Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 716: Full speed ahead

It seemed that meteorites were hitting his face like a rainstorm. Li Chengxi pushed the joystick flexibly, and the Manta Ray shuttled through the meteorites that formed a star ring. It seemed very thrilling.

Actually, as far as Li Chengxi himself is concerned, it’s okay.

It looks like a meteorite is hitting you, but in fact it is approaching by itself at high speed. The difference between the two is that the latter will not move around.

In addition to the wide field of vision, he did not actually rely on reaction to dodge. Instead, before avoiding one meteorite, Li Chengxi had already seen the route to dodge the next five or more meteorites.

It reminded him of the pure joy he felt when he first walked into an arcade as a child and saw someone playing Star Fox.

Just at this moment, the death heavy metal song in the playlist finished playing, and a song called Interstellar Flight was randomly played, which was really appropriate for the occasion.

Of course, diving into the star ring is not just a matter of following the trend.

The star rings formed by countless meteorites are natural trenches that can perfectly defend against the anti-aircraft fire of starships.

Although the air defense is effective, nine out of ten times the defense will fail, the enemy's firepower is dense. Li Chengxi thinks it is easier to hide from meteorites than from artillery shells.

Noticing the Manta entering the star ring, the three twin secondary gun turrets under the starship rotated and positioned themselves. However, the beams they fired could not even touch the edge of the Manta.

Because the captain does not have the authority, the fire control of the secondary guns can only be operated manually.

The void is too vast and too dark. It is impossible to aim at the Manta in such conditions unless you have the ability to use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Since the cutscenes didn't have subtitles, Li Chengxi could only tell from her body language that Alyssa had escaped from the starship, and he didn't know the whole story.

However, this did not affect his feeling that the people on the bridge should feel very shocked.

"Slow down! Slow down!"

——Alyssa is also very surprised.

Li Chengxi's perspective is the third-person rear-end perspective, and everything he sees is high-definition pixel style, so the sense of oppression is not that strong.

But Alyssa was sitting in the driver's seat, and the feeling of oppression was too strong. She always felt that she would be hit by a meteorite in the next second.

It can even be said that compared to a direct death, the feeling of being about to die but not dying is the worst.

As for slowing down?
It's impossible to slow down, no matter what you do.

Ever since Li Chengxi touched the handle, he has been pressing the trigger button which serves as the accelerator without letting go, and he has been moving at full speed all the time.

It's not that there is any tactical requirement, it's just a pleasure to step on the accelerator to the fullest.

But for Alyssa, the operation of welding the car door shut and stepping on the accelerator was too much. She fainted.

It was actually a good thing for Li Chengxi that she didn't speak. After all, when Alyssa was talking, the dialog box blocked the bottom of the screen, which was somewhat distracting.

His attention was basically not on Alyssa. He gently pushed the joystick and pressed the RB button with his right hand to bring up the ability disk.

The starship's anti-aircraft fire no longer poses a threat. It depends on whether those space fighters are willing to chase after us.

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"Echo 1 to Falcon, you can leave now, we will take over from now on."

"Falcon calling Echo 1, that's our prey!"

"You are obviously the prey, so stop trying to be so tough."

"What did you say!"

Furious shouts and the sound of keyboard smashing were heard on the communication channel, but Hall, codenamed Echo 1, pretended not to hear them.

Two squadrons were mostly slaughtered by a shuttle, and you still dare to call it prey? Although they are in the same industry, Echo and Falcon belong to different recyclers, so naturally there is no need to save face.

Hall just gave a notice and then pressed a few buttons to change channels:
"Echo 1, inform the whole team, be careful, this guy is not someone you can easily mess with."

Not giving face to colleagues is one thing, but one cannot underestimate the opponent either. The Falcon Squadron has many veterans, they are not small fry, and some of them are even retired from the regular army. Even they were beaten badly, so of course one has to be careful.

"Echo 3 calling Echo 1, the radar shows the target has entered the star ring, what should we do? Should we continue chasing?"

The Echo 3 is a radar-specialized machine that can track targets farther and more accurately than others.

"The captain's orders are to destroy that shuttle. Let's go after it."

After the announcement, Hall pressed the joystick and took the lead in diving into the asteroid belt that made up the star ring, and the rest of the squadron followed suit.

Flying into the star ring seems like suicide, but avoiding meteorites is a compulsory subject for pilots in the regular army. Hall is confident that he can lead his squadron into the star ring and come out intact.

Immediately, the voice of a teammate came from the communication channel:

"Echo 5 calling Echo 1 to visually locate the target's engine lights... He's too fast!"

"Impossible! Why can't we catch up? It's obviously just a shuttle!"

"Echo 3 calling Echo 1. Target data analysis is complete. Sending it to the entire team."

Engine light analysis showed that the target engine was not registered and was not a popular model. According to the briefing before departure, this shuttle was brought back from the ruins, so it was normal that there was no record.

But the point is the data.

All the data of this shuttle are very ordinary, with neither advantages nor disadvantages. It is an all-rounder, but it can also be said that it is not good at anything.

The Manta is a general-purpose shuttle that can be used to carry a small number of passengers. It also has self-defense weapons and shields, and can use the tail cabin to haul cargo.

However, this general-purpose shuttle is definitely not as capable as a professional space fighter in terms of combat capability.

Speed, engine power, rotation performance, rolling performance, directivity, etc. are all far inferior to military space fighters. The only thing that is better than space fighters is that the shield is slightly stronger.

This is because space fighters have specialized their speed and flexibility to the limit, so protection is not given much attention and is only used to repel small meteorites or debris.

This is also why the Manta was able to kill one enemy at a time, while the space fighter's rapid-fire weapons only caused the Manta's shield to drop.

This is normal. No one requires a small manned spacecraft like a shuttle to engage in fierce confrontation with armor and missiles. The real confrontation should be on the level of a starship.

Therefore, compared to protection, speed and flexibility are the best life-saving talismans.

But if that’s the case, why can’t we catch up even though our space fighters have better performance, and even have a data gap of twice that of the shuttle?

Hall glanced at the engine icon displayed on his screen.

"That shuttle didn't slow down at all. It was running at full speed the whole time."

Even though crossing the star rings is a compulsory subject for military pilots, the requirement for this subject is only to pass safely, and speed is not required.

The space fighter is too fast and it is impossible for it to operate at full speed after entering the star ring.

It's like when you see something on the road on the highway, you instinctively want to avoid it, but in the blink of an eye, the car has already hit the object on the road.

With a space fighter moving at full speed, it is impossible for anyone to react in time to avoid the meteorite.

Therefore, after entering the star ring, Echo Squadron always only flew at one-third of its full speed, not even half of its full speed.

(End of this chapter)