Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

When Chen Ming decided to change his target.

There were dense beads of sweat on the foreheads of both Captain Zuo Jing and the pirate captain.

However, the psychological quality of being outside for many years 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 Heavy Rain class, which could not be reduced by the shield.

"It only has eight fighters in total. As long as it disperses its formation and concentrates its firepower to destroy all the fighters, it will be useless."

"Where's the Fighter?"

Captain Zuo Jing glanced at the fighter that was flying around the fleet at a fairly safe distance on the sensor, obviously looking for opportunities, and couldn't help but frown.

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

They may not even be able to withstand heavy rain now, let alone the fighters who seem to be more capable.

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

So Captain Zuo Jing could say: "Don't worry about it for now, that Heavy Rain is the big trouble."

During the brief exchange between the two sides.

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

Six Terminator fighter jets flashed with dazzling red light and rushed forward again.

Chen Ming had just roughly calculated the prices of the spaceships of both fleets and found that the prices of the spaceships they launched were similar.

As long as you don't look for mules, there is no difference at all in terms of losses if you fight other players.

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

In addition to the previous conflict with Zuojia, Chen Ming was not sure whether Zuojia would install some self-destruction gadgets on their ordinary spaceship.

If they kill the pirates and try to capture Zuo Jing, then Chen Ming will lose nothing if they blow it up.

So all the six Terminator fighters that flew out from behind flew towards the left path fleet.

Sliding smoothly through the dense rain of bullets from point defense weapons, only one ship was destroyed due to stray bullets, and the remaining five ships all rushed within a dangerous distance.

And without any scruple, they found five frigates and forcibly traded with them one by one.

These crudely and haphazardly modified frigates have no ability to fight back against the Terminators.

Five fireballs appeared in space almost simultaneously.

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

Captain Zuo Jing was also a little stunned by the self-destruction style of the Heavy Rain class.

It's not like he hasn't seen battle videos of ships like the Burmese class.

But he has never seen a Terminator drone used like this.

Under normal circumstances, ships like the Burmese class generally use fighter point defense assistance.

When an emergency occurs, the warriors will immediately send fighter planes out to forcibly contain the enemy. Only when it is most unavoidable will they use fighter planes to fight with others.

Doing this can steadily consume a lot of the enemy ship's weapons, ammunition and radiation capacity, while also improving the success rate of the final self-destruction.

He had never seen someone who would immediately bring out a fighter jet to self-explode one for one.

And the result in exchange was even pretty good. The eight fighters replaced ten of their warships by relying on the Dram class in their formation that had not dispersed before.

But Captain Zuo Jing immediately realized that his opportunity had come.

Because the combat effectiveness of the Heavy Rain class itself is not outstanding, it mainly relies on its own eight fighters and the threat of self-destruction at critical moments, resulting in a local situation where there are more attacks and fewer attacks.

And the battleship itself also lost a certain amount of armor due to problems with the flight deck.

After these eight fighters are blown up, their combat effectiveness will definitely drop significantly.

So although their fleet is now suffering heavy losses.

But so does heavy rain apparently.

Captain Zuo Jing forcibly suppressed other voices in the communication channel and said: "Burning Rain's fighter plane has been lost! It has no combat effectiveness! All spaceships are fully loaded! Don't let it go!"

Captain Zuo Jing issued the order.

And at the same time on the pirate side.

Because Chen Ming didn't take special care of them, their condition was pretty good.

But the pirate captain is also under great pressure.

Their fleet only had one mule and seven frigates left after the attack by the first two fighters.

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

He himself should accompany the mule to the West.

Fortunately, things didn't turn out that way.

And he, who has been thinking about heavy rains, also knows about the rainstorms.

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

The heavy rain that consumed the fighter planes was no longer a concern after that. As long as he kept an eye on the strange fighter, the rest of the matter would be easy to solve.

The pirate captain also issued an order to siege Heavy Rain.

Two remaining fleets surrounded them.

Gamma Z, who believed that the current situation was not good, used the heavy rain voice broadcast system and asked Chen Ming in a more "human" voice: "The fighter planes on the other side that already know that the heavy rain has blown up have been destroyed. What should we do next?"

"Well, I'm thinking about it now."

"ah?"

Gamma Z made a confused sound in a very humane way.

It seems that he has been in human society for a long time and has acquired 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 only be average in many cases.

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 disadvantage 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 is 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 came into contact with Thaksin.

But if the Heavy Rain is really like what the pirate captain said, it was transported all the way from the star capital, then it should not 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 without incident.

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

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 had just thought 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 already left the spacecraft when he controlled the cattle herder.

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 that was 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, and nothing could be seen at all.

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 this more than 100 million yuan 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, Xiangzuo Jing’s flagship sent a communication.

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 attack, intending to rely on the combat power of the eight fighters and the Heavy Rain itself to launch the final wave of offensive.

However, the heavy rain level has not passed yet.

Chen Ming saw bright fire flashing on the only remaining Mule-class ship on 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 heavy rain show, and 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 misses it, he will miss it.

Chen Ming calmed down and planned to wait a while before salvaging the remaining wreckage.

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

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 reacted very quickly and said: "I am from the Free Alliance, and we are willing to pay a ransom in exchange for our lives."

"Freedom Alliance?"

Chen Ming frowned and recalled it in his mind.

The Free Alliance that the pirate said was a relatively loose force in his mind.

There is a mixed bag of people inside, from businessmen to politicians to pirates, and indeed there are all kinds of people who can't be beaten.

Although the Free Alliance is loose as a whole, it generally maintains a purely interest-based relationship internally, and uses this relationship to compete with others outside the power.

Of course, there will sometimes be conflicts within the forces, sometimes even to the point of fighting to the death.

The main focus is freedom.

Although the Freedom Alliance is a gray force that cannot be seen on the stage, it does have considerable influence in gray areas.

Chen Ming knows about this Free Alliance because basically all companies have a relationship with the Free Alliance. Although they may not necessarily have joined the Free Alliance, they definitely have connections.

Of course it was the same thing before Xinda Company.

Sometimes, for the purpose of tax avoidance or other purposes, Chen Ming had to deal with the Free Alliance when working.

After all, if the company wants to do business, it will definitely not avoid them in many things.

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

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

This made Chen Ming suddenly unsure of the situation.

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

If Chen Ming only has contact with the company, it doesn't matter.

But if these pirates know the factory director or boss, and he kills people, although there is no problem in name, after all, they are the first to cause trouble, Chen Ming will always feel a little uncomfortable.

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

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

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

"Um...this..."

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

"You know about Zuo Jing's attack on the capital of the Star Territory some time ago, right?"

"You participated?"

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

intelligence?

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

"A man named Shen Yi."

really.

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

Then the purpose of this pirate's coming is probably closely related to Shen Yi.

They collided with Zuo Jing Fleet just now but there was no conflict. Instead, they came to him together, probably because they had the same purpose.

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

"I know, Wu Pingan."

"?"

Chen Ming's silence made the pirate captain suddenly realize that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and he quickly made up for it: "This is what the person from Zuojing told me just now."

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

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

"My relationship with Shen Yi is just about buying and selling information, so I'm not familiar with him at all."

Chen Ming didn't know if he was pretending to be stupid or something. Since everyone knew about Lao Wu, there was no reason why the pirates didn't know about him.

Chen Ming asked him with doubts: "What didn't the people in Zuojing say to you?"

"I asked, and Zuo Jing said Wu Ping'an, and also said there was another person I don't need to know now. You should be the other person he mentioned, right?"

The pirate captain now had an idea in his mind, and roughly understood why Zuo Jing was unwilling to explain the situation of this mysterious man to him.

All of this is definitely closely related to the nine additional fighters on the Heavy Rain class.

Chen Ming did not answer the pirate captain's words and continued to ask: "So why did you come here this time?"

"Uh...that Heavy Rain ship."

Chen Ming held his forehead.

He's basically got the situation figured out now.

This group of pirates set their sights on the heavy rain bought by Chen Ming, and they definitely didn't find a chance on the way after chasing him.

Then suddenly I found that Rainstorm had run out with a construction ship, and when the opportunity came, I followed him again.

Then when he was about to take action, he happened to encounter Zuo Jing who discovered that the engineering ship was rented by Lao Wu. After some exchanges, he found that they could cooperate, so he was 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 came here for Chen Ming.

It's just that there shouldn't be anything wrong when Accident and Zuo Jing encountered this. After all, their reactions at that time showed that they were both surprised.

But that's not really important.

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

Now it's just that Chen Ming needs to confirm with his boss and factory director whether this pirate is someone they know.

If you don’t know him, it’s easy for Chen Ming to start directly.

Chen Ming turned on the sentry's communication equipment. No one on the boss' side should dare to monitor it.

So he contacted him directly.