25. Dead Line (Forty)
Values are a good thing.
As long as there are "legitimate values", whatever you do can be rationalized, even if it is a matter of losing your conscience.
After all, no one cares too much about the animals that are sent to the slaughterhouse, no one has the necessary emotions for the white rats on the test bench, and no one has feelings for the ore that has been mined, pickled, and cut.
That's right, as long as it's not a life equal to oneself, or even a life that's not considered a life, it's logical, mental health, and ethical.
So if you capture a "legion" or some other alien beast, humans will dissect it in detail, and in turn, the "legion" will do something similar.
No.
The "Legion" will do it more thoroughly.
For the Legion, humans are a target to be eliminated, but they are also an important resource, just like ores. Although this ore is somewhat dangerous, it does have its value and needs to be exploited.
The human body is full of treasures.
The corpse can be decomposed to synthesize nitrate, and the hair can be made into a trigger detonator for explosives, do a good job of embalming, empty the excess "contents", fill it with explosives, and then add a specific frequency of electrical signals to stimulate muscle fibers to be able to stand up and walk, and if the vocal cords are intact, it can also make a distress sound, so it becomes the best semi-autonomous mobile mine, and the enemy soldiers who rush forward to rescue them thinking that they are wounded soldiers or civilians will inevitably reap "surprises".
Even the most useless organic tissues for inorganic life, organ meat, have a "place" to be used, which is an important "feed" for "increasing the production" of this precious resource for human beings......
Among the many resources, the "legion" attaches the most importance to the brain.
The "Legion" has a high learning ability, and its speed of adaptation to the battlefield dwarfs the army of organic organisms, and the speed of proliferation and evolution is beyond the reach of organic organisms.
However, the "Legion" is not perfect. As a weapon of self-discipline evolution, the "legion" lacks subjective kinetic energy. To put it bluntly, the "legion" as a weapon only passively accepts changes in the battle situation and responds in various ways. As a result, there are almost no examples of the so-called "targeted layout" and "striking first to be strong" in the various combat examples of the "corps", and they are just advancing in an array like fellow army ants, removing all the obstacles that stand in the way of the march.
So far, there have been no problems with this set of tactics. However, this does not mean that it will continue to be applicable in the future, and taking a step back, blindly reacting will not help improve the efficiency of annihilating the enemy.
The quickest and easiest way to remedy this shortcoming is to collect ready-made, malevolent CPUs, the human brain.
As the old saying goes: when a man is about to die, his words are good.
This may be the case under normal circumstances, but not necessarily on the battlefield.
As long as the brains are removed by the Recycled Type before the decay and brain death, and the prepared "container" is connected, a new type of "Legion" - collectively referred to as the Intelligent Alpha Type will be completed.
Compared to the previous type, the Smart.Alpha type is more cunning. Originally, these brains were veterans who had fought a hundred battles themselves, and there were many front-line commanders among them. Once the subordination relationship is established with the implanted logic program, the new type can be fully utilized by downloading the learning program to adapt to the new body, and then combining it with the various information provided by the tactical information network. Its value on the battlefield was soon fully realized – especially with its brutality and cunning, which far surpassed that of the ordinary conventional model.
For humanity, this is a true nightmare – the kind that can never wake up and never get out of it.
However, this is just the tip of the iceberg of nightmares.
Not only did the "Legion" exceed human expectations in the speed at which it could develop new types, but the speed at which it reproduced and reorganized was far behind common sense.
Humans have always had a flat and abstract mathematical concept of population, and human beings, who are bound by the land and can only thrive on the ground, will naturally regard population as the number of people in a flat area.
However, the ecosphere of the "legion" is three-dimensional.
Originally, silicon was buried deep underground, and the underground is a paradise for inorganic life compared to the ground full of carbon. After occupying a certain area of the surface as a passage to and from the surface, they concentrate on digging deep caves and building their own nests. Therefore, even if the troops on the ground suffer heavy losses, the underground that is far wider than the ground has already prepared a larger "legion" that will further improve its performance after learning from the experience. Not only can it immediately fill the gap in troops, but it even has the spare strength to push the battle line back.
As an enemy of this inexhaustible army of the undead, even with a high degree of intelligence among the miscellaneous soldiers, humanity has no chance of winning at all.
The army of the black and oppressive undead shouted the last words of the dying, waved their arthropods and pounced on the terrified humans, fearless of death, as long as the "legion" that ravaged everything knocked down one person, and immediately there was a "legion" with surgical instruments and limbs to start the operation. Peel off the scalp, cut open the skull, remove the brain spinal cord, destroy the memory area – emotion, memory, and ego are the last things needed for weapons focused on killing and destruction. The fresh brain marrow is preserved, immediately evacuated, and then transformed into a "legion" force to attack other humans.
It's hell.
As for Roland and Father Hans Christian Andersen, in the heart of the world, their situation is even more disastrous.
In order to destroy these two high-level dangerous targets, the "legion" changed its usual tactics of crushing the opponent by numbers and changed to the tactic of encircling and sending a small number of elite combat forces into the encirclement to annihilate the targets.
The carefully selected tactics, even the units that carry out the mission are selected by thousands of people, are so impressive that you want to vomit.
We are Iscalius, the Judas of Iscariot.
- We look up to one thing, but we bow down and ask for the mercy of the Lord.
- I would only like to fight against the seven hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six evil spirits of hell.
In the empty wilderness, unable to be connected, intermittent but unusually clear prayers weave through my mind.
It was not a real prayer, there was neither fervor nor piety, it was like a broken radio playing the same song over and over again, but there was no mechanical, monotonous feeling in the "voice" that sounded directly in the head.
It was a muttered sigh when man was on the verge of death, before his consciousness was about to slide into the abyss.
The last words before dying.
Even if the body perished, the souls of the dead who should have gone to another world to sleep forever continued to pour out their empty sighs on the battlefield, harnessing the new inorganic body, hiding behind optical camouflage, silently sneaking through the wilderness while reaching out their claws to their companions who were left behind in this world.
The high-mobility stealth special operations type and beta type, collectively referred to as the "hunting type", resembles the last Knight of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelations.
- Look, there's a gray horse.
He who is on a horse is called death, and hell follows him. (New Testament, Revelation 6:8.) Slightly altered)