Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 523

Ark One has left Jupiter for 12 hours.

According to the itinerary and the contact with the Federal Deep Space Network Control Center, Ark 5000 should be on the route to Titan at this time, about [-] million kilometers away from Jupiter.

Zhong Cheng ordered Sun Lin to inform Ark [-] to return to Jupiter, and Deng Jinhai contacted the Deep Space Network Control Center to determine the location of Ark [-].

And ordered Meng Ye to immediately dispatch the Federal Army's First Space Fleet cruising in the outer orbit of Jupiter to set off to chase Ark One.

If Ark One refuses to execute the return order, it will be destroyed.

The first space fleet of the Federal Army is equipped with the latest generation of space warships of the Federation. The overall speed of the fleet can reach more than 3000 kilometers per second.

Zhong Cheng asked Dongfang Bubai to contact Michael and asked him to come to the coalition command center in person.

Zhong Cheng still had his last hope, hoping that Michael was just confused and deceived for a while, or maybe it was just a false alarm, and there was nothing wrong with Ark One.

And he confessed to Shi Hanxing that he personally asked the officers and soldiers who inspected Ark [-] at that time to understand the details of the inspection.

After issuing a series of orders, Zhong Cheng did not relax at all, he already had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, Dongfang Bubai replied that he could not contact Michael.

Ying Zongliang, the deputy commander in chief of the Allied Forces in the Callisto theater, reported that early this morning, Michael took all the senior Forgotten generals of the theater command to the space battleship manufacturing base.

Moreover, Ying Zongliang reflected that Michael's troop mobilization in the past few days was a bit abnormal. He transferred most of the 300 million human troops in the Allied Forces of Callisto to the deepest parts of various underground cities for search and rescue work.

And the sixteen king worms and thousands of female worms in the Zerg, together with the 16 Forsaken army, were transferred to the city of Atlantis where the space battleship manufacturing base was located.

Zhong Cheng no longer suspected that something was wrong with Michael. He immediately ordered the Seventh Space Fleet of the Federal Army in the airspace of Callisto to land in Atlantis City immediately to search for Michael.

Dongfang Bubai was extremely ashamed, and he expressed his willingness to personally lead troops to capture Michael and other traitors of the Forsaken.

Zhong Cheng did not agree, he believed that Michael and others were [-]% no longer on Callisto, and should be on Ark One now.

Immediately following Sun Lin's reply, he called Ark One many times, but the other party did not respond, which was expected by Zhong Cheng.

Not surprisingly, Deng later reported that the Federal Deep Space Network Control Center had lost track of Ark One.

An hour later, Shi Hanxing brought the results of the investigation and solved the biggest mystery.

The Union Army inspecting Ark One didn't really do a full inspection of all of Ark One's cabins.

According to the captain of the Federal Army who was in charge of the inspection, he led more than 100 officers and soldiers aboard the Ark One on a space frigate.

He checked the release order and contacted Michael who signed the order as required to confirm.

But while inspecting the cabin, one of his soldiers clashed with Forsaken soldiers on board, causing confusion.

He thought that this must be Michael's subordinate, so he didn't wonder why there were Forsaken troops on civilian spaceships.

According to the unwritten regulations of the coalition forces for more than a year, the human army must not conflict with the Forsaken army, and even if there is a conflict, it is best to tolerate the other party.

He stopped the conflict between the two sides, and under the coordination of the Forsaken officer on board, he hastily ended the inspection with a calm attitude and led the team away from Ark One.

When filling in the records afterwards, in order not to be held accountable by his superiors, he concealed this fact and lied that he had conducted a comprehensive inspection of the spacecraft.

The captain recalled during the investigation that they actually only inspected thirteen cabins, which was less than one percent of the total number of cabins on Ark [-], which was no different from direct release.

Everyone understood that Sargeras must have been hiding on Ark One, and slipped away under the eyes of the coalition forces.

The net of heaven and earth laid by the coalition forces on Jupiter was still in vain in the end!
Hearing this, Meng Ye became furious. He didn't expect his soldiers to cause such a disaster. He said that he must shoot the captain!

Zhong Cheng stopped him. The captain was at fault, but the main problem was Michael, which was also the negligence of the high-level coalition forces.

If the captain insists on a thorough inspection, the fate of their team of officers and soldiers will definitely be wiped out, and Sargeras has Michael as a mole, so he must have a follow-up plan, and he will also escape.

He said it would be better to find a way to capture or destroy Ark One than to take his anger out on a junior officer.

Now that it is confirmed that Sargeras and his gang are on the Ark One, it is not safe to rely only on the First Space Fleet.

Meng Ye immediately ordered the other five space fleets in the outer orbit of Jupiter to set off immediately, advance separately, and outflank Ark [-].

And ordered the 18th space fleet of Saturn to deploy reconnaissance satellites in the longitudinal section of Saturn's orbit, focusing on the direction of Ark [-] flying to the Kuiper belt, striving to capture the trace of Ark [-].

August 9 at noon.

The high-level commanders of the coalition forces waited anxiously for the whole night and one morning, and finally waited for the news of Ark One.

A basalt spacecraft returning to Earth from Saturn captures the whereabouts of Ark One.

Upon receipt of an order from the top of the Federal Army, all spacecraft sailing in the outer space of the solar system must activate all reconnaissance equipment to search for spaceships passing through the airspace in all directions.

Half an hour ago, the spacecraft spotted a huge spacecraft traveling at high speed 100 million kilometers away.

Because of the unusual size of the spaceship, the captain immediately became alert and reported the situation to the Federal Deep Space Network Control Center.

Confirmed by the intelligence department of the Federal Army, this is Ark One!
But the discovered location and the observed flight data shocked the high-level coalition forces!
At this time, Ark 4 was already more than [-] million kilometers away from Jupiter, and was crossing the orbit of Saturn and flying to the Kuiper belt.

This is more than 4 days earlier than the expected arrival time, so it is conservatively estimated that the speed of Ark 1 has reached more than [-] kilometers per second at this time.

This speed is twice as fast as the fastest space vehicle of the Federation. How could the space fleet of the Federation Army catch up?
Zhong Changcheng sighed, and had to accept the fact that Sargeras took the remnants of the demons to hostage the former high-level empire, and cooperating with the rebellious part of the Forsaken army and the Zerg, had successfully escaped the pursuit of the coalition forces.

He asked Meng Ye to recall the pursuing federal space fleet.

Judging from the sailing direction of Ark [-], Ark [-] is flying directly outside the solar system, and it is meaningless for the federal space fleet to pursue it any further.

The most perplexing thing for the high-level coalition forces is how Michael, the Forsaken, and the twelve-headed king worms are all filthy with the demons.

Because Dongfang Bubai said frankly that their Forsaken, including the King Worm controlled by the Forsaken, are naturally immune to mental attacks because they are artificial intelligence life forms.

Moreover, he has always avoided facing the Xel'Naga demons directly, and only appears in the rear of the battlefield as the commander of the battlefield, and is closely protected by the Zerg army.

Therefore, it is impossible for Sargeras to make Michael and others obey its orders through mind control or force coercion.

(End of this chapter)