Azur Lane: I Crossed the Graduation Port Area

Chapter 1296: The annihilation of the Spark Outpost
Lin Lan knew that this matter was another unsolved mystery for him at the moment.

He secretly decided that before the next time he was dragged to the primordial world by the Observer's Laplace Demon, he must make a list of the intelligence he wanted to explore and collect in the primordial world first.

“Now that the threat has been neutralized, let’s go check out the outpost.

"Forget it, Mercury Memorial, Miss D, Harbin, you can just go with me, and the rest of you can go back to the flying spirit device and rest first."

Having just experienced saturation bombing, the snow on the ground around them had completely melted, causing the surrounding temperature to rise a few degrees.

Lin Lan looked towards the outpost that was now in full view and spoke softly to the girls around him.

Although the source of pollution was eliminated, he did not feel any joy in his heart.

Especially when he thought about the tragic scenes that he would see in this outpost, he chose to let only three girls go with him.

Lingmin and Anshan wanted to say something about his arrangements, but were stopped by Mercury Jinian and Harbin with their eyes.

In situations like this, it would be better for them to accompany the commander to deal with it.

However, Lang Yuexi proposed to go with them. Lin Lan thought about it and agreed to let this extreme girl follow them.

More than ten minutes later, Lin Lan and his three companions walked through the snow and arrived at the outskirts of the outpost.

Everything was so normal, as if no attack had ever happened here.

Aside from the lack of any life, from the outside the North State Spark Outpost looked like an ordinary Snow Country town, save for a few more metal-framed sentry towers.

Mercury Memorial, with its ship outfit deployed, took the lead.

The Northern Union Light Patrol girl led them to the end of the snow-covered road and swiped the identification device on the automatically raised iron fence.

Accompanied by the sound of "beep", Lin Lan finally witnessed the situation inside the outpost.

The fields covered by the Rubik's Cube greenhouses are on both sides of the road. A thick layer of snow has accumulated on the greenhouses because no one has cleaned them.

Several warehouse-like buildings and Natlan-style civilian buildings are located at the deepest part of the road. Several green pickup trucks and snowplows are parked neatly in the open space in front of the warehouse.

"There's still no one."

As Lin Lan and the four girls walked into the outpost, Harbin looked around and whispered to him:

“It doesn’t look like there has been a battle here, or maybe the wind and snow have covered up all the traces of the battle.

"But Commander, look, it seems that all the crops in the fields have been dug up."

He looked in the direction Harbin was looking.

Sure enough, the soil in the fields of these transparent Rubik's Cube greenhouse facilities had been roughly dug up, and the crops in the fields had disappeared.

Mercury Ji Nian quickly ran to the side of a shed. Soon, this usually optimistic light cruiser girl frowned and made a new discovery:
"The Rubik's Cube Energy Supply Facilities in the breeding fields have been destroyed. Look, there should have been an operating table there, but the operating tables in each experimental field are gone."

Upon hearing this, Lin Lan and the three girls around her took a careful look around.

Just as Mercury Kinen said, the operating tables in the cultivation fields disappeared without a trace.

But Miss D quickly raised her eyebrows, as if she was hesitant to speak.

Lin Lan also guessed something, strode to Mercury Jinian, bent down and started to shovel the snow.

Soon, he dug out the result he least wanted to face from the thick snow.

It was a body of flesh and blood that had been completely frozen and torn into pieces, no longer recognizable as a human.

He stood up again from the scattered fragments of red cotton military uniforms and broken metal parts he had dug out, and did not say a word for a long time.

Mercury Memorial's face was filled with mixed emotions.

The girl took off her white Northern Alliance cap and silently saluted the commander's body that had been dug out in front of her.

"The bodies of these Natlan people have been corroded and will need to be purified later. "According to the deduction, after being corroded by the Class V threat, they chose to use their lives to destroy the facilities that allowed the pollution source to obtain the magic cube energy."

Miss D whispered in a calm tone what these sacrificed Natlan warriors had done before their deaths.

"I clearly have the permission to access the main console, why is this happening..."

Mercury Ji's trembling voice made Lin Lan gently hold the girl in his arms.

Miss D's words did not end:
“Because these Natlan people have probably guessed that the source of the pollution is the mind cube within the main control console cube matrix.

"They have probably discovered that this kind of threat from the spiritual level will distort their will, so before their consciousness is completely distorted..."

"enough."

Before the Arbitrator Girl could finish her reasoning, she was interrupted by Mercury Memorial:
"They all have names! They are heroes, don't call them 'these Natlans'!"

"…Anticus will remember every one who sacrificed their lives in the fight against Category X and Category V threats. They deserve to be remembered."

To Lin Lan's surprise, this time Miss D did not argue with Mercury Memorial as he had imagined, but apologized to Mercury Memorial in a serious tone:
"I apologize for what I said just now, so I think we should prioritize collecting the names of the victims now."

Lin Lan also patted Shui Xing Ji Nian's head at the right time and said softly:
“Miss D is right, we need to make sure these heroes are remembered forever.

"After we collect the roster, I will accompany you to cremate and bury all the victims in the outpost."

Mercury JIAN took a deep breath, suppressed the sadness in his heart, nodded to him, and at the same time cast an apologetic look at Miss D.

Lin Lan, who set out again with the girls, knew that many corpses were covered by snow, so he took the initiative to open the elemental vision.

The scene that came into his eyes made his heart tremble.

Under the heavy snow in this outpost, countless bodies of the Northern State Spark Column soldiers were buried.

These corpses were scattered all around the breeding field, indicating that these soldiers used their flesh and blood to carry bombs to destroy the breeding field operating tables, blocking the supply of the Rubik's Cube energy in the field.

Apart from him, Lang Yuexi's face was also shrouded in sadness from beginning to end.

As someone who has reached the highest level of the realm of Taoism, Lang Yuexi has also discovered all of this with his spiritual sense.

Watching his compatriots die tragically at the hands of the evil demon, the sorrow in Lang Yuexi's heart was no less than that of Mercury Jinyi.

Lin Lan and the four girls spent more than ten minutes walking along the snowy road, finally leaving the cultivation field area and arriving at the central area of ​​the outpost at the end of the road.

In Lin Lan's sight, hundreds of frozen bodies were buried under the snow on the platform where trucks and snowplows were parked in front of the building.

Lang Yuexi stopped where he was and let out a sad sigh.

He also took off his commander's cap and silently paid tribute to this "cemetery" of ice and snow.

Without exception, the bodies of these Great Wall Guards were found near guns that were also covered by the heavy snow.

The bodies were all shot in the same spot, on the side of the head.

"There was an organized suicide by shooting, and they had discovered that their consciousness had been corrupted.

"No wonder the Category V threat pollution source is so weak."

Lin Lan looked at the Natlan warriors covered in snow and completely understood why their battle just now was so smooth.

According to his guess, the Type V threat entity that cannot be seen by the naked eye feeds on consciousness and Rubik's Cube energy.

But in order to avoid being completely eroded and corrupted, the Great Wall Guards stationed in this outpost chose to do the only thing they could.

That means everyone commits suicide.

(End of this chapter)