41: What? Who's leaking information?

"Shield Active 7:59:56"

With the shield deployed, the alarm for base damage finally disappeared.

However,

subsequently, night lamp sent a battle report and a video.

The enemy faction on the battle report was just a string of question marks,

and the confirmed hostile targets destroyed were... 10086?

That many?

He uncertainly checked the base's HP bar again.

It had only dropped by less than one percent!

Driven by confusion, he opened the video directly.

The next second... "Holy crap!"

He immediately lost his balance and nearly slid off the stool—

What is this!!!!!!!!!!

Countless insect-like arthropods flew and writhed in the air,

forming a tsunami-like black colossal wave,

covering the sky and earth as it flew toward the base.

He quickly closed night lamp's screen.

Xi Hai looked around.

Thankfully, no one was there.

He rubbed his temples, feeling a slight headache.

This was a huge problem now.

According to the settings of the online games and novels Xi Hai had encountered before,

insects could be considered an extremely overpowered type of monster:

They could fight, reproduce, and their numbers were massive.

How could he fight this?

Currently,

the safest method Xi Hai could think of

was to abandon everything in Ursa Major V12.22,

and develop somewhere else,

since he had brought at least two-thirds of the main fleet with him.

However, doing this,

all his previous accumulation would be reset to zero.

Moreover, all of White Shark's old subordinates and friends were still there.

If he directly abandoned everything in Ursa Major V12.22,

it was highly likely that this person, whom night lamp judged to be an "Idealist," would not follow him.

This meant that the top-tier Mission Completion Machine/History Student he had just recruited

might just leave the team, fresh and ready.

Forget it.

Xi Hai shook his head.

The base shield still had plenty of time remaining.

Thinking about this now was just speculation.

Maybe these bugs were just paper tigers?

After thinking for a moment, Xi Hai stood up.

He had night lamp, who had completely taken over the local area network, send a message to White Shark.

Then he walked toward the exit... Order Seat, United Patrol Department,

fleet under the Giant Stone Group.

"Captain, this is the action assessment provided by the Risk Management Department."

On the flagship's bridge,

an employee strode in, holding a flexible tablet that was not connected to the local network.

He stood right next to Captain Deng Zhuo.

"Mhm, give it to me."

He took the pen-like tablet, pulled out the screen, and opened it.

An encrypted document appeared.

This was a common method used by the Giant Stone Group:

files were transferred by a Specialized Communication Ship (an heirloom) within the fleet,

and then moved using non-networked devices.

{Risk Assessment}

{Enemy fleet size: 20 destroyers}

{Composition: Light Type * 10, Medium Type * 10}

{Preliminary combat strength judgment: Weaker than the patrol fleet}

{Comparison of data for fleets entering and exiting the Void Channel and recently arrived system fleets}

{It can finally be confirmed that the opponent, without triggering the Gravity Conduit,}

{performed an ultra-high-speed voyage}

{It can be judged that the enemy fleet must possess certain Relics capable of short-distance ultra-high-speed operation}

{Overall Profit Assessment: A}

{Overall Risk Assessment: C}

{Annotation: Action Permitted}

After reading the report line by line, Deng Zhuo put it down contentedly.

He waved his hand, ordering the engine to preheat.

Just a few hours ago, an email arrived from a subordinate patrol fleet of the Group,

instructing them to intercept a small fleet of 20 warships

under the pretext of encircling and suppressing commercial spies.

But that wasn't the main point.

The key point was that the email was stamped with the private signature code of a certain Group shareholder!

This forced Deng Zhuo to treat the matter with extreme seriousness.

He immediately handed it over to the Risk Assessment Department,

partly to shift and share responsibility, and partly to archive the original action email for evidence,

to prevent himself, after being used as a tool to eliminate opponents,

from being wrongly blamed for "unauthorized action."

"Engine preheating complete!"

"Ready to depart!"

The report came through. Deng Zhuo closed the report, opened the all-team communication channel,

and ordered loudly:

"We have received orders from above!"

"We must launch an emergency strike to intercept a group of armed individuals who stole Group secrets!"

"The entry and exit permits they applied for were all for Route 21!"

"We will go directly to the vicinity of the channel's starting point and set up an ambush!"

"Prepare to open the Gravity Conduit!"

"Depart!"

..."If nothing unexpected happened,"

"this should be a recording of a Void Seepage event."

"It's hard to imagine,"

"that such an event would have such a clear and complete first-person perspective recording."

After watching the video that Xi Hai sent along with the battle report,

White Shark couldn't help but sigh.

Old archaeologists really have a lot of good stuff.

They even have recordings like this.

You know, there have only been three clearly documented Void Seepage events

since humanity discovered the Void!

"night lamp?"

"What's going on!"

When Xi Hai heard White Shark's explanation,

he immediately called night lamp out in his mind.

"Didn't you say it was an unknown event?"

"Didn't you say there was no match in the database?"

night lamp remained silent, swiftly flipping through the network again.

Strange,

There's nothing?

So it retorted:

"There is no trace of it online,"

"not even related deleted data."

"???

Hearing night lamp's answer, Xi Hai raised an eyebrow in surprise.

Are you kidding me?

Forget it, don't argue with an AI,

or you'll drop to the same level as a bot.

He refocused his attention on White Shark.

It seemed this History Student knew quite a lot.

"You sound very familiar with this?"

Xi Hai probed White Shark.

"Oh, oh,"

"Not exactly familiar,"

"I heard about it before,"

"that person read the secret archives in the United University database."

"It's just that something from the Void ran out,"

White Shark felt lucky when facing Xi Hai's question:

He happened to mention it when chatting with Baili Ying earlier.

"Then do you know the consequences of those Void Seepage events?"

White Shark nodded.

"I've heard of them,"

"The first two occurred during the golden age, a long time ago,"

"but they were suppressed in the end;"

"The most recent one was in the fourth era,"

"Because it wasn't handled promptly,"

"the impact of that Void Seepage was magnified a hundredfold,"

"directly accelerating the downfall of the Second Empire."

"However, under the counterattack of the Imperial Guard Fleet,"

"that void was still suppressed."

Watching Xi Hai's expression gradually turn grim,

White Shark suddenly had a bad feeling.

He tentatively asked:

"Chairman,"

"Is your recording from the one in the fourth era?"

"Uh,"

Xi Hai hesitated before saying,

"No, this is the one from the Sixth Epoch,"

"To be precise, it happened today,"

"right here in Ursa Major V12.22."

"?????"

"Holy shit!"

White Shark first showed a face full of question marks, then let out a sharp cry.

What had he just heard?

He had almost stumbled into a catastrophe that had only been recorded three times in history!

Thank goodness he happened to be out... Damn it!

Wait!

A certain pink hair was still back there!

Without any hesitation, White Shark suddenly stood at attention,

bowing deeply to Xi Hai, looking as if he were about to face death.

Xi Hai was startled and asked,

"What are you going to do?"

"I apologize, Chairman!

I need to return to Ursa Major V12.22!"

...I lost dozens of reminder clicks. Is it because school started?