Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 61 Battles and Opportunities

After the Afterglow Fleet was quiet for a moment, the tails of all the ships suddenly burst out with dazzling blue light.

With the support of the fleet, this sudden burst of light can almost be compared to the stars in the galaxy.

Everyone thought Yu Hui was going to do something big.

But at the next moment, Yuhui's fleet began to accelerate normally and flew towards the space station.

The blue light just now seemed to be just an LED light flashing.

However, at this time, almost no one bothered about why Yuhui didn't take action immediately, but flashed the light before taking action.

Everyone's attention was focused on the approaching Afterglow Fleet.

Chen Ming also became energetic as Yuhui moved.

He must focus and devote all his attention to the dangerous behavior he actively chooses.

After all, where is the zero-risk and high-yield thing in this world? Even panel repair of weapons and equipment requires consuming his mental energy.

If he didn't do something risky but highly profitable, such as wandering outside the war zone to look for opportunities, then he might as well go back to Ruimu to farm.

As the afterglow fleet gradually approaches.

The space station's surroundings suddenly began to glow with an almost dark blue glow.

A blue translucent spherical barrier gradually unfolded around the space station, protecting the space station.

This is the second thing Chen Ming wants to obtain besides the hyperspace channel system, the shield generator.

Once it has it, Chen Ming's ships will be in a one-sided crushing situation when fighting non-military ships.

However, this thing is not like the hyperspace channel system that has become popular. In most cases, it is a controlled product.

Only large companies like Sinda can have the rights to use and develop shields through various relationships.

And it also has the ability to protect the entire space station within the shield.

Just as the space station's shield deployed.

The fleet that was still staying near the space station suddenly began to move away from the protection range of the space station's shield and hid behind the space station.

They did not take the initiative to go out, but hid behind the shield, waiting for a better opportunity to engage.

After all, the biggest advantage of the space station is the space station.

Their battle naturally requires cooperation with the space station.

It was not the right thing to rush out and fight Yu Hui's fleet.

And now it is Afterglow that attacks the space station, not the space station that needs to attack Afterglow.

As long as Yuhui's offensive can be delayed, the supporting military fleet will arrive sooner or later.

Yuhui also knew that the offensive pressure was on their heads, and without any hesitation, he rushed straight towards the space station.

At the moment when both sides are within range of each other.

The tachyon spears on the three large load-bearing points of the Afterglow Cruiser lit up with a disturbing blue light at the same time.

Immediately afterwards, three torrents of high-energy azure particles that lasted for three seconds spanned a quarter of the galaxy and bombarded the space station's fully deployed shield.

The vibrating particle ripples are transmitted on the shield sphere, making the entire shield look shaky, but it is indestructible.

After the three particle torrents stopped, the space station suddenly lit up with the same bright light, but the flashing light on the space station was deep purple.

Two torrents of deep purple agitated particles staggered out and passed directly through the shield protecting the space station.

They did not attack the Afterglow cruiser, which was also protected by the shield. Instead, they each selected a destroyer as a target.

The torrent of particles instantly overloads the hit destroyer's shields.

Amidst the violent arcs of electricity that erupted all over the ship's body, the afterglow of the two ships disappeared in an instant like fireworks.

The space station is also equipped with large weapons such as tachyon spears, and there are more than one.

Chen Ming could now see that several large live ammunition weapons were aimed at Yu Hui's cruiser.

Although live ammunition weapons do have irreparable weaknesses in space combat.

But live-fire weapons still have a place in space naval warfare, and they continue to develop.

The reason is that the destructive effect of live ammunition on the shield restraint position is far beyond what energy weapons can match.

Therefore, live ammunition weapons have developed several live ammunition weapons with different tendencies many years ago before Chen Ming's impression.

On the space station, Chen Ming saw a total of two large live ammunition weapons.

Storm Stinger and Gauss Cannon.

The former launches a huge number of high-speed magnetic needles, causing continuous high-frequency strikes to multiple points of the shield, which can quickly overload the shield.

At the same time, the terrifying rate of fire can also make up for the low hit rate of live ammunition weapons in space.

And although they are called needles, each needle fired by Storm Acupuncture is probably as thick as Chen Ming's arm.

This is still a weapon from 30 years ago. It is unclear what kind of development and improvements this weapon has undergone now.

But there is no mistaking the fact that today's Storm Sting is more lethal than it was 30 years ago.

The Gauss Cannon and the Storm Needle are almost two extremes. It fires large-volume, high-quality solid projectiles made of super-heavy element metal.

Through the continuously superimposed magnetic coils, it is accelerated to an extremely high level in the simplest and crudest way.

As long as it can hit, it will have destructive power that is not on the same level as most weapons, and can even directly break some low-efficiency shields instead of overloading the shields.

If it weren't for the existence of a special phenomenon named the mass void effect.

As a result, when any object accelerates to the speed of light, its mass will be inexplicably lost, so that although there is an entity in observation, contact in the physical sense is impossible.

The power of the Gauss cannon can be even more powerful.

In fact, this effect is also the prerequisite for the human empire's civilian spacecraft to reach the speed of light, but now it limits the power of the weapon.

In short, there are a total of four large live ammunition weapons on the space station, all of which are locked on Yuhui's cruiser.

The Afterglow cruiser immediately took evasive action.

But the spherical shield that completely protects the Afterglow Cruiser may not be able to be avoided.

I saw that the shield of the Afterglow cruiser was hit by countless needles, and there were more violent fluctuations than the space station was hit by the tachyon spear just now.

It's a pity that the cruiser's maneuverability immediately increased a lot as its straight-line flight speed decreased.

The more powerful Gauss cannon only hit once, denting the spherical shield.

But it's a pity that there is no follow-up other than this.

Afterglow's cruiser is wandering at the extreme range of both sides, and the fixed space station's weapons are not that easy to hit it.

It is certainly impossible to tell a result in a short period of time.

So the burden of determining subsequent development immediately fell on other ships.The main force has begun to fight, and Yuhui's small ships are gradually approaching. Naturally, the space station's fleet cannot continue to hide behind the space station's shield.

They bypassed the fire coverage on the front of the space station and rushed towards the Afterglow Fleet, which also avoided the cruiser attack area.

The massive battle is just beginning now.

It was at this time that Chen Ming knew that his opportunity was coming soon.

When small ships start fighting, there will definitely be a lot of damage and chaos. This situation is the best environment for Chen Ming to fish in troubled waters.

If it is possible to drag a Yuhui ship back, then Chen Ming's new spaceship will definitely be found.

However, Chen Ming also knows the danger involved. Once the Afterglow Cruiser becomes the same as the space station, he chooses to attack the small spacecraft.

The Iron Mine had almost no ability to escape.

So even though there were already other ships coming out of the space station and staying nearby, they couldn't help but move closer to the battlefield.

But Chen Ming still lingered at his original position, observing the battlefield conditions that the sensors kept returning, looking for suitable opportunities.

Chen Ming is not roasting his life on the fire like other spacecraft pilots. He is now underground in the safest space station management building in the entire space station.

Such a safe environment is enough for him to analyze and think calmly and find the most advantageous opportunity.

Soon the space station and Yuhui's destroyers and frigates were close enough to engage in combat.

Frequently flashing arcs of energy beams and electromagnetic weapons erupted near the center of the exchange between the space station and the cruiser.

Almost as soon as the two sides met, the shields of a dozen spacecraft were overloaded and directly destroyed by firepower from other ships.

And more ships began to pass each other due to their speed.

The battle line that was supposed to be maintained suddenly became chaotic.

Chen Ming immediately realized something was wrong
A normal spaceship battle should involve both sides attacking each other at the limits of their respective ranges, relying on constant fire suppression to knock down the shields, and then destroying the enemy with a wave of pressure.

But now, the battle lines are becoming more and more intertwined.

Moreover, Chen Ming had just seen clearly that the ships of the space station had obvious deceleration and direction changes when they were about to approach the limit of their range, in order to prevent them from rushing directly into the afterglow's battle line.

However, Yuhui's ship showed no sign of slowing down, and instead rushed into the space station under fierce firepower.

There were even several Afterglow ships whose shields were directly overloaded due to violent collisions, and perished with the ships of the space station with strong kinetic energy.

Although this almost suicidal attack caused Yu Hui's ships to suffer far more losses than the space station in the first wave of firefights, it did succeed in tearing the battle line apart.

Several afterglow ships that were not entangled by the space station ships all headed towards the space station.

They want to directly raid the space station and cause interference to the space station so that their main force, the Afterglow cruiser, can gain the upper hand in a head-on battle.

But just before these few afterglow ships that had crossed the battle line approached the space station.

The space station's weapons have finished cooling down.

Tachyon spears that can hit accurately are already aimed at them.

The most troublesome Afterglow destroyers were cleared out almost instantly.

Other frigates can rely on other small or medium weapons on the space station to clean up.

Although Yu Hui's death charge failed to cause any damage to the space station, he suffered heavy losses as a result.

But the purpose of Afterglow has been achieved.

The space station used the tachyon spear on the destroyer, and Yuhui's cruiser hit all three tachyon spears on the space station shield.

After the three particle torrents that lasted for three seconds ended, the space station's shield had already experienced strong fluctuations that were difficult to suppress and could be overloaded at any time.

Because of this, the space station suddenly closed the shield directly.

Other energy weapons equipped on the Afterglow cruiser immediately moved, and a persistent laser weapon was aimed at the two tachyon lances of the space station.

However, before the Afterglow Cruiser had time to fire, small directional shields suddenly opened on all the weapon carrying points on the space station.

These shields are not connected to the station's main shields so they continue to operate.

Even if the Afterglow Cruiser's persistent laser hits, it cannot destroy the space station's weapons.

So it immediately changed the direction of its firepower, and the laser swept across the space station's 7, 5, 3 and 1 space arms.

A red scratch was instantly left on the outside of the space arm.

Those are traces of melted steel.

And the laser finally stopped in the middle of Space Arm No. 1.

In less than ten seconds, as countless streams of incandescent iron flowed away, half of Space Arm No. 1 was directly disconnected from the space station itself.

It was only then that the space station's shield was opened again, all the ripples on the shield disappeared, and it stabilized again.

Chen Ming looked at the half of the space arm floating in space, and was extremely glad that he had let the Iron Ore out.

Otherwise, the Iron Mine, which was almost parked in the middle of the dock, would now be called the Iron Water.

Just when Chen Ming was a little scared, he suddenly discovered the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time.

An afterglow destroyer ship separated from the main force.

This Afterglow destroyer is a member of the fleet that has just passed through the space station fleet and wants to attack the space station directly.

It was not directly hit by the tachyon spear just now, but was grazed by the end of the laser beam.

Although the spacecraft was not directly destroyed, the strong EMP impact caused by the passage of a large number of high-energy particles had caused its engine to completely fail.

Only the steering auxiliary engine on the port side of the spacecraft was still working, so that it could only spin helplessly in space, constantly flying farther away from the battlefield.

Naturally, the space station would not waste firepower on it, and neither would the warships in the center of the battlefield.

Therefore, this ship has become Chen Ming's best target now.

But the Iron Ore was not the only ship to notice the destroyer and refrain from engaging Afterglow.

Five other ships coming out of the space station also stared at it.

Everyone has a clear purpose.

Get the ship before others, and repel or even destroy the ship that is ahead of you.

This was one of the possible risks that Chen Ming knew from the beginning.

Conflict with other people is almost inevitable.

Chen Ming did not hesitate at this time and controlled the Iron Ore to fly directly towards the spinning Afterglow destroyer.

Chen Ming had previously survived three pirate ships that were determined to kill him, and buried them in a dark cemetery.

Now if someone wants to compete with him for food, Chen Ming doesn't mind sinking a few more ships.

(End of this chapter)