Chapter 738 Beam Rifle

The folk customs of Alan Starlink are simple and honest, with a lot of Texas heritage. There are quite a few civilian shuttles that follow the planetary defense team to beat up the pirates. Some star fields even have more than the defense team's space fighters.

However, if you want to talk about conspicuousness, the Manta is definitely on the list.

On the one hand, it is because the Manta is an antique that was dug out, and its appearance is a popular style thousands of years ago. It's like you drive a tank at a luxury car party, of course it is more conspicuous than any luxury car.

On the other hand, it's because the movement trajectory of the Manta is too cool.

Air combat has never been a one-on-one fight of air knights. Since World War II, the planes that go up to the sky will adopt a formation flight mode. No matter how many planes are in formation, one person's energy and vision are limited. It will be much more convenient to have teammates to help watch the blind spots, whether it is attacking or making maneuvers in advance.

Even a large number of civilian shuttles and even pirates know the benefits of formation flying. Even if they get separated from their teammates, they will look for nearby scattered teammates to regroup.

The Manta Ray, on the other hand, was like "Teammate will only affect my speed of drawing the sword". Some space fighters or civilian shuttles that were alone tried to form a formation with the Manta Ray, but they could not keep up with it.

The engine installed on the variable wing can achieve an effect similar to vector propulsion under the push of the shaft. Although it is far less flexible than the space fighter, this design on the shuttle will crush other counterparts in terms of flexibility.

The pirate shuttle chased by the Manta Ray plunged into the wreckage, hoping to interfere with the rays by covering it, but it was useless. The Manta Ray was not fooled at all. It rolled and climbed, aiming at the pirate shuttle with its nose in the posture of shooting upside down.

Accompanied by slight vibrations and subtle buzzing, the pirate shuttle was overwhelmed by a series of machine gun shells, and the shield energy dropped rapidly.

At the critical moment, another pirate shuttle rushed out from the smoke of the explosion, and the ion beams on both sides of the body had begun to charge, as if the previous shuttle was just a fishing bait, and he would come out again to kill.

Fang Lanyin could even see the expression of "I got it!" on the face of the pirate in the cockpit of the opposite shuttle.

However, a striking pink beam of light penetrated the pirate shuttle from the top, and the previous shuttle whose shield was weakened by the machine gun was pierced.

The high temperature instantly melted the outer shell of the pirate shuttle, and the red metal jet like lava ignited the pipeline and detonated the fuel tank storing liquefied magic.

Two orange flashes burst into large flames, licking the chassis of the Manta Ray. With the roar of the engine, the Manta Ray turned around and ran to the next target without even looking at the burning wreckage.

"Be careful of the nut loosening! It's just spot welded!"

"I know, I'm already very light."

Fang Lanyin was a little worried about the temporary repair of the fuselage welding point, but Li Chengxi turned the joystick, and the Manta flashed through two ion beams in a posture comparable to turning around on the spot, obviously not caring whether the repaired part would loosen.

The ion beam on the left side was no longer usable, but Fang Lanyin welded the beam rifle on.

This is more heavyweight.

The beam rifle seems to need to pull the trigger, but that is actually just to adapt to the Gundam's fingers. After all, beam weapons do not require physical ignition of the primer.

Fang Lanyin disassembled the trigger and the grip, and then connected the controller that controls the ion beam to the beam rifle, and finally welded the gun body directly to the left side of the fuselage.

This thing is extremely powerful. Li Chengxi has tried to penetrate three shuttles with one shot at most, and he has never found its damage limit.

The only minor problem is that the beam rifle is welded to the fuselage, so the original ion cannon fire control cannot be used, which means that the beam fired will not fly according to the crosshairs on the screen.

But it is not a big problem. After all, it is fixed and the trajectory is fixed. If it does not fly according to the crosshairs, just fire two shots to test the trajectory. Blind shooting without looking at the crosshairs is a standard operation, which is still easy to learn.

What's even better is that this thing comes with a magazine, which does not consume the energy of the Manta itself. The number of 20 rounds is a little less, but it is enough.

A row of rockets attacked from the left front. The Manta rolled and spun downward to avoid the rockets. At the same time, it also saw a much larger aircraft than the shuttle, which is roughly equivalent to the level of "boat" in ships and boats.

Slightly raised the nose, a rocket was fired from the right side of the fuselage, and rushed towards the aircraft.

When the rocket exploded, the shield immediately appeared, but the metal jet tore a hole in the shield and hit the tail engine of the aircraft at an angle.

Although none of the bullets exploded, Li Chengxi didn't care about it anymore. After all, the space fighters behind would not let the pirates have an easy time.

Anyway, the opportunity was rare, so Li Chengxi put another high-energy rocket launcher into the screen and asked Fang Lanyin to weld it to the right body in the same way.

It also came with a magazine, with only eight rounds in total, which was used interchangeably with the beam rifle to deal with different types of enemies.

In other words, Li Chengxi had never expected that the creation priesthood would be realized in this way. According to the legends from Viola, Li Chengxi thought that the creation priesthood was the kind of existence that could mold a planet by itself.

Li Chengxi had tried it before, and he put the model into the screen, but it would only be enlarged proportionally, and it would not become a real Gundam. This was because he could not create something he didn't understand out of thin air.

But with the help of the creation priesthood, it can only consume energy to create something out of nothing.

That's how beam rifles and high-energy rocket launchers came about. Li Chengxi had no idea about their internal structure, but that didn't stop them from turning from models into real ones.

However, it wouldn't work if the machine body was stuffed in directly. If he wanted to use the power of the creation priesthood, there might be other restrictions. Now he would focus on fighting, and he would slowly study it when he had time.

Although the trajectory of the Manta Ray was very coquettish, it could be seen that it had a clear purpose.

That's right, he was heading for the mobile aircraft carrier.

He used the last bit of machine gun shells to blast away the meteorite that blocked the way, and a huge shadow appeared in front of the shuttle. It was at least a hundred times larger than the shuttle. On the huge disc-shaped spacecraft, the unclear indicator lights and the airlock lights that kept opening and closing came into view.

But at the same time, the mobile aircraft carrier also discovered the Manta Ray, a shuttle that was not its own. For a moment, it seemed as if all the anti-aircraft guns opened fire at the same time, and the overwhelming rain of bullets strangled it.

"The mines are set to detonate."

After Fang Lanyin said this, the Manta did not retreat this time, but flew head-on into the rain of bullets.

No matter how flexible Li Chengxi was, the Manta's performance was there, and it was still inevitable to be hit by bullets in the face of dense rain of bullets. From time to time, the main control screen would light up the prompt of "shield energy reduction".

When flying directly above, the Manta's bottom magazine opened, and four jet-propelled mines fell out of it, colliding head-on with the shield of the mobile aircraft carrier, exploding a large piece of smoke.

The people on the bridge of the aircraft carrier were instantly obscured by the flames of the explosion, and they could not see where the Manta went, but soon all the aircraft carriers were accompanied by violent shaking, and red alarm flashes flashed back and forth on the bridge.

Having had the experience of shuttles killing cruisers, Li Chengxi now knows that the engine part of such large ships is the most vulnerable, and the shield is also the weakest.

Normally, with the firepower of the shuttle, even if it hits the weakest part of the engine, it is impossible to penetrate the shield of the mobile aircraft carrier, which is much stronger than the shield of the cruiser.

But we have beam rifles.

The last few shots were gone, and from a distance, the tail of the mobile aircraft carrier looked like it was pierced by several long pink needles, and the engine and hull structure at the tail were deformed in the twisting.

Losing energy supply, most anti-aircraft guns instantly silenced, and the Manta flew to the top bridge and fired the last three rockets.

The metal that constitutes the bridge has no resistance to 380mm rockets. The three rockets seemed to squeeze the bridge flat, and then the delayed fuse was triggered. The surging metal jet and explosion instantly destroyed the bridge, and the mobile aircraft carrier was rapidly disintegrated under the flames.