Chapter 142: Crossing and Pursuit
Looking at the colorful light curtain in front of him, Tom used the communicator in the helmet on the life assistance system to say to Bai Jie: "After crossing this light curtain, we will leave Oaklandis City." ”
Bai Jie has carried out missions on many colonized planets in the Saitan Federation, and has also visited countless interstellar cities, but she has never taken half a step out of the protection range of the interstellar city energy defense shield in a mecha when she has grown so big!
Because beyond that half-step, there is a forbidden area for creatures that are even more terrible than hell! Anything that is alive, whether it's an animal, a plant, or a cell, dies instantaneously in that absolutely extreme environment.
It's like if you're in a spaceship, you know you're in a hollow spaceship, but you don't feel scared, but you're still in the mood to enjoy the amazing scenery.
But if they put you in a spacesuit, tie a little rope around your waist, and kick you out of the hatch! You'll find that inside and outside the cabin are two completely different extreme worlds. It is only when your body really comes into contact with that vast and empty space that you truly feel helplessness, despair, and extreme fear! Even if you know that your body is as safe in the cabin as it is in a spacesuit, the human psyche and physiology are fundamentally changed by the drastic changes in the extreme environment.
Bai Jie is like this now, even though she is now fully armed from top to bottom, including her torso, limbs and head are all wrapped in protective clothing and sealed helmets, and there is a layer of mecha cockpit on the outside of her body, but when she saw the colorful light curtain in front of her and thought that she was about to step into the absolute death zone with those desperate guerrillas, she inevitably felt extreme panic in her heart.
Bai Jie was very nervous now, and she clung to Tom beside her, hoping to get some comfort from him. A woman is still a woman after all, and when she encounters an emergency and panic, she always wants to find a little sense of security in a man.
But Tom couldn't do that much now, and he was the first to walk into the huge, colorful curtain of light in the pilot machine No. 2.
As Test Machine 2 slowly stepped into the shimmering light curtain, Bai Jie was so frightened that she wanted to get into Tom's arms, but found that the two people's helmets blocked the distance between them, and she could no longer hug Tom as she usually did.
The fat man's mind was indeed not on Bai Jie's body now, and his eyes were completely attracted by the huge multicolored light curtain.
People who live in interstellar cities, even if they live for a lifetime, may not have the opportunity to see such a strange and magnificent scene until the day of death. Although Tom has piloted a mech many times in the grasslands on the outskirts of Oaklandis, and fought several battles on the grasslands with the government forces of the Commonwealth of Sytans and the invading forces of the Vilia Empire, he has never reached the edge of the interstellar city energy defense shield. Because this is the boundary line of the forbidden area of life, it is an extremely dangerous area, and normal people generally do not come here to see the scenery when they are full of food and have nothing to do.
Dozens of seconds later, Test Machine-2 has completely escaped the protection range of the interstellar city energy defense shield in Oakland City, and has completely entered the so-called no man's land.
Finally, looking back at the giant multicolored light curtain, Tom steered the testing machine No. 2 to step out of the mechanical legs, and finally stepped on the forbidden area of life.
Behind the test machine No. 2, three echo electronic mechs and the Glory mecha piloted by Emma carried the two huge dead branches, and dozens of guerrilla logistics personnel and family members who were also wearing protective suits and sealed helmets also came out of the giant light curtain and embarked on a new journey with Tom.
At this time, Colonel Iizuka's mecha team had also chased to the edge of this interstellar city's energy defense cover.
It's a pity that the ground mecha units of the Vilia Imperial Army, like the armored battalion of the Gloria guerrillas, are not equipped with life support systems, so it is impossible for them to leave the protection range of the interstellar city energy defense shield. Unless they want to suffocate to death in that horrible no-man's land and turn into an ugly corpse.
But looking at the guerrilla rebels who were fleeing in front of him, thinking that in the past two days, these damn guys had lost more than half of their mecha brigade, and they had also made His Royal Highness Saori Tokugawa uncertain about his life and death, and his whereabouts were unknown, Colonel Iizuka only felt a nameless anger in his heart at this moment, and he was rushing straight to the top of his head! He immediately ordered dozens of his various mechs to open fire on the five fleeing guerrilla mechs! And it's indiscriminate covered shooting!
More than forty skeleton mechs and scorpion mechas, as well as a few Fuji heavy mechas, after receiving the order of Colonel Iizuka, all picked up the energy cannons on the mechanical arms and launched a frantic artillery bombardment in the direction of the guerrillas' escape!
But the Imperial Army mechs of the Iizuka Mecha Brigade soon discovered that in the face of the incomparably powerful interstellar city energy defense shield, their energy cannon attacks were all insignificant, small and completely ineffective!
The energy cannon and protective shield equipped on the mecha actually belong to the same energy generation system as the interstellar city energy defense cover in front of it, so when the energy cannonball fired by the energy cannon hits the interstellar city energy defense cover, it is like a small drop of water being dripped into the ocean, and before you have time to hear a sound, it immediately disappears without a trace, where can it pass through and cause attack damage to the guerrilla mecha outside?
Seeing that the light and heavy energy cannons of his mecha brigade could not penetrate the interstellar city energy defense shield in front, Colonel Iizuka was also a little dumbfounded, and he was stunned for a long time and didn't know what to do.
But fortunately, the adjutant next to him quietly reminded him that in fact, airborne missiles could be directly hit through this powerful defensive cover. Because the mecha missile still relies on solid fuel as a boost power, and uses solid explosives to form effective damage to the attack target, it will not be affected by this energy defense shield.
Colonel Iizuka reacted immediately, and this statement is very reasonable! So, Colonel Iizuka ordered dozens of mechs under his command to immediately launch mecha missiles, and they all went unturned!
Soon, dozens of mecha missiles with long tails of smoke whizzed through the interstellar city energy defense shield in Oakland City, and quickly rushed towards the five guerrilla mechs in front of them who had not escaped far!
At this time, except for the cockpit of Tom's test plane No. 2, the alarm sounded that the missile was locked, and the other three echo electronic mechs and the Glory mech piloted by Emma were all unaware.
None of the partisans on the ground had ever had such an experience before today. In the past, when the guerrillas quietly drove mechs or cargo trucks through the interstellar city's energy defense shield system, they all avoided the border patrol of the Saitan Federation Army, sneaked out and drilled in, and never exchanged fire with the Federation Army in the space of the interstellar city energy defense cover.
The crowd thought that as long as they crossed the energy defense shield of the interstellar city, they would be able to escape, but they didn't expect that the Imperial Army's mecha brigade would also come here chasing their heels. At that time, all five mechs of the guerrillas were still within the range of the Imperial Army's energy cannons! So just now, when the dozens of people from the guerrillas saw dozens of Imperial Army mechs behind them attacking them with energy cannons at the same time, they were all shocked at first!
But in the end, all the energy cannonballs of the Imperial Army were reduced to nothing in the energy defense cover of the interstellar city, and the crowd really realized that as long as they crossed the energy defense cover of the interstellar city, the energy cannonballs could not be beaten, and the naïve guerrillas thought that they had really gotten rid of the mecha pursuit of the Imperial Army.
However, neither the guerrillas nor the Imperial Army mechs of the Iizuka Mecha Brigade could easily pass through the energy shield of the interstellar city and carry out effective firepower strikes against targets on the other side of the shield by the all-physical attack mode mecha missiles.
There is another thing that the partisans have actually overlooked. That is, after leaving the powerful interstellar city energy defense shield, all electronic signals are completely shielded by the powerful electromagnetic field of the defense shield. Therefore, the radar scanning and detection system on the three echo electronic mechs of the guerrillas and the Glory mecha piloted by Emma did not detect the dozens of menacing Imperial mecha missiles that had already pounced in time!
Now Tom wants to give another warning, it's too late!