Chapter Seventy-Four: Breaking News (I)
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The early morning sun spreads in the port city of Natales in Belfast, Dominic, who is in his forties, sits on the sofa and turns on the holographic player after washing up in his pajamas, his gentle wife Adelaide is preparing the family's breakfast in the kitchen, and his son Andre, who is in the eleventh grade, and Miranda, the daughter who is in the eighth grade, are still sleeping.
Dominic pressed a few clicks on the remote control, and the player switched to Planet Express, one of the three major star news stations of the Hod Empire, which is known for its timely and accurate broadcast of heavy news, and at the same time often exposes and criticizes scandals in some imperial governments and dark phenomena in society, and has high popularity and ratings throughout the Hod Empire.
Today's Planet Express morning news is still its featured program, where the officials of the empire accept bribes, where the officials have become the umbrella of the local underworld forces, where the alien nationalities have rioted again, the reason is because the officials of the empire have carried out cruel rule over the alien nationalities under their rule, etc., the beautiful announcer read out the news one by one in a beautiful voice.
"Ah......h
"It's the cliché that the empire seems to be full of corruption, isn't there a little bit of explosive news?" Dominic yawned boredly, he was tired of listening to these every day, as a small citizen, Dominic didn't care about political affairs, he cared about the academic performance of his son and daughter, whether the salary had risen, whether the price had been lowered, etc., and was about to change the channel when the female anchor in the picture suddenly stopped broadcasting the news, and pressed her left hand on the headset in her left ear as if she was listening to something. The unusual move made Dominic stop changing channels, and he had a hunch that there was a good chance that big news was coming.
Sure enough, after a while, the female anchor said in a very strict tone: "This station just received a big news. The source of this news is a video from Mr. Ralph, our correspondent on the northern border of the Sun Star, who was informed by the military several months ago that he had unfortunately died at the hands of the Tyranid Zerg. However, Mr. Ralph, who has already been pronounced dead, has received shocking news today, and perhaps we can see how he survived after watching the video sent by Mr. Ralph. ”
After the female anchor finished speaking, the picture changed to very dark, and from the darkness came the voice of a middle-aged man, the owner of the voice should be the reporter Ralph, "Today is the thirteenth day that the Sun Star has been occupied by the Tyranids, and the survivors around me have gone from hundreds at the beginning to less than forty now, we lack food and clean water, and people go out to look for food every day, but few people come back." Those who didn't come back all died in the worm's mouths, and I and the survivors around me hid like rats in the dark ruins, whoever came to help us. ”
After Ralph finished saying this, the picture changed again, the picture was no longer dark and dim light appeared in the player, and through the lens of Guò, you can see more than 20 people sitting or lying around the photographer, both Hodders and aliens, each of them in ragged clothes, yellow and thin, listless. Malnourished, in the upper right corner of the picture is the camera's own date, according to the photographer's own description Dominic knows that this is the sixteenth day of the occupation of the sun.
"It's the sixteenth day, and our group of survivors is out of food. We had to survive on a little sewage that came out of the corner, and that little water was not enough for twenty-six of us to drink, and all of us were too hungry to go out in search of food. Or rather, they no longer have the courage to look for food, and the day before yesterday, the leader of our group led more than a dozen people out to look for food. It's a pity that they haven't come back until now, and they shouldn't be able to come back. The rest of us have no weapons, no body, no hope, and can only sit here and wait to die, my dear wife Grace, if you can see this video, I hope to say to you that I love you and our lovely daughter, and if I don't survive, you must take care of our daughter and let her ...... Huh, what's the sound?"
Ralph's autobiography stopped abruptly, followed by a barrage of gunfire from outside, accompanied by a shout that a group called the Avengers was rescuing all the survivors, asking them to immediately come out and join them and move them to a safe place, where there was enough food and water and the protection of the army.
Hearing the sound from outside, everyone in the shelter or rat hole in the picture of Ralph was excited, and the dense gunfire showed that there were a lot of troops coming to the rescue, and Dominic could clearly hear the sound of cannons from time to time in the picture, and he was fascinated by it, as if he had become one of the survivors, and he didn't even know that his wife, son, and daughter were sitting next to him.
As time passed, more and more people saw this video, and the large and small screens in the streets, shopping malls, streets and alleys were playing synchronized images, and more people used their personal terminals to watch the pictures of the Planet Express, and the ratings of the Planet Express continued to increase.
The footage of the player in Dominic's home begins to shake, showing the owner of the shot walking outside, and a few minutes later the dark camera suddenly brightens up, showing the survivors coming out of the dark basement and onto the bright street.
In the camera, several soldiers wearing heavy power armor immediately ran to protect Ralph and their group of survivors after seeing them, and a foreign woman wearing a tight-fitting streamer suit shouted to Ralph and their group of survivors: "Get into the armored car immediately, we will protect you from leaving!" Ralph and their group did not dare to stop, and immediately walked into a large armored car according to the instructions, and after the camera entered the armored car, there were other survivors in the car.
The player screen changed again, this time there were a large number of survivors in the shot, and I don't know how many people there were, all the survivors lined up in a neat line and slowly passed through a star gate, and the gunshots around them were constant, and the frightening insects were endless.
The camera turns back, in the distant sky, the air force of the Tyranid Zerg is fighting with the human fleet, and the ground is also fighting fiercely, countless insects are attacking the makeshift defense line, and human soldiers are constantly being killed and falling to the ground, armored vehicles are blown up, but those brave soldiers have been unwavering and have been sticking to the defense line.
"Well played!"
Dominic's son, who is only seventeen years old this year, waved his hands and clenched his fists excitedly and shouted loudly, staring at the picture with the eyes on his immature face, as if he also wanted to pick up arms to participate in the battle in the picture, unlike his son, Dominic, who had joined the army, saw a lot of differences, the rescue army was not the army of the Hod Empire, but a powerful army that had always been composed entirely of foreign nationalities, the air was too far away to see clearly, but the equipment of the ground forces was a little stronger than the imperial army, at least the Imperial Army Marines could not do one power armor per person, but this foreign army did it。
"Could it be the newly formed real yàn troops of the empire? But why are they all soldiers of different races?" This question is not only Dominic alone, many people who are watching have such a question in their hearts, Dominic temporarily overwhelmed the doubt in his heart and continued to look at the picture intently, at this time a huge base appeared in the picture, and a large star gate in the base was sending the survivors to a certain place.
"Look at the soldiers of the Imperial Army, this force is indeed the Imperial Army!" called out Dominic's son again.
There are finally a few soldiers of the Hord Empire who are maintaining order in the picture, but Dominic's opinion is different from that of his son, because in addition to the soldiers of the Hod Empire, there are also female soldiers of different nationalities wearing black and white military uniforms in the picture, and if these female soldiers are also soldiers of the Hod Empire, why are they wearing military uniforms that have never been seen before.
Ralph, the owner of the camera, volunteered to inform the soldiers who maintained the order of identity, and conducted brief interviews with several of the Haud soldiers.
Ralph: "Hello, can you tell me your number?"
Soldier: "We are from the 64th Marine Corps of the Northern Military District. ”
Ralph: "Are they from the same army as you, and why do they look different from you?"
The soldiers in the camera hesitated for a while before saying, "They are not soldiers of the Empire, but a foreign rebel army that resists the rule of the Empire." ”
Ralph: "You're saying they're an alien rebel?!!" but...... Wait, when this army saves people, it doesn't only save the survivors of other peoples, but even we Hod people save them equally, aren't we Hod people the enemies of this army? So why do they save us Hodders?"
The soldier in the camera shook his head and said, "I don't know why they did that?" However, listening to our general, he also asked the same question, but the leader of this army told him that the revenge army, that is, the name of this foreign army, the enemy of the revenge army is only the barbaric and unreasonable Hod Empire government that has forcibly occupied the home planet of the revenge army, not the ordinary Hod people, there are tens of billions of humans in the Tyranid Zerg occupation area of the Northern Military Region who are being killed by bugs, and the fleet of the Hod Empire has withdrawn selfishly when she sees death, but she can't do it, as a human race, she must help her people who are suffering, whether it is us Hod people or non-blue-skinned alien races, they are all members of the human race, she has to rescue them and never give up a person。 (To be continued......)