Chapter 102: A Necessary Sacrifice
Jasmine hides in a slender access tunnel on the side of the massive main passageway, where she can see what is happening outside and is very hidden.
She saw that Lin Mo was trying to explain something to Franco, who was furious. She felt guilty about this honest young man, and always felt that it was a bit unscrupulous to deceive such a person to achieve her goals. However, the effect of deception is obvious. The communication shown on the screen is from Mars, which roughly means that the Martian government is willing to accept the Earth immigrants on the Serenity, but they believe that the Lagrangeans who have lost their homes cannot be counted as rescuers. The fact that only Mars is recorded is even more imaginative to the record.
From the words of the Martian liaison, it is not difficult to deduce that this one is negotiating with the Martian government on Earth immigrants. They didn't mean to think about the Lagrangians. Tell the Martians that the Lagrangeans can be sold as commodities, and that the Martian government is equivalent to salvaging a batch of valuable goods.
At this point, the communication log was played, and the outburst of anger in the crowd was out of control. The authenticity of the records is beyond doubt in the eyes of the public. The first record was stimulated by unexpected circumstances, and the second was inspired by Lin Mo, a figure who has always stood on the side of the refugees on the earth. (In the eyes of the people, Lin Mo joined Liszt's mercenary system, although he was not aware of it.) )
The refugees of the earth have become the target of public criticism, and Liszt, the leader of them, has become the focus of people's anger.
Liszt was privately guarded, and the angry crowd clashed with his guards, and amid gunfire and uproar, the councillors and his party quickly retreated by getting into the car.
Just as the convoy was about to disengage from the refugee ranks, the armored alloy door behind them, which should have been cracked and rendered useless, slowly closed, completely sealing Liszt's back road.
"Listen to me, it's all a conspiracy, there's no communication at all, and I haven't betrayed you. It's all a conspiracy of human traffickers. ”
Liszt's attempt to appease the populace with a megaphone was only met with angry rebukes and shouting. The crowd poured uncontrollably towards the convoy of scooters. The frightened soldiers opened fire. Blood mixed with screams, and people fell in pieces.
The battle was not a one-sided slaughter, and the fire of the counterattack began to appear. Liszt's men were not the only ones in the crowd who had weapons. In fact, the vast majority of the armed soldiers came from Lagrange. Soon the Lagrangian fighters returned fire, and there were even lines of fire from within the Liszt group.
The convoy's outer defenses broke out, and most of the soldiers joined the attackers. Liszt's Earth soldiers were as reliable as he expected, but their numbers were too few. Within minutes, the convoy's inner line of defences collapsed, and Liszt and his cronies were drowned out in the swarm.
The so-called communication records from Mars are, of course, fake.
All this comes from Liao Fan's handwriting. Taking advantage of the information asymmetry on the Serenity, he launched a deadly counterattack against the rebel group led by Liszt. And one blow to achieve the goal. Liszt himself died, the Earth refugee group was hit hard, and by the time Manred stepped in to clean up the mess, the number of refugees on Earth was less than 1,000.
The losses of the Lagrangeans were not small, and the number of casualties in the clashes with the Liszt group was secondary. Several large-scale crowd surges, and when they were hindered by the alloy gate, they stopped abruptly. For hundreds of thousands of people, this action itself will cause casualties. The actual number of casualties is far greater than imagined. More than 10,000 people were killed and injured by the flow of people alone. The most pitiful are the individuals who are buried in the lodging people. Because the scene was not cleaned up in time, many people were suffocated to death.
All this loss, in the eyes of a certain girl, is so unworthy, and she deeply regrets her powerlessness.
During the maintenance tunnel, Jasmine cut off the Internet connection to the Tranquility. On personal terminals, the query of casualty data has also stopped. She walked out of the aisle with a pale face, and the crowd scurried around. She almost got knocked over a few times and didn't care. She didn't understand what was going on here. Obviously, everyone's interests are the same, and they work together to survive, how did it become like this?
The smell of blood was disgusting, people were wailing everywhere, and strangely shaped corpses were scattered everywhere. Is the starship civilization, known as an evil civilization, like this, a monster that needs human blood to drive?
"Great, you're alright! I've been looking for you, afraid you're in danger. ”
Lin Mo stood in front of her covered in dust and blood. His helmet had fallen off, and his left arm hung limply. Even so, his face was full of excitement, as if he had won the lottery.
"What are you happy about? I lied to you, took advantage of you, why worry about me? ”
Jasmine's face was pale, her body was stiff, and her face was filled with tears.
"No why, a girl like you shouldn't be hurt."
"Shouldn't cheating girls be hurt either?"
"You didn't lie, if it weren't for you, how could you have exposed Liszt's conspiracy, and we would all have been sold into slavery." , Lin Mo hurriedly shook his hand, eagerly defending Jasmine.
The delicate girl smiled sadly, "If I told you that the Martian communication record was forged in order to kill the Liszt group, would you still say that I was innocent?" Shouldn't people like me be punished? ”
“。。。 I don't think anything you do should be malicious, at least not the bad guys are guilty like you. ”
Lin Mo said this to Jasmine seriously, and she suddenly felt moved by meeting her bosom friend. Suppressing the urge to cry, he smiled at Lin Mo.
The youth responded with a more cheerful smile. He smiled heartily and heartily, and smiled innocently.
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Harvesting the flagship of the fleet, the Elbe, all the captains of the fleet gathered in the battle conference room, and each ship connected to the main venue in the form of a video conference. This was an operational meeting involving the entire fleet.
"The fleet will complete the encirclement of the wreckage in two hours." , a shrewd-looking officer reported to Captain Marcus.
"When will the landing preparations be completed, and what's going on inside the wreckage?" Marcus' face was calm, and the harvest operation would officially start after this meeting. Given the scale of the operation, and the resistance it might encounter. The mood of underestimating the enemy within the fleet grew seriously. He thought about it again and again, and decided to pour cold water on the excessively high morale, so as not to underestimate the enemy's rash advance. This meeting, nominally for pre-war mobilization, was actually aimed at letting people see his stinky face. Since the captain of the fleet is so dignified, the battle must not be as easy as imagined. That's what Marcus is all about.
"The landing preparations will be completed in five hours, and the pure army strength that can be mobilized is 7,113 people, and considering the strength of the Marine Corps stationed on each ship, the actual maximum number of landing troops that can be mobilized is 9,712 people."
"Very good, mobilize and prepare according to the established steps, don't rush, don't rush in... ,
Still wanting to continue to suppress the excess morale with a straight face, Marcus noticed that there was something strange on the face of the reporting officer. He motioned for the officer to continue.
“。。。 About the inside of the wreckage, some trouble? The officer's face was embarrassed.
"Trouble? Specifically... Marcus already had a bad premonition.
"All the teams that entered the investigation in the early stage have lost contact, including the smiling skeleton team that the leader attaches great importance to."
"What did you say!" Marcus stood up.
This time, the entire Reaper fleet understood that the battle was not as easy as they imagined, but Marcus did not have the slightest sense of relief in controlling the situation. What's wrong with the smiling skeleton, that's the leader's heart and soul baby...