107: Aegis Light Shield! Is this the true power of Arknights? It can even deflect electromagnetic cannons!

"BOOM—!!!"

A thunderous explosion shattered the curtain of rain.

The sci-fi-looking electromagnetic railgun on the bow of the black iron ghost spat out a dazzling blue light.

A tungsten alloy projectile, accelerated to six times the speed of sound by a powerful magnetic field,

Instantly tore through the air, pulling a straight vacuum channel through the storm, heading straight for the bridge of the "Zhenhai."

This was a killing blow.

At this distance, no armor could withstand such kinetic penetration.

However, the regular army was the regular army after all.

Just a second before the black iron fired, the dying survival instinct of that twenty-thousand-ton giant ship was completely triggered.

"Warning! Fire control radar lock!"

"Close-In Weapon System taking over automatically! Fire! Fire!!"

Accompanied by the captain's hoarse, exhausted roar,

The two "1130" Close-In Weapon Systems on the port and starboard sides of the Zhenhai, which had been wrapped in tarpaulins like dead things,

Suddenly raised their heads like venomous snakes whose tails had been stepped on.

"Zizizizizi—!!!"

It was a scalp-numbing, terrifying tearing sound, like a giant electric saw cutting through steel plates.

With a rate of fire of eleven thousand rounds per minute,

These two Close-In Weapon Systems no longer spat out single bullets, but two visible, orange-red whips of fire!

Dense tungsten-core armor-piercing shells poured over like a rainstorm,

Instantly weaving an airtight metal net of death in front of the black iron.

"Clang clang clang clang clang—!!!"

Countless sparks exploded on the black iron's pitch-black hull.

Even with the protection of Biological Armor,

Under the frantic carving of hundreds of large-caliber armor-piercing shells per second, the surface cuticle was blasted into flying debris, and black fluid splattered everywhere.

"Starboard armor damaged! Damn it, this firepower is too intense!"

Old Chen gripped the steering wheel tightly, struggling to maintain course amidst the hail of bullets.

But Jiang Ran ignored all of this.

His deep blue eyes were fixed on the shell flying toward the enemy ship's bridge.

As long as it hit.

As long as this one shot hit, the opponent's command system would be instantly paralyzed, and the rest would be a massacre.

The projectile had already crossed five hundred meters.

Four hundred meters.

Three hundred meters.

The destructive kinetic energy was about to blast the fragile glass window and the Commander inside into meat paste.

Just then—

"Weng—"

A strange low-frequency hum suddenly echoed across the sea.

Around the Zhenhai's towering bridge, the air suddenly underwent a bizarre distortion.

Countless hexagonal, pale gold light patterns emerged in the void,

Instantly piecing together into a semi-transparent honeycomb light shield, enveloping the entire command tower without a single gap.

That wasn't magic.

That was the core of Ark technology—the high-energy magnetohydrodynamic deflection field.

"What the hell is that?!" Old Chen cried out in surprise.

The next second, the unstoppable electromagnetic shell slammed hard against this seemingly paper-thin light shield.

There was no expected violent explosion, nor the dull thud of metal penetrating flesh.

That tungsten alloy projectile, carrying millions of joules of kinetic energy,

The moment it touched that pale gold light film, an inconceivable physical phenomenon occurred.

"Zizi—Weng!!!"

It was like a drop of water falling onto a red-hot iron plate, or a high-speed spinning billiard ball hitting a rubber cushion with heavy spin.

The honeycomb magnetohydrodynamic shield vibrated violently, ripples spreading across its surface.

A visible, extremely distorted strong Lorentz force field instantly acted upon the high-speed metal projectile.

Through zero's high-speed camera lens,

The projectile, which was originally flying in a straight line, looked as if it had been pushed hard by an invisible giant hand.

The trajectory underwent a bizarre deflection of about fifteen degrees.

"Swoosh—!!!"

The lethal deep blue stream of light grazed past the special bulletproof glass of the Zhenhai's bridge.

At its closest point, it was less than two meters away.

In that instant, the captain standing before the window could even feel the destructive heat wave searing his face through the glass.

The wind pressure from the Reaper's scythe passing by made all the hair on his body stand on end.

Although it missed the vital point, this terrifying kinetic energy did not disappear.

"BOOM!!!"

The deflected projectile, carrying its remaining momentum, slammed headlong into the towering integrated radio frequency mast behind the bridge.

That thick mast, which integrated the Ark's most advanced communication antennas and tactical data links,

Was like a brittle egg roll in front of the Electromagnetic Cannon.

With a deafening sound of metal snapping, the entire mast was blasted in half!

Countless precision radar components and antenna fragments flew in all directions along with bursting sparks.

The massive top structure whistled as it fell, crashing heavily onto a helicopter on the aft deck, instantly crushing it into a pile of scrap metal.

"Zizla... Zizla..."

Severed cables spat out electric sparks, appearing exceptionally piercing in the storm.

"It... it blocked it?!"

Inside the bridge of the Zhenhai, the captain, having narrowly escaped death, slumped to the floor.

Looking at the pale gold light shield outside, which had dimmed significantly but still stood firm, his eyes were filled with the wild joy of a survivor:

"Hahahaha! It blocked it!

This is the 'aegis' system! It's the Ark's latest magnetohydrodynamic deflection shield!

The crude cannons of those peasants can't pierce us! We are invincible!!"

The fear of a moment ago instantly transformed into extreme arrogance.

In front of this "turtle shell," which represented the pinnacle of technology from the old era, any conventional kinetic weapon seemed to have become a joke.

However, on the other side of the waves,

The black iron did not panic because of this missed strike.

Jiang Ran watched the light shield slowly recovering its brightness and narrowed his eyes slightly.

There was no frustration in his gaze, only a cold focus, like a predator analyzing its prey's weaknesses.

"Interesting."

He looked at the data being sent back on the screen, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest:

"To be able to forcibly deflect a projectile at six times the speed of sound... it seems this isn't just a magnetic field, but also utilizes high-density charged plasma as a buffering medium."

"That's a defense built on piles of money."

Su Qingyu said through gritted teeth, "The energy consumed every second is astronomical.

I didn't expect them to actually bring something that's still in the laboratory stage onto a ship."

"No matter how expensive the defense is, it still follows the law of conservation of energy."

Jiang Ran sneered, and the blue light deep in his pupils began to converge again, more intense and violent than before:

"To deflect my kinetic energy, your generator has to withstand the same load."

"I'd like to see how many times your so-called 'invincible' shield..."

"can actually deflect."

... "That's 'aegis'... I didn't think they actually built it."

Inside the Command cabin,

Su Qingyu looked at the honeycomb light shield model being constantly reconstructed on the screen, her expression extremely grim.

As a former Ark elite, she knew all too well the weight of this thing.

"This is the top experimental project of the Ark Academy of Sciences, using high-energy magnetohydrodynamics to construct a deflection field in the air.

It doesn't tank the hit; it 'diverts' the force."

She explained at a very fast pace, her fingers flying across the keyboard, trying to find a way to crack it:

"It's like practicing Tai Chi.

The moment a kinetic projectile touches the force field, it changes the local magnetic field density to let the projectile 'slide' past.

Theoretically, as long as the reactor's power supply can keep up, it can deflect any physical projectile attack with an initial velocity below Mach ten.

It's the nemesis of all kinetic weapons!"

"Nemesis?"