Chapter 1429 - 464: The Mystery of Lemmings (Players) Committing Suicide

Chapter 1429: Chapter 464: The Mystery of Lemmings (Players) Committing Suicide

The floating battleship’s engine has moved away from the traditional method of boiling water for power, using supercritical carbon dioxide for thermal generation.

This low-cost, less corrosive, clean generating method allows the hull to detach from seawater cooling and operate in the air for extended periods.

Coupled with the high-efficiency power of the fourth-generation nuclear reactor, the battleship can carry more energy-consuming devices, even the power-hungry optical stealth module can maintain long-term operation.

And this module can almost deflect most electromagnetic waves except for specific frequencies, making it difficult even for gallium oxide radar to detect the opponent.

Especially when facing the vast sea areas that span thousands of miles, previously players didn’t have the ability to deploy radar offshore, as long as the European Alliance Army doesn’t come face-to-face, there won’t be any risk of exposure.

No matter how you look at it, the initiative is always in the hands of the Europeans, and the players can only passively defend, making it difficult to sustain; if they don’t find the enemy fleet’s location within a day, they won’t dare to launch a pre-emptive strike, fearing a surprise attack.

This situation persisted until the players gained control of part of Frederick’s mines, bringing hope for a resolution.

They installed radar on smart mines and scattered them out, surfacing periodically for surveillance.

Due to the constant movement of the sea surface, creating lots of noise, conventional radars generally cannot detect devices moving close to the sea surface, so there’s no need to worry about these mobile radars being discovered by the Europeans.

As the deployment area gradually expands, coupled with relentless radar surveillance day and night, finally on this sunny afternoon, the European Fleet exposed a flaw.

"This is the supply ship Golden Broom, requesting to dock at the Hood, transporting maintenance supplies."

"Hood received, disengaging stealth module."

A 300-meter-long main battleship suddenly revealed its massive form from the empty void, even distorting the light around it.

In the distant horizon, a supply ship was approaching Hood.

"Maintenance?"

Within the European Fleet’s internal channel, France’s Jeanne Bar captain teased amusingly

"Charles, it’s been less than a month since we left port, and already needing major maintenance, looks like Miss Hood had quite a rough time at the port because of you."

"Shut your dog mouth!"

The Hood’s captain retorted angrily

"Our matters don’t need your concern." ℯℯ𝘭.

Everyone knows their own situation, it’s fortunate this ship could operate for so long after leaving the port.

The security company’s floating battleship’s annual budget doesn’t come from the European Space Agency or the European Community, it sustains itself!

These ships were bought by the security company during the privatization of the Royal Navy back then, to make money as a face card.

The military is not an organization possessing production elements; it doesn’t inherently produce any wealth, it has merely two paths to make money: increase revenue, reduce expenditure.

Increasing revenue means stirring up external situations, forcing everyone to purchase military security, benefiting more in an insecure world, even resorting to armed threats for high-priced services.

Reducing expenditure means lowering soldiers’ treatment, recruiting refugees from around the world and local lower-class trash with zero protection, low wages, and saving on logistics, using whichever supplier is cheapest without issue.

Moreover, there are multiple mouths stretching from top to bottom eager to ’eat’, everyone reaching out to grab money.

Lower levels sell guns and ammunition, middle levels embezzle funds selling tanks and missiles, upper levels trying all ways to cash in everything they don’t care about, focusing on a beautiful future we all have.

And the military?

Currently, Hood’s damage control team has less than 30% personnel in position, huge gap in sailors, coupled with phantom salaries, layered false reports, beautifying data.

The top looks at the report, hey, thinking we have elite troops and sufficient supplies, only the front-line personnel know this military force is full of holes, Hood can’t sustain a prolonged high-intensity war.

Just didn’t expect the issue to be so severe this time, water circulation pipe burst, sewage and domestic water mixed, transmission shaft cracked... the array of problems accumulated.

If not wanting to enter the vicious cycle of [Malfunction—Forced Use—More Malfunction], Hood must stop for the supply ship’s enforced maintenance.

"Hehe, you better pray not to be detected by Military Science’s and Huang Ban’s satellites."

Jeanne Bar’s captain didn’t further mock because their ship wasn’t much better, declining troop quality causes various logistics issues, a few days ago a logistics soldier neglected causing a lid to be sucked by a launching plane’s engine, that plane crashed just after takeoff (all true).

But there’s no choice, controlling costs means you can’t hire those top students, people without systematic education have less rigorous brain thinking.

"We are in the Atlantic Ocean, their radar couldn’t possibly find me."

Charles didn’t take the warning seriously.

They are in Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean, separated from the enemy waters by a Gulf of Mexico with their own satellite watching, who discovers whom first is uncertain.

And what if they are discovered, both sides expended greatly in the previous collision, having no capability to organize another round of attack.

If the other side can do it, he’d eat his office desk on the spot!

Unbeknownst right below Hood, on the ever-moving sea surface, a barrel-sized device is constantly fluctuating with the seawater, the modified head slightly blinking a red dot.