"How's it going? Is there any getting in touch? Saber looked at the rain outside the window and the small biplane unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flying in the sky, and couldn't help frowning, the weather has been good recently, why is it raining today? And that's what happened. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I'm sorry, I was derelict in my duties." Kanae Kawasaki said apologetically.

"Don't apologize yet, don't be busy cutting your stomach, find Ye Zifeng first." Saber hurriedly said, "You Japanese are really serious. ”

"I'm sorry......" Kanae Kawasaki whispered.

"I said I don't have to apologize." Saber shook his head helplessly, "First report the situation and the location where Ye Zifeng last appeared." ”

"The situation is not very ideal now, Mr. Yamamoto at the main gate is trapped, although the guards are helpless to take Mr. Yamamoto now, but the tank can't be driven." Kawasaki Kanae reported, "Chief Ye Zifeng should still be in the research institute now. ”

"What are your plans?" Saber put his hand in his jacket pocket and asked Kanae Kawasaki.

"Isn't it necessary to mobilize manpower to attack the institute?" Kanae Kawasaki suggested.

"No, it's so purposeful that even a defense officer with a little brain would think we're going to do something in the institute." Saber shook his head, "It's been exposed, but the Defense Department won't take it away, and they don't know if we're planning to lure the snake out of the hole." ”

"I'm sorry, I know too well what it means to lure snakes out of their holes." Kanae Kawasaki apologized again.

"I mean, the Defense Department doesn't understand if we're going to want to lure things out and ambush them on the road." Saber wiped the sweat from his forehead, "It's safer to stay in the institute than to risk the goods out." ”

"I see." Kanae Kawasaki nodded, "Then I'll go alone." ”

"Alone?" Saber was stunned for a moment, and then said with concern, "It doesn't matter about your body, right?" ”

"No problem." Kanae Kawasaki looked at the bandage around her waist and smiled slightly, "I don't have a problem." ”

Kanae Kawasaki got up and started to pack her things.

"If there is really no problem, pay attention to safety, we will start the evacuation plan to rescue Keiichi Yamamoto in an hour, you don't have to worry about the safety of people outside." Saber nodded, "This is the map of the institute, I'll send it to you now." ”

"Thank you, sir." Kanae Kawasaki nodded in thanks, pulled out the phone from her jacket pocket, and accepted the map file from Saber.

"Remind you." Saber reminded and said, "I heard Naoto Sakurai say before, Ye Zifeng likes to run to places where no one is, you focus on the underground facilities, I think this research institute is not as simple as we imagined." ”

"I see." Kanae Kawasaki fastened her phone to the holder on her wrist and set off towards the institute.

"Good luck." Saber said and turned off the phone. Listening to the busy sound in the headphones, Kanae Kawasaki did not take off the headphones, but said "thank you" softly and then entered the Thunder Research Institute through the back door of the research institute.

"Monitor A-22 has caught something strange, sir." An ensign sat in front of the monitor's screen, staring at a black shadow that had flashed on the screen, and immediately reported to the major on duty.

"What's going on?" The Major walked behind the lieutenant and looked the back of the lieutenant's chair at the image on the screen.

"That's it, sir." Pointing slightly to a black shadow on the replay video, although it flashed from the monitor, it was still clearly captured, and the faint light on its tail could easily tell that it was an unknown man-made space flying object.

"Sir, there's a spy here, too." Another monitor spoke up at this point, "A-58 monitor. ”

"This is monitor A-106, and I have a strange shadow here." Another monitor reported.

"What's going on?" The major didn't check them one by one, and after standing behind the first lieutenant and thinking for a while, he said to the monitors in the first monitoring room, "You continue to monitor, and I'll report this to the higher-ups, Captain." ”

"What's the matter, sir?" One of the captains on the side took off the headphones above his head and looked at the Major.

"During the time I was away, you took full authority for all my functions in the monitoring room." The Major clicked the button on the doorway, and the automatic door immediately slid open.

"Yes, sir." The Captain stood up from his seat and gave a military salute to the Major, who nodded and left the first cell.

"Sir." As soon as the automatic door closed, another monitor reported, "This is Monitor A-121, and I have captured high-definition images." ”

The monitor tapped on the keyboard a few times, and then reached out and swiped on the superconducting plexiglass screen, a three-dimensional image flew out of the screen, levitating in front of the huge monitoring room, all the monitors' eyes were attracted by this screenshot, the captain walked to the screen, looked at the image on the screen and couldn't help but gasp.

The cold iron-gray armor reflected the dazzling light of the sun in the distance, and such light was extremely easy to catch in a vacuum without the obstruction of the atmosphere. But this fighter is different, the reflected light is extremely weak, first the armor coating can absorb the light, the eight white "shooter" infrared guided missiles mounted on the belly of the cabin are particularly eye-catching, and the 97mm close-in defense cannon under the cockpit is revealing a hideous appearance.

"It's the Earth Federation's space fighter." The captain whispered, and then immediately ran back to the major's seat and sent a message to the microcomputer that the major was carrying, and edited the screenshots into a combination file and stuffed them into the major's microcomputer one by one.

"Information found three minutes ago." The major stood in front of Ye Kexin's desk and gave a military salute to Ye Kexin, "We have found an unknown flying object, and the flight trajectory is predicted to be a reconnaissance flight around the moon. ”

"Pilgrims?" Ye Kexin closed the book in his hand and put it aside.

"I don't know, we don't have more ......" The major didn't finish speaking, a new message was transmitted to the microcomputer in his pocket, and after the major said sorry to Ye Kexin, he took out the microcomputer from his pocket and clicked on the icon of the new email. Just after one glance, the Major's face changed.

"Major, what's wrong with you?" Ye Kexin saw the change in the major's face, "Not feeling well? ”

"Sir, look at this." The major handed the microcomputer in his hand to Ye Kexin, and then walked to the public computer on the side to operate it.

"This is ......." Ye Kexin's eyebrows furrowed.

"It's the 'hummingbird' of the Earth Federation." The major continued Ye Kexin's words, and then clicked the enter key on the three-dimensional projection keyboard, and a pair of Saturn was projected into the air of Ye Kexin's office. The model of the moon is surrounded by circles of red lines, "which are predictions of the flight trajectory of the 'hummingbird.'" ”

"It went through all of our autonomous defense weapon platforms." Ye Kexin stood up from the back chair, walked to the three-dimensional projection, and looked at a small dot on the image that moved little by little, that is the "hummingbird" in flight, although this is only a prediction line, but this is the calculation result of "cowboy", and the authority is at least higher than that of people.

"What to do, sir?" The major looked at Ye Kexin a little anxiously, waiting to give an order to this girl who was only twenty-four years old.

Ye Kexin didn't speak, still staring at the three-dimensional projection and thinking about something.

"You go back to the monitoring room to continue monitoring, and at the same time inform the other monitoring rooms not to report to me if they find something similar." Ye Kexin said to the major, but before the words fell, the automatic door of Ye Kexin's office suddenly slid open, and another major rushed in, not only saluting Ye Kexin, but immediately running to the three-dimensional projection.

"Sir, something is wrong." The Major gasped heavily, his chest kept rising and falling, and he could see that the Major was not running slowly along the way, "The 'Hummingbird' has launched an attack on us, and the Pilgrims have gathered three frigates to head towards the Laurel base, and the outermost defensive battleship has been withdrawn according to the original order. ”

The Major's finger pointed to two points in succession on the three-dimensional projection, and two highlighted markers appeared, one on the lunar surface showing the location of the "Hummingbird" attack, and the other showing the location of the Pilgrim battleship.

"You go back first." Ye Kexin didn't immediately respond to the major who came later, but just nodded to the major on duty in the monitoring room and left together. The major on duty gave a military salute and turned around to leave Ye Kexin's office, only then did Ye Kexin look at the major who broke in later, and said with a deep face, "Inform the staff officers and generals, and go to the conference room on the third floor for a meeting in ten minutes, the base will enter the A-level combat readiness alert from this time, and all the automatic defense systems will be unlocked, and handed over to the 'cowboy' for auxiliary shooting." ”

"Yes, sir." The major saluted and then turned to leave Ye Kexin's office. Looking at the closed automatic door, Ye Kexin frowned, slowly paced back and looked at the scenery outside the window, and couldn't help sighing.

"What's going on?" Ye Kexin sighed softly, "It's nearly ten days earlier than predicted, what happened on the ground?" The Earth Federation is in such a hurry to come and demonstrate against me? Pilgrims can understand, but after accumulating for more than a week, they can only save up three frigates, which is too contemptuous. ”

Looking at the clock on the window, it was now 3:48 in the afternoon, Ye Kexin operated on the window a few times, and the window immediately darkened, and then it became like a wall. Turning around and leaving the office, Ye Kexin straightened her upper body and walked towards the conference room on the third basement floor.

This is the largest conference room in this laurel base, generally speaking, this conference room is no longer used to hold meetings, there is a half-person high rostrum in front of it, and it is completely possible to hold a high-end dance here, but now the dozen or so staff generals gathered here have all sad expressions on their faces, and they can't see that the venue for the dance party is displayed here, but it is a bit like a funeral memorial service.

"Sir." A staff officer saw Ye Kexin standing at the door of the conference room, and immediately got up and said, the originally noisy conference room immediately quieted down, and everyone looked at Ye Kexin at the door of the conference room in unison. Walking quickly into the conference room and coming to the top of the long conference table, Ye Kexin did not take a seat, but waved his hand lightly to everyone, indicating that he could sit down.

"Now that everyone is here, I'll make a long story short." Ye Kexin didn't have any attractive opening remarks, and with a wave of his hand, the screen behind him lit up, "Fifteen minutes ago, our fixed monitoring sensor detected the figure of the Earth Federation's 'Hummingbird', and about five minutes later, the 'Hummingbird' launched an attack on us, and at the same time, three pilgrim frigates headed towards the Laurel base. ”

A flat image appeared on the flat display screen, Ye Kexin stood in front of the screen and explained to the staff generals present: "Ten minutes ago, these three ships did not break through the first defensive track, but according to the speed and time of advance, these three ships have approached the second defensive track, although it is said that a one-way attack, but we still can't take it lightly, this is the first time in six months that the pilgrims have launched an attack on us." ”

"The other side only has three ships, and we have twelve, which is not a problem at all." An officer on the side of the fleet raised his hand to speak.

"Then proceed with caution, the current fleet is not the same as it used to be." Ye Kexin did not hesitate to poke at the sore spot of all the senior officers of the fleet, "The loss of the fleet makes the current single room extremely low combat effectiveness, and there is basically no chance of winning one-on-one, we need teamwork to win." ”

"What about a defensive operation with the lunar defense system?" A colonel's staff officer raised his hand to speak.

"We can think about it, but it's too late, we will attack when the Pilgrim's fleet breaks through the second layer of defense, and then we will only be able to assemble three warships, two destroyers and one frigate." Ye Kexin pointed to the information of the three warships listed on the side, "With three warships, to be honest, I don't have the confidence to win the battle, but it's too late to wait for the fleet to assemble, so it's better not to assemble the fleet, but defend with the lunar defense system." ”

"Is that okay, sir?" A staff officer raised his hand to speak, a worried look on his face, "But with the lunar defense system, are we really sure that we will shoot down three Pilgrim warships?" ”

"If you have it, you have to shoot it down, and if you don't, you have to shoot it down!" Ye Kexin suddenly raised the volume of his speech, and at the same time slapped the table hard, "We need this victory, six months of not fighting not only discouraged the army, but also made us lack training, these pilgrims came at the right time, so they should contribute something to our regrouping." ”

"The lunar defense system has been fully activated, but the defense radius is too short." Another staff officer raised his hand to speak, "The Pilgrims break through the second line of defense, can we really hit them?" ”

"Yes." Ye Kexin didn't think about it, and blurted out the answer, "The range of the electromagnetic railgun firing group buried deep underneath can reach geostationary orbit. ”

"I don't have a problem anymore." The staff officer nodded, leaning back into the backrest.

"Who's in trouble?" Ye Kexin looked around the venue, and the general and staff officers were silent.

"No problem, vote now, those who agree with my battle plan, please raise your hand." Ye Kexin said while raising his hand. The people in the conference room raised their hands one after another, and Ye Kexin's plan was unanimously approved.

"Since no one has raised objections, let's follow this plan." Ye Kexin nodded, "The fleet mobilized nearby warships to flank to observe the flanks to guard against enemies attacking from the side, and there were also short-range defense cannons to knock down that 'hummingbird'. ”

"It's already being executed." The staff officer on the side replied, "However, the mobility of the 'Hummingbird' is obviously very high, and the probability of our concentration is very small. ”

"Where is the 'hummingbird' now?" Ye Kexin asked.

"In Zone E." The staff officer replied, "The Chief of Defense of Sector E has sent the 'Night Stalker' to attack closely, but the 'Night Stalker' is not as mobile as the 'Hummingbird'. ”

"It should be impossible to catch up, let them do their best, in short, don't let this 'hummingbird' bring our information back to the nest." Ye Kexin pointed to the "hummingbird" on the screen.

"Yes, sir." The staff officer saluted in response.

"If there's nothing to do, just break up and go back and prepare for deployment." Ye Kexin said to the staff officers and generals in the conference room, "I have given full authority to the 'cowboy' to operate the lunar defense system, and the fleet only needs to cooperate." ”

After saying this, Ye Kexin left the conference room on the third floor, and the demonstrator behind him disappeared with Ye Kexin's departure. The general and staff officers also left the conference room one after another. With a soft bang, the chandelier in the conference room went out automatically after feeling that there was no one in the conference room, the automatic door clicked and locked, and the motorized infantry in charge of guarding the door also withdrew after the general and staff officers had all left.

"This is the destroyer Atlantis." The captain reported to the Laurel base, "We have arrived at the intended position, and the Pilgrim warship has been visually captured, and the radar has been locked. ”

"I see." The Admiral replied, "Always be on your guard, and if a pilgrim attacks you, your weapons are free to fire and you don't need to report it." ”

"Yes, sir." The captain replied, and then the armor plate outside the landing observation window slowly opened, and the picture displayed on the landing observation window disappeared, replaced by a space scene that was taken up by half of the blue planet, and three dark purple warships in the distance slowly approached here, but the captain knew that the pilgrim warship that seemed to be coming straight and straight towards him was not actually targeting itself, and when the two sides were on the same curve, there would be a distance of two hundred kilometers between them. Their own task is not to annihilate, but to monitor.

(To be continued)