Chapter 45: Delusion
"Whether he is telling the truth or not, it is not a reason for them to slaughter hundreds of millions of Martian people with planetary bombing. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info take 10,000 steps back and say that if the mechanical civilization wants to exterminate human beings, it is just doing the same thing. They are just driving the fact of extinction under the guise of resisting extinction. ”
In the face of our gaffe, the captain's words calmed down the surprise and imitation.
Yes, the invaders have slaughtered so many people and are already doing something to exterminate humanity.
Whatever the reason for the massacre, is it any different for us?
Lincoln was the first to regain calm.
He was usually silent, and he returned from doubt to a state of silence, and there was no obvious change during this period.
Davis smacked his captor as if in victory.
"Listen, it's better for the captain to say, any reason for you is meaningless, because you are already doing the extermination of humanity."
"Stupid!"
"What do you say! Kind of say it again! ”
The agitated Davis was dragged by Lincoln and controlled his full martial arts at the level of scolding.
I agree with the captain that no matter how much the invaders say, it is not a reason for their massacre.
For us, they themselves are demons that exterminate humanity.
However, the captain's phrase "most of it is true" is not like a joke.
In case the captive's confession is true...... My mind is messed up, and I always think that the future of the solar system and the rest of us is uncertain.
Everyone tacitly ended the inquiry. The captives had no intention of continuing to communicate with us.
Everyone thought about their thoughts, and the atmosphere in the cave turned silent.
I'm so tired today, and after a fierce battle, it takes time to adjust, both physically and mentally.
It's hard to even open my eyes now, and I just want to fall asleep.
It is estimated that we will have to wait in the cave for a while, and we will not have a chance to retreat until the outside is calm. Let me rest during this time.
What kind of war, mastermind, reason, etc., are all on the sidelines.
"I'm going to see the sentry trap. I always feel uneasy just by relying on machine vigilance. ”
Lincoln said and got up and left the cave. It was as if the captain had told him not to check or anything, and I gradually lost my ability to discern what was happening in the outside world, and everything was swallowed up by darkness in a state of confusion.
……
I had a strange dream.
The blonde girl stood in front of me and cried to me, saying that she didn't want to go to war either, and that it was the mechanical civilization that drove her here.
She doesn't want to die yet, she still has a beautiful youth, and she shouldn't have ended her life so soon.
She looked so lovely that I couldn't bear to see her crying all the time, so I stepped forward to comfort her.
Suddenly, she looked up at me and said that she would stop being sad and that she would just have to sew her head together.
In front of my eyes, her beautiful face was split in half along with her head. In my head, the red and white parts were clearly presented in front of my eyes like an anatomical diagram.
She rushed straight at me like this.
I instinctively backed away.
I tripped over something under my feet and fell on my back.
The girl pounced on me. Sharp teeth sprouted from the broken parts of the two halves of the skull, opening and closing towards me.
"No!"
I woke up screaming. Subconsciously raised his intact right hand to resist the terrifying mouth.
Someone grabbed my arm and broke it away.
"Zhao Ping, wake up!"
When I saw that it was Team Ruan in front of me, I was already sweating profusely. The broken leg was painful because of the excessive force.
"Whew...... Call...... Call...... It's a dream...... Call...... It's fine, it's just a nightmare...... Whew......"
Team Ruan squatted in front of me with a serious expression and handed me a standard pistol.
"Lincoln didn't come back, and I suspect he's going to collect the bodies of Robert and Richard. Now I'm going to go and bring that bastard back, and you're here watching the captive, and if there's anything wrong, kill him first. ”
With that, he glanced in the direction of the captive.
The captives were still sleeping, and the even snoring carried an enviable, sweet atmosphere.
I took the gun and nodded at the captain.
The dream was so scary that I still have lingering palpitations. The gunman was still shivering.
The captain looked at me unapprehendedly.
I took a few deep breaths and pressed my right hand with my not-so-sharp left hand, and the trembling finally stopped.
He patted me on the shoulder and turned neatly to leave the cave, like a swift panther that disappeared in the blink of an eye.
If only it could be as fast and sharp as Team Nguyen.
I looked at the entrance of the cave, and I didn't even believe myself if I didn't envy it.
"Really... It's a talent. ”
The awkward solar system slang pulled me back from my longing state.
I hurriedly turned around, and naturally aimed my gun at the captive, who had already gotten up.
He raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.
"Oh...... Take it easy...... I don't mean anything ......."
Instead of lowering my gun, I motioned for him to sit in the corner.
He did so before I lowered my gun and let go of the safety.
It was so careless just now.
I didn't expect him to be able to stand and walk so quickly.
If you stay in a daze for a while, you may have broken your neck.
"You...... You don't have to...... That's ...... for me I can't do anything about this. ”
The captive held up his hands to me, and I could see that the bindings were firmly tied to his two thumbs.
"You'd better be honest!"
I snorted, actually covering up the gaffe.
"You care."
"What?"
"Our reason to fight."
"Hmph, how could I possibly believe your nonsense. Besides, the reason or something, what's the difference? It is an indisputable fact that you have killed hundreds of millions of people. ”
"Solar System...... How many...... Population? Less to say a few hundred...... billion, if ...... When the mechanical fleet arrives, your losses will be ...... It's not as simple as a few hundred million. ”
"What do you think? If that mechanical fleet dares to come, we'll kill them too. ”
The captive looked at him with a sneer.
"Killed? Impossible, even us...... None of the fleets of glory will work...... You can't. ”
"What's wrong with you guys? Why must we be worse than you, if it weren't for your trickery before the war...... Wait, you say you can't? ”
It dawned on me that he had leaked a lot of information.
"What do you mean? Have you been defeated by the Mech Fleet? ”
He shook his head in embarrassment at my gaze.
"No, no, no...... There was no defeat, but the war was unfavorable. We need to be more ...... Big territory, more ...... resources to ...... with it They fight. ”
From his demeanor, tone, and attitude of vehemently denying defeat, I knew that a considerable part of what he said was true.
At least it's true that they're at war with some interstellar power outside of the solar system, and it's not going to be good.
But generally speaking, interstellar nations are taboo to go to war on both sides.
If it weren't for the disparity in strength, scattering resources and fighting with more than two enemies would be the way to death.
Looking at Proxima Centauri's war performance so far, they are quite professional, they don't look like the kind of force that would make such an unwise move.
The specific situation is too complex for me to analyze clearly.
But I can expect that we are not in a worse situation than we imagined.
Once the mind is opened, the information revealed by the captives alone can be greatly utilized.
For example, knowing that the enemy is fighting on both sides, we can completely adopt a different method of warfare.
Fortified Clear, relying on the deliberate abandonment of a large number of asteroids and space stations, depleting the enemy's defenders and weakening them by constantly harassing their supply lines.
As time goes on, the pressure on the expeditionary fleet will increase until it can no longer sustain the war.
Or we can resist aggression while liaising with the enemy's enemy and opening up a third battlefield in a new direction.
The combined forces of the two families launched an attack in an unexpected direction, which was a lethal strategy.
I'm not a military professional, and I can still think of so many feasible solutions, if the big men in the military know this information, maybe the current decline will be stopped.
I thought about it over and over again, and the more I thought about it, the more excited I became, and the more I thought about the extraordinary significance of this information for the war.
This is the strategic significance of the captives of high-ranking officers.
I glanced up at him.
I don't know if this embroidered pillow with a light appearance realized how much mistake I made.
Once the upper echelons of the solar system know and adopt this useful information, the tide of battle will change dramatically.
But is it really going to be that way?
After calming down and going back to detail, I realized that my thoughts were too wishful thinking and too idealistic.
Regardless of the distance with another power, if there is a mechanical civilization that is really willing to destroy the human race, can it successfully form an alliance?
Once Proxima Centauri is wiped out, will it be the next turn of the solar system?
From the captain's performance, it can be seen that the military may have known about the fact that the Proxima Centauri devils are fighting on both sides, why don't they take advantage of it.
Is it difficult to use, impossible to use, or simply impossible to use?
At this time, my brain was in a state of extreme excitement, and I instinctively ignored some seemingly unimportant intelligence information.
But my instincts, which helped me escape death many times, kept sounding the alarm.
By the way, why didn't you see anyone at the glance you just saw?
Where are the captives?
The cold touch on my neck pulled me back to reality.
I realized that I was making the worst mistake I've made since I joined the military, and I probably won't get the chance to make it a second time.
I had only time to reach my right hand between the metal that bound my neck when a tremendous force threw me to the ground.
The force locked my neck tightly, and I had to struggle to stand up against the side torsion.
The metal at my chin squeezed into my palm and pressed my right palm against the Adam's apple.
If it hadn't been for the timely cushioning of the palm, the Adam's apple would have been crushed by the piece of metal.
I was in a situation where my neck could be broken at any moment.
As the force of the neck tightened slightly, it became difficult to breathe.
Am I really going to die here?