Chapter 17: Goodbye
September 15, 2505. Fourth Field, Heavy Karma, Beta-4 C27. F591, known planet Antija.
Nero didn't know, but moved cautiously as he watched the people in the dock.
Suddenly, the alarm rang out throughout the dock. This is an intrusion alert common to naval ships, and the Empire uses it as well. To be precise, the empire sets international standards, and the empire is international practice.
This was followed by a ship-wide notification from the central dispatch room, and various channels such as personal terminals and public broadcasting were available. For a moment, Nero seemed to feel several lines of gaze sweeping over him.
The fighters in the dock compartment were immediately put into combat readiness. The captain of the fire team, who was lying on the body of his younger brother, jumped up.
With a roar, he rushed straight to where Nero was. The central dispatch console has already given an order, ordering the nearest A3 fire team to eliminate the threat!
Nero gritted his silver teeth, turned his head and ran.
Damn it! was discovered. Is it so fast? Heat source detection? Psychic Detection? How did you find out about me, those people, so quickly.
If you think about it calmly, no matter how you think about it, it is extremely stupid for a single person to conduct a strong attack on a warship in service with the regular army of the Federation for the sake of professional training.
However, no matter how many times Nero was given a few more choices, she would still rush forward desperately.
Must find the little from!
Nero sprinted down the corridor, approaching the soldier at three times the speed, raising his pistol in both hands and sending two bullets into the enemy's head.
As long as she wasn't a combatant like the fireteam, she had more than enough weapons in her hands to deal with it.
Should I say that Nero really had a talent for shooting? The two shots were not stopped, moved and fired, and actually hit.
Nero grabbed the dead body's hand, took it on the handle, and pulled the door open.
Hide the handle of the fingerprint recognition system, which should be the design of most warships. At least the warships of the Reich had part of this design.
If you can't pull it open, it's a big deal to have another HESE-13 Flame Burst Technique, and blast it open.
As soon as he opened the door, he didn't wait for the people inside to react. Nero fired two more shots, knocking down the two farther away.
It's already six shots and six hits.
"Sit down! Don't move! ”
Nero scolded, aiming his pistol at the people gathered around the table. Seeing the Ouija plate on the table, Nero knew he was in the wrong place.
The central control room is responsible for the control, control and dispatch of the entire shipboard weapon system on modern warships, and the take-off and landing places of all carrier-based aircraft.
In general, it is not too far from the docking compartment.
The men who were frightened by Nero looked like high-ranking officers, and around the table in the middle were miniature cross-sectional models of the Milottaus-class.
There are also many stickers of carrier-based aircraft on the model, which is the so-called Ouija disk. It was an ancient system that had been in use since the navy was still on the surface, and the Imperial Navy called it the Ouija Disk.
Regardless of how technology develops, the simpler the system, the more reliable it is, and the more reliable the equipment, the more favored it is by frontline troops.
"Where's my brother?"
Nero put the gun to the old man's head, regardless of the number of stars he carried on his shoulders.
If the servant is caught, be sure to bring it back by carrier-based aircraft. Then, the central control room that coordinates and dispatches carrier-based aircraft must know whether anyone has been caught.
"You, calm down."
"Say!"
Nero shouted viciously, gasping for breath and shaking uncontrollably. Slammed it on the officer's head.
It's like you're going to shoot at any moment.
"What brother?" The elderly officer was in a cold sweat, "I haven't seen it." ”
"Tell the truth! You bastard! ”
"I really didn't see it."
The old officer, though he looked frightened, maintained the necessary composure. But in this way, it is difficult for Nero to judge whether what he says is true.
After a moment's thought, Nero dropped the muzzle of his gun and pointed at the young lieutenant next to him.
"You say"
"Really, we really haven't seen your brother."
Nero was still unsure, and was about to continue the questioning when he suddenly noticed something strange behind him.
Without the slightest hesitation, Nero immediately grabbed the old officer in front of him by the neck and dodged behind him.
The muzzle of the gun rested on the officer's temple.
"Don't move!"
The leader of the firepower team, who opened the hatch, suddenly stopped. However, the assault rifles in the hands of all members of the fire team did not let go, and they still locked Nero who was hiding behind the officer.
"Dispatch console, target hostage-taking, A3 applies for permission to fire."
"Team A3, dispatch desk received, permission application is underway, please wait."
Through the communicator and the conversation without disguise, even Nero could hear clearly. Normally speaking, the communication between front-line combat units and the dispatch station can be made more covert, and it should be so.
Now, even the dispatch console that defaults to peer-to-peer communication, Nero, who has nothing to do with it, hears the answer of the intellectual female voice.
The plausible explanation is that "I wanted Nero to hear", the so-called "conspiracy", forced Nero to give up the hostages.
There is no way, no one can guarantee that the so-called permission to open fire, the Federation will not come down. Involving the Federation's rules of battle, this touches on the blind spot of Nero's knowledge.
However, once the permission is granted, the hostage loses its meaning as a hostage, and Nero is directly dead.
Damn it!
Nero took a strong breath and suppressed the restless spiritual power in his body. Suddenly, for some reason, Nero's heart calmed down.
"Is what you said true?"
Nero's trembling voice rang in the old officer's ears, and his moist tone struck the old man's heart at once.
The old officer hadn't seen his granddaughter for a few years, so the child should be as old as this girl, right?
"Your brother isn't on the boat. Kid, I promise. ”
Nero's eyes twitched, she didn't expect an answer. I didn't feel the corners of her mouth raise slightly.
The younger brother did not fall into their hands.
"Thank you...... I'm sorry. ”
Without waiting for the old officer to react, his body was violently pushed out.
At the same time, Nero's long-brewing technique was launched, squeezing every trace of controlled spiritual power from Nero's body. The spiritual power circuit has been damaged too much, but it's not too late.
The officers who flew out rushed straight to the fire team at the door. The sudden change will not cause the other fire team to be disorganized.
But the approaching allies disrupted their gun lines. Especially before the permission came down, they opened fire on friendly troops.
This moment of uncertainty was a silver lining for Nero.
Inherent Imperial Triple Speed!
Nero flashed into a streamer and swept past the officer's side.
"Fire!"
The moment they entered the fire group's firing range, bullets whizzed in and landed behind Nero.
More than 120 decibels of gunfire overwhelmed the command of the dispatch console, almost at the same time.
"Permission to fire, priority to ensure the safety of personnel, confirmation that the target is an individual samurai, and the countermeasures team is supporting."
The safety of personnel is not only for officers, but also for themselves. Article 2 of the Federal Code of Engagement states that non-samurai combat units are prohibited from fighting against samurai head-on.
However, the leader of the firepower team left it behind.
He also has a samurai license, and he has a trainee γ-rank samurai license obtained in Tokiwadai.
With just a few bullets, Nero was already close to the present. Assault rifles have lost their relevance at such engagement distances. The captain immediately made a decision and elbowed Nero's figure with the butt of a gun.
The captain misses the blow, and he doesn't stop in the slightest, spinning and sweeping out a backspin kick.
Nero was startled, his legs rapidly enlarged in his eyes, and he retracted his right arm to unfold the defensive shell technique.
The spiritual barrier that flickered and unfolded like an electric lamp with unstable voltage was even more useless.
The moment it comes into contact, it shatters like glass. Attached to a half-ton of war armor, this backspin kick is a staggering 4,000 pounds.
The moment the glassy and fragile defensive shell shattered, Nero poured the last remaining spiritual power from his body into his right arm.
The dull sound was mixed with the crunch of bones shattering. Maybe not very crisp, but Nero subjectively felt that it must be crispy.
The pain clenched Nero's teeth, but she didn't have time to care about them. With this 4,000-pound force, he flew back more than ten meters.
It took a few back-rolls to unload the force. Nero didn't stop and dodged into the corner.
Almost at the same time, the bullet followed, sweeping at the location of Nero's previous frame.
"Hahaha! You will be punished for the many crimes you have committed today. ”
Nero's voice echoed around the fireteam.
"Dispatch console, we're missing our target."
"Roger. Target Location Capture ...... Updated. ”
As soon as the captain of the firepower team gave the order to "chase", he rushed out, and the team members reorganized their equipment and followed closely behind.
The tactical eyepiece shows that the intruder appears to be approaching the carrier-based aircraft ammunition depot.
"A3 fire group, the intrusion target is trying to get to the carrier-based aircraft ammunition depot. The B2 fire team is on its way to intercept and assist in neutralizing the threat. ”
"That's not right!"
At the same time, the public announcement sounded: the ship is ready to enter the jump fault, the impact is ready.
On the other side, Milotaus enforced the security protocols and lowered the security doors of the various houses. The safety gate of the ammunition depot of the carrier-based aircraft was closed and locked. All compartments for such dangerous goods as ammunition are protected by thickened armor.
"Captain, what's wrong?"
"Can one person capture such a heavy place as an ammunition depot? What's in the vicinity of the ammunition depot? ”
Near the ammunition depot? Above is the tertiary main armor belt, next to the hangar, and below is the dock compartment separated from the secondary main armor belt.
"Dock! What's behind the dock? ”
What is behind the dock, that is almost an international practice, almost all countries with the production capacity of ships, the same design.
"Escape pod! Dispatch console, target ready to use the escape pod! ”
"Roger!"
After a short silence, the helpless voice of the young lady at the dispatch desk came.
"Target escapes, mission aborted."
In order to allow the personnel on the warship to escape even in the most extreme cases. The escape pod configured on the warship is not linked to the ship's system, but is controlled by an independent system. There is even a purely mechanical manual control mode.
Even if an entire ship falls into the hands of an enemy, friendly forces on board will be able to escape. As the escape compartment was ejected from the hull by compressed nitrous, Nero left the Millotaus-class light cruiser.
In the endless space of space, Milotaus broke through the dark space and slowly drove into a huge black light hole.
The light distorts at the edge of the hole and falls into the hole.
The three-way power of the immaterial imaginary space to everything in the world cannot be disobeyed or exempted. The power from the abyssal void pulled Nero's escape pod into the back of the world, the endless "void".
At the last moment of sinking into the "void", 20:41. Through the observation window of the escape pod, Nero saw that countless missiles were dragging the blue tailitis towards the beautiful planet, Antigia. The Minotaur dismantled its main gun crew in order to install stealth equipment. To compensate, armed with a large number of missiles. Among them, there is even a forbidden weapon that exterminates all species on a planet.
No!
The escape chamber procedure is carried out, the anesthetic gas is released, and the temperature is gradually reduced. Before consciousness froze, Nero let out one last cry.
However, the younger brother who may still be on Antigan can no longer be heard.
Nero never imagined it to end like this.