Chapter 149 Confrontation

On the full-circle screen of the Zealot's cockpit, another armed merchant ship marked with a red lock frame was urgently adjusting its axis to allow the bow to face the enemy and maximize the deflection force field.

The attack direction chosen by Amber and his team was the zenith of the base of operations, so now the armed merchant ship must tilt the bow 90° to maximize the deflection force field.

In fact, Amber originally planned to attack directly from the pirates' back hemisphere.

But the asteroids in that direction were too complex and dense, so the air mines deployed here might not be detonated in the attack of the Hermes.

And it would also make the HCP and assault boats more risky during the advance.

So Amber and his team finally chose the more secure celestial pole direction.

"Master, the heavy particle cannon has been deployed! You can shoot at any time!"

In the prompt sound of Lilith, the icon representing the heavy particle cannon in the frame showing the operation of the weapon unit on the multi-function display turned green, indicating "shooting allowed".

Amber launched the attack without hesitation. The surging heavy metal particle flow directly hit the upper part of the bow before the armed merchant ship adjusted its axis.

The two GAX-A9 enthusiasts that Amber had packed away from the Imperial frigate were the same early models of Block 10 as those enthusiasts that he had encountered on the surface of Robert IV.

Its airborne folding heavy particle cannon was powered by the subcritical reactor carried by the body.

So in terms of output power, it is naturally not as good as the frigate.

However, the initial velocity of the plasma metal jet it fired also reached 1,000 kilometers per second.

If the standard projectile - a 5-gram metal bismuth, and the classic formula are applied to calculate, a very outrageous kinetic energy number will be obtained.

This level of kinetic energy, if replaced by a destroyer or even a light cruiser with a higher level and thicker armor plate, can only rely on the internal structure to differentiate the heavy metal ion jet to ensure that it will not be hit through.

Therefore, when facing the heavy particle cannon, whether it is a warship, HCP or heavy multi-legged tank, they will choose to use the deflection field to defend.

Instead of stubbornly resisting the structure.

Facing Amber's heavy particle cannon, this armed merchant ship that did not have time to activate the deflection field could not withstand the bombardment even if it was solid.

Amber, who was sprinting, could see a ball of fire in the target area even with his naked eyes, even without using the zoom function of the optical sensor.

He switched the weapon control to the HCP-specific Gauss rifle in the main hand, and then aimed at the direction of the armed merchant ship and fired another round of piercing rods.

After a long time, there was no white electric light from the deflection field in the universe.

At this moment, Amber knew that the heavy particle cannon he had just shot had probably penetrated the bow of the armed merchant ship, and directly damaged the deflection field generator that had not yet been activated.

"Haha! God is open-minded!"

Amber put the Gauss rifle back to the weapon rack behind her, and then skillfully took out the plasma heavy sword as she had done countless times in the game.

"Fuck, has drawing a sword become my muscle reaction?"

Confirming that she had reached the late stage of "drawing sword cancer", Amber laughed at herself, and then used two mechanical arms to hold the hilt of the sword and made a downward stabbing motion.

At this time, Lilith had thoughtfully enlarged the picture of the armed merchant ship.

And based on the information of the Nerus-class freighter in the ship database, she marked the possible location of the bridge.

As Amber swept her pupils over, the body also locked this position.

Immediately afterwards, the fanatic began to slow down by relying on the nozzle attached to the space combat component installed on the leg.

Before the two sides come into contact, the relative speed must be reduced to a level that the body structure strength can accept.

And all of this eventually led to the scene that the two brothers Eric saw in the main control room.

A silver-white HCP suddenly fell on the armed merchant ship in the blue light of the reverse thrust, and knocked it down.

The plasma heavy sword in HCP's hand also stabbed into the location of the bridge.

While the blade formed by high-temperature plasma cut through the laminated armor plate and stabbed in, Amber also adjusted the output power of the heavy sword to the burst mode.

The injection of more energy made the blue plasma blade instantly larger, and directly vaporized the two unlucky guys closest to the bridge.

Then the heavy sword slashed and pulled, breaking a big hole inside the bridge that was depressurized, and several pirates who were frozen into popsicles flew out.

After solving the bridge, Amber did not forget to look in the direction of the base of operations.

Under the fanatic's "knight helmet", the red light flashing on the red one-eyed main monitor startled the two brothers Eric who were hiding in the control room of the base of operations.

"Big brother, what should we do?"

In the eyes of his brother, John, the younger brother who was "smart since childhood", looked at the fanatic who was slowly dismantling the fragments of the surface of the armed merchant ship in the distance. At this time, he was so confused that he began to stutter when speaking.

"Don't be afraid, we have hostages! They dare not do anything to us!"

Marvin, with a frantic look on his face, comforted his brother. He had lost some of his mind now, so he was not so scared.

On his communication channel, there was only a rustling noise.

In addition to the pirates who retreated to the main control room, the pirates on the other two armed merchant ships have been buried with their ship.

He could only watch helplessly as the assault boat landed on the landing platform of the operations base, and then released a team of tough men wearing exoskeletons. After breaking open the external hatch, they rushed into the operations base. .

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Several explosions occurred in succession inside the operating base, but Marvin was not sure whether it was a bomb exploded by his own team or detonated by these marines.

However, after witnessing the encounter with the armed merchant ship, he had just ordered everyone, including the hostage workers, to put on spacesuits.

So there is no need to worry about losing pressure in the cabin and causing everyone in the control room to die in an instant.

After the series of explosions in the operations base ended, there was a deathly silence.

Just when the Eric brothers were dreaming about whether their own bombs would wipe out these Marine regiments.

They suddenly received a communication request over the operating base's internal network.

After hesitating for a moment, the two brothers looked at each other and accepted the communication request.

Soon, a deep voice that was obviously using a voice changer came from the communication channel.

"Open the hatch of the main control room and don't fire. We can still talk."

That was when Marvin, John, and the other pirates focused all their attention on this temporary communication.

Amber's driving fanatic also carefully floated directly above the main control room.

He avoided the skylight and continued to rely on the operation of the vector nozzles all over his body to maintain relative stillness to the main control room.

Amber then deployed the charged particle cannon on the weapon rack behind her.