The Death List Novel - Chapter 550
Chapter 550 Chongxing
“I hope everything goes smoothly for them!” Captain Marcus whispered as he watched the incoming ship cross the hypervelocity orbit.
The ejection trajectory used by the Independent Warship Attack was standard on the Universe Warship Faith, and could be used on both small battleships and mecha landing ships.
As a supercosmic battleship, Faith’s artillery range had reached more than 500 light seconds, and the range of the main optical brain radar was ten times that of the main cannon.
When faith encountered its enemies in space, the small warships and military mechs attached to it would turn cold if they slowly flew over. Therefore, they had to rely on hypervelocity ejection to send warships and mechs to the frontlines.
As for the return journey after the battle, the small battleship could fly back at a superluminal speed under the acceleration of a powerful power furnace. On the other hand, the soldiers needed to return to the specific mecha landing ship first. If they flew back by themselves, they would need at least a few star days.
Qin Lun’s judgement of Captain Marcus was very accurate. This was not the first time this experienced captain had worked with Apostle. When he was young, he had also encountered a descent to Apostle. Since their arrival, Marcus has been observing the apostles’ performance and measuring the level of cooperation between them.
Marcus had a clear understanding of Apostle, unlike Dong Yue, Vera, and the others who worshipped him blindly. He knew that every time Apostle descended, the enemy and our camp would receive about the same amount of support.
Of course, Marcus did not understand this fact when he first met Apostle. But now, he had already thought it through. Giese is not the center of the universe, and Apostle, or the starry sky, will not take special care of Giese.
As one Apostle once told Marcus, Apostle is concerned only with its own mission. Apostle from different factions were either allied, competitors, or mortal enemies. In any case, they would always be bound by their own mission.
Therefore, as a native of this world, Marcus did not need to pay attention to its enemy, Apostle, and only needed to cooperate with its own side, Apostle.
Most of the time, Apostle has a mission to help its own natives, who are more determined than racists, except for their fighting prowess and lack of loyalty.
After Qin Lun and the others descended, Marcus observed them for a few days, hoping to know how powerful these Apostle were. Belief would definitely arm itself with this kind of free starry sky support. Just how much resources and attention it required depended on how much strength Apostle possessed.
Robin and Qin Lun thought that Captain Marcus would think that his group of people were not performing well because of the maneuver, but it was just a misunderstanding. The captain of the Faith had a very vicious gaze. Not only did he feel the outstanding performance of the patrol team, he also grasped the hearts of the crowd to a certain extent.
At one point, the Apostle felt like they were tied down. To put it bluntly, Captain Marcus, who didn’t show much face, controlled the situation, leaving them without the freedom of the previous mission world.
However, the captain of the Faith was willing to invest after realizing the strength of his side, Apostle. He was very bold in this aspect.
Robin and Qin Lun’s original worries were unfounded. When Robin first proposed to equip the Jannamer biological warship, Captain Marcus had already tacitly agreed to it. He dragged on for a few days to reply to Robin, hoping to make Apostle pay attention to his own investment in resources.
The patrol team did not know that Marcus’s independent warship, the Attack, had kept the crew of Faith busy for five full Stellar Days. Not only did they deploy a small, up-to-date battleship, they also consumed all of the Angel Clones on board Faith, as well as samples of Jannamer’s biological tissue.
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“Shylock, what is this?” Inside the ship, Bobby was excitedly groping around. For a child who was only in his teens, the temptation of a universe warship was completely unstoppable.
“Don’t touch … that’s the fire button. Ah, you can’t touch that either. It’s a cannonball in the cabin! Ah, ah, ah! Somebody help me drag this brat away!”
Looking at the armory that had been blasted out of a large hole by the light cannon, Shylock chased after Bobby a little crazily. However, compared to Apostle’s physical fitness, he seemed to be tickling Bobby.
When the two of them first came into contact, they had a tacit understanding of each other. After a while, Shylock realized that he had made a mistake. Bobby, a Wind Elementium clansman, was simply a mechanical idiot, yet he seemed to be extremely fanatical about anything on the Attack. The result showed that the Wind Elementium was isolated from the machinery. As long as he touched anything, most of it would not be very good.
“Keke!” Looking at two teenagers of the same age, the surrounding group of Giselle girls who followed the Attack couldn’t help but let out a burst of exquisite laughter, diluting the gloomy mood of leaving the Faith and attacking alone by a lot.
“Fortunately, the soldier I gave you belongs to the All-Life Mecha. If I gave you a BBC (Metal Mecha), wouldn’t it be enough to dismantle you into scrap metal in minutes?” Shylock leaned heavily on his knees and looked fiercely at Bobby. “You’re not allowed to touch anything in the ordnance room again!”
After boarding the Attack, Apostle finally realized that Captain Marcus was still generous. The Attack was over five hundred meters long and looked like a drum with Jannamer’s biological armor attached to its surface. At its core, it used clone samples from Robin, Bobby and Sawa. It could be affected by the replacement abilities of the three of them and possessed some of Apostle’s offensive and defensive abilities.
The Attack had a powerful Shaya-class particle orbiter that could destroy the outer structure of Jannamer’s mature body in a single shot. If used to bombard planets, it would be no less powerful than a small meteor more than a kilometer in diameter.
According to Shylock, the main cannon was removed from a main Xia Ya class space warship. It could be considered a small ship carrying a cannon. This alternative design was not possible, because the cannon base of the Attack was finally installed using Jannamer biological tissue, except that only Apostle could control the main cannon with his psychic power.
In terms of manning, all the Keith beauties who were originally in charge of taking care of Apostle boarded the warship. In addition, there were ordnance officers who specially made special equipment for Apostle, so that they could repair the weapons and equipment of the soldiers’ mecha at any time.
Although the Apostle had their own independent battleship, they were still in charge of controlling it. They were led by Dong Yue, the beautiful adjutant of Captain Marcus.
In addition to this group of people, Marcus had provided the Attack with auxiliary military mecha and Flying Officer Keith as required by Robin. This was because during this period of training, the Apostle discovered that it would be a serious waste of combat efficiency if they were allowed to engage in air combat alone.
It is difficult for Apostle to learn Giese’s air combat tactics in a short period of time. If three or four Giselle pilots cooperated with one Apostle during the battle, the effectiveness of the entire team would be multiplied several times.
Seeing the results of the simulation training, Marcus did not hesitate to equip each Apostle with four subordinate pilots, forming ten five-man crews. Of course, Robin, Bobby, and Sawa’s crew were only reserve members of the ten five-man crew. Unless the situation required it, they would be more useful on the Attack.
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At this moment, an unknown change had occurred on an asteroid that was about ten light-years away from Attack.
Looking down from outer space, the planet’s atmosphere is purple red and the surface is covered in dark brown moss. The climate of the planet looked humid and hot. The water vapor on the surface of the vegetation was permeated with traces of plant juice. The entire atmosphere was filled with a thick layer of purple mist. It was very similar to a poisonous miasma.
Of course, some parts of the planet weren’t entirely covered in this kind of moss that was close to the ground. There was also a translucent thorn that looked like a crystal, as well as a huge plant that towered into the clouds and had the shape of a mushroom umbrella.
The mushroom umbrellas are often grown near water sources, mostly up to a thousand meters tall, and cover a radius of several square kilometers. Strangely enough, the mushroom umbrella was covered in holes like a pack of hamster nests.
In the vicinity of these holes are often accompanied by strange-shaped spores of creatures. This kind of thing did not seem to be a plant, and its surface would often wriggle gently like a placenta, producing some bubbly substance.
There were many large winged insects circling around the spores, seemingly protecting them from the harassment and attacks of the planetary beasts.
The spores were large and small, as large as a hundred-story building, and as small as a car. When they matured, they would open like flower buds, exposing the wet primary organisms inside. Most of these creatures resemble all kinds of reptiles. They have hard shells and claws, and some even have sparkling insect wings.
If Qin Lun and the others were also here, they would be able to see the giant spider they encountered during the drill, the black crab, from the bugs that covered the mountains and fields. These creatures were clearly the Gigustus worms that Captain Marcus had mentioned.
“Gulu!” A faint ripple spread out, and a swarm of flying insects patrolling around the spores seemed to be frightened, and they all moved away from the group of spores beneath their feet.
“Pa!” Before a spore could fully open, a scaled arm broke through the wall and squeezed out from the inside of the spore. Along with its movements, more than ten spores nearby had also changed at the same time, breaking apart one after another, revealing the creatures inside.
Although these creatures also had carapaces, antennae, and other insect characteristics on their bodies, the strange thing was that they were all “human-shaped”, and when they came out, they immediately scanned their surroundings vigilantly, clearly possessing extremely high intelligence.
“Respected Apostles of the Universe, the Gigus Arachnids welcome you!” Just as these bugs were sizing up their surroundings, an old thought suddenly sounded in their minds.