Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Chapter 93 At this time, the armor-breaking class is on its way.

An unexpected situation occurred in the hyperspace channel.

Naturally, Chen Ming could not continue to sit in the lounge and wait for death.

He stood up immediately and opened the door to the lounge.

There was a crew member waiting at the door of the lounge. When he saw Chen Ming coming out, he immediately said respectfully: "Mr. Chen."

Chen Ming didn't talk nonsense to him and said directly: "The fleet seems to be in some trouble. Please take me to the captain."

Unlike Chen Ming, the crew members were not able to receive military messages from a long distance, and some of them did not quite understand what Chen Ming meant.

However, he didn't say much and stretched out his hand in a gesture of invitation. Following the captain's previous request, he led Chen Ming towards the interior of the Cowherd class.

What surprised Chen Ming was that he was successfully led by the crew to the bridge command room, which should be said to be the most important location of the spacecraft.

Chen Ming hadn't noticed it just now, but when he finally arrived, he discovered that the bridge command room was not marked in red on the spacecraft map.

I don’t know if it was the captain’s special arrangement.

In short, as soon as Chen Ming entered the bridge command room, he saw a busy scene.

Next to a large number of control equipment in the command room, a large number of crew members are doing their best to complete their own control or operation tasks.

The Cowherd class is different from ordinary destroyers. It is not an ordinary firepower output warship, but a command warship equipped with a large amount of support equipment and a large number of fighters. It serves as the core of the battlefield.

These equipment and the manpower needed to support them create what the command room looks like.

Chen Ming did not interfere with them. He continued to lead the crew and approached the captain of the Cowherd class next to the central control panel.

Just when Chen Ming came over, the captain was contacting the space station through the communication equipment, requesting support.

Although the number of ships that the military has blocked the hyperspace channels in four directions may not seem to be many in the past, the total number of ships has exceeded one hundred.

Even a hundred frigates are not something that the company's fleet can handle, not to mention that the military has prepared a lot of destroyers.

Naturally, the space station responded immediately.

A support fleet will soon enter the hyperspace lanes.

After doing this, the captain noticed Chen Ming coming next to him and nodded and said: "Mr. Chen."

Chen Ming also nodded and said, "I just want to take a look."

"You can do whatever you want."

The captain returned his attention to the situation in front of him.

And a few minutes later, a communication channel was connected to him.

Chen Ming, who was quite close to the captain, could also hear the conversation on the communication channel.

"We are not threatening the space station, we are just conducting a mission to review passing spacecraft."

The voice of the secretary of the director also sounded from the communication channel: "The review of the spacecraft needs to be supported by relevant documents. Where are your documents?"

"Hold on."

The military directly sent a document to all the spacecraft.

It can be seen that the content is indeed a complete mission document.

Due to the recent increase in the number of afterglows, the military has increased the frequency of patrols and changed the patrol location to near the pirate space station where afterglow ships have appeared in large numbers.

According to the contents of the document, this document had been finalized in advance before the military arrived.

Even before the news about Chen Ming leaked.

Is it really an accident that the military blocked this place?

Chen Ming glanced at the military spacecraft that blocked all four hyperspace channels to other galaxies on the sensor, and immediately threw the idea behind him.

If this means that the military is not here to find him, then his name will be written backwards from now on.

Moreover, Chen Ming believed that people in the military would definitely be quite skilled at forging documents.

Chen Ming conveniently sent this document to his boss, whose communication had not been interrupted.

See what your boss thinks.

However, the boss seemed to be busy with something because of what Chen Ming said about the military's actions, and did not give him an immediate answer.

The military sent the document over and waited for a while before saying, "Has it been confirmed? There is no problem with our mission this time. You can ask normally, but don't interfere too much with our mission."

However, the secretary suddenly pointed out the problem of military documents: "But this document does not seem to be available on the military's public website."

"There is always a delay in uploading these things on the website. This is very common. You can check the content of this document on the website after about one to two weeks."

"If you don't believe it, you can contact me directly and ask yourself if this document actually exists."

What the military said was reasonable, and it sounded nominally fine.

But in fact, the biggest problem is that they set the location of the review in the galaxy where the pirate space station is located, and it is also the most rogue place for the military.

The military guards the hyperspace channel, and the way in and out of the pirate space station is completely blocked. Let alone pirates, others may choose to take a detour if they have to go through multiple military reviews before they can come.

Not to mention that the main flow of people to the pirate space station is a group of people with unclean identities. By doing this, the military will cut off the roots of the space station.

If other local militaries follow suit, the investments made by so many companies will be a joke.

And during this period of time, several spaceships appeared approaching in both channels.

But when they saw the situation in the galaxy's hyperspace, they all did not dare to get close, as if they were ready to run away at any time.

It is impossible to say that there is no impact on the space station.

The military really conducts reviews according to normal rules and will never go to this point.

Just when the atmosphere in the communication channel gradually turned cold.

Chen Ming suddenly heard the boss's voice in the headset: "Xiao Mu, I found a wanted document here, please take a look."

Chen Ming took out his terminal and saw the file sent by his boss.

The content of the document is a wanted information.

Chen Ming's wanted information.

The crimes include using dangerous creatures to cause large-scale public harm, as well as some minor crimes of resisting arrest and assaulting public officials.

It seemed that the military directly blamed Chen Ming for the destruction of the mining space station.

The bounty is 9000 million.

This wanted order was established just yesterday.

In other words, the military fleet is definitely heading for him.

Chen Ming took a few steps back, avoiding the captain, and whispered to the other end of the communication channel: "Is my bounty just this small?"

"Are you focusing on the wrong place?"

"The people involved in the military outpost have completely ignored their own face and position. They will kill you even if they come directly near the space station."

"And I've been listening to what you said just now. The army's documents are being processed so quickly. I feel that there are too many people and things involved here."

The boss paused for a moment and continued: "But yes, after all, it involves Sky Steel, I have to go check it out for you."

"it is good."

The boss said nothing else for the time being.

On Chen Ming's side, the captain was also in a dilemma of choice.

There are not many options left, either forcefully break through, go around, or turn back to the space station.

Or, just cooperate honestly.

Breaking through the military blockade is not a rational behavior at all.

And the method of bypassing it is even more nonsense.

If the fleet has discovered the whereabouts of the military before entering hyperspace, the fleet can choose to fly directly from space slowly, fly past the position blocked by the military, and then enter the hyperspace channel.

Or you can avoid the location of the channel and go to non-channel areas in hyperspace, places where hyperspace channel clouds are densely covered.

But doing so requires withstanding the devastation of a large amount of hyperspace lightning in the clouds. Without large warships to open the way ahead, it is absolutely impossible to survive with just expulsion and escort.

What's more, the military fleet has now seen the Sinda Company's fleet. They are not fools and cannot let go of the Sinda Company's fleet.

Even if the fleet wanted to turn around and return to the space station now, I'm afraid it wouldn't be possible.
This is because military ships are definitely equipped with pulse-blocking equipment that can restrict ships from entering and exiting hyperspace channels at will.

It may even be because of the reinforcements from the space station that the military fleet guarding the hyperspace channel suddenly surrounded them.

The total number of military fleets guarding the four directions was over a hundred, with about half of the number assigned to each direction.

A total of fifty warships approached.

Half expulsion, half escort.

Expulsions are basically models called Enforcers, while Guards are mostly Centurions and Expeditions.

It is impossible for the fleet to take the initiative to attack military ships, but fortunately, with the protection of the space station's additional ships, the rear of the fleet will not be blocked.

The military no longer gave any face at this time.

The second notification message was sent directly.

The fleet is required to publish the list of spacecraft members, suspend signal blocking of the spacecraft, and allow the military to conduct deep scans of all spacecraft in the fleet.

You cannot take the initiative to attack, and there is no way to escape directly.

In this situation, there is only one thing the captain can do.

Accepted for review.

The captain suddenly turned away from the console and opened a closed door behind the bridge.

The room behind that door, if Chen Ming remembered correctly, seemed to be red on the spaceship map.

The captain walked in first and said to Chen Ming: "Mr. Chen, please come here."

Chen Ming did not feel any danger from behind the door, and he also wanted to know what the captain was going to do, so he did not resist.

Following the captain, he entered this bright small room with walls made of special materials and some cargo boxes stacked in the corner.

"Mr. Chen, this is the shielded cabin of our spacecraft, which can shield the scanning signal."

Chen Ming waved his hand and said, "I know this, you want me to stay here temporarily, right?"

Chen Ming heard from his colleagues when he was working at the mining space station that some cargo ships would have similar modifications.

Originally, these materials were used for some operating spacecraft that often need to be close to stars to make materials for the outer star protective layer of the spacecraft.

Later, someone discovered that this material could interfere with scanning signals to a certain extent.

So this material became the best cover for some caravans to carry out smuggling activities.

I just didn’t expect that even Xinda Company had such a design.The captain next to him looked apologetic after Chen Ming spoke.

Chen Ming didn't embarrass him too much.

He walked straight to a few cargo boxes in the corner and sat down on them.

After all, rationally speaking, the captain's current approach is the best approach when facing the military.

If Chen Ming were placed in the captain's position, he would do the same thing.

"Better hurry up."

The captain left the shielded cabin with a grateful face.

Before the cabin door was completely closed, Chen Ming explained the current situation to his boss.

After I get out, ask the boss what he thinks.

And after ensuring that the door to the shielded cabin is closed.

The captain released the signal blocking of the spacecraft and let the military spacecraft start scanning the fleet.

At the same time, we are also prepared to launch a direct attack on the military when the shielded cabin fails.

The security scan went off without a hitch.

The contact with the military had not been interrupted at this time. The military person just now suddenly said to the captain: "What's going on with your two ships without people?"

The captain had already obtained a confession of collusion before and said: "That was when we were testing the newly developed remote control system."

"is it?"

The military side left two words and didn't say much.

The scan was completed soon, but the military fleet still needed time to verify the scanned data.

The captain turned the signal blocking back on and reopened the door to the shielded cabin.

After Chen Ming heard the door behind him open, he moved his eyes away from the cargo box in front of him, contacted his boss again, and then left the shielded cabin.

Returned to the bridge control center and returned to the captain's side.

When he came over, Chen Ming happened to hear something said by the military on the communication channel.

"We now have reason to suspect that your two ships are stolen spaceships. Please cooperate with us to keep the spaceships and board them for inspection."

There is no need to confirm now. You can be 100% sure that the military is here to trouble Chen Ming.

At the same time, Chen Ming also heard the boss's warning: "Xiao Mu, I found some strange news. There seems to be a problem within the military."

"Some people at the military outpost seem to want to start a rebellion. They won't tell you any rules. You must be prepared for a head-on battle."

"I feel like there's a big problem with this, and some people who shouldn't be involved are involved."

"Xiao Mu, you think of a way to hold on, I'll help you think of a way."

Because of this somewhat outrageous news, Chen Ming couldn't help but said: "Wait a minute...rebellion?"

These last two words immediately attracted the captain's puzzled gaze.

And at the moment when the captain turned his head, Chen Ming suddenly saw several military spacecrafts outside the bridge windows and suddenly opened their shields.

He took the lead in activating weapons and launched an attack on the fleet.

Several laser beams from energy weapons directly hit Chen Ming's Iron Mine.

Chen Ming immediately activated the Iron Ore's shield. The attack of scattered energy weapons in less than a second did not cause too much damage to the dolomite armor.

However, Chen Ming immediately asked the Iron Ore and the Fighter Kai who were with the Iron Ore to hide behind the other ships in the fleet.

And immediately pressed the headset and said unabashedly: "Boss, the military directly launched an attack on us."

At the same time that Chen Ming was speaking, the captain also shouted in the fleet's communication channel: "Prepare for combat!"

"I see."

As soon as the boss finished speaking, he suddenly said very irritably: "Damn, someone is disgusting me."

In Chen Ming's impression, it seemed like this was the first time the boss had spoken dirty words.

But Chen Ming didn't have time to figure out what made his boss so disgusted that he could say this.

He must now cooperate with other ships in the fleet to carry out subsequent operations.

The military was the first to take action, and it was recorded by the sensors of so many spacecrafts at the scene, so it was impossible for the company to be beaten for no reason.

Anyway, with the record in hand, even if there is a confrontation with the military in the future, the responsibility cannot be left on the company.

After the captain's order was issued, the fleet immediately entered a wartime state.

The protective layer of the porthole opened, and the image scanned by the sensor appeared on the large screen next to the interior.

At the same time, there are also projectors that project the battlefield situation around the fleet to the center of the bridge control center.

The fleet began to shrink its front, relying on the space station patrol's spacecraft cover to quickly distance itself from the military fleet.

Although there is support from the space station, there are more than 60 ships than 100. The company's fleet is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of the number of ships.

The only good news is that it will take some time for the military fleet that has blocked the other hyperspace channel to approach from the channel entrance.

At the same time, there is still some support coming from the space station.

If this military fleet can be defeated, then things will turn around and everything will have a chance.

After the military launched the attack, the cattle driver, as the flagship of the fleet, immediately launched a counterattack against the military.

The missile bays throughout the ship were opened, and a large number of Annihilator missiles were launched directly towards the most densely populated areas of the military fleet.

This is a missile without any advanced guidance lock function.

Some are just large enough to cover the firepower, and the actual power after the explosion.

On a battlefield where small-scale ships are dispersed and flexible, it can only be said to be average, but in battles of medium or larger scale, this kind of annihilator is very easy to use.

While causing pressure on the opposite side, it can also attract the firepower of a large part of the military ships' point defense weapons.

It is a very good suppression type missile weapon.

While Annihilator missiles were being launched in large numbers, the fighters on the Cowherd flight deck were also activated.

The Cowherd is equipped with two different types of fighter aircraft, the Warthog type fighter wing and the Longbow type fighter wing.

The Warthog wing carries two short-range grenade weapons and a complete set of thermal decoy launchers.

The range explosion when the grenade weapon detonates and the effect of the thermal decoy bomb itself make this fighter aircraft have a strong restraint effect on missile-type weapons.

The two weapons carried by another Longbow fighter are somewhat different from the Warthog. A prompt PD laser cannon is also a point defense type weapon.

The other one is a cyber SRM missile that is also equipped on Chen Ming's fighter class and has a strong effect on shields.

These two types of fighters have very strong cover and support capabilities.

After being activated, it followed other spacecraft in the fleet and launched an attack on the military fleet.

The military may not have wanted to take the initiative to open fire at first, but something happened and Sindar's fleet also began to take action, and the military could not bother to explain anything.

While Sindar Company's fleet was making moves, they also chose to open the battle line.

Relying on the unique and powerful firepower of military ships, a dense firepower network was built directly in space, covering almost the entire company fleet.

In an instant, countless flames erupted in the center of both sides' battle lines.

Concentrated beams of live ammunition and energy weapons flashed on the shields of ships on both sides.

The design of military ships makes their shields unable to withstand the threat of a large number of shield-breaking weapons from the company.

The shield of the military fleet at the forefront of the battle line was instantly in danger.

But they seemed to be controlled by a nimble hand. All the ships that could not withstand the company's firepower quickly exchanged positions in the battle line with the ships in the rear that did not receive more attacks.

Bear the harm for each other in complex and intertwined battle fronts.

The main capabilities of Sindar's fleet are focused on escorting and breaking shields.

The military's spacecraft can indeed be suppressed in a short period of time, making their weapons unable to fire because the shield radiation energy is about to be overloaded.

But the actual destruction efficiency of the spacecraft is the same as that of the few ships Chen Ming has on hand.

When there is no way to terminate the military spacecraft, and the military still has an excellent commander.

The speed of breaking through shields and penetrating armor cannot keep up with the speed of the military's dispatch and rotation of ships.

Military ships have more recovery time than corporate ships.

They are also expelled guards, and the number in a short period of time is even less than that of the company.

But the actual combat effectiveness of the military's spacecraft is stronger than that of the company's fleet.

As the battle progressed and more military ships joined the battle, this feeling became even more obvious.

Even the space station is sending spacecraft into the hyperspace channel for rescue.

After several rounds of firefights.

The company's fleet was directly surrounded by the military's fleet.

Although the overall number of warships on both sides is similar, less than a hundred versus just over a hundred.

But the company has fallen into a clear disadvantage.

A large number of ships were damaged and their combat capabilities were lost.

Cowherd-class fighters are also unable to produce sufficient effects because of the military's unique, flexible and professional tactical adjustment and dispatch capabilities.

It will either be damaged and return home, or it will be directly destroyed in space.

Chen Ming's Centurion was like a drop of water in the sea in the battle of hundreds of spaceships, without the slightest sense of existence.

He even felt that even if the fighter came to this battlefield, it would not play a decisive role at all.

The situation can be said to be one-sided towards the military.

It was too late for Chen Ming to leave the cattle driver.

Even if they left, there was no chance of escaping from the military siege.

If the company's fleet is defeated here, then Chen Ming will have no future.

So in the current situation, there isn't much he can do.

The fastest and most effective one is to control the Cowherd class ship he is on.

Relying on his psychic powers and his panels, he can do things that are absolutely impossible to do under normal circumstances.

(End of this chapter)