Chapter 15: Tasks
"Laupa Administrative Star, please answer, Laupa Administrative Star, please answer, is there any survivor ~~~ Please answer immediately~~ The fleet is about to execute ~ Nuclear bomb strike ~~ Survivors, please evacuate immediately....."
Since the day of the invasion, the star network of Laupa Mine Star has never received any information until Nataya accessed it once through spiritual enhancement, and then she was unlucky to be targeted by the fat brain worm, and chased it day and night for five or six days... Because Nataya had rarely touched the Star Net before the invasion day, she didn't feel any inconvenience. However, for the Third Space Fleet of the Federation, which had been fighting a tragic battle with foreign invaders for many days, the silence of Laupa and the asteroid belt was a terrible thing, and they were completely unable to assess what kind of ground strength the invaders suddenly appeared in their defense zone and whether they had other important tactical or strategic objectives.
"Laupa Administrative Star, please answer, Laupa Administrative Star, please answer, are there any survivors~~~Please answer~~ The fleet is about to carry out ~Nuclear bomb strike~~ Survivors, please evacuate immediately....."
In the Third Fleet Commuter Command Center, all kinds of information interaction equipment are flashing, and commands from the command bridge are transmitted to all places that need to be commanded through artificial intelligence analysis or the voice of the information officer, whether it is logistics or the line of fire.
"General, we have tried all the methods of contact, all the information nodes on Laupa's side are in a state of silence, today, the 4th Airborne Engineer Corps of the fleet in order to lay short-range radio amplifiers, more than half of the technical armor is lost...
The man standing on the Cambridge remained unmoved. He crossed his arms in front of his chest, pressed his left and right hands on a half-man-high saber in front of him, his tall and burly figure matched the square face shape of the ravines, with a thin layer of short black hair like steel needles, and under his thick eyebrows, a pair of piercing eyes were looking at the huge earthy yellow planet outside the bridge control tower.
"If, we're not here to protect them" The tall man still didn't show any expression, but released his right hand from the hilt of his sword and pointed at the huge planet on the optical screen. "If, we are not here to protect our wives, children, parents, friends, brothers. Why are we dying here? Floating in this pitch black, no one even collects the corpse"
The entire bridge held their breath, and following the general's fingers, on the optical screen, those barely visible fragments of floating objects outside the huge planet suddenly became extremely dazzling, and suppressed emotions flowed back and forth in everyone's hearts. In less than ten days of fighting, the losses were too heavy, and the general stood here three days ago and has not returned to his room until now.
Admiral Quill spent his entire life in the Third Fleet, leading his deployment from a junior lieutenant to the triumphant part of his deployment to the present day. Almost every battalion headquarters, every mechic brigade, and every bridge of the Third Fleet bears the mark of his work, the soldiers he personally led, and the glory of victory engraved by him.
The Third Fleet of the Federation is even the only place in the entire Federation Army that does not have an officer's canteen, because the general is not used to eating, and his favorite thing is to watch hundreds of people sit together and grab food lively.....
In the past two days, the canteen has been significantly deserted.
By the time these unknown intruders entered the defense zone, the fleet had just completed an all-round exercise around the asteroid, so much so that after the alarm sounded, most people thought it was still a drill. But this is not the reason for the heavy losses of the fleet, Quill is convinced that the Federation ace fleet can play its maximum combat capability in any state. However, the enemy's combat data is too scarce, so almost all of the current experience in fighting the bugs, and the knowledge of the swarm troops, are exchanged for the lives of the officers and men of the Third Fleet.
"From now on, keep short-range radio communication, before there was no star network, our ancestors fought and saved people like this!" General Quill withdrew his hand pointed at Laupa, put it back on the hilt of his saber, and closed his eyes as if transformed into a sculpture.
"This is Laupa Mine Star, and I am in the Xinghai Mining Dispatch Center. Again, this is Laupa... "When this reply was transmitted from the radio sequence node in space back to the commuter command center of the main ship of the Third Fleet, the informant almost thought that his ears had been shattered by the weapon. It wasn't until he received this message for the second time that he confirmed that he had actually received a reply from Laupa. For the first time, the radio band was connected to the bridge, which was a request made by the general for a long time, and it was only today that this order had a chance to be carried out.
"This is Laupa Mine Star, and I am in the Xinghai Mining Dispatch Center. Asking for time to retreat, I'm still looking for a ship to leave here, the starport has been taken over by those bugs," Nataya's voice echoed across the bridge of the Third Fleet's main ship.
"Listen to this voice, I should still be a child" As this reply floated through the bridge loudspeaker, Quill opened his eyes and smiled for the first time in half a month. "Tell me about you, child, what's your name"
As Nataya waited for the man who was about to drop the nuclear bomb to reply, Nataya waited for a reply from the man who was about to drop the nuclear bomb. Apparently on the bug-infested planet Laupa, thousands of civilians and soldiers died on this battlefield. A channel that issued a nuclear bomb warning.,Suddenly the painting style changed to a gentle bass.γγγ For Nataya, who was born to protect herself, how to answer such an unreasonable question became a fatal matter.
"That's right... I'm a registered Union soldier now! Nataya looked at the string of numbers in the lower right corner of the projection helmet and immediately replied in a similar manner, "Report to the chief, I am a private in the local mining garrison of Laupa, numbered LPTSD0713, my name is Nana"
"Nana... They used such young soldiers to ....." The tone of the voice seemed to be lowered several degrees from the previous one, and then the style of the dialogue took a strange turn.
"Private, this is the Federation's Third Space Fleet, and I'm Commander Quiel, Quill Saviras. Now give a brief report of what you have seen and experienced these days
It seems that the old adage that tells a lie makes up for it with a hundred lies is so true. Nataya can only bite the bill and continue to play herself as a dutiful underclass. General, Quill Saviras... What the heck.... Probably a big official, sitting in the command room surrounded by heavy warships, ready to listen to a little soldier who will be bitten to death by insects or bombed by nuclear bombs at any time tell her history of escape, blood and tears...
"Report sir, the only thing I can do in the past ten days is to run away. There aren't too many bugs on the ground, it's just that they're currently infecting all the inhabitants of the Laupa Settlement and Star Harbor, and I haven't found a way to escape yet," Nataya wrote about herself, she just hoped that the heavenly magistrate would give her a boat so that she could get out of this hellish place quickly.
"Private, you're in a bad situation right now," the other end of the radio paused slightly, "We are in the near-star orbit of the Laupa Mine and those bugs are evenly matched, and we don't occupy air supremacy, and the possibility of the airborne troops coming to the ground is almost non-existent." We've seen it for three days in a row, and they're growing in Laupa's breeding area, and they should be able to use the energy in the ore crystals to increase their reproduction rate. If this continues, we will definitely lose the war of attrition. "General Quill said today probably the most in the past few days.
"Sir, airborne won't work, and you have to avoid bugs using the ore crystalsγγγγγ In other words, did you throw this nuclear bomb on my head? . . . β
General Quill raised his head differently, this little guy shouldn't have heard of his reputation at all, it's the first time in his life that someone interrupted his lecture... When he heard that he was going to throw a nuclear bomb on her head, Quill laughed even more.
"Number 0713, Private Nana, please follow my orders to perform a mission, if you can't complete it, I will shoot you!"
It's over, Nataya knows that each of these officials has good intentions, and she regrets it after saying that sentence just now, even if she hasn't been a soldier, she also knows that she should try not to offend the officials... It's just that if the nuclear purge really starts, it will be impossible for me to escape. By the way, if you can't do it, just hide in that big pit just now! But if the whole ground is bombarded, and the pit collapses, won't he die faster...
Before Nataya's ramblings were over, Quill's voice rang out again
"The communication nodes of the Xinghai Mining Dispatch Center in the external airspace have all been destroyed, but the system of reverse contact with all the mining areas in the asteroid belt should still be usable. Your mission is to ---- activate the backup line immediately and issue an escape alert to all asteroid mines. Although we can't link to Xinghai Mining from the Star Network, I have already obtained the backup of the pre-war database, and there are still two mining commuter machines in Xinghai Mining's hangar that are being maintained, and the hangar is diagonally opposite the square outside the dispatch center. All you have to do is go to the asteroid belt, tell them everything that's going on here, take them to consume or destroy as much of the ore as possible, and then move to Kannada. β
"To put it simply, your task is to --- survive and lead more people to live, and I will try my best to help you hold off ..... sizzle"
The radio signal disappeared again, leaving only a stray electric current, which sounded like the sound of the wings of a jumping insect rubbing against the air as Nataya was chased by the bugs. It's just that now Nataya is not afraid at all, but has some warmth in her heart.
"It seems that the communication sequencer has been destroyed by bugs again... Anyway, you don't need to fix it. Adjutant, please write down her number, after Laupa was purged, her military files on the ground base station could not be returned" Quill said to the huge yellow planet in the sky, "Laupa Mining District Guard 0713, if you successfully complete the mission, I will transfer you to my fleet as a civilian officer... Nana..... I heard that the voice was about sixteen, not as old as my daughter. β
"Received, I'll do it" The adjutant put his legs together, saluted and turned away. The entire bridge fell silent again with the passive termination of communications.
"Well, then, I accept this task, Commander!" Nataya whispered to the communicator that was full of noise.