Chapter 10: The Break
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and although the Jones people have the Jones mothership, an all-round self-consistent system, they can't withstand the rising temperatures. The weather is so hot, but you can only huddle in the mothership, and the people below will inevitably complain.
"Why did you say okay to let us enter the dungeon, and then regret it?"
"I don't know, this is negotiated with them above, I don't know why, there's no follow-up!"
Hearing the people below talk so privately, Samantha was of course very uncomfortable. She has been the undisputed leader of the race for thousands of years, and has never faced a challenge from within. But this time, the situation seems less rosy.
"Governor, I don't think this will work!" Lehman said worriedly, "If we can't enter the dungeon in a short time, it would be better to just leave!" ”
"What do they know?" Samantha was angry, of course, but she kept her voice open: "Think interstellar travel is so fun? ”
Interstellar travel is certainly not fun, this Lehman knows, and most people know it. It's just that they feel that they have been delayed here here on Earth for too long. Since the beginning of the Hundred Years' War, the Jones have been entangled with the earthlings, and they seem to have found nothing except for a 10,000-year-old earthling who came through the wormhole and finally had some children.
But the bad thing is that these children, who are a mixture of two races, don't look very ideal. Jones people have thicker bones due to the gravitational pull of their home planet. When they arrived on Earth, they ran faster than Earthlings, and they felt very relaxed. This is not the case with these children, who do not have stout bones and seem to have inherited the size of earthlings.
"It seems that there is still a difference!" When Jones Lulu was there, he sighed several times: "Of course, they were born on Earth, which must have constraints on their size generation!" ”
But Jones Lulu didn't come back, she disappeared into the wormhole! How she couldn't come back, no one knows. It stands to reason that she had entered the wormhole before, and this time not only was she well prepared, but she should also be more sure that she didn't come back!
"Could it be that the earthlings are holding her back?" Someone asked. The space-time brand was discovered by Jones Lulu, because the space-time brand exists, and if Jones Lulu doesn't come back in time, she will disappear with the wormhole, she knows best.
"But why did he hold her back?" Someone asked rhetorically. Indeed, that earthling has always wanted to go back to his own world, and Jones Lulu took the risk to send him, and there was no reason for him to hold her back! Unless their crossing was unsuccessful.
"Why are you so polite to earthlings?" A lot of Jones people have this idea. In a group, the decision-makers are always in the minority, and the decisions are effective, and the majority will take them for granted. Mistakes in decision-making, or unsatisfactory results, most of whom do not participate in the decision-making, are enough to make comments and gossip. Earthlings are like this, and Jonesians, who have a history of civilization for hundreds of millions of years, are not immune.
"Yes! It's nothing more than sending an earthling back, and the technical director has to go out in person? Some people began to wonder if Jones Lulu was threatening Samantha's position, so Samantha deliberately wanted to get rid of her: "Our governor is too old! ”
Jones Lulu is the most qualified person to replace Samantha, and that is clear to all Jonesians.
The suspicion was so great that someone denounced it to Samantha. The person who raised this suspicion was immediately sentenced to 10,000 years of freezing and went into a hibernation capsule.
The others didn't dare to talk nonsense, but after all, many people knew about this suspicion. On the surface, no one dared to talk about it anymore, but it was needless to say what he thought in his heart, so Jones Moon found Samantha.
"Samantha! You're not going to do that, are you? "Jones Moon gets straight to the point.
"You doubt me too?" Samantha smiled wryly: "You also know that Lulu is too focused on research, especially the mysteries of the universe, she is almost obsessed!" ”
"I know! But now that someone below is saying that, I don't think it can be delayed any longer! Jones Moon said, "Otherwise, the people's hearts will be unstable, and our future will be in danger!" ”
"So what do you say you should do?"
"Attack the dungeon!" Jones Moon said, "I know you want those Earth kids very much, and we do need those kids. We're going to go into the dungeons, kill all their adults, or leave them there to fend for themselves, but we're going to grab the kids!" Then, let's set sail again, escape the scope of the Apocalypse, and find a new place to stay! ”
"Can you really do it?" Samantha asked, "You're best with that traverser, don't you care about killing all his friends?" ”
"If he's still around, there's a real chance I won't be able to do it, but he's gone!" Jones Moon thought about it for a moment and said, "Actually, if it's him, I'll do the same!" After all, the interests of our race trump all else! ”
"It's great that you can think so!" Samantha said: "In the end, the so-called earthlings are just the ancestors of our advance team who created them to transform our race so that we could better adapt to the new environment. We need their genes to increase our gene pool, but we don't need them! ”
"Alright, I'll get ready," Jones Moon said as she was about to leave, when Samantha stopped her.
"Prepare yourself," said Samantha, "and I'll try again to see if they will let us into the city." ”
Samantha contacted Xu Yunzhi again, and Xu Yunzhi answered, but it was still a voice call.
"I said, Governor Samantha, why are you in such a hurry!" Xu Yunzhi replied with a smile: "You said at the beginning that you came to the earth just to live quietly for twenty years, and now it's only been three years, and you say that the heat can't stand it?" ”
"It's really hot outside," said Samantha, "of course, it's okay to stay on the mothership, but it's always on the ship, and our people are in a panic." Isn't it a waste that your dungeon can accommodate two million people, but it only houses less than five thousand! So, let's take refuge in a corner, why not? ”
"Tell the truth, Governor Samantha," said Xu Yunzhi, "our people do not trust you now. Do you think, our Colonel Shu, because of his cooperation with you, the outcome is uncertain, and we think that most of us will not survive. And the Canis Major dwarf galaxy did not stop its pace because of his departure. So many of us say that the Jones people are the big liars! They couldn't believe it! ”
"We said at the beginning that it was just possible, and you Colonel Shu also thought it was worth trying, so we decided to let Jones Lulu send him back."
"Just tell her!" Zhang Jingyi took a piece of paper and wrote this sentence on the paper.
"Tell her what?" Xu Yunzhi also wrote.
"Tell her, and our Colonel Shu will also spread his mind! He heard you and Jones Lulu discussing that if he didn't cooperate with you, you would find a way to kill him and throw his body into a wormhole! ”
"What about you? All agree? Xu Yunzhi stopped writing and asked others directly.
"Agreed!" All agreed: "Let them come!" ”
"Professor Xu, what are you discussing? What agrees and disagrees? Samantha heard the conversation of the earthlings and was a little inexplicable, so she asked.
"We're discussing, should we tell you the truth!" Xu Yunzhi said: "Do you want to hear it? ”
"The truth? Then let's hear it! ”
"Very good, I'll tell you if you want to hear it!" Xu Yunzhi said loudly: "Our Colonel Shu has already spread his mind, he heard you discussing with Jones Lulu, if he doesn't cooperate with you, you will find a way to kill him and throw his body into a wormhole!" ”
Samantha didn't answer, and there was a dead silence on the communicator.
"Originally, we thought that you still had a little bit of kindness, but obviously we were wrong!" Xu Yunzhi continued to say loudly: "All along, you have only used us, and have never treated us as an equal race!" ”
"When Colonel Shu was leaving, he said that he had left me a small gift, which was a piece of paper with a few words, which read: Hello sisters! I'll keep their tech director in the wormhole forever, good luck with me! Good luck to all our friends on Earth too! Don't leave it at that! Zhang Jingyi then shouted: "We don't want God!" Let the horses come, Samantha! ”
Samantha cut contact.
"That's right! Just tell them and them off! Tang Liqing said: "We don't bear it anymore!" ”
"That's it! Orange Alert! Xu Yunzhi said: "Everyone prepare separately!" ”
Early the next morning after the call, three Jones motherships appeared in the air not far from the entrance of the dungeon, and as soon as they hovered, they began to bombard with ion cannons. The clouds were thick, and the lightning flashed and thundered...... For an entire day, the dungeon gates were shrouded in the ion cannon bombardment of the Jones mothership. However, the three gates of the dungeon are all assembled from boulders, do not contain metal, and were originally designed as ion-proof cannons, so they do not move at all.
"It's endless!" Elizabeth was at the front, and was shocked all over: "Boom, boom, what!" ”
"It's theirs today!" Zhang Jingyi, who was with her, said: "Tomorrow it will be our turn!" ”
Earthlings also have ion cannons, the original Martian base, and the dungeons. It's just that the technical ability of the earthlings is not enough, and the ion cannon cannot be put on the ship. The biggest drawback of the ion cannon on the ground is that it collects ions relatively slowly, and it has to save ammunition, so it can only be bombarded by the Jones at first.
When it got dark, the Jones finally stopped the bombardment, and the three Jones motherships retreated thirty kilometers.
"And thank you to the Jones people for helping us build the dungeon!" Earthlings rejoice. But some people don't think so, they think that the later construction of the dungeon is all done by themselves.
"Let's just say that this stone city gate is made of boulders, and the assembly method is the ancient Chinese method of building the wooden structure of the Forbidden City, without a nail or welding!"
After a tense day, everyone can finally take a breather. Xu Yunzhi convened a meeting of core members overnight to study tomorrow's combat plan. The members argued fiercely, and the main disagreement was whether to strike or not.
"We should take the initiative and combat their arrogance!" Elizabeth said. She is the captain of the special combat team, and she has never had the experience of being beaten inside: "I don't believe it, I can't open the city gate, they don't come down to the ground!" ”
"Then we'll have to wait until they get off the ship!" Tang Liqing said: "Otherwise, our people will be beaten as soon as they go out." ”
"You're used to being beaten!" Elizabeth laughed.
"Indeed!" Tang Liqing also smiled: "But there is an advantage to being beaten, that is, you know that you can't carry it hard and can't fight hard, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable." ”
"Sister Tang is right," and finally, Elizabeth gave in: "I'll wait for them to come down!" When they can't hold back anymore and get off the ship, we can attack and capture a few of their prisoners! ”