After Qin Lun and Alex ran to the mech cabin, they found that all the ordnance officers and ground staff on the ship were in place, and more than half of the apostles and their partner Gies flight officers had arrived. Everyone's faces were filled with a little excitement. And the tension before the fight.
The Attack is different from the Confidence. As an independent battleship, the small Attack is expensive, and it is impossible for the soldier mecha to have a separate cabin. All fifty soldier mechas stand in two rows, with only a simple metal armor wall in the middle, and the back of the mechas is directly installed on a small ejection rail.
Not only does the attack look like the submarines of the old century on Earth, even the way the mecha ejects is like those nuclear submarines. There are more than 50 upward-opening hatches on the outer shell of the battleship, which will be opened in batches during ejection, and the soldier mechas will be ejected in turn.
Of course, the ejection trajectory of an independent battleship does not have the ability to travel through superluminal time and space. It is only a high-load ejection, which ejects soldiers at high speed to an area about one or two hundred light seconds away from the battleship, allowing them to fight within the radar command range of the battleship.
Qin Lun nodded to the excited young ordnance officer Sherlock, then grabbed the suspension bridge and slid down to the spherical cockpit, and was sent into the soldier's body. After starting the mech, he immediately connected to the main control room of the battleship.
The independent battleship is different from the Faith. Once it enters the combat mechanism, the pilots must all be in place and receive relevant information about the enemy's situation in the mecha. If you need to attack, you will directly accept the captain's order to eject. If you don't need to attack, you will quietly wait in the mech for the alert to be lifted.
"Quiet... Robin, how's the situation?" As soon as he entered the mecha, Qin Lun heard the messy inquiries on the communication channel.
These voices belonged to the apostles who had already entered the mecha, but the Guise pilot who was in charge of cooperating with them had good discipline and would not speak without orders.
Hearing Qin Lun's voice, the other apostles immediately realized something, and immediately fell silent. After all, the apostles were not soldiers, and they were used to working together in small teams before, so it was understandable to have such a performance.
"The display of the biological radar is not very clear. Now we only know that there are more than ten dynamic targets within the detection range, and it is impossible to tell whether they belong to the enemy." Robin's soft voice rang in his ears.
"What about Dongyue's opinion?"
As the three apostles who need to stay on the battleship most of the time, most of them have received short-term training for corresponding positions, and Robin has also been trained as a captain. It's just that at this time, Dongyue's opinion must be consulted. After all, she is Captain Marquez's official adjutant.
"Chief Qin Lun, I have two suggestions for reference. One is to send two teams to approach the detected targets for reconnaissance. The other is to wait and see until those targets enter the detection range of the momentum radar." Dongyue's voice was indifferent. No waves, as an experienced fleet adjutant, this situation can no longer make her emotional.
"Wait for the target to enter the detection range of the momentum radar?" Dongyue's words were a bit strange, but Qin Lun immediately understood. It turned out that it was not the Assault that detected the enemy target, but Robin himself.
As a biologically modified warship, the Assault is different from other Gith warships. It also uses the clone samples of Robin, Sawa, and Poppy as the core, and the Jannamer biological tissue as the material. The "parts" of replacement capabilities, biological detection radar is one of them.
Robin's apostle profession is a psychic summoner, and most of her apostle skills cannot be used in this world. However, the powerful spiritual power that the psychic summoner can communicate with the spirit body was brought in. With the cooperation of a more powerful biological radar, Robin's detection range is two or three times farther than the radar of the Attack itself.
Needless to say, the role of detection distance in combat is also the main reason why Qin Lun suggested that the three of Robin stay on the battleship. Of course, the reliability of this new biological device has not been tested.
The first suggestion Dongyue gave was actually the most normal mechanism for engaging the enemy, while the second suggestion was that the beautiful adjutant still had some doubts about Robin's ability. As small independent battleships, they carry limited materials, and every attack will consume a lot of money. Of course, if they can't attack, they won't attack.
After thinking about this, Qin Lun's face darkened instead, and he frowned and said, "Robin, Frank and I will go out to have a look, and order the war room to activate the attack mode!"
"Bang bang bang!" About a dozen hatches above the Attack were opened one after another, and ten soldiers burst into space with ejected flames, and quickly turned into ten small light spots, disappearing into the depths of the universe.
"Vera, Mei Li, Phils, form a four-machine protection mode with me!" Alex's gentle voice came from the communication channel.
"Understand! Understood..." The calm voices of several other people quickly sounded in the channel.
Although the apostles are the captains of their respective crews, the relevant air tactics are still commanded by the Gies flight officer. After all, the apostles' ability to master air combat maneuvers in a short period of time does not mean that they have the ability to command air combat.
With Qin Lun's seventeenth fallen angel as the core, the other four quickly formed a four-cornered formation to protect him like a cube. The team of soldiers led by Frank followed them not far to the right, and provided flank cover.
This is the two-person reconnaissance model that the apostles came up with after many rehearsals, using Qin Lun's reconnaissance ability with another powerful shield.
Qin Lun has the detection ability of multiple eyes and thorns, which is different from Robin's wide-range and long-distance mental power detection that relies on biological radar. His multiple eyes and thorns are slightly closer, but the sensitivity is higher, and it is more suitable for use on mechs .
As for the Shield Apostle, there are two people in their team, both of them are of MT attribute, one is the second-level Huobiao, and the other is Frank. Qin Lun brought Frank instead of Huo Biao, who was stronger, because he had the self-confidence that he didn't need to cover, and it was also to train Frank.
If they really encounter an enemy, the opponent is likely to be the apostle team chased by the other two alliances. They want to defeat the inspector team, show their strength, and then poach from the lawful alliance.
Therefore, these people will not kill them immediately. Of course, Qin Lun must give Frank such a good training opportunity first.
After the two crews were ejected, they flew for nearly ten minutes, and finally saw the object detected by Robin. It was more than a dozen large bugs like bumblebees. The flames of the soldiers sprinkled pieces of powder-like fluorescence in the starry sky.
"Alex, what is this?" Qin Lun passed the scene of his reconnaissance to several other companions through the silver screen.
"It's Napasa of the Zerg, Captain Robin is right, we need to notify the Attacker immediately!" Alex looked at the big bug on the screen, his whole body trembled, and his face suddenly became ugly, "Sir, please be careful Some, these things are tough."
"This is Napasa? Doesn't it look different from the projected image we saw?" Qin Lun raised his eyebrows. Ever since the exercise knew that the Zergs were nearby, Captain Marquez sent the apostles Collected some information so that they can distinguish the combat effectiveness of various Zergs on the battlefield.
Napasa, like the black crab, is a kind of scout of the Zerg. It's just that the black crab is huge and more suitable for long-distance cruising, while the Napasa is a highly mobile patrol and reconnaissance engineer. It just seems that Captain Marquez's information is a bit lagging behind. After so many years, the Zerg has obviously changed a lot.
The discovery of Zerg reconnaissance engineers at this distance means that Captain Marquez's previous judgment was correct, and there is indeed a Zerg base on planet X-352.
"Alex, if they see soldiers, there is no time to notify the Zerg on the planet." Qin Lun asked cautiously.
"Unlikely, the Zerg's biological waves have a distance limit, and they fly a little far. According to conventional judgments, this distance should not be in time to notify the Zerg on planet X-352." Alex thought for a while, and then said decisively.
"Sir, do you want to destroy this Napasa team?" Vera suddenly interjected and asked, "The mobility of these bugs is very high, no less than our semi-biological mechs. Although the persistence is insufficient, they can persist until X- There is no problem with planet 352. And the number is a bit large, and we only have two fully biological mechas, so it is impossible to miss none of them."
"Hehe, I remember it was mentioned in the information that the Zerg race is ferocious in nature, as long as they subconsciously think that the enemy is not strong, they will not take the initiative to flee!" Qin Lun blinked his eyes and said with a smile, "Then we will give them a false impression, let them They thought it was just a beautiful encounter with other space wanderers!"
"Sir, you want to attack alone? It's very dangerous..." Alex was startled, and hurriedly dissuaded him.
"The Faith and Marquez have high hopes for our descending apostles, and they have provided us with such good soldiers. If they can't even deal with a few Zerg scouts, wouldn't it seem that everyone is too useless?"
Qin Lun smiled lightly and said, "That's the decision. In the simulation training, it seems that you haven't seen the unique abilities of us descended apostles. I'll teach you this lesson now!"
As he said that, the seventeenth fallen angel suddenly burst out from the formation, and rushed towards the eight Napasas who hadn't observed any soldiers in the distance.
In the lightning-like assault, the Jannamer biological armor plates on the shoulders and back of the Seventeenth Fallen Angel suddenly swelled up high, the legs shortened, and the muscles thickened. At the same time, the originally ferocious lower jaw protruded slightly forward, and the closed mouth suddenly opened, revealing a mouthful of sharp fangs of a feline.
In an instant, the humanoid soldier mecha turned into a huge cat-like animal, and its body muscles moved like a little mouse.
What's even more amazing is that when the mecha was transforming, a bloodthirsty light shone in its eyes, a wave-like shadow flowed all over its body, and its body quickly became transparent. In just a few seconds, the gigantic feline disappeared from everyone's radar screens and merged with the dark cosmic sky.
Qin Lun's second apostle replacement ability was finally revealed to everyone, the beast form of the seventeenth fallen angel—the Shadow Gale Leopard!