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Chapter 702 Testing Weaknesses!
Outside the defensive perimeter, the demonic tide was still relentlessly assaulting the lines.
The putrid smell of blood plasma, charred shell, and the stench of high-temperature metal mingled together and seeped into the sensor housing through the thin air.
The automatic turret spewed fire non-stop, and the cannon barrels were as red as if they had just been pulled from the furnace.
However, in the core area of the launch site, the launch process did not stop at all.
"First batch of interceptor missiles, launch!"
boom!
Twelve anti-aircraft missiles were launched one after another, their exhaust flames tearing straight lines of fire across the gray wasteland.
"The drone swarm has increased its altitude and entered the secondary interception coordinates."
In mid-air, a large number of drones climbed up simultaneously, their belly lights flashing, like a flock of iron birds silently going to their deaths.
Their task is simple.
If the missiles fail to stop the plasma swarm, they will use their bodies to create a final layer of attrition over the position.
To put it bluntly, it's about using a steel body to block a knife.
The first batch of anti-aircraft missiles quickly approached the target.
The plasma clusters move extremely fast, but their trajectories are stable and do not change direction. In addition, their large size makes it difficult to miss.
"Entering near-explosion zone!"
"Detonate!"
Plasma has no physical form and can only be remotely detonated near the target.
High in the sky, the first missile exploded in front of the plasma cloud.
Pre-fabricated fragments, metal dust, and coolant clouds spread instantly, crashing violently into the outer layer of blue plasma.
Immediately afterwards, the second, third, and fourth missiles exploded in succession.
Red light, silver flakes, and blue flames intertwined, like a high-altitude firework that had been forcibly shattered.
But those weren't fireworks for people to see.
Every shard of blue light that fell burned a black crater in the wasteland.
Each arc of electricity that spreads out can instantly turn the shell of the drone below red-hot, causing it to fall.
The first 100-meter-class plasma plume was violently distorted in the continuous explosions, as if it were being repeatedly crushed by an invisible hand, and finally dissipated completely at a distance of several thousand meters from the ground.
The second regiment was also hit by subsequent missiles.
It was smaller than the first one, but it withstood the impact of three explosions and fell hundreds of meters further.
It wasn't until the fourth missile cut in from the side and detonated at close range next to it that the situation changed.
A flash of blue light.
The next second, it exploded like a punctured water balloon, turning into a large amount of thin light rain that sprinkled around the landing area.
The demonic tide outside the position was instantly annihilated.
Many low-level demons didn't even have time to scream before they were burned to a crisp in the blue rain of light.
The massive siege beasts fared even worse; their shells had barely begun to smoke when their entire bodies were pulverized into a charred mess by the electric arcs.
It's like the demons fighting each other, a tearful act of kindness.
Several outer automated turrets were also hit by the aftershocks; their armor surfaces turned red-hot, the edges began to melt, and the internal systems sounded alarms continuously.
Fortunately, the position was held.
The portal was saved.
The quantum repeater was also saved.
Inside the Tian Shu Command Center, the glaring red line indicating the landing point on the screen finally disappeared.
Someone let out a long sigh of relief.
"fine."
"It would be good if we could intercept it."
Han Niba's expression remained serious.
This is just the attack from two plasma worms; on the far side of the screen, more red dots are entering the orbital attack position.
Ten heads.
Dozens of them.
Hundreds of them.
If they open fire simultaneously, Daxia cannot rely on its ground-based air defense system to withstand the attacks every time.
If you can stop them in one round, what about ten rounds?
If you treat this like a tower defense game, your resource bar won't be able to keep up with the burning.
Moreover, what if a few attacks are missed?
If a group of them is only a hundred meters long, and several of them are defeated, will the position within a radius of several kilometers still be left?
The real problem now is how to bring these orbital behemoths down.
After a brief respite, the staff immediately began to review the failed attack.
"The first thing we must confirm is whether the plasma worm's close-range defense beam has a 360-degree blind spot!"
A weapons officer pointed to the playback footage, speaking very quickly:
"Just now they only covered the direction of the incoming missile in a fan shape, with jet sacs participating from the head, back, and flanks."
"But the other half of the body, including the tail propulsion organs, showed no obvious signs of firing."
Another staff officer immediately followed up:
"If there is a blind spot in close-range defense at the tail, a remotely controlled missile can flank and attack from behind."
"The shield type must also be confirmed."
The staff officer in charge of magic countermeasures data said in a deep voice:
"The Lich Barrier is more effective at defending against energy impacts, but has limited effectiveness against physical penetration and high-speed kinetic energy."
"Only a demon-level shield can withstand both energy and physical attacks simultaneously."
"The missile exploded prematurely at the edge of the vacuum, and the shock wave was not enough to kill it. It is unclear how much of the missile fragments were blocked by the shield, so it cannot be proven that it can completely prevent kinetic energy penetration."
"The mid-section energy sac is a suspected weak point, while the tail-end propulsion chamber is a suspected weak point in defense."
"The front-end attack organ has just finished firing, and there is a cooling-off period. The interval between the next attack must also be determined as soon as possible."
The analyses were quickly compiled one by one.
As everyone knows, we must verify this immediately.
Because the large swarm of plasmaworms is arriving.
If they haven't found an effective strategy by the time they complete their formation, the landing site will be ruined, and all the manpower and resources invested will be wasted.
Han Niba glanced at the countdown timer, his voice cold and hard:
"Start verification now!"
"The first group of missiles launched a frontal, spaced-out pressure attack to test the activation interval and duration of the close-in defense beam."
"The second group will circle around to the rear to test the blind spots in the defense."
"The third group attacks the mid-course energy capsule, and the warhead is upgraded to a hybrid mode of kinetic energy penetrator and electromagnetic pulse."
"It would be best if it could be penetrated."
"Even if we can't break through it, we must figure out its defensive logic!"
"yes!"
With the order given, the Kona position was once again operating at high speed.
Inside the portal, one modular missile vehicle after another rushed out.
Some vehicles were towed to the launch site by unmanned guided vehicles as soon as they arrived at the position.
Some launchers hadn't even fully cooled down before the robotic arm snapped on a new missile, forcibly compressing the loading time.
More missile components were delivered from the Blue Star side and quickly assembled with the help of robotic arms and unmanned vehicles.
The sounds of metal clashing, hydraulic pressure, and tracks grinding together blended together, like a makeshift military factory set up right in the middle of the battlefield.
Soon, a row of launch positions was set up outside the core area of the landing site.
The launch pads were raised sequentially.
Parts of the projectile's outer shell are a deep black color; that's from the newly installed kinetic energy penetrator, specifically designed to "pierce through the protective shell."
Outside of space, the plasmaworm swarm in orbit is still pressing in.
After the initial two firing points fell silent for a period of time, the blue light reappeared at the front of the massive black shadow.
The data is refreshed immediately.
"It takes about ten minutes to cool down and about ten minutes to recharge."
"That means a single unit can complete one round of attack in about twenty minutes!"
One of the staff officers couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath:
"This frequency is outrageous!"
That's a kilometer-scale plasma.
If Daxia were to accumulate this kind of energy on its own, the power grid dispatcher would have to write his will overnight just by looking at the indicators.
Let alone railguns, even a tiny mobile phone battery from two years ago, no bigger than the palm of your hand, would take forever to plug in.
Now, the other side is spouting blue fireballs that stretch for a kilometer; they really have no sense of martial ethics.