Chapter 57 Chapter 57
Hector carried the two cubs directly to the hangar on the lower level.
"You pick one."
Fighters and bombers of various models were parked in an orderly manner. The two little cubs were dazzled by the sight and finally chose a black X-wing fighter.
Hector lowered the protective shield, carried the two cubs into the fighter, fastened their seat belts, and said, "Are you ready? We are going out."
The two cubs squeezed into the passenger seat and nodded excitedly.
The hangar door slowly rose, the fighter started up, and drove into the dark space.
The universe is vast, and the huge fighter plane is just a drop in the ocean for the kids. Looking out of the window, they can only see blurry light and shadow.
The operation of a fighter plane is much simpler than that of a battleship. Hector first explained the functions of various buttons and driving skills to the two cubs, and then demonstrated the basic operations one by one: "Do you remember it?"
The two cubs nodded vigorously.
Hector was slightly satisfied, and then he took them back to the hangar.
When they got off the fighter plane, the two cubs were slightly disappointed: "Is this the end?"
"This is just the beginning." Hector said, "Who of you will come first?"
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The kids looked at him blankly, not understanding what he meant.
Hector leaned against the fighter, patted the fuselage of the fighter, raised his eyebrows and asked: "I have just told you the key points of flying a fighter. Don't you want to try it yourself? You can't learn it just by watching."
For the dragon race, theories are a waste of time. The fastest way to learn something is to just try it out.
Just rush in and it's done.
Anyway, with him around, nothing will go wrong.
Nota was the first to raise his hand: “I’ll go!”
"Then you go first." Hector sat in the co-pilot seat and looked at the waiting dragon cub: "You can't fly a fighter plane in this state, remember to change back to human form."
The little dragon stood there, wagging its tail back and forth uncertainly.
If I were to change back... Nota would definitely know.
But seeing the fighter plane leaving the hangar again, he was eager to try again.
The little dragon clenched his claws and changed back to human form. At worst... at worst, he could just let Nota keep it a secret.
"Next, just follow what I say, step by step, and don't panic." After the fighter left the hangar, Hector ended the automatic driving mode.
The little fox nodded, grasped the control stick with both hands and pulled back, and the whole fighter plane rushed forward suddenly.
The fighter plane was moving very fast, and she leaned back suddenly, leaning against the back of the chair due to gravity. When she was about to hit a meteorite, Hector said, "Don't be nervous, go left."
The little fox pulled the joystick to the left as instructed, and the fighter suddenly turned left before hitting the meteorite, and rushed out again at sub-light speed.
The black X-wing fighter, like a black bird without a sense of direction, rushed and flipped wildly in the dark space.
The little fox used up all his strength to stabilize his body, but Hector, the co-pilot, sat steadily the whole time, with a calm attitude: "It's still too hasty. The reaction speed is good, but you have to learn to control the rhythm and make predictions in advance. You are the one controlling it, not letting it control you."
Glancing at the calm man, the little fox bit his lip, and the big tail behind him stood up tensely. He loosened his hands that were tightly gripping the joystick a little, took a deep breath, and tried to control the rhythm by himself as he said.
After countless 360-degree and even 720-degree flips and sharp turns, the fighter plane finally stabilized. The little fox's ears, which were tightly tied straight forward, relaxed a little and quietly wiped the sweat from his palms.
"The progress is not bad. We can go back now and let Heri take over." Hector nodded with satisfaction and stretched out two fingers to measure: "It's just a little worse than I was back then."
The little fox glanced at him, and its big tail, which was standing upright nervously behind it, swung happily.
The fighter plane drove into the hangar again, and the protective shield fell. The little fox jumped down excitedly, eager to share his experience with He Li. However, he did not see He Li, but only a strange boy.
The other person was much taller than her, had wheat-colored skin, and had a pair of golden eyes like Herri's.
She looked up at him, her silver eyes narrowed, and she was ready to attack. "Who are you? Where's Herri?"
He Li, who had transformed into a human form, pursed his lips and stared at her, with his hands awkwardly behind his back, unable to speak.
Hector, on the other hand, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "You can't recognize Heri when he turns into a human?" He pulled the little fox's ear: "The nose is not good enough."
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Dodging his hand, the little fox stepped forward hesitantly, sniffed, and it was indeed the smell of Herri.
She slowly widened her eyes and said in disbelief: "How did you grow up secretly?!!!"
I was obviously so much shorter than her before!
The little fox was angry.
Now, except for Snowball, she is the shortest one in the family!
Heri, who was a little nervous at first, became proud immediately after hearing her say that. It seems that growing up is not without its advantages. At least now he looks like Nota's brother!
He grinned, walked up to Nota, raised his hand to measure the height of the two, and said, "You are only as tall as my thigh now."
ah!!!!!
The little fox was so angry that his fur stood on end. He ran to the steps, swishing his tail, and stood there with his hands on his hips, saying, "Just wait, I'll be taller than you in no time!"
"Okay, continue training." Hector clapped his hands, interrupting the cubs' childish quarrel and motioning Herri to enter the cockpit.
Heri made a face at Nota before entering the cockpit.
While the two cubs were learning how to fly a fighter plane, the little mermaid was also receiving training from Rong Heng in the cockpit of the battleship.
The battleship has many functional modules and the control is more complicated and delicate. It is not like a fighter plane, where you can just go in and charge. To operate the battleship, the little mermaid must first memorize all the functional divisions and modules of the battleship and know how to coordinate them, so as to give full play to the battleship's greatest advantages.
Controlling the main battleship depends on strategy.
The little mermaid sat in the stroller, looking at the cockpit curiously. Everything here made him curious.
"Have you recognized all the characters?" Rong Heng came over holding a thick stack of books.
The little mermaid nodded.
"Then finish reading these first." Rong Heng placed the pile of books in front of the little mermaid: "If you understand all these books, you will know half of it."
The little mermaid nodded ignorantly, looked at the thick pile of books in front of her, pursed her lips, and obediently held the book and started reading.
Rong Heng was slightly satisfied seeing how obedient he was.
Finally there is someone willing to learn.
Two days passed in a flash, and the cubs' training life had just begun when it was temporarily stopped.
——On the morning of the third day after arriving at the Barham Star Leap Migration Channel, five transport ships arrived as scheduled.
Rong Heng brought the little mermaid into the combat command room and let him watch from the side.
The little dragon and the little fox followed Hector into the fighter plane and prepared for battle.
The capital ship activated its jamming equipment and cut off communications; forty fighters activated their cloaking devices and ambushed near the jump exit.
The giant transport ship slowly sailed out of the migration channel.
One, two, three, four, five.
After all the transport ships had left the escape route, Rong Heng issued an order: "Gunboats, block the escape route exit, open fire!"
A gunboat quickly blocked the exit of the escape route, and five gun platforms were raised with their guns aimed at the transport ships. At the same time, forty fighter planes rushed towards the five transport ships and launched a fierce attack with full firepower.
The transport ship was attacked unexpectedly and was in panic for a moment before calming down.
The laser cannons and ion cannons on board were raised one after another, ready to attack.
"This is a heavy turbolaser cannon. Its charging time is 1 second, which is 0.3 seconds longer than that of a light laser cannon. But once it charges and fires, it only takes 0.08 seconds to hit the target." Hector drove the fighter and deliberately made a provocative gesture towards the transport ship.
The slowly rising cannon of the transport ship locked onto him, and a light flashed at the muzzle.
"So the reaction must be fast." Before he finished speaking, he pulled the joystick sharply and made a beautiful side move. The laser cannon that missed the target exploded on the transport ship behind them.
"See, that's it. There's an old saying, 'Use their own spear to attack their own shield'. As long as we grasp the timing difference well, we can let them attack themselves." Hector snapped his fingers, approached another transport ship, and continued to provoke.
He did the same thing and tricked several transport ships into firing at each other.
After several times, the transport ship finally reacted and dared not fire at will.
Although there was a protective shield on the ship, no matter how strong it was, it could not withstand the fierce attack of its own artillery fire.
The enemy's firepower was restrained, and the fighter planes' firepower suddenly became more intense.
After finding that the communication had also been cut off, the transport ships no longer waited for death and tried to break out by force. The five transport ships seemed to have agreed to evacuate in different directions.
"They want to run away." Hector's voice came from the communication channel.
"Got it. Gunboat, cooperate with me and shoot them back." Rong Heng quickly turned the direction of the gun platform and locked the target: "Fire."
The first two transport ships to evacuate were forced back by the fierce fire from the main battleship and gunboat. The other three transport ships saw that the fire was concentrated on the other two ships and wanted to take the opportunity to evacuate. However, they did not expect that the roaming fighters formed a defense line again and blocked the retreat. In the ten seconds of delay, Rong Heng changed his target again and locked the remaining three transport ships with firepower. At the same time as he issued the evacuation order, the main battleship and gunboat opened fire.
The evacuating fighters tacitly blocked the two transport ships that had just been forced to retreat.
The battleships, gunboats, and fighters worked in perfect harmony and successfully forced the five transport ships back into the blockade.
A communication request came from the other party in the communication channel. Rong Heng rejected the communication and said to the little mermaid who was watching intently beside him: "The captain of a battleship should not only be able to fly a battleship, but also be good at using it. Do you understand?" He tapped his temple with his finger.
The little mermaid looked up at him, her blue eyes glowing, and nodded heavily.
The battle lasted for a day and a night.
Rong Heng spared no firepower and continued to launch fierce attacks.
The transport ships were restrained in their firepower and could only stand there and take the beating. Sometimes they could not hold back and opened fire, but each time they missed and hit their own people. After repeating this several times, they finally fell silent and could only send out surrender signals repeatedly in an attempt to communicate with the main battleship.
Rong Heng refused all of them, and then ordered the gunboat to aim at the transport ship with the weakest shield and attack it fiercely.
The shaky protective shield was finally breached. Rong Heng narrowed his eyes and tapped the control panel: "Hector, prepare to land and seize control of the transport ship."
"receive."
Hector piloted the fighter close to the transport ship that had lost its shield protection, blasted open the opponent's hangar door with twin laser cannons, and forced a landing in the opponent's hangar.
Several fighter planes followed closely behind.
The movement in the hangar attracted the guards on the transport ship. Teams of armed guards hurried over. Hector turned around and told the two little guys to stay in the fighter, picked up two laser guns, and jumped out of the cockpit.
Fierce buzzing sounds rang out in the hangar, and the two cubs observed the situation outside through the monitor.
On the display screen, Hector was sweeping across the area with a laser gun, invincible.
There were not many guards on the transport ship.
Most of the time, these transport ships traveled in groups, relying on their own sufficient firepower and not being afraid of interstellar pirates, but they did not expect to run into a tough guy this time.
Hector led his men across the field and rushed directly into the cockpit.
The driver raised his hands above his head and handed over the control.
"Tie them all up, and search their weapons and communication equipment." Signaling others to tie up all the surrendered people, Hector took over the transport ship, entered the operations room, and began to cooperate with Rong Heng's actions.
The artillery fire from their teammates made the other four transport ships panic, and soon two more transport ships could not help but open fire, but accidentally shattered the protective shields of their teammates.
The transport ships were lost one after another, and by the time all five transport ships fell into Rong Heng's hands, one night had passed.
"Leave one transport ship to transfer the hostages, and take all the other transport ships away."
Everyone cheered, leaving behind a transport ship that had been bombed to pieces and had its navigation and communication equipment removed. After moving all the production equipment inside the transport ship, they threw all the remaining captives over.
The broken transport ship drifted aimlessly in the interstellar space. If these people were lucky enough, they might be found by the search team from the planet Balem soon; but if they were unlucky, it was possible that they would drift in the interstellar space for a month.
Without navigation systems and communications equipment, and running low on power fluid, the men were trapped on the transport ship and drifting.
By the time they were found, Rong Heng had already finished the finishing work and would not leave any clues.
"Return." Rong Heng turned the battleship and headed towards the direction of Star B3024. Behind him, four transport ships with abundant harvests followed in formation.
The little mermaid followed beside him, her face full of longing.
On the eighth night after the cubs left home, Ruan Shiqing received a text message from Mr. Rong, informing them that their mission had been completed and they would be returning soon.
Afterwards, he received several text messages in succession. Judging from the tone of the messages, they were all from the cubs.
[Dad, I learned how to fly a fighter plane!]
[I learned it too!]
↑This must be from Nota and Heri.
Ruan Shiqing smiled knowingly, but then became a little worried. How come they were flying fighter planes just after the training started?
He looked hesitant, but the kids' tone was full of excitement, so he didn't question them.
[Great, stay safe.]
The message from the little mermaid was completely different from that from Helinota. He sent two photos: [Dad, I read a lot of books! ]
In the photo, the little mermaid is reading at a desk with a thick pile of books beside her.
Ruan Shiqing enlarged the picture and found that the book on the top was called "History of Military Wars of the Galactic Empire".
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He looked at the title of the book in confusion. Could the little mermaid really understand a book like this?
[Is the book too difficult? Can I understand it?]
[There are some things I don’t understand, but Mr. Rong explained them to me.]
The little mermaid turned her head to look at Rong Heng, pursed her lips and smiled slightly.
After the trip from Balham Star, the little mermaid had one more person to admire.
The first one is Dad, and the second one is Snowball.
The kids huddled together, heads touching each other, taking turns chatting with their dad using Rong Heng's smart computer.
When Dad asked why Snowball was not there, the little mermaid looked at Herri and Nota and quickly answered: "Snowball went to practice alone."
Ruan Shiqing did not suspect anything and chatted with the cubs for a while. Then he put down the computer and turned around. He saw the cubs sitting on the bed, staring at his computer.
"This is an intelligent computer." Ruan Shiqing put the intelligent computer in his hand and let him take a good look at it.
Seeing the cubs staring at the intelligent computer with their heads down, he suddenly remembered that he had been so busy chatting with the cubs that he had forgotten to tell them that there was a new little companion at home.
Forget it, it’s the same thing to wait until I get back.
Anyway, we have already returned, so we should be back in a few days.
The artificial moon outside the window slowly rose to the middle of the sky. The two moons shone against each other, and the cold light penetrated the clouds, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
At midnight, some people have fallen asleep, but others are still wandering around awake.
The place where light and darkness intersect and dark shadows surge is a hotbed of crime and death.
In the bedroom, Ruan Shiqing was sleeping soundly, but the cub, who was lying beside him, suddenly opened his eyes, and the whiskers on his forehead moved quickly, as if he had noticed something.
He climbed out of bed, stood on tiptoe and peered out of the bedroom window.
But the moonlight was dim, and he could not see anything in the dark night. Only the faint smell of air made him feel the danger.
The thin tentacles on the forehead moved regularly, quickly and hastily. The black pupils in the middle of the dark red eyes shrank, and finally only a thin line remained.
After a long time, the cub's rapidly wagging tentacles finally stopped, and then drooped down weakly.
The cub stared at the invisible dark area outside the window for a long time with its eyes wide open.
The next morning, Ruan Shiqing got up and washed, but found that the cub, who always got up with him in the past few days, was still sleeping soundly in bed for the first time.
The whiskers on the forehead hang down softly, rising and falling with the breathing, which is very cute.
Ruan Shiqing couldn't help but reach out and touch the soft corner.
The small tentacles seemed to have some sense and curled up to prevent him from touching them. When Ruan Shiqing withdrew his fingers, they stretched out softly again.
What a cute cub! Ruan Shiqing smiled and went to the bathroom to wash up with a happy mood.
After washing up, I took a nutritional supplement and went downstairs, but found that there was no one in the yard.
The door was open, but there was no sign saying "open for business," and neither the Xiong brothers nor 09 were anywhere to be seen.
Ruan Shiqing looked around in confusion and was about to go out to take a look when he happened to run into three people who were returning together.
The Xiong brothers looked heavy-hearted: "This is too cruel. It has been years since something like this happened in the outer city, right?"
Even the little robot looked horrified: "This method is too cruel. It reminds me of those murderers."
Ruan Shiqing was confused when he heard this: "What happened?"
"Three people died in the outer city overnight." Xiong Fangfang frowned and said, "They were all homeless vagrants. They were torn into pieces and thrown into the garbage dump. The means were extremely cruel."
"It's only a few hundred meters away from us, and it was discovered by someone who went to the garbage dump to dig for things this morning. Now the whole outer city is in an uproar." Xiong Yuanyuan added.
"It's really scary." Although he didn't have human skin and wouldn't get goose bumps, 09 couldn't help rubbing his arms.
This life-loving little robot saw such a cruel scene for the first time.
"Has the murderer been found?" Ruan Shiqing frowned.
Although the law and order on B3024 is chaotic and murder and robbery are common, the homeless people wandering around the garbage dump are penniless and even if they are often bullied, their lives are not threatened. After all, everyone is busy making a living and generally will not kill people unless it is for profit.
Just like when he first arrived at Planet B3024, the threats from others were not as great as the survival threat of lack of food and clothing.
In the few months since he arrived, no such vicious incidents of murder and dismemberment have occurred.
No wonder the entire outer city was in an uproar.
"No." Xiong Yuanyuan said, "People outside are panicking now, wondering if there is another murderer on planet B3024."
Such a gray planet is simply a breeding ground for sin.
"For safety reasons, you'd better stay indoors less after dark," said Xiong Fangfang.
He killed three Bis people in a row. Although they were all relatively weak wanderers, the fact that he was able to kill and dismember them silently was enough to show how dangerous they were.
"That's fine, let's close the repair shop early." Ruan Shiqing nodded in agreement.
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Because of this vicious murder, the outer city was in an uproar for a while. But the dead were all homeless people with no relatives or friends, and after two days, no one cared about it anymore.
No more deaths occurred, and everyone's tense nerves relaxed.
That evening, Xiong Yuanyuan sent away the last customer who came to get his car repaired, and muttered, "It looks like the murderer doesn't plan to kill anyone again."
As a result, the customer's body was found early the next morning in a garbage dump not far from the repair shop.
The opponent's body was torn into pieces and thrown into the garbage dump. The shuttle motorcycle that had just been repaired in Ruan Shiqing's shop was broken into two pieces and thrown beside it.
Ruan Shiqing's face suddenly turned gloomy.
The cub that was left at home sat under the eaves, its whiskers on its forehead twitching anxiously.