Chapter 55: Responding to the Battle

Almost in the next second, a huge arm took the lead in stretching out from the gap in the alloy wall, its surface was full of scattered flesh and small arms that were still swinging, it looked like it had used some kind of power to splice together the limbs of countless corpse mutants, and then the head of this monster also appeared from the gap with the arm, the feeling of oppression made everyone present hold their breath, judging from the part of the body where this monster appeared, its size was no different from the mining spaceship on the side, They couldn't imagine how they could kill the monster.

"It's ....... Mob! ”

As soon as Li Mengyan saw the head of this monster, he recognized its code name, and Du Jin on the side naturally heard it, and he hurriedly asked Li Mengyan a little hurriedly:

"Thugs? Have you seen this corpse mutant Mengyan? Know its weaknesses? ”

Li Mengyan nodded, and then quickly recalled before replying:

"This is what I saw from the Federation's super-grade biological gene pool before, this is a mutant derived from the combination of corpse mutant genes and orangutan DNA, plus radiation catalysis, I haven't dealt with this mutant, and the previous "meeting" was also through a biochemical isolation hood, but it wasn't that big at that time, no! It must be that the bloodmark further modifies the genetic structure of this creature.

Its weakness lies in the bare heart on its back, its front and sides have armor thickness comparable to that of mechas, and it is immune to almost all kinetic weapons of conventional caliber, and even if it is a laser weapon, as long as it is not a laser penetration weapon with great power intensity, with its own self-healing speed and volume, it is very difficult to kill it, and I don't know if the blood mark will change the shortcomings of its records in the file, after all, its research is the same as what I knew before. ”

After listening to Li Mengyan's words, Du Jin looked at those soldiers who were a little shaken, not to mention these soldiers, in the face of this large monster full of white calcified "armor", relying on those light firepower weapons in his hands, obviously not too much, but Du Jin knew very well that sitting still in this situation was fatal, and he had to use everything he could use to deal with this monster.

"The first team shoots to attract the attention of the corpse variants, the second team outflanks them from the flank and rear to see if there are obvious weak spots behind them, and the third team assists the first team in the attack, ensuring that the first team retreats if necessary."

After a simple deployment, Du Jin also picked up the gun in his hand and entered the battle, and Li Mengyan immediately followed behind him, in fact, when Du Jin commanded the soldiers under Manuka to prepare for the formation just now, she originally wanted to give Du Jin some "reminders" at the right time, but with Du Jin's arrangement, Li Mengyan found that Du Jin's talent and cognition in the deployment of this area were beyond her imagination, which is not to say that Li Mengyan can't think of other deployment methods and formations, after all, her experience in the army for nearly ten years is not blown, But in the case of trust in Du Jin and Du Jin's deployment without any major mistakes, Li Mengyan just stayed by his side quietly.

Because she knows very well, don't look at Du Jin when he took over this task, he was very confident, but no matter who it was, under the situation that dozens of lives were in his hands, the pressure was definitely not small, and at this time, Du Jin was a little panicked and scared in his heart, but he did not let these negative emotions interfere with him, and what made him more calm was that the soldiers trained by McCas were indeed not ordinary in terms of tactical literacy and willpower, and in a very short period of time, they were grouped according to Du Jin's plan, began to carry out their respective tasks.

Several machine gunners scattered in high places before immediately opened fire, although according to Du Jin's "requirements", they only targeted attacks on the head and joints of this monster through point firing, but after all, it is a machine gun, and if it is not a kinetic energy large-caliber ammunition that has been accelerated by electromagnetism, or it is a laser ammunition with extremely high power and penetration, the concentrated fire attack is naturally effective, and the monster also seems to feel the pain, and stretched out his hand to protect his head, but Du Jin on the side also immediately discovered the action of the "thug". , immediately focused the machine-gun fire on the joints of its knees, and the "thugs" naturally put their hands on their legs.

But the "thug" does not seem to be the ordinary corpse variant those "sluggish", after several concentrated attacks by Du Jin, although the damage caused to it is not great, but it also caused its anger, it directly grabbed the cargo hold of a mining ship on the side, dragged it over and blocked it in front of itself, and then used its brute force to directly push the fuselage of the mining ship in the direction where Du Jin is, it is obvious that the three teams responsible for auxiliary fire support cannot penetrate the fuselage of this mining ship with machine guns, after all, according to the design standards of the Federation, This type of mining vessel can withstand the intensity of a high-speed impact from a small meteorite, which means that it has no problems trying to block the concentrated fire of some light weapons.

After all, in the space age, unless the caliber or penetration power reaches an order of magnitude, even machine guns or general grenades have been classified as light weapons, and real medium weapons are used to deal with attack armor and mobile fortresses, and there is some "fuss" about people or creatures, which is why Manuka's team does not wear medium weapons, on the one hand, it is unnecessary, after all, they will not go out of the cabin to log in to enemy ships or other planets for ground armored combat, On the other hand, in order to prevent the excessive force of non-military units and threaten the stability of military blocs, the combined effect of the Manuka is very limited in the weapons that can be allocated and allowed to be installed.

And Du Jin also saw the behavior of the "thugs" using the mining spacecraft as a cover, and he immediately had his own guess:

It seems that this the" thug "has a certain intelligence. ”

But then he smiled lightly, and whispered to himself again:

"It's a pity that the intelligence is not too high, and if you want to push a spaceship of this size as a shield to open the way, the other ships on the way will inevitably become an obstacle to its progress, and if it follows the gap between the ships to avoid our fire, it will be a bit troublesome."

At this moment, Du Jin came to the second team and had already detoured back to the flank and rear of the "thugs", he did not let the team open fire immediately, but asked them:

"It doesn't have any organ behind it, or anything different from the white calcifications on the surface."

The captain of the second team also immediately responded:

"Yes, we saw this monster with some kind of unidentified organ with a dark yellow liquid, and it was still pulsating, but there was also calcified white material on its front, but we could shoot it from the gap in the side."

Du Jin breathed a long sigh of relief, he turned his head to look at Li Mengyan and nodded, indicating that it was basically consistent with what she said before, Li Mengyan's body that had been tense seemed to relax a little, but Du Jin only had a glimmer of hope for victory, even if the weakness did exist, how to attack effectively and when to attack were all points he had to think about, otherwise it would be completely empty talk to eliminate the "thugs".

Originally, Du Jin wanted to injure the monster by detonating a nearby mining ship, but Li Mengyan's subsequent explanation ruined the idea, space-age spaceships no longer use solid fuel or liquid fuel, those are already outdated technologies, according to Du Jin's data in the current world, human beings first wanted to transport the spacecraft from the ground to the Blue Star orbit, the total mass of the first stage was about 2300 tons, of which fuel (liquid hydrogen + liquid oxygen) accounted for 2160 tons, and the total mass of the second stage was about 500 tons, Of this, fuel accounted for 456 tons, and the total mass of the third stage was about 120 tons (just the shell and engine, not including the spacecraft), of which fuel accounted for 110 tons.

Even now in the 21st century, there has been great progress in solid fuel, the weight proportion of the fuel itself can not be ignored, on the other hand, it is an element of specific impulse, which describes the key parameter of thruster efficiency is specific impulse, which refers to the impulse that can be produced by a unit mass of propellant, for example, the specific impulse of liquid rocket thruster is 2500~4500N· S/kg, the specific impulse of the solid rocket thruster is 2000~3000N· S/kg。

Both liquid rocket thrusters and solid rocket thrusters use chemical fuels, the principle is to burn chemical fuels to produce high-temperature and high-pressure gases, and then use reaction force to push the rocket forward, the thruster efficiency is determined by the relative speed of the gas when it leaves the rocket, for chemical fuel rockets, the combustion temperature can reach 3000~5000 °C, the thrust generated is very large, but the duration is short, and the fuel will be exhausted soon, this way is more than enough for launching satellites, but for interstellar navigation, I'm afraid it's a fantasy.

The mining ships in front of Du Jin are using ion propulsion, the principle of which is to ionize the gas, and then spray the ions at high speed under the action of a strong electric field, the instantaneous temperature can reach 1 million degrees, and the efficiency is dozens of times that of conventional chemical thrusters. , and Du Jin is sure that the world on the side of the blood seal definitely has ion propulsion technology that is difficult to achieve in this regard, even if the controllable nuclear fusion that only exists in science fiction novels, I am afraid it has already been installed in the actual voyage.

After all, Du Jin still learned from Li Mengyan and McCass that what drove the "Eden" in space were four unknown energy reactors, and Du Jin could hardly guess how much energy could be output to make this giant spaceship move, and the speed was not slow.

In short, even if these mining ships destroy the energy device of their propulsion system, they will not cause a violent explosion, and there is no way for Du Jin to rely on the most direct way to attack, so that the second team can do a good job of scattered shooting formation, Du Jin gave the order to fire, and several kinetic energy ammunition and lasers hit the "heart" full of dark yellow liquid.

"Woohoo......."

The monster immediately let out a roar of pain, and then it directly grabbed the mining boat in its hand and threw it in the direction of the second team, and fortunately, Du Jin had already expected this situation, so that the six soldiers of the second team immediately ran towards the rear of a mining spaceship on the other side after a round of shooting, and the spaceship that was thrown out was almost close to the feet of a soldier at the end of the second team, and the soldier could feel the strong wind behind him, but not by the skin, It was the tremendous pressure of the spaceship's rapid crossing that caused the running soldier to lose his balance in an instant and fall to the ground, and his teammates did not give up on him, and the soldier closest to him immediately turned around and tried to pull up his teammate.

And Du Jin naturally will not be like the deliberately sensational clip in the movie, waiting to see his soldiers being killed, before he emitted an impotent rage and then counterattacked, after the "thug" threw out the spaceship in front of him, Du Jin immediately asked the first and third teams to open fire immediately, the purpose is to attract the attention of the monster, and the "thug" itself is not a high level of intelligence, which also determines that it will not turn around and expose the weakness of its back to chase the person who attacked it just now when there is a frontal attack.

But beyond Du Jin's expectations, he looked at the spaceship that was thrown out, and when he approached the giant "transparent" glass at the hangar door, it was not blocked as he expected, but as if nothing directly entered the universe outside the ship, and then the entire giant "transparent" glass at the exit of the hangar began to blur, and a flashing red appeared, and the hundreds of meters high hangar "glass" emitted red, which made Du Jin's heart depressed for a moment, it was not that he had the so-called "giant-thing" phobia, But the oppressive feeling of red did make him a little uncomfortable.

Li Mengyan looked at the flickering red of the hangar particle barrier, and immediately said with some nervousness:

"It's not good, the hangar's blockade order has not been lifted, and the spacecraft without an authorized order will be sent off the alarm if it forcibly passes, and now the entire scientific research deck will enter emergency mode."

"Emergency mode?"

Du Jin seemed to have some bad premonition in her heart, and immediately asked Li Mengyan back, and she also said with a hint of fear:

"Alarms will sound throughout the research deck, which means that corpse mutants from other areas will be drawn to our area in large numbers."

Li Mengyan's words made Du Jin feel like he was killed for a moment, they couldn't even solve the "thug" in front of them now, if some corpse variants appeared to interfere, the end of the annihilation of the whole army would be the fate of all of them, Du Jin didn't have time to think about anything else, and immediately raised his hand and asked "Xiao Ai":

"Xiao Ai, can you turn off the alarm in the hangar?"

Xiao Ai's voice also appeared from his mind:

"Doctor, Xiao Ai can do it, but the security procedures of the hangar are independent, I can't cut off the operation of the security program by wireless means, the doctor can connect me to any terminal in the control room of the hangar, Xiao Ai is sure to re-close the security system of the hangar in a very short time."

Hearing Xiao Ai's reply, Du Jin didn't hesitate much, he first ordered the first group and the second group to all retreat, and the third group and the other two groups alternately covered to leave the current position, while he looked at Li Mengyan and asked Li Mengyan in a very nervous and hurried voice:

"Mengyan, where is the control room in the hangar?"

Li Mengyan didn't ask Du Jin why he was looking for the control room, but immediately ran towards the discovery of the control room, Du Jin also followed Li Mengyan with understanding, and ran towards the control room of the hangar, he wanted to re-seal the damn hangar security procedures before the alarm attracted those corpse mutants, if possible, he also needed 'Xiao Ai' to apply for a spaceship permission order from the command system of the hangar, and leave from here with McCas and his party, according to the current situation, if you want to defeat the "thug", The price to pay would be very high, and it is very likely that other corpse variants will "make up for it" if they are badly damaged.

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At this time, outside the "Eden", the Brown Bear III. heavy armored transport ship has reached the distance where it can be logged in, and the place they originally wanted to log in was the bridge, after all, where there is the monitoring of the whole ship and the highest authority, through there, Xiang Yuan is sure to find Li Mengyan's traces, of course, the premise is that his boss survives, which is what Xiang Yuan is most worried about.

"Captain Xiang, we found something in the hangar on the research deck of the Eden, and it is clear that a ship with a Mao license has just flown out of the hangar, triggering the hangar's security protocols. ”

Just when Xiang Yuan was a little uneasy, a person in charge of battlefield intelligence collection in the crew opened the alloy door of the wheelhouse, came to Xiang Yuan's side and swiped the data on his wrist in his direction, and a holographic screen popped up from the armor information module on Xiang Yuan's wrist, showing that the hangar particle barrier that is still flashing red is still flashing red, even if it is a particle barrier of hundreds of meters, it still looks very small under the background of the entire "Eden", but under the operation and capture of the collection system of the Brown Bear III heavy armored transport ship, Xiang Yuan clearly saw the strangeness of the barrier.

And then he noticed that the mining ship that flew out of the hangar did not turn on its engine, but began to drift aimlessly in the infinite space, in Xiang Yuan's opinion, the spaceship did not fly out by itself, but more like it was thrown by some kind of force.

"Something is wrong! Could it be Major her? ”

Xiang Yuan immediately realized that there was something strange about the movement here, he did not let go of this breakthrough, and immediately got up and came to the door of the cab, and said to the crew inside:

The situation has changed, and the landing site has been changed to the hangar on the research deck of the "Eden", where there are survivors, prepare the weapons system of the Brown Bear III, do not enter the hangar at that time, conduct force detection and observation before landing, and if necessary, apply for the destroyer's artillery cover support. ”

"Roger!"

The crew of the Brown Bear III. heavy armored transport ship has no reason not to accept Xiang Yuan's request, and the command of the crew has naturally been transferred to Xiang Yuan, the captain, before the mission, and for these soldiers who entered the "Eden" for armed reconnaissance, they are only responsible for air vigilance and retreat response, in front of this civilian mining ship without ship weapons, it can be said that there is no danger at all, so the main pilot immediately ended the automatic route scheduled on the bridge, Instead, the manual operation drove to the entrance to the hangar.

At the same time, Li Mengyan has taken Du Jin to the control room, Du Jin immediately handed over Xiao Ai, at this time Du Jin was only Li Mengyan around, and Du Jin had also explained before, Li Mengyan was a completely obvious companion, "Xiao Ai" appeared on the terminal on Du Jin's wrist without any scruples, and then according to Xiao Ai's instructions, he took off a small square on the side of the terminal at the wrist and sent it to the huge console panel. But less than two seconds after he put down the small square, Xiao Ai said:

"Doctor, the processing is complete, the security procedure of the hangar has been stopped, Xiao Ai has changed the bottom logic of the trigger program by the way, even if anything passes through the particle barrier, the security system will not be opened."

"So fast? Don't you need to access the console? ”

Du Jin picked up the small square with some surprise and asked, Xiao Ai's speed made him can't believe his eyes, you must know that the time it takes to crack the program is not a joke, according to this size of the hangar, the security system it is equipped with is definitely not low in terms of encryption, but Xiao Ai seems to have only spent two seconds, which makes Du Jin's cognition a little unacceptable for a moment.

Xiao Ai's virtual avatar felt the shock in Du Jin's words, her little face seemed to smile proudly, and then jumped happily and said:

"Xiao Ai used to be because the encryption level here is military-grade, or other systems that use physical isolation measures, but who knows that it is just a low-end system that is protected by primary artificial intelligence, Xiao Ai naturally unravels it effortlessly, as for access, don't you know, doctor" Xiao Ai wants not a physical interface to access, as long as it is physical contact, Xiao Ai is sure to try!"

At this moment, Du Jin has a new understanding of Xiao Ai's ability, but at this time, he didn't have time to digest Xiao Ai's ability, but immediately left the control room to check the situation outside, the huge corpse mutant will not wait for him to finish other things before starting to attack, if Manuka takes back command, then the formation he deployed will be chaotic again, this is not a problem of Manuka's command ability, but his overall planning is determined.

And when he and Li Mengyan came out of the door of the control room, they found a spaceship full of science fiction hovering outside the hangar.

"Uh, then?"