The brilliant plasma burst thrusters activated instantly, instantly moving horizontally for a distance.
Only a thick laser and a few long needles fired by storm needles grazed the edge of the shield.
This little increase in radiation energy is not even a fraction of the total radiation energy possessed by Glory.
The Supreme Point next to it did not have the same mobility as the Brilliant Class, and could not dodge all attacks, so it could only take about half of the concentrated fire damage.
Fortunately, Chen Ming had already activated the shield when he was in the dock.
He can rescue the ship from the attack of the same level as long as the radiation energy value does not instantly overload to 20,000, which is higher than the Brilliance.
And when being hit, Chen Ming also discovered that the shield effect of the Supreme Point was very strong. In addition to the higher upper limit of the radiation energy capacity, the growth rate of its radiation energy when being attacked was also slower than that of Glory.
There is a concept called shield effectiveness, or shield strength, for spacecraft shields.
When the shield is attacked, it converts the damage into radiation energy.
The shield effectiveness of the shield can change the efficiency of this conversion.
The better the shield, the slower the radiation energy grows when it withstands the same attack, which is equivalent to the shield itself absorbing more damage for the spacecraft's power grid.
Usually this results in an increase in the energy consumption of the spacecraft, so shield designers need to find a balance between the two.
But the shield at the highest point is different.
Even though it has a shield effectiveness that exceeds that of other cruisers, it can still maintain the same level of energy consumption when the shield takes the same damage and the radiation energy increases less.
The shield of this exploration ship is obviously very special.
Apart from the battleship, Chen Ming didn't know any other ship's shield was stronger than this one.
The psychic that came out of Tachyon Technology seems to be quite capable technically.
Such a person is unsuccessful within Tachyon Technology. He must have offended someone.
An irrelevant thought quickly flashed through Chen Ming's mind, and then he immediately turned back. Now was not the time to think about things.
At least in his first encounter with Zuo Jing's fleet, he was unscathed.
And due to the effect of Chen Ming's psychic power, he can ignore the limitations of radiation energy dissipation and forcibly disperse the hard auxiliary energy that cannot be dissipated under normal circumstances when the shield is still open.
In other words, just like all the spaceship battles Chen Ming had experienced before, as long as his mental strength could hold on, he would be unharmed and unscathed.
Moreover, although there was a huge gap in the frontal strength between Chen Ming and Zuo Jing's fleets.
But he is not without help, he has the pirate space station behind him.
No, it should be said in front of me.
After the previous round of concentrated fire from the Zuojing fleet.
Chen Ming quickly controlled the highest point and fired a round of shots in the direction of the small ship on the opposite side.
Then he hid behind the space station from which he had just flown out.
Chen Ming also has the help of the space station.
The space station also increased security after the previous afterglow attack.
Now that a foreign fleet is attacking, especially Zuo Jing's fleet, they must certainly help.
Even if the company has no intention of reconciling with Chen Ming, they must help.
Not to mention that Chen Ming had just helped them regain control of the network.
Although the space station does not have its own cruiser for the time being, ordinary ships can still be used.
Even though the dock had just been destroyed, the station's patrol team used their own dock.
This thought just flashed through Chen Ming's mind.
The sensor detected an explosion inside the patrol team's dock.
“…”
Chen Ming was silent for a moment and found that apart from the explosion, there seemed to be no follow-up movement at the patrol team's dock.
It didn't look like there was much trouble.
The patrol team dealt with the matter quickly.
They immediately dispatched about thirty destroyers and over a hundred escort ships to support Chen Ming.
Chen Ming quickly established a communication connection with the fleet in the space station.
Chen Ming didn’t know the commander of the fleet, but it seemed that he had participated in the last Yuhui raid and survived.
Having these ships can indeed help Chen Ming share some of the pressure.
In addition, in addition to serving as a shelter for Chen Ming’s two cruisers, the space station itself is also a huge cruiser-class fortress in terms of output.
This is determined by its size and the number of large weapons that match its size.
Such a giant fortress has almost no disadvantages except that it cannot be moved.
Of course, the inability to move is itself a huge disadvantage.
The fleet commander suddenly asked Chen Ming at this time: "Mr. Chen Ming, do you need us to follow your command?"
For Chen Ming, who had no command experience or skills at all, commanding these ships that he did not control through orders was obviously a suicidal act.
However, he did not refuse directly, but said: "Yes, I need you to take good care of the space station. Don't let the small boats get close to the space station and disperse the firepower. Protect the space station."
Chen Ming also needs the space station to help protect him, and he also needs the people on the space station to survive.
Although if the space station is damaged to a certain extent, the boss may take action.
But Chen Ming still doesn't want to end up in this situation.
Bai Quan, who had been watching, interrupted at this time and said, "Protecting strategic targets is usually the top priority on the battlefield. As long as you can protect the space station, you will have the capital to fight head-on."
Baiquan's words were just a comment and he didn't mean to give any instructions.
Chen Ming did not reply and continued to follow his own ideas, controlling his several small boats to disperse from the rear of the space station.
These small boats will disperse to the edge of the system, as if they are retreating through hyperspace.
Chen Ming's idea was to use these ships to attract part of the Zuo Jing fleet's attention.
Although Zuo Jing had been monitoring Chen Ming before, he was not able to guarantee 100% that from the time Chen Ming entered the dock until now, he had no chance to come into contact with those small boats.
In other words, Zuo Jing must take care of those small boats.
Otherwise, if Chen Ming ran away on the boat, their trip would be completely in vain.
Soon, Chen Ming's five small boats each attracted a destroyer and five frigates, and gradually moved away from the intersection of the battle lines.
These six ships are the number of ships that Zuo Jing believes are needed to directly destroy a Chen Ming spaceship.
But at the same time, Chen Ming also believed that with the assistance of his psychic powers, he could destroy a certain number of spaceships while multitasking.
Chen Ming, who is at the Fighter and Storm level, believes that he will never be at a disadvantage even in a one-on-many situation.
But Refraction and the Centurion will have to hold on for a while longer.
But the battle of the small boat is not the key now.
The key to victory in this battle lies in Chen Ming's two cruisers.
Once Chen Ming's ship has the space station as cover, he can also carry out output safely.
Although Chen Ming only had two cruisers in total, while the opponent had four.
One Ruler, two Defenders, and one Eagle-class.
Basically, they are representatives of strong frontal firepower.
But at this time, when the Brilliant Class had the opportunity to output, it exploded with irresistible strength in frontal firepower output.
Even if the glory is not the afterglow of the combat type.
But in addition to the Brilliant-class's terrifying frontal firepower, plus the additional boost brought by its auxiliary systems.
And with the blessing of Chen Ming's spiritual energy that continuously provides repair and rapid cooling.
On the front battlefield of the cruiser confrontation, it was Zuo Jing's fleet that was suppressed by Chen Ming.
Four Tachyon Spears emitting the dark green light of plasma and the iconic azure light of afterglow energy weapons came one-on-one, suppressing the four cruisers on the left path to the point where they were completely unable to fight back.
While brilliantly suppressing the cruiser.
Chen Ming completely ignored any tactics or reason and poured all his firepower on other low-level ships.
The two tachyon spears located directly in front of the highest point, and the "Locust" large-scale short-range missile launcher on the side of the ship specifically targeting small ships, are simply the most powerful weapons for clearing out debris.
The iconic deep purple particle torrents of the two human tachyon spears continuously swept around the four suppressed cruisers that were unable to fight back.
A large number of micro-locust missiles covered almost one-third of the entire front line.
A series of fireworks exploded on the left side of the battle line.
Chen Ming's two cruisers actually displayed the momentum of four cruisers.
And the actual firepower output is indeed comparable to that of four cruisers.
In addition to Chen Ming's own work, the defense system of the space station has now been fully activated.
The shield was deployed, and the large weapons outside the space station continued to help Glory suppress the opponent, putting more pressure on the cruisers that were already on the verge of collapse.
For a moment, no one knew which side was the stronger one.
Bai Quan fell into silence as he watched Chen Ming's actions.
He had thought it would be a fierce battle.
The gap in strength between the two sides can be said to be quite huge.
Even with the support of the space station, the overall strength gap was not narrowed much, and it was still a situation of few versus many.
After all, Zuo Jing and the war zone had the advantage of the first move and paralyzed the space station for a period of time.
At least he should be able to say a few words here and guide Chen Ming to achieve some results.
Then at the last moment, help Chen Ming find an opportunity to retreat, and the battle will be over.
But now, he just made a comment that couldn't even be considered as guidance.
The situation on the battlefield has already begun to become one-sided.
Looking at the four tachyon spears in front of him that were intertwined with dark green and azure and had an almost non-stop torrent of particles, Bai Quan didn't know what to say.
But this is exactly the situation that all commanders want to see most.
If the enemy can be crushed to death with frontal firepower, there is no need for any command operations at all.
Winning is the best result.
After observing for half a minute, Bai Quan had already concluded that the balance of victory was tilting towards Chen Ming.
However, just when Baiquan had this thought.
The only Ruler in Zuo Jing's fleet suddenly shut down its shield.
Relying on its extremely thick armor compared to ships of the same level, it directly launched a counterattack and rushed to the front line under the brilliant firepower.
The first bird to stick its head out gets shot.
Chen Ming is very clear about what is the best solution to this situation.
He immediately stopped destroying the remaining small spacecraft on the left path and began to focus his fire on the ruler that was advancing forward.
Although the Ruler has extremely thick armor, it is not like the offensive-class that can use armor to resist main-class weapons.
No cruiser can withstand the concentrated fire of plasma-enhanced tachyon spears with armor alone.
But what Chen Ming didn't expect was.
This seemingly ordinary ruler managed to withstand the concentrated fire from four plasma tachyon spears, two tachyon spears at the highest point next to it, countless miniature locust missiles, eight large live ammunition weapons on the space station, and countless other missiles.
They carried the entire front line and approached the space station, giving the ships in the rear a chance to breathe and counterattack.
"What the hell is this?"
Chen Ming had no choice but to quickly let the Supreme Point and Glory avoid the terrifying ruler.
His ship must not appear in the path of the ruler.
But as the positions of the Supremacy and Glorious classes were adjusted, the Ruler also changed its direction.
It would rather expose its relatively weak side armor to the firepower of the space station and move towards Chen Ming's direction.
It was as if he had already set his sights on Chen Ming.
The prolonged concentrated fire had no effect at all, and Zuo Jing's fleet had now regrouped.
The fleet is pressing forward and can pose a threat to the space station itself at any time.
Bai Quan, who had been silent for a while, finally discovered the problem. He quickly reminded Chen Ming: "The ruler is not that tough. This is... a psychic!"
In a certain frame of the video that Chen Ming broadcast live to Bai Quan, Bai Quan discovered that at a certain moment when the ruler's external armor was activated and shattered, a layer of metallic film appeared under the armor.
A layer of metal plating just beneath the armor protects the cruiser.
Bai Quan immediately sent this frame of the image to Chen Ming and said, "I know this psychic. He must be inside the Ruler. He doesn't dare to come out directly because he is afraid that his identity will be exposed."
Chen Ming soon noticed the metallic color and asked, "What kind of spiritual power does this guy have?"
"Metal Control."
"Your fleet can't defeat him. The battleship may be able to kill him head-on, but the cruiser definitely can't."
Bai Quan's words finally made Chen Ming remember.
The psychic he was facing at this moment was the same one who was intercepted by the ruler of the star zone military last time and was finally taken away by Yu Hui.
Later, he specifically asked the boss who was the person who stopped the boss from rescuing him.
And the boss’s final answer was him.
Enemies meet on a narrow road?
No, he came here on his own initiative.
Chen Ming acted decisively and called his boss directly.
It is obviously not shameful to call for help at this time. After all, this is a psychic who can fight against the boss.
However, the boss did not answer the phone, and Chen Ming could only hear a busy tone.
Chen Ming was a little nervous, but he didn't panic too much and immediately called the factory director again.
The factory manager answered the phone quickly and said, "Xiao Ming, are you okay?"
Chen Ming didn't dare to talk nonsense and asked directly: "Where is the boss?"
"Lao Wu just received a call and said he had something to deal with. I don't know what it was, and I can't contact him now."
Chen Ming tutted softly and said, "Okay."
Then he hung up the phone.
Bai Quan suddenly said, "I got some news here, and it's bad news."
"You have two psychics there, Mr. Wu. You should be facing another one."
Chen Ming's eyes flashed with gloom and anger, and he asked, "Who?"
"It's not clear yet. I'm still arranging people to investigate."
"Tell me when you get the result."
"OK."
I didn't expect that two psychics would come.
And they are two psychics who can arm wrestle with the boss.
Chen Ming felt a little pressured, because it meant that he would have to fight with one of the psychics who was at the same level as his boss, which would definitely be very difficult.
The boss probably won't be able to distract himself to protect him from now on.
But Chen Ming was unwilling to just jump away like this. He still had a lot of mental power and could continue fighting.
Moreover, this is also an opportunity for Chen Ming to engage in head-on combat with a powerful psychic.
Just like he couldn't miss a cruiser-level battle, he definitely couldn't miss the opportunity to fight a psychic.
However, because of the Ruler, the battle line was forced to loosen.
The balance of victory was instantly reversed.
Although Bai Quan provided Chen Ming with information, he did not think that Chen Ming had any chance of winning the battle when his fleet and psychic power were lagging behind.
So he said to Chen Ming: "I think you need to retreat."
“But I think I can still fight.”
"You can't get a powerful psychic now. If he gets too close to you, your spaceship might be twisted into a ball."
"I know I won't let him get close to me."
As soon as Chen Ming finished speaking, the Supreme and Glory-class ships simultaneously performed a short-distance jump, putting some distance between themselves and the Ruler.
Moreover, the jumps made by these two ships also covered up the jump fluctuations from other places that had just appeared here.
The ruler obviously did not notice the jump landing point chosen by Chen Ming, and it turned around and rushed towards Chen Ming's spaceship again.
And when it got close to the limit of the spacecraft's range.
Three cruisers suddenly appeared in the void around Chen Ming's spaceship.
Refractive level, brilliant level, and scintillation level.
There are a total of five cruisers, which is the maximum number of cruisers that Chen Ming can control now.
If someone who didn't know saw this scene, they might think that it was the army and Yu Hui fighting, and would never have thought that this was a conflict between a psychic and Zuo Jing.
Of course, Chen Ming didn’t have such strange thoughts in his mind now.
All his attention was focused on calling upon his mental power.
This was the first time that Chen Ming used his psychic power to completely cover the maximum number of ships he could control, and he used his psychic power to its full potential without any reservation.
The highest point, glory, brilliance, refraction, and flicker, all the large weapons are outputting their strongest firepower towards the ruler who has no time to react as if they have infinite recharge and infinite ammunition.
What Chen Ming liked most about the Afterglow ship was that their large weapons were almost all loaded with Tachyon Spears.
And now, ten ordinary particle torrents, combined with four plasma particle torrents, pierced into the ruler's armor like fourteen spears piercing through the stars in the dark space.
At this moment, the damage caused by the concentrated fire of Chen Ming's cruiser almost reached the lower limit of the main force weapons.
The turbulent particles penetrated the armor and shattered the psyker's metal plating.
The entire hull of the Ruler was submerged in a violent torrent of particles, heating to a red color in the cold space.
Without a shield to help share the damage, there is only one thing between the hull and the interior beneath the armor: extreme heat.
No one can survive in such an environment.
The rulers lost control of all internal personnel and gradually came to a standstill.
And its engine also caught fire due to the torrent of particles.
It exploded in just a few seconds.
This is a weakness of the ship itself, not the psyker.
Moreover, this scene does not mean that the psychic is dead.
When the ruler explodes,
The fragments of the ship that were supposed to fly everywhere suddenly gathered together.
A steel giant appeared in space.
With his appearance, all the loose battle lines not far away that were destroyed due to the ship battle were flying towards the steel giant.
He absorbed the fragments of the shattered ships.
The body size has once again increased dramatically in a short period of time.
Moreover, his psychic power to control metal also allows him to violate the laws of physics and quickly approach Chen Ming's fleet in space without any means of leverage.
At this time, in the core position of the Iron Giant's body, the psychic who controlled the Iron Giant had a gloomy face.
When he first heard of the psychic Chen Ming, he thought that his psychic powers were specifically designed to restrain Chen Ming.
So after hearing the request from the war zone to kill Chen Ming, he accepted the request without fear or hesitation.
And he remained cautious during the battle.
Even though he thought that Chen Ming's fleet would be directly destroyed under the fire suppression of his fleet, he still maintained the coverage and protection of the ship's armor.
This bit of caution of his helped him once, preventing him from being exposed right away.
But what he never expected was that Chen Ming would be able to call in three more cruisers in an instant without any warning.
There are five cruisers in total, all of which can use the large weapon Tachyon Lance continuously with almost unlimited force.
While only partially destroying the armor, the entire cruiser was heated to an extreme temperature, just like food heated in a microwave.
If it weren't for the fact that one of the Flash-class ships only had three large weapon slots in total, two of which were Defender point defense energy cannons and only one was a Tachyon Lance.
The high-energy particles just broke through his defense, and the speed of attacking the entire spacecraft will probably be even faster.
He might not even be able to react.
But having said that, he did fail today.
His ability was exposed here, which meant that his relationship with Zuo Jing could not be separated.
But if he doesn't continue to finish the job, he will offend not only Chen Ming, Wu An and Bai Quan, but many more.
So now the psychic is ready to give it all without reservation just to kill Chen Ming, so that he will have one less person to offend.
(End of this chapter)