SFS Chapter 291 Mouth Blessing
Chapter 291 Mouth Blessing
However, this is good news for the four members of Team Thirteen.
If their team leader is more capable, their chances of safety when going out on missions will be higher.
I just don't know if this guy can break the curse that the captain of Task Force 13 doesn't live past 45 days.
"You just said 'again,' does that mean he gave this password to more than just me?"
Lin Xuan retracted the nanobot into his body, the whole movement appearing unusually natural and casual, as if he wasn't the one who had almost killed the other with a single strike.
"Yeah, this guy sends this code to almost everyone he meets, including our team's previous captains. Of course, no one has been able to board that aircraft carrier since."
Zuo Xiao's tone was much gentler than before. Sure enough, women are all cunning. After almost being killed by Lin Xuan, this woman's attitude towards Lin Xuan has changed quite a bit.
"So that means he actually gave me fake news?"
Zuo Xiao shook her head again.
"That's not true at all. The password he gave us is correct. This is the original password that Duke Avent used when he designed the product, and it cannot be changed arbitrarily once it leaves the factory."
"But there's a problem. What's the use of knowing Tyson's weaknesses if you can't even get close to him?"
At this moment, Su Zilin walked over with her sniper rifle on her back, her eyes unable to help but look Lin Xuan up and down. Compared to when they first met, her eyes showed more caution.
"Let's go, Brother Bai, we're going to miss the boat."
After witnessing Lin Xuan's abilities, Su Zilin's way of addressing her changed noticeably. Previously, the little girl would call him by his name directly, but now, although she still didn't address him as Captain, she at least called him Brother Bai, which was a kind of progress.
The spaceship took off, and the task force members at the assembly point boarded the ship one after another.
From here to the front lines, we can no longer use civilian transport ships; we must switch to military-grade ones, otherwise the enemy could easily detect our location and wipe us out.
"The task force's mission is to gather information and conduct reconnaissance for the front-line troops. Groups 1, 2, and 3 will infiltrate from the high ground at 18 PM, while the remaining task force teams will enter from the low ground at 10 AM."
Soon, the military transport ship arrived at the target location. The hatches slowly opened, and task forces, piloting their own ships, swarmed towards the landing point on the Chapel front like locusts.
Lin Xuan finally managed to get a clear view of the outside world through the porthole.
It turns out that the Divine Realm didn't just send their rapid response force; there were over a thousand squads like theirs on this mission.
This is a war on a cosmic scale; even a simple test requires the lives of thousands to be sacrificed.
Lin Xuan had thought that with the advancement of technology, the scale of wars would become smaller and smaller, and the number of participants would become less and less. But now it seems that the art of war of a third-level civilization is not much different from that of tribal civilizations in the primitive era.
Lynch was in charge of piloting the spaceship. He was the team's engineer, but to be precise, he was the one who ultimately solved all the mechanical problems the team encountered.
If he hadn't lost his legs, Lin Qi would already be a top-level researcher in the Divine Realm.
"No, we're too close to these friendly forces. We need to keep a certain distance from them. I'm going to accelerate now, you guys get ready."
After giving everyone a hint, Lin Qi pushed the forward lever all the way in one go.
"Forward 4!"
Soon, the ship carrying Lin Xuan's team accelerated rapidly, taking the lead and rushing out from among her teammates.
Inside the spaceship, even though everyone had been mentally prepared thanks to Lin Qi's prompting, they all fell silent when the spaceship actually started running at top speed.
"Damn it, at the same distance, the speed of the civilian-grade is so much worse than that of the military-grade?"
If a civilian-class transport ship at full speed is like running on land, then this ship at full speed is practically flying in the sky. In the blink of an eye, the ship that brought them here had already been left far behind.
"We've already entered the war zone. Be alert, the mechanical Earth's defensive outposts are likely nearby."
Zuo Xiao leaned against the door, already dressed in individual combat armor suitable for space operations. The others were also focused intently on the spaceship's monitoring radar.
It is very difficult for rapid reaction forces to infiltrate enemy lines undetected. Therefore, each time rapid reaction forces are deployed, the regular army on the battlefield will simultaneously exert pressure to tie down the majority of the enemy forces.
Upon seeing this, the enemy would naturally know that you intend to deploy a rapid reaction force.
But there was no way around it; it was an open conspiracy.
If you really divide your forces to organize an interception, they will scatter in all directions, and the army will be exhausted to death, and you probably won't even be able to capture many.
War requires trade-offs; they only need to block most of the rapid reaction forces.
That's why Lynch wanted to go full speed ahead and leave the main group behind. Staying with the main group not only didn't give him any sense of security, but also made him an easy target.
"Learn from this; it's all based on experience."
Lin Qi hummed a song as he looked at Lin Xuan by the porthole.
"I admit you're better at fighting than me, but in terms of battlefield experience, you're probably not as good as us."
Lin Xuan nodded, not refuting anything, but simply raised a question.
"What if we are discovered by the enemy while we are so far away?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Qi burst into laughter and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Don't worry, this situation usually won't happen unless we're extremely unlucky!"
Before Lin Qi could finish speaking, the spaceship's radar suddenly emitted a piercing alarm.
"Strong electromagnetic pulse detected nearby. Please be aware!"
Then, on the monitor, a dozen or so red dots appeared densely on both sides of the spacecraft in an instant.
"Damn, Lin Qi, your mouth is fucking blessed, isn't it!"
Lin Qi ignored him, mainly because he was too busy to pay attention.
"The tail compartment protection is being disengaged; the separation device is ready."
This military transport ship has no space combat capabilities whatsoever. It's fine for fighting people, but if it tries to engage enemy ships head-on, it's simply courting death.
Therefore, the only way to escape danger is to shake off these pursuing enemy ships as much as possible.
However, the ship's acceleration was not particularly fast, so separating the fuel storage tanks directly from the hull to increase the ship's maneuverability would make it more likely to escape.
The cost of doing so is obvious: if they cannot shake off the pursuers in a short time, they will become nothing more than drifting trash in space.
"Buzz!"
The alarm continued to sound. Sound could not travel in space, but the distant blue lights indicated that enemy ships were approaching them.
Lynch pulled the handle, causing the spaceship to veer sharply to the side, dodging a beam of light that came from behind, but soon more attacks followed.
Energy beams, particle cannons, deep-space bombs...
Although they hadn't seen the enemy ships in person, just by looking at the dense network of firepower, everyone knew that there were far more enemy ships chasing them than they could see on the radar.
"Can you handle it? Do you need my help?"
Lin Xuan remained calm and composed, seemingly unconcerned that the ship would be hit by the enemy.
But his words surprised everyone present.
"You can even sail a boat?"
Lin Xuan shrugged.
"Have you never eaten pork and seen a pig run?"
With that, he sat down in the passenger seat and started operating the controls.
"Raise by 5 degrees, deflect to the left at an angle, and deflect the No. 3 tail flame upwards..."
Lin Qi originally thought that his team leader, Bai Bing, would simply know how to operate the spaceship, but when he actually tried it, he found that it was not that simple at all.
Bai Bing's actions are always executed just before he issues the command. Sometimes, even details that he himself overlooks are discovered by Bai Bing in the shortest amount of time, and he can make compensatory actions accordingly.
The co-pilot position on a spaceship is quite unique; his role is primarily to provide assistance and compensation.
For example, if the pilot wants the spacecraft to deflect, he needs to pull the directional stick and adjust the tilt angle. A more skilled pilot can adjust the position of the tail thrusters to deflect the spacecraft.
However, with a co-pilot, these operations become much simpler. The driver only needs to give a directional command, and the co-pilot can handle the rest of the parameter adjustments.
To put it more simply, it's like playing a game with a controller. The passenger needs to perform the up, down, left, right, ABAB operations, while the driver only needs to press the space bar to separate the key bindings.
However, Bai Bing's co-pilot was different. He always anticipated the situation. For example, if the next action was to deflect the spaceship, before Lin Qi's pilot could even react, Bai Bing had already completed the subsequent operation.
This even gave Lin Qi the illusion that he was the passenger in the front seat, the other person was the driver, and he was the one who needed to wait for instructions.
The others on the spaceship weren't stupid either. Seeing Lin Qi's flustered state, they realized that their captain was no ordinary person.
No matter what, Lin Qi was a top-notch spaceship pilot in the past. He had flown many small ships, not to mention transport ships, but even battleships.
This can be seen from the fact that even after his legs were crippled, he was still able to be rehired by the military to work in the special task force. Most people in his situation would have retired at home long ago, and there would be no chance for them to go to the front line to fight.
Normally, it's the co-pilot who can't keep up with the pilot's pace and seems flustered when piloting a spaceship. This is the first time they've seen the pilot unable to keep up with the co-pilot's pace.
This can only mean one thing: their captain's spaceship piloting skills are far superior to Lynch's.
Lin Qi seemed to realize this as well, so he simply got up and offered the driver's seat.
"Brother Bai, why don't you take the lead? I'll assist you."
Lin Xuan nodded, and without any hesitation, she switched places with the other person. This time, she had successfully gotten another teammate to change how they addressed her.
However, before Lin Xuan could even sit down, the radar alarm went off again, this time more urgently, accompanied by the red alarm light flashing wildly.
This time, the enemy ship's position almost overlapped with their transport ship, and for the first time, everyone could see the enemy ship directly outside the window without needing any equipment.
On the front of the transport ship, a metal wall suddenly appeared in the previously empty universe.
No, it didn't suddenly appear there; it's always been there. It's just that the paint on this thing has excellent light absorption properties, absorbing all visible light, making it impossible to detect its existence.
The ship's radar quickly got a full view of the thing from a macroscopic perspective.
It was a destroyer from a mechanical Earth.
Although destroyers are the smallest of all types of ships, they are still enormous compared to the transport ship that Lin Xuan and her group were on.
This time, it was no longer a distant dot of light. Their ship was less than a few hundred meters away from the destroyer, and everyone could even see the scratches on the ship's hull with the naked eye!
"It's over!"
This was the first thought in everyone's mind. If the two ships were still far apart, they would still have a chance to escape. But now that the two ships were so close, it would probably be too late to turn around!
Moreover, the enemy's particle cannon has already locked onto their location information, and it is very likely that in the next second, they will be turned into dust in the universe by a particle attack.
But Lin Xuan remained calm. He calmly turned on the switch on the control panel and switched the working mode to automatic driving mode.
"Switching to autopilot!"
Upon hearing the ship's notification, everyone was startled and cast incredulous glances at Lin Xuan.
"Bai Bing, what are you doing!"
Autopilot is designed for the spaceship's constant-speed cruise. While it is not as flexible as manual operation, it is more convenient, allowing the entire ship to be controlled by psionic computing power.
This is a unique technology of Mind Earth. It's fine for normal flight, but it's practically useless on the real battlefield.
Because the amount of psionic energy a person can provide is limited, it is very useful as an auxiliary function, but if one relies solely on psionic energy to pilot a spaceship, it will not only cause great wear and tear on the individual, but it is also not as flexible as manual piloting.
But what they didn't know was that for Lin Xuan, manual driving was the real gimmick!
Isn't autonomous driving all about consuming computing power?
I'll give it to you, however much computing power you need!
Is the computing power of 50 billion people enough?
The moment Lin Xuan placed her hand on the connector, the speed of the entire spaceship increased dramatically!
The group of people who were wondering why Lin Xuan was using the autopilot mode just a second ago fell silent the next.
"This push-back sensation...something's not right!"
"Buzz!"
The transport ship vanished from its spot in an instant, like a shooting star, its speed so great that it even caused ripples in the surrounding space.
Just as the transport ship disappeared, a particle exploded at the spot where the ship had just been, but unfortunately, it missed its target, as the ship had already vanished within the blast radius.
This scene left everyone on the destroyer completely dumbfounded.
"Where did that ship go? How did it suddenly disappear?"