Meanwhile, under the camera's lens.
The leaden-black sea surface was churning with waves several meters high.
The torrential rain, like iron filings, lashed against the crates and cranes stretching for miles along the shoreline.
Above the sky.
The emergency lights on the Batplane were flashing wildly inside the cockpit.
The monitor's surface was covered in a spiderweb-like pattern, and the densely packed alarm lights were glaringly red.
The cabin still smelled of burning electricity.
"..."
Bruce grunted and pressed his arms down on the control stick.
Beneath the black gloves, the veins on the back of his hands bulged.
"Sir! The main beam structure of the machine has already deformed three times!"
Alfred's anxious voice came through the headphones, accompanied by heavy static:
"Three airships are encircling you in the port's shipping lanes! You must immediately break course and launch out to sea!"
"No, Alf, the National Guard's second evacuation point is behind the breakwater... I can't leave yet."
Bruce gritted his teeth.
"There are over a thousand wounded soldiers who haven't been evacuated yet. I need to completely divert these three planes so they can board the ship."
With that, Bruce pushed off the rudder with all his might!
The jet's exhaust nozzles on both sides suddenly reversed ninety degrees.
Immediately afterwards, the two ramjet engines at the tail roared out two incandescent flames, lifting the aircraft straight up along the crests of the surging waves.
"Splash--"
Caught in a cloud of water vapor, the fighter jet plunged into the narrow harbor channel formed by dozens of gantry cranes.
"Whoosh--"
Behind him, three dark brown krypton boats followed closely behind, changing shape with every turn.
They don't have conventional air surfaces; instead, they cut through the rain using only thin, cicada-wing-like gliders on either side.
Then, at a top speed of Mach 14, it flew smoothly through the steel forest.
Before long, they caught up with Bruce's position.
The sights under the fuselage were already locked onto the fighter jet's exhaust port.
"The opportunity has arrived!"
A cold glint flashed in Bruce's eyes.
Instead of pulling up, he shoved the joystick sharply to the right!
The next second, the fighter jet flew in an extremely dangerous sideways maneuver, weaving between two rows of parallel container towers.
At this moment, the first pursuing krypton boat cut in from behind.
"Buzz--"
The gravitational fields on both sides of the hull began to operate automatically, crushing the entire container along with its contents.
Just as the enemy plane closed to within two hundred meters, Bruce ruthlessly flipped open the red touch cover with his right thumb and then slammed it heavily onto the detonation button!
"Rise!!"
Boom--!!
On both sides of the dock, three cargo gantry cranes, which had been pre-positioned with highly conductive graphite explosives by Bruce, detonated simultaneously!
Thousands of tons of high-quality steel shattered horizontally in the violent explosion.
Dozens of steel cables, wrapped in electric arcs, crashed head-on into the center of the shipping lane like a giant net collapsing in mid-air!
"Snap!!"
The crane arm, over 100 meters long, slammed into the sliding plate on the left side of the floating boat.
Almost immediately!
The body experienced a violent imbalance, and the cold light suddenly went out...
"Very good..."
The instant he caught sight of the enemy aircraft being damaged, Bruce gritted his teeth.
He pulled the main trigger of the recorded weapon!
The next second, two armor-piercing projectiles equipped with anti-thermobaric shells burst out of the hull.
It whistled past through the gaps in the collapsed frame, pouring down like a torrential downpour, and then...
It pierced right into that floating boat!
"Boom----!!"
A blinding orange flame suddenly exploded deep within the narrow box forest!
The terrifying shockwave blasted dozens of shipping containers into the air.
Under that thick, white flame.
One of the Kryptonian ships was successfully affected by the explosion, blasted apart, and then destroyed into a sky full of wrecked metal, crashing into the roaring sea.
This is the first one.
But before the fierce flames had even subsided, the second assault boat had already burst through the smoke!
What followed was an even fiercer attack!
"Swish swish--"
The two beams of light sliced through the steel corrugated embankment, cutting it in two.
Moreover, at extreme speed, the terrifying beam of light just grazed the right wing of the fighter jet!
"Hiss--!!"
The wing fairing was instantly vaporized by the terrifying heat, and several holes were burned into the aileron linkage.
Under ventilation.
The fighter jet lost half of its lift, and the fuselage could not maintain its balance in the air, so it could only roll wildly to the left.
"..."
Amidst the chaotic tumbling, Bruce put all his strength into the joystick and slammed his heels into the ground for leverage.
Then, turn right!
Using the centrifugal force from the uncontrolled rotation, Bruce casually pulled down the lever of the emergency auxiliary pneumatic rudder.
Then the aircraft headed towards the breakwater above the main oil storage tank area of the port.
Flying backwards, diving...
The fuselage scraped against the rough mud surface, and the deck at the bottom carved a long, fiery stripe across the rough surface.
"Buzz--"
It's here!
On the rearview screen built into the machine, the attacking assault boat was right behind us, and the black cannon underneath started charging up again.
"Waaah--"
The voice of energy gathering is becoming increasingly close.
Three, two, one...
Turn!!
Just as the enemy aircraft's main cannon was about to fire, Bruce began silently taking readings based on his estimated charge rate.
Just as the reading was about to reach zero!
Bruce's expression hardened, and he slammed both feet on the brake pedals!
"Creak--!!"
The specially designed aerodynamic parachute unfolds like giant wings at the tail of the aircraft!
The speed of the entire aircraft plummeted from several Mach to subsonic within 0.02 seconds, then, against inertia, it braked abruptly in mid-air, swaying sideways.
They passed each other!
And it lies between the windows where the two machines meet.
At Bruce's command.
The two machine guns under the chin of the Batplane began to unleash a torrent of fire.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
At a maximum rate of fire of 6,000 rounds per minute, it poured into the hatch seams of the assault boat at point-blank range.
The sparks exploded like thunderbolts.
Not long after...
"Snap!!"
A patch of white debris appeared in the cockpit.
Piercing through!! Black smoke!!
The out-of-control airship lost its center of gravity and, with the remaining kinetic energy of Mach 10 or so, slammed violently into the depths of the oil tank.
A glimpse of the camera!
Bruce's fighter jet soared out from the mushroom cloud tens of meters high...
Double kill!
But... Bruce's current condition has clearly reached the limit he can withstand.
His body already had underlying injuries, and the repeated extreme braking and reactions resulted in fractures and ruptures...
"Cough cough..."
He could no longer suppress the phlegm, it suddenly choked into his mask, and then he spat it out.
At the same time, large patches of blurriness began to appear on the edge of Bruce's retina, and he began to experience a constant stinging pain in his temples.
And then... dizziness.
Unfortunately.
Outside the cockpit, a third warship had already appeared like a ghost, hovering directly in front of him.
The three gun rings at the bow of the ship lit up simultaneously.
The rain within a kilometer radius was violently dispersed into mist by this terrifying force field, rising in wisps.
[WARNING! An unknown force field has appeared!!]
[Engine thrust completely lost! Acceleration is dropping to zero!]