Chapter 47: Freedom from Bondage

The armor's alarm prompt sounded intermittently in Du Jin's ears, although there was a lack of some information in it, but Du Jin already knew that the power system of this armor was obviously on the verge of collapse.

"Electromagnetic interference? This armor does not even work hard in this regard, it is worthy of being a police, it is simply civilian. ”

He complained inwardly, but Du Jin still used his best strength to use the armor of his right arm to put the electromagnetic rifle sideways on the edge of the alloy desk in front of him, and after aiming the direction of the muzzle at the door, Du Jin symbolically fired a few shots, at this time his purpose was not to kill and injure the enemies outside the door, but to send them a wrong signal.

Judging from the fact that those disciples did not rush to the top of the crowd with a desperate number, Du Jin guessed that they might estimate Ralph's safety, but it was also possible that they could not guess the exoskeleton armor model that Du Jin was wearing, after all, compared with light armor and heavy armor, in addition to the huge difference in armor strength, there were differences in the firepower and defense types of weapons that could be used, so those disciples did not dare to venture forward.

This electromagnetic grenade specializing in biology is itself a temptation, after paying the price of a few people, the goal of preparing to rescue Ralph outside the door has also changed slightly, from bringing Ralph out safely to saving Ralph completely, don't look at the change in this word It doesn't seem like a big change, but the actual meaning is not small.

"Imam, Lord Bishop, I'm afraid it's already a lot of bad luck, the Callisto colony has received a call for help, if we don't make an escape pod and leave before their rescue, I'm afraid there will be a lot of diplomatic risk."

Outside the door, one of the Sectarians said to a man in heavy armor, the "Patriarch" seemed to be the highest-ranking of these Unity Cultists except for Ralph, and he was also struggling with his heart at this time:

"Who the hell is the bishop kidnapping, and where did he sneak in? The guards on those bridges are also coming this way now, and it will be risky for us to evacuate if we are flanked, but the hijackers in the house obviously have the ability to fight back, and if they force their way in, the bishop's safety .........."

He struggled for a moment, and as if he had made up some kind of determination, he waved his hand forward, and commanded in a firm tone:

"Forcible entry, the task given to us by the church is to test the scope of the Holy Seal's ability, and now we have enough data to save the bishop as much as possible, but if the bishop is murdered by the kidnappers, I will testify to the church for you, and bring back the murderer of the bishop, everything is the mission of the church."

It was already clear to the patriarch that he could sacrifice Ralph if necessary before the mission assigned by the Church, that is, even if they accidentally injured or even killed the bishop Ralph when they broke in, he would explain to the Church that he would save the people from responsibility.

"Understand ........"

The rest of the cultists were obviously relaxed, and after replying to the Patriarch's order, everyone lined up and raised their guns to fire into the room, and the bullets instantly entered the room through the panel, although the hit rate of this blind shot was touching, but the suppressive effect of this concentrated fire was indeed very powerful.

The dense array of kinetic bullets forced Du Jin to climb down and shrink behind cover, and he didn't dare to try to catch them with his malfunctioning armor, especially his torn helmet.

And those cultists after the fire was suppressed, the inside began to enter the room through the crack in the door, without the blocking of McCass and Du Jin, their efficiency was unusually high, and the few people who came first methodically controlled the threat in all directions of the room, and the rest of the people also entered immediately, and the table behind the door used to block the angle of the alloy door was immediately removed.

"The first team, immediately cover the retreat of Lord Bishop, the second team, catch the hijackers behind the bunker, notify the supporting third team, and we will set off immediately."

The imam immediately gave instructions after entering the room, and then the two teams methodically carried out their respective tasks, among which the second team of the Oneness Cultist organization immediately rushed to the back of the temporary bunker and kicked Du Jin's helmet.

"Uh-huh--"

Du Jin let out a silent groan, even with the protection of the helmet, the other party's kick still made him very uncomfortable, almost kicked him unconscious, after the gun in his hand was taken away, Du Jin has changed from a hunter to a pure prey, it's not that he doesn't want to fight at close range, the armored power system on his body has made a mistake, which causes his strength to not be able to bring up the armor to fight, not to mention the number of people who are several times his own, it is even more difficult.

Seeing that Du Jin was silent, a cultist who was also wearing light armor stepped forward and attached a disc to Du Jin's back.

"Nourishing ----"

A burst of electricity flowed, and the helmet panel in front of Du Jin's eyes disappeared completely, leaving only the darkness in his sight, and it was obvious that the object attached to his back was obviously some kind of device that could completely incapacitate the armor system, and these people wanted to take Du Jin away.

Then Du Jin felt that he was set up by the two of them and began to move, without the display of the helmet's external environmental detection equipment, Du Jin completely lost his other senses except for hearing a little sound through the helmet.

"Where are they going to take me? No, I'm going to have to find a way to get out before these cultists bind me completely. ”

He knew very well what it would mean for him to be brought inside the Church of Oneness by these cultists, and if Ralph was alive, then his ability to fight against the blood seal would be known, and then Du Jin would definitely be controlled by those cultists to do some kind of experiment, and maybe he would be dissected.

And even if Ralph was killed by the concentrated fire just now, he would not be able to escape the ending of being "judged" and dying by the United Church, no matter what the ending was not what Du Jin wanted, and the ability he had used before in this world had no value at this time, accelerating his reaction speed could not allow him to support these dozens of kilograms of armor with the strength of his body alone.

"Damn, what are we going to do? Am I going to be taken away like this? ”

The growing sense of urgency made Du Jin begin to panic, and at this moment, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and noticed another ability in his body.

"If I can resist the erosion of the blood mark, is it possible for me to use some method to get those corpse mutants to come to me on their own initiative? At that time, these heretics will definitely resist, which will buy Li Mengyan more time. ”

Thinking of this, Du Jin began to re-examine the black blood-marked statue in his mind, and after experimentally using different thoughts to impact the black blood-mark, Du Jin found that this black blood-marked, whenever he imagined the huge red blood-marked statue before, it would emit some obvious sense of repulsion.

And his intuition told him that this sense of repulsion was not just lingering in his mind, a mysterious feeling told him that the repulsion of the black blood mark was not only diffused, but also accepted by a certain creature, as for whether this creature was a corpse variant, Du Jin could not confirm it.

"Please! Be sure to get those corpse mutants to notice me! ”

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At the same time, in the mining unit at the bottom of the "Eden", there is no corpse variant, it seems to be a specially divided space, full of this safe atmosphere, and in a precious metal storage cabin in the center of the mining unit, a four-meter-high blood seal statue is placed here, and an illusory figure stands around it, he touches the red light lines on the blood mark, as if controlling something.

And right here, the blood mark seemed to have suddenly come back to life, and the red light surging in those lines turned into substantial blood, gushing out along the cracks of the lines, and the blood mark itself began to tremble violently, but this tremor did not seem to be fear, but some very strong excitement, like a person who was extremely hungry and suddenly found a delicious meal.

The illusory figure then faded a lot, and a very complex emotion seemed to appear on its face, a mixture of worry, hunger, bloodlust, and shock made it tremble with the blood mark, and almost a second later, the illusory figure was even more dim.

"It's ........ Another God's ........."

An old voice came from the illusory figure, this voice was full of shock, and the next moment, the blood mark emitted an increasingly dazzling red light, and the illusory figure disappeared completely, and with the disappearance of the figure, the blood mark seemed to be completely free from some kind of restraint, and the entire corpse morph of the "Eden" let out a huge roar, and ran towards the same position, as if there was some unimaginable attraction there.

At this time, Du Jin suddenly felt a palpitation, as if a certain eye began to look at him, and the coldness that went straight to his soul made him have to stop stimulating the black blood mark in his mind.

"That was ......... just now"

The feeling of being watched by some unknown existence made him can't help but leave a cold sweat, he was originally a staunch atheist, but Du Jin at this time germinated a new cognition in his heart, many people say that the end of science is theology, originally he was very rejecting this theory, but Du Jin now found that when people find a certain existence that far surpasses themselves in scientific concepts, the more wise and rational people will be amazed by the huge difference, and spontaneously think that the untouchable scientific realm is the realm of God.

And Du Jin felt this way at this time, he was almost sure that it was the blood mark on this ship, that kind of murderous intent and bloody spirit made Du Jin defeated when he first came into contact, he didn't dare to imagine how small and helpless he would be if he really had to face that kind of power.

"Imam, there's no news from Team Three."

When Du Jin "digested" everything he had just experienced, the disciples who escorted Du Jin immediately discovered the abnormality, and the three teams that were originally left near the escape pod had collectively lost contact, you know, they relied on the protection of the Holy Seal, without being actively attacked by the corpse mutates, to attract a large number of corpse mutants to the periphery of the hall where the escape pod was located, if anyone wanted to occupy or approach them, these corpse mutants would be a nightmare for those enemies.

"How is that possible? If it can be done so that the three teams don't even have a chance to give an early warning, then this unknown enemy will have to kill all the corpse mutants on the periphery in a few seconds, and then quickly eliminate the three teams, but without using heavy weapons, as far as I know, except for a few first-order bishops in the church who can control high-level mutants, no one can do it! ”

"But this .........."

Not to mention this patriarch, even the disciple in charge of communication doesn't believe it, in their opinion, these disciples have been blessed with the Holy Seal, those corpse mutants who look extremely fearful to the survivors, as long as they don't take the initiative to attack them, the corpse mutants will not come to attack the Unity Sect, but now even with the protection of hundreds of corpse mutants, the three teams will be killed quietly, and even the most basic warning can't be issued, they really can't think of a team with this kind of power.

And just when they were puzzled, they heard the roar of corpse mutation in the corridor in front of them, and the patriarch at the head finally breathed a long sigh of relief:

It was the Holy Seal who sent us "reinforcements". ”

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At this time, Manuka's team also followed Li Mengyan from the maintenance pipeline to the security center, but after jumping from the pipe, they only found a room of mess, looking at the dense bullet holes on the wall behind her, Li Mengyan couldn't help but whisper:

"Not good! We're late! My companion and Captain McCasse were taken away! ”

One of the scouts in the Manuka team looked at the two bodies in front of the security officer's office and reported back to the group:

"The bodies of suspected members of the Unity Church were found, but the bodies of the captain and others were not found, and they must have been taken away."

"Turn on the tracer, chase them where they are, and be sure to find the captain and the lieutenant general's companions."

The scout then pulled out a square board from behind him, and the square board flew instantaneously under the control of the device, projecting a blue light curtain to the ground, and under the light curtain, the stray footprints and a thin line of instruction suspended in mid-air were exposed.

After a brief moment of observation, the Scout replied to Manuka:

"Captain, the enemy number is about 30 people, of which 5 are heavy soldiers, 20 are equipped with light armor, there is no sign of heavy firepower, there are still some weak electromagnetic fields left at the scene, it seems that the enemy shorted the armor of the major's companion through ranged electromagnetic interference, and by the way, stunned the captain, and then took them away."

Li Mengyan had already informed the rest of the team about Du Jin's equipment along the way, so the scout also fed back the relevant information.

After Manuka told Li Mengyan the current information, Li Mengyan's expression was a little urgent, Du Jin's maintenance armor obviously has great flaws in dealing with magnetic domain interference, after all, this kind of interference is not to put a large metal bag on the outside of the armor to form a Faraday cage, or to replace conventional electronic devices with some special circuits and chips, otherwise it can make 90% of the circuit system be paralyzed, and it is naturally impossible for this mass-produced product of Wei'an light armor to use that kind of expensive device.

There are two types of electromagnetic interference: conducted interference and radiated interference. Conducted interference refers to the coupling (interference) of signals from one electrical network to another electrical network through a conductive medium. Radiated interference is when an interfering source couples (interferes) its signal through space to another electrical network. In high-speed PCB and system design, high-frequency signal lines, pins of integrated circuits, and various connectors may become sources of radiation interference with antenna characteristics, which can emit electromagnetic waves and affect the normal operation of other systems or other subsystems in the system.

And Du Jin is likely to be "defeated" by a similar way of radiation interference, but if it is placed on this set of special armor on Li Mengyan's body, let alone radiation interference, it is a bunch of EMP grenades or plasma grenades attached to her body to detonate, and it will not have much impact.

"After bringing Du Jin out safely, you have to quickly prepare a set of equipment for him to protect him! Otherwise, his situation is too threatening. ”

Thinking about this problem clearly, Li Mengyan followed Manuka's team and began to chase along the detected tracks, and at this time, thousands of kilometers away from the "Eden", a space destroyer was parked there.

"Haven't contacted the Eden yet? ”

The destroyer's captain asked his lieutenant that they were patrolling near the Ganymede spaceport when they received a first-level distress signal from the USS Eden, in the Federation's space civilian rescue system, a third-level distress signal means that the ship's hull function is damaged and wants to assist in maintenance, a second-level distress signal means that there is a riot in the cabin or the ship is seriously damaged and cannot be maintained, and a third-level distress signal means that the ship is about to crash with a devastating attack or destructive strike.

After receiving the call for help, the destroyer immediately rushed to the vicinity of the "Eden", but they seemed to be a step too late, the "Eden" has no answer, from the point of view of size, the Seagull-class missile destroyer and the "Eden" are more than a star and a half apart, in front of the "Eden", the destroyer seems to be like a small fishing village in front of the cruise ship.

And this huge difference in scale also has a lot to do with the Federation's space combat system:

The Federation's space operations generally use long-distance combat tactics: due to the constraints of the space environment, in a three-dimensional environment, the probability of large formations being detected is much greater than that of small formations, so long-distance battles generally occur between large formations. Since there is no theoretical basis for energy shield technology, there is basically no possibility of realization, and the mobility of large warships is very poor, and the lethality of energy weapons is huge, and the cannon combat mode of giant ships is equivalent to suicide. Therefore, large formation space operations are generally dominated by battles between space carriers and carrier-based aircraft. This is equivalent to the operation of an aircraft carrier formation in the present world.

Attacking in a straight line, with the shortest attack route, but not the best option. The huge space space, the ultra-long range of energy weapons, and the coverage of a large area determine that the strike distance of carrier-based aircraft will be very long, so the attacker will inevitably suffer huge losses.

The defender should only take the following means: the mother ship escorts the gunboat forward to a certain distance, uses the giant energy weapon to cover the formation of the carrier-based aircraft, and the missile ship simultaneously launches a large number of missiles to intercept it, and then the mothership uses the carrier-based aircraft. The difference between the three attack methods naturally forms three counterattack waves, which can cause huge losses to the attack. Among them, the speed of light, the huge penetration and the ability to continue to attack make it impossible for the attacking carrier-based aircraft to achieve effective dodge, so the lethality is also the greatest.

Therefore, generally speaking, when a large formation fleet meets, the two sides will usually confront each other for a long time outside the range of naval guns at the initial stage, and adopt means such as changing the formation to expand the attack area and reduce the density of attacking troops in the unit space.

In the early stage of the battle, due to the distance of the enemy's carrier-based aircraft, the fleet generally adopts an umbrella formation, with the fire support ships located in an umbrella shape and facing the direction of attack, the second layer of the umbrella surface is composed of missile ships and other ships that adopt controllable weapons, and the space carriers and logistics support ships are lined up to form an umbrella handle, so as to reduce the attack surface with their heads.

In the later stages of the battle, when the enemy's carrier-based aircraft are relatively close, the fleet generally adopts a spherical formation, with heavy armored ships such as fire support ships and heavy firepower ships in the outermost layer, missile ships and other secondary heavy ships in the second layer, and the core is space carriers and logistics support ships. According to the humanitarian principle of space operations (which will be explained later), the possibility of an active attack on an ambulance ship is small, so it should be far away from the battlefield during combat, protected by a small number of small ships and carrier-based aircraft, and a rescue ship should be dispatched in advance to prepare for rescue. At the same time, it can also cause confusion in the formation of the enemy's escort fleet.

The main danger faced by the defenders in a rear-strike strike is that once the enemy's carrier-based aircraft protrude from the inside of the formation, it will inevitably lead to a state of chaos in the fleet, which will cause huge losses to the fleet.

Equivalent to a ground war, both sides should have carrier-based aircraft reserves to defend their fleets or conduct a second wave of attacks. However, if the defender's strength is small, or the attacker's carrier-based aircraft are outstanding, the entire force may be used at once to achieve annihilation.

This also determines that this Seagull-class destroyer acts as a "guard" against enemy carrier-based aircraft and small attack ships, and if necessary, it is an attack ship that is abandoned as cannon fodder for counter-assault, so the oversized size has no effect on it, and it is precisely this limitation of the size of the hull that it will be sent to patrol near the starport, otherwise it will encounter a larger-scale space pirate, I am afraid that it will not be able to escape the doom of being destroyed.

You must know that all this is the experience accumulated by the Interstellar Federation from countless battles in the past, and the realization of the Federation is unified from under countless corpses.

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"Get close to the Eden, lock their in-cabin communication channels for monitoring, and if we can't control the situation, then ask for support from Starport! ”

After pondering for a moment, the destroyer captain said to his lieutenant.