"Our regular investigators have looked into Hu Yi’s social circle and places where he had lived previously; there were no clues at all, like he vanished into thin air."
Chen Ming nodded, not insisting on finding anything specific.
"Then let’s wait. If he made a move once and couldn’t take out, there’ll surely be a second ti."
The ti quickly turned to noon the next day.
After concluding the morning’s lessons, Bai Quan helped Chen Ming calibrate the equipnt and then left the do.
About half an hour later, Chen Ming received Bai Quan’s signal and activated the holographic projection device.
His projection appeared imdiately in a conference room.
Bai Quan himself was at the head of the table in the conference room.
In the conference room, there were about twenty people, most of whom were holographic projections; none of them held ranks lower than Colonel.
It seems that because the impending war between the Empire and the chanical Race is still in its early stages, the high-ranking individuals who could participate in the eting are still spread across the Empire.
This probably indicates that the Empire won’t make any significant moves for now; otherwise, the military personnel who could attend would have to gather here.
At the sa ti, this also ans Chen Ming’s ideas are far from being realized.
Opportunities in small-scale confrontations are very limited.
Chen Ming’s thoughts only erged within his mind, unknown to anyone else.
However, his projection in the conference room was visible to everyone there.
Bai Quan specifically gestured to Chen Ming, stating: "Before we start the eting, let say one thing. Chen Ming has an irreplaceable role in the upcoming war against the chanical Race, so he will be joining our etings henceforth; let’s avoid any unpleasantness."
No one spoke in the conference room, and no one was expected to speak.
Bai Quan, seeing this, proceeded to start the eting normally.
Soon, a three-dinsional star map projection appeared in the center of the conference table.
Chen Ming imdiately recognized it as the Gallo Star Realm and two other star realms nearby bordering the chanical Race and Dusk.
The areas belonging to the Empire were marked in a friendly green, Dusk’s area marked with a deep blue, while the chanical Race’s area was marked in gray-white.
The deep blue area was not the primary focus of the eting, so the projection mostly centered on the chanical Race’s gray-white area.
A large part of the edges of these gray-white areas were tinged with green.
Chen Ming could directly access the data from these areas using his terminal.
If it were before, Chen Ming might not have been able to understand it.
However, after a few days of intensive study, he could comprehend all the data on the terminals at a glance and understand the aning behind each data string.
In addition to natural data like star systems, planetary data, and navigation coordinates.
The terminal also highlighted details such as the number of chanical Race colonies, approximate number of stationed troops, composition ratio of stationed ships, distance to the nearest colony, among other detailed data.
These seed to be the results of the Empire’s initial investigation of the chanical Race at the onset of the war.
All those areas with gray-white tinged with green were zones where the Empire had so knowledge of the chanical Race.
Chen Ming quickly scanned through and realized that the majority of the chanical Race’s fleet wasn’t concentrated in the star systems bordering the Empire, while the opposite side was almost undefended, with forces scarce.
Of course, this might also be due to the Phase Giant Beast.
Regardless of the reason, Chen Ming felt the Empire might soon make a move in this direction.
While Chen Ming was contemplating, Bai Quan had already begun speaking: "Last month, our ships suffered the loss of six destroyers and seventy-two guards."
"We had a personnel loss of five hundred and thirty-two people, including those missing and deceased."
"The chanical Race is strengthening its border defenses, they’ve sensed so of our actions but can’t pinpoint them yet."
"However, we can confirm the chanical Race has deployed scout units to our borders; their numbers are yet to be investigated."
"We have responded by feigning just having discovered the chanical Race’s enhanced border managent."
A Vice Admiral’s holographic projection responded imdiately after Bai Quan finished speaking: "Hold off on investigating the chanical Race’s border areas, our preliminary reconnaissance of the star systems has been confird, there’s no need to continue, we should devote more to investigating the deeper regions of the chanical Race’s territory."
Bai Quan imdiately operated his terminal and said: "Currently, we have reconnaissance fleets coming from multiple directions via the Dusk Star Realm, about to reach the rear areas under the chanical Race’s control."
As Bai Quan spoke, several green lines appeared on the star map projection, originating from the Fourteenth Legion base and surrounding military outposts.
In three-dinsional space, they skirted the borders of the chanical Race, targeting areas near the star systems where the Phase Giant Beast was previously sighted.
"Fleet conducting detection missions cannot use high-power communication devices, signal feedback will take so ti, expected to receive updates in three days."
From this sentence onward, Chen Ming couldn’t quite follow the discussion.
Various military internal technical jargon seed to discuss fleet numbers, their specific reconnaissance task requirents, and procedures in case of unforeseeable events, among other things.
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