Alien Relic Hunter

"The alert level of the ship's defense facilities has been raised to the highest level, and all cabin partition doors have been lowered to prepare the Marines to face the enemy!" Rear Admiral Alexander issued three orders in succession.

As soon as he finished speaking, four thick armored doors fell down one after another, sealing off the corridor leading to the bridge. Several soldiers responsible for defending the bridge set up two machine cannons behind the doors, and the black muzzles were straight. The ground is pointed in the direction of the corridor.

"Everyone, be ready for battle...even civilian officers." Major General Alexander said. He took out the exquisitely crafted pistol from his waist that was used to symbolize the commander's identity, took a look at it, and shook his head with some disappointment. , and threw it into the glove cabinet under the captain's console. Then he quickly walked to the weapons cabinet on the side of the bridge, took a 0.5-inch hunting pistol and stuffed it into the holster, and then picked a Gauss machine gun weighing 25 kilograms and straddled his body.

"Uh, General, how about I hold it..." An officer wanted to take the machine gun from Major General Alexander, but Alexander glared back, "If you need a weapon, get it from the cabinet yourself... I said, everyone must be ready to fight, mind you, 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 because Why don’t you attack me if I don’t have a weapon in my hand?”

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

"Can you use it?" Alexander asked.

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

In addition to the officers and soldiers who were operating the "Scati", other people on the bridge also ran to the weapons cabinet to pick out their own weapons. Some people even put on tactical mechas and guarded the ship. Both sides of the bridge's entrance and exit.

Alexander turned back and glanced at the live view screen directly in front of him. The Skati had already arrived directly above the Ark. It's just that the size of the Ark is so huge that it would take several minutes to fly over it at the speed of the Skati.

Egg-shaped sarcomas are constantly being shot at the Skadi. The base of these sarcomas has a structure similar to a jet device. Its output is so powerful that it can even shoot sarcomas weighing more than ten tons to a height of one thousand meters - -Although the Skadi has increased in altitude, it still cannot avoid these cannonball-like egg-shaped sarcoids.

Major General Alexander suddenly remembered an earth plant that he had read in a book when he was young - the seeds of that plant are stored in a tightly closed cyst. When an animal passes by, the stimulated cyst will It exploded suddenly, spraying out the seeds. Seeds with a sticky substance on their surface will stick firmly to the hair of passing animals and be carried to other places by the animals to take root and germinate.

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

Countless monsters were hatched from the sarcoma, and as the sarcoma ruptured, a liquid that looked like amniotic fluid flowed out. As soon as this liquid came into contact with the Skati's surface armor, a large amount of it began to emerge. White Smoke – Apparently, this is a very corrosive substance.

"The unknown substance in the egg-shaped sarcoma is corroding the outer armor of the battleship." CIC's intelligence officer loudly reported to Alexander, "In the most serious place, the corrosion depth has reached a quarter of the armor layer. It is expected that there will be more In forty seconds, the armor layer will be eroded!"

"It will be very unfavorable for us to drag on like this!" The commander of the Marine Corps also connected the communication to the bridge and said to Major General Alexander, "General, let me take the mecha troops outside the ship to clear out these monsters and adherents It’s a sarcoma on the ship! Our mechas have all been upgraded with strong magnetic foot pads, so they can move around on the surface of the warship without being thrown out!"

"Rejected." Alexander immediately rejected the Marine Corps Commander's proposal. "Even if you can fight those monsters outside the high-speed flying battleship, how many troops can you put in?"

"Two hundred people! I only need to take two hundred people out, so that the defense inside the ship will not be empty!" said the commander of the Marine Corps.

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

"Currently, there are approximately 7,500 egg-shaped sarcomas attached to battleships with a diameter of less than one meter, approximately 1,100 with a diameter of one to three meters, and 200 with a diameter of three to ten meters. , there are nine giant sarcomas with a diameter of more than ten meters... No, two more giant sarcomas have just broken through the energy shield, and now there are eleven! Thirty percent of the sarcomas have completed incubation, and the remaining 70%, More than half will be hatched within one minute." The CIC intelligence officer quickly tallied up the data, "Moreover, this number is still soaring... The enemies we will face are expected to reach 10,000 bodies. Between twelve thousand bodies.”

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

"I..." The commander of the Marine Corps was suddenly speechless - although he knew that the situation was serious, the CIC data would not be opened to the Marine Corps without the permission of the captain, so it was projected to He did not know the exact number of egg-type sarcomas on the Skati.

This commander of the Marine Corps, who is over 1.9 meters tall and extremely brave, is an old subordinate of Major General Alexander. He was transferred from the First Cruise Fleet to the Zero Fleet with him. He can be regarded as a veteran of many battles. The veteran. But even he, after hearing the enemy's numbers, a look of despair flashed across his face.

The battle loss ratio between humans and indigenous creatures has always been a number that is difficult to quantify. If the target is assumed to be an insect creature in the wilderness, this insect creature can instantly destroy a team of ten human soldiers in a duel with human soldiers. However, the light weapons in the hands of human soldiers are difficult to deal with. It causes harm. But if humans set up an ambush area in advance and use napalm bombs, tactical nuclear weapons or even battleship main guns to kill them, then a huge swarm of insects can be wiped out at a small cost.

In other words, it is possible to directly airdrop a cluster of tactical mechas to the main nest of the insect swarm, and use the thick armor and strong firepower of the tactical mechas to break into the core of the main nest and directly kill the queen. It is also possible to eliminate a group of insects in a short time. group.

But in the current situation, if the Marines really went outside the battleship to fight with 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 danger and put these monsters into the warship in small quantities many times to destroy them. In this way, the "geographical advantage" can be brought into full play, which is equivalent to the second attack when facing the insect swarm. a tactical strategy.

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

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

In addition, there is another problem, that is, choosing the battlefield inside the battleship will inevitably cause serious damage to the internal structure of the battleship. Marine soldiers are even restricted from using overly powerful heavy weapons. ...Under such a constrained situation, 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 could never show this anxiety on his face.

Even if Mount Tai collapses before him, his appearance remains unchanged. This is a quality that a good commander must possess.

But Alexander also knew very well that no matter how excellent the commander's quality was, it was useless in the face of the absolute gap in combat power... At most, it could just make him lose more honorably.

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At the same time, General Maginot's office at Mukach Base.

"It's over, it's over...these tumors can actually penetrate the Skati's energy shield. It's over now!" General Maginot put his hands behind his back, walked quickly in circles in front of the sofa, and kept mumbling, "Ten thousand... no, there are almost 20,000 monsters boarding the battleship, right? How can they possibly defeat this? Once the gap in the ship is opened, these monsters will get in one after another... Then, then It will be a massacre!"

The battle between the "Scati" 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 Skati is covered in There are many large and small egg-shaped sarcomas. General Maginot went from being calm at the beginning to being restless, and finally turned into 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 finally know how those battleships perished!" Maginot said quickly, "Ke Lan, we must now Let them retreat and send support immediately, so that it is possible to save the Skati and the officers and soldiers on the ship... Our combat power is very tight. If we lose the Skati, the whole situation will become unsafe. We are at a disadvantage!"

What Magino said is not unreasonable. The Skadi heavy cruiser is considered to be the strongest combat power of the human survivor coalition. This statement is not an exaggeration at all. If the total combat power of the survivor coalition is compared to If it were 100%, the Naskati accounted for at least 85%. Losing the Skadi is almost the same as annihilating the entire army.

It will take at least a few months for the new battleships at Griffin Fortress to be put into use, and during this period, the monsters on the Ark are likely to attack various locations including Griffin Fortress and Mukah Fortress. The survivors allied forces attacked the stronghold. Even if Ke Lan shows the Agunakator's trump card, there is only one Agunaktor, and it is impossible to protect all the strongholds.

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

The best solution is to keep the "Skati". As long as the "Skati" is on duty, whether it is a defensive battle or an encounter in the wilderness, the survivor coalition can achieve greater success. winning percentage.

The difference between having battleships for air support and not having battleships for air support is so great that it no longer affects the balance of victory, but directly overturns the balance.

"Ke Lan, why are you still so indifferent! I'm going to die!" General Maginot's facial features were all squeezed together. "Can't you see the screen? I know you want to keep your trump card, but no matter what, If we stay, we may be completely at a disadvantage. By then, even if you play out your trump card, it may not work! Although I don’t know how to lead troops in war, the Skati is important to us. Sex, even the orderlies below know it very well... We must rescue them!"

"Damn fat man, can you be quiet for a while?" The hound sitting on the sofa glanced at Maginot, "We are also in a hurry, but is being anxious useful? Didn't you see that Ke Lan was thinking? You are blind at this time A few random shouts 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 still too late for Yagunaktor to set off?" 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 thirty seconds and come into close contact with the personnel on the ship. Do you think that Yagunaktor should be rushed to the rescue now? Is it too late?" Ke Lan continued to ask.

"Thirty seconds..." Maginot 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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