Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 642 06.641: "Surprise Attack on D'Anoi Bay (Part ) Thanks to Bai Lu Cang Yue for the reward!"

"See that frigate that just returned from patrol? Follow it."

Horatio raised his head, his eyes fixed on the top of his head. A Warden-class destroyer was passing through the plane. He spoke in a steady voice with unquestionable decisiveness.

"That manta-shaped ship looks perfect for us to get underneath," he added, with a sly look in his eyes.

"We are measuring the speed of the enemy ship. The shadow field conditions are all normal." Inside the bridge, the crew members were busy in a tense and orderly manner, and orderly reports came one after another.

The Epic, which disappeared without a trace, started off with a sudden acceleration, and the space around the ship seemed to tremble slightly due to the powerful force.

The thrusters ejected a blazing tail flame, drawing a brief and dazzling light in space, and quickly chased after the destroyer returning to the port.

The ships returning to the port were gradually slowing down, and it was not difficult for the Epic, which had planned in advance, to catch up with the destroyer.

When the Epic was firmly positioned directly below the destroyer, it began to slowly slow down, further reducing its speed in an effort to keep pace with the enemy ship above.

Horatio stared at the increasingly narrow distance overhead, his expression focused, and shouted loudly: "Hold steady, steer the rudder to get closer."

Inside the bridge, many crew members swallowed, their Adam's apples rolled, their eyes filled with tension and concentration.

At this time, the bridge was cautiously approaching the belly of the enemy destroyer. The two warships were terribly close, so close that they would collide with each other if they were not careful. Once they collided, scratches would be secondary, but the enemy ship would definitely notice the problem.

But Horatio would never let this happen and die before achieving his goal.

He sat firmly in the command seat, holding the armrests tightly with both hands, eyes slightly closed, concentrating on feeling the feedback of the machine soul so as to accurately control the distance.

Gradually, he watched as the battleship's plane stopped floating and its speed perfectly kept up with the enemy ship, like a remora sucked in the belly of a fish, quietly and silently overlapping with the track of the Jailer-class destroyer and heading towards the small battleship gate of the giant starport.

"Thei, it's okay." Horatio said to Thei, who had already changed into the Tau combat armor, through the sound array. The voice was transmitted clearly through the sound array.

"Understood, Captain," Thei responded.

As soon as she finished speaking, a blue light flashed and her figure disappeared instantly. In the blink of an eye, she was gone.

After arriving in the distinctive beige cabin of the Tau Empire, she raised her arm and quickly called up the internal layout of the Jailer-class destroyer, her eyes quickly scanning it.

Just as she was planning her next route, her keen hearing picked up the sound of footsteps nearby.

Thei quickly lowered his arm, moving swiftly and quickly.

She saw a team of Tau Empire soldiers wearing combat armor like her walking towards them.

Through the identification marks, she discovered that this team included fire warriors, ancient visars, and other aliens who were obedient to the Tau.

Thei blended smoothly into the team naturally, and walked towards the bridge with steady steps.

"Are you going to the bridge too?" A fire warrior looked at Thei in confusion and asked.

"Yes, mate." Thei replied in the Tau language, which was so fluent that there was no flaw in it, with a natural smile on his face, "I will go there to take over the shift."

"You speak Tau well, fellow Gwisa."
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"Thei sent a message saying that she has successfully infiltrated the enemy warship." After the crew member of the communications department received a certain signal, he turned around and reported to Horatio.

"May the Emperor bless her. Now it's up to us. Stay highly alert, suspend loading of torpedoes and reduce exposure." Horatio ordered.

"Yes, Captain." The crew members responded immediately.

The Epic followed the destroyer and slowly approached, and was less than twenty kilometers away from the gate.

At this time, Thei had also arrived on the bridge. He looked around and walked straight to the radar operator's position.

"Hello." She took the initiative to step forward and greeted him in a gentle and polite voice.

"Hello." The Air caste operator standing in front of the radar station turned around and responded politely although he was a little confused.

"Is this our radar console?" Thei asked.

"Yes, a new trainee crew member?" The female Air caste operator looked at Thei's shoulder badge and asked in confusion, "Are you a Guvisa?"

"Yes, my hometown is in Cythera, not too far from here," Thei replied.

"You speak Tau really well," the Air caste operator praised as well.

Thei laughed out loud, showing off her white teeth, "Thank you for the compliment."

“To answer your question, this is indeed our radar operating station, and I was just about to check the scanner status before entering port.

This is also included in your internship project. Do you need me to teach you how to use it?" The operator said, reaching for the start button of the radar's active detection wave.

"Eh, no need. Let's wait until the next voyage. Can you tell me about Di'Yanoi? I just came here and I'm unfamiliar with the place. I'm very interested in this place." Tei said, slowly taking off his helmet, revealing a beautiful smile with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

"I've always thought you humans are actually very interesting. Ah, as for your question, D'Anoi is..."

Under the subtle influence of clever verbal skills and insignificant Iota-level psychic power, the two of them became increasingly active in conversation, and the operator's attention had long since shifted away from the console.
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In front of the gate, the Warden-class frigate slowly slowed down and finally stopped in front of the half-moon-shaped lock in the shape of the Tau emblem.

This lock only allows the Tau's flat manta-ray-shaped ships to pass through. The cylindrical hulls of the human Empire escort ships are difficult to pass through, so the Tau are not worried that the Imperials will use this dedicated channel to break into the starport dock.

The lock slowly opened, making a low roar in the thin atmosphere near the megastructure, revealing a passage that was just wide enough for a small warship to pass through.

"Captain, what should we do? The gap is a flat oval, we can't pass under the enemy ship." Harvey pointed at the gap in the lock and reported anxiously. Horatio raised his thumb horizontally and compared it carefully. He knew that the Epic was too high. When the Warden-class destroyer passed through in a T-shape, the Epic would definitely be blocked by the edge of the gate and could not pass.

"Laddie, turn off the ship's stabilization gyro.

Inform all crew members to collect and secure items on the tabletops. Once completed, everyone should gather on the port side. "Horatio gave the order decisively.

When many people heard the order, they could not help but obey it in confusion while talking among themselves and guessing what the captain was thinking.

But soon, they understood the captain's intention with pale faces.

After completing Horatio's previous order with extremely high efficiency, the Epic immediately activated the side steering booster and reversed the rudder at the same time.

Under normal circumstances, the result of such an operation is that the warship will become unbalanced and tilt, after which the vertical stabilization gyro will automatically adjust the servo to ensure that the warship remains balanced.

But at this time the vertical stabilization gyroscope had been turned off... The Epic slowly lay down, like a sharp bayonet, carefully placed flat on the table.

People hurriedly reinforced their measures to stabilize themselves, and a few people quickened their pace and gathered quickly on the port side.

After turning sideways, they stood on the original wall, and the deck now became the wall on their left.

This wave of extreme operations also stunned the other attack ships that were observing the movements of the Epic through special identification devices from a distance.

"Look, he turned the boat sideways." A crew member of the attack ship shouted in surprise.

"God, is he trying to sneak into the harbor and launch a surprise attack?" another crew member said in shock.

"That's a really exciting job!"

The Epic was lying horizontally below the Warden-class destroyer, with the two less than 50 meters apart. Any shaking would cause one side of the ship to rub against the enemy's hull, attracting attention, or rub against the edge of the lock below.

In either case, the Epic will be doomed, either by being blown up or crushed, and a simple crash would be a satisfying ending.

Everyone held their breath, cold sweat streaming down their temples and cheeks.

No one dared to slack off at all. Everyone was fully alert and focused, because even the slightest deviation would result in the death of everyone on the ship.

Horatio sat upright on the command throne that had his body fixed, his hands tightly grasping the armrests, his knuckles turning white, and his eyes fixed on the front.

In the dark vision, the girl with white hair and red eyes was also lying flat in front of him. She seemed to be floating in a piece of clear water, her eyes slightly closed, and her expression was peaceful as if she was sleeping.

She floated, one of her small white hands resting on the hand of Horatio, who was also lying beside her, as if feeling the stability he brought.

In this way, the Epic, in a strange driving posture, stuck to the bottom of the Warden destroyer and began to move forward along its track.

The bow of the ship stabbed into the lock like a sideways dinner knife with a tense and resolute momentum, and Horatio suddenly felt like checking his account balance at an inopportune moment.

The Epic moved forward cautiously, but every corner of the widest part of the ship still rubbed against the top of the lock, and sparks flew from the metal friction, flashing dangerously in the darkness.

"Captain, there is a layered embankment ahead!" David Betty raised his head sharply, looking at the discordant bulge in front of him, and covered his face in horror, saying in a trembling voice, "We are about to hit the embankment!!!"

Horatio gritted his teeth, tilted his head and looked up, his eyes full of determination, "Captain, head upwards, even if it scrapes the bottom of the enemy frigate it's better than crashing directly into the embankment!"

"Yes, Captain! Raise the rudder! Up!" The helmsman quickly turned the steering wheel and shouted loudly.

Aboard the Tau destroyer.

"Hey, be careful, we seem to have hit bottom. There was a vibration on the ship just now. Did it touch something?" An operator said to the helmsman with a puzzled look on his face.

"Hey, that's weird. The previous entry tracks also came in at this angle, and they never touched the bottom."

"I think we should turn the rudder a little higher." Thei stood in front of the radar and turned his head to give a suggestion softly: "I think there is still a lot of space above us."

The Tau helmsman frowned, looking puzzled.

But he didn't think much about it and did as the Guvisa radar operator said. After all, there was indeed a lot of space above.

But was the radar operator of this warship a Guvisa? Why did he vaguely remember that he was a member of the Qi clan?

He looked at the radar station again, and there was indeed only one female Guvisa operator on duty there.

Finally, without an answer, he shook his head and focused again on operating the battleship.

It seems that I have been too tired recently. I should find a therapist to take care of myself after returning to Hong Kong.

Thei smiled and turned back to look at the Qi operator whose eyes were dull but who was still chattering about the customs and habits of the starport. He gently stroked the ring on his knuckles and felt the warmth from the psychic rune on his thigh.

Following the command of the helmsman, the operators slightly raised the rudder and the tip of the ship carefully scraped the top of the lock as it passed.

This maneuver left the Epic with a little height, a little height that could decide life or death.

but.

Only the most experienced and daring helmsmen and captains could get a warship through safely.

(End of this chapter)