Chapter 726 If you can speak, speak more
As long as there is trade, there will be people who want to do business without capital.
Regardless of the reason or background, this kind of person will never disappear completely.
Even in interstellar voyages, there are interstellar pirates.
"Anyway, you are the enemy, right?"
"Of course it's the enemy! Hold them back, and the Planetary Defense Force should be here soon."
"That's so boring."
Li Chengqi moved the joystick, and the Manta dived ninety degrees while rotating.
"Just annihilate them all."
If someone else had said this, Alyssa would most likely complain, "You can't eat pancakes."
But Li Chengqi said this...
He killed all three squadrons of space fighters. That's really not bragging.
The Manta's engine was pushed to its maximum, and the surging engine light looked like a shining star in the dark void.
Noticing that the Manta began to maneuver, especially since there was no direct confrontation, the Void Pirates thought they were scared and immediately followed suit.
Alyssa had already heard the howls of the pirates on the communication channel, as well as an ultimatum.
"Hand over your ship and all its cargo at once, or we will take it ourselves!"
There are no high-value cargoes on the Manta Ray. After all, after loading fuel and necessities, there is not much space in the already small warehouse.
But the pirates didn't think so.
Shuttles are generally only used between starships or close to space stations. Seeing a shuttle in the void means that it is busy transporting cargo on short-distance routes.
This is the main target of pirates' robbery. They take advantage of the small number of people and their small scale to run away when they encounter tough enemies and bully when they encounter soft persimmons. This is how they survive.
Alyssa didn't turn on the communicator to talk to the pirates. She just put on the mask silently, and then took her hands off the keyboard...
In view of the previous situation, Alyssa specially bought the best anti-stress suit at the Gemini Space Station. It is said that the performance is almost the same as that of the military.
Although this cost a small amount of money, it proved to be very necessary.
The engine of the Manta Ray suddenly stalled while it was diving, and the attitude control nozzles arranged around the body were working at full strength. In the eyes of the void pirates who couldn't believe it, the Manta Ray instantly completed a 180-degree U-turn.
Fine electric sparks from the electromagnetic weapon lit up beneath the Manta. The machine gun shells mixed with tracer bullets chased the closest shuttle and was flooded with explosive powder.
The blue shield lit up first in the smoke, but just when the pilot was rejoicing, the high-energy ion beam instantly detonated it, turning the shuttle into an orange flash in the void.
"The machine gun feels okay, but its power is a bit weak."
"It was you who requested that all the cannons be replaced with high-explosive bombs!"
Alyssa can still complain under high overload conditions. It seems that the money spent on the anti-stress suit was not in vain.
It was indeed Li Chengqi's request to replace all the machine gun belts with high-explosive bombs, leaving only a few tracer bombs.
Generally, bullet belts have two armor-piercing rounds, one high-explosive round and one tracer round.
This configuration is because armor-piercing bullets are used to defeat the target shield, high-explosive bullets are used to kill, and tracer bullets are used to assist aiming.
Replacing all of them with high-explosive weapons will result in a serious lack of armor-piercing capability.
But Li Chengqi requested this because he learned from the initial battle that even with armor-piercing bullets, the damage of the cannon to the shield was still limited.
The space fighter planes hit the Manta but failed to penetrate the shield, as evidenced by this. So Li Chengqi chose to be more extreme. High-explosive bombs are mainly used to obscure the field of vision and weaken it. Of course, the sure kill still requires the use of ion beams.
It was originally a swarm of swarms chasing them, but due to Li Chengqi's U-turn, it now turned into a hedging between the two sides, and the pirate side was instantly knocked out of the most resistant shuttle.
It was obvious that the remaining shuttles and miscellaneous aircraft panicked and began to shoot out dense rain of bullets crazily.
This kind of scene is not unfamiliar. When Li Chengqi played flight simulation games, he encountered similar players. They thought that they had a large number of people and bit the six o'clock direction of the target. The biggest problem was who could grab the head.
But they ignored the enemies coming from other directions, and eventually they were all killed by fishing tactics.
Don’t think that a game is just a game. Many tactics can be directly used in the military, and there are many examples of military tactics being used in games.
Facing the rain of bullets coming towards him, Li Chengqi not only did not pull the joystick to avoid it, but even pushed the thrust lever to the maximum again and faced it head-on.
From Alyssa's perspective, this was like Li Chengqi trying to catch a cannonball with his face, which was very thrilling.
But Li Chengqi was quite confident in doing this. Judging from the opponent's shooting, he knew that he must have panicked, and the panicked attacks were just sprinkling water.
The shuttle moved quickly through the barrage with astonishingly high maneuverability, as if it were a ball of air that could not be touched.
Alyssa was surprised to find that there was not even a 'shield lowering' prompt on the main control screen, and the rain of bullets that came towards her did not hit the Manta at all.
In an air battle, the two sides fly and fire at each other, commonly known as opposing sides.
In this case, the competition is about psychological quality, to see who is more stable, more accurate, and faster.
While dodging, Li Chengqi did not let go of any shooting window. Every time he shot, he either used high-explosive bombs to wash the opponent's face, or used ion beams to accurately point them out. He only knew how to hold the trigger and not let go, even forgetting to maneuver. What a noob.
The two sides quickly passed each other, and several orange-red fireballs lit up in the void.
The Manta turned around with a posture comparable to drifting, and Alyssa heard Li Chengqi's slightly disappointed voice:
"It's very weak. These people are not as good as last time."
“…..”
Don't expect anything from a small pirate fleet. Who the hell wants to be a pirate if he's really capable?
But it's not weak at all.
There are more than ten in total. Although they are not military space fighters, the power of the collective fire is still considerable.
"It's not that they are too weak, it's that you are too strong."
"Tell me more, I love hearing this."
"..."
Just as he was about to complain, the red warning light came on again, and the Manta yanked its nose sharply without warning.
The beige beam flew from underneath the Manta, hitting several meteorites and bursting into clouds of sparks.
"I almost forgot about it. What's that thing called?"
"Light cruiser, the most basic type of ship that can sail long distances in the void. Judging from the specifications, it should be a piece of junk that has been used for almost a hundred years."
For small-scale pirates like this, don’t expect any particularly powerful motherships. But don’t see it through. The light cruiser is also the type of ship Alyssa wants most now. At the very least, she must have it to catch up with Carlos. Starship sailing away.
"Do you know where the weakness is?"
"The bridge and the place where the rear part is connected to the engine...wait a minute, what do you want to do?"
Alyssa suddenly had a very bad premonition.
(End of chapter)