Chapter 68 Raid Plan

Chen Ming was stunned for several seconds after hearing the target location mentioned by Gamma AI.

His mind was full of thoughts about what was in the galaxy where Raymu was located, attracting the attention of the military, Yuhui and even the Sinda Company.

However, Chen Ming immediately realized that he didn't seem to have to think about it himself.

"Gamma, what is your mission plan this time? Why do you want to attack the pirate space station first and then jump to another place? What is in the RM-2 galaxy?"

Gamma AI answered immediately as before; "I don't know, because all missions are notified in stages."

"The first phase of the mission is to attack the pirate space station, and I did not participate."

"The second phase of the mission, that is, this time, is to launch another attack on the pirate space station."

"The third phase of the mission will be notified after the second phase of the attack is completed and the jump to the RM-2 star system."

"So far, I don't know what the next phase of the mission will require me to do."

"And I am just completing the mission, and I have no idea about the purpose of the mission."

"So I can't answer your question exactly."

Chen Ming shook his head with some regret.

If even the Gamma AI, the individual of Yu Guang, could not give an answer, then he could only wait for the jump to begin.

Chen Ming put all the images captured by the high-precision camera of the Refraction Class in front of his eyes.

Soon, the environment around the Refraction Class began to change.

Although the ship did not move, the starry sky that Chen Ming could see was suddenly stretched, and it kept flying towards the back of the Refraction Class like a stream of light.

This strange scene lasted for about ten seconds.

The starry sky returned to its original state again.

The jump was over.

The Yu Guang fleet arrived at a position that was still some distance away from the RM-2 star system, and did not jump directly into the galaxy.

Chen Ming took advantage of this moment to carefully observe the galaxy where Ruimu was located.

In this galaxy, in addition to Ruimu, there are a total of three planets orbiting around the star.

The four planets from the inside to the outside of the galaxy are: a high-temperature rocky planet, Ruimu, and an ordinary barren planet.

And a gas giant with star rings like Ramu.

If Chen Ming's Iron Ore and the sensors of the Refraction class are not wrong, then there are a lot of ships fighting near the orbit of the gas giant around the star.

One of the parties in the battle is definitely Yuhui.

As for the other party, Chen Ming probably knows who it is.

A few seconds after the jump ended.

The order of the Yuhui cruiser was suddenly sent to the Refraction class.

Instead of joining the battle directly, all the Yuhui ships that had just retreated from the battlefield with the pirate space station were given an hour of rest time.

And the repair ships responsible for logistics maintenance started working.

Then, the second message was sent.

It was the requirements of the tasks to be performed after the rest, and some explanations related to the tasks.

The task requirements were very simple, not what Chen Ming wanted to join the battle to assist Yuhui in attacking the other party.

Instead, they took advantage of the time when they were fighting to directly raid a small outpost belonging to the human military located in the orbit of the gas giant planet.

"There is actually an outpost here?"

Chen Ming is very confused now. He doesn't understand why the military clearly has a small outpost in the galaxy, but they didn't find him before?

It's normal that the sensors of the Iron Ore can't find the small military outpost, but it's definitely abnormal that the military's sensors didn't find the Iron Ore.

Even if there is a planet in the orbit, even if there is a different orbital period, the outpost may be far away from Ramu.

But Chen Ming drove the spacecraft back and forth between Ramu and the mining space station so many times, and it was too outrageous that he was not discovered.

Unless someone in the small outpost was lazy and didn't take the scanning and detection work seriously.

But this can only barely explain the situation Chen Ming encountered. If things are not as he thought, then the problem may be big.

Following this line of thought, Chen Ming actually hoped that Yu Hui's action this time would be successful.

As long as the outpost was destroyed, the possibility of his existence being discovered by the military would definitely be further reduced, which would definitely not be bad for him.

While Chen Ming was constantly thinking about it.

Gamma AI suddenly answered the question that Chen Ming had just subconsciously asked: "Yes."

It obviously read the somewhat long mission information sent by the cruiser AI faster than Chen Ming, and began to explain to Chen Ming: "This outpost is a small outpost of the human military used to detect the collection of sky steel."

Chen Ming was slightly stunned when he heard what Gamma AI said, and asked; "Do you mean that there is a sky steel vein in the orbit of the gas giant planet?"

"No, there are no veins of sky steel."

Chen Ming was stunned again. Although he often used sky steel as a material, he was not very clear about the formation of sky steel ore.

He only knew that sky steel was indeed smelted from ore, and he had done it himself, that's all.

Gamma Core heard that Chen Ming didn't know about this, and continued to explain to him: "Sky steel ore comes from a space creature called Alturan Sky Eel."

"The body length ranges from about 20 meters to 80 meters, and it survives by absorbing the gas on the surface of gas giant planets."

"They will eat various asteroids containing metal minerals, and after a special reaction with the substances in their bodies, the output is sky steel ore containing many impurities."

Chen Ming immediately recalled the piece of sky steel ore he found in the ring of Ramu before.

At this time, although he did have a little disgust for sky steel ore in his heart, it was actually nothing more.

At least the sky steel ore doesn't look like any feces, and the price of more than a thousand per gram of sky steel after smelting is indeed enough to make people ignore any of its other shortcomings.

Anyway, Chen Ming has seen similar things in his previous life. What bird's nest is the saliva of swallows, and cat feces coffee is even more outrageous.

So Chen Ming is not too averse to things like sky steel that need to be smelted before they can be used.

He quickly accepted the fact that sky steel is the feces of the Alturan sky eel.

Gamma AI didn't know what Chen Ming was thinking, and it continued to concentrate on explaining the situation of the mission to Chen Ming: "The purpose of the raid mission is to raid the warehouse of the outpost, where there is a batch of sky steel ingots that the human army has been storing."

"After that, we can decide whether to try to capture the Alturan sky eels living in the ring of the gas giant planet according to the battlefield situation."

"My next mission is the same as before."

"Still wandering around the edge of the battlefield, looking for opportunities to capture valuable ships of the army."

Chen Ming silently digested the content summarized by Gamma AI for him, calmed down a little, and said: "I Got it. Just like before, give my safety the highest priority, and you can do the rest yourself. "

"Got it."

"Once your current raid is completed, you should have time to move around, right?"

Gamma AI replied: "Yes, normally we will first reach our distribution point through the resonance of the jump engine, far away from the human empire, and then we will have free time."

"So do you need repairs now?"

"No, the refractor is in good condition and only needs a small amount of fuel."

"Okay."

Chen Ming exhaled and calmed down.

But his mind was not idle.

It happened to be rest time now, with nothing to do.

Chen Ming planned to simply study the functions of this refractor and think about how to use it later.

Several equipment and systems on the refractor that are worth studying were listed by Chen Ming.

They are the electromagnetic capture cabin, high-energy focusing system module, full-angle shield module, high-frequency electromagnetic pulse generator and electromagnetic pulse amplifier, and long-range scanning detection system module.

These are all the equipment that Chen Ming can research and develop.

Among them, he feels that the electromagnetic capture cabin has the greatest development potential.

Chen Ming has now personally confirmed that three escort ships can be parked inside the electromagnetic capture cabin of the Refraction Class.

And those various types of equipment used to investigate captured spacecraft only need to be slightly modified to do other things.

For example, to modify and repair spacecraft.

In this way, the Refraction Class can completely serve as a small dock.

Moreover, the Refraction Class itself is not a dedicated combat ship, and those electromagnetic pulse equipment are clearly for auxiliary use.

So it can also cooperate with other ships to adapt to different situations.

If mining is needed, Chen Ming can directly control the Iron Ore to go out. If fighting is needed, Chen Ming can prepare a special combat ship. In other situations, he can also prepare ships with different functions.

Anyway, Chen Ming can change the controlled spacecraft at any time, so modifying the cabin is definitely the most valuable option.

That is, Chen Ming must be prepared for the possible rebellion of the Gamma AI after it breaks away from his forced control.

But the way to deal with it is actually very simple.

That is to completely remove all the offensive means of the Gamma AI on the cabin, so that Chen Ming can safely switch back the control authority of the spacecraft at any time.

If he wants to transform the electromagnetic capture cabin of the Refraction Class into a cabin for parking the spacecraft, then the attack on the interior will be completely unnecessary.

Chen Ming was thinking about the modification plan, and half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.

He wanted to continue thinking about more complicated modification methods, but at this moment, the Refraction Class suddenly shook slightly.

The Gamma AI immediately informed Chen Ming of the specific situation: "It is the maintenance ship that is refueling the Refraction Class."

"Okay."

Chen Ming replied casually and glanced at the situation outside the Refraction Class.

After confirming that nothing was wrong, he didn't care too much about his thoughts being interrupted.

Anyway, he had almost planned the transformation ideas just now, and he only needed to fill in more detailed steps later to completely complete the transformation plan.

Chen Ming stood up from his chair, stretched his stiff body a little, and his hand unconsciously touched the control panel of the Iron Ore.

Just like when he encountered a spaceship that had not been connected before, a prompt suddenly appeared in Chen Ming's mind.

But this time the prompt was a little different from the previous prompt.

[New spaceship signal detected, whether to add a new brain control signal connection]

[Currently connected spaceships: 1/2]

[Connectable spaceships: Iron Ore (small civilian mining cargo ship), Sentinel (Sentinel-class civilian armed frigate)]

In an instant, Chen Ming's mind had several more questions.

The number of connectable spaceships has increased? When? Just now? What does the following connectable spaceship mean?

After controlling the Refraction Class, Chen Ming waited for the Iron Ore to be repaired and then used his consciousness to open the hatch and walked in.

He had never touched the hull of the Iron Ore, so he had not noticed this situation.

And after controlling the Refraction Class, Chen Ming did not think about switching back to the Iron Ore in a short time.

After all, the Gamma AI is still in the Afterglow Fleet, and he cannot guarantee that the Gamma AI can continue to obey his orders after the forced control of the panel is gone.

So Chen Ming has never taken the initiative to touch the Iron Ore.

But now, since there are two spaceship control numbers, it seems that he does not need to unlock the control of the Refraction Class to control a new spaceship.

And if Chen Ming did not misunderstand the meaning of the third line, he seems to be able to directly connect to the spaceship he once controlled.

Otherwise, there is no reason for the Sentinel Class to appear on it.

As for the earlier pirate Sentinel Class, it should have been dismantled in the last Afterglow raid, so it is not displayed on it.

Try it?

This idea flashed through Chen Ming's mind, and he wanted to connect to the Iron Ore and see if it was really possible to connect remotely.

But he suddenly remembered that there was no such prompt when he had no empty space for the control of the spacecraft before.

Is it possible that this remote connection function is only available when there is an empty spacecraft control position?

So Chen Ming slowed down his movements a little and chose to connect to the Sentinel-class of the Pirate Space Station half a light year away.

After a little mental consumption, Chen Ming clearly felt that the Sentinel-class was under his control.

He then turned on the camera of the Sentinel-class and observed the surrounding environment.

At this time, the No. 30 space arm where the Sentinel-class was located was still half missing like before.

The remaining half was full of high temperature and high heat, and molten iron was everywhere.

Because of Chen Ming's previous plan, the Sentinel-class was parked in the maintenance plant.

Therefore, when the dock was attacked by the tachyon spear, the maintenance plant was not affected, and the Sentinel-class was safely preserved.

Chen Ming did not rush to control the Sentinel, but first moved the real-time transmission of the Sentinel to the side and put his hand on the Iron Ore.

The prompt appeared again.

[New spaceship signal detected, do you want to change the brain control signal connection]

[Current number of remaining spaceship connections: 2/2]

[Changeable connected spaceship: Iron Ore (small civilian mining cargo ship)]

The content of this prompt made Chen Ming feel that he should be able to switch the control of the spaceship at will.

He tried it directly, canceled the control of the Sentinel and switched to the Iron Ore.

After a little consumption of mental power, Chen Ming could clearly feel that he was gradually losing control of the Sentinel, and the Iron Ore was soon under his control.

After getting a satisfactory result, Chen Ming continued to switch the control back to the Sentinel.

Then he began to contact Lao Wu with the communication equipment on the Sentinel.

Although the Sentinel was under Chen Ming's control, it was still impossible to get Chen Ming's voice across half a light year.

So Chen Ming could only communicate with Lao Wu using the voice system of the spacecraft, just like the refraction class.

When the communication was connected, Chen Ming directly told Lao Wu how he met him, and also mentioned the terminal and the boss.

Lao Wu was silent for a while, probably considering whether the words in the strange communication code were worth believing.

The content that Chen Ming emphasized played a role.

Lao Wu did not doubt Chen Ming's identity too much, but said with some nostalgia or reluctance: "Xiao Mu, I have been looking for you. If you are still alive, can you come back? After this battle, we have a lot more tasks, and we really can't finish them."

Chen Ming was slightly relieved after hearing what Old Wu said, and said, "I'm outside the space station now, and I can't come back for the time being."

Old Wu seemed to have noticed something and asked, "Are you not going to do what you did before with your captain?"

Chen Ming looked at the Yuhui fleet outside through the refractive camera, and then looked at Xiao Shi lying in his helmet and said, "It's about the same. There is a Yuhui ship that looks pretty good. It will take us about a day or two to come back."

"Are you sure you can come back?"

Chen Ming said very confidently, "Sure."

"That's good."

The communication channel was quiet for a while.

Chen Ming suddenly asked; "By the way, do you know what I did at the dock before?"

"What is it? Oh, you blew up the dock and ran away, right? I already know, but Old Lu deleted the surveillance for you. No one knows except us. We can understand the emergency situation, and there will be no problem."

"Anyway, come back early. The task of cleaning up the battlefield is really troublesome."

"I'll do it as soon as possible."

The communication ended.

Old Wu, who was at the space station, looked up at the factory director sitting opposite him and said, "The signal source at the repair shop should be the Sentinel."

"Xiao Mu should have modified the Sentinel-class control system, and then used some special method to remotely connect to it and send us a message."

"By the way, is it still uncertain what happened to his ship after it flew out?"

The factory director shook his head and said, "The direct hit of the tachyon spear affected many of the space station's equipment, and the external monitoring was basically broken."

"Xiao Mu deliberately avoided the weapon's firing range, so the weapon's matching positioning equipment was also I didn't take a picture of his ship."

Old Wu shrugged and said helplessly: "There is no way, we can only wait for people to come back. We should go to work now. I will keep an eye on Xiao Mu later."

"It's not us, it's you who go to work. I have other things to do."

"What are you going to do?"

"Meeting, and talk to Old Wu."

"Who?"

"You asked who, then you must know what I want to talk to Old Wu about."

Old Wu smiled, took a can of tea from the factory director's desk, stood up from the chair, and left the administration building.

At the same time.

Chen Ming finally waited for the rest time to end.

The Yuhui fleet, which had been waiting outside the galaxy for a long time, finally started to move and began to accelerate to the orbit of the gas giant planet.

As the distance shortened, Chen Ming quickly confirmed the situation on the battlefield through sensors.

There are a total of four cruisers on Yuhui's side, all of which are exactly the same in appearance, with a fleet of destroyers and frigates with a number of more than 300.

One-fifth of these small ships had been lost in the previous battle.

The military also had four cruisers.

Two of them were the Ruler class, which had the strongest frontal firepower and armor among all the cruiser models known to Chen Ming.

There was also a Defender class designed by Sinda, which was chosen by the military when it was bidding.

The last cruiser was an aircraft carrier called the Mora class, which had extremely heavy armor, just like the Ruler class.

Although the aircraft carrier itself was not very powerful, it still occupied an important position on the battlefield by relying on fighters that were smaller and more flexible than frigates.

The fighters carried by aircraft carriers were different from ordinary ships in design, and all designs were only for combat.

The fighters abandoned most of the functions of normal ships, including long-term navigation, entering hyperspace channels, etc. Some even did not have life support systems, and only relied on the driver's protective clothing to maintain combat time.

Therefore, the combat capabilities of some fighters carried by aircraft carriers would be even stronger than frigates.

Only in large-scale battlefields, due to the limitation of ship size and weapon range, fighters may not be able to adapt to the combat environment.

Therefore, the existence of fighters is still very meaningful, and the aircraft carriers that carry and maintain fighters naturally have their own meaning.

In small-scale battlefields, fighters often bring greater advantages than the same number of frigates.

For example, now.

Although the number of destroyer and escort-level ships on the space station is much less than that of Yuhui, there are even some ships that look more complicated at the edge.

Chen Ming estimated that they should be bounty hunters or mercenaries hired by the military, just to make up the numbers.

In the case of insufficient reliable combat power, the military relied on the small fighters of the Mora-class aircraft carrier to be active on the edge of the battlefield, and pulled the situation back abruptly, and even had a tendency to push back.

Because the shields of many ships are not like the pirate space station, which can completely protect themselves in the shield.

Most spaceship shields are full-width shields. Although they can rotate at any angle around the spacecraft, their deployment range is limited and their rotation speed is also limited, so they can only protect certain angles.

Therefore, once the fighter planes are given the opportunity to go around, no matter how powerful the ship is, basically the only possibility is that the engine will be destroyed and shut down.

And Chen Ming also noticed.

Few ships of Yuhui are equipped with a large number of point defense weapons for small fighter planes and missiles.

So all ships harassed by fighter planes must allocate part of the firepower of their main weapons to deal with those highly maneuverable fighter planes, and they may not be able to deal with them.

So the frontal firepower of Yuhui was diluted.

The military relied on fighter planes to continuously exert pressure on Yuhui's front line, especially the edge of the front line where the firepower was relatively weak.

No matter where a front line begins to collapse, it may be directly flattened by a wave.

The army is now doing it with the idea of ​​relying on its own advantages to advance slowly.

The idea is good, and there is no problem in execution.

But another fleet of Yuhui has arrived.