Chapter 21: Happiness and Crisis
The lake is clear and calm, about the size of a 1,000-meter playground in a military academy, but its shape is indeed round. A ring of guardrails stands on the shore, and the shore of the lake, a recreational road for walking, stretches in the distance, beyond which there are lush forests and rockeries. The area of this park is indeed very luxurious for the underground where space is scarce, although it has not been counted, but it is estimated that its area can be ranked among the top five in the country.
The five of them walked half a circle around the small lake, and came to a small square in the woods on the opposite side of the lake, where a stage had been set up, and nearly a hundred people had gathered under the stage, and five handsome young men were adjusting their musical instruments, and they all had a molecular knife pinned to their waists.
The non-standard molecular knife awarded as an honor that accompanies the sword soldier for a lifetime will not be taken back even if he retires.
And because veterans have superior resource rations, they don't have to worry about their future lives at all, and they all have a sense of life and death, so many singers, painters, and writers are veterans.
"That's great, I'll go to paint after I retire." Zhou Nan looked at the person who was adjusting the instrument on the stage, showing an envious expression.
Zhou Nan, Yi Ersan and Bai Hua with this expression have never seen each other.
Zhou Nan is very lively, she is an optimistic activist, and she seems to have only two options in her heart: happy and unhappy. And now, she would envy, and envy the lives of ordinary people.
"I thought you only had combat on your mind." Yi Ersan complained casually. From childhood to adulthood, Zhou Nan has been a small public act.
"If you have something you want to do, why do you still have a military academy after retiring?" The calm and sudden speech made everyone stunned for a moment.
Today, it's not just Zhou Nan who is a little abnormal, but also a little abnormal when he is calm, and he speaks so actively. Is it because he is always on the battlefield and does not adapt to this long-lost peace?
Zhou Nan smiled again: "Joining the army can save people, may there be no orphans in the world." ”
Looking at the simple and shining smile, Bai Hua smiled, and the corners of his calm mouth also showed a slight arc. The survivors of the Seventh Orphanage, all of whom joined the army for the same reason. But Yi Ersan's expression became solemn: death is necessary for this world and cannot be avoided.
Bai Hua also scratched his hair and complained: "Nannan has such an elegant hobby, it seems that my dream of being a gendarme has to be changed, Xiao Yi, what do you want to do in the future?" ”
"Xiao Yi's words will definitely stay in the army for the rest of his life." Zhou Nan patted Yi Ersan on the back and smiled, "They are all disabled and retired, and they have been re-admitted to the military academy, Xiao Yi will definitely become a big man in the army in the future." ”
"Please, hug your thighs." Bai Hua teased, looked at Calm and showed a meaningful smile, "Calm will always stay in the army." ”
"Yes." Calm just nodded briefly.
"Little fish and little deer, you guys." Zhou Nan curiously squeezed into the middle of Yuli and Lu Ming.
"Little fish?"
"Fawn?"
Yu Li and Lu Ming were both stunned by Zhou Nan's affectionate and casual name.
"Hey, hey, hey, let's talk about it." Zhou Nan's elbow poked at the abdomen of the two and grinned.
"I went purely for SCS extra points, if it weren't for the extra points, I wouldn't have returned to the military academy." Yu Li unreservedly said the truth that there was no military consciousness at all, "Three years of military school, and another 2 years of service, at the age of 21, I can retire and marry a rich and handsome man, and then open an ice cream shop, no, the candy store is good." ”
"My idea is similar to Xiaoyu, in order to earn points, I will open a homemade jewelry store in the future."
"Uh......" Everyone squeezed their eyes, the "dream" of these two people is really real.
The so-called "SCS" is the abbreviation of Social contribution score, which is generally not used in daily life, unless you need to consume non-essential goods, such as excessive consumption of food, clothing, owning a car, etc., and opening a store requires passing the contribution assessment and using a large number of points.
The future, the dream.
Yi Ersan couldn't face these two words. He tried his best not to let himself think too much, and then inadvertently looked calm, just like in the previous hatred class, the eyes of the two instantly intertwined, but this time there was no communication from the depths of the soul last time, but it was more shocking than the last time.
Because, calm is smiling!
Calmly turned his head slightly to look at Yi Ersan, revealing a gentle smile, which was far more able to blow away the dense fog in Yi Ersan's heart than a false sunny breeze.
When Yi Ersan came back to his senses, he found that he was still expressionless when he was calm. Is it a delusion? Still is......
"Ah, here we go!" Zhou Nan shouted.
As the prelude of passion began, the stage and the audience suddenly became enthusiastic, Zhou Nan and Yu Li cheered, and even the shy deer was infected and shouted in a small voice. And in the crowd, Bai Hua looked back and saw Calm and Yi Ersan standing outside the crowd, leaning on the railing by the lake.
Those two are always alone.
"Did something happen?" said calmly and lightly, she can always detect Yi Ersan's inner changes at the first time.
"Well, I'm a little confused." At this time, Yi Ersan was sure that the calm smile just now was not an illusion.
"Yes." After a short conversation, Calm didn't make a sound, just stood silently beside Yi Ersan, watching the lively performance not far away.
The calm surface of the lake ripples neatly, and the silence is in stark contrast to the bustle.
"Calm down, I'm ......"
Rumble!
Whoa!
The surface of the lake suddenly exploded, and the column of water that rushed to the sky turned into a downpour of rain, and a huge body swept over the heads of the two men and smashed on the pavement paved with red bricks, and the 46 sharp thorns on the short and fat body flashed with a cold light.
“yasha! (Yaksha!) Yi Ersan and Calm exclaimed!
The hundreds of people around the stage were stunned by the sudden loud noise, and they were completely unaware of what was about to happen when the countless cold and compelling sharp thorns appeared in their field of vision. For people living in the metropolitan area, they may not have really seen an alien drone once in ten or twenty years.
The Tokyo metropolitan area is the safest place.
Unlike ordinary people who are paralyzed by comfort, Yi Er San They are soldiers!
"Run!" Almost at the same time, Bai Hua, Zhou Nan, Yu Li, and Lu Ming in the crowd all shouted out with the loudest voice they could.
Compared with language such as "Yaksha is coming", "Alien", "Danger", etc., the word "run" is easier for ordinary people to understand, can also be shouted faster, and can trigger people's conditioned reflexes to danger.
At that moment, it was as if a piece of red-hot iron had been thrown into the icy water, and the crowd that had been stunned for an instant exploded like the surface of the water.
"Ahhh
In order to get a better social evaluation, he deliberately shows a good moral level, and at this moment, he is instantly wiped out. Humility? Courtesy? All of these things were instantly replaced by fear and death, as if they had never been in the bodies of these people.
People ran in all directions, pushing and colliding were inevitable, and the petite Zhou Nan was like a boat in a huge wave, being bumped into by the crowd and falling to the ground. Zhou Nan fell, and then the people who fell caused more people to trip, and in just an instant, more than ten people fell to the ground.
Falling down while encountering an alien drone means death, as it only takes 0.1 seconds for them to lock onto the infrared body signature of a human! Alien drones are designed to "kill humans", so how to kill people efficiently is the basis of all judgments made by these machines.
There are nearly 100 people in front of it, and on the other side, there are only Yi Ersan and Calm Two, so this Yaksha chose a large number of audience groups as the target. In densely populated places, the Yaksha usually curls up into a sphere and uses its 46 sharp spines like a hedgehog to rampage through the crowd.
It's like a bowling ball hitting a pin, but the difference is that the "pin" here will be torn apart the moment it hits! In the face of extraterrestrial organisms, either die or survive unharmed, and the proportion of injuries is very low.
At the moment when the Yaksha locked onto the crowd and began to curl up and deform.
It was as if people's breath and time had stood still.
Directly in front of the Yaksha, in front of the stage, nearly a hundred people ran to the woods on both sides, more than a dozen people fell to the ground and looked in the direction of the Yaksha in fear, and even a few people had fainted from the stampede.
Zhou Nan had already stood up, and Bai Hua grabbed the excited Yuli and Lu Ming. Lu Ming and Yu Li were originally very excited, but after Bai Hua completely held their hands, the urge to rush up to save people disappeared slightly. Armorers and snipers without Miga rifles are of no use in the field of battle with alien mechs, and will only increase casualties.
The five-piece band, which was originally a veteran swordsman on stage, rushed off the stage, preparing to evacuate the crowd and rescue the audience. For them, who were once soldiers, this was almost a reflex action.
In the direction of the Yaksha, the two men ran towards the Yaksha. Running in front is calm, with long hair flying, and the curve of the hips when running in stride is quite attractive under the wrap of denim shorts. She bent down as she ran and picked up a stone on the ground. Maybe it was hesitation, maybe it was the relationship between the mechanical legs that were not flexible enough, and Yi Ersan ran behind.
In the crowd, Bai Hua maintained the posture of blocking Lu Ming and Yu Li, and turned around and shouted: "Don't let it deform!" ”
The Yaksha that turns into a sphere cannot be broken, because in that form, its whole body armor is not thinner than 1 centimeter, and even a molecular knife cannot cut it.
As he shouted, he calmly threw the stone in his hand.
Bite~
The stone smashed into the Nakshatra's body.
Being hit by a stone and being hit by a bullet makes little difference for Yaksha, and the attack power is negligible. As a result, the alien body cannot tell whether it has been hit by a bullet or a stone, so the stone thrown by Zhou Nan is taken as an attack, and the Yaksha enters the "danger judgment" procedure.
If the "danger" is judged to be likely to have a devastating effect on the organism, the organism will prioritize the removal of the danger, and if it is judged to be "non-destructive", the organism will ignore the attack and pursue the human further.
"Little fish and little deer! Take refuge! Xiaobai, let's go! Zhou Nan snatched the long knife from the waist of the band member, reversed the direction of his body, and ran towards it!
"Great!" Bai Hua also practiced as if he had practiced a long time ago, rushed over with Zhou Nan, and took out a small pistol from his pocket.
Seeing the two rushing out, the band member who had been robbed of the molecular knife shouted, "Come back!" ”
And the calm people by the lake didn't look at Yi Ersan, ran directly in the direction of the stage, and said wordlessly: Don't move here!