Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 815: Shield Disruptor
If it were a war of attrition... Yagunakotor would not necessarily be at a disadvantage. With the energy reserves it had absorbed from the magma pool for tens of thousands of years, even if the undead crew cut off all the energy routes of the entire Ark to supply the black fleet, it would be impossible to break Yagunakotor's energy shield.
But being beaten passively like this was not a situation Ke Lan wanted to see. The key point was that he didn't know what other tricks the undead crew had - they obviously knew that the Black Fleet could not break through the defense of Yaguna Tor. If that was the case, why would they choose to do useless work?
This doesn't seem like the style of the Undead Crew. Perhaps their real purpose is not necessarily to seize control of Yaguna Tor.
Rather than waiting for the undead crew to advance their plan step by step, Ke Lan would rather take the initiative.
Anyway, now they have almost torn their relations with the undead crew. Although the officers and soldiers of this black fleet are only following orders, in order to ensure the safety of Hound and others, Ke Lan has no choice but to kill them.
Looking at this fleet with black as the main color, he couldn't help but think of the black-clad troops that rushed in to "disrupt the situation" during the second half of the raid on the Nova Chamber of Commerce... Although it seems a bit far-fetched to link the two together based on color alone, at least one thing is certain, whether it is the black fleet or the soldiers wearing black unmarked combat uniforms, they are all forces that the undead crew will cultivate in secret, and no one will know of their existence before they are put into use.
Even the archives of Heijing do not contain any information about these troops.
"It's time to fight back." Ke Lan searched Yagunakotor's armory through the neural connection - however, the situation in the armory was exactly the same as the last time he browsed it. All weapons that required energy had "insufficient reserve energy to activate", and weapons that needed to be stocked had "zero ammunition remaining".
Apart from the "Bio-Organic Extractor" that was used last time to kill the Seeds of Corrosion and the followers of the heretic sect, there are not many remaining tools that are suitable as weapons.
There are very few "tools" that are suitable as weapons, and they are worse than using Yagunakotor directly to hit them...
"Should I use the extractor again?" Ke Lan weighed the issue in his mind - in principle, he didn't really want to kill everyone on the black fleet, and the best way to deal with it was to destroy the combat capabilities of these warships while ensuring that no one was hurt... But the effect of the "Biological Organic Matter Extractor" was just the opposite: it was only effective on living organisms and would not cause any damage to the warships.
Even if Ke Lan killed all the crew members of the Black Fleet, the Undead Crew should be able to continue to make the Black Fleet launch attacks through remote control.
Ke Lan is not a saint, and he will not show any mercy when he needs to kill someone...but he is still quite resistant to meaningless killing, and even feels a little disgusted.
These soldiers are all chess pieces on the chessboard, and Ke Lan himself is also a chess piece, but they are pawns that can only rush forward under orders and cannot look back. Ke Lan has already rushed to the bottom row on the opposite side of the chessboard and has been promoted to an "elite pawn."
(Note: Promotion is one of the rules of chess. When a pawn reaches the bottom layer, it can choose to be promoted to any piece except the "king".)
But he is still a pawn.
He is still a chess piece on the chessboard and has not been able to jump out of the board and become a chess player.
There is another thing in the tool list, which seems to have extremely terrifying destructive power - "Celestial Rock Cutter". According to the description given by the battleship system, it is a tool that can cut the crust of a planet's surface into neat and square pieces of heavy fusion fuel... However, although this thing can be used, after using it, the remaining energy of Yagunakotor will be completely drained, and even the energy shield will not be able to continue to be maintained.
"Tsk...Looking at it this way, it seems like we can only bump into each other..."
Just when Ke Lan was about to let the Yaguna Tor move forward, four mass-produced fallen angels equipped with large thrusters suddenly flew right above the Yaguna Tor.
These four mass-produced fallen angels were carrying a 20-meter square metal box. The outer edge of the box had an outer frame equipped with an anti-gravity device, which allowed the metal box to remain in a suspended state inside the frame.
The four mass-produced Fallen Angels did not dare to increase the power of their thrusters to the extreme as they did when they broke into Fleet Zero before, but instead tried to keep the "cargo" as stable as possible.
These four mass-produced fallen angels give people the feeling that they are carefully holding a bomb that could explode at any time, for fear that it will fall or get bumped if they are not careful...
However, with all of the Yaguna Tor's anti-aircraft weapons in an "unusable state", Ke Lan could only watch as the four machines escorted the suspected bomb to a place less than one kilometer away from the top of the Yaguna Tor's energy shield.
"What could this be? A hydrogen bomb? No... The power of a hydrogen bomb is amazing, but compared to the energy shield of Aguna Ktor, it is still not enough... Moreover, the energy released when the hydrogen bomb explodes not only cannot break Aguna Ktor's shield, but part of it will be absorbed by Aguna Ktor and converted into Aguna Ktor's own energy." Ke Lan muttered to himself, "It seems that this thing is most likely found in the Alpha ruins. At the very least, it is a secret weapon made using the technology of the Alpha civilization..."
"Could it be an antimatter bomb?" Layton, who had already returned to the interior of Yaguna Kator and was observing the outside world through the monitoring screen, suddenly came up with an idea. "There are many abandoned death ray cannons on Alpha, and some of them should still have some antimatter stored inside. If the immortal crew can extract this antimatter and make a bomb, it can be considered a powerful weapon."
Even a prehistoric monster like Leviathan suffered from the concentrated fire of the death ray cannon, and ordinary targets really cannot withstand the attack of antimatter weapons.
But the problem is... Yagunakotor is not a "general target".
The destructive power of antimatter mainly comes from annihilation, but for the sake of ease of understanding, Ke Lan prefers to change the word "annihilation" to "neutralization" - antimatter actually also has mass, but this mass is negative. When it comes into contact with positive matter, a neutralization phenomenon called "annihilation" will occur between the two, and in this process, extremely terrifying energy will be released.
But this energy still couldn't break Yagunakotor's shield. When he first discovered Yagunakotor, Ke Lan used mathematical models to make calculations, comparing various existing weapons with Yagunakotor's defenses - this naturally included the "death ray cannon" that sank a battleship with one shot.
However, the final conclusion was that the death ray cannon was simply unable to penetrate the shield of the "Aguna Tor" - unless the Alpha civilization could increase the amount of antimatter released by a single shot of the death ray cannon by more than one hundred and twenty times, but in that case, the difficulty of storing these "shells" would greatly increase... At this time, the death ray cannon should not be called the death ray cannon, it should be directly renamed the "star destroyer cannon".
This level of antimatter definitely cannot be placed in a cubic box with a side length of 20 meters... unless high-level space technology was used in the manufacture of this box.
But if it really is a storage box made using space technology, then there is no need for these mass-produced Fallen Angels to be so cautious, and there is no need to add a superfluous floating frame to the outside of the box for stability.
What on earth could it be?
Ke Lan did not continue speaking, and Layton and the others also fell silent. The eyes of everyone on the battlefield - including the officers and soldiers of the ships of Fleet Zero who had already left the battlefield - were focused on this metal box, which was very large for a mass-produced Fallen Angel but so small that it was almost negligible for an Agunactor.
Finally, the four mass-produced fallen angels turned off the anti-gravity devices on the outer frame at the same time. The metal box, which lost its buoyancy, immediately fell downward. During the fall, the outer shell of the metal box began to disintegrate on its own, revealing the contents inside.
It was a huge polygonal energy crystal, with a volume of more than one thousand cubic meters. Judging from its quality, it should be an energy crystal of the highest grade...
"Crystal energy bomb?" Layton in front of the screen was stunned for a moment. "This mass and quality of crystal energy bomb... is indeed terrifying, but in terms of power, I'm afraid it's not as powerful as antimatter, right?"
"No...it's not a crystal energy bomb." Ke Lan immediately rejected it. Compared with the "broadcast footage" seen by Layton and others, Ke Lan, who was directly connected to the nerves of Yaguna Kator, could see it more clearly - he noticed that the interior of this giant energy crystal was engraved with densely packed crystal road structures!
The next second, this giant energy crystal exploded, and a circle of dark blue ripples spread out.
The energy shield covering Yaguna Tor flashed a few times and then disappeared!
"What's going on?" Hound and the others were shocked. "This thing... directly blew up the shield?"
Ke Lan was also surprised by the effect of this giant energy crystal - but he soon discovered that the disappearance of Yagunakotor's energy shield was not due to an overload of the shield generator or the exhaustion of energy, but because the shield generator's power supply line was blocked by a mysterious force. Energy could not flow, and the shield naturally could not be maintained.
"It's a jammer! This thing interfered with the shield generator of Yaguna Kator!" Ke Lan immediately told Hound and others about the situation. "I don't know how long it will take for the shield generator to recover, and I don't know if the other party has a second jammer... Before the shield is restored, I will try my best to prevent the other party from boarding the ship, but you must also be prepared to fight the enemy in close combat!"
"Understood!" The Hound nodded vigorously, then turned to Layton and Zhuoligetu and said, "You two are responsible for protecting the eldest lady and the young master of the Ye family. Everyone else, follow the emergency regulations for special situations on the ship, whether you are a combatant or not, follow me to the armory to collect equipment!"
"Should we...should we go too?" asked a relic hunter standing nearby. This relic hunter was an external staff member from the cooperative exploration project. Logically, he had no obligation to participate in the battle.
"If you think that if you tell the people of the black fleet that you are just relic hunters and not combatants on this battleship, they will not fire at you, you can choose to give up resistance and I will not care about you." The Hound glanced at him and said, "But if you want to stab me in the back or fish in troubled waters, I don't mind cleaning you out first."
As soon as he finished speaking, several military mechas surrounded the hunters.
Although this group of hunters also carried weapons, they were all used for self-defense. Facing these six-meter-class military tactical mechas, they had no ability to resist at all.
"Of course we choose to fight against the invaders together with you!" The relic hunter who spoke at the beginning responded immediately, "I think even if we surrender, they will kill us... Rather than trusting a group of unidentified guys, I would rather trust you... After all, we have been working together for such a long time."
In fact, he wanted to ask how long it would take for support from the Hound Ark to arrive, but he held back because he was worried that the Hound would directly order the mecha to open fire in order to prevent future troubles.
Fleet Zero had the opportunity to retreat, but the relic hunters on Yaguna Tor did not... They were now tied to the same rope as Hound and the others, and they themselves were well aware of it.
"A wise choice." The Hound nodded and ignored the pale-faced guy.
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Noah's Ark, core area, secret room.
"The shield jammer has been deployed successfully. The shield energy flow of Yagunakotor has been blocked. The airborne troops will have an eight-hour attack window." said a voice that sounded calm and expressionless.
"In eight hours, how far do you think you can push Yaguna Kotor... and him?" asked another voice.
"I don't think it's a problem for him. He values the friendship between him and those people, so he will definitely find ways to keep them alive." The third voice said, "But it's hard to say about the judgment mechanism of Yaguna Kator. If the core components are not threatened, it may not activate that thing."
"Let the airborne troops break directly into the power room of Yaguna Tor... the heart was pierced by a spear, I think this should be considered a major threat?" This was the fourth voice in the darkness.
"What about the people he encountered during the raid?" the second voice asked. "Especially, those he cared about."
"If there is resistance, kill without mercy." The fourth voice sounded very cold and stern.
"This isn't a good idea. We don't want to completely break off relations with him... at least, not openly." The second voice sounded a little worried.
"He will definitely understand in the future that the existence of these people is nothing more than a burden to him." The fourth voice snorted coldly, "Emotions, especially the emotions between people, are the most useless things in this world."
"You are so ruthless..." The fifth voice suddenly appeared. This was a specially processed voice, and the tone and timbre were very vague, but it was still audible that it was the only female voice among the five voices. "But have you ever thought about whether he would do something irrational if you anger him now? You know, he is in the Tower of Babel now."
