From the third day, the squadron where Xingtian and Ares were located began to carry out the patrol duty of the warship in the outer terrestrial domain of the warship under sail.

This mission was an order announced by Grove the day after departure, and Grove gave 1 day to assign personnel to his squadron and develop a patrol duty schedule.

After discussing with Ares and Lisa, Xingtian finally divided the 18 members of the squadron into two groups: one was fighter pilots, and the other was coordination and communicators.

The pilots were divided into two groups, each consisting of six people, led by Xingtian and Ares, and a total of six coordinators and communicators, led by Lisa.

Each group of fighter pilots is also composed of three fighters for a patrol team, and two groups of four fighters each patrol for six hours.

Two groups of cross-squad training, 6 o'clock to 12 o'clock earth time, 12 o'clock to 18 o'clock for the day, one pilot can rest, 0 to 6 o'clock, 18 o'clock to 24 o'clock for the night team, all 3 people on patrol duty.

6 coordinators and communicators are set according to the pilot's time, 4 periods are set by 1 person on duty and 2 people rest in each period, and after the 4 periods, 2 rest personnel will take over the personnel from 12 to 18 o'clock and 18 to 24 o'clock.

The cruising range of the fighter is 50 km radius of the battleship. Xing Tian led the No. 1 team of his group to carry out the first patrol duty, although they had also carried out similar patrol duty when they were in Space City, but after all, the Space City target was huge, and it was easy for them to distinguish the location.

Now cruising based on the Ark requires accurate navigation and positioning, and at too far they simply cannot see the position of the battleship with the naked eye.

At this time, dispatchers and communicators are needed to help them orient themselves, and only when they cooperate with each other will the fighter not get lost in space during the cruise duty.

So the first dispatch and communication was led by Lisa, and the first cruise duty was very smooth.

As time passed, it was now 100 days since they entered the orbit of Earth and Mars, and in order to commemorate their 100 days of sailing, Grove specially arranged for the fleet to sail at half speed, and the whole crew was divided into two groups for a celebration party.

Xingtian chooses the second group to join the party, and Ares is assigned to the second group. When Xingtian dragged his tired body to change the shift with Ares and returned to his room, he took advantage of the 2 hours between the end of the cruise duty and the party to sleep for a while, and then washed up and prepared for the party.

When Xingtian arrived at Airport No. 2, which was set up as a party square, dressed in casual clothes, many people had already arrived, and people were talking and laughing enthusiastically.

Xingtian saw that Grove was also there, so he immediately came to him, and Grove held a wine glass, and when he saw Xingtian coming, he picked up a wine glass on the table next to him and handed it to Xingtian.

Xing Tian took the wine glass and sniffed it and put it down, he picked up a glass of juice next to the wine glass, tasted it, nodded with satisfaction and said: Captain, I still drink juice, alcohol will numb my nerves and make me make a wrong judgment.

Before Grove could speak, a voice reached their ears: Xing Tian is right, those of us who are engaged in scientific research never drink, and the elite will kill our brain cells and make us fools.

Xingtian and Grove turned their heads to look at the place where the voice came from, and saw Dr. Aron walking towards them in the white lab coat he wore for experiments.

The three of them chatted casually, and the whole party gradually heated up in the enthusiasm of many young people.

Suddenly, the alarm sounded, and at the same time the radio began to broadcast: Please pay attention to the fact that we have been hit by a solar storm, please return to the command room quickly and the personnel of each unit please return to their posts and stand by.

Grove immediately lowered his glass and headed for the command room, followed by Dr. Aron.

Xingtian wanted to join them, but he suddenly remembered that Ares was leading a patrol outside the battleship, so he changed direction and immediately ran towards the airport where his fighter plane was parked.

When Xing Tian came to his fighter plane after changing his combat uniform in the war room, the announcement sounded again: The alarm has been lifted, the solar storm has not affected the fleet warships, and the party participants please continue the party.

Colonel Xingtian, please contact Captain Grove promptly. Xingtian was relieved to hear that the alarm had been lifted, but when he heard that Grove was going to get in touch with him, he immediately boarded his fighter plane and contacted Grove through the fighter's communicator, which was the fastest.

When his communicator was connected to the command room, he heard Grove's voice as if Dr. Aaron was beside him, and Grove immediately said without waiting for Xingtian to speak: Xingtian, you are fine, Ares's patrol duty team has lost contact with the battleship, probably due to the solar storm affecting the communication system of their fighters, Dr. Aron said that the solar storm may also affect their navigation system.

Now I order you to set off at once in your warplanes, and guide them back to the warship.

Xingtian immediately came back to understand that I was in my own fighter plane and could set off immediately. While saying that Xingtian began to do the inspection before the fighter took off, and at the same time he also contacted the dispatcher and communication officer of the fighter team, and Lisa's voice sounded in the communicator.

It turned out that Lisa also returned to his dispatch communication station after hearing the alarm, and Lisa decisively sent the time of Ares' last communication and the coordinates of the last radar detection to the onboard computer of Xingtian's fighter to facilitate Xingtian's determination of the search range.

Xingtian used the emergency take-off plan to drive the fighter away from the battleship towards the coordinates where Ares finally appeared, and Xingtian also used the communicator to call Ares from time to time.

At this time, Grove has also notified the officers on duty to enter the emergency situation, so that they can carry out search and rescue cooperation work in a state of uneven personnel, and it has to be said that Grove's ability to judge the situation is too strong.

When he sent Xingtian out, he thought that he could use this search and rescue to let the personnel of various units of the battleship carry out this search and rescue, this real situation was not what he hoped to happen often, but if it happened, it should be used to let the personnel on the battleship get exercise.

They need this kind of exercise so much, turning bad things into opportunities to hone in their lives, and sending Xingtian out first can also ensure the safety of people in distress to the greatest extent.

Dr. Aron gave him a thumbs up in admiration as he watched Grove give his orders. Xingtian's fighter was flying at full speed towards the star field where Ares had lost contact, but Xingtian was not too nervous, because the solar storm only affected the fighter's communication and navigation systems, and had little impact on other systems.

Besides, he and Ares had experienced the accident of the destruction of the fighter plane, and knew that Ares should be able to deal with it calmly.

However, he still hopes to find the team led by Ares as soon as possible.