People's Federation will live forever

Bud screamed in pain, bleeding from his mouth and nose.The pain lasted for quite a while, and he couldn't open his eyes because of the pain, so he could only gasp and curse: "Anthony! Carmin! I saw them die with my own eyes, but they were all made of iron." Man! You make me sick when you dress them up, I don't have PTSD, roll the sand dollars!"

Finally, a light shone into Bud's eyes, it was the light of the operating lamp - the doctor opened his eyelids with instruments and took a look.

"Cortisol 60, Adrenaline 120!"

Something poured in, and the moment it flowed into his heart, Bud trembled, and then stopped with a howl.Looking outward, Bud was lying on the operating table at this time, his body was covered with electrode sensors, especially his head - the yellow hair had been shaved clean, and the thin needles were almost inserted into the scalp.

And the doctor on the side?If we can call him a doctor... His face has an obvious silicone texture, and his eyes are clearly two focusing lenses. From the neck down, there are red cables and mesh black electronic muscles visible to the naked eye. There are dense sensors all over the body and only a thin white coat is around, and the titanium alloy bones are clearly visible.

The doctor's hands... Each hand has a double row of ten fingers, all of which are dexterously movable metal joints connected to different props. At this moment, the slender, silky steel needle-shaped fingers struck Bard's body, scratching Over eight-pack abs—the gorilla-like hairy body of the tough guy with bare bones is actually incomplete at the moment. Bud's left hand is missing, and two fingers are missing on his right hand. The good news is that his life is saved, but his thighs It turned out to be blue-black zombie meat.

"The protective suit was damaged in a vacuum. It can be blocked in time to prevent the spread of necrotic tissue and save your companions. You are indeed your student, Adam."

A silent compliment did not make the "Doctor Adam" who performed the surgery react.In the extreme cold of the universe, his clothes were damaged and drifted away for several hours. Bud was really desperate.In order to catch Cole, he simply tore off his left hand and used it as a hook, which lasted until Li Zhi's rescue.

"Amputation."

Adam's robotic hand "draws a line" on the sides of the two black legs, and a nanowire wraps around and tightens—click, the bone cuts a glorious plane without hindrance.Dr. Adam monitored the brain waves during the operation, and the dense numbers on the screen were transformed into a holographic brain, and the simulated neural circuits were clearly visible.

"The memory area has been located, ready to re-engrave the memory synapses!"

"The correction of the brain wave code is completed, and the 'implantation information' will start playing."

Just beside the operating table, a device connected to the holographic brain lights up, and a red double helix stone appears in front of Adam and the behind-the-scenes.The red stone transforms into various human forms, chattering and persuading Bud—it is the scene of the dialogue between Wen Bud and the stone.

"Everyone who walks will leave traces."

According to the leader's observation, the stone first brainwashes the surrounding organisms in a way similar to brain waves at the same frequency, instilling information to drive people crazy/trigger brain rejection, lead people to commit suicide or kill people, and create corpses.The corpse has mutated into a monster, every piece of flesh and blood can move independently, and it is not afraid of most kinetic energy attacks, which is really a disaster for the unprepared.The more living corpses there are, the faster the infection will spread. This seems to be the purpose of this stone.

However, there are also unaffected people like Bard, so this is the breakthrough.None of the victims of this broken stone knew the first-line scientific research. It never expected that the People's Federation had memory retrieval, and reproduced its crime scene here.

As for why the corpse can move, where does the mutation of the corpse consume energy?According to observations, the monster transformed from the corpse has not increased in size, nor has it eaten organs. The energy supporting its activities must be the stone itself?

Could it be that the stone has infinite energy?

"Think about this question later. There is a very important sentence in the conversation just now."

Chief Ensger's voice sounded, and he stepped back to project the video to mark this sentence.

"Before, we had a lot, but we ate less and less, so we slept."

"Now, eating more and more, we wake up from hunger, your flesh and blood wake us up."

With the attitude of a scientist, this sentence was played repeatedly-"Bud subconsciously used their native dialect, so there are many ways to disassemble the meaning of the word. The meaning he most wanted to express was probably this-this group of stones used to be roughly Let the river system of a certain universe? It has been eaten clean, and now it has also been subsided, and it is aware that the number of civilizations in the universe has increased (there are more subsidence phenomena), so it becomes active?"

Damn it, is this universe we live in a trash can? All the messy things are coming here.Under the holographic projection, Dr. Ensger looked down at the fainting Bud opposite Adam—there was more than one operating table, and there were several separate compartments nearby separated by thick bulletproof fiberglass, in which the silent Cole could be seen , and several other trapped and struggling... crew members of the Fortune Code, it seems that they are no longer human.

"I can only presume it's a creation, some advanced civilization's harvester of backward civilizations, the Great Filter? But the time it takes for this stone to drift to Thira leads me to believe that this thing can spread across the galaxy quickly? That's impossible. Our tracking of the surrounding subsidence phenomenon can reach as far as 20 years ago, that is to say, it's not long since this thing sank, and we haven't detected any subsidence over a large area, so the number will never be too many , this stone didn’t give a positive answer... No, as an inorganic object, it should operate purely logically, and its performance is to deceive ordinary people by information gap.”

Ensig was still analyzing, but Adam had already started to do it—firstly, the operating table was sealed and sterilized.As soon as the ultraviolet light passes, the operating room floor opens and lifts the folded man-height stand.There are several such brackets, once unfolded, they will fall vertically to form a prototype arch-shaped device, with multiple built-in metal probes like 3D printing nozzles.

"The surgeon's DNA has been verified, the bioprinting materials have been prepared, and the immune rejection reaction is being tested... Inject blocking agents and connect to the extracorporeal circulation device!"

The doctor didn’t hesitate any longer, and immediately opened Bud’s belly. The tendons of his body were opened piece by piece under the scalpel, and the extracorporeal circulation device was connected to the artery, and the blood was injected from the catheter to the artificial pump to send oxygen to the brain. , and Bard's original heart and lungs?It was removed under Adam's knife and quickly connected to the artificial blood vessel and stored separately.

The scene of tearing up one's students into eight pieces... It's a trivial matter, what is the nickname of People's Union Medicine?Flesh Factory!

"Bud, when you come back alive, I will pay you another body."

Adam finally spoke, but it didn't seem to be a good thing.But the metal probe on the operating table no longer hesitated, sawed off the ribs three times, five times and two times, and stretched into the chest cavity to build a tissue support frame. A steaming box was moved up by the robot, and the white artificial tissue was removed from it. Lung lobes and an artificial heart that bounces around with fists.

The artificial heart and lung can greatly improve the oxygen delivery efficiency of the receptors and strengthen the endurance.The built-in hormone storage device can artificially regulate endocrine.

The steel needle hits the spine, and every time it is struck, a piece of color changes, and the spine reveals a metallic color over time.The silk thread, as thin as a hair, but as flexible as a snake, drilled into the spine, as if some kind of transformation had been carried out on the spinal nerve bundle.

Surface metal impact resistance strengthening, spinal nerve implants, hematopoietic function enhancement and accelerated nerve transmission.

The chest protection made of titanium alloy is more like a bone plate than a rib, and the stitched colloid can be absorbed by the human body to grow back to its original appearance, but there are not many original human body parts.After reconstructing the vascular circuit of the gap in Cole's severed limb, the bone was simply replaced and holes were drilled, and the prosthetic hand made of electronic muscles and lightweight titanium alloy armor was connected to the missing left arm.

The test-type deformable prosthesis uses nano-skin on the surface, and integrates multiple hot and cold tools inside, with a maximum grip force of 8000N.

A pair of deformable electromagnetic elastic joints are connected to the excised lower leg, and the simulated toes move after the nerves are connected, and the rejection reaction can be ignored.

Runner's improved prosthetic body components, deformable anti-joints, enhanced maneuverability and absorption of falling impacts, distance force suction cups can be adsorbed to all integral materials including ceiling glass.

But these alone are not enough, and a shot of silver nanofluid-vascular strengthening agent is also injected. Nano-robots can absorb blood vessels to strengthen tension and repair hardened stagnant areas. They are often designed to deal with critical brain infarction diseases.But when it is used on soldiers, it cooperates with the mechanical heart to prevent blood vessels from collapsing too quickly.

Implant enhancement, this time is no longer a simple brain communication modification.The entire process, similar to bone strengthening, lasted for nearly ten hours. According to the standards of the People's Federation, this is a severe cyber transformation, and it is only one step away from the kind of comprehensive cyber transformation that only retains the brain. High Level Approved!

(For a long time, in order to avoid social problems, coupled with the lack of rigid demand, the general transformation of the People's Federation has remained at the level of subcutaneous implants and brain chips. Our laws also prohibit non-medical prosthetics. So we For a long time, we have forgotten that we still have this ability, and our soldiers are more willing to choose powered combat suits than self-reform. But on the other side of the earth, many disabled people urgently need to restore their labor force, and the prosthetic body has signs of abuse, causing to the attention of the Council)

But now, the person in front of him has the highest level of authority of the People's Federation.

Twelve hours later—

Ensger stared at Bud's head, which had just been replaced with a metal skull, and the surgical marks on the scalp had not yet healed.The previously filled electric needles were replaced by alloy skull sensors.

"The question now is, how exactly does this stone affect the brain of an organism?"

Ensig is just a projection. It is precisely because of the projection that he pulls his hand and a lot of options appear, and the words float in the air: "It is not an infrasonic wave or a neurotoxin. No changes in the light spectrum have been detected. Psychological hints lack effective means. The only possibility is electromagnetic waves—the leader can detect them if they have anima. It’s electromagnetic waves. In the Brotherhood era, the same frequency of brain waves was used to interrogate prisoners. If this method is used, a Faraday cage can prevent it from opening.”

"But I'm even more curious about the way it instills information, which is a step further than our technology, and the effect is so powerful!"

"And, how does it provide energy for living corpses? Cold fusion, antimatter? No, it looks like this thing is small in size, but it can release electromagnetic pulses that can interfere with battleships, simulating characteristics similar to infinite energy...infinite Energy? Huh! But can it use dark energy that we haven't noticed or zero-point energy, something delusional?"

"Any bit of information in this may speed up our research by decades! The Human Federation is in danger, so we must speed up and take some risks if necessary."

The Chief Scientist will dedicate a bit of energy to this ship, not to chit-chat in the background.Seeing the completion of the operation, Ensger, who had already completed the calculation, made a gesture of invitation to Adam:

"Adam, General Olivia can't understand the value of this, but we understand that we have to hold this stone in our hands, and the key is already in our hands... release neurotransmitters, wake Bud, Let me see if he is really mentally strong enough to be immune to stone brainwashing as predicted."

Dr. Adam... No, this is just a remote-controlled prosthetic body. The real bodies of the two bosses of the Industrial Research Department have never been seen by anyone.Dr. Adam is obviously slightly suspicious——

"Chief, Commander Olivia thinks it should be destroyed. We are standing directly opposite the military. The leader will not be unaware, and Commander Olivia will not be ignorant, especially when the military is taking action. ..”

In other words: "The leader will not sit idly by when differences break out in the Supreme Council. Why not let the leader decide?"

"Because the leader has agreed."

Ensig believed in himself.

"The leader is to give us the right to choose. The Ministry of Industry and Research or the military is not important. The leader only needs to solve the situation. Therefore, if the military destroys the red stone, then I will admit defeat, and if I succeed then the commander-in-chief Not much to say, the leader wants orderly competition."

And Bud on the stage: "We can't take the risk of letting other people touch Redstone to expand the risk, but we have Bud. He has not collapsed in direct contact with Redstone, so that is the key to the success of our operation."

PS: The outline has been changed, and this volume has also been changed. The style of this book will change in the future, please fasten your seat belts.Buoyant decided to write the story well, and whether you can read it or not depends on everyone's willingness.

Chapter No.16 Praying Mantis Catching Cicadas

It has been more than thirteen hours since the accident in the asteroid belt.

Thirteen hours is enough for many things to happen. For example, Bud and Cole were rescued by Li Wei, and a special spaceship from the Ministry of Industry and Research took over their group of survivors.

Also, for example, the news about the vicious chain of accidents in the asteroid belt that caused delays in the construction of the space industry, which was suddenly interrupted in Sira, and the Space Affairs Bureau is going to investigate. The UNFleet controls the route to the asteroid belt. It is said that "a professional team" is ready to go. Now people are paying attention to the deep space building located at the farthest point of the asteroid belt, that is, the one that accommodates the outer ring area. Storm Harbor for 8000 mining personnel.

There, what the hell happened?

"Haven of Storms, what happened?"

The large cylinder floating in space is rotating at a speed of [-] meters per second. This building nicknamed "Space Tavern" is made up of three humpback whale transport ships. The interior is spacious and has centrifugal simulated gravity. The most comfortable place in the starry sky.From the perspective of craftsmanship, this space city is full of patchwork of parts, and the patch-like reinforced steel plates are everywhere, which can be called punk.Every civilization pays more attention to the core than the outside during the expansion stage. This roughness is the greatest embodiment of pragmatism, so you can imagine the scene inside the Storm Harbor——

It was a dead black gray, with faint lights flickering on and off.The metal fragments produced by the explosion were floating in mid-air, the sparks of the circuit crackled and flickered, and the traces of the fire were still clearly visible. In order to stop the fire, the management personnel of the space station probably opened the airlock to clear the air, but it is more likely that this The space station can no longer hold air.

Because there is a big hole, it comes from the outer wall of Storm Harbor and goes deep into the interior of the space station, almost close to the keel, like some monster in the deep space bit the space station fiercely and tore off a large piece of meat, this space station If it can still maintain it without disintegration, we must thank the Ministry of Industry and Research for not cutting corners.

But right now, we have a bigger issue than the survival of the space station.

"This is the 'Wannian Fengxue', we are here to carry out the rescue work. The Storm Harbor Command Center hears it, please call back, repeat, hear it, please call back! Please report your situation... No response, this is No. 18 times."

On the bridge of the Wannian Fengxue, the navigator shook his head at the captain sitting in the high command seat.They tried all means of communication, from light and dark codes to lights, and found nothing. The result was gloomy, but the captain rejected the result: "Keep calling until there is a response. How is the landing force?"

"Captain, the Fleet Administration has strictly ordered that no ship or personnel is allowed to approach the Storm Harbor for [-] kilometers..."

"I know!"

The captain slapped his thighs and stood up. The Thundercloud-class bridge replaced the glass with an analog screen. His eyes could clearly see the Storm Harbor on the opposite side. The lights on the exterior of the space station were still flickering. It's the same as usual.Several Leiyun-class spacecraft belonging to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, including the Wannian Fengxue, surrounded the space city. Not only them, but also a large number of civilian ships escorted by them and commanded and placed. here.In the starry sky, four Thunderclouds and more than 20 ships of various types parked here. They could not approach or leave the Storm Harbor because of the order of the Fleet General Administration.

"I know it's the commander-in-chief's order, but there are still more than 800 people staying behind, why don't you let us rescue them so close at hand!"

The captain's fists clenched and clicked. Everything happened very quickly, faster than they expected. From the beginning to the present, they still don't know what happened. They don't understand why the Scale of Justice disappeared, nor did they understand Why it becomes an enemy.

Just ten hours ago, the Ministry of Emergency Situations issued a control order for Storm Harbor. They asked all ships in the asteroid belt to stop operations and return to Storm Harbor for inspection immediately, and notified the Ministry of Emergency Situations to immediately hunt down the remaining five Thunderclouds. Contact the scales of justice.

Three hours earlier, the space station radar had spotted the missing ship.The Justice Balance rushed towards the Storm Harbor in a daze, and several thundercloud-class ships that were ineffective in the call bombarded the justice balance, but it was too late, and the heavy railgun might be able to penetrate the Thundercloud-class armor. Hull, but they can't stop the impact caused by inertia.

In the moments before the collision, the "Sunshine" stepped forward and collided with the largest piece of debris to save the space station from being destroyed by the impact of debris.There are no words to express our appreciation for their sacrifice, but the worst happened after the impact... In short, they have tried their best to save the survivors as much as possible, but what followed was the Supreme Military Commander Order.

"The Sacred Balance carried pathogens of mental pollution from outside the system and spread to the Storm Harbor. In order to prevent further damage, any unit or individual must stay at least [-] kilometers away from the source of infection."

"In order to prevent the infection from spreading to Thira, all ships in the asteroid belt must be on standby at designated locations and undergo inspections. Any disobedience is considered a serious breach of public safety and the military will take necessary measures."

"Any official ship of the People's Federation, if the captain violates the order, it is considered malfeasance, and the political and military officer accompanying the ship shall immediately remove the captain's position and take over the ship."

The three orders were like three mountains crushing them to death here.

"Captain, there was a commotion in the civilian ship. Many crew members have relatives and friends who are still in the storm harbor. They want to return to rescue."

"Are you still accusing us of inaction?"

The captain of the Wannian Fengxue turned his head and tried to bear the reluctance. He just wanted to prepare to land troops, but saw the door of the bridge open, one short and two tall, and three armed soldiers walked into the bridge.The leader was wearing a full-coverage shell-style armor suit, and a black army coat with a stand-up collar over the close-fitting armor. Behind them were two Griffin heavy infantry soldiers.

"Captain, no matter what you want to do, I advise you to think again."

The political and military officers of the People's Federation...they are both supervisors and deputy commanders, and their functions are exactly what everyone understands-the political and military officers are the commanders of the gendarmerie, who supervise morale and discipline, and severely punish all dereliction of duty .In the Star Guard, the political officer has a military police force, and the political officer with the ship has the right to recruit the heavy infantry of the whole ship, so now the political officer brought two heavily armed Griffin heavy infantry to the ship. Bridge to "exercise duty".

But such an exercise of duties, regardless of the reason, will cause a complete break between the two top officials.The captain looked at the political officer. The latter's helmet blocked his sight and expression. Only a low voice could be heard-"In the past few years, we have cooperated very happily. After this incident is over, I will not appear in front of you gone."

Yes, after performing their duties like a rupture, the political officers and captains who can no longer cooperate with each other will be transferred from the ship.Now that the political and combat officer said so, his attitude was clearly displayed in front of the captain: "The military order is like a mountain, even if you are trying to save people, I will not allow it."

"I know military orders are like a mountain, but if the mother planet is in front of me, I can only watch because of the order?"

"I'm not interested in arguing with you, Captain."

The atmosphere inside the ship dropped to freezing point, and the embarrassment was broken by the navigator's cry—"Report, a burst of Cherenkov radiation was detected...Mass effect flight was found, and the parameters are being checked."

In the dark and empty vacuum, streaks of ghostly blue light exploded out of nothing. This is a physical phenomenon caused by the inconsistency of the speed of light on both sides when the space-time continuity has just escaped from the mass effect flight and is reconnected. Vacuum dropped a flash bomb to tell everyone to turn their heads away.

From the dark room in the stars, one after another slender conical warships returned to reality and appeared in front of everyone.The tails of these spaceships ejected the iconic nuclear flames, and the lights on the surface of the hulls conveyed signals. In a 3X3X3 cube formation, 27 Twilight-class bombardment battleships and Thundercloud-class cruisers sailed towards this place at high speed. Lean in and put down a cuboid aircraft from the belly deck of the dusk class.The dots of engine flames seem densely packed. This is "the pendulum fleet of war. 27 warships, half of the ships of the People's Federation, have been dispatched..."

The giant steel ships spread out from each other, and at a distance of [-] kilometers, these capital ships opened the gun doors on the upper deck, and the Hammer of Dawn launchers unambiguously... aimed at the Stormport space station!

On the bridge of a certain Twilight-class ship, the fleet commander with the rank of major general stood with his head bowed next to the command seat, and a woman with her feet crossed and her hands folded sat on it. At this moment, she was making an announcement to the entire area:

"I am Olivia, the Supreme Military Commander of the People's Federation, and hereby declare:

Notify all ships on the scene that a radius of 15 kilometers from the stormy port will be set as a military restricted zone.All ships immediately conduct security checks at the designated locations and await further instructions.I repeat, this is not a drill, and the fleet will do whatever it takes to prevent further spread of infection here. "

The communication was shut down, and Olivia stood up from the command chair, tilted her head and said to the commander: "Command the fleet, if you find a spaceship with a signal from the Ministry of Industry and Research in the blockade area, destroy it directly without reporting!"

"Ah... the Ministry of Industry and Research? What are they doing here?"

The major general was caught off guard and didn't know what to do, but he realized that he was talking too much after Olivia's "Huh?" tone.

Standing at attention and saluting, the magnetic boots slammed loudly on the floor—"Yes, sir!"

"Continue to command, I'm going to the lower deck."

"Commander, are you going to visit Storm Harbor yourself?"

Olivia held the saber at her waist, glanced at the sonic knife that had been with her for many years, and suddenly untied it and handed it to the major general: "You reminded me that those monsters are not afraid of blades and bullets... this Return it to me after the matter is over."

The major general took over the command knife, and when General Olivia left, the navigator Ratolova on the side smiled:

"The commander gave you the sword to recognize your position as the commander of the fleet. I have to congratulate you in advance, General Janot."

We haven't seen Janot in a while, and he was promoted to major general after the trip to Earth, which is gratifying.He picked up the command knife with a complicated expression and sat on the command seat: "Command, first-level combat readiness."

Combat readiness, to a space station?

"Are you kidding? Did you see that? That's the Twilight class, that's the Hammer of Dawn! The power of a single shot of the Hammer of Dawn is equivalent to the directional blasting of hundreds of tons of TNT. It can penetrate a hundred meters of geological rock formations, as thick as a building. Homogeneous steel! That is, the power of a nuclear explosion with a [-]-ton equivalent! It only needs to be wiped off—"

Bud held up a finger, and lightly slid his metal-colored fingertips across Cole's face, simulating a ballistic trajectory: "Understand what I mean? As long as we touch a little bit, we will be reduced to an atomic state. Pfft, there's nothing left."

"Director Ensig, don't say that you used high-performance A-grade titanium alloy for my prosthetic body, even all nanomaterials won't work well. The fleet has already blocked the surrounding area, what do we use to infiltrate it?"

The wheels kept talking, and Bud questioned Ensger in the back of the communication like a cannonball. Even Cole on the side was surprised that Bud accepted his change so quickly: "Baby Bud, you are now an iron man. , you don't have any...what do you think?"

"Thinking?"

Bud turned his head around, there were several circuit board-like dents on his face showing the metal background, his eyes were light blue: "You still have the nerve to tell me how you feel! If it wasn't for saving you and me You don't have to break your left hand yourself, you won't freeze your legs from leaking air from your lower body clothing...me, me!"

In the end, Bud's voice sank: "We... are still alive at least."