Trickster Hunter

Chapter 344 Twin Balloons

A huge amount of memories that did not belong to Sun Hang rushed into his mind. Sun Hang gradually understood the meaning and purpose of the buttons and levers on the control panel, and mastered various basic and extreme flying skills. He even experienced an aerial battle with a flying monster in just a dozen seconds...

He is no longer a flying rookie, but a flying expert with 47 years of experience and more than 5,000 hours of flight time. If the data of the two pilots are added together, I am afraid that there are not many pilots in Tianfu City who can be more "experienced" than Sun Hang.

Accompanied by a piercing alarm, Sun Hang saw a dense pile of red dots on the radar disk. The aura of the monsters that Sun Hang sensed also increased from several to more than a dozen, and then quickly increased to nearly a hundred.

Twenty seconds ago, the transport plane had entered the range of the eternal night, and the readings of many instruments began to become very confusing... Fortunately, the two pilots had more than 120 hours of flight time in the eternal night environment. The valuable experience they accumulated allowed Sun Hang to still fly visually even under such harsh conditions.

Those flying monsters are very fast. According to the current flight speed of the transport plane and the approaching speed of these monsters shown by the radar, it is not difficult to calculate that the flying speed of these guys has exceeded Mach 2, which is no less than the supersonic fighter of the Xiazhou Federation... These monsters don’t even need to use any attack methods. They just need to crash into the transport plane to cause serious damage enough to crash the plane.

The transport plane crashed, and it was easy for Sun Hang to survive with his ability. But Ling Xiao and Fukada Miki were doomed to die-even if they could successfully parachute at this altitude, they would have to face the endless pursuit of the remaining monsters.

These monsters can even catch up with transport planes that are close to the speed of sound, not to mention unpowered targets in free fall.

Before the transport plane took off, Chunming City asked Sun Hang if he needed fighter escort. Sun Hang refused directly at that time - but now it seems that even if there is a fighter escort, it will only increase unnecessary casualties.

The distance between the strange creature and the transport plane is getting closer and closer, and it has entered the visual range. Sun Hang pressed a button on the side of the joystick, and a large amount of burning thermite was immediately ejected from the tail of the plane, instantly illuminating a large area of ​​airspace behind.

This kind of thermite was originally used to interfere with the guidance system of missiles, but in this situation, their only use is lighting.

Sun Hang finally saw clearly what kind of strange creatures were following him - they were a large number of irregularly shaped pieces of meat. No one could explain why these pieces of meat that seemed to have no power source and whose shapes were completely inconsistent with aerodynamics could reach the flight speed of cutting-edge fighters... They were like shells fired from the muzzle of some kind of living cannon, biting tightly behind the transport plane.

In order to ensure speed and aerodynamics, this transport plane is not equipped with any weapons - even if there are, Sun Hang does not think that weapons such as machine guns or missiles can completely eliminate these strange creatures...

"Hold on tight!" Sun Hang said to the two people in the cabin, and then he pulled the joystick back suddenly, and the nose of the transport plane was pulled almost vertically to the ground, and the transport plane instantly stalled and fell!

Sun Hang thought that those pieces of meat with a speed of two Mach would rush directly to the front, but he did not expect that these pieces of meat were not only fast, but also extremely flexible - at the moment the transport plane fell, they changed the direction of movement and chased the transport plane again.

This time, the risky "Cobra maneuver" not only failed to help Sun Hang get rid of the pursuit, but also greatly shortened the distance between the transport plane and these pieces of meat - the closest piece of meat was less than 300 meters away from the wing of the transport plane. For air combat, 300 meters is almost a blink of an eye.

In the blink of an eye, a bolt of lightning struck from the sky, and the meat mass as big as a millstone instantly turned into charcoal, and then slammed into the side of the transport plane!

The scene of the cabin being pierced did not appear. The moment the carbonized meat mass hit the transport plane, it was scattered into countless fine ash particles, sliding out along the aircraft shell like some kind of fluid.

Accompanied by a harsh friction sound, the transport plane shook violently... But it was just a shake, the plane did not crash, and the cabin was not pierced. After leaving countless tiny scratches on the aircraft shell, the ash particles were blown away by the strong gale in the sky.

Sun Hang, sitting in the driver's seat, gasped heavily, and the clothes behind him were completely wet with sweat, tightly attached to the flocked chair back.

The energy consumption of summoning lightning out of thin air was too terrifying. Just like that, Sun Hang was almost drained dry... He looked down at the "relic" lying in his palm. The color of the relic had changed from pale yellow amber to pure transparency, and many fine cracks appeared inside, as if it would break at any time.

Sun Hang sighed and put the scrapped relic back into his pocket.

"The first echelon has entered the combat airspace!" A full-bodied voice penetrated the harsh noise of the electric current and entered Sun Hang's ears, "Please pay attention to the enemy identification!"

"Is the communication interference gone? No... the interference is still there, not radio... but laser communication?!" In the few seconds that Sun Hang was thinking, more than a dozen fighter jets of different models quickly plundered from both sides of him and rushed towards the group of strange creatures chasing behind!

"Is this... a suicide attack?" Sun Hang was a little confused.

The flying speed of the strange meat pieces is two Machs, and the flying speed of these fighter jets that came to rescue has also exceeded one Mach... The relative speed between the two exceeds three Mach. In this case, if they collide with each other, even if the fighter jets are equipped with the front armor of heavy tanks, they will still be penetrated by these meat pieces that are like artillery shells.

They did not carry out out-of-visual-range strikes or because the missiles could not lock on these meat pieces, they had already rushed to the front, not only did they not open fire, but they also accelerated towards the group of strange creatures... Could it be that these fighter jets are all drones? They are full of explosives? They are specially designed to self-destruct?

But Sun Hang just saw two human pilots sitting in the cockpit of a fighter jet that passed by him in the state of bullet time.

But the next second, Sun Hang's question was answered.

The dozen fighters suddenly reacted to the weird memes, and then thousands of arcs "connected" these fighters in a special formation, forming a huge electric net in the air!

The arcs also wrapped around the fuselage of these fighters, forming something like an energy shield. The weird meat pieces hit the shield and were instantly blown to pieces, and then they hit the electric net and were cut into pieces by the sharp arcs!

The huge electric net cleared away eight or nine out of ten pieces of meat at once, and with the outermost fighters of the formation making a roundabout maneuver, the fish caught in the net were quickly swept in... In less than four seconds, the originally mighty group of weird things was wiped out in an instant.

"Wow, what kind of black technology is this?" Sun Hang exclaimed in a low voice.

He could feel that the meme fluctuations emitted by these fighters all came from the same strange creature, but Sun Hang did not recognize this strange creature... Although they both had lightning attributes, the arc of this strange creature seemed a little different from the lightning of Kuiniu - it was more like using a force field to constrain the violent energy flow into a special shape, and then using this "materialized" energy weapon to attack.

Its principle was exactly the same as the beam saber in Gundam.

The power grid dissipated, and the shields on those fighters also disappeared. The dozen fighters turned around and soon formed an escort formation, surrounding the transport plane driven by Sun Hang in the middle.

"I am the commander of the Federal Air Force's 'Special 031' tactical team, Wei Yuan, with a rank of brigadier general. The next escort mission is fully responsible for me and my troops." The previous full-hearted voice sounded again in the communication channel, "Now I need to confirm the casualties on the transport plane."

"All alive, only two pilots are unconscious, probably affected by some strange creature." Sun Hang replied.

"Both pilots are unconscious? Who is flying the plane now? The autopilot system?" Wei Yuan asked.

"The autopilot system is broken too." Sun Hang said, "I am driving now."

"You mean... did you perform the Cobra maneuver just now?" Wei Yuan's tone was filled with disbelief, "How many hours have you flown before?"

"This is my first time flying a plane. I have only touched the joystick for less than half an hour." Sun Hang said, "Maybe I am gifted."

Wei Yuan fell into a brief silence. After a full half minute, the other party asked, "Do we need to send a pilot to the transport plane?"

"It shouldn't be necessary... I feel like I am flying well." Sun Hang said.

"In that case, please maintain the cruise flight state... Before landing, a battle may break out at any time." Wei Yuan said.

"You mean... there are more monsters on the way?"

"No... According to observations from Tianfu City, there was only one monster that intercepted you from beginning to end." Wei Yuan said, "Those pieces of meat just now were all split off from the monster."

"Where is the main body of this monster?" Sun Hang asked.

"The low-Earth orbit above Shuzhou, 580 kilometers from the ground." Wei Yuan replied, "Serial number 'Bing 13', code name 'Gemini Balloon'."

"Gemma Balloon?" Sun Hang obviously heard the name of this monster for the first time, "What is that?"

"Relevant information is being transmitted, please pay attention to receive it." Perhaps Wei Yuan felt that sending the monster file directly to Sun Hang would be more detailed than speaking, or perhaps he still needed to command the entire escort formation and had no time to continue chatting with Sun Hang - in short, after sending the file to Sun Hang, he took the initiative to cut off the laser communication.

Sun Hang glanced at the bright red lead plane not far away, and then opened the file transmitted by the other party.

The first thing that catches your eye is a few photos taken with satellites - the background of the photos is the dark universe and the blue earth. In the middle of the photo, two huge, elliptical "balloons" float above the low-Earth orbit, occupying nearly half of the entire photo.

The two "balloons" present a biological texture. The surface of the "balloons" is wrapped with a layer of liver-colored biomass mucous membrane. Between the two "balloons", there are a large number of tubular structures connected. Like the external mucous membrane, these tubular structures also look like part of an organism.

Next to the photo, the scale is also very considerately marked - according to the values ​​on the scale, the long radius of these two elliptical spheres has exceeded 15 kilometers, and the short radius is at least 11 or 12 kilometers.

This is undoubtedly a behemoth.

Below the photo is a simple introduction to the strange thing:

Bing 13, "Twin Balloons", was first discovered in January 4668 of the lunar calendar.

The sphere presents the characteristics of an organism, with an extremely low overall density. It is suspected that there is a huge hollow cavity inside the sphere.

The long radius of the left sphere is 15,198 meters, and the short radius is 11,058 meters; the long radius of the right sphere is 15,623 meters, and the short radius is 12,118 meters.

The length of the connection between the two spheres fluctuates between 500 meters and 700 meters.

The strange creature is suspended in the low-Earth orbit 300 to 600 kilometers above the ground all year round. Most of the time, it is located above the occupied area. Occasionally, it will leave the occupied area and enter the airspace above the human activity area.

The movement trajectory of the strange creature is irregular, and the frequency and time of invading human airspace are also irregular.

From January 4668 when it was first discovered to March 4715, the strange creature has invaded human airspace a total of 35 times, the longest of which lasted 14 days and the shortest lasted only six minutes.

The strange creature has no record of actively attacking humans.

"Okay, now there is." Seeing this, Sun Hang couldn't help but complain.

However, the strange creature has a strong sense of defense. Once a detector approaches, it will split a large number of sub-bodies with high-speed flight capabilities, and crash any approaching objects including the detector.

It has been determined that the warning radius of the strange creature is 80 kilometers.

In view of the fact that the strange creature has not yet caused any impact on humans, the parliament and the Tianshu Tower unanimously decided to keep a close watch on the strange creature. Unless necessary, any actions that may stimulate the strange creature are strictly prohibited.

Once the strange creature is found to leave the occupied area and enter the airspace of the human-controlled area, the relevant units will be notified immediately, and the response plans 1 to 6 will be implemented according to the actual situation.

"It's really a big guy." Sun Hang took another look at the video materials... Such a big strange creature floating in the sky, I don't know how the Federation can allow its existence...

Or did they find that they couldn't solve this strange creature, and this strange creature usually behaved harmless to humans and animals, so they had to adopt the response policy of "close observation"?

So how should the top leaders of the Federation deal with this situation now?