Chapter 17 Human beings with Long Wings?
“Mr. Commander, we are greatly outnumbered by the enemy. We may well be finished this . . . this . . . time,” the Stutter King muttered.
“It’s you, not me!” Hardman leaned forward and pointed to him, saying, “You and Blue Eyes fight against the enemy 'til the arrival of the Cold Blood Corps reinforcement fleet. Do you hear me?”
“How . . . How come it’s me again? Okay, Mr. Commander, I’m leaving first, and let’s meet in the hell!” the Stutter King complained in a low voice as he backed up a few steps awkwardly.
“Good idea. So what are you waiting for?” Hardman laughed loudly.
The Stutter King furiously rushed out of the command cabin.
A short while later, seven shuttle interstellar fighters and thirty saucer-shaped unmanned fighters driven by seven robot warriors launched from the flagship of the Maniac Battlefleet. They merged with the other ten warships and rushed to fight against the enemy.
Hardman commanded the flagship and another frigate to guide the human-driven cargo ship to turn around and fly to the Pyramid Star from the other side.
“Big Head, you are betrayed again, Aha!" The message from the Blue Eyes popped out from the self-propelled network installed inside the Stutter King.
He was so angry that he placed the iron arms on the weapon control panel and couldn’t wait to fire an electromagnetic bomb at the enemy warship. However, the IFF (identification friend-or-foe) system inside suppressed the impulse of personality components, so the Stutter King did not make any further efforts. He pushed the control stick and rushed straight to the enemy warship.
“Sir, the incoming attack warship of the Maniac Battlefleet is 200,000 kilometers away, and all the warships are ready to launch the missiles.”
In the opposite flagship, a beautiful middle-aged female officer with long legs stood with her arms crossed and stared coldly at the radar monitor screen, then gave the order loudly to her subordinates. "I order to fire the first wave!"
In the light, she looked very similar to human beings upon first glance. But the difference was that her eyes were deep with blue light and her hair was golden yellow. On her back was a pair of thin, silver wings that stuck out of her titanium protective clothing! Human beings with long wings?
Yes, she was the strongest and most mysterious force in the Hesana Galaxy—Lieutenant General Delaney, the commander of interstellar fleet in the Feitian Empire.
The 50-million-ton and seventy-kilometer Fierce Angel class battleship seemed to be a giant mobile castle in deep space. From the open lid of the catapult nest, numerous interstellar fighters rushed out and hovered over the battleship to wait for the orders.
At the same time, a violent flash of light erupted from other warships. Scores of Fire Eye pulse missiles were fired, streaking through space with bright tail flames that formed a spectacular wide barrage extending forward, illuminating the dim universe.
In the Maniac Battlefleet, Blue Eyes screamed excitedly, "I order all the fleets to execute the defense program!"
As the instructions were given, ten warships were rapidly lining up in a row, escorted by the small frigates above.
“We should escape instead . . . instead . . . of fighting!” the Stutter King advised Blue Eyes though the self-propelled network.
However, what responded to him was a computer virus command!
In great terror, the Stutter King frantically started the anti-virus program and finally resolved the crisis. It knew that this was only a warning attack. If it talked nonsense again, Blue Eyes, as its commander, had the right to start the pre-embedded virus program that would completely kill it.
"Take it easy, Mr. Commander, you still need . . . n-need . . . n-need me!" the Stutter King shouted desperately.
“Then you must fully follow my orders!” a cold message responded.
The coming Fire Eye pulse missiles were intercepted by the network of numerous enhanced laser cannons of the Maniac Battlefleet. The entirety of space seemed to display a grand fireworks show.
"As expected, the robot warriors have intercepted the firepower based on extremely accurate calculations!" Lieutenant General Delaney sneered and raised her long arms to give orders, “Fire the split neutron missile!"
"Yes!" the weapons officer answered, and pressed the button.
Two huge missiles silently ejected out of the tube. They sank downward instead of moving forward. After one minute, the missile engine ignited. With a loud howl, it directly flew to the enemy fleet from below.
“Big Head, it’s your turn!” Blue Eyes reminded.
“Understand.” When receiving the command, the Stutter King quickly delivered a combat program to the fighters.
Over thirty fighter jets lined up and fired high-power electronic interference signals as they rushed toward the neutron missiles!
A bunch of long-range particle beams swept from the side of the UAV to attack the missiles first. The radar system of two neutron missiles immediately responded by splitting into a hundred warheads like chrysanthemum valves; ninety 90 of them were fake warheads, five were real warheads, and five were directional microwave warheads. The explosion of microwave warheads formed a huge shock wave, which inevitably caused logic disorder of electronic equipment so that the fighters suddenly dived in the depths of space.
The long-range particle beam fired by the Maniac Battlefleet formed a dense protective net and the strike warheads produced shower neutrons and γ-ray responses. Based on the intensity of these rays, it was possible to distinguish the real warheads from the lighter auxiliary warheads.
One second later, the analytical data was transmitted to the computer of the Maniac Battlefleet. Then the enhanced laser cannon redirected to fire at the identified real warheads.
About 100,000 kilometers and 32,000 kilometers away from the Maniac Battlefleet, laser cannons successively hit five split neutron warheads. The explosion was so violent that it pulverized all materials within 1,000 kilometers.
The radiation shockwave slowly spread out to form a huge air vortex. The fighters diving into the void were instantly vaporized.