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In the central control room of the bucket base, the door slipped open silently.

"It's been so long, and the scum of the rebels hasn't come yet?" Giraud. Admiral Steve walked in and asked casually, seemingly casually, but the content of his question made it clear that the admiral was waiting impatiently.

"No, Admiral." Lieutenant General Corleone, who was in the control center, quickly got up from his chair and replied respectfully.

"Maybe they were delayed for something, maybe they were overly cautious, after all, we suddenly withdrew so completely, and the rebels certainly couldn't have acted as ...... as usual," one staff officer speculated.

"Maybe, however, they will come, they can't afford to miss this opportunity....." Admiral Steve looked up at the tactical display on the large screen in front of him, as if to convince himself to be more patient and reassured......

"Yes, Admiral, if the rebels hadn't had this in mind, they wouldn't have bothered to get a tracking device." Lieutenant General Corleone co-opted.

The Admiral's face softened slightly, "How is your experiment?" ”

"After all the equipment and installations have been inspected and there are no abnormalities, we will start the final installation according to your instructions, and now that the installation is nearing completion, the next step is to prepare for the first comprehensive system-wide inspection to ensure that nothing goes wrong." Lieutenant General Corleone reported.

"Well, it's not bad. The progress, while not very satisfactory, is barely acceptable. The admiral nodded, "Except for the news of the rebel fleet, if there is any problem, you don't need to report it to me, you can just do it yourself, in short, I will appear here on time according to the scheduled time." Checkmate. There was a hint of coldness in his voice. I've heard enough bad news, and I hope you don't disappoint me. ”

"Absolutely not." Lieutenant General Corleone straightened his chest and replied loudly and awe-inspiringly.

"Uh....." Lieutenant General hesitated for a moment, then before Admiral Steve left the control room, he asked again, "Admiral, if everything is all right." Are we setting sail as planned? ”

"Of course, is there anything wrong with that?" The Admiral paused, his voice a little hesitant, as if he was unhappy about such a stupid question.

"But what about the rebel fleet? If they still don't come, will we continue to wait here, or will we go after them? However, at the moment we still do not have the coordinates of the enemy fleet. ”

"Then leave them alone for the time being, and let them go." The admiral was silent for a moment. Then he said slowly. "No matter how annoying the enemy fleet is, it is only a fleet after all, and we don't need to spend a lot of time and energy looking for them. Cassin's suggestion is very reasonable, and it is also an effective way to deal with it, without the support of the rebel alliance behind him, these rebels are like duckweed without roots, and they cannot support it for a long time, and it is enough for the rebel leaders to keep this fleet from disbanding, let alone making trouble with us. ”

"First of all, clean up the rebel alliance, if we are lucky, this rebel fleet is still not wiped out, and then come back to them."

"Yes, Xia Guan understands."

The admiral didn't say anything more, turned around sharply, and strode out of the central control room.

No one saw him turn the moment he turned, that distorted face, and the green tendons on his forehead that protruded from the blood, and if it were possible, he would have preferred to take this damned fleet flag, but if those damned rebels never showed up, he couldn't help it, and it was impossible to wait here indefinitely—who knows when they would come? Nor is it possible to search the universe for enemy fleets like headless flies without a target - who knows when they will be able to find these unidentified creatures?

This thing that took a long time and countless financial resources to create, this is his last trump card, and the trump card is to be used where it can be used in the most important places, and it is to be the key to turning the entire passive situation of the empire, it is to deal with the rebel alliance, the Earth Federation, not just a fleet......

Although the truth is clear, the enemy is already close at hand, but he did not clean up the hated opponent at the first time, which is indeed very unwilling and regretful!

He now hopes that those guys will arrive in time, which is one of the reasons why he approved of Colonel Riley's plan to completely withdraw the fleet and unmanned monitors, but now it seems that it has the opposite effect, and the rebel fleet has moved more slowly, if part of the fleet, warplanes and unmanned monitors were left behind - although it has been proved in practice to have no effect on the rebel fleet at all, pretending to continue the search, I don't know if it will be better.

But forget it, it's all at this time, and there is no point in thinking about these again, the plan has been set, and it depends on whether the rebels are ready to cooperate

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One by one, the five Phantom stealth starfighters left the Archangel space carrier, and under the escort of everyone's eyes, the Phantom gradually sank into deep space and flew towards the predetermined direction.

Their mission is to find and determine the location of the last key space jump point, but since the Phantom does not have the ability to jump space, it is impossible for them to carry out the task of reconnaissance through the space jump point, and the next action is the turn of the recruited volunteers to fly the reconnaissance lightning.

The Archangel space carrier carried several Super Banshees and Phantoms in this mission, so the number of reconnaissance lightning is not very large, less than a squadron, the number of volunteer participants has far exceeded the size of a squadron, it should not be difficult to pick out less than ten of these people, of course, it is not as easy as Risen imagined, because he excluded Schneier from the list, and none of the Blue Angel girls from the Federation were selected - except for Sonia, This caused a strong dissatisfaction among Schneier and many girls.

"Why can Sister Sonia go, but we can't?" Anne blushed and asked angrily.

"Captain doesn't matter, but, Risson, tell me, my flying skills and control are not as good as Roskil, Elmondo, and Louis, and no matter how much I think about them, I can't think of any better suits for them than me. Who are you choosing to choose from, and what is it exactly? I think it's doubtful! ”

"Yes, I have been looking forward to it for a long time, and the result is that I was assigned to the Phantom Squad," Zhang Xiaojing snorted dissatisfiedly, "The Phantom has no space jumping ability at all, and can only move within the galaxy, and after making trouble for a long time, our task is to make wedding clothes for you." ”

"Don't say it, except for Sister Sonia, none of our sisters from the Federation volunteered to be selected, Resson, you should not be biased, or prejudiced against us......"

“........”

This is to come hard!

A group of girls chirped, making Resson's head like a fight, he explained for a long time, but the girls still didn't give up, and he turned his eyes to Sonia for help. Yang, but someone didn't come up to persuade at all, just leaned against the bulkhead to cover his mouth and smiled, looking gloating.

She is taking revenge, Ressen is helpless, because in the original list, he originally excluded her, he originally arranged this out of good intentions, and did not want these girls who came from the Federation to a strange land to help them fall into such danger, in addition, although their piloting skills and combat ability are very strong, but after all, this is a reconnaissance mission, and they do not need their air combat capabilities, the empire must have many interstellar fighters waiting, no matter how strong their air combat capabilities are, can they block ten with one? If an enemy plane is intercepted during the operation, the wisest way is to take advantage of the characteristics of the reconnaissance lightning with fast speed, good acceleration, and long detection range of the sensor, and quickly throw off the enemy and flee before the enemy plane approaches.

Of course, he must participate, but because of this, Risen was condemned by Sonia and Yao Feilun, the two girls insisted, someone needs to watch Rise, since Yao can't participate, then Sonia must go, although Risen wants to harden his heart and insist, but after countless pinch marks and tooth marks on his body, he had to give in 'tears'.

However, despite the headache of the others, he was able to bite the bullet and not let go, until they finally swore and cursed and rushed away the door.

“...... Brother, when are we all together? There's no reason why you should go this time, but leave my brother and me, it's not righteous enough......" Schneier said affectionately by the shoulder.

This is to be soft!

I'm not afraid of the hard, but I'm still afraid of the soft? After a war of words with the girls, Risen suddenly found that his eloquence and argumentative skills had greatly improved, and he was full of "chaos" from the future of the Alliance, the responsibility of the fleet, the needs of the wing, the brotherhood, to the care of Anne, etc., Schneier was a little dizzy, and when he realized that something was wrong, he was already standing outside the door of Ryson's cabin, and the two hatches closed with a bang.

Phew, Risen wiped his sweat, it's so troublesome to choose a few volunteers, this is simply a war in another field. "Well deserved!" So said someone who had been watching the excitement indoors.