Chapter 644 Requiem
The Atlas fleet rearguard warships under Amber's command maintained a set distance and continued to consume non-lethal tactical missiles in the warships' ammunition depot.
Groups of 'shielding layers' formed by interference chaff clouds, interference smoke, and nuclear explosions continued to unfold along the route of the Federation Navy.
Since the Atlas fleet began to implement "tactical concealment", the federal fleet has no longer been able to obtain the fleet's specific movements and operations. Marshal Trafalgar can only let the fleet follow and then constantly try to close the distance.
After thinking about it for a while, the marshal was no longer as worried as before. After all, the Atlas fleet and Mr. Amber were already 'trapped' here.
Based on the opponent's series of actions from the beginning to the present, Marshal Trafalgar judged that this fleet should still attack the proton annihilation bomb assembly center, so his fleet could just follow it without worrying about losing it.
After the opponent encountered the 'surprise' he left in the assembly center, the three fleets chasing him quickly pressed forward and launched an attack. Marshal Trafalgar believed that even the Atlas fleet commanded by Amber could not stop it. Use this combo
"I have to say that the Atlas fleet's material reserves are still sufficient."
Seeing the 'shielding layer' unfolding again, as well as the continuous light curtains produced by a large number of nuclear explosions, coupled with the messy pictures on the main screen of the bridge, Admiral Carroll's tone became a little helpless. stand up.
"This is not surprising." Marshal Trafalgar said, "After all, the opponent's current size has reached the level of a global giant, and it originally started by selling ores and arms. It is normal for it to have sufficient reserves of tactical supplies."< br>
Admiral Carroll: "But the nuclear bomb"
"Think about the relationship between the Renaissance Alliance and Atlas?"
Marshal Trafalgar asked rhetorically: "In the former's control area, there are many nuclear weapons assembly plants and raw material production workshops. These facilities are enough for them to supply the Atlas Group's current fleet."
"Then should we just watch? Although the speed difference between us and the opponent has dropped now, we still won't be able to catch up for a while. And you can see from the star map that we will be approaching the assembly center soon."
Admiral Carroll pointed to a highlighted location deep in the 'Pillar of All Beings' on the tactical star map, where the proton annihilation bomb assembly center is located.
"I know, so the answer will be revealed soon"
Marshal Trafalgar's tone became calmer. After thinking for a moment, he continued to say to Carroll:
"Send a signal to the Requiem and fire as soon as the Atlas fleet comes into attack range!"
"Yes, Marshal!"
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Fleet chases in space are the most boring of all combat types, both for the pursuing party and the pursued party.
Especially now that jump signature code 'deciphers' are becoming more and more popular, even if the party being pursued forces a jump, the pursuing party can input the jump signature code generated by the opponent's jump into its own jump engine, and then continue. Catch up
Therefore, unless one party is unable to fly and takes the initiative to engage in battle, this kind of pursuit that does not know when it will end will be a boring farce with no end in sight for both parties.
However, for the two pursuing parties inside the 'Pillar of All Living Beings', this chase will not be so boring for a while, because both the Atlas fleet and the Federation Navy fleet have their own little thoughts. '.
Marshal Trafalgar was thinking about relying on his advance arrangements in the assembly center and cooperating with the three fleets to form two cheesecakes, thereby annihilating Amber, the number one enemy, in one fell swoop.
And all Amber's mind was thinking was, 'Team Poseidon, use thermal resistance to cut off our logistics.' She would also hum in a low voice from time to time - this was not the first time she had done this.
Many crew members who have been on the same bridge as Amber have heard the boss occasionally whisper something they don't understand during the battle.
For example, ‘The battle damage ratio doesn’t look good. It’s normal, normal, normal.’
Or 'This is how I direct, I only know how to direct, and Atlas's style is just like this~'
Everyone, including Isabel, was a little confused about these 'mysterious whispers', and in the end they could only guess that they were some kind of 'ancient war song' used to boost morale.
Just when Amber was sitting on the captain's seat muttering something to himself, Ramos came to him and said:
"Boss, the 'Poseidon' detachment has escaped from the range of tactical cover and is rapidly approaching the β area in stealth mode. Judging from the current movements of the enemy fleet, the opponent should not have noticed our movements yet."
"They're almost 40,000 kilometers apart, and they're all small ships. It's a big deal if they can be discovered by the other side." Amber waved his hand. He wasn't too worried about the battle of the 'Poseidon' unit.
"But looking at your expression, you are worried."
Amber nodded: "I always feel that the situation at the assembly center may not be as simple as we expected."
Ramos: "Boss, are you worried about fraud?" "I hope it's just me worrying too much. Although judging from the current situation of the Federation, there shouldn't be that much spare time to make arrangements, but we still need to prepare the fleet to deal with emergencies. Get ready.”
As it turns out, Amber wasn't overly concerned.
When the fleet continued to sail at high speed for nearly two hours, and each ship had just completed the maintenance of the fusion furnace, reconnected the energy circuit of the main propulsion array to the furnace, and began to seize the time to charge the drained superconducting battery stack, a shrill alarm buzzed. The warnings of the shipboard control personality sounded on all ships at the same time.
"Warning, an unknown energy reaction has been detected in the target area, and the intensity has increased sharply!"
As if she had been electrocuted, Amber suddenly shot up from the command chair, her eyes as wide as bells, staring at the main screen.
At this moment, he had no time to give himself a slap in the face for his "open crow's mouth". Amber, who had already thought about what might have happened, panicked and the shipboard control personality of the Eternal ordered:
"Cerris! Maximum computing power allocation, predicting the ray axis of high-energy weapons! Emergency authorization to execute fleet override control, and the fleet to disperse urgently in all directions!"
The next second, an extremely strange light quietly appeared in the endless darkness in the distance.
At first, it was just a halo that was as weak as the first ray of light before dawn, but it contained an energy fluctuation that could make people's heartbeats instantly disordered. But in an instant, the light seemed to be injected with violent vitality. Rapid expansion.
At the same time, Ceres quickly completed the evasion operation settings for the entire fleet after getting all the control personalities in the fleet to enter the supercomputing mode.
The shipboard control personality on each battleship also immediately began to override control. The originally strict fleet assault formation was like an exploding swarm. With the emergency activation of vector nozzles throughout the ship, it spread out in different directions at full speed.
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Immediately afterwards, a beam of light as thick as the diameter of a large asteroid surged out from the source of the light, carrying the momentum of destroying the world.
Wherever it passed, the cosmic dust inside the 'Pillar of All Beings' was like snowflakes encountering the scorching sun, instantly vaporizing and disappearing, and the originally stable space seemed to be torn apart by a pair of invisible giant hands.
The beam of light rushed towards the fleet's original location like a world-destroying lightning at a speed that exceeded the limit of thinking.
The asteroid belt along the way, under the impact of this energy that was like the wrath of a god, was as fragile as paper and could be easily penetrated.
The huge rocks were blown to pieces in an instant, turning into countless meteors, dragging long tail flames and flying wildly in all directions, like a desperate tragedy played by the universe.
Because Amber roared fast enough, Ceres and other shipboard control personalities intervened early enough, and the entire fleet dispersed barely in time.
But in the area swept by the huge beam, there are still more than 20 capital ships and more small warships that will not be able to completely evacuate in the future.
The adaptive deflection force field was activated at the moment of the attack, trying to resist the coming disaster. However, this most commonly used shield for human warships could not play any defensive role against the beam sweeping at this moment.
When this beam of light with a world-destroying aura hit the deflection force field hard, it couldn't even hold on for a short moment. The entire force field shattered and disintegrated like a fragile soap bubble.
A heavy cruiser that bore the brunt was instantly engulfed by the beam. The hard metal hull was twisted and deformed under the super-strong energy, and the cabin was broken. The crew inside didn't even have time to scream, before they were turned into powder by the high temperature and ultra-high pressure.
Immediately afterwards, the beam swept across, and the warships that had no time to escape the range of the ray axis were swallowed up in an instant. Even the warships that rushed to the edge of the beam were still distorted by the high temperature and were distorted out of shape.
"The attack is over. The attack characteristics are identified"
As the beam of light went out, Ceres's cold and emotionless voice also sounded.
"Characteristics: high-intensity light - the luminosity and heat of a supernova explosion; induced electric field - extremely strong; luminosity level - first-class bright star; duration - 0.25 seconds to 3 seconds."
"Source and affiliation: Federal Navy facility under construction - 'Quiem' nuclear explosion-induced gamma ray emitter"
"Threat Level: Purple High Risk"
"Defense: None"
(End of chapter)