Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 489 06.0488: "Can't see me, can't see me"

"The towable 'diviner' has been activated."

"Torpedoes are being warmed up in torpedo silo number five."

"Captain! The enemy destroyer that has infiltrated the gas cloud has been discovered. It is conducting cruise detection at a speed of 7 void knots. It is estimated that it is searching for the location of our ship's signal wave. Phase ZD!"

"Fishing, keep fishing it with 'bait'. Helmsman, right rudder 270!"

"Yes, sir. Turn right at 270 degrees!"

The Epic pulled out an S-shaped snake-skin to move, and the towed 'Fortune Teller' was hung at the rear by a long cable, continuously sending out active detection waves and receiving echoes reflected from enemy ships.

By comparing the detection waves two by two, the precise location of the enemy ship can be obtained.

And that moment was a good opportunity to launch a torpedo.

As Horatio expected, the Tau Empire destroyer did find a small object floating in the gas cloud that continued to emit signals.

But the size of the target did not match the specifications of the prey detected by their radar.

The captain immediately realized that it was a trolling decoy.

The real enemy has controlled the radiation very well, and the specific location is erratic on the spherical radar. I don’t know whether they have passive electronic countermeasure equipment or some new tricks.

"Withdraw. Conduct a perimeter blockade. It can't leave today."

The Fire Clan's commander gave the order to evacuate the gas cloud and seal off the entire gas cloud.

As soon as he finished speaking, the communication from the destroyer turned into a noisy sound of ionizing radiation.

"Commander! 'Carit#86wa' has been destroyed!"

The observer on the light cruiser exclaimed in surprise.

The prey in the cloud struck back, killing a hound that was following its scent.

"Quick! Aim for the last locked position, lock ahead 8 kilometers! Disperse 5000, two missiles fired!"

Whizzing!

Two Seeker missiles rushed out of the launch silo, drilled into the gas cloud, and circled towards the Epic's true location.

"Return the rudder! Maximum speed allowed is 8 knots!"

The successful Epic tried its best to drill into the asteroid belt.

The space debris formed by the destroyed Merchant-class ships in the surrounding area produced new asteroids, expanding the area of ​​this asteroid belt that stretches for thousands of kilometers.

At the last moment before being caught up by the missile, the Epic drilled behind a meteorite, and the missile hit the meteorite and exploded.

The shock wave of the explosion was reduced somewhat by the buffer layer, but the rubble and debris made the Epic clank loudly, and the paint surface was worn out a lot by the rubble.

But no one cares about these details. The Epic is a weapon, not a collection, and the battle wounds are her medals.

"Reduce speed to 5 void knots, and use asteroids as cover to escape."

At the same time, the Tau Empire light cruiser also chased to the top of the asteroid belt. The interception commander was convinced that the prey had sneaked into the asteroid belt, and it would be much more difficult to catch it than in the gas cloud.

From the reports he had received previously, he believed that the ship's frontal projection was not much larger than a meteorite and could easily be filtered out by radar as an asteroid.

But as an experienced commerce-breaking commander, in his eyes, these cunning tricks were just what he had left over.

"Turn on the meteorite deflector shield, turn on the multi-spectral sensor, turn on the fire coordinator, and activate the radiation diffuser force field. Let's sneak in and pull them out."

After a series of combos, the light cruiser disappeared from the augury instrument just like the Epic.

She drove directly into the asteroid belt, and with the help of the deflector shield, the meteorites were directly repelled by the invisible force field and could not hit her hull at all.

Faced with this sudden situation, Horatio became nervous.

In terms of experience, this enemy ship is definitely more experienced.

Right now, all he could rely on was the shadow field from the Eldar technology.

"Slow down the speed and let us attach ourselves to the big meteorite in front." Horatio exhaled cold air, and his lower eyelids had already formed deep bags due to congestion.

In the chase, the Epic, which was invisible in the shadow field, adjusted its hull, and after micro-steering, quietly attached itself to a meteorite.

She was like a stick insect hiding from its enemies, almost completely still, resting on a floating meteorite.

The Tau Empire's commerce raiders chased after them, carefully searching for the location of their prey.

"Interesting." The Fire Warrior Commander squinted his eyes and muttered to himself as he looked at the radar which seemed to show nothing unusual.

On the epic.

Horatio had no idea of ​​the enemy ship's location and situation at this time, and the Epic dared not move.

Everyone was waiting for the captain to give the next order to get them out.

But, what should I do now...?
"Load all torpedo tubes with the 'Diviner' probes, set the boost timer to 10 seconds, and let them float in the asteroid belt after launching them from the torpedo silos."

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Four 'Fortune Teller' probes were ejected from the torpedo silos. After the designated countdown, they blended into the asteroid belt, continuing to emit detection waves.

A floating figure appeared on the divination radar in front of Horatio, shuttling back and forth within a certain range.

This is the enemy's diffuser force field at work.

It is an electronic countermeasure device whose main function is to interfere with the detection of omnidirectional radar.

"What a tough opponent." Even Horatio had to admit that the Wolf Chief of the Tau Empire was so skilled that all the moves he could think of were resolved by the opponent. He had to play the opponent's unprepared trump card in order to launch an effective counterattack.

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"Captain, we are currently under radiation control and cannot communicate tactically with E-99 and E-47. They also cannot see the enemy ships in the asteroid belt and cannot launch torpedoes to support us."

"Of course I know this. Don't worry. First find a way to escape, and then find the location of this commerce-breaking ship."

Although no specific signal was received and only a suspicious flashing red ball was seen on the void sandbox, after the possible signal source passed in front of it, the Epic started its engine again and quietly circled around the asteroid.

"We saw her," Louise reported. The Envoy, with its diffuser turned on, moved smoothly through the asteroid belt, without any asteroid causing any harm to her.

However, the diffuser is not a shadow field and its shadow can still be seen within the visual range.

This was a scene that made everyone's heart and lungs stop.

The destroyer that just passed by was the lead destroyer. Because of the dispersion field, the Envoy-class commerce raider disguised its true position, causing the astrologer and captain on the Epic to misjudge.

The principle is just like the era when Horatio lived, when fighter planes flew in close formation, so that ground radar, under the condition of electronic interference, would be fooled into misjudging a group of fighter planes flying in a goose formation as a large passenger plane.

At this time, the Epic was less than 60 kilometers away from the assassin.

In the previous battle, the Epic had almost emptied all the torpedoes in the front center torpedo compartment, with only the last two left in the rear compartment.

It takes nearly one kilometer of dragging to get the torpedo from the rear compartment into the front torpedo silo, and the crew is now exhausted.

Four more 'Diviner' probes have just been launched.

Nowadays, emergency reloading would take a long time, and as the captain, he had to buy this time for the crew.

"Stop!" Horatio shouted urgently, "Descend to the top of the asteroid. Keep the cabin weight balanced! Use torpedoes to balance!"

Everyone held their breath, their pupils trembling as they watched the light cruiser pass by.

The railgun above was aimed everywhere driven by the aiming coordinator.

boom!
Suddenly, the enemy ship opened fire.

An extremely precise beam of light flashed before Horatio's eyes and hit the 'Fortune Teller' detector that had been launched earlier.

The multi-spectral detector carried on the enemy ship is a rare new type of high-tech detector, and currently only some flagships are equipped with this component.

As the flagship of a commerce-breaking fleet, this Envoy-class ship is certainly qualified to carry it.

Under the command of the enemy commander, the enemy ship's radar clearly readjusted the detection and screening mechanism based on some of the characteristics previously exposed by the E-type attack ship.

They soon discovered the Epic's trick and destroyed one of the floating signal sources.

If Horatio had not controlled the rhythm of the machine spirit and stopped suddenly the moment it climbed up the surface of the asteroid, the Epic would have collided head-on with the light cruiser.

"God-Emperor bless you...God-Emperor bless you..." David Betty's expression at this moment was distorted as if he was wearing a mask of pain. He prayed for the protection of the God-Emperor, so that the terrifying orbital cannon carried by the enemy ship would not discover him.

Horatio himself was also frightened and broke out in a cold sweat, but others could not see his expression because he was in the Machine Soul World, guiding the Machine Soul of the Epic. He took advantage of the slight delay in controlling his body to restrain his expression in time.

Under the control of two micro-helmsmen, the Epic slowly descended, trying to stick close to the top of the meteorite.

This is as difficult as putting a needle on top of an upright egg, which requires extremely delicate operation.

The speed cannot be too fast or too slow, otherwise the Epic will hit the bottom directly.

In the worst case, the hull will break right in the middle.

(End of this chapter)