In addition to its thick armor, the Xingye is now equipped with special armor materials made from Spectre Claws and scrapped crystals.

This special material was originally intended to be installed on the Earth, and it has passed high-intensity testing, and it is theoretically no problem to withstand the attacks of the Ghost Claw and the Blood Claw.

But without actual combat, no one knows if this thing can really withstand the attacks of those monsters.

How many attacks can it withstand.

Therefore, this trip can be regarded as a field test in disguise.

The most important thing is that the beast tide is coming, and Zheng Beibei has designed some detection equipment, which will also be put into the open sea.

If you can drive the warship to the open sea, of course, the farther the better, then you can get more open sea conditions at that time.

Most importantly, it helps to know the approximate size of the next beast tide.

Even, this test can also verify whether Ning Yi can directly reach the Ans Islands if he takes this battleship.

You must know that it is only a matter of a few hundred kilometers from here to the open sea, but if you want to take a warship to reach the Ounces Islands, it will be a matter of tens of thousands of kilometers.

Of course, Ning Yi's plan did not mean to take a warship to the Anshi Islands, after all, this was too risky.

After the transformation, the staff of the Xingye is now also streamlined.

The main armament and equipment were also not used, and more than fifty people could make the warship run at full speed.

After screening, the Xingye with more than 100 people on board set off from Beiling Port.

In addition to the sailors, there are more than 30 official warriors, these are all old oilers, with good water quality, and their cultivation is basically above the yellow level, even if the battleship is really hung up, it sinks. You can swim back.

As for the family members or anything, I didn't bring them.

Even Lin Yun stayed at home.

However, there is one exception, and that is Yang Yu.

This chick strongly asked Ning Yi to take her, saying that she wanted to see how arrogant the ghost claws on the sea really were, so as to accumulate experience.

Ning Yi couldn't resist her, and besides, her cultivation was already close to the middle of the green level, and it was difficult for the Red Demon Dragon to get her. It wouldn't make a difference if you took her there.

Moreover, her voice is stronger than Ning Yi's.

From the port of Beiling, the battleship did not leave the port for a long time.

After more than a dozen nautical miles, looking back, the wall under construction still stands out.

The winding gray-white wall looks like a jade belt floating on the sea, with no end in sight.

This is probably the greatest man-made structure ever built by mankind.

Such a huge project, if it weren't for being forced by the Phantom Claw Monster, it would not have been possible to achieve such an effect in just half a year.

According to the predicted words. The next beast tide is less than a month away.

So this time the voyage, to be honest, is the most dangerous.

Because if the prediction is wrong, then they just catch up with the beast tide, and it really happens to hit the muzzle of the gun.

At that time, no matter how awesome the battleship is, it will also be torn to pieces.

But now it's out of a dozen nautical miles. Judging from the surrounding signals detected by the sonar detector hanging on the battleship, it was quite calm. In deviating from the location of Linglan Island, it is the appearance of finding thirty-four ghost-clawed monsters.

Of course, this is already relatively intensive.

In this sea area now, the Q value has reached 0.37, and the phantom claw monster looks particularly irritable.

Although it has only sailed a dozen nautical miles, it has already been attacked by two ghost-headed claw monsters.

And Xingye also gave it a try. Netted a ghost-clawed monster and cut it off, but it didn't take much effort.

The quality of the net is much better than the previous one, and although the ghostly claw monster that was caught in the net struggled desperately, it still couldn't get rid of it in the end.

This was followed by a heavy, high-speed giant drill. He immediately aimed at the vital part of the Phantom Claw Monster and stabbed it directly into it, killing the Phantom Claw Monster.

The Talon was then caught, and several sailors started a crane and stripped the net tied to the corpse of the Talon, digging out the crystals from its body, and then reloading the net into the water.

And the corpse of the ghostclaw monster was thrown back into the sea.

The whole process took more than ten minutes.

Then sail out again, and at a distance of about thirty nautical miles, the Ghostclaw Monsters are crowded.

Soon, a companion of the Spectre began to lay siege to the ship.

However, after the modification of the Xingye, the low water level of the rear deck is almost ten meters above the sea level, and the phantom claw monster is basically out of reach, even if it jumps, it can't jump up. At this time, the armor ability of the Xingye began to be tested.

After the transformation, the Xingye has a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, and the extra weight is basically due to the diesel engine and armor.

This weight and level of armor is intended to counter the presence of the Spectreclaw.

To test the Talon's attack capabilities, they installed various pressure testing devices and underwater cameras on the bottom and sides of the ship.

The anti-collision design on the Earth has also been removed, which is equivalent to a Guoben battleship, which uses its own body to resist impact.

"Bang!"

In the main control room, Ning Yi was also staring at the computer screen with some expectation at the moment.

This is the footage from the underwater camera, and at least three of the Spectreclaw Monsters have already targeted the ship and started ramming.

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The attack of the ghost claw monster grew from small to large, slowly beginning to increase, and finally there was a blood claw's impact force, which even reached 97045N, and the entire battleship trembled, and a slight shaking could be clearly felt.

But of course, this shaking was much less than the wind and waves they encountered.

After a few shocks, those ghostly claw monsters found that the effect was not good, so they had to give up.

However, as soon as they left, the underwater camera immediately noticed that even after hitting the thick armor, there were still dents in the area where they were hit.

Of course, this dent does not affect any of the performance and defense capabilities of the battleship at all.

Without hesitation, the Xingye continued to sail to the open sea.

Soon, they were sixty nautical miles.

By this time, the Ghostclaw Monsters had already begun to thicken, and almost every five minutes, the Ghostclaw Monsters tried to attack the Xingye.

Impacts are also becoming more frequent.

If this is replaced by a commercial vessel, I am afraid that it will be almost unbearable.

No wonder now that trade at sea is almost cut off.

On the other hand, the machine that hunted the Spectral Monsters was also starting to run at full speed.

They're more with that kind of high-intensity bayonet.

The end of the bayonet is made of yellow-grade crystals, which are extremely hard and terrifying, plus it is attacked with a catapult device. The power is so great that once the Phantom Claw is stabbed, there is almost no possibility of escape.

Many of the Spectreclaws were still alive after being stabbed and dragged up, but they were soon killed with other devices, or killed by the experienced oilmen.

The battleship went to sea for almost a hundred nautical miles. They've already slain at least sixty or so Spectreclaw.

Preliminary testing is almost complete.

They traveled at a speed of eighteen knots per hour for a total of six hours.

So far, it has been a relatively dense area of Spectral Monsters.

And it's already a hundred nautical miles away.

In total, they were attacked as many as eighty-three times.

According to the results of the test, the Xingye's defense capability was almost 3% damaged, which seems quite scary, but it is already expected.

The question now is whether the test should be terminated at this point.

Because it is already four o'clock in the afternoon, if you continue to sail to the open sea, then when you return to the sea, you will return at the fastest speed of 28 knots. It also takes four hours to reach Beiling Port.

And by that time it was already dark.

And if you want to continue to drive to the open sea, you have to consider returning at night.

In the original plan, there was no preparation for a night flight today.

Instead, the drone is released at a distance of 120 nautical miles, and the detection equipment is released at a distance of 300 nautical miles, so as to observe the gathering of high-seas ghostclaw monsters 300 nautical miles away, so that the prediction of the beast tide is more accurate.

Then the battleship began to return.

After all, night flights will be more dangerous.

But when he arrived at a place of one hundred and twenty nautical miles, Ning Yi felt a little unwilling.

He first ordered the release of some of the drones and let the drones drop detection equipment. Then I thought about it for a while, anyway, even if I return now. It was almost eight or nine o'clock in the evening when he arrived at the port, so he ordered to continue his march to the open sea.

The crew on the ship also agreed with Ning Yi's decision.

For them, today's tests so far, everything seems to be smooth, they even met the attack of the blood claws several times, but the battleship did not have any problems.

Naturally, he wanted to take advantage of this rare opportunity to directly cross two hundred nautical miles.

After all, they are among these people. There are quite a few sailors who were attacked on their last voyage, and they all regret the failure of the last time.

After the big guys agreed, the battleship released some drones to drop detection equipment, and then accelerated to 25 knots and continued to move forward.

At this time, the attacks of the Spectral Monsters encountered are more frequent.

At a distance of more than one hundred and fifty nautical miles, the battleship could detect the Spectreclaw attacking the ship almost every minute.

The clattering sound was almost incessant.

Judging by the footage captured by the underwater camera. The phantom claws here are already densely packed, and they are all gathered like schools of sardines.

I guess I was attracted by the noise of the lights and the engine.

This level of density almost blocked the way forward.

However, the bow of the battleship uses a high-strength cone, and the battleship advances at a speed of 25 knots, and the Phantom Claw Monster is often knocked unconscious or even killed alive if it can't dodge.

Soon, more than three hours later, the Xingye approached the 200-nautical-mile line.

To their surprise, the number of ghostclaw monsters at this time was slowly decreasing.

It seems that it is much more sparse.

The intensity of attacks on battleships has also decreased.

At a position of about two hundred and fifty nautical miles, the Phantom Claw Monster became even more sparse, and sometimes not a single Phantom Claw Monster could not be detected for more than ten minutes.

At this time, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and Lin Yun and the others at home had already begun to summon them to return.

Ning Yi looked at the dark but eerily quiet sea level, and he didn't know the bottom of his heart, so he ordered the release of five drones to drop twenty sonar detection devices, so that the intelligence collection center in Nanling could collect the information of the ghost claw monsters in this sea area.

The flight speed of the drone is as high as one hundred and fifty nautical miles, and Ning Yi's main detection range is ready to extend to four hundred nautical miles, so after releasing the drone, Ning Yi and they ordered the battleship to prepare for the return voyage.

But less than half an hour after the warship turned around and returned, the drone in charge of reconnaissance and alert in the air sent back a warning message.

The Red Demon Dragon appeared, about eighty kilometers to the southeast, and there were quite a few of them, and the feedback signal indicated that there were at least ten or more.

With the Red Demon Dragon's flight speed, even if the battleship returned with all its might, it would probably only be a little more than an hour away from the battleship.

If these Red Dragons were here to attack the warship, a clash between the two sides would be inevitable.

Of course, encountering the Red Demon Dragon was expected for a long time.

It's just a little bit more.

"Prepare for battle!" Ning Yi saw the detection results in the captain's room, so he gave a brief order.

The entire battleship immediately closed the open observation port, and the helicopters on the aft deck immediately received the closed hatch in the hangar.

The intelligent weapon platforms arranged by the warship are also all on alert.

The Xingye was equipped with four improved Phalanx air defense systems, each with a rate of fire of up to 500 rounds per minute, and was equipped with a six-barreled automatic rotating gun with a caliber of 25 mm.

Even the Red Demon Dragon, under this terrifying bullet rain attack, would not be able to support it.

Moreover, in these weapon systems, the shells are specially modified, and all of them are high-strength warheads made of corner crystals.

If it was at close range, especially at a distance of fifty to one hundred meters, it would be completely possible to inflict substantial damage on the Red Demon Dragon.

It was precisely because of these four air defense systems that Ning Yi and the others were not so afraid when they heard that there was a Red Demon Dragon.

Of course, the price of such a system is too expensive, especially the shells, each of which costs more than four hundred meters of gold.

So even if the rate of fire is only 500 rounds per minute, Ning Yi and they still feel a burst of distress, if they fight for one minute, it means that 200,000 meters of gold will be burned.

To know that the real Phalanx has a rate of fire of up to 5,000 rounds per minute, and the rate of fire of this improved Phalanx is only one-tenth of the original rate of fire.

If the four systems are activated at the same time, after ten minutes, the eight million meters of gold will be gone.

Of course, if you kill a Red Demon Dragon and the crystal is not damaged, it is actually enough to pay for itself.

But shells are not so easy to make.

But no matter what, the four sets of phalanx on the Xingye at this moment are loaded with live ammunition, and there are still 10,000 rounds of ammunition in reserve.

These things are enough to crush more than ten Red Demon Dragons.

With these preparations, Ning Yi was now waiting for the Red Demon Dragon's visit.

However, the Red Demon Dragon has not yet arrived, and a new situation has emerged first.

The control officer in the sonar control room reported that images had been sent back from the sounding instruments that had been placed on the seabed.

And I hope Ning Yi can go over and have a look.

Almost two-thirds of the detectors they dropped were killed by the Spectreclaw, and the remaining third managed to reach the bottom.

Ning Yi took a look, good guy, from the signal, the bottom of the sea is densely packed with ghostly claw monsters.

Like pebbles on a river beach.

It's hard to count this number for a while.

If these monsters were to float on the surface, it would be difficult for this battleship to carry. (To be continued......)

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