Chapter Twenty-Eight: New Tasks and New Toys
On the return trip to the storm bird, it was still as bumpy as ever.
Talal looked sideways at Fu Jinghai beside him and asked, "So, what's wrong with that woman?" “
Fu Jinghai said: "She killed a Midnight Lord's people, using the same method as you, I guess this is the reason why the Midnight Lord caused a massacre in the city." “
"Oh." Taral nodded, turned his head away and said nothing more.
A mortal woman, even by surprise assassination, can kill a soldier in the Astarte Legion, is very courageous and good.
Couldn't ask more of her. That's how Talal sees it.
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The changes brought to the frigate Stiletus by this brief landing operation are visible to the naked eye.
Fu Jinghai did not participate in the damage repair, but it can be seen from the smile on the face of the captain Conrad Adenauer that after this wave of additions, the frigate is in better condition.
And the most intuitive feeling for Fu Jinghai is that the plate in front of him is finally no longer a pot of batter-like interstellar soldier rations - an amino porridge mixed with pottery steel balls, but has become a whole roasted Glockmon's hind legs.
Fu Jinghai picked up this hind leg, the size was almost as big as a power tomahawk, and he didn't know where to start for a while.
I found a place where I could put my mouth down, and when I bit into it, the juice overflowed, and the feeling of the teeth quickly cutting off the muscle fibers brought a good taste, and the frigate chef's just right smoking and roasting retained the moisture in the meat.
A large piece of flesh with blood was ripped off by Fu Jinghai, chewed it twice and swallowed it.
Fu Jinghai carefully tasted the meat of this creature, a bit like the curry fried crocodile meat that he ate when he traveled to Vietnam in his previous life, a mixture of chicken and fish, with almost no large pieces of fat, but plenty of moisture in the meat.
The taste of reptile meat is indeed a little different.
Glocks is a kind of livestock similar to a large dinosaur, and crocodiles are also considered close relatives, and are widely bred in various agricultural worlds of the human empire, its meat production is large, the meat is delicious, the disadvantage is that the temper is extremely short-tempered, and the general agricultural world will cut off a part of their brain tissue to control their short-tempered and aggressive temperament.
The Space Marines were feasting, and soon, Taral wiped his mouth and stood up, sat down next to Fu Jinghai, and asked:
"How's it going, Aoyama, how do you feel about playing for the first time?"
Fu Jinghai shook his head and said, "It's not good, I don't feel like I'm happy to beat Albuslang in the training cage." ”
Albuslang, who was eating meat on the other side, raised his head: "Who are you beating again?" ”
Taral laughed, patted Fu Jinghai on the shoulder, and said, "An indigenous planet that has just been cleaned up, the strength is indeed not as strong as the training cage, but don't worry, we have entered the war zone, and we will soon encounter the real enemy." ”
Before he finished speaking, he heard Wokotai's loud voice on the radio:
"Space Marine, assemble in the war room!"
The Space Marines at the table stood up.
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War room.
A messy ribbon of meteorites emerges from a holographic projection in the center of the table.
Wokotai didn't talk much nonsense, and when he saw that everyone was coming, he directly swiped his finger to enlarge the projection, and two spaceships appeared in the meteorite belt.
In a strange posture, they were joined together.
Captain Conrad Adenauer was the first to say: "We received a distress signal from one of the two ships and locked down their position. ”
"Pirates?" Taral asked, frowning, looking at the hologram in front of him.
"Quite possibly." Conrad Adenauer nodded, "But we heard something else in the distress signal. ”
As he spoke, he tapped on the table, and a recording rang intermittently:
"Zizi...... Multiply...... Help, I'm an Imperial merchant ship...... Val...... Multiply...... The Long, we've been attacked by pirates, and I'm the captain......"
"The other party has ...... Zizi ...... Psyker ...... Sorcerer, the throne is above...... What did I see, a dagger-wielding melee wizard? They're slaughtering my crew......"
That's the end of the speech.
A dagger-wielding melee wizard? Everyone in the war room looked at each other.
"Ahem...... "Ahem," the wheelchair Wokotai coughed lightly, "First of all, we can be sure that there are unregistered illegal psionics in the pirate ship, and as for how they decide to fight, that's not something we should consider." ”
There have been various psionics in the Human Empire, some of which are extremely dangerous, but in general, psionics are not known for their physical fitness or physical strength, and most psionics will not fight in close combat with people from the perspective of promoting their strengths and avoiding weaknesses.
In particular, veterans like Ogedai and Talal who had participated in the suppression of psionic riots knew that if the Space Marines were allowed to get within three meters, the psionics would almost be dead.
At this time, Talal glanced at Ogedei, who understood what he meant, waved his hand and said:
"Our first priority is to escort Master Quintor to Mars, and while these two ships are in our way, it's not our business to exterminate space pirates."
"But the bird chart shows that there is another spaceship that jumped nearby an hour ago and is heading this way, most likely a warship, so ......"
Wo Kotai suddenly looked at Fu Jinghai and said in a deep voice: "Qingshan! I've sent you to torpedo the merchant ship to find out, and to set up teleportation beacons that can teleport the Terminator Tactical Dreadnought Armor if necessary. ”
Suddenly, Fu Jinghai of cue was excited, and hurriedly stepped forward.
Teleportation, that's right, this is the correct way for the Terminator to deliver on the battlefield, and it is not the normal way to use this heavy and slow tactical armor to let the Terminator run on the planet Moradigan before, and it is the conventional way to directly use teleportation technology to deliver to the front-line battlefield.
Teleportation is not unconditional, and teleportation beacons need to be set up in advance by Scouts, Mortal Auxiliaries, or other Astartes.
If the teleportation beacon is not accurate, there is a high probability that the person will be stuck in the wall.
"And the rest of us, on the frigate, are preparing for the arrival of that warship. ”
Talal frowned and asked, "We can't hide from ......"
Conrad Adenauer shook his head and said, "No, the other party has already discovered us and sent us a signal asking for identity information." ”
After speaking, the black-bearded man with a bitter face added: "That's a Moon-class cruiser." ”
What matters is the latter sentence.
The Yue-class cruiser, the standard capital warship of the Imperial Navy, has a length of five kilometers, carries a crew of more than 90,000 people, and its numerous macro guns, light spear layout arrays and torpedo tubes on the ship are positioned far beyond a series of light cruisers, not to mention the ancient broadblade-class frigate "Short Sword".
The most important thing is that the cruiser is known for its speed in positioning, and if the Yue-class cruiser wants to chase it, the Stiletto will not be able to run away at all.
Taral nodded, understood, Wokotai sent the recruit Fu Jinghai to deal with the piracy problem, and the main interstellar marines were all left to deal with the moon-class cruiser, which means that the key to the problem is not this pirate ship, but the moon-class cruiser attracted by the distress signal.
Wokotai said: "Everyone is in place, Aoyama, bring your new toys and go to the torpedo tube to standby." ”
Everyone should get up.
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