Strike at the Yellow Dragon
"This can't go on!" Yue Yuan thought to himself as he saw the feedback messages, his body firmly fixed in place.
However, at that moment, an alarm suddenly sounded in the Lyra Command Center, accompanied by a flashing of yellow lights.
Suddenly, Yue Yuan was jolted out of his reverie. He knew that the Lyra had been hit.
Sure enough, at that very moment, a series of urgent system voice broadcasts rang out in the Command Center along with the feedback information.
[Warning! Our ship has been attacked by Energy Weapon!]
[Location: xxx, yyyzzzzzz, Laser Energy Intensity: ****, Quantity: 77, Polarization Shield activated, Overload countdown: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2]
[Overload setting activated; overload protection system activated; Polarization Shield deactivated!]
[Warning! The right flank armor of our ship has been damaged, with localized armor temperatures rising to 1296℃, 4265℃, 9875℃, 16897℃, 652342℃, 3555454℃, 66548785℃, and 110 million℃.]
The cooling system is fully activated. Cooling is in progress. The local temperature of the cooling armor is 0.9 billion °C. The local temperature of the cooling armor is 98,546,214 °C.
[Flaw detection module activated! Detecting armor damage. Armor damage analysis complete! Nano-repair system ready to deploy.]
[Polarization Shield buffer countdown: 3 minutes 29 seconds. Shield system is recharging. Recharging. Countdown: 2 minutes 46 seconds, 45 seconds, 44 seconds.]
Yue Yuan glanced at the screen and saw a long string of feedback messages flash across his face. Seeing these messages immediately calmed him down.
Although the Lyra was hit in this wave, it was not seriously damaged and did not even require nano-repair.
The Polarization Shield shuts down early because it has a set critical point for closure, thus avoiding the need for the shield system to crash before it shuts down. It will also recharge after a few minutes.
The Polarization Shield blocked part of the attack, and then the powerful Alloy No. 2 armor withstood the rest. The mere 110 million degrees Celsius for a few seconds was not enough to melt Alloy No. 2.
The surface armor of the Lyra had also lost a layer of paint.
Even so, once there is one, there will be two, and once there are two, there will be three. No one can guarantee that the next wave of attacks will come at any moment.
"Roll 90 degrees, full left rudder, sink 33 degrees, half thrust forward! Time 56 seconds! Full thrust direction: 25647/78789" Yue Yuan did not hesitate and immediately gave the Lyra the action based on the distribution of enemy warships near the battlefield.
Afterwards, he repeatedly called out from inside the Lyra: "Report the location of the enemy fleet's central flagship!"
The central flagship that Yue Yuan mentioned is the warship where the Strong Artificial Intelligence of the Interstellar Transaction Market fleet resides.
When the North Sea warship engaged this fleet in battle before, it paid attention to its movements. Although it was not ultimately determined which ship it was, it was able to determine a general range.
Yue Yuan was asking about that general range.
By carefully observing the actions, directions, positions, and reactions of the fleet's warship formations in all directions, one can roughly determine the location of the control center of a fleet controlled by Strong Artificial Intelligence in multiple threads.
Because by considering factors such as distance, communication delay, and warship reaction speed, it is possible to deduce the location of the control brain to a certain extent. This method is equally effective in determining the location of the flagship of a human warship fleet.
Yue Yuan's idea was simple: since the casualty ratio was such that humanity wouldn't gain much advantage and the war was heading in an unknown and unpredictable direction, it would be better to take advantage of this Great Fleet charge, directly advance to the flagship of the enemy's warship group, and then destroy it.
Once the flagship equipped with Strong Artificial Intelligence is destroyed, the millions of warships controlled by Strong Artificial Intelligence will lose control. Even if they had anticipated this situation and pre-programmed Intelligent Program on every Unmanned Warship, it would still be better than being controlled by Strong Artificial Intelligence.
Moreover, to be honest, humans don't really take Unmanned Warship controlled solely by Intelligent Program seriously. Their clumsy reactions would be enough to kill them a hundred times over.
According to the data provided by the North Sea, the flagship of the opposing fleet was located among the 120,000 warships in the center of the battle group.
The flagship, equipped with Strong Artificial Intelligence, is well-positioned in the center of the fleet. Human warship groups are also arranged in this manner, which facilitates the control of other Unmanned Warship by the Strong Artificial Intelligence.
"How much time do we have left?" Yue Yuan asked again.
"12 minutes!" a staff member replied, knowing that Yue Yuan was asking about the arrival time of the rear fleet.
Twelve minutes passed quickly. Before the Lyra warship and its tens of thousands of guards could reach their target, the fleet behind them caught up.
And so, an even bigger melee began.
The Lyra warship group was forced to order some of its rear warships to turn around and defend against attacks from the rear.
Of course, almost simultaneously, the North Sea naval group also joined the battle. At this moment, the two sides were officially locked in a stalemate, each flanking the other.
As time went on, this trend of attacking each other gradually turned into a chaotic battle between various combat formations.
A chaotic battle across the stars has begun.
This scene resembled the entanglement of several fleets amidst a constellation of stars. Countless beams of laser energy crisscrossed the battlefield, while countless Electromagnetic Railgun carrying miniature and Super Micro Nanobots raced through the Void.
Every moment, Polarization Shield overload; every moment, warships are destroyed; every moment, Nanobots are engaged in fierce combat. Laser energy beams are constantly being fired from all directions, and swarms of Electromagnetic Railgun can be detected at any time from any direction.
Since the start of the great battle, the Positron CIWS has almost never stopped firing, destroying tens of millions of Electromagnetic Railgun shells, and tens of millions more are fired from the muzzle again.
Time marched on, and more and more warships were destroyed. The battlefield was littered with pieces of warship wreckage, giving the impression that it was heading towards a space junkyard.
In such situations, it is common to see dozens of laser energy beams that were originally intended to hit the target accidentally during the process, striking the drifting wreckage of a warship. This accidental hit is like a small firework next to countless large fireworks on the battlefield, blooming with its unique light.
Of course, this applies to the case of hitting the wreckage of a human warship. If it hits the wreckage of a warship belonging to the Interstellar Transaction Market, it is more likely that it will be penetrated in less than two seconds, and then the slightly weakened laser energy beam will continue to its original target.
Countless scrap metal pieces float in the starry sky, and countless lives are lost in the sea of stars.
Even with precise coordination from Strong Artificial Intelligence control, it's difficult to completely guarantee that the warship you're controlling won't crash right into the path of an enemy's laser energy beam the next moment.
Amidst the bright flashes of light on the battlefield, the distant Yellow Dwarf Star appeared utterly dim. Yet its eternal, undying light seemed to be silently recording everything.
It and its planets, like witnesses to this war, silently serve as a backdrop, recording these acts of life and death within the cone of light.
Centuries later, humanity and the Interstellar Transaction Market may no longer be here, but these lights of the past, carrying the information of their battle, will gradually fade into the vast starry sky, until they disappear into the Quantum Foam of space.