Although Xiao Ran had decided to make things more stable even if he wasted some time, the development of the matter was not as easy as Xiao Ran thought, because after the first day, the four MSs, except for necessary rest, even Even though the pilots took turns, they failed to detect a passing ship at the farthest detectable distance, which completely made everyone's day's hard work in vain. ∷,
But if you think about it, you won’t find it strange. After all, the location where the White Fortress is currently located is a broken satellite gravel belt. The ruins left by such a war are not an auspicious place. Coupled with the complex environment and interference Seriously, there is no reason for ordinary civilian ships to approach this place.
After wasting a day, Xiao Ran also responded to these problems. After laughing, he patted his head and immediately made a new arrangement, allowing the White Fortress to continue approaching the moon again. Anyway, the matter of getting rid of the Zeon warships was already here. I achieved my goal in a wasted day, and also decided to use the Gundam to rob the battleship for the first time, so there was no point in hiding here if it was inevitable to expose myself. It would just be a waste of time.
Besides, this world is not like the Gundam ED world. The waste recycling industry is quite developed, and there is a special trade union to host it as the third force. Even if there are waste merchants in this world, this gravel belt is already so far away from the war after all. For a while, even if you want to wait for someone who has the idea to pick up the leak, it will not be an easy task.
Only about ten hours had passed after the White Fortress was restarted, and as expected, the situation was completely different. Among the four MSs that went out for patrol and reconnaissance, Alt, who was taking another shift, finally discovered a civilian ship that looked like a cargo ship. He immediately reported his discovery back to the White Fortress, and White who received the news Everyone on the bridge of the Fortress suddenly cheered up. After notifying the MSs in the other three directions, they took the lead in rushing towards Alt.
After receiving the message from the bridge. Xiao Ran also hurried to the bridge. Different from the silence on everyone's faces when they were in the gravel belt a day ago, everyone now had a relaxed look on their faces.
Entering the bridge, Xiao Ran also nodded and smiled at everyone: "Did you find anything?"
Captain Jeffrey smiled and said: "Alte has made a discovery, saying that it has found a cargo ship and is following it. According to the information passed back, the destination of that ship should be in the direction of the moon. . ”
"That's just right." Xiao Ran nodded, walked to Captain Jeffrey's side, and said: "In that case, let the MS suppress the cargo ship immediately. I also have some new ideas, so there is no need to worry about it. The second cargo ship wasted time.”
Captain Jeffrey lowered his head and took a sip from his pipe. After he understood the meaning of Xiao Ran's words, a faint smile appeared on his face: "This will save us a lot of time. We don't need to Taking one more risk.”
"Yes." Xiao Ran nodded. Since the destination of the discovered ship may be the moon, he only needs to use force to suppress the ship and force the ship to accept those who are leaving the White Fortress. If you mix in some of your own people in the middle, you can go directly to the moon. There is no need to grab a ship back specifically for your own trip to the moon. As long as you board the cargo ship, the White Fortress will avoid being discovered. Condition. In other words, you can go directly back to the previous gravel belt to hide.
And Xiao Ran only needs to know the specific location of the gravel belt. After going to the moon and completing what needs to be done, whether it is finding a ship to pick up people, or entering the moon directly under the cover of a certain force, I am afraid it will not work. any question.
Although Xiao Ran didn't say it explicitly. But Captain Jeffrey's experience and half of Xiao Ran's words were enough for Captain Jeffrey to understand Xiao Ran's thoughts.
"The current situation, except for the Alt machine. When can other aircraft come into contact with the cargo ship?"
Captain Jeffrey glanced at Monica, who looked at the screen and said, "More than twenty minutes."
"Twenty minutes, that's pretty fast." Xiao Ran chuckled and said, "In that case, it would be better to start preparations immediately. Notify Elf that the personnel can be deleted. Let Jigus and Rukino Saki , Glen Grant, Luca come to the bridge immediately... "
Having said this, Xiao Ran also turned to look at Artesia who was still in the learning stage in the bridge, smiled slightly and said: "And Artesia, prepare to leave with us this time."
"Me?" Aldesia was a little surprised that Xiao Ran suddenly called her name. Seeing Aldesia's appearance, Xiao Ran just smiled and nodded, and said: "Yes, this time we need to go to the moon to deal with some things. I also made an appointment with Xia Ya to meet on the moon, and he also hopes that I can take you with me."
Artesia nodded quickly, her eyes full of surprise: "Are you meeting your brother? I understand, thank you Mr. Alex."
"Yeah." Xiao Ran smiled slightly and nodded lightly before saying anything. Since he decided to mix with the people who were going to the moon during this trip to the moon, he would definitely take the suppressed cargo ship with these people. Leaving, so except for Xiao Ran himself, the rest of the people who go to the moon together must be chosen very carefully.
The Al Elf who has already shown his face is definitely not feasible, and the arrangement of those Berserkers and Naluo's tribe is also unreliable. Na Luo, like the El Elf, also showed his face and confirmed that he belongs to the "pirate" group. People, so they can't mix in among the people who are leaving.
As for the skeleton team, it is best for Ozma to stay on the ship as a defensive force. Art, Michelle and Brela also need to stay on the ship for the same reason. Then Xiao Ran can take the people with him to the moon. , only Rukino Saki, who has never appeared in the eyes of anyone other than his own people, Jigus, who is basically independent from the crowd and has a weak sense of existence, and the seemingly harmless Shota Luka, And people like Gran Gran, who looks like a child but is actually a giant.
Xiao Ran didn't know what kind of situation he would encounter after going to the moon, so he prepared to take all these people with him to avoid the embarrassing situation of needing manpower but not having any available. Among these people, except for Rukino Sakiyuki In addition, the rest of them have all received formal military training. Even Rukino Saki himself has the powerful physique of a third-generation demon. Therefore, as long as there are no MS battles in terms of capabilities and safety, there is basically no need to think too much.
Not long after, the people who were named all came to the bridge to gather. When Xiao Ran told them that he was going to take a few people to the moon, Glen Grant, who had nothing to do, waved his hand with obvious excitement. Luca Xiao Shota also had a rosy face and felt that she could finally be put to use. Rukino Saki just smiled lightly at Xiao, and only Jigus nodded calmly to Xiao Ran to show that he understood.
Xiao Ran nodded and said: "Then get ready and blend into the crowd, then board the ship and leave with the people who are leaving. You don't need to bring any weapons or equipment, just bring your own belongings. I will also be in Ayr later." Elf will meet you when he starts cleaning up the crew.”
Jigusi, Rukinosaki, the others, and Artesia quickly left the bridge. Xiao Ran stayed in the bridge and continued to talk with Captain Jeffrey about the arrangements for his subsequent departure. In fact, there was not much to say. Things, they just agreed on a rendezvous time with Captain Jeffrey, as for the rest. Even if Xiao Ran didn't tell Captain Jeffrey, he knew what to do.
And even if Xiao Ran leaves with a few people, the power left on the ship will be enough to suppress the new participants who are willing to stay on the White Fortress, so there is no need to worry too much about this aspect, but the current supplies on the White Fortress are not enough The whole ship's crew held on a little longer. Therefore, Xiao Ran had to rush back with enough supplies at the time agreed upon with Captain Jeffrey.
Twenty minutes later, on the big screen on the bridge, four MS began to surround the transport ship that had been targeted from four different directions, and it was only then that Xiao Ran noticed the transport ship. Side logo. Two simple letters in a blue box: ae.
Many Gundam enthusiasts will definitely be familiar with this AE logo. This is the logo of Anaheim, the most famous arms company in the u century. Anaheim is headquartered in California, North America. But Brown City on the moon also has the cosmic branch of Anaheim, which is extremely important in the universe.
This Anaheim company not only provides the Earth Federation with development projects and mass production of various MSs, battleships, and electronic machinery, but with the strong support of the Earth Federation Army, it also blatantly manufactures Zaku for Zeon. It directly monopolized the largest part of the military trade between the two parties, and in the later period of the One Year War, most of the capital was directly moved to the moon and became the ruler of the moon. It has great power in this world, but at this time This is not the time when Anaheim is at its strongest.
Behind the Anaheim Company stands a family that controls the company, the Bister family. The founder of this family holds an important bargaining chip that is enough to overthrow the current top management of the Earth Federation. This is also an important reason why Anaheim Corporation can provide weapons to both parties at the same time and still receive support from the Earth Federation.
And all Xiao Ran's subsequent plans will be executed closely around the entire Anaheim Company and the Bister family. As for whether the Bister family can be controlled, it will eventually affect the Anaheim Company and will pull Xiao Ran had never doubted his ability with Plath's Box in his hand.
For ordinary humans, even behemoths like the Vist family, in the case of non-military operations, there is no way to defend against participants who are willing to resort to any means to achieve their goals, no matter how careful they are and how many defense forces they have , and it was impossible to guard against Xiao Ran, who knew everything.
As for the second main mission, Xiao Ran naturally targeted the Anaheim Company as a force that was required to join in that mission, a force that could have both sides and would not be used as cannon fodder.
So after Xiao Ran saw the logo on the ship, the corners of his mouth under the mask turned up slightly: "It turns out to be an Anaheim ship."
Under normal circumstances, neither the Earth Federation nor Zeon would have any difficulties facing Anaheim's transport ships, and would even take the initiative to protect Anaheim's transports in their respective areas. Over time, Anaheim's transport ships have become a taboo for real space pirates.
After all, in the absence of a real third-party force, the situation of space pirates is very bad. It is basically impossible to have a pirate organization with useful MS during this time period, so no pirates will have any idea about the Anaheim ship. , this also caused Anaheim's transport ships to run rampant throughout the entire earth circle. Even if there was only one ship, and it was still near the moon circle, naturally they would not expect that anyone would attack them, so with a move The transport ship also has no defensive power at all.
This resulted in four MSs easily suppressing the transport ship belonging to Anaheim. With the weapons of the four MSs pointed at them, the members of the transport ship did not dare to make any rash move, even if they wanted to send a message. But even under the dense density of Mie particles, it was all in vain.
When the White Fortress slowly approached the transport ship, which was at least one size smaller, Art also piloted the No. 2 Gundam and landed on the transport ship, using contact communication to convey his meaning to the transport ship.
"We are not pirates, so we don't want to take action against you. There is a group of war refugees belonging to the Private De7-1 satellite on our ship. This ship accepted this group of people due to special circumstances, so we hope that you can help to receive these members and Get them to safety."
"Now open the link channel between the two ships. You have no right to refuse, because once you refuse, we will suppress you with force. In the end, the ship will still fall into our hands, but your lives will be sacrificed in vain. I don't want to shoot innocent people, but I will shoot if my commander orders me to."
Alt's words silenced the transport ship for a long time. It wasn't until a few minutes passed that a middle-aged male voice spoke: "You can ask me how I can believe that you are not space pirates. After we meet your conditions, How to ensure our safety.”
Alt looked at the instructions that appeared on the screen and said directly: "Except for the Zaku we captured, the three MSs and the battleship all have the official numbers of the Earth Federation Army. The identity information of these war refugees is recorded. It also belongs to the Earth Federation Private De7, you can check it." (.)