In the Kunlun's command center, the alarms suddenly grew shrill.
"Report! Eagle Country's cruiser Antietam has changed course and is heading toward our baseline at high speed!"
General Liu watched the red dot accelerating toward them on the screen. Instead of getting angry, he laughed.
"Those bastards finally couldn't resist playing bumper boats?"
He stood and slammed his palm down on the console.
"This is exactly what I've been waiting for!"
A vicious gleam flashed in his eyes.
As it turned out, the higher-ups had long anticipated this move from Eagle Country.
Using the Zhengjin Metal left over from the Super Mecha project, they had worked overnight to add a layer of Zhengjin Metal to the Black Tortoise Ship's bow.
Zheng Gold could absorb kinetic energy. General Liu had been present during the initial tests and had watched with his own eyes as it rammed a decommissioned ten-thousand-ton ship clean in half!
More importantly, the Black Tortoise itself hadn't even lost a chip of paint!
General Liu swept his gaze over the tense faces in the command center.
"If they want to ram us, I'll show them what an iron wall really looks like!"
"Black Tortoise Ship, hear my orders!"
"Target: the enemy cruiser Antietam!"
"Meet them... at full speed!"
"Remember, we absolutely will not fire the first shot!"
On the cruiser Antietam's bridge.
Commander Thompson gripped his high-powered binoculars tightly.
Through the lenses, the Great Xia Type 055 destroyer codenamed Xuanwu sliced through the waves, coming straight at them like an elegant, deadly shark.
That was it!
Another one of those damned warships with big round balls on top!
From Cherry Blossom Country to Philippine Country, and now here, this elusive destroyer had made a complete mess of the Combined Fleet's exercises time and again.
Especially those pig