Xia Chujian was always wary of the other eight elite pilots.
The five hundred Starry Sky Marines might not have the same abilities and knowledge as those pilots and Navigators right now, but it wasn't because they were truly incompetent. They just hadn't had the opportunity to be exposed to these things before.
Besides, Xia Chujian had already given them four hours to train in the virtual system, and another hour to rest. Now it was time to test the results.
Because Xia Chujian also believed that the best training wasn't drills, but real combat.
Before opening the communication channel, Xia Chujian carefully asked Seven Lù, "If we want to perfectly destroy those ten Starships converted from scrapped Cruisers without affecting anything else, how much explosive power do we need?"
After careful calculation, Seven Lù told her in a cute voice, "Master, if each ship has fifty pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives, buried in the power systems of those Starships, we can perfectly destroy these ten Starships converted from scrapped Cruisers."
Xia Chujian nodded and immediately opened the fourth-level communication system, saying to the five Team leaders, "We have a mission."
"Now, select two hundred elites with the strongest Mecha operating skills. Within two minutes, put on your Mecha, and each of you go to the Material Warehouse to get a semi-automatic Submachine Gun with one thousand rounds of ammunition, fifty pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives, and a Punishment 0937 Electromagnetic Cannon. Stand by on the fifth level."
"The remaining three hundred, led by three Team leaders, also put on your Mecha, each carrying an Assault Rifle with one hundred rounds of ammunition. Come to the third level within two minutes."
The five Team leaders were baffled by this order.
Especially the requirement to carry fifty pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives each was simply unbelievable.
Because this kind of High-Energy Plasma Explosives was usually used in milligrams on the battlefield.
One milligram of High-Energy Plasma Explosives could blow a Starry Sky Fighter into pieces.
Now the entire Team of two hundred people, each carrying fifty pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives, could fight an Interstellar Annihilation War! Who were they going to deal with?!
But they only dared to mutter in their hearts, because Xia Chujian had already established her authority, and they now subconsciously obeyed her orders.
"Yes, Captain! We'll be there immediately!"
The five Team leaders had been working together for a long time and had a good understanding.
Now that time was tight, and the Captain's orders were calculated in minutes, they didn't waste any words.
"Team 1 and Team 3 go to the fifth level to put on your Mecha, equip your weapons and ammunition, and stand by. Team 2, Team 4, and Team 5, after putting on your Mecha, go to the third level to listen to the Captain's orders." Team 1 leader Sun Jiahao was obviously the head of these people, and he quickly assigned the tasks.
Under his arrangement, everyone went to the fifth level to re-equip their Mecha and select their weapons.
The fifth level was filled with weapon and ammunition reserves in the Material Warehouse, which required Xia Chujian's permission to open.
She should have come down in person, but with Seven Lù, she was a little lazy and had Seven Lù copy her permissions to take over the automatic control system of the fifth-level warehouse, opening the door for them to take the weapons and Mecha themselves.
Anyway, there was surveillance there, and Xia Chujian could see the situation in the Material Warehouse from the Captain's room.
Of course, she didn't have time to stare at the surveillance. Seven Lù was "multitasking," helping her watch.
When Seven Lù didn't give a warning, Xia Chujian knew that these Starry Sky Marines didn't have any "embezzlement" behavior when they went to the Material Warehouse, and they were all doing things according to her instructions.
Team 2, Team 4, and Team 5 quickly arrived at the third level.
Xia Chujian didn't even need to leave the Captain's room, she just said to everyone through the communicator, "All pilots leave the cabins, and my Marines will take over."
As soon as she finished speaking, the Starry Sky Marines in Mecha pushed open the doors of the cabins with fierce looks.
"Everyone, please come out. We are ordered by the Captain to take over the cabins." Team 2 leader Wang Hu raised his loaded gun with great momentum.
No matter how temperamental the pilots in the cabins were, they couldn't vent it when facing a semi-automatic Submachine Gun.
They looked blankly at the fully armed Starry Sky Marines in Mecha at the door.
If they weren't wearing Mecha, these Marines whose Genes couldn't evolve wouldn't be a match for them, even a hundred against one.
Because these pilots were all Gene Evolvers, the highest being Rank B peak.
But those Marines were now wearing Mecha, and the helmets of the Mecha had a certain Mental Strength defense function, which could just prevent Rank B peak Mental Strength attacks, so these pilots had no advantage now.
Among them, rear cabin pilot Jia 2 attempted to resist. He refused to leave the cockpit, claiming "the room is here, I am here," but Wang Hu directly knocked him unconscious with a gun butt and dragged him away.
After these pilots came out reluctantly, some people still tried to make small moves, and some Gene Evolvers were even eager to try, wanting to knock off the helmets of these Mecha warriors.
Gu Zhongjin quickly stopped them and said, "This is the Captain's order, not these Marines acting on their own. Are you planning to go against the Captain?"
"But if none of us are here, who will operate the Cruiser?! Are you relying on these Marines who don't understand anything?!" Right cabin pilot Jia 1 said indignantly.
Gu Zhongjin glanced at him and said, "Since the Captain ordered this, she must have a backup plan. Are you worried that no one will drive? Our Cruiser's Mechanical Intelligence isn't just for show either."
Gu Zhongjin probably understood why Xia Chujian wanted to do this.
If he had any complaints before, feeling that Xia Chujian was making a mountain out of a molehill, he was convinced of Xia Chujian's foresight after seeing these pilots who really didn't listen to orders.
Gu Zhongjin could see that, of the eight pilots, only four sincerely admired Xia Chujian, this temporary captain.
The other four were just not opposing her for the time being.
Seeing the current situation, Gu Zhongjin felt that Xia Chujian must be planning something...
This was to rectify the fleet before taking action, to avoid anyone holding them back when the fighting really started.
Gu Zhongjin took the lead and obediently led everyone into the Confinement Room.
Before going in, he said to Wang Hu, the leader of the second team who had made the move, "Please tell the captain that I, Gu Zhongjin, 100% support the captain's decision. This time, it was because there were people among our pilots who didn't obey military orders that the captain dealt with it in a timely manner, thus avoiding a major crisis later."
Wang Hu, the leader of the second team, raised his eyebrows, thinking that this pilot was quite sensible.
He nodded, "I will report to the captain, now, this way please."
He was also very clever, directly using two Confinement Rooms, locking the four pilots who clearly obeyed Xia Chujian's orders together, and the four who didn't obey in another Confinement Room.
This way, if pilots were needed, they could be released in time without affecting the other group in Confinement.
After dealing with the pilots, Xia Chujian had Seven Lù quietly take over the control panels of the four side rooms.
Because she had locked up all eight pilots, the monitoring here was no longer effective, and Seven Lù could show its skills.
Moreover, the last time Seven Lù took over her and her roommate's four Warplanes, Huo Yushen and Su Buyan had failed to find anything even working together, so Xia Chujian was confident.
Although she was wary of Seven Lù, it was only because she didn't want to become a tool of Mechanical Intelligence, but it didn't prevent her from making Seven Lù her Mechanical Intelligence tool.
Of course, on the surface, it was still the Cruiser's Mechanical Intelligence that was performing automatic piloting.
This Falcon-Class D1 Starry Sky Cruiser's Mechanical Intelligence, although very low-level in Seven Lù's view, was still much higher than the Mechanical Intelligence on the Starry Sky Fighters.
With Seven Lù taking over, the Cruiser's own Mechanical Intelligence operated even more smoothly.
Xia Chujian only spent three minutes to quickly rectify the entire Cruiser, unify command and thought, before starting to tell the five hundred Starry Sky Marines she trusted about the action plan.
At this time, of these five hundred Marines, two hundred were waiting in the fifth-floor hall.
The other three hundred had helped her deal with the eight pilots, and were now in the third-floor hall.
Xia Chujian's avatar quickly appeared on the virtual screens in these two halls.
She was in the Captain's room, wearing a Mecha, but without a helmet, her young face brimming with heroic spirit as she gave a speech.
"Fellow soldiers, according to the original speed, there are seven minutes left—no, now there are only four minutes left, and we will reach our destination."
"This destination is the coordinate location that I had the Cruiser's Mechanical Intelligence roughly calculate based on the information sent from the Kanli Star Flying Base."
"Before this, for everyone's safety, and to avoid alerting the enemy, I personally went out of the cabin to investigate the truth of the destination."
As soon as she finished speaking, the two hundred Marines waiting on the fifth floor, and the three hundred Marines standing in the third-floor hall, almost exploded in their minds.
But they still controlled themselves, not shouting, just staring at Xia Chujian on the big screen, their faces flushed red.
The Captain is still brave!
How could a little girl be so bold?!
Going into Space alone for a spacewalk?!
Of course, this is also why, although they are both ordinary people whose Genes cannot evolve, she is an eighteen-year-old acting Captain, while they are still Starry Sky Marines...
This thought lingered in everyone's minds.
Xia Chujian didn't look at these people's faces, she directly played some footage she and Seven Lù had taken when they went to scout.
When the flag of the Star Pirates organization "Bodhi Leaf" appeared on the big screen, everyone held their breath for a moment.
Then these Marines said in surprise, "This is the Star Pirates Bodhi Leaf?! It's actually them!"
"Daring to attack the Beichen Empire Military, are they tired of living?!"
"Hehe, our Fourth Interstellar Fleet doesn't work hard when fighting big battles, but fighting Star Pirates doesn't require effort! It's a sure thing!"
"These Star Pirates are vicious and evil, Captain, we must not let them go!"
Xia Chujian quietly listened to everyone's opinions.
After a minute passed, she officially began her pre-battle mobilization.
"Everyone is right! These Star Pirates dared to attack the Beichen Empire Military, we can't let them leave alive!"
"Our Beichen Empire was once the largest empire in the Beichen Galaxy! But what about now?!"
"The Southern Cross Star Kingdom dares to boss us around!"
"The East Tianyuan City-State dares to point fingers at us!"
"Even the small West Himalaya Federation dares to take a share!"
"And now, even third-rate Star Pirates dare to challenge our Military head-on!"
"This is tolerable, but what is intolerable?!"
"Gentlemen, follow me into battle!"
"Flatten the Bodhi Leaf's eighteen Starships! Annihilate all the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates!"
"Kill them all! Leave none alive!"
"Use their heads to commemorate all the civilians who have been brutally murdered by them in the past thirty years!"
Xia Chujian's passionate pre-battle mobilization immediately made everyone's blood boil.
She didn't wait any longer and directly gave instructions, "In one minute, the Falcon D1 will stop here. Team 2 Captain Wang Hu, I authorize you to take full control of this Starry Sky Cruiser and await my orders."
"Team 1 and Team 3, follow me!"
As Xia Chujian spoke, she disappeared from the big screen.
Fifty seconds later, she and the Mecha warriors of Team 1 and Team 3 appeared at the last outer gate of the Cruiser.
Xia Chujian took the lead in opening the door, and the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha immediately activated and glided out.
Behind her, two hundred medium-sized Mechas took off one after another.
In order to avoid raising questions about her Mecha's appearance, Xia Chujian still used the three-meter-tall Ordinary Mecha appearance, but she had already put on her helmet, and outside the helmet was the mask with yellow feathers, blue armor, Leopard Face and Tiger Teeth.
...
Sun Jiahao led his Team, closely following Xia Chujian's Mecha.
He was almost forty years old and had thought he would spend his life in the Fourth Interstellar Fleet. He never imagined that he would wear a Mecha and fight again one day! The vast and magnificent Space was above his head, beneath his feet, and all around him! He looked ahead, and within reach, there seemed to be towering mountains and tall buildings! Those were the eighteen Starships of the Star Pirate organization "Bodhi Leaf"! They looked exactly like the scenes in the Captain's video.
That was the place they were going to flatten! Sun Jiahao thought his blood had cooled, but now he knew that it wasn't that his blood was cold, but that he hadn't met a second commander who could make his blood boil and ignite his fighting spirit!
At this moment, Xia Chujian had Seven Lù connect to the public communication channels of those Flying Base Warplanes and Interstellar Airships.
There were ten Interstellar Airships and one hundred and ninety-one Starry Sky Fighters there! They were surrounded in a spherical encirclement by the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirate organization's eighteen Starships of Starry Sky Cruiser level.
The thirty Flying Base Instructors on these ten Interstellar Airships, and the one hundred and ninety-one students, formed an emergency action group to discuss their action plan together.
They had been discussing for almost three days, but had not yet reached a consensus.
In the end, an Instructor on a rescue Interstellar Airship proposed to install Brain-Computer Interfaces and chips for the students, and then have the student Chu Qingchen command and launch a counterattack at the same time!
At this moment, they were conducting the final round of voting on the installation of Brain-Computer Interfaces.
After arguing for three days, the students finally agreed that as long as more than half of the students agreed, they would uniformly install Brain-Computer Interfaces.
Being surrounded by the notoriously brutal Star Pirate organization "Bodhi Leaf" for almost three days, they were also a little daunted.
If they were still in their respective Interstellar Fleets, they certainly wouldn't be afraid.
But at this time, they were in the Asteroid Belt, each with only one Starry Sky Fighter, and the Starry Sky Fighters were not carrying any Space Weapons! They all thought that the other side had eighteen Starships similar to Starry Sky Cruisers, and more than thirty Space Ion Beam Cannons!
How could they fight that?!
Originally, a large number of the students were unwilling to install Brain-Computer Interfaces.
But at this time, it would be difficult to launch a coordinated counterattack without installing them.
Their weapons were at a disadvantage, and if they couldn't coordinate the actions of one hundred and ninety-one Warplanes, there was no way to fight this battle! Yu Fei was on one of the Interstellar Airships.
He was also extremely frustrated.
Not long after they entered the Asteroid Belt, they encountered a huge magnetic storm and completely lost contact with the outside world.
If Pei Zijing were awake right now, he definitely wouldn't let this happen.
But Pei Zijing entered the Asteroid Belt not long ago, and for unknown reasons, he is still unconscious.
Yu Fei was against installing Brain-Computer Interfaces for all the trainees, but as things stand, those who support him are clearly in the minority. More people just want to launch a counterattack as soon as possible.
However, there are still a few troublemakers who refuse to give in, saying in the group chat, "Why do we need to install Brain-Computer Interfaces and chips to launch a coordinated counterattack?"
"When we were annihilating the rebels on Kanli Star, Xia Chujian led us in the attack, and we didn't use Brain-Computer Interfaces or chips!"
Lü Luyu hated it most when people mentioned Xia Chujian.
Hearing these troublemakers touch her Dragon's Scale, she immediately flared up and said, "Fine! You don't have to install them! But please leave here immediately!"
"Since you don't care about the interests of our collective, the collective won't protect you! You guys get out!"
Since she was already driving people away, those few troublemakers didn't dare to say anything more.
At this moment, Chu Qingchen said in the group chat, "Isn't this because Xia Chujian isn't here? If she were here, and she was in command, of course we wouldn't need Brain-Computer Interfaces and chips to launch a coordinated counterattack. It's a pity..."
Before he could finish speaking, Lü Luyu giggled neurotically and said, "It's a pity! The genius pilot girl! What a big name! It's a pity she's still missing in the Asteroid Belt!"
Clearly, they didn't know what was happening outside.
Chu Qingchen sighed softly and said, "It's not just Xia Chujian who's missing, but also Jiang Yongbai, Mao Yonggui, Chu Qingjuan, and Sang Yadi. These outstanding trainees are all missing, and I'm afraid their chances of survival are slim."
Just as he finished speaking, Xia Chujian's clear and melodious voice suddenly appeared in everyone's public communication channel.
"Hello, everyone, students and instructors, this is Xia Chujian."
"I am under the Military's orders, leading the Fourth Interstellar Fleet's Falcon-class Star Cruiser! Here to take you home!"
This is the second large chapter, including the Moon Tickets from June 3000+. The bonus chapters for June's Moon Tickets are finally paid off.
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