Harbor of the Dead, two hours later.

After the Black Rose slowly docked into the port area, A1 immediately sent a communication request.

“…… At least both you, Commander, and Black Rose managed to leave the lab. Please take a good rest first, Black Rose and I will conduct a battle review as soon as possible, please don't be overly affected by these failures. A1 reassured in the communication channel.

"Hmm...... I'll go sleep first, although I don't think I'll be able to sleep yet......" He nodded, "A1, if you and Black Rose haven't woken up after the review, let's go and replenish the lost equipment and supplies first." The money is in the account, you just buy it yourself. In addition, Renault asked me and said that I had been injured during the raid and was recuperating. ”

"Yes."

After Yang Yi left, Black Rose immediately began to review the battle with A1 and several Marine Corps officers in the communication channel. An obvious problem is that they were so careless that they launched a direct assault on the laboratory without a complete superiority in forces, intelligence and firepower.

"At least to some extent, we've achieved our goal." Black Rose whispered, "The Empire should be strengthening the defenses near the laboratory, and it will not be easy for Renault to take action against that laboratory. ”

This can only be regarded as a blessing in misfortune. But this is not enough. Their original plan was to take the hybrid outright, but now that the plan had failed, they had no second chance.

The most obvious frustration was that they were held back by the large hangar. It took them a very high price to take the hangar, which was guarded by heavy equipment, and it took a long time. During the post-war review, a Marine officer asked if it would be possible to solve the problem with poison blasters, but A1 said that this would not work at all.

First of all, the Poison Blaster itself is too fragile, and the unstable substances it carries can be easily detonated. The poisonous explosion insect itself is too powerful, and it may even be hit by artillery fire as soon as it enters, causing an explosion that is very likely to damage your own troops, and what is more troublesome is that the powerful explosion power is likely to cause damage to the main structure of the laboratory, resulting in unforeseen structural damage, and may even directly lead to the release of the mixture, thus making the whole operation useless.

Trying to use the Star Spirit Shield to protect the Poison Blaster is also not good, not to mention that most of the Star Spirit's shields are individual shields, which cannot be effectively extended and expanded, and the Poison Blaster itself does not have the psionic energy to manipulate freely to activate the psionic shield. The Mechanical Sentinel's wide area shield is used more to weaken the damage caused by enemy fire, and cannot essentially block all enemy damage, nor can it be sustained.

As for sending armored units with strong armor in, it is not okay to send in. At present, the only sturdy armored unit in the fleet that can be used in the narrow terrain of the laboratory is the Dragon Knight. And the dragon knight can actually barely be accommodated, and the flexibility is extremely low in that situation, and it is difficult to play enough.

The location of that hangar was very troublesome, God knows why a large hangar was built on the core level of the laboratory, it stands to reason that this thing should be placed on the first floor where the outer platform is located, or the second layer under the external platform, so as to facilitate the transportation of warplanes and warships, which was directly built into the core layer, causing them to be blocked outside for a long time.

The discussion reached an impasse for a while, and in the end, A1 decided to skip this part for now, and he and Black Rose recorded it first, and then went to the Black Market to see if there were any weapons and equipment that could solve the problem.

The next review went a little faster, but it still exposed quite a few problems. A1 even complained to Yang Yi afterwards that what he met was really a group of pirate leaders, and he didn't know anything: "Even the recruits of the Keha Military Academy can beat that group of hillbillies in the war games." ”

The main problem is that some of these pirates have experience with robbery. For example, the battle of the Marine Corps is generally a jump fight with merchant ships and frigates, and only a few daring interstellar pirates will raid the Empire's colonized planets, such as Agria, who was attacked by a group of heavily armed pirates.

The main goal of the Jump Gang is to take control of the bridge and the power room, both of which have no room for heavy equipment. And ordinary ships do not have the concept of hangars, whether it is destroyers, light cruisers, Titan-class transports, Hercules-class transports, Valkyrie-class frigates or science ships, there is no such concept.

As a result, in fact, the pirate unit in charge of land warfare on the Black Rose was extremely inexperienced in dealing with heavy weapons, let alone the large facilities in the hangar.

Of course, this campaign report submitted by the A1 is biased, because the Marine Corps carried by the A1 is actually difficult to effectively respond to this. The area they could get into the hangar was so large that they couldn't get in enough to withstand the constant fire until they dismantled the heavy fire inside.

After the review, A1 and Black Rose wrote a summary of the battle as usual. The black rose was printed out and put in the captain's room, and Yang Yi had already fallen asleep at this time, so they didn't disturb him, and according to what Yang Yi said before, they set off to the black market to replenish equipment. However, Black Rose soon separated from A1 on the road, firstly, because the two personalities are not in harmony, and secondly, Black Rose is also a little itchy, and plans to go to a tavern to find someone to have a good time.

A1 didn't stop her, anyway, A1 still knows a little bit about Black Rose's strength, and none of these pirate mercenaries in the Port of the Dead can win her in boxing matches and card games. Let her leave herself to have more leisure.

But soon she got into trouble. Usually she comes with Yang Yi, generally speaking, she just uses Yang Yi as a background board and doesn't talk much. But now that she is alone, she is a little confused in the face of the huge black market in the Port of the Dead. What's even more troublesome is that her database doesn't record how to deal with the pirate mercenaries in the Harbor of the Dead, and she doesn't know some of the unspoken rules of convention.

In the end, although A1 was able to buy the supplies needed for the fleet, she soon spent a lot of money, far more than the scheduled amount. What's even more troublesome is that her words and deeds reveal an extremely bureaucratic atmosphere, which is really easy to make people think. This is something that cannot be avoided by Imperial ships, and in fact the same problem is found in Hydra, but Hydra is even less present than the A1.

While Black Rose was making a lot of money in the bar and making fun of the pirate mercenaries who were not on patrol, A1 was constantly being harassed and restricted by some local gangs in the Port of the Dead, and was even directly blocked by a group of black boxers. But the result was obvious, those guys didn't even leave A1 with a scar, and they were all put down. But again, A1 is aware of the seriousness of the problem. According to Yang Yi's previous statement, if someone in the Port of the Dead has already started to block him, it means that things are about to get out of control.