Volume 1: The Rainbow of the Old World Chapter 13. oath

The red rays around them dragged the shadows very long, and the lights hanging from their chests shot out dusty beams, and the soldiers walked cautiously and briskly, they crossed the shoulders of their comrades in front of them, and looked at the passage that was barely reflected by the dimming emergency lights, the slope was slowly becoming sloping, and occasionally someone was too nervous to stop their feet, as if they were walking into hell step by step.

Lu Yuan noticed that the signal grid on the visual armor was also decreasing, and asked in his heart, Is the condition of this reactor too bad to support the ship's internal network? It stands to reason that a deliberately redundant backup energy system should be able to replace it for a while.

"Why isn't the backup system turned on?" Lu Yuan stopped and asked the sergeant major of the security force who was checking the terminal of the cabin.

The sergeant major took a little effort to open the terminal console, looking at the fluorescent blue screen in a fog, he seemed to have found something, but even knocked enter several times to no avail, then he turned around and said helplessly: "The main lines here are basically intact, but all the power has been pumped to the front of the battleship, leaving a very low operating power in this area, which can only ensure that the life support system and the hatch are opened." ”

"Can you find out what's going on with the reactor?"

"Nope." The sergeant major shook his head, left the terminal and moved on. "Now that the system authority of the warship has been tightened, especially when it comes to core components, the rank of the officer on duty at the base cannot find out the specific situation of the reactor, and I can't do it."

"Maybe the bridge needs to be guarded with concentrated power." Lu Yuan thought for a while and explained. A battleship as huge as the Corona has a lot of energy to keep its outer shield covered, especially after the damage to one of the main reactors.

The sergeant major stopped talking and returned to the queue, but Lu Yuan understood what he was going to say.

If the bridge decides to abandon the damage site, then why waste precious power here?

The slope lasted for a long time before turning flat, and the road ended in front of the abyss-like lifting shaft, Lu Yuan threw a bullet casing down, and he couldn't hear an echo for a long time, so he had to call the mecha to force the right and carry a conveyor track, but it was still several meters away from the opposite bank.

"Boss, are you sure you're going to do this kind of young man's work?" Seeing that Lu Yuan had found a cable, Zhang Yueyang immediately leaned over and said.

Lu Yuan glanced at this kid and said, "Lao Tzu is not dead yet. He then wrapped the rope around his waist and refused several other paratroopers who offered to ask for help.

"Do any of you have a higher training rating than me in the quarter?" Lu Yuan said as he climbed over the mecha's arm, he stood on the track across the abyss, and the space between the tracks was not small, and this thing was not designed to be stepped on.

"Shut up if you don't." Lu Yuan said, he lowered his body slightly, stared at the opposite bank, and started suddenly, stepping on the center of gravity with great precision in every step, and then reached the last grid, and jumped hard!

Just when Lu Yuan should have stepped on the opposite shore steadily, there was a "boom" explosion, and the whole space began to tremble violently again, so that the soles of Lu Yuan's boots slipped directly, and the cable tied around his waist pulled him crookedly, as if he was dragged down by a pair of invisible giant hands, and Lu Yuan narrowly grabbed the fire ladder at the edge of the lifting shaft to avoid falling.

Lu Yuan climbed back onto the opposite shore and laid the cable piles for the latecomers to slide over one by one, but it was much more difficult for the mecha behind to come over, and they had to pull up more cables to cross. Lu Yuan thought that the increasingly dense vibrations were indicating that the Corona was continuing to be under siege, leaving a few people behind the palace and continuing to go deeper with a large army.

The passage outside the reactor is particularly intricate, the temperature rises quickly, but it doesn't stop there, the filter device that loses power makes the air quickly filled with toxic substances, Lu Yuan saw a large number of reactor engineer corpses without gas masks along the way, everyone was extremely heavy, they guessed that most of these dead people fainted and passed out under the subversion of gravity, and then were unknowingly poisoned.

When he really entered the core area of the reactor, Lu Yuan, who was in the combat suit, was already sweating on his forehead, and the poisonous gas was so thick that the poison filter core had to be replaced every two or three minutes, fortunately, there was no sign of enemy invasion, Lu Yuan sent some civilians who volunteered to follow to search for possible survivors, and the military police led the engineers to retrieve what damage was in the huge reactor, but when Lu Yuan walked along the reactor loop for less than two quarters of an hour, the answer was presented in front of him.

The various pipes that were shattered smashed many blast furnaces attached to the reactor, and the plasma that could not be consumed normally overflowed, eroded the protective cover, flowed to the bottom of the arithmetic matrix, and further melted through the partition downward, and there were dozens of plasma waterfalls hanging in front of Lu Yuan alone! This is still the aftermath of the zero-point destruction bomb that has gone through the defense outside the ship and the armor of the hull!

Lu Yuan swallowed his saliva and waved his hand to move forward, and the road was full of broken sections, spewing out steam that was enough to roast acquaintances in an instant. But after this period of time, the temperature dropped sharply, and the ice sculptures stood quietly around the bursting cooling line, and the leaking superconducting coolant froze so that the mist condensed in front of Lu Yuan's armor, and he didn't dare to wipe it, for fear that his hands would also freeze.

The crowd walked silently along the road, and the Marines remained outside the icy electromagnetic cooling ring to prevent the enemy from coming in along the pipeline.

The Scrap Gate, which resembles another external gate, is as thick as the ship's hull armor and will not open easily. But the declining index of the barometer was telling Lu Yuan that the structure here was incomplete. The paratroopers stopped in front of an airtight door at a distance, collected engineering robots at Lu Yuan's request, remotely controlled them to activate their weapons, and dismantled all equipment that could be used by invading enemy forces.

"Would the enemy risk this stupidity, Boss?" Zhang Yueyang asked, they waited for a while, but still did not move.

Lu Yuan debugged the communication, listened to the report from the reactor, and then said indifferently: "If I were an imperial Yankee, I would come, and as soon as I came, I would come to a few heavily armed brigades." ”

"Then it doesn't make much sense for us to leave this place."

"Someone has to come and watch, do you want to ask a group of girls in the base to guard here with guns?"

"Hey, what a terrible thing to say, boss, what did I say about the reactor?"

"It is said that it can be rescued and rescued, anyway, plugging a little hole may be able to make a difference, and it will definitely take a long time."

"This ...... Do you think there will be reinforcements, boss? ”

Lu Yuan glanced at Zhang Yueyang, sighed, and said, "How many times have we been airborne?" How many times did reinforcements come on time? How many times have we been purely on our own? ”

"Didn't you notice in the base that the passage to the front of the middle of the hull was locked? Instead of staying there and listening to the noise, it is better to be quiet here, and if you are lucky, you can really pull the two imperial cubs on their backs, and you can be decent. ”

Zhang Yueyang turned his head to look at the paratroopers who were also chatting, and this group of people who crawled out of the pile of dead people didn't care too much. So he said quietly: "Then do you think we can go home this time?" ”

"Perhaps." Lu Yuan replied, he took out a cigarette hidden in the outer pocket of his combat uniform, sniffed it through his helmet, and said, "Do you remember what home looks like?" I can sometimes forget what Bai Jiyue looks like. ”

Zhang Yueyang laughed happily and said: "Boss, you don't have Alzheimer's disease, Miss Bai's face really shouldn't forget, I teach you, if you can't remember, you can pluck your ears, the force should be heavy, and it should be as heavy as Miss Bai's." ”

"Fuck your uncle, I'm talking about Lao Tzu's shame."

Lu Yuan just wanted to stretch out his foot and kick over, but Zhang Yueyang's face suddenly became solemn, and he shouted: "Listen! It seems to be a popping sound! ”

He rushed to the airtight door and put his ears on it, while Lu Yuan analyzed the frequency of the vibration, and soon, they all came to a conclusion.

"Get ready to fight! Space Mode! Lu Yuan shouted. So all the guns were aimed at the rumbling and trembling airtight door, and a speck of light appeared behind the door, reflecting the dark passage.

"Steady~ Steady!" Lu Yuan shouted, staring at the airtight door that was becoming more and more overwhelmed, the light behind the door froze, and exploded in the blink of an eye, as if the heartbeat stopped for a beat, and the strong shock wave caused the paratroopers to lean back, and they were immediately swept upside down by the airflow storm to the cover.

"Enemy space infantry invasion! Shoot! Lu Yuan shouted, with the help of combat clothes, Lu Yuan adapted to the vacuum state in a few seconds, a large number of imperial infantry in single propulsion boats were pouring in, and the pulse bombs of the paratroopers killed more than a dozen enemy soldiers who rushed to the front in an instant, temporarily forcing them to find cover and slow down the offensive.

Through the faint light that seeped into the cracked airtight door, Lu Yuan saw the chiseled and shattered Tonghai Gate at the end of the passage, just such a glance, the stalemate situation changed again, and the suppressed imperial infantry actually jumped out one after another, and were killed by the paratroopers one by one without care, and the fire fiercely suppressed the paratroopers and couldn't move.

The pulse bullet quickly hit the muzzle of the gun, Lu Yuan pulled out his pistol and shot a single shot, the enemy was close at hand, the blood mist rose behind the shattered helmet, the depressurized spacesuit was wrapped in a headless fly, and the residual heat of the pulse wave continued to make the air around Lu Yuan scorching, and it was cold and silent in the vacuum. Within a few minutes, the enemy army broke into the remote control robot.

"Save fire! Alternate retreat! Lu Yuan shouted.

The dense fire blockade once again stalled the enemy's momentum. But the paratroopers had no heavy weapons, no air raids to control the field, and no even the most basic paratrooper mecha.

Lu Yuan struggled to drag a wounded comrade-in-arms and was about to tie him up, but he shook his head with a smile and pushed hard. With a "ding", the grenade safety ring flew out.

A ball of fireworks rose and suddenly drowned in the black and red waves, the aftermath swept across the land, he kicked with both feet, scooped up the suspended magazines, turned back and fired, the recoil of the gun carried him back, he pressed the communication button, roared, and tried to send the message back to the bridge.

"I am Lu Yuan, the commander of the 28th Paratrooper Brigade! My men are blocking the invading enemy forces at the sea gate of the No. 2 main reactor, and behind me is the reactor under repair, and I need urgent support! ”

His voice vanished in the infinite universe, his oath flickering in front of a bridge operator's answering machine.