Chapter 187: "Science and War Are Unscrupulous" (17)
This secret laboratory is built on a hill, and the only entrance to the outside world is a metal door. However, the metal gate had been destroyed, and the bodies of the Marines had fallen to the ground in all directions.
A1 asked the men of the B platoon to go up and check briefly, in addition to the group of troops who came here to search before, there was also a group of soldiers without any visible markings, whether it was power armor or on the military uniform lined inside, there were visible tearing marks where there should have been epaulettes or armbands, presumably the defenders of the original Haven settlement, the Marines who volunteered to guard the people of the immigration after the Imperial troops abandoned Haven, after all, they were wearing the familiar CMC300.
“…… Did the garrison in the place of migration know about this? ”
Or maybe they were just sent to guard the lab without knowing the specifics. After all, Ariel Hansen is a Ph.D. herself, and it's not out of the ordinary that she wants to do research in an entire lab. A1 asked them to drag him a still intact corpse, and then she tore the helmet off the power armor with her bare hands, revealing her painful, hideous cheeks.
Ral, who was watching all this from the side, frowned, but because he was his superior, he didn't say much. For the soldiers, this power armor is their last dignity and shelter, and to take it apart so rudely is a clear disrespect to the soldiers at the bottom.
In the centuries-old history of the Koplu Star District, the Marines have always been the most controversial topic. They are numerous and constitute the main component of the armies of the countries of the human forces. But most of them have never been able to—or impossible—to get a full and dignified funeral, the forces to which they are loyal may not even be able to recover their bodies, the relics that have been delivered to their families may have been brought out of the factory a few days ago, and their gratitude to them is only a few words from the representatives of the regular meeting of the external propaganda department, and the only thing that is buried with them in the cold sea of stars is their power armor - sometimes their guns may be lost for various reasons, Only power armor will always accompany them.
As a result, there is an unwritten rule, or a sacred oath, among the Marines: they will never touch the power armor of anyone or corpse, and even if the mission requires it, they will carefully do so with their utmost apologies.
A handful of high-ranking officials who learned of this behavior dismissed it as "stupidity and superstition" on the part of the people at the bottom, but it was only when they actually became a member of the Marines that they realized that it was just a sense of self-preservation generated by the Marines' sadness about reality. They did this just in the hope that one day, when death would come to them, they and the only remaining steel coffin on their bodies would not be poisoned and their bodies exposed to the wilderness that no one knew.
A1 didn't know about it, it wasn't in her database, and the Empire wasn't too idle to put it into A1's database. She did this just to plug into the corpse's personal computer to see if there was any information available.
Unfortunately, the personal journal does not give any useful personal information. The hapless guy was notified about ten days ago that they were in charge of protecting the experimental base, but they didn't know anything about the base's projects.
In desperation, A1 threw the helmet back onto the corpse and said to Ral, "Leave one squad to stand guard at the door, and the others, follow me into the facility." ”
"Yes, sir."
By the time A1 led the team into the facility to begin the search, search forces from multiple other facilities had already finished their search and passed the report back. As they expected, most of the data in the facility had been completely deleted, and some of the technical specialists in the team tried to salvage some of the data, but the recovered data was limited and fragmented, making it difficult to analyze useful information.
However, since they sent back, they still took a lot of pictures of the experimental facility through the power armor camera, at least when they returned, they could let A1 and them analyze something somewhat.
But this still made Yang Yi grin when he heard it. He hated it, and he didn't even get a fart after all the effort he put in. The only thing he knew was that the unknown human force seemed to be UED, and it had something to do with the hybrid. As for the rest......
He only knew that his losses in this battle were not small, and he had to at least scrape some oil and water from Boss Lei.
The report from Shantila also arrived quickly. For those locations where hybrid psionic signals appeared, he chose to send astral forces to annihilate those hybrids. Although the Astral Force is not yet supported by War Machines due to the slow pace of rebuilding the Pride of Ortaris, the combination of Zealots and High Templars is still sufficient to wipe out the lone unknown hybrid despite their numerical superiority, with the only problem being the high casualties. But that's exactly what he intended.
Because at this time, his star spirits are all connected to Kara, and when they die, their memories will be integrated into Kara. The memories of these fallen star spirits can be used as a reference for Shantila and the other ship's maidens. Experiencing what they experienced is more telling than verbal.
Shantila's report was brief, as the number of fallen star spirits had surged by almost an order of magnitude in a short period of time, and she had to concentrate on recording their memories. She only informed Yang Yi that most of the hybrids had been wiped out, and that the surviving troops were regrouping and preparing to search deep into the abandoned laboratory facility.
The situation on the interstellar battlefield has also improved by this time. After the swarm left, Tadarin suddenly found that the situation was instantly unfavorable to him, and the Purifier Fleet, the Rangers, the Imperial Fleet, and Yang Yi's fleet all pointed the finger at him. After a period of entanglement, the Tadarin fleet left the battlefield in an emergency jump after turning the ground forces onto the ship.
After Tadarin left, the battlefield suddenly ...... It was quiet.
After the departure of the three hostile forces in quick succession, there was no need for this improvised alliance to continue to exist. Yang Yi did not receive a communication, so the communication between the Rangers and the Star Spirit Fleet was unknown. Soon, however, he received an inquiry from Shantila through Kara: Celestis, the executive of the Purifier fleet, had asked to speak directly with the executive of the Pride of Ortaris.
“…… Is it too late for me to run away? ”
(Stable updates are back to today.) )