53. Gambling on life and death

Risen felt that he might have to consider other options, he had been playing hide-and-seek with the Empire long enough in the Stardust Belt, and the Rebel Alliance's receiving ships had been missing. Although the other options may not be good enough, it is only a matter of time before they stay in this stardust belt and be found by the Empire. Since he shot down that Banshee fighter, although he has temporarily thrown off the tracking of the Empire, he understands that this is a hornet's nest. Since the Empire confirmed that there was indeed a starfighter snatched by the Resistance Alliance stranded in this stardust belt, it has sent additional Banshee fighters to carry out reconnaissance and search missions, and Risen does not know if there are other Imperial reinforcements coming, after all, there is a large Imperial military base in the New Leon system adjacent to this star field, and it is a matter of time for Imperial reinforcements to arrive here.

It wasn't like he hadn't tried to leave the stardust belt before, but he had to give up right away, and he let the lightning starfighter retreat back into the thick stardust belt and hide, continuing to play hide and seek with the Empire. Q: Why? No, as he approached the edge of the Stardust Belt, he had discovered something that he hated, and he had heard the Empire's call to surrender that had been obscured by the Stardust Belt, an Imperial Keyhole warning and control aircraft, and eight Banshee fighters near it.

"The USS Fortress? MLGBD, just deal with my fighter plane, you don't need to even send a space carrier. After Risen was forced to return to the Stardust Belt, he cursed angrily. Although he had not discovered the location of the Empire's space carrier, he had come to believe that there was indeed a mothership out there. Keyholes, expensive auxiliary aircraft and force multipliers, are generally not equipped on fast battleships or cruisers, and are only equipped with space carriers. Although the range of this stardust belt is very large, the combination of several keyhole long-range sensors is enough to cover most of the airspace around the stardust belt, and he doesn't need to think that the commander of the empire will deploy only one keyhole? There is definitely more than one keyhole that can be carried on a space carrier. And with Keyhole present, as long as he gets out of this stardust belt, he will immediately fall into the eyes of the other party, and the nearby Banshee fighters will surround him to intercept him, he will definitely not be able to deal with these many enemy planes, once he is shot down, then everything will be over. What's more, even if he can get rid of these banshees' interception, where can he go? Needless to say, the three spatial jump points known in this star field will definitely be in a state of tight defense, and he can only find death if he tries to force his way through.

So Risen had no choice but to continue to nest in the stardust belt to figure out better ideas, he felt a headache, this time he was completely trapped, he couldn't help but lament, if only his female boss jumped with him, maybe the major knew the coordinates of the secret jump point, he also regretted it, this time he learned a lesson again, he should have known this in more detail about the plan of action, maybe it wouldn't be like this, At that time, he thought that the part of the operation he should be responsible for would be over when it joined the Odyssey, and the rest was the Odyssey's business, so he didn't pay attention to the retreat route after that. He remembered a saying: Don't ignore the seemingly insignificant information, because it is this information that may unexpectedly save your life in the future when you are in danger.

But it's too late to regret it, let's think about what to do, he continued to carefully navigate through the gaps of the Imperial search fleet, while digging out the hollow to find an idea to break through the predicament, but unfortunately, the calculations and calculations were not feasible in the end, and he was almost desperate.

As for surrender, Risen also had this thought, but he quickly denied this choice, surrender was impossible. Just kidding, he's the one who went to hell once, let him fall into the hands of Admiral Steve again, and go to hell again, then it's better to chop him up directly, not to mention, Lieutenant Colonel Taylor and Sonia. Major Yang's advice and expectations still seem to be echoing in his ears to this day, he can't live up to them, he must bring back this fighter and data intact.

It's just that, seeing this situation, Ruisen slowly pondered, he may have to take some risks, otherwise he will not be able to complete his mission, and continuing to stay here to avoid the search will only make things worse, it is better to risk his life and gamble.

The risk taken by Rise's plan is indeed very large, because he is guessing, guessing the location of the hidden space jump point, knowing the three space jump points, he knows that the empire also knows, and the empire will not fail to take precautions against this, so he wants to leave this star field, and can only pin his hopes on that secret space jump point. He didn't know if the empire knew the location of that jump point, but he could only bet, bet that the empire didn't know the location of that jump point, or he really didn't know how to escape, the empire had at least one space carrier here, he didn't have to expect any other ships from the alliance to respond, he remembered that General Martin had said that all the available rebel alliance warships in this area had been put into Operation Firefox, and the non-battleship receiving ships were coming, and they could deal with a space carrier? That's just wanting to die. In other words, he was left on his own.

He remembered the decision he had made earlier to stay here, and his previous idea was indeed sound, and it was the best option at the time, provided that the Empire did not know that he was hiding in this stardust belt. The problem is, the empire knows that he is here, it is different, he is still hiding here is pure stupidity, if he knew this, he should have left here to find another place to hide, the universe is so big, see how they find it? Even if it meant causing a lot of trouble for him to return to the Alliance base, it was better than falling into the hands of the Empire. Unfortunately, he didn't have the ability to be a prophet of the future, so he spent his precious time waiting for the empire to come, so much so that he cornered himself and tried to risk his escape.

"Where is this jump point most likely?" Risen began to think carefully.

First of all, this space jump point is not too far away from this stardust belt, otherwise the Resistance Alliance will not choose this stardust belt as a meeting point, and the possibility of being discovered increases if it is exposed to the universe without any hidden objects for a long time. According to common sense, it should be the most logical to jump into this star field and not sail too far before entering the hidden stardust zone and standby. Of course, if the Resistance Alliance really wanted to arrange a meeting point far away from the secret space jump point and needed to travel through most of the star fields to reach, then Ryson would have resigned to his fate.

Based on the first point, it can be deduced that this secret jump point must not be in the direction of the other three known space jump points, and he arrived here from the jump point of the New Lyon galaxy, and no energy anomalies were found on the way. Similarly, the secret space jump point is not in the direction of the other two known space jump points, as there must have been previous expeditions or expeditions heading to the Stardust Belt from the other two jump points, and there is no reason why they should not discover it.

The third point, since it is called a secret, it must also have a certain degree of concealment, at least not completely exposed to the cosmic starry sky, otherwise it would have been discovered by the expedition ship a long time ago, and there are no planets in this star field, so it can only hide in the middle of meteorite belts, stardust belts or interstellar clouds, so that the range will be greatly reduced.

Ressen's heart was pounding, and he called up the star map of this star field and studied it carefully. In the vicinity of this stardust belt, there shouldn't be too many of these conditions.

"Damn, choose one of the two, what should I do?" Risen was stunned, there were not many of them, but there were still some of them, and within the range he had demarcated, there were two locations that were the most suitable, one of which was a small group of thin gravel, and the other was a narrow ribbon of interstellar clouds, which looked like a flowing ribbon, stretching and twisting. It is possible in both directions, and it is only possible, it is also possible that he has misjudged, and the secret spatial jump point is simply in other directions, what should he do then?

He found it difficult for him to make up his mind, because he knew that once he broke out of this dense stardust belt, he would be immediately discovered by the Empire, and once the Imperial fighter jets surrounded him, it would be impossible for him to return to this stardust belt, and he could only continue to move forward until he found the spatial jump point or found that he had swooped down, and if it was the latter, it would mean his death.

It's dead and it's not important, it's just that Risen is reluctant, reluctant to sacrifice countless lives and pay a huge price to get something, Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, Sonia. Major Yang, and those commandos, he felt heartache when he thought of these people, he didn't think that they would have too many chances to break through the Imperial Fleet defense, what they exchanged for their lives, could he decide with gambling so hastily?

But Risen knew that although the determination was difficult, he had to do it, and as soon as possible. The reason why he can still stay in this stardust belt and play hide and seek with the Empire is not only because of the wide range of this stardust belt and the interference with the sensors, but also because the Empire's search forces are insufficient. The empire may only have one space carrier fortress on the periphery of this stardust belt, and it will also send some fighters to patrol the perimeter of the stardust belt to prevent him from escaping, so there are relatively few fighters used to search inside the stardust belt, and he will have room to maneuver and dodge, but the empire may get more reinforcements and more fighters at any time, and then he will have nothing to hide. And the alliance has no way to count on it anymore, he can only rely on himself.

In a word, his question now is not whether to leave this stardust belt or not, he will have to leave sooner or later, that's for sure, the difference is only in which direction to go, and Risen thinks that it is better to leave late than early, and he cannot repeat the mistake of passively hesitating and waiting before.

He made his choice, and after the Lightning struggled to avoid another wave of Imperial search planes, Risen turned the nose of the plane in the direction of his choice, and he readjusted the energy management system of the Lightning Fighter, distributing all the energy evenly between the engines and shields, this time he was fleeing, not fighting, and did not need to recharge the cannon. Besides, can he beat so many enemy planes? He pushed the thrust control stick to his head, and the Lightning fighter rushed out of the stardust belt with maximum thrust, success or failure, it was up to his fate.

At the moment when he was about to break out of the stardust belt, he activated the afterburner at the same time, and the bright blue ionic tail flame was pulled into a long ribbon of light behind the fuselage, and the fighter rushed out of the stardust belt at maximum speed, rushing towards the flowing ribbon.

The sound of ticking and ticking sounded in the cabin of several keyhole machines at the same time, and at the moment when Risen rushed out of the stardust belt, he was immediately discovered by several keyhole machines, and a large number of banshee-type starfighters under the command of these keyholes immediately surrounded him from all directions, among which the two Banshee fighters in front of him were already on the interception route.

Ruisson gritted his teeth, simply did not dodge, ignoring the beam of death energy that was shooting from the lightning fighter in the front direction, and rushed towards the banded interstellar cloud, at this time, he must not be entangled by enemy aircraft, otherwise when other enemy planes arrive, it will be over.

The two sides quickly shortened the distance at extremely high relative speed, and Risen gently swung the joystick irregularly to the left and right, controlling the fighter to adjust left and right in a small area, trying to avoid being hit by the energy beam launched by the enemy plane, but the direction of the lightning fighter was still firmly pointing to the banded interstellar cloud.

As the distance shortened, the beams fired from the two Banshee fighters became more and more accurate, and the red and white beams bloomed in front of the lightning fighters, and the shield strength of the lightning fighters gradually depleted in the continuous flashing, plummeting from one hundred percent all the way, Risen stared nervously and anxiously at the shield strength readings, and when it almost dropped to single digits, the lightning fighters finally passed by the two Banshee fighters.

Resson breathed a sigh of relief, the two banshees had to turn around if they were going to continue chasing him, which might give him some respite, he looked at the sensor, and still didn't find any energy anomalies, perhaps, he had to fly a little further.......

By the time the two Banshee fighters had finished turning, Ressen's Lightning had already pulled some distance away from them. Risen glanced at the screen of the sensor behind him, the enemy plane was chasing at full speed, and there were six other banshees in the position a little behind, due to the distance widening, the error of the energy beam emitted by the enemy plane also increased, the threat to him was not great, and the intact rear shield of the lightning fighter could be blocked.

Suddenly, the warning sound of the Didi Di Di Missile approaching sounded in his ears, and six missiles came straight from the rear, and the banshees saw that they could not catch up in a short time, so they immediately changed their means of attack.

Risen can't turn to avoid it, otherwise he will soon catch up, he had to desperately release the bait on the plane, hoping to lead these missiles away, the missiles were deceived by the bait one by one, and exploded behind the fuselage of the lightning fighter, the explosion of the last one was especially close to the fuselage, the explosion wave continued to impact the fighter, Risen tried his best to control the constantly shaking fighter, he looked at the shield reading, although he successfully blocked the large and small fragments, but the shield strength consumption was very large, This round of attacks has reduced the strength of the plane's rear shield to less than fifty percent.

Risen was a little anxious, he was almost arriving at the multicolored ribbon nebula, and still didn't find any energy anomalies, a thought swirled in his mind, it's over, you bet wrong.

The alarm sounded again, and six more missiles were coming at him, Risen glanced at the number of baites, and sighed, he only had four baits left, which was definitely not enough to fool all the missiles, if he didn't want to be blown to pieces by the missiles, he had to give up his direction and take maneuvering evasion measures such as turning, which meant that he would be caught up by those banshee-type fighters behind him.

It was over, and he smiled wryly, his luck was over.

Just as he was about to give up, a small bright green dot suddenly appeared in front of him in the distance in front of his upper left.

Green? Risen burst into tears, that identification signal, my God, it was a friendly ship. Since friendly ships are here, it means that he has made the right choice.

He was right.