People's Federation will live forever

The cooling device was fully turned on, and a large amount of steam enveloped him. The soldier staggered back and was supported by two colleagues. Myers nodded and expressed his approval - because of his persistence, the number of soldiers who were originally about four hundred Nearly half of the beta has been burned, and the tank class that is the most threatening has also been hit hard because it charged too fast, and the remaining dozen can't escape the particle beam's shooting.

"Team B, Team C, encircle and kill them!"

Chapter 29 Frontal Attack

Marching across the desolate lunar Gobi is a refreshing sight.

The team of half-track trucks traveled along the lunar road for a while and then turned to the original ground. Solid tires and tracks rolled out clear roads, floating moon dust filled the air, and the searchlights on the top of the trucks Leaning on guard soldiers.They circumnavigated the crater and moved towards the predetermined front line at a leisurely pace.

The convoy was traveling in two rows. Although it looked small, these trucks seemed to be loaded with more cargo than planned-the gravity of the moon is one-sixth, so the original load of [-] tons is loaded with [-] tons. It will not hurt the chassis, and I don't know if the commander of this unit is too impatient. In addition to the excess cargo, there are many soldiers in white spacesuits clinging to the truck, and they are speeding up in a very dangerous way.

A bright light appeared from the battlefield several kilometers away, and it shone through the window of the truck, making Malashenko frown.

"The black hands are really lively."

As he said this, the driver on the side stepped on the clutch and carefully turned the steering wheel—although the low gravity reduces the weight of the vehicle, it is also very difficult to drive, and these temporarily mounted war machines can't be expected to install an automatic driving system.As for the complaints made by the officer on the channel, the driver shrugged and was used to it.

The Weijun's feeling for the black hand is a kind of complicated dislike, which is not felt by the common people.The responsibilities of the two are parallel to each other, and the guards themselves are the regular army recognized by the council, but they will be overwhelmed in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, and the guards are managed by the council agreement, and the black hand is directly under the leader. Therefore, the number spread among the people.

Fortunately, Li De was very generous to the guards, gave them full trust and avoided direct contact between the two, but once there was any major event, it was more popular than the always efficient black hands of the guards, who were difficult to dispatch on a large scale.People's Federation has never stopped comparing and discussing the two, and some members of the council have proposed that the black hand can be supervised on the surface...that is, the management of the council, but it seems that this congressman chose not long after There was silence.

"Sir, I heard that on the Earth before you, the Guards and the Black Hand were the enemies of their respective regimes? Then you fought?"

The grumpy driver became curious, not only him, but the natives of Fancila were very curious about the past of Renlian.Malashenko thought for a while, then shook his head again: "Like your pendulum war, it's all in the past... But what I can say is that they were much more annoying than they are now, but in our Facing the torrent of iron and steel, a small number of powerful individual soldiers are just a layer of paper."

The colonel raised a finger and poked it on the map on the truck's monitor.They were about to arrive at the scheduled defense location. To be honest, if the lunar surface production center hadn't been preparing weapons for too long, there was really no need to watch the black hands perform in front.

"Things like paper... will break if you poke it!"

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Colonel Malashenko may not decide whether the black hand is a piece of paper, but the executor Miles is not interested in caring about the criticism of the guards.Using the reverse slope of the hillside as a line of defense, the Black Hands used themselves as bait to attract the remaining betas to charge them wave after wave. The flash of particle beams eroded the bodies of the betas. The war seemed to go back hundreds of years ago. The neat row of guns creates a gorgeous visual sense, and those betas who are walking forward neither dodge nor fear, relying on the speed that is not affected by low gravity to move forward bravely and rush to the top of the mountain with the kill.

Although the particle beams can penetrate their bodies, and the electron transfer phenomenon can even damage their control nerves, these creatures have shown their powerful regeneration ability in front of the black hands.Many individuals that the Black Hands judged to have been killed actually climbed up again, even though the skin was carbonized by the plasma incineration cannon, and the brain organs were blown off, the damaged part squirmed and regenerated tissue while staggering and continued to attack the Black Hand's defense line.

Team A in the front had no more than [-] people, and the line was no more than [-] meters wide. It seemed that Colonel Malashenko's words were really confirmed, and this thin line of defense was about to be destroyed.Even if the tank class with the fastest charging has been wiped out by the incineration cannon, the fighter class that swaggered and strolled has already arrived at the front line with its trunk swinging.

"All, retreat!"

There was no need to stick to it, the black hands turned around, and the nozzles under the battery backpacks behind them ignited high-pressure flames, and they shot backwards under the impetus of a huge force.At the same time, these elite soldiers used the hook locks on their arm armor to connect to the mountain wall, and they went smoothly without drills.

"!"

Miles looked back, only to see the two soldiers being pulled back by another force - the swinging trunk-like arms of the fighter class, which stretched three or four times their length like rubber and grabbed the soldiers Ankle pulled them back.In a blink of an eye, two soldiers were thrown heavily into the fighter group!This scene was seen by the gangsters. They raised their guns in the air, and the intensive shooting instantly burned a few of them into coke, but this couldn't stop the siege of a large group of people around them—"elephant trunks" extending from all directions. Grabbing the soldier's hands and feet, the armored suit resisted for a moment and disintegrated, a cloud of blood mist drifted into the vacuum.

The vacuum would cause blood loss to reach the point of death very quickly, and the soldier did not make a sound during the whole process—Myers trembled in his heart, seeing the anger brought about by his subordinates being dismembered stayed in his mind for a moment, and his reason made him hold back Resist the urge to rescue.The other soldier pressed down the grenade in his belt as soon as he was dragged back, and also disappeared into the flames without saying a word.

The black hands floated over hundreds of meters of potholes in the crater, and distanced themselves from Beta again.The weapons dissipated heat, the plasma incinerator was reloaded—the soldiers were doing all this in silence, and when they raised their guns to their shoulders again, the betas had already climbed the bottom of the crater along the groove.

They steadfastly attacked the Black Hands along a straight line, but as they crawled, some fighters began to turn and walk towards the left and right mountain walls, and from the peaks on both sides, the red logo on the Black Hand armor suddenly lit up. Eyepiece lights.

The scheduled encirclement net was finally formed, and the team that came to help needed a little preparation. They carried more plasma incinerators, and this time the betas gathered at the bottom of the circular valley, like a cauldron full of bugs. A big fire to cook.

This fire will burn well.

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"The signal confirms that Black Hand has annihilated Beta's scouting vanguard, and two people were killed."

At a place tens of kilometers away from the battlefield, two two-seater hoverbikes floated unhurriedly on the wilderness of the moon, and under Li De's control, they walked through the craters.The Delta team—or, all the protagonist team members are wandering around the field with Li De, not joining the battle, just waiting for news.

"Death? Black hands are all killed, what about the guards behind?" Cole wanted to scratch his head, but remembered that he was wearing a helmet.He is concerned about the troops he used to be in, maybe he has his own acquaintances?

"This Miles is too risky. Beta's combat effectiveness and intelligence are insufficient. He actually deliberately engages in close-range combat... Well, this time I got some data in exchange for my life, I swear I will stay farther away from these long-nosed monsters .”

Bud still wanted to complain, but was stopped by Li De's eyes - "They have completed their mission."

This is Li De's conclusion, and he is also involved in the formulation of the battle plan. Sometimes, sacrifices are always inevitable.

"If you kill the scouts, you will attract the army." Marcus frowned, and the old man would never relax, "This is the plan? Lead this group of mindless bugs to the predetermined place, and then what?" ? What should we do?"

Li De opened his right hand, and a holographic image was projected in his palm. It was a seismic wave display. There was no doubt that a considerable number of unit clusters were moving, and the detection wavelength continued to rise.

"Of course fighting for a longer-term victory."

National Day Special: Secret War Reina and Karen Sjet (new characters debut)

Li De has to blame Marcus, because betas really won't send out all the units in one go. The small-scale groups sent by their lairs have similar functions, but strictly speaking, they are not scouts but prospecting teams, just as they Not a combat weapon.

When we use human thinking to understand this group of bugs, we will always encounter illogical places. In analyzing the behavior patterns of beta, biologists will be more effective than generals.Just from thirteen hours ago, the Ministry of Industry and Research has been ordered to convene a group of professionals covering biology, sociology, and criminal behavior analysis to form a research team. They are authorized to have access to all combat images, and Provide analysis reports to the military in its talent.

Although human beings know very little about beta, under Li De's tone of "they are a group of bio-mining machines", the research team let go of their brains and made a considerable progress in the research, they did not think about any Motivations that have nothing to do with beta's basic behaviors are summarized with pragmatism principles and further predict their next actions.

Hypotheses are put forward one after another, and then they are recorded by the military and ready to be verified through actual combat in the next round of battles. The People's Federation always respects science, and for this reason, even black hands are willing to sacrifice to obtain valuable experiments. data.Understand the enemy, and then build a reasonable strategy. People's Federation doesn't care about the origin and motivation of the beta, we just want them to die.

Therefore, Li De couldn't help but fell into contemplation when he received the report submitted by the research team every half hour... He looked at the star system 25 light-years away, and he knew what was happening there.The people there are still thinking hard about how to negotiate with the beta—as long as they try to prove to the beta that human beings are life, can they stop the destruction?The refusal to carry out general war mobilization until extinction, is this the loss of human nature, or the fundamental inferiority of that civilized society?

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This is the third city of the People's Union - a technological city "Poseidon" built on the ruins of the old UIR coastal city.

Ten years ago, it experienced a crucial northern campaign, and the Guards rescued more than [-] people of the Union of Independent Republics.After the famous retreat, it soon became an important transshipment port for the People's Federation to build orbital accelerators. It gathered a large number of troops and engineers, and it didn't take long for a brand new city to be established.

The north is not an ideal place for economic development, but there are so many engineering projects and supporting facilities, plus the garrison of the guards, the council simply opened up this place as a comprehensive research center for integrating the two worlds of the earth and Sira. Local science and technology, a large number of pre-war and post-war scientists gathered here, the relaxed research atmosphere and eager academic enthusiasm are well-known in the People's Federation, and there are three highest-level scientific research institutions standing here, which is the dream of almost all young people place.

They are Sira Higher Academy of Sciences, Naba Institute of Technology, and Soban Advanced War Academy nicknamed "Scarlet Academy".The integration of industry and learning, the hundreds of advanced technologies led by them are the cornerstone of the current technology of the Ministry of Industry and Research, and it also means that Li De already has his own talent training and technology research and development system.

This is the tree of wisdom of Renlian, and it will continuously bear the fruit of wisdom.Because of the importance attached to the development of science, the Supreme Council has given various social subsidies to science and engineering scholars without hesitation. For the people of the People's Federation, if their children become scientific workers, it is not only an honor, but also a real reward. Material benefits have made the social atmosphere advocating science as a whole, and now facing the war of extraterrestrial life, the work of scientists is even more important.Whether it's a research group directly under the military or not, all scientists hope that their research will add fuel to victory.

"Please note that the train is about to leave the undersea vacuum tube tunnel, the station ahead, Poseidon City."

The maglev train was galloping along the shallow seabed at a speed of 2200 kilometers per hour. Karen Sjet sat quietly on the chair, troubled by thoughts, and cast his eyes on the transparent vacuum pipe outside the window.Affected by the speed, he didn't have many opportunities to appreciate the beautiful underwater landscape. Human eyes can only see a series of blurred afterimages at such a high speed, which is no fun at all.

The journey across half of the surface of Thira made him a little drowsy, and what made him fight back his tiredness was a roll-shaped electronic paper that he carried with him, on which was engraved the logo of the gravity pendulum of the Ministry of Industry and Research—a The newly promoted researcher was personally named by the director Ensig, certainly not because of how fast he grew up, but because of the paper he submitted a month ago, right?

Most of the people on the train are lying on the seats and wearing VR goggles to surf the Internet, and a few are discussing the war in the sky. Compared with the past, there are many fewer people in the train, and there are no tourists. No more leisure time.Words such as war, victory, and conscription frequently appeared in the conversations of passengers, which reminded him of himself—there is still room for improvement in the thesis, and he has already applied to use the quantum computer in Poseidon City to perfect the theoretical model. Approved, but the premise is that I have to make a report to Director Ensig.

"May I interrupt you?"

A voice interrupted his contemplation. Karen raised his head and saw a woman in a guard uniform, looking quite heroic.The age can't be seen for a while, because the medical technology of the People's Federation makes no obvious difference between the ages of 20 and 50. However, this woman seems to have been injured on the battlefield. She has a silver mechanical eye and a forehead There are traces of the modified circuit, and a blue monolithic data glasses is also worn on the other normal eye. On the contrary, the prosthetic eye looks a little more normal.

Since the parliament came, the popular prosthetic body technology has helped many war victims, and because the prosthetic body is often stronger than the physical body, if the council has not banned non-disabled transformation and the technology is in the hands of the Ministry of Industry and Research, I am afraid A wave of flesh and blood transformation has already set off.

Seemingly aware of Karen's attention to her eyes, the female officer smiled slightly: "Jia Xintu was injured when I was still a homeless person."

Then, she reached out her hand to Karen, and Karen noticed that she had a series of tattoos on her hand, which were indeed a common symbol of homeless people in the past: "Rena Diaz, rank lieutenant, I am in charge of your itinerary this time. "

"Thank you very much..." The lady had already reached out her hand first, and Karen couldn't refuse, but he was still very surprised, "I didn't know the military paid so much attention to me...I mean, I'm just a second Senior Researcher, less than three years after graduating from the academy."

The military sent people to meet him?Although he was a calm person, the invisible pressure made him straighten his back forcefully, and his body tensed up.And the woman in front of me... how should I put it, she is not amazingly beautiful, but the enhanced temperament of this uniform makes Karen, who is buried in the research room and seldom communicates with others, feel an electric shock in the heart, and she is warm and gentle when shaking hands with the other party The touch made his hands tremble uncontrollably.

He tried his best not to meet Leina's eyes, these subtle movements could not escape the observation of the female soldier, who couldn't help but pursed her lips to hide her smile.There's no woman who doesn't take pleasure in the charm she has...Olivia doesn't count.

"Maybe you just have some advantages? Of course, I don't know much about science, but I'm not here to spy on you. In other words, I'm just here to guide you." Reina gestured, this The young man was much younger than herself, but her actions just now made her feel a little fond of Karen.

"After all, it's a time of war. Scientists are the key protection targets, and the meeting place you're going to this time is at a military base. You can't get in the gate without me~"

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"Rena Diaz has approached Karen Syetter."

This message was transmitted to a dark room in an unknown location through a hidden channel, and the characters jumped in front of Anna's eyes. The self-recording robot recorded this message and included it in the file.

Where it is and what it is for, no one knows.The war on the surface is raging on the moon, but the struggle in the dark—it is related to the unstable factors within the People's Federation, those who can't see the light, will naturally have the power in the shadows to solve it.

Anna?She looked the same as she did ten years ago, except she had changed into a black robe, covered her hair with a hood, and wore a VR monitor that covered half of her face.Her hand drew a gesture in the air, and a screen the size of a wall displayed the profiles of the two of them.

"Rena Diaz, her life has been artificially erased, her genetic test is abnormal, and there are artificial modulation phenomena. It is speculated that she is the daughter of the orc queen Mira. She was born in the New Hope Institute. Because the laboratory was established ten years ago The survey operation failed and was blown up by the shadow team, and the only thing we believe is that she is still being hidden inside the People's Federation, and the unknown forces that funded the New Hope research project decades ago are paying attention."

"Leader's opinion—the orc corpses have been swallowed by Tiberium. Reina is not a threat, but also a victim. Put her in the army for protection, and observe to lure this force to take action and eliminate the remnants of the People's Federation."

And the other—

"Karen Siyet, the son of the patriarch of the Siyet family. The history of this family can be extended to Thira 1000 years ago. Together with Naba and Soban, they are known as the three major families. They have monopolized the science, culture and technology of Shira for a long time. After the establishment of the Alliance, it underwent transformation, abolished blood inheritance, contributed the entire family collection, and formed the current three universities with the other two families."

"However, there are also signs of members of the Syete family participating in activities in the New Hope Institute. Although the family split mentioned by the patriarch cannot be ruled out, the Syete people are still a serious suspect."

The messages were scanned by Anna, and after a long time, she spoke:

"Ghosts of old times... huh, gangsters with mantis arms and carts."

PS: This chapter is a special chapter, the purpose is to connect the plot of "Gears of War 5" and pave the way for the new character Karen.There are quite a few readers who have played Gears of War 5. (Video clearance is also counted.) Because this book is based on the previous trilogy, it is natural for the characters of the new era to come out for a walk, but please don’t think about it. Well, I have no feelings for the new trilogy. I hope that the black hand behind the scenes is not in my consideration. Wait for Gears of War 6 and Microsoft to fill in the holes (eating books)!

I like people like Marcus. They will continue to be active in the main line instead of retiring to the second line like in the game.The special chapter is a temporary brain hole of mine, because I went out to drink last night, and now I am sober, so let's stop here.

(You can imagine a story like Black Action)

I will continue the main thread tomorrow. I had a headache from drinking for the past two days, so I can't update it, sorry.

PS: Kate and JD, the protagonists of the two new trilogy, are still a few years old to me, so they should not be involved in adult affairs.

Chapter 30 The Great War is Coming

Ten years and four months in the Renlian calendar, the second day of the Lunar War——

"The vanguard team has successfully wiped out the beta 'reconnaissance' team, waiting for the next order."

The figures of Black Hand gathered in the crater. They stepped over the piled corpses of monsters, and used the eyepiece to scan these corpses that were almost completely carbonized, and most of the biomass was dissipated in the vacuum by plasma.Due to human's ignorance of them, and after seeing the recovery ability of beta, the black hands nervously probed back and forth with their rifles.

With the end of the battle, the last team on standby also rushed to the scene - the "mechanization" assembled by the suspension motorcycle and the lunar vehicle with only the chassis and tires was a bit shabby, but they were the key to the black hand's strategic mobility.Considering that it is impossible to run on the moon and it is impossible to rely on the power shortage of jet packs, human beings have already been left behind by Beta in terms of mobility.

The electromagnetically propelled drone was released, it flew into the distance and merged with the data of the relay satellite, and Miles looked at the place where the soldiers died, but saw that there was no trace of it except the blood left on the ground. , even the armor and weapons were eaten up.

What blasphemy!

He looked back at the bottom of the valley that was still exuding high temperature, and after thinking about it, he found a corpse with a swollen abdomen that had not been completely burned. He suddenly popped out of the arm armor and inserted the silicon carbide blade into it.

The soldiers followed suit after watching the officer's actions—silicon carbide was as hard as a diamond, and it was even sharper when it was processed into a blade, but cutting Beta's flesh and blood was like cutting wood with a blunt knife.The servo motor of the armor suit made uncomfortable vibrations. After a long time, they pulled out a pile of solids that had been compacted by the inner wall of the abdominal cavity from the monster's abdomen, including steel, sand and gravel, and even crushed bones and flesh.

"Detaining" one's comrades-in-arms by hand is a will-testing job. A small amount of tissue is removed and put into a medical bag. No one can tell which part it is and cannot subdivide it.The blood was pulled out by vacuum, and the two human bodies with less water did not add up to a few kilograms.They were so silently busy before waiting for orders, the sacrifice of the black hand would not be known to the public, but at least, in the church, they treated each other as brothers, and there would be a wall with the names of the martyrs engraved on it.

"They accomplished their mission, we haven't."

Miles raised his hand to stop—that's enough, they didn't have enough time to find out everything, and according to the plan, this was just the beginning.Relay satellites and drone scans judged that dozens of "reconnaissance" groups of the same size were approaching them within a range of 20 kilometers around them, and there would be more after them.

The black hand's strength is not enough to annihilate all of them head-on, and the defense line of the guards is to wait for more important targets. Whether to retreat or go on a guerrilla - Miles is deep in thought, the situation on the battlefield is unknown, will his decision affect the The leader's vital plan?

Suddenly, a bright light flashed in the distant area, it was fleeting, but it was so dazzling against the dark moon.The moment the light appeared, they lost the signal of the drone!

Miles clenched his fists, coming, the target appeared, and the large-scale enemy swarm had already begun to move.

"Everyone get in the car!"

He took the lead in launching his backpack and flew towards the convoy, pressed his helmet and shouted in the communication: "Call the commander of the guards, the storm has risen, repeat, the storm has risen!"

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"I got it, I got it, why are you yelling so loudly!"

Malashenko slapped the instrument in front of him with a slap, his rough action shook the antenna of the instrument, the green light turned into red light in an instant, the whole instrument began to emit heat, and the colonel's yelling made the explanation just now The technical soldiers of Principle were nervous for a while.

"It's just a piece of scrap iron used as a bait, it's so complicated... This thing will be our death talisman, everyone, stay away from it!"

The Colonel's bad mood is understandable. According to the information above, Beta has an irresistible yearning for high-power calculators with silicon as the main body, so the guys at the base deliberately made such a bulky garbage for them to transport to the front line. .As a sacrificial victim, its function is to attract beta to this point, and according to the experience of the leader, the range of attraction will increase with the power, which means that this place will inevitably face the sea of ​​insects, and before the strategic goal is achieved, , can't just give up the garrison.

Is it a strategic goal...

Malashenko left the place with a light jump, and got on a moving APC armored vehicle.The Lunar version of this classic vehicle has been stripped of all additional armor, but has an extra 37mm cannon at the rear.The black hands are constantly changing their outfits, but the guards themselves have rarely improved—according to the idea of ​​​​building an army, the large-scale armed guards only accept "trustworthy" technology, that is to say, they use out-of-date products from the black hands. It's also nicknamed "Tested and Tested", ah!

The colonel looked towards the wilderness ahead, and this was the defense point of the guards. On the surface, it was just a plain with a wide moon surface, and there was almost no danger to defend.At the beginning, all experienced veterans thought it was absurd to choose this place—but after thinking about it, Beta had almost no means of long-range attack, and the primitive large-scale swarms needed them to take advantage of their powerful frontal firepower.

According to the leader's suggestion, it is best not to have a hillside directly in front, so as to prevent the ray level from climbing up the hill and condescendingly attacking when approaching the battlefield-these dangerous monsters mechanically follow the principle of not harming friendly forces and rarely attack ground units. (The scattering of the powerful laser beam will ablate the surrounding beta) But it is not sure if they have a wide field of vision.

The 180-month surface base is temporarily armed, and the [-] Expeditionary Army, although there are a considerable number of mechanical vehicles, is only equivalent to the strength of a battalion.Some extra firepower is needed to hold such a wide line of defense-trucks and engineers wandering in front are setting up automatic turrets on the plain and spreading special mines.The soldiers did not dig trenches or bunkers, and they could not have fixed firepower points according to the regulations, so everyone moved around the vehicle.

It is a pity that there are no tanks, and Malashenko would like to see the mammoth tank, the spiritual totem of the Guard, galloping on the moon.As an alternative to heavy firepower, the Nibelungen, which is hundreds of kilometers away, will provide them with firepower support, but the colonel's mood is still complicated.

Half an hour has passed since the black hand's warning, and they have been strengthening their defenses, but is this enough?

"Earthquake wave warning! The enemy striker is approaching!"

Malashenko was refreshed, and immediately jumped off the armored vehicle and pressed his helmet: "Enter the combat position, highland sniper company, report!"

"Target appears on the horizon, color red (bang)...first hit!"