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While the Rebel Confederate commandos posing as the Imperial Army were busy controlling Allah, in the other direction of the Nightingale system, several Phantom stealth fighters were forming a loose formation, keeping a distance discernible from each other, and were gradually searching and advancing at a slow pace.

At this moment, the area they searched was provided by the captain who was drunk in the bar, and he claimed to have seen the approximate location of the "white 'color' flash that reflected half of the Nightingale galaxy", when the intense white light appeared, the captain's transport ship was still far away from this area, and the "confused" and "confused" captain had also spent a considerable amount of time to let his old transport ship drive to this area, but he didn't find anything in a hurry. He quickly asked his ship to leave with a cloud of doubts, since the goods he was responsible for carrying had already met the required delivery time.

In addition to the captain's transport ship, the joint search and investigation ship of the Alliance and the Soddy people also visited the Nightingale system for the disappearance of the Sodi diplomatic delegation, but also found nothing, the range of the Nightingale system is too large, and the survey ship cannot conduct a careful search in every inch of the corner, one is that time does not allow, and the other reason is that there are imperial ships in the adjacent star field, and the Nightingale galaxy belongs to the galaxy controlled by the empire after all, So the search for the survey ship can only be carried out along the predetermined route of the missing ship of the Sodi diplomatic mission, coming in a hurry, hurrying away - the other star systems that the missing diplomatic mission's ship passed through also need to be investigated and searched.

The survey ship had also questioned the small Aragonese research station, which was far away from the missing ship's intended route, but it was the domain of the Empire after all. The investigation could only be conducted in secret, so the questioning did not dare to reveal the actual identity of the diplomatic representative ship and its relationship with the Resistance Alliance, otherwise who knows if the research station would have called the Imperial Army? The investigation ship disguised itself as a civilian vessel and only asked if it had received a distress signal or whether it knew that a ship had been wrecked nearby, and the answer was obvious, that is, it did not know.

When the survey ship was investigating the missing ship of the diplomatic delegation, it was unaware that the Nightingale system had ever appeared with a white "color" flash. The site of the flash was some distance from the intended route of the missing ship. But Risen was delighted to find out. The drunken captain found that the time when the white "color" flashed and the time when the diplomatic delegation's ship disappeared, so to speak, roughly coincided, and if he could not think of the relationship between the two, then he, the colonel, was also in vain.

Unlike the joint investigation ship of the missing diplomatic delegation, he was able to clarify the direction of their search from the drunken captain, and also learned the approximate location and scope of their search. The only downside is that too much time has passed, and even the most vivid clues will fade with the passage of time, and Risen does not dare to hope at all, what else can they find there?

However, although he didn't expect to find anything, he sent a team to search for fighters. The Fifth Independent Mobile Fleet is currently hidden in a thin cloud of gray "colored" interstellar dust. In the process of controlling the Aragon space station, there is nothing to do anyway, so let's go and see.

Because I am worried that I will really encounter some surprises or accidents. Risen decided to only send a Phantom stealth fighter team, the Phantom can complete the search mission well without being detected by the enemy, besides, this is also a training opportunity for other pilots to familiarize themselves with the Phantom, but in order to avoid the pilots being hot-headed, Resson and Yao made a special explanation before departure, if the enemy is found, the Phantom will never be allowed to engage fire with the enemy, nor will it be allowed to use long-range communication to communicate at will, and should immediately and quietly return to the mothership and report the situation, so as not to accidentally lose a small number of rare and valuable But the stealth fighters that cannot be replenished can also prevent the existence of the "exposed" fleet.

The search operation has been going on for quite some time, as expected before the departure, it has turned around, up and down, left and right, and has not found anything of interest, nor has it found any signals of ship activity nearby, however, the leader of the team, Major Zhang Xiaojing, is not particularly frustrated, she has been mentally prepared before the departure, and she now sees this search operation more as an opportunity to train the girls of the Angel Wing to be familiar with and master the phantoms.

The search formation has reached the end of the side of the circular search circle, and the case has begun to turn, everything should be the same as before, there will be no problems, Zhang Xiaojing is still sure of this, and the team members have done a good job before.

"Huh?" But the problem still came out, the Mirage fighter on the outermost side did not turn with the formation, but kept its original course and immediately left the formation.

"Angel Twenty-One, what's going on?" Zhang Xiaojing immediately called a two-way confidential short-range communication and asked with some dissatisfaction.

Angel 21 is the most recent

An allied pilot of the Angel Wing, however, she is no longer a mother of nearly thirty years old and one child, she also participated in the second turkey hunt in 1984, and now there are 2.5 crashes recorded, although she has not been flying on the Phantom for a long time, but she should not make such a low-level mistake.

"I'm sorry, Angel Four, but I've found something." Angel Twenty-One immediately explained, her Phantom fighter slowly approaching a long object floating in space. "The sensor initially thought it was just a piece of rubble, but I accidentally glanced at it, and I thought it was unlikely to be rubble, and there are very few naturally occurring pieces of rubble in the universe."

"Oh, what's that?" Zhang Xiaojing was immediately interested, and the phantom formation immediately turned back.

"I don't know, but it looks a little shiny, like some kind of metal remnant, Angel Four." Angel Twenty-One parked the Phantom fighter on the edge of the floating object and watched it closely.

"Use the scanning capabilities of the phantom sensor to scan this thing further and let the on-board computer analyze it."

"Yes."

The results of the analysis soon came out, this thing is indeed a metal object composed of multiple elements, the on-board computer preliminarily judged, it may be one of the components of the wreckage of an ion engine, but because the information obtained is too little, the on-board computer can not draw more conclusions based on this thing alone.

But that was enough to excite the girls, after all, they had been walking around here for a long time, and they hadn't seen even a large piece of rubble, a standard vacuum universe.

Could this be a part of the missing Soddy? Zhang Xiaojing didn't dare to conclude that she was not an engine expert after all, and it could be the wreckage left behind by other ships, it had been a few years since the Nightingale system was discovered, and it was not impossible to lose a few other ships in the vicinity.

"With this metal object as the center, expand the search area in all directions, pay more attention to observation, and don't miss anything."

With the expansion of the search range, more and more metal parts were discovered, but the strange thing is that these metal fragments they found were very small, almost even the sensor could not distinguish, and there was no way to analyze, after searching for a long time, the largest object found was the metal fragment originally found by Angel 21, but it was only 1.3 meters long and 0.4 meters wide, in a very large airspace, there were countless small metal fragments scattered around, except for the one that was first discovered, There is no metal object that is more than one meter long, and there are very few objects that exceed half a meter, and most of the objects are only a few centimeters to tens of centimeters in size.

Zhang Xiaojing couldn't help but have a cold war, although she had also participated in many battles and destroyed many starfighters and even ships, but even if a small starfighter exploded, it would still leave quite a lot of relatively complete and distinguishable wreckage, such as wings, engines, cockpit canopies, landing gear, and even some missiles or torpedoes, not to mention a ship, she had never seen anything like this one. If it was really the wreck of the missing diplomatic representative ship, then it must have been completely and completely shattered and disintegrated, even the sturdy hull of the metal structure could be turned into this, let alone flesh and blood, no wonder the previous joint investigation ship could not find any trace of the missing ship, what could cause such an effect? You know, this ship is a behemoth with a length of nearly 150 meters and a tonnage of nearly 20,000 standard tons.

However, it was not entirely certain that the wreckage belonged to the missing Sodi diplomatic ship, but she could be sure that the wreckage area needed to be carefully investigated, and she could not distinguish the small wreckage, not even the on-board computer could analyze it, but someone could, Dr. Lippmann and his experienced technicians might be able to find something out of it, and sometimes human experience, experience, logic, and abstract thinking skills were unmatched by today's computers.

It is very necessary to send ambulance support ships to recover as much wreckage as possible, and if possible, it is best to send a destroyer or cruiser out of the hidden dust area, and it has been confirmed that there is no trace of any ship activity nearby, either of the Imperial Army or the neutral forces.......

"Angel Number Four calls, now abort the search operation, regroup, return home, let's go back to the Archangel and report the situation here, I'm sure Fei Lun will be interested."

The five Phantom stealth fighters turned their noses around and quietly returned in the direction they had come......