Fear of Insufficient Firepower (Second Update) Moreover, Xia Chujian sent an average of eleven people to each of those Starships.
The "heavily guarded" four side cabins only had two pilots and four bodyguards in each cabin.
This group of Star Pirates from the "Bodhi Leaf" organization were used to bullying the weak and fearing the strong. They were like demons to ordinary people.
But when they encountered war kings like Sun Jiahao and Li Dali, it was just a matter of one meeting.
As the vanguard of this operation, Li Dali personally led Team 3, Group 1, and used a wire made of Special Metal to pry open the passage leading into the Starship.
The passage was dark and shorter than the passage of their Falcon-class Star Cruiser.
They only passed through two doors before arriving at the entrance to the inner hall.
Li Dali loaded a semi-automatic Submachine Gun onto a Mecha arm, added a silencer, and fed it with ammunition belts.
A Team member proficient in Electromagnetic Devices first cut off the power system of the smart lock on the door.
After the power system was cut off, the alarm device on the door became useless.
Then they attached a listening device and slipped a remote monitoring system under the door.
The group first investigated the situation inside the door.
The hall on this level of the Starship was also arranged as a bar and hall.
These eighteen Starships seemed to have been modified by the same company, and they all looked similar inside.
There were many drunk people, the same heavy metal rock music, and Star Pirates shouting and drinking. Drunk men and women rolled around on the spot, making a terrible scene.
"Hey, it's so boring! The boss won't let us go to Starship Number 18! There are women who were robbed this time! I heard there are more than three hundred!"
"Wait a little longer! It's only a few days. When this is over, how many women do you want?! Stop thinking about it and drink!"
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"This way..." Li Dali quietly gestured for his men to follow.
The Starship, which was modified from a scrapped Cruiser, emphasized the word "big".
The height of this floor was almost twelve meters, and their six-meter-high Mecha could move freely.
They watched the remote monitoring system outside the door.
Five minutes later, the simple Mechanical Intelligence built into the remote monitoring system calculated the distribution of personnel in the hall.
There were a total of five hundred and three people. Judging from their clothes, speech, and behavior patterns, they were all Star Pirates.
At the same time, there were two more levels above and below this level, and there were many more Star Pirates. The number should far exceed these five hundred people.
This was also consistent with the information Xia Chujian had previously investigated.
The victims robbed by the Star Pirates this time were all on the eighteenth Starship.
There were no victims on other Starships.
It was possible to use Thermal Weapons to kill them openly and close, without having to use daggers cautiously.
That's why Xia Chujian formulated such a plan.
Li Dali turned his head and nodded to his Team members, then kicked open the door, rushed in with a Submachine Gun, and fired a burst at the most crowded place, knocking them down.
Li Dali and his men were all from the Starry Sky Marine Corps. When they fought in landing battles in the Fifth Interstellar Fleet, they always killed the enemy without mercy.
Because if they didn't kill fast enough, they would be killed by the enemy.
At this time, twelve six-meter-high Mecha warriors rushed in, and the Submachine Guns with strong silencers swept across the hall in a round of indiscriminate fire. The five hundred and three Star Pirates in the hall died instantly.
These Star Pirates were brutal, but they only showed their power against unarmed ordinary people.
When they encountered this kind of battle-hardened, fully armed Regular Army, they could only be slaughtered.
After solving the Star Pirates in the hall on this level, Li Dali and his men quickly rushed to the side cabin on the upper level.
The movements of these twelve Mecha warriors were too fast.
The pilot in the Port Side cabin had just received the news from the lower level, knew that something had happened, and was still verifying it when Li Dali and his men sneaked in.
This time, they didn't use Submachine Guns because they were worried about damaging critical equipment, causing an explosion, and affecting their plan. Therefore, they all used one-foot-long Tactical Daggers, one knife for one person, two knives for a pair.
The two pilots and four bodyguards in this cabin were taken care of with just six knife strikes.
Li Dali then took the team member who was proficient in electromagnetic devices and together they found the weakest point in the power system at the center of the cabin. They strapped all one hundred and fifty pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives that the three of them were carrying to it.
Then, through the Mecha's communication system, he ordered the team members: "See this position clearly. You, numbers 4 through 12, in groups of three, take out the pilots and control the remaining three cabins. Install the explosives within three minutes, then retreat."
"Yes, Captain."
The remaining nine team members began to act separately.
These nine team members were divided into three groups, and each went to the other three cabins, repeating the same method to deal with the pilots and bodyguards inside.
Then, according to the location of the power system that Li Dali had indicated earlier in the port side cabin, they all strapped on High-Energy Plasma Explosives, equivalent to burying one hundred and fifty pounds of High-Energy Plasma Explosives in each power system.
In less than three minutes, all twelve Mecha warriors retreated from the passage.
At this time, people on the second floor above and the fourth floor below this hall noticed something was wrong and came to the third floor hall to investigate.
As Li Dali and his team retreated, the other eight teams of the 3rd team also withdrew from those Starships that had been modified from scrapped Cruisers, and reported to Xia Chujian at the same time.
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Just three minutes before, the elite of the 1st team had set off at the same time as the 3rd team.
Their target was the eight Starships with combat capabilities.
Among them, three were Starships with complete Falcon-class Star Cruiser functions. Those were the top priority, and it was impossible to let them directly touch the cabins and bury explosives in the power systems.
Of course, Xia Chujian didn't let them do that.
Their 1st team of one hundred people was divided into AB groups, with fifty people in each group.
Group B, with fifty people, was further divided into five teams, with ten people in each team, and they boarded the five Starships that had been modified from decommissioned Cruisers.
Group A, with fifty people, was divided into three teams: Team A with twenty people, Team B with fifteen people, and Team C also with fifteen people.
These three teams, A, B, and C, of Group A, were of course targeting the three Starships that were truly Falcon-class Star Cruisers.
At this time, on these Starships, the Star Pirates were living in a drunken dream, waiting for the next mission.
The vast majority of them did not know that their mission this time was just encirclement, not robbery.
Sun Jiahao, the captain of the 1st team, led Team A with twenty people and quietly came to the largest Starship, which was Starship number one.
The action guide Xia Chujian gave them was to take out the two Space Ion Beam Cannons on the top deck here.
This was currently the most lethal weapon.
Their own Falcon-class Star Cruiser also only had two of these Space Ion Beam Cannons.
And the "Bodhi Leaf" Star Pirates here reportedly had a total of six usable Space Ion Beam Cannons...
When they arrived on Starship number one, the twenty people immediately divided into two groups, one group of ten people, and according to the coordinates provided by Xia Chujian, found the deployment locations of the two usable Space Ion Beam Cannons.
Then they acted in unison, simultaneously using Punishment 0937 Electromagnetic Cannons to bombard the barrels of the Space Ion Beam Cannons! Tss! Beams of bright, dazzling electromagnetic light shot up from the top deck of Starship number one.
Xia Chujian knew that compared to those real Space-Based Weapons, such as Space Ion Beam Cannons, the Punishment 0937 Electromagnetic Cannon, which could dominate on land, was just a drop in the bucket.
But they had enough Energy Blocks! Each shot from the ten Punishment 0938 Electromagnetic Cannons required three seconds of energy accumulation.
They were taking advantage of the element of surprise, first causing large-scale physical damage to these two Space Ion Beam Cannons, and then quickly retreating when the other side organized an effective attack.
Two minutes later, when they had accumulated energy forty times, the Star Pirates realized that something was wrong.
"Quickly contact the Great Leader! Quickly contact the Great Leader! What the hell is going on outside?!"
"Captain! Someone outside seems to be attacking our Space Ion Beam Cannons!"
"Bullshit! How is that possible?! Do you think you're in your hometown town?! - This is the Asteroid Belt! The Sest Asteroid Belt, understand?!"
"Captain! Really! The control console is also sending messages!"
"Damn it! Someone is really attacking?! Quick! Open fire! - Let these bastards know the power of Space-Based Weapons!"
"Captain, that's not good... If it's the base students attacking... The Great Leader didn't say we should fight..."
"You know nothing! I'm already merciful by not attacking them! They attack me, and I can't fight back?! - Open fire!"
The same dialogue took place on the other two combat-capable Starships of the Bodhi Leaf Star Pirates organization.
But just as their weapons personnel were in position, starting to power up the six Space Ion Beam Cannons, they discovered that the energy accumulation was never reaching full capacity...
Another two minutes passed, and they realized that not only were their Space Ion Beam Cannons failing to fully charge, but also, despite the obvious external attacks, the entire system was stuck in a vicious cycle of constantly "charging and starting" and "restarting the charge."
Basically, every time the energy accumulated to about half, it would inexplicably restart and begin charging again.
At this time, Team 3 of the Starry Sky Marines, who had gone to the nine scrapped Cruisers to modify the Starship's power system and plant explosives, had already retreated to the location designated by Xia Chujian.
That was the closest location, calculated by Seven Lù, that would not be affected by the Starship explosions.
They were responsible for planting the explosives, while the detonation system was with Xia Chujian, who could remotely control the planted explosives.
It was a high-energy explosive that could blast a Starry Sky Fighter into pieces with just one milligram, and there, each Starship had three hundred kilograms of this explosive!
Xia Chujian was worried that the twenty-five kilograms per Starship that Seven Lù had suggested wouldn't be enough.
Because she suffered from a severe Fear of Insufficient Firepower...
Moreover, the current Starship's volume was hundreds of thousands of times that of a Starry Sky Fighter.
So she went big! No matter how big you are, you can't withstand my massive amount of explosives!
"Detonate." Seeing that everything was ready, Xia Chujian calmly gave the order to Seven Lù.
Seven Lù immediately activated the program, and the High-Energy Plasma Explosives planted in the Starship's power system immediately began a three-second countdown.
This place seemed to be the end of the Asteroid Belt, without Star Rock Fragments rushing in at any moment, and without the whistling Comet cloud dust.
In the boundless silence, the black hulls of the nine massive, mountain-like Starships suddenly emitted bursts of blue-purple light.
The light shone, and blue-purple currents formed strange patterns on the Starship hulls, as if someone was wielding a brush in the universe, creating an extremely realistic yet abstract oil painting!
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 00:05 tonight.
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