An Unscientific Mechanic

Chapter 377 The Unknown Ceiling

"Spaceship?" Nora and Ivanov looked curiously at the Northampton-class ship that emerged from the water.

"Well, the stealth space destroyer that was upgraded and installed in large numbers near 49 years." Makoto Kudo replied casually. 12 variable fighter jets rushed towards the unified army fleet at ultra-low altitude in the form of 6 double-aircraft formations.

At this time, the Northampton-class hull raised, and fired at the QUARTER with the induced beam launcher, anti-ship missile launcher and 75mm twin-mounted heavy particle cannon equipped on the hull.

"At least some heavy cruisers should be dispatched to deal with this ship... Who do you look down upon just three destroyers?" Captain Aisha played with the ends of her hair boredly.

"Captain, the opponent is an anti-unification alliance. Don't have high expectations for this kind of organization that can't stand on the stage, and the opponent has no strength, isn't it bad?"

"Yes, annihilate the opponent as soon as possible."

"Enemy plane, launch anti-ship missiles! Intercept, it's too late!"

"Didn't I slap my face when I went here?! Anti-aircraft fire! Concentrate firepower to intercept anti-ship missiles!"

The four Phalanxes and a 127mm naval gun on the Arleigh Burke class fired desperately to the port side, intercepting three of the four anti-ship missiles fired at themselves at a very close range, and the fourth directly hit the target. At the left rear of the bridge, a huge explosion directly led to a large-scale power outage in the ship and a complete cessation of anti-aircraft fire.

"Hey boy, is this the opportunity you said to take advantage of the opportunity to run away?" When everyone was attracted by the two things of "attacking enemy ships" and "defending enemy aircraft", a VF-0 and Taking advantage of the night and the sky full of fireworks, two SV-51s sneaked into the water and headed towards Maya Island at high speed.

Nora turned her head to look at VF-0 flying alongside them.

"Of course, sooner or later the nagging commander will discover our abnormal words and deeds, and it will be difficult to escape. And ah...according to the current situation, you will be killed sooner or later if you follow the anti-unification alliance.

I don't think the guy who pulled you into this script wanted you to die again. Kudo carefully controlled the VF-0 to fly at a height of less than one meter above the water level. Even though the upgraded VF-0 was stronger than a tank, he was still a little frightened.

After all, it is too embarrassing to hit the sea...

"Commander-san, do you have time to guide us to QUARTER?" Kudo really connected to Ian's communication.

"Huh... crackling, bang... I'm a bit busy for the time being, you can go find Mao... Boom!"

Kudo was really a little dazed listening to the sounds of various explosions and howling wind from over there.

Are you on the front line again? Didn't you come here with nothing?

After hanging up the communication, Ian chased after the black-painted VF-29B with an additional backpack.

Facing such a high-shield and high-mobility unit, the IS is rather embarrassing.

The small beam weapons used by IS, the power and rate of fire of the rapid-fire type are too low to effectively penetrate the shield of this 15-meter-long large fighter.

Radiation-type beam weapons are powerful enough, but if you want to break through the shield and continue to irradiate, the weapon itself will overheat before breaking the shield.

Induced live ammunition weapons such as missiles are powerful enough, but they can't hit...

It's not that there is no large-sized weapon, Jian Yu Lei Shen, but as long as it is taken out, it will let Ian leak due to the huge air resistance and the change of the center of gravity.

In the face of the attack of the three small MDE beam cannons of VF-29B, the energy shield of IS may not be able to protect Ian's life.

"...This is very embarrassing." Ian chased the VF-29 in front of him with a weight sub-cannon suitable for VF-35.

"This is very embarrassing, can you reinforce it? It's not an option to continue this entanglement." On the anti-unification coalition flagship Daedalus, the fleet commander Ushio Fujido was slightly impatient, thinking that he could wipe out the ship without carrier-based aircraft in one fell swoop. The QUARTER class and the two waves of aviation units of the unified army fleet were all wiped out by the regiment.

Now there are only two seriously injured Northampton-class ships left, and the QUARTER-class ship is pumped with the bottom naval gun one after another.

"The aviation unit of this ship is on the verge of extinction, I'm afraid we can only shoot the drone unit..."

"Then send the drone troops, and in any case get Second Lieutenant Rhodes down."

"...Cut, I can't get rid of it." The pilot of VF-29, Second Lieutenant Rod Balutma, gritted his teeth and continued to perform high-gauge maneuvers. And he used the twin beam cannons mounted on the revolving turret on his back to shoot at Ian, who was clenched behind his back.

"...Second Lieutenant Rhodes, please return to the ship as soon as possible."

Even if you say that, I can't get rid of the guy behind... And this local production version VF-29B with reduced configuration... Although the engine shield body strength is not lazy, but it can't stand the gravity neutralization system and the airborne The AI ​​has been reduced...

Although the performance of the airframe is not weaker than that of the original YF-29, but without these two things that give the driver a comfortable operating environment, the physical strength of Rod Balut code drops very quickly.

It should even be said that the handling of this airframe is much worse than the VF-19 ADVANCE I have driven.

"...The ship has sent drone troops to reinforce, please seize the opportunity to retreat by yourself. The first wave of drone teams is expected to arrive in 30 seconds."

"Hmph, tell me sooner!" Rhode instantly regained his energy.

"Drone team? Don't come here to make trouble!" Ian twisted the body to avoid the two MDE beams. Then two missile launch boxes were dropped.

Sixteen high-speed, high-mobility missiles were launched from two launch pods. Pounce on the incoming GHOST team.

"This is... an EMP outbreak?" The CIC on the Daedalus looked at the 16 spherical electromagnetic interference areas that suddenly erupted.

16 GHOSTs broke into the electromagnetic interference area, and the electronic equipment in the body was burned by the induced current generated by the electromagnetic interference, the engine was turned off, and it fell to the ground spinning.

"Hasn't GHOST's electromagnetic barrier been upgraded yet?!" Commander Fujido turned his head sharply to look at the person in charge of the equipment department.

"The refurbishment of the second-hand VF-171 retired from the border fleet has already exhausted the strength of the technical staff. How can we have time to deal with GHOST! Moreover, our GHOST has not unlocked the "Judas" system, so we can use it in regular reconnaissance Use it in missions and sentry missions, who would have thought that you can send GHOST and ace pilots to fight head-on!" The old maintenance chief is not Commander Tododo at all, this broken army is the same without you, without me, look at these second-hand How much more can the goods fly.

But now it seems to be beaten down...

Do you want to admit a wave of cowardice...

"I see. The ship broke into the atmosphere. After receiving Lieutenant Rhodes, I made an emergency FOLD." Commander Todo felt that the old maintenance chief who had been strict to death had a point, so he simply found a plan to flip the table.

"Understood, so Commander, what about the second wave of the drone team?"

"continue."

"Come again?" Ian frowned. Although EMP missiles are easy to use against GHOST, they are used in too few places. I only bring a base of 16.

After throwing out two air-fuel bombs, Ian replaced them with two heavy particle machine guns with sufficient energy. Take back the air combat backpack with little energy left, and replace it with the Destiny backpack with a lower top speed but more maneuverability.

Accelerate again to catch up with that VF-29.

"... Can you change your backpack? Can you be more mobile?"

"You didn't attack me while I was changing my backpack? Are you going to retreat?" Ian dodged the missiles launched by the GHOST group, and while throwing jamming bombs, he used a heavy particle machine gun to shoot at intercepting missiles and drones.

After clearing out the surrounding missiles and drones, Ian gave up two heavy particle machine guns. Unfurled a heavy GN sniper rifle for mobile suits.

"Try to block this..." Holding a 1-meter-long MS sniper auxiliary sight in his hand (yes, it is the thing that was removed from the Angel of Power that Lok Ang held back then), "TRANS-AM."

The built-in solar furnace of the GN sniper rifle has turned on the three-red mode.

The moment the engine of the target wing was inserted into the front sight, Ian lightly squeezed the trigger.

The 18-meter-long GN sniper rifle suspended beside Ian fired a beam more than five meters thick.

"I'm X!" Lieutenant Rhodes looked at the pink particle wall whizzing over from behind, cursed angrily, then twisted the joystick fiercely, avoiding the beam.

"...cut." Ian curled his lips and slowly aimed the automatic sight. The five-meter-thick, hundreds-kilometer-long beam swept across the sky, directly blasting the VF-29's wing engines.

In the distance, the VF-29 wing engine exploded, spinning black smoke and crashing.

"Snipe い 撃 つ ぜ." Ian nodded in satisfaction, and said the mantra of Lyle's brother.

Putting away the sniper rifle, Ian chased after him again and went to capture the captives.

One punch smashed the cockpit glass of the VF-29 and pulled out the unconscious anti-unification alliance pilot. Strap him to a floating cannon with a rope.

"The data interface of the new unified army... the data interface of the new unified army... ah, here." Ian found the standard interface for the variable fighter of the new unified army, pulled out a data cable from the body, and plugged it into the On the data interface of VF-29.

"Flight data...service data...map data...fleet and squadron information..."

"Very good! The required data has been collected." Ian pulled out the data cable, quickly left the VF-29, and hovered in place. Visually, VF-29 fell to the ground and exploded into a ball of fire.

"Commander Vasti, the enemy here has been defeated. How is the situation on your side?" On the way back, Ian received a call from QUARTER.

"The enemy aviation unit was wiped out, and an enemy pilot was captured, and is now returning."

"Understood, do you need a medical class?"

"Um... I'm not injured, but the prisoner bleeds a lot. Get ready for the medical class." Ian turned his head and glanced at Second Lieutenant Rhodes, whose face was covered in blood. He was not interested in activating the perspective scanning module to scan the man's body. .

If you die, you will die.

"Understood, medical squad B is on standby, and security squad B is on standby, ready to receive wounded prisoners."

Slowly landed on the flight deck of QUARTER, and handed Rhodes, who was bleeding all over the ground, to the marines and medical personnel on QUARTER.

Turning around, I saw Kudo Shin, Nora, and Ivanov sitting on a small bench with guns pointed at by a group of marines.

Roy Fuka and Mahonom were chatting with them, and Saranom was looking at Makoto Kudo with a vigilant and blank expression.

I was very shocked why my sister was so familiar with a man who had never met before, and even called him brother-in-law!

"Based on the existing information, both the Anti-Unity Alliance and the United Army are looking for a primitive cultural relic around Maya Island." Captain Aisha pointed to the whiteboard full of known information with a laser pointer in the conference room .

"Now, according to the oral legends of Maya Island and the PCS response detected by this ship, we can only confirm that the relics are in the other hemisphere of the planet, which is the hemisphere full of primitive cultural relics."

"Not long ago, the QF-2000 drone that Asuka took off was shot down by unknown ground fire during a reconnaissance operation."

"It is preliminarily judged that there is an automatic defense system still in operation in the ruins over there."

"Now that Maya Island has been fully evacuated, and the anti-unification alliance's aviation combat power has basically been wiped out, this ship has decided to go to the Eastern Hemisphere to conduct exploration operations on the remains of primitive civilizations."

"However, considering the lack of aviation combat capability of the ship, the ship will upgrade the VF-0 during the voyage."

"According to the forecast of the maintenance chief of this ship, it should be able to improve the performance level of the early model of VF-25. Although the performance is not high, at least it can fight against the enemy's main force VF-171."

"Also... can anyone tell me what happened to the three defected Anti-Unity Coalition pilots?"

"..."

"...the unknown ceiling..." Leon Sakaki woke up in the infirmary of Quarter.

"Are you awake? Do you know who you are?"

"...SMS belongs to Leon Sakaki..."

"Bridge, this is the infirmary. The VF-25 pilot of the SMS is awake. Yes, the memory seems to be fine. I know who I am." The nurse tilted her head to hold the phone, holding a tablet computer in her hand to enter diagnosis. "What is your last memory?"

"... I remember... there was a group of doggy New Confederates attacking me... Ah yes... and a VF-29 that is not good enough..."

"There is no problem with memory continuity." The nurse took the scanner from the side. Sweep Leon Sakaki's whole body. "The wounds on your body are all healed, but you've been lying down for close to 48 hours, so within three hours you'll be hungry, and within about eight hours you'll be sore all over. That's normal."

"Thanks... wait, where am I?"

"SMS, on board the Mothership MACROSS QUARTER of the Ouroboros Branch of the Hulking Planet."

"Ouroboros... By the way, my original mission was to conduct planetary reconnaissance for the 37th Immigration Fleet, and the target of the reconnaissance is Ouroboros! So this is Ouroboros?" Leon Sakaki sat up violently. "Ah! It hurts, hurts, hurts..."

"Take it easy, you haven't used your muscles for 48 hours, it will definitely hurt." The nurse said leisurely after admiring Leon Sakaki's performance. "Unfortunately, this ship lost its way when returning from Eden, and its location is unknown now."

"Hey Rhodes?" Leon Sakaki turned his head and found that there was another person tied to the bed in the way of a mental patient on the next bed.

"Know?" The nurse's gentle smile gradually disappeared, and the muscles in her arms swelled faintly. She casually touched a fruit knife and held it in her hand.

"Well... five years ago, he was my sister's boyfriend... after my sister passed away, the two of us never saw each other again.

Later I heard that he joined the special unit of the New United Army? Why is he here? "

"He is the pilot of the captured anti-unification coalition. It seems that his identity is more complicated..."