Three possibilities

This tactic of the other side is indeed very poisonous. It was not so much the tactic itself, but what it represented.

If the other side used all-weather detection to find Hawke no matter what the cost, Hawke would not really be able to escape his opponent's search. But at that point, it would be a hard-fought situation, and it would be hard to say who would win.

Although the other side is almost a decade ahead of Hawke's technology, Hawke's excellent and precise control of his fleet could make up for that difference. In a hard-fought situation like that, the best chance is that both sides will lose, with the loser being wiped out and the victor winning.

But now, the other side did not choose to find themselves out, but chose to hide.

That meant that the other side was deliberately stalling for time, they intended to, relying on their advantage of having the whole planet as their rear, to drag Hawk down. Until Hawk could not support himself and jumped out to seek a duel, by then, they would have taken the initiative.

Of course, Hawke also has a way to break this stalemate, and that is ... to find the other side out. However, this solution is really too difficult to achieve.

If Hawke could find the other side out in advance, then he would regain the initiative, if he couldn't, he would be slowly dragged down by the other side, and in the end, he would probably be completely wiped out by the other side.

The powerful radiation interference lasted for three days, and it was only after three days that the burst of interference slowly diminished and eventually disappeared.

Looking at the restored clarity of space, Hawke began to think about how to find a planet that was fully concealing itself and not emitting any wavelengths of radiation, in the absence of visible light.

"The fact that they chose to hide rather than find me out means that they don't have a sure victory over me either." Hawk let out a sigh. This action of the outer planets once again proved their scruples against Hawk.

"I must find them out, otherwise, there is a high chance that I will die." Hawk thought silently, "How can I die just like that after leaving the solar system and travelling thousands of years to get here?"

"They must be found, they must be found ..." Hawke muttered, increasing the usage of the central computer to ninety percent and calculating various methods with all his might.

One way came to Hawke's mind.

"Perhaps, this is a way to try." Hawke thought, and manipulated the high precision telescope, and began to scan all the visible stars in the entire celestial domain, for any that had suddenly disappeared, or whose luminosity had weakened.

The solution was simple: look for any stars that had disappeared from Hawke's view or lost their luminosity because they had been obscured by the alien planet. Hawke could then deduce the location and distance of the alien planet by projecting the degree of luminosity reduction.

But a month passed, and Hawke had no luck.

"Can't observe any stars disappearing or waning in luminosity? Then there are only three possibilities ..."

"The first possibility, they used some kind of camouflage means to disguise the light of stars with normal luminosity, and then they were observed by me. This is unlikely, such a tactic, would require too much technology."

"The second possibility is that they have planets that do not obscure any of the stars recorded in my Swarm Vault Book, stars that are not recorded in the Swarm Vault Book, even if they were obscured I would not know. But this is not very likely either, my Swarm Vault Record, as of now, has included over 300 million stars, and with so many stars, the possibility that none of them are obscured, is not very likely."

"The third possibility, they are too far away from me ... if the distance is more than thirty million kilometres from me, at such a precision, my telescope can observe more than one trillion stars, most of so many stars I have not recorded yet."

"The third possibility, the most likely." Hawke concluded, and then had to give up trying to find them out by this method.

Time, little by little, passed slowly, and gradually, a month passed, two months passed, six months passed.

Both sides remained silent, neither daring to take the initiative to venture out.

Hawke did not know exactly what the other side was doing. Anyway, within this period of time, Hawke had been searching for a way to find out the other side. But for half a year, there was basically no progress.

In those six months, Hawke had experienced tens of thousands of failures at least.

Hawke had tried to find them through gravitational acceleration and detection of infrared radiation, but perhaps because of the distance, the gravitational acceleration exerted by the star on Hawke's fleet was too weak, and the infrared radiation was almost undetectable, so Hawke gave up this solution.

Once again, Hawke was certain of the distance between the other side and himself, at least thirty million kilometres away.

"Or ... I can choose to escape? At such a distance, even if their interstellar missiles reached a speed of three thousand kilometres per second, it would take more than three hours to hit me, whether to intercept or dodge, I could do it, and the high-powered laser cannon would hardly be effective at such a distance."

Hawke slowly pondered, and after a while of thinking, Hawke had to resist the urge to abandon his plans to escape.

"The best place for a wandering planet to go is to find a stable star and enter its orbit. Judging from the overlap between their orbits and mine, their target, most likely, is also Sky Court IV ah. I am unlikely to change my destination, their planet is probably unlikely to change its destination either, and how can a star system hold two civilisations, the two of us, are destined to survive only one ah."

Hawke sighed as he continued to begin formulating a plan to find the other side and destroy them.

After another failure, Hawke steeled himself and put his latest one into the feasibility testing program, and after only half a second, the results came back.

After passing 37,000 obstacles, the plan, was decimated by the 37,000th obstacle.

This meant that the plan, still did not work.

"No, there must be a way, there must be a way, I am the most outstanding one among seven billion human beings, how can I lose, I must not lose!"

Hawke secretly cheered himself up in his heart, however, after the next plan was still shot, Hawke's heart, gradually emerged a little bit of self-destructive thoughts.

"Damn it, if I can't, I'll jump out first and have a fight! I don't believe I can't beat them!" Hawke's mind was fierce, impulse and strong reason clashing with each other, Hawke gritted his teeth, never able to quiet his mind.

Hawke remembered the program he had programmed when he first left the solar system. After a quick search, Hawke rummaged through a corner of the vast memory and pulled that program out.

After running it, a three-dimensional projector projected a figure in the middle of the ship.

The girl, it was Ellie. She just stood there quietly like that, looking at Hawke with a smile on her face. Her eyes were gentle and calm, as if an invisible warmth was emanating from her body, slowly soothing Hawke's increasingly agitated mind.

Hawke remembered something Ellie had said to him back on Earth.

It was when Hawke had just led a team of researchers to solve a technical problem that was thought to be impossible to solve, and Ellie's big eyes were curved into crescents as she wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand and said softly and shyly, "You're amazing. I knew that you would have a solution."

At that time, Ellie's face was slightly flushed, and she was wearing a white cap, looking at Hawk with adoration.

"I knew it, you would have found a way."

Looking at the virtual Ellie in front of him, Hawke was caught up in the memory.

Trembling, Hawke compiled a short program and after running it, the virtual image of Ellie in front of him, once again, uttered the words.

"I knew it, you'd find a way."

"Yeah, I'll find a way." Hawke muttered, his tempestuous mind, gradually calming down. Hawke then kept the 3D stereo projector illuminated and, under Ellie's watchful eye, dove back into the sea of data and began to calculate a possible plan and then, test the feasibility of that one.

Another month had passed, and there was still no movement in the silence and darkness of space. It seemed that the alien civilisation had not yet found a way to find Hawk.

But today, Hawke suddenly noticed an unusual fluctuation.

Through the faint reflection of starlight, the high-precision optical telescope on Hawke's ship stumbled upon an object of several cubic metres in volume, floating aimlessly in space.

The object had a regular rectangular appearance and, on one side, several signal-transmitter-like objects sticking out.

Hawke's mood immediately tensed up.

"Could it be ... could it be ... I see, it really isn't that simple, it must be, at the time of the signal jamming, while they were stealthy, they put out a whole bunch of detectors out, roaming aimlessly through space of random probing, if they find my trail, this instrument will make a space broadcast ... then they will receive the signal ... in this way, avoiding their own location exposed, but also to find out my location ..."

The more Hawke thought about it, the more alarmed he became.

"Fortunately, I was the one who found this thing ahead of time, and not have it find me ahead of time." Hawk began to rejoice. If this instrument had carried out a space broadcast, Hawke would definitely have been able to receive the signal as well. Since this instrument did not broadcast in space, it meant that it had not discovered Hawke yet for the time being.

Huo Ke immediately had a plan in mind to destroy it