Chapter Twenty-Nine: Karma Drifts
"What does it smell like?" Counselor Park sniffled. γFengyun Reading Network. γ
The mercenary battleship Novominsk has just crossed the first island chain and entered the Eastern Sea of the Central Continent. Although it was 10 a.m., it was pitch black. The sea fog was so thick that it was impossible to see even the dark clouds and the sea, and the huge air cruiser seemed to be suspended in the black of nothingness, and there was nothing but this ship.
The sailors in the side corridor also smelled a strange smell in the air, "There is a mushy smell, who burns something." β
"Ahem, it stinks." The other covered his mouth.
"Pull the mask up, I'm choking to death."
Staff Officer Park stood on the verandah of the bridge and faintly heard thunder in the distance, booming and rumbling. Is it thunder, or fighting. He turned around and asked, "Hasn't the radar responded yet?" β
Report. No, none of the probing equipment touched. β
"Is it broken?"
"The maintenance team has checked that all the equipment is working properly, but no targets can be detected."
"What about the islands, and they can't be detected? There should be islands around here,"
"Nothing can be detected. The device is working fine, but I can't see anything. β
"That is, we sail in outer space?" Counselor Park glared at him.
At this time, this mercenary warship had already thrown off the glorious Liaoning and quickly headed for Goguryeo, and now the situation has taken a turn for the worse, and there is no time to hesitate. Jin Jiangji is betting on her final fate: if the Central Continent approves of these mercenary warships entering the Black Hole Zone, she should not be attacked if she enters in advance, and she can still fight; But if he turned around and went to Osaka as ordered to join up with the Glorious Liaoning to form an invited fleet, it was likely that the northern royal capital would undergo drastic changes during this time, and it would be too late at that time. Lonely ship depth is the only option.
However, as soon as the battleship entered the Eastern Sea, something inexplicably unexpected happened: the radar and almost all the electronic equipment failed. There was no interference, no working conditions, and nothing was detected. The Eastern Sea is already within the scope of the black hole area, and everyone is nervous.
The starboard lookout suddenly shouted, "Report! There is a light signal ahead. β
"Hell, you can see the light signal with your eyes in such fog, and the radar can't see anything." Counselor Park walked over.
"It's a friendly army." Lookout lying on the telescope, "The high-speed gunboats of the Wangdu Coastal Defense Army, Type 62, they signaled and said...... Let's drop the parcel and assemble to retreat north. β
"Package? Drop the package......" he pondered, "interesting." They don't know who we are yet. Staff Officer Park smiled crookedly, returned to the bridge, and used the ship's intercom to contact the pilot's preparation room: "Princess, we have arrived." β
"The operational command of this ship is all handed over to you." Jin Jiangji's answer was simple and cold.
"Understood." He turned off the intercom and switched to broadcasting to the whole ship, "Attention all ships." From now on, this ship will break away from the command of the Golden Frog King and support Princess Jinjiangji! All gun emplacements are in place, and the No. 1 turret is ready for firing, opening the road to triumph for us! β
This moment, the original Goguryeo crew on the new Minsk was looking forward to it for a long time, they wore fireproof suits and hoods. Although the anomalous celestial phenomena completely disable the gunsight radar and the sea-seeking radar, the foredeck main turret operator was able to optically assist in targeting the target. A vague black shadow appeared in the vast sea fog, the outline of the shadow gradually became clear, the characteristics of the 62 high-speed gunboat of the Wangdu Coastal Defense Team were enough to identify, the red battle flag of the Golden Frog King was hunting, and the entire gunboat was located in the center of the aiming mark. The wave in the bow indicated that the speed was over 20 knots, and the fire control computer began to calculate the advance of the impact point. In fact, head-to-head flat shots, these calculations are basically useless.
"The turrets are ready, and the target is in range!" Report of the War Intelligence Center.
"Fire!"
The twin 100 mm guns on the foredeck roared, the muzzle flames burst out, the shock wave spread, the shells hit the ground with a loud sound, and the first shell that came out of the chamber screamed and hit the port side of the Type 62 gunboat, stirring up a huge wave. The small gunboats with a displacement of more than 100 tons kept shaking, and before they could react, the second shell came straight through, directly through the command room, tore a large hole in the superstructure, penetrated into the amidships and exploded, and the fire quickly engulfed the entire gunboat. The third and fourth shells pierced the stern. Before the fifth shell could be fired, the bow turret of the Type 62 gunboat exploded, and the huge explosion was deafening, blowing the boat to pieces.
"Target destruction."
At the same time, the bridge lookout reported: "Target found in direction 015, target found in direction 080." Identified as a gunboat of the Wangdu Coastal Defense Corps. "The Situation Center began to assign targets to the turrets. The new Minsk, under the command of Staff Officer Park, fired all its guns in unison, and the sea shook with it. Before the three high-speed gunboats could get close, they were completely destroyed by the shells, and smoke billowed from the sea.
The crew of the Novominsk looked at the slowly sinking wreckage and did not say a word, and no one asked if the survivors needed to be rescued. It seemed that these three dinghys were not enough to settle the fate of all the brothers of the two diving teams they had lost, and their own fate at the hands of the royal capital's ministers.
The cannon fire stopped, the roar of the sea was low and strong, and the new Minsk was once again hidden in the thick and dark sea fog.
The lookout held his breath and did not dare to let his guard down in the slightest. In the event of a radar failure, they are the eyes of the whole ship.
"Found target...... starboard lookout's tone was a little hesitant, "I can't identify, there's something in the sea fog." β
"Other gunboats?"
"No, not like a gunboat, bigger, but not a corvette of the royal capital."
"I'll see." Staff Officer Park walked out of the bridge and came to the telescope, lying on it to look carefully, only to feel that there was a faint huge black shadow, but he couldn't see what it was, "It's definitely not an island, but what could it be." β
He beckoned the lookout over: "Keep an eye on that thing." β
There may be ships from the Central Continent in the Black Hole Zone, and he doesn't intend to act rashly.
The new Minsk hangar, Meng Zheng sat in the cockpit of the F-24 fighter, closed his eyes, and debugged the whooping ghost system through brain-computer cross-linking, and no one dared to disturb him.
Kara and Jin Jiangji stayed in the pilot preparation room next to them, the two seemed to be chatting, but their expressions were very serious, and the atmosphere was a little tense.
"What you just said is incredible. Meng Struck actually channeled those electronic souls in the system, causing the golems to stop moving. Oh, though, no matter how amazing that person is, I don't feel strange anymore. Kane looked outside and said to Kara.
"I didn't expect that there was indeed another world in the Hundred Day Ghosts. Now I have only figured out the purpose of the establishment of Hu Feng's combat team, which was also formed to open the door to the world on the other side. The chairman of the Pan American Entente, Chuangpu, should have a personal relationship with Osaka, and got the earliest 100-day ghost mother book from the Komaki Minami factory. It's just that I didn't expect to be grabbed by Arnold's madman in the end. Alas, what more can be said now. She closed her eyes, her eyebrows furrowed, but the corners of her mouth turned up slightly, and her expression was very subtle, "Lizzie, Lee, Flolina, and many others, they went over there first." I'm going to follow Meng Struck through the last stretch of the road. After this fight, I also plan to enter the 100-day ghost system and go to them. β
Suddenly, Kara seemed to think of something, "By the way, aren't you really going to meet Mengji?" I've heard that you used to have a good relationship. β
The corners of Jin Jiangji's mouth twitched, and she didn't even squeeze out a helpless smile: "How can it be suitable now, at the last moment of the decisive battle, everyone is looking at me...... Well, actually," she paused, "yes, it's actually that I don't want to see him, I hate the feeling of the past, don't talk about the past." β
"I don't understand, but I can leave with Mong. If you don't like us on this boat. β
"No, stay here."
"Do you just want support? I don't understand you, but I know how to fight. We only have one fighter, which doesn't mean much to your war, and it increases the pressure on the ground crew, which makes the sortie inefficient. β
"You'll understand."
A knock on the door interrupted the conversation between the two, and Staff Officer Park reported outside: "Princess, there is a little strange ahead, you better come to the bridge and have a look." β
Jin Jiangji stood up and smiled politely at Kara, "If you need anything, just say it." Then he walked out of the door and walked to the upper deck with Counselor Park.
"You've been listening to my conversation with her just now."
"Ugh." Staff Officer Park's expression was embarrassed, "As a staff officer, it is necessary to understand the overall situation, and this is responsible for the princess." β
"Then do as I say, and don't let them go."
"I've already understood, I've already explained it. Otherwise, even if you attack all the way to the mausoleum, it is useless if you don't get hit. β
Jin Jiangji showed a girlish innocent but evil smile: "I should have shot you a long time ago." β
He paused for a moment, and although her smile made people shudder, Counselor Park was still fascinated by the expression of this little princess: "Yes, the princess is always so wise. However, I have a problem. I believe that when we get to the door of the mausoleum, the attack will naturally appear. But he really didn't help us in the war, after all, this is a war started by the princess, and he won't participate in it, but on the contrary, it will be a drag, and even cause trouble. Our goal is not to attract a puppet, but he seems to attract a puppet. β
She smiled lightly and didn't answer, "What you just reported, there's something ahead?" β
"Yes, Princess. You'll know it when you look at it. β
As they spoke, the two of them had already walked out of the bridge command post and stepped into the open-air eagle's nest next to them, and the darkness outside suddenly rushed up, except for the lights spilled behind them, there was endless darkness in front of them. As soon as Jin Jiangji wanted to look ahead, she suddenly felt a strong irritation and pain in her nose. She covered her nose, "What a smell." β
"Princess, look over there."
Following the direction of Staff Officer Park, Kim Jiang Ji saw a huge and ancient military transport ship. There had apparently been a fire on the ship, the entire superstructure and even the sides were charred black, and smoke was still rising from the deck. There were also a few plumes of smoke in the distance, and several of these transport ships were floating on the surface of the sea.
She came to the telescope and stood on tiptoe to look at the transport, which looked very strange in the zoomed-in image, and always felt that something was wrong. She steadied her gaze and looked closely, and this time she could clearly see something black wriggling on the deck, like a large mass of earthworms that had been stirred up.
Her face changed: "What's that?" β
"Wooden man." Counselor Park replied, "The guys from the royal capital are burning down the wooden manipulator. There were too many of them, and they seemed to be afraid, so they transported these wooden people to the sea in transport ships and burned them directly"
"Why?"
"Because, those are not the wooden people we are used to, but puppets with simulated souls. Every wooden man on it was once a subordinate or subject of the princess. We fished up a few with the batch numbers of the Youth Corps, and those were our Youth Corps soldiers. β
Jin Jiangji was completely stunned by the scene in front of her. She left the binoculars, dodged the terrifying picture, and turned her back to Counselor Park, "...... The whole ship observed a moment of silence. Sinking these ships with the main guns, their agony lasted too long. β
"Understood." Staff Officer Park returned to the bridge to convey the princess's order, thinking to himself: after all, she is a little girl, and I don't know what expression she will use to face the truth when she is finally in the mausoleum.