Although Xiao Ran had decided to make things more secure even if he wasted some time, the development of the matter was not as easy as Xiao Ran thought, because at the end of the first day, apart from the necessary rest, the four MSs did not find a ship passing by at the farthest detectable distance, even the pilot rotation, 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 White Base is currently located is a broken satellite Debris Belt. The ruins left by this kind of war are not an auspicious place. Coupled with the complex environment and serious interference, ordinary civilian ships have no reason 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 White Base to set sail again and continue to approach the moon, leaving behind anyway. The Zeon Army battleship has achieved its goal in this wasted day, and it has also been decided to use Gundam to snatch the battleship for the first time, so it is inevitable to expose yourself, so there is no point in continuing to hide here, it will only be a waste of time.
Besides, this world is not like Gundam SEED World. The waste recycling industry is quite developed, and there are specialized trade unions that serve as the third force. Even if there are waste merchants in this world, this Debris Belt has been away from the war for a while after all. Even if you want to wait for someone who has the idea to pick up the waste, it is not an easy task.
Only about ten hours had passed since White Base set sail again, 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 White Base. After receiving the news, everyone on the White Base bridge suddenly cheered up. After notifying the MSs in the other three directions, they took the lead in rushing towards Alt.
After receiving the information from the bridge, Xiao Ran also hurried to the bridge. Different from the silence on everyone's faces when Debris Belt was a day ago, there was a relaxed look on everyone's faces at this time.
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. It is said 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, and there is no need to waste time on the second cargo ship."
Captain Jeffrey lowered his head and took a puff of 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, and we don't have to take another risk."
"Yeah." Xiao Ran nodded. Since the destination of the discovered ship may be the moon, as long as the ship is suppressed with force, the ship can be forced to accept those who are leaving in White Base, and some of their own people can be mixed in to go directly. Going to the moon, there is absolutely no need to snatch a ship back specifically for your trip to the moon. As long as you board the cargo ship, White Base can go back to the previous Debris Belt to hide in order to avoid being discovered.
And Xiao Ran only needs to know the specific location of Debris Belt. After going to the moon and completing what should be done, whether it is finding a ship to pick up people, or directly entering the moon under the cover of a certain force, there will probably be no problem.
Although Xiao Ran didn't say it explicitly, Captain Jeffrey's experience and Xiao Ran's half-said words were enough for Captain Jeffrey to understand what Xiao Ran was thinking.
"Given 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 El-Elf that personnel can be deleted. Let Zechs, Saki Maski, Glan Glan, and Luca come to the bridge immediately..."
Having said this, Xiao Ran also turned to look at Artesia who was still in the learning stage on the bridge, smiled slightly and said, "And Artesia, prepare to leave with us this time."
"Me?" Artesia was a little surprised that Xiao Ran suddenly called his name. Seeing Artesia's appearance, Xiao Ran just smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, this time we need to go to the moon to deal with some things. We also made an appointment with Char to meet on the moon. He also hopes that I can take you with him."
Artesia nodded quickly, his eyes full of surprise. "Are you meeting my brother? I understand. Thank you Mr. Alex."
"Yeah." Xiao Ran smiled and nodded lightly before saying anything. Since he decided to mix with the people to be cleared during this trip to the moon, he would definitely leave with these people on the suppressed cargo ship. Therefore, except for Xiao Ran himself, the rest of the people who went to the moon together had to be very careful in their selection.
El-Elf, who has already shown his face, is definitely not possible, and it is unreliable to arrange those Berserkers and Naluo's clan members. Naluo, like El-Elf, also showed his face and confirmed that he belongs to the "pirate" group, so he cannot mix in among the people who left.
As for Skull Squadron, Ozma is best left on the ship as a defensive force. Alt, Michel and Brera also need to stay on the ship for the same reason. So the only people Xiao Ran can take with him to the moon are those who have never There are Saki Maski who has appeared in the eyes of others except himself, Zechs who is basically independent from the crowd and has no strong sense of existence, Little Shota Luca who looks completely harmless, and Glan Glan 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 Saki Maski In addition, the rest of the people have all received formal military training. Even Saki Maski himself has the powerful physique of Third Generation Demon Envoy, so there is basically no need to think too much about abilities and safety as long as there are no MS battles.
Not long after, all the people who were named came to the bridge to gather. When Xiao Ran told them that they were going to take a few people to the moon, Glan Glan, who had nothing to do, obviously waved his hand with excitement, Luca Little Shota also had a rosy face and felt that he could finally be put to use. Saki Maski just smiled lightly at Xiao. Only Zechs 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 meet you when El-Elf starts cleaning up the people."
Zechs, Saki Maski and Artesia quickly left the bridge, while Xiao Ran stayed in the bridge and continued to talk with Captain Jeffrey about him. In fact, there wasn't much to say about the arrangements for leaving at the end. We just agreed on a rendezvous time with Captain Jeffrey. As for the rest, Captain Jeffrey knew what to do even if Xiao Ran didn't tell him.
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 White Base, so there is no need to worry too much about this aspect, but the current supplies on White Base are not enough to allow the entire crew to persist for more time, so Xiao Ran must come back with enough supplies at the time agreed upon with Captain Jeffrey.
Twenty minutes later, on the big screen on the bridge, four mobile suits began to surround the transport ship that had been targeted from four different directions. It was only then that Xiao Ran noticed the logo on the side of the transport ship, 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 Company, the most famous arms company in the UC century. The headquarters of Anaheim is in California, North America on Earth, but Brown City on the moon also has a very important cosmic branch of Anaheim in the universe.
This Anaheim Company not only provided Earth Federation with development projects and mass production of various mobile suits, battleships, and electronic machinery, but also blatantly manufactured Zaku for Zeon with the strong support of the Earth Federation Army. It directly monopolized the largest part of the military trade between the two parties. In the later period of One Year War, most of the capital was directly moved to the moon and became the ruler of the moon. It is extremely powerful in this world, but at this point in time, Anaheim Company is not at its most powerful.
Behind Anaheim Company, stands a family that controls the company, Bist Family. The founder of this family holds an important bargaining chip that is enough to overthrow the current top management of Earth Federation. This is also an important reason why Anaheim Company is able to provide weapons to both sides at the same time, and can also get the support of Earth Federation.
And all plans after Xiao Ran will be executed closely around the entire Anaheim Company and Bist Family. As for whether he can control Bist Family and ultimately affect Anaheim Company, and hold Box of Laplace in his hands, Xiao Ran has never doubted his ability.
For ordinary humans, even if it is a behemoth like Bist Family, in the case of non-military combat, there is no way to guard against participants who do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. No matter how careful there are many Defense Force, it is impossible to guard against Xiao Ran, who understands everything.
As for Main Mission 2, the force that was asked to join in that mission, Xiao Ran naturally set its target on Anaheim Company, a force that could have both sides and would not be used as cannon fodder.
So after Xiao Ran saw the sign on the ship, the corners of his mouth under the mask also turned up slightly. "It turns out to be Anaheim Company's ship."
Under normal circumstances, neither Earth Federation nor Zeon would have any difficulties facing Anaheim Company's transport ship, and would even take the initiative to protect Anaheim Company's transport ship in their respective areas. Over time, Anaheim Company's transport ship has 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. At this time, it is basically impossible for a pirate organization to use MS, so no pirates will have any idea about the Anaheim ship, which also leads to the Anaheim The transport ships of are rampant in the entire Earth Sphere. Even if there is only one ship and it is near the lunar circle, naturally they would not expect anyone to attack them, so a transport ship has no defense at all.
This resulted in four MSs easily suppressing the transport ship belonging to Anaheim. With the weapons of the four MSs pointing at it, the members of the transport ship did not dare to make any rash moves. Even if they wanted to send a message, it was in vain under the dense cover of Minovsky Particles.
When White Base slowly approached the transport ship, which was at least one size smaller, Alt 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 do not want to take action against you. There is a group of war refugees belonging to the SIDE7-1 satellite on our ship. The ship accepted this group of people due to special circumstances, so we hope that you can help receive these members and send them to a safe place."
"Now open the link channel between the two ships. You have no right to refuse, because if you refuse, we will suppress you with force. In the end, the ship will fall into our hands, but your lives will be sacrificed in vain. I don't want to attack innocent people, but if my commander orders me, I will still shoot."
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, and how can you ensure our safety after we meet your conditions."
Alt looked at the instructions that appeared on the screen and said directly, "Except for the Zaku that we captured, the three mobile suits and the battleship all have the official numbers of the Earth Federation Army. The identity information records of these war refugees also belong to Earth Federation SIDE7. You can check them."