Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 989 Temporary retreat
"If the testing process goes well, maybe we can build an 'undead army'...not just those dead humans, but also Alpha people...even prehistoric behemoths."

If this sentence was placed in the past, it would be enough to be criticized by critics because of ethical and moral issues... But now, when human civilization is dying, the combat effectiveness of the survivor coalition is extremely scarce, whether it is front-line combat personnel or logistics personnel. Huge gap.In such a desperate situation, if it is really possible to "resurrect" the fallen soldiers, especially the one-in-a-million elite like Takami Masayuki, in another form and become an effective combat force, it is undoubtedly a highly feasible strategy. remedies.

In the cultural customs of "death" in human civilization, whether in the East or the West, there are sayings like "the dead are the greatest" and "the dead rest in peace". "Disturbing" the deceased in other ways is an unforgivable act.

Not to mention the act of extracting the "soul" of the deceased and "encapsulating" it into a combat weapon.

There was a hint of worry on Alexander's face—if he was told that he would be treated like this after he died in battle, he himself would have no objection, but the question is, how many people would be able to accept the news if it was made public?
Living people can't know what it feels like to be an "undead". No one knows whether the soul encapsulated in the weapon still has self-awareness, and what will happen to the soul encapsulated after the weapon is damaged What kind of change-does it just dissipate, or is it always attached to the wreckage of the weapon like the "earth bound spirit" in the ghost talk, and it will never be freed?

If it is the latter, then this is simply a crueler punishment than death.

Alexander's lips groaned, but in the end he didn't express his true thoughts, but changed the subject: "At present, the Skadi is out of danger, and the suppression operations against the monsters in the invading ship have also progressed. At the end of the day, ask for instructions on the next move—should we continue to conduct fire reconnaissance, or temporarily retreat?"

"Retreat." Ke Lan said as he looked at the Skadi whose screen had been pulled up to an altitude of thousands of miles.Looking down at this height, you can only see thick lead-gray clouds, and you can't see Noah's Ark under the clouds at all.

And the surface of the Skadi's hull has become dilapidated - a small part of these wounds were created by the monsters hatched in the egg-shaped sarcoma, and most of them came from the Skadi's shield and The violent reaction caused by the "intimate contact" between the shields of the ark.

In addition to the damage to the exterior of the ship, the interior of the ship was also severely damaged due to the invasion of monsters. Judging from the standards set in the Air Force Fleet Operations Code, the current Scati has lost the ability to continue fighting , must immediately return to Hong Kong for maintenance and replenishment.

ZB51 turned around and flew out. There were still some monsters left on the outer deck that had not been cleaned up. At the same time, several marine troops who had eliminated the monsters in the ship also drilled out from various exits on the outer deck and began to fight with the outer deck. Fight those monsters on the road.

"Turn around, return to Fort Mukah at half the cruising speed." Alexander handed over control of the battleship to the helmsman, and walked back to the captain's seat, sitting down with a tired face.

Although the statistics haven't come out yet, he has already figured out the casualties on the ship—except for the bridge, which was not attacked, almost all cabins were invaded by monsters, including the aviation brigade, marines and logistics personnel Including, there are a total of more than 400 crew members... After this battle, the number of survivors may even be a little hard to figure out... With a death rate of more than [-]%, this battle is not without tragedy.

Skadi's own damage is even more serious. The surface of the ship's hull is full of holes dissolved by strong corrosive liquids. From a distance, it looks like a piece of decayed wood... the additional modular cabins outside the ship's body , including the hangar, cargo hold, ammunition depot, assault boat, lifeboat, and those external weapons, [-]% of them were abandoned, and turned into gorgeous fireworks in the collision with the energy shield.

The triple-mounted plasma main guns were all melted down due to high-intensity fire; the secondary guns and close-in defense guns were under the care of the monsters, and they were destroyed in sevens and eights; All the ZB51s operated by Zhai Jian Masahiro crashed, and more than [-]% of the tactical mechas of the marines were damaged.

Even the core power furnace transformed from the "Heart of the City" was seriously overloaded because of the protective cover against the Ark. Although it did not explode, the output power fell to one-third of the normal state... It was only For this reason, the Skadi was only able to return to Mukah at half its cruising speed.

"Just a little bit, the Skadi is about to be sunk." At this time, Machino dared to take a big breath. He reached out and touched his sweaty forehead, and picked up the cup on the table... At this time, he I found that the cup was already empty. The atmosphere just now was so tense that I didn't even realize when I drank all the coffee.

"Fatty man, do you want some?" The hound noticed Maginot's movement of emptying the glass, took out the wine jug in his arms, and shook it at the other party - the Skadi was out of danger, and everyone's mood changed. Much better.

"Okay." Maginot handed over the empty glass.

Machino is a coffee lover and rarely drinks alcohol except for socializing.But at this moment, a desire for alcohol suddenly appeared in his heart... This is probably what the saying goes, "drinking a sip of wine suppresses shock".

The Hound unscrewed the cap of the jug, but instead of pouring the wine directly into the Maginot's glass, he went outside the office and spilled half of the wine in the jug on the ground by the door.

"Respect to the brothers who died in battle." The hound said silently.

"To the sacrifice." Magino walked behind the hound, and as a result, the jug filled a glass, and like the hound, it spilled on the ground.

"Fatty man, are you afraid of death?" The hound suddenly turned his head and looked at Maginot and asked.

"What are you talking about? Is there anyone who is not afraid of death?" Machino looked helpless, "But the question is, is fear useful? No matter how afraid you are, you still have to face it in the end?"

Magino poured another glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp. The spicy liquid rolled down his throat, making his facial features slightly twisted... He smacked his lips vigorously, and then said: "You You want to tell me that everyone here may die in the end, right?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense, people are alive, and they will die sooner or later... Unless you are willing to lie in a coffin all day long like those monsters in the Undead Crew Club, with all kinds of tubes inserted into your body..." Speaking of this, the hound paused for a moment, and then cursed in a low voice, "It's a bunch of fucking old bastards. If you die early, it won't cause so much trouble."

"No, what I mean is that in this combat operation, we probably won't live to the end... even human civilization will end because of it." Magino returned the flagon to the hound, "Are you okay? Want to say something?"

"What can I say? Isn't it grand enough to let the entire human civilization be buried with me? Besides, if you don't try, how will you know it won't work? What if... I mean what if, we Did it work?"

"That's right, no matter what the outcome is, we have to try." Magino nodded in agreement, "I remember an old saying in China, which is 'do your best and obey the destiny'... We just need to do what we should do and that's fine. gone."

"I don't like this sentence." The hound shook his head, "My life is my own, why should I listen to 'heaven', not to mention, that thing in the sky is our biggest enemy."

The "that thing in the sky" that the hound said naturally refers to the existence called "God".

"Don't you feel overwhelmed to challenge the gods with the power of a mortal?" Magino sighed, "I can't even imagine how we will win."

"If you can imagine it, you're not Maginot." The hound cast a contemptuous glance at this former colleague.

"Then yours?"

"I don't even bother to think about it, because it's useless to think about it." The hound shrugged, drank the last bit of liquid in the flagon, stretched, turned and walked outside, "It's getting late, it's time to go to bed , Tomorrow we have to get up early for a combat meeting."

"What about you? Aren't you going to rest?" Magino turned his head and found that Ke Lan and Ze Luo were still sitting on the sofa, staring at the projection screen on the wall in a daze.

Ke Lan shook his head: "If General Maginot is sleepy, go to rest quickly? I'm different from you, I don't feel sleepy because of lack of sleep, sleep doesn't mean much to me. "

"Uh...Okay." Magino nodded to Ke Lan, took off the uniform jacket hanging by the door, yawned and walked out-it is four o'clock in the morning, from six o'clock yesterday morning until Now, he hasn't closed his eyes for a full 22 hours, which is considered a physiological limit for Magino who has not undergone any enhancement surgery.For the past 22 hours, he had survived with the high concentration of caffeine, and he almost didn't give himself a shot of military stimulants.

Pushing open the bedroom door, Machino rubbed his bloodshot eyes, didn't even bother to take off his clothes and shoes, and rolled directly onto the bed... Within ten seconds, heavy snoring sounded.

The camera returns to Maginot's office, where the lights are still brightly lit, and the image of the Ark taken by the drone is played on the projection screen-after the Skadi retreated, the Ark immediately returned to "quietness", just like the previous violent attack. The offensive is just a fantasy.

The only things that can prove the reality of this fantasy are probably the egg-shaped sarcomas smashed into pulp on the clearance zone-not all egg-shaped sarcomas can hit the Scarti, in fact, they can attach to the Scarti. Oval sarcoids on Tee accounted for less than one percent of the total number launched.

According to computer statistics, the fleshy creep on the surface of the ark fired more than 200 million egg-shaped sarcoids into the air, only about half of which fell back to the creep after falling through the air, and the other half fell on the ground. The clear zone and even further places turned into pools of "blood flowers" of different sizes in the wilderness.

For the fleshy creep, these "blood flowers" still seem to have the value of recycling - after about half an hour, Ke Lan saw countless hyphae spreading around the ark with the center at the center.They cover those "blood flowers", one mycelium splits into hundreds of branches, like a gauze net, and after a while, the broken flesh and blood on the ground are absorbed by these mycelia. net……

At 35:[-] in the morning, all the "blood flowers" were cleaned up, and the hyphae retreated silently, as if nothing had happened.

In this battle, the Skadi was severely damaged, and more than [-] crew members were killed... while the losses of their enemies were almost negligible.Not only did the number of egg-shaped sarcoma hatching on the fleshy creepers not decrease, it even became more than before the Scarti was dispatched.

Of course, the purpose of the fire reconnaissance of the Skadi has been achieved. Although it failed to achieve any substantial results, at least we know how the First Cruise Fleet and the Garrison Fleet were destroyed—the next goal is to destroy the inside of the ark Probing.

Ke Lan rubbed the center of his brows. For some reason, he suddenly felt a little tired, which made him doubtful—let alone a "humanoid monster" like him, even a slightly higher-level enhanced person, continuously You won't feel any fatigue after two or three nights of high-intensity overnight.Unless it is caused by psychological factors, the sleepiness will not appear on Ke Lan's body at all.

"I told Machino just now that I wouldn't get sleepy. Could it be that I was slapped in the face so soon?"

Ke Lan wanted to stand up and pour a cup of espresso, but his eyelids suddenly became extremely heavy. With the continuous shrinking of his vision, the world finally fell into darkness...

……

When Ke Lan woke up again, he found himself in a small room full of various instruments. Below him was a hibernation cabin shaped like a coffin. The vital signs monitoring equipment on the side was sending out "" Beep" sound.

He was wearing a pure white hibernation suit, with a small device for detecting heart rate installed on his chest. Round electrodes were attached to his forehead, chest and abdomen, and arms, and a strand of cable was tied to connect these electrodes. It is connected with the equipment next to the hibernation cabin.

"Where is this?" Ke Lan looked around vigilantly. There was no window in this room, and the only door was on the right-hand wall.Besides him, there are six coffins in the room... oh no, six hibernation cabins, and in each hibernation cabin lies a person wearing a white hibernation suit covered with electrodes.

These six people happen to be three men and three women. The youngest is about 20 years old, and the oldest is about 60 or [-] years old... Of course, the actual age of the people lying in the hibernation cabin must be much older than they look.

Ke Lan carefully looked at the faces of these six people, but these six faces made him feel very strange... He knew none of the six people who were lying in the same room as him.

As if remembering something, Ke Lan's eyes suddenly turned and stayed on the screen of the vital signs monitoring equipment.

The upper right corner of the screen is where the time and date are displayed.

"New Era 859, December 12st, noon, 1 o'clock."

[PS Thank you for the 1500 starting coins rewarded by Zhuhai Ancient Axe. 】

(End of this chapter)