Chapter 342: Taking the Brunt (First Update) Xia Chujian didn't understand why they couldn't continue sinking, or they wouldn't be able to leave.
But this wasn't the time for explanations.
She immediately increased the kinetic energy output of her warplane, and abruptly sank another five thousand meters.
Her rapid descent pulled the three warplanes above her down with her, which inadvertently counteracted a bit of the gravity.
The Star Rocks and ice crystals that had been orbiting the three warplanes were now just spinning in place, not sinking with them.
Unsure, Xia Chujian continued to descend, this time another three thousand meters, before Mao Yonggui said, "Alright, we've shaken them off."
Xia Chujian then asked, "What happened just now?"
Chu Qingjuan said, "That's one of the death phenomena in the Small Asteroid belt, where you can get entangled by Star Rock fragments and ice crystals brought by the Comets."
"They treat the warplane as a rotating core. Once they form a stable orbit, your warplane can never escape, and it will spin forever in the Small Asteroid belt until all its power is exhausted."
Xia Chujian said, "...Can't you switch to Mechanical Armor mode and escape?"
"No, Mechanical Armor, like warplanes, will become the rotating core of these Star Rock fragments and ice crystals due to gravity. Unless..."
"Unless what?"
"Unless you have armor made of Special Metal." Mao Yonggui's voice came from the group channel, "I heard that Master Su Buyan, a top-tier Mechanical Armor master, is developing armor in this area. The Southern Cross Star Kingdom is very interested and has sent several waves of spies to steal the core technology."
Xia Chujian's heart stirred.
Armor made of Special Metal...
Isn't the Shao Siming on her body made of that? Master's Special Metal armor has already been made...
She didn't speak, remained silent for a while, and then asked, "How do you know the Southern Cross Star Kingdom sent spies?"
"...Our squadron had a mission once, near the Southern Cross Star Kingdom's star region, to intercept their smuggling spacecraft. After capturing them alive, we learned about their mission."
Xia Chujian smiled and praised, "Sister Mao, you guys are amazing! But, did the Southern Cross Star Kingdom only send one batch of smuggling spacecraft? If it were me, I would definitely send several batches, to different locations, smuggling as many as possible!"
Her roommates were silent.
After a while, Sang Yadi stammered, "...T-t-that... is also possible."
Xia Chujian: "..."
Did Master know that the Southern Cross Star Kingdom's spies might have already infiltrated?
She added, "Isn't catching spies the job of the Special Security Bureau? Why did you do the Special Security Bureau's work?"
Mao Yonggui said, "We were just cooperating with the Special Security Bureau's operation."
Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's okay then. Since the Special Security Bureau is involved, I believe not a single spy will be able to walk up to Master Su alive."
Chu Qingjuan laughed along, "Chujian, although what you said makes sense, why does it sound so creepy to me?"
"How could it be? My ideal is world peace!" Xia Chujian said with a grin.
They chatted as they adjusted their direction and continued to fly forward.
Along the way, there were no major magnetic field disturbances, and their communication was stable even without a data cable connection.
However, as soon as Chu Qingjuan, the Crow mouth, said, "Good luck, we haven't encountered a magnetic storm yet."
A magnetic storm suddenly descended.
In the dark but crowded background, streaks of extremely dazzling light suddenly appeared.
They cast various shapes, like abstract paintings appearing in the wildest dreams.
Fluorescent green, fiery red that shone like fireworks, and interwoven blue-purple seemed to fill the entire dark starry sky with color.
Magnetic field particles constantly collided, producing dazzling electric arcs that leaped in the void, seemingly able to illuminate the entire universe with their intense light.
Xia Chujian squinted at the depths of the electric arc and could even see a void and ethereal door appearing there.
The enormous energy distortion and ripple effect brought about by the magnetic storm molded the magnetic field, which was normally invisible to the naked eye, into various strange shapes.
The collision between particles also stimulated the thick nebula and dust that had accumulated in the Small Asteroid belt.
Light shone through the heavy nebula, dreamlike and illusionary, like a mysterious and gorgeous dream.
Particles aggregate and disperse in the universe, creating all sorts of fantastical geometric halos with the magnetic field storms.
At the same time, they also had a huge impact on all the warplanes affected.
External electronic devices failed one after another, and even the power systems inside the cockpits were affected, making flying extremely dangerous and uncontrollable.
Mao Yonggui's voice was intermittent in the group channel: "...This time the magnetic field storm...is too big...evade...ahead..."
Xia Chujian listened several times before she understood that Mao Yonggui was saying that this magnetic field storm was too big, and they had to find a place to hide. There was a Small Asteroid with a diameter of less than one hundred kilometers ahead, where they could land first.
Xia Chujian knew that she was completely unfamiliar with this kind of place, so she was very obedient.
Just in case, she even replaced the warplane's own helmet with the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha's helmet, and used the Shao Siming Mecha's Mechanical Intelligence to take over the Mechanical Intelligence of this Ghost-class Fighter.
And Su Buyan was indeed powerful.
When Xia Chujian used the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha's Mechanical Intelligence to take over these four warplanes, their radar systems seemed to have recovered, because the large and small display screens in the warplanes also began to show visual images converted from radar data.
Immediately afterwards, she re-positioned according to the relative coordinates sent by Mao Yonggui, and led everyone quickly towards the Small Asteroid ahead.
It was a very irregular Small Asteroid, very small in volume, but the gravity seemed to be very strong.
Because as soon as they flew close, they felt a strong gravitational pull, trying to drag them away.
Xia Chujian subconsciously gripped the control stick and pulled it outwards to avoid being dragged down by the strong gravity.
At this moment, the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha's Mechanical Intelligence suddenly began to warn.
Several lines of text jumped and flashed on the display screen of her helmet visor.
"A warplane is rapidly approaching thirty kilometers ahead, targeting our warplanes."
Xia Chujian was baffled.
What did this mean? Was another warplane crashing into them?
But in this harsh space environment, this warplane's radar could actually scan a distance of more than thirty kilometers!
While Xia Chujian sighed, she recalled what Pei Zijing had said.
He said that this time they were just flying across this asteroid belt, not fighting, so the Starry Sky Fighters were not loaded with Space Weapons, only conventional weapons for the ground battlefield.
And in this asteroid belt where there was no oxygen, and even the physical rules were extremely distorted, those conventional weapons suitable for planetary ground battlefields were useless.
So what was the other party trying to do?
Were they going to use their warplane as a kinetic weapon and crash directly into them? Well, that was also quite powerful.
Xia Chujian hurriedly adjusted her speed and direction to avoid the opponent's aggressive approach.
But as they moved, the other party also moved, as if they had latched onto them and wouldn't let go, or as if they were lost and couldn't find their way, using the direction of their warplanes as navigation.
If Xia Chujian only had one warplane, she would be much more flexible.
But now she was dragging three, and she was not so agile when turning.
Seeing that the other party was about to crash into them, and she was still turning...
Xia Chujian hardened her heart and stopped turning, directly lowering her position.
It was not easy for her to ascend now, not easy to turn, but wasn't it easy to descend? Besides, there were still four special material nano-fiber data cables between her and the three warplanes above!
Whoever wanted to crash into them maliciously would be in for a treat!
Xia Chujian informed her roommates: "Descend one thousand meters, and then rotate at a uniform speed. The other party should already be able to see us on the radar. Under normal circumstances, they will turn, otherwise they are deliberately crashing into us."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw on the radar display screen that the Aurora-class Starry Sky Fighter, which was originally thirty kilometers away, was rapidly approaching their position.
The Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha's Mechanical Intelligence was frantically warning.
"Locked by the opponent's radar! Locked by the opponent's radar!"
Mao Yonggui and the others' warplanes were above Xia Chujian at this time, and they were shocked when they saw this scene on the display screen.
Chu Qingjuan even turned on the communication channel on the warplane, ignoring the interference of the magnetic field storm on wireless communication and the damage to electronic equipment, and said loudly: "The Aurora-class Fighter ahead is on our route, please turn immediately!"
...
Jiang Yongbai was piloting an Aurora-class Starry Sky Fighter, and finally caught up with Xia Chujian's Ghost-class Fighter.
He sneered coldly in the distance, thinking, My warplane isn't so easy to snatch...
What can a commoner who isn't a Gene Evolver do, no matter how capable they are?
Killing you is as easy as crushing an ant.
He was originally just the Chief Pilot of a Thunder-class Fighter, but in order to fly through this Small Asteroid belt, he used all his family connections to try to replace Xia Chujian and let him pilot that Ghost-class Fighter.
He didn't expect to be kicked out by Xia Chujian in person.
Then he asked her for help and exchanged with a commoner pilot of an Aurora-class Fighter, taking over the other pilot's warplane.
The other pilot obediently didn't even dare to fart.
This is the correct way for a commoner to behave!
Jiang Yongbai hated Xia Chujian even more because of this.
He felt that he had been humiliated twice because of Xia Chujian, and he had long wanted her to die.
But he wouldn't throw himself in, and he wouldn't use his warplane to crash into Xia Chujian's warplane.
Of course, he came prepared.
His warplane was equipped with an illegal Ultra-Micro Space Ion Beam Cannon...
This was a Space Weapon, which should not have been carried on this trip, but money makes the world go round. That person, in order to compensate Jiang Yongbai for the loss of the Ghost-class Starry Sky Fighter, agreed to Jiang Yongbai's request and secretly loaded a Space Weapon for him.
And in this Small Asteroid belt, a Starry Sky Fighter with a Space Weapon is like a god!
Also, there was a tacit understanding between them Nobles that the commoners in the top twenty who didn't join their group had to be eliminated!
Xia Chujian was, of course, the first to bear the brunt.
Jiang Yongbai grinned and pressed the launch button.
Although the normal range of a Space Ion Beam Cannon is three thousand kilometers, the normal range of an Ultra-Micro Space Ion Beam Cannon is only thirty kilometers.
In order to ensure that the Ion Beam Cannon could completely blast the other party into smithereens, Jiang Yongbai insisted on shortening the distance to within ten kilometers.
And he was now less than ten kilometers away from Xia Chujian's warplane.
However, Jiang Yongbai didn't realize that due to the influence of the magnetic field storm, the electronic components on his warplane were greatly affected, and whether it was speed measurement, direction finding, or aiming, everything was off.
This is the first update for today, and there will be a second update at 1 p.m.
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