Chapter 292 This is not my war
“The second team engaged the enemy during CSP, and one of the divisions was seriously injured. Please request an emergency landing!”
“Confirm permission! The second team, please Landing via Landing Deck 1! Welcome back”
The voice of the flight deck controller is still so sweet, Lieutenant Larry can even recognize her accent from the imperial capital of Saint-Saunière.
If it were normal times, he might have joked a little with the female controller to relieve his tension.
But now, the Royal Navy lieutenant was not in the mood at all.
Lieutenant Larry and his mothership, the USS Speeder, have now opened the outer armor plate at the entrance to the No. 1 landing deck and turned on the orange guidance light.
This landing channel located on the top deck of the rear section of the ship can lead directly to the ship's internal warehouse, which is the best choice in case of emergency landing.
The invisible guidance beam activated the Priest's automatic landing system, and Lieutenant Larry also adjusted the onboard control system from 'cruise mode' to 'landing mode'.
Although the aircraft will next perform landing operations in a fully automatic manner, Lieutenant Larry, who is carrying a seriously injured person behind him, no longer has the patience to wait for the aircraft to land on its own.
He constantly manually corrected the body's posture and moved towards the position of the tractor arm at a faster speed.
“ROLLING000”
“YAWING000”
“PITCHING000”
On the full-circle display, the numbers used to quantify the current posture of the body are quickly returned 0, the docking indicator light also jumps from yellow to green.
When the 'cross' on the side of the display screen, used to assist docking, completely hit the target, Lieutenant Larry lightly tapped the accelerator and let the aircraft 'bump' into it.
“Click!”
The sound of metal collision as the traction robotic arm grabbed the HCP’s external interface was transmitted along the body of the machine and into Lieutenant Larry’s ears.
After a slight sway, the entire body was dragged towards the Gnaku position by the towing mechanical arm, and Venus 3, which was hooked up by the carbon fiber cable, was also dragged into the ship. .
Having received a notification from the control center that the second team was making an emergency landing, the preparation team on duty at Gnakuli was already ready to receive it.
Before the traction robotic arm had completely stopped, they gathered around with various tools and pipelines of different colors and thicknesses.
But the first thing that came into contact with the machine body was a burst of white gas ejected from the front ends of several auxiliary robotic arms.
"Speed up the cooling operation!"
In the Gnaku communication channel, the leader of the maintenance team was yelling to urge others to speed up the operation.
HCPs returning to the ship often have their surface armor heat up due to combat or high-speed cruising, and the temperature in space does not drop as fast as ordinary people imagine, especially for HCPs that are not equipped with large heat sinks.
Therefore, the cooling operation after recycling the airframe is also a very important part of the airframe maintenance work.
At this moment, the white gas that is constantly sprayed on the surface of the priest can quickly reduce the surface temperature of the HCP and prevent personnel and equipment from being scalded.
At this time, the two machines that were continuing the cooling operation had been dragged deeper by the robotic arms inside the Gnaku, and a huge sheet was pulled up where they had just been. Speed reduction net.
The Venus 2 piloted by Lieutenant Jeff did not wait for the towing robotic arm to return, but floated in directly behind Lieutenant Larry and the others.
Because the flight deck controller just told him that the reconnaissance ship was about to make an emergency maneuver, and asked him to quickly return to the ship first.
Although he is a rookie pilot, the reason why he is called a "rookie" is mainly because of his lack of combat experience.
In fact, when Second Lieutenant Jeff graduated from the HCP driving course, the grade given by the school was A+.
So even though he was missing his feet and a large number of attitude control nozzles, he still drove the 'half' of the Priest into the Gnaku and crashed into the speed reduction net. .
After confirming that all his team members had recovered, Lieutenant Larry returned his attention to his cockpit.
When the number symbolizing the surface temperature of the aircraft body on the cockpit instrument turned green, Lieutenant Larry immediately opened the cockpit door.
The pressurized air inside quickly leaked out with a "puff, puff, puff" sound, and the surrounding world immediately became quiet.
During take-off and landing operations, the Gnakuli is evacuated and some inert gas is injected.
He kicked hard on the cockpit door, and his whole body floated towards the No. 3 unit like a swimming fish.
Several maintenance personnel are surrounding Bob's cockpit, racking their brains to open the cockpit door through the external emergency switch.
But it was obvious that the fighting nail damaged the opening mechanism when it penetrated the cockpit, so although the hatch indicator light kept turning green, the hatch never opened.
Lieutenant Larry did not have access to the communication channel of the maintenance team at this time, so he could only pull one of the maintenance personnel over and put the helmet on his helmet.
“There is no time to waste, just force the door open!”
“We tried, Lieutenant! The prefabricated blasting cord inside seems to have failed!”
Maintenance Officer They also looked distressed. For many people, this was actually the first time they saw an HCP being punched through the cockpit in Gnakuli.
"Force it to open with external force! I don't care what method you use, I can't even care if the body is scrapped. Rescue the people first!" Lieutenant Larry looked at the big hole in the cockpit. A mixture of engine oil and other liquids continued to float out, and he said with a ferocious expression.
Soon, the maintenance team arrived with an engineering power armor and began to forcibly destroy the cockpit door.
After some fiddling with jacks, robotic arms and cutting guns, the entire hatch was completely removed.
The medical team that was already on standby quickly surrounded him and carefully pulled Lieutenant Bob out of the cockpit.
At this time, Jeff also floated to Lieutenant Larry's side. Both of them stared nervously at the medical staff in front of them, hoping to hear good news from them.
But unfortunately, a member of the medical team looked back at them after a moment and shook his head.
"No"
Lieutenant Larry looked at the scene in disbelief. It was not until members of the medical team put Bob's body into a body bag that he realized that he The middle-aged pilot in the team was really dead.
"I'm sorry Lieutenant" The leader of the medical team floated in front of Larry and held his shoulders.
“Although the combat spike avoided Lieutenant Bob, it still caused irreversible damage to him, especially internal bleeding caused by multiple fractures
Although this fact is cruel, Lieutenant Bob actually left when you just landed on the ship. ”
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Other pilots of the 809 Squadron also rushed to Gnaku after learning the news of the pilot’s death.
Squadron Captain General Larry He and Jeff took them to the wall walk on the Gnaku bulkhead, commonly known as the 'catwalk', and comforted them with other teammates. No one expected that the casualties would come so quickly
With this. At the same time, everyone in the Gnaku only felt the ship shake, and then the entire reconnaissance ship turned on the light control inside the ship.
It is obvious that the reconnaissance team where the Speeder is located has begun emergency maneuvers, which shows that there is a federal fleet in the final warning circle.
Moreover, the scale of the attack was not something that their three reconnaissance ships could handle.
"Hey, Larry! I know you're sad." The squadron leader stood beside Larry, leaned against the bulkhead and said:
"Everyone in the team is very happy." Sad, but this is war, casualties are inevitable, and we have no time to mourn the dead."
"I know, sir. I just feel that everything happened too suddenly."
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Lieutenant Larry sighed. Of course he knew that dying on the battlefield was one of the fates of a soldier.
"Seize the time to rest and adjust your mentality. We may not have much time to rest next."
"Yes, sir."
Lieutenant Larry said to His squadron leader saluted, and then left Gnaku along the wall walk.
After entering the locker room and taking a quick shower, Larry was just about to change into clean clothes and return to their team’s pilot cabin to rest when he heard something else coming from the locker room. The voices of the team members.
"I really didn't expect that the first one to die in battle was this coward."
"Yes. But for a coward like him, it should be an honor to die on the battlefield, right?"
>"This guy made those kind of 'anti-war' remarks before. I don't know why he wasn't hanged."
"It seems that his ancestors were great aristocrats, and he has a close relationship with several current aristocrats. Someone took action to save his life."
"Well, he's lucky, he can return home as a martyr and maybe even get a medal."
The voices of discussion gradually faded away, and the pilots, who had put on the inner lining of their driving suits, left the dressing room and went to the pilot attack area to stand by.
Lieutenant Larry walked out of his compartment. He almost rushed out to refute these comrades.
He wanted to tell them that Bob was not the coward in their hands, but a truly good pilot.
But he didn't do it until the end.
Maybe it’s because of the rumors that have been circulating within the team for a long time?
Lieutenant Larry couldn't help but remember that many people had said things about Bob before, but Bob never refuted or argued with them in the face of these rumors, and just accepted them calmly.
When the three of the second team are alone or on missions, this middle-aged crane tail pilot does often say things that should not be seen in the army.
For example, 'This war is a game for big shots. They soldiers are like fools, and they feel very glorious when they die on the battlefield as the pawns of these big shots. ’
What else? ‘If the Prince Regent and Her Royal Highness the Princess were not so troubled, this war should not have happened at all. ’
Every time Bob said these words, Lieutenant Larry would refute him righteously. Sometimes he even wanted to send this guy to the military police.
But until today, after this middle-aged man died in this star field far away from the country, Lieutenant Larry couldn't help but ask himself, why did they come here?
Lieutenant Larry, whose mind was in a state of confusion, returned to the rest cabin of their second team. Lieutenant Jeff was still undergoing examination at the medical office and had not returned. He was the only one in this small cabin.
While passing Bob's sleeping bag, Lieutenant Larry accidentally saw an old notepad floating inside.
Perhaps because Bob was planning to come back and write something after the CSP mission was over, the notepad was not closed, but just floating near the opening inside the sleeping bag.
At this moment, it was as if someone had turned over the notepad. The latest page appeared in front of Lieutenant Larry's eyes as the notepad fluttered. There was a sentence written on it in a scrawled handwriting:
"This is not my war"
(End of Chapter)