Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords! - Chapter 490

Chapter 488 06.0487: ‘Counterattack time’

Behind the command throne, the huge golden statue of the Sky Eagle shook and looked shaky. Fortunately, Horatio had the engineering department reinforce the structure of the Sky Eagle hanging in advance.

The entire battleship was shaking under the huge explosion.

Horatio looked through the porthole and saw some explosion fragments hit the left bulkhead of the Epic under the huge impact, and the outer layer suddenly had more than a dozen dents.

Just as he was about to issue the next order, he heard a familiar cry.

Following the sound, Louise was seen gritting her teeth and holding the handrail with both arms, hanging on the top with her backhand.

In terms of common sense, it is impossible to join the army without this amount of exercise.

But at this moment, she has not rested or eaten for nearly 40 hours, and her body is much weaker than before.

She was exhausted and thrown out of the fence in the huge explosion. Her weak arms could only barely hang on the fence, barely avoiding the worst result of falling and breaking her legs or even a blow to the head.

“Sailor! Sailor!” Horatio immediately shouted to the armed forces guarding the bridge, but they were all near the entrance and exit of the bridge, and they were all thrown to the ground in the huge shock just now.

In just a few seconds, Louise’s fingers had become weak and only the last few white fingers continued to hold the railing tightly.

“Archie, take over the command sequence.”

“Understood, Captain!”

Seeing this, Horatio immediately released the connection of the neural plug after giving his first officer a temporary command handover and ran towards Louise.

In another vision, the white-haired and red-eyed girl only saw the man in front of her who patiently supported her hand and walked forward disappeared.

Along with the girl with red hair and red skirt.

She looked at the whiteness around her in a daze, lowered her head, and began to walk alone in the direction the man pointed at last.

“Hold on, Louise!”

He stood up from the command throne, took a big step, and leaped into the air.

At this time, Louise’s whole arm was twitching. She gritted her teeth and tried to look up at Horatio.

“Another missile is coming!” First Officer Collingwood turned his head in front of the main control console and instinctively shouted in the direction of the captain, only to find that Horatio had left the command throne, and he had just authorized himself to temporarily take over the command sequence.

[Oh, yes, I took over the command sequence. What should I do, what should I do! ] Seeing this scene, Archie suddenly had to think about the command independently, and seemed a little at a loss.

He was used to relying on Horatio to quickly give command orders. As a first officer, although he would learn and speculate on the considerations behind the captain’s instructions, Archie had never really faced this moment when he needed to decide the fate of the entire battleship alone.

[Calm down! I am the first lieutenant. ]

He remembered his identity and responsibilities, and his brain started to work rapidly.

Although when the captain was in office, all the instructions issued independently by the first lieutenant had to be passed through the captain.

But when the captain was temporarily unable to command or authorized, he also had the right to act as the full agent for the command of the warship.

“Return the rudder!” Collingwood took a deep breath and gave orders to the helmsman in a deep voice.

“Speed, maximum allowed 9 void knots!”

“This will cause slight fluctuations in the shadow field!” The power department officer reminded.

“Execute! Order! 39 maneuver, fast!”

The operator on the Epic bridge immediately executed the first lieutenant’s order, returned the rudder to the right position, and then made an S-shaped defensive maneuver in the opposite direction.

Boom!

Another missile exploded nearby. Although it did not hit directly, the aftermath still made the Epic like a man who was hit in the ribs by a strong man’s elbow. The hull and course of the ship shifted one after another, and the bow was swung violently. The centrifugal force generated was so great that even the gravity field could not remain stable for a while.

Many crew members who were not wearing armor were thrown directly from one end of the cabin to the other, and their heads were broken and bleeding on the steel bulkhead.

At this moment, the sailor’s helmet became a more reliable protective device.

This unexpected shock also made it difficult for Louise to maintain her last effort.

She was already struggling to hold on, like a swing, and was pulled away from the railing by the centrifugal force. The strong sense of weightlessness filled her eyes with despair.

At the moment when her body was suspended in the air and swaying, Horatio leaped in time, flew forward, and caught Louise in the air with his body and chest. He held the railing tightly with his iron hands, spewed coolant steam, and successfully pulled the two back to the platform.

Finally, when the angle was right, the two hugged each other and fell to the ground, rolling dozens of times before stopping.

“Horatio, are you hurt?” She was still in shock and saw that she was spared safely. She hurriedly began to feel the captain’s body up and down worriedly to check his condition. She was saved, but the price was that he fell heavily to the ground for her.

“No, I’m fine.” Horatio only felt some pain in his waist and spine, gritted his teeth and gasped, and when he sat up, he felt a stream of heat flowing down from his head.

“You are bleeding.” Louise held his face, her purple eyes wide open.

Just as she stood up and was about to call the medical team, Horatio pressed her shoulder.

“I’m fine, Louise. Continue to perform your duties. The morale of the bridge cannot be lost right now. We must stay focused and do well in every step at hand.”

“Yes, Captain.” Louise nodded with a worried look on her face, then took out a handkerchief, took out a quick hemostatic gel from the small bag in her armed belt, poured it on his head.

Not long after she finished speaking, the sound of steady and fast footsteps came from the gangway in front of the captain’s platform.

“Captain, are you okay?!” Farida, who was on duty in front of the Thinker Array at the front of the bridge, saw the situation and hurriedly staggered up from the bridge below, wanting to check on the captain’s condition, and happened to encounter this scene.

“Are you injured?” Her green eyes suddenly widened, and she rushed to his side in one step, snatched him from Louise’s hand, grabbed his shoulder tightly, and looked at his injured and bleeding part with both worry and heartache.

“It’s just a bump on the skin. Help me up, I have to get back to the command throne now.” He took a deep breath, suppressed the pain in his body, and tried to stand up by force.

After the false alarm, Farida glared at Louise, but said nothing. With her lips tightly pursed, she helped Horatio up with her.

“Captain, please do not be disturbed by other people’s trivial matters at a critical moment.”

After holding his shoulders and helping him up, Farida tilted her head under his armpit, looked at Louise, and said in the cold tone of the military supervisor:

“Second Lieutenant Louise, if you are not physically fit enough to take care of yourself, you should arrange the handover and then go to rest, instead of continuing to show off.”

“Yes, I’m sorry, Military Supervisor, just now…”

“Okay, go back to your post. I’m next to you this time. If you have anything to do, come to me.”

After the two have worked together for so long, Farida still has some friendship with Louise. Although she used the necessary sharp words of the Military Supervisor to pick Louise, she still took care of her with a kind heart.

After successfully helping him up, Horatio pulled his arm back from behind their necks.

To be precise, he couldn’t get up because he was pressed by two beauties on the left and right.

Then he straightened his collar, took the handkerchief covered with hemostatic gel, and pressed it on the bleeding wound.

The surgical transformation of naval officers originally included pain suppression surgery and rapid coagulation surgery, so the amount of bleeding was not large, and the wound soon stopped hurting.

“Then Farida, I’ll leave it to you, Louise, don’t force yourself. I hope you will do your duty.”

After this brief episode without any danger, Horatio immediately sat back on the command throne and took back the command from Archie.

When he reconnected the neural plug and returned to the machine soul world, he was surprised to find that the white-haired and red-eyed girl was closing her eyes, following the direction he had directed before, and walking rhythmically.

Although the impact of the explosion and the impact of the fragments would make her frown and endure, at this time she was able to follow the rhythm he had taught her before and began to obey orders freely.

“Well done, Epic.” He took the girl’s hand back and said to her, “But we can’t just sit there and wait for death. We have to launch a counterattack and teach the enemy a lesson.”

Facing the persistent enemy, Horatio thought it was time to take back the initiative.

“Open the rear torpedo silo launch port! Preheat the No. 5 torpedo launch!

At the same time, order the E-99 and E-47 attack ships to turn to support, put pressure on the enemy, and let them see what wolf pack tactics are!”

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(This is the observation platform of the battleship. Just like there are not many people on this platform in the game, generally only higher-level officers will go up there. In addition, there are fewer officers on the Epic. Generally, the first and second officers each take 1-2 alternate officers to take turns to go up for duty. The first officer is in the CIC combat situation center below. The alternate officer can’t hold on for 40 hours, and the sailor falls, so there is no one next to Louise.)

PS Tucao: This fence in Warhammer is so low. I see that people often fall down in Rogue Traders. Who is it protecting?