Chapter 66: The mystery is solved
The Western Pacific is in a state of submersion.
"The body was successfully recovered and the maintenance began"
Char sent a message to Kia in the command and control room.
Half an hour ago, a mech, unknown to many people, successfully landed on the Timm Industries under the guidance of the Super Kraken Scout piloted by Lean.
"Would you like to come over and welcome your favorite 'parts'?"
Shirena looked at the surveillance screen that the body had landed safely and recovered, only the people in the cockpit came out, she looked at Scanos, but he didn't say anything for a long time, she had to ask first.
The man sitting in the command chair smiled helplessly, then stood up and just wanted to move and speak, but the sudden emergency communication broke his sleepwalking-like state.
"Vice Captain Shirena..."
"You'd better come over with Captain Scanos, I think we're in big trouble."
In the monitor screen, Leen held his hands up as he looked at him at gunpoint.
It wasn't until Kia projected the overall picture of the maintenance room that Shirena and Scanos felt that Leen, who had always been indecent and liked to joke, was not joking this time.
A scene in the maintenance room may not have been imagined by many people.
"I wish I could meet your captain..."
The young man was holding a pistol in both hands, the standard gun holding movement, his eyes were still paying attention to every move around him, he was really aiming at Leen's head, and Leen also habitually took off his helmet first, but even with helmet protection, if he was shot at such a close distance, even if it was not, it would be a serious injury such as a concussion.
"Su Zhan, what are you doing, put down the gun!"
"This voice..."Su Zhan didn't put down the gun, just breathed a sigh of relief, and continued, "Is Yu Frye right? ”
A figure finally squeezed out of the crowd, and that figure still felt familiar to him, but his face was much better than at that time.
"What the hell is going on?"
"All people here are sinners..."
When Yu Frye just wanted to explain, a very faint voice came from behind him and he didn't want to say anything more, and came out of the crowd directly, only to know that it was Xiao Tuo and others who called him, and Xilena and Scanos also rushed over at this time.
"Look at his eyes, and his hands with guns..."
Taku's words were whispering.
But he also told Yu Frye what he needed to explain, and he also noticed that when he was talking to Su Zhan, Su Zhan's hands trembled slightly, and the pupils of his eyes constricted, which was obviously caused by some stimulation and suppression, or that he himself was also restrained.
"Prepare SLM inhibitors."
Shirena also gave the order for people to prepare, and after a few minutes, she brought it back here, it was a small needle injection tube, and SLM inhibitors are used to regulate the hyperactive state of nerves in SLM carriers.
"I'll come, you can't get rid of him, I know Su Zhan very well."
Yu Frye spoke, he felt that with his knowledge of Su Zhan, he should be able to talk to him, and he would gradually get closer, but he was refused, and Shirena supported Xiao Tuo to go.
She put the needle in the pocket of her combat suit, took a deep breath and calmed down, and wanted to step forward, and immediately meet the person she had been waiting for, but she didn't expect to meet in such a form.
"Who the hell are you..."
"Who I am is not very important to you."
The first sentence of the reunion between the two people, one with a smile on his face, the other with doubts and pain, Su Zhan is the painful party, he is always avoiding and forgetting everything about her, but when she appeared in front of his eyes again, he quickly began to think about it.
The two perfect SLM carriers sensed each other very strongly, and this time it was Su Zhan's turn to feel uncomfortable, and the pistol he was holding with both hands finally fell to the ground unsteadily, and at this moment, Neuer and Le En rushed forward to hold him down, and then fell to the ground.
The young man did not faint after falling to the ground, he struggled to support his body with both hands, even if he could bear the pain, but the anesthesia and powerlessness could be said to have spread to his whole body, and he could only keep his eyes open and look closely at the woman who slowly walked forward to him.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect or instinctive fear, his desire to survive was stimulated to the extreme, but he could only let her walk over in front of him and pierce the needle into his body.
"Is this all a dream?"
In the last moments when his eyes were blurring and his mind was losing consciousness, he asked a short sentence as he collapsed in her arms.
"Dreams?" Still smiling, she propped up his body with her arms and whispered in his ear, "Guess, isn't it?" ”
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All the while, I felt like I was dreaming.
It was quite a long time ago when the young man recalled that he had been involved in these difficult things.
When he was a child, he had already lost his parents and relied on his sister to grow up and survive, and his sister in his impression was named Su Xiao, much older than himself.
At that time, Su Xiao was only a 16-year-old high school student, but he was already working and studying alone, and the two of them depended on each other.
There were even times when Su Xiao wanted to touch the dark side in the past, and she had no choice but to survive, so she was very entangled in her heart, if she did this, she would inevitably let her younger brother know, then this impact would be great.
After thinking about it a few times, she still gave up, but to talk about the actual situation, she is indeed a beautiful person, and she is also very talented, in order to raise him as much as possible, so that she will be sick and so on.
But even so, there was a time when she couldn't hold on anymore, and she followed the advice of an anonymous user on the Internet and went for something she hated.
However, it was also because of this accident, perhaps fate, that a traveler from East Asia, who claimed to be a traveling explorer, pulled her back from the abyss.
and decided to sponsor the poor siblings, and from then on she was finally at ease, and it was from here that his memory gradually became clearer, and he came out of the dark past.
When he was a teenager, he still grew up under the protection of his doting sister, and he took Su Xiao as an example of hard work and struggle at that time.
After his ability was discovered, Su Xiao was also shocked, not only because his physical fitness and learning were crushing his peers, but also in many aspects, such as reflexes and judgment, he was always right.
In fact, his potential has long surpassed Su Xiao, but he is reluctant to perform, because of a conversation, Su Xiao had a long conversation with the principal of the Army School in the Japanese Hi-Tech Heavy Industry Zone at the time.
Su Xiao didn't want Su Zhan to leave him, nor did he want him to work in a potentially dangerous job, so he declined the invitation.
Su Zhan actually knew about it, because the principal had also talked to him once, but he was not an adult at the time, and all decisions were in the hands of Su Xiao, the guardian, and he could understand why Su Xiao was unwilling.
After that, he tried his best to return himself to the ordinary, deliberately making himself worse and making himself ordinary again, so that Su Xiao would no longer be prejudiced against him.
His plan was successful and met his wishes.
As for why I thought that the principal of the army school would invite him with a lot of money and sincerity, there was a reason, and it started with a small accident.
Summer AD2146.
Su Zhan's school organized a visit to the military administration area, which was an opportunity.
During the event, you can experience the military life for several days under the guidance of professionals, and Su Zhan's talent in aiming and shooting from the beginning completely shocked the soldiers who led these students to serve for several years.
A boy who had never received military training and education, just by watching the video, was able to do better than these soldiers the first time.
And coincidentally, the principal of the army school happened to see Su Zhan's experience shooting, and at first he wondered why such an excellent soldier was still in such a situation.
He was even more shocked when he asked about it, which is why he decided to test the teenager again.
After three days of continuous testing, the principal, who had brought many excellent non-commissioned officers, decided to take the man with him.
"This little guy was born to be a soldier."
However, what really changed Su Zhan's fate actually came from three things, one was the two-year war between PU and ROEA, where he witnessed the war, the second was when he saw the motorized infantry in 2147, and the third was when he met Kecheng.
In Japan's Hi-Tech Heavy Industry Zone, he witnessed the body known as the "Black Immortal Bird", and it was also the first time that his SLM ability resonated with Kecheng.
Later, he came to Fipolos and unexpectedly participated in the war, witnessing death and disaster for the first time.
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A day later.
(AD2153, April 1)
The interrogation room in the Timm Industry is actually not very large, and it is not specially designed, but it is a simple transformation of a house with monitoring and recording equipment.
"Very good, I'm glad you answered truthfully, at least in line with the information we have."
The young man said that he would be interrogated again, and he sat quietly in his chair, his eyes were dull, and his expression was full of sluggishness, and he lowered his head slightly and answered the question slowly.
"I almost thought what you said was an April Fool's joke before I checked the information I gathered about you."
"Is there anything else you'd like to ask?"
Su Zhan's words were a little weak.
"So can you tell her where she is next, can you come and see me?"
"Rest assured, she's watching the surveillance too."
Leen was okay and continued to know something from this man's mouth, but seeing that he was a little impatient, he had to try to adjust the atmosphere first.
The people watching the interrogation room were basically concentrated in the command and control room, and basically everyone was listening carefully to this questioning, only Scanos and Yu Frye were whispering.
"How credible?"
"He should know a lot more, keep asking."
For the next two hours, it was still continued by Leen, and then changed from Leen to Xiao Tuo, but it seemed to fall into a strange atmosphere.
It's like the two of them are facing each other now, no matter what Xiao Tuo says, the man just nods and is silent.
"What's approaching...... It's fast, it should be a diving missile and ....... ”
The first thing the man said to her was that he seemed inexplicable.
"What are you talking about?"
"Xiao Tuo... Please tell your friends to intercept and counterattack now, otherwise it will be too late. ”
The people in the command and control room also felt strange, but Yu Frye did believe it, and Xiao Tuo was the same, and what Su Zhan said was by no means a diversion of the topic and making up stories.
"Did the NHSA know where we were?"
"I guess it's been exposed a long time ago." Su opened his mouth and shouted, he looked at the surveillance camera, "So, what are you going to do?"
He stood up, his handcuffed hands held up, and smiled slightly.
"It's hard for people to be suppressed for a long time."
Scanos understood what he meant, and ordered Tato to untie his handcuffs, which finally put him at ease.
He took a deep breath and walked up to Xiao Tuo and stroked her left cheek with his left hand, seriously re-looking at the girl who was so important to him for the first time.
"Wait a little longer."
She didn't have any resistance, but her heart was beating fast, and her fingers were still trembling slightly, she felt that this was not Su Zhan who was controlled by SLM, because his gaze was full of tenderness and seriousness, at least that's how she saw it.
Xiao Tuo nodded, grabbed his wrist with both hands and slowly put it down, then turned around and didn't want to look at the surveillance at all, and left the interrogation room directly.
"Isn't it good for us to watch this kind of scene?"
Shirena deliberately amplified her voice to look at everyone, and deliberately glanced at Yu-Frye, who had just quietly walked into the corner and wanted to slip away.
"Why do you like to be a light bulb so much when I was with Yuqing?"
"You're not like them."
Le En added.
Scanos remained calm, and he sent the communication from the interrogation room to him, and directly wanted to talk to Su Zhan.
"So, what exactly is the situation with the NHSA attack?"
"You don't have to do anything, of course I'll fly the mech as you hope."
Scanos turned his head to Shirena and asked, "SLM carriers can also read minds?"
He felt that it was time, at least Su Zhan had settled down, and the SLM concentration in his body had dropped to the normal range, and he was not worried about this young man messing around for the time being.
There was a bit of excitement in the maintenance room, and Humula and Char didn't expect to use the airframe so soon, so they could only keep asking Scanos to pause the operation.
"Captain Scanos, the airframe is not good yet, it hasn't been adjusted yet!"
When Humula communicated with the captain, Su Zhan was already in the cockpit of the fuselage, and he also joined in to communicate: "Don't worry, I'll adjust it myself next."
"Isn't this a good opportunity to verify that the final airframe scheme in the MSV program is correct, don't you say, Captain Scanos?"
"It seems that you still haven't told us a lot, and I'll talk to you personally when I come back."
"Understood, then I'm going to get started."
"Time remaining until completion of the water filling tank: 120 seconds"
The sound of the Alph system inside the ship sounded in the airframe communication piloted by Su Zhan.
「MSV-DP/XN」
"The Alph system is being prepared for ......"
The rotating Alph icon gradually changed from gray-white transparent to blue-white, and a large amount of data was being retrieved, which was why Su Zhan planned to manually debug it.
"Fill the water completely!"
This is the most ideal airframe in the "MSV program" without a name, only the designation DP/XN, which connects the two cores of the MSV with a high degree of coordination and synchronization to better control energy, and carries a new nuclear reactor and a new particle thruster.
It can be said that this airframe is the pinnacle of science and technology in this era, E carbon sp04 armor, the second generation of particle thrusters, can realize the switch between motorized infantry and fighter modes, and also has very good compatibility performance in the water in motorized infantry mode.
In terms of appearance, it looks more like "purple light", but the head is not an eye made up of triple monitors, but a super kraken.
"Hey, it's not good for you to set data parameters so messily..."
As soon as Humula said this in his communication with him, the body of the plane had already been activated, and it was quickly pushed out.
"What's going on with this mech......?!"
Su Zhan was taken aback, he had obviously set the parameters quite conservatively, and he thought that the settings of the body were about the same, but he didn't expect that the output would far exceed his estimates.
"Just take you here and vent my usual grievances."
For the time being, there is only one weapon equipped on the DP/XN, but this weapon is also newly developed and has not had time to test, and it is the multi-purpose composite gun sword that the body is currently holding.
Different from the conventional composite sword, it is not only the switch between the rifle and the blade mode, but the AP/HE bullet is no longer fired in the step* mode, but the plasma beam with weakened power, and the arc excitation device is added in the blade mode, which can generate a 3-4 meter long arc at the tip of the blade in a short time.
Su Zhan just took a brief look at the weapon data in the electronic board, and then planned to use it.
"Captain Scanos, I'd suggest you turn off the particle thrusters, the missiles that are rushing towards you can identify the source of the FT radiation, and your particle shielding may not be done yet."
"Understand, after you solve it, go to the predetermined location where I asked Le En to relax for you, and then start recycling, remember not to mess around."
For some reason, he didn't seem to hate this kind of commanded tone.
In addition, in the past, Su Zhan felt that the body couldn't keep up with his reaction, but now he can't keep up with the body, but he adapts quickly.
"The EAGEMA system is still the third generation of ......"
He glanced at the connected Egma Coordination System and remembered that this wasn't the fourth generation of the Deliverer equipped, which was why he didn't feel comfortable.
Due to the long-term environment of the fourth-generation Egma coordination system, Su Zhan has become more accustomed to that feeling, and suddenly the system seems to be downgraded, which will bring a short period of discomfort.
"In-water or particle propeller-mounted?"
Su Zhan temporarily guessed that this was the case, he had no way to intercept the missile that had just passed not far from the body, and the thrust of the particle thruster allowed the missile to move forward at high speed even in the water.
After capturing the footage from the monitor and identifying it by various sensors, he guessed that this was not an ordinary missile, and that the warhead was more like an armor-piercing warhead, which was obviously aimed at the weapon of a diving carrier.
When this weapon encounters interception and impact, it will also detonate at the tail end, and again gain instantaneous high thrust, so as to increase kinetic energy and cause higher destructive power.
"Is there any other model of the motorized infantry of the COMA2 unit other than that developed by Dr. Miller, and it is still used underwater......"
It wasn't until Su Zhan was able to observe the schematic of the sensor that he reminded him of what happened a few months ago, when Miller said that not all of his design for COMA2 was based on his design.
Tim Industries also received the data sent back by Su Zhan, and Xilena habitually displayed it directly on the large panel so that everyone could see it.
"Hey, that's huge, it's exactly the size of a small to medium-sized diving carrier."
"The length is nearly 80 meters, the diving speed is so fast, the particle thruster mounted type, how many secrets does the COMA2 unit have..."
Shirena also sighed when she watched it seriously.
"I'm on."
Su Zhan turned off the communication after three words back.
The DP/XN is only 19 meters long, and now it has to face a steel monster that is nearly 80 meters long.
It's not so much a huge steel monster as a steel lobster, because the shape is a pair of mechanical claws, the middle part is the cockpit, the belly is equipped with a device that launches that kind of particle missile, and the thick and long tail is the particle thruster that provides such a high speed, and it is two particle thrusters operating together, even if one is damaged, the other can still support the operation of the body.
It's not that Su Zhan doesn't have an advantage, his body is more mobile and can be easily dodged, but with his current weapon, the plasma beam can't be launched underwater, so he can only fight in close quarters.
"Dimensional System Activation"
Kumula has been looking at the state of the body, he can be said to be in a hurry now, he still thinks that Su Zhan is messing around, he has not debugged it at all, so easily starting the dimensional system, if it is not good, it will overload the body and then destroy it in the sea.
However, fortunately, the situation he predicted did not appear, Su Zhan controlled it quite well, and the white light shone on this low-depth sea area, and even if you look at the sea surface, you can see a luminous object very clearly.
"I thought it was something awesome......"
Su Zhan dodged quite easily, those two iron claws couldn't hit the dexterous DP/XN at all, and easily approached the cockpit in the middle.
The multi-purpose composite gun sword is directly pierced into it, and after the blade part is completely pierced, the arc excitation device built into the blade is activated, and the arc directly and easily melts the people in the cockpit.
Pulling out the weapon directly ended the dimensional system and turned to evacuate, moving to the predetermined position, Su Zhan was too lazy to care about this body, allowing this body to explode or run out of energy and sink.
When the Tim Industries received the data from the transmission, Scanos was calm, and many were frightened, as few people here had such proficiency in underwater combat as motorized infantry.
Humula and Char breathe a sigh of relief in the rearmament room, but at the same time worry about the future, because the ship has come to a madman who messes around at the slightest disagreement.
"Yang Yu, the ark of hope you once told me about, I have probably found it now."
He was speaking to the old man who had influenced him and had left because of him, but this time he was not just sad.
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Timm Industrial Settlement.
"Su Zhan, congratulations on passing the qualification examination and successfully joining Tim Industry (Ti)."
Xiao Tuo circled around the young man, observing him carefully.
"Honestly, I don't think this uniform looks good."
"I think it's good, you're a good fit for this dress."
There will always be a lot of words between the reunited lovers, and the relationship between the two of them has long been known to everyone, and almost everyone agrees with it, but one person directly refuses.
When Neuer talked about it with Su Zhan a few days later, he knew that it was Kecheng who said it, and it would not be long before he would go on a mission for the first time as Timm Industry, and the composition of the task team was Kecheng, and they would always meet.
Later, when Su Zhan went to Geng Zhi to ask in the communication, the man ignored it with a rigid face, and at Xiao Tuo's suggestion, he asked Xiyu.
The reply she gave was also thunderous, and the reason for Kecheng's refusal sounded roughly meaningful, that is, Xiao Tuo was Kecheng's awakening from a long hibernation, just like a hard-working girl, who gave it to someone else without her knowledge.
However, Xiyu also said at the time that this was just Kecheng's death to save face, in fact, he was still relieved, and she also kicked Kecheng to remind Su Zhan of a word.
"Don't let her get involved in the sorrow of black history again, you have to protect her at all costs."
At first, Su Zhan just thought that Kecheng was simply loved, but after in-depth understanding, he knew that Xiao Tuo and himself were both relics of black history, although they were both products of the "Artificial New Human Project", but in different ways.
That girl is different, it seems that this is a kind and lively girl, but her past and Su Zhan's past are full of sorrow and misfortune.
Tens of thousands of experiments were sacrificed in the artificial * medium growth, of which 2,000 died in the process of growth.
Through human manipulation, high-precision gene editing technology is used to modify the genetics, so that she has a fairly high concentration of SLM in her body since she was a child.
I also experienced a death crisis in my childhood, because the SLM concentration was too high to control, and the SLM inhibitory drugs were not developed at that time, so I almost died many times, and I had to artificially carry out gene therapy to indirectly reduce the SLM concentration.
It wasn't until she was just over ten years old that she gradually recovered her original SLM levels, but it wasn't long before the institute was hit by a biochemical leak.
The man who can be called Xiao Tuo's father - Hilbert Shanxin, this man concentrated the power of the entire research institute on the hibernation machine in the experimental stage at the last minute, and sent her into the winter machine at the age of ten years.
After that, Xiao Tuo hibernate for thirty years, and his body and consciousness were suspended at that age.
Xiao Tuo's original code name was "White", and the corresponding "Black" has long since died (1), Kecheng and Shoenodil are just replicants who have inherited 99% of Black's genes, and Thatcher is a defective product of Black Replicants.
"Note (1): The cause of death was involvement in the TPP's War of Independence against ROEA."
And Su Zhan is actually part of the plan to create "black", but he is the product of another route, not keeping all the genes of black, screening out all the genes related to SLM, and then mixing them with ordinary humans.
If you really want to talk about Su Zhan's life experience, in fact, he is the same as Xiao Tuo, and the truth is buried in the black history.
It doesn't matter in the past anymore, at least the two of them have already confessed to each other and accepted everything from each other.
"Let the flowers of love bloom."
Kia thought so, but Leen didn't, and he wasn't too interested in these things.
"The ship smells fresh."
Leen leaned on the chair, after changing shifts with Kia, he was on duty alone again this night, he looked at the one-on-one couple, envy and joy, he was envious that his friends had found happiness, and he was happy that he could continue to be free of sex.
He was just about to open some websites to have some fun, but he received a communication from Yu Frye, and he habitually connected directly.
"I said that you kid don't talk to Yuqing and say that you love to find me, what should you do, roll the sheets and get out, I'm very unhappy looking at you people now."
"Hey, I haven't said anything yet."
"Then you might as well tell me what is it that can make you come and disturb me suddenly?"
"Xilena, Yuqing and Xiao Tuo, and Shalier's women, you have to hold some welcome party for Su Zhan and me, why didn't you come?"
Le En felt that he must have done it on purpose, and asked knowingly, so he also replied in a subtle tone: "Then you tell Captain Scanos, how about I change people on duty tonight and tomorrow morning?"
"Of course I know you're on duty tonight, I mean you turn on the surveillance and go to the central assembly area."
"You're too much, aren't you, I want to die of envy, and I can only watch you guys play?!"
Leen turned the monitor over, at first he was a little upset and even wanted to turn it off, but gradually he suddenly felt that it seemed to be a good feeling.
The newsletter was then sent to Yu Frye.
"You and Su Zhan remember to leave some food and drink for me, Captain Scanos has been extorted from you for hiding the wine for so long, I want to drink it too, you must leave me a bottle."
"Shirena is already drinking, if there is any left, I must stay."
Le En was satisfied to turn off the communication and monitoring, and he was used to turning on the music he used to listen to, and then looking for fun on the Internet.
The song, called "Dawn", has a melodic tune that is sad first and then melodious, and he likes it, but he doesn't like the lyrics.
"Forget the darkness and bury it."
He just hates to forget the word.
Sometimes he felt that he was the same kind of person as Su Zhan, and as a young man, he was still on the journey, but he only felt that it was enough not to lose himself.