Chapter 279: The Messenger of Death in the Meteorite
The captain stared at the main screen and asked the channel analyst.
"Can you estimate the correction line?"
The latter loosened his uniform around his neck.
"I'm going to try to do an inertial analysis based on the previous variables. ”
As the speed of the channeler's hand increased in vain, the power of the reconnaissance ship's main control computer was gradually pushed up.
"The results are in!"
The meteorite swarm on the screen, an irregular line trail stretches far away, leading to the depths of the planetary debris belt of this desolate star field.
"The destination is... Refuge. ”
"It's not a meteorite! it's a camouflage ship or something!"
The captain immediately connected to the rear of the all-channel power-up.
"Call for rear support, call for rear support, the No. 129 ship of the Hunter Cloud Reconnaissance Ship found a cluster of UFOs, camouflaged as meteorites, with irregular orbit changes, and suspected trajectory targets as shelters. ”
"The estimated contact time is nineteen hours, request for fire interception, star field coordinates and azimuth... ”
As soon as this communication message was sent, the many attack fleets that had been activated in the rear immediately set off towards the coordinate position.
It is better to believe that there is something and not to believe that it is not the first rule here, too many civilizations have suffered similar losses, and in this dangerous universe, the careless ones have perished.
Due to the proximity of the spacecraft, none of the spacecraft used high-speed engines, and all of them used conventional flight power systems to propel the spacecraft closer.
The data detected and calculated by the forward reconnaissance ships have been sent to the attack mixed fleet arriving in the rear.
The conductor was a red-skinned humanoid creature the size of a dwarf, with a large head and small limbs.
After analyzing the meteorite orbit and number, the command was given loudly.
"Order the flank cluster to calculate the attack trajectory and test the attack after two minutes. ”
Hundreds of ships of all sizes and shapes flanked their guns, and due to the habits of different civilizations, these attack weapons were of different types, but kinetic weapons were all used first.
When blocking massive flying objects, unless they have super high technological power that can annihilate or instantly damage the target, the blocking effect of energy weapons is not ideal.
But with such a high level of technology, it wouldn't be so miserable.
Two minutes later, all the flanking flotilla, having calculated the ballistics, after receiving the command from the commander to "fire", fired the first salvo.
This silent cosmic space was instantly illuminated by a large amount of cannon light, and countless attack projectiles flew to the calculation line of the target meteorite group first, followed by a kinetic thermal weapon with tracking function, which was more similar to a human missile.
The attacking shell swarm and the meteorite approached rapidly along their respective trajectories on the screens of the various warships, and finally came into contact in full view.
The commander-in-chief immediately gave the next order.
"Notify the forward reconnaissance ships and report the results of this attack, and the flank fleet will continue to recharge and prepare, correct the ballistics and share data, and all attacking ships will prepare for the attack with reference to the ballistic data. ”
When the rear attack fleet is methodically preparing for a second attack, the cluster of reconnaissance ships in front will turn on the equipment at full power and do their best to observe at the expense of a certain degree of concealment.
It was still the reconnaissance ship of the Cloud Hunter, and because of its unique location, it was the first to observe the data screen.
The microparticle feedback in the screen gives an image of what the meteorite swarm looks like now.
The first round of attacks was definitely effective, and in addition to the intact meteorite continuing to fly, countless meteorite fragments appeared at the attack position.
Although the overall meteorite swarm does not appear to have decreased significantly, the attack has been effective in terms of the number of fragments.
"Wait, what is this?"
The captain followed the cursor pointed out by the navigator.
"Zoom in. ”
Because the distance is somewhat blurry, the picture is enlarged again, and the picture is optimized under the background calculation and processing.
What appears in the picture is a red spherical material, some large and small, not very similar to meteorite fragments, and some even twist their shape in motion.
"What the hell is this?"
The captain's brow furrowed.
One of the older crew members suddenly thought of something.
"It's liquid! Lots of liquid!"
At this moment, the captain also reacted, because there is no large gravitational environment in the meteorite position, the liquid is easy to coalesce into a spherical shape, and the distortion is due to the thrust and inertia of the debris explosion.
"But how can there be so much liquid, and it is not easy to store water inside the meteorite, if there is, it should be ice, red, is it blood?"
This inference startled the captain himself.
Since iron and copper are the most common biological blood protein cell building elements, even in the ever-changing universe, as long as it is a protein medium, red and blue are common blood colors, and even phagoguls are mostly red blood.
Before the captain could report his inference to the rear, he saw a change in the meteorite swarm on the screen.
The smaller meteorite moved on, but after another change of orbit.
And countless huge meteorites cracked one after another, revealing the extremely hideous monsters or monsters inside.
They wandered in the meteorite swarm, and some even flew out of the meteorite swarm, moving quickly in the direction of the attacking fleet with unknown power.
"Captain, the energy response is extremely strong, the Devourer radar alarm, the meteorite is full of Devouring Beasts, all of them!"
The captain stared at the meteorite group on the screen, looking at the dense number of points of light behind him.
"The rear fleet, here is the reconnaissance ship, the meteorite group has changed orbit again, this is the correction data, request an immediate attack, inside is the Devouring Beast... ”
The transmitted footage caused a commotion in the rear fleet, and the various races of this shelter were all victims of attacks by the Devourer civilization, most of whom had only heard of Devourers, and even if they had seen them, they had been placed on the surface of the planet as attack weapons.
But this time the number and volume are very large, and there are already tens of thousands of people who can be seen...
Thinking of the horror after being approached by the Devouring Beast, the rear fleet reacted quickly with the command, and directly ordered a continuous salvo after correcting the trajectory.
But this time the effect is much worse, except for some small meteorites that have been hit, those large devouring beasts that have cracked and fled are all very flexible, as if they have a natural sense at a long distance, and they have avoided the trajectory of high-power kinetic energy bullets, and the tracking power weapon will always be detonated in advance by various weird attacks of the devouring beast at a long distance.
The reconnaissance ships in front were always watching the effect of the attack, but they believed in the scanning of the instruments so much that there were monsters that were "invisible" on the radar and quietly appeared nearby without noticing.
"Boom~"
Not far away, a flash of fire flashed and was captured by a Cloud Hunter Reconnaissance ship docked at a corner of the Star Fragment.
"What's going on, why did ship 9 explode?"
Before the captain's voice fell, a continuous flash of fire flickered on the optical observation screen.
"Check the frequency of detection, in the end... ”
The captain's voice paused.
I saw a worm monster that was one size smaller than their own ship appear in the center of the optical observation screen.
Everyone on the bridge was as stiff as a frog being targeted by a serpent.
The worm's abdomen was tightly pressed against the crystal glass outside the bridge, revealing countless sharp mouthparts on its abdomen.
The captain clenched his fists.
"Damn it... ”
"Boom~"
The Project 129 reconnaissance ship also turned into a ball of flames.