From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 149 Confrontation

On the all-round screen of the Zealot's cockpit, another armed merchant ship marked with a red locking frame was urgently adjusting its axis to allow the bow of the ship to meet the enemy and maximize the effect of the deflection force field.

The attack direction chosen by Amber and the others is from the zenith of the operational base, so now the armed merchant ship must raise its bow 90° in order to maximize the deflection field.

In fact, Amber originally planned to attack directly from the Pirates' back half.

But the asteroids in that direction are too complex and dense, so the air mines deployed here may not be detonated during the Hermes attack.

It will also put HCP and assault boats at greater risk during the assault.

So Amber and the others finally chose the more secure direction of Tianji.

"Master, the heavy particle cannon has been deployed! It is ready to fire at any time!"

Amidst Lilith's prompting sound, the icon representing the heavy particle cannon in the frame that displayed the operation status of the weapon unit on the multi-function display changed to 'shooting allowed' green.

Amber launched the attack without hesitation. The turbulent stream of heavy metal particles directly hit the upper part of the bow of the armed merchant ship before it could adjust its axis.

The two GAX-A9 fanatics that Amber had packed away from the Imperial frigate were the same early models as the Block 10 fanatics that he had met on the surface of Robert IV.

As Amber swept his pupils over, the machine also locked onto this position.

Therefore, when faced with heavy particle cannon fire, whether it is a battleship, HCP, or heavy multi-legged tank, they will choose to use a deflection field to defend.

Amber, who confirmed that he had reached the advanced stage of 'drawing out cancer', laughed at himself, and then used his two robotic arms to hold the hilt of the sword and make a downward stabbing motion.

"Has it become my muscle reaction to pull out the sword?"

Amber put the Gauss rifle back into the weapon rack behind her back, and then skillfully removed the Plasma Heavy Sword like she had done countless times in the game.

Therefore, in terms of output power, naturally even the frigate cannot compare.

He switched the weapon control to the HCP-specific Gauss rifle in his main hand, and then aimed in the direction of the armed merchant ship and fired another shot.

Rather than removing the structural resistance of the head iron.

Facing Amber's heavy particle cannon, this armed merchant ship, which had no time to activate the deflection field, could not withstand the bombardment even if it was solid.

And based on the information about the Nerus-class cargo ship in the ship database, the location of the possible bridge was marked.

However, the initial velocity of the plasma metal jet it launched also reached 1000 kilometers per second.

With this level of kinetic energy, if it were replaced by a destroyer or even a light cruiser with a higher level and thicker armor plate, it would only rely on the internal structure to break up the heavy metal ion jet to ensure that it would not be penetrated.

At this moment, Amber knew that the heavy particle cannon shot she had just fired had 80% penetrated the bow of the armed merchant ship, and directly destroyed the deflection field generator before it could be activated.

After a while, the white electric light from the deflection force field did not appear in the universe.

Amber, who was sprinting, could see a fireball lighting up in the target area with the naked eye, even without using the zoom function of the optical sensor.

If you calculate it based on a standard projectile - a 5-gram bismuth metal - and apply the classic formula, you will get a very outrageous kinetic energy number.

At this time, Lilith had thoughtfully enlarged the picture of the armed merchant ship.

"Haha! God opens his eyes."

The airborne foldable heavy particle cannon it is equipped with is powered by a subcritical reactor carried on the body.

Immediately afterwards, the fanatic began to slow down by relying on the nozzles attached to the space combat components mounted on the legs.

Before contact occurs between the two parties, the relative speed must be reduced to a level where the structural strength of the body is acceptable.

And all of this finally led to the scene that the two Eric brothers saw in the main control room. A silver-white HCP suddenly landed on the armed merchant ship in the blue light emitted by the reverse thrust, knocking it down and sinking.

The heavy plasma sword in HCP's hand also penetrated the location of the bridge.

While the blade formed by high-temperature plasma cut through the laminated armor plate and penetrated, Amber also adjusted the output power of the heavy sword to burst mode.

The injection of more energy made the blue plasma blade instantly grow larger, directly vaporizing the two unlucky ones closest to him in the bridge.

Immediately afterwards, he slashed and lashed out with the heavy slashing sword, opening a large hole inside the bridge and causing internal pressure loss. Several pirates who were frozen into popsicles flew out.

After clearing the bridge, Amber did not forget to glance in the direction of the operations base.

Under the fanatic's 'knight helmet', the flashing red light of the red one-eyed main monitor startled the Eric brothers who were hiding in the main control room of the operation base.

"Brother, what should we do?"

The younger brother John, who in his brother's eyes was 'smart since he was a child', looked at the fanatics in the distance who began to dismantle the surface of the armed merchant ships. At this time, he was so confused that he began to stutter when he spoke.

"Don't be afraid, we have hostages! They don't dare to do anything to us!"

Marvin, who looked crazy, comforted his younger brother. He had lost his mind a little now, so he was not so afraid.

In his communication channel, there was only rustling noise at this time.

In addition to the pirates who retreated to the main control room, the pirates on the other two armed merchant ships have been buried with their ship.

He could only watch helplessly as the assault boat landed on the landing platform of the operations base, and then released a team of tough men wearing exoskeletons. After breaking open the external hatch, they rushed into the operations base. .

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Several explosions occurred in succession inside the operating base, but Marvin was not sure whether it was a bomb exploded by his own team or detonated by these marines.

However, after witnessing the encounter with the armed merchant ship, he had just ordered everyone, including the hostage workers, to put on spacesuits.

So there is no need to worry about losing pressure in the cabin and causing everyone in the control room to die in an instant.

After the series of explosions in the operations base ended, there was a deathly silence.

Just when the Eric brothers were dreaming about whether their own bombs would wipe out these Marine regiments.

They suddenly received a communication request over the operating base's internal network.

After hesitating for a moment, the two brothers looked at each other and accepted the communication request.

Soon, a deep voice that was obviously using a voice changer came from the communication channel.

"Open the hatch of the main control room and don't fire. We can still talk."

That was when Marvin, John, and the other pirates focused all their attention on this temporary communication.

Amber's driving fanatic also carefully floated directly above the main control room.

He avoided the skylight and continued to rely on the operation of the vector nozzles all over his body to maintain relative stillness to the main control room.

Amber then deployed the charged particle cannon on the weapon rack behind her.

(End of this chapter)