Chapter 1654: Hope
Guo Linan sat at his desk, enjoying a rare leisure time, a pot of tea in front of him, the office was quiet and could even hear incense burning slowly in the incense burner, Guo Linan was emptying himself, thinking about nothing.
Compared to a few days ago, he has half the hair and twice as many wrinkles on his face.
At this time, the Moon's orbital acceleration weapons were being recharged, and this was his rare rest, and after the bombing area had been selected, the entire lunar base would not be able to carry out other communication work for twelve minutes.
In the past twelve minutes, no more bad news has come over, which is Guo Linan's biggest relaxation.
A week ago, the first psionic awakened person appeared on the moon base, a senior mechanic who was temporarily recruited by the relevant departments, and while working in an outdoor environment, he accidentally cut through his protective suit with a tool.
At that time, it was during the charging period of the railgun, the communication system was offline, and he persisted in an oxygen-free environment for seventeen minutes, and if it were not for severe frostbite, the auditors of the relevant departments would not even notice his presence.
After the mechanic was quarantined, he mysteriously disappeared into the isolation cell, and the search team later found the frozen body in the same place where he had previously worked.
The deceased apparently survived in a vacuum for a long time, long enough for him to draw a blasphemous symbol on the ground fifteen meters in diameter, but fortunately he died before he could sacrifice his own flesh and blood, due to the low temperature and lack of oxygen.
During subsequent investigation, investigators found several lines of diaries-like conversations on the walls of the isolation cell, carved into metal walls with fingernails.
"It keeps getting me out... I don't want to go out, it's cold outside... I don't want to paint anything hell... I just want to go home..."
"It told me to look for a spacesuit... No, I don't want to wear a spacesuit ... Whatever it wants, I just don't want to wear a spacesuit... Without a spacesuit, death in eight minutes ... I'll give it eight minutes, hahaha..."
Obviously, on Guo Linan's invisible level, the brave mechanic fought to the death with the chaotic will in his mind, and he finally adhered to the bottom line of being a human in a compromise way.
But what if the next awakened person doesn't have such a proud soul? How long can a lunar base last in such an environment?
With a slight shaking, the entire lunar base resumed firepower, and the adjutant outside the door gently knocked on Guo Linan's door: "Sir, the weapon has been activated, and it is expected to destroy the target area in two hundred and twelve seconds." ”
"Tell Captain Wang to keep him and his men as far away from the target area as possible." Guo Linan replied routinely: "It is a plain area, and even if there is a one-ten-thousandth error in the scope of damage we estimate, they are all vulnerable to accidental injury." ”
"It's a pity, sir, four minutes after the communication system went offline, Captain Wang's signal was completely offline, and there were no formed human forces in the area." The adjutant sent a document: "This is the latest order from the military to use annihilation bombs to carpet strike the area. ”
Guo Linan didn't say a word, and signed the document, this is the fifth agreement he signed for the use of annihilation bombs, which means that outside of North America, there are already five regions that once belonged to human civilization, which have completely lost the traces of human beings, and have been reduced to a dead domain, or worse, a sacrificial ground for chaos demons.
"How's the STC equipment deployed?" Guo Linan accidentally pinched off the signature pen in his hand, discarded it casually, and replaced it with another one.
"Eighty percent of the STC equipment has been deployed, but the corresponding material preparation has been delayed a lot." The adjutant took out another report: "Relevant training in its use is also underway, but there are many people who question the significance of equipping STC equipment in this case." ”
"Including you?" Guo Linan raised his head and smiled.
"Yes, including me, sir, if the base falls, we won't be able to regroup, even with the STC equipment." The adjutant replied honestly: "I know that these STC equipment can even build a small base from scratch, but does it really make sense?" ”
"Maybe it's really as you say, it doesn't make sense." Guo Linan looked at the dark universe outside the window: "Because if all the bases with such perfect precautions have fallen, even if a simple base built by a group of people in a semi-manual way can be built, what is the point?" ”
The adjutant quietly waited for the follow-up answer, and the doubts in his heart were exactly that.
"Because of hope, these STC devices are hope." Guo Linan's voice was a little hoarse: "If everything that exists is destroyed, at least those who are still alive know that there is something here that can rebuild everything they are accustomed to, can rebuild the entire civilization, and hope is the most important weapon for us to fight against chaos." ”
"I see, sir." The adjutant asked again: "But why don't we just tell everyone?" ”
"Because we still have a tough battle to fight before civilization is destroyed, instead of directly telling everyone that we are finished, we are ready for the end of civilization." Guo Linan waved his hand and let his stupid adjutant disappear, and stood there alone waiting for the next bad news to come.
At this time, Guo Linan was a little envious of Yang Yuefan, at least that psionic person could overlook the whole world from a higher level.
Yang Yuefan, who was envied by Guo Linan, was in the New World at this time, and he stood not far from Issinger looking at this magic barrier, feeling the traces left by Xu Yichen here.
Xu Yichen's process of advancing to the legend was recorded by the sea of spiritual energy like a diary, and there was no omission.
Yang Yuefan saw countless Zerg individuals being killed here, and the impact left by those insects that could use psionic energy was particularly clear.
And the most striking thing is the nest owner.
The projection left by the nest master in the sea of psionic energy even retained a little self-consciousness, and it stretched out its tentacles towards Yang Yuefan blankly, and its dissipating will was still calling for the swarm fleet.
Through the nest master, Yang Yuefan saw an incomparably vast world, although those worlds eventually turned into a barren land under the attack of the Tyranid swarm, it was still a rare beauty.
It was the real world, Yang Yuefan greedily obtained the information of the outer universe, and refused to let go of a detail.
He knew that this might be the closest opportunity to the real universe in his life, and in the face of increasingly powerful spiritual energy, Yang Yuefan had calmly accepted his fate.
Strip yourself of your free will, turn yourself from a human being into a simple machine, into an existence that can only distinguish between right and wrong, in order to get rid of the results of corruption.