Chapter 26: Shipwrecks in Space
"Captain Jerome! A battleship of unknown size with a cruiser in front is about to come out? A technical sergeant-operator with tubes stuck all over his body pointed to the monitor in front of him, reminding him loudly, sir. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Order the torpedo compartment to prepare for the launch of torpedoes! The engine room is in full swing, let's approach the unidentified battleship at full speed, let the gun sergeant start loading the cannon shells, get ready to shoot, aim at the place where the unknown battleship appears, and if there is anything wrong, don't hesitate to give the order to open fire! When the Storm approached the unidentified warship, it activated its shield engine with all its might to prevent the opponent from directly launching a lightning strike to land the Storm. Captain Jerome wore a naval officer's cap and his hands were folded over his chest, directing the Tempest in an orderly manner.
At this moment, in the engine room of the Tempest, a senior mechanical technical sergeant held up his mechanical arm and shouted, "Ring the bell once!"
Push the lever to start the piston and pump......
Ring the bell twice!
Press the button to start the engine, ignite the turbine, and breathe life......
Ring the bell three times!
Sing in unison and praise the God of Machines! ”
"Praise the God of All Machines!" A group of tech slaves and warband minions responded to the shouts of the tech sergeants and the rhythm of the shouts to push the engine parts.
"Boom Boom Boom~~~"
When the whole ceremony was completed, the huge Tempest engine in the engine room let out a loud roar of starting, and in the violent vibration, the fanatical mechanical worshippers fell to the ground one after another, aimed at the engine and shouted: "Praise the god of all machines!" Praise the God of All Machines! ”
Under the frenzied enthusiasm of the engine room, the tail engine of the Storm burst into strong propulsion, and a huge spot of light appeared behind the Storm. Under the operation of the operator inside the bridge, the Tempest quickly crossed a distance of 90 kilometers and came to a place 10 kilometers away from the landing point, waiting for the landing of the unidentified warship.
The reason why Captain Jerome dared to approach 10 kilometers, which is equivalent to a distance of bayonets between two warships, was because Captain Ruiz had used his mysterious power to detect that this unidentified battleship was just a cruiser-level battleship, although it was a battleship with a great possibility of the enemy, but at such a close distance, the Storm that could get the first hand was undoubtedly a big advantage, and if the other party was unprepared, Captain Jerome was even confident that he could cripple the opponent in the first round of artillery battles. Then in the next few rounds of artillery bombardment, the opposing warship was ruthlessly destroyed, after all, in the vast universe, the two enemy warships happened to meet each other so coincidentally in the subspace jump, presumably the other party must have not thought of the problem.
"Captain! The enemy has one minute left to get out of the subspace! ”
Captain Jerome clenched his fist and waved, "Prepare your units!" Gavin stood by Jerome's side and watched quietly without pointing a finger, after all, he was an interstellar marine, and he didn't know anything like directing naval battles.
Time passed little by little, and a minute passed in a flash. Ten kilometers to the side of the Tempest, a black subspace jumping vortex suddenly appeared in lightning, and an old, tattered cruiser rushed out of the center of the vortex and lay in front of the gun, looking defenseless.
Captain Jerome frowned as he looked at the Imperial Gothic-class cruiser in front of him. The cruiser was in tatters, with large holes and gaps everywhere, and armor plates flying around in space, all indicating that it was an Imperial cruiser that had jumped into subspace and lost after losing the battle.
Jerome looked at it for a while, then waved his hand and ordered: "The parking compartment will release three Thunderhawk gunboats to reconnoitre, and all units of the Storm will be vigilant, in case this cruiser is a trap of chaos!" ”
On Jerome's orders, three Thunderhawk gunboats flew out of the take-off bay in front of the Tempest and flew towards the shipwreck.
When the three Thunderhawk gunboats arrived at the cruiser, the captain of the Thunderhawk gunboat also remembered Captain Jerome's order, and the three cautious Thunderhawk gunboats first bombarded the cruiser bridge with several rounds of shells with the combat cannon on their backs, and then bombarded the cruiser everywhere with rockets on the wings, and the cruiser was like an abandoned ship, and there was no reaction at all.
After Jerome looked at the tentative probe of the Thunderhawk gunboat and did not make the cruiser react in any way, "Thunderhawk gunboat, attention! I'm Captain Jerome! The No. 1 machine went up to the close to investigate, and the No. 2 and No. 3 paid attention to cover! ”
"Understood!"
The three Thunderhawk gunboats that received the order, one of which was close to the cruiser, and one was pierced by a laser cannon. After approaching the breach, the cautious Thunderhawk used the searchlight in front of the nose to shine in, but found that it was still empty.
Under the cover of the other two Thunderhawks, the undying Thunderhawk gunboat spent two hours on all the breaches of the cruiser, approaching and using searchlights to reconnoitre, but did not detect any abnormal reaction. Then, realizing that this would go on to no avail, Jerome ordered the three Thunderhawk gunboats to return to the Tempest.
When Jerome reported the situation to Jiawen when Thunderhawk returned to the Tempest, he asked: "Commander, according to the reconnaissance results of the Thunderhawk gunboat, this is an Imperial Gothic-class cruiser, a cruiser belonging to an interstar wargroup. On the side of this cruiser there is a mark of a wargroup, the main color is dark blue, this wargroup is preliminarily judged to be a subgroup of ultramarines, as for the reason for its abandonment, I can only roughly think that this cruiser was in a failed battle, was landed by the enemy, and then launched a subspace jump to escape the battlefield, but unfortunately, this wargroup was lost when the subspace jumped, and then in the process of the trek, all the surviving fighters died in the subspace, The cruiser was left adrift in subspace. ”
"That said, it's possible that this abandoned cruiser has equipment left behind by dead Space Marines." Gavin rubbed his chin and guessed.
"This should be there!" Jerome confirmed Gavin's speculation, "Still, Captain. In the reconnaissance report of the Thunderhawk gunboat, it was said that traces of subspace demon activity were found in the breach on the cruiser more than once, although there were not many traces seen, but I am not sure how many demons on the cruiser followed out of the subspace. ”
Jiawen shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "It's okay, since we want the treasure, then defeating the guardian of the treasure must be a common thing, and it is impossible for a few low-level bloodletter demons to stop us." Drip~~~! Attention the Wardens Space Marines, the Watchmen of the 1st Company and the 2nd Demacia Company, now arrive at the airport with your weapons and equipment and prepare for battle! The cruiser in front of us now has a large number of bloodletter demons on it, and there should be no air and gravity on it, so remember to put on your magnetic steel boots and leave your Fenrir wolf behind. Now, our mission is to go up to this cruiser and kill all the demons above in the name of the Emperor! For the emperor! ”
"Roar, roar, roar!! For the emperor!! "A deafening roar resounded throughout the battle mothership,