Chapter 14: The Massacre
“…… The ACA has again rejected a request from a civil society to conduct a humanitarian investigation into the South African region, and has refused to answer on the whereabouts of members of human rights organizations who disappeared last month, and ACA officials claim that the investigation is still ongoing......"
-- The Alliance Times
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"Hasn't that old guy confessed yet?"
Thomas hurried into a small four-story building guarded by the ACA, which had been used as a temporary headquarters for the clean-up operation, his eyes still red, but out of anger, now out of excitement.
"Yes, sir, we are considering using a truth spitter, but the suspect is old, and it may lead to the death of the suspect." The sergeant in charge of the interrogation gave a military salute to his superior, and I don't know if it was because the room was too hot or because the prisoner was anxious to speak for a long time, and the young interrogator was sweating profusely.
"What else do you use?! What do you care about death?! Did you serve in the 'Eyes of Unity' on your first day?! ”
Thomas pulled the sergeant's tie, and the poor non-commissioned officer was sprayed in the face by his boss at a very close distance.
"Don't talk so much nonsense, did you bring 'Yuri'?!"
"When...... Of course ......"
As the inquisitor of the South African branch of the 'Eyes of Unity', of course he knew what his boss was talking about - it was the ACA's infamous brain information extraction device, and even these murderous inquisitors gave the big box a name - "Yuri"
To put it simply, "Yuri" is a thing that directly scans the brain itself to extract memory information, but the horror of this device is that it will dig out the target's brain and spine directly - the target person will be locked in a culture tank, kept alive to saw the skull, take out the brain and read it in the culture tank, and after the reading is completed, there is absolutely no reason to re-implant the brain.
So even these inquisitors, who were well versed in punishment, shuddered at this terrifying machine—though they could not deny that it was the most efficient way to do it.
"What are you doing in a daze?! Go ahead! If you don't have the guts, I'll find someone who has the guts! ”
"Yes! Yes! Sir! ”
The inquisitor shuddered, turned and rushed into the next room - his boss was in a rage now, and if he didn't be ruthless, he would be the one who would be put into "Yuri" next.
In the ACA's military, being imprisoned in "Yuri" is also a top-level punishment for acts such as desertion and disobedience, because your brain does not die during the entire torture process. You have to "live" to endure all the pain.
Watching his subordinates enter the next room, Thomas was like a red-eyed gambler, frantically circling around the room, and suddenly, as if remembering something, he roared again at the soldiers standing guard outside the door:
"What about the 'nails'? Call me the 'nails'. ”
Clark Ethan walked into the room and gave a childish military salute to his boss, who looked at his impatient boss and waited for his command.
That's right, this is the "nail" of the "Eye of Unity" - when Ling Yu and Jiesi meet with the head of the hermitage branch, the president wants Jiesi to take the boy of the Knights.
"I am very grateful for your work, you have done an excellent job." Thomas took a deep breath to calm himself down - like Snake Eyes, the boy in front of him was also a special commissioner parachuted from the "Eyes of Unity" headquarters, Thomas knew very little about them, and the orders given to him by his boss were to cooperate with the teenage boy's actions.
However, at this time, Thomas did not dare to underestimate this boy, after all, the hermitage in South Africa belongs to the oldest group of hermitages, well-organized, firm in faith, and secretive in his whereabouts, but he was defeated by this little boy who is not good-looking, and the successive ministers for more than 20 years have not been able to completely defeat it, and this little boy has done it as soon as he makes a move, for the sake of the face of this achievement, even if he fails to recover the chip, his life should be saved.
"No need to say any polite words, no matter what, you are my boss." In the face of Thomas's compliment, Ethan was unmoved, "Then I have some suggestions for the next move, and I hope you approve it." ”
"No problem, please." Thomas nodded like a rooster pecking rice, he was also worried that the ace agent was going to stop, and now it seemed that there might be a greater benefit waiting for him.
"I've seen that knight before, she also has a companion, but she's just a mercenary, so it's not supposed to be a threat."
"She?" Thomas noticed that Ethan used a feminine pronoun and subconsciously asked.
"Yes, the woman, 22 years old, did not carry a sword on her back and did not have any place to hold it." Ethan's face was grim, and he whispered, "Only the new chief knight of the Order, Jeunese Miele, meets this condition, and she also recognizes her name. ”
"Chief Knight...... Thomas frowned again, the Chief Knight is the third most powerful in the Knights, even if the new Chief Knight lacks enough combat experience, it is still a bit tricky to let him have a front-line branch to deal with.
"No problem, the 'Snake Eyes' commander will definitely help you, all you have to do is concentrate the heavy firepower, as far as I know, the 'Snake Eyes' commander likes to use heavy firepower and soldiers to find out the opponent's hole cards first, and then kill with one blow himself." Ethan saw Thomas's hesitation and gave his own plan, "As long as a trap is arranged, let alone the chief knight, even if the chief knight goes out in person, it is impossible to get out of the way." ”
"As for how to get her to step into this trap willingly...... Sir, give me your gun. ”
Thomas hesitated, but handed his pistol to Ethan, who expertly loaded it, then pointed to his left shoulder, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
"Are you crazy?!" Thomas immediately stepped forward, snatched his pistol, and shouted out the door, "Medic!! ”
"Nope! Don't ......" Ethan endured the severe pain, he aimed very well, the bullet pierced the boy's shoulder, the injury looked scary but it was not serious, he tore off a piece of clothing and bandaged it hastily, "The chief has used the 'Yuri' device, and he will soon be able to get the list of all the members of the Privy Hermitage and DNA samples, and I will relay this news to the chief knight, she will have no choice but to go to our Alberton base, and when the time comes...... Please set it up with Chief Snake-Eyes. ”
Ethan's voice trembled, beads of sweat slid down his face, and he stood up, not saluting, just nodding at Thomas, before turning and leaving the room.
"This kid, it's kind of interesting."
A gloomy voice came from behind Thomas in a daze, the middle-aged man turned his head, and the snake-eyed entered the room at some point, sitting on the large sofa, "I admire him." ”
"Yes...... It's ......" Thomas nodded respectfully, then saluted Snake Eyes, "Then I'll set up the defenses, Your Excellency, and please come out yourself." ”
Serpenteye didn't answer, nodded, and watched Thomas leave the room.
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"It's them, and although I don't really like allies, at least they still talk at times like this."
Ling Yu put down the binoculars, the sky was already white, and on the outskirts of Johannesburg, on the winding and dilapidated road, a gray off-road vehicle was driving in the direction of the two of them.
Jiesi didn't answer, Ling Yu turned her head, looked at Jiesi's empty eyes, and gently nudged her.
"You're still worried about the Retreat?"
Jiesi frowned and nodded with some difficulty.
Like a drizzle that had fallen all night, the ACA's clean-up operation lasted all night, and Ling Yu and Jiesi ventured back to the outskirts of Johannesburg, only to see countless civilians slaughtered en masse.
Ling Yu didn't believe that there were so many hermit civilians in Johannesburg, although he had long known that the population of Johannesburg had plummeted to one-third of its original size during the 20 years of ACA rule, but this kind of large-scale organized "screening" and massacre was the first time Ling Yu had seen it.
When the two of them witnessed from a distance a little girl under the age of twelve being shot dead from behind for running away, Ling Yu could clearly see that Jiesi's clenched fists showed an abnormal pale due to excessive force.
But the two men didn't rush out in the end.
If you rush out recklessly like this, I'm afraid not only will you not be able to save people, but you will also catch yourself, right?
Even if they are not killed, even if they rescue the dozens of people in front of them, even if they prevent this massacre, as long as this land is still under the rule of the ACA, then it will only attract more violent retaliation, right? He is not one of the generals of the alliance who scolded Fang Xuan, and he can't even be regarded as an alliance soldier, just an ordinary league citizen......
Besides, the chip is on your body......
If a person wants to escape, then he will always have countless excuses to be at ease, Ling Yu understands this, but he is only one person after all.
Perhaps when a person has been wrapped in a sense of powerlessness for too long, he has become accustomed to cowardice.
The entire slaughter lasted until dawn, and Ling Yu and Jiesi also watched from a distance all night. Ling Yu obviously heard the prayer of the girl beside him, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly - will there be a god in this world? Even the prehistoric humans on the Icelandic spaceship were nothing more than more civilized people.
...... in this world Maybe there has never been, and shouldn't be, a God.
However, as if Jeess's prayer was answered, just before dawn in the darkest darkness, the two actually saw a boy on the run!
Almost at the same time, the two recognized the boy who had been wounded in the shoulder and was being chased by an ACA mini-machine—it turned out to be Ethan, whom they had met the day before.
Without any hesitation, Jess jumped out of the place where the two were hiding almost instantly, and Ling Yu didn't rush with her - Jess was as simple as pinching a fly to death with that tracking machine, but he had to kill the patrol that the machine qì might summon.
When Ling Yu easily blew up the two assault vehicles and the 10 ACA assault infantry accompanying her, Jess was already bandaging Ethan's wounds.
The boy was visibly frightened, but he quickly regained his composure—at least he was able to describe what he was seeing.
Then there is the bad news - the president of the South African chapter of the hermit has been captured by the ACA, and the ACA has probably used "Yuri" to gain access to the president's memory, and tonight's massacre is just the beginning, so that the bloody night will likely continue until all those who have contact with the president are killed.
The only way to stop this is to take advantage of one of Yuri's flaws - it takes about 48 hours to retrieve the memory, and if you destroy the ACA's Alberton base and the Yuri facility in the same area during this time, you can physically destroy the ACA's list.
"Don't worry, Ethan will be fine," Ling Yu spit out the straw in his mouth, "Since he doesn't go with us, he must be 100% safe, I may have underestimated him a little before, but to survive that kind of slaughter, it is obviously not for nothing that the president recommended him to the Knights." ”
Obviously, Ling Yu ignored a great suspicion here, if Han Fei was here, he would definitely have doubts about the fact that Ethan had survived the massacre, but perhaps out of contempt for children, or out of respect for Jeunse and the president, Ling Yu didn't think about it.
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