Chapter 51

There are 614 members in the fifth team and the number of space battleships that the team can be used is 52.

If the fifth team is fully deployed, they can even destroy a medium-sized country in a short period of time.

Within the framework of ordinary society, an army composed of ordinary people is simply impossible to be their opponent.

But even such an elite army couldn't help showing a dignified expression after seeing the volcanic ash entrenched in the air of Shenzhou.

In a modern society where information-based combat methods have begun to spread in ordinary armies, the main attack method of military strikes has changed to seemingly invisible long-range attacks.

The flight system the warship is composed of has two aspects: the anti-gravity engine and the miniature nuclear fusion propeller.

In addition to the usual missiles, the Fifth Squadron's fleet is even equipped with weapons such as rail guns and miniature nuclear bombs.

If necessary the ship can reach satellite orbit level and enter the form of a space-based weapon in a short time. In this state, they can carry out long-distance strikes on targets on the ground.

However, since the scattered volcanic ash completely obscured the target location, all space-related attack methods have lost their original accuracy.

In addition, the crustal changes caused by the collapsing phenomenon have already made the continental plate very fragile.

If nuclear bombs are used to bomb this territory, there's a high probability of triggering further plate changes in the Eurasian continent.

Tsunamis, earthquakes...these are even relatively light.

If a large area of plate landslides is triggered, even offshore continents may sink into the sea.

In that case, the price is too high to be paid.

The top heads of Fire Moths are politicians, not terrorists.

Although in some cases, these politicians may cause more harm to human beings than terrorists.

But at least at this stage, they are not so frantic to the point that they would abandon nearly one-fifth of the world's population because of an unexplained Honkai event.

As the captain of the fifth team, Himeko certainly couldn't make such a decision similar to a terrorist attack.

Long-range attacks have lost their original accuracy and the price to be paid for a full-scale bombing was too high.

Therefore, after a brief hesitation, Himeko gave instructions to the fleet of the fifth squadron to break into the affected area.

The fleet group lowered their flight altitude and came under the gray cloud that was still spreading.

The radar of all the battleships instantly turned into a static sound.

—The moment they entered the Honkai area, the fleet of the Fifth Squadron were no longer bystanders.

There is no Honkai Beast in sight, nor are there any modern weapons.

Therefore, all members of the fifth team have no way to estimate the opponent's range of power.

Under such circumstances, when encountering an attack from a long-ranged weapon it is impossible to react.

The moment the radar shattered, the pilot couldn't comprehend what kind of situation he had encountered.

Followed by the radar shattering a straight rail gun beam attacked the ship. Due to this Himeko led the fleet group into a sharp fire.

Fortunately, the moment the rail gun hit the main ship, Himeko was standing behind the driver's seat.

Compared with the pilot who could not react to the attack, as the captain, she felt a chill the moment the attack was shot.

Without any hesitation, she pulled the driver away from the driver's seat and dodged the attack.

Below the disintegrated main ship, the unprotected bodies of Himeko and the pilot fell straight down.

Like exploding fireworks, Himeko's gloomy face was illuminated by the flames that bloomed in the night.

She tightly held the wrist of the pilot, trying to control her body that had completely lost its balance in mid-air while trying to turn her face towards the direction where the beam attacked.

Sure enough, as Himeko guessed, since the opponent had already used the rail gun's attack it was impossible for the rail gun to be shot without—

In less than a second, a total of sixty bright blue lights flickered in the distance.

Judging from the trajectories of those attacks all the spaceships belonging to the fifth team will be wiped out without any resistance.

But when Himeko's face was gloomy from the fact that she issued a death sentence to her team, a red glow suddenly flashed in another direction.

For Fire Moth, the rail gun is already the fastest attack method among existing medium-ranged combat weapons that surpass 10x the speed of sound.

In Himeko's opinion, even Fire Moth's cutting-edge technology can't be used to deal with the opponent's weapon.

However, this idea was easily shattered by the absurd scene in front of her.

Compared with the dazzling blue light emitted by the rail gun, the red light did not even attract Himeko's attention.

However, in less than half a second, the seemingly unnoticeable red light suddenly split into hundreds of directions.

More than a hundred red lights formed to combat the attacking rail gun. Accompanied by a series of explosions, the dense flames lit up the night sky under the volcanic ash.

Himeko opened her mouth slightly.

Her sharp and bright face showed an extremely shocked expression, followed by a burst of uncontrollable ecstasy.

In the distance, dense blue lights lightened up again.

From the time the main ship was destroyed by the first rail gun to the time when the dense red light blocked the next sixty rounds, only one second passed.

For ordinary people, it is probably difficult to do anything in just one second.

But for those experienced pilots, one second is enough time to think and react.

The other warships of the space fleet immediately made evasive actions, and the faint red light lit up again.

Under the cover of the red light that intercepted most of the rail guns, the space fleet had already been attacked by the second wave of rail guns.

Before coming here, they have completed a series of difficult movements so they immediately dispersed in that second.

After they dispersed, the fifth team aimed all the ship's rail guns in the direction of the opponent's attack.

As the lightning flashed from the rail gun's barrels, the rail guns that were the same as the opponents came out at the same time.

The rail guns spanned a distance of several kilometers in an instant and carried out multi-directional strikes on the enemy who attacked and destroyed the main ship.

Just as the fleet of the fifth squadron was engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the unknown target, a slender sword suddenly shot in the direction of Himeko.

Although the flying swords that had chains connected to them were also fast, they were slow as a snail compared to the red lights covering the fleet from the rail gun's that were trying to destroy them.

Therefore, after hearing the sound of metal passing her head, Himeko grabbed the end of the sword without any hesitation.

Looking at the sword that was only a finger's length away from her head, Himeko's eyelids twitched for a while.

Although she didn't feel any hostility or killing intent from the flying sword, the guy who released it...was quite confident she has the ability to respond

If she failed to catch it, Himeko did not doubt that this sharp thing could easily pierce through her skull.

Just as Himeko was complaining deep in her heart, a strong force suddenly came from the sword pulling her in.

Himeko tightly held the driver's wrist to resist the violent force of the wind as they were pulled in.

Following the direction in which the swords flew, Himeko saw a very familiar battleship from a distance.

It was the main ship belonging to the first squadron.

But compared to the ship, what surprised Himeko even more was another thing.

Because of this excessive astonishment, after being pulled to the top of the main ship of the first team, Himeko made an unbelievable sound immediately.

"Little devil, why is it you?!"

"Am I weird?"

The boy holding a metal ring rolled his eyes and said indifferently.

The sword in Himeko's hand was tightly connected to that chain coming from the ring

She didn't know how this boy did it, it was clearly a chain extending hundreds of meters, but when Himeko was pulled to the other party's side by this chain she realized that the chain seemed to be only about ten meters long.

Himeko opened her mouth, feeling that her whole brain was short-circuited.

At this moment, that brat did something that short-circuited her brain even more.

He turned his body around and casually discarded the chain that seemed so miraculous to Himeko.

The long chain suddenly turned into a faint glow as if it had been dissolved into the air.

Under Himeko's extremely weird gaze, he raised the weapon in his other hand high in the direction of the opponent's fleet.

After seeing something that should not appear on the modern battlefield, Himeko couldn't help but rub her eyes, feeling as if she had seen a hallucination.

"Bow?"

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with one of her eyes, Himeko's expression suddenly became stunned.

"Wait, kid, don't tell me—" You want to shoot something with a bow to counter a rail gun?

Before this question was blurted out, the incomparably restrained red light that Himeko had just seen appeared between the bowstrings.

Himeko closed her mouth with a click

Although she thinks it's unlikely.

'Looking at this posture, did he intercept those rail guns? could it be—'

Before this absurd idea was finished, the bowstring was pulled to the limit. In a strange tense sound, a large cluster of arrows on the string was instantly released.

The red magic light enveloped the large group of arrows and then the arrows that were shot suddenly split and scattered, just like the arrows that intercepted the rail guns.

A rain of magic arrows with completely different flying trajectories was launched in the night, pouring down in the direction where the fleet of the fifth squadron fired.

"Huh? What do you want to ask?" The boy who finished shooting turned his head and looked at Himeko whose jaw was about to drop to the ground with eyes full of doubts.

"No, nothing." Himeko shook her head resolutely, and said with a serious expression, "You're welcome."

The boy glanced at Himeko, then at the pilot who was sitting blankly on the spaceship. He walked to the side of the glass cover and tapped lightly.

Although Shirou and Himeko seem to have adapted to the harsh environment around them, standing on the shell of a supersonic spaceship is not an easy thing for other fighters to do

During the short time when Himeko and the pilot she was pulling were dragged into the shell of the ship, the pilot who tried his best to stabilize his body had already begun to show symptoms of insufficient oxygen.

Following Shirou's prompt, the hatch on the side of the ship was gradually opened, and Shirou turned his gaze toward Himeko's direction

"You two, enter the inside of the battleship first. Go to the captain of the first team who pilots this ship, if you have any questions, you can just ask that man."

"What about you?" Himeko asked subconsciously.

"Do you still need to ask?" Shirou turned his gaze back to the battlefield and said meaningfully

"Of course I will continue to stay here, looking for ways to exert force on the people who tried to destroy everything with a fatal blow."

"..." Himeko opened her mouth, looking at Shirou's immature but extremely reliable back, the persuasion she wanted to say finally turned into a voice of trust and approval.

"Understood." She nodded, "I wish you prosperity in martial arts."

Shirou did not continue to respond to Himeko's words.

He narrowed his eyes as something gradually appeared in his field of vision

At this moment, Shirou's vision was filled with an ominous appearance full of cracks and the concept of [death].

His amber pupils flash with gorgeous but deadly rainbow light

Open - Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.