Chapter 46: The Lullaby

There was a night of violent storms and snowfalls, and the mountains were shouting and tsunamis, but in the early morning, the sky was high and the clouds were light, and the wind and waves were calm.

The first rays of golden morning light swept across the silky sea and onto Brünnhilde's face, waking her from her nightmare, the vast blue sea in front of her, and the sky and water in the distance. Looking around, rock walls, spreading vines, extinguished bonfires......

Bonfire?! The evil side face with the evil green light on his back and the campfire on his back......

At the moment of regaining consciousness, Brunhilde's eyes widened suddenly, unlike last night, her body was no longer stiff because of the cold, but there was a burst of warmth, she felt that she was lying on a warm pillow, and her eyes looked out of her eyes, the so-called "pillow" turned out to be a man's arm! She was startled, and immediately turned her head, only to find behind her the sleeping face of the nasty ghost, and she was lying in the crook of his arm!

Brunhilde immediately became angry, sat up and raised his hand to Hong Yuesheng's face and was about to pull it down, but the pain caused by the sudden vigorous exercise caused her to have difficulty breathing, so that she had to press the hand that had been lifted into the air back to her chest, and then she noticed that she was naked, the original pilot uniform was cut off at the waist, the bare skin was only tightly wrapped by medical bandages, and the upper body was actually draped in a men's flight jacket!

I was actually by this Yaning bastard......!!!

Shame and anger almost overwhelmed Brunhilde's mind, but as a soldier, she knew what was the first priority, and sometimes even more important than herself. She endured the pain and turned around to look around, only to find her pilot's jacket hanging across from the campfire. While she was careful not to alarm Hong Yuesheng, she got up and quietly went to pick up the clothes, and immediately went to the hidden inner pocket after getting it, and when she finally touched the data storage, she was relieved - it was the data disk she downloaded from the database of the Sunset Goddess cargo ship, which was originally built into the fingers of the red mecha, and at the moment before the explosion, she was taken back into the cockpit in time and hidden in her pilot's suit.

After getting the thing she cared about the most, she immediately looked around, and finally saw the pistol in Hong Yuesheng's personal side pocket. She adjusted her breathing, and when her breathing eased, she walked back softly again, knelt down and reached out to grab the handle of the gun and pull it out of Hong's pocket, and some blood oozed out and stained the bandage on her chest as her body bent and pressed the wound.

Because his body was still weak and his fingers had no strength, Brunhilde had to move closer to Hong Yuesheng. Though she was reluctant, she was forced to see the annoyance so close for the first time: it was a thin, angular Yanin face, with well-defined features, hard, thick eyebrows that resembled his stubborn character, long, slender phoenix eyes that were tightly closed, short eyelashes, chapped lips under the bridge of his nose that were not too high but straight, fine strands of sweat drenched hair, and a fiery snort, all indicating that he was having a fever—he had been dressed all night in single clothes since he had given his flight coat to Brunhilde.

Just as she was observing Hong Yuesheng, she finally pulled out the gun, Brunhilde gritted his teeth and withdrew his body, and immediately raised the gun towards Hong Yuesheng.

What he did last night, or even just what he might have done, cannot be forgiven!!

When he held the gun with both hands and aimed it at Hong's head, Brünnhilde unexpectedly found that when he drew the pistol just now, a piece of cloth towel with blue edges on a white background taken out of Hong Yuesheng's pocket happened to be wrapped around the barrel of the gun.

"It's ......" The old wound on Brünnhilde's lip cracked open again, salty blood sliding into his mouth. She recognized it as her own handkerchief—a style that had been individually custom-made by the Meda Busoya factory according to her own design requirements—that had fallen on the boat where she had first seen Hong Yuesheng, and that she had discarded in disgust when Hong wanted to return it to her at the drive-thru restaurant.

This fool actually picked up the handkerchief? ……

The hand holding the gun shook slightly, the boy's face loomed behind the handkerchief fluttering in the wind, and the sunlight shone on his short black hair with the change of the position of the sun, and there was actually a beautiful little halo reflected. Probably due to the overwork and high fever of the night, he seemed to be unaware of the impending danger.

Brünnhilde gritted his teeth and slowly hooked back with his finger pulling the trigger......

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, the manta rays roared out of the calm sea with their wing-like triangular wings, spun in the air, and then fell back into the water, surviving after a night of confrontation with the stormy seas.

The protective armor around the manta ray's body faded layer by layer, revealing a transparent fuselage, and from the outside, you could see Nakahisa and the red-haired Arya standing on the command platform.

"Report sir, we're close to the position of the special frequency." Bonnie reports.

"But I didn't see anything." Nakahisa squinted overseas, his eyes darkened, the result of a night of nervous confrontation with a blizzard.

"We tracked the trajectory of the special frequency we received all the way, and the last location where the signal appeared should be here."

"Haven't you figured out the exact source of the information yet?" Red-haired Arya asked.

"I'm sorry, the information has been encrypted with three layers, and at the moment we can only confirm that it is from the Mirage headquarters, but we can't confirm where it came from."

Who is it that will secretly give us information? Whether it was aided or misled is unknown. Zhong Jiu was silent, but muttered secretly in his heart.

"An unidentified object is approaching."

Jack, the artificial intelligence of Manta Rad II, suddenly reported, "And detected radio waves that are close to us." ”

"The radio waves that are close to us? There could be no second manta ray in this area. The red-haired Arya asked Jack in surprise.

"It's weird, the bands are familiar, but they're faint." Jack replied.

As he spoke, a whirlpool suddenly rolled up in the water next to the manta ray, and Jack also detected an unidentified object rising rapidly. In the astonished gaze of everyone, a behemoth floated to the surface against the water that sloped down like a waterfall, and compared to it, the manta ray was like a baby in the sea. Looking at the uninvited guest's black jewel-like eyes and ring-shaped scars on his body, Physician Emily blurted out, "It's it!" That sperm whale! ”

"Lisa." Jack, the artificial intelligence, also calmly called out the names of his kind.

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Carrying an emergency survival kit and the few remaining items on her back, Brünnhilde walked down the narrow mountain path to the top of the highest point of the half-moon island, and according to her estimate, the rescue team had the best chance of being spotted if the flare was released at the highest point. When he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, there was still fresh blood on the sleeve of the flight jacket.

Rustle~

Hearing a sound in the jungle, Brünnhilde immediately clenched his pistol in alarm and followed the sound, but saw nothing but darkness in the bottomless bushes, but nothing else was unusual. So she quickened her pace, hoping to get rid of this uneasiness as soon as possible.

Several creeping figures on all fours flashed rapidly through the jungle around Brunhilde, then retreated into the darkness.

The road ahead became denser and denser, with huge trees, and at first the sun could shine dappled sunlight overhead, and then the large branches of the trees became denser and denser, and finally the sunlight was almost completely blocked, and the surroundings became so dark that even the compass he carried with him failed for unknown reasons.

Rustle!

Each time he heard that strange rustle, Brunhilde became more and more worried; The more worried she became, the more anxious her heart became, the wound emitted a burning pain, and when she was distraught, she accidentally stepped on a loose stone.

"Shit!" She realized that it was too late, and her body leaned into the col, and the whole person fell down!

The moment she fell off the cliff, several black figures immediately burst out of the darkness, following her tumbling figure and rushing down the hillside, watching the traces of the low bushes she broke along the way spread into a cave crevice, and the black shadows also went around the cave below, but only found some broken items and scattered blood stains on the ground, and as the blood trails chased up, the blood trails disappeared next to an underground lake.

"Whew!" The one led by the black shadows roared angrily into the sky, and several black shadows searched in several different directions. All that was left was the one who gave the order, making a muffled sniffing sound, sniffing among the rocks, and not smelling anyone for half a sound. His figure gradually shrunk from the giant beast to its human form, and it stood upright and circled around before leaving.

Behind the rocks, Brunhilde was holding his breath and crouching in the icy water, blood oozing from old wounds on his arm, forehead, and chest gauze that he had just fallen from the fall, and melted into the groundwater.

It wasn't until he was sure that the followers had dispersed in other directions that Brunhilde finally poked his head out of the water and gasped for air. Fortunately, her diving training since childhood has made her accustomed to resting for a long time, otherwise she may not have escaped just now. She struggled to her feet against the rocks and groped her way into the cave, hoping to find a way to avoid her stalkers.

It was only then that Brunhilde realized that she had fallen into a large natural cavern: the whole cave was twisting and turning, and soon it was as narrow as a vertical promenade, with water sliding down a steep ravine everywhere. After confirming that there were no pursuers following behind, she turned on the flashlight, and the stalactite walls around her were crystal clear in the light, and after groping forward for a while, there was a faint light shining through, looking for the light, and suddenly it suddenly became clear, and the front was as wide as a huge council hall, with a height of nearly 100 meters, and what made Brunhilde even more stunned was that the three walls and the top here were covered with dense nests, which at first glance seemed to have entered a huge beehive, and the white light of the nest flickered like a sky full of stars, and it was magnificent. There are regular spacing grooves between the nests and the nests, between which there are circuits and instruments connected; Each nest is a hexagonal incubator with its back against the wall, about two meters and five meters high, which contains biological embryos of unknown nature, which are being picked one by one by huge robotic arms protruding from the top of the cave and placed in rows of containers arranged in parallel on the ground to be packed.

On the side of the only cave without a nest, there is a wide waterway that stretches into the depths of the cave, and if Brunhilde guessed correctly, it should lead to the open sea. At the dock of the waterway there is a batch of goods that have been loaded into containers and are waiting to be shipped.

"This box ......," Brünnhilde immediately realized that it was carrying the same container as the Sunset.

She vaguely understood in her mind why she had encountered Yaksha, a tank with protection and escort functions, and what secrets were on board.

In order to prove her idea, she approached the nearest nest, and looked inside, the nest was filled with a pale red liquid like cell fluid, and inside was actually a human body with both hands holding her legs and her head buried between her legs and knees, although it looked like a baby, it was a full circle larger than a normal adult, and its whole body was translucent, so that Brunhilde could see through the thin skin the unusually strong muscle lines, blood vessels, and beating heart, The spinal nerves, which radiate like tree roots, are connected to the nest by bio-made tubes that resemble umbilical cords inserted into the body, and ...... A long, slender tail in development. The organs of the human body have been clearly alienated, there is a small amount of webbing between the fingers and toes, the anterior segment has begun to grow pointed claws, the ears have become pointed, and the legs and knees held by both hands have been de-articulated; The head skeleton is also being beastifolded, and the eyelid covers the eyes.

It's a yaksha! And it's an embryo in the process of human-animal integration!

Brünnhilde muttered in surprise that she had never seen the Yaksha concoction process before—that the Asian-American War had ended with the defeat of the Yanin Empire in the year she was born. Yaksha, as the main biochemical and genetic weapon used by the Yaning side during the Asian-American War, has been intolerable by the new law after the war. Brunhilde's knowledge of it is also only from military sources: about 20 years ago, the then "Artificial Insemination and Embryology Administration" (HFEA) passed a bill that allowed the development of a fourth type of zoonotic research under strict supervision, aiming to use the genes of other animals to modify the human body, so as to further awaken human potential and solve the inherent shortcomings of human beings, but the HFEA stipulates that all this should be limited to the field of scientific research. Embryos obtained with this technique must be destroyed before the fourteenth day of development. Since then, a total of seven top laboratories from the Yaning Empire and the Republic of Medabsoya have been approved to conduct such research. However, after a human test subject in the mirage laboratory successfully fused the cheetah gene, the test subject accidentally lost control and caused nine deaths and three injuries in the laboratory of violent bloodshed, which caused a huge repercussion in the international community, and the opposition to biological genetic modification research increased day by day, and finally Asia and the United States signed a bill 16 years ago to prohibit the allocation of funds for human-animal genetic research.

But just a few years later, in the Asian-American War, when the Yaning Empire was at a disadvantage, the latest genetic engineering product "Yaksha" was put on the battlefield as a military weapon, so it was also dubbed "treacherous state terrorism" by Medabsoa.

As Brunhilde retreated in surprise, she didn't realize that a pair of ice-blue eyes were staring at her through the pale red cell fluid in the nest on the shelves behind her.

As she took another step back...... Boom!!!!!

A giant claw covered with green tendons and skin stained with sticky cell fluid smashed through the glass of the nest shell, wrapped its arms around Brunhilde's neck from behind, dragged her whole person backwards, and slammed into the transparent shell outside the nest that had not been completely destroyed, making Brunhilde dizzy for a moment.

"Woo!!"

The Yaksha in the nest was more mature than the "baby" that Brünnhilde had seen just now, and was opening its mouth of astonishingly large blood basins, and rushed up fiercely to gnaw her neck, but fortunately it only had one arm to shatter the nest, and there was a layer of glass between its mouth and Brünnhilde, and for a moment there was only the harsh sound of teeth grinding on the glass, and a large number of bubbles rolled out of its mouth, and it was about to bite the glass apart.

Before suffocating, Brünnhilde tightly hugged the arm that strangled his throat with both hands, arched his upper body forward, and used the technique of borrowing force in Eastern martial arts training, with the help of the power of the Yaksha rushing forward, an over-the-shoulder fall pulled it out of the nest, and fell to the ground on his back, and the cell juice in the completely shattered nest poured out, pouring Brunhilde's heart cold. The umbilical cord behind the Yaksha who fell out of the nest was also torn off, and without the protection of the cell fluid, he lay on the ground and twisted and screamed, although he lost most of his strength, he still turned his back and tried his best to crawl towards her.

"Go_to_Hell (Die)!!" Brünnhilde raised his pistol and shot at Yaksha's unhardened skull, and Yaksha regained his emaciated Yanin body in convulsions, no longer moving.

However, its noise just now alarmed the Yaksha in the other nests, just like a kennel disturbed at night, and the silence of one Yaksha was exchanged for hundreds of deafening roars coming from the surrounding nests.

“Fxxk!”

Seeing that it had been exposed, Brünnhilde ran desperately to the waterway on one side of the cave, hoping that he could swim out to the open sea. Then as soon as he ran to the end of the shelf, he was blocked by a thin figure, who was the leader of the chasing soldiers just now! A skinny-skinned middle-aged man from Yaning, as soon as he saw Brunhilde, he immediately howled into the sky, "Woo woo woo~!" ”

But before he could finish screaming, he was hit in the face by a leather bag, and the howl turned into an "ahhhhh

"Call! Call! Call! Just know what to call! Are you bothered!!!! "Brünnhilde has been overwhelmed by the succession of bad luck.

Yaning's middle-aged man was inexplicably scolded by an alien girl half a year younger than himself, he trembled with anger, puffed out his mouth, and the muscles on his body gushed out like an inflated rubber man, and quickly completed all the alienation, more than twice his height just now, cracking rock-like flesh armor...... Another tank-type yaksha! Several general-purpose Yaksha chasers also crawled out of the shadows behind him or from behind the shelves.

Bang! Brünnhilde retreated, and at the same time, he shot several shots in succession at the Yaksha who was the leader.

Bang! Bang! The bullets shot at Tank Yaksha's body and burst into flames, but they were blocked by the rock-solid flesh shield, and Tank Yaksha disdainfully raised his giant claws to sweep the bullet marks on his chest, and then led his followers towards Brunhilde.

“BaYushki_baYu….

Bogat Yr'tY_budesh'svidu," sweat wet the curtain on the girl's head in front of Yaksha, covering her eyes so that the Yaksha could not see her expression, but suddenly heard her whispered cappella.

“I_kazak_dushoY.

Provozhat’tebYa_Ya_vYYdu,

TY_makhnesh’rukoY.”

"What is she doing?" A yaksha crawling on top of the container turned curiously to ask his companion.

"Looks like singing?!" The other replied.

"Singing at this time?! What song to sing? The language of the lyrics is neither Meda Busoya nor Yanin.

"I don't understand, I'm scared to a psychotic episode and talk nonsense!"

Bang! While the Yaksha were guessing, another shot rang out, but it didn't shoot at the Yaksha leader again. A nearby nest was shattered by bullets, cell juice spurted out of the crack, and the Yaksha embryo inside twisted and withered.

"Nope! Woohoo!!" Yaksha, the tank who was in charge of the guard, roared in distress and was about to rush forward with his followers.

“Skol’ko_gor’kikhslez_ukradkoY,

Yavtu_noch’Prol’Yu…”

Bang! Another nest was shattered by a bullet. The Yaksha leaned in anger and howled, and the wind that blew up as the nest collapsed scattered Brunhilde's head, revealing the emerald eyes, not the slightest fear, but the usual determination, glancing at the next nest. Seeing her eyes, Tank Yaksha reached out to stop his men and motioned for Yaksha to stop coming forward.

“Spi,moY_angel,tikho,sladko,

baYushki_baYu.”

Brünnhilde looked at the Yaksha and the nest as she raised her gun and stepped back towards the corridor from which it had come, and judging by the weight of the gun, she knew that there were not many bullets left.

Be sure to save the last bullet to yourself.

Just as she was about to enter the corridor, Tankyaksha smiled strangely, and almost at the same time, Brünnhilde also heard the familiar rustle above, and she quickly looked up, and a pan-yaksha that had been hidden on the top of the cave was rapidly climbing down head-on. She immediately raised her gun and shot at Yaksha, but she still couldn't stop Yaksha from pounceing on her. Knocked down, Brünnhilde pressed the barrel of the gun against Yaksha's weakest eye and pulled the trigger continuously, blood and brains spurting out of the blasted eye socket and splashing her face, but the "click" of the gun reminded Brünnhilde that she had used up all her bullets in desperation.

At this time, the tank Yaksha was able to give the order to attack, and the Yaksha around him swarmed up.

“Spi_mladYenets,moy_PrekrasnY.

BaYushki_baYu.”

Brünnhilde silently recited the lyrics of the song in the inexplicable language and closed his eyes.