People's Federation will live forever

"My God, the vanguard is so ruthless? What about Medusa's medical soldiers? I need medical soldiers here!"

As soon as he yelled, he saw a dark troop walking past him neatly. The shape was very different from his own heavy infantry. Their "combat uniforms" were very compact, but fortunately they had complete friendly signals. Otherwise these guys look pretty scary.

"Hey, you are the vanguard? It's amazing, will you still be with us next?"

Clayton greeted them, but these well-trained soldiers ignored him completely. They just jumped off the edge of the fence, activated the jetpack and landed slowly, and then boarded the three unloaded Ravens and left. , as if it had never been here.

"Ah bah, no quality, look down on who, bastard."

The soldier on the side raised his middle finger to the departing black armored troops, and then asked Clayton: "Company commander, I just checked their IFF's identity information, and it was actually shown as confidential! Could this be the legendary Black Watch troops?"

"No, my friend is in Blackwatch, and the equipment of these guys is not of the same system as ours. They must not belong to the military. Maybe they are those black hands who haven't shown their faces for many years. murderer."

As he said that, Carmin patted the soldier: "These have nothing to do with us, focus on the task at hand! Finish the fight and go home!"

PS: The setting that can be announced now—the Raven is a reference to the Pelican, but unfortunately, I can't find a suitable picture.

Chapter 33 The Leading Party from Extraterrestrials

Turn left forward, step into the corridor, turn left again, and go upstairs—this is very different from the battle inside the ship as imagined, there is no feeling of the cabin at all here, it is more like entering a city of steel, wearing Passing through an area is like entering a residential area, and you can still see apartments with similar floors in front of you. There are paths under the apartments, and four-wheeled unmanned electric vehicles run on the roads.

This is the middle part of the hull of the Cape Town, the second deck of the personnel living area.It is said to be a deck, but it is actually 40 meters high, and the area with a diameter of 300 meters is an ecological zone that relies on the heat provided by the reactor. Look at the luminous and heating ceiling, and the light also contains ultraviolet rays, which makes this ecological zone The green vegetation in the area is also growing healthily.

"God bless... Is this a boat?"

Captain Charles crossed himself on his chest, and then asked Second Lieutenant Luo, "Have you ever counted how far we have run?"

"Eleven kilometers, Captain, no enemy has been encountered until now."

Lieutenant Luo held a square shield made of double-layer titanium alloy in his left hand, and the other two Griffins were staring vigilantly at the left and right. It turned out that this heavy infantry team was riding on a vehicle similar to a light rail. The one on the ceiling has just driven all the way from the front of the battleship to the second deck area, with a speed of about 40KM and will reach a platform every once in a while—of course, the engineer did not stop the train at the request of the soldiers of the People’s Federation Come down, which caused a lot of scolding near the platform.

"What's going on, isn't this a battleship? Why does it look like a city... Ah, there is a food market on this ship?"

All of this makes the heavy infantry feel a sense of unreality, not to mention the crooked light rail running in the ship, and the residential area like this community, these people who are on such a large ship for the first time The soldiers were a little confused, and these questions fell into the ears of the engineer, who made him ask suspiciously: "You really don't know anything?"

"Know? Know what!"

Arthur's tantrum came up again, but this time he didn't know what to do, so he didn't scare the engineer, who simply said something wrong:

"Lieutenant General Douglas said that you are the remnants of the overlord regime 200 years ago, but how do I think you don't understand anything?"

"What overlord regime, what are you talking about?" A group of heavy infantry squatted on the ground, keeping their heads out of the window to avoid being seen, "Also, why do we need to understand? The first time we went to you To be honest, your ship is indeed a bit bigger, but it is dirty and messy, and the layout is also poor, except for the extra artificial gravity, it is not as good as our ship at all!"

However, the heavy infantrymen were also a bit idealistic when they said this, because the Cape Town was indeed too big, and the engineer also explained it along the way.Because the ship has three decks of 40 meters each, a total of 8 large and small spaces and a total of [-] cabins, it is a masterpiece of engineering, so it has always been a powerful weapon that will not be used easily. There must be the ability to be self-sufficient, so the ship itself is a living community.

"This ship has a total of [-] crew members, but the total population is no less than [-]."

"Watt Fake? 2 people? Are you taking over the ship?"

The heavy infantry were very confused, even Captain Shire couldn't help hearing this number from ear to ear, but the engineer thought it was normal: "The long-distance ships go on cruises for several years every time, so they must be the ship's home." Ah. The distance between the earth and the colony is too far, and it takes more than a dozen jumps to take off. Who can bear it if you don’t bring your family with you?”

dependents?

The heavy infantry glanced at the passing community outside. There are still a large number of non-combatants here?No way, you must be joking, because the strategy that the People's Federation has just decided is that once the ship cannot be taken down by jumping gangs, it will be destroyed except for the key parts!

"There are more than 1 people, and you live on the boat?"

"The ship is a small society, not only for life, but also for many people who were born on the ship." The engineer replied honestly, and then pointed to himself, "I am myself. I was born on a merchant ship until I was 14 years old. It was the first time I left the ship on Mars... By the way, are you really not deserters from that tyrannical group 200 years ago?"

"We don't have any need to answer you. On the contrary, you should answer us honestly!" Captain Charles immediately stopped such behavior, beware of someone who can't control his mouth and leak information about the People's Federation. Do you know this ship well?"

The engineer quickly shook his head: "No, no, no, I mean, if you are a member of the overlord regime, you should know about this ship, because the Cape Town was built by the overlord regime 240 years ago, but it was mutinied during the sovereignty war When it comes to the current United Earth Government... well, it seems that you really don't know."

200 years ago?This ship is a ship from 200 years ago?Are you fucking kidding me?

There have been too many explosive messages along the way, but this one is definitely one of the most explosive! A ship more than 200 years ago, isn't this an antique, whose ship will be in service more than 200 years ago?Oh, the USS Constitution in America... no, "you haven't built a new ship in over 200 years?"

"Building, but not many, and the new ships are not as good as the old ones." The engineer said something incomprehensible, and then he quickly explained, "I mean, before the sovereignty war, we were still building big ships, but after the war because of Don't build such a big ship if it's not necessary, the cost is too high to maintain..."

Now Arthur really wants to kill this engineer, because this guy always makes the confusing situation even more confusing, but this guy is a very cooperative person. Because of this guy leading the way, they actually They didn’t encounter any resistance force, but quickly passed through various maintenance channels to the enemy’s heart. In addition, electronic warfare suppressed the camera. Once they simply passed by the enemy’s marines across an elevator, without firing a single shot during the whole process. .

At first, Captain Shire panicked, because he was very worried that this honest engineer was an old spy who led them into the enemy's encirclement, but the observation results dispelled these possibilities, and the engineer's cooperation along the way was definitely not right. How friendly they are, part of it is self-preservation, but it's more of a different emotion.

"You said your name was Albert, didn't you? From the very beginning, you told us something. Now that you have the opportunity, say it generously!"

Captain Shire ordered, and the engineer seemed very pleasantly surprised, as if afraid of the captain's remorse, he hurriedly said: "That, Captain of the People's Federation! Can I stay?"

Stay?

Seeing the incomprehensible looks of these soldiers, Albert quickly explained: "Your planet, can I stay if I want to? Let me leave this ship. I don't want to go back to the earth again. I want to stay here Start a new life here!"

"Watt Faco?"

Arthur had already uttered countless swear words along the way, but he still blurted out when he got emotional.And it wasn't just him, Luo who was on the side also said: "So it's a traitor! Oh, no, a traitor! It's not right, anyway, he is a traitor, a leader!"

"Isn't that good?" Abdullah laughed, and the Arab praised, "The more enlightened enemies like you are, the less we can die."

"..."

Captain Shire had mixed emotions, and first stopped the nonsense to focus on the point: "Why are you doing this, why do you hate your earth...home so much?"

"Home? You really don't know anything."

Albert smiled wryly. He let the armor put away his helmet, and revealed a weather-beaten, rough and abnormally sick face in front of everyone. It looked like a 50-year-old man——"I'm only 32 years old, I'm Wife with five children, ah, she's on this ship too..."

"Five? You have so many births. The People's Federation calls for births every year, but the number just doesn't increase."

Albert opened his mouth, and suddenly said: "Because abortion is prohibited, unified J believers have implemented this law, and the extreme point is to prohibit contraception, because life is sacred, and the fetus will be born after a week soul..."

"Unified J?" The team members asked in confusion, and were immediately stopped by the captain, "Don't interrupt, just keep talking!"

"Three of my five children were included in Uni-President J's nursery club, and I will never see them again, but I have to. Because of this, I can still receive some monthly allowances - Uni-President J likes a lot of people. My wife and I used to live in a Martian city, but..."

Leaving aside the babbling, we reorganize the words of the engineer to glimpse many details of another civilization.According to Albert, it describes a crowded world-people, garbage, people live in garbage, and people become garbage.

The earth’s ecology collapsed hundreds of years ago due to industrial pollution, so the earth’s government that was born began to colonize the stars, the moon, and Mars one after another, but the expansion of civilization was not as fast as the population growth rate, until the impact point engine was invented, Human beings can finally explore the starry sky bit by bit.

But the sad thing is that most of the galaxies in the universe are not suitable for survival. The impact point engine just makes the ship capable of crossing the vast sea of ​​stars, but it doesn't say that it is convenient and fast.Because it is difficult to send people from the solar system to the few discovered planets that can undergo ecological transformation, the main job of the United Earth Government for a hundred years is to collect resources from outer galaxies as much as possible and drag them back to the solar system. Therefore, many residential areas like the Titan space station have been built. carry the population.

Large corporations and large groups, including giants like Uni-President J, domineeringly, and the United Earth is extremely weak. Under lobbying, they have introduced various laws that are conducive to "religious freedom" and "financial innovation", and issued "food stamps for life" to civilians. ", free large amounts of synthetic protein and other food to ensure that no one goes hungry.

This Egyptian pie law did prevent mass starvation, but it did not solve unemployment.Social development is stagnant because manpower is too cheap. The major colonized planets in the solar system are full of crowded cities under ecological domes. People live in five-square-meter container houses. Besides receiving synthetic food, they are looking for a job, or to sin.The neon lights of the city flicker on the high-rise buildings of the rich, while the poor use narcotics to paralyze themselves for happiness-well, narcotics are legal, of course.

The huts were built among the rubbish, and you couldn't tell whether it was rubbish or the rotting corpses, because there were always a lot of corpses.The vagrants are controlled by gangsters, and the fighting in the underground society is going on every day. It is hard to tell how many deaths there are, and no one cares.The whole society is in a kind of anxiety, and despair forces more people to choose "unification" - there is only one religion left on their earth, which declares that human beings will unite body and spirit together on the glorious Judgment Day , sublimated into an immortal existence, where everyone enjoys the unity of happiness in the spiritual paradise J...

"Does anyone really believe this?"

"Desperate people dare to believe anything, have you forgotten the doctrine of obedience?"

Albert's story is not over yet. Originally living on Mars, he suffered a debt default. His company went bankrupt, making him a jobless vagrant. He couldn't afford to rent a house or support his family. He was recruited into the army when he had nowhere to go.

"Earth, solar system? Fuck it, it's hell and I'm never going back! I have no loyalty to the United Earth Government, sirs, and my job is to maintain the reactors of the battleships, and the fission plutonium reactors that power the fusion engines." , inhaling a small amount of radiation every day is almost dead!"

"Change jobs? How is it possible? They just saw that I couldn't refuse, so they arranged for me to work. What if I don't work with my family?"

He touched a handful of his gray hair and tore off a small handful at once. Looking at his pale face as if bleeding from blood, he knew it was not a lie: "I can't live anymore, if I stay here again, I will die." , but I still have family members, my wife and children are also on board, please sir, I am willing to do everything for you, as long as you let me, at least let my family stay!"

"..."

Albert's bloody accusation made the fire team silent, and the soldiers present were all earthlings—they were also living in dire straits before the arrival of the People's Federation. I dare not say that I empathize with them, but the desire for the future and the desire to live... .

They are all too clear.

"The same is the earth, the same is human, why... most people always suffer? Why can't ordinary people even live well?"

On the one hand, Second Lieutenant Luo felt an unexplainable anger in his heart, and he punched the light rail, causing the smashed vehicle to shake a few times, as if hooked to a sad place.And Arthur, who was originally vicious, was also a little dazed: "Because of this, you are willing to defect to us?"

"There are still many people like you? If we mobilize these suffering people, we will win this battle..."

"What are you thinking, you, you start to sympathize with the enemy just because you heard a story? Then, do we have to give up Sira and the earth to these alien toiling masses, so as to show the brotherhood of our compatriots? "

"Wait, don't you all pay attention to that unified J!" Abdullah said angrily, "There is only one Almighty Lord in this world, and there is only one heaven, and the one there is..."

"That's right, that is our all-knowing and all-powerful leader, the Messiah who saves millions of lives."

The Arab guy got angry: "No! I mean, the leader is probably a saint, but the leader is not a god, because he is not, anyway, he said he is not...Damn, why am I telling you this, I mean Yes, Unity J sounds like a hateful cult, we must not allow this kind of heresy and evil to enter the People's Federation!"

Abdullah became emotional, and began to question Albert: "Don't play dumb, are you a believer in Unity J?"

"I'm not, I swear!" Albert said impatiently, "I'm not the same as those lunatics, they always pick hopeless fanatics, or bribe those big businessmen and congressmen, me, the middle class in the past, they see No way!"

There was an argument in the team, and at this time the light rail also stopped-they passed through a deck and arrived at the engine area without bloodshed. The speed and efficiency of the arrival were the highest among the space marines. It was a miracle of stealth operations.

"Don't give me nonsense, no matter what happens, you have to wait until the end of this battle."

The captain picked up the phalanx rifle and was the first to jump out of the light rail. Their goal was the core of this battleship—once a few large reactors were captured, the ship would be completely controlled by the People's Federation, and the outcome of the war would be decided in one fell swoop!

"Albert, I don't know if what you said is true or not, but the People's Federation has clear rewards and punishments. If we are still alive after all this is over, I will report your credit!"

PS: The setting that can be announced now - the energy shortage is too ridiculous, so I thought about it for a while, and turned the social problems of dead space into India's population imbalance, anti-intellectualism, scientific breakthroughs, social management failure, resource recycling The cost is too high, so although the total amount of resources remains unchanged, most of them are turned into garbage and cannot be recycled. FTL is poor and difficult to sail on a large scale, and its civilization falls into the Malthusian trap.

Big India.

Additional comments are welcome.

Chapter 34·A first look at Lichang Technology

The round grenade flew out from behind the bunker in a whirl. There was a countdown ring LED light on the grenade. The person who threw it had set it to detonate in two seconds with experience, so the countdown had reached the end at this time.

"boom"

Thousands of fragments hit the torrential rain, jingling on the double-layer titanium alloy shield.The shield in the hands of the heavy infantry is a mobile bunker that needs to be pushed by wheels in the Ministry of Justice. It can withstand the shooting of 12.7 caliber traditional ammunition. It is not too easy to block this mere grenade fragment.The Griffin infantry holding a shield with one hand put the shield almost on the ground. The two formed a 1.5-meter-wide wall close to the corridor. Behind the two were four other lightly equipped Griffin infantry. Facing the enemy's counterattack, they Unleash a fierce counterattack from behind the shield.In the narrow corridor is a terrible hail of bullets. Electromagnetic rifles are on both sides, but it’s no match for the opponent. Under extreme conditions, what accuracy should be paid attention to? It’s enough to suppress it desperately, so there are also a large number of thrown grenades in the midair!

"Don't worry about those defensive fragmentation grenades, as long as they don't land on the face, they won't hurt this armor!"

Captain Charles said proudly, this is the advantage of heavy infantry, their protection level is double A+, which belongs to the armored vehicle level in the Renlian.The nanofabric and armor of the power battle suit ignore all damage that is fatal to light infantry, so the grenade on the opposite side does not pose a serious threat.

"Go! Why stop?"

"Sir, I, damn this shield... they don't know what method they used anyway, anyway, I can't push the shield anymore!" Luo, who was carrying the shield, shouted, his two hands plus his body hit the shield, but he couldn't hit it. Move, as if welded in mid-air?

But suddenly, he jumped several meters and almost fell to the ground, as if the power that made the shield stagnate disappeared.But this caused a loophole in the defense. At this moment, multiple pulse ammunition hit Luo's combat suit, smashing the metal on the surface and hitting the nano-fabric inside. Blood spray could be seen, and the pain was also there. The comm rang.

"cover!"

Captain Shire suddenly kneeled down and dragged the shovel several meters on the metal floor, and the phalanx rifle in his hand buckled to the end, instantly firing all one hundred rounds of ammunition to suppress the enemy's firepower.The team members at the back also greeted the things on hand to the opposite side, and the bullets and grenades flew together, causing the other side to turn off the fire for a moment, and when Captain Shire helped the injured Luo, the whole team also pressed up to protect their own officer.

Abdullah took the initiative to take Luo's shield to block the front, and the Medusa medical soldiers took the opportunity to drag Luo to the rear.In the rain of bullets, the captain shouted:

"Break through in one breath, Arthur, get on the big guy!"

Second Lieutenant Arthur bent his back slightly, and raised the grenade launcher over his shoulders with his raised mechanical arm. The first shot of the slow-speed pneumatic grenade was to release a cloud of heavy metal smoke in front of the heavy infantry squad to hinder observation. The second shot is a genuine full-loaded Thai nuclear warhead——

If it weren't for the double protection of shields and combat suits, and the opponent had air in the ship, the team would not have used this 40mm Thai nuclear warhead. This is equivalent to exploding a 120mm grenade in the middle of the enemy more than ten meters away. The flames from the flames instantly hit the team at 20 times the detonation speed of TNT, and the Griffin weighing more than 300 kilograms was about to be blown away in an instant.

The helmet protected the eardrums and prevented concussion, but even so the heavy infantry squad felt that the world had lost its voice for an instant, only the captain's arm pointing forward told them that they should charge forward at this moment—they instinctively stepped forward Enter the enemy's fortifications that were still resolutely resisting just now, but where is there a living person at this time?The place hit by the howitzer bombardment was only the scorched ground and the bodies of soldiers who were torn apart with RIG armor. There were also many people who looked like engineers who were not hit by the shock wave but passed out. A few survived. When people saw the heavy infantry rushing in, they panicked.

"Fuck you."

The emotional Arthur rushed forward, kicked away the plasma welding torch in the hands of an engineer, and then stomped his hand under his feet. He could hear the sound of his wrist bones shattering.

"It's for my comrades, bastard!"

Arthur turned his gun upside down and pulled the trigger on several howling enemy soldiers who hadn't breathed out yet. Their heads exploded one by one, saving the trouble of the medical soldiers.Then he quickly turned his gun on the few surviving engineers——

"Leaving the engineers, we still need a few people who can turn the engine."

The captain just said that several other terrified engineers suddenly extended their hands to Arthur. Before the heavy infantry shouted "Surrender, don't kill!", something seemed to hit Arthur, making him suddenly uneasy. stiffened normally.

Not only that, Arthur looked foggy and unreal, and at this time the engineer also picked up the plasma cutter and pulled the trigger!

In an instant, a horizontal beam of light hit the stagnant Arthur, but perhaps the engineer was too nervous or had not received strict shooting training. This time it was probably aimed at the head but landed on the shoulder. Griffin The thick shoulder armor that could withstand the heavy machine gun was cut off in its entirety!

The heavy infantry were about to shoot and kill these engineers immediately, but suddenly a beam of energy flew past them and hit the engineer who was about to fire a second shot, making the latter's figure blurred. , The finger that was about to pull the trigger was also stuck there and could not move, after all, the second round was not fired.

At this moment, Arthur suddenly returned to reality as he took a step forward and almost fell down. Captain Shire supported him and looked him up and down: "Hey, how are you, what happened just now?"

"Just now? What just now?"

Arthur was even more strange than the captain: "I suddenly felt a little out of control...Huh? What happened to my shoulder armor?"

Suddenly a flash of light flew past Arthur's back. It was the second belated ion cutting shot, which missed Arthur but cut a large horizontal cut in the battleship wall.The engineer who was also at a loss was knocked to the ground by a gun butt hammer from the heavy infantry. At this time, Albert who just came from behind glanced at Arthur: "Can I help you, sir?"

"Help? Interesting, so you can explain to us what's going on?"

"Explanation?" Albert was a little confused. Looking at the expressions of several people, he suddenly realized, "Don't you guys know what stasis force field is?"