Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 817 Black Fleet
Yeager's combat uniform was still in the cockpit of the fighter jet. Instead of asking others to help, he took off his shirt and trousers, shook off his shoes, and got into the air wearing only a pair of shorts. After entering this one-piece design anti-G combat uniform, I skillfully hooked the zipper head on the back of the clothes to a protrusion on the edge of the seat, and sat down, and the zipper behind me was pulled all the way to the top.

"Tsk... If I knew I should have asked the logistics to wash off the combat uniform immediately after the flight in the morning..." An indescribable smell of sweat was squeezed out from the neckline... Even though the sweat smell came from him himself, but Yegel still showed a look of disgust on his face.

After twisting several air-tight valves on the limbs and neck, Yeger pressed the switch on his waist after a cursory inspection, and the air in the combat uniform was evacuated instantly, and the fabric made of special materials was close to him. His skin, he could even feel the thin semi-fluid material filled in the interlayer.

"When Hans comes, tell him that I'm leaving first, and let him follow quickly!" After saying this, Yegel put the helmet on his head.

"The preparations for the other two aircraft have not been completed yet." The ground crew turned his head and glanced at the fighter jets parked in front of the other two catapults, and said, "It will take at least 10 minutes, Colonel, if you dispatch now, you have to Without the support of your wingmen."

"It's just a reconnaissance mission, and you don't need to fight. It's not a big problem if you don't have a wingman." With a crackling sound, Yeager turned on a bunch of switches on the control panel of the fighter jet, and the field of view of the external monitor was directly projected onto the helmet. On the inside, the middle cover of the left and right pedals slides up, revealing a hatch, from which the foldable joystick rises and is fixed at the most convenient height and angle for Yeager.

Although Yeger said that he would not encounter a battle, he still asked the ground crew: "Have all the weapon bays been replaced with live ammunition?"

In the morning, he was only flying this fighter jet on a routine cruise mission, and he was also leading a few new recruits in the team. All the fighter jets were equipped with training bombs... Although strictly speaking, this thing can kill people, but It is limited to unarmored targets who do not wear any protective equipment. When facing indigenous creatures or military vehicles, the training bullets are useless except for scraping the opponent.

"It's all been replaced with live ammunition." The ground crew's expression turned ugly, "It's the captain's order."

"Tsk, it seems that the old guy also knows that this trouble will be a big deal...Okay, hand over the timing of the catapult activation to me, and it will take off in ten seconds."

After staring at an indicator light in the mask that turned from red to yellow, Yeager pressed the eject button without hesitation.

The ten-second countdown ended quickly, and the yellow indicator light jumped to green. At the same time, a huge thrust came from the tail of the fighter——

"Yeger Novikov, RV-003S 'Raven' high-speed fighter, attack!"

The whole body of the "Raven-class", which was painted almost black and dark green, accelerated from a standstill to a speed of nearly Mach [-] in just one second. The bottom hatch of the heavy cruiser flew out.

The serial number printed on Yeager's "Raven-class" is "003S" - the S at the end of the serial number stands for the leader aircraft, and the two serial numbers 001 and 002 belong to the first two commanders of this air combat force. commander.

While flying, Yeager quickly checked the parameters of the fighter jet—since he had just flown once in the morning, many data and settings were still in the state of the last flight, and there was no need to readjust at all.

After leaving "Betelgeuse", the communication between the fighter jet and the mothership was disconnected, the earphones were filled with the sound of electric current, and the screen used to display the radar image had been covered with black and white snowflakes. occupied.

"The interference is really strong..." Yeager grumbled, pushed the joystick, and slowly lowered the height of the plane.

According to the intelligence analyzed by the "Betelgeuse" CIC, the source of interference should be located in the southeast direction of Fleet Zero, and the estimated distance should be in the range of 220 to [-] kilometers... But today's weather is very good, and the visibility in this airspace is extremely high High, so CIC officers believe that the source of interference should be located on the ground, or underground.

Yeager lowered the fighter jet to a height of 50 meters as if showing off his skills, and flew at an ultra-low altitude close to the ground—although the speed of the fighter jet has dropped to Mach 250, it is still [-] meters per second when converted to a second speed. Five meters, as long as the nose of the plane is lowered a little bit, or the terrain ahead is slightly raised, the entire fighter jet may crash on the ground.

Only an experienced ace pilot like Yeager dared to fly such a long-distance ultra-low altitude.

Yeager stared at the ground below through several monitors at the bottom of the fighter jet. At the same time, the intelligent program in the computer was scanning and analyzing the images over and over again—compared with human eyes, computers even It is possible to find out the enemies hidden under the camouflage in a few frames.

One after another, locking frames appeared on the screen, and then disappeared one after another. Most of these suspicious targets were stones, vegetation and the like, and were quickly ruled out by the computer.

Yeager had already flown back and forth in the designated area, but found nothing.On the way back, he also encountered several friendly fighter jets that belonged to Fleet Zero and were sent out to perform reconnaissance missions, but obviously, these friendly fighter jets also found nothing.

Yeager pressed the trigger of the cannon a little irritably, and fired at the ground. However, apart from stirring up a burst of sand and dust, the only result was to blow up a beetle-like native creature that was resting under a stone. .

"Could it be that the CIC's intelligence is wrong? Is it the wrong direction or the wrong distance? Or is the source of interference located deep underground?" Yegel thought to himself, and suddenly, there was a burst of palpitations for no reason. ——

He looked up subconsciously, and for some reason, he always felt that the sky above his head seemed a little "unnatural".

Out of vigilance, he tried to launch an unguided small missile upwards, and the trail of the missile drew a straight upward white line in the air.

Just when the missile reached an altitude of about 4000 meters, it was blocked by a light curtain that suddenly appeared and exploded!

Immediately afterwards, with a twist of light, a pitch-black battleship without any markings or emblems on its body, and without even a hull number, emerged in the sky...

"It's... the optical camouflage technology of Alpha Civilization?!" Yegel was stunned. Ark has not yet mastered this technology. The biggest difficulty lies in how to distort the light so that the shelter can produce an "invisible" effect— —If the optical camouflage armor used on vehicles is equipped on a battleship, even if the surface of the battleship can show the color of the sky, the light blocked by the hull will still leave a large shadow on the ground.

And the optical camouflage technology of the Alpha civilization can allow light to "go around" the battleship-except for some abnormalities when observed at close range, there are almost no flaws.

Although Yegel had been prepared for a long time, what happened next made him freeze in the driver's seat—if the warning "Danger, about to touch the ground" suddenly sounded in his ears, he would His soul was pulled back, and it is estimated that he has crashed and died in a state of absence.

What appeared in the sky... was not just a battleship, but a complete fleet, a fleet that fully met the "Class A standard"!

(Note: The definition standard of the Ark Class A fleet is mentioned in the notes of Chapter 760 III. If you have no idea about this, you can go back and have a look.)
All the battleships of this fleet are the same as the first one Yegel saw, with a black paintwork, no markings or numbers—even the flagship aircraft carrier battleship with a length of more than a kilometer.

Yeager only knew that it was an aircraft carrier battleship, but he didn't know the class and model of this battleship—in his memory, there had never been such an aircraft carrier battleship in the Ark Air Force fleet.

The construction of an aircraft carrier battleship is a large project, which requires the coordination of various forces from the government and the people, a large amount of manpower and resource input, and a long construction time-not to mention, just the personnel involved in the project, up to the chief designer, There are tens of thousands of people who go down to the welders or even the handymen who do cleaning in the factory or cook for other staff... Unlike the old era, in this era, the construction of aircraft carriers and battleships is not at all. Possibly completely confidential.

Even civilians, as long as they have a little heart, can generally tell which branches of the Ark Air Force fleet and what the names of the flagships are... As for those fanatical military fans, they can even tell the basics of these aircraft carriers and battleships like a few treasures. The parameters come—the aircraft carrier battleship is just like the maritime aircraft carrier of the old era, its strategic significance is far greater than its tactical significance.

Yeager is not a civilian, he is a veteran soldier who has served for more than ten years, and he is also a member of the Air Force Fleet, but even he does not know when there is such a black aircraft carrier battleship in the Ark...

But Yegel firmly believes that this aircraft carrier battleship was definitely built by Ark—the design of the hull is completely in the style of human civilization, and its appearance is similar to the aircraft carrier battleships currently serving in major fleets, and those who wandered in the wilderness The exiles on the sea can't even solve the problem of food and clothing. It is absolutely impossible for them to build such a huge ship.

Not to mention aircraft carriers and battleships, the exiles couldn't build any empty ships—even when the heretic sect was still there, they never owned even one empty ship.

Where did this aircraft carrier battleship come from?No... It should be said, where did this entire fleet come from?
Yegel couldn't help but think of the warships that were transferred some time ago, but in this fleet, he didn't find any familiar warships—even if those warships were refitted and painted, he would not It can be seen at a glance, but in this "black fleet", they are all new-type warships that have never appeared in the archives.

Yeager took a deep breath and calmed himself down as much as possible. He held the joystick tightly with both hands and brought the fighter plane as close to the ground as possible.

He has no intention of launching an attack on this fleet at all—his mission is just reconnaissance. Now that the goal has been achieved, the most urgent thing to do is to return to the mothership and report this matter to the captain... But then again, as long as No. The officers and soldiers on the fleet are not blind, and they should all have seen the black fleet with its optical camouflage removed.

Raven-class weapons can't pierce the shields of these battleships at all, but the anti-aircraft weapons that come with these battleships can restore the Raven-class and the driver Yegel to the original state of matter within half a second... Even if Yegel launched a surprise attack on the black fleet with the determination to die, it would be meaningless.

He couldn't even delay the other party for even a second.

"Damn...Although I guessed it was the rebels, I never guessed that the rebels would have a Class A fleet that had never been seen before... I can't be fucking dreaming..." Ye Geer wanted to pinch himself, but at this altitude, he dared not take his hands off the joystick.

"Although this fleet has not yet launched an attack, it first engaged in radio interference, and then touched such a close distance under a disguise. Obviously, it will definitely not be a friendly force... and with the combat power of the Zero Fleet, I am afraid it is not this sudden attack. The opponents of the black fleet that have emerged." Yegel quickly analyzed the current situation in his heart, "No, although the No. Thor'... as long as that thing joins the fight, there's no way we'll lose!"

Yeager flew towards the mothership while observing the situation above—although both the Zero Fleet and the mysterious black fleet had spotted each other, and both sides had entered each other's attack range, none of them could Without taking the lead in firing, the situation maintained a delicate balance.

Yegel knew that the current mood and thinking of the commander of Fleet Zero and the captains of each ship must be very different from his own... No one knew what to do with the fleet of unknown origin on the opposite side.

Under this strong interference, it is even impossible to communicate with the other party.

But the Black Fleet is still slowly approaching the Zero Fleet and "Yagunaktor" - this delicate balance cannot be maintained forever, and it will be broken soon!

Yegel gritted his teeth tightly, sweat kept oozing from his forehead and neck, and dripped into the helmet.

(End of this chapter)