void engagement [interstellar]

"It's a red-blooded bird! Eat people's hearts! Be careful!" The distance between the giant bird and the crowd gradually narrowed, and its appearance could already be seen clearly from the ground. A well-informed alpha soldier couldn't help but Exclaimed.

The crowd that had calmed down immediately became commotion.

The Red Flame Bird, also known as the Red Blood Bird, has the sharpest beak and claws among known creatures. Once it appears, it is bound to drink blood and return. The number in the empire is very small, and it is almost just a legendary existence. A fierce beast .

This kind of bird is huge, with a snow-white body, and its skin and feathers are as hard as iron. It is difficult for ordinary weapons and ammunition to penetrate. Usually, it is almost a single piece of iron, without any flaws.Only after successfully eating the prey's heart, will it briefly reveal a scarlet flame mark on its chest.

Behind this mark lies the only weakness of the Red Flame Bird, and usually only at that time is the most likely chance to kill it.

In the current situation, it is too late to escape, and a hasty evacuation is more likely to alarm the Red Flame Bird, making it attack the crowd in advance.The most appropriate way is probably to fight with one's back.

The first prey that the Red Flame Bird looks at is called "sacrifice" by people, and there is almost no precedent for escaping.

And this time the sacrifice was Edie.From the moment that alpha unfolded his cloak and put it on him, he was already locked by the giant bird.

Edie secretly sweated in his heart.Of course he wouldn't sit still, but he wasn't completely sure.

He needs to escape the moment the giant bird dives and attack it.If this hit misses, the Red Flame Bird will be angered, and the subsequent counterattack will be even more difficult.

And all of this, I am afraid, can only be done by himself.

Before the scarlet flame bird exposed the weakness of the bloody flame, the ordinary weapons and equipment in the hands of the soldiers could not cause enough damage to it for a while.

As the giant bird continued to circle, it got closer and closer to the ground.People have been able to vaguely distinguish the target of the giant bird.

The mentality of several people present was delicate for a while.Because Chi Yanniao's target was not him, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and then became nervous again because he found out that the sacrifice was the delicate little omega of the marshal's house.

Husky, the secret guard who had been secretly protecting Edi under the orders of His Royal Highness, couldn't help but smile wryly.There are so many people here, why is Chi Yanniao's target just him.

It seems that I may have to confess here today, and I may not be able to successfully save that omega.

Edie's plan is to use the power of the south wind to form a powerful attractive force field at that moment, take him away from the place in an instant, and use the huge database of the south wind system to detect the possibility of the scarlet flame bird's bloody flames. Probabilistic analysis is performed on the position where it appears, and the 36 points with the highest probability are marked.Then, when the Red Flame Bird missed a hit and hadn't reacted to the second attack, he used the extremely penetrating high-energy ray gun Josiah prepared for him to shoot at these 36 positions at the fastest speed. Before the Chi Yanniao sees the blood and eats the heart, it finds out the real weakness, breaks it and focuses the fire.

This is a highly uncertain gamble. Any mistake may lead to the failure of the plan and anger the Red Flame Bird, and the bet is his own life.

Among them, Nanfeng has a great mission. If he was an individual, he would probably be sweating profusely by now.

Edie raised her head and stared at the movement of the red flame bird without daring to blink.

The huge white bird circled and circled above the crowd without any haste, and when it was about to enter the effective attack range of ground weapons, it suddenly swooped down without warning, and the bullets were straight towards Edie. Accelerate in the direction of approaching!

The soldiers' intensive attacks shot at the giant bird, but failed to stop its movement.And Edie's whole body's muscles were so tense that he was almost stiff. He stared at the angle, azimuth, speed, and speed of the giant bird to estimate the remaining time, and he didn't dare to make any unnecessary movements.

However, just as Nanfeng had already laid a small force field in the distance, targeting Edie and was about to transfer him, there was a person who moved faster, rushed over from the periphery of the crowd, and slammed Edie into the ground. On one side, he took his original position.

—It was actually Harold.

The giant bird rushed down, tearing Harold's body apart with its sharp claws. The bird's beak was deeply inserted into the position of the heart, swallowing half of the bloody heart in one gulp.

Everyone was stunned by this unexpected scene.

Edie was caught off guard and fell out, and fell heavily to the ground. Before his body fully touched the ground, he was swept away by the force field of the south wind, and was cushioned and placed on the ground.

He was only stunned for a moment and then reacted immediately. He didn't waste the time Harold was fighting for with his life. He didn't care about thinking too much, so he put down his posture in response to the south wind, turned over and sat up on one knee. 36 rounds of bullets were fired in a row, and the gun hit the pale blood-colored flame texture that appeared on the chest of the Red Flame Bird!

Hundreds of scorching high-energy rays collided with the steel-like hard fur of the giant bird, making a piercing sizzling sound, and sparks flew everywhere in an instant.

The giant bird's weak point was hit, and it dropped heavily on the people on its claws. It screamed sharply and rolled in mid-air. For a while, it was like a strong wind passing through the country, sweeping away countless things.

After a while, the metal-like cold whiteness on the Chiyanbird's wings and body slowly receded, and its appearance turned into a slightly pinkish color.

The iron-walled and copper-like shell of the Red Flame Bird was broken, and everyone who thought there was nothing they could do cheered up and started to focus on it again.

The giant bird wrestled with the crowd, probably realizing that today's hunting might not be able to continue, so it flapped its wings and flew straight up for dozens of meters before turning around and leaving.

But in mid-air, he bumped into a sharp golden arc head-on, and the feathers scattered all over, dripping with blood—it was His Royal Highness who brought his mecha team back to the camp for rescue.

Harold had a big hole in his chest, blood spattered all over his body, and fell to the ground dying.But on his shoulder, a butterfly flew out quietly.

Edie saw it from a distance, and guessed that it might be the winged parasite who had been entangled with Harold, but when he raised his hand again, he felt his whole body collapsed—the battle with the red flame bird almost consumed all his energy .

But the others were still fighting the giant bird. He didn't dare to relax. He gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and gathered a little strength. The high-energy ray passed by like a flash of lightning, hitting the finger-sized blue butterfly's body accurately. abdomen.

The parasite was hit hard, turned into a human form and crashed to the ground.

The shadow guard Huskies, who had been paying attention to Edie's whereabouts, was taken aback when they saw this scene, but they rushed up quickly and restrained the parasite who was still trying to escape in the chaos.

"Leave it to me." He turned to Edie and called out.

Only then did Edie exhale, and after trying a few times, she finally stood up, stumbled and ran over in embarrassment, knelt beside Harold, and touched his face tremblingly: "Harold, Harold..."

Harold was lying on the ground, his blood was about to freeze, but there was a long-lost apologetic smile on his pale face: "Little Edie, I'm sorry..."

"Don't talk! Don't talk... Nanfeng! Nanfeng! Save him! Save him!"

The robot knelt on the ground and applied the stored special medicine on the surface of the wound torn apart by its sharp claws and beak. The wound grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, but corroded at almost the same speed. Not only did the wound not heal, but it became more and more serious. The appalling.

"It's useless..." Harold said weakly. "There's no cure for the cell-destroying toxins of the winged parasites."

"Harold...why are you...you are obviously fine..." Edie couldn't help but shed tears, falling on Harold's face, washing the blood on his face into shallow gullies.

"Little Edie, don't cry. I'm just... asking for kindness." Harold tried to raise a hand, wiping away his tears. "If I don't die, the parasite will always be here, deceiving all of you. I'm sorry... I have caused you so much trouble."

"No, no, I don't care enough about you. I'm sorry for you. You've been parasitized for so long and I haven't noticed any abnormalities..."

"No, I can't blame you. I gave him the opportunity." Harold smiled wryly, "In the Yiren clan, there is no one in a million parasitic butterflies. He can read all people's memories, and Secret thoughts, perfect imitation, how can you tell the difference..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." Edie cried with tears in her eyes.Nanfeng, who has always been omnipotent, has no choice. He really doesn't know how to save Harold.

"Don't say I'm sorry...listen to me." Harold probably hadn't been so proactive and so talkative in the past few years. That monster, the parasite, got my memory by him, but I also hacked his brain and read some of his memories... Do you think I am the best hacker in the interstellar world?"

"Yes, yes, you are the best, Harold is the best hacker in the world..." Edie cried.

Harold smiled slightly: "Maybe, I don't have much time, let's talk about the main point first. This parasite, he is a traitor of the Wing Clan, a member of the Federation... Also, the Snow star garrison has also rebelled. Vote for the Federation, they, the gang, remember?"

"I remember, I remember everything..." Edie's voice was choked up, tears kept streaming down her cheeks, hugging Harold's body, she couldn't say anything more.

"Okay, don't cry, I still like it, you laugh." Harold gently grabbed Edie's hand, "Now it's my turn, it's not important."

"Actually, I am very envious of you, very envious... You don't have to try to please anyone, you don't have to obey anyone, you lose your temper if you want to lose your temper, but everyone still thinks you are cute and like you... I can't, gloomy, dull , even myself, I hate myself."

"At the beginning, I secretly learned from you, mecha maintenance, and fighting...but still, I like it the most, being a hacker..."

"Unfortunately, I didn't get any more news..."

Harold's voice lowered little by little, and gradually he couldn't hear anything.

The wind on Snow star whimpered, as if singing a tragic elegy for him.