Night Patrol

Medium-wave transmissions had excellent directionality. If a planar map were made of the signals transmitted by the 149th Division at this moment, it would clearly show that the transmission area formed a narrow fan shape. At the center of the fan was the nearby friendly 117th Division, while its far end happened to point toward the area covered by the Gador Empire Edge Vanguard Army on the map.

As expected, this information was intercepted by friendly forces, but the transmission did not stop because of that. Instead, it continued spreading farther outward.

Inside the Gador Empire Edge Vanguard Army's 62nd Intelligence Battalion, more than a hundred soldiers seated before Light Screens were busily analyzing signals.

When the signal reception equipment intercepted a transmission from the Federation, the soldiers began their routine codebreaking work.

The Federation's radio wave ciphers were frequently changed, and the intensity of encryption and decryption work escalated by the day. As long as the two sides remained locked in confrontation, this war in the virtual world would never cease.

After the intercepted information was fed into the cipher database, the equipment suddenly began issuing a series of beeping alarms.

The code had been cracked?

Staring in astonishment at the information displayed on the light screen, a soldier hurriedly pressed the direct communication key for his superior.

Moments later, a lieutenant colonel in the Gador Empire's teal military uniform rushed in. After reading the decrypted information, his expression shifted uncertainly.

Why had the Federation, which had already been using Generation Seven-and-a-Half ciphers to transmit information, suddenly switched back to Generation Seven ciphers?

How reliable was the information their side had accidentally intercepted?

What exactly was the Federation plotting? Were they truly preparing to use the Fire Hills Area as a point of entry, or were they trying