On the other side of the moon, the Rainbow Bridge is slowly turning in space. The massive metal components flowed with a silvery sheen under the reflection of cosmic light, and the magical starships were entering the Rainbow Bridge one by one, waiting for the passage authority to be activated.

The Aurora had already applied for access to the Rainbow Bridge space station a week earlier, and had been granted the fast-track location. Under the pilot's operation, the starship slid steadily towards the location of the designated passage, waiting for the Rainbow Bridge to open the warp space at the specified coordinates.

In the cockpit of the starship, Alan sat on the bridge of the ship, looking down from the captain's position, and had a clear view of the operating platform below.

"When I see the Rainbow Bridge, I think it's extremely spectacular." The new mercenary, Belmode, looks out of the projection window of the starship, and uses an external camera device to project the scene of the starship's exterior onto the armor of the inner layer of the ship in real time, allowing the people inside the hull to see the scene outside.

Roy, who was sitting next to him, was closing his eyes and pretending to sleep, and not far away, Bloy, who had an interstellar obstacle, nervously clenched the handrails on both sides. In front of him, Vera drew the scene in the cockpit with black and white strokes on clean drawing paper. Strangely, Vera is painting with her eyes closed throughout the whole process, as if she is looking at the entire space with another dimensional gaze.

Everyone is doing their own thing, and as time goes by, the space station of the Rainbow Bridge sends instructions and the warp space is officially opened!

As a result, the Aurora and the surrounding space gradually distorted, stretched, and eventually disappeared into normal space.

"After ten minutes it will be out of warp space." The pilot reported to Allen.

Alan nodded, and he sat down in the captain's seat and pulled a pocket watch out of his jacket pocket. The pocket watch had been given to him by Horn for some years, but Horn wiped it down. I opened the pocket watch, and there was a photo inside. The photo is yellowed, and the person inside is Lannie as a child. Alan silently looked at this photo, this pocket watch, this photo was incomparably precious to Horn. However, he gave it to Allen, and the meaning of this is self-evident.

"Mother......" Alan said softly, "please watch me in heaven, I will not let you down!" ”

Vera, who was drawing, suddenly brushed her brush strokes, even too hard, and broke the tip of the charcoal pen. The girl suddenly opened her eyes, and there was only a gray patch left in her eye sockets, and her gaze seemed to travel through time and space, falling on a specific point. Then the pitch-black pupils slipped down from the eye sockets, and Vera said urgently: "Attack!" ”

Her voice was soft, but Alan could hear it clearly. He took back his pocket watch and asked, "What did you say?" ”

"Attack, when we get out of warp space, we will be attacked immediately!"

Everyone in the cockpit was stunned, and Adele said categorically: "This is impossible, the colony star assigned by the Federation is located in the Rudson Star Field, which is a public star field developed by us and Idahua Star. We don't have enemies here, so it's ...... to attack something."

"I believe what I see." Vera said in a clear voice, "So far, what I have seen has not deviated in the slightest. ”

"Five minutes to go." The pilot chimes.

Everyone looked at Allen, Allen's eyes lit up, and he had already made a decision: "Enter the combat state, open the weapon platform and defense system!" ”

Since he, the captain, has issued an order, the others will naturally not object.

"Open the shield!"

"The high-energy light cannon array is on standby!"

"Quantum Light Thunder Turret, ammunition reloading completed!"

"Concussion guide/bomb, ready for launch!"

After a series of operations, the Aurora was in a state of readiness, and a layer of dark blue shield wrapped the hull of the ship and then disappeared. As for all the weapons platforms on the hull, they are ready to be fired.

The pilot continued the countdown: "1 minute to go until the exit......"

"50 seconds."

"30 seconds."

"10 seconds ......"

"5 seconds ......"

“3！”

“2！”

“1！”

"Breakaway!"

The exterior window in front of it suddenly lit up, and then the light dimmed. In front of the starship was a starlit universe, and in the distance, a blue-violet halo intertwined nebula stretched across indigo outer space. From time to time, one or two dies slashed by, leaving a clear trail in space.

"Look, there's an attack there." Adele shook her head and said, "You're too sensitive......"

At the end of the words, the hull of the ship suddenly shook, and the pilot shouted: "We are attacked in the tail, and the enemy is behind us!" ”

"How so?" Adele flashed a look of surprise.

On the exterior window, a small window opens, which is the projection window of the starship's tail. It is not difficult to see that in the rear of the Aurora, a small group of flying ships is flying in formation, the main guns of the ship are firing one after another, and the high-energy beams of the bursts hit the Aurora's shield, exploding the flames of light. These ships do not have any signs, and it is not clear which side they belong to.

But being able to accurately grasp the coordinates of the Dawn's entry into normal space is obviously aimed at Allen's hunting group.

"Fight back!" Alan ordered.

The high-energy cannon array on the Dawning took the lead in attacking, and the blue lightning pierced the starry curtain one after another, launching a fierce counterattack on the enemy aircraft. The enemy ships made nimble evasive maneuvers, but a few of them were still blasted by the light cannons, turning into huge fireballs that lit up the nearby space.

"Be careful, there are unidentified flying ships ahead of us."

There was an asteroid in front of the Aurora, and the spaceships behind the planet swept by, and there were dozens of these combat units, and they scattered so that the Aurora could not concentrate its firepower to annihilate it. Following the spaceship, a silver starship much larger than the Dawn appeared behind the self-propelled star, which continued to rise, pressing towards Alan and the others with a slow but unmatched momentum.

It's a battleship!

Battleships were the backbone of the fleet, they were mobile bastions capable of providing sufficient fire suppression for the fleet. It can also be used as a temporary repair shop when needed, allowing damaged combat units to quickly regain their combat capability.

It can be said that the combat capability of a fleet with battleships will be increased several times.

"What a lot of work!" Alan gritted his teeth.

The Aurora is just a means of transportation for hunting groups to and from the stars, and although it has a certain amount of firepower, it cannot be compared with the battleship in any way. At the sight of this battleship, everyone gasped.

At this time, the starship received a connection request from the ground communications center. Each starship has a communication terminal to match. Communication terminals are usually installed in the family's ground communication center to ensure communication between the family and the starship. After the Aurora asked for a connection, Alan grabbed the communicator and said, "This is the Aurora, we have been attacked by an unknown one. ”

"Repeat, we are attacked!"

"Captain!" The pilot suddenly shouted, and he pointed to the exterior window.

Alan looked up, and in the window, the opposing battleship rose from the front of the hull to the deck, spitting out a mouthful of gun barrels all over the circuit. It was the starship's quantum cannon, and the Aurora's shield couldn't defend against an attack of this level. Alan snorted and said hurriedly into the communicator: "The other party used the quantum main cannon, and we have to evade it." Grandfather...... I will do my best to keep my promises. ”

Putting down the communicator, Alan stood up and shouted, "Prepare to warp!" ”

The pilot's face changed and he said, "Captain, without specific coordinates, we don't know what is on the other side of the exit." We'll be lost! ”

"If you get lost, you still have a chance to find your way home. But if we don't leave now, we will become cannon fodder! ”

The guns of the battleship were already lit up, and the diffuse light was like a small round of sun. Alan said categorically: "Do as I say!" ”

"Yes!"

"Turn on the warp engine and enter the countdown."

“3、2……”

“1！”

As the Aurora entered warp space, the battleship's quantum cannon also burst into fire, and a bright quantum beam of light rushed through space like a torrent, which could be wiped out as the afterimage of the Aurora as it fled into space. The torrent continued to fade away until it disappeared on the other side of the starscreen, but there was no trace of Aurora in space.

At the same time, in the ancient fort of Ugal in Babylon, the ground communication center is constantly calling the Dawn.

Horn, who heard that the Aurora had been attacked, strode in with his butler Helsing. Horn said in a deep voice, "What's going on, why is the Dawn being attacked!" ”

The director of the center wiped his sweat and said, "Master, the current situation is at the end of the day, we only received a brief message from Young Master Allen, and we lost contact with the Dawn. ”

"Play the message out." Hesin Tihorn said.

A moment later, Allen's voice rang out in the communication center: "...... We were attacked! The other side used a quantum cannon, and we had to evade it. Grandfather...... I will do my best to keep my promises. ”

After repeating this a few times, Horn's face was as solemn as ever. He clenched his fists and said, "Quantum main cannon!" That shows that the other party at least used battleships, just to deal with one of my Beskod juniors, they used battleships, which is really a big deal. ”

"Master, will the coordinates make people do their tricks?" Heating Road.

Horn shook his head: "The coordinates were obtained by Alstair, there is no reason for people to do anything." It can only be said that someone got Alan's coordinates and set up an ambush in that place in advance. Mr. Hesing, inform Alstai of this. ”

"Anna!" Horn shouted.

A slender figure turned in outside the gate, and it was Anna the Blood Scorpion.

Horn said with a gloomy face, "Go and inform the Dark Owl and let them find out the mastermind behind this matter for me." ”

"What is the level of action?"

“S！” Horn's eyes lit up: "It's war, whoever that person is." If he wanted war, Bethcord would not be afraid of it. Find him and ruin him! ”

Anna nodded solemnly, she knew exactly what Horn meant. At the same time, she had probably not seen Horn so angry in a long time. R1058