Chapter 12 Maritime Interception Lines
No matter how much you complain, the work that needs to be done still has to be done, and no matter whether Lunas is a nobleman or not, or has such a military rank, this situation will not change in any way. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
There's a classic saying that says β you can never shake the authority of the top unless you're a top yourself.
It's very frustrating, but that's exactly what it is.
"The OBJECT itself is not used, but oil is needed to repair the base area. Just like you did when you attacked the base in Alaska, if you can't repair it, the OBJECT won't be able to move. β
Floretia said while drinking the high-concentration shochu that she might not be able to drink anymore when she arrived at the base:
"There is now a finish line at either end of the Strait of Gibraltar, a net of mines hanging at equal distances. They wanted to keep the massive steel meching in. But I don't know how much of an effect this will have on OBJECT. That's why the above will order Her Royal Highness the Princess's OBJECT to resist from the front, and at the same time ask you to attack secretly. β
"Wait! Why are we called?! Hevia immediately protested.
"The top management believes that this important action still needs to arrange more manpower to ensure the accurate completion of the task." Floretia didn't have the consciousness of betraying her subordinates at all, and said with a natural face.
Lunas looked out from the small window of the transport plane. Beneath the clouds is a blue and beautiful ocean. Overlooking the ocean, he spat out a sentence:
"I'm back, damn battlefield."
The large transport plane carrying Lunas landed on the seaside runway, but this did not appear to be the repair base they belonged to.
β........ Hey, wouldn't it? There's the middle of the sea. β
Hopping on a tattered military dinghy covered with iron plates that were better than nothing, armed only with two machine guns in the front and rear, Hevia wailed.
Although I know that those bastard politicians just want to kill themselves, but the equipment given is so rudimentary, and it is too explicit, right?
About halfway across the Strait of Gibraltar stands what appears to be an offshore oil field. It was an island of steel supported by several pillars. It seems that the base area was built urgently to meet the enemy forces who were preparing to break through the strait.
The pillars rise more than 50 meters above the sea and support a square ceiling 300 meters square. Passages, stairs, elevators, etc., underneath the ceiling, are intricately intertwined into a network of connections that extend in all directions.
Kuvinser looked at his chief, Floretia:
"It's just waiting for someone else to fight. If you know that a big monster is coming, why don't you send out the air force and tell us to wait in that kind of place......."
"The Air Force doesn't work against OBJECT. You should know about object design, right? The synonym for war is OBJECT. To fend off the monster heading towards Gibraltar, we can only build a base area to support Her Highness the Princess's OBJECT operation, and wait for it to come. β
Again, Kuvinser himself is well aware of this, saying this mainly because he doesn't want to go to war.
As for Lunas, he was there at the moment, wondering why he didn't buy two big Ivan or something from Suizuki when he went back.
How about the absolute defense of OBJECT? After a bottle of vodka is swallowed, it can destroy the whole world, and the fighting nation is all scum in front of it?
In short, it is intolerable for an ordinary person to have to work in such a dangerous place. If it were shelled by OBJECT here, the corpse would sink to the bottom of the sea forever.
But this is not a bad thing for Lunas, in this case, if he really needs to use the power of the Dead River, then this endless sea is his best cover.
Looking around, there are still a few facilities at sea that also resemble oil fields.
"Those are not oil fields. Because the vicinity is not suitable for oil mining. β
When he made his first impression, he was immediately refuted by the prefect Floretia.
"We collect the oil needed for repairs from sponsor countries around the world and store it in submarine oil storage tanks."
"As a result, we did much the same thing as the enemy. I always felt that I suddenly didn't want to fight. Kuwenther's tone sounded rather impatient.
"Maybe a lot of the oil in it was bought from such people........" Lunas added without fear.
As for Hevia, as soon as he got off the boat, he climbed the iron ladder and headed towards the base area. But he probably doesn't want to climb the 50-meter stairs, right? I guess I want to go to the square where the elevator is located.
Kuvinser also followed behind Hevia: "Hey, why are you so excited? β
"It seems that the military top brass is quite expecting us. I heard that they will be rationed reinforced uniforms for the army. β
"That kind of thing is not even left with ashes when it is bombarded by OBJECT." Lunas did not hesitate to strike his enthusiasm.
"But with the enhanced suit, at least you don't have to worry about the debris scattered by the explosion, right? If you were to be killed by fragments of our armor, it would be a real humiliation. β
"YOU DON'T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT, IN A REAL OBJECT BATTLE, EVEN THE SMALLEST FRAGMENT OF A CANNONBALL, THE KINETIC ENERGY BROUGHT BY IT IS ABSOLUTELY QUITE TERRIFYING. Even if the suit can withstand the debris, the kinetic energy can still shatter all your organs. Looking at the two of them who were starting to lose their temper again, Lunas felt more and more like a negative energy releaser.
They came to the iron square about ten meters above the sea. It is a huge space about 10 meters wide and 30 meters long, and there are several cantilever cranes sticking out like fishing rods to the sea. In this sense, this is supposed to be the place where cargo is loaded and unloaded from cargo ships. On the other side of the cantilever crane, there are several handrail-only goods elevators, large enough to accommodate a three-bedroom, two-living apartment, presumably to carry the entire container directly.
Hevia ran around the wide space, finally spreading his hands in the center. I don't know if I want to summon XCOM.
"It's really exciting to be at the big base........"
"I think I'm going to be forced to absorb a lot of knowledge that can't be used as thesis material, and I'm wasting my memory space."
While they were chatting, Floretia, who was not far away, waved to them:
"Hey, we're not here to play. Hurry up and put your luggage in the locker and take your place. I've heard that the higher-ups are paying attention to you, but if you mess up here, the evaluation will get worse. β
"So, the explosives ration seems to have been changed from C4 to 'HANDAXE'? It's something that is more expensive than platinum per gram. β
"No matter what kind of explosives you use it, you still can't hurt the OBJECT's armor in the slightest." The thought of the mission made Lunas annoyed.
He whispered to the two beside him who were immersed in excitement and had almost forgotten about it:
(Hey, seriously, do you think we have a way to do it?) It is impossible for ordinary people to fight against OBJECT. Last time, it was just a miracle that happened by chance, but it wasn't so good luck that happened to us one after another...... οΌβ
"Gee, there's always a way, right?" Hevia's answer was surprisingly lighthearted.
Seeing that Lunas was so surprised, Hevia shrugged his shield and said:
"Because this time it's not just us, but also the OBJECT driven by Her Royal Highness the princess is with us. If you really want to say it, this time it's mainly OBJECT against OBJECT, we just need to use a little trick when the other party is not paying attention, and help Her Royal Highness the princess create an advantage. Her Royal Highness will take care of the rest herself. It's a completely different story than the time in Alaska when you worked your own and with an exaggerated 0BJECT. β
Hevia pointed farther beyond the huge plate-shaped base area - to the sea.
In the vast expanse of the ocean, there are other facilities similar to this base. And not just one or two, but at equal intervals in a line, as if to block the strait........ Twenty or thirty base areas are arranged. As far as the eye can see, this place seems to be a fierce battle zone for offshore oil fields.
"Although it was built in a hurry, there are about 30 OBJFCT repair facilities alone. With such a solid preparation, even if one or two maintenance facilities are missing, you can still continue to use Her Royal Highness the Princess's OBJECT. It's not normal to spend so much money, but it's not so easy to get rid of facilities that cost a lot of money. Because those people at the top must have carefully planned the operation to avoid the destruction of these facilities. In this way, our survival rate will naturally increase. β
If it was really just to call them to death, the military top brass would not have invested a lot of money in it. In addition to this, there is also the OBJECT of Her Royal Highness the Princess. According to Alaska's experience, it is not enough to rely on her alone, but without her war situation is a world away. If it's an OBJECT vs. OBJECT battle, at least the battle is "evenly matched" rather than "one-sided".
All Lunas they have to do is work to support the rear.
No one wants them to rush head-on to the subject alone, and there is an object that is more than 50 meters tall. Their job is to secretly help Her Highness the Princess, to make the conditions for her victory.
Lunas breathed a sigh of relief, at least for now, in the eyes of the higher-ups, the value of winning this battle was much higher than killing himself.
After all, there was a lot of luck in the last victory, and on the battlefield, OBJECT still has an absolute advantage.
There are still many opportunities to kill yourself, and a random stray bullet on the battlefield can kill an ordinary soldier, but once this battle fails, it will lose real benefits.
"Then I'll rest assuredβ"
Before he could finish speaking, the base area next door was blown to pieces.
"Boom!!"
The explosion came more slowly than the visual information.
It was like a slap in the face to the pyramid of playing cards - the impact from the side blew the base to pieces and sank to the bottom of the sea. The base next door was obviously more than 200 meters apart, but the shock wave of the explosion shook Kuwenser, Hevia and the others all of them. Tiny fragments of parts even fall from the sky.
Hevia frowned and endured the stinging pain in the eardrums in both ears and cried:
"How........ Why did it collapse all of a sudden!? That's an illegal building!! β
"Idiot, don't run away from reality! OF COURSE IT'S THE OBJECT!! Lunas hurriedly slung a small box of explosives on his shoulder, and this time, if he really needed it, he wouldn't be running out of explosives like last time.
Kuwenser rolled half a circle, shifted from lying on his back to his stomach, picked up his binoculars and looked at the horizon.
There was a huge body that looked like a hill.
It was a super-large weapon, a huge sphere of OBJECT-specific armor that covered the power furnace with nuclear bunker-grade armor, and countless large and small barrels extending from the sphere, and this time the main gun seemed to be a railgun, capable of firing shells of several meters at nearly Mach 10. The power is just as you can see, a single shot can make a base area disappear from the map.
Moreover, there is more than one huge sphere power furnace of OBJECT this time.
Rather, three.
The spheres are arranged at the vertices and are linked to each other by straight armor parts to form a regular triangle. There are ripples around the object, which appear to float on the surface of the sea with a special A-shaped pontoon and an air cushion device underneath the body.
This naval combat specialized OBJECT, called Tricore.
OBJECT didn't care about the little ants who were already feeling broken, and just slowly turned the huge railgun like an iron tower.
No intimidation, no warning.
"Bang Dong !!"
With a series of terrifying loud noises, the base areas lined up in a line at sea were destroyed one after another from the side.
Hevia covered his ears and shouted to prevent the sound from being drowned out by the shock wave:
"Damn, do you think we're a prize for a shooting booth!? And didn't it say that there were nets hung with mines!? β
Sixty seconds before the first shot, the enemy had already sunk nearly half of the base area, destroying one in an average of four seconds.
"Her Royal Highness is now in the military harbor-style base area on land, repairing her sea combat pontoons! It seems that something happened on the way across the Atlantic, so I was late! Why do you think you would call a transport plane to deliver you!? It's all because it takes some time for Cinderella to go to the battlefield if she is not punctual, and you who want to call "the only one who can fight OBJECT without OBJECT" weaken it first, so that Her Royal Highness can fight a little easier after her Royal Highness arrives, and then the higher-ups will order you to give you this kind of preferential treatment!! Floretia's voice knocked Lunas back from a beautiful fantasy to a cold reality.
This is the real killer move, right?! There is no need to do it yourself, the enemy can talk about the unstable factor of Lunas to be eliminated, and then it will be good to come and pick up the bargain yourself.
With so many maintenance bases, you really prepared a gorgeous funeral for yourself!