The main gun of the "Yulong" is actually not a gun at all.
The "Xiangyun" class inner defense circle ship platform to which it belongs is known as a space-based weapons platform. In fact, due to the conditions of the year, it was only equipped with two types of weapons based on its two main functions.
One is an electromagnetic railgun used to target those troublesome aberrations that swim in the middle and upper atmosphere and have both high-altitude and high-speed attributes, and carry out point-killing. It has an astonishing single-target killing efficiency. Everyone is accustomed to calling it the "secondary gun."
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The other type is a weapon of mass destruction specially designed to target aberrant "nests" in the wilderness, as well as a handful of aberrant individuals that are so powerful that they are beyond imagination. They are also the so-called "main artillery". What the sergeant said
"Main gun charging" strictly speaking only charges the launcher.
As the military's strategic posture on the wilderness shifts from "defense" to "counterattack" and gradually gains the initiative, new types of war weapons are also emerging one after another. The "Xiangyun" class platform has basically withdrawn from the front line, and now it is engaged in scientific research and warfare.
It shoots birds, helps clear high-altitude waterways, and basically no longer performs ground attack missions. But after all, it is still in a state of war preparation, with the ammunition base reduced by half, and the main gun "ammunition" also has one round.
Claire is not worried about anything else, but she is worried about the soldiers on the ship whose sense of responsibility is at a low level. They have not been on combat missions for a long time. If they are not careful, they will make an operational error and throw out the deadly things in the magazine - the explosion will not happen.
Explosive, without ground authorization, this thing is just a piece of iron. But if it really floats in the atmosphere, they will soon become a joke of the Air Force, and by the way, the Air Force will become a joke of the whole earth.
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Although there is a high probability that many people will not laugh.
In fact, there is a precedent for this kind of inability to laugh.
"Sir, during the 'Dark Side Exercise' last year..."
"You mean the time on the Yoda."
Major Cao Kai understood instantly, but he had no intention of changing the order. On the contrary, he unbuckled the chair and flew up. During this period, he casually pushed the "crystal ball" towards Claire, who instinctively reached out to grab it.
live.
"So, I need my adjutant to concentrate. Just watch here for a while while I go clean up the house."
"……Yes, sir."
What else could Claire say? Moreover, looking at the "translucent octopus" that he suddenly got, he felt that this was really an unexpected surprise. He usually only took a few glances at this gadget from a distance, but this was the first time he had seen it up close.
He turned the crystal ball, and the little things inside were also spinning, as if he was never tired of it.
"How did it survive?" Claire had no clue. After shaking it twice, the water sealed inside had formed a whirlpool. This time, the little octopus instinctively avoided it and pressed against the inner wall, with its head, face and one eye squeezed in.
Here, through the water light, it was twisted into a rather absurd look, and I looked over.
The two sides looked at each other. This little thing was orange-red and looked like an octopus larvae. The arms and legs were not obvious, and it looked particularly cute. The structure of its eyes was a bit weird, and the water light flickered, making it colorful and blurry. After looking at it for a long time,
Just a little bit of dizziness.
Interesting! Claire became more and more determined to ask for it from Major Cao Kai. This time it was not just for fun, but to get exactly the same one.
After all, Claire had a sense of responsibility that was above the standard. She distracted her thoughts and quickly returned to the business. After all, he was different from Major Cao Kai. He was a circulating personnel, not a retired personnel. In the position of adjutant
After accumulating enough seniority, a bright future awaits him.
Claire was very concerned about the mission assigned by Major Cao Kai. He played with the crystal ball unconsciously while opening the tactical sandbox. The large transparent projection space showed a status monitoring picture of the entire ship. He focused on the "main"
"Cannon" looks at the relevant system module. First confirm that there is no abnormality, then take a breath and continue to check other modules.
Speaking of which, Major Cao Kai's suggestion of "hot engine testing" is quite necessary. There have been no combat missions in the past two years, and some problems cannot be discovered just by relying on the lightweight operation of the secondary battery.
For example, the research institute that is separated from them actually secretly changed the backup information line, which should have poached part of the platform's computing power. This is a very serious problem, right?
What does Myra, that mechanized sergeant, do for a living?
If Claire was the chief officer, he would spray Myra to pieces now, but he was not, so he could only write it down first and report it to Cao Kai later.
The tactical sandbox faithfully reflects the operating status of each system module, and also pushes some highly sensitive changes to the core work area. Claire saw the target area map displayed on it at a glance and half-jokingly reminded:
"If you really want to bomb Bancheng, the location is off. That is the Beishan Lake area. The tactical nuclear bomb in the magazine has only a yield of 50,000 tons. It cannot even cover the lake... No. 3?"
The person who answered Claire was the silent back of the operating sergeant at No. 3 aircraft.
The silence lasted for at least 5 seconds, and starting from the second second, Claire felt something was wrong.
In fact, during this period of time, except for the main gun operating sergeant on the opposite side of the aircraft, who had reported that the main gun was powered on earlier, who turned his head and glanced this way, the others remained silent and did not make any move.
——This has been the case since he entered the command module.
As for the one in seat 3, even if he said it to his face, he didn't make any sound.
wrong!
Claire reached out to press the electro-beam gun on his waist. He didn't mean to do anything. He still doesn't understand what happened. This action was just an instinctive reaction. But halfway through, he realized that he was still holding the crystal in his hand.
The ball was thrown, so he was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, his palms felt inexplicably cold, as if something cold and sticky had penetrated the outer wall of the crystal ball and made contact with him.
Claire was startled and instinctively waved her hand away, but only halfway through the swing, a strong numbness spread from the palm to the entire palm, then to the wrist and elbow joint, and then spread to the whole body in an instant like the electric shock.
"Well!"
Claire uttered a meaningless syllable and just froze in his seat on the plane. The fixed buckle locked his body and kept him in the same sitting position as before, which was almost the same as the silent ones on the plane.
In a weightless environment, the crystal ball floats from the numb palm, and the mini octopus swims inside, as if it controls everything.
Claire really suspected that the paralyzing toxin raging in his body now was the work of that mini octopus. If so...
The door of the command module opened again, and Major Cao Kai, who had gone to "clean up the housekeeping" before, came back in. The top commander of the "Yulong" turned a blind eye to the scene in front of him, as if this was the normal situation on the ship. He did not go either.
After getting back the floating "crystal ball", I just returned to the command seat and immediately started a series of operations.
Claire, whose neck was frozen, didn't even have the strength to turn her head. She couldn't see the situation above her side, and could only hear short beeps ringing continuously. On the tactical sand table, on the other hand, the light and shadow changed, and the locked target that had been highlighted before became more and more obvious.
It was clear, and round after round of operations were carried out around it.
"Crazy, crazy!"
Claire made a vague sound from her already paralyzed throat. At this time, even a fool could guess what Cao Kai wanted to do!
A stream of blood rushed up and opened his throat, causing him to roar: "Sir...Cao Kai! Has your brain been eaten by insects?"
Claire didn’t know why Cao Kai did this, and it was such a meaningless thing: “Are you kidding me? Without ground authorization, even if you forcibly put the nuclear bomb on the launcher, it would just be an iron lump.
The most you can do is explode in the thermosphere. Apart from a little bit of nuclear contamination, what else can you do?"
Cao Kai said nothing and continued the corresponding operations.
Claire's eyelids twitched violently as he looked at the various instructions and authority interfaces jumping and flashing on the tactical sandbox. He really didn't understand that under normal circumstances, operating procedures that required the cooperation of seven or eight people could be implemented by Cao Kai alone... Oh,
Including the main gun operator who must have problems, two people can push it, and the speed is so fast!
Moreover, at least two links that needed to be reported to the ground were skipped inexplicably, and all the authority locks and safety doors were in vain.
Are there accomplices on the ground? Or is Cao Kai himself a hidden super hacker?
Thousands of thoughts and doubts finally turned into one sentence:
"Why?"
After saying these words, Claire's mind became clearer. The reason why he asked was that he really didn't understand, and he also wanted to delay the change.
Cao Kai still didn't respond and just kept his head down.
Claire could only find something to say, trying to fight against the paralysis in her throat and mouth: "Let me guess, it's because you want to retire...retire early?"
"Yes." Cao Kai actually spoke, and he answered very readily, just like the beeping beeps under his hands.
"What the hell is this? Is this your reason for bombing Bancheng and taking revenge on society?"
"First of all, I did not bomb Bancheng; secondly, I did not retaliate against society." Cao Kai's voice lost the lazy and casual tone earlier, "My target, as you can see, is Bancheng Pingmao District on Beishan Lake, the target of revenge.
There too."
"Aha?"
"Didn't I say that? Didn't I say that because I am a close contact of the aberration infection, there is a so-called 'infection' threat, and then I will be forced to retire? Ah, I really forgot to mention it."
"Aberration?" Claire really didn't expect it to be in this field.
"Haha, if everyone is the same, that's fine, but do you have one in Putrajaya? Oh, you are in Europe, so in East Asia, Chuncheng, that guy in Chungcheng has become a hero and a star... The New World is so much more
Needless to say, why did I do something like this in Lake City, a ghost place like this? Directly report it to the military headquarters?"
Claire wanted to shout, this may be just a reason for some people to persecute you!
But what’s the point of discussing this? In comparison, Cao Kai’s targeting of Bancheng is even more unreasonable.
"The people in Hucheng punished you, so why don't you take revenge on Hucheng? What's the matter with Bancheng?"
"My wife and kids are all there."
This reason was so strong that Claire was speechless.
"Of course, this is only one of the reasons." Cao Kai opened up the conversation completely and spoke eloquently, "Discriminating against those infected with aberrations is never an exception, and it is not directed at me personally. It is the stupidest thing for a weak person to do.
I have to accept the situation and fight alone, like me, I can only stay together to keep warm. So this time, I am not only doing it for myself, but also for those like me who were posted because of a so-called aberrant infection.
Those poor souls who are labeled and may be thrown into the laboratory at any time and squeezed out of their sweat and sweat..."
"What bullshit logic!"
"Isn't it? The Pingmao District in Bancheng is indeed bullshit. How many homeless people and aberration-infected people are filled in every year..."
Claire was so angry: "You idiot, even if this is the case, if this bombardment continues, the laboratory can be rebuilt, scientific researchers can be recruited, and the data can be backed up. There are thousands of homeless people and homeless people who are still alive over there.
All those infected with aberrations are dead!"
"Yes, that's it. This is how I help them and help them get rid of the uncleanness and pain of distortion."
Claire was stunned for a moment, and finally discovered the extremely absurd point in it: "You even discriminate against yourself..."
"I don't deny it." Cao Kai's tone was very calm, "Some people are addicted to the ugly power and existence mode of distortion, but we are not. Our religious order is pursuing the Kingdom of God jointly constructed by the power of souls.
The torrent of holy light from the kingdom of God washes away the mutated excesses and cancers of matter.”
"...a cult?"
"Whatever you think."
"Soul Order?" Claire's thinking went a step further.
The military must screen and report all religious groups on the list of illegal religions, and "jointly building the Kingdom of Soul God" is the iconic doctrine of the Soul Church, which is also one of the most active illegal religious groups recently.
Cao Kai acquiesced.
"Haha..." Claire only had the strength to smile bitterly.
The military intelligence and censorship departments are all shit, right? Such a lunatic who believes in a cult, you let him be the commander of a ship? Also, what the hell is this technology that can bypass authorization and launch a city-destroying attack on your own?
One thing!
In this potentially meaningless dialogue, at least five authorization gates were breached without any response. The corresponding feedback mechanism did not seem to be working, and there was no response from the ground... Of course, it could also have been the interruption.
It's online.
Thinking in a positive direction, there may be counterattacks from outside, but the inside of the ship doesn't know about it. By the time it knows, it should have been smashed to pieces by space-based weapons.
As for the bad direction, when Bancheng turned into a sea of fire, the ground woke up, and then it was smashed into pieces by space-based weapons that were unaware...
They are all fragments, and there seems to be no difference.
As his thoughts changed, Claire's body became even more paralyzed. He couldn't help but think, maybe he died directly from the poisonous kiss of the "octopus"?
He deflected his gaze with difficulty. The thing that he thought was cute before but now only felt terrifying was floating in the light and shadow of the tactical sandbox. It happened to be near the Bancheng area. It was like a demon's seal. If it was stuck, it would mark death.