Both Pan Wen and Kareda are in K11, and the news of the player-initiated Essence Energy Extractor cooperation agreement is the latest known to the entire company.

Coincidentally, the two people with the most shares in D21 happen to be the two who know the news at the latest, and Karuida happens to have a group of allies.

Under normal circumstances, Pan Wen does not participate in the voting of the board of directors on a daily basis, and when Karuida has no significant inclination, it is possible for the board of directors to pass, but the essence energy extractor is not a trivial matter for the top management of D21 company, and at least half of Karuida's friends will abstain from voting on the board of directors.

Even if a stupid person has not found any information about the essence in other places for so long, he will definitely realize that the essence is a big card, and when he is not threatened by unbearable force, he must have enough advantage to make a move.

In their own self-interest or in the collective interest, D21 needs at least one nod from either Pan Wen or Kareda.

But Pan Wen, who got the news, didn't dare to waste too much time, he knew how powerful the player's intelligence penetration was, and if they bought off all the shareholders, it would not be impossible for D21 to get rid of the two and vote directly. The starting point of the shareholders is to make money, and they will not be condemned by the outside world and their own morality afterwards, and the players are more just communicating with all parties to explain the relationship to promote the cooperation to enter the implementation stage as soon as possible, without the pressure of gray costs.

"Looks like you're going to chase people away." Before Pan Wen could speak, Kareda spoke first.

This woman is indeed powerful, and Pan Wen is a little embarrassed to say it.

If they just agree to the plan, either Panvin or Kareda can produce a letter of authorization for the messenger ship to send back. However, according to Pan Wen's statement not long ago, it was not yet time to provide the Essence Energy Extractor and its research materials, and he and Kareda had to go back to one of them in order to delay the progress of the cooperation.

Among the two, Pan Wen has basically no one available at the headquarters of D21 Development Company, and it is uncertain that the effect of doing things is uncertain.

Kareda is different, the secretary Adele and the butler Ann and Kareda are a trinity, she is also the CEO, Adele and Ann are the executive officers of specific affairs, it is too easy to do the details, and no matter what she does, it has no effect on the fragile relationship between Pan Wen and the player.

However, Carreda had to face pressure from Viscount Guiermet and his family when she returned, which was the reason for her trip. Even if there is water in it, as long as she still wants to maintain the same control of the D21 development company as before, it is definitely not appropriate to go back within a few days of coming out, and it will lower her bargaining chips.

Of course, Pan Wen didn't care very much about whether he would cause her trouble, he only knew that this woman was powerful, and he didn't have any good conditions to exchange with her, and if he didn't have to exchange, he would owe favors.

The timing of the human-insect war is too critical, and it is really not very rational to owe people a favor now, in case Kareda asks his fleet to go to MR253, 254 and other ghost places to open up wasteland, it will not be good if the swarm happens to fight.

Pan Wen's fleet may not be able to play a decisive role in a war of that scale, but with the support of players, the ability of a flagship-level boss such as a high-level fleet commander can also increase the hope of holding K11 by at least half a point, and leaving the front line for a long time is the most inferior choice.

So after Karuida finished speaking, Pan Wen hesitated, but still shook his head: "If it is determined that the partner has a relationship with the mercenary, it will not matter if you go back or not, we will delay for two days and then send the power of attorney back." ”

There is an obvious flaw in this matter, the group they identify with is a mercenary rather than an NPC country, so they will first try to see if they can monopolize the essence and forcibly extract the technology, and if it doesn't work, they will hand it over to the country, so that they will not be able to use the power of the country in the early stage of cooperation, and there will be a natural disadvantage in mobilizing strategic-level resources, and the progress will not be too fast.

On the other hand, the D21 development company of the study does not have mature results and theories at all, and Pan Wen is also unable to determine whether it can catch up with the strategic needs at the "predetermined" point in time, if the K11 has been broken by the time the final result is produced, MR243 will become a battlefield, and all the existing countries will disintegrate one by one as the war progresses, and the cost is too great to lead to a high risk.

"Are you sure?"

Pan Wen nodded: "Even if the mercenaries have results in advance, they will not have a significant increase in the combat strength of the front line, I believe them." ”

"Giggles!" Kareda covered her mouth and smiled.

Outside of the fleet, no one could find a laugh when they heard this, and it was only when Khareda heard it from Pan Wen's mouth that he understood that "believing them" was a definitive conclusion.

Pan Wen also stared at Kareda, she smiled happily, she really found the laugh point from her own cold jokes!

He knows himself too well to be the closest NPC to the "truth" other than the Awoken.

However, Pan Wen has no intention of guiding Kareda to become an Awakened, with Kareda's means, identity, and energy today, as long as she does not die, she will still have an excellent background in the next era, which is much happier than being an awakened person with great pressure.

Just as he was about to have an in-depth exchange, suddenly an alarm sounded.

Pan Wen shook his head self-deprecatingly: "I suggest you go to 243 for a vacation, it's really not safe here." ”

With that, without waiting for Kareda to reply, he opened the door and went out to the bridge control room.

Entering the control room, it is found that Nadezhda is not there, the two captains are not there, and only the navigator is the one who activates the alarm.

"Here are the bugs?"

"Yes, the bugs are coming, just now the notice issued by the coalition forces, the third defense zone of the Federation has been broken through by the swarm, and the scale of the leakage is unknown."

Pan Wen frowned, his mind full of questions, but now was not the time to think nonsense.

Sit on the captain's console, send a second-level combat readiness notice to the entire fleet, and then instruct the communicator to activate the hyperspace information system and search for the location of several other alert fleets of the resistance forces.

The other guard fleets are their own people, and the patrol formation will not change under normal circumstances, and through the comparison of characteristics, finding them is like looking for fireflies in the night.

Before the scan was completed, Nadezhda also came, communicated with Pan Wen for a few words, briefly explained the situation, and then told her to do some chores.

"You go and talk to Kareda, let her get off the ship, the matter of leaving the port urgently is also handed over to you, go to rest when it's over, I don't know what the situation is now, and I may need to rotate."

"Okay."

After a period of miscellaneous work, I contacted the commanders of several other alert fleets, and after a while, several people decided to leave three fleets to patrol the industrial area, and split two teams to help find bugs.

The Third Alert Fleet led by Pan Wen happened to be one of the fleets that were going to find the bugs.

It is not surprising that although K11 has been facing the threat of bugs for a long time, businessmen are businessmen after all, and there are no businessmen who are really willing to invest money to buy integrated information ships, and most of the business groups in K11's industrial value is not enough to pay for a comprehensive information ship, not to mention that if they do not directly participate in the war, the galaxy scanning function will not be used several times a year, and the new fourth and fifth alert fleets will not have information integrated ships at all.

Of the three fleets in front, only the Third Alert Fleet led by Pan Wen had two information integrated ships and a reconnaissance plane with a scanning function, and in the face of insects from the left wing star sector, the Third Alert Fleet had the strongest ultra-long-range anti-stealth capability, and was undoubtedly the most suitable for going out to find bugs.

In this case, wouldn't the ships of the other chambers of commerce in the Third Alert Fleet often have to face more dangerous tasks than the other fleets, which can be regarded as bad luck?

Of course not, Pan Wen led the team to risk tossing twice in the right-wing star area, even if other chambers of commerce would not give money directly, at least they still remembered him well. Under the guiding ideology of the capable and the hardworking, the Third Alert Fleet made an integration and replaced some soy sauce parties. The current team in the Third Alert Fleet, if not the elite, is at least a relatively reliable security team among the civilian groups, and a small part is a new team of former mercenaries.

The gold departed from Hong Kong, and gradually accelerated the collection of the team members who had been on vacation before in the industrial area, and by the way, notified the modification industry to prepare for the work, and tossed for an hour before hitting the road.

The size of the insect swarm that slipped through the net this time may be a little excessive, even if the invisible insects are weak in characteristics and too large, it is not easy to completely hide, and the third alert fleet has only set off for less than half an hour, and it has found that a high-intensity battle has broken out at a certain point in the western area.

The fleet turned, heading towards the extension of the Federation's Third Sector and the point of battle.

The battle lasted very short, less than ten minutes. On the next road, I didn't receive a notification that the coalition alarm was lifted, and it seemed that the bugs had won.

"That's a lot!"

By restoring the characteristics of the high-energy response, it is possible to roughly estimate the number and type of high-energy weapons involved in the firefight, if the scale of the mercenary patrol ship fleet is about 300, and according to the configuration of the federal fleet, there are also hundreds of warships of various types.

Solving a fleet of this size in ten minutes is no longer a fish that has slipped through the net, and the battle line has simply been penetrated by bugs!

Looking at the distance of the line, Pan Wen dragged his chin on the command platform with his hand, and became even more puzzled.

Is the swarm stimulated, or are the bugs in the left wing sector ready for war?

Judging from the tactics of attack, the possibility of completing combat readiness is very small.

Don't think about how good the demon king is, let Pan Wen do the attack tactics will not be so brief: the simplest breakthrough tactic is to carry out a tentative attack with a fixed scale of insect swarm at a fixed point in time for a continuous period of time, and humans will form inertial thinking within 21 to 25 times, and then launch a full-scale attack after a certain tentative attack, and put all their forces into it at once! It takes time for the human fleet to move from a casual state to a combat state, and the wrong level of security can give the swarm at least a tactical advantage for more than ten minutes.

If you want to be more reliable, then divide the swarm into four or five parts, take one out to be the vanguard of a single point breakthrough, and enter the battlefield with a delay of about twenty minutes to half an hour, at this point in time, there must be a small number of ships on each front rushing to the vanguard breakthrough point, that is, each line of defense is a little more vulnerable than usual.

In short, Pan Wen never believed that the Demon King's tactical level was not even as good as him, otherwise the current strategic situation would not be so passive.

Then the question arises, since they are not ready for all-out war, why did the swarm suddenly come up with troops that are much larger than usual to test each other?

Pan Wen thought for more than ten minutes, ruled out a bunch of possibilities, and finally left two: cover maneuvers and tactical upgrades.

The cover action is very easy to understand, it is inevitable that the swarm is the army led by the demon king, and the demon king can be interconnected offline like the player, maybe the insect swarm of the right wing star area wants to make a big news, so the bugs in the left wing star area will come up to stimulate it to improve the vigilance and armament of K11. At this stage, the humans in the MR cluster are only holding the point in K11, and the total amount of resources that humans can invest in the human-insect war in the KT cluster is limited, and the armed degree of K11 is strengthened, and the resistance faced by the right-wing star sector will inevitably decrease, even one or two percentages may change the outcome. If the bug in the left wing sector has a follow-up action, the change in the balance of power will be greater.

Tactical upgrades are also one of the options, the swarm of the left wing sector has occupied the left wing sector for a long time, and in areas that K1-K6 and other areas that K11 can't touch, most of the logistics preparations should have been completed or at least completed, maybe the Demon King feels that it's time to touch the hole cards of the humans. For example, if we look at the war potential of mankind and the determination to hold K11, to achieve this goal, it is inevitable to escalate the force of local conflicts.

Maybe both!

It's a pity that because of the ignition of the K14 star, at this time, K11's communication with the K21-K23 region has to be relayed through K13 and 16, and there has been a delay of about a day, and it is too difficult to get and release authoritative news quickly, the Federation and the Empire do not speak, and a guy like Pan Wen, who is only influential in a certain range, can only wait for the result.