Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

Walk through the air corridor with airtight and radiation protection measures.

Sui Bian, Leon, the Red and White Queens, and the Dark Angels can see the dock area as the "entrance and exit" of Luna's base.

In addition to the three side-by-side docks, there are a large number of helipads equipped with robotic arms.

On the apron are parked aerial vehicles dedicated to the armed forces, such as the Yugull, Cassowary, and Falcon, which are reinforced by robotic arms.

There is also a cassowary in appearance, but it is three times larger than the cassowary, and looks like a small ship.

The dock area of ​​the Luna base is actually a star port.

This kind of small ship is for Umbrella's own use, and it is also a civilian ship for sale.

It can accommodate 400 people at a time, and it only takes six days to go back and forth between the earth and the moon. It has a life system that can last for three weeks.

For the foreign sale of civilian ships, even passengers who buy economy class have a small sleeping cabin, but they still need to go to the public washroom for washing or showering.

The business class is to increase the space of the sleeping cabin, and there is almost no need to queue for the public washroom.

The last is the luxury business class. The sleeping cabin is not only large, but also has a separate bathroom. Of course, the price is much more expensive than international flights on earth.

However, the civilian ships parked here are Umbrella's own models.

There is no distinction between economy class and business class. All sleeping cabins have the same space, and there are six more public washrooms than those sold outside.

The most important thing is that Umbrella reimburses the employees for taking the boat to and from Earth and Moon, and there is no need to spend money to buy tickets.

Although Sui Bian needs to consider various aspects, such as the cost of this and the consumption of that, in fact, Umbrella is not short of money, so he gives countless benefits to his employees.

Especially for employees who signed formal contracts and non-disclosure agreements, all kinds of reimbursement plus bonuses, and even taking their immediate family members to the general hospital in Umbrella for surgery, hospitalization and buying medicines are almost free, which is equivalent to one person joining the job and the whole family enjoying the benefits.

Walking in the air corridor equipped with a flat escalator, Sui Bian has been silently observing the Griffin that is parked at the No. 2 dock.

He could see the bridge at the forefront of the hull and the three twin guns on the top of the hull. There should be several twin guns in the rest of the ship, but he couldn't see it clearly due to the angle.

Moreover, the caliber of the twin guns is far inferior to the 300mm plasma secondary gun of the Goshawk class, not to mention the electromagnetic gun as the main gun.

Sui Bian remembered that the twin guns were set to be energy weapons that could emit high-energy beams, and had a tacky name——"laser cannon."

This kind of laser weapon is still practical in the "sea battle" of the universe, but if it is in the atmosphere, it will be affected by fine particles such as dust, water droplets, and ice crystals in the atmosphere, resulting in scattering attenuation.

In case of smog, blizzard or heavy rain, laser weapons will be hindered even more.

Umbrella is not a technology without laser weapons. In fact, before exchanging for the Griffon, Sui Bian spent 800 points in the system mall to exchange for an M36 Cattrell laser rifle from a certain hammer.

It can also be called a "flashlight".

The M36 gun weighs 2.6kg, the gun length is 920mm, the "magazine" capacity is 21 megagrams, and the maximum rate of fire is 240 rounds per minute.

Its "magazines" are not live magazines in the traditional sense, but rechargeable, reusable batteries.

The M36 has no ballistics to speak of. In theory, aim and pull the trigger, and the beam emitted from the barrel will hit the target.

Although it is always jokingly called M36, or other series of laser rifles as "flashlights", it does not do much damage, but it is actually a misunderstanding.

After all, the "big heads" who use the M36 laser rifle need to fight against all kinds of ghosts and gods, so it looks so much like a flashlight.

Although the damage caused by the M36 to entities is far inferior to that of the plasma shoulder cannon, it is cheaper and does not require a nuclear fusion reactor for energy, only battery magazines are required.

With good stability and reliability and low maintenance cost, individual energy weapons are no longer exclusive to Astartes and Primarchs.

The current Charon and Task Force 141 have been fully equipped with M36 and derivative laser weapons. Depending on the combat environment, they can be used alternately with pulse guns.

So looking at the dual laser cannon on the Griffon, Sui Bian didn't think it was so strange, but thought that it was not as reliable as the plasma cannon.

"Queen Bai." So he turned his eyes back and said in the dialogue: "Notify the Eastern European manufacturing plant to speed up the manufacture of three warp engines, and then install the three Goshawk-class ships.

Finally, let the Luna base arrange to replace all the laser cannons of the Griffin with plasma cannons, and install a pulse near-defense gun array appropriately. "

"Yes sir." Queen Bai agreed.

After speaking, everyone continued to walk towards the end of the air corridor.

Leave the corridor.

Arriving in the terminal building of the star port, everyone entered the exclusive passage without stopping, and then passed through the corridor bridge that was also sealed and protected against radiation, and directly entered an exclusive space shuttle that was only slightly larger than the Cassowary.

The screen turned and looked down at the star port directly opposite the three docks.

The corridor bridge retracted, and the fixed mechanical arm was deployed. The exclusive space shuttle left the apron vertically and flew towards a small gate above.

The gate slowly opened.

The moment the gap was opened, the sun's direct rays poured into the interior of the dock, reflecting various vehicles and starport buildings on the tarmac.

Moreover, when the gate is opened, there is no gas leakage due to the difference in internal and external pressure.

The gate is fully opened for the exclusive space shuttle to pass through, leaving the dock and star port, and coming to the moon sea outside the gate.

Looking out from the cockpit of the space shuttle, you can only see a gray plain at the bottom of the lunar sea, a huge gate in the middle of the plain, and a very dazzling sun.

Subsequently, the space shuttle left the lunar mare vertically, and finally reached the upper orbit of the moon.

While deploying the optical camouflage, it accelerates, preparing to use the increased speed of the gravitational slingshot to return to the earth.

The space shuttle is equipped with a small nuclear fusion engine, has a complete life support system inside, and is fully equipped with cabins and rooms such as sleeping cabins and washrooms.

Using the gravitational slingshot effect, it only takes 26 hours to go back and forth between the earth and the moon, which is much faster than civilian ships. After all, it is exclusive.

For Sui Bian, taking the exclusive space shuttle back to Earth is actually equivalent to an international flight on Earth, and it will not delay his normal work and rest.

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December 26.

London, which is eight hours ahead of Los Angeles, is at noon.

In London in winter, although it is rare to see a severe blizzard like that in Los Angeles, the sky is always shrouded in dark clouds, and the city is also cold and humid.

But at this time, there are many vehicles and pedestrians on the streets of London, especially the entrances and exits of major shopping malls.

Now is the Boxing Day after Christmas. While people are enjoying the holiday, they are also enjoying the promotional activities of major shopping malls.

In the traffic jam, there was a car belonging to Umbrella.