Chapter 668: The Victory of Entropy Increase

As Major Jason Cole's retinal projection exploded twelve scarlet triangles, the Hound Four reconnaissance ship jumped on the edge of the Stonehenge defense zone.

He smelled the familiar smell of metal ionization—ever the unknown electronic warship on Atlas opposite appeared, the air inside the ship carried this breath of ozone and blood.

He vowed that these enemy electronic combat ships were at least at the level of cruisers, and for common small reconnaissance ships, electronic combat cruisers were obviously completely irresistible, let alone 12.

"What kind of world is this? The rebels' technical weapons have begun to lead us!"

Major Jason Cole beat his thigh hard. Once upon a time, when he was on a mission, he dared to let the small reconnaissance ship "Hound 4" go up close to teasing the other party. If the opportunity is right, he is very happy to release not many ship-based HCPs to completely annihilate the other side.

But now, this situation only exists in past memories.

"Fuck, the opponent's electronic attack is coming, so fast!" The communication officer on the other side of the bridge suddenly exclaimed. On the small reconnaissance ship with few seats and tense people, the communication officers often serve as electronic warfare. officer.

Hearing this, Major Jason Cole's brow frowned even deeper.

It is obvious that the level of electronic warfare, personnel training level and proficiency of equipment, of the opponent's opponent are rapidly increasing with the confrontation these days.

When the joint fleet of Atlas and the Revival Alliance began to siege the Stonehenge defense zone, the reconnaissance fleets, electronic warfare squads and other small fleets sent by both sides could still fight back and forth, and many times even the Federal Navy One unit can gain the upper hand.

But as time went by, the intensity of the battle quickly increased. Gradually, Jason Cole and his colleagues found that they could no longer gain the upper hand in such small-scale battles, and at the same time, they would also be small. The mistakes, carelessness, underestimation of the enemy, etc., have put our side in a passive situation.

This is why the reconnaissance team where the "Hunter 4" is located was only one of its ships when performing this periphery reconnaissance mission - other friendly forces in the same team have been sunk or lost in several previous confrontations The ability to move again in a short time.

"Captain, should we retreat first?"

Adrian's voice sounded in Jason Cole's ear, and the latter nodded without hesitation.

"Of course you have to withdraw, otherwise you will still stay here and wait for death?! Pass my order and release the MK-32 smart foil! The maximum power of the electronic warfare unit performs full-band blocking interference!"

Cole said as he gave instructions to the helmsman to perform emergency evasion.

At the same time, outside the narrow porthole of the reconnaissance ship, three hundred pods exploded at the same time, and the silver nano-intelligent foil cloud condensed into a thorn maze in the vacuum, and the helmsman of the "Hound 4" also planned to take advantage of this. In a fleeting opportunity, control the ship and get a "harrier overturned" and then run away immediately.

But both him and Captain Cole underestimated the reaction speed of the Atlas electronic warfare cruiser.

The front ends of two of the warships suddenly extended several complex sets of 'antenna' and a hexagonal lattice lit up. The high-frequency microwave beam was like an invisible sword to split the fog, and the dense foil network was instantly It seemed to be fused like a spider web that was burning.

"Damn it, it's getting faster and faster. The helmsman! Speed ​​up, the cover of the foil cloud is about to disappear!"

"Warning! The quantum encryption channel is broken!"

Fortunately, misfortune never comes alone. The ship-based control personality also issued a warning at this time, and her virtual image also turned into a dark red color, which means that a large amount of computing power is used to fight the attacks of electronic warfare viruses.

"I'm here to help, prepare for electronic brain access!"

Adrian Crowe said loudly, pulling a connecting cable from the back of the seat and inserting it into the back of his head. His pupils were also scattered in the data torrent, "The access has been completed and began to assist in the ship-based control personality. , the navigation system is being downgraded! ”

On the other hand, Major Cole suddenly felt a needle-like burning pain from the nerve interface on the back of his neck, and a dazzling warning popped up on the helmet in the cabin: [Topological quantum virus invasion was detected].

The holographic star map on the bridge began to twist, and Atlas' attack code eroded the system like black mist ejected by cuttlefish - these electronic demons optimized by pioneer algorithms, with the assistance of Saleh, are following the fiber optic Gnashing Hound Seven's CPU.

“Switch to full manual.”

Adrian's roar came to an abrupt end. Cole turned his head suddenly and saw that the young man's eyes turned white, and blue smoke came out of the cabin. I don't know when the electronic warfare virus completely penetrated. Firewall and infected with vital sign maintenance system

Although it was covered in the cabin at this moment, Cole still had the illusion of burnt barbecue mixed with ionizing dust and rushing into his nose.

Before he could see the scene of his adjutant, he saw a more desperate scene through the porthole - twelve purple charged particle beams, accurately hitting all the key compartments of "Hunter 4".

Intersection

When Major General Griezmann stepped into the flagship bridge, the entire bridge was alarmed, and the busy people also showed a state of panic.

"Everyone calm down and follow the preset instructions!"

Griezmann's calm voice sounded, trying to appease everyone on the bridge, but when he saw the information on the holographic projection platform himself, he was also stunned.

His fingertips streaked across a virtual screen popping up beside him, and the picture on the holographic projection platform also changed. The ice crystal with an eight-kilometer diameter dragged out an emerald tail in the background of deep space - that was Cherkov The color of radiation also means that the speed of these ice crystals has approached the speed of sublight.

This scene made Griezmann think of the light blade waving by the angel in the Sanctuary of Mercaba.

"Thermal radiation map is abnormal!"

Chief Staff Officer Anna Witlock casts data streams onto the bridge secondary screen:

"The surface of the ice crystal is covered with fractal heat dissipation structure, and frictional heat is introduced into the internal condensation chamber through nanocarbon tubes. They are using our Dyson ball technology to deal with us!"

The "Dyson Ball Technology" mentioned by this staff officer is also one of the key projects of the Federal Academy of Sciences. Some of the derived technologies were later tried to be used on the unmanned fleet, trying to make the unmanned fleet get more after breaking away from the shackles of humanity. Strong combat performance.

Since it is related to the unmanned fleet, Dr. Mephisto can obviously also get to know these technologies. In fact, this federal leader in the field of artificial intelligence is not just a specialist in artificial intelligence.

After being tricked into Atlas, the doctor finally brought some related technologies over, and in his words, these were considered "Lilith's dowry."

Although the statement of "dowry" is a bit strange, and it is difficult for Amber to tighten the relationship between him and Lilith in Mephisto's eyes, it does not affect his acceptance of all these techniques.

On the bridge, Griezmann stared at the countdown of the beating impact, suddenly noticed the orbital parameters of an ice crystal - its incident angle and the tactics used by Marshal Trafalgar to annihilate the rebel fleet thirty-five years ago. Completely consistent.

It’s just that the Federation thirty-five years ago did not have the technology to accelerate ice crystals to sub-light speed.

The chill climbed along the spine, and Griezmann immediately realized that this was not a coincidence, but a psychological purgatory carefully designed by his old comrade Guterres.

"Activate all defense chains of Stonehenge!"

Griezmann's fist hit the podium with a thunderous and nervous yelling, "Switch all shelling clusters to"

Before he could finish speaking, the ship-based control personality suddenly froze in place, and then made a dying buzz. Everyone on the bridge immediately realized that they were under electronic warfare attack.

"Distribute computing power to intercept electronic warfare viruses, authorize ship-based control personality to access the main system of the Stonehenge defense zone to allocate computing power!"

Griezmann's reaction was quite fast now and he immediately responded, but at this moment, how much effect can a simple response play?

No one knows.

The image of the ice crystal group attacking at high speed splits into countless ghosts on the sensor. The relativity effect turns the ballistic prediction into a chaos game. Coupled with the infection of the electronic warfare virus, the defense system of "Stonehenge" is completely unable to capture the exact target. .

Griezmann watched the calibration parameters of the shelling cluster beating wildly, and suddenly realized that the destroyed reconnaissance ships not only lost their eyes, but also allowed the enemy to take the opportunity to implant logic bombs in the tactical networks of the fleet and defense areas - after all, who It would not have been expected that the sunken friendly ship would become an enemy's attack springboard at the last moment.

At this moment, the fire control radar of the defense system was wasting 80% of its computing power on the attack phantom, just like a medieval knight charging towards the illusion in the mirror.

Looking at the core area of ​​the Stonehenge defense zone, because of his order to "contract defense", a large number of federal warships and the huge permanent fortress were gathered, Griezmann had only one thought flashed through his mind. .

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

"It's over, it's all over."

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The dust clouds inside the "Stonehenge" defense zone suddenly boiled, like a vortex of star sea stirred by an invisible hand.

Federal Navy Captain Charles Harper suddenly raised his head in the engine compartment of the heavy cruiser 'Grizzly's heavy cruiser, and his protective helmet hit the deuterium fuel tube and made a dull echo. He had just repaired the failure of the superconducting battery pack, and the gloves were still stained with cooling. The agent crystallized light blue powder.

This heavy cruiser is now anchoring in the "Minerva" permanent fortress at the core of the defense zone, with many warships. The previous order from the fleet's supreme commander allowed them to return to the fortress for preparation.

The screaming sirens of the gravitational wave radar resounded throughout the cabin. Charles felt a terrible force was coming to his position. He immediately ran to the nearest porthole and looked out, while the whole thing was The inspection radio also rang.

"Fifteen unknown objects break through the Ort Cloud defense line! Speed ​​0.12c!"

Captain Williams' roar was filled with the noise of electric current.

"The whole ship is accurate in impact resistance."

The next moment, the universe tore apart in front of Captain Charles's eyes.

The moment when the first sub-light speed ice crystal brushed through the MK-7 armored platform of the "Minerva" permanent fortress, Charles' retina was imprinted with a hellish scene:

The surface tungsten carbide coating on the surface of the ice core with a diameter of nine kilometers rubbed against the thin stardust, instantly igniting a dark blue light arc that spanned tens of thousands of kilometers, like a thunder gun thrown by the gods.

The moment the honeycomb-shaped titanium alloy skeleton of the fortress was penetrated, the 300,000 tons of composite armor on the impacted surface burst like a fragile eggshell, and the splashed metal fragments vaporized into silver smoke in the plasma tail.

"The port side thruster No. 3 is overloaded! The damage control team is being deployed."

The alarm of the shipboard control personality also sounded, and Charles was thrown to the bulkhead by centrifugal force. At this moment, he saw through the mask of the cabin suit that he had just fastened that the restraining magnetic field of the fusion reactor was twisting. The ionized cloud generated by the ice crystals passing by was now rapidly entangled with all the warships around.

The next moment, the 'Grizzly' rolled like a dead leaf in the wind, and countless warning pop-ups exploded on the helmet panel.

He tightly grasped the handle of the bulkhead and watched the 'Grizzly' heavy cruiser perform a dance of death on the helmet display. In this case, the twelve-barreled heavy particle cannon still spewed out blue-white beams. The heavy metal particle jet that was enough to melt through the asteroid was strangely refracted when it hit the ice crystal coating, turning into a shower of iron rain that tore the side of the friendly ship 'Black Pearl' anchored nearby into burning fragments.

"Gods!"

Charles' groan was drowned in the scraping sound of the heavy cruiser's outer armor plate. A titanium alloy wreckage from the defense node of the Anvil-7 brushed past the porthole, plowing spider-web-like cracks on the bulletproof glass.

At this moment, a hatch behind him also rose up, and a figure stumbled in, and the scream of the adjutant Jackson suddenly sounded in the communication channel: "Captain! The coolant pipe of the No. 3 turret"

"Boom!"

The explosion and pressure relief occurred in an instant.

When Charles turned his head, he just witnessed the horrific scene of the human body boiling in the vacuum. Jackson and the four members of the damage control team paid the price for their habit of not sealing the cabin in time.

The broken pipes drained their body fluids in an instant, and the protective suits that did not have time to buckle the helmet to complete the sealing expanded into pale cocoons under negative pressure, and the blood that had not yet coagulated coagulated into agate beads in zero gravity.

The only "good habit" - the tied safety rope firmly dragged them to the gap formed after the explosion, allowing Charles to see this scene.

The background of all this is the high-energy laser array outside the ship's breach, and the large number of anti-aircraft weapons of the nearby friendly forces are futilely cutting the water molecule cloud formed by the evaporation of ice crystals. Thousands of high-energy beams are scattered in the ionized dust into phosphorescent fire all over the sky.

Then, the "star-breaking chain reaction" that everyone fears the most began.

The kinetic energy of the ice core with a diameter of eight kilometers at 0.12 times the speed of light is equivalent to 3 billion tons of TNT equivalent - this cosmic-scale heavy punch not only tore the target apart, but also set off a ripple of death in the rubble belt.

And there are as many as fifteen such "heavy punches".