Chapter 15: Race Against Time
Shenchenhai mentioned Academician Murong, of course Long Xingyi remembered that it was he who gave Long Xingyi a "certificate of innocence" from a technical point of view, and now when he mentions it, Long Xingyi is still a little grateful.
According to satellite detection, after Murong Shaokang's spacecraft was shot down, he made an emergency landing in Huaiyang Town, on the edge of the desert. I see where you are going. The spaceship that picks you up arrives in an hour, rescues Academician Murong, and boards the spaceship before the Skynet project is restarted! Hades commanded.
"Yes!" Lei Ling replied, and then looked around at a few people around him, a veteran, two rookie eggs, and two technicians...... Such a team is a bit reluctant to go to unknown terrain to carry out search and rescue missions. But the order was given, and he had to obey.
"I heard that Academician Murong has some important information to share with us, and it is important information about the 'Judgment Day', so we must do our best to rescue Academician Murong who is intact." Stygian Sea's expression was extremely serious.
"It's not like I haven't done the search and rescue mission, use you to fart!" Yoon Jin-dong's stubbornness flared up again.
"That...... The signal isn't very good! Then I'll hang up first, Commander. Long Xingyi hurriedly covered Yin Zhendong and hung up the phone.
"Now we have another hour, the destination remains the same, let's go!" Lei Ling said.
When hope was rekindled, everyone seemed to have strength again. Several people got up from the ground together, looked at the burial place of their comrades behind them, and set off to continue their journey.
After 20 minutes, Lei Ling's team finally climbed the high platform and arrived outside the gate of Huaiyang Town. The crowd rested outside the gate.
"The defense of the township is not as high as that of the city, and if the alien beast invades, I am afraid that the town will already be a hell on earth at this time. After entering Huaiyang Town, we must be on guard everywhere. Lei Ling made his pre-war speech.
"Just now, the commander-in-chief sent my PC the location of the crash site of the spacecraft, let's take this place as the center and search around, we should be able to find Academician Murong quickly, right?" Long Xingyi suggested.
Lei Ling nodded, "Be careful." ”
Several people put on their mechs and entered the gates of the town that had long been destroyed.
Judging by the shops and signs lining the streets, it seems that this used to be a prosperous town, but now the only thing that walks the streets is the glazed puppets.
"There are only puppets, and there is no trace of the undead, and it seems that there is only an alien beast invasion here." Yin Yuting said in a low voice.
Lei Ling walked at the front of the team, staring ahead, and said through the communication system inside the mask: "Try to use laser guns, ordinary rifles are too noisy, and it is easy to startle snakes." Strive not to trigger a large-scale attack until the rescue ship arrives. ”
Long Xingyi looked at the location on the PC, pointed to a smoking place in front of him and said, "It should be there, the crashed spaceship." ”
The six-man team moves silently and quickly as if they were playing Resident Evil, clearing only a few golems with laser guns when necessary on the way.
Even so, the number of golems on the road is still increasing, perhaps because they feel the presence of a living person, or they are alarmed by the sound of the ship hitting the ground earlier, and the closer they get to the landing point of the spaceship, the more the number of golems increases.
"After walking for so long, why don't you see a strange beast?" Long Xingyi became more and more suspicious as he walked, and finally couldn't help but ask.
"Isn't it ...... It's time to take a nap, right? Luo Bing timidly whispered.
Everyone present was silent, but Long Xingyi laughed. "Girl, are you here to sell cute?" When Luo Bing heard this, he also smirked and stopped talking.
After walking for a short time, several people finally saw the crashed spaceship in a small clearing. The hull of the ship left a long ravine in the originally smooth road, the sides were crowded with stones, and the head of the ship had been deeply embedded in a private house, and like Long Xingyi's spaceship, the stern of the ship was also burning with unfinished flames and thick black smoke.
"Let's go in first and take a look, we have to act quickly, if we are ambushed by strange beasts here, there is really no way to survive." Lei Ling said.
At this time, Pei Xiling suddenly pointed to a puppet in the distance and said, "Look! The puppet was wearing the uniform of our command center driver. It seems that the personnel inside the ship have been attacked. ”
“…… And the beasts are nearby, probably lurking somewhere staring at us. Long Xingyi expressed his hunch.
Lei Ling thought for a while, and then said, "But people still have to be saved." Let's hurry up, if we find the puppet that Murong Shaokang has turned into on the way, we will directly terminate the operation, find a safe place and wait for rescue, if we don't find the puppet he has become, then we have to go in and check it. ”
"Yes, a human life, in case it is still alive." After Yin Zhendong finished speaking, he looked at the dense group of puppets in the distance and sighed. He also knew that an intellectual had little chance of surviving in such an environment.
After a few people were ready, they scattered in fan-shaped squads and covered each other's advances. Along the way, he used laser guns and laser swords to kill the puppet army that stood in the way, but he never found any trace of Murong Shaokang.
When the team arrived near the ship, the hatch had fallen off the hull, but it seemed to have been reinforced and was diagonally hidden in the doorway. Yin Zhendong and Long Xingyi stepped forward to open the hatch, and a puff of black smoke from the charred object came to their faces.
"Long Xingyi, you know Academician Murong, Team Yin and I are observing outside, you go in and search! Come out as soon as possible. Lei Ling said to Long Xingyi.
Long Xingyi nodded, lowered his body and got into the cabin, and Yin Yuting and the others also entered the spaceship together.
"Can this mech help in the search for survivors?" Long Xingyi asked Yin Yuting.
As soon as he finished speaking, a line of text appeared on the mask: Signs of life found. Immediately, on the edge of the row of seats in front of the cabin on the mask, a red humanoid silhouette appeared, next to which a line was displayed: "Signs of Life: Weak".
"I'm going to check the communication system." Pei Xiling said, and took Luo Bing and walked straight in the direction of the cab.
Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting held their guns and cautiously walked to the vicinity of the lifeforms detected by the mecha.
Sure enough, it was Academician Murong, but his situation did not seem to be optimistic. Murong Shaokang's abdomen seemed to have been torn by a wild beast, leaving a large jagged gap, blood was slowly flowing out of the wound, and Murong Shaokang himself was already dying.
When Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting saw it, they immediately put down their guns and ran over.
"Academician Murong!" Yin Yuting shook Murong Shaokang's body.
Murong Shaokang slowly opened his eyes, saw the two masked mecha in front of him, and asked, "...... are you?"
Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting lowered their heads to avoid the smoke above, took off their masks, and suddenly a smell of burnt flesh came to their nostrils. Long Xingyi endured the smell of scorching and said to Murong Shaokang: "It's us!" Academician Murong. ”
Murong Shaokang also vaguely recognized Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting, "Ah...... Thank you, thank you......"
At this moment, Lei Ling's voice outside suddenly remembered in the helmet: "Not good! There is an ambush! Evacuate! ”
When Murong Shaokang heard this, he suddenly used all his strength to grab Long Xingyi's arm: "Conspiracy!" Tell the commander-in-chief...... Judgment Day ...... Conspiracy ......" After saying this incomplete sentence, he collapsed in his seat like a deflated balloon, never to wake up.
At this time, Pei Xiling and Luo Bing came out of the cab, "The communication system can still be used!" I've just contacted the Covenant and the ship is already on its way. ”
Yin Zhendong was outside the spaceship, and when he heard this sentence through mecha communication, he didn't have much joy, "According to the original plan, it will take them more than ten minutes to arrive, and we may not be able to hold out for more than ten minutes!" ”
"Let's go! Go out and have a look. Long Xingyi said, and then glanced back at Murong Shaokang's cold corpse, "Shall we bring Academician Murong's body back?" ”
"Let's be cremated on the spot!" Yin Yuting said, "Otherwise, it won't be long before he will become a puppet like those outside." ”
Long Xingyi nodded, and together with Pei Xiling, moved Murong Shaokang's body to the tail of the spaceship and threw it into the flames. He watched silently for a few seconds, as if he could hear the hissing roar of the golem outside in the flames.
Long Xingyi turned around and was just about to go out with the others to assist Lei Ling and the others, only to see that Lei Ling and Yin Zhendong had already come back first. "Not enough firepower! Quick, plug all the gaps, and don't let them in! Wait for the fire support of the rescue spacecraft. ”
So the six of them were divided on both sides, relying on the ship's cabin as a barrier, waiting for rescue.
There are more and more alien fighting beasts outside, and many of them are lying on the outer wall of the spaceship, scratching the iron sheet outside the spaceship with sharp claws, trying to dig a hole out. The others rushed to the two openings, and were repelled by the fire of several people inside the ship.
It seemed like a long time here, and a few people tried their best to repel the strange beasts outside, but their gunfire attracted more fierce beasts from afar. A loud roar came from a distance, and everyone's hearts were suddenly pinched.
"It's the mother!" Lei Ling said, "When will the spaceship arrive?" If the Mother comes, we won't be able to defend against it! ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard an explosion outside the cabin, which shocked several people and almost ringed in their ears. But the short tinnitus can't stop their hearts full of joy.
The smoke dissipated slightly, and Long Xingyi and Yin Zhendong took the lead in getting out of the engine room and looking up. Just as they wished, a spaceship was above them, firing high-energy laser cannons at the alien beasts around them.
The high-energy laser cannon on the spaceship is different from the conventional laser gun on the earth, and the power is huge, and under the strafing of the high-energy laser cannon, the surrounding beasts have turned into ashes. The spaceship covered the six people on the ground, and talked to Lei Ling through the communication system, "I'm the pilot of Rescue No. 1, Commander Lei Ling, please board the ship quickly after we land, there is a lair of alien beasts around, and more scarlet scorpions are also coming in this direction, I'm afraid I won't be able to deal with it too late." ”
Lei Ling smiled: "Don't worry! We're in a better hurry than you! Hurry up! ”