Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1335 - 506: Crushing in Computing Power, Crushing in Technology, Crushing in Individual Combat

The QS-22 missile, enhanced with a thickened neutron coating and reinforced solid alloy structure, crashes into the assault ship with a terrifying kinetic impact, piercing through multiple structural layers as if cutting through tofu, unstoppable.

If left unchecked, these missiles would completely penetrate numerous assault ships from end to end, without delivering a substantial blow to the enemy, with limited destructive effect.

This is a normal phenomenon. Any long-range kinetic missile faces this issue.

But Ren Zhong clearly won’t let this happen. Five thousand nearby shuttle ships have already switched to dual-channel communication mode of radio and gravitational waves. Before the QS-22 missile crashes into the Storm Assault Fleet’s formation, the shuttle ships have already established communication with the missiles in advance, becoming relay commanders.

No meticulous arrangement from Ren Zhong is needed, as Sun Ai has already established preset programs for each missile and appointed coordinators for detonation control point-to-point.

The main task of these controllers is to prevent the preset detonation programs from malfunctioning and failing to detonate in time. The controllers must swiftly initiate the backup detonation program before the missile escapes the assault ship.

In the blink of an eye, accompanied by repeated intense energy reactions, over six thousand QS-22s are detonated one after another.

Various areas of the assault ships, including power sections, energy supply sections, command bridges, life support sections, and so on, are more or less affected.

Among a thousand assault ships, the relatively lucky ones are those hit by only one core cabin section. These fortunate ones are usually penetrated by two missiles, one of which detonates timely according to the preset program, and the other remotely detonated in a salvage effort with the assistance of artificial intelligence from the shuttle ship.

Due to time delay, even though the artificial intelligence reacts swiftly, it still misses the optimal detonation point. Some missiles even burst forth from the assault ship before detonating.

However, there are still some exceptionally unlucky assault ships hit by as many as eight missiles, and all these missiles detonate on time. Before the launch, Zheng Tian has already used the public design blueprints of the assault ship acquired from Wen Yuanbo to lock the missiles onto the core cabin section of the assault ships in advance.

The simultaneous detonation of these four core cabin sections causes devastating damage to the assault ship.

Just this first round of stealth assault nearly destroys the Storm Pirates’ counterattack capability.

The reason it does not completely annihilate them is that the disguised command ship ridden by Kali Claudie and Wu Moyou, by sheer luck, only had its power sections and life support core blown apart, while the command bridge and energy supply system remain intact.

Amidst the massive chaos, one small ship after another flies out from the assault ships, dispersing in all directions.

Only a very few assault ships attempt a difficult turn, trying to escape.

These ships are lucky, as they at least retain mobility.

On the other side, five thousand seemingly inconspicuous shuttle ships are quietly approaching, then stop advancing further, maintaining a certain distance.

At this moment, explosions continue to erupt across the assault ship array, lighting up the starry sky like daylight. Advancing further risks having the light break the stealth status, similar to Ding Canghai’s exposure of the disguise of Critical Poison Sting.

Ren Zhong slowly adjusts his breathing, softly ordering, "The enemy is about to flee. The task of the shuttle ships is to intercept those High Rank enemies with stronger mobility. Eye Ship continues to shrink the encirclement as planned, preparing to activate the Aggregation Cannon Formation. Full blockade, not a single one shall escape."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hou Sheng’s docking jump ship randomly chose a direction, taking the lead and charging forward.

In fact, at this moment, Hou Sheng doesn’t know where he should escape to, so he merely chooses a direction based on intuition, guessing that there are likely no ambushers here, offering him the greatest hope for escape, and charges straightforwardly.

From the moment the explosion occurred, contact between Hou Sheng’s jump ship and the outside world was completely cut off, and he was unaware of the situation of Kali Claudie and Wu Moyou. Upon witnessing the command ship break into three fragments in successive explosions before his eyes, he merely assumed that the two had met a grim fate, and the urgent task now was to ensure his own survival.

Seeing the small ship getting closer and closer, Ren Zhong first quickly issued distributed orders via the command system, then adjusted the energy allocation of the shuttle ships, gradually increasing the energy charging power of the Beam Energy Cannon.

In the previous setup, Ren Zhong had a rationale for his choice of position. He is positioned at the line segment between the Storm Assault Fleet and its base, guarded with the most elite Guard Corps. He judges that the opponent’s first instinct would be to submit to instinctively and subconsciously retreat towards the direction deemed safest. Although this place is at least 0.3 light years away from the Storm Base, relying on small ships, it is basically impossible to flee back, but instinct is instinct, always slightly dominating one’s actions.