Chapter 64: Osgood's Business (Part II)
Osgood was secretly overjoyed when he heard the offer of the handsome mixed-race guy, and continued to ask for the price quietly:
"The money...... You know that you need to be in the army that goes on a mission. ”
The mixed-race handsome guy and the fat man glanced at each other, and they both felt that the black man in front of him was a little insatiable, and he had already offered a price that did not need to be exclusive, and he wanted to press the whole cost together. If you want to make more than 100% of the profit in one place for non-exclusive news, it's too easy to make money.
"Okay, we'll provide an additional 500 credits to subsidize your 'friend's action fee, this part will be settled in Star Coins, you go and ask your friend, if it doesn't work, then forget it."
It's a pity that Osgood didn't study the tone of the native language, and he didn't even hear the warning in it, so he pretended to think about it with a sad face, and spoke again: "I asked him for it, and he would definitely agree, but I was worried that stealing military secrets would bring him more trouble." ”
It's endless, it's back!
The fat man finally got a little impatient, touched his head and said: "Report your bank account number in the second world, I will ask someone to transfer you 300 star coins, and then give the 1000 credits when you are done, if you don't want to, get out of here, don't chirp crookedly in front of me." ”
No one here cares about two or three hundred star coins, and the fat man is even more of a local tyrant, seeing that the guy who disgusts him is still bargaining, he simply sends him away with this amount of money, saving him from worry.
The fat man's behavior of throwing money and smashing people without even asking his name finally made Osgood realize that the people at the table in front of him were not ordinary players who were destroyed by NPCs and later vomited bitterness here, and I am afraid that if they can't get the information, they will get into trouble.
The reward of 300 Star Coins and 1000 credits made Osgood unable to refuse, and the desire to make money overcame his dangerous instinct and took over the business...... It seems that something is wrong, oh, it is to sell an extra sum of what is to be done by the way, and you don't even need to give the first mate any more benefits when you get the battle materials, just go and harass the technician who manages the host.
Satisfied, Osgood left the League of the Victims and went around several other chat rooms with special tastes, such as the Military Enthusiast Fraternity and the like.
A few hours later, he had received a total of four orders for battle materials, and because of the confidence brought by the Victim Alliance's offer, the other three orders were all about the same price.
Once the accounts of this business were in hand, he had saved enough money to replace a new model of simulator, and now this national machine could not devote all his time to the second world, and three days a month he had to go back to the terrible, almost deserted, automaton-ridden Martian city to recuperate.
Back in the Second World, Squadron 727 is almost at its intended location.
Both the captain and the first mate took advantage of Osgood, so he was made an exception and allowed to observe in the control room.
Soon after, the fleet moved into a predetermined position, cruising at cruising speed outside the area where MR242 had jumped.
Osgood had been on several military ships, but he did not have his own ships, and he did not know anything about the tactics of battleships, and did not understand why MR241 came to 239 and had a fixed area, why there was no fleet on duty.
The first mate explained it to him. It's not that the Federation doesn't want to defend the point to fight the invaders, it's that the quantum tunnel circumvention algorithm causes a large area to be surrounded to ensure that the intruder can be caught, which requires about twenty squadrons, almost half of the troops stationed in the MR239 star system, and the operating cost is very high. The Federation's biggest enemy is still the Empire of Islam, which can jump to the star field of MR239 at one time, including four star systems 235, 236, 238 and 240, and it is impossible for the Federation to maintain a space fleet of eighty squadrons in MR239, let alone in the 241 direction. Therefore, in peacetime, only the regular patrol fleet gives early warning in all directions, a small number of fleets carry out various escort and anti-piracy tasks, and more than half of the garrison troops are on standby in the port.
When the first mate explained, he accidentally slipped his mouth, letting Osgood know that the space force of the Federation MR239 was only 40 squadrons, and the captain was leaning back in his chair and napping at this time without noticing the first officer's leak.
Osgood was taken aback, because judging from the data released by the Federation, MR239 should have been stationed in two legions with a total of sixty squadrons, and as a result, TM shrank by a third! What is this concept? According to the incomplete statistics of a certain organization, the number of ships above the frigate level of those guys in the Sea of Death has been maintained at more than 1,000 for a long time, and there should be 1,200 to 1,500 in the past two years, and there are even more patrol ships, which can probably be counted as more than 100 squadrons according to the configuration of the Federation. The almost triple force ratio means that if the guys in the Sea of Death come out, they may be able to take down the entire MR239 before the support fleet arrives!
He also knew that the pirates couldn't be so united, but he was still frightened by the facts, and silently wrote down that he couldn't figure out when he could sell for a big price.
After chatting for a while, the radar correspondent said that the battleship received a special signal, a time and a coordinate.
Not long after, the commander sent an order to move towards the coordinate point.
Come to life.
Osgood stopped talking, and stood silently beside the first mate, the personal computer on his wrist that had been modified with a top-notch camera had unconsciously begun to record.
Except for the buttons, the first mate's console displays a holographic set similar to that of the captain's console. A large piece above is a holographic stereoscopic real-time star map, which can be directly marked, rotated, zoomed in and out with gestures, etc.; The following is a structure diagram of the battleship, which will reflect the status of each department of the battleship in a timely manner; On the left and right are a bunch of complex professional tables, marking various values of the battleship, such as equipment status, energy indicators, acceleration, charge of each gun, and so on.
The order Osgood got on the forum was too valuable, and he didn't allow himself to fail, and before he was sure whether the console technician would cooperate, he recorded the first mate's console image and his audio, and he was able to make a difference.
What happened later he was a little incomprehensible, and the fleet did not go directly to the target location, but slowed down and entered a circling state at a distance of six million kilometers.
Seeing that the battle didn't seem to start directly, Osgood asked in a low voice. The first mate has no taboos, and it is said that because at cruising speed, the energy generated by the power of the entire fleet will be dissipated and will affect a large area, so in order to prevent the quantum Yongdao avoidance algorithm from playing a role, it is kept at a slightly distance and hovers at a regular speed. The ships that jump over will be in a basically stationary state, so as long as the fleet maintains sufficient acceleration at that time, there will definitely be a speed difference of more than 1,000 kilometers to ensure that the target can be caught.
After a short wait, at the point in time of a special signal notification, the commander announced the start of the operation according to the defense scheme C.
The defense plan C is surprisingly very easy to understand, Osgood even only looked at the star map of the first mate's console to understand, the squadron as a whole is divided into four groups, with the separation point to the target coordinates as the axis, the flagship fleet is responsible for the axis, and moves forward in the way of drawing tetrahedra, according to the saying of the speed difference of the first mate, no matter how the enemy accelerates, it will be caught by the fleet. Osgood calculated the speed of the fleet, and then made up half of the acceleration of the ships, and understood that within a million kilometers of the target area, there would be three groups of fleets to strike at the enemy at the same time at the first time, which was a very mature strategy for dealing with the enemy with a definite moving area.
According to the situation of the 727 squadron, to say the least, there will be 7 frigates and 8 heavy patrol ships to participate in the operation at the first time, and the target pirate head is said to be only three frigates. No matter how you look at it, it seems to be a complete ending, and I don't know if those buyers will really pay for such a battle record. Osgood, without any national interest, began to expect the pirate head named Panvin to be slightly stronger.
However, the next situation was far beyond his grasp, and before the battle of his fleet, he found a fleet outside the tetrahedron, and when he got a little closer, he found that the captain actually knew that fleet, and that fleet was a smuggling pirate!
It's just corrupt!
After informing the commander, the fleet turned back to the course, at which point the commander sent a message informing the flagship force that the suspected target had been found, and asked the detachments to check if there were any other fleets in the vicinity when they approached.
The coordinates shown on the map deviated from the intended target point, and it took several minutes for the fleet to rush over.
After reading the information that came and combining it with the star map, the first mate said: "Maybe he can't hold us through, according to the information sent, the main fleet will be within 200,000 kilometers before we reach the combat distance, and whether we fight or not, there will definitely be a result at that time." ”
This can make Osgood anxious a little painful, only the preliminary tactics of the 727 squadron at hand, and the ship he is on has not even touched the enemy's hair? Or is the Federation's capture tactics too mature and basically not too variable?
I was in a hurry, and the main fleet came with a message again, and there was a fight, and it was still the pirate named Pan Wen who made the first move!
Didn't he know he was surrounded?
Osgood looked at the star map of the first mate, and disdainful in his heart: what about the awakened ones, those guys in the forum are too good at blowing.
However, the fact is that in the process of rushing over Osgood's detachment, the other three detachments continued to have bad news, and the green dots on the first star map showed that their own side disappeared one by one, but no follow-up tactical orders from the commander came.
What's going on?
The closer he got to the war zone, the whiter Osgood's face became. The energy reaction over there was easily picked up by the ship he was on, and what frightened him was the captain's words.
"The colonel's side seems to have fired five volleys, and the target's firepower output is still at the same level as it was at the beginning. There is also a ship that is not in the intelligence and also has two main guns, should we consider escaping? ”
The first mate's face was also not good, his cheeks twitched, and he asked Osgood, "Do you want to die?" ”
Although Osgood is a player, and his overly adventurous behavior occasionally comes into contact with death, which is a once-in-a-lifetime event in reality, the Explorers are not so used to the feeling of death compared to many players. He subconsciously shook his head.
"The hope you hear next doesn't appear in any media."
Nod.
Seeing that Osgood's face did not look like coping, the first mate ignored him and said to the captain: "Major, deserters are going to court martial, maybe your decision will keep you in a cell for the rest of your life." And even if you want to escape, it should be decided by the lieutenant colonel. ”
The command of each detachment is one level higher, but the rank of the ship is the same.
The captain glanced at the first mate, nodded, and connected to a certain channel: "Lieutenant Colonel, according to the current situation, I think we have at least three ships left even if we reach the target, if that guy who also has two main guns is...... You decide. ”
There's no way, this pot lieutenant colonel has to carry it even if he doesn't carry it, but who wants to go to a military court.
So, after seeing that the last frigate of the other three groups was also killed, and that the pirate named Pan Wen had not lost a single ship, the lieutenant colonel made the final decision - surrender!
It's not much better to surrender than to run away, but if you become a pirate later...... The Federation is out of control.
Things took a turn for the worse, and Osgood suddenly realized that if he became a prisoner, he could start from the perspective of a pirate with the seemingly impossible information at hand! Maybe you can dig up a very incendiary interstellar news.