Chapter 533 ‘Physical’ Virus Attack

"Team position confirmed."

"Memphis, has crossed the 'Charlie Line', no trajectory deviation."

"Andes, has crossed the 'Charlie Line', trajectory deviation will be corrected in 12 seconds"

"Grace, has crossed the 'Charlie Line', no trajectory deviation."

After receiving the position report from other members of the team, Baninger controlled the heavy combat element to step on a piece of gravel, corrected his trajectory and said:

"Received, continue to maintain the penetration speed, we will cross the 'red line' in 120 seconds, and will contact the target in 180 seconds."

"Received!" ×3

The internal communication of the Immortal Legion was developed based on the hive mind. Humans currently have no means to effectively detect this communication, so although the Baninger tactical team and the Polarized Light have temporarily disconnected and maintained radio silence, the tactical team can still continue to communicate.

When the Polarized Light collided with the sneaky reconnaissance ship at almost zero distance in the gravel belt, both Tom and Baninger realized that they had to prevent the other party from issuing a warning to the garrison fleet.

But after careful planning, everyone found that this task of "preventing the other party from issuing a warning" was more troublesome than they imagined.

First of all, the option of directly sinking the other party was PASSed at the beginning.

Not to mention whether the movement after sinking the other party would be discovered by the enemy, so as to alert them in advance, the firepower coverage launched on this gravel belt by the garrison fleet after discovering that the reconnaissance ship they deployed was gone was not something that the Polarized Light could bear.

Even if Baninger and his team had a way to quietly paralyze the other party's ships, who could guarantee that this reconnaissance ship had any emergency communication means or ways to send emergency signals?

Tom and Baninger did not dare to gamble.

So the final idea returned to the category of "soft kill", and injecting electronic warfare viruses to paralyze the reconnaissance ship without alerting the garrison fleet has become one of the most reliable methods at present.

According to the current general rules of the human navy in deploying "secretaries", this kind of sentry deployed in dangerous areas will remain silent all the time except for the moment of issuing a warning, and will not actively contact other ships.

So after the electronic warfare virus paralyzed the ship, even if the reconnaissance ship has not sent a message to the garrison fleet, the other party will probably not be suspicious, and may even think that everything is normal here.

However, everything in the world has two sides. Although the silent state of the reconnaissance ship gave the Polarized Light an opportunity to take action, this completely closed "silence" also made the Polarized Light find that it seemed impossible to take action?

The lethality of military electronic warfare viruses in invading systems is indeed powerful, but the premise is that they can be successfully injected. After all, no matter what virus it is, it cannot appear in the opponent's system out of thin air.

But this reconnaissance ship is like a completely closed sandbox, so Polarized Light can't find any place to start.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Tom suddenly remembered a secret mission that Polarized Light had carried Amber on before. In that mission, in order not to alert the enemy, Polarized Light threw Amber out at a very long distance and finally successfully completed the infiltration.

Thinking of this, Tom couldn't help but look at Baninger on the screen.

"Captain Tom, do you have any questions?"

"Captain, if you don't have so many restrictions like humans, are you more free than humans in extravehicular activities?"

"You are right. So what are you going to do, Captain?"

After flashing back to the discussion of the tactical scene before the attack, Baninger, who was "strolling" in space, had to sigh that Tom's thinking was still very clear.

And he had to admit that this kind of unpowered crossing of the gravel belt is indeed more suitable for the Immortal Legion to do.

Any normal human being can't do such a thing.

Of course, Amber and other psychics are not considered normal humans.

Since the target reconnaissance ship was transformed with the assistance of Atlas during the "honeymoon period", Tom, who learned a lot about reconnaissance ships after being incorporated into the combat fleet, quickly found the weakness of this reconnaissance ship.

In order to facilitate rapid maintenance in the dock and on the battlefield, there are many special maintenance windows on the outside of both the Federation and the Star Dragon Empire's ships.

Some are physical maintenance channels that can be opened to allow maintenance robots to enter, and some are "virtual" maintenance channels that facilitate maintenance personnel to quickly check the status of various modules of the ship from the outside.

Although the latter also has protective measures, they are not so strict. Its most efficient means of protection is to set it to only accept signals within a few meters, which directly excludes 99% of long-range attacks.

As for invading the range within a few meters of the ship and attacking the inspection port, it is basically a thing that will not happen in the eyes of ship designers.

After all, in normal combat, no matter what kind of ship it is, it will not allow the opponent to invade within a few meters of itself.

What's more, you have already invaded within a few meters, but instead of directly attacking the ship physically, you are using electronic warfare virus to invade? Is this something wrong with your brain?

So no matter what kind of ship it is, no improvement has been made in the "virtual" maintenance channel. After all, in the state of emergency rest, these "access points" all over the ship can greatly improve the work efficiency of maintenance personnel.

But this also gave the Polarized Light an opportunity.

"Attention everyone, there are 30 seconds to cross the red line. Deploy camouflage!"

"Received!" ×3

As Baninger's order was issued, the other members of the tactical team activated the "camouflage" attached to the outside of the heavy combat body at the moment of passing a piece of rubble.

Under the rapid inflation of the compressed gas cylinder, when the four people appeared again from behind the rubble, they had curled up into a ball and were surrounded by the inflatable camouflage on the outside, just like other small rubbles in the rubble belt.

This camouflage kit removed from several camouflage satellites was originally intended for the immortals to try to camouflage and sneak into important targets. However, they did not expect that they would be fast-forwarded to actual combat before they had time to train.

But under the "right time, right place and right people", the effect of this camouflage infiltration tactic is better than everyone expected.

In order to maintain concealment, the reconnaissance ship temporarily shut down all active detection equipment except the combat probe, trying to reduce its presence as much as possible, and relying on a set of omnidirectional optical and infrared warning equipment for monitoring the surroundings.

While Baninger and his four men were camouflaging, a group of gravel floating from other directions also rushed towards the reconnaissance ship, so Baninger and his men also mixed in with it, preparing to take the opportunity to cross this last distance.

On the reconnaissance ship, the air surveillance team quickly discovered the existence of this group of gravel, and while quickly marking it, he also reported:

"Captain, a group of gravel has been detected, and the trajectory will intersect with the position of this ship."

"What is the relative speed?"

"264-412 meters per second."

"Will the impact cause damage to this ship?" The captain of the reconnaissance ship asked.

Since the reconnaissance ship has already spread a large number of combat probes and connected them with carbon nanotubes, if the current position of the ship is changed rashly, it will inevitably affect these combat probes and interrupt the target tracking of unknown units in the G9 area.

So unless these rubble will cause damage to the ship, the captain of the reconnaissance ship does not want to make rash position adjustments.

"From the calculated kinetic energy, it does not exceed the defense threshold of the outer armor of the ship!"

"Then prepare to accept the impact, the attitude control system enables the 'adaptive mode' to offset the position offset caused by the impact of rubble to the greatest extent! The 'compressed air attitude air component' of each combat probe is unlocked, and the position is stabilized immediately after the impact!"

"Yes! Captain!"

Soon, the reconnaissance ship issued a broadcast of 'all ships are ready to welcome the impact', and everyone grabbed the safety guards at hand, or fixed themselves to prevent themselves from being thrown away when the impact occurred.

Tens of seconds later, a series of rubble floated past the location of the reconnaissance ship, many of which hit the hull, causing the external armor plate to 'bang bang'.

At the same time as the collision occurred, the attitude control systems in various parts of the reconnaissance ship's hull continued to operate, minimizing the displacement caused by the collision, and the limited compressed air carried by the combat probes also began to operate, trying to stabilize the attitude.

Not long after, this series of rubble passed the location of the reconnaissance ship, and the rubble belt returned to calm.

However, no one noticed that four rubbles with unique shapes left some small gifts for the reconnaissance ship after hitting the hull.

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"All equipment has been put online, and it is expected to break through the opponent's inspection port firewall in 30 seconds. It is estimated that the opponent will discover the abnormality at least 10 minutes later, and the execution of the plan will not be affected for the time being."

After all the team members completed the "physical" invasion of the assigned inspection port, Baninger immediately focused on the progress of the four external intrusion devices.

After the four members of the tactical team disguised as rubble and "collided" near the inspection port, they left a set of external devices attached to the opponent's armor plate, and these devices also immediately began to invade the inspection port after going online.

For Atlas, which has Lilith conducting hacking and electronic warfare virus research and development around the clock, conventional network protection measures are basically difficult to protect.

Not to mention that these external intrusion devices are physically connected to the inspection port through a large number of carbon nanotubes thinner than a hair.

So before the shipboard control personality of this reconnaissance ship could react, the four groups of electronic warfare viruses that attacked at the same time quietly broke through the battleship firewall and quickly began to "self-reproduce" and gradually infect other systems in the ship.

Although the battleship will separate a large number of cabins through airtight doors in combat, the systems are still connected through standard buses.

Although according to the naval ship information security regulations, there will still be internal firewalls for system isolation, but in the face of Lilith's "refined" electronic warfare viruses, as long as there is any information interaction between equipment and equipment, and between systems, it will not be spared.

"Captain, have we completed our mission?"

"Yes, the electronic warfare virus has already spread inside the target system. Judging from the current progress, it won't be long before all subsystems will be out of the opponent's control."

"What about the four of us?"

Memphis, who asked this question, is still in disguise at this moment, floating in space like a piece of gravel. However, judging from his predicted path, it will not take long for him to float out of this piece of debris. Stone area.

In order to avoid detection, the four heavy combat bodies did not carry any power components. From beginning to end, they used the initial speed gained when they separated from the Polarized Light.

So at this time, there is basically no need to think about going back. This is why Tom finally agreed to this plan. Only the 'digital beings' of the Immortal Legion can do this without any burden.

If Tom sends real people to carry out such a task, Gao Lu will be labeled as "anti-human".

"Execute the destruction command, and then break away from the combat body. Although it is a pity, these four heavy combat bodies basically cannot be recycled."

After all, Baninger has followed Atlas all the way from when it was very poor, so even with Atlas's current production capacity, such heavy combat bodies are produced in batches, he still subconsciously has Some heartache.

Others in the tactical team did not hesitate after hearing Banninger's order, and immediately executed a timed destruction command.

When the timer expires, the combat body will begin to melt from the inside out, eventually becoming a pile of completely indistinguishable scrap metal.

Shortly after everyone in the tactical team left, the people on the reconnaissance ship also made discoveries.

However, it was not that the reconnaissance ship was infected with an electronic warfare virus, but that there was a new situation in the unknown target group in the G9 area they had been monitoring.

"Report! The unknown unit in the G9 area is gradually leaving the influence of the 'Grand Lubion'. The optical and infrared sensors have captured the target, and the shipboard control personality is identifying some of the target characteristics!"

"Report! The feature identification is completed, and the database matches the features of the Hydra-class heavy cruiser and the Griffin-class light cruiser!

No matching characteristics were found in the database for the other two types of targets, but the shipboard controller personality is speculated to be battleship and heavy cruiser level targets!

In addition, a very large independent target was detected, numbering 1, which was determined to be the ‘Infinity’ that appeared before! "

After hearing the report from the air surveillance team, the captain of the reconnaissance ship immediately concluded that the unknown unit group in the G9 area was Atlas's combat fleet, and what the main force of the garrison fleet was currently guarding against was most likely a decoy released by the opponent. !

"Quick! Issue a warning! At the same time, our ship is also preparing to evacuate this rubble area!"

Without any hesitation, the captain of the reconnaissance ship immediately issued an order to issue a warning and evacuate.

"Yes, Captain! Waiting, communication unit failure? Forced offline?!"

The next moment, all the lights on the entire bridge dimmed.