Chapter 398 Ling Yun! (1/2)

The airport in the north of Shuguang City.

Luo Yu, who had just been resurrected for less than half a month, was holding the pilot hat he had just taken from the Teng Teng hut in his hand, and was pushed forward by Mosquito.

"What are you doing so mysteriously...where are you taking me?"

Mosquito who was walking behind and pushing me laughed and urged.

"Stop asking, let me show you a baby!"

It was okay if he didn't say this at first, but when he heard Brother Mosquito's mean tone, Luo Yu suddenly became alert.

What kind of treasure can this Gobi show him?

I probably want to use him as a guinea pig again!

And this is indeed the case.

The direction this guy took him was the Alliance's hangar.

Seeing the two people walking from a distance, the guard on duty at the airport entrance immediately gave a military salute in awe and let them go.

Whether it was Mosquito or Luo Yu, the faces of these two people were so familiar to them.

Especially the latter.

You can often see him taking off, but rarely see him driving the plane back. However, a few days later you can see him appearing at the airport alive and kicking.

Being able to come back alive after a plane explodes is much better than being able to fly the plane back smoothly!

Not paying attention to the admiring looks of those NPCs, Luo Yu followed the excited mosquito into the closed hangar with a worried look on his face.

The lights in the hangar came on.

When he saw the plane parked in the hangar clearly, the expression on his face fell into a dull moment, and then he couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Damn it! I was careless!"

Streamlined silver-white body!

Twin jet engines!

The very sci-fi appearance design is just like a concept aircraft at a model aircraft show, especially the dreamy forward-swept wings——

But it was at the moment when he noticed the forward-swept wing design that Luo Yu suddenly came to his senses.

“This fucking thing can go to heaven???”

As we all know, in reality, forward-swept wings are considered a relatively cutting-edge design idea and one of the more widespread ideas for sixth-generation aircraft.

The forward-swept wing design wing generates greater lift, a higher lift-to-drag ratio, a lower stall speed, and excellent low-speed controllability. In particular, there is no wingtip stall problem for swept-wing aircraft, which means that a large number of aircraft will Increase the aircraft's maneuverability significantly!

Taking the su-47 as an example, it adopts a coupled canard + forward swept wing layout, and can even perform a "Cobra" maneuver with an attack angle of 120 degrees at a speed close to Mach 1!

Of course, in addition to being highly maneuverable and handsome, the shortcomings of the forward-swept wing design are also obvious.

One of the most prominent ones is that the requirements for materials are too high.

If the materials are not up to standard, maneuvering during high-speed flight will not only risk breaking the wings, but may even cause the fuselage to disintegrate.

There is a reason why swept wings are still the mainstream. For war machines, "advanced" is not the first priority.

Stability is.

Let’s not talk about forward-swept wings and rear-swept wings. Is this a jet aircraft? !

Even Luo Yu wouldn't believe it, Mosquito would install a matching flight control system on this guy.

No--

Whether this thing has a flight control system or not is a question! Maybe the only electronic control on this thing is the pitot tube on the engine head.

Admiring the dumbfounded expression on the white mouse's face, the mosquito chuckled and answered as expected.

"have no idea."

Luo Yu: "..."

Seeing his speechless expression, Mosquito coughed slightly and began to introduce his latest research and development of an epoch-making product.

"Don't worry, I've considered all the issues you're worried about. The entire fuselage is made of A3 aviation aluminum, which is used for spacecrafts. Don't worry about the reliability and strength of the material!"

"Not only that, the outside of the aircraft is also painted with an anti-radar coating that Camp 101 helped develop. You will probably not be much bigger than a sparrow on the opposite radar. I won't talk about the aviation fuel... Anyway, this This guy is full of black technology, and it cost me a lot of money to build it!”

And this is also the product with the highest technical content among all the products developed by Gojing Technology so far!

Looking at Luo Yu who still didn't speak, Mosquito smiled evilly and encouraged him.

"Want to try flying?"

Luo Yu swallowed.

It is impossible to say that you don't want to.

However, the cost of flying once is too high.

"Eight hundred at a time."

"Damn! You ripped me off...deal!" A pained expression appeared on his face, but Mosquito was secretly happy in his heart.

This little money was not enough for him to fill up the plane with fuel.

Eight hundred silver coins can buy an awakened person who is not afraid of death to be a guinea pig.

This deal is such a bargain!

…

After agreeing to Mosquito's conditions, Luo Yu followed his prompts and received the [Equipment Test] task issued by Goblin Technology on the VM.

[Mission: The jet takes off for the first time! 】

[Requirement: Pass through the Heart of Steel anti-aircraft fire network]

After players register a company, they can publish tasks that meet the review standards based on their business scope and nature.

This is one of the features of "Wasteland OL" compared to other MMORPGs.

Looking at Luo Yu who put on his newly bought pilot hat and got into the cabin with a tragic look on his face, Mosquito patted the cabin cover and said comfortingly.

"Don't worry, this big thing is not the result of me alone, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of all members of Goblin Technology! I guarantee that nothing will happen!"

As he said that, he glanced at the God of Death who was standing aside and eager to try.

"Introduce our new products to our warriors!"

The God of Death chuckled and walked forward.

"okay!"

Taking a deep breath, Luo Yu tied the VM to his thigh. While listening to the explanation of the God of Death, he became familiar with the various instruments and control components in the cabin.

Out of habit, he subconsciously looked for the switch of the ejection seat, only to find that there was no such thing at all. The entire seat was completely welded to the cabin.

Good guy.

Where is the fighter jet?

It's clearly a "special attack aircraft"...

It's a pity that there is no military court in this game, otherwise it would definitely be sent to the person who designed this thing.

He didn't notice the strange expression on Luo Yu's face. After introducing the killing god on the dial, he continued to introduce the weapon system of the aircraft.

"...The main weapon is the twin cannons at the front of the nose. It can fire 20mm armor-piercing incendiary bombs or high-explosive bombs. It has a good effect on ground-to-air. However, the current ammunition reserve is only 300 rounds. It is recommended that the weapon safety be turned on as needed. , don’t press and hold the fire button.”

Luo Yu couldn't help but complain: "Where are the missiles? They are all jet planes, not even a guided weapon?"

God of Death: "Well, there are no guided weapons, but you can mount a switchblade and unguided rockets! But those are designed for the W-2 ground attack aircraft. Of course, if you want to use them, we can also give them to you. Hang it up——"

Before he finished speaking, Luo Yu rejected him.

"Thank you, no need!"

The speed of the switchblade is too slow. It mainly relies on diving to increase its speed, and it requires the cooperation of the ground operator. Using that thing to attack air targets is just unreasonable.

After introducing the functions of each dial on the plane, the God of Death continued to point to the push-pull handle next to his right leg.

"...The grip next to your right leg is the afterburner valve, which is also the soul of this aircraft. Pushing it to the end will increase the engine's output power to the maximum!"

"There is no data yet on how much the acceleration will be, but it is very fast! So fast that we had to design this control valve separately! However, we found during the test that after pushing the afterburning valve to the maximum, the engine blades showed signs of melting... At present This function has not been debugged yet, so if you can’t use it, try not to touch it yet.”

There is no supersonic wind tunnel testing.

There is no flight control computer either...

What the hell is this powerful flying brick!

Luo Yu: "After all, you guys have fixed all the bugs before taking them out!"

"That's too late."

The God of Death looked at him seriously and continued.

"We also want to design it more perfectly before taking it out, but the airship opposite has already set up the gun barrel at our door... I can only ask you to go to the battlefield to test its performance."

"Please, try to drive it back!"

That solemn look is really irresistible...

Forget it, who wants to know how to drive it?

It only takes three days to really die.

Luo Yu took a deep breath and turned on the power of the avionics system.

"I try my best."

…

Above the clear sky.

The Heart of Steel floats quietly.

The majestic steel fortress is as stable as a floating mountain, but in the observation cabin hidden at the front of the airship, everything is in a hurry at the moment.

"...A UFO was observed approaching from the azimuth of 116°. The visual distance was about 10 to 15 kilometers, and an air column with a length of more than ten meters was observed!"

"It's approaching Mach 1 and it's heading straight towards us!"

"The sighting system is seriously out of focus. I can't see clearly what it is. It's a suspected missile!"

"The radar is not responding! It is confirmed to be an anti-radar device!"

For flying objects reaching Mach level speed, whether it is 10 kilometers or 15 kilometers, it will take less than a minute.

The window time left for them to shoot is even shorter, not even twenty seconds!

The sergeants in the observation cabin had no time to be surprised and immediately reported the situation to the weapons operator and raised the alarm level to level 2.

Although I'm not sure what that thing is, since it dares to challenge the authority of "Heart of Steel", it must be ready to die.

Twelve 100mm secondary guns and 144 medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns were aimed at the wide-angle airspace from 90° to 180°.

They are not aiming at a point.

But a whole space——

"put!"

With a roar in the communication channel, all anti-aircraft weapons that met the shooting angle conditions opened fire almost at the same time.

Strings of orange-yellow ballistics spurted out from the airship, weaving into a dense airless net in the sky, covering it in the direction of the UFO.

The moment it approaches the airspace near the target.

The barrage, which was as dense as a spider web, exploded, and the smoke, fire, and fragments of the explosion instantly dispersed into a black cloud that covered the sky and the sun!

The Heart of Steel has no guided weapons.

It's not because they don't have guidance technology.

But because there is no need at all!

A sufficient number of shells is enough to make up for the lack of accuracy, and the barrage they are proud of is enough to tear apart everything that comes close!

Even a fly.

It is absolutely impossible to pass through those layers of "nets"!

However--

Something unexpected happened to the sergeants on the airship.

I saw that the silver trajectory that was supposed to fall, like a dolphin jumping out of the water, actually broke through the black cloud as thick as a city wall!

"What it is!?"

The main gunner in the gun cabin directly ahead opened his eyes in surprise.

He watched helplessly as the silver pillar of air whizzed past their heads, leaving only an afterimage of flickering sparks.

A string of aircraft cannons were poured on the airship like urine. Although the deflector shield deflected all the shots without missing a beat, the insult was extremely strong.

Looking at the fleeting afterimage through the screen, General McClun stood on the bridge, with a flash of anger in his eyes.

"Is that a corporate plane?"

The adjutant standing aside swallowed.

"Big, probably..."

“Flying here from the East Coast?!”

"Sir, I don't know..." the adjutant said tremblingly.

He only knows that the company's technology is very strong.

But I don’t know exactly how strong it is.

The east and west coasts of Central Continent span more than 10,000 kilometers, and two completely different versions of a sentence may be heard even ten miles apart.

Not to mention being separated by such a large piece of land.

The staff officer standing aside had solemn eyes.

"A plane with a range of three thousand kilometers... If it is really a corporate plane, their strength should not be underestimated."

"But their weapons are weaker than expected, and they haven't even scratched off the paint on our exterior." The adjutant swallowed and added harshly, "It feels like this..."

…

"Oh shit……"

"It's so exciting!"

Adjusting his disordered breathing, Luo Yu glanced at the airtight explosion cloud behind him and the airship that was gradually receding, and slowly released his right hand that was tightly holding the afterburner valve.

The pointer on the speed dial was stuck to the far right end, shaking wildly, and the speed measurement function of the pitot tube had been distorted half a minute ago.

He didn't know how fast he was at that moment. He could only judge based on experience that the speed was at least Mach 3!

He died once at the hands of that airship.

The strong omen of death made him subconsciously make an accelerated judgment, and the facts proved that his judgment was indeed correct.

If the afterburner valve hadn't been pushed down at the last moment, he might have been beaten into a sieve by the exploding shrapnel, and not even the slag would be left...

The black and red gradually faded from his sight, and the clear sky in front of him gradually returned to clearness. What left him was not only the smoke of the explosion, but also the black vision caused by acceleration and overload.

Luo Yu tilted the joystick in his hand and began to return.

He could feel that it was not just black vision, but for a moment, he even felt that his eyeballs were about to be pulled out of their sockets.

Fortunately——

The physique of the awakened person is not weak. Even in the agility series, the physique attribute is still two points higher than the baseline value of 5.

If it were in reality, the other person would probably be gone at that moment...

Anyway, he succeeded.

With his heart beating wildly, Luo Yu took another deep breath to calm down his excitement.

The next step is to drive the plane back...

…

Compared to surviving the dense firepower net, Luo Yu felt that it was more of a miracle that he could land this jet plane without a flight control system smoothly at the airport in the north of Shuguang City.

Especially when it was close to the ground, the fuselage was shaking like it was cramping.

When he stopped at the airport and climbed down the ladder, he discovered that the rear blade of the left engine had melted and deformed.

But these are small things.

The final speed measurement result was that when he pushed the afterburner valve to the maximum, the peak speed was close to Mach 3.7!

Luo Yu looked at the car that had only been in the car for less than an hour with complicated eyes. It was hard for Luo Yu to imagine that this guy could fly to Mach 3.7 without disintegrating...

At the same time, next to the airport.

Two Goblin Technology players were whispering to each other.

One of them is from the intelligence system, and the other is from the agility system. They are both newcomers brought in by Mosquito in the Beta version. But rather than saying that mosquitoes lured them in, it is better to say that they signed up voluntarily and actively joined Goblin Technology.

"I didn't expect that the forward-swept wing design would shine first in the game."

"yes."

"But based on the game's restoration of the physical system, I feel it can provide a reference for real-life research."

"yes."

"It's a pity that there is nothing here. The conditions are even more African than Africa... It would be great if we could build a supersonic wind tunnel."

"That makes sense."

The agility player rolled his eyes.

"...Don't just be cool, give me some advice."

The intelligence player sighed.

"No objection, I completely agree, but I'm just wondering... the 20mm aerial cannon is completely useless. In other words, if it flies to the head of the airship and throws a low-speed aerial bomb, can it break through the anti-Newtonian mechanics shield?"

The Anti-Newtonian Mechanical Shield is the name given to that thing by players. After all, its effect is really difficult to explain scientifically.

It would be fine if it were a metal slug.

It can also be explained by the Meissner effect.

But non-metals, irregular projectiles, and even aerodynamic shock waves generated by explosions can also be "deflected", which is a bit outrageous.

It can only be explained by overhead settings.

The agility player replied.

"If the target is too big, it will be intercepted by the cannon. If the target is small...even if it can break through the deflector shield, the explosion shock wave will be weakened by the curved armor and cannot damage the inside of the airship at all."

The intelligence player said helplessly.

"Sure enough, we still have to rely on ground troops... I always feel that the device designed by Brother Mosquito is a bit messy. Can humans really withstand that kind of pull?"

"You don't understand. This is a game after all, and it can't all be the same as reality..." The agility player standing nearby chuckled, "Although humans can't do it, animals of the strength and physique systems can."

Can a monster carrying a heavy weight still be called a human being?

Not to mention the first secret, more than 500 kilograms is enough to challenge the world record...

…

Although they still couldn't do anything about the airship, Goblin Technology's newly developed jet aircraft still gave the alliance a certain advantage.

As the alliance's first "independently developed" next-generation aircraft, its battlefield positioning is to compete for air supremacy, reconnaissance of the battlefield and rapid mid-range strikes.

As for low-value targets such as general aliens and predators, the "Mosquito" ground attack aircraft and "Dragonfly" gunships with longer airtime are better choices.

Many players of Goblin Technology have high hopes for it.

And the mosquito also rarely gave it some strange name. Instead, it opened a voting thread on the forum, and adopted the high-vote opinion and named it "Lingyun"!

Although a "Ling Yun" can't do anything to the Iron Heart, which has thick blood and high defense, the Iron Heart can't do anything to the ridiculously fast "Ling Yun".

Breaking the limit speed of Mach 3 is too scary.

Especially since we don’t know what is installed on the plane. The radar array on the airship cannot detect it, so we can only rely on visual search.

By the time the airship's observers spotted the approaching Lingyun fighter, they often had less than half a minute left to prepare for firepower.

Just as one round of barrage was fired, the plane stepped on the accelerator and was already far away.

It's like a fly flying next to a giant. It can't be hit, and it can't be hit if it doesn't, but it disgusts the gunners on the airship.

The Storm Troops were cheering.

In conjunction with the intelligence of the "Pangolin" Hundreds, the "Ling Yun" that comes and goes like the wind can often bring unexpected blows to the legion's ground troops and key facilities.

In the past, the Storm Troops were bombed unilaterally, but now it has become everyone's own bombing, which can be regarded as a big improvement.

The battle situation on the front line is gradually becoming clearer, and the players who exchange battle status on the forum are becoming more and more happy day by day, and various tricks are emerging in an endless stream.

However, as a manager, Chu Guang didn't feel much optimistic at the moment.

The reinforcements from the east coast have not yet arrived, but the emergency from the west has arrived first...

If he had to say which of the known forces on this land troubled him the most, it was undoubtedly the West Coast Legion.

Not only are they ambitious, they also regard everything around them as barbarians, and it is almost impossible to resolve differences with them through exchange of interests or negotiation.

Nowadays, the life and death of the crew of the Pioneer are unknown. Shelter 0 seems to have become the focus of the storm. The Legion has invaded Luoxia Province and seems to be preparing a second expedition.

And the southern part of the Vale Province...

But there is no "Sacred Shield" protection.