Chapter 25 Main text, Episode 4, Life and Death, Chapter 1, Life and Death

After Tang Long saw the battleship passing through the gap of the wreckage without any damage, he couldn't help but let out an excited "Yo Ha". At the same time, Tang Long twisted the remote control lever violently, and quickly stepped on several speed control panels under his feet.The nozzle on the head of the battleship, which was used to slow down and reverse, spewed out flames suddenly. The main nozzle on the back of the battleship also stopped at this moment, and the nozzle on the left side, which was used to turn right, sprayed out flames at the same time. At such a moment, the battleship made a 180-degree turn, aiming its head at the gap it just passed through.

When the battleship turned around, Tang Long slammed his fist on a button on the bridge and shouted at the same time: "Go to hell!" Following the sound, the four secondary guns on the top, bottom, left, and right immediately fired lasers towards the gap continuously.Moreover, when the battleship was firing the laser cannon, several nozzles on the head continued to emit flames, causing the battleship Tang Long to retreat while firing the cannon. The two hundred self-propelled gunboats that had surpassed the limit of the power furnace and came to pursue them, when they saw Tang Long getting into the gap of the wreckage, the pilots began to bypass without waiting for the commander's order.

However, the self-propelled gunship that was chasing the most urgently was too fast, and if he chose to avoid it, he could only crash into the huge wreckage. The driver had to grit his teeth and stare, and drove the battleship towards the gap as if he was desperate. Seeing that the helmet was about to go through the gap intact, the pilot couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief, but at the moment of panting, countless lights hit his face, and the siren in the battleship also rang. stand up. Originally, the energy of this battleship was still kept at 100% of the shield, even if it was hit by the secondary gun laser emitted by this self-propelled gunship, it would not cause any damage at all.

But this driver is a rookie. Seeing this terrifying scene, he held the remote control lever reflexively to dodge.So the battleship, which was running at high speed, immediately slammed into the huge wreckage. Since the battleship hit the wall after getting into the gap, the protective cover that needed a certain buffer distance to function was useless, and the hull was immediately cut by the sharp wreck surface.Then, with a "boom", it emitted a dazzling light and became part of the death zone. Tang Long, who had already retreated beyond the effective damage distance of the explosion, glanced at the positions of other battleships displayed on the screen, immediately closed the retreat jets, stepped on the forward pedal, and the rear jets emitted flames again.With a "whoosh" sound, the battleship quickly passed under the huge wreckage that was dissipating heat due to the explosion of the battleship!

Because of the high speed, it was very easy to bypass the wrecked battleship group. It was only then that they found that their side had lost a battleship.Just when he was about to attack Tang Long's location, Tang Long suddenly disappeared. The captain and the radar officer were not idiots either, and they immediately understood that Tang Long escaped when the radar frequency jumped due to the heat generated by the explosion of the battleship. Without even thinking about it, the captains ordered to turn around and pursue, because there was no sign of Tang Long ahead, so Tang Long had to hide behind.

Although the orders of the captains were carried out, the speed of the battleship was too fast, and it took a big turn to turn around. The captain who originally wanted to order to slow down, saw that the battleship had turned around, immediately changed his mind and yelled to speed up! When these warships caught up again, Tang Long had already found a space with a lot of wreckage, and played hide-and-seek with these warships. Although at the beginning, because those warships were too fast, not only could they not catch up with Tang Long, but they accidentally crashed several ships, but when their speed slowed down, Tang Long began to be unlucky.

"Oops! It's blocked!" Tang Long saw the four warships in front of him rushing towards him with murderous aura, and immediately sank at full speed. Unfortunately, the other party didn't want to capture Tang Long alive. Seeing Tang Long right in front of him, how could he just let it go? When the captains of the four warships saw Tang Long, they immediately gritted their teeth and shouted, "Shoot! Shoot! Sink him!" The laser beams from the sixteen secondary guns poured on Tang Long's battleship without a pause. The battleship shook violently immediately, and the siren whined nonstop accompanied by the laser beams covering the screen. Although the hearts of Liu Sihao and his subordinates who were confined to the chairs by seat belts had been beating violently since just now, This scene made their hearts almost pop out of their throats.

At this time, the automatic alarm system began to emit a chilling sound: "Alarm! The energy of the shield has dropped to 19%, 18%...Dangerous! The four ships in front of us began to condense the energy of the main guns, and the target ship , danger, please dodge as soon as possible!" Those who heard this immediately looked at the image displayed on the screen—the four attacking self-propelled gunships, and saw that the black main gun ports on their heads began to glow, and the idiot knew that they were about to fire the main gun up! The female soldiers on the ship had already gritted their teeth and closed their eyes with pale faces. Seeing the trembling of their brows and eyelashes, one could tell how they were feeling when they heard the news.

And Liu Sihao pinched his own thigh, his white lips were slightly opened, his eyes were dull looking at the brighter and brighter light, and now he didn't even know what was going on in his mind. Liu Sihao is not in the mood to watch the expressions of other comrades-in-arms now, but he believes that even if he doesn't look, he will know that their expressions are the same as his own. In the originally dead silence of the cabin, there was a voice that made everyone recover a little bit of consciousness: "Damn! I finally made it here! I'm not in vain waiting here desperately."

Tang Long saw the helmet screen displaying more than a hundred warships surrounded by the rear, front, and top, and said with a grin. Of course, everyone can't see this expression. If Liu Sihao and the others saw it, they might consider handing Tang Long over to surrender, right? At this time, the captains of the four warships that stopped Tang Long first showed ferocious smiles, swung down their raised hands, and shouted at the same time: "The main guns are fired!" Of course, the warships surrounding them in the distance knew what the four warships wanted to do, and the captains all shouted: "How much energy is the main gun?"

Most of them received reports that their energy was not full, and when they saw that the fruit in front of them was about to be picked, they ordered in unanimous agreement: "It doesn't matter how much it is, shoot it out for me!" In their minds, as long as their warships had a share in destroying Tang Long, they could at least share some of the credit. Under the attack of hundreds of auxiliary guns, the Tanglong battleship will not sink for the time being, but the energy of the protective cover has dropped to 7%. Now even if it is randomly swept by the energy wave of a main gun, it can It will definitely turn into cosmic dust in no time. Tang Long looked at the countdown that appeared in the corner of his eyes, and then glanced at the target he found when he entered the wreckage area while hiding, and couldn't help showing a sneer. When he saw that the countdown had reached zero, he immediately pressed the joystick hard, and at the same time shouted: "Two G!" At the same time, hundreds of laser beams of different brightness shot out from the main gun muzzles of hundreds of warships, and shot towards the location of Tanglong battleship accurately. However, before the laser beam left the muzzle, Tang Long's battleship was already flying downwards. At the same time, the moment Tang Long's battleship sank, Tang Long gritted his teeth and endured the sudden pressure, and pressed the joystick tightly. Immediately raised his hands. In this way, the battleship Tanglong first sank at a speed of 2G, and then flew upwards obliquely, not only dodging the laser beams of the main guns, but also ran out of the encirclement. The captains of those battleships saw the meat in their mouths flying away again, they couldn't help jumping up and cursing at their mothers and ordered: "Accelerate the pursuit!" When these warships were about to chase Tang Long, the radar officer shouted in shock: "Sir, the Tang Long battleship is about to fire its main gun!" "What?!" The captain looked in surprise at the battleship Tanglong, which ran a long distance at 2G speed, then turned around suddenly, with the main gun muzzle emitting light. These captains, without hesitation, immediately ordered the defensive cover to be fully opened and evaded! Although they didn't know which of the more than a hundred warships Tang Long was targeting, it was the best choice to ensure their own safety anyway.So these warships not only did not advance to pursue, but began to retreat and move left and right. Seeing their actions, Tang Long couldn't help laughing: "Idiot! My target is not you!" Speaking of this, he suddenly pressed the main gun firing button! As soon as the main cannon was fired, Tang Long turned around and ran away on the battleship, but the speed slowed down significantly. Seeing this speed, Tang Long could only smile wryly. Now the condition of the power furnace can no longer use the speed of 2G.Whether it can escape the catastrophe depends on the main cannon, which has been full of energy early, but has been reluctant to fire. The warships were shocked at the same time when they saw the main guns firing, but they also immediately realized that the main guns were not aimed at themselves, and couldn't help shouting in ecstasy: "Follow me with all my strength!" Panic screamed: "Don't!" The other crew members couldn't help shaking their hearts when they heard the radar officer's shrill cry, but before they had time to ask what happened, a frenzied cosmic storm came from behind, and all objects within the range of the storm , obviously there is no gravitational attraction, but they all start to sway back and forth. Seeing that the radar officer displayed on the main screen the target of the laser beam from the main gun just now, everyone panicked—because Tang Long’s laser beam was actually attacking the center of the wreckage area. A super-concentrated energy ball left over from the war years ago! Everyone's faces turned green when they thought of the beautiful instructor reminding them to be careful to avoid this kind of energy ball not long ago. The energy ball, only the size of a football, was originally floating in the universe very stable, but after being hit by a powerful laser light, although it did not suffer any injuries, it woke it up from sleep and began to stretch its muscles. body.The stable energy lost its balance, first emitting a strong storm, and then fission appeared. In an instant, a circular light began to spread out from the middle, and as the light spread, the light became bigger and wider, and the range became wider and wider. The powerful energy made those wreckages gasify as soon as they came into contact with the rays of light when they flew out, turning into particles. But fortunately, this kind of light only brightened to a limited extent and then disappeared, but within the diameter of the three million kilometers of the ball of light, there was nothing left. Seen from the distance of the universe, one can find the dead zone with countless floating debris, and a spherical vacuum zone appears. Although the Tanglong battleship, which was fleeing desperately, escaped the light, it did not escape the powerful shock wave. This battleship was like a small boat in the raging waves, it was blown to one side, up and down, and even kept turning somersaults. Although there is no gravity in space, there is in the battleship, so people wearing seat belts in the battleship, although they will not float up and have violent intimate actions with the bulkhead, they will inevitably feel dizzy and start to vomit.Fortunately, it was fixed to the floor by gravity, otherwise the vomit would be floating around. After a while, the Tang Long battleship finally stopped shaking. Tang Long threw away the helmet full of vomit with difficulty, wiped the corners of his mouth with his black military uniform, and turned back weakly and said, "Are you alright?" Hearing Tang Long's words, everyone raised their limp necks and said intermittently with difficulty: "It's nothing... nothing..." "Almost...almost vomited to death..." Tang Long saw that everyone was intact, but his complexion was a little off. He couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and began to check the data of the battleship. His body exercised by those machine instructors put him in a normal state soon. He saw the three-dimensional direction indicator, which stood upright.Knowing that this means that according to the shape of the battleship, the battleship is standing upright in the universe, but due to the gravity system, the people inside the ship can't feel anything at all, so Tang Long ignored it. The direction indicator is used to show the current shape of the battleship. In a universe without gravity, even if the belly of the battleship is upward, the people inside will not feel anything.But in the battleship group, some battleships have their bellies upwards, and some are straight upright, which is not only unsightly, but also not conducive to command, so there are such direction indicators, which are similar to the instruments used by aircraft to distinguish the sense of direction. same function. Seeing that the protective cover had disappeared, Tang Long hurriedly checked the damage, and couldn't help but wipe off his cold sweat after reading it. If the storm were any stronger, this battleship would definitely disintegrate. Now it can only slowly move at an ultra-low normal speed. Back to federal territory. Tang Long just wanted to say a smile to those subordinates who were about to pass out, Xing Ling's eager voice came to Tang Long's ears: "Tang Long, there are still thirty self-propelled gunboats desperately chasing them at 2G speed!" Tang Long looked back at the images of the battleships displayed on the screen, shook his head with a wry smile, sat down and sighed: "Oh, I didn't expect that there were more than 30 ships that were not sunk... Well, it's no wonder, like me 100% Qi’s protective shield can escape, these 100% guys, as long as they stay away from the center, they can escape completely. Alas, miscalculation!” Hearing this, Xingling couldn't help shouting anxiously: "Are you still in the mood to sigh? Think of a way!" Tang Long shook his head and smiled and said, "What do you think? The battleship is so damaged that it can't even withstand the laser of a secondary gun, and the power furnace can only be maintained at 30% power, let alone start the 2G, even It’s not going to be able to reach the normal speed.” "Then what should I do?" Xing Ling asked nervously. Although she is powerful, it is impossible to turn this dilapidated battleship into a battleship!Suddenly, Xingling thought that as long as he sneaked into the systems of those battleships, he could shut down their power furnaces, wouldn't he be able to escape a catastrophe? When Xing Ling was about to speak, through the camera lens on the battleship, he saw Tang Long's eyes when he looked back at the comatose subordinates. It was a look of apology, love, and even a look of deep reminiscence.What Xing Ling originally wanted to say was also blocked by Tang Long's gaze. At this moment, Xing Ling suddenly noticed that Tang Long's eyes showed a kind of eyes that only made a decision. Seeing Tang Long with such eyes, Xingling suddenly felt his thoughts start to jump. That feeling was a bit like when Tang Long called his sister for the first time, but it was a little different. Xing Ling couldn't tell what was different.She wishes now that she could have a human body, because then she would be able to know what it was like. Tang Long held his head in his hands, leaned against the back of the chair, and crossed his feet on the driver's platform.A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said lazily to Xingling: "Sister, help me send them the surrender signal. I will let them handle it. I just ask them not to make things difficult for my subordinates. After all, not long ago, everyone still Robe Ze." Xing Ling was taken aback: "Tang Long, if you surrender now, they will kill you! I can sneak into those battleships and immobilize them, or even make them explode!" After Xing Ling finished speaking, she wanted to leave. Not long ago, because she wanted Tang Long to grow up, she decided to help Tang Long only when his life was in danger, and now is the time when he needs help. As for Tang Long's agreement that he can help him only after he asked for it, let it go to hell, because I don't want to lose a relative like this! When Tang Long heard Xing Ling's words, he immediately stopped her: "Eldest sister, don't go, if I hadn't met eldest sister, I would have disappeared under the cold laser light fired by the imperial army at the beginning, like those companions. Later, elder sister It also helped me defeat the first batch of enemies, and then helped me escape by driving a battleship. I am already much luckier than others, and I can no longer accept the help of my eldest sister." "Why? Do you wish to die?" Xing Ling shouted. Tang Long smiled and said: "Don't get excited, big sister. As I said before, life is like a game, and you are like a cheating tool in this game. With your help, I can avoid many There are too many dangers, and the smooth customs clearance. Of course, I am getting more and more used to relying on you, but this is the same as what I told you, the game has become boring and lost the challenge. Now this game, I Don't want to use cheat tools anymore, let it be over when it's over." "Life is not a game! I am not a tool for cheating!" Xing Ling shouted angrily. She didn't expect that she was actually a cheating tool in Tang Long's mind! Originally, I thought that Tang Long would treat himself as a person, but Tang Long is just a person who is no longer willing to use himself as a tool, similar to those who desperately want to obtain cheating tools. Tang Long heard the grief and indignation in Xingling's tone, sat down quickly and said sincerely: "Sister, you misunderstood, I never regarded you as a tool, just a metaphor. To be honest, when I first met with you When you met, I felt that you were like a real person, otherwise I would not have regarded you as my own sister. However, you give me the feeling that you love my brother very much and hug him all day long for fear of him falling The older sister who is in her arms and won’t let him learn to walk. Although this younger brother loves his older sister very much, he always wishes he could walk on his own feet.” When Xingling heard this, she felt her thoughts start to beat again. She didn't speak, but just quietly listened to Tang Long's continuation. "Sister, I believe you also know that I am an only child and I don't have any siblings, so when I feel the love from you, I am really happy and happy. You must know that when I was studying, I didn't have any friends at all. , personality is also very eccentric, except for my parents, I hardly talked to anyone, and that's why I chose to join the army, hoping to change myself." Speaking of this, Tang Long showed an expression of reminiscence, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Fortunately, I joined the army, and fortunately, I met those five instructors. I don't know what happened. Although I didn't say a few words to them, But my personality began to change naturally. Maybe this is my nature. Doesn’t it mean that people wear masks and only show their sincerity when facing their friends? I think those five instructors and you are mine Good teacher and helpful friend." Tang Long turned his head to look at those subordinates who were in a coma and said with a smile: "These people are the partners I have really come into contact with for the first time. I don’t like me very much, but I think that as long as it takes a while, I will have a partner that I can talk to.” Tang Long didn't notice that the eyelashes of all the comatose subordinates twitched after hearing Tang Long's words. At this time, Xingling said, "I've already sent you a surrender message, it's up to them whether you accept it or not." She had already forgiven Tang Long for saying the cheating tool just now. Hearing this, Tang Long nodded and said, "Thank you, sister. These subordinates are all very good soldiers. If they hadn't followed me as a commander, they wouldn't have had to endure these hardships. By the way, sister, can you help me in the future?" Can you tell my parents for me?" Speaking of this, Tang Long sighed, and said with a gloomy expression: "Ah, back then I decided to join the army secretly without telling them. After entering the training camp, I couldn't communicate with the outside world, and I couldn't even apologize to them. I wanted to go home and rest, but encountered an emergency summoning order, entered the army and was immediately selected into the base, and then came here. I haven’t contacted my family for more than a year. I believe my parents will definitely deny me This is unworthy." After hearing these words, Xing Ling didn't say whether he would help Tang Long to inform, but instead said with a smile: "Tang Long, I have kept a few things from you." "Oh? How many things are you hiding from me? Sister, you really shouldn't. How can I call you sister?" Tang Long might feel that the atmosphere was boring just now, so he said with a smile. "The first is my name, the second is my appearance, and the third is my identity." Xing Ling smiled faintly. She was going to tell Tang Long everything about herself, because she didn't want Tang Long to die, and she had decided to let those warships explode.Even if Tang Long hated her, she was ready to do so. She had already decided that after this incident, she would hide in the dark and stop disturbing Tang Long, and quietly watched Tang Long unfold his life. "Huh?" Hearing this, Tang Long was stunned for a moment. According to this, this elder sister actually has a name, another appearance, and a very strange identity? Why should she hide it? And does a program have these things? Tang Long intuitively felt that the things hidden by the computer sister were very amazing! Xingling took a breath, and snowflakes began to appear on the screen, she was going to fully present her true face in front of Tang Long. Xing Ling's sweet voice came leisurely: "My name is..." While saying this, a blurry figure slowly began to appear on the screen. Not only did Tang Long prick up his ears and stare at him waiting for the answer, but those guys on the boat who pretended to be unconscious also pricked up their ears and squinted slightly to peek. At this time, those battleships rushing straight at the speed of 2G in the distance received the surrender message from Xing Ling, and the captains couldn't help but grinned in unison: "Bastard! Killed so many of our brothers, put the After playing like dogs, we actually said surrender? We actually want us to let go of those accomplices? Humph! Speed ​​me up! Let us execute these bastards in the most cruel way!" Their smug laughter just stopped when everyone felt the battleship start to shake, and couldn't help but look around nervously. As the captain, of course he had to appease his subordinates, they waved their hands indifferently and said, "Don't worry, it's just the aftershock of the explosion just now, nothing..." Before they finished speaking, they were interrupted by the panicked shout of the power officer: "There is an abnormality in the power furnace! The energy output has reached..." The power man hadn't finished speaking, and no one could finish listening. At this moment, the power furnace, which had been overloaded for a long time, finally couldn't support it. When Xing Ling was about to reveal his identity, the blurred figure suddenly disappeared, and the screen returned to the original galaxy image. And the screen showed that dozens of self-propelled gunboats chasing after them from a distance emitted dozens of rays of light, exploded one after another, and turned into cosmic garbage. Seeing this scene, Tang Long was extremely shocked and angrily shouted at the screen: "Sister, you..." Hearing Xing Ling just now said that those battleships could explode, seeing this scene now, he instinctively thought that Xing Ling did it, That's why he blurted out the questioning words. Xingling knew that Tang Long had misunderstood him. Although he had made the same decision, this time he really didn't do it himself!She could only say in pain: "I didn't do it, trust me..." and disappeared. Xingling thinks that Tang Long will ignore him from now on, so he can only start to implement the decision he made not long ago, and will no longer disturb Tang Long in the future, hiding in the dark, quietly watching Tang Long live an extraordinary life. Hearing this, Tang Long couldn't help being stunned, but quickly shouted anxiously: "Sister, sister..." No matter how loud Tang Long shouted, Xingling hid in the computer, gritted his teeth, and shed tears don't say anything. She remembered that Tang Long had said that she was a cheating tool not long ago, and that Tang Long had misunderstood her just now. These complicated thoughts made Xing Ling unable to respond to Tang Long's call. Tang Long yelled several times, knowing that there was no hope, he could only sigh at the screen: "Thank you sister, maybe we won't have the chance to meet again in the future, but I will always remember you." Hearing Tang Long's words, Xingling knew that Tang Long still believed that those warships were his fault.She couldn't help feeling sad, she sighed and thought: "Oh, it seems that we really can't see each other again, Tang Long no longer needs and is unwilling to rely on cheating tools like me... Maybe I should too. Went to see my friend..." Xingling thought of the five friends who had lost track of him a long time ago. Although they may have become scrap iron, he should see them for the last time, let his excited thoughts calm down, and come back to see Tang Long. "Oh, I wish I could become a human." Xingling sighed dejectedly, and disappeared as an electric wave. Before she left, she deliberately searched for the location of the enemy's warships, and left only after she found that there was no harm to Tang Long. In any case, she really couldn't let go of Tang Long, a human being.She didn't know that except for her lack of a human body, everything else could be said to be like a human with a complete mind. At this moment, Tang Long turned his head slowly and saw all his subordinates stood up and looked at him quietly. Although he was stunned for a moment, he still smiled and walked to Mary and said, "Mary, the driving right is handed over to you." .” Mary saluted with a snap, and said loudly: "Yes, sir." Then she quickly walked to the driving seat and sat down. After pressing a few buttons, she turned around and said, "Please indicate the next destination." Tang Long sat weakly on the command chair, waved his hands and said, "Go back to the Kexing Military Region." "Understood, the destination is the Xingxing Military Region." Mary skillfully entered the coordinates and started the battleship. Li Lijun originally wanted to ask Tang Long something, but Liu Sihao stopped him and shook his head. Under Liu Sihao's gesture, everyone returned to their seats and sat down. Although everyone wanted to know who Tang Long called her sister, but everyone also knew that now was not the time to ask. Everyone's eyes focused on Tang Long first, only to find that Tang Long had closed his eyes and fell asleep with a slight snoring.The corners of everyone's mouths couldn't help showing a smile. After hearing what Tang Long said, they suddenly felt that Tang Long seemed to be a good friend they had known for many years. Seeing Tang Long's sleeping state, he couldn't help feeling deeply.Thinking about it, it's no wonder that Tang Long definitely consumed a huge amount of energy during this period of time, and now he can finally breathe a sigh of relief, and of course fell asleep right away. Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but feel that their eyelids were desperately falling down, but the officer could rest, but he couldn't, so he patted his cheeks hard, and turned his head to look at the Bone Dragon Cloud galaxy displayed on the screen to divert attention. None of them talked aloud, they just watched the starlight quietly. One reason is that I don't want to wake up the officer, and the other is that my heart is very complicated now. Who would have thought that the original first actual combat training would turn into a deadly battle with disparity in strength?And who would have thought that he could survive facing such a powerful enemy? Thinking of this, everyone turned their gazes to the sleeping Tang Long again.That's right, if it wasn't for this person, he would either become a captive or become cosmic dust. With only one thousand self-propelled gunboats, two thousand regular warships of the enemy were wiped out. If he is commanding one battleship now, I believe it is possible to win even if he faces two strengthened fleets, right?Really looking forward to the future of this officer. Suddenly, Liu Sihao's brows twitched, and he remembered what the admiral said, does this count as running away? Looking at those dots of starlight, Liu Sihao couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and suddenly felt that the light of the Bone Dragon Cloud Galaxy was so ferocious.Looking at Tang Long's sleeping state, he couldn't help but sighed deeply, because he knew that another war with no chance of winning was coming.