Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 306 Disconnection
"One, two, three... seven, eight... ten, eleven... I saw eleven trails, what about you?" Saniya asked loudly.

The companion flying beside him narrowed his eyes and counted again: "I can only count ten, but it doesn't make much difference, right?"

There is indeed not much difference. They only have 12 Strike Witches and a total of 24 Lightning Lance. According to the training requirements, at least 4 Lightning Lance should be concentrated to attack one white whale at the same time in one round of attack. In other words, they can only hunt three at most. The specific number of whales in the whale group is not important at all.

"We are still ..." Saniya stretched out her finger and measured the length of the trail, estimating the distance based on the length of the trail in her sight, "...about 40 nautical miles or so. Let's get closer and then lock onto the target."

Although it didn't make much sense, she counted again, and this time, she only counted ten trails.

"you are right."

"What?"

"The trails. I counted them again and only found ten."

"Oh."

His companion nodded, not quite understanding why the acting captain was so bothered by this unimportant matter. Perhaps he was nervous?
Saniya was indeed a little nervous. She stretched out her hand almost every half a minute to estimate the distance. The speed of the whales was increasing, and their course had changed from almost due north to northwest, which made the pursuit time much longer than expected. When Saniya raised her hand for the tenth time, the distance between her and the whales was finally shortened to within 30 nautical miles.

At this distance, she could clearly see the bony wings flapping up and down alternately at the front of the wake. She counted them and found there were four pairs in total. Nana's worries were unnecessary, as they were indeed beluga whales.

"We are about to enter the attack range, Lord Xiaye." Saniya reported in the communication debt.

Then, she gave the order to everyone: "Teams 2, 3, and 4, lock onto the first, second, and third white whales from the right respectively, draw out the first lightning spear, and throw after seeing my hand signal..."

An inexplicable feeling suddenly covered her shoulders. Saniya turned her head subconsciously, but saw nothing. But then, Xia Ye's voice rang in her ears:

"I've connected your vision. Once you've locked on, you can throw at any time. Be quick, or I can't hold it for long."

"Ah, yes, Master Natsuye!"

Saniya stretched her hand to her chest and pressed her finger on the seal of the contract. In the flashing arc, the tail end of the Lightning Spear slowly rose from the seal. She grasped the handle of the spear and slowly pulled the Lightning Spear out of her body.

The arcs of electricity that had been flickering through her hair, body, and even her ramjet thrusters were extinguished one after another, and a strange feeling of emptiness and fatigue emerged in her body. Among the Strike Witches, many people jokingly called it the "aftereffects of low battery power."

Even the roar of the thrusters became a little lower. The power would affect the cruising speed. When Saniya completely pulled the Lightning Spear out of her chest, her speed had dropped from 500 knots to 470 knots.

But this speed was still faster than the white whale, and the formation was still slowly closing the distance with the target. Saniya turned her head and took a glance, and everyone in the formation had already held the Lightning Spear in their hands.

So she looked into the distance again and focused her attention on the white whale on the far right. After a few seconds, a small square appeared and framed the white whale, which meant that she had completed the lock.

It was said that this was the contract ability of the "Lightning Spear". Although she had experienced it before during training, it was still very novel to see it again. She was about to raise her hand to order the throw when her companion's voice suddenly came from the side:
"Saniya, there seems to be one missing tail among the whales?"

Missing a trail?
She turned her attention away from the whale she had locked onto and counted its wakes again. She was soon surprised, too: "...I only counted nine?"

"Me too," said the companion.

"What are you counting?" Xia Ye interrupted.

"Trails, Master Xia Ye. I counted eleven at the beginning, and my companion counted ten, but now we can only count nine. This doesn't make sense. Normally, two trails next to each other are considered one when the distance is far. Why do we count fewer trails as the distance gets closer?" Saniya reported, "Can you help us count them once?"

Extending the field of vision requires additional overdraft credit, but what Saniya said aroused Xia Ye's curiosity. After hesitating for two seconds, she extended her sight forward on Saniya.

After a moment, Saniya heard Xia Ye's reply: "I counted twelve. Although three of them are not very obvious, they do exist."

"Mr. Xia Ye counted twelve," she said to her companions.

The other party showed a strange expression, squinted his eyes and counted again, then said: "I can still only see nine."

Saniya was the same, the tension spread in her heart again, and she thought of Nana again: "Lord Xia Ye, has Captain Nana returned to the Moby Dick?"

"Not yet, but we have spotted her squadron, and they will land soon."

"Great." Saniya thought. "I'll apply to launch an attack." "Agreed. The Lightning Spear can only last for 80 seconds in your hands. There's no time to slowly check the number of whales. Let's throw the first wave of Lightning Spears first."

"Yes, Master Xia Ye!"

Saniya raised her hand and made a "ready to throw" gesture. When she saw all the team members responded with gestures that they were ready, she turned around, confirmed the target for the last time, and threw the lightning spear in her hand.

The spear flashing with lightning left her hand, and she felt as if a strand of her consciousness was pulled away and merged with a more powerful consciousness. She was swept away by the latter and extended towards the whale school in the distance.

Although it is not stated in the contract of the "Lightning Spear", when actually used, the Lightning Spear can automatically track the target locked by the consciousness. This is the trick that Victoria told Xia Ye when she just obtained the first-level contract.

Today, the throwing distance of the Level 3 "Lightning Spear" has increased by 99 times, and this feature still exists. As long as the awareness of locking the target is strong enough, the Lightning Spear can automatically track the target 50 kilometers away.

Of course, the Strike Witches don't have such a strong consciousness, not even an ordinary summer night - but when she activates the largest head, the enhanced consciousness is enough to help the Strike Witches complete ultra-long-distance locking.

In Xia Ye's vision, eight crimson lightning bolts broke away from the Strike Witches' formation. They flew forward about a hundred meters and then disappeared without a warning. A second later, when they reappeared, they were already 8 kilometers ahead. Then, they continued to fly forward another hundred meters, disappeared again, and reappeared, moving forward another 5 kilometers as if teleporting.

Repeating this pattern, the eight lightning spears only took about fifteen seconds to reach the sky above the whales. At this time, in the eyes of Xia Ye and the Strike Witches, they had become small dots flashing with faint light. Xia Ye watched as the light dots automatically divided into two groups and fell towards the two whales at an extremely fast speed.

A moment later, they hit the target. Xia Ye couldn't hear any sound, but she could see those light spots turning into huge crimson balls of light one by one. Even though the white whale was 300 meters long, they were mostly swallowed by the ball of light. The towering bone wings were shattered like fragile crystal sculptures, and the huge body was broken in half. The irregular fragments were thrown up by the shock wave and fell into the sea of ​​clouds in the distance... It was like a silent movie showing scenes of slaughter.

wrong……

Xia Ye suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Is the “Lightning Spear” so powerful?
早在出海之前她就已经测试过3阶雷光之枪的威力，相比1阶的确实增加了不少，但也远远没有达到仅仅4柄就能将一条长达300米、直径超过30米的白鲸拦腰炸断的程度。

“Saniya, you guys… wuah!!”

There was a sudden buzzing sound in his head, as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer without any preparation. When Xia Ye covered his forehead and looked forward again, he found that his vision had returned to the cockpit of the "Moby Dick".

Yaha was looking at her with a strange expression: "What's wrong?"

Xia Ye had no time to answer. She once again used her big brain to find the thread representing Saniya's debt relationship and let her vision extend forward along it. However, when she was about to reach the other end, the situation just now happened again and she was bounced out again.

"Uh-huh..."

Yaha looked at Xia Ye more and more strangely. Just now, she covered her forehead and took two steps back on her own, as if she had hit an invisible wall...

……

"Master Xia Ye, we have successfully hit the target... Hey, Master Xia Ye?"

The sense of presence attached to her shoulder suddenly disappeared, which meant that Lord Xia Ye's sight had left her. Almost at the same time, Saniya felt that she had passed through a layer of something...

"Eh??"

She subconsciously looked behind her, but saw nothing. She only found that the sky and the sea of ​​clouds seemed to have dimmed a little.

But the exclamations of his companions had already begun.

"Then, what is that?!"

"Where is this?"

"many!!"

Saniya turned back quickly...

(End of this chapter)