Among Wang Dong's contingency plans was this one: after boarding the Battle Axe, he would rely on knowledge from his previous life—through outstanding performance and a small white lie—to earn more trust from Yuan Shu.
He had even considered whether he could bypass the troubling matter of the Yuan Family's secret medicine altogether.
But after careful consideration, he rejected that idea.
What if Yuan Shu, impressed by Wang Dong's performance, raised his expectations?
What if, instead of merely asking him to kill a direct descendant of the Jin Family, Yuan Shu demanded the complete destruction of the Jin Family?
Or worse—what if he replaced the Yuan Family's secret medicine with some even more harsh method?
Then what?
That wasn't beyond the realm of possibility.
So ultimately, Wang Dong still chose the most conservative approach—one with the fewest variables.
He continued to play dumb, quietly taking command of the Battle Axe.
But once he obtained control of the ship, he made a small but critical strategic shift ahead of time.
With that slight head start, he piloted the Battle Axe deeper into the Asteroid Belt, effortlessly evading the Jin Family's Battleship.
He not only concealed his presence perfectly but also avoided damage to the ship, thereby preserving its full combat power.
At this stage, what Wang Dong should be doing—according to his previous life—was diving into the Battle Axe's AI Core logs to look for information left behind by Yuan Shu.
And back then, that's exactly what he had done.
The more intelligence you had, the better you could assess the situation and make rational decisions.
But now, Wang Dong had no need to browse the logs or study the Battle Axe's combat systems again.
With over a decade of conflict against the Jin Family behind him, he was familiar with the Battle Axe down to its smallest panel.
Frankly speaking, Wang Dong could use the bathroom aboard the ship with his eyes closed.
So far, everything in his plan had proceeded smoothly.
"Since I've already avoided direct confrontation with the Jin Family's Battleship, I just need to wait for the two add-on modules to finish cooling down.
Then I can return to the Mine Overlord Type II and resume mining operations.
That way, I can cleanly extract myself from today's incident and still appear to be nothing more than an ordinary interstellar miner."
The only remaining risk was that the notoriously vindictive Jin Family might, out of frustration for failing to locate the Battle Axe, vent their anger on the miners in the area.
They didn't even need to target any individual miner specifically—
a few random main cannon blasts would be enough to trigger gravitational turbulence in the surrounding void.
In such a scenario, the entire mining zone would descend into hell mode, and the fragile Low-Altitude Mining Vessels would never hold up.
Wang Dong calmly calculated.
But enough time had passed without incident.
That potential risk… could now be dismissed.
He kept a close watch on a small virtual screen on the right side of the command deck—
one he had specifically set up for the micro-probes he'd deployed earlier.
Two hours ago, it had already yielded results.
More than a dozen micro-probes he'd planted transmitted data after the Mikowski Particle field in the area had dissipated.
Less than an hour after Wang Dong strategically withdrew the Battle Axe,
a Spark Warship of destroyer class appeared at that very location.
"As expected, it's that bastard Sima Decao."
From the ship's distinct features, Wang Dong identified it immediately—
the very same Battleship that had humiliated him when he was still a rookie captain in his previous life.
To say he didn't want immediate revenge would be a lie.
But Wang Dong was also self-aware enough to know his limits.
Right now, he couldn't win that fight.
Sima Decao was a direct descendant of the Jin Family and had far more resources than an average captain could ever dream of.
His flagship had a composite rating of LV.11,
while the Battle Axe sat at LV.6—a whole tier below.
In a head-on confrontation, even if the Battle Axe's main cannon landed ten consecutive hits,
it still might not break through Sima's Energy Shield.
Meanwhile, the Battle Axe's own Energy Shield might collapse after just two hits from the enemy.
That didn't mean Wang Dong had no options—
he just needed to avoid direct confrontation.
Back in his previous life, even after the Battle Axe had been heavily damaged,
Wang Dong managed to escape pursuit, and after several days of deep thought, he found a way.
By leveraging his knowledge of astronomical conditions, he located a suitable ambush zone.
The Asteroid Belt Mining Zone was known for gravitational turbulence.
Some of these hidden grav-turbulences existed in a precarious balance and usually remained dormant.
But once disturbed beyond a threshold, they would erupt violently.
These hidden but powerful turbulences were considered the deadliest traps by interstellar miners.
Thanks to years of mining experience, Wang Dong found such a volatile zone.
He used nearby asteroids as cover and planted a large number of space mines at strategic distances.
Because it was deep inside the Asteroid Belt, the Sky-Survey Radar had limited range and reduced precision—
making Wang Dong's traps difficult to detect.
Then, Wang Dong deliberately exposed a trace of the Battle Axe's signal,
prompting the Jin Family's Battleship, which had been patrolling nearby, to immediately give chase!
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