death of hope

Chapter 152 "Corporate Warrior" (68) Base

Kurmat star night,

The temperature plummeted, and the car windows were filled with exhaled moisture.

In order to see clearly out of the window, I had to reach out and dry my hands.

There was a humbling sound on the hill, and two feathers floated down.

Looking up, it turned out to be a vulture mutated by radiation. This terrifying guy was flapping its huge wings, standing on the swampy saline-alkali ground, gnawing on the corpse of a rotting desert lizard.

A skua with fried hair landed on the top of the cactus, pecked at the pink cactus fruit with its sharp beak to ingest sugar and water, and tilted its head from time to time, watching the passing pickup trucks with its small round eyes.

As far as the eye can see, it is full of barbarism and desolation.

When colonizing this planet, the first-time pioneers were full of ambition, and invested heavily in building an ecosystem suitable for their own survival.
Not only reshaped the atmosphere, purified the water source, but also brought many Terra species to Kurmat,
Now, with the collapse of the economy, the environment is left unmanaged, the ecology is out of balance, and not many creatures are extinct. Only some animals and plants with strong survivability are left, lingering on the dry and barren land.

Lynch's rough and deep voice came from the communicator:

"There is a fire 500 meters ahead, prepare to fight."

Team members pull the bolt:
"receive."

After a while, the communicator rang again:
"The alarm has been lifted, and there is no enemy situation for the time being."

Sigurdriefa put down the gun and closed the safety again. She quickly saw the fire that Lynch mentioned before,

There was a burning half-track truck on the side of the road, billowing thick smoke straight into the sky, the flames filled the driver's cab,

The driver had been burned into a scorched skeleton, and the burnt mother was holding the dead child, limping, with empty eyes, walking forward in despair,

Not far ahead, the sheriff and the medical team were heading towards the accident site.

"Oh my god! They need help!" Sigurdlifa was very distressed, covering her lips and said:

"Captain, let's stop and save people!"

"No!" Captain Lynch in the front car said into the microphone: "Our task is not to help civilians, but to ensure the safety of the company's goods. You all sit down for me, and the disasters of the locals will naturally be handled by the locals. people to deal with."

"What a... cruel bastard..."

Sigurdriefa bit her chapped lips with her little tiger teeth, and said viciously,

The orange flames of the truck were reflected in bright silver-gray eyes.

"Your big captain, he's grim, but also sensible," the driver commented.

"He made a rational decision, maybe there are still many mines nearby that have not been detonated,
That's why those mounted policemen and ambulances didn't dare to come over. You know, they are all waiting for the demining vehicle. It's already past ten o'clock, and the demining engineers are already drunk. "

"Really... I want to report them for dereliction of duty because of drinking and delaying work!" Sigurd Lifa said angrily.

"Come on, little girl, you don't understand anything, who do you report to this kind of shitty place."

"I...I'm looking for..." Sigdrifa thought hard, and finally said, "FBI! (Federal Bureau of Investigation)!"

"Those bastards in the FBI don't bother to take care of these shitty things. The deminers here are not officially established, but just temporary workers hired from outside.

People can drink whatever they want after work, so they won't be so stupid as to be on call 24 hours for that pitiful salary. "

"Yes." The driver nodded:

"High-risk jobs like demining soldiers can only anesthetize the nerves with high-concentration alcohol, so that fear can be driven away."

Sigurdriefa lowered her head silently,

She knew that what Shaft said was right, a college student like her who had just graduated didn't know anything about society, she had no money and no experience... she was just full of ambition...

She knew that she was powerless to change all this, so she could only look at the grief-stricken mother with pitiful eyes.

Shaft passed a cigarette to the driver: "Dude, does something like this happen often?"

"Thank you." The driver happily took the cigarette and put it in his mouth:

"Occasionally, but not often, because there have been a few gangs fighting recently, this road has become dangerous. Originally, this is a model area of ​​law and order."

"Good guy! This is a model law and order zone! Liar!" Shaft helped the driver light a cigarette:

"I guess there's a family in the van."

"It's possible that those who make a living by delivering goods with their families eat and live on the truck. This kind of family is not uncommon.

The father was careless, the tires did not follow the safety marks for mine clearance, probably due to fatigue driving and fell asleep, one wheel crushed a mine buried by the bandits, BOOM!Wretched wife and children. "

Sigurdriefa closed her eyes, forcing herself to forget what happened outside the window. Listening to the conversation between the two, her long pale golden eyelashes trembled.

Until the driver said: "Here we are."

She opened her eyes slowly.

Compared with the dilapidated houses built by local residents, the McMillan company's residence can be said to be a lot more advanced, like a space exploration station that has traveled back to the Stone Age.

The courtyard is surrounded by a 3.5-meter-high concrete wall, and the outer circle is a deep trench. The bottom of the trench is covered with iron spikes and mines, and there are skull icons painted in red. The walls are covered with broken glass and barbed wire. ,
Several important nodes are monitored and blocked by tall sentry towers. The top of the tower is equipped with a 12.7MM large-caliber heavy machine gun and a 37MM anti-armor recoilless rapid-fire gun, which is operated by two well-trained mercenaries.

The gatekeeper noticed the lights of the convoy, and after signaling to the driver, lowered the drawbridge.

The environment inside the wall is clean and tidy,

The ground is covered with gray cement bricks, surrounded by several low buildings with different functions, and in the middle is a bunker-like building with no windows and covered with armor plates. This must be the headquarters building of McMillan Company on Kurmat Star.

The pickup truck team parked in the yard near the warehouse, and the Alpha Tactical Team got out of the car, watching the employees move the equipment with their guns in hand.

Before departure, Captain Marcus Lynch received a secret order from the company's executives to be careful to guard against commercial espionage in the branch during the escort security process, so as to prevent precious equipment from falling into the enemy's hands.

The goods were safely put into storage. After some conversation, Captain Lynch shook hands with the person in charge here, Supervisor Dai Lin.

Daline Wood is a tall, thin, bespectacled lady in her fifties,
She was wearing a fashionable woolen coat, a high-grade natural silk square scarf around her neck, extremely soft and expensive ostrich leather high-heeled leather boots, and an amber pendant on her chest, which was very different from the local tattered clothes. The inhabitants are in stark contrast.

Dailin Wood has capable movements, and she doesn't look like a 50-year-old person at all. She has extraordinary temperament and is tall, about 1.9 meters tall including high-heeled leather boots. When talking to Lynch, she only needs to raise her neck a little.

For her subordinates, Dai Lin did not hesitate to praise them, saying that they are all strong, hardworking, good people with a sense of humor and easy to get along with,

Lynch has a good impression of this person, charming and friendly, no wonder he can gain an advantage in the fierce competition in the workplace.

Without her optimistic and tenacious personality, it must be difficult to adapt to work in such a dangerous environment.

(End of this chapter)