Byron's Blade

Mu Li uttered harsh words in anger, but in fact he was not impulsive.Her anger is like a ghostly fire, it seldom erupts violently, but it will never go out. It follows the enemy like a tarsal flame, and will not go out until the enemy dies.The vine monster in front of him had died down, even if Mu Li went up and slashed wildly with a big knife, it would have no effect except to vent. Who made her come late, the monster was beaten by others.

However, her angry words were not just quick tongue, she had her own thoughts.

The large army suffered heavy casualties, and just as night fell, Mu Xin followed the original decision to stay where he was and rest.After the wounded were rescued and the battlefield was cleaned up, it was already seven o'clock in the evening. The cooking team hurriedly made dinner and everyone ate it. The next step was to deal with the fallen soldiers.It is a burden for large troops to carry the remains, and there is no place to store the corpses.But it will not be buried in this wilderness.After the farewell ceremony, the body was cremated on the spot.The ashes are put into the urn, affixed with their names, and returned to the relatives of the soldiers together with the relics after returning home.

Ironically, these urns were also prepared long ago. Obviously, Mu Xin had already thought up a countermeasure for the death of people on the way.She even brought the high-temperature furnace used to burn the corpse.

The incineration of the corpse lasted until after ten o'clock at night, and almost all the staff participated in the farewell ceremony for the remains and participated in the cremation.Seeing the former close comrades in arms instantly turned into dead souls, and then turned into a pile of pale ashes, the soldiers felt uncomfortable, and the atmosphere in the team was quite depressed.

Mu Li was one of the very few people who did not participate in the farewell and cremation ceremony. She has been guarding the seriously injured Lan Ni.Because of a penetrating left shoulder injury, Lanny has been lying on her right side. This position is actually very tiring, and she may turn over on her own unconsciously, so she needs to be watched all the time.After the anesthetic wore off, Lanny started to have a high fever. She was in such pain that she started talking nonsense.I can't speak clearly, and I don't know what she is talking about.Mu Li stood by the side closely, changing ice packs for her, holding her hand and talking to her.She didn't even eat a bite of dinner.Not to mention eating, since she rushed back, she has been motionless in the medical car, her body is dirty, dripping with water, and her clothes are indistinct, which is probably describing her current state.

After the cremation, everyone dragged their tired bodies back to their tents to rest.What Mu Xin meant was to set off at noon tomorrow and try to give the soldiers some time to breathe, but it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, they must rush to the next station as soon as possible.Therefore, a compromise time was chosen.

There were two doctors on duty in the medical van. Mu Li was not very familiar with these two doctors, and she was not in the mood to pay attention to others at the moment, so she didn't chat with them.After Alita and the others came back, they persuaded Mu Li to go to rest. She was already very tired today, and no matter how strong she was, she would not be able to hold on.The medical car is already overcrowded, and there is almost no room for it. Alita is considering changing the environment for the eldest lady.

Mu Li only said to go change clothes and wash up before coming back, but Alita couldn't persuade her, so she had to let her go.

Mu Li hurried out of the medical vehicle, grabbed a logistics soldier and asked her where her tent was, and the logistics soldier led her there.On the way, I happened to meet Xia Jie and Lin Zhao. Lin Zhao still had Mu Li's dinner in his hand, which had just been heated up and was being delivered to Mu Li in a thermal bag.

"Master, I know you're feeling bad, so you should eat more, or you'll fall down too, who will take care of Miss Lanni?" Standing at the door of Muli's tent, Xia Jie persuaded.Lin Zhao handed the food in his hand to Mu Li.

Mu Li nodded, she understood the truth, took the food, tried her best to smile, and said thank you.She felt very warm about Xia Jie and Lin Zhao's concern for her.This is how comrades-in-arms have fought together through life and death, and the friendship between each other has been established in this way.

Mu Li invited them to sit in the tent, and made them very precious hot coffee, while he fetched a basin of water to wash his hands and face, sat down, opened the lunch box and ate without taste.

"How's Miss Lani doing?" Lin Zhao asked.

"I have a high fever, and it has never subsided. It just came down a little, and Alita advised me to go to rest, but I will pass it later." Mu Li said simply.

"Then I'll go with you later to see if I can help." Lin Zhao said.

Mu Li remembered that she also studied medicine, so he couldn't help but nodded.

Before eating a few mouthfuls, they suddenly heard arguing outside the tent.

"It's too dangerous Bailey, it's past ten o'clock in the evening, what kind of samples are you going to collect?"

"It's very likely that it's a female worm. It's a once-in-a-lifetime event! Let alone ten o'clock, I have to go even in the early morning."

"It's dangerous because it is very likely to be a female insect. I don't know if that guy is dead or not. The teacher has already brought people there just now, so don't join in the fun."

"I've been delayed for several hours, and it may be too late to go now, so I can't delay any longer. Scientific research needs to race against time, you should understand, Joan."

Mu Li frowned, put down her lunch box, stood up and walked out of the tent, and saw Joan and Bailey arguing outside her tent, the quarrel was not very intense, one was helpless and the other was acting coquettishly, but flirting a bit Feel.Seeing Mu Li come out, the two subconsciously separated, Joan was a little embarrassed, and Bailey flushed.

"Bailey...Doctor, are you planning to go to the corpse of the monster?" Mu Li's tent is in the northwest corner of the camp, the closest to the monster in the distance, so anyone who wants to go there will pass by here.

Belli lifted his glasses and said to Mu Li, "Yes, my job is to collect scientific samples along the way. The monster in front of me is likely to be a female insect, a rare and rare sample."

"What do you mean not dead?" Mu Li asked Qiong again.

"Ah, it was what the teacher said. The teacher said that the vitality of the female worm is very tenacious, and the blow from the Zeus may not be able to completely kill it. Therefore, after the memorial service, she took Qiu Zheng, Zoe and the others to the vicinity of the female worm. It has been checked and if necessary, it may be set on fire to avoid future troubles," Joan explained.

"Oh, no, I have to go quickly." Mentioning this, Bailey became anxious and ran out at a fast pace.

"Hey! Bailey! Really..." Joan was heartbroken, and hurriedly chased after her.

"Wait, I'll go too." Mu Li turned back to the tent, grabbed his helmet and Xin Hanyue and chased him out.Both Lin Zhao and Xia Jie had heard their conversation just now, and before they could say anything more, Mu Li hurriedly said to Lin Zhao:

"Lanny, please take care of Xiao Zhao first. I'll be back soon."

As he spoke, he quickly disappeared into the night.

At this moment, Mu Xin was standing under the huge monster's remains with a searchlight in his hand, looking up and observing carefully.The eight-petal shell made of tangled vines has already hung down limply. The outer layer of the inner core is wrapped by several thick vines intertwined, but it is not dense, leaving large and small gaps.These gaps are covered with a layer of translucent cuticle, and the faint blue light is coming out of the cuticle.

Mu Xin turned off the searchlight, threw it to Zoe who was on the side, knocked on the earphone, contacted Lilian and said:

"Captain Lilian, please cut the core open. I want to see what's inside." After speaking, they dispersed with Qiu Zheng, Zoe, and several elite soldiers.

Lilian was standing behind them in the Ares 2 mecha at the moment, and immediately responded to the order, then pulled out the electromagnetic mecha knife and approached the monster's core.The blade was inserted into the corneum of the inner core, and it didn't seem very hard. Then Lilian manipulated the mecha arm to lift it up slightly, and the inner core broke a big hole.Everyone waited cautiously, but there was no movement at all. Mu Xin ordered again to ask the mecha to lift her up to the breach, and she wanted to confirm the situation inside with her own eyes.

"Teacher, this is too dangerous, let mecha..." Qiu Zheng persuaded.

"The observation of the mech camera is limited, so we must take precautions." Mu Xin shook his head.

"Then let me go up, you are the leader of the team after all, what should everyone do if something happens?" Qiu Zheng said.

"No, boss, your back injury is still not healed, be careful, let me go up." Zooey said.

In the end, Zoe went up.Sitting on the wide and cold palm of the mecha, Zoe was lifted four or five meters into the air.She carefully poked open the opening with her shield and looked inside. It was pitch black and she couldn't see anything clearly.So she turned on the night vision goggles on the helmet visor, and the darkness turned into a deep green.

There are several vines intertwined inside the inner core, like the muscles in the atrium of the human body, with mucus hanging down, which looks a bit disgusting.But it has completely lost its vitality, and there is no movement at all.The inner core is very large, and Zoe can only see about a third of it, and the light inside is really insufficient, and the night vision device can't see clearly.

"Let's burn it." Mu Xin made a decision.She was actually a little hesitant, because burning the vine monster meant that they had to use open flames, which was different from burning human corpses. Even if such a large monster corpse was "dismembered" by mechs, it would be stuffed into the incinerator one by one. , It is also a huge project, at least it cannot be completed until noon tomorrow.They don't have that much time to spend on this, so if they want to burn it, they just set it on fire, and at most control the fire so that it doesn't spread.In this way, there will be a lot of movement, which may alarm the nearby Zerg and predators, and even attract hatred and revenge.

But if it doesn't burn, Mu Xin is worried that there might be something weird about this female insect.Because it was too easy to die, and she was killed by the enemy's Zeus, she always felt uneasy.

In order to eliminate hidden dangers, she still decided to burn the monster.

Just when everyone was about to pour gasoline on the fire, there was a sudden call request prompt sound from the earphones, and the call icon on the mask also began to flash wildly.Moreover, several people ran over quickly from behind.

Mu Xin had already guessed who it was, so she connected to the communication in desperation.Bailey's voice sounded eagerly:

"Wait! Wait, don't burn it yet! I haven't...I haven't...taken a sample yet!"

"Dr. Bailey, you should give up sampling this thing. It's really not good. You can take back some of the outer hard shell and thin film, but it's better not to go inside."

"Then how? The most valuable thing is what's inside. I dare say that there must be Zerg control in this empty bud. It's an extremely precious research material!" Bailey said.

"With all due respect, doctor, research materials must be taken with your life. I object, and I don't allow this." Mu Xin's tone was very strong.

"Headpatriarch, how could you do this? You are violating the agreement we made before we set off!" Bailey was furious, and his words clashed.

"Doctor, you can't forget what our highest task is in this operation. In order to complete the task, everything else comes second. Have I ever told you this?"

"Yes, but..."

"No, but, I can't let the soldiers die for your research. This time the loss is heavy, and every step of our future will be very difficult, and no one will be sacrificed innocently."

Qiong and Mu Li have been standing aside for a long time, listening to the two quarreling, they didn't interrupt for a while.Finally, Bailey was suppressed, and Joan hurriedly spoke for Bailey:

"I'm really sorry, teacher, I didn't tell her well, she didn't understand."

"It's okay, you can help the doctor get some shells and membranes back."

"Yes."

Although Bailey was unwilling, he could only compromise.

Mu Xin managed to convince Bailey, and thought that this would ignite a fire, but at this time, Mu Li suddenly made a request that made her extremely embarrassed.

"Boss, I'll go in and have a look. If there is a zerg in it, I'll kill it, so I don't have to start a fire, avoid causing other troubles, and I can also sample Dr. Bailey, killing three birds with one stone, why not do it? "

"It's very dangerous in there. No one knows the situation of the zerg. I can't let you take risks." Mu Xin wanted to reject Mu Li's request as seriously as she rejected Bailey, but Mu Li blocked her from saying a word. Come on.

"You can take risks by yourself, why can't I? Don't worry, my life is very hard, just like you, I can't die."

As if a knife had been stabbed in the heart, blood flowed profusely, Mu Xin clenched her lips, and clenched her fists subconsciously.

Before she could make a decision, Mu Li had already neatly climbed onto the monster's wreckage, and got into the broken hole after a while.

"Teacher!" Qiu Zheng was in a hurry, "You let her in just like that?"

"That's all..." Mu Xin sighed, "Let her go."