Chapter 148 Finals (Part 2)
Mingyu: “…”
The difference between the 3S-level mental power and the A-level mental power is not only in the strength of the mental power, but also in the limitations of the nature of the mental power.
According to historical statistics, psychics below level 2S have at most one psychic trait, 2S level psychics can awaken at most two psychic traits, and all 3S level psychics have more than two psychic traits.
Mingyu's spiritual power awakened too late, and he had never been to a special school for training. He was so busy that he actually forgot about this matter!
It is a good thing that the original mental power properties have been restored, but Mu Baixing said it hurts.
During the game, Mingyu was so shocked by Mu Baixing's casual words that he paused for a moment.
what to do.
For a moment, Yu thought, "Brother Mu said it would be painful if the mental beam was broken. So why not let Mu Baixing fire? Why not just do it all myself?" His mental power was also connected to the main gun's muzzle...
"Susceptible. Within the three-star range of the peripheral mental energy, the energy is susceptible. Acuity is significantly increased, exceeding measurable standards." While Mingyu was pondering, Mu Baixing had already briefly touched upon the previous topic. "To avoid pain, simply don't lose in the face of artillery fire."
He accelerated the starship to catch up with Qiehua in front of him and said calmly, "The strike position you requested is now in sight. Fire again."
Mingyu: “…”
Ming Yu gritted his teeth and raged: "You did this on purpose, didn't you, Brother Mu! Are you an undercover agent sent by the other side to disrupt my thinking?"
It was only then that he realized that his mental beam had been broken up... With a 3S-level mental strength, as long as Mu Boxing gave it his all, no one in the entire Star Navigation Competition would have the strength to break up his fire!
Mu Boxing: "It's an objective statement."
The man tilted his head and said calmly, "Be a little more coquettish."
Mingyu: “…”
The colorful hair behind: "..."
The red-haired man looked as if he was doubting his life. He turned his face away from the monitor and turned to the orange-haired man beside him.
Orange Hair shook his head and turned around with Red Hair to look at Blue Hair and Green Hair behind them.
"Being in love can't turn you into this, right?" Red Hair mouthed, "Did Boss eat anything bad these days?"
"No," Lanmao mouthed back, "I ran into Brother Qi Wei in the hallway outside the door the other day. He seemed to be giving the boss some relationship advice...something about how to avoid communication problems and say things directly..."
Mingyu didn't notice the conversation between the colorful hairy men. He held the fixed rod with one hand and the sight with the other, taking a deep breath.
The young man was still a little mad, but in a different direction.
Because Mu Ge is so cute when he says such words seriously, it is completely irresistible.
Mingyu: ...
Mingyu took another deep breath: No, we're still competing! He needs to clear his mind!
"Play seriously!" the young man shouted, seemingly trying to hide his mistake. "Brother Mu, stop talking nonsense!"
Mu Baixing tilted his head.
He stopped at the right time, suppressed the smile in his eyes, and said seriously: "Okay."
Mingyu pretended not to hear the slight chuckle that Mu Baixing said when he first spoke, and just looked forward through the metal glass of the cockpit.
Qiehua's starship was turning at high speed in the black universe. The body of the ship turned to the side, revealing a weak point under the tail wing.
"Aim at the joint connection of the external interface of the additional coolant storage tank on the right side." Ming Yu refocused his attention and said quickly, "Aim and lock--"
Fire again!
A bright blue high-speed mental cannon burst out, and Mingyu's finger hovered over the fire button, ready to fire another shot if it missed again.
"Can Qiehua dodge again?" Rabbit shouted from the livestream. "This is already the fourth shot fired by Wucailan—!"
"Too fast!" Inside the cockpit, observer Leon shouted the moment he saw LUCE open fire, "Retract all mental threads!—"
Lucé's special psychic cannon completely abandoned attack intensity, pursuing the ultimate in firing speed. Even with an S-rank observer present, it would be difficult to detect the trajectory and direction of his firing in advance.
The first three unexpected dodges were simply a stroke of luck. If the energy had exploded, their starship would have been severely damaged even if it had not crashed.
Qiehua couldn't possibly gamble on this.
Leon: "Don't let him detonate our energy! Use the starship shield to block it!"
"Bad position!" Lime Lamp exclaimed, "LUCE changed the muzzle this time--"
Almost at the moment the words fell from his mouth, the bright blue mental cannon had already hit the movable joint on the lower right side of the starship.
"Bang!" Rapid energy particles struck the metal connecting cone of the movable joint, sparking a brilliant orange spark. The purple-painted conical connecting rod bent inward, forming a sharp angled indentation.
"...Wow!" the no longer furry bunny host exclaimed, "What a tricky spot!"
He magnified the structure of the Eggplant Starship on the light screen, magnifying the bent connection on the entire light screen.
"Everyone can see this! This is a new coolant injection pipe added to the Eggplant Starship during its modification!"
"Perhaps due to the original structure of the A8-type standard warship and the time constraints of the modification, the coolant injection pipe and the outer protective shell adopt a relatively weak conical grid structure."
"If the conical grid breaks, the outer protective cover of the coolant pipe will detach, exposing the pipe. While the coolant inside may not leak... it will form a passage leading to the interior of the starship!"
"And when the mental cannon enters the starship through the passage, the coolant tank and nearby pipelines... everything will explode!"
"How did you find out?" Observer Bai Rihong shouted from the cabin of the Eggplant Starship. "This is too fast! It's only been a few minutes? This is the only flaw in our starship modification!——"
"...Because he's a genius interstellar designer!" Qiehua exclaimed. "He might just notice as soon as we leave the harbor!"
Mingyu didn't see it that early.
Qiehua was the opponent they were targeting today. Mingyu's first three shots missed, but they were not in vain.
The bright blue mental power turned into a large mist before dissipating each time, sweeping across the hull of Qiehua's starship, transmitting the external form of Qiehua's starship into Mingyu's mind.
As a starship designer, Mingyu is extremely keen on discovering details that ordinary people would not notice.
He quickly locked onto the attack position that could cause the greatest damage to Qiehua and would also be most likely to force Qiehua to fire back.
"However! Although the energy-bearing capacity of the metal required to construct the conical grid structure is about half that of the normal shell protective metal, it is still a very strong metal component!"
The host, Rabbit, watched the match unfold on the field and explained professionally, "Luce's psychic cannon is very weak. The reason it's so effective is because its speed is too high, so it still causes some damage after impacting the cone."
"But as long as the eggplant flower isn't hit again in the same spot, there's actually no need to worry about this bending angle!"
"And yet—this is so colorful—"
"Be careful!" Leon said sternly, his expression tense, in the Eggplant Starship. "It's a dazzling display! Anything could happen! The damage to the cone barrier is currently at 40%. Change your flight pattern! Don't let them hit the same area twice...!"
"The chances of being hit in the same area again are slim." Lime Lamp pushed up his glasses. "LUCE's mental cannon is very narrow, only about one centimeter in diameter."
"With such a small diameter, both starships are changing direction at high speed. Even our Qiehua can't fire repeatedly, not to mention that Lucé is an observer and probably hasn't received the same high-intensity shooting training as the pilot."
"If it was Mu Boxing who opened fire, I would be more worried."
"But if it was Mu Boxing who opened fire, we wouldn't be unable to detect his movements due to our speed..."
"Of course I can't do that. No normal person can do that! But just in case." Qiehua said casually while driving the starship, "Just speed up! Change direction!"
It has only been five minutes since the game started.
More than twenty starships spread out from the edge of the battlefield between White Elephant and Ranger, Colorful and Eggplant, and quickly sailed into the starry sea ahead that they needed to cross.
This kind of intense, attritional battle suited them perfectly; no one wanted to wade into this mess. The Colorful and Eggplant, Slayer, and Ranger groups all simultaneously spread out at obtuse angles, preventing themselves from being shot from behind while they concentrated on engaging their opponents.
The purple-gray painted Eggplant Starship continued to increase its speed, and the large amount of energy flow ejected from its tail fins caused the temperature of the gas in the universe to continue to rise.
It turned rapidly in the universe, like a swimming fish, trying to distance itself from the colorful world and change the angle between the two starships.
Colorful followed closely behind.
Mingyu sprayed the starship with silver-white paint and, as usual, painted a rainbow streak on the tail according to Wucaitou's request. The silver starship was not slowing down, and it was changing direction closely following the eggplant flower.
"Qiehua intentionally adjusted the starship's course several times to avoid being targeted by Wucaibian again from the right," the rabbit host observed perceptively. "They clearly didn't want to expose the starship's right wing to Wucaibian again!"
"During this finals, a starship crash requires repairs, which requires a call for a repair ship. This results in a long wait and high repair costs. Qiehua seems to be afraid that Wucailan will hit the cone grid again and damage the starship. This is an extremely cautious choice!"
"Is Qiehua being a bit overly cautious about Wucaibianlan?" someone in the comment section expressed confusion. "Are they that afraid of LUCE?! With such a small strike radius and the distance between the two starships being so great! How could they possibly aim accurately?"
"I don't quite understand either. Why does Colorful have to let LUCE fire?"
"Because Lucé's psychic cannon is fast!" explained the expert below who knew more about star navigation. "Although his power is small, his attack is fast. Look at the location he chose. It's actually more than just a weak point."
"The coolant tank is located near the main gun muzzle. From this position, if Qiehua wants to intercept LUCE's attack, choosing to counterattack will be much faster than turning the starship... LUCE is forcing Qiehua to engage them."
"It means to tell Qiehua that if you don't choose to engage in artillery fire, you'll crash!"
"Given Luce's level of strength, all you're saying is based on Luce being able to strike repeatedly." xkk sneered. "Look at the shift in position between the two starships. Is it possible that Luce is aiming for the exact spot he just struck?"
"It's impossible to aim, not to mention LUCE, no one can aim! LUCE can't do it, Mu Bai can't do it, even the Slayer's people can't do it!"
"I just asked my cousin! She served in the border army for ten years and has undergone ten years of shooting training. She said that even if the most famous pilots in history were to come, they wouldn't be able to complete repeated shooting with a range of only one centimeter in this kind of dynamic pursuit..."
The two starships continued to accelerate, chasing each other.
In the field of view of Mingyu's helmet, the Eggplant Starship within the scope was shaking at high speed. As the starship's speed increased and its direction changed more and more sharply, the cone-shaped fence on the lower right side of the Eggplant Starship appeared and disappeared in the starship's constantly changing flight posture.
"Twenty to the left, ten to the up." Ming Yu's mental power was keenly transmitted back to the direction of the starship ahead.
Mu Baixing quickly adjusted the course of his own starship, and the silver starship tilted sharply.
Mingyu held on tightly to the anchor as the starship shook violently, shouting, "No! Brother Mu! It's shaking too much! I can't lock on! Can I transfer the targeting authority to you?"
Mu Baixing chuckled.
"I think highly of you." He smiled. "How can I lock onto such a fast change of direction?"
Mingyu blinked.
The man said that it couldn't be locked, but his tone was relaxed and leisurely.
The silver-white starship accelerated again under his operation.
"Help me watch and shorten the distance to three stars, so that it is within my susceptible range." Mu Baixing said.
"Three stars, open fire. I guarantee you'll hit the target every time."
Mingyu: “…”
Mingyu also laughed.
"Right up ten!" He said with a smile, "Alright! Then close the distance between the two starships to three! We won't be left behind by them!"
The silver-white starship's engines roared.
"So fast!" the host, Rabbit, couldn't help but exclaim. "No matter how many times I see LUCE's modified engine, I can't help but exclaim! So fast! I never thought a large aircraft carrier could reach such a high speed in such a short period of time! With LUCE's heading guidance and Mu Boxing's operation, the colorful ship is constantly closing the gap with Qiehua!"
"That's Luce! He was able to keep up with Qiehua's movements... Any other observer would have long lost track of Qiehua and been slowly left behind..."
"I don't know what shortening the distance means, but... five miles—three miles—two miles—three miles... Colorful has kept the distance to Eggplant Flower within three miles!"
"Is there some trick here?" the commentator observed intently. "Shortening the distance seems to have actually cost us the advantage of our observer. After all, Lucé possesses S-level mental power!"
"An S-class observer's maximum observation range is over ten or even twenty star miles, while a B-class observer's range is only around three miles. Mu Boxing's close proximity to the Qiehua battleship has caused LUCE to lose this advantage and fall into Qiehua's advantageous zone."
"Although Qiehua's observers have low mental power levels, they work very well together. They can observe every movement in their surroundings at a short distance and won't miss a single movement."
The rabbit commentator scratched his fake rabbit ears and said, "I really want to know why the colorful things shorten the distance."
"Strange." Lime Lamp in the Eggplant Starship also looked back frequently, "Why are they chasing us so closely? It's totally unnecessary..."
"I don't understand!" Leon shouted, "They're going to chase us closely! Let's stay away from them—"
"We've already reached maximum acceleration!" Qiehua yelled. "They're still nipping at our heels!"
In the black universe, two starships are gliding through a colorful river of star energy.
Unstable energy flows are surging in the universe, with ring-shaped crowns rising from the river, accompanied by explosions and splashes of energy, warning passing starships to stay away from this dangerous section of the river.
The splashing active energy emitted bizarre light and colors, reflecting on the sides of the two starships, casting a dazzling glow on them.
All the spectators were watching their movements.
Whether it was the eggplant flower's avoidance or the colorful pursuit, the starship's performance had been brought into play to 100%.
The prowess displayed by both pilots and observers made everyone hold their breath. Even xkk was so absorbed in the intense pursuit that he didn't intervene to spoil the fun.
"I think I understand what Wucaibianlan is doing." A moment later, someone in the comment section suddenly said, "Of course dynamic shooting is impossible! After all, the error is too huge. But don't forget... there's also a position called relative stillness? !!!"
"What do you mean by relative stillness? Wucai Lanlan is the pursuer! It's impossible to predict the trajectory of Qiehua's starship. If Mu Baixing wants to maintain relative stillness with Qiehua, then his reaction speed will definitely be...incredible..."
"That's incredible," said the first person who spoke. "Take a closer look at the live broadcast screen. Do you see anything?"
"The fluctuations in the distance between the two starships are getting smaller and smaller!"
"Just now, the distance between the two sides was fluctuating between three, two, four, and three stars, but now, the distance between the two sides has basically remained at two and a half stars... What does this mean?"
"Oh my god." The rabbit host also noticed this. "This means... the colorful flowers are gradually and steadily following the movements of the eggplant flowers..."
"Within the three stars... the colorful pursuit seems to be even more effortless?!"
"What's the logic behind this!" The fluffless rabbit was extremely confused. "The shortening of the distance between starships doesn't increase the observer's sensitivity!"
"I mean, Lucé must have given it his all just now. It's impossible for his mental sensitivity to suddenly evolve from S to 3S within three stars..."
"Even maintaining stability in a pursuit like this requires more than just 3 seconds of sensitivity..."
"What's going on!" Qiehua's several observers gasped. "Quick! Change the direction more frequently! Qieqie!"
"Boom!——" A large cloud of black smoke erupted from the thrusters at the rear of the Qiehua battleship. The pilot Qiehua slapped the control panel and shouted, "No! It's overloaded! If we accelerate any further, the starship will..."
"Boom——" There was another black smoke in the universe, and this time it was the colorful rear thrusters that almost overloaded and exploded.
Lime Lamp: "Their starships can't withstand high-speed changes! Hold on a little longer! If their thrusters are damaged, or if they slow down for fear of damage and change their flight attitude, it will be our chance to open fire—"
"Pay attention to the energy value of the colorful gun barrel!" On the live broadcast platform, the plush rabbit also shouted loudly: "Colorful is about to fire again!——"
"Dynamic stillness maintenance time, one second." In the cockpit of the silver starship, Mu Baixing not only did not slow down, but instead pushed the speed boost lever forward another half.
The starship turned left, and the black smoke trailing behind it became thicker and thicker, and was left far behind.
"It's okay." Ming Yu quickly glanced at the starship's speed. "The thrusters I designed have a high level of redundancy! Even though it's smoking, the starship can still travel at high speed for at least five minutes!"
"Hold the static position for two seconds." Mu Baixing responded calmly, "Aim and prepare."
The jet hidden inside the purple starship engine in front flipped upwards, and the altitude suddenly dropped sharply.
Before Mingyu's mental power could see the other party's action, Mu Baixing had already sensitively sensed the slight energy disturbance caused by the other party's engine turning.
The silver starship's engines reversed and it also plummeted downwards.
“Three seconds!”
From Mingyu's perspective, Qiehua's starship remained steadily in the front left of his view.
It was as if it was frozen in place, not moving at all.
It really hits the target every time.
He thought to himself, "Shooting from a distance of three kilometers is so simple."
Although the target point was only one centimeter wide, Mingyu had been a shooting instructor in a fighting club before, and he never fell behind in training even when he was busy... Of course he wouldn't miss!
"LUCE's energy cannon fires!——"
Bright blue mental threads shot out quickly, illuminating the eyes of the not-so-furry rabbit.
The silver starship was cast a shadow by the stars behind it, casting it on the purple spaceship in front, like a white water bird gracefully landing.
It lowers its head and picks up the prey fleeing from the water.
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