Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Chapter 597 Flying in the Line of Fire

The track operates quickly under the pull of the iron chain. It drags a huge cannonball, passing quickly from the transmission belt, and then stops instantly at its end. The cannonball is rough, full of gouges and poorly processed. The projectile's body flashed with red lights around it.

A low gasping sound sounded near the cannonball. Amidst the blast of the whip and the curses, several short figures pushed it off the transmission belt, and it landed in the groove under the track in a rather rough way. Inside.

The groove started to work, and with the cooperation of the turntable below and the surrounding machines that could hardly be called delicate, the platform holding the cannonballs was translated and rotated until, after a huge hole, it was pushed in, roaring and cursing. Amidst the sound, the hole behind him was closed heavily.

Darkness instantly enveloped everything, but it only lasted for a moment. The heavy explosion suddenly appeared with the light of the fire, and the fire swept behind the shell instantly. It pushed the heavy projectile to roar out, and walked out of the muzzle on the sea of ​​​​fire. After flying out, it crossed the sea of ​​stars, whirling and whizzing through the dust and broken fragments of the universe.

The shell almost missed the Skyhawk. The shell flew across the silent universe. In the vacuum environment, the hunters in the cabin did not hear the huge sound of breaking through the air. They only saw the shell. The body flashed past the window, and then bloomed on the battleship behind it.

The huge explosion raised a monstrous fireball, which tore a large hole in the tattered Imperial Navy battlecruiser. The surrounding buildings, macro cannons, and numerous automatic cannons were all broken, and they sprayed towards The universe, floating in the icy vacuum, was shattered by the shock waves of more explosions.

The surface of the entire battleship was constantly exploding. The reason was the bombardment of cannonballs, and the source of the cannonballs was the group of green-skinned battleships coiled around the planet in front of them. Those huge steel beasts, their physiques were enough to put the largest imperial battleships to shame. , and its firepower is even more so. There are densely packed giant muzzles protruding from its sides. They are staggered and completely disordered. They look more like a pattern that will make the technical officials of the Imperial Navy Shipyard scream. arranged in a way.

The huge cannon muzzles were very close together, as if they didn't care about the shock wave when firing. Around them, more large and small cannons stretched out from the inside, like a sphere filled with spikes. , the green-skinned head made of steel roared among the battleship's guns, and its roar turned into countless cannonballs.

The heavy artillery roared one by one, and the flames they spit out instantly lit up the entire battleship and the bodies of other green-skinned battleships that were firing around. The rotating shells burst out flames like raindrops, flying towards the direction of the wreckage, and Unfortunately, the Skyhawk was on that ballistic path.

Yeta quickly rotated the control ball, and the hair on the back of her head kept flying left and right as the shuttle flashed rapidly. In the gravity simulation environment inside the machine, all the inertia was truly acted on its members. Especially, the King of Destruction.

"Damn it! I'm going to vomit!" "Don't vomit in my boat, or I'll throw you out!" "We have to get out of here as soon as possible. We are just a target for those greenskins here!"

Echo shouted from the fixed seat opposite. The modified mechanical socket in his hand swayed left and right with the huge inertia, hitting the surrounding walls and the armrests of the seat, making a clanging sound, as if to those silent Explosive addition.

The firelight shone on the Skyhawk. It was still in an invisible state, and its entire body refracted the surrounding ambient light, almost turning into a fireball, just like the wreckage that had been blown apart from the battleship. Ye Ta was driving The Skyhawk kept dodging the oncoming shells.

For the hunters behind the cockpit, everything around them was silent, but because Yeta was connected to the Skyhawk's sensors, in her ears, those explosions almost pierced the eardrums, and the raging flames also It brought billowing heat waves in the universe, almost making her skin feel the burning sensation of being burned to the bones without being ignited.

"Have we been discovered?" Yeta asked loudly from the front. She hurriedly dodged another roaring shell. The Skyhawk ducked down to avoid it, and then she had to dodge the next one immediately. The gun barrels of the leather battleship continued to light up with fire, and the dense light spots shone like stars in the distance, and their starlight was those cannonballs.

The roaring warheads rotated and shot towards the Skyhawk. Yeta turned his hands downward, and then quickly rotated sideways with his wrist as the fulcrum. The Skyhawk's vector nozzle fired to the side, and the shuttle made continuous rolls and headed towards the Skyhawk. The left side dodged the incoming shell, but the latter, with its rough surface, almost grazed the Aquila, and they collided briefly, sparks flashing from the refractive armor.

The explosion raised a shock wave behind it. It hit the Skyhawk, causing the shuttle to rotate weightlessly in the air. The entire body fell like a windmill. Alarms sounded in the cabin, and everyone was holding on to the seats in front of them. The armrest of the chair, the King of Destruction roared and wailed from behind.

"I will never ride on your boat again!" "If we can't escape, you really don't have to sit here once!" Yeta's right shoulder was firmly leaning on the seat, and her hands were dragging in front of her. The ball was spinning rapidly in front of his eyes, turning the outside scene almost into a straight line phantom.

"Commander, you must find a way to restore balance. In this case, we have no choice but to hide." "I know, technician." As Ye Ta spoke, he freed up one hand and quickly flicked on the holographic interface in front of him. Clicking, she grabbed the control ball with her other hand. That hand suddenly grasped the ball and pulled it to the side. While the ball rotated downwards, the wings of the shuttle also unfolded in a right and wrong manner, and the shock wave set off waves below. , the airflow wings, which were originally useful within the atmosphere, seemed to be flying within the atmosphere under the action of the shock wave.

The shock wave roared through the gap where the wings opened. The huge impact stopped the body instantly. The moment it stopped falling, Ye Ta pressed the button in front of him, and the vector jet quickly moved backwards from the end of the body. , hitting the bottom of the cabin door, the two propellers expanded instantly, spraying vector flames instantly, piercing the entire night sky, and the shuttle roared out under this push.

The shaking in the cabin came to an end, and everyone sat heavily on the seats. The King of Destruction rubbed his butt and wailed, "Damn, my butt is split in two!" "Your butt is already there. There are two halves," the technician added.

"Damn it, the God Emperor's clean hip bones are up there! Technician, can't you say something useful? For example, why were we discovered?" "I think we were not discovered." "What do you mean? This is not possible. Didn't we get discovered? Their shells were all fired at our faces."

The hunter frowned, "Why do you think we haven't been discovered?" "It's very simple. The battleships are arranged very loosely, and the muzzles are also facing chaos. Although the cannonballs look dense, there is actually no clear firing direction. "Indeed, their shooting was very random, as if they were fighting each other."

Crosshair held the toothpick between his teeth and said. The technician nodded and glanced at Yarick and the other brothers in the cabin. "Yes, they were firing randomly. If they really discovered our position, they would have been there long ago." The fire was concentrated in a single area, and we are still alive, which means that they have not discovered us at all. "

"Then why did they fire?" Yeta asked from the front. As she asked, she had to avoid the incoming shells. If Vito were here, he would definitely be proud of Yeta's driving skills.

"Make this adventure more thrilling?" "I don't think the greenskins will cooperate with our adventure." "Nonsense, I know, I'm asking why they do this."

The technician didn't answer immediately. He stood up and looked out of the window behind him. He raised his eyebrows at the fire that exploded one after another behind him and sat back, "Target shooting." "What?" "They are shooting at the target, all the shells." , all flying towards the wreckage area. ""If this is their target training, then it is no wonder that their marksmanship is so poor, and they will always just rush around with their guns."

"Correct, the green skins have no real training. All their actions, including war actions, are for entertainment. It's puzzling." The technician raised his eyes and said, "Hey, okay, don't worry about whether they are shooting or not, what should we do? What to do? Fly towards the cannonball?" The Destruction King asked loudly, interrupting the conversation between the sight and the technician.

The latter held his eyes and shook his head, "No, if we fly towards the muzzle, we will soon be involved in the shock wave again, and the closer we get there, the denser the shells will be fired, and once we continue If it is unbalanced, there is a 99.77 probability that it will be hit.”

"Then what should we do?" the hunter asked, sitting on the fixed chair next to him. The technician nodded and looked towards the cab in front, "Commander, please dive down and turn off the engine." "What? Ah, I I understand what you mean." "What do you understand about him?" the King of Destruction asked doubtfully.

"Shutting down the engine and free falling downwards can prevent the engine's jet from colliding with the shock waves of the surrounding explosions and causing interference. Now there are shock waves everywhere around us, which can simulate the environment in the atmosphere." "What do you mean?" "He means, As long as we use the folding wings of the fuselage itself, we can use the surrounding shock waves to steadily accelerate and then dive out of the firing area of ​​the cannon.”

Echo explained, but the King of Destruction still had a weird expression on his face, obviously not understanding, "I don't understand." "Then you don't need to understand, just read it." Yeta said in front, and his fingers suddenly closed When the engine was turned on and off, the entire Skyhawk instantly lost gravity and rushed downwards.

"I'll do it!!!!" the King of Destruction shouted, and was suddenly thrown on the back of the chair. He looked at the rapid downward dive outside the cabin in front. Countless shells, wreckage, and still flames flew past the window, almost Each one of them almost hit them. The King of Destruction turned his head away, while the hunter beside him frowned and stared outside.

"Commander, turn left." The hunter's voice sounded from behind, and Yeta obeyed his advice without any hesitation. The shuttle turned to the left, avoiding the flying shells, "Turn left, and then Turn right."

The shuttle swayed left and right, and Yarick frowned slightly as he watched the hunter, "How did he know? The location of the cannonball." "The hunter's brain nerves have been modified and are particularly sensitive to electromagnetic fields, so he can sense Those shells." The technician explained to him. Yarick narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the hunter while the King of Destruction yelled.

The King of Destruction opened his mouth, and the shock wave poured into his mouth, making the sides of his mouth bulge, and his screams became longer and filled with more shaking tones, just like this ship Likewise, the King of Destruction glanced in front of him desperately. He was just doing it subconsciously at first, but when he saw the cannonball body that almost hit him, he screamed even louder.

"Commander!" "I know." Yeta said, leaning hard to the side of the pilot's chair, her legs kicked on the ground, the entire chair slid to the side, and the control ball also rotated accordingly. , the Skyhawk completed its rotation at the moment when it almost hit the cannonball.

Its nose rubbed against the side of the shell's body, and sparks flew out. The shuttle and the shell passed each other in the Z-axis and Y-axis directions, and the shuttle flew out of the explosion's flames, as if, A white dolphin swimming out from a migrating sardine school.

Ye Ta suddenly pulled up the two control balls, and then stretched out a hand to press the button on the side. The Skyhawk's fuselage was raised, and the end jet was quickly ignited, and the huge impact made it lift up. Looking back, under the light of countless explosions hovering above, Yeta breathed a long sigh of relief, leaned back on his chair, and looked at the explosions in the sky above.

The fire passed through the icy void and shot into the cockpit from the door of the cabin. The six people there were looking at the exploding fire cloud and the wreckage that fell from the heights. They were like a group of people. Ship crashed into the deep sea.

Now, they don't need to turn on any sensors to know how hot the flame is. Ye Ta, who has felt the temperature, feels that his body senses are gradually cooling down, and then shakes his hands, and then holds up the ball. , pointed the nose of the Skyhawk downwards, and flew towards the red planet.

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