"We're close to our goal, sir. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info" The miserable white searchlight hit the dim metal passage, the red indicator light on the helmet's mask was constantly flashing, the blue and white images lit up on the big screen in front of Ye Kexin, and the sound of heavy breathing continued to come out of the stereo. The metal passage that was supposed to be brightly lit was now unrecognizable, the walls were scorched black by the flames, and the explosion caused the metal to be opened one by one, and the sharp edges were supported in the passage, as long as you were not careful, the space combat suit on your body could be scratched. The tattered weapon box was scattered to the ground, and the MG-1986 rifles contained either intact points on the brackets, some broken in two, the tight parts inside were scattered to the ground, and the rifle bullets equipped with the institute's special metal bullets were also lying on the ground in a mess. Some of the lamps and cables on the passage have been cut off from the middle, swinging weakly in the air, spewing electric sparks outward. As soon as the screen turned, Ye Kexin saw the bare surface of the moon and the blue planet in the distance, half of which was covered by shadows.

"Major Brownton, prepare for battle, the enemy should not have time to withdraw." Ye Kexin frowned and said, "A team of people will carefully explore the site and make sure that there is no danger after the maintenance team can come to you." ”

"Yes, sir." There was a sound of rifle loading in the stereo, and six MG-1986A "Scorpion II" special low-recoil rifles for space warfare had been loaded, and then Major Brownon's voice sounded again, "Marko, you stay here with the second team for on-site exploration, and I will move on." ”

"Got it, sir." Lieutenant Marco responded.

"The rest of me goes." Major Brownon raised his gun and moved slowly forward with two TSAS, carefully taking every step, as if he were a senior bird trainer, having played eagles all his life, for fear of being pecked by eagles.

"Be careful, Major Brandton." Ye Kexin reminded, "I will provide you with a radiographic scan of the surrounding area at any time, and your goal is to search for the third door." The maintenance team can't get through, and I need you to manually open the third airtight hatch, where a maintenance team is already on standby. ”

"Understood, sir." Major Brownon nodded, "I can't shoot if there's an emergency." ”

"When the time comes, the command of the battlefield will be in your hands." Ye Kexin responded, and then glanced at the map next to the screen, "Be careful, there is a passage broken ten meters in front of you, the width is about three meters, can you jump over?" ”

"It's okay on Earth." Major Brownon chuckled twice, then turned to look at the two sergeants behind him, and said to the two sergeants behind him over the intercom, "Wait a minute, I'll be the first to jump, then Lanch, and finally Adams." ”

"Yes, sir."

"Got it, sir."

The two sergeants replied in unison, and Major Brownon turned his head, put his middle finger of his right hand together with his index finger, and made a forward gesture next to his helmet, before taking the first step. The two sergeants behind him followed closely, while nervously holding their guns to guard the passage in pitch black, with only occasional flashes of electric light. Sweat rained down everyone's sideburns. They can't help but be nervous, after all, they are now in a vacuum, and the only thing that isolates them from the outside world and maintains the air pressure is the space combat suit on their bodies, as long as there is a hole in the space combat suit that is less than a centimeter long, they will definitely lose pressure and suffocate to death within ten seconds, which is enough to frighten anyone in such a situation, even if they are trained TSAS. All the same, no exception.

The three of them slowly approached the collapse point, and Major Branton made a gesture to stop the two sergeants behind him, while Major Branton poked his head forward slightly, and the lights on both sides of his helmet illuminated the bottom of the collapse point. In fact, it is not as deep as imagined, the following is just the passage on the next side, and the distance from where I am to the collapse point is only four meters, in this environment of loss of pressure and weightlessness, even if Major Brandton falls, he will not fall to his death, but the fatal thing is the break between the anti-collision net and the metal ground, and those sharp metals are the fatal injuries that fall from here. Major Brownon took a deep breath.

"Be prepared. I'll come first. Major Blanton hung his rifle back on the magazine, then took two steps back, ready to sprint forward and jump over the fault, "Ready, run!" ”

Major Brownon shouted, and ran forward three steps, then jumped heavily, and looked below the collapse point, where a dark shadow flashed.

"What's that!" Major Brandton shouted, his body in the air slightly out of balance, but soon Major Brownon maintained his balance, but when he landed, he still rolled on the ground, "Confirm! Confirm! Something just passed under me! Brandon reported to Ye Kexin through the walkie-talkie.

"Relax, Major, nothing, that's just an illusion, you need to rest, I've got hot tea and rum-flavored cream cake waiting for you at the end of your mission. Now take a deep breath and relax. Ye Kexin glanced at the channel scan, and every five seconds the ray scanner scanned the channel, but Ye Kexin didn't find anything other than Major Branton and the three people commanded by Lieutenant Marco behind Blanton. Ye Kexin concluded that this was a hallucination caused by Major Brownon's too nervousness.

"I hope so." Major Brandton gasped for air, sweat seeping through his undershirt. The Major re-removed the rifle from the magazine, "Ranch, it's your turn." ”

"Got it, Major." Ranch lifted his guard, hung his rifle on the magazine, and followed Major Brandton's example, took a few steps backwards, then ran forward and leaped to his feet, but he did not reach the other side of the fault.

An arm-thick object suddenly protruded from beneath the fault and wrapped itself around Sergeant Ranchi's ankle.

"What!" Lanchi exclaimed in surprise and immediately reached out to take off the rifle from the magazine box and shoot it downward, but it was too late, and the black object contracted violently, pulling Lanchi under the fault.

"Ranch!" Sergeant Adams shouted, and immediately stepped forward to jump under the fault to bring Ranch up, but his action was stopped by Major Brownon.

"Stop, Adams! That's an order! "Go back to Lieutenant Marco, exit the passage from where you came, and tell the people outside to break through from outside the base!" ”

"But what about you, sir?" Adams stopped, his sober mind telling him that he would only lose his life for nothing.

"Leave me alone, execute the order immediately, I still want to eat cake and drink hot tea with you." Major Brownon said half-jokingly.

"Good luck, sir." Adams didn't say anything more, just nodded at Brandton, wished good luck, and turned to run away.

"Sir, what's going on, didn't you say nothing, I lost a soldier!" While questioning Ye Kexin about the economy, Burranton retrieved the information of Sergeant Ranch and marked it with M・I・A. Missing in battle, Brandon didn't want to lose such a good soldier, and he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

"I kid you not, the radiographs didn't show any results, not even a single shadow." Ye Kexin quickly tapped the keyboard with both hands, mobilized the scan records one by one, and compared them with the maps in the passage, but except for finding a box lying messily in the center of the passage, he did not find anything else, and the next layer was not as seriously damaged as the previous one.

"But I lost a soldier, do you understand, sir?" With no way out, and the radiographs wouldn't tell him anything useful, he could only move forward, and the visible area was only a small area illuminated by the light on his helmet. Why is there no infrared imaging in this damn bullshit helmet! Brandton cursed loudly in his heart.

Without the team, which meant that no one could guard his back, Brandton moved forward slowly, even if it was just a little wind and grass that would make Brandon lean back against the wall for a while, originally less than eighty meters away, it took Brandton nearly ten minutes to touch the airtight hatch at the end of the passage.

"I'm at the first gate, sir." Brandton gasped, "Tell me the password." ”

"The password is ************************ (for the sake of secrecy, an asterisk is used here)" Ye Kexin read out the password, and his colleague glanced at the corner of the screen showing the life supervisor of Major Brownon and the utilization rate of the equipment, "Your heart is beating too fast, Major, take a deep breath and relax." Don't gasp for air, you're only 20 percent oxygen. ”

"You're nervous here, sir." Brandton complained, but still obeyed Ye Kexin's command and calmed his heartbeat.

"Are you feeling better?"

"It's a lot better than before." Brandton spat out a mouthful of carbon dioxide, which was sucked out by the recycler and passed into the backpack to react with sodium peroxide to produce oxygen, "I think I'm going to have some requirements." ”

"Tell me about it." Ye Kexin said softly.

"I'm like taking a shower." Brandton asked as he typed in the password.

"No problem." Ye Kexin replied without hesitation, "Our fresh water reserves are enough to sustain five years of squandering. ”

"That's good." Brandton unlocked the door, twisted the mechanical lock on the door to open it, and walked inside. Closing the door, Major Brownon glanced at the emergency computer on the wall next to him.

Oxygen reserves are 0.5 percent. Air pressure is severely insufficient. The temperature was minus 22.7 degrees Celsius. The gravitational pull is less.

"Damn, it looks like you'll have to wait until the next door to take off your helmet." Brandton cursed quietly. Thankfully, the lighting system in the passage was not damaged, and Brownon pulled the jumping switch, and the lights on both sides of the passage flickered twice, and finally all of them lit up.

"That's fucking lucky." Brownon stomped his foot with some excitement, picked up the rifle in his hand, and strode forward, he could see the airtight hatch not far away.

"Be careful, Major, and always be vigilant." This is Ye Kexin's reminder.

"I know, sir, I'm still waiting to take a shower." Brandton replied, his pace slowing slightly. It saved his life.

The explosion occurred without warning, and the metal underside of the passage three steps away from Major Blanton was violently blasted open, and an orange-yellow pillar of fire rose into the sky, scorching the metal ceiling, the lamps on both sides cracked, and the cable insulation skin fixed to the wall gradually melted to reveal the conductive copper wire inside.

"What's going on?" The screen in front of Ye Kexin was miserable, and snowflakes flashed from time to time.

"I want to ask you!" Major Brownon tried his best to cover his chest with his rifle, and the flying metal shards and sparks broke his space suit.

"Did you talk to the chief like that?" Ye Kexin said with some dissatisfaction, but at this time, Ye Kexin had no time to care about Brandton, and the scan map that came casually showed that there was an explosion three meters in front of Brandton, and the center of the explosion was located on the next floor of Brandton, although it was only for a moment, but a blurred shadow was scanned by the ray.

"Are you alright?" Ye Kexin asked anxiously, "Quickly retreat, your position is very dangerous." ”

"I know, I'm doing it!" With a shout, Blanton's feet kicked the ground violently, and with slight weightlessness, Blanton's body flew backwards and slammed into the airtight hatch behind him, "I'm back to the starting point." ”

"Calm down, look closely, can you see that there is a passage on the left hand side for repairs." Ye Kexin stared at the content displayed on the constantly refreshing map and gave instructions to Brandton.

"I can see that, sir. Do you want me in? Burranton was half-kneeling, his gun aimed at the fire directly in front of him.

"You have to hurry, I see that your oxygen reserves are rapidly decreasing." Ye Kexin tapped the keyboard a few times, "I have unlocked the door of the maintenance passage, you can go in, there should be oxygen inside." ”

"I see, sir." Brandton immediately stood up and ran towards the hatch not far away, "Why don't you let the maintenance team in through the maintenance aisle." ”

"The explosion cut the lines across the area, one of the few hatches I could control." Ye Kexin kept tapping on the keyboard, and the instructions were constantly entered into the calculation program, "The maintenance channel is very complicated, and I can't show you the way well, but I have marked the route of the detachment, and you can follow the arrow in a while." ”

"A blessing in misfortune." Brandton sighed, flashed into the pit lane, and closed the hatch, "I've seen the arrow, can you just follow it?" ”

"Yes, but be careful." Ye Kexin let out a sigh, "How is the situation in the maintenance channel?" ”

"It's not good." Major Brownon frowned slightly as he looked at the numbers displayed on the emergency computer on the wall next to him.

"Eighty percent oxygen reserves, relatively stable air pressure, temperatures of -18 degrees Celsius, and low gravitational pull." Brandton muttered to the data, "Looks like you can't take off this damn helmet." ”

"Hurry up, the oxygen reserves are less than 10 percent." Ye Kexin urged, "The bath water is all boiled, how can you not come back." ”

"Of course I'll be back, sir." Brandton laughed, but then fell silent again, "But someone can't come back." ”

"Don't worry for the time being, I show that there is no problem with Sergeant Ranchi's life, but his blood pressure is a little elevated and his heart is beating fast." Ye Kexin glanced at the data on the monitor on the side, "The others have already exited, and we are about to break through from outside the base." ”

"Looks like I'm alone." Major Brandton walked quickly, there was not a trace of light in the dim maintenance passage, but the green lights on both sides of the ground were on unknowingly, and the arrows above the hologram in the helmet would point to the left and to the right, Major Brownon no longer knew how many times he had turned in this passage, but this passage was like a monster's intestines, and he couldn't see the head.

"Sir, where have I been?" Brandton said, walking and looking at the wall, which was full of things that resembled integrated circuits.

"I don't know, Major Brownon." Ye Kexin's voice came, "I can't see your location, didn't I say I want to follow the arrow." ”

"Huh?" Brownon realized that something was wrong, "I followed the arrow, but your arrow turned left and right. ”

"Probably going in the wrong direction before the tenth turn." Ye Kexin frowned and stared at the empty maintenance channel map, "The signal just disappeared, and the moment you spoke to me, something may have blocked the signal, you take a few steps back and try." ”

"I think something is wrong, sir." Brandton stepped back in small steps, "I shouldn't have taken a few steps back. ”

"Still no signal." Ye Kexin hurriedly operated, "Things are a little out of control." ”

"Which part of you are talking about is out of control? Is it me or something else? Brandton panicked, but the training told him to be calm now, and Brandton swallowed, "I said there must be something else." ”

"This is certain, otherwise how could the No. 29 nitrogen thirteen storage bin explode." Fine sweat droplets appeared on Ye Kexin's forehead and body, and the ** lining was almost soaked, "Found it." Watch out for your back! ”

"Damn it!" Brandton shouted, turned sharply, did not aim, and immediately pulled the trigger. A rush of gunfire rang out in the narrow maintenance hallway, the muzzle of the gun illuminating the dark passage, a dark figure struggling and rolling in the barrage, but it stopped moving, and Branton shot an entire magazine of bullets.

"Whew, whew, whew." Heavy breathing returned, and Brandton pulled out of the empty magazine, pulled a new magazine from the magazine and inserted it into the gun, pulling the bolt.

"What is this?" Brownon cautiously stepped forward and kicked the unidentified object covered in bullet holes. The unknown object was short in stature, and had something similar to a breathing mask on his head, but it could still be seen that he still had a large part of his skin-like tissue exposed, "Do you need to bring it back?" ”

"No need, I'll send someone to deal with it when you come back, leave it there for now." Ye Kexin frowned and looked at the unknown object on the screen, a drop of sweat slid down his sideburns, "Hurry up and leave, there should be more than one thing, and your oxygen stock has dropped to six percent, and you can only be active for ten minutes." Now I will give you a verbal command, and you have to hear it clearly. ”

"I'm listening, sir." Brandton nodded.

"Go ahead, turn right at the second intersection." Ye Kexin used a highlighter to mark the walking route on the map on the screen, which was like walking through a maze, but this maze was beginner-level.

(To be continued)