Chapter Thirty-Six: The Blood of the Patriots

Eighth arrondissement.

Stukov sat indifferently at his desk in the area, guarded by eight guards, each of whom controlled a giant robot with powerful firepower. However, in front of Duran and his ghost squad, Stukov's personal guard was finally eliminated without any suspense.

When the exchange of fire subsided, all of Stukov's guards were killed, leaving him sitting at his desk, Samir emerged from his squad and slowly walked up to the other side, he changed his previous image of being respectful as a servant, "General Stukov, I have come here with the order of Admiral Duggal to remove you from your position, and I am authorized to execute you!" ”

Stukov let out a disdainful laugh, lit a cigarette for himself, got up from his chair, and after stepping out of his desk, he came to the front of the other man and looked at the expressionless Samir, "Lieutenant Duran." I'm not surprised you're here, I swear, we all know what you're here for. I should have found out that the general was right, a traitor is a traitor after all. ”

"Save these words for later to tell your general in hell! Stukov. Samir finally revealed his true face, and his eyes gradually burst into a bloody color. Stukov spurted his thoughts, motionless, his gaze converging on the other's blood-colored eyes.

"Say goodbye! Checkmate! ”

"Die! Traitor! ”

The two men drew their guns almost at the same time, and Stukov was fast, but Samir. Duran's speed was lightning fast, and almost instantly, the bullet was disemboweling from the silver pistol in Duran's hand and entering Stukov's heart. Samir watched indifferently as the second man of the expeditionary force fell to the ground, and after a while, he and his team disappeared invisibly.

An hour later.

Planet Blaiswick High Altitude Orbit.

Duggall led the main forces back to the base camp.

"Let Lieutenant Duran come to me, and I'll ask for his report at once!"

"Commander. Lieutenant Duran's file disappeared from my system, and Lieutenant Duran could not be contacted. ”

"What do you mean?" Suddenly, a thought arose in Dugel's mind, it was a bad premonition, and now there were enough things to worry about, he asked, "Computer! Where is Stukov now? I'm going to question him to his face! ”

"The last track shows that Lieutenant General Stukov is in the base laboratory No. 7." Artificial intelligence responds instantly.

Twenty minutes later, Duggall was escorted by one of his personal guards to Laboratory 7, where the dilapidated entrance caught his eye, and the Admiral silently walked forward and entered the base laboratory. Along the way, Dougall watched the massacre unfolding in the base until he came to District 8, which was the last chaotic area and the most ferocious area where the firefighting took place.

The dead in the giant robot appear to be Stukov's personal guard, but Stukov is gone.

"What happened?" Duggall looked around, and confusion erupted in Base 7 lab not long ago, "Where are you?" Alexey, I want to listen to your explanation! ”

Suddenly. At that moment, the computer terminal in Area 8 ran a program on its own, and a video message popped up, and Duggall looked at the characters in disbelief. It was Stukov, and his near-dying kick proved that he had found the fatal wound.

Duggall didn't say a word, but stared at the video as Stukov spoke. Weakly narrated:

"Gerald, my old friend. There is indeed a traitor in your army, but that person is not me. By the time you see this, I'm dead. Gerald, it's Duran, he's played with us from the beginning, even though I had reservations about him a while ago and started to have a little doubt, he suggested you go and destroy the energy generator, but I kept it because I think it's the best weapon we can use to defeat the Xenomorphs! Then, in the landing operation on the planet El, he ignored the swarm troops, causing the alien army to drive straight into the core of our base, and we almost succeeded in gaining a foothold on the El and capturing the Emperor Mengsk and the rebel Renault. In desperation, I ordered the complete withdrawal of the combat troops on the surface and came here to prepare to activate our only hope of defeating the Xenomorphs, but you, my old friend, I grew up with a little hahaha, and you are going to kill me, but Gerald, I believe that you are the deceived Duran who is the real murderer!!! Listen, old man, I'm running out of time, I speculate that Duran has been infected He showed a pair of bloodshot eyes in front of me, just like the alien He was infected using the energy generator, I have stored the data in the file for backup, even if the physical object is destroyed, it can be recreated, it is quite perfect, and I have also improved and designed a new set of devices based on the original equipment, the energy jammer Duggal cough cough to complete our mission to make my death worthwhile, this is my last wish"

The four-minute video message eventually disappeared, but Dougall was like a wood carving, his gaze never moving an inch.

"Stukov" Duggall knelt weakly on his legs. "Nope! No! No! What have I done? What have I done? ”

"I killed you! My old friend, I killed you! Filled with remorse, Dougall burst into tears.

"Where's Duran?" Dugall's cold voice was filled with boundless killing intent.

"The lieutenant has not been heard from at all!" -- Adjutant.

No

The truth couldn't be clearer than at this time.

Artificial intelligence: "The self-destruct system has been activated."

"Not good! General, let's get out of the way! The adjutant was shocked, "General, the nuclear reactor at the base is set to be overloaded, and we must get out of here unless we turn it off manually!" ”

"That must be a good thing that Duran did, this is his backhand, and even the last data backup will be destroyed." Dougall struggled to get up. His expression had long been occupied by indifference, "Your once extremely loyal lieutenant general died at the hands of his conspiracy, and now I ask you to remain loyal to General Stukov's legacy and obtain the data file of the energy generator from the base terminal, as Stukov said, that is the only hope for defeating the aliens, the only hope for the expeditionary force." ”

"General! I'll go get it, you get out of the lab first, get out of Base 7, and in 15 minutes the base will be powdered. If it fails. The adjutant said urgently.

"Nope! I have to see with my own eyes that the data is downloaded, and this is Stukov's last wish, and I want to see it done with my own eyes. Duggall said calmly.

"Don't do that, General!" The adjutant's face suddenly turned miserable, he looked directly at Dugal without fear, and shouted: "Your safety is the fate of the entire expeditionary force, and you can't put yourself in danger, general!" Please get out of here!! ”

"How much time do you want to waste? Please carry out the command! "Dougall once again demonstrated his stubbornness and irreversible will.

"Yes!" The adjutant yelled hysterically, "Protect the general!" Immediately move to the control center! ”

A piercing self-destruct alarm sent the lab to flee in all directions, just as the perimeter fence of the base perimeter was breached, and the body signals of the jumping insects appeared.

"Alien?!! Protect the General! Protect the General! Full fire! The adjutant was shocked. A large number of jumping insects suddenly poured out of the passage at the hanging corner.

Every soldier fired desperately, hoping that the rate of fire of the weapon in his hand would increase tenfold, and the insects could not exert their true combat effectiveness in the relatively narrow passage, and their fangs were beaten into pulp before they could touch the human body.

"There is not much ammunition left. Save a little! Stay alert, pay attention to your surroundings, and move forward! The adjutant walked cautiously.

However, when Duggall they came to the vicinity of the control center. A large number of jumping worms were scattered at the entrance to the control center, and to be fatal, their bullets were almost depleted. Even with the favorable terrain, bullets were not enough to deal with them and kill so many bugs.

"Oh my God, how are we going to get through those aliens?"

"I'm out of bullets!"

"Activate the self-destruct system in three minutes and forty seconds!" Suddenly, the voice of the artificial intelligence sounded, which was undoubtedly bad news in the bad news, and this voice was reminding them that they did not have much time.

Dugel silently stared at the surrounding arrangement, worthy of the general, and in a moment he had already found a solution to the problem, "Adjutant! See those automated machine gun towers in front of the door? Lure the aliens at the entrance of the hub into range of those automatic weapon defenses, and let those machine guns beat these goddamn bugs into meat sauce! ”

"Great, how did I not think of it! Be! Checkmate! The adjutant was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, "You five protect the general, listen, even if you are eaten by insects, you will be at the front!! The others come with me! ”

After that, the adjutant led the remaining 8 people to rush out regardless of life and death, and their movements instantly attracted the jumping insects at the entrance, and the insects without any intelligence rushed to the mechanical tower desperately, and after a while, all the insects turned into a big puddle of meat on the floor.

As soon as the threat of the bugs came into contact, the adjutant immediately joined up with Dugall, quickly opened the gate valve and hurriedly entered the control center.

Artificial Intelligence: "8"

Artificial Intelligence: "7"

Artificial Intelligence: "6"

Artificial Intelligence: "5"

Artificial intelligence: "The reactor is closed. ”

"Huh" The adjutant took a deep breath and sat down on the ground weakly, everyone present seemed to be reborn.

"Well done, Tolk!" Dougall showed a rare smile, "I see in you Thor's fearless courage, you should command an army, not stay by my side." ”

"Nope! General, I just want to stay by your side and let someone else take my place, I really don't feel at ease. Adjutant Qiang smiled and said.

"Say it again! Download the terminal database now. Command me to assemble all the fleets and sail for the planet Char in half an hour, and we're going to destroy the damned cursed Juggernaut, and Duran, he'll pay the price, I swear by my personality!! ”

(Final chapter of this volume.)

- To be continued) (To be continued.) )