Chapter 666: To save or not to save
"This is 1419, this is the 1419 team at Zoomlion East Point, we have received your distress signal." It was Zhen Wuyu who reacted in time, found the source of the distress signal as soon as possible, and used the intact medium-sized surveyor to transmit the signal. ......The voice over there seemed to be surprised, as if he didn't expect to really try his luck to contact someone passing by, and it was also the military of Zoomlion. 1419, isn't that the ace driver's squad? Next to that voice, there seemed to be another vicissitudes of life whispering. May I ask ...... you are"" Second Lieutenant Zhen Wuyu, codenamed 'Really Speechless', currently I am leading a team of several hundred people, and this time I came to explore the nearby star field. "Hello, Second Lieutenant Zhen Wuyu, I'm Colonel 'Soap' Thorpe. Now I'm stuck with my 'teammate nemesis' Colonel Price in the karst field, coordinates 4068, 2353, 1844. We were the only ones left alive in the entire fleet! Colonel Thorpe repeated the severity of his situation, "We are trapped on the ruins of this broken main ship, and we are also in a lot of physical injuries, and we are in urgent need of rescue. Please send a spaceship over immediately and send us back. Colonel Thorpe's words were very urgent, and it was clear that they were in a very bad situation, and when they heard this, Ketty and the soldiers looked anxious or sympathetic, and it was obvious that they wanted to rescue them immediately.
Because the surveyor showed that the signal was coming from 26.2 light-years away, with the remaining energy of their landing module, it is estimated that the speed of light jump there would be just enough energy to be exhausted.
The group was anxious to save the two people who were in danger, but they didn't think about how to return if the landing module went there to save people.
Zhen Wuyu didn't rush to reply. She looked up at the starry sky outside with a nonchalant expression. At this time, Vasily seemed to have returned with his men, but they were still a little far from here, and it would take them more than ten minutes to arrive. "Is there any energy or equipment on the ruins of this main ship that can be used?" Zhen Wuyu asked in a flat tone. "Uh......" Colonel Thorpe couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect the other party to ask such a question, he instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of what the problem was. And Colonel Price beside him. At this moment, under the thick gray-white eyebrows, there seemed to be a glimmer of staring light. "We don't know." Colonel Thorpe replied, "The main ship is badly damaged, the cockpit is almost completely destroyed, and we are in the cockpit, and the door is blocked. And the engine compartment and other equipment with energy, we do not know. ”
"That's it......" Zhen Wuyu looked at the data on the surveyor with an expressionless face, "If we don't have enough energy, we can't help you." Colonel Thorpe. ”
After learning about the two of them, she didn't want to save them, because it would be a risk to them. One of the biggest risks is energy.
They went there, and if they didn't get the energy supply from the ruins of the main ship, they couldn't go back, and they would be trapped there.
With the fresh water and food they carried this time, they could only last for half a month. Half a month later, they will die of thirst and starvation with these two men. And even if they got a medium-sized surveyor this time, they could send a distress signal to Captain Caice. Captain Caice and the others were unable to come and save them.
The light-speed jump requires extremely pure energy, and this time they used a small landing module to make the light-speed jump, and they nearly died inside. In fact, the energy used by the small landing module is already the purest in the six months they have purified, and this high-purity energy has almost run out.
So. Even if Captain Caice and the others wanted to leap at the speed of light to save them, they would have to purify their energy for at least half a year. If they can't get supplies from the ruins of the main ship, they will definitely have no return this time.
"What!" Colonel Thorpe exclaimed in disbelief, as if he had not expected this friendly army to be so cruel, and directly ignored the lives of both of them.
"Sir. What are you doing here...... "Second Lieutenant Zhen, they are superiors, we must save them......" "Not only superiors, but any friendly troops must be rescued!" ”
Not only was Thorpe surprised, but the more than ten soldiers present also seemed to be a little overwhelmed, and they spoke one after another, as if asking Zhen Wuyu to pilot the landing module to go over to rescue. Ketty didn't speak, she was looking at the energy position of the landing module, frowning, and seemed to understand everything.
The soldiers were a little noisy, and Zhen Wuyu immediately turned his head and looked at everyone with cold eyes.
This is a giant scythe-like look, with endless murder and indifference, people can't help but ignore the beauty of this face, and only feel that they are being stared at fiercely by an alien, and they may become prey at any time, and their hearts spontaneously chill.
The soldiers present all felt a chill in their hearts, and then a chill rose in their hearts, and after they involuntarily took a step back, they were completely silenced.
Seeing such a scene, Zhen Wuyu turned his head again and spoke to the liaison connected to the surveyor, "Not only you, but we have also encountered great difficulties. We are trapped in this corner of the galaxy, there are no resources, no signal, we can't contact Zoomlion, we can only go out to explore, this exploration, we found your distress signal. ”
"......," Colonel Thorpe was silent for a moment, then said, "That's terrible. ”
"Then ......" At this time, Colonel Price, who was beside him, suddenly interjected, his eyes shining, "Are you running out of energy?" ”
"That's right." Zhen Wuyu simply admitted, "Our energy is only enough to make a light-speed jump once, and we can't return when we get there." ”
"............" After she said this, the two of them seemed to fall into an eerie silence, and after a while, Colonel Price spoke, "Don't worry, let's look to see if some indicators are in good working order, and if there is enough energy to go back, and then we will talk." ”
The words "And then say" have already stated that the two are ready to be denied rescue without energy and die in the ruins of the battleship.
"Okay." After Zhen Wuyu finished speaking, he stopped talking, and the other people at the scene stopped talking, and the atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.
"Sir, we must save them, and we can't see our comrades die in vain." At this time, a soldier finally took a deep breath, stood up, and plucked up the courage to speak.
"Do you want all of us to die because of those two comrades?" Zhen Wuyu looked at them coldly, "If there is no energy, they will die if they don't go, it's better not to go, and you can save your lives." Remember to me that the senseless sacrifice is not worth it. Saving Private Ryan only needs to happen once in the movie! ”
Even if it is two lives, in her eyes, they are just numbers, and they are likely to fail to rescue, but take their lives, Zhen Wuyu naturally feels that this is not worth it. Like Ike, both are cold predators.
But I have to say that her words are also very reasonable, it was like this during the war years, and it was very not worth sacrificing an entire team for one person.
As she finished saying this, the soldiers present also felt a realistic cruelty, and this cruelty in the ordinary even surpassed the battle they had experienced before, when their fleet was almost completely wiped out by Ceph.
There was silence on the other side, apparently Thorpe and Price were struggling to look at every corner of the cockpit ruins, trying to find indicators that recorded the power and equipment information of the engine module.
Zhen Wuyu carried the medium-sized surveyor and installed it where the small landing module surveyor was, and then she walked into the cockpit. A helpless smile appeared on the corner of Ketty's mouth, and he followed in.
The helplessness of her smile was not for Zhen Wuyu, nor for the soldiers, nor for Thorpe and Price, but for such a situation.
There will be a lot of such helpless things happening on the battlefield, you have to choose, but sometimes if you choose not to choose, many people will die, sometimes you choose not to die, and some people will die if you choose not to choose.
A group of soldiers stared at the back of the gray-robed assassin with complicated expressions, and their faces showed uncomfortable and thoughtful expressions. Zhen Wuyu's hawkish approach will undoubtedly make many people feel very uncomfortable, but many times the reality is like this, and they have to accept it.
At this time, Vasily finally came back with people, and then Ovsky, Wang Qi and others also brought people back.
They've all collected a lot of equipment, and there's some pure energy in it, but it's a drop in the bucket for the Lightspeed Jump.
The three of them noticed that the soldiers' faces were not quite right, but they didn't think much about it, they walked to the surveyor of the landing module, and quickly reported the situation of the equipment to Zhen Wuyu and the people in the cabin. "Very well, we can improve the stability of the dropship." Zhen Wuyu said with rare affirmation, "In this way, the stability of its light-speed jump when it returns will be strengthened, and the risk will be reduced." ”
"Hey, what is this, Captain." Wang Qi noticed the medium-sized surveyor installed on the side, "The enhanced version of the surveyor, it seems that you have just gained a lot." "This is a surveyor that can receive signals for hundreds of light-years." Zhen Wuyu replied, "Don't touch it, wait for their reply." "Reply? Just got in touch with Zoomlion? Vasily was slightly stunned.
PS: 1 chapter today, 3 chapters tomorrow. (To be continued.) )