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Have you received a tracking signal? Major. ”

"No, sir." Major Roach, whose eyes were red, took off his headphones and shook his head tiredly, since he entered the Brest system, he had been in battle himself, and had been in front of one of the consoles, paying attention to any slight changes in the content displayed on the large and small screens in front of him, except for going to the bathroom and occasionally falling asleep, he basically did not leave much, accompanied by pot after pot of extremely strong black coffee.

"Forget it, take a break, and leave it to the others to take turns." Although he was slightly disappointed in his heart, Ruisen didn't show it, but comforted, "This matter is not urgent, if it enters the signal transmission range, we can receive it, otherwise, no matter how long you sit, it will be useless." ”

"No, sir." The Major rubbed his eyes and disagreed with Ressen's words, "The transmission range of the energy pulse signal of the tracking device is not constant, it will be affected and interfered with by the space environment. It is not very strange that the signal that the fleet can receive under normal circumstances will not be received because of the blocking, interference or weakening of space matter and energy, or it has not entered the transmission range, but it is unexpectedly received because the signal has been unexpectedly enhanced or refracted "emission", this is not a very strange thing, sometimes even if we receive it, because the signal is too weak, distorted and distorted, clutter noise is too loud and other factors, it may also cause unrecognizable or simply ignored by us, the signal that was ignored before the Alliance One is a lesson, Computers are not error-free, omnipotent, and the analysis and judgment of critical moments, I think ......" he pointed to his head. "It is indispensable for people to intervene in it, only the effective combination of the human brain and the machine brain, will not miss any key things, sir, my experience and ability are irreplaceable by others."

What others say makes sense, but Risen is not convinced, after all, he is not good in this field. He sighed. "Okay. Whatever you want, or that sentence, pay attention to rest, and report what you find, feel free to report. ”

"Yes, sir."

What they listened to was the impulse signal from the tracking device that Risen had thrown on the container of the Virgo transport ship. That little thing, as it had been confirmed, was lucky enough to avoid everyone's attention and not be spotted by the Imperial Security Service, at least before leaving the Virgo transport. Major Turner used a lot of coercion and seduction, and finally learned from Captain Alexei the Fat of the Virgo transport ship when and where the container was unloaded from the ship, of course. It's just approximately. Although there is a saying that the brain is full of fat, the good things that the captain eats are obviously converted into fat and fat intestines, which does not help his brain cells at all. Except for remembering that it was about two or three hours of sailing near the fourth planet of the Brest system, transferring the container to another Pegasus-class transport, the rest: the specific time, precise spatial coordinates, the name of the ship, and a whole host of other questions, which are not known or vague.

Captain Alexei blamed all this on memory problems and the strict restrictions and surveillance of them by the Imperial Security Service, but except for the fat man himself, I am afraid that no one knows how many of these deliberately concealed elements, but fortunately, through the separate questioning of the other crew members and the data recorded by the ship's computer, many things can still be confirmed and clarified, which can be said to be completely worthwhile.

The most critical gain is to figure out a few problems, one is that the tracking device installed on the target container is still working normally, and the crew of the Virgo did not mention anything abnormal in their container in the questioning, which indirectly indicates that this thing has not been discovered, in addition, although the people of the Imperial Security Agency have deleted key information such as navigation logs and route records, there are many things that they have ignored, such as the change in the luminosity of the star, the strength of gravity, energy, "shooting" lines, and "radiation" recorded by the sensor and other parameters and interference and fluctuations, these data seem to be of little interest to scholars and researchers, and have nothing to do with ship navigation and shipping routes, but there is a lot to be done here, Dr. Lippmann's technical team can first easily distinguish the special energy pulse signal from the tracking device, which further confirms that the tracking device is still intact, and secondly, because the changes in some positional parameters in the universe have more or less some laws, Experienced technicians can roughly outline the possible route of the Virgo during this period through the restoration and reverse of these data parameters, although there are considerable errors, but after the crew and Captain Alexei made up the oral supplement, guessing the route of the Virgo and where it has stayed, how long it has stayed, etc., is not a problem at all, and the accuracy rate can be as high as 90% or more.

Another key issue was that from Captain Alexei and the crew, they knew the approximate course of the other transport ship.

Oddly enough, it wasn't on a normal course, and it didn't look like it was heading to any of the space jump points in the Brest system, what the hell was it going to be

Is it "confused" and "confused" by the crew of the Virgo, waiting to be separated and then adjusting the course to the destination? This is of great interest.

Although there were fears that this might be a trap, and it was not ruled out that Alexei Fat would reveal the contents of their visit to the Virgo and related conversations (although the questions were cautious) to the Imperial authorities, thus attracting the possibility of the Imperial fleet, the fleet did not hesitate to break into the Brest system.

However, Yao still kept an eye on it, and several star systems near the Brest system have quietly set up some new unmanned monitors imitated by the Empire, once other Imperial fleets approach the Brest system, they can get early warning, and according to the situation, they can be ready to fight or retreat.

As for the imperial military power of the Brest system itself, according to the intelligence of the alliance, there is nothing worth mentioning, only there is a small imperial military base on the first planet hx - with both supply and maintenance functions, with a small number of starfighters and a few ships, it is not an opponent that can match the fifth independent mobile fleet, if it is not for the fact that it is meaningless, but also attract the attention of the empire and interfere with their actions, with the combat power of the fifth independent mobile fleet, Leveling this base is not a particularly difficult task, and there are very few ships here in normal times for replenishment or maintenance operations, because this system is even more remote than the Litav system, and it is not unreasonable to say that this is the deep space boundary of the Empire's star field group in this system.

Therefore, although the Imperial Army here has stepped up reconnaissance and patrols according to the orders of their superiors, with Ryson's observation, perhaps the perfunctory element may be greater, but whether it is perfunctory or serious, one thing is certain, unless they are lucky enough to drop the scum, or the Fifth Independent Mobile Fleet is deliberate, it is unlikely that they want to discover the Alliance fleet that has quietly infiltrated the Brest system......

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"Still no results?" Yao, who was concentrating on studying the star map of the Brest system and the surrounding star fields, looked up and saw Risen with an expressionless stinky face.

"Well, Major Roach has been there to listen in person, but nothing." Risen nodded in frustration, "It's been so many days, we're too late after all, maybe that transport ship is far away from the range where we can receive signals, I guess it has already left the Brest system, or even the surrounding galaxies, otherwise we won't be unable to receive the signal, the trouble is, we don't know which direction to chase now." ”

"Maybe." The girl pondered for a moment, but did not give up easily, "Maybe it just happened that it was not received, or the tracking device's intelligent system did not find a chance to send a signal. ”

"This explanation is too reluctant, let's be realistic, Fei Ren, perhaps, we should consider implementing the second option, maybe luckily, we can still find this signal during the search."

The second plan is to conduct a hierarchical search on this galaxy cluster as mentioned earlier, since they are tracking the key containers of the empire to come here, it is very likely that the Omega plan is implemented in this star field galaxy group, however, this is a stupid way of last resort, although you can use some conditions to narrow down the search scope, but there are still a lot of galaxies and star fields that need to be searched, and the actual search of each galaxy and star field is not so easy, whether there can be results, luck sometimes accounts for a considerable proportion, think about xy-19 ' "138 Reading Books", how much time did the empire spend in that star field, how long did it take, that was calculated in years, and in the end, due to the wrong direction of searching, the key jump point connecting to the Siberian galaxy could not be found for a long time, so that the alliance suffered a lot of losses, and finally found that there was another key space jump point in the XY-1987 star field.

"If there's really no way, that's the only way to do it." The girl sighed slightly, "But I always feel a little strange, it's not time to give up." ”

"Strange?"

"Well, you think about it, why hand over containers in the Brest system? Why did the handover deviate from its normal course and move to the vicinity of Planet 4? The shipping ship receiving the container has taken such a strange course deep into the galaxy? Of course, the explanation is also very reasonable, for the sake of concealment, for the sake of "confusing" and "confusing" us, but ......"

"However, we have been searching in the general direction of this route for more than four days and have found nothing." Ruisen was also suspicious, Yao's problem was actually his problem, but he didn't find anything, which made him a little shaken.

Just when the two were confused, a message entered the captain's room.

"Captain, an enemy ship, type, Imperial Sabre-class cruiser, distance 70500, azimuth 1-2