Chapter 713: It's on fire
In the cockpit, the siren sounded loudly, and the flashing red and yellow lights reminded the driver that there was a hostile signal.
Alyssa shook her dizzy head and looked up at the display screen. At this time, it looked like a radar, showing several triangular targets approaching rapidly.
This is obviously a sign of bad intentions.
It is true that recyclers will fight over the issue of loot, but Alyssa escaped from the starship in a shuttle and at the same time, a small spacecraft sent by a friendly businessman approached. Do you think this is a coincidence?
Alyssa realized in an instant that those guys were here to kill them all.
Although from the cockpit, only a large dark cosmic background can be seen, more and more targets are entering the detection range, a total of sixteen targets, divided into two batches for attack.
This is a standard offensive formation. Although I don’t know where it comes from at the moment, two squadrons have been sent up.
It is impossible to deal with a starship with this kind of combat power, but it is obviously aimed at Alyssa.
Sixteen against one, it's crazy if you can win.
Alyssa immediately grasped the operating lever.
In short, let’s run first.
But the joystick had its own ideas. Instead of turning to the right to escape, it turned to the left, as if it was planning to confront the approaching combat aircraft of the two squadrons like the cavalry.
Having just escaped from the tiger's mouth, Alyssa's hair almost stood up in fear when she saw this.
Alyssa tried to use all her strength to break the control rod, but it was useless. The shuttle did not obey her command at all.
"Run away! You can't defeat them!"
Unlike sitting on an out-of-control shuttle, this shuttle was obviously controlled by some kind of existence. Alyssa thought it should be the 'Creation Machine. Divine Crystal' that appeared on the screen before, so Alyssa broke it while Joystick, while shouting, hoping to make the machine soul understand.
At this time, the oscilloscope on the side of the main control screen suddenly lit up. Along with a subtle buzzer, a man's voice appeared on the speaker below the oscilloscope:
"Who said I can't beat him? How will you know if you don't try?"
Alyssa felt like shit on the spot, try it, I'm going to die!
But the machine spirit actually responded, and Alyssa quickly said:
"They have two squadrons! They are both experienced warriors. We should escape immediately!"
"Don't worry, I suggest you wear your seat belt."
I can communicate, but people don’t listen at all!
Not only that, as soon as she finished speaking, Alyssa suddenly felt a strong acceleration and pressed her directly onto the chair.
The four engines on the wings of the shuttle burst into brilliant light, and on the main console panel, buttons that Alyssa couldn't figure out for the moment were pressed one after another, as if an invisible man was controlling the shuttle. shuttle.
The picture on the screen representing the engine status instantly reached maximum power, and the speed was rising as fast as a stopwatch.
"No!"
Alyssa's scream echoed in the cockpit, but unfortunately, like space, sound cannot be transmitted in the void.
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On the other side, Li Chengqi was completely in the zone. He even took the time to cut out the laptop displaying Viola's screen, click on the music player and start playing songs.
With the fierce drum beats and roaring heavy metal music, combined with the volume being turned to the maximum, and the violent engine roar in the Bluetooth speaker, Li Chengqi's adrenaline began to surge.
He recalled the first time he saw players driving spaceships fighting in space in a game arcade when he was a child. He recalled the excitement of going to the Science and Technology Museum to experience a flight simulation in middle school. He also recalled the magical moment on Anton Star in college. This time, it was Li Chengqi who got excited!
On the screen, the box representing the enemy aircraft was getting closer and closer, and even in the deep cosmic background, the strong light of the opponent's engine could be vaguely seen.
The number is indeed a bit high, but not an invincible number.
Turn the mouse wheel, select the weapon option called ion beam, and quickly open the two built-in ion cannons on both sides of the shuttle body.
First, test the weapon performance.
Facing the incoming aircraft fleet for just two seconds, the blue-white high-energy ions converged into a beam, like the tracer bullets in the cannon, drawing several conspicuous shooting lines in the pure black cosmic background.
Since the distance was still very far and it was so obvious, the group of aircraft under attack dispersed instantly and easily avoided the ion beam attack.
However, when they stabilized the aircraft again, they found that the Manta was missing.
Scanning the radar again, I found that it had moved upward.
At the same time as the ion beam was launched, Li Chengqi quickly raised the nose of the aircraft. Under the rotation of the engine, the shuttle climbed vertically at nearly 90°.
When the enemy plane noticed, the Manta dived again.
Strong, too strong!
I don’t know if it’s because there’s no air resistance in the void, but the flying feel of a shuttle is completely different from that of an airplane. The nose is pointed very flexibly with the help of the direction control nozzles all over the fuselage, and the thrust of the engine running at full speed is There was such a strong sense of speed that even Li Chengqi felt his palms sweating while looking at the screen.
This is much more exciting than a flight simulator experience.
The Manta Ray, which re-entered the dive state, was like an eagle descending from the sky, pounced on the enemy aircraft without fear, as if they were the pigeons being preyed upon.
People are in the cockpit, and the radar is flat. When an enemy plane suddenly climbs or dives suddenly, the only way to observe it is to stretch your neck and look up through the cockpit glass.
But the veteran will tell you, look at the hammer and make maneuvers first.
Because with the skill you can see, the attack has already arrived.
Among the eight enemy planes that first approached the Manta, three maneuvered to avoid them immediately, while the remaining five were still flying in formation.
You can tell he is a newbie at this glance.
"No good player, novice who has flown War Thunder for more than twenty hours will not do this kind of target behavior."
Originally, Li Chengqi was a little wary because he thought Alyssa was a good player, but this test exposed the secret.
The muzzle of the ion cannon once again lit up with charged light, and as the machine body trembled slightly, several ion beams were fired at the enemy aircraft below that were too stupid to maneuver in time.
Two eye-catching orange-red flashes of light immediately lit up in the pure black void, and the Manta Ray passed directly through the two flashes of explosion without slowing down.
The ion cannon was very powerful. When Li Chengqi saw the hit, the two enemy planes lit up with something like a shield, but they were defeated.
The problem is, this thing can't fire continuously, and you can only hold down the launch button for three seconds at most, otherwise it will overheat.
Despite the fact that the void is extremely cold, due to the lack of medium, it can only rely on thermal radiation to dissipate heat. This efficiency is very slow.
Every time the Manta's ion cannon is fired, it will be retracted into the cabin to cool down again. Although it doesn't take much time, the firepower's sustainability is very poor, which needs to be noted.
But it’s not a big problem, you can still use it if you find a good rhythm.
(End of chapter)