"Boss, you have a big opinion of mercenaries."

"Huh!?"

"Recently, a third of your income has disappeared to deal with them."

Looking at Doris in the communication screen, Pan Wen nodded: "Yes, I am afraid that they will gradually break away from the grasp of the Empire and the Federation and threaten Segeis." Although my strength is small, I can delay it a few days a few more times. ”

Doris's heroic sword eyebrows were raised, and her expression was not very convinced.

It has been more than twenty days since she returned to the team, and she has not returned to Segeis for the time being, but has led Ensign No. 1 to follow the Golden to MR241 directly to return to her hunting career, and she finds that her boss is even more vicious than before, not only the ship, but also the behavior pattern.

She was right to be skeptical of Pan Wen's words. He does like the whole group of guys who think the world is under their feet, but because as an NPC, he can't be compared to the resurrection or consumption of those guys, so the premise of everything must not be too hindering his own development. Recently, the player who has been sneaking away to MR241's war zone has occasionally sneaked up on some remnants who have just been through battle, and the main purpose is to level up himself and Doris.

Players have this or that bull 13, and even the experience given to NPCs is higher than that of normal enemies, at this stage, whether it is Pan Wen for the sake of follow-up licenses, or cultivating Doris, he needs to spend more energy on experience, but this kind of thing seems to be difficult to talk to Doris.

While the two were talking, the avatar of the second host Doudou in the corner came out and spoke: "Captain, there is a situation." ”

Pan Wen pursed the corners of his mouth, interrupted the call with Doris, and moved to the bridge control room.

"What's wrong?"

"BOSS, 'Eagle Eye' found that a fleet has entered the fog area, judging by the movement trajectory, it may be coming to us, the scale of the fleet is very large." The fog area, which is the pure stardust area outside the ecliptic plane, is called the fog because it cannot effectively identify the direction.

Half an hour ago, they fought a few ships remnants of the battle, but they didn't clean up the battlefield, and the two "Hawkeye" light reconnaissance ships on the Gold were only thrown out for 20 minutes.

With doubts, Pan Wen sat behind the captain's platform and pressed a few times to show the target situation.

The fog area is an area where it is difficult to accurately locate itself, but the Golden and Ensign No. 1 have only been in for half an hour, and there is only one change of direction on the way, and the position error shown on the star map relative to the ecliptic plane is not too large, and the reconnaissance fleet is calculated based on its own coordinates, so as not to take the opposite route with the enemy.

At this point, a bunch of orange dots have been marked in the star chart, orange is used when members are unable to confirm hostility but judge that there may be a threat, and the dots on the map form a distinct pocket shape for the straight line of the golden number cutting into the fog zone.

Judging from the number of orange dots, it doesn't seem to be much, even if there are some errors due to the relationship between distance and formation, there are at most about a hundred patrol ships, and it is not without the strength of a battle to cooperate with the Gold and Ensign No. 1 with Pan Wen's expert-level license. He didn't react immediately, though, and his fingers tapped on the console, lost in a momentary thought.

It's a bit far-fetched if the battle just now is a trap, even if there is some high-level communication between the Imperial players and the Federation players, it will not be enough to use nearly a hundred patrol ships to fight to the death, plus the cost of the follow-up fleet's actions, even the boss will not be able to make them profitable. Moreover, if the two sides are in a group, it is impossible for the other side to turn around and run away when the Golden Ship cuts into the battlefield, and it must rush up to delay time or find a way to lay mines on the road ahead to force the Golden to change the direction of inertia.

From this point of view, if the group that was detected was indeed here to deal with the Gold, it could only be a unilateral operation, considering that the point of entry into the battlefield was biased towards the MR240 jump circle of the Imperial side, it was more likely that it was the Imperial fleet.

The Gold did not detect other fleets during the battlefield before, and the target fleet entered the Misty Zone slowly, even if it was really to deal with the Gold, it was only premeditated...... Or rather, a plan of action when encountering the Golden One.

There is a very high possibility of an action plan when encountering, although the starry sky is large, MR241 also has a variety of fleets, but the combination of the Gold and the Ensign One is very recognizable once fired, and with the recent frequent sneak attacks on the player fleet, with the player's contact through space and time and their dedication to the BOSS, they can really do the thing of immediately summoning people to do the BOSS.

After deducing the relationship between the parties, Pan Wen made a decision in his heart:

"Let the 'Hawkeye' drop the detection array, throw the remaining two 'Hawkeye' out, and the four ships will coordinate and go below to do the bait action. Tell Second Lieutenant One to come over. ”

The Detection Array is a cheap consumable item, similar to the fighter that acts as an "eye", and is used to expand the reconnaissance range, but the detection array is less effective and is only carried by professional reconnaissance ships with insufficient hangar capacity.

There is nothing to explain the decoy action, the large ship camouflages a low-tonnage ship with small thrust by turning off part of the thruster group, and the small boat can of course be grouped together to simulate the propulsion reaction of a large-tonnage ship. The propulsion response of a small boat simulating a large ship is slightly more complicated, and in addition to the coordination of multiple ships, the auxiliary thrusters in other directions must be turned on at the same time for speed limiting, because their own mass is insufficient, and it is easy to exceed the upper limit of the acceleration of the large ship, resulting in rapid identification.

When the Hawkeye reconnaissance ship coordinated in place, it gradually strengthened its propulsion response and began to move away from the Golden. The Gold and Ensign I, in turn, gradually reduced their thrust and maintained a slight decrease in speed per minute.

Several target fleets were more than a million kilometers away from the Golden at this time, and the reason why they were detected in advance was that there were no large physical obstacles in the fog area, except for the backward position of the "Eagle Eye" and the fog area, was that they used more ships, and it was difficult to truly achieve "stealth".

With such a large distance, the direction of inertia of the two sides is about the same, and the relative speed of the pursuit is very low, Pan Wen does not need to be in a hurry, his first decision is to find out whether the other party is coming at him.

The test turned out to be completely redundant, and when the reconnaissance ship group left the Golden 200,000 kilometers, the reconnaissance array came into play, detecting a change in the angle of inertia of the target fleet.

"Smack"

Pan Wen slapped himself on the forehead, drawing the attention of several crew members and Deputy Captain Nadezhda.

He didn't care about the others, drew an area on the ecliptic plane displayed on the star map, and spoke: "Doudou, set the marking area as the fleet that now has a deadly threat approaches the ship at the cruising speed in the nebula, and begins to calculate the departure route, and requires that no exchange of fire be made, and leave the MR241 star field in the shortest possible time." Su Qing, according to the line provided by Doudou, execute immediately. Vice-Captain, immediately retrieve the 'Hawkeye' and notify the Ensign No. 1 that the data is synchronized and ready to accelerate. ”

He decided to run away, and very decisively!

He doesn't know much about the various individuals in the NPC world, but he is very knowledgeable about the player group, and when this group of guys is determined to catch a certain boss under the premise of non-emergency or preparation, the boss side doesn't even have to think about killing back - anyway, most of the people he saw in the last era were killed by a sea of people, with few exceptions.

The premise of the encounter that took place before the player's large-scale clash was completely different from the premise of the encounter, when he had just owned the Gold, and no one knew what the combat power of this ship plus the high-level license boss was like, even if it was a professional NPC. Even if the other party had a little contact at a distance at that time, because there was no plan and the combat position was in the middle zone of the nebula, the forces that could be mobilized would definitely be very limited.

Recently, because of his frequent entry and exit from the battlefield between players, he is likely to be defined by those guys as a small-area mobile boss, and his actions will be more targeted. Most of the fleets behind are just here to confirm the route of action of the Golden Ship, and it is unlikely that the real sortie force is theirs, because according to the existing speed difference between the two sides, even if they don't make any changes, it will take an hour or two to get to the point of engagement, so long for all players to know that there is a boss being targeted!

Pan Wen's decision obviously surprised everyone, and many people unconsciously communicated with their eyes and expressions. Probably in their eyes, the boss is a demon who catches and beats whom, but they didn't expect that one day they would run away without even fighting. Of course, the crew still maintained a considerable level of professionalism and ensured that 100% of the instructions broken down by the S.R.I.R.I. were completed.

Pan Wen saw it in his eyes, and he didn't have the meaning to explain, since ancient times, no one has been running, and those who don't run have become heroic souls. The first time I got the Gold as bait in MR241, the group of Imperial patrols that I encountered before hitting the player ship group, there were also "Duke" class cruisers in it, and I didn't run away as soon as I saw the firepower of the Gold, and other professional soldiers knew to run, and he was a pirate who didn't make sense to fight to the end in any situation.

……

Pan Wen's way of turning around and running can make the players behind him miserable.

He guessed correctly, the three fleets belonging to the Sunset Dynasty were chasing in to confirm the path of the Golden Ship. According to their feedback, a few minutes ago the higher-ups decided to mobilize the troops at the front to get out of the sporadic entanglement with the Federation players, and they were about to assemble to be the roadblock.

Although the player's communication process is unsolvable, but in the second world, you still have to abide by the rules of the world, and it will take time for the fleet to assemble, but at this time, the target boss has adjusted the movement angle and started to accelerate with a large thrust!

"What does it mean to have a big thrust in a nebula?" The captain who is responsible for confirming the BOSS route was confused by the sudden change of the other party, according to the ferocity of the boss in the last ten days, his fleet will not scare it away even if it has some strength.

"He's going to get out of the nebula and into the jumping phase." Even though it was an answer that everyone knew, the adjutant said it anyway.

"What then? Our team catches up and fights by ourselves? "The acceleration of a patrol ship is higher than that of a large ship when it opens a large thrust, so it is still possible to react immediately and start a fight before the opponent enters the disengagement speed.

"Phew, I'll go and inform Shangfeng and let them make a decision." The adjutant obviously has a lot of eyes and is unwilling to use his own team as cannon fodder.

The captain reacted immediately and nodded numbly: "Okay!" You go. ”

There was no gravity simulation on their ship, and when the adjutant pushed down the console and floated to the door, the captain gave the fleet order, but his face was facing the deputy official: "The fleet accelerates, keep the course right, don't chase it, don't break through the nebula cruise speed." ”