Chapter 297 A battle that started but ended
“Tsk! The penetration rods are all gone.”
Looking at the value of the remaining ammunition on the multi-function display, Lieutenant Larry couldn’t help but let out a ‘tsk’ sound.
The screen in front of me all over the sky also turned into pieces at this time, some were very clear, and some were just a whole blurry screen.
Although the combat assistance AI has tried its best to maintain the integrity of the screen, due to the severe damage to the sensors throughout the fuselage, the view of the cockpit has begun to become poor.
"I don't know which side has the upper hand now."
Since most of the warships are also trying their best to conduct electronic warfare attacks while firing, the electromagnetic environment of the entire warring space has never been worse.
The enemy-finding efficiency of the comprehensive detection unit has also been greatly reduced. In many cases, Lieutenant Larry even needs to use his own eyes to make judgments.
After just crossing paths with a team of Federation HCPs and falling into a melee, he has been separated from rookie Jeff and other comrades in the 809th Squadron, and is now flying alone in this dangerous space.
Although Lieutenant Larry finally eliminated the enemy he was fighting with, after being hit by a shrapnel fired at close range, all the external 'pieces' of the Priest, including the sensors, were destroyed. A lot of it was washed off.
Moreover, the body's shield was also scrapped, and the ammunition reserves were beginning to run out
Beams of light streaked across the starry sky, and fireballs burst out and disappeared in an instant.
I don’t know if our unit was attacked or the enemy ship was destroyed. The entire battlefield was shrouded in chaos.
Suddenly, a dazzling burst of fire erupted not far behind Lieutenant Larry.
He looked back and saw on the screen that was going up and down, a warship that looked like a reconnaissance ship was constantly disintegrating in the flames of the explosion, and was eventually engulfed by a huge plasma fireball - that was Quench performance of battleship-grade superconducting battery stack.
Although the ship's hull number could no longer be seen, a dark voice in his heart told Lieutenant Larry that it was the mothership of the 809HCP Squadron, the Speeder.
"I'll go."
Lieutenant Larry stared at the scene in disbelief, as he had lost the mothership from which he could return.
As an HCP pilot, a pilot fighting in the chaos of space, this can be said to be the most terrifying nightmare.
Although the Priest is one of the most advanced HCPs currently in service in the Empire, this does not mean that its built-in energy engineer life support system can run forever.
Especially the machine used to produce oxygen. Although Lieutenant Larry didn't know what the 'pills' the maintenance team stuffed into the machine were, this thing would eventually be used up.
This lieutenant of the Imperial Royal Navy experienced a mood called despair for the first time in HCP.
An HCP that lost its mothership in space, in the words of veterans, is the coffin of the HCP pilot.
For a moment, the desperate Lieutenant Larry stopped his movements, and the entire aircraft was like a corpse floating in space.
The notebook that he had tied to the side of the seat before the attack floated out at some point. The diary entries written by Bob continued to be turned over, and finally stopped at what he had written in this world. The last sentence below.
"This is not my war"
"Yes, Bob, you are right, whose war is this?"
The notebook continued to float to one side, Lieutenant Larry's His eyes followed him unconsciously, and by turning his head, he saw an HCP passing by in the distance.
The combat auxiliary AI quickly marked its model, which was also a 'Priest'.
Lieutenant Larry suddenly came to his senses. He took Bob's notebook back and put it in his leg bag, and then flew towards the cleric.
The other party obviously noticed him and drew a huge arc before turning towards him.
When the distance was shortened, the identification friend or foe device also identified the identity of this aircraft. It was not Jeff the rookie, but the squadron leader of the 809th Squadron.
After closing the distance, the two priests quickly reduced their relative speed to 0, and then turned around and stuck together "back to back" in perfect harmony.
When the two machines are completely attached to each other, contact communication is also established.
"Larry?! Are you okay?"
"Squadron Commander, I'm fine but the Speeder sank."
The Priest piloted by Lieutenant Larry raised his hand and pointed at the fireball in the distance.
"Don't panic! Listen, I have found a nearby friendly cruiser 'Rabi', they can recover us!
And they sent a signal that the fleet is preparing to evacuate, So we must rush over! Can you see that ship?"
While speaking, the squadron leader also transmitted the location of the 'Labi' to Larry through the data link.
"Okay squadron leader, um, I saw it. But are we about to evacuate now?"
"I don't know, but it's better to have a boat than to be left here alone."
"By the way, Squadron Leader, Second Lieutenant Jeff and I were also separated."
Lieutenant Larry asked. He didn't want the last comrade in his team to disappear in such an inexplicable way.
"Sorry, I didn't see him." The main monitor on the head of the squadron leader's body shook his head.
"He may be fighting, or he may have landed on another friendly ship first. Don't worry too much. Although Lieutenant Jeff is a novice, he is still a well-trained naval pilot, and he will not be killed so easily! Okay! "Come with me first!"
The two priests quickly adjusted their direction and rushed towards the 'Labi', and they were lucky enough not to encounter any enemies blocking their way. .
Soon the 'Rabi' also discovered the two HCPs, and the warship quickly sent out a light signal. According to the interpretation of the combat auxiliary AI, it was urging them to board the ship as soon as possible.
But at this moment, Lieutenant Larry felt that he was hearing hallucinations, because Lieutenant Bob's deep and hoarse voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Jeff. Rescue nearby."
This auditory hallucination only lasted for a short moment, and the words spoken were intermittent.
But after this paragraph ended, Lieutenant Larry suddenly felt that the middle-aged man named Bob had completely disappeared.
Although he himself felt that this feeling seemed a bit abstract, he really could no longer feel Bob's presence.
By some strange coincidence, Larry suddenly left the formation and rushed in the other direction. Before the squadron leader's question came, he sent him a sentence through blue-green laser communication: "I'm going. Bring back Lieutenant Jeff!"
"Wait."
The squadron leader had no time to stop him and saw Lieutenant Larry's priest disappearing into the distance.
While flying at high speed, Larry felt as if he had been guided by something. Although the integrated detection unit of the aircraft could hardly detect anything at this time, he relied on his own feeling to avoid it all the way. Several battle points were reached.
On such a battlefield, trying to find Second Lieutenant Jeff's plane is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But this time, Lieutenant Larry happened to get the needle.
When he saw the Priest in the distance, which had lost a mechanical arm and a mechanical foot, floating in the universe like a dead corpse, he knew he had found Jeff.
After seeing a federal HCP approaching the Priest, Lieutenant Larry pushed the throttle to the top without hesitation, and while rushing over, he removed the last remaining weapon on the aircraft - Heavy Slash. sword.
Before the federal HCP could react, the cleric had already rushed in front of it. Although the former also raised his mechanical arm and prepared to shoot at Larry, at this moment Lieutenant Larry made a decision A series of exquisite dodge maneuvers that he had never completed before, and after successfully breaking into the opponent's left hemisphere, the battle ended with two swords.
"Jeff! Can you hear me?!"
Larry put his body against Jeff's body and tried to get in touch using contact communication, but the communication was connected. But there was no response from Jeff. There is not much time left now. If you don't hurry up, you may be left on this battlefield.
Thinking of this, Lieutenant Larry made a bold decision. He evacuated the air in the cockpit, and then opened the cockpit of the aircraft body after adjusting the heavy-duty hydraulic anti-gravity suit to 'extravehicular mode'.
The universe outside the cabin is full of explosions, fires, and rays from directed energy weapons, but in Lieutenant Larry's eyes, all this is like a silent mime. At this moment, he can only hear his own loud voice. breathing sound.
Although the safety rope was tied behind him, Lieutenant Larry was still a little nervous, but he quickly suppressed these emotions and carefully floated to Jeff's cockpit.
"Warning! Do not open the hatch from here unless it is an emergency."
"I found it, it is here!"
Larry was overjoyed. He first pressed a button next to the operating lever, so that Jeff's heavy-duty hydraulic anti-gravity suit would also switch to 'extravehicular mode'.
After the green indicator light indicating 'can be turned on' came on, Lieutenant Larry pulled the joystick without hesitation.
The next second, the cockpit door of the Priest was also forcibly opened.
Larry quickly climbed up and took a look, only to see Lieutenant Jeff leaning on the driver's seat with his head tilted, unconscious.
He climbed into the cockpit, and after confirming that Lieutenant Jeff still had vital signs through the external screen of the heavy-duty hydraulic anti-gravity suit, he unbuckled his seat belt and dragged him out of the cockpit.
By the time the rookie lieutenant regained consciousness, Larry was already driving the Priest on the way to the 'Labi'.
“Lieutenant?! So you’re dead too?”
“I’ll kill you, uncle! I didn’t even risk my life to come here to save you! You’re better off, Lie in the cockpit and fall asleep!" Lieutenant Larry said through gritted teeth.
"Huh? We are still alive?!" Lieutenant Jeff finally reacted,
"It turns out that I just passed out and thought I was dead."
Upon hearing this, Lieutenant Larry was about to reply a few words, but he saw the multi-function display first blurred, and then the entire weapon unit turned gray.
"Warning! The unknown electronic warfare virus has broken through the body's firewall. Warning! The weapon unit is offline!"
"Electronic warfare virus?!" Larry was shocked. This point was electronic warfare Virus attacks are not a good thing.
But he soon discovered a strange thing, that is, after the electronic warfare virus attacked the weapon unit and took it offline, there was no follow-up action.
And a 'wonderful scene' appeared in the entire warring space. All the firefights disappeared. Whether it was the federal warships, the imperial warships, or the HCPs who were fighting on both sides, all of a sudden Misfired.
The universe that was 'busy' just now fell silent in an instant, and the fleets fighting each other even looked a little funny against the backdrop of this 'quietness'.
"What the hell?"
Lieutenant Larry looked confused and looked at a federal HCP floating past him. The other party had obviously discovered him but had not opened fire.
But he knew that now was not the time to think about it in detail, so he immediately took advantage of this strange 'ceasefire period' and rushed into the Rabi's air defense circle, and finally 'rammed' into the cruiser access channel.
“Congratulations on your safe arrival!”
After opening the cockpit door of the Priest, the members of the maintenance team of the Rabi said to Lieutenant Larry and Second Lieutenant Jeff:
“You are so lucky. When the aircraft was recovered, we received the news that we were preparing to leave the battlefield!
Look! The entrance channel has been closed, and we are really leaving now!"
"Yes. Luck is indeed good.”
Larry helped Jeff float out of the cockpit. After handing the latter to the members of the medical team, he floated to the wall walk alone, and then looked at his hands. notebook.
"Thank you, Bob."
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"The Federal Navy has won a great victory! Sweeping the invading enemy!"
"Marshal Trafalgar is like this Said: The Great Navy has officially transferred to strategic counterattack!"
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After the end of the 'Supernova Outbreak' operation, which was known among the people as the 'Decisive Battle of the Millen Galaxy', various types of news carefully produced by the Federal Navy Information Department began to radiate from the Millen Galaxy as the center to the surrounding areas.
At the same time, we also produced a special program of 'Frontline Interviews' as quickly as possible, interviewing many fleet commanders including Marshal Trafalgar, as well as surviving naval soldiers, sparing no effort to publicize The importance of this victory.
While the recorded and edited 'copies' of this program were quickly sent to the capital galaxy, Amber, who was located in the Tower of Babel, also figured out what happened at the end of the battle with the help of Lilith .
“So the Celestial Body Fortress also has this kind of large-scale and indiscriminate electronic attack capability?”
“Yes, Master~ with the computing power of the Celestial Body Fortress’ host computer, it can indeed attack The control personalities of other warships form dimensionality reduction strikes.”
Lilith, who was in the virtual space, sat disheveled in Amber's arms. On the grounds that she had "restored the panoramic view of the battlefield through virtual reality", she went to great lengths to trick Amber into the virtual space and completed some things. event'.
“Use a crushing attack to forcefully penetrate the ship’s firewall, disintegrate the anti-virus program, and then take the ship’s weapon unit offline. It’s so smooth~
The only one The problem may be that we are still in the stage of 'no distinction between friend and foe'
But people can also understand that if the function of identifying friend or foe is added, a lot of computing power will be taken away. By then, the fortress control personality will probably I can't do it without any scruples."
"Lilith, just say it, don't mess around."
Amber held Lilith's shoulders, stopped her from twisting, and then said:
"I didn't expect that the empire had never used this ability before and didn't know it was Duke and Duke William. The two of them haven't had time to implement the celestial fortress, and they still have a limited ability, so they don't want to be exposed easily."
Thinking of this, Amber couldn't help but recall the previous game in her mind. The first-generation celestial fortress does not have this capability.
This made him wonder whether it was because of changes in the world line that the empire upgraded the celestial fortress?
“Master, I also have a question~”
"Huh?"
"I don't think there is anything wrong with the previous steps. I would do the same thing in other circumstances, which is the last step. Why is it to take the weapon unit offline instead of finding a way to make the fusion furnace or superconductor Is the battery stack directly overloaded?"
"This is quite easy to explain." Amber changed to a more comfortable position and continued:
"Superconducting battery stacks and fusion furnaces are both If there is a safety device, the situation after the entire ship is penetrated by an electronic warfare virus is taken into consideration from the beginning. Therefore, once an abnormal command is input and no crew member manually confirms it, it will be judged as 'encountering an electronic warfare virus attack'. Then it is directly disconnected from the main system of the battleship on the physical level.
Another reason is what you just mentioned. This is an indiscriminate large-scale electronic warfare virus attack. It is impossible for the empire to think of destroying itself. All the warships were detonated? So temporarily taking the weapons unit offline is the safest approach at this stage.”
"I see. Then do you need Lily to develop this ability? Maybe she can accurately identify one-way attacks from both the enemy and ourselves~"
"Hey, are you so sensible?"
Amber was a little surprised. Although Lilith was now obedient to his words, this was the first time that she had actively asked to work overtime.
On weekdays, this weird strong artificial intelligence always uses different methods to catch fish.
“Of course, but I still have a small request”
Lilith lowered her head and poked each other on her chest with her two onion-like fingertips.
"Go ahead, as long as it's not a particularly outrageous request."
"Really, then Master should spend more time with Lilith in the virtual space today~"
With a click of 'Pa!', very quickly, the virtual space that was originally a 'combat intelligence room' style was switched into a luxurious king-size bed room.
The stool Amber was sitting on also turned into a soft mattress.
"No, wait, why are you twisting again?! Hiss"
(End of this chapter)