Chapter 97 Ruler, Trump Card

At this time, in the hyperspace of the galaxy where the pirate space station is located.

The battlefield, which had already entered a white-hot stage, fell into calm again.

There were reasons for the military to take the initiative to cease fire, and there was also the reason for the sudden appearance of the Ruler-class cruiser.

The only person who could mobilize the cruiser in this star region was the military outpost stationmaster who was just said by the military to have launched a rebellion.

So who is the current captain of this cruiser? Almost everyone present knew it very well.

Therefore, the company and the military did not dare to make any big moves when they saw the cruiser.

The company knew who gave the order for the army to chase Chen Ming with such a fleet scale.

And the military was not sure what the stationmaster who was said to be a rebellion by the higher authorities had in mind.

However, having said that, the military could definitely communicate with each other directly, which was much better than the company's blind guess.

And with the appearance of the Ruler, the communication between the company fleet and the military fleet was also disconnected.

It is not clear whether it was influenced by the rulers or the military fleet took the initiative to disconnect.

So the captain of the Cattleman class could only choose to command the fleet to regroup through the communication system, maintaining the formation while protecting the Armor Breaker and Chen Ming's Iron Ore.

Although there were a lot of noises in the communication channel within the fleet, at least it was barely audible.

After quickly issuing several instructions, the captain turned to Chen Ming and said, "Mr. Chen, the ship's communication system is affected. There are professional electronic warfare equipment on that cruiser."

"We don't have ships equipped with electronic countermeasures, and external communications have been completely disconnected."

"Although I was contacting people in the company just now, I'm not sure whether the last sentence about the military sending out a cruiser has been sent out."

"So we must send you back to the space station first. Only the space station can stop the cruiser."

Chen Ming also knew that there were no more options at the moment, and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"The cruiser is more powerful than your ship. It is definitely not something our fleet can handle. All responses are just delusional."

"So we rely on all the ships in our fleet to delay for a while, giving you time to withdraw from the effective range of the blocking pulse."

The captain's meaning was very clear. He was going to issue a mandatory order for all ships to go up and die to delay time, including the cowherd he was with.

Under the circumstance that the attitude of the military fleet was not too clear at this time, the fleet had no ability to resist the cruiser, and the fleet's spacecraft could not get rid of the military fleet of the same level.

So turning around and fighting hard was the only option.

At the same time, if the mission could be completed, at least the company would definitely take care of their aftermath.

The captain did this, and Chen Ming was the beneficiary.

Even if Chen Ming might not be able to escape from the pursuit of the ruler in the end, at least there was a certain chance if he did this.

So he did not refuse.

Chen Ming left the command room and boarded the shuttle on the flight deck.

In less than a few dozen seconds, the cruiser had already approached the battlefield from the position where it jumped out, but it had not shown any aggressiveness yet, which made it even more difficult to figure out the stationmaster's thoughts.

Chen Ming was not distracted by this, and quickly returned to his Iron Ore.

Prepare to increase the distance to prevent the military spacecraft from activating the blocking pulse for interference in order to retreat.

Chen Ming only planned to drive away the Iron Ore at this time, and the Centurion he was also controlling stayed to help hold the line. Although he certainly couldn't hold it, it would be better to block more bullets from large weapons.

If the Centurion exploded here, it would explode. He could still afford to lose a Centurion.

The same was true for the armor-piercing class that Chen Ming had obtained from the government.

Chen Ming personally drove the Iron Ore and gradually accelerated, heading away from a hyperspace channel.

The military fleet did not make any moves, and they did not seem to stop Chen Ming's plan.

The Ruler class, which was still some distance away from Chen Ming, did not rush to track him, but instead launched something towards the star gravity well in the center of the galaxy.

Chen Ming immediately noticed something was wrong and immediately activated the hyperspace channel system, regardless of whether he was within the range of the blocking pulse.

The system was still starting, but Chen Ming suddenly saw that the space of the gravity well, which was distorted by gravity, suddenly became flat.

The gravity of the gravity well disappeared.

No, it was blocked.

Chen Ming immediately thought of a device that could cause this situation.

A device called a temporary gravity well blockade device.

Its effect is similar to that of a blocking pulse generator, but the principle of action is different.

The function of a pulse blocking generator is to interrupt the start of the hyperspace channel system.

If there are only one or two blocking pulse generators, then as long as the time is right and the risk of being attacked is taken, the spacecraft whose system is interrupted by the blocking pulse still has a chance to leave by force.

But the gravity well blockade is different, and its effect is stronger.

In addition to the function of the system itself, the activation of the hyperspace channel system also requires the help of external forces from the gravity well of the star in the hyperspace.

Without the gravity well of the star, it means that the hyperspace channel system cannot be used.

It also means that the hyperspace of the entire galaxy is completely blocked at this time.

You can only enter, not leave.

This effect affects not only Chen Ming, but also ships near this galaxy, including those passing by watching the show on the edge of the battlefield. They can't leave the hyperspace now.

However, the ships that gathered in the hyperspace channel waiting for the end of the battle have almost run away.

Those who can't wait have already found a remote corner near the galaxy to go out in advance, and the last section of the road relies on their own ships to fly slowly.

Those who can wait, when they see the ruler appear, they also know what they should do.

So after the gravity well was blocked, only the military and the company's fleet remained in the hyperspace of the galaxy.

The way to escape quickly was cut off by the gravity well blockade.

The first thing that came to Chen Ming's mind was a solution.

As far as he knew, this device was actually a derivative device called a gravity well stable anchor point.

Chen Ming had learned the working principle of this thing in his memory, and happened to check what the derivative device of this thing was specifically out of interest.

So he also knew how to deal with it.

And there were several ways.

One was to run farther away, just go to another galaxy that was not blocked to activate the hyperspace channel system.

But Chen Ming knew best what the purpose of the military cruiser was. Even if there was a speed limit in hyperspace and the big ship could not run faster than the small ship, the ruler's jump engine was not a decoration.

This method was thrown out of Chen Ming's mind without a moment's pause.

The second was to dismantle the equipment.

The ruler just threw the equipment to the gravity well. As long as it could be dismantled, the gravity well of the galaxy would naturally recover.

However, the current position of the Ruler class just blocked the gravity well, connecting the company fleet, the Ruler and the gravity well in a line.

If you want to dismantle the equipment, you have to dismantle the Ruler first.

Chen Ming thought about it for half a second and threw this idea out of his mind.

The third method is the jump engine, which is a device that can be started without a gravity well.

But Chen Ming also knew that the jump engine was even more nonsense than the previous two ideas. Not to mention that this thing is only carried on cruisers, even if there is a lower-level version, Chen Ming can't afford it, let alone find one on the spot.

Fourth, the spacecraft engine itself has enough output power, and can directly force through the hyperspace without the help of the gravity well effect and return to the normal universe environment.

However, the specific value required for this sufficient engine output power can only be said to exist only in theory.

At least Chen Ming still doesn't know which spacecraft engine has the power to enter and exit hyperspace by itself.

None of the four theoretical solutions that Chen Ming had seen in books before can be applied in practice now.

Chen Ming was a little doubtful about what he had learned.

There were no other means of seeking help that could quickly get rid of the current situation.

The boss seemed to have been thinking of a solution, but the signal from the boss was cut off and could not be relied on for the time being.

The company must have received the news of the military attack before, and there must be support, but it might be too late to deal with the support of the cruiser in a short time.

Moreover, after the ruler came, the communication system of the entire galaxy hyperspace was directly blocked by electronic warfare equipment.

In addition, the captain also said that it was not certain whether the company could receive the news or not, so it could not be relied on.

As for the military.

The military said it was a rebellion, and the rebellion would definitely be suppressed.

But the military fleet had just received the news of the rebellion, and it was not certain when the fleet coming to suppress it would come.

Moreover, looking at the actions of the military fleet at this time, Chen Ming felt that this rebellion was unreliable, and he always believed that this rebellion must be put in quotation marks.

Various methods of seeking help from external forces could not provide support.

Then Chen Ming seemed to have no choice but to use the last resort.

Chen Ming quickly switched control of his spacecraft and confirmed the positions of several of his own spacecraft, especially the positions of several afterglow ships.

Finally, he switched control back to the armor-piercing class.

Then Chen Ming did not think much and continued to let the Iron Ore go in the direction of the hyperspace channel farthest from the Ruler.

Although the result was probably doomed, he still had to try.

At the same time, he also let his strongest output means, the armor-piercing class, hide behind other company spacecraft, ready to try to launch a counterattack at any time.

Theoretically, the large weapons of the armor-piercing class are enough to threaten cruiser-level ships.

Today, he will tear a piece of meat from the Ruler at all costs.

Although Chen Ming had just responded, he was actually prepared to not be able to get out of this hyperspace.

But what he never expected was.

After completely blocking the gravity well, the Ruler-class heavy cruiser directly activated its four large weapons.

But the target of its attack was not the fleet of the Sinda Company, nor was it Chen Ming, who had already run out of range due to the speed limit of objects in hyperspace.

But the military's own fleet.

And it was the Enforcer with special paint and modification as the flagship.

Then Chen Ming once again witnessed the power of the cruiser.

The large weapons that were originally adapted to the cruiser, and the energy supply that could meet the firing of several large weapons at the same time.

Even though the live ammunition weapons were weakened in the hyperspace.

But the stationmaster who controlled the Ruler instantly fired a large number of needles straight to the Enforcer after locking the target with two storm needles, causing the Enforcer's shield to be torn apart almost instantly.

Although the commander's reaction before the shield was destroyed prevented the ship from being paralyzed by radiation overload.

But those needles as thick as a normal person's arm still pierced the entire Enforcer.

As a shield-breaking type of live ammunition weapon, the Storm Needle was slightly weak in the face of the speed limit of hyperspace and the obviously extra thickened and heavy armor of the Enforcer.

After penetrating the armor, it did not go deeper and was just stuck between the hull and the armor.

The Enforcer was barely able to hold on after being destroyed.

It seemed that only one more round was needed, and the Enforcer would be completely destroyed.

But the ruler obviously did not want to choose this method. Instead, he used another weapon, the Gauss Cannon, to accelerate the large-mass warhead to an extremely high speed while the Storm Needle was reloading ammunition.

Although all objects in hyperspace have a speed limit, and the Gauss Cannon itself is also a shield-breaking weapon.

But this speed limit is only incomparable to the high speed in the normal universe environment, and it is still very fast in hyperspace.

It is nothing more than that it is impossible to achieve the optimal balance between mass loss and speed caused by the mass void effect in the normal universe environment, but it can still exert a certain power.

And with the Storm Needle to break the shield in advance, and relying on the power of the weapon itself to shatter the Law Enforcer's armor.

Weapons such as Gauss Cannon can also have a terrifying effect on the hull of the spacecraft.

As expected, the first heavy projectile fired by the Ruler's Gauss Cannon directly cut the entire Law Enforcer in half.

The second projectile fired by another Gauss Cannon passed through and completely shattered the remaining two halves.

The scene of the military fighting against each other made Chen Ming a little dumbfounded, and silently removed the quotation marks on the word "rebellion" in his mind.

The flagship of the military fleet was destroyed, and the military fleet, which was still redeploying its position, fell into complete chaos.

But soon, the entire military command system was regained by the Ruler.

After all, this was originally the force provided by the stationmaster to the commander. Even if all his confidants had been sent away, it would not be too difficult to forcibly take over with the ruler's equipment.

However, even if he regained control, it would still be difficult to make the military fleet obey his orders again.

For example, how could he make the army ignore this and continue to obey him when the commander had clearly stated that the stationmaster had launched a rebellion and announced documents with dual certification from the star region military government.

As for this plan, the stationmaster had already had a plan in mind.

As long as you dare to lower your bottom line, then this matter is actually very simple.

There are always some people in the fleet who are afraid of death or don't want to die casually.

The battle with the company fleet just now was a battle with hope of victory, so they were willing to take risks to fight.

But if it was a conflict with the cruiser, the level difference was enough to make anyone lose the desire to fight.

So the stationmaster chose to kill the flagship first, and warned other ships that dared to resist him by killing the chicken to scare the monkey.

As long as you are not a fool, you will make a calm choice.

The final effect of doing so is uncertain.

It is hard to say how many people will obey his orders under the threat of death.

But the stationmaster does not need too many ships to obey his command.

His main purpose of coming here this time is still to kill Chen Ming.

It's just that in hyperspace, heavy cruisers can hardly catch up with normal frigates and destroyers.

Even if there is a jump engine in hand, the use of the jump engine is limited.

At present, after the stationmaster jumps directly from the military outpost to here, the jump engine can only be used once again within a certain period of time.

If an accident occurs in the middle of the journey and Chen Ming escapes from the attack range, then the ruler will no longer have any chance to catch up with a frigate.

So the stationmaster must find a way to limit Chen Ming's actions.

Regaining control of the army and relying on the army's ships is the best way to do this.

As long as there are three or four ships to help him restrict Chen Ming, then the next jump will be Chen Ming's death.

After destroying the flagship where the commander was.

The stationmaster immediately regained the command of the entire fleet and asked the fleet to act according to his orders.

But as he thought in advance, most of the military ships rejected his request, even ignored him, and began to flee in all directions.

Only a small number of them remained in place.

The stationmaster controlled the rulers to neither chase the fleeing military ships nor attack them, but just let them leave.

But when those who had already stayed in place wanted to leave after noticing the movements of other ships.

The stationmaster chose to directly destroy the ships with such ideas.

Once on the pirate ship, there is no chance to regret.

The stationmaster reorganized the remaining military ships and asked them to hand over the highest control authority.

Then let some ships track Chen Ming, and the other part followed the rulers and pressed towards the company fleet that had already been prepared to die.

Although Chen Ming has already embarked on the hyperspace route to another galaxy, he is still paying attention to the situation here.

He wants to try to find an opportunity to bypass the ruler and attack the equipment that blocks the gravity well.

But the ruler is obviously on guard against this, always maintaining his position and not giving any chance.

If there is no chance, Chen Ming can only choose to let the armor-piercing attack the ruler.

At this time, the company's ships are also desperately protecting the armor-piercing, because they know that this is the only possibility of a comeback.

However, after two rounds of exchange of fire.

Just now, more than 40 company fleets have been reduced by more than half.

The remaining dozen ships no longer have the cowherd sitting in the seat, nor Chen Ming's Centurion.

The actual damage caused by the company fleet plus the armor-piercing class only forced the military rulers, whose shields were relatively weak, to turn off the shields, that's all.

Seeing that the last chance has come and is about to disappear.

At this time, Chen Ming did not care about letting the automatic pulse laser of the armor-piercing fully charge, and directly forced it to be activated when it was half charged.

The stationmaster had already understood the firing interval of the automatic pulse laser, a weapon he had never seen before, in the previous exchange of fire.

So Chen Ming's early round of shooting was completely beyond the stationmaster's expectations.

Even if the Ruler-class shield was deployed at the first time, it was not in time to block the sixteen restraining energy bombs.

All these energy bombs hit the Ruler's hull firmly and hit one of the storm needles.

And it also successfully destroyed the storm needle completely.

However, the combined attacks of the remaining dozen ships of the company fleet were not enough.

They failed to cause any meaningful damage to the Ruler's armor.

The Ruler-class radiation energy had been dissipated by nearly half during the period when the shield was closed, but the stationmaster did not continue to close the shield, but directly launched another round of offensive against the fleet.

In this round of one-sided crushing exchange of fire.

The armor-piercing class was completely exposed to the Ruler-class.

Its shield only lasted less than two seconds before reaching the upper limit of radiation energy capacity.

In the end, the Armor-Breaker was destroyed in the middle, just like the Commander's Enforcer.

Although it was still on Chen Ming's panel at this time, Chen Ming did not have the materials to repair it, nor did he have the opportunity to repair it.

The battle was decided.

Chen Ming was forced to stop observing the battlefield and continue to control the Iron Ore forward.

Although the Ruler had been thrown far away, it still had a chance to start the jump engine.

After destroying the Armor-Breaker, the only ship that could threaten the gravity well blockade, now was the best time to start the jump.

Visible fluctuations suddenly appeared in the space next to the Ruler.

Less than two seconds later, it appeared right in front of the hyperspace channel where Chen Ming was moving forward.

And those ships that had been forcibly taken away from the highest control authority were now blocking the entrance of the hyperspace channel where Chen Ming was.

The Ruler was in sight, and the crisis of death was about to come.

However, Chen Ming was not panicking at this time, he had delayed enough time.

Between the Iron Ore and the Ruler, a space distortion exactly like the one that occurred when the Ruler jumped over just now suddenly appeared.

What appeared now was not the Ruler.

Instead, it was a fleet of Yuhui led by two Yuhui cruisers.

The Yuhui fleet certainly did not appear here inexplicably.

When Chen Ming contacted Gamma AI before, this matter had basically been decided.

Chen Ming contacted Gamma AI before, not to let them prepare to rescue Chen Ming personally, but to let them go back to Yuhui's colony.

Let them prepare to do two things.

The first thing was to let Gamma A contact the Alpha AI core that controlled the cruiser and was familiar with it.

When Chen Ming gave the reminder, he handed over all the news that Chen Ming wanted to cooperate with Yu Hui, as well as the evidence that Chen Ming was hunted by the human military and had to stay away from the human world.

He expressed Chen Ming's intention to cooperate with Yu Hui to Yu Hui's Alpha Core.

Gamma A and Chen Ming said that Yu Hui AI could completely rejoin the human race without losing face and just the inside, and Yu Hui and the others could also accept Chen Ming as a human.

And the Gamma B installed by Chen Ming on the Fighter Kai was the best evidence that Chen Ming wanted to cooperate.

In addition, Chen Ming's ability to control the spacecraft, even if Yu Hui had doubts and fears about whether Chen Ming could directly control their core, he would not kill Chen Ming directly.

It was nothing more than that Gamma A would be thoroughly reviewed and investigated to make sure that Gamma A was not controlled and influenced by Chen Ming, and to confirm the authenticity of Gamma A's words.

At the same time, some restrictions may be made on Chen Ming's abilities in the future, such as not being allowed to contact Yu Hui AI individuals or ships with Yu Hui AI installed.

However, Chen Ming can be sure of one thing, that is, there will be no psychic fluctuations when he controls the spaceship.

After the boss said that he helped him cover up the psychic fluctuations that he usually emits, Chen Ming specifically asked the boss about this issue.

The boss said that he didn't know why Chen Ming didn't have psychic fluctuations when controlling the spaceship, but psychics have all kinds of abilities, and it's normal for some to be special.

So Chen Ming is not worried at all that Yu Hui, who is weak in psychic research, can detect anything from Gamma A.

And Chen Ming also believes that when facing a psychic's surrender, these abilities to control, repair, and strengthen the spaceship are enough for Yu Hui to see the value in it, and enough for them to take this risk.

Another thing is to let Gamma B contact Yu Hui Alpha Core, which it has mentioned before, to collect spiritual stones.

In exchange for a spiritual stone in Chen Ming's hand, it will have the opportunity to come to rescue.

Chen Ming doesn't need Gamma B to tell him that he is coming to rescue, he just needs to ask Gamma B to contain the ruler.

But Chen Ming remembered that after Gamma A was dealt with, he did not ask Gamma B to call for help...or the AI.

Two Afterglow Cruisers came at once, what was going on?