Chapter 396

Chapter 396

Ying Chenlin's heart sank when he saw the command ship. He raised his eyes slightly. In the heavy fog, he could not see the higher position of the core energy. He could only see the faintest light of the mecha, which was the border troops who had not given up the fight.

On the communication channel, You Su's voice reached the spacecraft's control room: "Luo Xu!"

The moment Luo Xu saw the command ship, he sent a communication request signal to the command ship and other mecha divisions. However, the command ship, half of which was surrounded by deep water, had completely lost its system for connecting signals to the outside world, and only a faint residual light remained on the entire ship.

"Major General!" a border soldier shouted.

"Report!" Luo Xu sent an emergency communication to Wei Changyang on the severely affected signal system without hesitation, "This is the Deep Core 16 Team. We have found Lieutenant General Lin Yi's command ship and are requesting support!"

Luo Xu glanced around, the unclear scene in the fog became clearer as they approached. The damaged spaceships and starships were all in the deep water of the orbit. Just from this scene, he couldn't imagine how difficult a battle the army trapped in the fog had fought in the past five days.

The spaceships that arrived near the core point first initiated communication requests to the mecha divisions that were still fighting. The pollutants approached and attacked the approaching spaceships. The border troops who had been holding out here for 5 days saw the spaceships coming from the side, and the mecha divisions that were fighting knew that reinforcements had arrived.

Luo Xu connected the mecha and said, "The vanguard troops retreat, leave the rest to us!"

"We can't retreat! We have to protect the command ship!" The mecha division that stayed behind to fight shouted with a choked voice, "The commanders are still in the command ship!"

Luo Xu's expression changed drastically, and his eyes fell directly on the command ship that was defeated and about to be covered by the tree of life, "You Su!"

The moment the remaining mecha division's voice fell, the red and white gun mecha originally on the hull of the spacecraft fired a shot, and the speeding mecha suddenly withdrew from the defense system of the spacecraft, crossed the protection area and entered the core orbit of HGF-445, which was densely polluted. Following him was KID's medical mecha. The two mechas entered the contaminated area one after the other. The light of battle attracted everyone's attention.

Luo Xu saw this scene and shouted: "All mecha operators, get ready! Set up an optical signal network and save people!!!"

The deep water of the Tree of Life continued to extend towards the command ship. The red and white gun mecha locked onto the cracks in the command ship's defense system when it jumped out of the spacecraft's protection area.

Endless pollutants were rushing towards him. You Suo pulled the joystick and nimbly passed over the pollutants. When they were about to hit the command ship's defense system, the 100%-charged wind and thunder cannon hit the broken system. The enhanced attack blasted forward and completely broke the optical components of the defense system.

Amid Theo's urgent calls, You Su's entire mecha crashed into the command ship's defense system. He grabbed the cracks on the surface of the command ship and rushed into the interior of the command ship with the entire mecha.

There was no residual light inside the command ship, and the ship's oxygen system and other systems were completely damaged.

There is no way the human body can survive in this kind of environment. If there are still people on the command ship, they will not be in the front.

"Go to the warehouse behind the dock!" Ying Chenlin's voice appeared, "You go first!"

You Su's mecha suddenly retreated. He came to his senses, turned the entire mecha around, and immediately rushed towards the berthing platform at the rear of the warship.

Ying Chenlin entered the rear gap of the defense system after You Su, turned around and sealed off the pollutants that tried to crawl in through the gap. The weapon in his hand switched from the mechanical bow to the Flowing Fire Sword. The Flowing Fire Sword, which was more suitable for close combat, resisted the pollutants rushing towards him from the front, and a mecha guarded the gap at the rear.

Yuan's reminder sounded in Ying Chenlin's ears, "Chenlin."

Ying Chenlin suppressed the discomfort of entering the time velocity field and said, "Set up a mental power alarm and a time velocity alarm."

Above the defense system's peripheral vision, there was an area with even thicker fog, and the horizon of the universe could not be seen. When looking at that position, Ying Chenlin felt his heartbeat quicken for a moment. It was not an acceleration from excitement, but a physiological acceleration of heartbeat.

When he noticed his heartbeat quickening, he immediately opened the reserve injection point inside the mecha. One of the injections was temporarily replaced and injected into Ying Chenlin's arm muscle during the break in the battle.

The slowly injected injection brought a strong sense of calmness, which relieved the mental power in his body that was gradually rising under the influence of Kronos. The mental power concentration in the cockpit was decreasing at a very fast rate, and finally stabilized at 6300. The uncomfortable feeling of acceleration subsided at this time.

Ying Chenlin knew that he had guessed right.

This is a special injection he got from Doctor Eric before leaving the Kolia contaminated area. It can reduce his mental strength to a certain level in a short period of time.

Ying Chenlin knew that he would be affected by Kronos' resonance, especially at such a close distance, but he knew that when he was at the Tree of Life before, he was not affected by Kronos at the first time, but the abnormality appeared when his mental power reached its peak.

As a human body, his double S physique can only withstand a limited peak value. Once it grows rapidly beyond the body's tolerance under the stimulation of Kronos, the same situation will occur as in the Tree of Life battlefield.

Fortunately, he pulled through, and his condition recovered and even improved.

If he is unlucky, his genetic disease will break out again because his body has reached its limit.

Therefore, the best way is to forcibly suppress this growth rate, so that he can stay in Kronos's domain for a period of time without being affected.

"Chen Lin." Yuan reminded again.

Ying Chenlin did not reply, but once again knocked out the pollutants on the crack. The thick fog affected his vision and judgment, but he clearly saw the increasing number of red signals in the cockpit, but among the increasing number of red signals, there was no signal of Kronos.

“It’s higher up.”

His intuition told him that Kronos was still some distance away from him, in that foggy place.

At this time, two Border Army mechas came down from high above, and the pollutants outside the crack were blocked by the two Border Army mechas. Seeing someone coming, Ying Chenlin's sight stopped on the command ship that was constantly covered by deep water. He looked up and then down, and turned without hesitation and rushed towards the position where the bow of the command ship had been covered.

The border troops who came to support in time saw this situation and hurriedly reported to Luo Xu: "Major General!"

Luo Xu is building an optical signal network. The special optical signal network installed in the spacecraft is not as comprehensive as the system on the warship, and the range of the special light source has become extremely small. He can only let the captain of the spacecraft fly to a specific location and use the spacecraft as the signal midpoint so that the mecha divisions fighting around can see the signal of pollutants more clearly.

As the pollutant signal expanded, his attention was immediately attracted by the blue dots at the edge of the signal network.

That was the figure of KID Medical Mech. Luo Xu's heart sank. "What is he doing in front of the command ship!?"

"Major General!" the soldier on the other side shouted, "Commander Wei's signal has been received."

Not far away, more and more spaceships rushed into the depths of the HGF-445 orbit. In addition to the spaceship that Luo Xu was on, the spaceships of Wei Changyang and others also arrived at the vicinity of the core point from various entrances. As more and more spaceships arrived here, the light signals on the approaching spaceships connected with each other, and all the pollutant conditions near the core point of HGF-445 were detected.

Compared with the mountains and seas outside that can block the beast tide of warships, the pollutants at the core point are much less than predicted by the border troops, but the pollution values ​​of these pollutants are higher than those outside, and they are all high-level S-level pollutants.

"All mechas carrying long-range weapons, load jammers and search for Kronos's location!" Wei Changyang coordinated the information transmitted via optical signals, "Melee mechas cover the long-range mechas' advance, clear out pollutants, and provide medical treatment for the wounded!"

As more and more spaceships arrived, more elite mecha divisions of the border army got out of the spaceships, with a clear purpose of rushing straight to the core point.

"Commander, why don't you just give the order to place the jammers?" the officer said.

Kronos must be nearby. There is no place for Kronos to hide here like in the underground of Slared. As long as they can scan Kronos's location, their jammer can be used.

"I know." Wei Changyang looked at the system, "But I'm not sure."

The border army has persisted until now just to deal with Kronos, but Wei Changyang's inner feeling of uneasiness has not stopped. He has been chasing Kronos for so long, and he has always been vigorous and resolute in fighting against Kronos. However, the more information he gets about Kronos, the more fear he has for the unknown of this pollutant.

"We have both the jammers and the heavy weapons." Wei Changyang leaned on the programming table, his eyes fixed on the various environmental data detected, trying to get a definite answer from the various intelligence. "Have we really consumed all the energy of Kronos?"

The border officers paused. If it were five days ago, they would have been confident that they could destroy the orbit and consume Kronos.

But five days ago, there was a heavy fog, the vanguard troops lost contact, and their combat effectiveness was damaged. The data and intelligence they had were completely unclear... There was a lack of a positive signal, an important data, but something happened to Lieutenant General Lin Yi's command ship.

"Commander, now is not the time to consider how much Kronos' energy we have consumed." The officer next to him said, "Even if we can't consume it, all of us here can still fight!"

Yes, at this point, they have no way out.

Wei Changyang made up his mind: "Use the first batch of jammers to pre-interfere with Kronos!"

Intense flashes of light flashed in front of the spaceships, and the explosions in the high altitude sent an extremely fast signal peak. The border troops that went out of the spaceships did not stop, and all of them rushed straight to the high point of the unknown fog. The keen mecha divisions rushed straight to the heights under the cover of the optical signal network, and high-level S-class pollutants jumped out one by one, fighting head-on with the border troops.

At the tail of the abandoned command ship, You Su drove the mecha and quickly rushed into the command ship's berthing platform. There were no protective measures at the berthing platform. Cracks also appeared on the other end of the command ship covered by black water. Small pollutants crawled in from the cracks and stuck to the hull of the command ship. All eyes looked at You Su.

"Yousuo! 23 pollutants detected!" Theo's alarm was about to break.

You Su's gaze stayed on the pollutants for only two seconds. The special energy bombs in the storage chamber that had not been used by the Tree of Life came in handy at this time. When the pollutants rushed up, he destroyed the interface on the special energy bomb without any hesitation, and he threw the energy bomb high into the air.

The pouring energy liquid attracted a large amount of pollutants. At this time, the wind energy cannon that he suppressed with one hand had been charged. When a large string of pollutants rushed towards the energy liquid, the wind energy cannon blasted out. You Su hid in the exposed hard hull of the warship to the extreme and blocked the pouring gust of wind!

This explosion not only blew up the pollutants, but the leaked energy also diverted the pollutants away from the side. You Su did not stop at all, and before the blast even dissipated, he had already rushed into the command ship.

The huge explosion of the command ship alerted everyone around. Luo Xu's signal network even shook. He looked at the fierce flames in the thick fog and asked, "Is that stinky boy You Su going to die?"

After clicking the button to confirm the signal's continued operation, he turned and left: "Everyone protect the spacecraft! This is the signal point, find a way to send the signal out!"

Luo Xu put on the jammer and rushed out in the mecha.

The bayonet of the berthing platform had been blown open. You Su followed the layout of the command ship in his memory and continued to move backwards along the damaged gap. Behind the warship, apart from the berthing platform, are basically the storage warehouses and large equipment locations. Ying Chenlin was right. If there really was a one in ten thousand chance, Lin Yi and other border troops who did not have time to evacuate were most likely hiding at the tail of the command ship.

You Su said with difficulty: "Turn on the mecha signal detection... and the life detector."

Theo did not respond, and the program console in the cockpit showed that it had started.

The diameter of the wind and thunder cannon was lowered, and You Su kept advancing forward from the docking platform inside the command ship. The surrounding areas of the command ship made crackling sounds due to the heavy load, and deep water kept spreading inward. There were no signs of life in the mechas covered by deep water on the road. He did not dare to stop at all and kept moving backwards. Finally, when he turned into the storage warehouse at the rear of the command ship, You Su's flying speed slowed down. It took only 20 seconds to fly from the docking platform to the storage warehouse, but these 20 seconds were longer than a lot of time for You Su.

In the command ship's storage warehouse, a large amount of weapons had not even been transported away, and fog and deep water spread into the cabin.

You Su did not miss any corner. He put away the attack cannon and expanded the search signal little by little in the thick fog. However, the further he went, the more the signal showed signs of detection error. `

At this time, there was a noise at his feet.

Theo's voice shouted excitedly: "There are signs of life! Yousu!"

You Su's pupils shrank slightly, and his body moved almost faster than his brain. He swept towards the location of the signal, and saw a small manned cabin that had not had time to get out of the spacecraft in a place that had been flooded by deep water. There were more than a dozen people in the cabin. This special manned cabin had extremely high defense, far stronger than mechas and small spaceships. The cabin's thrusters seemed to be still working hard to move forward, and a large amount of energy and life signs were detected one after another by Theo.

"Theo!"

Theo immediately sent a strong signal requesting to connect with the cabin, and when the connection was made, You Su heard a human voice.

The driver is reporting the situation to You Su!

The attack cannon in the cockpit was called out, and You Su's mecha was half submerged in the deep water. The muzzle of his gun was pressed against the side of the hull, suddenly blasting open the surrounding deep water. The deep water that had not yet been petrified was splashed away one after another. The wind sniper cannon was not enough, so You Su switched to the extreme storm, letting the scattered extreme storm splash away the nearby deep water.

You Su shouted sharply: "Pull the thrusters to full blast!"

The people in the cabin heard the signal and the pilot of the cabin pressed the thrusters to the maximum.

Soon after, the border troops who came to support You Su also arrived, and seeing the situation, they also joined the operation to rescue the energy warehouse.

The thick deep water was slowly destroyed by the thrusters and mecha weapons, and the manned cabin finally came out of the deep water under extremely difficult circumstances. The entire cabin was already scarred. You Su worked together with the border army to rescue the manned cabin.

You Su couldn't see what was going on inside the ship, but he didn't hear the voice he wanted from the different officers' voices, so he asked in a cold voice, "Where's Lieutenant General Lin?"

"Lieutenant General Lin went to the front." An officer said, "There are not enough spaceships and mechas in the command ship, so he went to the energy warehouse alone."

The spaceships in the command ship had been used up long ago, and all the mechas were given to the fighting border troops. The manned cabin was full of logistics personnel who had no combat capabilities. After Lin Yi brought these people to the manned cabin, he turned back to the front of the starship. He wanted to destroy the energy tank at the front of the warship to prevent Chronos from obtaining any energy from the command ship.

The driver said in a difficult voice: "We have been waiting for Lieutenant General Lin for a long time, but Lieutenant General Lin has not returned."

You Su didn't say anything. His hands trembled as he called up the command ship's structural diagram.

Theo whispered, "Yousui."

"Take the manned cabin out." You Su's voice was calmer than ever before.

The border soldier was stunned for a moment: "Mr. You!? Where are you going?!"

You Su pressed the thruster, and the red and white mecha rushed out from the edge of the storage warehouse. Several Border Army mechas that came later hurriedly brought out the manned cabin. They looked at the direction where the red and white mechas were heading, and it was clearly covered by deep water.

The location of the command ship's energy tank!

The pilot of the manned cabin was shocked when he saw this. "Stop him quickly! We can't go to the energy warehouse, it might explode!"

Luo Xu, who happened to arrive, was slightly stunned when he heard this: "What did you say!?"

In the fog, more and more mecha divisions flew higher, and in front of the command ship that was constantly being swallowed by the deep water, Ying Chenlin's Flowing Fire Sword fiercely pierced into the damaged perspective window in front of the command ship. The wind and fire of the Flowing Fire Sword burned a small crack, and he pressed the sword body and directly rolled up a part of the ship's hull.

Damaged by the deep water, as he had expected, the command ship's outer armor was already more fragile than the mecha armor.

After cutting open the hull, Ying Chenlin saw the command ship's passageway which had not yet been destroyed by the deep water. A few days ago, while assisting in the research of jammers in Kolya, Ying Chenlin learned about the structure of some warships. For example, the head and tail of a command ship are actually the most defensive positions, and the head is used to protect the energy tank.

The materials used here provide a level of defense comparable to that of a small defense system.

"Fortunately, it hasn't been destroyed yet." Ying Chenlin breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this situation. If it hasn't been destroyed, it means that the energy in the energy warehouse has not been absorbed by Kronos.

Yuan reminded: "Chen Lin, we have left the signal range of the spacecraft, there is a strong interference signal here."

Ying Chenlin knew it, but the most important thing now was to destroy the energy in the entire energy cabin. He was not sure how much energy was left in the warship, but the energy of a warship was equivalent to a small energy point. If it was snatched away by Kronos, it would be equivalent to the border army's efforts in vain.

The deep water seemed to have petrified this area and was spreading very slowly.

Ying Chenlin pried open the outer armor of the command ship from a relatively safe position, and the entire mecha retracted into the large pipe leading to the energy warehouse. This special protective layer was almost tens of meters high, which was comparable to the height of the docking platform, and was just right for the mecha.

When he entered the command cabin, he felt the air conditioning in the front running automatically. The air conditioning system, which was operating with strong supernatural powers, was protecting the energy cabin. A large amount of energy cannot be discharged through the exhaust pipes because the command ship is already in orbit, and the energy discharged is equivalent to being given to Kronos.

What Ying Chenlin wanted to find was the special operating system located near the energy warehouse.

In order to protect the energy warehouse, the border army added a detonation system to the defense of the energy warehouse. If the energy warehouse is destroyed, the border army will gather all the energy in the energy warehouse and explode. Due to its special nature, this detonation system only has a manual switch and requires high-level permissions.

But now the main control room has collapsed, and I'm afraid that high-level authority has also become invalid, but I still have to go there in person to manually switch it.

The cold air in the transport pipeline became extremely heavy. Ying Chenlin knew that he should hurry up. He endured the chill and kept moving forward. He soon found the location of the command ship's energy detonation switch. He forcibly destroyed the outer casing of the switch and was about to call up the operating system when he suddenly saw the outer layer of the switch display a bright red color [On].

"The system is already on..." Ying Chenlin stopped operating.

Not only that, Ying Chenlin also saw a reminder behind the word [Already Enabled] that the countdown had started.

When the detonation system was turned on, a countdown detonation program was actually added, and the entire countdown was only two hours away.

It is impossible to add a countdown to detonate in an emergency, not to mention that there are border troops fighting outside. Adding a detonation system may easily affect other people... The most important point is that if it is detonated in advance, it may not reach the core point of Kronos.

What is the reason that makes the person who activates the detonation mechanism risk his life to add a countdown?

Ying Chenlin suddenly looked deeper into the transport pipeline. At this moment, a strange figure suddenly swayed in the depths of the command ship's transport pipeline. A shrill alarm suddenly sounded in Ying Chenlin's ears. He moved slightly, and a strange vine rushed towards him from somewhere and slammed down at his feet.

The rushing vines collided head-on with Ying Chenlin's Flowing Fire Sword. The vines were green, not the thick gray of the Tree of Life. He shook off the attacking vines with one hand, pushed the thrusters under his feet hard, and rushed directly to the entrance of the energy warehouse.

The door of the energy warehouse has been destroyed. On the relatively tall wall of the energy warehouse, a wood pollutant that looks like an octopus and a vine is sticking to the wall of the energy warehouse. Its vine-like tentacles are violently destroying the energy warehouse entrance. Its body is extending from the crack on the other side of the hull, and the tail of the branch is puffing out smoke.

The entire space was filled with a huge fog. It seemed that it had experienced a difficult battle. Its body was full of traces of attacks by knives and guns. A large number of cut vines fell on the ground... Ying Chenlin looked up and saw the scarred mecha tied up in mid-air by vines.

Military S-class mecha... with a broken arm.

But he held a knife in his other hand, and he thrust the knife fiercely into the side of the wooden octopus, halfway through the body, as if the octopus was stabbed to the cabin wall. Green blood was gushing out of the wooden octopus, dripping onto the ground bit by bit.

As if noticing the arrival of other mechas, Lin Yi turned his head in a trance and saw a ball of red fire in the mist: "Let's go..."

The author has something to say:

Woo woo woo, it’s too late. I’m late. 200 red envelopes are dropped in this chapter.

This chapter is the 2nd update from last night plus the 1st update from today.

There will be 2 more chapters for today in the evening, so I will continue writing.

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