From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 114 Tail Needle (Two in One)

When the car left the Robert IV atmosphere and entered a state of weightlessness, people like Isabel and Randall, who were accustomed to working in a state of weightlessness, unlocked the seat locking devices.

Major Randall and Tom continued to stare at the console, monitoring the operation of the car and preparing to depressurize the cabin area at the time arranged by Amber.

Isabel, like a fish swimming in the deep sea, floated nimbly to the cabin area where Amber was.

At this moment, Amber was pressing her face against the porthole of the cabin door, looking at the stunning scenery outside.

Although Amber has seen this scenery countless times in the game, she still doesn't feel tired of it.

And no matter how beautiful the scenery in the game is, it is a scenery that has been reduced in realism by the production team. It is still incomparable to the real scenery in front of you.

After seeing Isabel wearing an exoskeleton and getting in through the hatch of the exit area with some difficulty, Amber reluctantly withdrew her eyes from looking at the desperate situation outside the window and turned to look at her.

"What happened?"

"Can't I come to you if I have nothing to do?"

Isabel rolled her eyes at Amber, and then took out the token from the elven nobles of the Thousand Stars Empire from her combat uniform.

In fact, before she even took it out, Amber felt the psychic energy fluctuations emanating from the token.

This will be even more obvious.

"My friend sent a message, which is a set of coordinates and time."

Isabel held the token a little tighter, and the psychic energy on the clover-shaped necklace was immediately activated, and then a string of coordinate numbers and a set of time were projected.

"what?"

Amber was stunned when she saw this thing.

He grabbed Isabel's hand and raised it to his eyes, ignoring the blush slowly rising on the female spy's face. He stared at the token carefully and controlled a trace of psychic energy to sense it.

"This friend of yours is not an ordinary nobleman in the Thousand Stars Empire, right?"

"Huh?"

Isabel's reaction was half a beat slow. Before she could answer Amber's question, she heard the latter continue:

"This token is essentially a spiritually entangled communication crystal. It can theoretically transmit information across galaxies in real time. It is infinitely superior to the communication technology currently mastered by humans.

This thing is extremely rare even in the Thousand Stars Empire. No, it cannot be said to be rare, it should be rare.

In addition to the elven royal family and the great consuls, it is estimated that only a few wealthy noble businessmen from other countries have it. "

Amber let go of Isabel's hand and looked at Isabel with clear and sincere eyes.

"This friend of yours, does he still lack other friends?"

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Isabel's eyes turned cold.

Amber instantly understood that Isabel's friend was probably a female elf.

"Ahem, let's talk about business. Let's talk about business."

He smiled sheepishly and coughed to cover it up.

"So what your friend means is that she will arrive at this coordinate at this time to pick us up?"

"That's right~ I took a rough look at this coordinate on the star map. It's on the edge of Robert's galaxy. As long as we can find a way to get on a ship with a jump drive engine, we can get there."

Isabel put the token away and looked at Amber.

"It's less than six hours before she arrives. Do you think there's any way we can catch up?"

To be honest, Isabel still feels that all this is a bit unreal.

She originally thought that as a member of the Princess Party, she might eventually die on this planet, and at the hands of those in the Regent Party.

But since boarding Amber's pirate ship, she has actually reached this point in this desperate situation, and is only the last step away from escaping.

"Whether we can catch up or not depends on the situation in Lansford Harbor."

Amber moved his neck, and there was not much time left before he was ready to leave the cabin.

"The main fleets of the Empire and the Federation are currently at war with each other. They definitely have no time to take care of Lansford Port. Therefore, our only obstacle is the Imperial soldiers in the military port. We also pray that there are usable ships in the port."

"What to do with the matter assigned to you by Lieutenant Colonel Dallas?"

Isabel asked curiously. She had been paying attention to Amber these days and naturally knew that he was relatively close to the commander of the federal ground forces.

"Don't worry, I am a person of my word. Since I promised you, I will definitely do it. Whether it is something entrusted by the Lieutenant Colonel or if we need to arrive at the rendezvous point on time, I will make arrangements."

Amber's tone was calm, as if she was telling a very ordinary thing.

But it sounded reassuring to Isabel.

The two stayed in the exit area for a while, and Isabel awkwardly got out of the hatch, and then closed the hatch of the exit area.

At the same time, Amber also activated the extravehicular activity mode of the exoskeleton and combat suit, and a 30-minute countdown also appeared in the upper right corner of the HUD.

This is the maximum time that the 'Breaker 2' can be active outside the vehicle without additional life support components.

"Randall, I'm ready and can start to relieve the pressure."

"Understood, start to relieve stress!"

Seeing the rapidly changing pressure values ​​on the exit terminal, Amber also opened the team communication channel.

"Attention everyone, check weapons and equipment and prepare for a spaceport assault."

"This is a dangerous close combat. Remember what you have trained and maintain your formation! Don't rush forward and don't retreat! Pay attention to the position and status of your teammates around you!"

"Major Randall, don't open the door after the car arrives at the docking area. Wait for my instructions."

After Amber finished her last sentence, the pressure relief in the exit area happened to be complete.

After confirming again that all the equipment on her body was normal and asking Lilith to do another self-check, Amber unscrewed the mechanical handle of the exit hatch.

The pressure was released completely, and there was no accident that the imbalance of internal and external pressure caused oneself to be sucked out.

Amber opened the hatch completely and climbed out carefully. At the same time, she fastened the safety rope on the hook on the outer wall of the car.

Above him, Port Lansford, the last stop of the space elevator, was zooming in rapidly.

At the same time, Amber clearly felt that the car began to slow down. He fixed his body on the outer wall and waited patiently for the car to complete its deceleration, and finally stopped at the corresponding berth in the docking area.

"Click!"

Amber, who was leaning on the outer wall, 'heard' that the fixing device between the car and the docking area was locked. He immediately untied the safety rope and then pulled hard on the handle on the outer wall with both hands. His whole body moved towards the car like a torpedo. Floated over to the docking area.

The mark representing the destination on the HUD was getting closer and closer. Everything around him was so quiet. Only the sound of his own breathing and the movement of various parts of the exoskeleton echoed in his ears.

Amber floated across a distance of nearly 200 meters in one breath and arrived at a hatch in the docking area.

The small red words printed on the side of the hatch indicate that there is also an area behind the ears of this hatch that can be used for pressure relief.

Amber opened the control panel next to the hatch and connected several data cables on her wrist. Lilith immediately got in, and then easily completed the crack and gained the authority to open the door and relieve the pressure.

"Master, the control personality of this spaceport is not easy to deal with. It should be run on a server array, and the standard computing power is very powerful."

"Well, I know. Anyway, there is no need to have direct contact with this controlling personality. Just be careful."

Amber replied calmly.

He is naturally aware of the situation of the control personality of Port Lansford. Under normal circumstances, the control personality of such a large facility needs to be responsible for the energy distribution, internal environment adjustment, electronic countermeasures and other tasks of the entire space port.

And the most important thing is to guide ships in and out of the port.

Therefore, the control personality of such large facilities will generally not be changed. Once activated, it will take more than ten years or even decades.

Under such a long period of high-intensity multi-threaded task processing, the comprehensive capabilities of these control personalities can even overwhelm the shipboard control personalities on capital ships.

This also makes it difficult for conventional electronic warfare attacks to be effective against this control AI.

The reason why the Empire is able to control this spaceport is simple.

After the assault force suppressed the spaceport, they directly used the authority of a senior officer who had not had time to escape to identify all imperial units as friendly forces through authority management in the main control room.

However, Amber does not need to take action against this controlling personality now, nor does she need Lilith to engage in a head-on confrontation.

As long as we can carry out a trivial quiet cracking and open some convenient doors in Lansford Port through disguise.

Soon Amber got into the space, closed the hatch and started to pressurize the cabin.

When the cabin pressure displayed on a screen on the bulkhead was normal and the exoskeleton's sensors confirmed that the external environment was safe, Amber turned off the exoskeleton's extravehicular activity mode.

There are about 20 minutes left in this mode, and he must keep it just in case.

She closed her eyes and released a psychic wave. After confirming that there was no other human activity outside the cabin, Amber carefully opened the cabin door and got out.

There is no artificial gravity in the docking area, and long-distance movement of personnel generally depends on holding the mobile access handle on the wall.

If it's a short-distance move, you can just float over or activate the electromagnetic adsorption device on your feet.

This is why everyone, including Amber, wears a jetpack for posture management.

Following a map that Lilith 'crawled' from the internal network of Port Lansford, Amber quickly found the route to the berth where her car was located.

Along the way, he continued to use his spiritual energy to identify the surrounding situation, dodging several groups of enemies that passed quickly.

Obviously, the unlocking of the space elevator has made the imperial troops in the space port ready to move.

When he was about to reach the last passage, Amber, who was swept by a psychic wave again, stopped.

His expression became serious, and the shock sword was removed from the weapon rack behind his back.

Although the returned psychic waves told Amber that there were no vital signs in this channel, the too clean 'feedback' made him alert.

"It seems that someone used spiritual energy to cover up the aura."

"However, this method is still a bit clumsy. It is too clean to cover up, as if no one has ever been here."

Amber carefully felt the revealing psychic wave in the channel, and slowly synchronized her own psychic energy with it - this is an advanced technique developed by a psychic decades later, and no one has seen it at this stage. Pass.

When the psychic energy was completely synchronized, Amber suddenly laughed.

Then he raised his long sword and pointed the tip of the sword to somewhere in this passage:

"Okay, stop hiding, I've discovered you."

As soon as he finished speaking, the point where the sword pointed was slightly fluctuated.

As a honeycomb-shaped stream of light flashed by, a figure slowly appeared in the passage.

"As expected of you, Amber."

This is a man wearing an Imperial-style psychic combat exoskeleton. From the logo on his chest armor plate, it can be seen that he is a Star Dragon Fang man.

"We finally meet, Tail Needle."

"Hmph, I don't know how you saw through the disguise, but since I have been guarding here in advance, you can't even think of passing through here today."

Tail Needle took out a pair of concussive daggers from his waist, which are relatively rare weapons in exoskeleton hand-to-hand combat.

Because the common choice is either to use heavy weapons to fight directly, or to use weapons such as daggers and combat armor-piercing bullets to seek a short-term burst.

A short sword, but also in double sword mode.

This weapon, which is more suitable for roaming combat, is indeed less common than other weapons.

Tail Needle didn't continue to talk nonsense. After taking off the weapon, he rushed forward, and then the whole person disappeared into the air.

"Randall, the situation has changed!"

Amber held her breath and concentrated, and her spiritual energy stretched out to form something like a field.

Then he raised his left hand, and a spiritual shield formed in front of his hand, 'Buzz! ’ blocked the tail needle’s surprise attack.

The opponent missed the target and hid his figure again.

The overall combat style is basically consistent with what Amber guessed.

"What's going on? Amber?"

Randall's voice came to mind in the communication channel.

"Everyone is ready for battle, just waiting for your order."

"No, I can't make it. You decide when to attack!"

As he spoke, Tail Needle launched several more attacks in succession. He used his jetpack and psychic powers to constantly change his position, and in a short period of time he actually had an effect similar to a multi-person attack.

"I'm entangled by an empire's psyker. The other party also has level 4 psionic powers. I guess we won't be able to end the battle quickly."

Amber threw a psychic impact towards the tail needle, and the opponent was not to be outdone and also stimulated a psychic impact.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The spiritual pressure generated by the collision of several psychic waves caused the electronic equipment in the passage to flash wildly, and the bulkhead of this passage also made a sound of the metal structure twisting.

Amber took a deep breath, stared in the direction of the tail needle, crossed her arms and held the sword, put the guard on her chest, and pointed the back blade toward her right arm.

This is the key stance in [Meyer's Swordsmanship].

Although its origin is a swordsmanship from the ancient Blue Star cold weapon period, these classic fighting techniques were discovered again after cold weapon fighting reappeared on the battlefield.

After scientific modern improvements, it reappeared in front of the world.

"Major! Let the mobile infantry decide how to fight. I won't say anything anymore. I want to kill this guy!"

(End of this chapter)