Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 979 "Skadi"

Four days later.

Fort Mukah, above.

A giant warship with a length of more than 700 meters slowly sailed into the airspace directly above the fortress. The huge shadow almost enveloped most of the fortress, attracting many officers and soldiers who were training and preparing on the ground to stop and look up.

The whole body of this heavy cruiser is still glowing with the original color of the alloy material, without any painting or decoration, it looks like it has just been rushed out of the dock.But from another perspective, these welds, traces and exposed rivets that have not undergone any trimming bring a rough temperament to this battleship, and with the muzzle of the triple heavy plasma main gun condescendingly pointed On the ground, just parked in the air, an indescribable oppressive force spread.

Generally, the main guns of heavy cruisers are single-tube large-caliber plasma cannons, but this battleship is equipped with high-efficiency energy converters found in the remains of the Alpha civilization and a magnetic field generator with stronger binding force, so that the number of main guns It can be tripled, and the firepower has also been greatly enhanced.

Although it was only four days, during these four days, relying on the guidance of the hive master, Ke Lan and others "looted" eight S-level and A-level relics that hadn't explored more than 20% before, and earned a lot of money. A lot of money—the technologies left over from the Alpha civilization may not be able to digest for a while, but those ready-made equipment and equipment can be used directly.

A lot of equipment that Yagunaktor didn't need was sent directly to the shipyard of Griffin Fortress, and all of them were installed on this freshly baked Orca-class heavy cruiser.

For example, the power furnace that can support triple-mounted plasma cannons, heavy cruiser engines, and super-large energy shields is the core energy supply device of an A-level relic. In the language of Alpha civilization, this thing is called "the city's "Heart" - this is a grade III city heart, which is enough to maintain the operation of all public facilities in a city with a population of 50 people. If it is converted into the output power of a power plant, it is about 150 megawatts to two between hundreds of megawatts.

With the power furnace as the "heart" of the battleship alone, this killer whale-class heavy cruiser is enough to crush all the aircraft carrier battleships in the original Ark Air Force fleet.

"If we are given enough materials and time, we can build many more warships like this, and it won't even be a problem to form a full fleet!" These are the original words of the chief engineer of the Fourth Shipyard of Griffin Fortress—— When Lan filled the stockyard of the shipyard with the once extremely rare "relics" of the Alpha civilization, the chief engineer's self-confidence was almost inflated to the extreme.

As a person who has designed and built warships all his life, who doesn't desire to build an "Invincible Fleet" himself?

It's a pity that the materials are sufficient, but time does not allow him to build this entire fleet.

The situation outside the ark is deteriorating day by day. Every day, the area of ​​the fleshy creep covering the surface of the ark will expand a lot, and the monsters bred in the sarcoma will become stronger and more unbelievable.

Assuming that these monsters will become the main force to stop Ke Lan and his side in the next battle, then the current Ark is like an extreme "explosive soldier" operation in an RTS game, and all resources are invested in the expansion of the army In a very short period of time, an astonishingly large army was pulled out.

Of course, Ke Lan and the others don't know whether the Ark has really invested all the resources, but according to the observation of the drone, in these four days, the number of sarcoma that bred monsters has increased several times faster than before. The total number is more than ten times that of four days ago.

This is just the situation on the surface of the ark that can be observed by them.

What Ke Lan is most worried about is the changes inside the ark.

Now they don't have any real-time information from inside the Ark, and all the reconnaissance and infiltration troops sent to the Ark have disappeared without any news... No one knows what the inside of the Ark is now, and it is completely unknown whether there are any survivors.

Except for General Maginot, who still had a glimmer of hope in those scouting teams, everyone agreed that even if they waited another four or forty days, nothing would come of it.

The loss of contact with the reconnaissance troops has caused them to lose the initiative. The only way to regain the initiative is to suppress the situation with a large army and use the simplest and most effective reconnaissance method "fire reconnaissance"—" The cannon fires and blasts his mother!"
No matter how much the area of ​​the fleshy creep has increased, no matter what level those monsters have been transformed into... All in all, the triple-mounted plasma main cannon directly blasts down in the face, and it depends on whether the opponent accepts the move.

However, Ke Lan and the others are not completely helpless. The master of the hive capital gave Ke Lan a batch of design drawings of warships. The text is different from the Alpha civilization, and it has logic to follow. After Ke Lan's translation, it can be converted into the language used by the Ark civilization. Therefore, these design drawings can be read by the technicians of the shipyard.

Ke Lan chose two types of warships—these two types are small warships, and the classification within the hive civilization is "armor-piercing cone class" and "one-handed mallet class". The former belongs to the high-mobility surprise landing The ship does not have many weapons and equipment, but it is equipped with a high-strength shield generator, thick bow armor and powerful propellers, which can directly penetrate the core center of the enemy formation like a real armor-piercing cone. Then use the marine troops carried on the ship to decapitate the enemy's command center.

The latter, as its name suggests, is a "one-handed mallet", which completely abandons defense and pursues a one-hit escape and one-shot fatal style of play. It is equipped with a super-large warship that only heavy warships can equip on a light, high-mobility warship with weak armor. The caliber main gun... It is said that a gun is installed on the battleship, it is better to say that this gun is the main body, and it is equipped with a propeller and a bridge... The combat idea of ​​​​the "One-handed Hammer" battleship is also very simple , Relying on high mobility to enter the range of the main gun, aim at the target, fire the bombardment, and then quickly distance yourself from the enemy, waiting for the next attack opportunity.

In fact, there are many more powerful warships in the design drawings provided by the hive master, but Ke Lan only chose these two for a reason-these two kinds of warships require less materials, and the technical difficulties that need to be overcome are also very difficult. With the conditions of the fourth shipyard in Griffin Fortress, mass production will soon be implemented.If the comfort of the interior of the ship is not considered and the practicality is completely pursued, the construction period of a single warship can even be shortened to less than two months.

Of course, the most important reason is that these two types of warships require a very small number of operators—excluding the shipboard landing force, the "Armor Penetrating Cone" assault landing ship only needs four people to operate: a captain Helmsman, a fire controller, a mechanic in charge of the engine room, and a dispatcher in charge of controlling the landing module are enough.

As for the "One-handed Hammer" class high-mobility fire support ship, the crew has been reduced to three.

In the current situation, Ke Lan and the others have no time to train new recruits. The operators of all warships can only be selected from the survivors of the Zero Fleet... Once the battle between them and the Ark enters a stalemate, Griffin The shipyard at the base becomes the key.

Someone must drive the warships produced by the Fourth Shipyard. Only the warships and no one can form a combat force—and because of this, most of the survivors of the Zero Fleet were divided into two groups. On Yagunaktor, a group remained in Fortress Mukah and Fort Griffin... They are very valuable troops, and Ke Lan has no plans to use them in the first round of battle.

If all these people are fired, then there will really be no one to drive the newly built warships.

……

"Captain Alexander," standing on the bridge of the Orca-class cruiser, looking straight at the distant horizon, suddenly a sense of pride arose in Maginot's heart - for the first half of his life, all he could think about was How to climb to a higher position, as for commanding the army to fight, has never been in his consideration.

Maginot once even felt that it was impossible for him to experience any major battles until he retired.

He just needs to be like a civilian officer... no, or like a corporate executive, sitting in his office to be at work.As for those fighting and killing things, there will always be someone to do it - but no matter who it is, it is impossible for them to have their turn.

But life seems to have played a small joke on him - on the plain below, there is an army of 20 people, which is the only remaining army in the entire human civilization. A war in which the outcome and odds of winning are completely unknown.

The adrenaline dilutes the fear and anxiety in his heart, and Machino even feels that even if he is given the control rudder of this battleship, he will dare to drive the battleship directly towards the ark——The hound guy is right : "Since there is nothing to lose, then there is nothing to worry about. The worst thing is to risk your life."

Death is a frightening thing, but it is also a thing that everyone has to experience... After thinking about this, it seems that Magino is not so afraid of death.

He took a deep breath, and continued, "Have you thought about what to name your new flagship?"

"Name?" Major General Alexander froze for a moment, then turned to look at Maginot.

"The internal number of this killer whale-class heavy cruiser in the air force fleet is NF159, but the name of the battleship itself has not yet been decided. I have read the relevant documents and there are three pre-selected names. To be honest, none of them are suitable for the current atmosphere. .”

This "Orca-class" heavy cruiser was originally scheduled to be delivered to the First Cruise Fleet. Since the "Orca-class" is a warship that focuses on defense, most of the names are named after "guardian" and "shield". It is made up of similar words... But what they need now is not a "shield" that is solid enough, but a "spear" that can pierce everything without hesitation.

"Uh... To be honest, I'm not very good at picking names." Major General Alexander shrugged helplessly, and threw the question to Ke Lan, "Ke Lan, why don't you come?"

"Shall I come up with a name?" Ke Lan thought for a while, and said, "Since it's a 'killer whale', let's call her 'Skadi'!"

"Skadi?" Machino and Alexander were slightly taken aback. The latter said the name silently several times, and said in confusion, "It sounds like a girl's name."

"Isn't the girl's name nice?" Ke Lan laughed, "Besides, the goddess of victory is a woman, no one has heard of the male god of victory, right? Let's call her 'Skadi', Si Katie is our goddess of victory!"

"If you want to explain it like this, then I understand." Magino nodded vigorously, and gave Ke Lan a thumbs up, "Good name, it is indeed a good name."

While Magino was busy flattering Ke Lan, the hound on the other side tugged at Layton's sleeve and asked, "Skadi...do you know anyone with that name? Could it be Ke Lan?" Lan’s old friend, or his first love? Damn, this guy probably has a woman outside behind Miss Soma’s back, right?”

"I've never heard of a person with this name around Ke Lan... If it's really a lover, then he's doing a great job of keeping secrets... No, when Ke Lan was on the ark, he basically stayed with us. Together, how can you have time to pick up girls?" Layton scratched his head and said.

"Maybe it's a netizen..." The hound nodded, and glanced at Zofia Soma who was standing not far away from the corner of his eye.

"Don't guess, you two." At some point, Zelo had already walked behind the hound and Layton, "Skadi that Ke Lan talked about is actually a character in a game."

"What? A game character?" The hunting dog turned his head and found that the Sanwu girl had changed her look at this time - she was wearing a dark blue combat uniform, her long white hair was dragged to the ground, and a pair of red eyes were clear and transparent , although his face is still expressionless, but compared with the previous appearance, there is a trace of inexplicable cuteness.

Behind her was a giant sword that was almost as tall as her, and the blade of the giant sword was still stained with traces that seemed to be mucus.

"This is...Skadi?" The hound was taken aback, "Why did Ke Lan give the battleship this name?"

"Because the prototype of this game character is a killer whale!" Ze Luo replied immediately.

"Orca anthropomorphism? What kind of strange XP is this...I didn't expect Ke Lan to be so good at it?" Hound said with a chuckle.

"In that game, Skadi's enemies are octopus-like Cthulhu creatures lurking in the deep sea. From a certain point of view, the enemies she faces are very similar to us... and Skadi's An epee, once severely injured the most powerful of those monsters, I think Ke Lan chose this name because he hoped that this battleship could severely damage the monsters entrenched in the ark." Ze Luo said.

"I almost forgot that you are also a senior Internet addict..." The hound subconsciously stretched out his hand to pat Ze Luo's head, but stopped halfway, coughed twice, and said seriously, "How about a heavy injury?" Enough, facing the enemy, you must completely smash it!"

[PS donated his heart to Skadi! 】

(End of this chapter)