Chapter 229
Chapter 229
Outside the Slarede defense line, when the Third Star Region Border Army decided to use all its energy to support the operation of the Slarede contaminated area, the starship from the Dawn Galaxy contacted them immediately. It was the fastest starship to arrive among the existing support.
"Do they have enough energy?" The officer of the Third Star Region Border Army felt that Shuguang was exaggerating a bit: "It takes a lot of energy to support the operation of the Administration."
As soon as they ran out of energy, they contacted the major Star Alliance starships that were stationed there. The energy they could collect could support the overall rescue function. Although the starships had prepared energy, it was only intended to provide the mecha divisions with energy for combat and a month's voyage. After reserving energy for retreat, these energies, together with all the energy of the Border Army's headquarters, could only support the operation of the highest defense system for one hour.
One hour is too tight a time limit. If all the time is called up, it is very likely to cause failures in the operation of other systems.
"Enough." The soldier hesitated and said, "They said they brought a full warehouse of energy tubes, which can support our logistics and jump operations."
The officer from the Third Star Region raised his eyebrows when he heard this. "A full warehouse???"
The soldier said, "Yes, the warehouse is full."
Although the officer of the Third Star Region didn't know why there was so much energy in the Shuguang spacecraft, he was of great help at this time. "Let them come in, and thank Chairman Li of Shuguang for me."
The starship from the Dawn Galaxy in the First Star Region entered the Slared Abandoned Administration area and squeezed together with a number of starships parked here. The eyes of the staff in the Dawn small spaceship lit up when they saw the huge starship, and Zhang Ge's voice of "Fuck" jumped out uncontrollably.
"Chairman, have you brought out the largest starship of Dawn?"
"It seems to be the largest one. This is the first time I see Dawn using such a large starship."
The leader of the Black Crows received a call from their own mecha division, "There are mecha divisions from three bases on that starship."
"Fuck, why are there so many mecha masters here!?"
Chairman Li Jingyan brought several leaders with him. Except for the KID base, there were really not many people left, so all the mecha divisions from the remaining three bases who could be deployed on emergency missions were brought here. That starship carried all the support that could be mobilized in the Dawn Galaxy in an emergency.
"Why did the Chairman bring so many people here all of a sudden?" asked the staff.
Brother Zhang thought of
Li Jingyan took the initiative to contact him. "It seems that he thought we were trying to steal special energy and brought them here to support us."
Other starships also looked sideways at the huge starship. A starship that had been invested heavily was hovering outside the Slared Abandoned Management Bureau. When the berth was opened, several small spaceships flew one after another to the headquarters of the Third Star Domain Border Army. Li Jingyan stood in front of the control console in the starship. Beside him were several leaders of the Dawn Galaxy and people from the First Star Domain Border Army.
Elder Qiu and Lieutenant Colonel Lu were also included. They used several important jump points this time. The entire journey within the First Star Domain was green light, and there was no need for interception when passing through the customs. The purpose was to quickly send this starship to Slared to support their mecha divisions in the First Star Domain. In order to provide support, they even carried a large amount of energy and supplies on their starship, so that the mecha divisions could provide help as soon as possible when needed.
As a result, before they could arrive at the scene to provide support, news of Kronos's appearance in Slaredre came again, and the Third Star Domain Border Army took over the Slaredre defense line.
Lieutenant General Lin's message arrived at the first time, and they had already communicated with the checkpoints at all major borders. The reason they could get support so quickly was because they took shortcuts along the border all the way.
Li Jingyan had received all the intelligence from Kronos on the way here, and also knew the plan of the border army of the third star field. The support sent by the Star Alliance would not arrive for half an hour. The border army was fully guarding the entire periphery of Slared. The severity of the situation was even more serious than during the Dawn Black Hole period.
Even with the support of three starships from the Third Star Region Border Army, they were unable to take any action against Kronos. The severity of the situation was beyond Dawn's expectations.
"It has been confirmed that Slarede's highest defense system is running low on energy. The Third Star Region has decided to use all the energy from the three starships to provide defense support to Slarede." Lieutenant Colonel Lu contacted the contact person at the border military of the Third Star Region, "Chairman Li, are you sure you want to supply all our energy?"
Director Liu: "Chairman, most of these energies are allocated by the First Star Region Alliance Headquarters..."
"Here, we'll have the higher-ups negotiate with the Third Star Region later. The most urgent task is to get all the mecha divisions out first."
Li Jingyan said firmly: "The energy from so many starships is enough to keep the entire Slared running for an hour, right?"
On the detection system, the horrific changes inside the Slared contaminated area caught everyone's eyes. Even though they had seen contaminated areas get out of control or mutate many times, there had never been a mutation like Slared. The energy for the entire planet was about to be sucked dry, and the energy for the natural operation of the management bureau was devoured. This was a pollutant that had just evolved into the Super S-level for three years, and it already had such horrific capabilities.
Elder Qiu said in a deep voice: "It's hard to say. When we input energy, Kronos is also absorbing energy."
"One hour is just an ideal situation. It is very likely that we won't even be able to last an hour."
While the few people were talking, the major starships had already docked at specific locations, and the mobile mechas were transferring the energy on the warships and starships to the Slared Abandoned Management Bureau. While the heavy weapons were being sent in via jump, the energy tanks of the major base stations in Slared were replenished. This would take at least half an hour at the fastest.
Half an hour to refill the energy, leaving an ideal half hour to deliver heavy weapons to the explosion point.
Time was too tight. Even if the heavy weapons could cause targeted explosions, they could only complete all the work within an hour.
"There's a problem." The staff member walked over quickly: "I just contacted KID. Boss Shen said that the jump coordinates in the snow mountain area have fluctuated due to the explosion of pollutants. Now the damaged large-scale mecha division is rushing to the snow mountain base station. We can only jump through the snow mountain!"
Mr. Qiu realized the problem: "Oh no, what about the transportation of heavy weapons?"
"The heavy weapons have been rerouted and are now being sent to the base station near the Slared Snow Mountain."
After making sure that the energy in Slared could be supplied normally, Wei Changyang quickly arranged a heavy weapons ambush point with other soldiers. Extreme weather occurred in the Slared snow mountain area. After the avalanche, an unstoppable blizzard followed. The direct impact was that the high-altitude jump point they temporarily arranged became invalid, and the jump point that was recently teleported was useless.
All the damaged mechas have arrived at the border army's spaceship floating high in the sky. As soon as they entered the spaceship, battlefield maintenance technicians and medical soldiers came to pick them up. The 19 mechas underground were damaged too badly. Ying Chenlin couldn't stand steadily when he came out of the mecha abyss. He forced himself to stay clear-headed and not faint from sleepiness. When he was helped to the side by the medical soldier, his face was pale, with engine oil and sweat mixed together, and his hair was wet.
"Hello, are you feeling any other discomfort?" The medical soldier crouched beside Ying Chenlin and asked patiently.
"I'm fine..." Ying Chenlin's voice was very weak and hoarse, "Go help others."
Many stretchers passed by him, but he was protected by others in the innermost part and was not affected too much.
However, the number of damaged mechas and injured mecha pilots on the spacecraft was far greater than he had expected. A large number of medical soldiers gathered at the stopover point, and some mecha pilots whose mechas were severely damaged had not yet been fully rescued.
Ying Chenlin listened to the mixed voice messages and when he wanted to go over to help, his body was too heavy to move.
He lowered his head slightly and saw from his dim vision that the joints of his left hand had varying degrees of frostbite. He tried hard to see the condition of his teammates and heard reports of ruptured injuries.
"The damage to the 19 mechas underground was too serious. Nearly 8 of the mechas had rupture damage to their outer cabins, and many mecha operators suffered from contamination and frostbite reactions."
"The rescue environment on the spacecraft is too harsh. We must immediately send them out of the contaminated area and to the main ship for treatment."
"How long will it take to reach the snowy mountains?!"
"It will take about 10 minutes at full speed. I have already contacted them to clear the jump point for rescue."
The entire rescue spacecraft was shaking on the way to the jump point. Ying Chenlin watched the stretchers passing by in front of him and saw Lin Yao and Zhao Lejie. Zhao Lejie's right hand was injured, and Lin Yao had frostbite... He gradually saw the condition of his teammates, and after a while, a figure suddenly stood in front of him.
Ying Chenlin was stunned for a moment. When he looked up, he saw the shadow in front of him squatting down, and You Su stopped in front of him.
"Is it cold?" You Su asked.
Ying Chenlin didn't feel cold, his body was numb, "Not cold."
You Su's eyes stopped at the warm blanket that the medical soldier had put on Ying Chenlin, and finally he took out his coat and put it on him, "Don't faint, we'll be out soon."
You Su stood up, as if he had something else to do. He said a few words to the medic next to him and left quickly.
Ying Chenlin's voice was hoarse and he wanted to ask You Su if he was injured. When he raised his eyes, he saw a cracked scratch on You Su's left arm. His combat uniform was torn and the wound inside was still bleeding.
"Theo told me that there was penetration damage on the left side of its cabin." Yuan's voice appeared at the right time, "The interior of the mecha is not completely damaged. The constant temperature system and anti-pollution system have been running, resisting the cold air caused by the penetration of the cabin."
"Are you okay?!" Huo Yan came over after following the medical soldiers to confirm the conditions of Lin Yao and Ji Qingfeng. He looked at the traces of dirty oil on Ying Chenlin's body, and after confirming with the medical soldiers that there were no other wounds, he breathed a sigh of relief. "Da Feng and Xiao Yao are being taken care of by Xiao Xi over there. Their conditions may look serious, but they are actually not a big problem. You don't have to worry too much."
Ying Chenlin nodded, "Where's You Su? His left hand seems to be injured."
"He told me it was just a superficial wound and said there was no need to worry." Huo Yan's gaze fell on the window. "You Su seems to have some connections with the Third Star Region Border Army. I just heard about the situation and it seems that he went to the front to inquire."
"What's going on?" Ying Chenlin raised his eyes slightly.
"The situation is not optimistic." Huo Yan helped Ying Chenlin sit down and told him about the lack of time and other information such as the Dawn support. "Now we have to return to the Snow Mountain Base Station to jump. The border troops cannot leave yet. After the heavy weapons are delivered, Commander Wei Changyang plans to send the heavy weapons to the designated blasting point for detonation."
Ying Chenlin was stunned for a moment, "Send it to the designated location?"
"We are running out of time. We can only take a gamble." Huo Yan said, "The intelligence we have now is that Kronos is underneath the snow mountain. If we want to do enough damage to it, we can only send heavy weapons deeper into the snow mountain. The deepest layers are the two tunnels we dug earlier. The avalanche buried them quite a bit, but these two can still be used."
"Captain Huo, come here!" Qi Sicheng shouted.
Huo Yan asked Ying Chenlin to wait for him here and quickly ran to Qi Sicheng.
Ying Chenlin frowned when he heard this. There was not enough time...
Even with the energy of Dawn support, the time that Slarede's highest defense system can hold out is limited. If the border troops really want to deliver the heavy weapons to that location, then the people who deliver the heavy weapons will most likely never return. //This//work//is//by//
While he was thinking, someone came over.
You Su seemed to have finished talking to someone. He walked to Ying Chenlin's side and was about to take him to the medical room at the back. "We're almost at the jump point. There's a fixed position over there in the medical room to avoid bumps."
"You Su, we need to send them underground... we don't need to send them to the snow mountain ice cave." Ying Chenlin's eyes fell on the outside of the spaceship next to him, "There is a deeper place."
You Su paused: "Where?"
"Underground of the Slared Snow Mountain Base Station." Ying Chenlin looked at the Slared Snow Mountain Base Station directly below the spaceship and murmured, "When each base station was built, the building of the base station was dozens of kilometers deep underground in order to detect various changes in underground environmental data. There are also such changes in the underground of the Snow Mountain Base Station."
Ying Chenlin said: "You don't have to go to the ice cave."
“We’ve arrived at the snowy mountains!”
"Clear the jump point and let all injured mecha pilots evacuate first!"
You Su's gaze stayed on Ying Chenlin. After thinking carefully and deciding something, he lowered his body and said, "Come up."
Ying Chenlin was stunned.
You Su said: "If I don't carry you, will you run over there by yourself?"
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At the Slared Abandoned Administration, all the border troops are holding an emergency meeting to discuss the appropriate blasting location for the heavy weapons. The failure of the high-altitude jump point has made the nearest transmission location for the heavy weapons invalid. According to the current time, the person who transported the heavy weapons will never return. Wei Changyang volunteered to escort the heavy weapons, but this request was opposed by many people as soon as it reached the highest command room.
No one wants to end up sacrificing themselves by blasting the point unless it's absolutely necessary.
"But there is no other way now." Wei Changyang's image appeared in the video call, "These are the only solutions we can take in half an hour."
"The explosion of heavy weapons can be set at a fixed point, leaving you less than ten minutes to escape, which is completely insufficient for you to make a jump." Another officer of the Third Star Region Border Army said in a deep voice: "The time our defense system can hold out is not enough for you to escape. Do you understand this principle? Wei Changyang."
"Sacrifice is inevitable." Wei Changyang said calmly, "In order to deal with Kronos back then, Lieutenant General You also adopted the same method. She was right. Kronos cannot be left alive. The S-level Kronos back then was so difficult to deal with, let alone the current Super S-level Kronos."
"We all know this, Wei Changyang. Our desperate move cost Lieutenant General You his life. If you take the same action now, what will happen if you die?" The Third Border Army officer said, "Even if I have to deliver the heavy weapons, I will go. You have rich experience in fighting with Kronos. You can't be the one who is sacrificed. Do you understand?"
During the video call, everyone saw the severity of the combat command situation.
Li Jingyan listened to this combat meeting with a heavy heart and looked at the old man next to him: "Mr. Qiu, does dealing with Kronos have to have such a tragic outcome?"
"Kronos is very strong." Qiu Lao closed his eyes. "It is the strongest super S-level pollutant in the Star Alliance's records so far.
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"It's not surprising that the Third Star Region would take this action. In the Border Army's code of conduct, we will put the interests of the citizens of the Star Alliance first." Lieutenant Colonel Lu knew Li Jingyan's doubts. "I have heard about the battle of Kronos a few years ago, because the First Star Region also participated in it."
"That should have been nearly 11 years ago. When the Kronos test report appeared in the third star field, it happened to be during the joint military exercise between the two star fields." Lieutenant Colonel Lu continued: "Special pollutants were discovered during the joint military exercise, which caused the sacrifice of a large number of border troops."
In the joint military exercise 11 years ago, an S-polar pollutant, given the scale of the joint military exercise at that time, the border armies of the two star regions did not request support immediately. Instead, the soldiers of the military exercise on both sides conducted on-site actual combat and jointly wiped out Kronos. But they encountered Kronos who possessed the strange power of time. The situation deteriorated suddenly, and before anyone realized it, reports of sacrifices at the front line had already appeared.
"Yes, because of the misjudgment of this special pollutant, two star field border troops were sacrificed. In the end, it was a non-staff member of the third star field border army at the time. It was said that he was a mercenary mecha division with strong combat capabilities. He approached Chronos with heavy weapons." Lieutenant Colonel Lu said: "The original plan was that she would place the heavy weapons near Chronos's nest and then leave to detonate them, but in the end, they detonated before she could evacuate."
"That person died?" Li Jingyan was stunned.
"Yes," Lieutenant Colonel Lu said, "No body was found, nor were any signs of Kronos' death."
"The special nature of the power of time gives Kronos a strong ability to escape. Only a closer detonation can minimize its escape possibility." Old Qiu sighed heavily, "I roughly understand Commander Wei's thoughts. The defense line of Slarede is tighter than the border contaminated area. With such a small-scale explosion, it is easy for Kronos to escape at the border, but not so easy in Slarede... This may be the closest time to killing Kronos. Commander Wei wants to reduce the variables and send the heavy weapons to the place closest to Kronos."
"Then the closest place to the ground will do, right?" The maintenance engineer on the starship said, "The two ice caves were submerged by the avalanche. Even if it's the closest place, isn't there a closer place right below the Slared Snow Mountain Base Station?"
Li Jingyan heard this and asked, "What do you mean?"
"The border troops must have considered this." Elder Qiu did not deny the maintenance engineer's statement. "There is indeed a deeper and more suitable location underground in the base station, but have you ever thought about this problem? Once the explosion is detonated in the base station, the location of the explosion will be in the defense area of the base station, which will weaken the power of heavy weapons and affect the highest defense system supported by the base station."
The detonation of heavy weapons is almost instantaneous, and it does not matter how far away from the base station it is, because the base station will also be caught up in the crisis of explosion in an instant.
But the key lies in the fact that there is a very important order of priority here. The base station is also an important node that supports the highest defense system. The outermost layer of the base station has a small defense system, which can support the base station to be destroyed about ten seconds later than the surrounding areas. These critical ten seconds can allow the highest defense system to withstand the first round of major explosions, allowing the highest defense system to last longer.
"If we put it underground in the base station and detonate it," said Qiu Lao after thinking about it, "it's not impossible, but there won't be enough time, because we can't change the energy flow of the base station defense system in time, so there's no way to make the defense system last longer."
If the time is a little longer, they can change the energy direction of the base station, retract the base station's defense system, and detonate heavy weapons underground in the base station, allowing the base station to last for 10 seconds. It does not affect the operation of the highest defense system, and can also deliver heavy weapons to the deepest places.
But the key is that there is not enough time... Modifying the direction of energy requires base station staff. At this time, there is no time to send the staff in through the jump and make the modifications.
The maximum defense system can't hold out for long, and a large amount of pollutants are still hitting the maximum defense system. The support of the Star Alliance arrived in half an hour, and they didn't have time to escort these energy sources to every base station. The situation returned to the time when they had to gamble everything on one gamble 11 years ago... If they want to kill Chronos, they can only rely on this method.
When the rescue spacecraft arrived at the jump point, heavy weapons were also in the jump sequence and were about to arrive. The defense system only had 35 minutes left to hold out.
The Border Force rescue ship carrying the wounded entered the jump position. The medical soldier in charge of registering the wounded walked around and found that several people were missing when checking the data on the data board. "Wait, why are the two mecha divisions from the Dawn Galaxy missing?"
"Which two!?" another soldier asked in surprise.
"KIDtrace and sink." The medic said, "No one was found!"
At the location of the Slared Snow Mountain Base Station, You Su carried Ying Chenlin on his back and ran quickly to the energy warehouse of the Slared Snow Mountain Base Station. As soon as they got off the spaceship, they were blocked by major border troops. You Su flexibly ran to the energy warehouse under Ying Chenlin's guidance.
"Can the defense system's energy redirection be completed in 10 minutes?" You Su asked while running.
"Yes." Ying Chenlin's eyes fell on You Su's left arm, the wound on it was still bleeding, "Your wound has not been treated."
"Wait! Stop the people in front!" The border soldiers discovered people and shouted urgently.
You Su glanced at those people and changed his route to avoid them. "I remember you said before that you can't repair base stations."
"I've learned it." Ying Chenlin rested his head on You Su's shoulder, "If you destroy the defense system again, we won't be able to afford the compensation."
Ying Chenlin had been to the Snow Mountain Base Station once. When everyone was repairing here, he also went to take a look at the energy warehouse while repairing the mecha and had a clear understanding of the basic structure of the energy warehouse. If it were more than a year ago, Ying Chenlin would not have the ability to change the energy direction of the Slared Energy Warehouse, but the base station staff who followed him in Qiujin that year explained to him some of the operating principles of the base station defense system.
"What have I destroyed?" You Su asked.
Ying Chenlin: "Qiujin's base station defense system."
You Su: “…”
Ying Chenlin has a problem. If something is unclear, he will try every possible way to understand it.
After the Battle of Qiujin, he learned about the operation of the base station. In order to prevent You Su from destroying the defense system again and he could not afford to repair it, he learned about the base station defense system.
"You Su, what if I can't handle it?" Ying Chenlin asked.
You Su ran without slowing down. He avoided other border troops and turned into the building where the energy warehouse was located. "I brought a mecha. If we can't handle it, we will run away. If we can handle it, we can reduce casualties."
"Don't worry, I will definitely take you out."
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