The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Something came to life."

Dajiba said, pointing in the direction of the gas giant planet expressionlessly, and then turned on the projection of the tactical view in front of Oregana.

Her face darkened——

A powerful energy echoed eerily bright beneath the reddish-brown atmosphere, and any clone warrior would recognize the familiar data echo.

"Dark Worm..."

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Chapter 1106 Chapter 136: Colossus?Or a corpse?

The situation is very bad just by looking at it with the eyes.

Until just now, the sensors have not detected the dark worms in the gas giant.This is a very dangerous signal—it may mean that this swarm can hide almost anywhere, even if the scout ship gets closer to less than three light seconds, it cannot be found by conventional detection methods.This is really worrying. When you see a dark worm rising slowly from the cloud of a gaseous planet, do you suspect that in the surrounding rubble belt, under the stratum of another planet? , or are there other bugs hiding elsewhere?

No matter what, now we must look at the one in front of us—kill it, take its life, study it thoroughly, identify and compare every energy reaction, and redo the new detection protocol in this universe.Only in this way can a safe environment be maintained again.

On the screen, the dark worm is floating up.A large shadow appeared in the turbid atmosphere of the gas giant star, just like the shadow cast by a giant whale in the sea. Judging from this shadow, the long axis of this dark worm is likely to exceed a thousand kilometers. Individuals whose size is not within the standard range, which already hints at its strength.

Things like dark worms are stronger the farther they are from the standard type.

But it doesn't seem to be so easy to float up, the gravity of the gas giant planet strangles it like a noose.Every time this individual floats up, it seems to be struggling out of the quagmire - judging from the data read from the sensor, it did not use all its strength to rise or fight the storm, but to use a kind of patience like a fisherman , pulling himself up slowly.

This is too cautious... What is it worried about?Or is it another trap?But the path of the detected atmospheric flow is also somewhat strange.That is not the airflow that should be produced when a roughly ellipsoidal object is lifted into the air. There are too many turbulent flows, so much that it is impossible to even estimate what shape it is.

"I'll go back and get the Titan, I'll leave it to you. Don't let it go!"

"Ah."

Through the Warscythe's sub-hole (fog), Oregana returned to the Panther.Seeing Oregana appearing on the bridge, Muduo Drama's tense shoulders in the communication screen loosened. In the past period of time, he has been under tremendous psychological pressure——If Oregana Regina's inexplicable death here is a shame for her family to continue to the last generation. The pattern of the universe will even be changed because of this action, and this responsibility cannot be borne by herself no matter what.

However, one problem is solved, another problem still exists.Murdoch Drama looked at the shadow, with fear in his words——

[This is the dark worm you mentioned?It's always above our heads... who should I pray to...]

"Now is not the time to say that." Leopard interrupted him. As the pilot of the warship, her emotions were gradually becoming high at this moment. "Boss, what did you see inside?"

"There is a very strange target inside. It seems to have something to tell us, but in the end it was swallowed by the body tissue of the dark worm," Oregana sat on the operation seat, and the four data pipe cables were automatically connected to the On the nerve link port on her back, "We think we need to incapacitate the bugs first. Prepare for battle! The battleship of the Sword of St. Helios retreats immediately! We have to call the flagship to enter the field, we are short of manpower."

"it is good!"

【We have to fight too! 】

Sangheili's heavy-armored battleship approached, and from this position, one could see the plasma turrets on both sides of her hull being deployed one by one—the Sangheilis regarded battle as an honor, and in battle they paid attention to the principle of fighting against the enemy. Hit, and even taunt (Admiral Cole personally tested).Stimulated by such traditional virtues, even though he had to face the extremely powerful dark worms, Muduo De Lama still plucked up the courage and decided to take his crew to participate in the battle against the indigenous inhabitants of this universe for 10 years. The first war against the dark worms.

However, Oregana didn't want this.It is so huge, its defensive performance, offensive performance and mobility are not up to standard. If it is dug out of the old hangar and cleaned up without system maintenance, it is tantamount to a dead end if it faces the dark worm.

"You haven't been equipped with the equipment to fight the dark worms, and you haven't learned how to fight them - at this time, there is no difference between being strong and committing suicide, and suicide has no honor at all." She said loudly, "Retreat immediately, and then Report to the Arbiter, we are entering the flagship."

Mu Duo Drama originally wanted to say something, but finally chose to give in under Oregana's strong sense of oppression.He was even a little surprised—even at this moment, the first thing she thought of was the need to report to the flagship when entering the area controlled by the Sword of St. Helios.

【Yes! 】After saluting, he shouted to the people around him 【Exit the battlefield!Call for reinforcements to block the route!Use the emergency channel to contact the Arbiter! 】

The communication window disappeared, and Oregana took a deep breath, and she connected her consciousness to the system of the Very Leopard—in addition to Liu Lizi, there were six soldiers in the guard.In this way, this battleship is equivalent to adding eight additional high-performance computers, which can maximize the performance of the battleship that has been continuously strengthened.

She can feel that she is touching the minds of her companions. This feeling is a bit like that of cephalopods like octopuses. A master brain is used for thinking and issuing instructions. After receiving the instructions, the tentacles will fully process the received one instruction.Large warships don’t need to be adjusted like this because of their output power, because the fault tolerance rate is high, and conventional warships don’t need to be adjusted like this under normal circumstances, because even if one or two battleships are sunk, it won’t hurt.

But now it's different. I have to use the Very Leopard, plus three Statius-class cruisers and an Astro-class frigate, to keep this dark worm in check until the main fleet arrives—and then Judging from the maneuvering speed of the main fleet, it will take less than 10 minutes, but it is already a remarkable thing to be able to last 10 minutes with only these few ships.

"Damn it... have a movie with the dark worm in the golden age," she took a deep breath, injected medicine into her neck to relieve the sting caused by brain overload, and fixed herself on the operator's seat, "Astro go to safety Click on the inducement!"

The frigate immediately disappeared into the universe, and 20 seconds later, the beacon of the induction force field appeared in the overview list.

At this moment, the huge shell of the dark worm just rose from the atmosphere of the gas giant star.The turbulent atmosphere was thrown into the sky and scattered in the universe, and the huge thing that rushed out of it seemed like a whale jumping out of the water-no, it was not a whale.

The appearance of that thing is completely different from the dark worms I have seen now, including the dark worms I saw in my previous memory.Its outer shell is dilapidated, and there are large and small holes all over its body. You can even see the dry and inactive internal structure through those huge holes, and even the starlight behind it, which makes it look like a city full of sticky oceans. living coral reef.Eye-stalks grew out of the shattered shell like coral tubes, and sixteen dim crystals wrapped around it like a belt.

It looks like a dead corpse crawling up from the grave... Judging by common sense, the dark worm must be dead after being beaten into such a ghostly appearance, but it is still alive, and its psychic response is still gradually strengthening.Its propelling limbs were swinging slowly, stirring the airflow in the upper atmosphere, creating a storm that no one could imagine behind it, but it was still bound by gravity—this might be the reason why it couldn't fly away from here.

Although he is still alive, although his psychic power is not low, his structural strength is weak enough to be seen by the naked eye.If this dark worm was as lively and active as its compatriots, it must have broken itself before doing anything, right?But it still has a chance -- here next to the gas giant, the rubble ring and nearby asteroid belt provide enough material for it to mend itself.

But it won't have that chance anymore.

The three Struth-class cruisers launched the attack first, and the orbital bombs fired by the cluster laser's line of fire sentry drones fell like raindrops.But this kind of attack is not even comparable to scraping for the dark worm, it doesn't even bother to fight back, and a large number of eye-stalks are looking in one direction in the universe.

That's where the Astro class is located.

In the next instant, the crystals surrounding the dark worm lit up one after another.

"It detected the induction signal?! Oops!"

Immediately afterwards, a long and narrow space crack appeared in the universe, and the three crystals were extremely bright, and the light burst out from it, directly shooting into the crack.

In an instant, the first ray of light passed Astros' side, and the shield hit by the aftermath flickered a few times before going out.The remaining two rays of light spread forward halfway, scattering countless tiny rays, completely covering the hull of Astro's ship—together with the hundreds of kilometers of space beside it.

[I was attacked!Hull shot!The energy line was…]

With a small spark, the communication was interrupted, and the induction force field signal in the overview list disappeared together.

"This guy is so smart! How does it know?!"

[I detected the space distortion on the ruins!It's that set of equipment that is assisting the Dark Worm's attack!The ruins that just stopped working are now up and running again!The crystals there are observing the surrounding space parameters! 】The driver of the cruiser also intervened in the communication at this time, and the excellent sensors on the Stesius discovered the problem at the moment when the battle situation changed 【This ship will clean up the external 'sensors' while maintaining the integrity of the interior of the ruins Lose!Please take cover! 】

This dark worm polluted the ruins many years ago, and it is also possible that the structures on the ruins were originally formed by something shed from it. From the perspective of energy response, the crystallized towers and The equipment below the ground is completely different, but the energy waveform of the high tower is consistent with this dark worm, which shows that this dark worm is using the structure above to control the underground equipment.And that set of equipment obviously has the ability to control the space to a certain extent.

Her choice is not wrong, because the artillery on the Very Leopard is only suitable for bombing, and cannot be used for such delicate operations like surgery.To be able to eliminate only the high tower without damaging the ruins below, you have to use the high-precision laser weapons equipped on Struthus.

Therefore, Oregana agreed to this battle without hesitation:

"Understood, solve the problem as soon as possible! The other two Starseus also left the battle line! Leave this galaxy and start the induction in the black area outside!" She issued a series of instructions "Liu Lizi, we are here to hunt whales! Let's mark it first." The first harpoon! About the boat..."

"Boss, let's talk about it later."

Oregana reached out and touched her head, the leopard didn't say a word, just rubbed it lightly, and then put on the battle goggles:

"What are we going to do now? Just rush up?"

"Shoot, and approach that planet," Oregana drew a route, "pass through the rubble, and induce it to shoot at us!"

"Yes!"

The engine propulsion light of the Very Leopard suddenly lit up. She increased the speed and entered the jump space. After a few seconds, she found that the ship was rushing towards the dark worm's spiritual shield-the space created by the shelling just now. Interference and the gravitational field of the gas giant interfered with the normal operation of the jump engine, which caused the entire ship to approach the dark worm at a dangerous speed.

If you continue like this, you will collide with the dark worm, and you can predict which side will win if you use your brain a little.If this is Tiamat, then you only need to open the space distortion shield, step on the throttle to kill it, make a hole in it, and then launch the doomsday weapon to hit it with hemiplegia, but it is only a specially equipped black hidden special service ship. Can't do this kind of thing.

[The angle is too big!We'll hit it! ] A guard soldier sent a nervous thought pulse.

But Oregana didn't even breathe disorderly—this was within her expectations. Before the jump started, she had already made six plans for different situations, which happened to fit one of them:

[The port side attitude control nozzle is fully opened, all firearms are fully fired, and then the energy of the shield is restrained and sprayed out!Increase the output of the internal force field to 74%! 】

【Yes! 】

Ejecting out the shield that protects the hull is a project studied by the developers of the Starlink community after the war.Because in that battle, many warships were landed by the Dark Worm strike force. This was not because the air defense system was not good enough, but because the number of enemies was too high.Therefore, they tried to modify the program of the shield of the active battleship so that it could be aimed and fired in one direction-as a one-time shotgun to relieve the urgent need.

Honestly, it's not a good idea.First of all, when the energy of the shield is sufficient enough to be launched to cause damage to a large number of enemies, things probably haven't reached the point of 'must discard the shield'; secondly, when it comes to 'must discard the shield', most of the shields It has been pierced, and even if it is fired, it is useless.However, this method of operation has been memorized, because the impact on the entire ship when the shield is launched is almost impossible to eliminate, so it can be used as a means of maneuvering ghosts and animals in an emergency... To be honest, when the large fleet is fighting Basically, it has no actual combat value, and most of it is used in the arena of Starship Road.

However, in the technical exchange, Captain Jacob Keith said that this is what he wanted, and then repeated it several times——

'If the Covenant had done this, maybe I would have been killed. '

Perhaps one day in the future, the Keyes maneuver that shocked the UNSC and the Covenant will be carried forward again.But this hope seems to be very slim, because Jacob Keith, the most capable captain of UNSC, is currently appointed to command the new generation of UNSC mothership-the first ship of the endless-class super aircraft carrier "Infinity", Catherine · Dr. Halsey, Tartarus' tech master Mayu Asuka and researchers Kai Shimako, Noto Izumi were assigned to the battleship to install the 'Hedwig' foreign trade flagship jump engine produced in Tartarus and standard flagship jump bridge arrays.

After sitting on the super flag, it is difficult to drag the car. (nod)

The shield that was temporarily used as a large posture control device was launched, and the shield and the spiritual energy barrier squeezed each other, and the spray of light splashed like waves, and the strong impact swept the entire battleship. On the one hand, the dark worm's spiritual energy barrier also caused some waves.

The shield does not seem to be as indestructible as previously imagined.To be honest... this is too fragile...

But the dark worm didn't pay attention to the bite of the 'mosquito' here, all its attention was on the other side——

Above the satellite relics, Stesius was descending at a high speed, and she used her secondary guns to aim at the surrounding high towers that still had crystallization at low output and fiercely fired.The pulse laser used to straf the frigate flickered continuously, punching rows of small holes in those crystals.The shot crystals did not explode, but quickly disintegrated like a handful of fine salt. The dust was so fine that they fell on the ground, forming dust that was no different from satellite dust.

The driver didn't have time to investigate the physical properties of the dust, and she devoted all her attention to cleaning the tower and observing space fluctuations.Several times, the rift in the space opened above, and she immediately moved to the position between the big truck below the ruins and the rift—the rift closed.The opponent didn't want to destroy that ruin, and this became its weakness.

"Now, shoot with all your might!"

The fire controller replaced answers with actions.

Ten 1400mm 錵 alloy armor-piercing bullets broke through the unimaginably brittle spiritual energy barrier for some reason, and hit the surface of the dark worm's shattered body.

The six shells unleashed their power on the shell, and the high temperature generated when the nuclear charge detonated melted the shell of the chrysium alloy, turning into countless super-high-speed flying objects and attacking everything around, and the coral tube-like eye stalks were swept away. a large piece.The remaining four shots flew into the original damage on the shell, and exploded after rushing forward for more than ten kilometers. Energy flames mixed with a large number of fragments spewed out of the cave. The terrifying momentum was like volcanic eruptions.

Not only that, all the turrets on the port side aimed at the monsters and sprinkled fiery barrages, and the multi-function launcher also spit out 36 heavy whipping missiles in a row-these missiles are much slower than artillery shells here, because the multi-function launcher It is not a professional missile launcher. It is equipped with a high-performance pressurized ejection device, but it is enough. Moreover, at the distance where the guidance system on the warhead of this shell does not have time to play its role, the slow missile is more powerful. Time to drill down carefully into their assigned goals.

They dragged their long tails and flew into different holes on the dark worm's shell, the light inside flickered and then went silent again.

There was no time to care about the effect of the missile. The powerful acceleration generated by the miniature jump thruster had already caused the Panther, which lost its shield, to rush out against the dark worm's psychic barrier.The energy sparks jumping on the surface of the spiritual energy barrier licked the bottom of the ship, outlining terrifying burn scars on the nano armor.Amidst the violent tremors, everyone on the bridge pushed their brains to the limit——

The angle and strength of each thruster; the operation of each shield capacitor; the condition of each piece of nano-armor at the wounded position, the operation of each nano-injector; each space sensor, each energy detector, and each There are two cannons, and every electronic warfare interference element is controlled in the most suitable position, working in the most suitable way.

When the sensor perceives the opponent's energy lock-at least in terms of lock-on, it is no different from ordinary dark worms-after the multi-function launcher under the hull casts three kinds of targets targeting psionic energy, light radar and magnetic radar. Different jamming warheads fired a total of nine graviton bombs around at the same time to interfere with the possible gravitational induction of the opponent.

At the moment when these jamming bombs detonated, three "aquatic giant" active decoys were launched. The latest generation of decoy bombs is a product made with reference to the hard light technology of the pioneers. Light but hard light has opened up some new ideas for me], integrating various projection equipment, gravity simulation systems and thrusters, and adjusting it to a very leopard state in advance.After activation, a 'quality afterimage' can be generated to interfere with the functions of various detectors.Because it is always reminiscent of the F91 Gundam, it was named 'Aquatic Giant'.

Because it is extremely expensive, too sophisticated and inconvenient to maintain, this type of active decoy is not deployed in troops, and only a very small number of special forces are using it, but it has performance that meets this price.

In the eyes of the detector of the sword of St. Helios, after the brief interference ended, the original one warship became three, rushing towards three different directions at almost the same speed, one towards the gas giant star The polar circle galloped, then turned around, another one rushed towards the surrounding asteroid belt, and the third one slid out all the way close to the top layer of the atmosphere.

The dark worm, which was being shot violently, realized that this little thing was a threat. It obviously couldn't tell which one was real, so it locked the three warships and fired light cannons.

Muduo Drama, who watched all this from a distance, was stunned—the power of each light cannon was higher than that of the energy projector, not only the accuracy was unbelievable, but there were dozens of them.He understood why Oregana refused to command her warship to join this battle, because she was sunk the moment she entered the battlefield, not to mention her chances of winning.With this kind of firepower, even if a fleet fights against it, it will probably be destroyed in an instant, right?

How could it be possible to avoid the observation of so many eyes of the other party and the shooting of so many artillery pieces by only splitting into three?

Stabbed by the arrow of the beam, the three warships were smashed into pieces at the same time.

Is she finished?Just die like that?

At the moment when Mu Duo De Lama was frightened, a crystal cannon around the dark worm's body suddenly exploded, followed by another - ten heavy shells flew from a distance, shooting like spears. Thrusting forward, the steel bullets endowed them with the ability to disturb the dark worm's spiritual energy and break through the already weak spiritual energy barrier. They were deeply nailed into the crystal, making this fort, which was as beautiful as a work of art, disappear in the beauty of art.

The body of the Very Leopard appeared in the universe for a moment, and then the black background of the universe was covered like a curtain.The cheetah hid in the bushes, sneaking quietly, all for the next thunderous blow.

This dark worm also felt the threat, it closed the crystal cannon, and the light of the spiritual energy barrier became stronger.Like a threatened crustacean, it wields its claws, ready for an attack from any direction.

[This is the second ship, which is about to arrive at the designated location. 】

"Follow Sickle Meow's instructions, if he tells you to drive and induce you to drive, we can't spare our attention here."

【learn! 】

The enemy has the ability of long-range sniping. Even though most of the 'detectors' on the ruins have been destroyed now, it is difficult to guarantee whether the other party has other equipment.Therefore, if the induction force field is activated rashly, Stacius doesn't care, but the flagship entering the field may be sniped-the output of this gun is frighteningly high. The grapes Magnus stepped on are the same.