Alien Relic Hunter.

"The alert level of the defensive facilities inside the ship has been raised to the highest level, and all compartment partition doors have been lowered, so that the marines are ready to meet the enemy!" Major General Alexander issued three orders in a row.

As soon as the words fell, four thick armored doors fell one after another, sealing off the corridor leading to the bridge. Several soldiers in charge of defending the bridge set up two cannons behind the doors. pointing in the direction of the corridor.

"Everyone, be ready to fight...even civilian officers." Major General Alexander said, he pulled out the exquisitely crafted saber from his waist that symbolized his status as a commander, glanced at it, and shook his head in disappointment , and casually threw it into the glove cabinet under the captain's console.Then he walked quickly to the weapons cabinet on the side of the bridge, took a 25-inch hunting pistol and stuffed it into the holster, and picked out a Gauss machine gun with a weight of [-] kilograms to straddle his body.

"Uh, general, why don't I take it..." An officer wanted to take the machine gun in Major General Alexander's hand, but Alexander stared back, "If you need a weapon, you can take it from the cabinet... I said, everyone must be ready to fight, pay attention, everyone, including myself."

"But, you are the supreme commander here..."

The officer was interrupted by Alexander before he finished speaking: "So what if I am the supreme commander? Can't the supreme commander hold a gun? If those monsters break through the defense line and enter the bridge, they will be killed because of If I don't have a weapon in my hand, won't you attack me?"

Before the officer could react, Alexander took out another rifle from the weapons cabinet and stuffed it into his hand.

"Will it work?" Alexander asked.

"Uh...yes." The officer was taken aback for a moment, then nodded quickly - although he is a civilian officer, as long as he is a soldier, he can still handle the most basic firearms, and every year in the army Conduct skill assessments, even for generals.

Except for the officers and soldiers who were manipulating the "Skadi", everyone else on the bridge also ran to the weapon cabinet to pick up their own weapons. Some even put on tactical mechs and guarded the ship. Both sides of the entrance and exit of the bridge.

Alexander turned his head and glanced at the real screen in front of him. The Skadi had already arrived directly above the ark.It's just that the size of the ark is too large, and it will take several minutes to pass over the ark at the speed of the Skadi.

Oval sarcomas are constantly being shot at the Skadi. The base of these sarcomas has a structure similar to a jetting device, and its output is so powerful that it can even shoot sarcomas weighing more than ten tons to an altitude of 1000 meters—— Although the Skadi has raised its height, it still cannot avoid these shell-like ovoid sarcoids.

Major General Alexander suddenly remembered an earth plant he had read in a book when he was young—the seeds of that plant were stored in a tightly closed cyst, and when an animal passed by, the stimulated cyst would Bursting suddenly, the seeds are ejected.Seeds with sticky substances on the surface will firmly stick to the hair of passing animals, and the animals will take them to other places to take root and germinate.

These egg-shaped sarcomas are very similar to the seeds of that kind of plant... except that the place where they take root and germinate is not the soil, but the body of the host.

Countless monsters were hatched from the sarcoma, and as the sarcoid ruptured, a liquid in the shape of amniotic fluid flowed out. As soon as this liquid touched the surface armor of the Skadi, a large amount of it began to emerge. White Smoke - Apparently, this is an extremely corrosive substance.

"The unknown substance in the ovale sarcoma is corroding the outer armor of the battleship." The CIC intelligence officer reported loudly to Alexander, "The corrosion depth has reached a quarter of the armor layer in the most severely corroded area. It is estimated that there will be another In 40 seconds, the armor layer will be eroded!"

"It's not good for us to drag on like this!" The commander of the marine force also connected the communication to the bridge, and said to Rear Admiral Alexander, "General, let me take the mech troops outside the ship to remove these monsters and stickies." The tumor on the ship! Our mechas have been upgraded with strong magnetic pads, which can move on the surface of the battleship by themselves, and will not be thrown out!"

"Rejected." Alexander immediately vetoed the proposal of the commander of the marine force, "Even if you can fight those monsters outside the high-speed battleship, how many troops can you invest in?"

"200 people! I just need to take 200 people out, it won't lead to an empty defense inside the ship!" said the commander of the marine force.

"CIC, tell him, how many enemies are there on the surface of our battleship now." Rear Admiral Alexander said.

"Currently, there are about 1 oval sarcoids attached to battleships with a diameter of less than one meter, about 1 with a diameter of one to three meters, and [-] with a diameter of three to ten meters. , There are nine giant sarcoids with a diameter of more than ten meters... No, two more giant sarcoids have broken through the energy shield just now, and now there are eleven! Among them, [-]% of the sarcoids have completed hatching, and the remaining [-]% are More than half of them will be hatched within [-] minute." The CIC intelligence officer quickly counted the data, "Moreover, this number is still soaring... The enemy we are about to face is expected to reach [-] Between [-] bodies."

"Two hundred people, against ten thousand monsters." Major General Alexander said, "Are you sure?"

"I..." The commander of the marine force was at a loss for words—although he knew the situation was serious, the CIC data would not be open to the marine force without the captain's permission, so it was projected to He did not know the exact number of ovale sarcoma on the Skadi.

This 1.9-meter-tall and brave marine commander is an old subordinate of Major General Alexander. He was transferred from the First Cruise Fleet to the Zero Fleet with him. Veteran.But even he, after hearing the enemy's numbers, a look of despair flashed across his face.

The battle damage ratio between humans and indigenous creatures has always been a figure that is difficult to quantify.If the target is assumed to be an insect creature in the wilderness, the insect creature and a human soldier can destroy a team of ten human soldiers in an instant, but the light weapons in the hands of human soldiers are difficult to deal with. It does damage.But if humans set up an ambush area in advance and use napalm bombs, tactical nuclear weapons or even the main guns of battleships to kill them, then only a small price can be paid to wipe out a large number of insect swarms.

In other words, directly airdrop the tactical mecha cluster to the main nest of the swarm, use the thick armor and powerful firepower of the tactical mech to break into the core of the main nest, and directly kill the worms, you can also eliminate a worm in a short time group.

But in the current situation, if the marine troops really went outside the battleship to fight those monsters, there is no doubt that they would never be able to achieve the battle loss ratio of the latter two situations.

According to Alexander's plan, it is to defend according to the danger, and put these monsters into the battleship in small numbers and times to eliminate them. a tactical strategy.

But in doing so, there are also risks - the number of oval sarcoids projected onto the Skadi is still increasing, and the number of monsters placed inside the battleship will become more and more difficult to control.This is like a dam. When the water pressure is not too high, it is easy to control the water release gate, but when the amount of water stored behind the dam exceeds a certain threshold, the entire dam is in danger of bursting.

Once this "dam" really bursts, the monsters that continue to rush into the ship will instantly destroy all the defense forces and slaughter the entire interior of the battleship.

In addition, there is another problem, that is, if the battlefield is selected inside the battleship, it will inevitably cause serious damage to the internal structure of the battleship. The soldiers of the Marine Corps are even restricted from using heavy weapons that are too powerful ...In such a situation where hands are restrained, the bonus brought by the "geographical advantage" will continue to weaken as time goes by.

Major General Alexander seemed serious and calm, but in fact he was also very anxious... But as a commander, he absolutely couldn't show this anxiety on his face.

Mount Tai collapsed in front of him without changing his color. This is the quality that an excellent commander must possess.

But Alexander is also very clear that no matter how good the quality of the commander is, it is useless in the face of an absolute gap in combat power... At most, he can make himself lose more decently.

……

Meanwhile, Mukah base, General Maginot's office.

"It's over, it's over...these tumors can actually penetrate the energy shield of the Skadi, it's over!" General Magino walked around in front of the sofa with his hands behind his back, muttering incessantly, "Ten thousand... No, there are almost [-] monsters boarding the battleship, right? How could they beat this? Once the gap in the ship is opened, these monsters will go in one by one... Then, then It will be a massacre!"

The battle between the "Skadi" and the Ark is being broadcast live on the projection screen facing the sofa through an information transmission chain composed of thousands of communication drones. Seeing that the surface of the "Skadi" is covered with Large and small ovoid sarcoma, General Maginot's calmness at the beginning, and restlessness later, has become what he is now.

"No! If this continues, they will definitely follow in the footsteps of the Ark Guard Fleet and the First Cruise Fleet! I know how those warships fell!" Magino said quickly, "Ke Lan, we must now Let them retreat and send support immediately, so that it is possible to save the Skadi and the officers and soldiers on board... Our combat power is very tense. If the Skadi is lost, the whole situation will become wrong We are at a disadvantage!"

What Maginot said is not unreasonable. The heavy cruiser Skadi is regarded as the strongest combat power of the human survivor coalition forces on the surface-this statement is not an exaggeration at all. If the total combat power of the survivor coalition forces is compared to In terms of 85 points, the Nascati accounted for at least [-] points.Losing the Skadi was almost indistinguishable from total annihilation.

It will take at least a few months for the new battleships on the Griffin Fortress to be put into use, and during this time, the monsters on the Ark are likely to attack all the fortresses including the Griffin Fortress and the Mukahe Fortress. The survivors attacked the coalition stronghold.Even if Ke Lan showed Yaguna Ketor's hole card, there was only one Yaguna Ketor, and it was impossible to keep all the strongholds.

Concentrating the forces of the survivor coalition forces in one place is a countermeasure, but this means that they must give up a large amount of materials and production facilities, which is tantamount to cutting off their arms.

The best solution is to save the "Skadi". As long as the "Skadi" is in command, the survivors' coalition forces will be able to achieve greater success in both defensive battles and encounters in the wilderness. winning percentage.

There is a huge difference between air support with warships and air support without warships. It is so big that it no longer affects the balance of victory, but directly overturns the balance.

"Ke Lan, why do you still look indifferent! I'm about to die!" General Magino's facial features squeezed together, "Can't you see the screen? I know you want to keep your hole cards, but again If we stay, we may be completely at a disadvantage. At that time, even if you play your cards, it may not work! Although I don’t know much about leading troops to fight, the importance of the Skadi to us Sex, even the orderlies below know it well...we must rescue them!"

"Fatty man, can you be quiet for a while?" The hound leaning on the sofa glanced at Maginot, "We are also in a hurry, but is it useful? Didn't you see that Ke Lan was thinking, are you blind at this moment?" A few barks will not help the situation."

"Even if you are still thinking about countermeasures, at least send Yagunaktor out first!" Magino said urgently.

"Do you think it's too late for Yagunaktor to go now?" Ke Lan glanced at him and asked.

"what?"

"According to the information sent back by the CIC of the Skadi, those monsters will invade the interior of the battleship in at most 30 seconds, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the personnel on the ship. Do you think it is too late for Yagunaktor to rush over to rescue them now? Is it?" Ke Lan continued to ask.

"30 seconds..." Magino sat down on the sofa as if he had lost his soul, "How could it be... so fast? Isn't the armor of the Skadi very thick? Why can't it last even a minute? "

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