Chapter 165 Iron Giant

Facing the concentrated fire of the Left Axis Fleet.

The plasma burst thruster of the Brilliant was activated instantly, and it moved horizontally for a distance instantly.

Only a thick laser and a few long needles fired by the Storm Needle pierced the corners of the shield.

This increase in radiation energy is not even a fraction of the total radiation energy possessed by the Brilliant.

The Supreme Point next to it did not have the mobility of the Brilliant class, and could not dodge all the attacks, so it could only take about half of the concentrated fire damage.

Fortunately, Chen Ming had already activated the shield in advance when he was in the dock.

As long as the attack of ships of the same level did not instantly overload the Supreme Point with 20,000 radiation energy, which was higher than that of the Brilliant, he could rescue it.

And when it was hit, Chen Ming also found that the shield effect of the Supreme Point was very strong. In addition to the higher upper limit of radiation energy capacity, its radiation energy growth rate when attacked was also slower than that of the Brilliant.

There is a concept called shield effectiveness, or shield strength, for the spacecraft shield.

When the shield is attacked, it will convert the damage into radiation energy.

The shield efficiency can change the efficiency of this conversion.

The better the shield, the slower the radiation energy growth when it is subjected to the same attack, which is equivalent to the shield itself absorbing more damage for the ship's power grid.

Usually this will lead to an increase in the energy consumption of the ship, so the designer of the shield needs to find a balance point in it.

But the shield at the highest point is different.

Even if it has a shield efficiency that exceeds that of other cruisers, it can maintain the same level of energy consumption when the shield bears the same damage and the radiation energy growth is less.

The shield of this exploration ship is obviously very special.

Except for the main battleship, Chen Ming doesn't know which ship has a stronger shield than it.

The psychic from Tachyon Technology seems to be technically OK.

Such a person is not successful within Tachyon Technology. I'm afraid he has offended someone.

An irrelevant thought flashed through Chen Ming's mind, and then he immediately turned back. Now was not the time to think about it.

At least in his first encounter with the Zuojing Fleet, he was unscathed.

And because of the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power, he could ignore the limitation of radiation energy dissipation and forcibly dissipate the hard auxiliary energy that could not be dissipated when the shield was still on.

In other words, just like all the spaceship battles Chen Ming had experienced before, as long as his mental power could hold up, he would be unscathed and undamaged.

And although the frontal strength of Chen Ming and the Zuojing Fleet was very different.

But he was not without help, and there was a pirate space station behind him.

No, it should be said that it was in front of him.

After the round of concentrated fire from the Zuojing Fleet just now.

Chen Ming quickly controlled the highest point to sweep a round in the direction of the small ship on the opposite side.

Then, he hid behind the space station he had just flown out of.

Chen Ming also had the help of the space station.

The space station also strengthened security after the previous attack by Yuhui.

Now that an external fleet is attacking, especially Zuo Jing's fleet, they must help.

Even if the company has no intention of reuniting with Chen Ming, they must help.

Not to mention that Chen Ming just helped them regain control of the network.

Although the space station still does not have its own cruiser for the time being, ordinary ships are still useful.

Even though the dock was just destroyed, the patrol team of the space station uses its own dock.

This thought just flashed through Chen Ming's mind.

The sensor received the sound of an explosion inside the patrol team's dock.

"..."

Chen Ming was silent for a moment and found that there seemed to be no follow-up movement from the patrol team's dock except for that explosion.

It seems that there was no big trouble.

The patrol team quickly handled the matter.

And immediately dispatched about 30 destroyers and more than 100 escorts to support Chen Ming.

Chen Ming quickly established a communication connection with the fleet of the space station.

Chen Ming didn't know the commander of the fleet, but it seemed that he had participated in the last Yuhui raid and survived.

With these ships, Chen Ming can indeed share some pressure.

In addition, the space station itself is not only a shelter for Chen Ming's two cruisers, but also a huge cruiser-class fortress in terms of output.

Its size and the number of large weapons that match its size determine this.

Such a giant fortress has almost no disadvantages except that it cannot be moved.

Of course, being unable to move is a huge disadvantage in itself.

The commander of the fleet suddenly asked Chen Ming at this time: "Mr. Chen Ming, do you need us to follow your command?"

For Chen Ming, who has no command experience and command skills at all, commanding these ships that he does not control through orders is obviously a suicidal act.

However, he did not refuse directly, but said: "Yes, I need you to take good care of the space station, don't let the small boats approach the space station to disperse the firepower, and protect the space station."

Chen Ming also needs the space station to help cover him, and he also needs the people on the space station to survive.

Although the boss may take action if the space station is damaged to a certain extent.

But Chen Ming still doesn't want to fall into this situation.

Bai Quan, who has been watching, interrupted at this time and said: "Protecting strategic targets is usually the first priority on the battlefield. As long as you can protect the space station, you have the capital to fight head-on."

Bai Quan's words were just a comment, and he didn't mean to command.

Chen Ming didn't reply, and continued to control his several small boats to disperse from the back of the space station according to his own ideas.

These small boats will disperse to the edge of the galaxy, as if they are going to retreat through hyperspace.

Chen Ming's idea is to attract the attention of part of the Zuo Jing fleet through these ships.

Although Zuo Jing had been monitoring Chen Ming before, Zuo Jing did not have the ability to guarantee 100% that from the time Chen Ming entered the dock until now, he had no chance to contact those small boats.

In other words, Zuo Jing must take care of those small boats.

Otherwise, if Chen Ming escapes on the small boats, their trip will be a complete waste.

Soon, Chen Ming's five small boats each attracted a destroyer and five frigates, and gradually left the intersection of the battle lines.

These six ships are the number of ships that Zuo Jing believes can directly destroy a Chen Ming ship.

But at the same time, it is also the number of ships that Chen Ming believes can be killed when his psychic assistance can do multiple things at the same time.

Chen Ming believes that the Gladiator and the Storm class will never be at a disadvantage even if it is one-on-many.

But Qu Guang and the Centurion will have to fight for a while longer.

However, the battle of the small boats is not the key now.

The key to winning this battle lies in Chen Ming's two cruisers.

When Chen Ming's ship has the space station as a cover, he can also output steadily.

Although Chen Ming only has two cruisers in total, and the opponent has four.

One Ruler, two Defenders, and one Eagle-class.

They are basically representatives of strong frontal firepower.

But at this time, when the Brilliant class had the opportunity to output, it burst out with irresistible strength in frontal firepower output.

Even though Brilliant is not a combat-type Afterglow.

But with the terrifying frontal firepower of the Brilliant class itself, plus the additional increase brought by the auxiliary system.

And with the blessing of Chen Ming's spiritual energy that continuously provides repairs and rapid cooling.

On the front battlefield of the cruiser confrontation, it was the Zuojing fleet that was suppressed by Chen Ming.

Four speed lances emitting the dark green of plasma and the iconic azure light of Afterglow energy weapons came one-on-one, suppressing the four cruisers on the Zuojing side and completely unable to fight back.

While Brilliant suppressed the cruiser.

Chen Ming completely ignored any tactics and reason and poured all his firepower on other low-level ships.

The two tachyon spears located directly in front of the highest point, and the "Locust" large short-range missile launcher on the side of the ship specifically targeting small ships, are simply the strongest weapons for clearing out the mess.

The iconic deep purple particle torrents of the two human tachyon spears constantly swept around the four suppressed cruisers that could not fight back.

A large number of micro-locust missiles almost covered one-third of the entire battle line.

A series of fireworks exploded in the battle line of the left axis.

Chen Ming's two cruisers actually played with the momentum of four cruisers.

And the actual firepower output is indeed comparable to that of four cruisers.

In addition to Chen Ming himself doing things, the space station has now completely activated the defense system.

The shield was deployed, and the large weapons outside the space station were also continuously helping Huihuang suppress the opponent, giving greater pressure to the cruisers that were already about to collapse.

For a moment, no one knew which side was the stronger one.

Bai Quan fell silent at this time watching Chen Ming's actions.

He originally thought that this would be a fierce battle.

The gap in strength between the two sides can be said to be quite disparate.

Even with the support of the space station, the overall strength gap has not been narrowed much, and it is still a situation of few against many.

After all, Zuo Jing and the war zone have the advantage of taking the initiative, and they have paralyzed the space station for a period of time.

He should be able to say a few words here and guide Chen Ming to achieve some results.

Then help Chen Ming find an opportunity to retreat at the last moment, and the battle will be over.

But now, he just said a comment that can't even be regarded as guidance.

The situation on the battlefield has begun to be one-sided.

Looking at the four dark green and azure intertwined, almost non-stop particle torrents of the tachyon spears in front, Bai Quan didn't know what to say.

But this is exactly what all commanders want to see.

If you can suppress the opponent with frontal firepower, there is no need to conduct any command operations.

Winning is the best result.

After observing for half a minute, Bai Quan had already concluded that the balance of victory was tilting towards Chen Ming.

However, just when Bai Quan had this idea.

In Zuo Jing's fleet, the only Ruler suddenly turned off its shield.

Relying on its extremely heavy armor compared to ships of the same level, it directly started a counterattack and rushed to the front of the battle line with brilliant firepower.

Just like the offensive class that Bai Quan commanded before.

The first bird to stick out gets shot.

Chen Ming knew very well what the best solution was in this situation.

He immediately stopped destroying the remaining small spacecraft of Zuo Jing and turned to focus on the ruler that was rushing forward.

Although the Ruler has extremely thick armor, it is not a perverted existence like the offensive class that can use armor to resist main weapons.

No cruiser could withstand the concentrated fire of the plasma-enhanced tachyon spears with armor alone.

But what Chen Ming didn't expect was that.

This seemingly ordinary Ruler just withstood the concentrated fire of four plasma tachyon spears and the two tachyon spears of the Supreme Point next to it, as well as countless micro-locust missiles, plus eight large live ammunition weapons on the space station and countless other missiles.

It just carried the entire front line to approach the space station, giving the ships behind a chance to breathe and counterattack.

"What the hell is this?"

Chen Ming had no choice but to quickly let the Supreme Point and Glory avoid the terrifying Ruler.

His ship must not appear on the route of the Ruler.

But as the position of the Supreme Point and Glory was adjusted, the Ruler also changed its direction of advance.

It would rather expose its relatively weak side armor to the firepower of the space station and move towards Chen Ming.

It was as if it had already set its sights on Chen Ming.

The long-term concentrated fire had no effect at all, and Zuo Jing's fleet had regrouped at this moment.

The fleet pressed forward and could threaten the space station itself at any time.

Bai Quan, who had been silent for a long time, finally discovered the problem at this time. He hurriedly reminded Chen Ming: "The Ruler is not that hard at all. This is... a psychic!"

In a frame of the picture that Chen Ming broadcast to Bai Quan in real time, Bai Quan found that at a certain moment when the Ruler's outer armor was activated and shattered, a layer of metallic film appeared under the armor.

A layer of metal coating protected the cruiser just under the armor.

Bai Quan immediately sent this frame of the image to Chen Ming and said: "I know this psychic. He must be in that Ruler. He dare not come out directly because he is afraid that his identity will be exposed."

Chen Ming soon saw the metallic color and asked: "What kind of psychic power does this guy have?"

"Metal control."

"Your fleet can't beat him. The main battleship may be able to kill him head-on, but the cruiser definitely can't."

Bai Quan's words finally made Chen Ming remember.

The psychic he was facing at the moment was the last time when Chen Ming was intercepted by the ruler of the star zone military and was finally taken away by Yu Hui.

Later, he specifically asked the boss who was the one who stopped the boss from rescuing him.

And the boss finally answered that it was him.

Enemies are bound to meet on a narrow road?

No, he took the initiative to come here.

Chen Ming made a prompt decision and called the boss directly.

It was obviously not shameful to call someone at this time, after all, this was a psychic who could fight against the boss.

However, the boss did not answer the phone, and Chen Ming could only hear a busy tone.

Chen Ming was a little nervous, but he was not too panicked, and immediately called the factory director again.

The factory manager answered the phone quickly and said, "Xiao Ming, are you okay?"

Chen Ming didn't dare to talk nonsense and asked directly, "Where's the boss?"

"Old Wu just received a call and said that he had something to deal with. I don't know what it was, and I can't contact him now."

Chen Ming snorted softly and said, "Okay."

Then he hung up the phone.

Bai Quan suddenly said, "I found out the news here, and it's bad news."

"Two psychics went to your place, Mr. Wu, and you should be facing another one."

A trace of gloom and anger flashed in Chen Ming's eyes, and he asked, "Who?"

"It's not clear yet, I'm still arranging people to investigate."

"Tell me when there is a result."

"Okay."

I didn't expect that two psychics would come.

And they were two psychics who could compete with the boss.

Chen Ming felt a little pressure in his heart, because this meant that he would have to fight with one of the psychics who could be at the same level as the boss next, which would definitely be very difficult.

The boss should not be able to distract himself to protect him next.

But Chen Ming was unwilling to just jump away like this, he still had a lot of mental power, he could continue to fight.

Moreover, this was also an opportunity for Chen Ming to face off against a powerful psychic.

Just like he couldn't miss a cruiser-level battle, he definitely couldn't miss the opportunity to fight a psychic.

It was just because of the Ruler that the battle line was forced to loosen up.

The balance of victory was instantly reversed.

Although Bai Quan provided Chen Ming with information, he didn't think Chen Ming had the possibility of winning the battle when both the fleet strength and psychic strength were lagging behind.

So he said to Chen Ming: "I think you need to retreat."

"But I think you can still fight."

"You can't get a powerful psychic now. If you get too close to him, your spaceship may be twisted into a ball by him."

"I know, I won't let him get close to me."

As Chen Ming finished speaking, the High Point and the Brilliant class simultaneously performed a short-distance jump, pulling away from the Ruler.

Moreover, the jumps made by these two ships also covered up the jump fluctuations from other places that had just appeared here.

The ruler obviously did not notice the jump landing point chosen by Chen Ming, and directly turned around and rushed towards Chen Ming's spaceship again.

And when it approached the limit of the spaceship's range.

In the void around Chen Ming's spaceship, three cruisers suddenly appeared.

Refraction class, Brilliance class, and Flash class.

A total of five cruisers, this is the maximum number of cruisers that Chen Ming can control now.

If someone who doesn't know sees this scene, he might think that the army and Yuhui are fighting, and he would never think that this is a psychic and Zuo Jing in conflict.

Of course, Chen Ming doesn't have such a strange idea in his mind now.

All his attention has been used to call on mental power.

This is the first time that Chen Ming has completely covered his psychic power on the maximum number of ships he can control, and he has fully opened his psychic power without reservation.

The highest point, brilliant, radiant, refraction, and flickering, all the large weapons are outputting their strongest firepower to the ruler who has no time to react, like infinite recharge and infinite ammunition.

What Chen Ming likes most about the afterglow ship is that almost all of their large weapons are loaded with tachyon spears.

And now, ten ordinary particle torrents and four plasma particle torrents, in the dark space, are like fourteen spears piercing through the stars, piercing under the armor of the ruler.

At this moment, the damage caused by Chen Ming's cruiser's concentrated fire can almost reach the lower limit of the main weapon.

The surging particles penetrated the armor and shattered the metal coating of the psychic.

The entire hull of the ruler was submerged by the violent particle torrent and heated to red in the cold space.

Without the shield to help share the damage, there is only one thing between the hull and the interior under the armor, extreme high temperature.

No one can survive in such an environment.

The ruler lost control of all internal personnel and gradually stopped.

And its engine part also caught fire under the stimulation of the particle torrent.

It exploded in just a few seconds.

This is the fragility of the ship itself, not the fragility of the psychic.

And this scene does not mean that the psychic is dead.

When the ruler exploded,

the fragments of the ship that should have been scattered suddenly gathered together.

A steel giant appeared in space.

With his appearance, the loose battle lines not far away that were destroyed by the battle of ships also flew towards the steel giant.

He absorbed the fragments of the broken spacecraft.

His body size increased again in a short period of time.

And his psychic power to control metal can also allow him to violate the laws of physics and quickly approach Chen Ming's fleet in space without any means of leverage.

At this time, in the core of the steel giant, the psychic who controlled the steel giant had a gloomy face.

When he first heard about Chen Ming, the psychic, he thought that his psychic power was specifically used to restrain Chen Ming.

So after hearing the request from the war zone to kill Chen Ming, he accepted the request without fear or hesitation.

And he remained cautious during the battle.

Even though he thought Chen Ming's fleet would be directly destroyed under the fire suppression of his fleet, he still maintained the coverage and protection of the ship's armor.

His caution helped him once, so that he was not directly beaten out of his original form at the first time.

But he did not expect that Chen Ming could call three more cruisers in an instant without any warning.

A total of five cruisers, all of which can use large-scale weapons, tachyon spears, almost completely and continuously without restrictions.

With only part of the armor destroyed, the entire cruiser was heated to an extreme temperature like food heated in a microwave.

If one of the Flash-class ships had only three large weapon slots, two of which were defender point defense energy cannons and only one was a tachyon spear.

The high-energy particles that just broke through his defense would have attacked the entire ship even faster.

He might not even be able to react.

But having said that, he did fail today.

His ability was exposed here, which meant that his relationship with Zuo Jing was not clear.

But if he didn't continue to finish the job, he would not only offend Chen Ming, Wu An and Bai Quan, but also many more.

So now the psychic is ready to completely give up, just to kill Chen Ming, so that he will offend one less person.