A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 309 Everything is going according to plan

Lu Shang looked bewildered at the soldier to his right and replied, "I didn't mean to hide anything, I just didn't understand what he was saying for a moment."

"I wrote the email myself and sent it to headquarters on my own initiative. Then he suddenly asked me who instructed me to send the email to headquarters. How was I supposed to answer him?"

As he said this, Lu Shang pretended to be a little nervous and asked, "And there's something I don't quite understand. Could you two explain it to me first?"

"What do you want us to explain?" the soldier on the left asked.

Seeing that the other party had taken the bait, Lu Shang immediately said, "Is there some kind of military-level confidentiality regulation regarding the coordinates of the headquarters' emails? I don't think so. I just casually mentioned it to the leaders of the Academy when I took them out for a meal."

The coordinates of the headquarters' emails were naturally not classified as military secrets, something Lu Shang had known all along.

But just as farmers might feel that the emperor carries a golden carrying pole and lives in a golden house, some information, while not exactly confidential, is at most confined to an upper-class circle.

The coordinates of the General Headquarters' emails were common knowledge among the upper echelons of the Prinkia civilization, but even lower- and middle-ranking families like the Fuwa family, who had ties to the military, had no opportunity to know the coordinates of the General Headquarters' emails.

This is why Lu Shang needs to enter the Academy.

If the swarm wanted to know the coordinates of the headquarters' emails, it would be too easy. Not to mention the coordinates of an email, even if the swarm destroyed all the evidence, it wouldn't matter if they wanted to know what shameful things those big shots had done.

However, it is quite troublesome to find out the coordinates of the headquarters' emails in a reasonable way. Entering the Academy is the most natural and fastest way.

A freshman at the academy, while having dinner with the academy's leaders, inadvertently learned the coordinates of the headquarters' email from them. In order to prove his abilities to the high-ranking military leaders, he sent an email—this is the basic structure of the swarm's arrangement.

The soldier on the right coughed lightly, "...The email coordinates of the headquarters, there really aren't any confidentiality regulations about them."

"But generally speaking, people who are not at a high enough level do not have access to this information."

Lu Shang feigned sudden realization and said, "Oh, I see."

The soldier on the left said, "Fuwahu, since you say that email was sent out of your own volition, shouldn't you explain its contents?"

Lu Shang turned his gaze to the soldier on his left, and asked with great curiosity, "Is there something wrong with the email I sent?"

The soldier on the left asked, "That email not only predicted the enemy fleet's deployment a week before the home planet's arrival, but also provided the best solution in advance. How could you, a freshman from an academy not on the front lines and without any information channels, know so much about the front lines? How could you have written something like that?"

Lu Shang had already thought of a reason for this problem when he first formulated the plan.

Lu Shang said seriously, "You're wrong about that. I have information channels, which is to report the situation on the front lines every now and then."

"On the interstellar battlefield, the current situation of our Prinkia is not too bad. It has not shown a one-sided crushing situation, so the general truthfulness of the report is not a problem. It's just that the content may be embellished, such as writing that a thousand enemies were killed as a hundred million enemies."

Lu Shang was not averse to this kind of interrogation-style questioning; in fact, he welcomed it. These statements were prepared in advance for the current situation.

The goal is naturally to enhance naturalness and reduce abruptness. By having people inside the Prinkia civilization ask questions, raise doubts, and eventually build trust, it is easy to deceive other intelligent beings who are spying on the Prinkia civilization.

Look, he asked such detailed questions, yet there's still no problem at all. It doesn't seem abrupt at all; everything is very natural. So what is there to doubt?

"You mean you understand what's happening on the front lines just from news reports?!"

The two Prink soldiers from the general command exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.

News reports from the front lines are naturally not detailed, and are often embellished by the official propaganda department. Yet this freshman from the academy has managed to analyze the situation of the interstellar battlefield based on such reports mixed with false information, and even predicted things that the headquarters couldn't even see.

This military talent cannot be described as genius; it should be called defying the heavens. It is unprecedented and unparalleled!

To analyze a wealth of useful information from limited and often misleading data, and to directly predict the course of the real interstellar battlefield without any prior verification, is an achievement approaching the level of prophecy.

In fact, Lu Shang couldn't do it either; this was just a way to find a plausible reason for the swarm's intelligence network.

How do you know what's happening on the front lines, and how are you so accurate in your predictions?

Of course, I learned that from your news reports.

"I only have a general understanding; I don't know the details. I don't have the channels to access that information," Lu Shang said.

The soldier on the left scoffed, "With just this information, how can you possibly predict in advance the new technologies the enemy fleet will employ in its operation to encircle the Nista Nebula?"

"New technology?" Lu Shang asked, puzzled.

Lu Shang's reaction naturally drew great dissatisfaction from the soldiers from the two headquarters.

"Fuwahu! Watch your attitude! Who do you think you can fool by playing dumb right now?"

If he wasn't lying before, then the fourth son of the Fuwa family's current reaction is undoubtedly a form of deception.

If he lied earlier, then it would be necessary to interrogate the fourth young master of the Fuwa family further.

Lu Shang knew all this, but he deliberately pretended not to know. His purpose was to make everything seem very natural. If he answered fluently, everything would seem too natural, as if he had prepared his answers in advance, which would be very strange.

Lu Shang shrugged and said, "But I really didn't understand. I wrote the email, and I still remember the content, but I only predicted a battlefield situation and a solution in the email. I didn't predict any new technologies, did I?"

The soldier on the left asked, "The email says that the enemy fleet will use faster-than-light technology to create an encirclement in the operation in the Nestan Nebula, trapping our fleet on the battlefield. Did you write that?"

"Yes, that's right." Lu Shang nodded.

Seeing Lu Shang so readily admit it, the soldier on his left slammed his hand on the table and asked, "Then why do you still say you didn't predict the new technology? Tell me! How did you know that the enemy fleet could construct a faster-than-light blockade network?"

(End of this chapter)