Chapter 8: The Assassin in the Shadows (VIII) 4
"Hire me?" Artoria was surprised again, there were so many surprises today. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"That's right, there are too few people I trust in the new federation, besides Saber, it's Caster." Su Ling stepped out of the bath, walked under the sprinkler head and began to shower.
"What do you want to do with me?" Artoria lay on the edge of the pool and looked at Su Ling who was showering.
"Hire you and protect me." Su Ling said casually.
"Huh?" Artoria was a little puzzled, she thought that Su Ling would give her the task of assassinating Uncle Su Ling, but it seemed that Artoria was wrong.
"You think I'm going to let you assassinate my uncle, do you?" Su Ling looked back at Artoria with a smile, "The time has not yet come, I can't assassinate my uncle now, and I haven't had enough of this kind of rich life." ”
"But I have something to do, I'm going to find Berlanck's murderer." Artoria also stood up from the bath and walked to the shower under the shower next to Su Ling.
"Then let me help you reason who the murderer is, it's actually very simple." Su Ling stretched out his finger and pointed to the ceiling, "Think about it, who is the direct victim of Blanc's name about the spies lurking in the Admiralty of the New Federation?" ”
"Isn't it the new federation? After all, it takes a lot of effort to train a spy. Artoria wondered.
"I mean, who is the direct victim, even if the spy makes the new federation a little painful at any time, but this will not make the new federation hurt." Su Ling flicked Artoria's brain, "Don't open your mind." ”
"You mean, those spies killed Blank?" It dawned on Artoria.
"That's right, it's spies, of course they will kill those who threaten them in order to protect themselves, and Blank is the first to bear the brunt." Su Ling turned off the sprinkler and began to walk out, with Artoria following closely behind.
"But how do I have to find out, the clue is cut off from Berlanck's death." Artoria frowned.
"I'll give you information, don't worry, check the scope first, I think it should be someone in the fleet."
"That's for sure, we were talking about spies in the fleet, but I'm curious, why would Blank know?"
"Blanck may be a liaison or something, this is not important, the important thing is to find out the real murderer, so that you don't have to chase Saber all over the world, as for your unknown metal, it should be my reward, and I will assist you later." Su Ling took out a bath towel from the cabinet, wiped the water droplets on his body, and then wrapped it around his body.
"Yes, but," Artoria glanced at the thin warning on Su Ling's body, and the wrapped ketones loomed, "You just went back to the room?" ”
"Yes, I've lived here for half a year, and everyone knows me." Su Ling looked at Artoria puzzled, as if he was asking such a question.
"I know you, you can't walk down the hallway dressed like this." Artoria was wearing her underwear and was trying to put her shirt on.
"Don't worry, I've figured it out, at this time, the rich uncles and aunts are sleeping." Su Ling raised his head with his chest straight, majestic and high, and the plump and proud on his chest stood up.
"Whatever you want." Artoria was too lazy to talk to this girl who had just turned twenty, and after getting dressed, she left the bathroom and returned to her room, Su Ling followed all the way, and finally leaned against the door of Artoria's room, looking at Artoria who was packing up her things, her face was full of melancholy.
"How many more days will you stay? It's really boring to live here every day. Su Ling looked at Artoria reluctantly, and muttered with a small mouth.
"I can't live anymore, I still have something to do." Artoria closed the zipper of the trolley case, "Turning back to look at Su Ling, who was playing with her fingers, "You are so rich, why don't you leave here?" ”
"I'm going to be followed when I leave, and I'm finally getting the general sent by my uncle to let people down their guard." Su Ling shook his head, "Shanghai is very fun, you really have to go." ”
"If you really want to leave, you can't delay for a moment." Artoria made it to the bed, looking at Su Ling's expectant expression, her heart couldn't help but soften, "I'm going to leave on the red-eye flight at night." ”
Su Ling smiled.
"Great, I knew you could play with me." Su Ling jumped next to Artoria, "Where do I want to play?" Go to ......"
After that, Su Ling said a lot of place nouns, and Artoria didn't listen carefully, but looking at Su Ling's innocent smile, Artoria could feel that Su Ling's happiness came from the heart, all of this was not pretended, like a twenty-year-old girl could have such an experience, Artoria was also a little unbearable, looking at Su Ling's happy smile, Artoria couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth, showing a knowing smile.
Mars defense orbit, the USS San Diego military dock space station.
The Third Fleet of the "Praetorian Guard" fleet is stationed here, also known as the "Imperial Shield" fleet, and the battleship "Earth Throne", the flagship of General Ruhr, the largest special battleship ever built by mankind. This also made this huge special battleship lose most of its luster at once, became uncared for, and now can only dock in obscurity in the "San Diego" military dock space station to carry out the cruise mission of the Martian defense orbit.
At nine o'clock this morning, a "Hui Yu" shuttle ship docked in the "San Diego" military dock space station, the huge airtight hatch slowly closed, Feng Fengxiang, who was dressed in a white high-ranking officer uniform of the Admiralty, walked into the huge space station from the interface, the decoration is comparable to the magnificence of the space station of a five-star hotel, at first glance it does not look like a military space station that is ready to enter the combat state at any time to fully supply medical maintenance, but like a high-end business hotel that can make visitors feel at home. However, even if the interior is exquisite, Feng Fengxiang did not have time to wander around at this time, an hour ago, he received an invitation to the meeting initiated by Ruhr, so he rushed to the "Santiago" space station where Ruhr was located to participate in the meeting.
As the guide officer turned left and right, Feng Fengxiang finally came to the aluminum and steel explosion-proof door, the explosion-proof door automatically opened, and the huge conference room was already full of people, everyone and the people next to them kept discussing something, and everyone's face was full of seriousness and anxiety.
Seeing Feng Fengxiang standing at the door, the conference room was quiet for a moment, everyone looked up at Feng Fengxiang, some nodded, some waved their hands, and some glanced at it, and then the discussion continued, as if Feng Fengxiang was not alone, and he was a lot less. But of course Ruer wouldn't think so, Feng Fengxiang was personally invited by him, he naturally knew Feng Fengxiang's energy, and immediately trotted over from the other end of the long conference table, holding Feng Fengxiang's hand tightly, his face did not have the joy after seeing his old friend, but an anxiety that could not be erased.
"Without further ado, you're here for the official start of the meeting, as it has been reserved for you." Ruer pointed to the first position on the left side of the first place, which was vacant and obviously reserved for Feng Fengxiang.
"What's wrong, come to me in such a hurry." Feng Fengxiang read that something was wrong from the atmosphere in the conference room, everyone frowned, and the three-dimensional image projected by the tablet in his hand showed all the details of this battleship. This picture looked familiar, but Feng Fengxiang couldn't remember where he had seen this battleship.
"You'll find out in a moment." Ruhl replied hurriedly, then turned around and ran deeper into the conference room.
Seeing that Ruer didn't tell him the answer to his question, although Feng Fengxiang still wanted to ask, Feng Fengxiang realized the seriousness of the incident and did not delay, and immediately followed Ruer to his seat, and Ruer stood in front of a huge glass window with the view of Mars.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the time for discussion is over, and everyone is complete, press me and go straight to the topic." Ruhl picked up a black object that looked like a remote control from the conference table, and pressed the button on the top of the glass window, and the originally transparent glass window immediately began to blur, and finally showed an image like a TV screen, and the largest module on the upper left showed a 3D image of a gray battleship, and the image kept rotating to show every detail clearly.
Feng Fengxiang remembered what his vague impression was before, this was the pilgrim warship that was discovered yesterday, but after discovering it, he asked for full authority to be handed over to Ye Kexin to deal with, and then he received a storage container handed to him by a panicked staff member and explained that this was what Ye Kexin explained to him was to ask him to hand over the data analyzed here to the Third Fleet that was engaged in capture operations.
"Ten hours ago, this warship suddenly broke away from the encirclement of the two fleets, broke into the earth's defense orbit, only 400 kilometers above the ground, which is the operating altitude of the International Space Station, and sank a destroyer 'Wraith' that was on patrol with our unknown photon energy weapons, and now the debris has all fallen into the boundaries of Tokyo, Japan, and the Security Council's space automatic defense system has only been activated 0.1 percent, which makes the Japanese government very dissatisfied, and is currently negotiating at the United Nations." Ruhl spoke at length, but finally changed the subject, "But this is not what we need to worry about now, twelve hours ago, we sent five hundred and ten motorized infantry to the inside of that damn battleship, and now their fate is unknown, the battleship is parked in a four-hundred-kilometer orbit, but we can't attack at all, one is that our people are inside, but our current weapons can't destroy this ship at all, unless we can put Pluto in defensive orbit." The Stalingrad was transferred back for combat, otherwise we would be helpless against him. ”
"But, General." One of the participants raised his hand to speak, "As far as I know, Admiral Ye Zifeng, the commander of the 'Stalingrad' fleet, was seriously injured in an assassination mission in Tokyo, Japan, a few days ago, and there were very few people who were able to mobilize the 'Stalingrad,' but all of them were on the ground. ”
"That's right, but we don't want to sink it, we have to capture it first, but first we have to rescue the more than 500 motorized infantry inside, that's the theme of our meeting." Ruhl tapped the conference table with the index knuckle of his right hand, making a thumping sound, "Everyone brainstorms, at present our communication with the motorized infantry is normal, it is possible to give them the opportunity to retreat, but the time is limited, this ship will accumulate energy when it stops, and when the energy continues to a certain extent, it will disappear and appear in the distance, but we have not found the law between the stopping time and the distance traveled, the above explanation has all been inferred from the cowboy, but we would rather believe it or not." All the information has been sent to you, and the 3D scans of the interior of the battleship will be of great help to you. Those who wish to speak should raise their hands to speak, and do not speak casually. ”
Before the words fell, Feng Fengxiang raised his right arm.
"Excuse me, General, how did the soldiers get into that ship?"
"Through a site we call the 'Gap', where there is a non-specific energy shield where any matter can enter and exit freely, and the 'Albatross' flies in from there." Ruhr pulled out the 3D picture from the glass window and displayed it on the conference table as a 3D projection, Ruhl opened his arms to the 3D model, zoomed in on the model, and an inconspicuous position on the right side of the battleship was highlighted in red, which was where the "Albatross" was docked before.
"So what kind of effect do you want to achieve? Why don't you just stop the albatross and bring the soldiers back? Feng Fengxiang asked suspiciously.
"There is a risk, this battleship is capable of taking out a standard destroyer of 5.67 million tons with one blow, and we have no reason to let the pilots take risks." Ruhl said with a frown.
"Then what do you want us to say, if you want the soldiers to withdraw, you have to transport the 'albatrosses'." Feng Fengxiang was a little anxious, "You have cut off the only way to retreat, and I can't give you any constructive retreat suggestions." ”
"Why retreat, though?" A girl raised her hand, and it seemed that the girl was no more than twenty-five years old, "Aren't we going to carry out a capture operation?" Wouldn't it be better to change the specific execution content of the capture plan according to the original intention? ”
"But we add in the uncertainty that the ship will move at any time." Ruhl looked at the girl.
"There is only the first two million kilometers from Earth to Mercury, and even if it is a move, according to the movement data collected before, it should not move within the danger zone of Mercury's orbit, so the soldiers have time to capture, but we need to provide them with some external support."
"What's your name, ma'am?" Ruhl straightened up and turned to the girl who was pronouncing, and it could be seen that the girl's words had won Ruhl's support.
"Ning Jiayi, sir, Rear Admiral of the Third Fleet of the Admiralty's Praetorian Fleet, I am replacing Vice Admiral Thomas, Vice Admiral Thomas said that he was a little uncomfortable." The girl stood up, facing Admiral Ruhr, her chest straight, and the slim white Admiralty fleet officer uniform sounded a marked curve.
"Very well, ma'am." Ruhl nodded, "Go ahead and tell us what you think." ”
"That's right." Ning Jiayi gently printed the tablet in front of her, and the five fingers of her right hand on the organic superconducting glass for a short second, an image was gently pulled out of the tablet by her, Ning Jiayi's right hand pushed forward, and the image in her hand came out of her hand, gradually becoming larger in the process of drifting, and when it stopped at the conference table, it had become clear for everyone to see.
"From the information we have gathered before, it is not difficult to see that this battleship has a certain similarity with our warship, as if it has only one set of energy supply system, and it supplies energy to all equipment, which means that as long as the energy consumption of one side increases, the other side will reduce the energy output. We can use this feature to attack it. Ning Jiayi waved his right hand, and the three-dimensional image on the conference table flashed, and a simulation diagram that had been made was being animated, "First of all, we can be sure that the weapon system on this battleship will emit photon energy in a linear way, which shows that the number of targets he attacks at one time is only one, unless we will line up many warships in a row, but I don't think anyone will use such a formation to respond to the enemy, since he can only attack one target, then we can use multiple warships to attack from different angles, In this way, it will not be able to destroy all the attacking ships at once, and with its special armor situation, our weapons can only cause energy loss to it instead of physical damage, which is our disadvantage, but now it can be used to support the attacking infantry, so that it does not have enough energy to accumulate for teleportation, which will buy enough time for the infantry. ”
"But ma'am." One officer raised his hand, "We're not sure if this teleportation capability requires energy at this time, and once it uses other physical principles, our attacks will only be in vain." ”
"There is no doubt about this, their teleportation requires energy, I remember that when they were leaving the asteroid ring, they did a scan of the battleship, and the results of the scan proved that they gathered a lot of energy in the middle of the battleship, and after the movement, this energy became extremely weak, although I can't determine whether this is the energy consumed when moving, but the cowboy can be sure that 98.6% of this energy is related to movement, this is the information sent to me by the cowboy, I'm sure everybody here has one. Ning Jiayi imprinted her five fingers on the screen again, and then launched a flat report, which rotated slowly on the conference table.
"I don't have a problem anymore." The officer who raised his hand shook his head.
"I'm just simulating a way to stall for time, after all, no matter what kind of metal it is, once it breaks through the orbit of Mercury, it will enter the danger zone, and it may be baked into gas by the sun at any time. As for the rest of the details, I haven't simulated them yet. Ning Jiayi nodded slightly to everyone and sat back in her seat.
Ruhl was the first to applaud, and the applause was contagious to all the participants, and the warm applause resounded throughout the conference room for a while.
"I will be responsible for planning the plan in the future, Ms. Ning doesn't have to bother, you have already provided us with great help." Ruer thanked him again, and nodded to Ning Jiayi at the same time, "Since the whole form has been approved, then don't delay any longer, immediately notify the Fifth Fleet to carry it out, and then the plan will continue to move forward, and the motorized infantry will continue to advance, and when the bridge of the pilgrim warship is attacked, the capture operation will be considered a success." ”
"Sir, the other party's attack is too fierce, and we can't pass through this passage." A motorized infantry shouted loudly to Tian Yi, and there were seven or eight more motorized infantry gathered around this corner, but the highest rank was Tian Yi, the second lieutenant.
"Through this passage, there is a bridge ahead." Tian Yi leaned against the wall and looked at the flashing three-dimensional images projected by the microcomputer on his wrist, which marked Tian Yi's destination, "Check the ammunition and prepare to attack." ”
"Yes, sir." The motorized infantry around them looked at the magazine data displayed on the mask, and the average number of remaining magazines was only two, which meant that each person only had a maximum of sixty rounds.
In fact, this is the case everywhere on this ship, before in the hall, there was a hundred-man battle between the motorized infantry and the pilgrim's troops, and all the units had been disorganized, and the low-ranking soldiers all found the nearest officer, so they moved forward in a scattered manner, the number of casualties of the troops continued to rise, and the number of dead has now exceeded forty, and this price was exchanged for the continuous expansion of the green area on the three-dimensional image projected by the microcomputer on the captain's wrist. Tian Yi: These ten people are the closest team to the bridge.
It doesn't matter if the duo doesn't know anyone, the digital name tag in each person's helmet will be displayed in the visor of the other person's helmet, making it easier for the squad commander to give orders.
The battle continues, everyone fights hard, there are casualties at every moment, rifles spewing anger at every moment, and people bleeding at every moment. It was as if the ship had turned into hell.
(To be continued)