31 An Uncertain Future (1/2)
After removing the corpses within the [Devil Tigers], Tian Xing Jian entered into one of the Battle Mechas of the Myth Legion’s small team. Very soon, he discovered the communication signal machine somewhere on the control platform. This was meant to coordinate with the battle Sky Network System specially installed within it. Its purpose was to continuously send signals to the Sky Network System, reporting their current location before acknowledging their safety. Usually, after Battle Mechas left their base of operation, they would activate this system. Whenever they encountered danger or went missing, the Sky Network System would be able to record their last seen location and dispatch reinforcements to help them.
Other than affirming their safety, the Signal Emitting System was able to guide missiles operated by the Sky Network System through the usage of a laser. Once the Battle Mecha discovered their target objective and have used the laser to lock down the position of the target, the Sky Network System would calculate based on this target before inputting the accurate location into the guided system installed within the missile. This sort of laser-guided missile launching system could be fired from well over 100,000 kilometers away. If there was no air interference or signal interference, the missile would be able to accurately hit its target.
During large-scale wars, once all the Battle Mechas have sent a signal to the Sky Network System, the system would be able to use information provided by the Battle Mechas about their current situation, the enemy’s military power, moving direction, their own losses, and the enemy troop deployment to calculate the final outcome of the battle. This outcome would be quite close to what had happened in reality. Most of the time, it could give the command department precious information and data to be used as reference before deciding the deployment and deduction of the battle.
Nevertheless, the computer system was programmed according to a certain algorithm, and there would usually be situations where the systems were misled. Currently, Tian Xing Jian was prepared to mislead Gyaca Woods Empire’s Sky Network System.
Since this small Battle Mecha team had already reached their position, the Sky Network System would be able to declare that this team had gone MIA within tens of minutes after having switched off the signal emitting machine, causing even more soldiers to come and pursue them.
How far could a team of soldiers who depended on their legs move in just tens of minutes? Even he could answer it using his butt. Thus, Tian Xing Jian decided to simply take action — he would retrieve the Signal Emitting System and deceive the Sky Network System while using it to obtain some benefits at the same time. This way, if the deceit worked, the location where this small team was at would be determined to be a search location. The Sky Network would absolutely not send another search team into this region again. Only when it was done manually would more teams be dispatched to their location, yet without receiving a more detailed report from this small team or more intelligence regarding this location, who would even give such orders to send more people here?
Originally, the greatest problem Tian Xing Jian had was how to deceive the Sky Network.
As the signal transmittance could possibly be cut due to geomagnetism, obstruction due to being in the mountainous region, or even as a result of malfunctioning system, the Sky Network System would treat the signals received from the team as one single group. For a small team of ten Battle Mechas, the time between their signals could not exceed one hour. If they exceeded that time period, the Sky Network would immediately report to the command department before using other means to contact and ask this team what had happened. If communication failed three consecutive times over a 15 minute time period, another team would be sent out.
As for the other circumstance where a search team would be dispatched to this location, it would only happen when the overall signal transmittance rate from this small team went below 60 percent. That was classified as an unnatural signal, and the Sky Network System would increase the alertness level of this region to red, reporting upwards to the command department before allowing them to continue their investigation of what happened over here.
Whatever the case, it would spell doom for this group of escapees.
As long as there was a single Signal Emitting System intact, Tian Xing Jian had the confidence to modify it and turn it into several repeaters that would mimic ten different signals which would be used to deceive the Sky Network.
Right now, within the six Battle Mechas that were fortunately intact, only five of them had a working Signal Emitting System. Tian Xing Jian was originally worried that breaking down the signal into ten different pieces would be deemed as abnormal by the Sky Network System. But now, it was all fine and dandy since he only had to modify the five intact Signal Emitting System slightly, changing each one of them into two separate sections by simply modifying the characteristics of the signals before overlapping them. That way, the Sky Network System would absolutely not be able to discover anything amiss here.
Tian Xing Jian dismantled the various signal emitting machine as fast as he could before gathering the parts together. He then searched for the circuit and electronic parts before peeling off the signal component. Ten minutes later, there were five signal emitting machine packaged in its original shape, giving off a green light which represented that “they” were safe. After having installed the signal emitting machines onto the five [Devil Tigers], Tian Xing Jing gradually deactivated the [Antenna]’s electromagnetic interference so as to simulate the effect of strong geomagnetism interference. The signal emitting machine started reconnecting with the Sky Network System.
The following few minutes felt as if a few centuries had passed. Once the signal emitting machine started beeping with a green acknowledgement signal from the Sky Network, each and every one of the Federation soldiers started to jump with joy.
This vice company commander with the background of Battle Mecha engineer had brought them plenty of joy. Without him, solely depending on these special scouts would not allow them to reach this stage at all. They would only be able to depend on their mecha manoeuvrability and firepower to force their way out. Of course, the Federation prisoners-of-war who were walking on foot could only be sacrificed helplessly as a result.
The Federation Battle Mechas began carrying the few [Devil Tigers], the remaining parts, and the two Pioneers with damaged movement system before catching up to the team that had long advanced.
Half an hour later, in a canyon within the northern mountain ranges, the Federation Battle Mechas successfully regrouped with the deeply worried advance party. The moment they saw the few [Devil Tigers] being brought along, these special scouts were surrounded by those joyful people. This hard-earned victory represented a greater chance of survival after escaping the clutches of those pursuing soldiers. Furthermore, this victory represented a deep meaning for them towards any future battles.