People's Federation will live forever

"It seems that General Olivia intends to promote this Miles. Maybe our general is already in a hurry to retire?"

Ensig made a rare joke, but unfortunately Li De happened to be in no mood.Having just finished discussing with the watchman, he looked at the iron-backed transport plane that had packed up the whole set of equipment and was about to land, and nodded seemingly unintentionally: "This is very good. If Olivia hands over the ground troops to others, I will build Our space fleet is also short of a commander."

"Oh, yes, the Space Fleet!" Ensig became excited again, "At the space control center, the first 'Kodiak' warship is ready for launch, just wait for us to develop the ship-borne The fusion core is already in. The upgrade space has been set aside, and I assure you, it is a real space battleship compared to GDI's stratospheric toys!"

Li De was noncommittal: "Very good, but it needs to be renamed. I don't allow the remnants of GDI to exist here."

The Kodiak command ship—that was the monster that dominated the sky in the past. It claims to be a "space battleship" that can fly to the orbit of the Philadelphia Space Station. The Kodiak battleship has made a lot of concessions in size. It is nothing more than a destroyer with an engine installed, and it cannot escape the shackles of gravity at all.

But he is different, maybe because he witnessed the tragedy of "Hyacinth", he now firmly believes that the spaceship, why must it land?It should be a king with infinite majesty, overlooking all living beings from above, and soaring freely in the sea of ​​stars.It is a symbol of dominion, even if it is death, it should be annihilated among the stars, and should not fall in such a dusty way.

After thinking for a while, seeing the iron-backed transport plane put down dozens of tons of facilities on the steel platform, Li De braved the strong wind and bumps to walk onto the platform first, and said to Ensig who was following him: "Just call...Nibo Dragon root class!"

Ensig was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood.No matter how the chief scientist understood this, one man and one octopus strode through the group of guards, one left and one right were the black high-level sanctuary and the silver-white mobile infantry. One, but equal in number.When Li De walked by, all the soldiers turned and stood at attention, their boots collided, their rifles were put on their shoulders, and their movements were uniform.

Li De always appeared in a black coat and a cloak. His style is plain and simple. He even refused to add more symbolic decorations to himself and only kept the "Eye of Truth" logo.The strong wind lifted the hem of his clothes, he walked through the human wall with his hands behind his back, and his thick-soled steel boots stepped on the platform clanging forcefully - here he is the center of the world, even if every soldier in armor is a head taller than him, but they When looking at Li De, it was like looking at a vortex of terrifying souls, which tested their will, and there was no distraction in their minds.

Ensig looked at the back of the man in front of him, remembered the origin of the name Nibelungen, and was silent in his heart.

This is power.

Suddenly, Li De raised his right hand, and that slender arm pierced straight into the sky, as if trying to catch the sun.The heads of the soldiers lifted up with the movement of the arm, and their hearts trembled, a deep and cold voice sounded clearly in everyone's ears——

"I'm not here to inspect! Black Hand, Guards, your mission has been completed, now everyone returns to the island station immediately and waits for my order!"

There was another salute in unison. No one had any doubts, and no one wanted to stay firmly to "defend" their leader.After saluting, he turned around in silence.Whether it's black hands or guards, their thoughts have made them form an instinctive cognition-everyone knows that the leader's order is unquestionable.

Only Ensig understood: "If 'Number Zero' gets out of control, no matter how many soldiers come, they will die in vain."

After the platform of the fusion power station became empty, Li De raised his legs and walked towards the cold "steel cage".Now there are only a large number of automated defense machines left here, and Ensig is in charge of all the controls. There is not even a single saboteur, but only in such an environment can Li De walk into the facility so generously and stand up. In front of the restraining vessel.

The refrigeration equipment was still "humming", the mist of liquid nitrogen filled the air, and the indicator light remained red.

And Li De raised his hand and gently wiped off the accumulated frost on the container. The moment his vision became clear, he met a pair of scarlet pupils——

"We meet again, number zero..."

Li De put his hands on the bulkhead, and after looking carefully for a while, he said regretfully: "Please forgive me for playing EVA's tricks and forcibly giving you such a name. I also want to give you freedom, but your body is under The madness makes even me shudder."

"But we've got enough to help you, albeit for selfish reasons. I, and the Brotherhood, need your power, the technology you embody to help us through this... However, I also Hope we can actually help you, you want to live, don't you?"

Those scarlet pupils were as dull as ever, unable to respond.After Li De wiped away more frost and mist, the face of Number Zero became clearer and clearer, until finally, a face with disheveled hair and distorted and crazy complexion appeared in front of him——

Short silver hair, eyeballs that almost protrude from the sockets, except that she is smaller, the facial features of size zero are very similar to Olivia, excluding the big eyes that occupy a quarter of the face like anime characters, they are almost carved in the same mold. from.

But the distorted expression on that face at the end, and the hands scratching the bulkhead seemed to swallow Li De alive, and Li De also believed that she would definitely do this when Zero came out.

Chapter 37·She is going to eat people!

"Go through our plan again, Ensig."

If there is anything that can prove Kane's indifference and madness towards human beings, then the "experiment" in front of Li De is the best proof. A white lotus is no different.

Number zero—she wasn't originally called this name, it was Li De's code name.As a result of the early Salaru project, whatever its original intentions, she was shaped into a terrifying killing machine - the use of incompletely understood Scrin technology to resurrect the dead, which is what the Sarahlu project was. Nature.

It was also the failure of the first phase that led to the adoption of mature and reliable cyborg technology in the follow-up plan, and the failure of "Number Zero" became a trophy after Li De captured the "Great Tomb" and was brought here.

This is the cause and effect of everything, but it is not important, because what I have to do now is to open this Pandora's box.For this reason, he and Ensger re-determined the process to ensure that no matter what happens, their side is ready.

Controlling the mechanical prosthetic body to return to the platform where the power system was installed, Li De watched the automation equipment slowly lower a fairing-like thing and hang it above the head of the freezing facility - it was a "silver wire" wrapped inside. Imitating the "tokamak device" cage, the function of the external cable is to inject energy into the facility at the beginning of thawing, and generate a continuous electromagnetic pulse to interfere with the nano-robots of No. [-]'s body, paralyzing her, and then performing the "personality reset" work .

This is perfect, according to the calculation of the host, the success rate is infinitely close to [-]%.

The control of all facilities on the platform is transferred to Ensig. Half of the tentacles of this "octopus monster" who revealed his true body are connected to the facility management system, while the other half is full of weapons. The three-layer ceramic barrier can be opened and closed, as if facing a big enemy.

Don't blame him, on the four sides of the platform, automatic weapons are erected everywhere, and liquid hydrogen fuel is piled up.The battleships a hundred meters away from the platform also aimed their electromagnetic gun barrels here, and if there was any accident, the devastating firepower would wipe out the entire platform.If nothing else, letting a split-replicating nanite get away would be a nightmare situation.

"The detention facilities are ready."

Ensge said that with his operation, several large mechanical arms stretched out from the platform, which were firmly buckled on the freezing equipment, ready to be dismantled at any time—"After the freezing is stopped, the No. 8 test body will be in the It was activated within 196 seconds, but its body was not malleable at -[-] degrees Celsius, and it was impossible to open the custody cabin, so we took advantage of the recovery time difference to seal it into an electromagnetic cage."

The mechanical arm closed, cut off the liquid nitrogen delivery pipe of the detention cabin and quickly dismantled the redundant facilities. This process must be completed within eight seconds, that is, before No. [-] wakes up.The electromagnetic cage also opened the hinge at the bottom and landed vertically—Li De stared at these running machines. Although he himself was simultaneously verifying the correctness of the process, he couldn't help but take it from his back. Out of the two particle beam pistols.

Ah, it's been a long time since Olivia used it to hold his head. Now, in front of my eyes is another guy who looks very similar to Olivia. Is it such a coincidence?

He felt a little bit of emotion in his heart, and at the same time laughed at his cowardice—if No. [-] ran out, what use would these two pistols be.Besides, the process is running normally, why are you so scared? I have been observing the movements of number zero. Light, no threatening movements.

Wait, flashing lights?It's only four seconds now, she shouldn't be turning on the phone!

There was a turbulent wave in Li De's consciousness, and all kinds of thoughts converged into an answer, and the signal was transmitted to En Sige in an instant: "Forget about the details, speed up the progress! Number zero is awake!...No, we miscalculated, she It has not been turned off at all in all these years, but has been awake!"

"!"

The mechanical boom suddenly increased its force, and violently grabbed the detention cabin and pulled it out of the base, and the electromagnetic cage also included the cabin at this moment, and the surging energy was injected into the coil and released a powerful electromagnetic pulse inside!

Time seemed to stand still, and Li De and Ensig were holding their breaths (although they didn't need to breathe), waiting for the cage to be completely closed and enter the ten-second "safety verification period".The electromagnetic pulse makes it impossible to have any means of observation inside, and the pure waiting makes every millisecond of loss seem long.Based on the two people's understanding of the No. [-] test body, No. [-], which has lost the activity of nanorobots due to freezing, does not have enough power to break the cabin, and the energy stored inside it should not be much.

Everything is under control...

"boom!"

The electromagnetic prison exploded in front of his eyes... It was not an explosion of chemical energy, but countless silver fragments flew out from the inside—these were human limbs, hands, feet, and two eyes.The power of the explosion made these fragments break through the cage, and flew to every corner of the platform in pieces.

If the body of this octopus had a mouth, Ensger's mouth would definitely be able to stuff a watermelon: "She... exploded? Relying on the impact of the explosion to escape restraint?"

Li De's hand holding the gun trembled slightly, which was a symptom of a logical error, but immediately he gritted his teeth and broadcast to the whole island——

"Containment breach, activate defense facilities, implement backup plan, spread liquid nitrogen to the entire platform!"

But he was obviously one step too late, those scattered limbs quickly absorbed the sun's heat after seeing the sun again, making the surface revitalize.They squirmed and turned into silver "liquid snakes" walking on the platform. They were not in a hurry to gather together, but pounced on the electronic equipment closest to them!

"No, don't let her increase the total amount of matter!"

With a shout, Li De raised his guns and pulled the trigger at the "nanomachines" floating around. With the sound of air explosions, he shot dozens of scorching particle beams across the platform deck in one breath. At an instantaneous temperature of two thousand degrees Celsius, even nanomachines will be dissolved and vaporized!

The automatic cannons fired, and the searchlight-like laser turrets arranged around them irradiated high-energy rays to clean up the scattered Zero organizations in a carpet-like manner by dissolving the deck.Never use live ammunition weapons to deal with this kind of nanorobots!For No. [-], which can change solid-liquid state at will, the gun is just a hole, and the scattered tissues will only cause greater damage.

The concept of killing does not apply to number zero, but on the contrary, if she wants to destroy something, it is very simple.Li De will never forget the tragedy of the massacre of Cairo and the destruction of an entire army of GDI, but be careful, the worst result still happened.

Under Ensig's control, the firepower of the automatic turret almost melted the entire platform into molten iron, and the high temperature almost made Li De's jacket burn.But even this hellish vision gave him little hope of success, because as the temperature rose, the free tissue seemed to become more active.

Once they're attached to something, they're like butter on a flame, and they're quickly gnawed away, and the more they gnaw, the total amount of tissue increases.Not only that, they are also pervasive, from cables, drilled from pipes, devoured matter, replicated itself, and the process of infinite loop, snowballing more and more.No matter how hard Li De and Ensig tried, they could not reduce their numbers.

"Zizi"

The laser turrets misfired one by one, and the suppressed firepower dropped sharply. No matter how hard Ensig tried, he couldn't repair the energy system, so he had to shout: "The power system is paralyzed, and Zero destroyed the energy core of the platform!"

After the two energy magazines were emptied, Li De dejectedly connected the weapon to the energy core of his body—"Did she not attack us actively, just to replenish the lost energy?"

"We have no chance of controlling her, Leader, use the Hammer of Dawn to destroy the platform, along with her!"

A series of circuit explosions proved Ensger's judgment. Just 2 minutes ago, this place was still a well-arranged fortress, but now it is a sea of ​​flames.

"But that would be too sorry for Olivia."

Li De originally wanted to say this, but he stopped his thoughts and changed his words-"We still have a chance, wait for her to gather her body to maximize the amount of tissue that destroys her, and destroying the platform will only make her escape into the sea Go, we cannot afford such consequences!"

But this time, he didn't get a response from Ensig. When he turned his head, he saw a mass of nano-materials that had penetrated the deck and stuck to Ensig's body, devouring his body bit by bit.

The chief scientist's legs and feet had disappeared, but he commanded the prosthetic tentacles to aim the shining plasma incinerator at his feet. The white ion flame ejected from the weapon vaporized together with an area several meters in radius. Its temperature was So high that Ensig also turned into a shining pillar of fire and died with him.

"Leader, I'm sorry I can't fight with you...General Olivia has arrived, and I will discuss a solution with her."

What was lost was only a body, Ensig said with shame after his consciousness changed, but Li De didn't care about it, and he didn't have time to care about it.

Because in front of him, countless dissociated nano-machines began to gather on the deck after eating and drinking-starting from the leg bones, a female figure was built at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Li De saw a skeleton that looked like a real person , viscera, and muscles were so vividly formed in front of his eyes, covered with skin, and a platinum-blonde hair grew on his head.

"Keeping this form all the time, it seems that you are not completely without self-awareness?"

Li De took a few steps back slowly, muttering, always paying attention to this "woman" who looks almost exactly like Olivia, but is covered in naked fruit.

As if feeling Li De's gaze, or being interested in Li De's words, No. [-] tilted his head and looked at himself, then at Li De. There was curiosity in the eyes - at least Li De thought so.

He tentatively wanted to use words to guide Number Zero—"I said, do you still remember your name? Olivia's sister?"

"Oli... Via?"

Number Zero opened her mouth, opened and closed her mouth, imitating Li De's tone like a baby learning to speak, and said word by word, her thoughtful expression made Li De secretly happy.

There is a play!

The "woman" stared wide-eyed, one step at a time, staggering towards Li De, tilting her head every time she moved forward, and Li De stood still waiting for her to think of more, until the two were almost touching each other, their foreheads facing each other. Forehead, eye to eye.

He could feel Zero's breath blowing on his face, which was extremely cold.

After going on like this for a few seconds, just as Li De was thinking about whether to guide her again, she suddenly smiled, that kind of stiff smile that pulled her face back was as cold as her breathing——slowly, those slender and pale eyes He raised his hand, stroked his neck, and then cupped Li De's face upwards.The fingertips were gentle, but it made him unable to move.

At this time, Zero spoke again, with a puzzled tone: "No... remember... you..."

But at once she was happy again—

"Can... eat...!"

"?"

Before Li De understood the meaning of this sentence, he suddenly felt that he had lost control of his body - no matter his hands or feet, he couldn't even turn his neck.Not only that, but he also felt that his field of vision was getting higher and higher, and his eyes were already looking directly at the sun.

On the burning platform above the sea, a woman held Li De's head and looked at it curiously, while the headless body fell uncontrollably, onto the burning deck.

Chapter 38 The Value of Humanity: Olivia and Irena

"Girl" embraced the head, crackling lightning replaced the blood that should have splashed, and the blue coolant sprayed from the broken neck covered the body of "Number Zero"'s red fruit, and quickly evaporated in the fire.

The eyes of the two looked at each other, and the decapitated man was a little shocked, but he was powerless to resist.A raging fire had already ignited on the steel platform, and the flame storm engulfed the two of them by the exploding liquid hydrogen—with the flames as the background, Li De's head gradually became one with the other in the arms of the "girl"...

"Ah, I'm dead."

Yes, the master of the Brotherhood, the guardian of the people of Sira, Li De, the body of Liszt... died, and handed over the first head after crossing, literally.

And not only that, this scene was completely recorded through the eyes on Li De's head, and uploaded to the big screen on the top floor of the pyramid-shaped technology center, where two core members of the Supreme Council stopped to watch— —Play, rewind, and play again, analyze and deduce the combat effectiveness of the experimental subject from all details.

This process lasted until a coffin was placed on the ceiling. When the metal sliding cover was opened, a new, unadjusted synthetic body slowly walked out of it.A knee-length black windbreaker was draped over his body in good time. Li De, who was getting dressed while walking, wiped his newly assembled hair that smelled of silicone oil, and repeated it embarrassingly but politely:

"awsl."

"Oh, I can tell." Olivia said coldly, not moved by Li De's performance.The legion leader raised his hand to grab a picture on the holographic screen, and transferred it to his terminal as if he wanted to study it carefully.

Li De shrugged, this kind of silence is normal~ However, while Olivia was concentrating on the investigation, he also had the opportunity to admire the general's new look - it's been a while since the leader of the Black Hand Army changed his outfit .Her long silver hair no longer hangs loose, but is tied up and coiled on the back of her head. The crown-shaped brain wave controller acts as a hairpin and becomes the only decoration.

Her proud figure is wrapped in a tight-fitting reinforced suit, from neck to toe, chest and abdomen and joints are very attractively protected by porcelain steel armor-these equipment are designed by myself, and there is no doubt that she His aesthetic accomplishment is commendable.But Li De is not just admiring, even if she is wearing a long windbreaker, the general's tight body shows that she is ready for battle, and this is the focus of my concern.

Li De couldn't help sighing: "When I informed you of the news, I knew you would never be able to sit still...I kind of know what she means to you, General Olivia."

But the general didn't seem to mind this, just like usual, she calmly walked to the center of the conference room and called up the map, as if preparing to command an ordinary battle: "The matter between me and her is not important, the most urgent thing is to control The situation, my leader...According to my observation, the sabotage behavior of the target is still acting according to a certain logic, rather than a complete rampage, we can use this to arrange a new encirclement..."

Ensig was about to speak, but was stopped by Li De's raised hand—the leader of the fraternity kept smiling and just nodded: "Well, good, and then?"

"Let the bait attract its attention, at least don't let it enter the sea." Olivia held the sonic sword on her waist with one hand, and said confidently, "I will set up a net at the final position and paralyze it with a large-scale electromagnetic pulse Capturing it requires only Dr. Ensig to prepare the gear I need in an hour..."

Suddenly, Olivia stopped - she looked up, but saw Li De and En Sige looking at her in place, without responding, just silent.

"I..."

"You lost your cool, Olivia."

As Li De said, he snapped his fingers, and the holographic image map disappeared like a bubble, and the conference room fell into silence, leaving only the sound of Olivia's rapid breathing due to excitement.

"Leader, I'm very, very, very calm! I'm the best judgement based on calculations." Olivia's tone was accentuated word by word. In fact, it is no different from a child who is eager to defend himself.

"Yes, best judgment, and I haven't come up with a better plan~ (laughter) General, but there's a huge omission that needs to be filled for me to approve this plan."

As he spoke, he gradually put away his joking face, shadows covered his eye sockets, and his voice became low.

Li De stepped forward and stared into Olivia's eyes, and said irrefutably: "I will never allow you to use yourself as a bait to contact Zero! No matter what reason!"

"I don't want to take risks, leader, I know what drives it to act!" The legion leader argued, but the more she said, the more she pulled out some doubtful things-"Only I can do it, I'm sure It still remembers me! As long as there is this..."

"This? This cannot constitute a reliable reason. What can you do to ensure that she can communicate with you and not be beheaded and eaten like me?"

Seeing this, Ensger stood up and added in a timely manner: "The destructive power of the zero test body has been personally verified by me and the leader. When the target destroyed the leader's combat prosthetic body, it also cut off the control center at the same time and caused self-destruction. The program is invalid, this indestructible individual with both speed and strength, exhausting our arsenal, there is no effective way to suppress it... General, you just die."

"I..." Olivia avoided Reed's gaze, and tried her best to show an emotionless and indifferent attitude, "Experiment No. [-] will be an important force in the future of the Brotherhood, and it is okay to make necessary sacrifices." of."

"Necessary sacrifice?" Li De was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed, a little weirdly, "I unfreeze number zero, not just for the Brotherhood, do you understand, Olivia!"

Without a trace of hesitation, he walked up to the general, held the silent Olivia on the shoulder, and made her face him squarely.When he saw the other party biting his lips tightly and using pain to block other brain wave signals, so that blood oozed from between the teeth, he slowed down his tone——

"I can die countless times, it's just a body, I don't care how much I want, so just leave it to me... But you can't, your existence is already an indispensable part of the Brotherhood , cannot be summed up in the word 'value' - see what I mean, Olivia?"

The conference room fell into silence—the leader's frankness and the general's resistance became the center, while Ensger lowered his head and watched his heart behind him. His clever head saw through the situation instantly, and there was only a sigh from the bottom of his heart.