Chapter 198 Hide and Seek

'Psychic intuition' is naturally a joke by Amber.

Although psychics can indeed give early warnings of danger, it is only a warning, not a prophecy.

Even the most powerful psychics cannot predict the future.

The reason why Amber was able to guess the next move of Mary Bay Industries is purely because he has dealt with these giant companies too many times in the game.

When people from these big companies do such shameful actions, they are always ruthless.

And driven by the 'results orientation' of large companies, they often seek to achieve their goals by any means.

So when Terrak and his team were intercepted on the expressway, Amber had already guessed that the other party would prepare for the next move after the interception failed.

Being able to send so many armed personnel to Industrial 4 means that the other party is probably driving their own ships.

At least Amber has never seen a company of the size of Mary Bay Industries let its personnel take public transportation to the destination to carry out operations.

That's too cheap.

And Amber has always speculated about these 'company dogs' with the worst malice. These guys can do anything for performance appraisal.

In the worst case scenario he deduced, the other party should mobilize one or two warships to conduct interception operations.

However, at most there would be two destroyers. If there were more, it would not be something that ordinary people could mobilize.

If the other party was a high-ranking and high-authority company employee, then the enemy that Terak and his team encountered on the expressway would definitely not be of this scale and force level.

Originally, Amber planned to let Lilith hack into Industrial 4 to see if she could find an opportunity to hack into the ship of Mary Bay Industries.

However, after the incident of LLS943823, both Amber and Lilith were much more cautious in sending their clones out to "fight in the wild".

Amber looked at the location and virtual track of the Ares displayed on the holographic projection platform in the center of the bridge, and began to think about the next route planning in his mind.

Although he could roughly judge the next move of Mary Bay Industries, he actually didn't want to confront the other party head-on.

After all, as long as the two sides exchanged fire, there would be a risk of being sunk.

If you can hide your tracks before the other party intercepts you, and then enter the jump far enough away from Industrial IV, that would be the best.

So Amber also uses this as the basic principle in the next route planning.

Industrial IV is located in the synchronous orbit of Kandahar IV in the Kandahar system.

As the most massive planet in the system, Kandahar IV is mainly used as a mining planet to provide raw materials for a large number of factories in this system.

Since Kandahar IV was developed relatively early, there are many space elevators on the planet.

The multiple spaceports attached to the space elevator also make the orbit of Kandahar IV unusually busy.

Based on the above factors, in order to ensure that the main routes near this planet can operate in order.

The federal administrative agencies of the planet, spaceport, satellite city and other places have jointly deployed a large number of autonomous early warning terminals on the main routes.

As long as there are abnormal situations such as ship firing in the area with an orbital altitude of 300,000 kilometers, high-energy lasers and charged particle cannons will be directly swept over.

After all, in such a large area, even the patrol fleet cannot "arrive at the scene" in the first time.

So the local administrative agency adopted this simpler and more brutal law enforcement method.

And the ship's jump is also required to start after leaving the 300,000-kilometer area.

So according to Amber's judgment, the area where Mary Bay Industry is most likely to launch an ambush is outside this 300,000-kilometer boundary line.

It is currently known that the other party has a high probability of parking a ship in the port of Industrial No. 4, and will pretend to be a "passerby" and follow Amber and the others.

Then the other ship should jump directly from somewhere else to the predetermined ambush position, sandwiching the two sides.

If you want to hide under the noses of these two ships, the first step is to enter the shadow of the planet.

Otherwise, if it is constantly shot by the sun of this galaxy, the temperature on the surface of the ship will quickly soar to hundreds of degrees.

Against the background of the cold universe, this infrared feature is simply too conspicuous.

Amber briefly communicated his plan with Randall, who, as a former lieutenant commander of the Federation Navy, immediately understood what he meant.

"Attention, helmsman. After leaving the fixed navigation area of ​​the port, follow the route I gave to enter the shadow of the planet.

All other personnel on the ship, enter the first-level combat readiness state, wear space suits and prepare to empty oxygen."

Under Randall's order, the crew of the Ares became busy in a tense and orderly manner.

Baninger and others installed an additional life support system for their exoskeletons, and since the Roma people did not have an exoskeleton that could be used for the time being, they could only wear the largest space suit like other crew members.

The helmsman also followed Randall's instructions and controlled the Ares to plunge into the shadow of the planet after leaving the fixed navigation area.

As the surface temperature of the ship began to drop rapidly, the helmsman also pushed the car clock to the position of 'forward three'.

The plasma propulsion array soon burst into a dazzling blue light, and the entire destroyer began to accelerate towards the predetermined course as if it was pushed by an invisible big hand.

At the same time, the radar operator was constantly monitoring the movement in the direction of the port through various reconnaissance equipment.

Maybe Amber and his team moved too quickly after spending money to open the way, or maybe the people of Mary Bay Industry were slowed down by the aftermath.

In short, after leaving Industrial 4 at a distance of 8,000 kilometers, the radar operator did not find any traces of other combat ships.

"What is our current speed relative to the border area?"

"20 kilometers per second, Captain."

After hearing the information report from the tactical information coordinator, Randall issued a new order.

"After the relative speed reaches 25 kilometers per second, turn off the main propulsion array and force heat dissipation!

After the main propulsion array is turned off, keep the track unchanged and adjust the axis by 180 degrees.

Activate optical camouflage and black body coating, the whole ship enters silent state, and the internal communication is switched to wired mode."

As the order was issued, Ares turned over in the universe and pointed the bow in the direction of Industrial 4.

At the same time, the ship body seemed to have a bug in the game screen, and after flashing for a while, it merged into the background of the universe.

Compared with ground warfare, HCP's combat assistance AI needs to maintain high-frequency operation of the processor in order to process a large number of complex dynamic polygonal images at the same time to achieve the effect of optical stealth.

When optical camouflage is turned on in the universe, the requirements for computing power are greatly reduced.

This is similar to the situation when players play games and the frame rate drops after looking at the complex environment, but as long as they look up at the sky, the frame rate will increase significantly.

"At the current speed, we will reach the border area in about three hours. The next step is to see how the other party will find us during this period. The familiar hide-and-seek link is back."

Amber rested her hand on the backrest of the captain's seat, looking at the relative position and track route presented by the holographic projection platform and muttered:

"But why are they so slow to move? Isn't this efficiency too low?"

"These vampires, they won't let us go without paying"

On the bridge of the Peregrine-class destroyer 'Freedom Radical', a mobile fleet under Mary Bay Industries.

Captain Cleves looked at the Industrial 4 that was getting farther and farther away on the holographic projection platform with a black face, and burst into a series of curses.

Owens, the head of the third product development department, who was sitting next to him, also had a bad look on his face.

Although he was acting under the name of Mary Bay Industry, the chief executive of this industrial satellite city did not take him seriously at all.

He had to pay a huge amount of "road repair costs" and "proper placement costs for the deceased".

Although Owens could afford the money, it still hurt him to give it away for nothing.

Considering that if he delayed any further, the ship of the unknown mercenary group would be let go, Owens finally paid the fee reluctantly.

Looking at his personal account with a one-digit loss, Owens took out a small medicine bottle and took a few pills, and finally he recovered.

"Captain Cleves, which direction do you think the target will flee to?"

"Well, in my experience, 99% of captains will choose to hide in the shadow of the planet in this situation.

And the reconnaissance unit has not found the infrared characteristics of military ships so far, so the probability is even greater.

But now we can only guess a general direction, and the exact location will depend on subsequent actions to locate."

After listening to Captain Cleves' speculation, Owens nodded, and then looked at the Yaoguang Defense contact on the other side.

"Do you know where to deploy the destroyer for interception?"