"Inazuma Four calls the Odyssey, answer, ah, I admit that I am wrong, I take back the previous words, I beg you to ......" A hoarse voice kept calling in the pale yellow stardust band, but it was already slightly tired, and it seemed to be weak.

Risen had been in the stardust belt for nearly an hour, and at first, although he had some bad premonitions, he still thought that it was possible that the stardust belt was getting in the way of communication and sensors. But when he flew his new Lightning fighter and searched around the stardust, finding nothing, he began to get angry, what was going on with these guys? Even such an important operation was delayed, and he unceremoniously scolded the captain of the cruiser in his communication, although it was useless at all, and even he himself did not understand why this happened, perhaps to hide the fear and fear in his heart. He reassured himself over and over again that no, they would come, but they had been delayed because of something.

However, as the minutes ticked by, his anger had long since turned into a pitiful pleading, and his saliva was almost dry, and there was still not a trace of the cruiser Odyssey, let alone the ship, not even a dinghy.

He sighed, although he didn't want to, he could only accept the fact that the cruiser that took them might not come again, something must have gone wrong. Just, what should he do now? Risen began to think seriously about what he was going to do next.

Want to get out of here? Risen pondered for a moment and shook his head, where could he go? He was not familiar with this star field, he only knew that this star field had a secret space jump point, and the shuttles and cruisers all entered and exited this star field through the secret space jump point, and they could not take the normal course, otherwise they would be easily discovered by the empire. The biggest headache now is that there are only three disclosed space jump points marked on the star map, and there is no coordinate of the secret jump point, and Risen does not know the precise location of this secret space jump point, he used to take the shuttle in and out, and he didn't pay too much attention to this, and he can't search such a large star field by himself, it will take him months or even years, and when he finds it, I'm afraid he will starve to death. Moreover, even if he was lucky enough to spot it in a short period of time, after passing through this jump point, he remembered that he would have to traverse two more jump points to reach the rebel base, and he would not have been so lucky to find their location in a short amount of time every time.

Do you want to stay here and wait? Maybe it's a good idea, the Resistance League should know the importance of what he carries, and even if the lieutenant colonel and major are lucky enough to bring the data back safely, they can't ignore him, otherwise what if the prototype and data fall back into the hands of the Empire? That meant that the Empire knew everything about the Alliance's new fighter before it was put into service. Reeson believed that if the Resistance League knew that the Odyssey had not arrived at the pick-up point, they would have sent another ship, and if he left hastily, he would miss the ship.

After making up his mind, Risen had no choice but to be patient, hug his body tightly, close his eyes and rest, and wait quietly in this stardust belt......

Two hours had passed, and there were still no ships, and some sleepy Risen was bored and began to study and familiarize himself with his new fighter.......

After four hours, Risen began to feel impatient, he wondered if the Resistance League would send a ship to pick up the ship, he hesitated a little if he should try to find the secret space jump point, he vaguely remembered the location. But if he had found the wrong direction, and the receiving ship had arrived from another direction, wouldn't he have missed it?

Just when he was a little hesitant, suddenly, a short warning sound suddenly sounded from his cockpit, and a small bright spot appeared near him on the sensor screen. Risen was about to cheer for the arrival of the ship, when suddenly, his expression froze, and the highlight was a small red dot, and the sensor quickly identified the target, which was an Imperial Banshee fighter.

Although the Resistance Alliance also has Banshee fighters, the Banshee's identification signal clearly does not match the Alliance's signal. Due to the interference of the stardust belt, it has not yet discovered Resson, and Risen was lucky enough to spot it before the Banshee with the help of the Lightning Fighter's more advanced sensor system.

How could the Empire send fighter jets to this piece of stardust that is far from the normal shipping lane? There's nothing special here other than him, and there's no doubt that it's supposed to be for Ryson. Risen felt a tight heart, did something happen to the Odyssey?

He carefully piloted the warplane to keep a distance from the Banshee, both to allow himself to observe its movements and not to be detected by the sensors on the Banshee-style starfighter, and now that the red dots had become two, the Banshee was not alone, it was clearly a two-plane formation, carrying out the Empire's standard search procedures.

What else can they search for? Isn't that what you're looking for? Risen understands that the news has leaked, and the biggest leak may be on the Odyssey, which has been missing for a long time. Risen guessed that it couldn't have been captured by the Empire, or how would they have known to run to this stardust? This is really terrible, and if you knew this, you might as well insist on following the major to venture through the Imperial fleet defenses.

He looked at the data box, and now he didn't know if the major and lieutenant colonel were safe and sound, if they failed, then he could only count on him, he promised the lieutenant colonel to bring the fighters and data back no matter what.

Fighting the Empire is not the best option, Resson is sure that the Empire is definitely not the only one with these two Banshee fighters, they must have more fighters searching within the Stardust Belt or waiting on the periphery, and Resson is not foolish enough to think that he can take it all alone.

Since you can't fight, let's run away. Fortunately, the range of this stardust belt is still wide enough, and with the help of the lightning fighter's long-range sensors, perhaps, he can play a game of cat and mouse with the Empire, as for how long he can hold out, it is up to fate.

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On the periphery of the Stardust Belt, an Imperial space carrier cruises slowly under the escort of several escort cruisers and destroyers, and groups of Banshee fighters continue to catapult off from the mothership, burrowing into the dense stardust belt to carry out the mission of searching for rebel fighters.

"Rebel pilots, please note that this is the Imperial Space Mothership Bastion, we know that you have illegally stolen valuable assets from the Empire, and we also know that you are hiding in this stardust belt at this moment. Don't be fooled by the rhetoric of the rebels, leave the Stardust Belt at once, and return the stolen Imperial property, we promise leniency. "The crew of an Imperial space carrier is calling over and over on communications.

"Still haven't found anything?" The captain walked over.

"No, sir, I've called many times, and there's been no response." The crew shook his head.

"Where's the sensor?"

"No targets found."

The captain turned his gaze to his flight captain, who did not speak, just shook his head.

"Didn't even the Banshee fighter search team sent out find any enemy planes? Could it be that the information is wrong? No way. It is abundantly clear from the information we received that the captured crew of the wrecked rebel cruiser had been confessed that they were here to meet the rebels who were attacking the TAU-7 space station, and that the battle records indicated that one of our looted fighters had indeed arrived here through the space jump point. Or could the rebel pilots not wait for their receiving ships and had already left this star field? The captain muttered to himself.

"Perhaps, Captain, will you give up the search? We've been here long enough. The flight captain stepped forward and asked.

"Okay." The captain thought for a moment, then reluctantly agreed, "Call back all our search fighters, and then we'll get out of here, and report that the rebels have left." ”

"Yes, Captain. However, due to the impact of the Stardust Patch on communications, some search teams may not hear the recall order. ”

"It's okay, then wait a little and leave when all the fighters are back."

"Understood, Captain."

The two Imperial Banshee fighters had already searched the end of their course, and they had been wandering around the stardust belt for a long time in this stardust belt with poor visibility and interference, and they had long been eager to leave here and return to the warm bed on the mothership. However, just as the two Imperial pilots were about to turn back, a bright spot suddenly appeared on the sensor screen of the long plane flying in front of them, but it quickly disappeared again.

"Hey, did you see that? It looked like something was there. He greeted his wingman pilot.

"That's right, I saw it too, and it disappeared after a flash, what do you think it is?"

"I don't know, do you want to go over and have a look?"

"It's up to you, you're the long plane, it's up to you to arrange, but I don't think it's necessary." The wingman pilot said indifferently.

"Well, let's go over and take a look, I've been in this ghost place for a long time, and I haven't found anything, and I'm not willing to think about it, if there's still nothing, we'll go back."

“OK”

Risen looked at the two red dots on the sensor screen that were getting closer and closer, and he knew that his good fortune was over. When he was dodging two Banshee fighters just now, he didn't expect the other two Banshee fighters to appear unexpectedly from the other direction, although he reacted quickly and pulled the fighters away in time, but the two Banshees who appeared unexpectedly seemed to have discovered something, and the two fighters flew straight in his direction, he was sandwiched between the two groups of Banshee fighters, there was no way to hide, and the battle was inevitable.

He must rush out of the enemy plane's flank as quickly as possible, and must not let them entangle him, otherwise he will not be able to fly even if other enemy planes come around. Risen remembered the first enemy plane he shot down with the Lightning, and perhaps, relying on the old way, using the synchronized particle cannon on the back of the plane.

The pilot of the Imperial Banshee fighter saw very clearly this time, a red dot, a red dot appeared on the sensor screen, it was the enemy plane they had been looking for, but they didn't expect him to run into it, right in front of him, and it was rushing straight towards him at high speed.

He looked up, trying to see through the dense stardust at the enemy plane they had been looking for, when he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a flash of white light in front of him, very close, and the white light quickly became larger. He immediately realized that something was wrong, and as soon as he pulled up the fighter plane, the white light arrived, and the banshee's shield seemed to be useless, and the particle stream hit the rear of the fuselage, and the vents of the two ion engines were blasted to pieces by the powerful energy, and the banshee-type fighter plane rolled all the way and threw it out.

"I was hit, now eject, eject." The Reich pilot pulled the yellow emergency ejection handle.

"Sir," the wingman pilot was taken aback, he only saw a strange-looking fighter flash to the left of his fighter, and then disappeared into the dense stardust belt, he paused, this is a new type of fighter he has never seen before, it also carries powerful weapons on it, just look at his long plane, the shield of their fighter plane can't even block a beam of light from the enemy plane, is it wise for him to pursue the enemy plane alone?

Just as he hesitated, the red dot on the screen of the Banshee's sensor quickly disappeared again, and Risen turned the thrust to the end, activated the afterburner, and the lightning fighter left at high speed, quickly out of the range of the Banshee's sensor, and disappeared into the vast stardust belt again.