Chapter 149 Confrontation
On the all-round screen of the Zealot cockpit, another armed merchant ship marked with a red lock frame is urgently adjusting its axis to allow the bow of the ship to meet the enemy and exert its deflection force. The maximum effect of the field.
The direction Amber and the others chose to attack was the zenith of the operational base, so now the armed merchant ship must raise its bow 90° to allow the deflection field to exert its maximum effect.
In fact, Amber initially planned to attack directly from the Pirates' back half.
But the asteroids in that direction are too complex and dense, so the air mines deployed here may not be detonated during the Hermes attack.
It will also put HCP and assault boats at greater risk during the assault.
So Amber and the others finally chose the more secure direction of the Celestial Pole.
"Master, the heavy particle cannon has been deployed! It is ready to fire at any time!"
In Lilith's prompt tone, the multi-function display displayed the operation status of the weapon unit in the frame, which represented the heavy particle cannon. The particle cannon's icon changes to 'allowed to fire' green.
Amber launched the attack without hesitation. The turbulent stream of heavy metal particles directly hit the upper part of the bow of the armed merchant ship before it could adjust its axis.
The two GAX-A9 fanatics that Amber had packed away from the Imperial frigate were the same early models as the Block 10 fanatics that he had met on the surface of Robert IV.
The airborne foldable heavy particle cannon it is equipped with is powered by the subcritical reactor carried on the body.
So in terms of output power, naturally even the frigate cannot compare.
However, the initial velocity of the plasma metal jet it launched also reached 1,000 kilometers per second.
If you calculate it based on a standard projectile - a 5-gram bismuth metal - and then apply the classic formula, you will get a very outrageous kinetic energy number.
With this level of kinetic energy, if it were replaced by a destroyer or even a light cruiser with a higher level and thicker armor plate, it would only rely on the internal structure to break up the heavy metal ion jet to ensure that it would not be penetrated.
So when faced with heavy particle cannon fire, whether it is a battleship, HCP or heavy multi-legged tank, they will choose to use a deflection field to defend.
Instead of the structural resistance of the head iron.
Facing Amber's heavy particle cannon, this armed merchant ship was too late to activate the deflection field. Even if it was solid, it could not withstand the bombardment.
Amber was sprinting. Even without the zoom function of the optical sensor, he could see a fireball lighting up in the target area with the naked eye.
He switched the weapon control to the HCP-specific Gauss rifle in his main hand, and then aimed in the direction of the armed merchant ship and fired another shot.
After a while, there was no white electric light shining from the deflection force field in the universe.
At this moment, Amber knew that the heavy particle cannon shot he had just fired had 80% penetrated the bow of the armed merchant ship, and directly destroyed the deflection field generator that had not had time to start.
"Haha! God opened my eyes"
Amber put the Gauss rifle back into the weapon rack behind his back, and then skillfully removed the plasma heavy sword as he had done countless times in the game. .
"Did drawing the sword become my muscle reaction?"
Amber, who confirmed that she was in the late stage of 'drawing the sword' cancer, laughed at herself, and then used two robotic arms to hold the hilt of the sword to make a A downward stabbing motion.
At this time, Lilith has thoughtfully enlarged the picture of the armed merchant ship.
And based on the information of the Nerus-class cargo ship in the ship database, the location of the possible bridge was marked.
As Amber swept his pupils over, the machine also locked onto this position.
Immediately afterwards, the fanatic began to slow down by relying on the nozzles attached to the space combat components mounted on the legs.
Before contact occurs between the two parties, the relative speed must be reduced to a level that is acceptable for the structural strength of an aircraft body.
And all of this finally led to the scene that the two Eric brothers saw in the master control room. A silver-white HCP suddenly landed on the armed merchant ship in the blue light emitted by the reverse thrust, knocking it down and sinking.
The heavy plasma sword in HCP’s hand also penetrated the location of the bridge.
While the blade formed by high-temperature plasma cut through the laminated armor plate and penetrated, Amber also adjusted the output power of the heavy sword to burst mode.
The injection of more energy caused the blue plasma blade to grow in size in an instant, directly vaporizing the two unlucky guys closest to him in the bridge.
Immediately afterwards, with a slash and a draw of the Heavy Sword, a large hole was opened inside the bridge, causing the internal pressure to depressurize, and several pirates who were frozen into popsicles flew out.
After finishing off the bridge, Amber did not forget to glance in the direction of the operations base.
Under the fanatic’s ‘Knight Helmet’, the flashing red light of the red one-eyed main monitor startled the two Eric brothers who were hiding in the main control room of the operation base.
"Big brother, what should we do?"
My younger brother John, who was 'smart since he was a child' in his brother's eyes, looked at the fanatics who started to dismantle the surface of the armed merchant ships in the distance. At this time, he was at a loss. I started to stutter when I spoke.
"Don't be afraid, we have hostages! They don't dare to do anything to us!"
Marvin, who looked crazy, comforted his younger brother. He had already lost his mind, so On the contrary, I am not so afraid.
In his communication channel, there was only rustling noise at this time.
In addition to the pirates who retreated to the main control room, the pirates on the other two armed merchant ships have been buried with their ship.
He could only watch helplessly as the assault boat landed on the landing platform of the operations base, and then released a team of tough men wearing exoskeletons, and after three attempts, they broke open the external hatch. Rushed into the operations base.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Several explosions occurred inside the operation base, but Marvin was not sure whether it was a bomb exploded by his own team or by these Marines. detonated.
However, after witnessing the encounter with the armed merchant ship, he had just ordered everyone, including the hostage workers, to put on spacesuits.
So there is no need to worry about losing pressure in the cabin and causing everyone in the control room to die in an instant.
After the series of explosions in the operations base ended, it fell into deathly silence.
Just when the Eric brothers were imagining whether the bombs deployed by their own side would wipe out these Marine regiments.
They suddenly received a communication request sent through the operations base's internal network.
After hesitating for a moment, the two brothers looked at each other and accepted the communication request,
Soon, a deep voice that was obviously using a voice changer came from the communication channel.
"Open the hatch of the main control room, don't fire, we can still talk."
That is to say, all the attention of Marvin, John and other pirates are on this temporary When on communication.
Amber's driving enthusiast also floated cautiously directly above the main control room.
Having avoided the skylight, he continued to rely on the operation of the vector nozzles all over his body to maintain relative stillness to the main control room.
Amber then deployed the charged particle cannon on the weapon rack behind her.
(End of this chapter)