Earth Orbit.
The Sea Wolf's main gun muzzle slowly opened and silently fired a high-speed projectile weighing just 1,000 grams. Then it slowly adjusted its orientation again, rotating roughly 120 degrees before firing a second one!
Accelerated by the main gun, the two small Mechanical Insect projectiles flew toward the two Lagrange points, L4 and L5, respectively, at an initial velocity of 2,000 kilometers per second.
Because the two points were moving in their orbits, the projectiles were expected to reach their respective targets one after the other in about ten hours.
Whether or not alien probes really existed there, Nie Yun was being exceptionally cautious this time.
To remain as inconspicuous as possible, he had not used thrusters to accelerate the two projectiles. Any unusual changes in speed or trajectory would increase the risk of detection.
He had also disguised their exteriors. From the outside, each looked like a tiny, drab gray asteroid covered in pits.
At the same time, Nie Yun deployed all his observation equipment, including the Sea Wolf and the Hawkeye Scouts and Space Spies gradually spreading throughout the Solar System, to conduct comprehensive long-range surveillance of the two Lagrange points, L4 and L5.
As expected, none of the detection methods-optical, thermal imaging, radio, or otherwise-revealed anything unusual.
Nie Yun was not disappointed. If it really were that easy, he would have been disappointed in the "B-Star People" instead. Besides, he had never intended to find this little mouse through conventional means.
"Let's see whether this net can actually catch anything interesting!" Nie Yun murmured as he watched the two little dots receding on the light screen.
"Look! What's that?!"
The startled cry over the comms made Smith, who had been concentrating on operating the mining equipment, look up at the distant sky. A red