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Chapter 331: Light Spot Attack! The “Little Doctor” Who Destroys Lives!

Chapter 331: Light Spot Attack! The “Little Doctor” Who Destroys Lives!
After Confinement’s hardcore and forced mediation, the internal communications of the Bounty Hunter Fleet Corps instantly quieted down a lot.

In the circle of interstellar pirates, most of the Transformers know the reputation of the ruthless character Lockup.

Of course, there were also some fearless idiots who actually brought people to the flagship headquarters and challenged the authority of confinement.

The fate that awaited them was, of course, a severe beating, followed by the cutting off of their heads and hanging them outside the flagship as a warning to other legion members.

At this moment, Confinement, who had just killed a few challengers, looked up at the faint light in the distance, which was the light emitted by the stars in the solar system.

This means that they are getting closer and closer to the solar system, but the feeling of confinement is a bit inexplicably irritating. “I can’t accomplish anything by staying with these useless people.”

“If this deal doesn’t work out, I’ll have to run away as soon as possible, or I’ll get myself into trouble!”

Qinshuai always had a bad feeling in his heart, but he couldn’t tell what was wrong. After thinking about it, he sat back in the captain’s room.

Then, Confinement turned on the reconnaissance system to check the situation around the fleet.

Since they are currently sailing in the deep space of the universe and in the desolate outer area of ​​the solar system, with no stars to provide light, they can only see a pitch-black environment.

On the entire holographic screen, only the engine lights of other fleet ships could be seen.

“We are still some distance away from the solar system, so our traces may not have been discovered yet.”

Confinement began to ponder and plan the next action for the Legion. “First sneak into the solar system, approach the earth, then land and fight to retrieve Quentinsha’s scepter.”

This was the first task that Quentinsha assigned to Solitary Confinement, but it is still difficult to carry it out specifically. After all, it does not know what the current level of human technology is.

“After entering the solar system, I will let those useless guys go to Earth to attract firepower. I will act alone to retrieve the scepter. Once I get the scepter, I will retreat immediately!”

After deciding on the next action plan, Jingmei sneered sinisterly.

It has no feelings for other bounty hunters. Although it is the commander of this group of idiots, Lockup does not take the lives of these Transformers seriously at all.

Let these stupid guys be cannon fodder first, attract a wave of human firepower, so that it will be easier for me to sneak in and take away the scepter.

By then, the survival of the bounty hunter corps and what Quentinsha wants to do will be none of its business. As long as it gets the reward, everything will be fine!
However, just when Liuyi thought that everything was developing as he had imagined.

Little did they know that the traces of this pirate fleet had been captured by the AI ​​detectors deployed by the giant company in the outer solar system.

[Reporting to headquarters, our AI scouts have found them! ]

As soon as the AI ​​detector of the giant company’s intelligence department captured the bounty hunter army, the rear headquarters immediately held a mobilization meeting against the aggressive enemy.

At this moment, on the flagship of the Mantle, David was holding a high-level meeting in a solemn and serious atmosphere.

“Everyone!”

David stood upright in front of a holographic screen with his hands behind his back, looking solemn.

Fleet commanders and senior generals from various departments appeared on the screen. They were discussing strategies and offensive decisions against the bounty hunter corps.

“The boss has issued a transfer order, willing to give us the untested superluminal suppressor, but this time you have to make an effective attack and force Quentinsha out of her position!”

From the fact that Leon was willing to transfer the superluminal suppressor device to the Development Department, it could be seen that his boss was determined to win this battle.

David did not want to disappoint Leon’s trust and expectations, so he specially equipped the advance troops that were about to attack with the best soldiers and equipment.

They must win this battle, and win cleanly and decisively. It would be best if the outcome is decided in one battle!

“In addition, during this raid, we will also test the effectiveness of the superluminal suppressor for our colleagues in the Research Department, and provide a detailed usage report to the Research Department after the battle.”

Since the 1.0 version of the FTL Inhibitor has not undergone the final testing phase, David has no idea how effective it can be.

And this information can only be roughly understood after it is used on the battlefield.

In addition, this attack is also an actual tactical coordination among the elite legions of various giant companies in the world!
The legions participating in this combat operation include the Covenant from the Halo universe – elite warriors, the Prometheus Chapter of the Didact, and senior navigators from the Dune universe.

Elite warriors and Astartes warriors of the Universal Corporation are of the same height, and when equipped with exclusive power armor, their strength is not much worse than that of Astartes warriors.

Of course, this is limited to transformation surgeries. A medium-level Astartes warrior who has only undergone seven or eight transformation surgeries may have undergone more than ten transformation surgeries, or even completed the entire transformation process and been promoted to an Astartes of the Primal Cast.

That’s incomparable.

In short, every time a cosmic giant conquers a universe, it will readjust its own tactics and continuously optimize and improve its own combat effectiveness through the combat characteristics of each legion.

This joint operation is a good opportunity to test it out!
“According to the information collected by the Intelligence Department, these space pirates are very good at boarding battles, so you must make use of the advantages of long-range weapons as much as possible to consume the enemy’s manpower.”

“After the enemy is almost completely destroyed by the light spear attacks, we will launch another charge to harvest them. However, the specific tactical execution still needs to be decided based on the battle situation.”

“Finally, I wish you all a successful start!”

Opportunities for battle are fleeting, and this battle has been discussed countless times within the top leadership before, so David didn’t say much.

“Now, everyone start the space jump!”

Following David Martinez’s order, the flagship quickly transmitted the jump command to various warships through intelligent AI.

Thousands of warships in neat formation fired out a ball of dark blue light beam at the same time, and the space-time of the universe was suddenly distorted into a huge vortex with flashing arcs of electricity.

Swish-!
With the afterimages of thousands of warships passing by, this advance team, which gathered the elite legions of various giant companies in the world, crossed several light years in an instant and arrived at the designated star field.

At the same time, the light emanating from the jump channel immediately aroused the vigilance of the bounty hunter corps.

【Enemy detected! 】

[All units immediately activate the shipborne weapon systems and aim forward. Move quickly. If you are a little slow, you will be hit by artillery shells! ]

【Synchronize data information to the flagship headquarters. 】

【…】

Each warship of the Bounty Hunter Corps has different combat qualities, so it is impossible to obtain sufficient and complete intelligence information relying solely on the front-end reconnaissance ships.

In addition, they were marching at full speed and had no advance team to explore the way, so when faced with humans in the solar system, they suddenly launched a surprise attack.

These bounty hunters were really in a panic for a while, and they could only let the warships of each unit turn on their shipborne detection systems and scan the target location.

Finally, the information data is sent to the flagship headquarters, and after information processing, the final intelligence is obtained.

But this reaction process is too long and slow.

If it were a naval fleet of a global giant company dealing with this situation, they would definitely try their best to attack the enemy halfway across the river.

Instead of collecting intelligence slowly like we do now.

While the various units of the bounty hunter corps were busy collecting data and hastily adjusting the shipborne weapon systems, the advance corps led by David had completely left the jump channel.

At this moment, the advance fleet of the Universal Corporation officially appeared within the visual range of the bounty hunters.

But their flagship headquarters has not completed data collection until now.

[What kind of intelligence are you collecting? I can see the fleet with just a glance. Hurry up and prepare to forcefully approach. Jump on them first!]

In the fleet’s internal communication channel, an angry Transformer captain shouted curses.

Their legion has tens of thousands of warships, which is much more in number than the advance legion of the Universal Corporation!
At this moment, Confinement narrowed its eyes slightly, and after infinitely magnifying the focus of the camera in its eyes, it could clearly see the outer coating of the fleet.

When he saw human words on the coating, Confinement immediately loudly conveyed the message through the full broadcast channel:
“That’s a human fleet. All bounty hunters, get ready for battle. Speed ​​up and approach the enemy immediately. Capture these little fat sheep for me!”

At this moment, Jingku was overjoyed. It wished that the human fleet would take the initiative to attack so that it could swallow them all in one go.

It would save me from having to travel such a long distance. If humans were to take advantage of the situation and insist on launching a defensive counterattack, then confinement would be a real headache.

But now, since the other party has come to your door on its own initiative, don’t blame it for being cruel and ruthless!

Just when Confinement gave the order to attack, some bounty hunters were extremely timid and were reluctant to turn on full engine power and move forward.

Because in their view, although the various warships of the Universal Corporation have their own characteristics, the overall style is quite consistent. It can be seen at a glance that they are a well-trained elite team.

In other words, it’s just like a bandit who has become a bandit seeing the regular army of the government. It’s impossible for him not to be scared.

In addition, the warships of the Universal Corporation are arranged in a very methodical manner. Before they know the enemy’s strength clearly, some cunning bounty hunters are certainly unwilling to be the first to take action.

Just like that, as soon as the attack order was issued by Confinement, the formation of the bounty hunter corps began to completely disperse and become crooked!
Part of the fleet rushed forward fearlessly, while part of the fleet pretended not to hear the order and continued to move forward at the original speed.

The rest simply stopped where they were and spontaneously became “supervisors”.

Seeing this scene, Jinmei was so angry that he swore. Such a simple marching order was actually completed in a piecemeal manner by these losers.

How can we fight this battle?! For a moment, Jingmei wanted to abandon these rubbish and run away.

But after thinking about it, it had to get out some key information no matter what. It couldn’t just be cowardly before the battle and abandon its army and run away.

Anyway, they obeyed the orders and launched the charge with five or six thousand warships, while the humans on the opposite side only had a thousand ships.

Comparing in numbers, their bounty hunter corps has the advantage!
“Which warship is anchored at the end? I will report to Quentinsha that it is not fighting well. By then, don’t even think about rewards. You can just wait to be cut into pieces!”

After sending this warning through the radio channel, Lockdown stopped talking, put down the intercom, and turned its attention back to the fleet of the Universal Corporation.

Looking at the fleet in front of him approaching him slowly like a piece of iron, Jingmei suddenly had a bad premonition.

“Wait…what is that!?”

At this time, Jinmei saw an imperceptible light in the distance, rapidly moving towards him.

In other words, the confinement has no shortage of money, and all the mechanical devices in its body are equipped with top-notch equipment, so the focal length of its eyes can be improved to an unimaginable level.

In the pitch-black depths of space, the only light that could be seen was the flames from the engines of both fleets.

But in the camp of the world’s giant companies, Shutdown clearly saw a “spot of light”!
“Such a faint light spot, it seems to be only the diameter of an ordinary artillery shell, but its flying speed is incredibly fast. Is this thing a human ship-borne weapon?!”

Jinbi suddenly felt like laughing. After leaving the jump channel, the fleet of the Universal Corporation simply adjusted its downward position and then emitted a group of faint light spots.

These light spots are less than half a meter long and are moving very fast, but even in this dark space battlefield, they are still too dim to be noticed.

As the light spot got closer, Jingui suddenly had an ominous premonition because the light spot in front of him was flying a little too fast.

It may have reached close to the speed of light!
“See those light spots? They could be missiles launched by humans, or they could be probes or something. But no matter what they are, we must intercept them!”

Confinement switched to the radio channel and ordered the front-line combat members to open fire. It didn’t know what that light spot was, but it didn’t dare to bet on how powerful it was.

This war has just begun. According to the bounty hunter corps’ previous combat practices, they will definitely launch a charge first and force their way towards the enemy.

Then board the ship and kill all the enemy crew members.

Although they are interstellar pirates, the quality of their equipment and warships are basically all top-notch products.

It has everything, such as star-destroying main guns and energy shields, and most of these things come from the Creator civilization.

Through repeated battles with the Creator Civilization and trade with Quentinsha, they gradually became the most powerful plundering force in the universe.

This time, facing the human fleet, the bounty hunters who charged forward did not take the giant corporation seriously at all.

They still thought that this battle was just an ordinary massacre.

[Received! Boys, aim at the target and fire! ]

[Fire!]

The fleet’s internal communication channels became extremely noisy and chaotic after various languages ​​were automatically translated and calibrated. Fortunately, these Transformers had extremely strong computing power and could distinguish instructions clearly in an instant.

boom–! !

In the dark and empty sky, silent gunfire broke out at that moment.

At Confinement’s command, the bounty hunter fleet fired the first round of artillery attacks together, and one of the fastest particle beams hit the target first.

This was followed by various types of nuclear bombs, as well as a number of electromagnetic cannons, laser cannons and other attacks, but most of the bombardments were in vain.

Because the speed of these light particles is so fast and they are only half a meter in size.

Hitting these targets is as difficult as sniping a grain of rice from a distance of 10,000 meters.

Whether you can hit it or not depends entirely on luck!
Fortunately, the bounty hunter corps had good luck. The first beam of light they fired hit one of the light spots.

Immediately afterwards, a violent explosion occurred in space. The strong light and electromagnetic waves produced by the collision of the two energies also caused some interference to the bounty hunters’ visual observations.

They temporarily lost their sight of observing the target, but everyone was extremely certain that the previous wave of concentrated fire must have shot down most of the light spots.

After all, the bounty hunter corps’ artillery fire can cause hundreds of millions of high-energy strikes at a time.

When these energies are arranged, they are enough to create a “life vacuum” zone of tens of millions of kilometers. Any target that enters this bombardment area will be reduced to ashes!

[Lock on the enemy fleet and move the ship closer! ]

While the weapon systems of the warships were being reloaded, Confinement decided to continue approaching and complete the boarding operation as soon as possible.

But at this moment, it was shocked to find that the light spots just now did not disappear. The strong light produced by the explosion of those light spots once again approached the bounty hunter corps’ fleet!
“What the hell is this?!”

The locked eye sensors suddenly shrank, and it was not until the light spots approached here that it felt firsthand how fast this little thing was.

In fact, this so-called “light spot” is actually the MD 500 from “Ender’s Game”, nicknamed “Little Doctor”.

This thing accelerates particle flow through pipes, destroying molecular structure at a microscopic level and causing annihilation-level damage to surrounding matter.

After the improvement of the [Einstein Equator] pipeline, the flying speed and destructive power of the “Little Doctor” have also doubled!
The current MD·500 is more like the “light particles” of the Singer civilization in “The Three-Body Problem”. It is light and convenient, but the power it displays is extremely terrifying.

This is the first time that a global giant has officially put the MD-500 into large-scale use as a shipborne weapon on a warship.

However, the weapon’s destructive power is too great, and the giant company was afraid that it might backfire on itself, so it only launched 10 missiles this time.

Strictly speaking, the “Little Doctor” MD·500 is actually a regular-level weapon. It is somewhat similar to the [Einstein Equator] and can change the tiny material structure at the microscopic level.

On the cosmic battlefield, using the little doctor who can disintegrate molecular structures is like planting a mushroom of destruction in “Plants vs. Zombies”.

After the Destruction Mushroom explodes, it will leave a deep pit in its place, and other plants cannot be planted for the time being.

After hitting the target and disintegrating the opponent’s matter, the “Little Doctor” will also leave a collapsed and distorted “hole” within the star field.

It is impossible to travel normally in this hollow area. Once you step in rashly, you will most likely be affected by the remaining decomposed molecules and be annihilated!

However, as the universe repairs itself, these distorted spaces will gradually be smoothed out.

Compared to the [Einstein’s Equator] that can destroy the world with one click, these “little doctors” are much gentler.

The bounty hunter corps had pretty good luck just now, as they hit a spot of light right at the start.

But the nine light spots behind it could not be hit again. After all, they were not so lucky all the time.

[A speed of 20 billion meters per second, this is almost the speed of light, what the hell is this thing! ]

The observers from various bounty hunter departments looked at the approaching spots of light as if they had seen a ghost.

No matter what that thing is, as a material that can be accelerated to a speed close to the speed of light, once it hits their warships, it will definitely be smashed to pieces!

At this moment, all the bounty hunter helmsmen were frantically adjusting their directions, trying to avoid these light spots flying in a straight line.

Through the observations just now, they know that these light spots will not turn, so as long as they avoid that little thing, there should be no danger.

Of course, most captains ordered the use of close-in defense guns to try to knock down these light spots.

But unfortunately, the first light spot had already rushed into the front line of the bounty hunter corps the moment it touched the actual matter.

The unfortunate warship was first hit by a hideous big hole by the light spot, and looked extremely miserable.

Just when the bounty hunters were about to sneer at the unlucky people on that ship, they saw an extremely horrifying scene in the next second!
The warship hit by the light spot began to collapse, fold, and shrink inward in an almost weird and twisted posture.

It was as if a small black hole appeared out of nowhere, rapidly dismantling and devouring the battleship alive!

Finally, in a world of just a few seconds, they saw a huge warship disappear out of thin air.

From a visual perspective, the battleship looked like a violently folded quilt, forced into a narrow luggage bag, compressed and folded in half, and then completely disappeared!

However, the worst thing is not just that.

The annihilation chain reaction caused by the light spot has begun to take effect. After engulfing the first battleship, the distorted and collapsed space continued to spread and diffuse in all directions.

More and more warships began to disintegrate and break apart rapidly and uncontrollably, shrinking and twisting towards the void circular center, and finally vanished.

After hitting the target, the light spot will continue to spread the “annihilation space” in all directions based on its original location. Any matter in this space will be distorted, decomposed, and shrink towards the reference point.

The warships of the Bounty Hunter Corps were like a mass of filth, being stirred into the unknown space of the sewer by the powerful flush toilet “Little Doctor MD·500”.

(End of this chapter)