Doomsday: I Build a Space Fleet

Chapter 155 First Visit to the Steel Mill

Chapter 156 First Visit to the Steel Mill

The captured images were first identified by the onboard AI, but the AI ​​intelligently determined that this individual belonged to the same family as the silicon-based units that had been eliminated before, so the image could only be sent to the robotic dog intact.

Upon receiving the message, the robotic dogs began a heated discussion within their encrypted internal channel.

Footage captured by a drone shows that the small, gecko-like creature, about 3 meters long, was perched in the middle of the tower.

It is about 1.2 meters tall and has a twin-mounted electromagnetic weapon on its back with a caliber of about 10 millimeters.

Based on the enemy's location, appearance, and weaponry, the mechanical dogs named this individual "Sniper Type."

However, how to deal with this sniper-type individual is a rather big problem.

In Lorraine's plan, this machine factory will need to be restarted for production in the future. While the mechanical dogs eliminate this sniper-type individual, they must not cause too much damage to the sorting tower and must preserve its integrity as much as possible.

To minimize losses, the robotic dogs still planned to use anti-tank loitering munitions for the strike. However, before the strike, the robotic dogs sent this information back to the flagship so that Cleveland could assess the effectiveness of the attack.

According to Cleveland's calculations, the metal jet generated when the anti-tank loitering munition explodes will easily penetrate the platform where the sniper unit is located, but the blast wave generated by the explosion will not have much impact on the raw material sorting tower.

However, achieving this strike effect was a challenge. The robotic dogs discovered that only by having the loitering munition fly horizontally to strike would it not affect the sorting tower.

However, based on the analysis of past data, it is highly likely that these loitering munitions will be detonated by this sniper-type individual during their level flight.

After analysis by the robotic dogs, it was discovered that there were three huge tanks on the central axis of the factory area, and the sniper-type individual located in the middle layer of the material sorting tower could only be observed from the top of the tanks.

Although the top of that tank offers a wide field of vision, it is not an ideal sniping spot. The moment the cat climbs up, she could be attacked by snipers located in the middle of the material sorting tower.

The simplest way to protect the cats on the tank and to engage the snipers on the material sorting tower is to use a smoke screen deployment system.

Just as the cat was about to reach the top of the crown, a smoke screen was launched into the air. Then, with the assistance of two drones, the location of the sniper was locked through the smoke, and a fatal blow was then delivered to him through the smoke screen.

However, all the smoke-deploying vehicles were left at the naval base by Lorraine.

So the robotic dogs combined the two methods: using drones to drop loitering munitions as a feint to attract the attention of the snipers; while the cats climbed onto the tanks to deliver precise strikes to the snipers.

However, there is an open section of road on the way to the tank, which is completely within the range of enemy sniper fire.

Therefore, Tengu called the verification machine in advance, instructing it to drop several loitering munitions to strike the sniper on the tower.

Four loitering munitions detached from their racks and rapidly descended to an altitude of 200 meters. While maintaining irregular maneuvers, they flew toward the sniper on the material sorting tower.

When the first loitering munition exploded in mid-air, the cat quickly darted out of its cover and ran swiftly toward the pipeline not far away.

At this moment, the sniper on the material decomposition tower was focused on intercepting the remaining three loitering missiles and was completely unaware of the cat in the open field in the distance.

Following these pipes, the cat quickly arrived at the bottom of the tank.

"I'm in position, let's begin the climb."

Following the transmission of the message, the distant verification aircraft dropped another 14 anti-tank loitering munitions, still at a range of 200 meters.

At a height of meters, it maintained irregular maneuvers and flew towards the sniper on the material decomposition tower.

The sniper who had just intercepted the three loitering munitions was preparing to move when he turned around and saw a second batch of six loitering munitions flying towards him.

Since there wasn't much room for it to maneuver on the material decomposition tower, it could only stay put and continue intercepting the anti-tank loitering munitions flying towards it.

Although the smoke from the loitering munition's mid-air explosion obscured the cat's vision, the reconnaissance drone was positioned in another direction, allowing the cat to remotely lock onto the sniper intercepting the anti-tank loitering munition.

In order to kill in one blow, the cat decisively used the Gauss weapon's charge mode.

As the hum of electricity filled the air, blue spots of light appeared one after another on the gun.

When there are 10 light spots, it means that the sniper rifle has been fully charged.

Using reconnaissance drones, Maomao observed enemy individuals moving erratically. To ensure a high hit rate, Maomao connected to these loitering munitions, allowing them to fly towards the raw material sorting tower at top speed and with more unpredictable maneuvers.

When the eighth loitering munition was destroyed, the sniper noticed the changes in the munitions, but the situation left him no time to think. He could only stay where he was and do his best to intercept the loitering munitions that were flying towards him.

Two seconds after it stopped moving, a 14.5 mm steel nail, flying at high speed and trailing a faint red light, flew from the top of the tank to the middle layer of the raw material sorting tower.

By the time the sniper realized something was wrong, it had already been torn in two by the 14.5mm steel nail.

The reconnaissance drone behind immediately confirmed the enemy's death, and then controlled the loitering munition to climb and hover over the warehouse where the individual enemy was hiding.

As the cat climbed down from the tank, preparing to reunite with the Tengu and the others, the small individual hiding in the warehouse noticed that the sounds of the explosion and the propeller were fading into the distance.

As the cat and the tengu reunited, all the anti-tank loitering munitions had risen to an altitude of 2500 meters.

The small individual, sensing that the anti-tank loitering munition had already gone far away, cautiously crawled out of the warehouse and looked up at the sky.

In an instant, it was spotted, identified, and locked onto by the loitering munition hovering in the air. The loitering munition discovered that this was the same small individual that had previously escaped the anti-tank loitering munition's attack.

After locking onto the target, the loitering munitions did not dive over the First Lake, but instead sent the information to the unmanned combat group waiting on the ground.

However, this small individual was located near the central axis, and was not directly visible from the buildings near the unmanned combat group.

Although there is a small warehouse to their right that they can see there, there is an open space between the warehouse and the target location. They will definitely be discovered by the small individual located near the central axis while crossing the central axis to reach the warehouse.

However, between every two areas there is a patch of muddy land, where wild grass has already grown to a certain height.

Fortunately, the weeds could barely conceal the cat while she was lying down, but when she entered sniping mode and the sniper rifle on her back rose up, the enemy would most likely be able to spot the sniper rifle above the grass.

After analyzing the behavior of this small individual, the robotic dogs felt it was worth the risk. According to their calculations, there was a very high probability that the small individual would not retaliate upon discovering danger, but would instead begin to hide.

As the cat crawled forward, the reconnaissance plane climbed to an altitude of 6 meters, hovering silently over the steel plant, monitoring the small individual's every move.