Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 1018: Trapped in the Mud
It's true that people can't make accurate judgments when they're impatient, and the fact that the Swan has changed from a chase to an escape is proof of that.

A light cruise ship does not belong to the fleet, has no frigates to help block the attack, and has no fleet formation to cooperate. In this situation, let alone being targeted, even being hit by a few stray bullets would be quite fatal.

"Throw a smoke screen!"

The ejection port behind the Swan's bridge was opened, and large iron cans were ejected one after another under the push of high-pressure gas, emitting a large amount of granular dust and smoke, thus blocking the optical instruments looking from behind.

The good news is that the Swan was not in the center of the two sides' gun fire, but the bad news is that although it was not in the center, it was actually close to the left of the center.

The current battleship artillery battles are actually similar to lining up in battle lines at sea and firing artillery shells, except that the sea is flat, while in the void the three coordinate axes move, making the battlefield more three-dimensional.

This means that if you break into a naval battle, you can turn around and change direction to escape the firing line of the artillery fire of both sides, but this is not possible in the void. The battlefield is 3D, which means that the entire star field is not safe.

Due to the lack of light in the void, it is pitch black everywhere, and the cannon can only be calibrated by relying on a special optical aiming system.

The optical aiming of a cannon is similar to that of a sniper scope, and the angle of view is too narrow.

Just looking from the bridge, Alyssa had no way of judging what the ships of both sides looked like or how they were configured. It was like running around blindfolded in the middle of a battlefield.

But one thing is certain, no matter whether you can see the formations of both sides or not, you must not stay where you are.

The Swan activated its newly installed auxiliary propulsion system. As the light cruiser was a warship that was primarily designed for maneuverability, it immediately sailed diagonally downward after throwing out the smoke screen.

Several light beams and solid shells that had already exceeded the speed of sound and were difficult to distinguish with the naked eye shot through the smoke screen and passed through the position where the Swan had just been. If it stood there without moving, it would definitely be hit.

Villania put on the headphones and continuously operated the panel to send the Swan's identification information to all the surrounding ships that could receive the signal, telling them that we just broke in accidentally, were just passing by, and were good citizens, so please don't hit us.

But it is estimated that the effect will be minimal. After all, the two sides have obviously gotten into a fight, and during the battle, they will most likely not send or receive communications other than with friendly forces. This is done to prevent their own communications from being interfered with by civilian channels.

In other words, even if the Swan tried its best to identify itself, both sides might not be able to see it.

Although the smoke screen just thrown can obscure the optical aiming at the Swan from behind, it is also a striking mark. It is a cover to be sure, but it is also too conspicuous, like calling for an air raid in the movies.

A low buzzing vibration could be heard on the bridge, as well as the sound of tiny objects like raindrops hitting the armor plates. Those were solid shells hitting the Swan's shield, and after the explosion, fragments fell on the armor plates.

We can still withstand this level of attack, but we are afraid that there will be large warships aiming at the Swan.

Alyssa gritted her teeth:
"Turn on the smoke generator."

Rather than a wall of fog formed by projectile smoke, the smoke generator will continuously emit a large amount of granular smoke, forming a striking smoke trail as the Swan sails.

It is commonly known as pulling smoke.

This is a newly installed feature in the royalist fortress. I didn’t expect to use it so soon.

A large amount of smoke began to spread from near the Swan's engine, and soon even the engine light became blurred, and the cosmic background and starry sky behind it were completely obscured by the smoke.

At this time, the Swan cannot move in a straight line. Moving in a straight line when pulling smoke is not a cover, but a mockery of others. If others fire two shots at the position of the smoke, the Swan will be doomed.

So after turning on the smoke, Carlos immediately turned the steering wheel, and the Swan sailed on its own by pressing Z. In this way, the ships aiming at the Swan from behind would not be able to shoot, and at most one or two stray bullets would hit it, which was still acceptable.

But as I said just now, the Swan almost appeared in the center of the battlefield. The one behind you can't hit you, but what about the one in front of you?
"Emergency sinking!"

The Swan sank suddenly, avoiding a triple ion cannon.

Let's be reasonable. If you are happily engaging in a bombardment on a battleship, and suddenly you see a guy without any friendly fire identification signal rushing towards you with a trail of smoke behind him, would you shoot him?
This is the case with the Swan now.

There was still no response to the efforts to send identification information. Maybe they really turned off the civilian channel. The Swan cannot invade other people's military channels, and now it is impossible to prove my identity.

As I said, the most important thing to do now is to quickly leave the battlefield and run away.

In this star field with almost no reference points, it depends on the navigator's ability to decide which route to take to escape instead of getting lost and rushing into the star field with the most intense fighting.

An Yun held the device stuck on his temple with one hand and operated the touch screen in front of him with the other hand. The constantly corrected route information would be synchronized to Carlos and Alyssa, who were the helmsmen.

If you observe with the naked eye, it is completely dark, but if you observe with psychic power, it is a different story.

Since the warships will activate the shielding force field when they are in combat, the shielding force field of each warship is merged together to form a particularly large force field. As a result, this star field cannot be used for jumps or pulse flight.

However, this shielding force field is not a standard sphere, but its shape varies depending on the shape of the ship and the power of the engine.

The battle line formation allows the shielding fields of each warship to merge into a large whole, but there are actually many gaps in this whole.

This kind of gap is invisible to ordinary people and can only be found by psychics. The route set by An Yun is for this purpose.

"We found a gap, we can perform pulse flight."

An Yun immediately synchronized the route, and Carlos took a look and turned the steering wheel.

The Swan immediately moved sideways, rolled to 45 degrees, and cut into the newly set channel.

"Start pulse flight in three seconds."

Alyssa identified the route point, and when the Swan arrived, she immediately pressed the button to start pulse flight.

The engines roared violently, so loud that the sound could be felt in the bridge. This was because the Swan's engines were trying to break free from the constraints of the obscuring force field, like pulling themselves out of a quagmire.

As long as we can activate pulse flight, no matter how far we fly, at least we can get away from the battlefield, and then we can retreat much more calmly.

But it's obviously not that easy to leave.

Less than a second after the pulse flight started, the entire bridge suddenly shook violently, as if someone suddenly stepped on the brakes on the highway.

This meant that the effort to escape the shielding field had failed, and the Swan had not been able to break free from the entanglement.

(End of this chapter)