Chapter 38: Imperial Lectures
Lina looked at the image on the projection screen expressionlessly.
That was a glimpse they captured of the battle area on the planet's surface.
The energy level of the beam of light that fell from the sky was weakened by the atmosphere in the first few microseconds, but when the energy beam reached the surface and established a transmission channel, the energy that was subsequently continuously sent out was almost undiminished.
The figure was vaporized.
The molecular structure is destroyed by the high-energy ion beam.
quilt……
Lina has some tinnitus.
The moment she witnessed Hanton being vaporized, she could hear no other sound but ringing in her ears.
“Sir…Sir!”
The young intelligence officer woke Lina up.
"explain."
"Target No. 1 was confirmed to have been killed by the pirate ship's main gun! The information we just received is a bit confusing. The pirates had a conflict over the treasure buried by Kolev, and Target No. 1 was also involved. It seems that the current leader of the Black Dragon Pirates, Kimo, was killed in the conflict. In retaliation, the pirates attacked Target No. 1 with their main guns... just now."
Lina took a half step back and raised her hand to hold the safety railing beside her, her face pale and bloodless.
"Sir? You need to rest."
Lina suddenly said: "Biological sensor! Use the biological sensor to collect information there!"
"The biosensor didn't respond. The energy from the pirate ship's main gun destroyed everything."
"Sir, according to the records we stole from the enemy pirate ship, target number one has indeed angered these pirates."
"And sir... we have captured a signal from the positioning device... it seems to be the positioning device that remained in the body of target number one and was not metabolized. It is our exclusive product and it sent out a weak signal before he was destroyed..."
There was silence inside the battleship for about half a minute.
"They ruined Hanton, they ruined Hanton... They ruined my efforts for more than a year," Lina muttered to herself, "Kill them."
The captain asked, "Sir, who are we going to attack?"
"Pirates! Attack these bastard pirates!"
Lina's expression was a little out of control, her pale cheeks had a little more blush, and her slender body was shaking constantly.
"Don't let them leave! Break their defense shield! Let them turn into dust in the universe right now! Even if we can only take a share of the credit for destroying the pirates, we won't let these three months of waiting go to waste!"
The captain shrugged slightly, "You made the wisest decision in the last three months."
Then the captain's voice became high-pitched, accurate, and full of masculine power.
"All ship guns charged! Protective shields charged to 20%! Target the enemy flagship first!"
"Release electronic interference! Make these crude pirate ships stay there!"
"Fire at will!"
The entire ship was activated almost instantly, the bridge became bustling with activity, and dozens of laser beams appeared outside the portholes.
These beams are only intended to consume the opponent's shield energy.
The battleship's main gun is charging!
Battleships are preheating at full firepower!
In the stealth boat that had just entered the high-altitude clouds, Yang Ming looked at the projection screen shaking back and forth in front of him and exchanged glances with Kolev.
Before he could say anything, his attention was drawn to a beam of light appearing outside the atmosphere.
Dozens of laser beams hit the two pirate ships with the strongest firepower at the same time.
"Hey!" Kolev yelled, "They are attacking my ship! Oh! Damn it! Why don't the remaining bastards run away!"
"There must be electronic interference," Yang Ming reminded, "The battleship is too close to them."
As soon as they finished speaking, the shield of a pirate ship was breached.
However, the battleship had just completed energy dispatch.
The curved armor on the front half of the battleship became bumpy, and a 100-meter-caliber gun barrel filled with a strong magnetic field quickly extended forward in the center of the ship's front, with sections of the gun barrel being lit up continuously.
Outside this gun barrel, there is a circle of gun barrels with slightly smaller caliber pushed forward synchronously. This is the main and secondary gun combination of the Dawn-class battleship.
Charging is 30 percent complete.
Minimum bombardment standards.
The main and secondary guns simultaneously ejected brilliant particle beams, like streaks of azure lightning, illuminating the sky outside the planet.
"Don't do that! Oh, no! No no! My ship!"
Kolev roared, trembling all over.
The 300-meter-class pirate ship was pierced through by the blue beam of light almost instantly!
After a few seconds, the violent explosion extended outward from the concentrated area, the pirate ship disintegrated violently, and a fusion reaction was triggered at the bombarded part of the hull. No human figure could be seen in the explosion.
Kolev covered his eyes in despair.
Yang Ming said: "The Guell Alliance is using practical actions to persuade you to quit your crimes."
The stealth boat took advantage of the clouds and sped towards the horizon.
Kolev kept muttering, his old eyes gradually becoming dull; on the projection screen in front of him, a battleship was encircling several pirate ships .
“This is a massacre! A massacre initiated by the Guel Alliance!
"Oh, my ships, the ships I have worked hard for half my life. Although they are all very old, and I have earned several times more wealth than these ships, but... oh, what else can I leave for Mimi? She wants to be a successful pirate like me and sail freely in the vast galaxy.
"Oh! My God, your little lover is so vicious!"
Yang Ming could only smile bitterly and express his sympathy.
But they never stopped the stealth boat.
The Feinan was not stealthy, so they had to rely on this small boat to leave Orkhaifu as soon as possible. Whether they could use the planet to avoid the radar of the battleship became the key to their escape.
The battle in outer space was over in a little over ten minutes.
The silver-white battleship slowly retracted its gun barrels, and the elegant curved outer armor reappeared, but the sturdy guns under the ship were not retracted together.
"What are they going to do?"
Yang Ming asked softly, staring closely at the observation angle that Kolev obtained using the drone.
Kolev slumped in the passenger seat, as if he had lost all his dreams, and kept muttering: "I really should retire. I can buy a manor and invest in real estate. It's not bad to collect rent."
On the projection screen, two landing craft, wrapped in flames, quickly landed on the surface and collected information around the magma cracks on the earth.
More than ten minutes later, the two landing craft returned to the battleship. Before they entered the rear cabin of the ship, a beam of azure blue light dropped from the sky and hit the ruins of the city below.
The attack landing point happened to be the coordinates where the bionic robot vaporized.
Immediately afterwards, beams of light bombarded downwards intensively, the battleships' firepower poured out indiscriminately on the ruins of the city below, and large rain clouds quickly appeared in the sky.
Naval gun autopsy?
Yang Ming's facial muscles twitched slightly and he breathed a sigh of relief.
This means that he is completely dead in the eyes of the Guell Alliance. All he needs next is plastic surgery - restore his original appearance, change his name from Hamton back to Yang Ming, and he will be truly free!
That is, some of the elderly people around me suffered heavy losses.
"The plan was successful, Kolev."
Yang Ming said in a gentle voice: "We are now out of danger and don't have to worry about our lives. All the information has been buried by this battleship, and no one will suspect that we are faking our deaths."
"Yes," Kolev sighed, "So I just unilaterally lost nearly 100 million federal coins in assets."
"I still owe you one million, which is enough for your retirement," Yang Ming looked at the sky that was getting closer and closer, "As long as you are alive, everything is possible. Don't lose heart, my wise first mate."
Drop, drop.
A red spot of light suddenly appeared on the projection screen in front of Yang Ming.
"Captain," the cold electronic synthesized voice of Molly II suddenly sounded, "abnormal gravity fluctuations have been detected."
"What gravitational anomaly?"
Kolev frowned and looked over, staring at the dashboard carefully.
His old face changed rapidly, and he growled:
"A large ship is jumping! It's a large ship jumping! We are near the end of the opponent's jump channel! They want to jump directly to the vicinity of the planet! It's crazy!"
"Jump? Jump close to a planet?"
Yang Ming frowned slightly, and the knowledge points he had learned in the previous few months quickly emerged.
Generally speaking, both the initial point and landing point of the jump need to ensure that the gravitational environment is stable.
But some large ships that incorporate the technology of powerful countries do not follow this 'general' rule.
Yang Ming's decision was swift and decisive.
He pressed down the rudder hard, and the stealth boat, which had quietly slid into the sky, suddenly dived and rushed directly towards the ground.
Unobservable gravitational wave ripples appeared in space.
The huge monster suddenly 'appeared' in the planetary synchronous orbit.
Kolev's pupils trembled violently and he held his breath, almost unable to control himself.
Yang Ming had quickly leveled the stealth boat, shut down its forward and reverse engines, leaving only the external coating powered, and looked up into the sky in shock.
It was already night on the surface here, and the edge of the sky was tinged with a faint white light.
The battleship, shaped like a "memory bar", was now lying across the depths of the sky, blocking the front of the Guell Alliance's Dawn-class light battleship.
The two warships are now at the same altitude from the planet's surface.
This battleship is three or four times longer than the Dawn-class battleship!
In fact, the front half of the ship's hull is an incredibly huge main gun, and the gun barrel that occupies half the length of the ship is being lit up one by one!
Dreadnought!
The Empire's Dreadnought-class heavy battleship!
It has an exaggeratedly long axis of 3,600 meters and a hybrid energy cannon. One shot can destroy a densely packed fleet. It is known as the flagship killer. The Dreadnought-class heavy battleship!
The Sherman Empire emblem that glowed automatically on the stern of the ship almost broke Yang Ming's nerves!
Kolev swore with a dry mouth.
With trembling hands, the old man took out the glass-shaped network access terminal, called up a radio-like interface, and made continuous adjustments.
"Their conversation might have been on a public channel," Kolev explained in a trembling voice.
Cold sweat kept breaking out on the old pirate's forehead.
There was a noisy sound coming from the network access terminal.
"... Your ship's targeting of our ship will be regarded by us as an infringement on the administrative planet of the Guel Alliance."
It's Lina's voice!
Soon, a deep and old voice was heard. It should be the captain of this imperial giant.
"Does your ship have a member of the Guel Union CIA? Her former name was Lina. Her biological information has been transmitted to your ship."
Yang Ming's eyebrows twitched slightly.
"I am," Lina whispered.
"You stole the Empire's secrets," the Imperial Captain whispered. "You used your beauty to seduce a loyal officer of the Empire, and you also faked the death of this loyal officer, right?"
Lina said: "This is all nonsense."
"Charge the main guns," the Imperial captain said, "release the gravitational interference."
A man's voice rang out from Lina's side: "Sir, do you want to go to war with our country directly? We are the ships of the Guel Alliance!"
The Imperial Captain's laughter was filled with undisguised contempt:
"You can contact your superiors now, tell them that your ship has been locked by our ship, and ask them what you should do.
"Hand over Captain Hanton. He is your number one target. He is Professor Kigrove's last masterpiece, right? Doctor Lina, this information was actually leaked by one of your superiors."
"Hanton is dead."
Lina whispered: “Just now, I can give you the proof information.”
"Oh, you killed him?" The voice of the Imperial Captain became deeper and deeper. "You were the ones who caused the damage on the surface, right? You fired at the Imperial soldiers."
"I didn't kill Hanton directly. He was a precious specimen I wanted to obtain," Lina said, "He was involved in a dispute among pirates."
"So you want to destroy the last of his biological information? Desecrate his body?"
The captain of the Empire seemed to have seen the video, and showed a trace of anger: "Oh! Even though he is only a captain! But he is a captain of the Empire! He was bombarded twice by you with the main guns!"
Lina's side remained silent, but the main engine had started, and the smooth surface became bumpy again.
"You are the ones making war on the Empire."
The Imperial Captain said coldly: "You are the ones who manipulated all this. You tried to steal the treasure that should belong to the Empire... No need to say more, destroy them."
Lina said firmly: "You will have to bear the cost of starting a war! This is a barbaric and shameless act of war!"
The Empire remained silent.
Sizzle!
The Guell Alliance ships cut communications.
Yang Ming crawled forward and looked at the two warships facing each other.
The Empire did not turn off the communication equipment, and continued to transmit the captain's steady breathing and calm reports from various places on an open frequency.
The Dawn-class light battleship released a thick cloud of dust, like ink from a squid, and poured all its energy into the shield, making it appear to have an extra layer of halo.
The Alliance ship is trying to escape the planet's gravitational pull.
The Empire's dreadnoughts did not pursue.
It released ripples that could not be captured by the naked eye, and its exaggerated and terrifying main gun had been half lit.
The Imperial Captain whispered, "Alas, Kigrov is too stubborn. He is my friend. He has been conducting experiments for twenty years, but not a single sample or data has been left. It is said that he is close to success and has created a powerful individual unit."
"But, General, this experiment failed after all. We didn't gain anything," a crisp female voice asked, "Do we really want to attack the ships of the Guel Alliance directly? They are the fourth largest force in the Milky Way, and this will probably create a lot of diplomatic pressure."
"Your Highness," the captain said with a smile, "Will the Guel Alliance go to war with us just because of a light battleship?"
"No," the female voice said, "They don't have the strength to deal with the Empire's powerful legions."
"So what do we have to worry about?"
The captain said slowly:
"We must warn those guys who like to play tricks that the value of this battleship is enough to make them feel painful. I can assure you, Your Highness, tomorrow they will say that their invincible ship encountered a strange gamma-ray burst."
A technician shouted: "The main gun is fully charged!"
"Knock it off."
The dreadnought was silent for three seconds.
Most of the lights on the ship went out at the same time, and the huge hull was vibrating slightly and continuously. A beam of deep red high-energy ions violently dispersed the thick dust cloud in front and completely enveloped the battleship.
After a few seconds, the shield melted.
After a few microseconds, the hull melted away.
Yang Ming seemed to see the female doctor standing on the bridge, her skin and bones burned by the ion bombardment.
As the crimson beam gradually faded, the hull of the Dawn-class battleship began to explode violently, and the light produced was even able to temporarily overshadow the brightness of the stars.
"Very beautiful, isn't it, Your Highness?"
The Imperial Captain said in a gentle voice:
“You must understand that weakness and concession will only make you a target for hyenas. Only by maintaining the determination to fight at all costs can you make the weak ones understand their respective positions.
“An experimental specimen is not worth our anger, but we must maintain the dignity of the empire. This is a warning to the Guel Alliance, so that they can reconsider the consequences of standing together with the New Federation.
" There is no balance between the galaxies."
Chirp!
Kolev turned off the receiver in his hand. His face was extremely pale. He asked in a low voice: "Will they find us? Will they..."
Yang Ming just lay there, staring quietly ahead, thoughtful in silence.
"Don't worry."
Yang Ming paused and whispered, "The dreadnought's target is not me."
