Gundam: The Wind That Blows Through Space

Chapter 619: Linden Leaves (IV)
"The outer sentry point has been out of contact for 3 minutes!"

"Alfa and Romeo teams also lost contact 28 seconds ago"

In a luxuriously decorated office, several masked terrorists were looking towards the desk in panic. In just four or five minutes since they lost contact with the outer sentry post, they had lost eight teammates. This terrifying speed of attack made even these professional terrorists feel a little creepy.

"Teacher, is he here?"

The red-haired woman bowed slightly, her eyes calm and without any emotion, and the man she called teacher was not wearing a mask either. He had long blue hair and a very handsome face. He was one of Siegfried's few friends in his life, Regret Aaron.

"Turn on the live broadcast and announce according to the pre-prepared lines that it was the gods who launched the attack on us without caring about the lives of the hostages, and this just shows that the People's Revolutionary League has lost its control over them. From now on, for every colleague who dies, we will kill a hostage in return. Use full-band broadcasting to convey this message to the invaders simultaneously. I want to see what the lives of ordinary people are worth in the eyes of those who claim to be in heaven!"

"That. The money that we promised to give to our family."

As a result, when one of the terrorists spoke hesitantly, a bloody hole appeared in the middle of his forehead before he finished speaking. The instigator, Regrett, fiddled with the gun in his hand, and the coldness in his voice directly lowered the room temperature by several degrees.

"We have no way out now, Daniel. Do you remember how your sister died?"

The person whose name was called paused for a moment, then said in a low voice: "April Fool's Day crisis, because of food shortage, people died of malnutrition."

"Farrell, where's your sister?"

"71 years at the base of Ptolemy Crater, died in Genesis"

After the two of them finished answering, Regrett's expression became serious. He placed his hands on the table and glanced at everyone one by one.

"Now, is there anyone who wants to quit?"

In the lobby on the first floor, Aslan stared in amazement as the killing weapon duo used skilled tactics to strangle several armed terrorists with their bare hands. Since the start of the operation, his weapons had not fired a single bullet. In every blind spot, Siegfried and Stella had already dealt with the enemy before he could give any orders.

“You guys too.”

"Athrun, you've never killed anyone? It doesn't seem like it. If it were Kira, I'd believe him. You'd better forget it."

Because their actions had attracted the enemy's attention, there was one more enemy at the door this time than expected. In a flash, Siegfried blocked a bullet with his arm for Stella and then killed the enemy with a flying knife.

Although the combat suit can spread kinetic energy throughout the body, the point hit by the bullet will still feel a little uncomfortable. Siegfried was shaking his arms with a grimace, and by the way, he had the leisure to answer Aslan's questions with his watch.

"I can't do what you do."

Aslan admitted this very straightforwardly without feeling embarrassed. Although he ranked first in hand-to-hand combat in the military academy, when it came to killing people, Aslan relied more on MS rather than individual combat.

The close-range firefight with the United Transport Team when he sneaked into Heliopolis was probably the most he killed outside of a mobile suit in his life. "It's inevitable that you can't do it, but you'll get used to it slowly. When you were fighting for the Gundam, there was a Gin pilot standing half a meter in front of me, but I couldn't pull the trigger at that time. But I'm also grateful that the Gin he left behind gave me the opportunity to start, otherwise it's hard to say what would have happened later."

"You mean Beagle?"

"With the helmet on, I can't tell who is who."

Without giving Aslan any time to recall the past, Meiling immediately informed the trio of an extremely unfavorable news. The terrorists had already noticed their presence and began to kill hostages in front of the live camera. What made Meiling even more upset was that the other party directly pinned the crime on Tianren, and it seemed that they had decided to do so from the beginning.

"Li De said that he blocked the signal from Rio and used the data processing center on Ptolemy to create a simulated network feedback. But this thing is fake after all. He can't guarantee how long it will take for the other party to see through it. In addition, the People's Revolutionary Alliance military will also investigate the source of the network blockade. We can't hold out for long here."

"I'm almost done in ten minutes."

“But they are hostages.”

Looking at the slightly anxious Meiling, Siegfried hesitated for a moment and finally responded.

"We are not gods. Oftentimes, the choice we face is not whether to save or not, but whether to sacrifice a few to save the majority. No one likes to be the one being sacrificed, but this is reality. You must get used to it as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid you will be traumatized when you encounter a more cruel choice in the future."

Even though he owned a solar furnace in the CE world, and even though he had completely surpassed the scope of humans and could perform quantum leaps with his physical body, Siegfried always firmly believed that he was a human being. He never put himself in the position of a 'god' or a 'savior', just as he could not eliminate nearly thirty terrorists at the same time.

Ten minutes was the limit of his ability, and for the hostages who died during these ten minutes, Siegfried would simply classify them as having "bad luck" and would not even say a word of apology, because he knew very well that once he had the urge to apologize, the next time he faced this situation, the psychological barrier caused by guilt would make him spend even longer, resulting in more deaths.

The smell of blood gradually spread. After discovering that the trio did not stop but instead accelerated their attack, the terrorists fell into panic. Some of them refused to continue killing the hostages and tried to start negotiations with the People's Revolutionary Union government. After Regrett's second suppression, the restless atmosphere slowly subsided.

"Teacher, the Farrell team has lost contact."

"He chose to fight quickly without any hesitation. In his eyes, human life is just a string of numbers. This kind of terrifying decisiveness and combat instinct, it should be said that our captain is becoming more and more like a fighting machine."

Before he could finish his words, accompanied by a loud bang, the door in front of Regret was knocked away by a huge force. Without even time to observe carefully, he raised his hand and fired a burst of shots to empty the magazine in his hand. Then he picked up a hostage who looked like an official by the table with one hand and held him in front of him.

"Hey, long time no see, friend."

After the smoke cleared, Siegfried walked into the house holding the body of a terrorist in the same posture. The bullets deeply embedded in his bulletproof vest were the result of Regrett's blind shooting just now.

"As expected, we were once teammates. Even our tactical postures are exactly the same, don't you think? Regret?"

(End of this chapter)