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The evacuation of the shadow team did not encounter too much trouble, a few clumsy short planes were powerless to obstruct it, and then the two super banshee squadron reinforcement groups that arrived followed them for a long time, seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, the four phantoms drilled into a dust belt, and the optoelectronic sensors blocked by dust and gravel could no longer keep an eye on the four enemy planes, and when the pursuing imperial fighters crossed this small dust belt, they had lost contact with the phantoms, and they didn't know which direction to pursue, only empty-handed. Dejected, he turned around and returned home.

During the entire combat operation, the alliance shot down seven banshees, and one of its own fighters was not damaged, and then successfully received the first wave of tracking signals, indicating that the tracking device was working normally, and it also showed that the empire was not able to find the small spies they had laid in the first place, and the operation was a great success.

However, their joy did not last for a few days, and without him, the tracking device, which had been working normally, could no longer receive a signal......

Was it discovered by the Empire? Or is there something wrong with the tracking device itself? Or is it because the intelligent system in the device judges that the surrounding electromagnetic signal is not strong enough to mask the energy pulse signal, so it does not send a tracking signal for the time being? Of course, it is also possible that they do not receive the signal for a while due to various other interferences in space......

If it's the first two reasons, that's it, and they're mentally prepared for it; And if it's the latter, then their luck is really bad. Not only that, Risen also knew that in order to avoid the special energy pulse signal from being discovered by the Empire, the tracking signal strength could not be too large, which meant that its propagation range was limited, that is, the range of one or two nearby galaxies, beyond this limit. Even if the tracking device is working properly, it continues to emit "emission" energy pulse signals. It is also impossible for them to receive it.

"How long has it been since the last signal was received? In what location? Risen asked.

"Thirty-three hours and twenty-seven minutes. Litave system, sir. Major Roaches, who was in charge of the eavesdrop, replied.

"Has it been more than a day?" Ruisen sighed slightly, secretly anxious in his heart, although the speed of the transport fleet is slow, but more than a day is enough time to sail a considerable distance, and they can still roughly deduce the approximate location of the transport fleet from the key information such as ground speed and course they received last time. However, this is not very accurate, the fleet changes course during this period, or even leaves the Litav system through a space hop point, this is possible, without further tracking signals for position correction, they do not know which direction the follow-up tracking action should point, once the tracking direction is wrong, the distance between the transport fleet and the fleet is getting bigger and bigger. At that time, even the tracking device was still working properly. They could only stare dryly.

"Fei Lun, look ......" he glanced at Yao.

"No," the girl knew exactly what he wanted to say. Categorically vetoed, "There are military bases and outposts of the empire on several planets and space orbits in the Litav system, and although the civilian ships traveling to and from the shipping routes of this galaxy are not as good as those of the New London system, there are quite a few of them, I may have a way to lead the fleet to sneak in, but I am not in favor of doing this, first, the risk is too great, in case it is accidentally discovered, I am afraid that the entire fleet will be trapped here, to be honest, to take such an action, there are too many elements of luck, and luck and accidents are uncontrollable; Second, to quietly enter the Litav system, the necessary preparation and waiting for the right time is definitely needed, this is by no means a matter of minutes or hours that can be solved, and by the time we enter the Litav system, it is already too late, and the Imperial transport fleet no longer knows where it has gone, not to mention, we have not yet considered the possibility of the tracking device being discovered by the Empire and setting a trap for us."

She pointed out with a serious expression, "It is precisely because of this that the fleet did not track directly along the route of the convoy, have you forgotten?" Rissen, we are now in the rear of the Empire, not in the Ghost Domain, and we have to be careful, careful, and careful in our actions. ”

"You're right, I'm too anxious." Rissen admits this in frustration, he thinks for a moment, and then says, "So, is it possible for you to deduce the possible movement of the convoy from the Litav galaxy terrestrial chart?" Then we can ......."

"With the information we have now, not yet." The girl's slender jade fingers quickly "operated" on the control panel, and a map of the Earth and Star of the Litav Galaxy was immediately displayed on the screen, "You see, this point is the last time we received the energy pulse signal, the position of the transport fleet was just not far from the jump point between JP2 in the Litav Galaxy, and from the course of the fleet, it can be judged that the fleet has just been."

The Taffe system is not long, but, unfortunately, it is still far from the fork of the routes, so it is impossible to tell whether the convoy is going to the planets of the Litav system, or to the space jump points, or simply to a certain point in the system......"

"Actually, we don't need to guess or judge at all, don't we just ask Ralph this question?" Schneier reminded hesitantly, "He is the head of the intelligence team, just let him send a request for intelligence assistance, the whereabouts of such a huge transport fleet, it is impossible to completely conceal it, although I don't know much about our alliance's intelligence system, but I know that our alliance has a huge intelligence network in the field of imperial control, and the Litav system must have our people, although it can't help us find the Omega plan, but find out the non-top secret information about the movements of the ob-232 fleet, I don't think there should be any problems. ”

"That makes sense, man," I have considered the time, from the time the request for assistance was sent to the time when the information came, I am afraid that this period of time is indispensable, and in a way, the effect is not much different from diving directly into the Litav system. ”

"Well, I think my idea is much better, at least we don't have to take a huge risk, do we?" His friend laughed.

"That's right," Risen sighed again, "There's no way out, but I still hope that Major Roach's listening team can bring us some good news in the coming days......"

Otherwise, he understood, if he could not receive a signal again, for whatever special reason, he was afraid that they would lose track of the convoy.

"Rissen," the woman with bright eyes with a pair of lilac "color" said softly, "It's time to be content, in fact, we can track the OB-232 transport fleet to get here--Lita, the Litav system has reached the edge of this galaxy controlled by the Empire, and it is speculated from the route that the cargo was sent to this galaxy star field group, although the specific location of the Omega project is not clear, but at least it has greatly narrowed the scope of our search." ”

"That's right, Sonia was right." Yao's eyes lit up, "According to the previous inference, since the empire can keep this secret so well, then it must not be in a galaxy or star field with heavy traffic and relatively lively, it must be in a remote galaxy or star field, or even through a space jump point that we don't know, in a galaxy or star field that has not yet been marked on the star map, according to this condition, we can further narrow down this range." ”

"But, even so, there are quite a few galaxies and star fields that need to be carefully searched, and if it is true, there is a space jump point that we don't know, then it will be more troublesome to search, it will be very detailed, and it will be time-consuming, don't forget, how difficult it is for the empire to search for two space jump points in the XY-1987 star field, I don't think we will have any less difficulty than them." Major Roaches questioned.

"Hahaha, Major, don't worry, I understand this," Risen perked up in spirit, excited, just wanted to pat the major on the shoulder as he usually does with Schneier, and just stretched out his hand, suddenly remembered that the major was about forty years old, this move seemed a little inappropriate, and quietly withdrew his hand, turned an arc, and put it on the table, "At least, we already have a general direction now, don't we?" It's much better than the clueless before, and I'm sure there may be more discoveries waiting for us in the process of searching. By the way, what about Ralph? Where did you go? I also need him to send a request for assistance in the investigation of the OB-losing fleet. ”

"There is a subspace communication sent to Major Ralph through a secure channel, there may be some secret information, he has rushed to deal with it." Major Roach said.

"Intelligence?" Risen immediately reacted, "Maybe the matter on the planet of New London has settled, we have the specific address of Mr. Dranov, and after a few days, there should be news back." ”

"Dr. Lippmann can't wait." Yao said with a slight smile. Over the past few days, they have repeatedly analyzed and searched the data they got from the Aragonese research station, trying to find something useful from it, but unfortunately, there is no valuable information at all, and the people of the Imperial Security Service have deleted it completely and cleanly.

"I'm afraid the doctor will have to wait any longer." The door opened, and Major Ralph walked in, his face grim, "I haven't got the data, our people are in trouble on the planet New London." ”