Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 430 Dive Attack
"I will take charge of the main attack!" A heroic female voice sounded in the communication channel of the fighter formation.

"Okay, Valkyrie 04 will be the main attacker in the first round of dive attacks, and Harrier 02 and Sabre 03 will be her wingmen." As the captain of this fighter formation, Falcon 01 immediately assigned the tasks, "Remember not to get too close in the first round of attacks. Destroying those flower buds is only a secondary goal. The main goal is to determine the effective range of those steel needles!"

"Got it!" Harrier 02 and Sabre 03 responded at the same time.

Valkyrie 04 was driving a fourth-generation fighter. Although the model was relatively old, it was the only one in the entire team equipped with eight machine guns. Compared with the fifth- and sixth-generation fighters that came standard with two machine guns or even had no machine guns at all, this fourth-generation fighter was actually the one with the strongest firepower among them.

Harrier 02 and Sabre 03 are both driving fifth-generation heavy fighters, which are not only thickly armored but also equipped with small energy shield generators. When necessary, they can use themselves as shields to help Valkyrie 04 block the attacks of those steel needles.

"The action begins!"

Above the clouds, three fighter jets suddenly lowered their noses, and with long tail flames spurting out from the nozzles of the vector thrusters, the fighter jets' blade-like wings instantly cut through the lead-gray clouds and drilled into the rain curtain below.

"The target has come into view!" Valkyrie 04 pushed the joystick to one side, allowing the fighter to dive downward in a circling route. At the same time, the auxiliary computer had locked onto the preset target in the first instant and marked it with a bright red frame on the windshield directly in front of the cabin.

"We found six 'buds' that have not yet bloomed!" Valkyrie 04 shouted in the communication channel, "0203, you are responsible for the two 'buds' at the three o'clock position, and I will take care of the four 'buds' at the nine o'clock position!"

Before he finished speaking, Valkyrie 04 had already pulled the trigger of the machine gun!

The four machine guns on both sides of the fighter's nose cannot adjust the firing angle. Similar to the coaxial machine guns on tanks, they can only attack targets in the direction of the fighter's flight. The four machine guns installed at the root of the fighter's wings have a gun mount that can be rotated up, down, left and right, and have a very large firing range.

Valkyrie 04 selected two flower buds that were close to each other as the main attack targets, while the other two flower buds that were slightly farther away were handed over to the four machine guns at the root of the wings, with auxiliary computers to help aim.

Eight tongues of fire spewed out from the fighter at the same time, and dense bullets rained down from the sky as the machine gun barrel spun at high speed. For modern fighter jets, the machine gun can be regarded as the least powerful weapon on the entire aircraft, but this does not mean that the power of the machine gun can be ignored.

The smallest caliber of the machine guns mounted on the fighter jets is 04mm, while the four machine guns on the Valkyrie fighter jet have a terrifying caliber of mm...even a half-meter thick high-strength concrete bunker can be easily penetrated.

The two flower buds right in front were torn into pieces by the dense rain of bullets. Pale flesh and blood like rotten cotton wool flew everywhere. Embedded in the flesh and blood were a large number of steel needles of varying lengths...but these steel needles no longer had the chance to be fired.

"Nice!" Valkyrie 04 shouted excitedly. She instantly pulled up the nose of the plane and changed the fighter's attitude from a dive to a level flight. At the same time, she used the camera at the bottom of the fighter to observe the results of the battles in the other two places. The other two flower buds also could not escape the fate of destruction. Only a small half of the flower stem was left, which was almost beaten into a sieve and fell there crookedly.

Harrier 02 and Sabre 03 also successfully completed their combat objectives - although their fighters were only equipped with two mm caliber machine guns, the only target they needed to deal with was a flower bud... These flower buds seemed to be just emergency organs temporarily spawned by Chimera , and their own defense capabilities were not strong, and mm caliber machine gun shells could easily tear open their shells.

"The first round of attack is completed, prepare to return above the clouds—" Before Valkyrie 04 could finish her words, a shrill "beep beep" alarm sounded in the cockpit!

"High-intensity energy reaction detected below! You have been locked! High-intensity energy reaction detected below! You have been locked!"

Valkyrie 04's brain hasn't reacted yet, but her body has already responded with a conditioned reflex driven by muscle memory - the fighter's engine is instantly shut down, and the fuselage is falling backwards. At the moment when it is about to stall, the engine is ignited again and pulled to maximum output. Driven by a surge of power, the entire fighter draws a lightning-like Z-shaped trajectory in the air!
A beam of blazing white energy shot past the wing of Valkyrie 04, and all kinds of alarms suddenly rang out in the cabin.

"The left wing of the aircraft is damaged!"

"The left reserve fuel tank is on fire!"

"The weapon mount has stopped responding!"

"Altimeter failure! No. 56 vector thruster has lost 27% of its thrust, and No. vector thruster has lost % of its thrust!"

Fortunately, although the body of the aircraft was seriously damaged, the energy beam did not hit Valkyrie 04 directly. Although the parts that melted due to the instantaneous high temperature caused the fighter to lose more than 04% of its combat effectiveness, no matter what... Valkyrie has not crashed.

She immediately released the locking hook of the left spare fuel tank and threw the burning tank down. Then she quickly adjusted the output of the two vector thrusters, managed to maintain the balance of the aircraft, and staggered away towards the clouds above.

It was not until this time that she had time to pay attention to the status of the two wingmen.

"Foal Hawk 02, signal lost."

"Saber 03, signal lost."

The cold words on the communicator screen made her feel cold.

They were still careless... The cooling time for Chimera 17's energy beam launch has been shortened and is no longer as described in the previously acquired information... Clearly, in the last round, facing the overwhelming barrage of artillery shells, the energy beam misfired after being launched a few times, but no one could have imagined that less than five minutes later, the energy beam was fully recharged again, and its power only increased.

Is this a trap set just for them?

Valkyrie 04 looked down, but she didn't see the wreckage of Hawk 02 and Sabre 03. The power of the energy beam was so terrifying that her body was severely damaged just by passing by the energy beam. Hawk 02 and Sabre 03 were directly hit by the energy beam...

She took a deep breath and bit her lips hard, as if hoping the pain could keep her brain clear.

The clouds were very close, but just when Valkyrie 04 was about to enter the clouds, the shrill locking alarm sounded again, which made her hair stand on end and the veins in her temples throbbed wildly!

She held the joystick tightly, ready to replicate her emergency evasive action, but just as the fighter completed the backward roll and was about to accelerate again, the No. 04 vector thruster emitted a disturbing wail, and then lost its response. The expression on Valkyrie 's face froze, and the fear of impending death gripped her heart tightly. At this moment, she felt that she even forgot how to breathe.

The No. 04 vector thruster ignited normally, but the uneven thrust on both sides caused the entire fighter to be thrown out like a dart. The huge G-force generated by the high-speed rotation made Valkyrie 's eyes turn blood red. The severe stinging sensation in her eyes made her unable to open her eyes at all. Her cheeks were swollen as if they were about to explode, and it seemed that blood would spurt out of her pores in the next second.

"Red Vision".

When Valkyrie 04 was still a trainee pilot, she heard her instructor talk about this dangerous term that was almost equivalent to death for a pilot...but this was the first time she experienced this feeling personally.

She felt her brain was in a mess, and past scenes flashed before her eyes like a kaleidoscope, but she had lost the ability to comprehend those images... The blood rushing to her head had made her lose most of her thinking ability. Faintly, she seemed to hear the locked alarm sounding for the third time.

At the moment when she was about to fall into coma, Valkyrie 04 relied on her instinct to touch the ejection device under the seat, and then used all her strength to pull the switch.

With a loud "bang", the top cover of the cockpit flew out, and then the entire driver's seat was ejected. At the same time, Valkyrie 04's consciousness completely fell into endless darkness.

"Valkyrie 04 has ejected. According to the analysis of her vital signs data, she is very likely to have 'red vision' and is currently unconscious." Falcon 01 felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar as he listened to the calm report from the AI.

Of course, he had considered the issue of Chimera's emergency response, but he also believed in the abilities of the pilots who fought alongside him... But now, in just one battle, they had already lost three fighters and two pilots, and the remaining pilot was probably in danger.

In the footage captured by the drone, Valkyrie 04, wearing a helmet, slumped on the ejection seat and appeared to have lost consciousness. Although the ejection seat's parachute had been opened, according to the current descent trajectory, the ejection seat's final landing position would be right above the Chimera XVII cocoon.

Falcon 01 wanted to give the order to rescue Valkyrie 04, but reason told him that giving the order now would mean sending others to their deaths - he witnessed with his own eyes the destruction of Harrier 02 and Sabre 03. The thick energy beam engulfed the two fighters in an instant. The energy shield and heavy armor did not even last half a second. The entire fighter turned into a ball of sparks in the energy beam and was then completely melted. Not even a decent piece of wreckage was left.

The remaining force of the energy beam pierced through the clouds and rushed straight into the sky, illuminating the gloomy clouds with a bright light. After lasting for about a second, the energy beam gradually weakened until it completely dissipated.

"Falcon 01, what should we do next?"

"Are we going to rescue Valkyrie 04? Her current location is...not good!"

"No! I have to save her!"

"Everyone be quiet!" Falcon 01 growled in the communication channel, "We can't save her!"

"How can we not save her? I don't believe it!" another hot-tempered pilot roared, "Even if I risk my life, I will save her!"

"Then what? Are you going to let others risk their lives to save you? Chimera 17's stress response has exceeded our expectations. I even suspect that it did not use its full strength when facing the artillery fire, just to create the illusion that the energy beam attack is limited, so as to lure us into launching a close-range attack!"

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The ejection seat landed slowly, and the airbags opened one after another, absorbing most of the impact force during landing. The emergency AI configured inside the seat detected the pilot's physical condition, and immediately extended two syringes from the back of the chair and injected the drugs in them into the pilot's body.

The drug quickly began to take effect. Valkyrie 04 let out a low groan and opened her eyes with some difficulty.

"I'm still alive?" She looked around in surprise. However, with only the brightness of the two traffic lights on the seat she was leaning against, her field of vision was pitifully small. She could only vaguely see the ground not far away... The ground did not seem to be rock or soil, but rather a crystal of some mineral, with a glass-like texture.

"Did I fall into the crater created by a nuclear warhead?" Valkyrie 04 raised her wrist with some difficulty and took a look at the smart terminal that was integrated with the driving suit.

The smart terminal is completely scrapped and the screen is completely black.

Unable to determine her location or the intensity of radiation in the surrounding environment, she did not dare to act rashly. She could only sit there quietly, waiting for rescue from friendly forces.

If there is rescue.

Her confused thoughts gradually became clear, and she recalled the scenes that happened before she fell into a coma...

"The landing place...I'm afraid it should be very close to Chimera 17...This is trouble..."

"But why can't I see Chimera 17?"

If we put aside the strange nature of Chimera No. 17, this thing is simply a perfect landmark - tall enough, big enough, and emitting a faint fluorescence all over. If this thing is inserted on the coastline, it will be a living lighthouse.

Chimera 17 standing in the wilderness can be seen with the naked eye from more than ten kilometers away. It shouldn't be possible to see nothing, right?

Did I fall so far away?
Valkyrie 04 suddenly realized something...it seemed that no raindrops were falling on her.

(End of this chapter)