Epoch of Twilight

Sitting in the central control room, captain Yuan Guoqing wore a helmet, controlled the aircraft in space through the miniature quantum brain of the eyeball, and flew towards the target rapidly.

Compared with other rookie pilots from all walks of life who have only a hundred hours of flying experience at most, he is undoubtedly the most experienced pilot among the members of this newly established flying brigade.

He has nearly 20 years of flying experience, and has experienced the era of the Republic and the era of the reconstruction zone. Although most of these experiences are old-fashioned fighter jets, they are among the elites who survived the cruel era of the reconstruction zone. elite.

However, his luck did not last till the end. In a battle for air supremacy, his plane was accidentally hit by a mutated bird, and the plane crashed. Fortunately, he ejected the cockpit in time, and luckily escaped his life. However, the arm was penetrated by a hard branch during the landing process, causing a serious puncture injury.

After returning to the reconstruction area, it was already three days later. His wound had already rotted severely, and a small piece of muscle had disappeared. Although he finally recovered after treatment, his hands were no longer as flexible as before. For a pilot, this undoubtedly means early retirement.

In fact, it was the same. After recuperating from his injuries, he returned to Tuanjie City to take charge of the local pilot selection.

This also allowed him to escape the catastrophe when the Bossians wiped out all human beings around the world.

Yuan Guoqing originally thought that he had bid farewell to the sky, but he did not expect that he would be recruited again.

The development of science and technology is beyond everyone's imagination. Even in his wild illusions, he never imagined that in his lifetime, he could personally operate a space fighter, even if it was only controlled remotely with brain waves.

At this moment, in front of his eyes was a miniature spaceship control room interface.

Watching the occasional meteorite slide past him in the virtual reality screen, Yuan Guoqing felt like he was really in a fighter plane, but except for the fact that he was a little fussy at the beginning, he has already calmed down now.

Yuan Guoqing looked at the speed displayed on the interface of the control room, and found that he had unknowingly reached the highest safe speed in the star system, 1,500 kilometers per second, and the speed was completely locked.

In space, because the reference object is far away, if you don't look at the speed display, you can't feel your own movement at all.

"Each team member reports the situation of their fighter planes." Yuan Guoqing connected the communication link and asked each team member in a deep voice. Although the team members are right next to them, even if they are not connected to the communication, they can still hear them, but as a senior pilot, he knows the necessity of these procedures, and in many cases, many accidents can often be avoided.

After all, it is too simple to control a space fighter, it is completely a fool mode, and basically does not require additional operations, even a pig can be competent for the job of a pilot after a little groping, which also causes many pilots to be lacking in energy when flying concentrated.

"Report to the captain, everything is fine on the Swan."

"Report to the captain, everything is fine on the Raven."

"Report to the captain, everything is fine on the Eagle."

"Report to the captain, everything is fine on the Sparrow."

...

"Sparrow and Eagle, pay attention to flying in formation sequence, don't act alone!" Yuan Guoqing glanced at the position icons of other fighters, and found that two of them had left the formation, and couldn't help reprimanding them.

This kind of reckless rookie pilot is really a headache for him who has a long military career and his personality has become relatively old-fashioned. Not only is his discipline worrying, but he often wants to show off a wave of operations. Fortunately, he is operating a fully automatic fighter , if it was replaced by an old-style fighter, it would have already been destroyed.

Fortunately, he was still able to barely restrain these rookies, and nothing happened.

He closed his eyes slightly and began to recuperate his spirit. There is still a long time before the battle goal. This is a double test of physical strength and energy for anyone, especially for a middle-aged and elderly person like him. Need to keep up the energy.

Moreover, this is the first time their flight team has performed a combat mission, and it must be completed beautifully.

In fact, the military has always had doubts about whether to vigorously develop space fighters, and it has been debated endlessly. A more radical view believes that when civilization develops into the space age, the two-dimensional battlefield will become a three-dimensional battlefield. The previous war mode on the earth is no longer applicable, and future wars will return to the era of giant ships and cannons. In evenly matched battles, space fighters, such unmatched weapons, can only be used as limited supplements, not the most important war arms.

After all, a combat spaceship often has terrible combat effectiveness, an airtight defense network, and more advanced detection capabilities, and these space fighters are far from comparable to it, especially the appearance of light-speed weapons such as lasers. It also makes space fighters useless.

Although space fighters also have laser weapons, it is impossible to destroy a spaceship with limited energy. However, even the weakest defensive laser cannons against spaceships can easily destroy a spaceship. There is no other space fighter, and the energy levels between them are completely different.

In wars with almost the same level of technology, if space fighters are required to destroy a large spaceship, unless the number reaches a certain level, it is impossible to get close.

Yuan Guoqing totally disagrees with this point of view. Even if he is not the radical aircraft carrier faction, he is completely opposed to the pure giant ship cannon faction.

It is undoubtedly dangerous and foolish to expose the spacecraft to enemy fire.

Not to mention that there is only one spaceship for human beings now, and all human beings live in spaceships. Even if human beings can manufacture spaceships on a large scale in the future, due to resource constraints, the number of spaceships will eventually be limited. Destroying one is a huge loss.

In comparison, space fighters are completely cheap.

The steel that a spaceship needs to consume can completely produce tens of thousands of spaceships. Even if all of them are destroyed, as long as one slips through the net, it will already be profitable.

What's more, encountering a civilization that is almost as technologically advanced as human beings is a very unlikely event. There are only two real situations, either stronger than human beings or weaker than human beings.

The former, needless to say, at least in the current situation of human beings, there is only one way to escape, and the space fighters inside the spacecraft can also interfere with the opponent's pursuit. As for the latter, the role of a large number of space fighters will be far better than the spaceship.

In his idea, in the future the spaceship will be a combination of an aircraft carrier and a battleship. The space fighter is an extension of the power of the spaceship and an important part of the defense and offensive power of the spaceship. , it will assist offense and intercept slowing weapons, even if human technology develops to an even more incredible level, space fighters will still not be eliminated so easily.

...

Venus in the distance has been left behind by them, but in comparison, the giant beast is still an insignificant dot.

Thirteen hours have passed, during which we had lunch and dinner, and now we are finally getting close to our goal.

The distance between the two is already less than 500,000 kilometers. Although from the perspective of humans before the end of the world, this distance is completely astronomical, but for today, for the current speed of this space fighter, it is only five minutes away. .

At this time, Yuan Guoqing was highly concentrated and was already in a combat state. He counted silently for ten seconds, and then ordered: "Attention all team members, slow down to 500 kilometers per second!"

"The Swan received it!"

"The Sparrow received it!"

"The Eagle received it!"

"The Crow received it!"

...

This giant beast slowly swims in space, and the hot sun behind it dyes its body golden yellow. It is already close to the sun, and the light is quite dazzling. The temperature facing the sun in space can reach 400 to 500 degrees Celsius, but It seems that the temperature has no effect on this giant beast at all.

Maybe it was too far away, at this time it didn't feel that the crisis was coming at all, and it was still flying straight according to the existing trajectory.

Time passed by every minute and every second.

When the distance was 100,000 kilometers away, Yuan Guoqing finally issued an attack order: "Attention all team members, the laser cannon is ready to charge!"

"attack!"

In just one-third of a second, ten high-energy lasers pierced through the space and suddenly hit the giant beast's body, splashing pieces of faint light.

The giant beast's body trembled slightly, and in the space, it roared silently. Immediately afterwards, the energy in its whole body suddenly blazed, causing slight ripples in the space. However, although it reacted quite violently, it was only instinctively disturbed by the inexplicable attack. In fact, it was not injured at all. This kind of high-energy laser that was enough to penetrate an aircraft carrier hit it, except for splashing some energy fluctuations. , was completely unscathed.

After playing a few rounds of this situation, the team members also noticed it.

"Captain, it seems that the laser is useless to it!"

Yuan Guoqing didn't speak immediately. He looked at the enlarged virtual reality scene and observed the reaction of the giant beast. He couldn't help feeling a little awe of this creature in his heart. This incredible creature is undoubtedly quite powerful in defense against energy. The laser of the space fighter It's almost like itching.

But other than that, it doesn't seem to have any effective means of counterattack, it can only bear the attack in vain, but think about it, facing tens of thousands of kilometers away, this giant beast may not even see the shadow of a fighter plane , let alone attack.

"Estimate the fastest flight speed of space creatures?" Yuan Guoqing asked Zhinao in his mind.

"30.5 kilometers per second!"

The artificial intelligence of a space fighter is far less advanced than that of a spaceship. In comparison, it is still relatively dull.

Yuan Guoqing judged the situation of each other, and immediately had a complete understanding of the form of the war. In this war, his own side has an absolute advantage. As long as the space fighters do not hit it, relying on their speed advantage, they are completely invincible , he immediately changed the order: "The formation is disbanded, the electromagnetic gun is replaced, and the attack is free."

He didn't believe that even an electromagnetic cannon couldn't shake it.

As soon as the order came out, several team members cheered, and the next moment, the fighter planes flew in all directions like wild dogs.