114: The sky is my forbidden zone! Even an ace pilot would be forced to kneel in a pursuit at four times the speed of sound!

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Four orange-red suns bloomed simultaneously in the low altitude, less than five hundred meters from the sea surface.

The scene was breathtakingly spectacular.

Four "eagle strike" anti-ship missiles diving at Mach 3 collided head-on with four "sea red flag" air defense missiles.

Within a millisecond margin of error, the most tragic physical collision occurred.

Thousands of high-energy pre-fragmented pieces wove an insurmountable metal storm in the air.

The shockwave from the explosion was like an invisible giant hand.

It slapped hard against the sea surface, sending waves several meters high back into the air.

black iron was directly beneath the center of the explosion.

The violent airflow, carrying shrapnel and flames, clattered against the pitch-black Biological Armor.

But aside from leaving a few shallow scratches, the warship, as stubborn as a reef, remained motionless.

"Blocked... it was blocked?!"

At an altitude of eight thousand meters, inside the cockpit of the lead plane of the "Thor" formation.

The captain, who was about to pull up to celebrate victory, almost had his eyes pop out of their sockets.

He stared fixedly at the four clouds of dissipating black smoke below, his brain momentarily stalling.

"This is impossible!

That's a modified ship of only a few thousand tons!

Where did it get a vertical launch system?

Where did it get a fire control radar capable of locking onto a Mach 3 target?!"

"Captain! Something's wrong! Something's not right!"

The panicked, distorted voice of the Weapons Officer in the back seat came through the headset: "The missiles that intercepted us just now... the spectral analysis is out!

Whether it's the infrared signature or the radar cross-section, those are basically our 'sea red flag-9B'!

Those are the spare rounds from the 'ship'!"

"What?!"

A layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on the captain's back.

He glanced down at the radar warning receiver, seeing the radar beam code currently illuminating them.

It was actually the 'sea star' IFF code from the Ark itself.

An extremely absurd yet hair-raising conjecture exploded in his mind:

That vessel didn't just sink the 'ship'.

It was like a terrifying parasitic beast.

After killing its host, it forcibly attached the host's fangs and eyes to itself.

And then turned around to use those weapons to hunt its original owner.

"Damn it... what kind of monster is this?"

The captain's hand on the control stick began to tremble slightly; it was the instinctive fear of a hunter suddenly realizing they had become the prey.

"Climb! Whole squad climb! Break contact!"

"Too late."

On the sea surface thousands of meters below.

Jiang Ran coldly watched the four light dots on the radar screen trying to turn and flee, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest.

"Since you've come, you want to leave without leaving something behind?"

"That's a bit too impolite."

..."Want to leave?"

Jiang Ran watched the four red dots on the tactical screen rapidly climbing, attempting to use height advantage to break contact.

The ghostly blue light in his eyes didn't fade; instead, it grew even more intense.

His finger hovered over the red attack confirmation button, like a patient hunter taking his final breath.

"There's an old saying in your Ark: 'It is impolite not to reciprocate.'"

Jiang Ran's voice was low, with a metallic chill:

"Since you've sent such a heavy 'greeting gift'.

If I don't return the favor, wouldn't it seem like I don't know the rules?"

"zero, take over the fire control radar."

"Power output: 100%."

"Mode switch: nemesis."

As the command was issued.

Atop the mast of black iron, the 'sea star' phased array radar that had just finished merging and looked like a polyhedral crystal...

Suddenly erupted with a terrifying burst of energy invisible to the naked eye.

If someone could observe this airspace with an electromagnetic spectrum analyzer at this moment,

They would see four solid-like strong electromagnetic beams, like red-hot swords, instantly piercing the sky.

"Zzzzz—!!"

Inside the cockpit of the 'Thor' attacker at eight thousand meters, the originally intermittent radar warning sound...

Suddenly turned into a shrill, eardrum-piercing wail.

The sound was no longer the 'beep... beep...' scanning prompt,

But a long 'BEEEEEEEEEP' of a death lock.

"I'm locked! Damn it! It's a hard lock!"

The wingman pilot stared at the dashboard full of red lights and roared in terror:

"He's burning through my electronic interference!

My ECM can't suppress his signal power at all! How is this possible?!

That's just a small boat! How can its radar have battleship-level power?!"

This was the freakish result of combining 'bio-energy' with 'Ark technology'.

Although the black iron's Bio-engine was weak from the recent evolution, it was more than enough to power a radar.

And with the support of zero's beyond-the-era algorithms,

This 'sea star' radar, which could originally only guide four missiles simultaneously, was now performing at 200%.

The four 'Thor' fighters they were so proud of,

In Jiang Ran's eyes, were now like four black dots crawling on white paper, naked and helpless.

"Is this the 'air superiority' you see?"

Jiang Ran looked at the four targets on the screen, firmly locked in green boxes, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Now, it's mine."

"Empty the magazine."

When these four words came from Jiang Ran's mouth, they carried a sense of squandering arrogance and determination.

"All ready-to-fire ammunition, including the miniature interceptor missiles just whipped up by the nano-factory, fire them all. Leave not a single one."

As this crazy command was issued, the newly evolved back deck of the black iron completely boiled over.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

The dense sounds of cold-launch ejections merged into a continuous string, like firecrackers during the New Year.

The two rows totaling sixteen vertical launch units,

At this moment, held nothing back, like an enraged porcupine suddenly raising all its quills.

One by one, milky-white cylinders were violently tossed into the air by high-pressure gas.

There were two expensive 'sea red flag-9B' long-range air defense missiles, four 'sea red flag-16' medium-range missiles,

And ten self-made miniature interceptor missiles, only as thick as an arm but packed with high-energy explosives.

They hovered in the air for less than 0.1 seconds.

"Boom—!!!"

Sixteen rocket engines ignited simultaneously.

The blinding tail flames instantly illuminated the dim sea surface, with rolling thick smoke like a white forest rising from the ground.

This was no longer a precise point-to-point sniping; this was a saturated fire coverage.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

Sixteen white smoke trails intertwined and wound in the air, like a giant web woven by the Grim Reaper himself.

With a rare violent posture, they whistled and lunged toward the heavens.

Looking down from a high altitude,

On that originally calm sea surface,

It was as if a giant hand made of fire and smoke had suddenly reached out, clutching fiercely at those four flies trying to escape.

"Madman... this is an absolute madman!"