-class vessel, closer to the explosion's center, was even worse off.
The intense flash at that moment blinded most of the people on the spacecraft.
The ionized radiation rendered the Dreadnought-class vessel a mere toy in an instant.