Gundam: From Piece to Player

Chapter 181 Wow...beam fan

While Kalmar was still adjusting to his frustrated state of mind, the opposing commander's machine started chattering away again, making one realize that the Minovsky particle dispersion was indeed a wonderful invention at times.

As for why it's not being disseminated now... the gas ship is still conducting gas recovery operations, is it because the communication signal is not good enough?

"Kalma Zabi, your blood and heart clearly crave battle and bloodshed. You crave killing, yet you refuse to acknowledge it, engaging in what you perceive as benevolent hypocrisy. How pathetic your life is."

Is it that aggressive?

Karma had never been mocked like this before, and she immediately retorted, "Do we even know each other? What gives you the right to judge me like that?"

"You were the one who started the conversation, yet you complain that I'm noisy... How ridiculous." The other person's sarcastic tone was irritating.

Karma felt that chatting with the other person might have been a mistake; not only had she failed to distract him, but she had also ended up getting angry at him.

They were originally going to negotiate with the Jupiter Flotilla, but given the current situation, it seems the negotiations have fallen through.

The enemy commander's aircraft made a hand gesture.

"That's enough for today. I'll keep bothering you while you mine Helium-3, until you leave the Jupiter Sphere, you murderer."

The other party expressed their demands, but Karma had no intention of letting them leave.

"...I'll show you what a serial killer is right now."

ZUDA began aggressively closing the distance, switching to a high-explosive E-CAP magazine and attacking simultaneously. The enemy aircraft's shields were quickly riddled with holes from the fire, and ZUDA's magazine-changing maneuver was specially designed so that Kalma could suppress the opponent.

Until the opponent's shield bar is completely depleted.

Just when he thought he could completely riddle the enemy's machine with holes,

He then saw the enemy's machine make a strange move. It pulled out a double-headed beam saber that looked like a warrior from its waist and jammed it into the interlocking mechanism that popped up on its arm.

The next moment, the beam fan began to spin wildly, driven by the motor of the interlocking mechanism.

It's like a giant beam fan.

It deflected all the incoming beams of light.

Hey, isn't he kind of handsome?

And you know what? It actually falls within the reasonable range of the Minovsky fundamental law of particles.

In theory, as long as the movement is fast enough, the field of the beam saber itself is enough to block the beam fired in flight, and even if it falls down, there will be no problem...

As for why no one does this... in reality, no one would imitate Deadpool and use a real knife to cut bullets.

Although you might be able to cut the bullet, you're more likely to get hit.

The other party's idea of ​​mounting a beam saber on an electric fan is truly ingenious... Anyone else would probably be scared away.

But Kalmar was different; as an engineer, he saw a major weakness in this kind of organization.

ZUDA switched to single-shot power mode and then positioned the crosshair on the central rotating interlocking mechanism.

The massive beam of light shattered the afterimage of the beam sword hilt, triggering a detonation that blew off the opponent's arm, sending smoke and dust billowing into the air.

"Haha, uncle, your new phone's arm broke? Are you alright?"

"You brat!"

Karma laughed heartily... watching this bastard finally get his comeuppance.

It's fair to say that this thing looks impressive, but there's a reason why no designer would dare to design it like this.

But isn't this smoke a bit too much?

...What escape route?

As the smoke cleared, a long trail of flame had already swept towards Jupiter's rings, clearly indicating that the enemy mobile suit had entered a high-Mach escape state... It can only be said that their decisiveness in escaping was unmatched.

By then it's too late to accelerate.

Although he had only been on Jupiter for a few hours... Karma sensed that the place might be a bit more chaotic than he had imagined.

Negotiations with the Jupiter Flotilla have broken down; the next step will likely be to gather more intelligence...

But Kalmar always felt that something was strange, and that things weren't as simple as they seemed.

Once the battle here is over, the fleet will have completed its first wave of Helium 3 collection.

"Your Excellency, the energy has been collected. 21 of the 23 gas spheres have been recovered, and 2 were damaged during the recovery process."

"It's alright, these are consumables anyway, let's all take a rest."

"Yes."

Once collected, helium-3 is extracted from the gas sphere and transferred to the gas ship's storage tank for separation and precipitation, serving as a valuable raw material. The containers of these [collection spacecraft] will continue to be reused after inspection and verification, until they are destroyed.

Collecting helium-3 from Jupiter has never been an easy task, until the entire collection spacecraft is destroyed and unusable or the gas ship's storage tanks are completely full.

Let's go to Europa, Jupiter's moon, to rest and replenish our water supply first... This is also described in the intelligence that Kalma purchased. Europa used to be a research station for humans to study the underground ocean.

It is also an important water supply point for the Jupiter Flotilla.

Ganymede, home of the Jupiter Flotilla.

The Jupiter slowly docked in the spaceport, where the terrain was flat.

A base rose from the ground

Lieutenant Hai Fan was handing coffee to the commander of the Jupiter fleet.

"Lord Paptimas, welcome back. How is the cleanup of the space pirates going?"

"It's alright, but if anything unexpected happens, it'll be encountering Karma Zabi, who is a genius among mediocre people... and not just because he comes from the Zabi family."

What's the Jupiter circle like lately?

"everything is normal."

Sirocco arrogantly surveyed his subordinate's face.

"Haifan, your demeanor betrays your lies. Tell me about this so-called abnormality."

"The [Conglomerate] has started manufacturing mobile suits, and we've also photographed some strange machine images... Since the end of the war, they've frequently sent envoys to the Earth Sphere and even made contact with AE Corporation. Around the time you went to the asteroid belt, their activity was unusually high."

"We can't afford to let our guard down for even a moment longer. Have we received any instructions from Jabro? We've been monitoring them long enough. When can we make our move?"

“As I’ve already said, the instructions given are all ‘continue to observe’… but I don’t think this can go on for long…”

After listening, Sirocco did not express any joy or anger, but gestured for the other party to continue.

“Sir, I believe the government is currently trying to maintain a balance of power. They don’t want the mining of Helium-3 to fall entirely into the hands of the conglomerates, nor do they want you to be outside their control.”

"Checks and balances...it's an obvious fact."

After hearing this, Sirocco slowly smiled and said, "I suddenly feel that it's a good thing that Karma Zabi came to an outer planet, and it will bring some new changes."

"Since our rivals are all developing MS, let's develop MS too. Let's all engage in an arms race and see who comes out on top."

"But what about the government?"

"Hai Fan, you still don't understand... The stronger Karma Zabi is, the better it is for us, because it also means we need stronger weaponry to arm ourselves, both for self-defense and as a deterrent against Karma Zabi."

"The newly arrived Federation Expeditionary Force?"

“If it were to perish in the asteroid belt or the Jupiter ring,” Shilock laughed merrily, “that would further underscore the necessity of strengthening our own military capabilities, wouldn’t it?”

Chapter 182 Meeting with Sirocco

Above Europa, the fleet quickly made orbital anchorage, and after a brief observation, Kalmar issued the order to collect water.

"The ice is so thick, we need to organize water collection immediately."

"Yes."

This is different from the common impression of an ocean planet.

Europa is covered by a thick layer of ice, although this moon of Jupiter is only a quarter the size of Earth in diameter.

Beneath those thick glaciers... there may be the largest body of water in the solar system, reaching a depth of 96 kilometers.

It contains far more water than there is on Earth.

It also has high scientific research value.

Just as Kalmar wanted to get a good night's sleep and continue the helium-3 gas collection work the next day...

Uncle Green's message jolted him awake from his slumber.

"Electromagnetic signals detected beneath the fountain plume?"

Kalma quickly pressed for more information.

"Yes, it's completely different from natural electromagnetic wave signals, and it's continuous. My abilities also tell me that it's extraordinary."

This discovery suggests that there are traces of human activity in the ocean beneath the ice, or that it is the work of evil aliens preparing to invade Earth.

Kalmar then saw the record, and it was indeed as valuable as Sharia had described.

The recorded signals were very regular, appearing at the same location almost every few hours.

If it's the former, it means that the other party's technology is no different from that of the Zentradi... This is an operation in the underground ocean of Europa, and even a submersible needs to reach a very extraordinary level of technological capability.

But whichever the possibility, it means that Kalmar must do one thing.

reconnaissance.

Intelligence is essential for making decisions.

After turning off the communications, Karma discussed the reconnaissance with Alice.

"Alice, does ZUDA have a water-based suit?"

"Yes, there is... but brother, the underground ocean of Europe is completely different from the ocean on Earth. The environment here is very extreme."

"Let's make some modifications right now. We'll drill a well in the ice and then dive down. We don't need to dive too deep; we have a lot of technical reserves in this area, don't we?"

"Big brother, are you really going to drive and explore it yourself?"

“Who said I was going to drive?” Kalmar replied.

Alice replied with a question mark.