Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 873
Unlike the Nieto in the lower city, the "Nieto" in the upper city uses very standard Chinese, so 33 can understand what it says.

It took 33 two seconds to react, and he whispered in surprise, "This guy...can she speak Chinese?"

"No matter what language it speaks, there is nothing to be surprised about." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "We just need to ignore it."

"I know..." 33 pouted, and said disdainfully, "Let's not talk about Nieto on this floor, even if it's the one on the next floor, I don't believe what she said..."

What Ke Lan saw of Nieto was an intelligent biological computer with the shape of a beautiful girl with long black and straight hair, while what 33 saw was a wriggling mass of rotten flesh... From the very beginning, 33 was extremely wary of Nieto Heart, it is impossible for him to believe that Nieto will help him.In his opinion, the reason why Nieto in the lower city is willing to disclose the information to himself and Ke Lan is probably because he wants to use them to achieve some goals. The relationship between them and Nieto is just to use each other. It's the same front.

There was no such thing as trust in the first place.

If necessary, they can sell Nieto on the second floor at any time. At the same time, they also believe that once they lose their use value, Nieto will betray them mercilessly.

But in the next second, 33's face suddenly changed.

Because of the female voice he heard, there were some subtle changes.

"It's already reached this point, you still won't believe me...?"

"This... this voice?!" 33's eyes widened and he asked incoherently, "Ke, Ke Lan, did you hear what she just said?"

"I heard." Ke Lan glanced at 33 with some doubts, not understanding why 33's expression, which was disdainful just now, had changed so much in a short period of time.

"What did she say? Please repeat it quickly!" 33 said urgently.

"It said: 'You don't believe me, do you?'"

"wrong!"

"What's wrong? Isn't that what you heard..." Ke Lan frowned slightly.

"No...but the meaning is close, but...but that sentence is exactly the same as that time..." 33 showed a look of pain on his face, "Is there any change in the tone and intonation from the beginning?"

"No." Ke Lan shook his head, "What did it tell you?"

"It's come to this point, you still don't believe me...you still don't believe me." 33 shook his head in disbelief, "It's exactly the same."

"What exactly?"

"The tone, tone, and intonation are exactly the same, and even the sentences themselves are word for word." 33 whispered, "11 years ago, there was a person who said such a sentence to me..."

"It read your memory?" Ke Lan was suddenly vigilant... If the other party really has this ability, it may be more difficult... In front of this kind of opponent, I will have no secrets at all , This feeling of being seen through underpants is extremely uncomfortable.

Ke Lan was "mind-read" for the first time in the depths of the "Sick Village". Fortunately, Chiron was not his enemy at that time... Then Ze Luo and Valentina, these two are even more worthy of Ke Lan People who trust...but Nieto is different.

"No... I should have forgotten this memory... But now, I remember everything." 33 clenched his fists and said in a low voice, "Her name is Tina, and she said this to me. My name is Tina."

"Tina?" Ke Lan reviewed 33's file with her amazing memory, and then asked tentatively, "Is it the leader of the First Mobile Team of the Fourth Armored Brigade of the Field Corps, Second Lieutenant Tina Lawrence?" ? When you served in the Fourth Armored Battalion, you spent three months in her group."

"That's right, it's her." 33 whispered, "Speaking of which, I'm not afraid of your jokes. The first time I saw her, I liked... no, I should have fallen in love with her. Although the Field Corps prohibited Officers and soldiers below the school level fall in love with people in the army during their service, but in fact, very few abide by that rule at all...In the flames of war, not only brotherhood but also love is born...In the ark In the first few years after landing on Star Alpha, due to the heavy loss of male soldiers, the Field Corps had to recruit a large number of female soldiers to fill the vacancies. The ratio of male soldiers to female soldiers once reached one to one... until after 940 of the New Era, when The female soldiers enlisted are approaching the retirement age, and the proportion of female soldiers in the army has been decreasing year by year."

"I know." Ke Lan nodded. Even now, there are still about 20.00% of the female soldiers in the field army. The proportion of soldiers is much higher.

It is not uncommon for male and female officers and soldiers to fall in love in the army. After all, the normal retirement age is more than 40 years old if there are no special circumstances (such as disability). Not everyone will get married before enlisting in the army. Want to Naturally, the only way to solve the problem of being single is to find it in the army... As for the rule that prohibits officers and soldiers below the school level from dating, it is actually just a dead letter.

Especially for female officers and soldiers, this age happens to be the best time in their lives, and it is almost impossible for them to wait until they are 40 years old to find their other half.

But there is one type of unit that is excluded, that is, the special forces with the most difficult tasks and the highest sacrifice rate, and the "First Mobile Group of the Fourth Armored Brigade" to which 33 and Tina belong is such a special force.

It’s not that the officers and soldiers of the Special Forces are strictly forbidden to fall in love—it’s okay to talk about it, but you can’t talk about it with people in your team... because there have been precedents for this kind of thing, couples don’t want to abandon each other, and finally lead to mission failure The entire unit is wiped out... For this kind of special forces, the mission comes first, and reason must overwhelm emotion... For the commander, what he needs is a group of fighting machines without emotions, not A group of ordinary people who will be entangled in the love of their children.

"In a month, I established a relationship with her... But no one in the first mobile team knew about our relationship, because we never seemed too close in front of people, and we didn't even have too much interaction. 33 continued, "Until now, I'm still a little unsure whether it's because of love...or I simply need a woman to give me physical comfort..."

"It's normal. The officers and soldiers of the front-line combat troops are under a lot of mental pressure. In order to relieve this mental pressure, they will choose some more or less methods... Maybe she is just to vent it?" Ke Lanshun The words of 33 continued.

Ke Lan is very clear that this incident is likely to be the psychological shadow of 33-the first mobile team of the Fourth Armored Brigade was severely injured during the last mission, and there were 37 people in the team, including team leader Tina Lawrence Of the 34 killed, only three survived, and 33 was one of the three who survived.

Subsequently, the designation of the First Mobile Group of the Fourth Armored Brigade was cancelled, and 33 was also incorporated into the later "Velocity Dragon Squad" after recovering from injuries.

He should have witnessed the death of Tina Lawrence with his own eyes... and the reason why Nieto imitated what Tina Lawrence said to him was most likely to break through 33's psychological defense.

"That was the last word she said to me." 33's voice became deeper and deeper, "At that time, we were already in a desperate situation, half of the people died, and almost everyone was injured in the remaining half. , there is no friendly unit that can be contacted nearby, and the only vehicles that can be driven are a six-wheeled armored off-road vehicle and a walker mech... And under the high ground where we are stationed, there are thousands of times our enemies."

"That walker, was Lieutenant Tina driving it?" Although Ke Lan only glanced at Tina's file, he clearly remembered that Tina's position in the army was a tactical mech pilot. And the equipment configuration of the first mobile group did include four old-model walker mechs.

"Yes... At that time, we had been fighting hard for three days and three nights, and we were about to run out of ammunition and food." 33 recalled, "I remember that because of Tina's command error, it directly caused the 'black bear' and 'tree demon' As well as the loss of the three walkers of 'Blizzard'... For this reason, during the interval between battles, I had more than one argument with her."

Ke Lan didn't interrupt 33, and let him continue: "But now that I think about it, maybe I might not be able to do better than her... Everyone hasn't closed their eyes for three days, it's all because of excitement." When the effect of the stimulant is over and the side effects and strong drowsiness come up, a larger dose will be injected... In that case, I am still asking her command not to show any symptoms. deviation……"

"Things have already happened, it's not your fault." Ke Lan patted 33 on the shoulder, "You're just too anxious."

"She ordered us to abandon our position, but I yelled at her, and told her that as soon as our heavy fire stopped, the native creatures gathered at the bottom of the steep slope would climb up on the corpses of their own kind and tear us to pieces. Fragments, we don’t have time to retreat at all..." 33 paused, "Then, she told me that she would be responsible for breaking the rear, and asked me to take the rest of the people away."

"..." Ke Lan pursed his lips. In fact, before 33 said it, he had roughly guessed the development of the matter.

"I was stunned for a while, and then she said this to me." 33 took off his breathing mask, rubbed his face vigorously, took several deep breaths, and then let his tone of voice be as smooth as possible. Keeping calm, "That... was also the last sentence she said to me."

"I know that Tina is...a very important person to you, but I still have to tell you that the Tina Lawrence you knew has died." Ke Lan looked directly at 33 and said, "Now this imitation The guy with her voice, tone, and lines, is just a bastard trying to play with your emotions, and it's also an act of extreme disrespect for dead Ensign Tina, whatever it says, just ignore it. "

"I know...I know..." 33 nodded numbly, "Just when I was talking to you about these things, Tina... no, that guy named 'Nieto', she has been in my ear While imitating Tina's voice and talking to me, and what Tina said to me was what Tina said to me."

"It seems that it chose you as a breakthrough point." Ke Lan said solemnly... This is a means of attacking the heart, but it will not have any effect on Ke Lan. As a "symbiotic body", he , there are only some false memories. After knowing that the memories of his past were artificially implanted by the undead crew members, Ke Lan had no feeling for those memories. In retrospect, it was like watching a movie with the protagonist and himself. Just like a movie.As for those who Ke Lan cares about, if Nieto imitates the voices of Zofia or the Hound and speaks to him, then he will never believe it - first of all, Zofia and the others are still alive, Ke Lan does not exist at all Second, reason would tell Ke Lan that it was impossible for them to appear in this place, and what he heard and saw, or even touched, might just be hallucinations.

"I think so...but..." 33 suddenly paused at this point, and then he actually raised his head and looked towards the dome——

Before it was too late, Ke Lan slashed on 33's shoulder with a knife, and then pressed him to the floor with a standard grabbing action, and pressed his face tightly to the floor with the other hand superior.

"What's going on?!" 33 who was attacked didn't speak first, but the "assailant" Ke Lan asked.

"She...she told me...the moonlight is beautiful...let me...look up." 33 said with some difficulty, "Tina...also told me...that sentence... Right around the time we first... secretly dated..."

"The moonlight is beautiful" comes from an allusion by the Japanese writer Natsume Soseki in the old era, and it is used to express the meaning of "I love you" implicitly... It's just that people on the ark don't say "the moonlight is beautiful" now, Many people have never even heard of the name Natsume Soseki... This kind of expression is only used by some small literary youths.

"Be awake... The sky above Alpha star is full of radiation clouds. At night, you can't see the moon at all. You can only see two vague shadows, emitting a faint light behind the clouds." Ke Lan said in a loud voice, "It's just a I just want to deceive you!"

[PS I don’t know if you have noticed a detail. When Ke Lan mentioned Nieto, he used “it” as the pronoun, while Nieto in mouth 33 used “she”. Please analyze this point The role in the text (reading comprehension questions, 10 points). 】

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