Chapter 5: The Oath of Revenge
"Bang, bang, bang......"
In the dimly lit passageway, two young men, one tall and one short, leaned against the wall facing each other, the short one holding an old-fashioned mechanical watch, and the tall one frowning. The "thump" sound came from the iron door a few meters away, and from time to time there was a roar like a trapped beast.
"Handsome guy, there's still half a minute." The dwarf shook the mechanical watch in his hand, looking very proud.
"What's the hurry?" The tall man glanced at the short man, and yelled at the iron gate: "Damn, be honest with the uncle, otherwise the uncle will want you to look good later." ”
"Bang, bang, bang......"
He was answered by a hurried slamming of the door and a furious roar.
"Five, four, three, two, one, handsome guy, you lost."
"Time?"
The dwarf smiled and threw the mechanical watch over. The tall man took a look, and unwillingly took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes and threw it to the short man.
"Damn, I lost a pack of cigarettes, uncle......"
Before he could finish speaking, the tall man closed his mouth as the two of them entered the passage and were walking in this direction. In front of him was a middle-aged man with wrinkles on his face, followed by a young woman with healthy wheat-colored skin and beautiful eyebrows, but a melancholy expression.
"Who won?"
The tall man pursed his lips and did not answer the man's question, but his expression had already answered.
"Supper is almost ready, go up."
"Brother Li, it's been three days, and he hasn't stopped......"
"I'm measured."
The man waved his hand, but the dwarf didn't say anything more, and called the tall man to leave with him.
After the two left, the man looked back at the woman who had followed, and then walked towards the iron gate. The woman didn't follow, as if there was a man-eating beast behind the iron door.
Walking to the iron door, the man reached out and knocked on the iron door a few times. "Are you still alive?"
"Who are you, let me out at once, or ......" There was an unusually angry shout from behind the door, and it was a man locked inside.
"How else? It's been three days and three nights, and you haven't calmed down yet. If you need more time, I can lock you up for another three days and three nights. ”
"Who the hell are you?"
The man shook his head with a wry smile and said, "It doesn't matter who we are, the point is, do you still know who you are?" ”
The man behind the door was silent and did not answer for a long time.
"If you calm down, we can have a good talk. Of course, if you don't feel like you can sit down and talk to me calmly right now, come back in a few days. ”
"Open the door and let me out." The man didn't yell anymore, and his words were calm.
"Don't play tricks, or you'll regret it."
"Open the door!"
The man smiled faintly, took the doorknob and turned it around, then pushed the iron door open.
Before the iron door could be fully opened, a figure rushed out of it, and a fist smashed into the man's head at a rapid speed at the same time.
Instead of dodging, the man threw a punch.
The punch didn't look fast, but it came first, hitting the figure in the chest and blasting it out.
"It seems that you haven't calmed down, I'll come to see you in a few days."
"Who are you? Did you know that assaulting a Union soldier is a capital offense! The man was curled up in the corner, his voice a little weaker, and he looked badly wounded.
Behind the iron door was a small room of less than five square meters, windowless, similar to a prison cell.
The man was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.
"Laugh, laugh while you can laugh now. I'm an active federal soldier, and people from the military are looking for me, so if you find it, you ......."
"That's what you're talking about?"
A piece of iron flew out of the man's hand and landed in front of the figure.
The man picked up the piece of iron and looked at it, and immediately turned over and got up, his movements were very flexible, not like he was injured.
"It's ......"
"Take a good look, I'm outside, come out and find me when you figure it out." The man turned to leave, not closing the iron door.
It was not an ordinary piece of iron, but a storage device of information. The front is engraved with three large characters of "verdict", and there is a laser seal on the start switch, which needs to be opened by the recipient with his fingerprint. The man hesitated, then pressed the thumb of his right hand against the laser seal.
Four beams of light shoot out, and a virtual screen appears above the memory.
Judgment:
Sentenced to: Yang Yi, a third-class soldier of the Third Theater Garrison Force, and a soldier with the 49940300779527 number.
Sentenced offense: Escape.
Basis: Federal Military Code Part 4, Chapter 78, Article 4238, Article 58.
Verdict Result: Exile.
Duration of sentence: life.
Place of Sentence: Lava Star.
Judgment in force: 4994 of the Tertiary Period......
Before he could finish reading, the man shook a few times and almost fainted.
It's none other than Yang Yi.
This...... How is this possible!? Holding on to the wall and waiting until he was a little more conscious, Yang Yi opened the verdict again and read it carefully.
The laser seal has the seal of the Judge Advocate General's Office of the 3rd Theater of Operations, which is certainly not a forgery.
But...... What the hell is going on!? Yang Yi slapped his head a few times.
When he woke up, he was already in this room. What happened while unconscious, he didn't know. He only remembered that when returning to the outpost, the "Hair Bun" was attacked, the steering thruster was destroyed by the enemy aircraft, and the spacecraft lost control, so he took Zhong Lili to the escape pod according to Lin Jia's instructions, loaded Zhong Lili into a pod escape pod, set up the automatic ejection program, and then drilled into another pod escape pod.
According to the procedure, once the route to the adjacent post is set, the ejection program will start on its own and eject the pod escape pod. Because the flight speed of the escape pod is very slow and the neighboring outpost is far away, the evacuees will be injected with sleeping drugs, and then the hibernation device will be activated, so that the evacuees can enter a state of hibernation, survive the long interstellar flight, and reach the destination alive or be rescued by a passing spacecraft.
Yang Yi remembered very well that before he fell asleep, the pod escape pod he was in had been ejected.
What happened after this?
"It's the same when everybody comes here, but you react a little bit more."
Yang Yi looked up and found the man who punched him away standing at the door.
"You've broken the record that the handsome guy has held for five years, but it's still a big cut short of the record I set."
"Records?"
"Time spent in here." The man glanced towards the room where Yang Yi was.
Yang Yi was slightly stunned, this is a confinement room.
"Do you feel like you're dreaming? Now, though, I'm waking up. "The man tossed a box to the look." Come on, I'll take you back to the real world. ”
It was a set of protective suits that were folded up, pressed against the chest and activated by pressing a switch.
Yang Yi gritted his teeth and kept up with the man's pace.
"She's Ah Ling, she found you and brought you back." When passing by the woman, the man introduced him. "My surname is Li, you can call me Lao Li or Brother Li."
"You're a prison guard here?"
"There are no prison guards here, I just came here before everyone else. Well, the front is the exit, so if you don't want to be charred, hurry up and put on a protective suit. ”
In front is a rusty, mottled airtight door.
The man put on protective clothing, and the woman named Ah Ling also put on protective clothing, Yang Yi didn't dare to hesitate and immediately put on protective clothing.
The airtight door opened, and a fiery red wave of air rushed in. Although wearing protective clothing, you can't feel the temperature of the air waves, but it is certainly not low, I am afraid that it is more than 1,000 degrees Celsius.
"Don't run around outside, if you get lost, no one will be able to save you."
Yang Yi nodded, but he was still out of breath with nervousness.
Although Lava Star has never been to before, there is no one in the Human Federation who does not know about this planet known as "Fire Hell".
Before the Fifth Greenwich War, the "Lava Star" was known as the "Elysian Star", with a sea coverage of up to 85 percent, and a beautiful environment, it was a holiday destination on a par with the "Paradise Star". Unfortunately, at the beginning of the Fifth Greenwich War, the Human Federation was losing ground and had to abandon all colonized planets in order to keep their home system. After being taken over by the Silicon Alliance, the planet was completely transformed, and the ocean completely disappeared, except for a few islands, and the planet's surface was covered in magma. Because all water resources have been lost, there is no development value, so after the Human Federation regained the lost land, it did not do environmental transformation. Since then, the "Elysium" has become the "Lava Star", and it has also become the largest waste disposal site in the Human Federation.
To put it simply, the current Lava Star is a garbage incineration plant.
What Yang Yi didn't know was that this was still a place where criminals were exiled.
Behind the airtight door is a straight upward passage with an elevator.
After a few minutes, about five hundred meters of ascent, the three of them came to a huge cave.
The entrance to the cave is red, and outside is the surface world of Lava Star.
Yang Yi trembled and walked towards the entrance of the cave, Ah Ling wanted to follow, but Brother Li grabbed her and shook his head at her, telling her not to go over. The reality is harsh, but everyone who comes here has to take this step. Only by bravely facing the reality can we survive in this place that is even worse than hell.
Walking to the entrance of the cave, Yang Yi stopped, leaned on the rock wall, and gasped for breath.
Outside, the sky was red, the ground was full of red-burned shipwreckage, the scorching wind raged at will, and the fire was everywhere.
The name "Fire Hell" is well deserved.
This is reality, not a dream!?
Yang Yi wanted to take off his protective suit and use his feelings to judge whether this was reality or a dream, but the only remaining trace of reason dispelled this stupid thought.
Who, who framed me!?
A nameless anger rose up, instantly filling Yang Yi's entire brain, and it burned violently.
"Who is it, who the hell is it!?" Yang Yi raised his head and roared loudly at the crimson sky. "I, Yang Yi, swear by the lives of my closest relatives, no matter who you are, even if you are a high-powered general, even if you are a royal noble, I want you to live and not die."
In the cave, Ah Ling looked worried, as if she was afraid that Yang Yi would be killed because of those words.
A smile appeared on Brother Li's face. If you want to survive in this ghost place, you need not only an iron will and a cockroach-like vitality, but also the motivation to survive. Hatred may lead people astray, but it can make people overcome adversity and survive tenaciously.