Ye Fei just wanted to salute, but at a glance, he saw Wu Han's tired appearance and worried expression, and his heart suddenly chuckled, and the hand he had just raised froze in the air: "What's wrong?" ”

People who know Wu Han know that this defense minister is not only not a particularly serious person, but is very easy-going in private, even if he works in a kind and amiable manner, since the elimination of the alien skeleton, the external threat of mankind has disappeared, no matter how busy the work of the headquarters is, there are still a large number of staff officers on top of it, how can it be impossible for the national defense headquarters to be tired like this.

"Ye Fei, don't talk nonsense, the situation is urgent." Wu Han said straight to the point.

Ye Fei's waist subconsciously straightened: "What's the situation?" You say! ”

Wu Han's expression was unprecedentedly serious: "Last night, that is, at five o'clock in the evening of June 13, 2213, the Shanying did not contact the headquarters at the specified time, and the headquarters called according to the prescribed procedures, but there was still no response until twenty-two o'clock in the evening. Everyone at the headquarters rushed back overnight to wait for news, but until eight o'clock this morning, there was still no news, and it had been confirmed that the Mountain Eagle was missing. ”

The Mountain Eagle is also a Skyhawk-class battleship, and it is the same complete version of the battleship as the Skyhawk, even if there is a problem with the communication equipment on the ship, but there will never be a problem with all the communication equipment on more than a dozen warships at the same time, so there is a loss of contact, and eighty percent of the battleship has encountered some abnormal situation.

"What do you need me for?" It is simply impossible to take the initiative to turn off the communication, even if Ye Fei doesn't want to believe it in his heart. Missing two consecutive debriefings is enough to prove that the Mountain Eagle has encountered an irresistible situation, and in a serious way, it may even have been destroyed.

The dozen or so Skyhawk-class warships that carried out the Awareness Plan could not defeat and still escape, and they had not yet encountered such an extreme situation, but the human understanding of the universe was too barren to imagine what the Mountain Eagle had encountered.

"I need you to immediately abort your current mission and immediately go to the airspace where the Mountain Eagle is missing, find a way to find the Mountain Eagle, or find out the situation of the Mountain Eagle." Now is not the time to be polite. Wu Han bluntly issued a new order. "The coordinates of the last time the Mountain Eagle contacted the headquarters are only two hundred and sixty light-years away from your current location, and your battleship is the closest human spaceship to the missing place, I need you to rush over as quickly as possible."

Ye Fei's expression gradually became more and more serious as Wu Han's narration grew. After listening to the requirements of the task, he immediately said: "Resolutely complete the task!" ”

"Be careful, don't be impulsive. We've already lost one ship. No more can be lost. Wu Han said solemnly.

His words were unpleasant, but they were not curses.

The chances of the Mountain Eagle surviving after losing contact are extremely small, if it is an extreme situation that the Mountain Eagle cannot withstand is incapable of. The Aquila was also unable to resist, and the underlying lines of this sentence were to remind Ye Fei to do his best, but don't risk the safety of the Aquila.

Ye Fei nodded heavily: "Don't worry, I understand." ”

"Let's go as soon as possible." Wu Han ended the communication worriedly, and immediately sent the coordinates of the Shanying's most rearmost position to Ye Fei.

Ye Fei directly transferred the location information to Jiang Xue: "Did you hear it?" Abort the mission and set off to support the Mountain Eagle immediately! "Although the Mountain Eagle may encounter accidents, until we get definite evidence, everything is just conjecture, even if there is only one percent hope, we must do our best 100 percent.

Aquila disappeared into the outer reaches of the Confucian galaxy in an instant, flying towards its target at a top speed of one light-year per hour.

The time when Ye Fei received the order was half past eight in the morning on June 14, 2213, just over half an hour after the time of contact.

Although the Aquila was ordered to rush to the designated coordinates to carry out the rescue mission, Ye Fei always had some hope in his heart, expecting that the Mountain Eagle was only because it encountered some irresistible factors, but as time passed, there was no news from the Mountain Eagle, and that little hope became more and more slim with the passage of time.

Ye Fei didn't know what was waiting for him in the target area, and began to become silent and irritable.

The distance of 260 light years would take eleven days of continuous flight to reach it, and everyone knew that by the time the Aquila arrived at the target area in eleven days, no matter what happened to the Mountain Eagle, it would be too late.

Moreover, the headquarters only has the last contact coordinates of the Mountain Eagle, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the evening, a total of nine hours, enough time for the Mountain Eagle to fly out of the distance of nine light years.

The straight-line distance of nine light years is nothing to the current human race, but in the case of not knowing the whereabouts of the Mountain Eagle in the road road, any direction may be the direction of the Mountain Eagle's disappearance, and any point within the vast range of more than 3,000 cubic light years with a radius of nine light years may be the location of the Mountain Eagle's accident.

The Skyhawk-class battleship is only fifteen kilometers long, and as long as the distance is stretched out by a few lightseconds, it must be detected by magnifying the surrounding images with an optical system.

Just thinking about the concept of more than 3,000 cubic light years made Ye Fei's scalp tingle like an electric shock.

In the early morning of June 26, 2213, the Aquila, which had traveled two hundred and sixty light-years, was about to arrive at the coordinates of the Mountain Eagle's last report, and the entire Aquila was ready for battle in advance.

Ye Fei in the bridge was more restless than anyone else, but he had to be calm so as not to affect others, and there was a dull depression in the entire bridge.

The big screen was pitch black, without any images of the starry sky, just a row of crimson numbers counting down.

With only thirty seconds left in the countdown, Ye Fei took a deep breath and gestured to Ruan Peng.

Ruan Peng immediately connected to the ship's public channel according to Ye Fei's instructions in advance, and Ye Fei was silent for a few seconds before he said in a low voice: "Seven seconds later, prepare to get out of the speed of light." ”

The whole ship immediately tensed, and the air almost froze.

The countdown to zero was irreversible, and the moment the Aquila broke away from the speed of light, everyone held their breath until the cosmic image outside the ship gradually became clear.

In order to prevent accidents, Ye Fei did not deviate from the speed of light at the coordinates behind the Aquila, the current distance of the Aquila is nearly an astronomical unit away from the target position, even if the Mountain Eagle encounters a supernova explosion, such a distance is safe enough.

However, there was nothing abnormal in the universe that appeared in front of the Aquila and the others. (To be continued......)