Coming out of the jumping channel, the "Shadow" released a hundred small detectors to conduct a dragnet search within an area of 10 million kilometers. Twelve hours have passed, and there is still no sign of it, and even the trace of the "God's Footprint" has been here.
Using this time, Lin Feng briefed Yang Yi about the situation in the third theater.
Although in the past five hundred years, Zhan Ruilin has been hibernating most of the time, relying on the authority he wielded in the Fifth Greenwich War and his close relationship with the hermit imperial family, Zhan Ruilin was in the third war zone. The status is unshakable, even Du Wantu can't match the dust. Under Zhan Ruilin, there are three generals, Du Wantu, Luo Zhenyu, and Lin Xiaoting, and they are at odds with each other.
In fact, Du Wantu, Luo Zhenyu and Lin Xiaoting are all rising stars.
All three were born after the war. Luo Zhenyu was the oldest and Du Wantu was the youngest.
Luo Zhenyu's ability to become the commander of the theater garrison forces was drenched in the light of his ancestors, that is, Luo Zhenyu's great-grandfather Luo Zhanlie was Zhan Ruilin's confidant general. At the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, he led a legion to guard the front base of the Watch Star, and finally died tragically. . In the final communication, Zhan Ruilin assured him that he would treat the Luo family's descendants favorably. For this reason, the post of garrison commander is always in the hands of the Luo family.
The Lin family did not go there, it was just an ordinary family before Lin Xiaoting. The Lin Family's ability to grow and become one of the three major forces in the third theater depends entirely on Lin Xiaoting. This is that Lin Xiaoting was the first person to successfully control the "Fire Phoenix" after the Fifth Greenwich War. It was Lin Xiaoting who successfully launched the "Fire Phoenix", which had been silent for five hundred years, and Zhan Ruilin formed the special reconnaissance team and appointed Lin Xiaoting as the first captain of the special reconnaissance team. After that, Lin Xiaoting spent nearly a hundred years on promotion to a general and was transferred to the theater command. In a sense, Lin Xiaoting relies on Zhan Ruilin to have today, so he has the closest relationship with Zhan Ruilin.
Du Wantu is an alternative, and its success is related to the largest local war since the Fifth Greenwich War, the "Scramble for the Watch Star". In this battle for the colonial planet, Du Wantu served as the staff officer of the fleet. After the fleet commander and chief of staff were killed one after another, he commanded the fleet to defeat the Songluo tribe army, and also captured the watch star, opening up a vast expanse for the human federation. territory. Soon thereafter, Du Wantu was promoted to major general and served as chief of staff of the Third Fleet, commanding the fleet to win several small-scale wars, and was promoted to general as the commander of the fleet. Because the promotion of generals is controlled by the military department, Du Wantu's relationship with the military department is extraordinary.
It can be seen that Luo Zhenyu's family is the strongest, but it is deadwood.
Although Lin Xiaoting's appearance and military exploits are outstanding, his family background is too thin, and he completely relies on Zhan Ruilin, so his strength and confidence are slightly insufficient.
Du Wantu's military exploits, military support, and real power can be said to be in full swing.
"The third theater is chaotic. Why doesn't Marshal Zhan Ruilin come forward to take charge?"
"How to manage?"
Yang Yi looked at Lin Feng incomprehensibly. If he knew what to do, would he still ask
"In nominal terms, all the troops of the Federation are under the control of the military headquarters, but in reality, the nine major war zones are in separate formations, and the military headquarters can hardly be able to speak." Lin Feng sighed and said, "This is the legacy of the Fifth Greenwich War. No one can easily change the current status quo. The emergence and growth of Du Wantu is also the inevitable result of this status quo. The military has been trying to integrate the theater, depriving the commander of the theater of command, at least to unify the nine major theaters. Even if you know Du Wantu was ambitious, and it was impossible for Lin Shuai to take the risk of confronting the military to deal with Du Wantu. As for Luo Zhenyu, Lin Shuai naturally couldn't bear his words on the promise he made in front of everyone."
"It can only support Lin Xiaoting."
"The tripartite tripod and tripartite checks and balances, at least the current situation can be maintained. Unless the balance is broken, Lin Shuai will not come forward to rectify."
Yang Yi nodded slightly, and understood what Lin Feng meant.
"We are just soldiers, it is not our turn to consider these issues."
"Yeah, I think too much." Yang Yi smiled faintly and said, "To be honest, if I were you, I wouldn't have anything to do with the Luo family."
Lin Feng smiled reluctantly, thanking Yang Yi for his understanding, but had nothing to say.
Eighteen years ago, Lin Xiaoting promised that the marriage was forced by the situation, and he regretted it afterwards. Otherwise, two years ago, when Lin Feng vowed to marry only the driver of the "Hard Ice Snow Tiger", he would not witness it on the spot. , And it is impossible to let it go, I am afraid that Lin Feng would have been married long ago.
At this time, a flash of light and shadow, Allen appeared in front of the two of them.
"Colonel, Second Lieutenant." Allen is an artificial intelligence and knows how to observe words and colors. Lin Feng's attitude towards Yang Yi has been greatly changed, and he has also treated Yang Yi a lot more polite.
"Have you found it?"
"Two minutes ago, detector No. 87 sent back a video, and then we lost contact."
Lin Feng's brows jumped a few times, and Yang Yi's expression became tense.
Without Lin Feng's orders, Allen called up the video.
It is a small celestial body, that is, a large meteorite. The shooting location is a bit far away, and the celestial body is getting bigger, indicating that the probe is flying towards the celestial body. After about half a minute, the picture shook violently, and as a shadow passed by, the picture disappeared.
"what is that?"
"A celestial body, or a spacecraft-level spacecraft." Allen played it again, and freezed when the shadow appeared.
Lin Feng frowned, stared for a while, and then looked at Yang Yi.
"That celestial body?" Yang Yi's attention was on the celestial body.
"The celestial body No. 4447828 is within the jurisdiction of the surveillance post No. 4447, 140 million kilometers away from the post. It is an E-class celestial body with a long diameter of 170 kilometers and a short diameter of 86 kilometers. Magnetic field, surface gravity 0.03G... ”
"Wait. Can you measure the mass of the celestial body from the acceleration of the 87 probe?"
"Hold on."
This kid's mind is quite flexible. Lin Fengchao and Yang Yi nodded slightly, expressing his appreciation.
Yang Yi didn't feel complacent, and didn't even pay attention to Lin Feng. He had a very bad premonition, because the celestial body No. 7777914 is also a molten iron structure, and its size is similar to that of the celestial body No. 4447828. Is this just a coincidence, or is there some connection between the two
"Second Lieutenant, the measured mass is 1.888 billion tons."
Yang Yi frowned immediately, and looked at Lin Feng at the same time.
"Beast Den?" Lin Feng whispered.
Yang Yi nodded and didn't say much. Only when the interior is hollowed out, the quality of the celestial body will be reduced. This is the main manifestation of the celestial body being invaded by the silicon beast.
"Allen, adjust the route, activate the'magic cloak' system, and fly in a hidden state."
"clear."
"Get ready for the Fire Phoenix, after arriving..."
"Captain, it's better to be careful."
Lin Feng was taken aback for a moment, then looked towards Yang Yi.
"Our task is to find clues to the'God's Footprint' and the'Ice Tiger', not to deal with a beast den."
"Do you think that the nearby surveillance post should be notified?"
"There is no need for this for the time being, and there is a beast den in the missing area of the'God's Footprint'. There is a possibility that there is a connection between the two. We have to go and find out." Yang Yi paused for a while, then said, " I just feel that there is no need to fight for a beast den. If it has nothing to do with the "God's Footprint", it will not be too late to call the police or the troops and let them send someone to destroy the beast den."
Lin Feng thought for a while, nodded slightly, and gave the order to Allen.
The "Shadow" began to accelerate, and obvious energy fluctuations appeared on the surface of the spacecraft at the same time. After just a few seconds, the spacecraft disappeared.
This is a reconnaissance spacecraft equipped with a "magic cloak" stealth device.
Using the "magic cloak", the "Shadow" can realize the invisibility of visible light, infrared and energy fields. Because it is a small thousand-ton spacecraft, the space distortion caused by the "Shadow" is minimal. The high-precision space distortion detectors that can be found on the "Shadow" are only available on S-class battleships, and some advanced silicon beasts that are extremely sensitive to space distortion and are extremely rare in nature.
"How do you know that it is a den?"
"guess."
Lin Feng looked at Yang Yi disbelievingly, surely not just a guess.
"Before being exiled, I served in the field team of post 7777. At that time, I followed the team leader to repair a detection device on a celestial body. I didn't know that the celestial body had been invaded by silicon beasts. That celestial body was also a molten iron structure, and It’s about the same size."
"and then?"
"We ran away fortunately, but when we returned, the outpost had already been attacked. In order to send back the news of the enemy's invasion, we did not participate in the battle. We were attacked by an enemy plane during the retreat and the spacecraft was destroyed. I followed one. A team member entered the escape pod and was on the lava star when he woke up."
"So you were sentenced to run away."
Yang Yi laughed bitterly, he had nothing to say about it.
"This matter has nothing to do with the Theater Command. I have read the relevant information." Lin Feng paused for a while before saying, "The first one arrived was the Third Fleet, commanded by Du Wantu himself. Submitted in the Third Fleet According to the report, all officers and soldiers at post 7777 were killed in action."
"It turned out to be him!" Yang Yi clenched his fists, shivering with anger.
Noting the change in Yang Yi’s expression, Lin Feng was also taken aback, and quickly said, “Unfortunately, we cannot prove that Du Wantu did it. There is no conclusive evidence, let alone you, even if my grandfather is asked to come forward, it’s impossible. What about Du Wantu. He is the commander of the Third Fleet, and you are just a small soldier. No one will punish a small soldier, let alone accuse him."
"I understand, thank you."
Lin Feng was taken aback again, wondering why Yang Yi wanted to thank her.
Yang Yi smiled reluctantly, without explaining much.
Although Lin Feng was right, Yang Yi couldn't take down Du Wantu with one-sided words, but he finally knew who the enemy was and who should be avenged.