Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 3 | Page 320

Zheng He (Me): Hao Ai! We’re under attack!
Hao Ai: Noticed that already..
Zheng he(Me): Uh, do you know how to get rid of the missiles?
Hao Ai: Well, try sending some drones in their path
Sending drones…
And… Got them!
Zheng He (Me): Got them!
Hao Ai: Congrats...Do you see that ship?
Scanning… Found it.
The missiles must have came from this vessel.
Zheng He (Me): Found it.
Hao Ai: I’m sending all drones to ram it… It’s trying to evade...
Zheng He (Me): But…
Hao Ai: They just declared war on us by killing F***, no buts.
-Pause-
Hao Ai: And our drones blew it up.
We had just won our first space battle.
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Zheng He: WHAT WAS THAT!?
Hao AI (Me): Calm down...
Look… I scanned thaT ship and I’ll send the scans over.
-Pause-
I reviewed the scans once more.
They are interesting.
The ship was twice the size of us.
And the most worrying fact is that the ship wasn’t a warship.
A warship should have an extensive load of weaponry, but the one we just encountered had only a few
missiles.
This is merely a scout ship, lightly armed and suited for detecting ahead of a battle fleet.
If that is the case, then we’d be as good as dead.
Ping!
Message from Charles!
Charles is about a couple of light hours away so we cannot rely on instant communications.