17 The attack is on the way

The time shown on the screen in Research Room 2 is 13:13 on March 14, 2104, and the man with a submachine gun standing in front of the screen is Lucien Brown, the mastermind of the mutiny.

After the exhaust fan sucked up the aerosol dust used for firefighting, Gao Jie and the others finally saw the current situation clearly: Lucien and two "medical personnel" from Brazil and Germany were armed with weapons and grasped the initiative on the scene, the commander of the space station, Miller, was pressed to the ground by the tall Germans, and the "Brazilian medical staff" we had already known pointed their guns in the direction of Gao Jie and Ryan.

Gao Jie and Ryan didn't know what was going on, and they subconsciously raised their hands because they were being robbed. Müller was muffling something that the translator could not recognize, while the German rigidly advised him to shut up, and he could still be heard calling Miller a "liar" and saying that he had "deceived everyone".

Gao Jie took the opportunity to check the situation in the room: there was no damage at all in the place where the explosion occurred just now, the survival cabin was intact, and there was not even a trace of the explosion - could it be that there was no explosion at all just now? But the three of them were indeed knocked to the ground by the exhaustion and explosion of the air wave, and this kind of senses would not deceive.

Here, Lucien got down on one knee to check on Miller's condition, and was about to say something, when suddenly he noticed that Gao Jie and Ryan were still in the room, and motioned for the Brazilian to take them out.

"You two, come with me!" The Brazilians held their guns at the two of them, and Gao Jie and Ryan did not dare to act rashly, so they had to obey her orders. Before leaving the room, Ryan looked back to see Lucien turn off the button on the extractor in the room, "Don't turn around, Yankee!" The Brazilian reprimanded, and the three of them left the room.

The two were escorted to the public conference room, where they were surprised to find that the rest of the station were there, and that they were guarded by the station's third "medic", who was leaning against the wall and looking up at the ceiling, his gun hanging haphazardly, as if he didn't take the person in custody seriously. The third "medic" is from Russia, and it is clear that he is also here to avoid participating in the control of the commander who is a compatriot.

After the handover between the Brazilians and the Russians was complete, Gao Jie and Ryan were sent to a public meeting room, where they were "imprisoned" with the rest of the group. Seeing Gao Jie and Ryan being escorted over, Shilka immediately ran over and hugged Gao Jie, and she said with tears in her eyes, "It's good that you're okay!" I never found you, and almost thought you had an accident. ”

"We're all right, Shilka," Gao Jie saw that everyone was okay, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground, "what the hell is going on?" Why are you all here? ”

"Just now the three medical guards told everyone to come here for a health check-up, but as soon as we came in, we were contained...... "Silka said in a low voice, "They have guns, we don't dare to move...... Oh, you know what? Miller lied to us all......"

Shilka was about to continue, when Ryan interjected: "I've figured it out: the three 'medics' on the space station are also security personnel on the space station, and this position is deliberately hidden, only the commander and a few people-"

"Uhh

"Alas, the sound of manually opening the hatch is so ugly." Someone next to him complained.

“…… It appears that the three security personnel were successfully reversed by Lucien. Ryan continued, and from the presence of people at the scene, it could be inferred that there were only four mutineers - Lucien and three security personnel from Brazil, Germany, and Russia.

Gao Jie agreed with Ryan's analysis: "Lucien understands what it takes to rebel, of course it's a gun, and it just so happens that these three people have access to guns!" ”

"And ......" Ryan suddenly understood what he was about to speak, but he noticed that he had interrupted Shilka's words just now, so he hurriedly asked Shirka to continue, "I'm sorry, what were you going to say?" ”

Shilka looked around cautiously and whispered to the two: "Lucien came just now and told everyone that Miller had deceived us, and he said that the manned spacecraft that arranged for the evacuation of our relatives had been converted into an armed spaceship, and there was no room for relatives to board the ship, and they were abandoned!" ”

"What?" "Impossible, right?" Gao Jie and Ryan couldn't believe their ears, but as they subconsciously glanced at each other, the two of them showed their expressions again.

"Sure enough, it's their style of acting, it's what they betrayed us first." Ryan clenched his fists and frowned, expressing his displeasure with the decision-makers on Earth's side.

"Not to mention Lucien, anyone can not accept this reality, and Lucien has turned this anger and hatred into action!" Gao Jie always thought that Lucien was a very simple and straightforward person, and he was not good at intrigues, so in the face of such a unilateral betrayal of the earth, it was logical for him to launch a rebellion on the Minerva.

One can imagine the shock and anger of the space station members when they learned that their relatives did not board the fugitive spacecraft, which is why the Russian security guards did not take their guard duties so seriously - because everyone present was actually a potential mutiny initiator and supporter, who was betrayed by the Earth side first.

"Do you see the commander?" Shilka asked worriedly.

The two nodded: "Miller is controlled by them, and should be coerced into coercing to cooperate with their rebellion......"

"But whether Miller is willing to cooperate or not, as long as the decision-makers on the fugitive fleet know about the Minerva's mutiny, it will become very dangerous here!" Gao Jie suddenly realized something.

"Why do you say that?" Shilka was puzzled.

Gao Jie shook his head and said, "The decision-makers will not allow a huge space station to exist that threatens their escape, so they will strike first, and we may have been locked in, and the attack may even be on the way!" ”

"Is it so scary?" Shilka said with his hand over his mouth, a little incredulous.

Ryan also agreed with Gao Jie: "Gao, you're right! The way to avoid being attacked now is to end this rebellion as soon as possible......" As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, "No, no, no, if we are no longer useful, even if the rebellion ends, they may attack us!" ”

Gao Jie saw a panicked look on Shilka's face, and hurriedly said: "Don't be in a hurry to judge, at least our situation will be relatively optimistic before May, of course, we still have to solve the mutiny." She then raised her doubts about what had just happened, "Ryan, isn't that a strange explosion just now?" ”

"Explosion?" Shilka was even more nervous, "What the hell have you been through?" ”

"Don't worry, no one was hurt." Gao Jie hurriedly reassured her friend.

"It wasn't explosives or mechanical explosions," Ryan recalled, "more like an explosion out of thin air in the air, but just a blast of air." ”

"yes, I think it should be some kind of N-particle effect." Gao Jie affirmed his judgment.

Ryan expressed support: "I thought so too. N particles only exist in Labs 2 and 3, so it's no wonder that Lucien dared to rebel...... They shouldn't have gone that well, though. ”

"Why?" Shilka and Gao Jie asked together.

"I'm just speculating," Ryan said in a low voice, "have you noticed that the station's AI is turned off?" ”

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The time on the screen jumped to 14 o'clock, and at that moment, the British correspondent, coerced by the mutineers, sent a message. (Communication equipment can be operated separately bypassing AI, and there are three communicators and the commander himself who have the right to use it.) ）

Within forty minutes, the message from the Minerva space station reached the Earth communication station, and the person who received the message read the message displayed on the screen: "Minerva will officially betray human civilization immediately".

A look of surprise appeared on the staff's face for a few seconds, and then turned to a cold expression, as if this was supposed to happen and had nothing to do with the people here. The crews are just routinely receiving information from spacecraft and space stations, seemingly just making sure they are functioning properly, and have long been indifferent to what they are sending from.

Because they all know that there are no spacecraft on Earth that can fly to Jupiter's orbit - now all human beings on Earth have been abandoned, and ordinary people are still in the dark.

Ever since the confirmation of the reality of the Nt fleet approaching Earth, the call for fugitiveism has never ceased, and has gradually increased over time. Although the development and implementation of the "Stellar Project" alleviated the panic and brought hope to a certain extent, with the failure of the second interception operation, the upper echelons of the Earth almost completely abandoned all means of resistance and spent all resources on the "Human Escape Program", including the "Armed Spacecraft Modification" incident we mentioned earlier - resulting in the relatives of most of the Minerva space station members not being able to board the escape manned spacecraft as originally planned. The decision-makers understood, of course, that this was planting the seeds of the Minerva's mutiny, but they had no time to think about the consequences of doing so.

The Watchman's passage through the wormhole marked the official implementation of the "Stellar Project", and dozens of days later, the Minerva began to receive intermittent Morse codes from the wormhole, but these interpreted "control orders" could not be used to restrain the Nt fleet, which made the fugitives more justified to implement the human escape plan. Due to their eagerness to escape from Earth, they even advanced their original escape plan by more than half a month, and no one felt the need to inform Minerva - in their eyes, the Minerva space station was basically worthless, and some speculated that there would be a rebellion on Minerva to stop the human escape plan.

Unfortunately, they guessed right.

When the Human Fugitive Fleet received the announcement of the Minerva's mutiny, the decision-makers who had not entered the hibernation module were not surprised at all, and they almost instantly reached a consensus that the Minerva space station must be destroyed quickly! They weren't afraid of Minerva itself, after all, it wasn't an armed space station, what they were afraid of was that the rebels would crash into a wormhole with Minerva and ambush them in an unknown cosmic region. So it had to be done quickly, and the Minerva couldn't be aware of their attack.

So an armed ship mixed with N-star technology launched a "space mine" at the Minerva - a stealth missile that could not be detected by any artificial radar, and although it did not have the destructive power of a nuclear bomb, it was enough to reduce the Minerva to ashes.

According to the AI calculations of the fugitive fleet, the estimated time for the "Space Mine" to hit the Minerva is 18:00 GMT on March 17.

Barring a miraculous twist, Minerva and its crew will instantly turn into cosmic dust under the bombardment of "space thunder".