Chapter I
Chen Yan is a very lazy person, and her biggest hobby is to go back to the dormitory to take a bath and play holographic games after the mecha maintenance course every day, and then listen to the gossip of Lily in the dormitory about various big names in Yaxiu City.
In this era when giant beasts are rampant and humans are hiding underground, she lives with a passable mentality. Although Asher's higher-ups always talk about "everything is for humanity to return to the ground", this has not affected her brain level test [the brain level test is for everyone, it is open and fair, and it tests a person's brain talent] - it has always been F class, so at best she can only be a mecha maintenance soldier and can't make a big contribution.
But even if he is a mecha maintenance soldier, Corporal Chen Yan is also a not very responsible soldier. At this moment, she put her hands on the vacuum observation window of the aircraft and looked at the sky outside with a little excitement.
The aircraft hovered smoothly at an altitude of thousands of meters above the ground, so as to facilitate these rookies with insufficient eyesight to observe and learn mecha combat, and it was smoother in the subsequent maintenance operations.
On the ground, a huge silver mecha and a second-level giant beast were facing each other.
The appearance of this second-level giant beast was like a lizard that had been magnified thousands of times, its yellow eyes staring at the mecha opposite, and its saliva dripping on the ground emitted white smoke, and it looked very disgusting.
After a while, it couldn't resist the atmosphere and attacked first. The mecha deftly dodged it, and the monster bit into the air. The teeth of the upper and lower jaws, which had suddenly closed, slammed together with a sharp "click" sound.
This caused the students on the aircraft to involuntarily shrink their shoulders. Those veteran students pretended to be very skilled, and laughed at the first-time students: "What is this, a rookie who has never seen the world." ”
Most of the "rookies" gave their seniors a roll of their eyes, but Chen Yan was still looking at the sky with a good eye. A student next to her touched her with his elbow: "Hey, what are you looking at? It's rare to be able to observe on the spot, seize the opportunity." ”
Chen Yan thought for a while and said seriously: "It's rare to be able to come out and let off steam, so you should hurry up." "The humans of Asher City live underneath all year round, so many people refer to this opportunity to come to the surface as "letting off the wind."
Seeing that she didn't listen, the student shook his head and didn't care, and continued to look down excitedly.
The fight between the monster and the mecha drove the air to form a whirlpool, and even the aircraft at an altitude of thousands of meters was affected by the powerful air current, deflecting from time to time, and was quickly controlled by the pilot.
The beast's fluttering several times didn't work, and he became impatient. The silver mecha looked extremely calm, grabbed the opponent's forelimbs and pulled them, and the giant beast immediately fell on his stomach.
It was clearly unhappy with its current situation, and let out an earth-shattering roar. It was the first time for Chen Yan's ears to receive such a loud decibel noise, and he protested and reported bursts of tinnitus.
However, before the trainees could complain, the altitude of the aircraft suddenly dropped, and a sense of weightlessness hit. Aircraft have also had such flight paths before, and most people are used to it.
But this time the route is too weird. In the field of vision that was rapidly approaching through the observation window, Chen Yan even saw the monster's golden eyes. The other party was also puzzled, and there was an incredible expression on his ugly face, as if he had seen a goat rushing towards the tiger looking for death.
Just when it was about to stage a "sheep into the tiger's mouth", the aircraft was pulled up without warning. All trainees were pressed tightly to the safety device by the force of inertia. Chen Yan struggled to pull back his squeezed and deformed face that was attached to the observation window, and was puzzled by the strange trajectory of the aircraft.
The pilot, Captain McCann, has a lot of experience and a good brain, and he will not let the aircraft be lowered to a safe distance from the battle, so as not to be affected by the battle.
At this moment, a voice sounded in the cabin: "Attention all personnel on the aircraft, I am Colonel Lance Maynard, the mecha operator. Everyone was dumbfounded, and there was no precedent for a cadet to talk to a mech operator while watching a battle.
Everyone reflexively looked down at the silver mech on the ground.
"Your pilot has been invaded by a brain controller and is trying to attack me, you have three minutes to take over the initiative of the aircraft, or it will be destroyed. ”
There was silence in the cabin. Then the pot exploded.
"Impossible! How could Captain McCann's brain be controlled!"
"Why destroy the flying machine? There are more than 200 students on this flying machine!"
"Colonel Lance, you don't have the authority to decide this matter!"
"It's not our operation to attack the mecha, you can't kill innocent students!"
However, no matter how angry they questioned, they never received a response.
On the ground, the battle between mechs and monsters continues. And this aircraft is constantly changing angles, trying to interfere with or even hinder the mech's movements.
Chen Yan could see very clearly that the arm of the mecha suddenly stopped when it was about to hit the aircraft several times, which made it passive in the battle and take evasive actions. The beast smirked for some unknown reason, and its roar was earth-shattering.
They all knew that Colonel Reims' proposal was reasonable. Obviously, in order to stop the mecha, the controlled aircraft has the purpose of "dying together".
The intruder took over the initiative of the aircraft, and after destroying the mecha, there was another "suicide", and the students on the aircraft could only be regarded as an add-on.
Historically, the formation of aircraft transporting mechs would remain nearby or hover over in case of unforeseen circumstances. Unfortunately, the driver who was working with Colonel Reims had just received an urgent notice that he needed to return to the base.
If the aircraft formation is still there, they may still have a chance of transferring, but now there is no way back.
Because the creation of a mecha requires a huge amount of resources, not to mention how much manpower and material resources are used in the training of a mecha operator. Mechs are all on very important and urgent missions, but there are only a group of useless trainees on this aircraft.
Choosing one of the two, even the War Department would not have any objection to Colonel Reims' decision.
After the initial anger and questioning, the students gradually fell silent. There was an eerie silence in the cabin. They looked at each other, and saw nothing but fear and despair in each other's eyes.
Flying an aircraft requires a lot of experience, and most importantly, the speed of brain intervention and the degree of development are up to a certain standard. Otherwise, recklessly connecting to the driver will cause a total brain breakdown.
Most of these technical soldiers were unable to engage in research at the Academy of Sciences because their brain parameters were unqualified, and they were sent to work as maintenance soldiers. Let them operate the aircraft, it is better to let the researchers of the Academy of Sciences run 10,000 meters.
Everyone began to blame each other.
"Who are the seniors?"
"Yes, seniors should be allowed to come forward at this time. ”
"Come on, the brains of the students have not been measured, let us send them to death?"
No one stepped forward. Two minutes have passed.
Chen Yan is a junior student and a woman, and no one notices her.
But she didn't want to die here yet. Although her life is always ridiculed by Lily for being muddy and unidealistic, she actually has ideals: to live, to live according to her own wishes, and to have a life that is not manipulated.
Therefore, she was reluctant to expose her brain level, because once she did, she would have to start an endless "dedication to Asher", although she would be able to get a better pay. Once the superior ability is not commensurate, it is a catastrophe - Ashur will stop all provision of the person until the punished person is willing to continue working.
That would be too far from her ideals, so she would rather just be an F-class technician.
Thinking that when she was leaving, Lily, who was in the same dormitory, joked: "Corporal Chen Yan, be careful not to be trampled by monsters!" Unexpectedly, she was about to be killed by her own people before she was lucky enough to be visited by the claws of monsters. Although the brain of an F-class student is very cheap, his life is very precious, and he can't die here.
Chen Yan quickly pulled up the safety device and got up. "You're crazy!" exclaimed the student who was at her level next to her, "You'll be bounced off without a safety device!"
She sat down again, thought for a moment and whispered to him, "If I can't come back, please tell Lily, and I will always remember her." After thinking about it, he added: "And I hope she won't forget me so quickly after she has a new roommate." "I hope that cold woman can grieve for her death for a while, Chen Yan thought.
With that, she quickly stepped over the seat next to her and ran down the aisle. The aircraft kept changing speed and direction, and Chen Yan grabbed all the objects that could borrow force and quickly reached the cockpit door.
The sound in the cabin suddenly stopped. Everyone looked at the thin female cadet, opened the cockpit door and got in.
The driver, Captain McCann, sat in his seat with his eyes straight ahead, unable to see any clues. If it weren't for Colonel Reims' warning, no one would have known that he had been controlled. Chen Yan quickly activated emergency measures, and Captain McCann's brain was forced into a coma. Taking off the brain-controlled helmet on his head, Chen Yan sat in the co-pilot's seat and pressed down the safety device.
It was only a dozen seconds before the time given by Colonel Reims. She took a deep breath, put her helmet on, and silently prayed that she would not encounter any more brain-controlled intruders, this was her first time in the aircraft piloting system.
The brain is instantly calibrated with neurons passing a lot of information, which is not pleasant. Chen Yan gritted his teeth and insisted, his eyes were instantly dark, and his brain instinctively mobilized all the neurons that could be used to connect with information, without the conduction of neurons, all senses, including vision, were temporarily out of control, and the whole person was like being in a vacuum without light.
She felt that her brain was going to explode, not because it hurt, but because it needed neurons.
Consciousness is infinitely elongated, so long that it is almost hopeless. After some time, her eyes suddenly became clear - her brain had successfully connected to the aircraft's operating system. With a sigh of relief, an upright shadow was approaching in the middle of his line of sight, which had not been properly focused. Chen Yan realized that this was his line of sight, and immediately adjusted his attention to the perspective of the aircraft in his brain.
"Adjust the course and tilt to the left thirty degrees", a voice sounded in his head, and Chen Yan was half a beat slower before he reacted, it was Colonel Reims.
In the perspective of the brain, the aircraft is about to crash into the back of the mech. Chen Yan quickly adjusted the parameters of the aircraft as instructed, and narrowly brushed himself past the huge mecha. The cadets in the cabin let out a ridiculous exclamation.
Chen Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to raise the altitude and drive away from the war zone, when he passed on a new instruction: "Autonomous evasion." ”
The pace of speech is normal and the tone is calm. If it weren't for the word "circumvention", it would have nothing to do with the current situation. Because "self-avoidance" means that the situation is urgent, and the relevant personnel are asked to flee for their lives.
In fact, this sentence is quite self-blessed.