This mysterious spaceship, without any identification, is naturally the rebuilt somersault cloud.

As stated by the Explorer Starship Group, the somersault was completed on schedule a month later.

It's no wonder that the Covenant is relieved to leave the construction work to them. In this way, Yang Yi and Han Weiwei's upcoming secret interstellar exploration is all ready, and only Dongfeng is owed.

The Military Intelligence Center of the Interstellar Federation of the Solar System.

It is a nondescript low-rise three-storey building located in the government office area of the Beacon Space City.

This area is under the blockade and protection of the Covenant special security forces, and it is strictly forbidden for any aircraft to fly over without a special passage permit, and pedestrians are also prohibited from entering this area.

In an extremely ordinary-looking, but most tightly secured room on the second floor of the Covenant Military Intelligence Center, a middle-aged agent in his forties from the Intelligence Department was explaining something.

But the people who were listening to the lecture were Yang Yi and Han Weiwei. Covenant agent says:

"The task of carrying out this trip to Centauri is very arduous, as the tenth batch of intelligence officers sent by the Star Alliance to Centauri, our intelligence department hopes that you can gain something this time."

"Tenth group of intelligence officers, did the Covenant have a spaceship to go to the Red Dwarf Galaxy in Centauri before? The fleet didn't inform us of this. ”

Hearing the middle-aged agent's words, Yang Yi and Han Weiwei glanced at each other and asked suspiciously.

"That's right, we've sent nine groups of intelligence officers in the direction of Centauri, and they're all the most advanced ships, and so far there has been no news, and I think that's why the fleet hasn't said it explicitly."

The middle-aged agent explained.

At this time, Yang Yi finally understood why the commander of the fleet, General Kang Xing, put forward harsh conditions for this interstellar exploration, and asked with some sudden understanding:

"How many spaceships were sent in the previous nine batches, and has the reason for the loss of contact been clarified?"

"There are a total of 32 ships, the first three batches are in the name of scientific research and investigation, and the last six batches are all disguised as interstellar nomads, all of whom have lost contact after entering the two-light-year space, and as for the reason for the loss, the Star Alliance intelligence department is still investigating. There are several possibilities for my judgment:

The first possibility: direct destruction by the enemy.

The second possibility: captured by enemy warships, cutting off communication links.

The third possibility: encountering irresistible natural phenomena, such as an asteroid impact, a star explosion.

The fourth possibility: gravitational capture by massive objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes.

However, the fourth possibility can be ruled out, the distance between the Centauri star and the solar system is not as devastating and terrible as white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes.

The possibility of a stellar explosion can also be ruled out, and in the event of a stellar explosion, even at a distance, the Covenant's Deep Space Observation Department can observe such phenomena at this distance.

Based on this, we judge that the Centauri fleet has most likely discovered the intentions of the Star Alliance, and now you understand why they have equipped you with such advanced warships, and you are strenuously denying it. ”

The Covenant intelligence agent said with a solemn face.

"Is there any other possibility, such as sending a starship into a certain time and space, or some area of the universe that can block communication signals?"

Because the somersault cloud had encountered this situation at the beginning, and it had not yet flown a distance of light years, Yang Yi asked after a while.

"According to the current human cognition, it is impossible to enter other time and space, and the possibility of flying into an area that can shield signals cannot be ruled out.

However, it can't be so coincidental, all nine batches of spaceships have entered the same area, and after the first three groups have disappeared, we have changed the flight course, although the follow-up starships are heading in the same direction, but the channel has been adjusted, unless this area is unimaginably large, it is impossible for the follow-up spacecraft to enter it. ”

The middle-aged agent picked up the cup on the table and took a sip of boiling water.

"It seems that Centauri has learned of the destruction of its remaining fleet and has sealed off the space facing the Earth."

Yang Yi said with a solemn expression.

Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he asked:

"After the war, did the Covenant intelligence department find anything like a surveillance instrument left by the Maltese over the earth?"

"The surveillance instruments left behind by the Maltese...... As far as I know, what, did General Yang find anything? ”

The middle-aged agent pondered for a while and asked Yang Yidao.

"Before the war, I heard a statement from the mouth of a Maltese officer in the ground forces.

According to his confession, Centauri has deployed a wormhole monitoring system called the space-time cage above the earth, which can remotely monitor the situation of the entire earth in real time through small wormholes.

Because the war was too tense at that time, and there was no air supremacy, it was impossible to search for and confirm the words of this Maltese, and as you know, I was in a coma in space for more than a hundred years after being affected by the explosion, so I put this matter down, and just now you mentioned that the fleet sent by the Star Alliance has been repeatedly lost contact, and I only remembered this matter. ”

Through the conversation with the agents of the Star Alliance Intelligence Department just now, Yang Yi finally remembered that before the explosion of the spaceship, the holographic operation interface of the space-time cage intelligence monitoring system seemed to have appeared on the holographic screen of the brain, and because it was too urgent at that time, there was no time to investigate.

"General Yang mentioned that it is a new situation, and I will immediately report to the Star Alliance Intelligence Department and the United Fleet, and mobilize forces to investigate the area above the earth from 10 to 10 million kilometers. General Yang was also asked to assist the Star Alliance in investigating the matter. ”

After listening to what Yang Yi said, the middle-aged agent said with a solemn face.

"No problem, I hope the Star Alliance can pay attention to this matter, if we can pull out the eyes of the enemy behind our backs, our actions will not be so passive in the future."

Yang Yi agreed without hesitation.

A day later.

The Star Alliance suddenly issued a one-week ban on navigation over the Earth, stopping all civilian aircraft except for those with special permission, and the explanation to the outside world was to conduct interstellar defense exercises.

Such an action did not cause panic among the people of the planets who did not know the inside story, but actively cooperated according to the requirements of the Star Alliance. Large-scale planetary defense exercises like this are held almost once or twice a year, and every citizen of the solar system knows that it is necessary to cooperate with their obligations.

It's just that the exercise seems to have lasted a day or two longer than before, which has aroused some private discussions among the public.

On the day on which the no-sail order was issued.

Suddenly, there were many Covenant fleets, intelligence services, Academy of Sciences spaceships, and some civilian spacecraft equipped with special scanners above the Earth.

Under the cover of smoke bombs from the planetary defense exercise, the spacecraft of the Star Covenant fleet, the Ministry of Intelligence, and the Academy of Sciences began to search the sky above the earth like a dragnet.

Yang Yi and Han Weiwei were also involved, located on the search spacecraft of the Ministry of Intelligence and the Academy of Sciences, respectively.

The first day of the search yielded no progress, and all the spacecraft scanned between one and one hundred thousand kilometers above the Earth, and found nothing suspicious except for the means of communication that the Covenant had developed over the years.

As the flight ban lasted only one week, the search was carried out overnight.

After overnight search and detection, the airspace scanned has expanded to 500,000 kilometers of airspace, and still nothing has been found. As a result, some people began to doubt the authenticity of the information provided by Yang Yi, but since this was an order from the top leadership of the Star Alliance, these doubters did not dare to openly object to the fleet.

"General Yang, are you sure this information is accurate? The Covenant fleet has searched so far, but it has found nothing. ”

In the command cabin of a rectangular white battleship in charge of searching, the young captain asked Yang Yi in a questioning tone.

"I don't know if the information is accurate, but I'm sure I'm not mistaken, everyone should be patient, even if nothing is found, after such a search, the Star Alliance can rest easy and no longer worry about the exposure of the Star Alliance's whereabouts."

Yang Yi looked at the captain's questioning gaze, but his expression was calm, and he didn't show any embarrassment, and said lightly. He knew very well in his heart that even if the Maltese deployed any surveillance system over the earth, it would not be so easy to detect.

"General Yang also makes sense when he says this, after the war, the Star Alliance did not conduct such a careful investigation over the earth, and after such an investigation, even if nothing is found, the Star Alliance can rest easy, after all, the earth is the heart of the solar system."

The young captain also seemed to be persuaded by Yang Yi, looking at the other spaceship paths that were being searched.

Yang Yi did not answer, but continued to join the search.

The next day's search yielded nothing, and the search airspace had expanded to 1.5 million kilometers to reach the vicinity of Wanglan City.

After two consecutive days of searching, there was no progress, and the search airspace was close to four million kilometers. Just when everyone was almost desperate, thinking that it was impossible to find anything.

On the night of the fifth day, when searching for an uninhabited area six million kilometers above the earth, the detection equipment of the Academy of Sciences finally discovered a faint space-time anomaly.

So everyone got excited, and various ships quietly approached the airspace where the anomaly was discovered, enclosing this airspace in the middle.

As the detection equipment of the Academy of Sciences approached this area, the spatiotemporal anomalies became more and more obvious.

Finally, at a distance of 100 kilometers from the signal, experts from the Academy of Sciences concluded that this was a space-time folding phenomenon, and that it was a small wormhole that emitted the space-time anomaly.

Just as the Covenant fleet wanted to get closer to the wormhole, the wormhole that had been hidden suddenly emitted a colorful light, and a ray of white light like lightning hit a Star Covenant warship.

As a dazzling white ball of light flashed, an explosion covering an area of tens of kilometers was suddenly released, and more than a dozen spaceships that were caught in it suffered heavy damage in an instant, and even several civilian spacecraft disintegrated on the spot.

And the white light emitted just now turned out to be an early antimatter bomb with a lot of power.

Everyone was taken aback, and the Covenant fleet opened fire on the vicinity of the wormhole that glowed white. Strangely, there was no more retaliation from the wormhole.

As the Covenant fleet cautiously approached the place where the white light was emitting, the probe finally spotted a brilliant sphere the size of a basketball, glowing faintly and moving rapidly.

"It seems that General Yang Yi's intelligence is correct, this is the eye planted by the Maltese in the solar system, the cage of time and space."

On the Covenant's massive black mothership, experts from the Academy of Sciences pointed to the small wormhole that had been captured by the fleet and used special means to obscure its surveillance view and reported to Commander Kangxing.

"How does this thing work and how does it work?"

General Kang Xing asked with some surprise.

"The working principle needs to be further studied, but it is certain that this is not a real wormhole, but a kind of pseudo-wormhole formed by using instruments to bend space.

This kind of pseudo-wormhole can only deliver a small amount of matter at once over a long distance, and once the delivery is completed, it can only transmit signals and energy, but cannot transmit any matter.

Moreover, the delivery side needs a huge amount of energy to accelerate the delivery to the speed of light at a point, otherwise it is impossible to fold space-time at all. The antimatter bomb that attacked the Covenant fleet just now was dropped together when the wormhole was formed.

Strictly speaking, if the stability problem of the wormhole can be solved, only the monitoring equipment needs to be installed at the other end, and the monitoring screen can theoretically be transmitted to the other end of the wormhole through the wormhole, and we have indeed issued an extremely sophisticated multi-view device, whose visual range can monitor most of the entire solar system. ”

Experts from the Star Alliance Academy of Sciences further analyzed.

"How long has this thing been above Earth? Is it possible to tell when it has existed? ”

Admiral Kang Xing, commander of the Star Covenant fleet, asked:

"According to the interpretation of the Malwen data on the instrument, the time of the launch of this instrument is 10:38:45 a.m. on June 1, 2040."

Another scientist from the Academy of Sciences who studied the Maltese said.

"This is completely clear, no wonder human beings are passive everywhere in the war, it turns out that the Maltese have long planted an eye on the back of humans, and the entire solar system has been monitored."

The commander of the Star Covenant fleet suddenly realized.