They weren't too late, and although several squadron leaders had already arrived, Lieutenant Colonel Taylor and Colonel Alfred hadn't arrived yet, and after finding a place to sit down, Risen noticed General Martin standing on the podium, and he was whispering something to his right-hand man, Captain Ralph, with a sad face.

"Risson, it seems that you are right, I don't think it will be good news." Schneier whispered, noticing the general's expression as well.

"I know I just want to know how bad things really are now, and I think we have something to do again."

When Lieutenant Colonel Taylor and Colonel Alfred and the others had arrived, General Martin made a gesture and the audience fell silent, and the general carefully adjusted the small microphone on the podium and began to speak, and his first words shocked everyone.

"Something went wrong, guys, we're in big trouble right now." General Martin's tone was full of anxiety that could not be concealed: "This time it is our own internal problem, and there is a lurking Imperial spy in our ranks. ”

The news was like a thunderstorm in the crowd, and there was an immediate buzz in the room, and people couldn't help but whisper, and Ryson's heart tightened, and his eyes couldn't help but sweep over him from the faces of the people in the room, and now many people were just as uneasy as him, looking left and right, as if trying to distinguish something from the expressions on other people's faces, but unfortunately, he was really not the material for intelligence work, and he was not very familiar with the way he observed words and looks.

Spies are no strangers. There is a good saying: Fortresses are the easiest to attack from within, and throughout the ages, in order to grasp each other's internal information, the hostile sides have racked their brains and tried all kinds of methods, either sending people to break in, or simply accepting and buying the enemy's insiders. The Alliance itself has a huge network of spies within the Empire, they are pervasive, infiltrating almost every key sector of the Empire, and it is with the help of the personnel lurking inside the Agama Base in the key attack campaign of the Agama Base that the Alliance successfully stopped the base commander's efforts to destroy all important information, and achieved a major victory. Therefore, it is not surprising that the empire in turn planted or displayed their spies within the alliance, many important officers of the alliance defected or defected from the empire, such as Ruison and Schneier, Crawford is one of them, and one or two of the other squadron leaders present are also former emperors, as for the starfighter pilots and battleship crews under the squadrons, there are even more, and no one can guarantee that few of them were deliberately sent in by the Imperial Security Service to go undercover, and in addition, the possibility of being bought by the empire cannot be ruled out.

Espionage and counter-espionage work have always been the top priority of security work. People have long since fully understood the dangers of espionage and learned lessons from the exhibition of history. A good spy can sometimes play no less important role than a fleet, and the intelligence they provide can even determine the success or failure of a battle, the fate of hundreds of thousands of people, and even the future of a country. Therefore, all sides have dealt the most resolute and ruthless blows to their own spies, and those spies whose identities have been exposed and who have been unfortunately caught have their fates are generally extremely miserable, and it is impossible for all parties to treat these spies as prisoners of war. In addition to surrendering, what awaits them is either to go to the gallows or to stay behind bars for the rest of their lives.

Are there any Imperial spies here? Risen couldn't help but be a little skeptical. In the past few days, the performance of everyone has been obvious to all, they share weal and woe, support each other, they are real brothers who share weal and woe, and it is difficult for Risen to accept that there is such an imperial spy lurking by his side.

"Everyone, don't look around, and don't guess anymore. Everyone here can be relied on as a true ally elite, and the spies I'm talking about are not in the battle sequence of the 7th Fleet, but there are other people. General Martin quickly cleared everyone's doubts, and his words put everyone at ease.

"Since it's none of our 7th Fleet's business, why are you looking for us? We won't be asked to do counter-espionage work, we are fighter pilots, not intelligence officers. Schneier muttered quietly.

"Very good question, lieutenant." General Martin replied in a deep voice: "Today's urgent convening has nothing to do with counter-espionage work, to be honest, you are here to clean up the mess, this spy has caused considerable harm to our alliance, and to make up for the harm he has caused, it is up to us to rely on the efforts of everyone here." ”

"So who is this spy? Where is it? What did he do? Colonel Alfred asked.

"This Spy, unfortunately, is a staff member of the Adona space station, but he's dead by the time we find him." The general shook his head: "He killed himself, and our men didn't have time to stop him." He had worked in the communications department of the Adona space station prior to his discovery, and security personnel were going through all the information he might have had access to determine how much harm he had ultimately caused the Alliance, and how he managed to make it through our toughest security checks and gain access to this classified information. ”

"He works in the communications department? Doesn't that mean that all of our communications passing through the Adona station are likely to be accessible to him? ”

"That's right, fortunately, he is not the head of the space station's communications department, and he still has access to a lot of information, and many communications are set with passwords, his level is not enough to read, otherwise our trouble will be even greater, but even so, this imperial spy has caused us enough trouble."

"What serious harm did he cause?"

The general nodded to Captain Ralph next to him, and the captain immediately carefully pulled out a crystal platter from his bag, and he put it into a stack of terminals placed in the corner of the conference room, pressed a few buttons, and the large screen monitor in the conference room immediately lit up, and rows of green fonts were listed.

"Take a look, Colonel, it seems that our people are familiar with it from within the Empire." General Martin silently pointed to the words.

"It's ...... This is...... That's impossible. Colonel Alfred and Lieutenant Colonel Taylor watched the line in horror, not knowing what to say, but Ryson also grew his mouth in surprise. The content of those texts has a lot to do with the 7th Fleet, this is the 7th Fleet's route records since the attack on the Agarma base, although it is not very complete, but most of the major star fields and galaxies it has passed through are listed above.

Risen knows the routine of the fleet, every once in a while, the fleet must report to the Alliance's High Command the coordinates of the star's current location, so that the High Command can keep abreast of the fleet's relevant dynamics, coordinate and support, these subspace communications cannot reach the Alliance's High Command, and must be transferred through several space stations, one of which is the Adona space station.

A little sweat couldn't help but leak from his forehead, during this time, it was no wonder that he often came face to face with the emperor**, which star field did not take long to meet them, and he was strange, the universe is so big, the empire has so many troops, and the star field is deployed everywhere? And that's not even counting the fact that the Empire has to keep a significant number of troops on the front lines with the Federation. It turns out that the empire has long known where to look for them, but fortunately, the time reported by this spy will lag a little behind, and the fleet is equipped with enough energy pulse fish, otherwise they should have been surrounded and wiped out by the empire long ago.

Resson remembered the red giant that nearly killed him and Jessica, and did the Imperial fleet really happen to pass by? Is it necessary for that fleet to send three waves of Banshee fighters to that area of intense radiation for reconnaissance and patrol? Or is it all intentional? In the end, there was no trace of the Alliance fleet, so you had to go to other parts of the system to continue the search?

At the same time, he was also a little glad that the fleet's detailed combat report, although it was also relayed to the High Command through the Adona space station, the level of encryption of the file was still different from those customary star coordinate reports, and it should not be accessible to the spy's ordinary staff identity, although that bastard caused a lot of trouble and trouble to the fleet, but fortunately, he had been found and committed suicide, and his harm ended here, and the fleet is still fine.

"This is our intelligence officers who risked revealing their identities, if it weren't for the stakes, they would not normally do it, it is with this intelligence that our security personnel found this spy within us, although he is dead, the threat to the fleet has been temporarily lifted, but the other harm he has caused continues, the biggest danger is this message, it may even cause the alliance to collapse completely." General Martin warned.

The text on the screen disappears, and another line of striking text is presented, and it has only one sentence. But it was this sentence that almost stopped Ressen's heartbeat.

The content of this sentence is simple: "The Faith will pass through the star field XY-245 from November 1O to November 12 of the ephemeris 8o7. ”

At first glance, this statement is nothing more than a report on the future course of a speedboat named Faith, but it is no less important than the 7th Fleet's route record.

The reason is simple: Risen knew that everyone in the fleet knew that this ship was the special ship of the Lady Elmeda, the supreme leader of the Alliance, he was originally a fast cruiser, and in order to adapt to the special ship of the supreme leader of the Alliance, it had been specially modified in terms of communication, engines and comfort, it was not designed for combat, it was more for social and ceremonial purposes.

The Empire has mastered the trail of the top leaders of the Alliance.

Today is November 1o.