too late, organism

[Ah... hello. 】

As if she didn't expect that what appeared in the communication would be something like a dormant cabin with arms and legs, the woman was obviously taken aback.

"Hello, dear lady, I am Carter Carr, the director of the SCP Foundation, you can call me Carter, what can I do for you?"

As if bowing, the cat car owed its hexagonal torso to the woman.

[Um, hello... I mean... well... I am the mayor of Prosperity Town, Dr. Diane Jones, may I ask you why you are here?As you can see, this is just a poor agricultural town, and there is nothing valuable. Even the Taxation Bureau of Tyrann Federation is unwilling to come here to collect taxes. 】

From the projection, it can be seen that the sweat on Dr. Diane's forehead has never stopped. I don't know if it is because she was still working in the farmland before launching the communication, or it was simply because of nervousness.

After all, although the colony ships on which the cat carts are currently carrying are not armed, in order to carry millions of immigrants to the new colony planet at one time, the axis length of these colony ships is more than ten kilometers.

When this huge colonial ship fell from the sky, it was still very oppressive to the people on the surface.

"Relax lady, we are here for peace. Our SCP Foundation is a public welfare organization dedicated to protecting and continuing human civilization in a dark and cold universe."

【Non-profit organization? 】

Maoche's answer was obviously beyond Diane's expectation.

"Yes, our foundation's name SCP is the acronym for Protection, Containment, and Control. The purpose of our foundation is to protect civilization, accommodate refugees, and control disasters."

【Then why did you come to the Hyperion galaxy? As you can see, this is just a desolate galaxy, and there is nothing you need to contain and control. 】

Obviously, although what Mao Che said was very high-sounding, Diane didn't just believe what Mao Che said.

"I am very sorry to have entered your planet without your permission and may have frightened you, but as part of the SCP expedition fleet, we have traveled unimaginably slow voyages , just arrived here, it is really powerless to continue looking for an unowned habitable planet to build a base, in order to avoid conflicts, we will land on the other side of the planet, and hope that we can get along amicably in the days to come."

[Expedition fleet?What exactly are you going to do? 】

After hearing the word expedition, Diane's expression became serious.

"Yes expedition, each branch of the SCP Foundation, after regularly checking the navigation records of the location, sends an expedition fleet to the area lost in space travel. According to the records, four super transport ships disappeared during the voyage in 2231, After confirming the course of the missing ship, we are the third search fleet sent by the SCP Foundation in this direction."

Maoche sent Diane the voyage records fabricated according to the StarCraft chronicles in the memory of the sand sculpture group friends, and the so-called exploration authorization from the SCP Foundation headquarters. Finally, some alien visitors were fabricating their identities on the style.

[You have sailed in space for hundreds of years just to find us]

Looking at the voyage records sent by the cat car, Diane's eyes widened in surprise.

"This is the purpose of the SCP Foundation, protection, containment, and control. We will try our best to find all branches of human civilization and help them survive in the universe."

[What do you mean by help? 】

"It is to extend a helping hand to those in distress. Please rest assured that we will not interfere in your life, nor will we interfere in your politics. As a non-profit organization, the only thing we want to do is that you allow us to Set up a medical station in the colony of the city to serve you."

"Of course, you can also refuse, after all, this is your planet, and we are just a group of uninvited outsiders. But I hope you can at least allow us to repair and maintain our ships here."

"There are millions of people on this ship, and the long-term dormancy has damaged their health. They need a place to rest. If you don't welcome us, we will leave here after the rest to find a new one. planet."

[Well, I mean, you can rest here. 】

Diane in the projection was obviously very hesitant, but in the end she nodded and agreed to the cat car's request.

"Thank you very much for your generosity, ma'am. You will find that you have made a wise decision. Perhaps after we land, we will be able to visit your colony, Prosperity, as a good neighbor would."

[Maybe it's a little later, the harvest season is coming, we don't have much free time, maybe after the harvest season.Listen, I agree that you landed here, but it doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. The hunters in Prosperity Town are the best in the entire Koprulu sector. 】

"Of course, at your disposal, ma'am. You'll find us a good neighbour."

[Then keep in touch, see you after the harvest season. 】

"Thank you again for your generosity ma'am and see you after the harvest."

After cutting off the communication with Prosperity Town, Maoche glanced at Fabio next to him whose eyes were about to fall out.

"Dr. Oki? Nutrilite? Not even a single letter is right. I think you need to strengthen the memory module."

"Okay, you just heard it, let's find a good place on the other side of the planet, land the spacecraft, wake up the dormant immigrants, and send our background settings to let them remember that we are a group Fanatical humanitarians, those who can give everything for the survival of mankind, don't get out of the gang until the plan is completed."

[Sri! Aye! Sri! 】

At the same time, in the communication tower in the center of Prosperity Town, Diane was covering his face.

"Oh my god, the best hunter in the Koprulu sector, what am I talking about..."

As a high-achieving student who had studied in Tanzanis, the capital of the Tyrann Federation, Diane knew exactly how much water was in the so-called best hunter in the Koprulu sector.

And even if he was really the best hunter, with the Gauss rifles that were almost as old as his father equipped by the militiamen in Prosperity Town?

In front of that craft that calls itself the SCP Foundation, it's as stupid as a house cat trying to meow away a combine after it's blown.

But now I can't just do nothing. If those people are really some kind of public welfare organization, then of course it's a good thing.

But if those people are pirates with malicious intentions, I have to make plans early. Although Prosperity Town has no money to build the kind of airport that can take off and land large spaceships, the first batch of colonists in her grandfather's generation Among the aircraft used by the audience, there are still a few that can be used.

Diane had already figured it out. Although the hunters in Prosperity Town were still a long way from the first place in the Koprulu sector, those few old hunters who went hunting in the mountains all day should still have two brushes.

When he was studying for a doctorate at a university in Tanzania, Diane had seen from the school library that using experienced hunters to act as scouts after a little training had always been the best choice for the army.

However, Diane, who has never been interested in the military, obviously forgot that using experienced hunters as scouts is invalid information that has been outdated for hundreds of years. At that time, even flying machines had not been invented.

So after letting the militiamen on duty at the radar station who discovered the SCP Foundation spaceship in Prosperity Town not tell the fact that Prosperity Town has neighbors.

So she asked her deputy and also her sister Rita to go to the bar in Prosperity Town and find the militia captain of Prosperity Town and the most experienced hunter Corporal Hyde in Prosperity Town.

Before the harvest season, everyone had to stay in the town to prevent sudden bad weather, which would cause crops to be harvested too late and cause losses. This was one of the few rules in Prosperity Town.

Other rules include, you can't shoot in the town, you can't smoke in the barn, and so on.

So Rita soon found out in a bar in Prosperity Town that she was half drunk and was bragging to several other alcoholics who also drank a lot, how she used only a hunting knife after the shotgun jammed back then. Just killed the giant mandala whose head was now hanging on the wall behind the bar in the bar.

Rita, unable to explain what happened, could only make up a story about a pig that was raised by someone who escaped from the pigsty. After the hapless farmer tried to capture the fat pig that escaped from prison, he was caught by the smart pig. Playing around, not only couldn't catch the fat pig that destroyed the crops, but also lost a lot of crops.

So now it is necessary to let the best hunter in Prosperity Town go out and arrest the sinful pig who dared to ruin the crops after escaping from prison. After all, apart from Hyde, a former federal corporal who can take down the thorntail leopard with only a hunting knife, there is no one in Prosperity Town. Humans have this superb tracking technology.

Find the sinful pig in the wilderness, bring it to justice, and give it what it deserves, becoming the raw material for delicious sausages and bacon, as well as Prosperity's specialty ham.

Chapter 21 21 Nature doesn't want to reason with you

Hyde, who waited until the alcohol content in his blood fully met the standard for drunk driving, put on his expensive hunting suit, carried a modified C-14 spike assault rifle, and drove at a speed that could be used to revoke his driver's license for dangerous driving. , Amidst Rita's screams, he flicked his vulture locomotive to the gate of the communication tower in Prosperity Town.

"Tell me, which farm is it, and who is that hapless fellow?"

After Hyde pushed open the door of the communication room, he saw Diane, who was impatient because she was so courteous, and the person he didn't want to see in the whole prosperous town, Bailey, the silly son of the former mayor.

Just like most young people born in remote star regions, Bailey has some strange ideas about the world while he has no knowledge, such as the world revolves around them, and the border planet they are on is the world's border planet. center.

This is not a big problem, because according to the general law, some of the more honest young people will become farmers or miners after inheriting their parents' business.

Heavy work will quickly turn them into honest people who care about harvest and wages like their parents. The biggest vices are drinking, bragging and playing cards.

And some of them who are more escaping will either choose to follow the caravan and go to the bustling star area to see the world after adulthood, or choose to join the army out of the idea of ​​​​going to other planets to blow up something. .

And the smart ones among them will go to the institutions of higher learning on the central planet after receiving the scholarship.

No matter what choice they make, after receiving severe beatings from society, those who choose to return to the planet they were born in will change their youthful and frivolous past, and deeply bury those absurd mistakes they made when they were young in their minds. On certain occasions, it will be taken out by childhood friends as a joke for drinking.

This kind of mode of running to the core star area at both ends and staying in the local area honestly, to a certain extent, while providing fresh manpower for the core star area, it also keeps those fragile border star areas stable.

But there are always exceptions to everything. For example, a young man who is not so smart but has strong mobility and is spoiled by his old-fashioned mayor father will become a big trouble in this kind of border area.

The big trouble here refers to the former Bailey, a second-rate mechanic who likes to fly.

According to the general rules, Bailey loves flying so much that he is self-taught. While being a first-class pilot, he is also a half-baked mechanic who can maintain the shuttle.

One day, like those young people who are not satisfied with the status quo, for reasons such as dreams and wealth, they should pack their own luggage and go to the core star area to become a soldier or a crew member.

But Bailey, who was spoiled by his father, didn't think so. Since I can get everything I want in Boom Town, why should I leave here and go somewhere else?

So relying on his old father who is the mayor of the town, Bailey can do whatever he wants in Prosperity Town. The things he committed ranged from drinking too much to flying over the pasture in a supersonic vehicle he modified himself, causing the pasture to lose hundreds of heads. ox.

To the point where he removed the afterburner from the best shuttle in town in order to make his shuttle go faster.

If it weren't for Bailey's father who dedicated his life to Prosperity Town, all the townspeople would have given Bailey another chance countless times because they respected him.

I'm afraid that Bailey has long been stuffed by the sheriff of Prosperity Town into the recruiting ships that house the hopeless villains in various colonies. These spaceships cruising between settlements will send those villains to the military's correctional facility .

After undergoing resocialization, he changes from a person who is harmful to society to a member who can contribute to society, such as a good brother with 50 yuan or 120 yuan.

But parental favors always come to an end. Not long after Bailey's father's funeral, Bailey woke up Hyde, who was unable to sleep due to shell shock, during a late-night drunk driving, and nearly crashed his full collection. product barn.

The unbearable Hyde resisted the urge to kill him with a shot, and dragged Bailey, who was drunk in the cockpit, out of his shuttle.

After driving Bailey to the square in the center of the town, he stripped Bailey of his clothes and dumped him in the only shopping mall in the town.

Since then, Bailey has never drunk driving again. After locking himself at home for half a year, he finally became a reliable mechanic in Prosperity Town.

But after that, Hyde, who realized that his behavior was too aggressive, never appeared beside Bailey again.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Hyde, who walked into the communication room, pretended not to see Bailey, and said to Diane.

"Where is that pig, I'm going to get rid of it now, maybe I can make it back for lunch."

"There are no pigs."

Diane, who had been pestered by Bailey for a long time, immediately walked to Hyde's side and looked back at Bailey.

"There's no dinner either. I asked you two to come over because there is something related to the safety of Prosperity Town that needs to be done by you."

"It suddenly occurred to me that I was still making coffee at home. Why don't you talk about it first, and I'll come back as soon as I go."

Hyde immediately turned around and wanted to get out of the communication room.

"Diane, I can do anything for you, but that definitely won't include working with this old thing."

Even though several years have passed, Bailey, who remembered how he was hanged in the shopping mall in the center of the town, still glared angrily at Hyde who turned around.

"Damn it! Listen to me!"

Diane grabbed Hyde who was trying to leave the communication room, and Diane's strength as a doctor of agriculture was fully revealed at this moment.

As a leader in a subject that needs to work in the fields to obtain first-hand information.

If you were in some fantasy world, you would be honored as Diane of the Druids.It also has the same power as those legendary druids who can turn into bears. This power is derived from the power gained from hard work in the farmland, allowing Diane to easily pull Hyde back with one hand.

"Just an hour ago, some foreigners came to Hyperion III. Although they claim to be a public welfare organization, I still need you to judge their reality."

Diane activated the display in the communication room, and a huge starship parked in the wilderness appeared on the display.

"This is the scene captured by our agricultural satellite 5 minutes ago. These people who claim to be the SCP Foundation landed their spacecraft on the Fuxi Plain. I need you to go and see who they are."

"Fuxi Plain?"

Hyde frowned.

"That's almost the other side of the planet."

"Yes, they said that in order not to disturb our lives, they landed there on their own initiative."

"It is not good?"

Bailey looked at the huge starship parked in the wilderness.

"They're on the other side, we're on the other side, don't interfere with each other. Maybe I can buy a better engine afterburner package from them, maybe we can organize another valley speed race."

Hearing Bailey's words, Hyde resisted the urge to refute him. According to the experience Hyde learned on the battlefield, when you know that there are unknown units approaching your position.

What you have to do is not to poke your head out to see what it is. If you dare to do that, your bones should be rotten by now.

Instead, stay in the bunker carefully, waiting for the unknown unit to take the initiative to reveal its purpose.

Seeing that huge starship, Hyde's first reaction was that Prosperity Town now has less than 500 militiamen, and there is a serious lack of heavy equipment.

However, because of the mangy sheep that is a specialty on this planet, this kind of herbivorous creature that looks like a sheep but is almost covered with bones, will pass by the vicinity of Prosperity Town every year when it migrates. For meat, the harvest of one harvest season is completely over.

Half of the people in Prosperity Town can afford guns, but if this happens, the amount of ammunition in Prosperity Town will be another problem.

But if we start fighting now, it should be too late.

Although there is not much ammunition, there are many accurate shooters in Prosperity Town.

"It's time to scout their equipment."

Hyde took out his hunting map from his hunting jacket, spread it out on the communication platform, and said with gestures.

"North of Prosperity Town is the Santans River. We only need to build a few standard bunkers here to control this area. However, the other directions are open plains. As we lack heavy equipment, we need to Now start digging trenches and building up our militia."

"Enough! No valley racing! No bunkers and trenches!"

Diane slapped Hyde's map with a slap.

"They are friendly, and we can't be too rude! So you just need to go quietly and see what they are doing! Don't be discovered by them, come back and tell me after observing!"