Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 974: 2.4 Meters of Operating Space
"This scene looks familiar to me." Ke Lan muttered to herself, "In the Gray Mist Forest, the special operations fleet was also besieged by a large number of biological weapons left by the Alpha civilization. The attack methods of those biological weapons are very similar to those of these monsters. They all rely on their numerical advantage and fearlessly crash through the energy shields of the warships. Then they pounce on the surface of the warships, tear open the armor, enter the warships and slaughter the crew members on board..."
"How did the special operations fleet respond?" Hound asked immediately.
Only Ke Lan and Mo Jue had seen the combat record video of the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate, and the latter died in the Gray Mist Forest. Ke Lan was the only one who knew about the files.
"Captain Heruni of the Shaojiang modified frigate discovered that the biological weapons would only attack the part of the warship that was exposed to the fog, so he asked the helmsman to lower the altitude of the warship and sink the ship into the fog to reduce the area of the warship that was attacked... But a warship flying at low altitude is more dangerous than a fighter jet, not to mention that the gray fog forest below was completely shrouded in fog, and the helmsman had no way to judge the altitude. Heruni was not the only one who thought of this method, but another warship that adopted the same strategy was not as lucky as them. It crashed directly into the ground, and the ship was destroyed and the crew members died."
Ke Lan paused and continued, "This strategy is only applicable to the Gray Fog Forest. The monsters hatched from these egg-shaped tumors do not have the special identification mechanism of biological weapons. Even if the entire Skadi ship is wrapped in thick fog, those monsters will not stop attacking."
"So what do we do now?" The Hound glared, "You said a lot of things, but feelings are all bullshit!"
"No, that's not nonsense... Although the situation is different, the battle record in the Gray Mist Forest has given me inspiration. I just don't know who has better operating skills, the helmsman of the Skadi or the Shaojiang Kai."
"What inspiration? Why don't you finish your words in one breath?"
"There is a creature on Earth called a warthog. It often rolls in mud pits, smearing mud all over its body. This seemingly playful behavior is actually to remove parasites attached to the surface of the skin... and for the Skadi, the Ark below is a mud pit that is big enough ." Ke Lan said.
"You mean... the Ark's automatic defense shield!" Maginot couldn't help but open his mouth wide, "Isn't this too crazy?!"
A large number of energy shield generators are installed on the Ark, and their density and total output power far exceed the combined shields of any fleet. However, in order not to hinder the airships and various aircraft entering and leaving the various airports, these energy shield generators are usually in a dormant state. Only when the Ark detects an attack from the outside world and the energy level of the attack exceeds a certain threshold, these dormant shield generators will be activated.
The frequencies of these energy shield generators have been adjusted, and they can all fuse their respective shields together to form a super shield. Its defensive power can easily withstand multiple salvos from the battleship's main guns, and even the "death ray cannon" of the Alpha civilization.
The last time the energy shield was activated was when the secret military god Alexander released the "Ultimate Judgment" to the Ark. However, compared with the "Ultimate Judgment", this energy shield was too weak and was broken in less than a second.
"Are you planning to have the Skadi hit this energy shield and use the high temperature generated by the collision between the battleship's energy shield and the Ark's energy shield to clear out the monsters on the battleship's surface?!" The Hound guessed Ke Lan's plan at once. "With the firepower of the Skadi, the Ark's automatic shield must have been activated. But this kind of operation... requires too much precision!"
If the distance is too far, the reaction between the energy shields cannot kill the monsters, and if the distance is too close, once the protective wall of the power room is melted, the power reactor transformed from the heart of the city will probably explode in the next second.
"Zeluo." Ke Lan turned his head and glanced at the three-no girl sticking to his side.
"Two point four meters." Ze Luo replied immediately, "The operating space left for them is only two point four meters."
"This 2.4 meters, is it what I imagined?" General Maginot's expression froze, and he confirmed with Ze Luo cautiously.
Ze Luo nodded.
Two point four meters. Only by controlling the distance within this two point four meters can the intended goal be achieved. If it exceeds two point four meters, the lethality will be insufficient, and if it is less than two point four, the Skadi will be taken down as well.
"Is this... possible? I've never driven a warship, so I don't quite understand what this means... Is a 2.4-meter margin of error considered small?" The Hound asked, "Can anyone give me an example?"
"It's about the same difficulty as me cutting a strand of hair in half with a combat dagger while driving the Blasphemer mech." Valentina continued, "Cut vertically."
Hound: "Grass."
"But this is the only way." Ke Lan opened the communication channel with the Skadi and said directly to Major General Alexander, "There is a way to solve the trouble you are facing, but it is very risky. I have asked Ze Luo to send the specific operation method. It is up to you to decide whether to adopt it."
Alexander did not hesitate and directly clicked on the file that Ke Lan had transferred to him. On the screen, he saw the outline of the Skadi's hull outlined with black and white lines. This battleship model was not fixed, but rolled sideways while moving at high speed. The energy shield outside the hull and the automatic protection shield of the Ark below were rubbing violently, and the number representing the temperature rose rapidly, while the other number representing the oval tumor and monster attached to the outside of the battleship was dropping rapidly.
"The approach angle, turning rate, and safe distance have all been marked in the file, but this operation cannot be completely left to the computer. When the ovoid tumor hits the warship, it will have a certain degree of impact on the warship. Although this impact force is so small that it can be almost ignored , it accumulates... As long as the flight angle of the warship is slightly affected, it will directly hit the Ark's defense shield. This error must be manually calibrated, which is a test for the helmsman."
"I understand." Alexander nodded, then walked to the helm himself and reached out to hold the joystick. "Let me do it."
"I remember that when Major General Alexander was young, he seemed to have served in the Marine Corps of the Air Force Fleet... Could he be a pilot?" Hound scratched his head. "To be honest, I don't have much of an impression. I'm not very familiar with the people in the Air Force Fleet."
"Not only has he driven a mecha, he has also driven a warship, and he has also been a test driver for a new type of warship." Maginot glanced at the Hound and added, "He really relied on his own abilities to climb up from the bottom step by step... Anyone who can become a fleet commander at this age must be a rare talent."
"I've heard of him." Valentina also said, "He used to be an ace pilot, a combat pilot."
"Tsk, is he so powerful?" The Hound glanced at Maginot intentionally or unintentionally. "I thought this major general was just like someone else, with nothing but a belly full of feces and little thoughts of flattery... According to what you said, this Alexander is quite capable."
"He's more than capable," Maginot said with a wry smile. The Hound was almost mocking him by name, but at this point, he didn't care about such things. "Being able to become the commander of Fleet Zero is a recognition of his ability."
While Ke Lan and the others were discussing, Major General Alexander had already begun pushing the joystick downwards, gradually lowering the altitude of the Skadi .
Originally, in order to avoid those oval-shaped tumors as much as possible, the altitude of the Skadi was raised to more than two thousand meters. However, as the altitude continued to decrease, more and more oval-shaped tumors penetrated the energy shield and attached to the surface of the battleship.
From the images taken by drones, we can see that the outer armor of the Skadi, especially the bottom of the battleship, is densely covered with large and small oval tumors, just like the barnacles attached to the bottom of a ship that has not been cleaned for a long time. Just one look at it from a distance is enough to make the scalp of people with trypophobia tingle.
The large number of egg-shaped tumors attached to the surface of the warship not only increased the weight of the warship, but also seriously damaged the balance of the warship - especially those super-giant tumors with a diameter of more than 30 meters. Tumors of this size were originally difficult to reach the Skadi at an altitude of 2,000 meters due to their own weight. But now that the Skadi has lowered its altitude, the situation is different.
Every time a giant tumor hits the Skadi, it produces a huge impact force, so great that it even causes dents in the armor on the outside of the battleship.
The transparency of these super-giant tumors is lower than that of other egg-shaped tumors. It is basically impossible to see what the monsters inside look like, but you can clearly feel the strong and powerful heartbeat of the monsters gestating inside... It is conceivable that if the monsters inside hatch and break into the battleship... it will definitely be a nightmare for the crew on the Skadi.
Alexander has imported the mathematical model sent by Ke Lan into the operating system of the Skadi. Under the control of the intelligent computer, the Skadi is constantly approaching the Ark, and the number in the middle of the main screen of the bridge is also constantly falling.
"875.4...871.1...865.0..."
Ke Lan gave this number a name, called "critical limit". What Alexander needs to do is to keep this number between 2.4 and 0. If this number is greater than 2.4, the temperature generated by the friction of the energy shield will not be enough to burn the oval tumors attached to the surface of the ship. Once it is less than 0, the hull will be melted, and the power reactor and ammunition depot will explode... The Skadi will become one of the warships that crashed on the surface of the Ark.
"517.9...488.5...452.7..."
The number was still shrinking. When the distance between Skadi and the Ark was less than three hundred meters, the sensor of the automatic defense shield was finally triggered. A faint, giant colorful light curtain like soap bubbles suddenly lit up, covering the entire Ark.
This "bubble" seemed to burst with a poke, but if someone dared to poke it, it would not take even a second for the person to be reduced to ashes. Not to mention humans, even a Blasphemer mecha would be melted into a large ball of hot molten iron in the process of passing through this protective shield.
This protective shield is composed of thousands of energy shields "connected in series". The energy required to maintain it is an astronomical figure. Therefore, this shield will only be activated when the Ark is under a fatal threat. Unfortunately, this time, the Ark's enemy comes from inside the Ark, turning this energy shield into something similar to the "Maginot Line".
"298.4...275.5...251.3..."
Just when Alexander was extremely tense and even held his breath, there was suddenly no space in front of the Skadi - the warship had passed directly above the Ark and left the "airspace" belonging to the Ark.
However, those egg-shaped tumors did not fall off just because the Skadi was far away from the Ark. Not only that, some of the monsters that boarded the ship first had already entered the interior of the battleship.
"Damn it!" Major General Alexander gritted his teeth and pushed the joystick to the limit. The Skadi made a big turn in the air and flew towards the Ark again.
During this rotation, quite a few oval tumors were thrown away by inertia... but compared with the terrifying number of tumors attached to the warship, this was far from enough.
"Compartments four, five, seven, and twelve have been invaded! Hangar No. 2 has been breached. The Marine Corps and the Aviation Brigade are exchanging fire with the enemy, but the situation is not optimistic! Our people have suffered heavy casualties, and Hangar No. 2 will most likely be occupied by the enemy." Bad news came one after another from the CIC, and at the same time, Alexander once again piloted the Skadi into the Ark's airspace.
"Abandon the second hangar. The terrain there is too open and not conducive to defense." Alexander couldn't be distracted at this time. He gestured to his adjutant, who immediately took over the command and grabbed the intercom and shouted, "Contract the troops and gather everyone at the narrow passage to defend. If necessary, use space to buy time... Hold on for a while, and those troublesome things attached to the hull will be solved."
"But there are still a lot of fighters, bombers and flying mechas parked in Hangar No. 2. Do we have to abandon these equipment as well?"
"The flying mechas that can be transformed should be used as land combat mechas. The others should be abandoned!" the adjutant said decisively. "Weapons that cannot be used are just a burden! Our first priority is to save the Skadi at all costs!"
