Chapter 112 Free Alliance

When Chen Ming decided to change the target.

Both Captain Zuo Jing and Captain Pirate had beads of sweat on their foreheads.

However, the psychological quality of many years of being outside made them calm down quickly.

And Captain Zuo Jing also quickly thought of a way to deal with the terrifying self-destruction power of the Storm-class that even the shield could not reduce.

"It has only eight fighters in total. As long as the formation is dispersed and the firepower is concentrated to shoot down all the fighters, it will be useless."

"What about the Fighter?"

Captain Zuo Jing looked at the Fighter Kai flying around the fleet at a fairly safe distance on the sensor, obviously looking for an opportunity, and couldn't help frowning.

He knew that the Fighter Kai must be difficult to deal with, but he had no way to deal with it at this time.

They may not even be able to withstand the Storm now, let alone the Fighter who seems to be more at ease.

But at least until now, this Fighter has not shown any performance.

So Captain Zuo Jing can say: "Don't worry about it, the Storm is the trouble."

In the interval between the two sides' brief exchanges.

Baoyu continued to release the remaining six fighters at a safe distance.

The six Terminator fighters flashed a dazzling red light and rushed forward again.

Chen Ming had just roughly calculated the prices of the spacecrafts of the two fleets and found that the prices of the spacecrafts they opened were similar.

As long as there was no mule, there was no difference in the losses of attacking other ships.

So Chen Ming finally decided to focus on Zuo Jing first according to his own likes and dislikes.

In addition to the reason that he had a conflict with Zuo Jing before, it was also because Chen Ming was not sure whether Zuo Jing would install some self-destructing things on their ordinary spacecraft.

If they blew up when they killed the pirates and wanted to capture Zuo Jing, Chen Ming would lose everything.

So the six Terminator fighters that flew out later all flew towards the Zuo Jing fleet.

They passed smoothly in the dense rain of bullets from point defense weapons. Only one was destroyed by stray bullets, and the other five all rushed to the dangerous distance.

And they found five frigates without any saving and forced them to exchange one for one.

These roughly and casually modified frigates had no ability to fight back in front of the Terminator.

Five balls of fire appeared in space almost at the same time.

In the communication channel between the pirates and Zuo Jing, there was almost only the extremely chaotic noise of the crew on the ship because the Zuo Jing fleet lost more than half of its fleet in an instant.

Captain Zuo Jing was also somewhat stunned by the self-destruction style of the Storm-class.

It's not that he had never seen the combat video of the Storm-class spacecraft.

But he had never seen the Terminator drone used in this way.

Under normal circumstances, the Storm-class spacecraft is generally mainly assisted by fighter point defense.

When an emergency occurs, the fighter will be sent out to forcibly contain the enemy until the most unavoidable time.

This can steadily consume a lot of the enemy's weapons, ammunition and radiation energy capacity, and at the same time increase the success rate of the final self-destruction.

He has never seen a fighter take out to self-destruct one for one right at the beginning.

And the result was not bad. Eight fighters relied on the Drum class in their previously undispersed formation to replace their ten warships.

However, Captain Zuo Jing immediately found his chance.

Because the combat effectiveness of the Storm class itself is not outstanding, it mainly relies on its own eight fighters and the threat of self-detonation at critical moments to create a situation of more people fighting fewer people.

And the warship itself also lost a certain amount of armor due to the problem of the flight deck.

After the eight fighters were blown up, the combat effectiveness will definitely decline significantly.

So although their fleet has suffered heavy losses now.

But the Storm is obviously the same.

Captain Zuo Jing forcibly suppressed other voices in the communication channel and said: "The fighters of the Storm have been lost! It has no combat effectiveness! All ships are fully pressed! Don't let it go!"

Captain Zuo Jing gave an order.

At the same time, on the pirate side.

Because Chen Ming did not take special care of them, their condition was relatively good.

But the pirate captain was also under great pressure.

After the first two fighters attacked, their fleet was left with only one mule and seven frigates.

If the remaining six fighters had hit them, they should have been almost dead.

He should have died with the mule.

Fortunately, things did not develop that way.

And he, who had been planning to attack Baoyu, also knew the situation of Baoyu.

So after sweating profusely, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Baoyu, whose fighters had been used up, was no longer a concern. As long as he kept an eye on the strange fighter, the rest of the things would be easy to solve.

The pirate captain also issued an order to besiege Baoyu.

The two remaining fleets surrounded them.

Gamma Z, who thought the current situation was not good, used Baoyu's voice broadcast system and asked Chen Ming in a more "human" voice: "The other side already knows that Baoyu's fighters have been bombed. What should we do next?"

"Well, I'm thinking now."

"Ah?"

Gamma Z made a very humane sound of doubt.

It seems that he has been in human society for a long time and has picked up some human language habits.

However, what Chen Ming is thinking about is not what to do if the fighter planes are gone, but what weapons the new fighters should use.

When Chen Ming asked Lao Wu to purchase supplies, he also prepared some replacement weapons, which were basically defensive types.

After all, Chen Ming has actually been exposed to spaceship combat for some time, and he knows that the effectiveness of small weapons in actual combat can often only be average.

In a real battle between fleets, at least medium-sized weapons must be used to be considered the main output.

Generally speaking, for small weapons that are valuable in fleet battles, you still have to use point defense weapons.

However, in order to ensure that under some special circumstances, Chen Ming still has weapons.

He still asked Lao Wu to prepare some common and useful weapons among small weapons.

So now, Chen Ming plans to be extravagant and chooses to install the most expensive ion pulse on the fighter plane.

Although it is a bit of a loss to use it once to self-destruct.

But Chen Ming just wanted to see the effect and briefly test whether his ability could be expanded.

As soon as Gamma Z's question came out, Chen Ming quickly decided what weapon to use.

Immediately, the rainstorm level was repaired.

Metal liquid mixed with various materials appeared out of thin air on the flight deck, and in a few breaths it condensed into the appearance of a Terminator fighter in the hangar.

The eight Terminator fighters parked neatly in the hangar made Gamma Z once again make a confused sound: "Huh?"

Chen Ming didn't explain too much, just said: "Go on."

Gamma Z was silent for a while, and suddenly understood the meaning of Chen Ming's previous words that were obviously unreasonable to him.

He tried to accept it all and responded: "Yes."

Just when the pirates and Zuo Jing thought that Heavy Rain had no ability to fight back.

The location of the starboard flight deck of the Rainstorm class suddenly lit up with red light again.

Eight dark red light spots flew out with slender tail flames.

The cold sweat that Commander Zuo Jing had just wiped off suddenly started flowing down again, and the cold hairs on his body stood up.

The Burmese class is obviously just a frigate. Even if all the irrelevant equipment compartments inside are removed, it will be impossible to fit eight more fighter jets into the remaining space.

And there was only one reason that could explain the eight new fighters that appeared in front of him.

This is the effect of psychic energy.

Captain Zuo Jing had previously learned from the news spread by various forces after the conflict between Xinda Company and the military in the sector.

Chen Ming is a psyker with the ability to control and enhance spaceships, but his psychic powers are limited to the spacecraft he has personally touched.

If the engineering ship had come into contact with Thaksin.

But if the Heavy Rain is really what the pirate captain said, it was transported all the way from the star capital, then it shouldn't have been carried away by the afterglow in the last conflict between the military and Sindar Company. The impact of walking away.

This is obviously not right.

But the current situation no longer gave him time to think too much.

Eight fighter planes were already rushing toward them with their red light flashing.

You can't dodge, you can't run away, you can't hit even if you want to.

With his scarce tactical skills, the only way he could think of now was to gather together and rely on the shields of multiple spaceships to forcibly share and resist the damage.

If you can stop it, that's the best, but if you can't, it will end together.

But such an order, which was almost equivalent to committing suicide, was completed by Zuo Jing's fleet with very high efficiency.

Captain Zuo Jing's flagship was left behind, huddled behind the remaining three spaceships.

The pirate fleet next to it also looked like it was riding a tiger.

Although Chen Ming did not target him, he had sufficient time and environment to escape.

But the pirate captain didn't dare to run.

Because he had just promised to sign an employment agreement with Zuo Jing, and his whereabouts were not hidden too much along the way.

If he dares to run away now, once Zuojiao investigates his situation, he will be arrested and interrogated about what happened here.

How was he going to explain then why the Zuojing fleet that he accidentally encountered was completely wiped out here, but he escaped back without any trouble.

So he doesn't dare to escape at all now.

They had no choice but to send a few ships over to protect Zuo Jing's fleet, and symbolically put out firepower from the approaching fighters.

But at this time, something happened that surprised both the pirates and Zuo Jing.

Each of the eight fighters that had just rushed over had the red glow of the Terminator core activated.

But at this time, the other seven fighters fell behind, and only one fighter plane rushed over with a more dazzling red light than before.

This is what Chen Ming proactively asked Gamma Z to do.

Because he wanted to try to use his maintenance ability to complete some operations that he just had a sudden idea of.

And because Chen Ming had just changed the ship, Gamma Z accepted the order no matter how outrageous it sounded.

As for the reason why Chen Ming did this.

It's because the Terminator fighter initiates Terminator core overload, which is a process that takes time.

Overloading will inevitably cause some problems in various components of the spacecraft during the overloading process.

In addition to actively activating overload, the Terminator core is used to temporarily suppress this problem, and the effect can be maintained until the fighter explodes.

Of course, under normal circumstances, the Terminator core cannot maintain the stability of the fighter's equipment a short time before the explosion.

Therefore, Chen Ming is trying to continuously repair the fighter aircraft while it is overloaded.

Instead of relying on the Terminator core to suppress the damage to the fighter plane, Chen Ming himself was relied on.

Although Chen Ming was unable to affect the outgoing fighters that had left the spacecraft when he controlled the cattle herder before.

But now, it may be because the fighters sent by the Heavy Rain class are also controlled by Gamma Z.

Chen Ming can also affect the fighter planes when they are out.

That's why he came up with this idea.

Equipment damaged due to overload was forcibly repaired until the final repair capability could not keep up with the self-destructive power of extreme overload.

Under such an effect, the overloaded red light on the fighter plane has made it difficult to look directly at it.

They could only avoid the dazzling red light, and saw countless dense ion pulses in the red light, and the energy bombs fired were splashed on the shield of the Zuojia fleet.

Destroy all the shields of the three spaceships.

A fighter plane carrying only two small arms directly destroyed the shields of two escorts and one expulsion under extreme overload conditions.

Although their shield itself is not very good, it can be seen that the effect is very abnormal.

However, Chen Ming suddenly realized that something was wrong, and immediately asked Gamma Z to try to turn the fighter plane that had been overloaded to the limit to avoid hitting it directly.

But Chen Ming was a little late.

The overloaded fighter plane had completely lost control and crashed into the defense line composed of three spacecraft.

There was only a red light visible to the naked eye, making it impossible to see anything.

The sensor can still send back some data.

The three shields that the three ships of the Left Path Fleet had barely opened again collapsed at the first touch, and they were not even able to inhibit the self-destruction attack of the Terminator fighter planes.

The three spaceships were completely engulfed by the explosion that continued to spread backwards, melting into the red light that ended everything.

Only one mule-class flagship was left, hiding alone and intact at the end, quietly watching all this happen.

At this time, Chen Ming couldn't help but twitching at the corners of his eyes.

The final effect is very good.

But this loss can only be said to be considerable.

never mind.

Chen Ming didn't worry too much, at least the experiment just now was considered a success.

His repair ability can indeed create an effect similar to accumulation on the Terminator fighter, which can be said to be a perfect fit.

The absolute value of these more than 100 million dollars spent.

At the same time, Chen Ming also tried another ability just now, changing weapons.

It was just moments before the fighter plane lost control of Gamma Z and was about to be destroyed.

Chen Ming directly used the panel to remove the two ion pulses on the fighter plane.

And it worked.

The final physical object appeared directly where Chen Ming wanted it to appear, which was the storage compartment of Heavy Rain.

Although the circuits inside the two gate ion pulses had a lot of damage due to the overload just now.

But the difference between repairing damage and buying a new weapon can be said to be quite big.

Chen Ming did not continue to let Gamma Z attack the enemy.

Instead, they immediately used panels to replenish the lost fighters, making up eight ships.

Eight Terminator drones surrounded the heavy rain like eight blood-red death stars.

There is no longer any noise in the communication channel of the last remaining flagship of the Pirate Fleet and Zuojing Fleet, and there is only silence.

It was as if the Terminator could not be used up at all, which brought terrible psychological pressure to the pirates and the remaining people on Zuojiao.

Just when the pirate leader's legs were shaking, he suddenly saw a communication coming from the device in front of him.

He immediately picked it up in a hurry.

"Surrender or..."

Chen Ming hasn't even spoken the word "death" yet.

The pirate captain immediately shouted: "I surrender!"

At the same time, all remaining ships quickly closed their shields and disarmed themselves.

"Very well, wait over there."

Chen Ming hung up the communication with the pirates and asked the fighter to guard them.

Then, a communication was sent to Zuo Jing's flagship.

Communication was also connected on Zuojiao's side.

But Chen Ming still asked as before: "Surrender or die?"

Captain Zuo Jing did not reply, but asked: "Are you Chen Ming?"

"Choose death, right? I know."

Chen Ming hung up the call directly and didn't talk nonsense to him at all.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't go so far as to continue activating the Terminator core.

Just let Gamma Z control the Heavy Rain and bring eight fighters to press forward, intending to launch the final wave of offensive relying on the combat power of the eight fighters and the Heavy Rain itself.

However, the heavy rain level has not passed yet.

Chen Ming saw bright fire flashing on the only remaining Mule-class ship in the left path.

Ended himself in the flames of the explosion.

Zuo Jing's lunatic blew himself up and sank without giving Chen Ming a chance to capture them.

"..."

Chen Ming was silent for a long time and glanced at the pirate fleet with only seven spaceships left next to him.

He recalled the fleet of twenty-three spaceships that the pirates and Zuo Jing had just now, and fell into deep thought.

This battle can be said to be a one-ship performance by Heavy Rain. Chen Ming's fighters controlled by Gamma B were completely useless.

The shaped charge anti-aircraft cannon that was specially purchased for the fighters from the black market was completely useless.

He also wanted to try the effect of this weapon at the end, but he didn't expect that the matter would end if he wasn't careful.

However, Chen Ming should not lack opportunities to fight in the future. If he missed it, he missed it.

Chen Ming collected his thoughts and planned to salvage the remaining wreckage later.

Now, he started the communication equipment and connected to the pirates again.

At the moment the communication was connected, Chen Ming said without giving the pirates any time to react: "Come on, give me a reason not to kill you."

The pirate captain also responded very quickly and said: "I am from the Free Alliance. We are willing to pay the ransom in exchange for our lives."

"Free Alliance?"

Chen Ming frowned and recalled in his mind.

In his impression, the Free Alliance mentioned by the pirates was a relatively loose force.

There were all kinds of people inside, from businessmen to politicians to pirates, and there were indeed people who were not related at all.

Although the Free Alliance was loose as a whole, it generally maintained a pure interest relationship inside, and competed with others outside the force through this relationship.

Of course, conflicts sometimes occurred within the force, and sometimes even the kind of life and death.

The main focus was freedom.

Although the Free Alliance was a gray force that could not be put on the stage, it did have considerable influence in the gray area.

Chen Ming knew about the Free Alliance because basically all companies were related to the Free Alliance. Although they may not have joined the Free Alliance, they definitely had connections.

This was also the case with Xinda Company before.

Sometimes, in order to avoid taxes or for other purposes, Chen Ming could not avoid dealing with the Free Alliance when he was working.

After all, if the company wanted to expand its business, it would definitely not be able to avoid them in many things.

For example, the construction of the pirate space station and the connection between different pirate space stations were also related to the Free Alliance to a certain extent.

In other words, basically all industries and businesses in the gray area were related to the Free Alliance.

This made Chen Ming a little unsure of the situation.

After all, he was not sure whether this pirate would have any connection with the pirate space station where Chen Ming had been staying before.

If it was only related to the company, Chen Ming would not care.

But if these pirates knew the factory director or the boss, and he killed them, although there was no problem in name, after all, they started the trouble first, but Chen Ming was always a little uncomfortable.

So just in case, Chen Ming asked about the name and origin of the pirate captain and planned to contact the boss.

But before doing so, Chen Ming still needs to confirm a few things with the pirate captain.

"Why did the people from the Free Alliance cooperate with Zuo Jing just now?"

"Uh... this..."

The pirate leader hesitated, but he knew that if he didn't say it, he would die, so he answered honestly: "Because in addition to the work of the Free Alliance, I was also in contact with Zuo Jing."

"You know about the attack on the capital of the star region some time ago?"

"You participated?"

"No, no, no, I just know the people who participated, and I usually buy some intelligence from him."

Intelligence?

Chen Ming suddenly had a strange premonition and asked, "Who?"

"A man named Shen Yi."

Sure enough.

Chen Ming secretly confirmed in his heart that he could only say that this world is a little small.

The purpose of this pirate coming here is probably related to Shen Yi.

Just now, they collided with the Zuo Jing fleet but did not conflict. Instead, they came to find him together. I'm afraid it's because they have the same purpose.

"In that case, you should know who I am, right?"

"Yes, Wu Ping'an."

"?"

Chen Ming's silence made the pirate captain realize that he seemed to have said something wrong, and he quickly made amends: "This is what Zuo Jing's people told me just now."

"He said that he had found out from a pirate space station that this engineering ship was rented by Wu Ping'an, one of the people who killed Shen Yi before."

"So in order to get revenge, they chased all the way here, and said that Wu Ping'an had a bounty of 10 million, and if I helped them, they would share the bounty with me."

"Shen Yi and I are just in a relationship of buying and selling intelligence, and we are not familiar with each other at all."

Chen Ming didn't know if he was playing dumb or what. Since everyone knew about Lao Wu, it made no sense that the pirates didn't know about him.

Chen Ming asked him with doubts: "Did Zuo Jing's people tell you anything?"

"I asked, and Zuo Jing said Wu Ping'an, and said that there was no need for me to know the other person now. You should be the other person he said, right?"

The pirate captain now had a bottom line in his heart, and probably knew why Zuo Jing was unwilling to explain the situation of this mysterious person to him.

All this is definitely closely related to the nine extra fighters on the Storm class.

Chen Ming did not pick up the pirate captain's words, but continued to ask: "So why did you come here this time?"

"Uh... that Storm."

Chen Ming supported his forehead.

He has basically figured out the situation now.

This group of pirates has set their sights on the Storm that Chen Ming bought, and they must have not found an opportunity on the way.

Then suddenly they found that Storm ran away with an engineering ship, and they followed again when they found the opportunity.

Then when they were about to take action, they happened to meet Zuo Jing, who found that the engineering ship was rented by Lao Wu. After a conversation, they found that they could cooperate, so they were ready to take action against Chen Ming.

Of course, it could also be that the pirate captain was lying to him.

He knew Chen Ming's situation, and he was just coming for Chen Ming.

It's not wrong to say that they met Zuo Jing by accident, after all, their reactions at that time showed that they were all surprised.

But it's not really important.

After all, no matter who it was, Chen Ming already had a reason to kill him.

Now Chen Ming just needs to confirm with the boss and the factory manager whether this pirate is someone they know.

If they don't know him, then Chen Ming can just do it directly.

Chen Ming turned on the sentry's communication equipment, and no one on the boss's side should dare to eavesdrop.

So he contacted directly.