Chapter Twenty-Five: The Hidden People
Sally stood at the top of the POW camp watchtower, looking coldly at Dirunga below. At this moment, it was carrying the corpse of its own kind, Varvara, onto the ship bound for the headquarters.
She slowly raised her head, her eyes looking at the sky filled with yellow sand, as if Catherine was on the other side of the sky, and her sharp eyes seemed to pierce her chest through time and space. But among the stars, in the magnificent warship, what about Catherine between the cold steel?
Sally put the gun on the shelf of the watchtower, and took the elevator to the first floor, where Dironga had already sent the ship away, and when Sally was coming, he was very active in greeting her.
"About Varvara......" it wanted to say something of comfort.
"Let's talk about work." Sally interrupted, fiddling with the handcuffs in her hands.
"The work is all arranged, everyone is on track, and it won't be long before Wim will come over and take you to his ship." Dirunga lowered his head, swaying back and forth slightly, suddenly a bit like a child who had made a mistake, "Varvara was ordered by your governor, but I still have to say I'm sorry." I really can't stop anything. ”
"I'm sorry." The metallic sound of the handcuffs stopped, and Sally looked at Dironga in a sincere tone, "At that time I was like a war machine, insensitive, slaughtering the Komodos. But don't be too upset, I'll pay the price soon, and Ekaterina too. ”
These words were something that Dironga didn't expect, and it even froze for two or three seconds after Sally finished speaking, because it didn't know that Sally was the commander who invaded their planet, and this painful memory had not had the courage to open it after joining the Blue Python, which is why it hadn't done any research when it heard the familiar name of Varvara before.
"What do you know today...... It's really unexpected. The universe is so small. It smiled bitterly and let out a long breath, "Our nation is really weak, you see, even I, didn't I join the blue python in the end?" And he worked 12 hours a day. ”
Sally shook her head helplessly and handcuffed herself, seeing Wim like this, it was not easy for Dironga to be suspected, "It's not your problem, it's that the blue python is too strong." In fact, even Hamili of the Dawn Legion is bent on becoming an expeditionary force and fighting for the Blue Python. The coercion of the blue python is indeed too strong, and no one will not give in. With that, she headed for the depths of the camp, where she needed to put herself in a cell.
Standing in place, Dironga looked at Sally's back as she drifted away, lowered her head heavily, and slowly turned around and walked towards the sandy desert, where she sat on the sand at the entrance of the prisoner of war camp.
"Hamiri......" It grabbed a handful of sand feebly, and the sand flowed out little by little through its claws, and finally there was nothing left in its claws.
Meanwhile, in the prisoner-of-war cell, Bobby, Simon, and the ragged prisoner sat cross-legged on the ground in a circle. The dim sunlight outside shone on the floor in front of them, and the three of them meditated quietly against the unclear sunlight, the dust in the air wafting around them, and the huge prisoner of war camp seemed to only hear their heartbeats.
They're the only prisoners left here.
Suddenly, the sound of the soles of their boots touching the ground came closer, and eventually, there was a sound of the cell next to them opening the door, and the people who entered consciously closed the door, and the entire prisoner of war area fell silent again.
But when the ragged prisoner opened his eyes, they were dull and yellow, and often secreted cloudy tears. His dirty head, with his knotted hair, twisted in the direction of Sally's cell.
"A gambler in plain clothes walked up to the gambling table and was cut down covered in black blood." He said things that ordinary people would not understand.
Sally glanced at her clothes, it was the black military uniform she usually wore, which probably didn't mean hers. She leaned against the wall and sighed wearily. It was hard for her not to think of Varvara, the pink lizard that was always dangling in her mind, and when she came back to her senses, she found that her chest was already suffocating, and when she tried to order her subordinates to call the battalion commander, her heart felt like it was dripping blood. No matter what Varvara has done, it's a real thing to think that this guy who has been by his side has suddenly disappeared......
"Ah!!h
Suddenly Bobby's shout came, and Sally just felt that something was wrong with the three of them, and she came in and didn't ask her about Hamiri, just sitting there in a daze, very abnormal.
"Bobby, you're okay!" Sally shouted through her cell.
"Hamiri! Hamili! Woo woo woo woo woo ...... "This golden retriever boy who is stupid every day actually cried?"
"What do you see?" It was an old, hoarse voice that was eagerly asking Bobby the question, "What's wrong with Hamili!" ”
"Woooooooooo......oo Wim he, he cut off his brother's arm wow wow wow!! ”
"What!" Simon, who had been quiet all along, was like a frying pan, and Sally heard the sound of furious smashing from their cell.
Probably Bobby fell asleep in a daze and had nightmares, right? But what's going on with the other two? Why do you follow him?
Sally felt more and more strange and wanted to ask what was going on, but the wall behind her was hammered by one of the three of them.
"I'm Madika, the Dream Guide! You're Commander Sally! Countless killings! One hundred and eighty-three minutes later, Wim will teleport over and take you! "You can't try to figure out the secrets of the spaceship, it's not a structure that humans can understand!" Nor can we probe into Wim's secrets! It doesn't make sense! Focus on yourself! Explore yourself! ”
At the same time, Bobby and Simon were crying and screaming, and the scene was a bit like a dancing god, and the cacophony of voices reached Sally's ears from the cell over there, and her head was buzzing. And she now suspects that these three guys have been locked up for too long and are a little crazy.
"Someone's coming! Someone! Shut up! Medika smacked Bobby and Simon on the heads, and two "bangs" were heard, and the next cell suddenly fell silent.
Sally was relieved that she was going to Wim's side in a moment, and she wanted to take advantage of this moment to rest. So, she slowly closed her eyes, inhaled the cold air, and her muscles that had been tense for a long time slowly relaxed, and she didn't have to be ready to draw the gun at all times, because she didn't have a gun now, and she could finally put it wherever she wanted.
But just as she was about to fall asleep, a familiar footstep came nearer and closer, not Dirunga, and even less likely Wim, for Wim had no feet, and he was floating forward.
The footsteps were very soft, as if they were afraid of making a mistake at every step, and they walked cautiously, but the footsteps were still weak, as if they were too worried and exhausted, and all their physical strength had been exhausted, so that now the man was like a walking corpse.
"Haiqin." Sally closed her eyes, called her name, and the sound of her footsteps, which had been soft, became chaotic and began to walk in the opposite direction to Sally.
Sally slowly opened her eyes, and slowly turned her head to look at Haiqin who was fleeing in embarrassment, "What are you looking for me?" ”
Haiqin was nailed in place, not daring to move, and her right hand, which was tucked into her left pocket, twisted unnaturally. It's not that she deliberately is so awkward, this dress only has a pocket on the left side, and it is difficult for Sally to ignore such an embarrassing action.
"What's in your pocket?" Sally asked coldly, no blame in her tone, but no understanding or concern, "Same as last time, right?" ”
"Last time it was Dirunga!" She suddenly turned around to clarify, but immediately realized that she had missed something, after all, Sally didn't say what happened last time.
"What about this time?" Sally reached out and hooked her fingers, motioning for Haiqin to come over.
Haiqin didn't dare to disobey Sally, she came to Sally's cell tremblingly, only to find that Sally's white blonde hair was almost white now, and the dark circles under those eyes were deep and heavy, and her tired appearance made her not at all like a human under forty years old.
Seeing that the only partner she relied on before had become so haggard, Haiqin became even more distressed, and she sat down in front of the cell door with a crying voice, looking at Sally leaning against the wall in the dim cell, "Sister Sally...... Don't suffer from sin...... Death is liberation! ”
"Really?" There was a hint of sadness in Sally's eyes, "Do you still think that after Valvara rescued you four years ago?" ”
Suddenly, Haiqin choked on the words, "I ......"
"The blue python used your planet as a radiation bomb testing ground, and you became like this." She raised her hand and pointed to Haiqin's pimpled skin, "How many of you survivors, who were brought into the laboratory by the blue python, and came out alive?" ”
"Do you have to say it so that you can face up to everything that has happened?" She stood up, walked to the cell, snatched the needle from Haiqin's hand, threw it on the ground, and stepped on the boot with a solid sole mercilessly, kicking up a cloud of dust.
At the same time, Ravenz took Talo and D to Ninglewood's restaurant again, it was strange today, it was empty, in the dim shop, the boxing ring was nowhere to be seen, there were not a few sets of tables, chairs and benches, and even the wine rack behind the bar seemed to have been looted, and there was nothing left.
In fact, the moment they arrived at the ruins of the spaceship, Ravenenz and the others already sensed that something was wrong, and for some reason, there were not many inhabitants left in the ruins.
However, unlike last time, the big hole left in the wall when Zane was captured has been repaired, you know, it has not been a few days since then, and the fact that this hole has been repaired means that this ruin will still operate normally, not abandoned, otherwise why repair it? But now the people are almost gone, where have these people gone? Why did they go?
"Guys, we're closed." Suddenly, Ninglewood's voice came from the dimly lit dining room.
At the same time, the thorn on D's tail involuntarily stood up, and Ravenz and Taro immediately pulled out their pistols and aimed at the blur.
But then, Miss Ninglewood, dressed in a leather coat like last time, walked out with a catwalk and a cocktail, and walked out gracefully, and slowly came to the crowd step by step.
"Where have all the people gone here?" Ravenenz asked, listening to the six ways, keeping an eye on the surroundings for any suspicious sounds.
"Dead, killed by Jason." With that, she took a sip of her cocktail and enjoyed it all over her face.
"I think they've been eaten by you, right?"
Everyone was amazed, who said this?
Ravenz and Taro looked at each other for a moment, only to see that D had walked up to Ninglewood, the spines on its tail almost erect, and the six arms on its back ready for battle.
"What is this alien talking about? Why don't I understand? ”
Ninglewood smiled and tried to put the wine next to it, and there were no flowers, and he buckled it upside down on the flower pot on the tabletop, but he was choked by the throat by D.
“D!” Ravenz was about to reprimand the ignorant Purge employee.
But Ningerwood's undaunted appearance made Ravenz and Taro even more vigilant, and they immediately took a few steps back, but immediately after, Ningerwood let go of his hand, and the wine glass fell to the ground.
At the moment when the wine glass fell, six huge limbs stretched out from Ninglewood's back, totaling fifteen or sixteen meters long, like spider legs, but as thick as a cement telephone pole on top.
The sharp six limbs were inserted into the ground, and at the same time, Ninglewood's hands, which had been wrapped in leather gloves, stretched out claws that were even sharper than D's, and the two claws grabbed D's giant claws that were originally pinched on her throat, and pinched them fiercely, directly crushing the exoskeleton of the giant claws, revealing the golden flesh inside.
Not to be outdone, D's spiky tail slapped at Ninglewood's delicate face, but the other party tilted slightly, not only dodging the blow, but also catching the cocktail that almost fell to the ground, and drinking it seductively.
It all happened the moment the glass was about to hit the ground, but Ravenz and Taro were members of the deacon's office and had received countless trainings, and they reacted quickly, grabbed D, and retreated to safety.
However, Ninglewood didn't spare them, and the first two of the six limbs grabbed the various pieces of brass and iron from the ship's ruins, ripped them off, and threw them at Ravenz.
The huge iron sparks flew straight at him, and Ravenz had to run with his legs, and then jumped into a slightly wider area, and finally dodged, and the iron smashed with him on the sand, stirring up a lot of dust.
But before he could stand up, the few remaining Linglan people he had seen before immediately surrounded him with guns, and the cold muzzles of four or five guns were aimed at Ravenz on the ground, although the people with guns were thin and haggard, the anger in their eyes made Ravenz feel a chill. It turned out that this group of people were not ordinary residents, they were the Linglan Resistance.
On the other side, D used his remaining arm to support the iron, and Taluo was just under D's body, panting in fright, his limbs were as soft as noodles, and he couldn't support him to escape.
"D, how long can you hold out?" Ninglewood climbed up the iron like a spider, adding a huge weight to D, and its two legs in human form were now dangling there as if they had been broken, swaying from side to side as it moved.
"N......" D called each other's names.
"You remember me." Ninglewood, also known as N, jumped from the iron with satisfaction, came to the sand, and hooked D and Taluo out of the iron with his two forelimbs, and the iron that had lost its support fell completely to the sand.
"Who the hell is she?" Taro asked D in a whisper.
"The same batch of test specimens as me." D, licking his crushed arm, replied while hanging in the air, "I subdued it when it escaped from the lab and destroyed a lot of the surrounding area." ”
"That's true." N put down D and Taluo, "After this, we were sent to the laboratory in space and did a personality change experiment, obviously, now we have exchanged good and evil, and the blue python's experiment was successful, but I still escaped, and it became a puppet." ”
"Until I asked." Suddenly, Zane's voice rang out, and Ravenz and Taro looked behind the iron block, Zane had repaired his mechanical body and walked out with steady steps.
"We're looking for you." Ravenz tried to stand up and speak, but was trampled on the back by one or two Antelopes.
"You're looking for me all the time." He said in a deep voice.
"This time I'm going to work with you and infiltrate Wim's spaceship with Sally!"
Zane, however, didn't react, just stared at Ravenz.
"We need to investigate the reason why Wim did this, otherwise the public opinion will not be easy to explain, and the headquarters will bear a lot of pressure, Zane, this is your chance to make meritorious contributions!" Ravenz no longer cares about his dignity, so he talks vigorously with his face against the sand. Maybe the former members of Armed Zero were too oppressive and he couldn't care about that much.
"Where's Sally?"
Ravenz thought that the other party would say a few words, but he didn't expect to wait for such a straightforward question. "I'm afraid you're going to kill me after telling you, right?" He said through gritted teeth.
Zane still didn't answer him, just lifted the mechanical arm and knocked it twice, and a short video popped up.
In the video, Ravenz is talking to Taro on the phone, but the perspective is no longer the perspective of the POW camp surveillance, where the virus was cracked by Di Runga after he told him that the POW camp was being monitored, and the current video was shot through the front camera of Ravenenz communicator.
"When Sally and the others find clues that can explain the Wim incident, we will report to the headquarters and confirm that we can control public opinion, and the destruction ray of the commander's fleet will directly defeat Wim, and the fleet of the expedition to Ibiaz will also be dispatched...... I know that Sally's reward and punishment should be discussed in a court-martial, but this is a commission that the commander of the expeditionary force has asked us to strictly enforce. Sally must be killed, and the body must be sent to headquarters, or we will die. Do you want to run away for the rest of your life like Zane? ”
"Looks like I'm a good negative textbook." Zane turned off the video.
My own communication equipment is also being monitored, why is this happening?
Immediately afterwards, Ravenz suddenly remembered something, when he was in the prisoner of war camp infirmary, Sally suddenly said that he wanted to watch the video of Hamili's internal surveillance device when he was negotiating with Edjo, because Edjo was a member of the Anti-War Society and the old god of the earth, and he was busy negotiating with the other party, so he handed over the bracelet without having time to think about it, and Sally must have implanted a surveillance virus in his bracelet later, and then the virus spread into his communicator and other devices through the Internet. As things stand, and given Zane's insane stance against the Blue Python at all times, he would definitely show this audio to Wim.
But just as he was about to make some conditions for Zane not to do that, Zane had already raised his mechanical arm and hit him on the top of the head mercilessly, followed by a sound of bones shattering, and unbearable pain, all the conditions he had just thought of were shattered by this punch.
"Ahh Yes... Don't—" Blood immediately covered his face, and the blow cost him almost half his life, and his screams became weaker and weaker.
And Taluo, who was controlled on the side, saw that the captain was beaten, and immediately seemed to have endless strength, broke free from under N's tightly pressed limbs, and ran towards Ravenenz helplessly. In fact, N was a bit surprised that Zane's punch looked too heavy.
At this time, Taluo had already stumbled and knelt in front of Zane, blocking Ravenz with his body, and pleading in a trembling voice: "Big brother, please don't do this!" I'll say yes to whatever you ask! ”
Maybe it was because Talo's long pink hair and his man's voice were a little strange, Zane also froze for a moment, but then, he still slapped Taluo in the face fiercely, directly fanning Taluo out of the distance, rolling around with the sand several times, and when he got up with his jaw crooked by this slap and his teeth shattered on the sand, Zane had already lifted Ravenenz up.
Ravenz turned his back to Zane and faced Taluo, his eyes staring at the illuminated yellow sand, and his head was being grasped tightly by Zane's two hands, and his neck could be broken at any moment.
"Don't! Other! Taro knelt down like a dog and crawled to Zane, "Please, don't do this to the boss!" Please! ”
"Where's Sally?" Zane asked again.
"Yes, on the Wim ship! No...... It should still be in a prisoner of war camp! Wait in the prisoner of war camp for Wim to pick her up, and then go to Wim Spaceship! Taro replied as quickly as he could, but stammering, begging Zane to spare Ravenz.
"What else? About the commission of the command, say in detail. He grabbed Ravenz's hands harder.
"Don't, don't! I say! I say it all! Taluo gasped, as if he was afraid that Revenz would die, "The headquarters wants to kill everyone in the prisoner of battle camp, and the body must be transported to the headquarters for confirmation!" It was Ekaterina Olikser who personally gave the order! That's all we know! ”
Now Zane knew everything he wanted to know, but would he be that merciful? He used to be a member of the Blue Python Armed Zero, the most ruthless and cold-blooded killer, even if he spit on the Blue Python and the Armed Zero like that, some things melted into his bone marrow early on, and they were already a part of him.
He quickly lifted the barrel on the right arm of the machine, and a deafening gunshot startled N.
Taro fell, fist-sized bullet holes in his head, and now his entire head had almost fallen off because the bullet had pierced his cervical vertebrae.
Then the barrel of the gun was aimed at Ravenz's head, "Since your president knows I'm here, I shouldn't send you civilians." ”
"Zero...... It's all ......," Ravenz muttered.
"What?"
"Zero, armed...... All are, monsters. Two bloodshot eyes were staring at Zane, whose face was cold, and even though Ravennz's eyes were no longer visible from the heavy blow just now, he still tried to raise his head, and the corners of his mouth showed a smug smile, "Whoever comes, it's all the same." ”
"You made all the monsters!" Zane seemed to be spurred on by a certain sentence, "Call me a monster, and you don't either!" ”
As he spoke, Zane put the barrel of the gun into Ravenz's mouth, and the huge force made the barrel directly pierce the soft throat, "Commander Dog wants to see the corpse, right?" She'll receive it soon. ”
Another gunshot rang out, and Ravenenz's death was even more ugly, his whole head bloomed, and the Linglan Resistance, who had been staying by watching Zane's interrogation, couldn't help but glance at him, and then took a few steps back.
N felt that something was wrong, Zane, as a partner, had always been a powerful existence in its eyes, but now it seems that there is more than that. Perhaps because he had been trained and treated too much for ordinary people to endure, Zane was, as Ravenz put it, a cruel monster, just like Wim.
"Armed Zero is really a simple shot." N put away her six long limbs and supported the shivering D, her body just between Zane and D, "My own brother, let it go." ”
"Whatever you want." Zane's purpose this time seems to be only a member of the deacon's office, and he has not shown great interest in D of the Purge Bureau, I am afraid that even D himself can't even imagine that in the end, he will be let go of the prey that he has been chasing for so long, and a kind of anger that has damaged his dignity quietly rises from the bottom of his heart.