"Feel sorry."
Pojun suddenly spoke.
"I know I broke the wonderful atmosphere and it was really a downer. The general should want to deconstruct me or return me to the initial state, but I think this matter should be urgent."
It is clear that although Pojun is just an artificial intelligence, he has a high degree of autonomy and his own way of "thinking" and "judgment".
Holding Qi Yan's fingertips that were chilled by the night wind, Lu Fenghan asked Po Jun: "What's the matter?"
Po Jun replied: "Two blocks away from this building, a group of people passed by and were discussing kidnapping."
Lu Fenghan frowned: "Who are you kidnapping?"
Po Jun replied: "Kidnap this planet."
Qi Yan was puzzled: "Kidnap a planet?"
Po Jun: "Yes. They are rushing to a certain coordinate point. According to what I heard from the group, this operation is to maintain the honor of the rebels and to avenge Donald, the commander of the 11th Legion."
Lu Fenghan looked at the layers of dark shadows in the distance, with only a few scattered rays of light, not enough to illuminate it completely.
"Kidnapping planets is a common tactic used by interstellar pirates. Before Lu Jun defeated the interstellar pirates, the most common thing they did was to hijack starships and obtain high ransoms. If they are extremely poor, they will do something big and directly kidnap a planet and threaten the alliance to pay a sky-high ransom, otherwise they will blow up the entire planet. Of course, everyone on that planet will die."
After thinking for a moment, Lu Fenghan ordered Po Jun: "Use my authority to retrieve the data and compare whether there are any interstellar pirates in the alliance's records among that group of people."
Qi Yan immediately thought, "Vincent mentioned that the interstellar pirates and the rebels have been at odds since their founding. Is that false?"
Lu Fenghan used cautious words: "It's just suspicion and speculation. The interstellar pirates will not do anything without profit. They are already irreconcilable with the Alliance and most likely will not tear their faces apart easily. If they rely on the rebels, they can also get a share of the pie if the Alliance is really gone."
As soon as he finished speaking, Po Jun's comparison results came out: "General, there are two recorded interstellar pirates in that group, one is called Bius and the other is called Hench. Both of them participated in the kidnapping case of Alva in the year 182 of the star calendar. They have been on the run for thirty-five years. The alliance has offered a bounty of two million star coins."
"The rebels want to succeed in one go without any mistakes, so they naturally tend to ask the 'experienced' pirates to teach them how to do it. There must be more than just these two who have criminal records."
Lu Fenghan did not rush to look for the group of people two blocks away, but continued to ask Pojun, "Search for surveillance information from various places. I want to know their plan."
Po Jun abides by the law: "General, large-scale intrusion into a planetary monitoring system is a violation of alliance regulations."
Lu Fenghan raised his eyebrows: "You called me 'General'."
"Okay." Po Jun stopped talking. This time the search took a little longer. "They tried to send a message to the Alliance in the name of interstellar pirates after kidnapping the planet. The leader of the Alliance is far away in Odin, and the task of saving the planet will fall on you, General.
After you accept the order, they will directly blow up the Mykonos planet and refuse to accept peace talks or redemption. As a result, the huge casualties and the expeditionary force's ineffective rescue will arouse public indignation, and the credit of your victory the day before will be offset. At the same time, the Union government and the military will further lose the trust of the people. "
"They want to repeat the previous public opinion war." Lu Fenghan thought, this plan is not very sophisticated, but it is effective.
If he and Qi Yan had not happened to be on Mikonos, and the Pojun they carried with them had not happened to be on guard in the vicinity and accidentally discovered this plan, perhaps the course of events would have really followed the rebels' script.
Po Jun: "What is our response strategy? General, I am very nervous."
Lu Fenghan: “Check the communication situation.”
"External communications were cut off fifteen minutes ago. All signals are false. One minute ago, the official Mikonos announced that the planet's external communications were cut off. It is suspected to be caused by cosmic particle disturbances. Technical personnel are being sent to repair it. The planet's internal communications are not affected for the time being. I hope the public will not panic. For safety reasons, the star port's civilian waterway has been temporarily closed."
"It's the same thing again."
Lu Fenghan recalled that on the day of its founding, when all the people on the Fontaine One died, they encountered the same method.
Po Jun was worried: "General, we can't contact the fleet."
Qi Yan comforted him: "There are regular troops stationed on the Mykonos planet."
"Yes," Lu Fenghan said, "In addition, Mikonos is one of the regular choices for the expeditionary forces to take a rest."
In a bar on the planet Mikonos, a short-haired young man was chatting with a familiar bartender, and he specifically reminded him: "The lightest wine, I'll just take a sip and taste it, otherwise I'll go back reeking of alcohol and my boss will scold me to death!"
The bartender laughed: "I know, but why is your boss so strict? He even controls drinking during breaks."
The short-haired young man smiled nonchalantly: "Drinking will only lead to trouble, only a clear mind can save your life!"
The bartender was curious and leaned over the bar to ask, "We've known each other for so long, Calvin, what exactly is your job? You're rarely seen."
Calvin shrugged: "I clean up space junk. I don't have much time to rest, but it's fun and exciting!"
The bartender stood up straight, not really understanding what was so exciting about cleaning up space junk. Could he possibly find priceless treasures from the garbage and become rich overnight
At this moment, the personal terminal on Calvin's left wrist flashed. He glanced at it casually, then his eyes widened and he muttered a swear word.
Something happened.
The smile on his face disappeared completely, and he even looked a little serious. Calvin had a bad feeling in his heart. He ran out two steps, then turned back and grabbed the coat hanging next to him, and put it on while running, leaving a message: "The wine money will be taken from my account, this glass of wine is for you!"
At the same time, all active-duty soldiers of the expeditionary force who were on leave on Mikonos and had not yet returned received a message.
It was a random sentence "report real-time location", but because the person who issued the order was Lu Fenghan, no one dared to ignore it.
Two minutes later, the map that Pojun unfolded was filled with gradually brightening green spots.
Lu Fenghan took a quick look and found that most of them were concentrated in the prosperous areas, but there were dozens of light spots on the edge of the desert, in the mountainous areas, and on the sea.
As soon as his men got off the starship, they were blown everywhere like dandelions.
At this time, Lu Fenghan and Qi Yan had already left the rooftop and returned to the room.
Destroying a planet is not a difficult task given today's military capabilities.
It only takes forty to fifty stellar-class missiles to explode at a very close time, and the spreading force fields will continue to accumulate. Although it will not blow the Mykonos planet into pieces, it is certain that one in ten living things on the surface of the planet will die.
In just a few breaths, Mikonos will become a barren planet.
For the sake of safety, stellar-class missiles are usually stored in different locations, and each storage point is classified as S-level confidential, and a corresponding key is required to open it.
Lu Fenghan asked Qi Yan: "If it were you, would you be able to obtain permission to launch a stellar missile?"
Qi Yan only thought about it for a moment before answering, "Yes. The key is like a key. As long as it matches the 'keyhole', it's fine. Regardless of whether I know the number of characters in the key, I can build a program to produce hundreds of thousands or millions of 'keys' and try to match the 'keyhole'. Although the amount of calculation is huge, there will always be one that is correct and can open the lock."
Lu Fenghan: "So can interstellar pirates."
Qi Yan: "Yes, Po Jun mentioned the kidnapping case of Alva planet, which means that the interstellar pirates should have mastered some kind of cracking technology that can convert the limited number of key verifications into unlimited verifications."
Lu Fenghan: "Otherwise, if you enter the key incorrectly twice, the key verification system will automatically shut down?"
"Yes." Qi Yan put himself in the shoes of the other party. "No matter how perfect the alliance's security key system is, it can't stop me. It's just a difference in the scale of calculations."
After saying that, Qi Yan blinked, "But I can try to stop the intruder." He told Lu Fenghan his idea, "The enemy keeps trying to decrypt the key, and I keep changing the key. As long as he is not as fast as me and can't keep up with my changing speed, he won't be able to open it."
Lu Fenghan asked for a time standard: "How long can you hold it?"
Qi Yan estimated: “About twenty minutes.”
"That's enough." Lu Fenghan unbuttoned his gray windbreaker, revealing the tight lines on his neck. "In order to activate the stellar missile launch system at the same time, someone needs to manually enter the key at the seven storage points in turn and press the launch button. Therefore, someone will invade each storage point."
Qi Yan understood Lu Fenghan's plan: "I need two small optical computers and a spare one. In case of any accidents, you can prepare another one."
Looking at the green light spot on the map, Lu Fenghan ordered Pojun: "Select three technical personnel who are closest to here, and ask them to bring small optical computers and come here as quickly as possible."
After the order was issued, three nearby light spots on the map immediately began to move towards Lu Fenghan's location.
Then, Po Jun circled two light spots a little further away: "These two are also from the technical department."
"Well, let them come here as soon as possible."
Due to the wartime situation, in order to prevent emergencies, personnel from the Expeditionary Force's technical department would carry small optical computers with them, whether they were on duty or not, for support at any time.
This is also true during vacations.
In the words of Lorenz, the head of the technical department, "Even if you are having a nightlife, you must ensure that the optical computer is within reach, because you don't know which will come first, the war or xx."
Afterwards, Lu Fenghan used his authority to determine the seven coordinate points where the stellar-class missiles were stored.
There are seven locations, six missiles in each location, for a total of forty-two missiles, which are enough to raze the entire surface of the planet to the ground.
"Po Jun, prioritize distance and organize into seven teams, each with 100 people. The rest of the people will stay on standby."
On the map, with the coordinate point as the center, seven colors of light spread outward. The light spots are dyed, making them very easy to distinguish, and the seven teams can be distinguished at a glance.
Lu Fenghan: "Publish the mission details to everyone's personal terminal, specify the coordinates of the missile/missile storage site, and indicate the location of the nearby armory. Use my authority to open it and let them take the weapons."
Pojun: "Yes."
On the other side of the city, Calvin came out of the tavern, started the rented hovercraft, and headed for the nearest armory.
Seeing two people running wildly on the street, he stopped and honked his car horn. When they met, Calvin asked, "Are the braised spareribs provided by the cafeteria on the seventh of every month delicious?"
The person on the other side gasped, was stunned for two seconds, and was filled with indignation: "I have never been able to grab it! I only know that the smoked fish that day was too salty!"
Calvin opened the car door: “Yes, brother, get in the car!”
When the hovercraft was overloaded and could no longer accommodate a fourth person, Calvin pulled the joystick hard and the hovercraft instantly rushed out like an arrow.
The man who complained about the taste of smoked fish said, "When I received the command message, I was taking a hot bath. I put on my clothes and ran out. I haven't even washed off the bubbles on my body. It must be the rebels causing trouble again and disturbing my bath!"
Another one also spoke up: "According to the order, let us go to the armory first, and then let us go to the storage point of the star-level missiles. This matter is only big, not small."
"I guess all those who haven't returned to the ship are running wildly in the night now." Calvin said proudly, "I'm different. I have a car."
After arriving at the armory, the three of them stopped chatting. The built-in communicators in their personal terminals connected to their auditory nerves, and an electronic voice analyzed the specific tasks.
At the same time, the temporary captain of this operation was determined within thirty seconds according to the military rank.
In the darkness of night, everyone lined up and quickly took weapons from the open armory. Apart from the heavy footsteps, there was silence without any noise.
It was an extremely sudden mission, but the expeditionary force showed great quality.
In the hotel room, on the map, the originally messy light spots have been gathered into seven groups and are moving in an orderly manner according to the instructions.
Lu Fenghan asked Pojun: "How is the other party doing?"
A red light spot appeared on the map, and Po Jun replied: "The enemy is heading for the coordinate point. According to the speed of travel, they will contact us at the first coordinate point in seventeen minutes."
At this time, there was a knock on the door. Lu Fenghan opened the door in two steps. Three people holding small optical computers came in and saluted Lu Fenghan together with their shoulders straight.
Qi Yan also turned around, but unexpectedly saw Ye Pei.
Ye Pei also saw Qi Yan and blinked as a greeting. He waited until Lu Fenghan said "thank you for your hard work" before putting his hand down.
She ran all the way here, and although her physical strength was much better than when she was in Turan, her lungs and trachea still felt like they were being torn apart, and even her voice was a little hoarse.
Ye Pei had just joined the expeditionary force and didn't quite understand what had happened, but the fact that he received an emergency order during his vacation showed the seriousness of the incident.
She couldn't help but look at the stern Lu Fenghan again - Lu Fenghan, who took off his military uniform and put on a gray windbreaker, seemed no different from when he was in Leto.
She still couldn't believe that Qi Yan's bodyguard named Lu was actually the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force!
She and Mondrian agreed that the conductor must have some unspeakable mysterious mission, or must not reveal his whereabouts in order to achieve a certain purpose, since he had hidden his identity in Leto for so long!
Just as her mind was full of thoughts, Lu Fenghan pointed at her and said, "Give the small optical computer to Qi Yan." He then instructed the other two, "Stand by and follow Qi Yan's instructions."
The room, which was not big to begin with, seemed even more cramped with the addition of three people.
Qi Yan found a table, placed Ye Pei's small optical computer on it, turned it on, and followed the path he and Po Jun had analyzed to get into the key verification system of Mikonos.
Ye Pei and the other two stood behind Qi Yan. They saw that he typed commands one after another with his fingers flying, as if he didn't need to think, and the character pages displayed on the screen were refreshing faster and faster.
Except for Ye Pei, the other two had served in the technical department for more than three years. They naturally saw where Qi Yan's destination was, and suddenly realized how amazing Qi Yan was.
However, neither of them dared to ask more questions. They just stood aside and waited according to Lu Fenghan's orders.
Finally, Ye Pei asked: "Qi Yan, where are you now?"
Qi Yan was multitasking, and replied, "The rebels and interstellar pirates are planning to kidnap this planet. After negotiating with Odin, they will directly detonate forty-two stellar-class missiles."
Although Ye Pei was already completely accustomed to the concise and effective commands and communication methods within the expeditionary force, the information revealed in this sentence still made her stand there in a daze. Her mind was in a mess and it took her a long time to sort it out.
Qi Yan estimated that she should have digested the news, so he continued: "Extra-planetary communications have been cut off, and the command ship cannot be contacted. The general is already blocking the enemy's actions, and I am intercepting the enemy's security key system for cracking the star-level missiles."
Ye Pei nodded.
He turned Qi Yan's words over in his mind several times before he completely understood the current situation.
She opened her mouth, wanting to ask if there was anything she could do to help, but when she saw Qi Yan's eyes fixed intently on the screen, with the side of his face coated in a cool hue by the faint light, she subconsciously stopped herself from disturbing him.
At this moment, Qi Yan inexplicably had a calm and convincing temperament. Although it sounded very difficult to intercept the enemy's cracking of the security key system of stellar-level missiles, and the psychological pressure must be enormous, she just felt that it would not be a problem for Qi Yan.
At this time, Qi Yan was hiding behind the "door" and observing the movements.
After a while, a sensing program he set up was triggered, and Qi Yan told Lu Fenghan: "The enemy has come in."
The interstellar pirates on the other side were very experienced. When they sneaked into the security key system, they left no "tails" and did not trigger any alarms. If Qi Yan had not set up a sensing program, he would not have been able to be detected at all.
"Pojun, I will give you the data from the opponent that triggered my sensing program. You must analyze it as quickly as possible and determine his location before he discovers my presence."
Po Jun's voice sounded: "Okay."
Instead, the three people in the technical department were startled by the sudden sound. They realized that it was the artificial intelligence that had been wandering around the command ship recently. Subconsciously, their occupational disease was aroused, and they wanted to study what this artificial intelligence was all about.
Just as Qi Yan guessed, there was something like a blocker on the other side that could cut off the connection between the key and the protection system. In this way, when the key verification times exceeded twice, the protection system would not take effect.
Soon, faced with the unknown "keyhole", the other side began to try to match the "key".
The program used is positive verification, that is, when the specific format of the key is uncertain, the program on the other side will first try a combination such as "3m7scβ". After the verification fails, it will verify whether "3m7scγ" is correct based on the logical settings within the program.
In this case, all Qi Yan can do is to change the correct key to "3m7scβ" when the program finishes verifying "3m7scβ" and starts verifying "3m7scγ".
The program on the other side runs extremely fast. If the total number of keys is one hundred, then when verifying the ninety-first group, the first eighty of the ninety groups that have been verified have re-entered the verification sequence.
Then, when verifying the 91st group, Qi Yan must change the key to a group of keys between the 81st and 90th groups.
Therefore, no matter how the other party verifies, they cannot match the correct key to the correct keyhole.
Just because the keyhole is constantly changing under the control of Qi Yan.
Ye Pei didn't know what specific method Qi Yan used. She only found that garbled key characters flashed by on the screen, and a waterfall-like stream of information rushed into her eyes, and Qi Yan would enter a string of keys in a long blank box.
At the same time, the square page in the lower right corner keeps displaying the other party’s “key error” prompt.
The technician with the longest experience among the three whispered, "It's... It's amazing! He relied entirely on his memory to find the right key in the 'garbled code' that flashed by and filled it into the box!"
He explained to the two juniors, "It's like, 1, 2, 3, 4 is a cycle. When the opponent thinks the key is 3 or 4, Qi Yan changes the key to 2; when the opponent thinks the key is 4 or 1, Qi Yan changes it to 3; when the opponent thinks it is 1 or 2, Qi Yan changes it to 4. In this way, the opponent is always wrong!"
At this moment, Qi Yan said, "This optical computer can't hold up anymore, Ye Pei, help me change it!"
Ye Pei responded quickly, took the optical computer from his senior, turned it on quickly, connected it to his own, and placed it next to Qi Yan.
Afterwards, Qi Yan used the less than five seconds to transfer to the new optical computer. At the same time, just as Qi Yan had predicted, Ye Pei's optical computer made a "hiss" sound.
Because the amount of calculation was too large, the internal light modulator burned out and the screen went black instantly.
At this moment, Ye Pei clearly realized how huge the information flow that Qi Yan was facing was!
None of the three spoke, for fear of disturbing Qi Yan.
In the narrow room, only Lu Fenghan kept giving orders to Pojun based on the battle situation, and then through Pojun, the orders were issued to the built-in communicators in everyone's personal terminals.
As time passed, a layer of cold sweat appeared on Qi Yan's smooth forehead. Because he was so focused and blinked so rarely, his eyes turned red.
Ye Pei anxiously scratched the back of the chair with his fingertips, but bit his lower lip and dared not make a sound.
"Ye Pei, change another one."
Qi Yan's voice was a little hoarse.
Ye Pei was shocked and did not dare to delay. He immediately put the third optical computer next to Qi Yan.
The second optical computer that was replaced had its optical modulator burned, just like the previous one, and a burnt smell filled the air.
Qi Yan's temples were tense and his eyes were stinging, as if steel needles had pierced his head from both sides and even twisted it twice. Because his brain was overheating, he even felt tired to the point of nausea.
At this time, Po Jun reported: "Based on the data provided, the location of the enemy's cracking personnel has been determined."
At the same time, the coordinates appeared on the map.
Lu Fenghan ordered in a deep voice: "Let those on standby nearby act quickly. When they see this person, shoot him immediately!"
Pojun: "Okay, General."
Qi Yan's fingers did not stop moving. He bit his lower lip lightly, using the pain to stay fully awake.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the other side is a positive cycle verification. He has already remembered which keys he has entered, and now he is just repeating them one by one.
There was a knock on the door, and Ye Pei ran to open it, welcoming two members of the technical department in. Without Qi Yan's request, she first took out one of the men's small optical computers for backup, and briefly explained the current situation.
Sure enough, within two minutes, Qi Yan said again: "Ye Pei, change another one."
Ye Pei changed it neatly.
The burning smell became stronger—three optical computers had been burned in a row.
The cold sweat on Qi Yan's forehead flowed down past the corners of his eyes, making his already cold and pale skin look even more frosty, and even his lips had lost much of their color.
Ye Pei couldn't help but look at the lit map in the room, secretly worried.
Completely unaware of the emotions of the people around him, Qi Yan's head was tingling. He made mechanical judgments and inputs, and his knuckles were so sore that he had almost no feeling left.
At this moment, the program on the other side, which had been running non-stop, suddenly stopped. The characters on the screen were like a waterfall splashing in the air, and were instantly frozen, without any change.
In the square page in the lower right corner, the prompt finally stopped at the four words "Key error".
Qi Yan’s fingers froze and stopped.
The next second, Lu Fenghan's voice rang out: "The key cracker has been killed!"
Ye Pei's fingers suddenly tightened, then immediately loosened: "Killed? Does this mean that the stellar missile has no chance of exploding?"
Po Jun answered this question: "Ms. Ye Pei, for now, it's as you wish."
Qi Yan closed his aching and sour eyes, and took a moment to calm down before turning to look at Lu Fenghan.
Next to him were three small optical computers that had burned out.
Lu Fenghan understood the meaning of the prayer.
He was generous in his praise: "We are very good at praying."
The voice is low and soft.
There was none of the coldness and hardness when issuing orders.
Qi Yan moved the fingers on his legs. His face turned pale. He pretended to be calm and avoided meeting Lu Fenghan's gaze. He replied, "Yeah."