People's Federation will live forever

Isaac reduced the monsters' mobility with extremely fast efficiency. The high-temperature ion cutter gun aimed at the corpse's legs and feet, cutting tendons and breaking bones—the medical ion knife was doing its job. .Just a few minutes ago, Isaac was a patient who could not stand still, but now he fired more than a dozen shots but his arms were still straight, dodging in front of the monster's blade, taking small steps back and constantly passing over obstacles Come to distance yourself, nimble like a battle-hardened soldier?

Maybe he didn't even notice it himself, because Isaac is now highly concentrated, and as the ionizer interrupted the limbs of the oncoming monster and made it fall, he grabbed a bottle of medical liquid nitrogen tank next to it and smashed it down hard. The wriggling mouth and the deformed human face turned into a mass of mud...

These monsters don't die, and no one understands these necromorphs better than Isaac.The monster whose head was smashed was still waving its sickle-like limbs at high speed, but one of the bone knives was grabbed by him with both hands, and then pulled out of the necromorph alive with force——

"Lend me, you won't need it anyway."

With this mutated bone knife, covered with congealed calcium and pitted like a saw, Isaac cut off the other limb that swung, and then slashed at the last limb with a thud. On the chest of the still standing necromorph, the bone and flesh chopped off the shiny spine with its dangling head, and the ion gun snapped twice to break the knee, and stepped over the fallen corpse, Isaac stood upright drenched in blood. In a long corridor full of wriggling corpses, as far as the eye can see, there is no living creature standing except himself!

The woman's head with a head of hair rolled to the ground, two lines of blood and tears flowed from the hollow eye sockets, and as the vital signs completely disappeared, the faint crying finally stopped, and everything returned to tranquility.

But Isaac knew that this was impossible. If such a distorted form could still be called life, then these temporarily inactive monsters were indeed still "alive".Slender tentacles squirmed out from between the limbs. They explored the surrounding flesh and burrowed in from the scattered stumps, bit by bit, dragging the victim on the sticky blood-covered floor. Isaac's severed limbs—these tentacles are connected to each other to form a large web, and what's more, they crawl up Isaac's straitjacket like little red snakes.

This is the first time Isaac has thanked the straitjacket for covering him tightly, but he would have preferred to wear his old engineering RIG suit.He trampled off those soft tentacles, stepped on the sticky scarlet floor, stepped on those necromorphs that were not threatening for the time being, and walked towards the emergency exit of the hospital checkpoint. From the map, after leaving here, he would enter the large metropolitan area.The dead Frank told himself that this is Titan City. Isaac had never been here, but he had heard of the largest colony in the outer solar system.

There are millions of people outside, what happened to them, where should I go?

Suddenly, the familiar female voice rang from the wristband computer: "Isaac, you move fast, Tidelman is starting to block the public area, especially the direction leading to the Starport. I have found a way for you, But if it’s too late, it’s too late!”

"Who the hell are you? Also, what is going on here? Why are there monsters in the space city? I must get an answer."

"You have too many questions, do you think now is a good time to ask questions?"

Isaac now knows why there are only a dozen necromorphs here, because the gate leading to the public area has been blocked by emergency security procedures, and the red sign shows that the outside world is a vacuum, and the partial structure of the space city has leaked. It may be related to the explosions I heard before.

Without the safety suit, the door would be forbidden to open. Just behind Isaac, there are more than a dozen necromorphs recovering. He must either turn around and tear them apart again, or leave this ghost place as soon as possible.During the call, he looked left and right, but accidentally found the engineer's maintenance room at the gate.

"When I escaped from the Ishimura, the Marine Corps of the Union Defense Force who rushed over said they were here to rescue me, and then threw me here for two years!" Isaac opened the maintenance room, a platform with a humanoid frame and a A set of resource integration equipment with light yellow metal spokes stood out, "I never knew you, and you kept saying that you would help me, why should I believe you?"

The person on the other end of the communication was silent for a while, and they could still hear the sound of throwing things that might be angry. After a while, the woman's voice reappeared: "Isaac, you have no choice now, Governor Tedman told him The Titan Defense Force of the United Earth Government has issued an order to capture you to Earth with a special force of the United Earth Government, and continue to lock you up, and I heard that people from the Republican Army are also here, and they are all looking for you ,Understand?"

"Are you kidding me? Why are they doing this?"

"Do you think I lied to you?" The woman was anxious, "They should have transferred you a few hours ago, if my people hadn't tried their best to buy you time, you wouldn't even have a chance to be free! Without Frank's sacrifice, you would now be breakfast for necromorphs!"

"I'm grateful for Frank, he did die to save me."

The armor suit is closed, and the alloy armor covers the upper torso together.The exoskeleton buried under the high-density fiber fabric exerted its strength, and layers of helmets spread out to cover his face-when he came out of the maintenance room, he happened to see the necromorph standing up staggeringly in the corridor ...This recovery is faster than I thought.

"But thank you, thank you, how do you know so much about necromorphs? Have you also been on the Ishimura?" Isaac walked into the decompression door, blocking the chasing necromorphs behind the door, "I need A reason, otherwise I can find my own way out."

"The reason is, without us, you are doomed! Do you know what's going on now? There is a war outside, and the invading army of the People's Federation has already reached the outside of Titan City!"

Damn, damn Renlian, how could they be so fast!It didn’t even last a day from the defense line of Pluto, so the United Earth government started to retreat early, and I and others had to speed up their actions... "The United Earth is about to abandon this place, and Tedman, the governor of Saturn, has gathered most of the troops to the government area , the only escape route is also with him, and soon he will detonate the reactor group to blow up here, because the infection is out of control, and they don't want to control it anymore, and they are going to throw the mess to the United Nations-now you understand, We are your only chance, we still have our own ship at Starport, we can take you away immediately."

Isaac didn't speak, but the woman simply slowed down her tone: "I'll give you our address, and you make up your own mind, Mr. Isaac Clark."

The communication ended, and a map was displayed on Isaac's wristband computer. He looked at it, then walked out of the decompression chamber, and came to a broken glass corridor in the silence.

This is the road connecting the hospital to the public area. Looking out from here, Isaac can see Saturn hanging above his head—and vehicles speeding on the vacuum road in the space city. The city outside is like a frying pan. From the opposite dome he could see fire and explosions, just like this glass corridor, Isaac saw many struggling people being sucked into the vacuum, and he saw many out-of-control vehicles crashing headlong into the On the exterior wall of the building!

As an independent unit, Starport is also seen by Isaac in the middle of the public area and the administrative area.And others not only saw Xinggang, but also saw a familiar old friend, a real nightmare lingering in his heart.

The huge body of the Ishimura is parked in the star port. It looks the same as two years ago. The one-kilometer-long giant ship is more magnificent than any spaceship parked around it. The largest spaceship in the history of the United Earth is like an ancient ship. The great beast lurks in its lair, and Isaac would not want to see it if he could.

However, he didn't just see the Ishimura, Isaac also saw many bright spots in the distance in the deep space, which were the light of the ship's engine, and they were approaching the direction of Titan City.They are fast, and their actions are undisguised. They are all white, and they seem to come out of the same mold regardless of their size. The shape is also completely different from the United Earth ship. Isaac has never seen such a spaceship. .

"They are the People's Federation?"

Isaac said in a daze. He hadn't heard of this awkward word until today. Isaac didn't understand and feel much about the "war" he said to himself on the other end of the communication. He has been detained in the past two years. In the hospital, the news from the outside world was completely interrupted.

Where did the People's Federation come from, what is their purpose, and what are they going to do?

Isaac didn't know, but he was very worried. He was very worried that the situation here was related to the People's Federation, or that this huge fleet would destroy it without hesitation after discovering the situation here-this is very possible, let alone the governor Tidelman appears to be preparing to detonate the reactor.

"Damn, I have to hurry up..."

Isaac cursed, crushed a piece of wreckage with his foot, and headed for the public area.But when he came to the spacious entrance and exit hall like a garage, he unexpectedly found that the place was very clean—it was obviously full of wreckage, but there was not a single corpse, but all the vehicles staying here were destroyed, as if there was something huge run them over...

"Isaac? Get down!"

An unfamiliar voice sounded in his communicator, and following the warning, a red laser light flashed from behind him, and he subconsciously avoided...

A grenade with a trailing flame flew past him, crashed into the wreckage of the car and exploded!This is a vacuum area, but that's why the reaction of the shock wave is so obvious, and it comes so fast.And amidst the flames and scattered fragments, a giant monster spliced ​​out of many human corpses crawled out from the wreckage!

And Isaac was also pulled up by two hands. When he turned around, there was an entire armed team behind him at some point.

"We are the IRA special operations team, this time to get you out of here before the United Earth... Don't worry, we are not your enemy."

PS: Well, games and novels, including mine, are exaggerated.Anyone who has cut a pig's bone with a kitchen knife in daily life knows how resilient the flesh is, and how terrifying it is to cut a person in half.

Although the flesh and blood are weak, but it is not to the point of being weak.

Wait, no one will think that I just translated the original work into words, right?

Chapter [153] Aite@一下

"Can you determine the internal conditions of Titan City?"

After a brief silence, AI Interferon reported in a serious manner——

"The cracking of the firewall of the program running inside the Titan Space City is in progress... Error, 470 seven mutually incompatible control programs were found in the Titan Space City, which are independent of each other and cannot be controlled in parallel!"

"Be clear, what's wrong?"

Olivia was looking down at this grand city. Looking down from the bridge of the Eye of Truth, the Supreme Commander of the People's Federation still looked cold and handsome, as if he was not interested in what happened below.But she really cared, and asked the starship AI to give her the answer she wanted.Just as the People's Federation Fleet is eager to know what happened in this space city, Olivia therefore hopes that Interferon can obtain intelligence through electronic warfare, just like in the past.

But the result was very disappointing: "There is no unified central management program in Titan City, and there is no Internet of Things. Its hardware management system is responsible for different company brand products in different urban areas, using physical isolation, and does not share data with each other. Therefore , controlling the space city from a remote location exceeds its hardware limit.”

But this does not mean that the AI ​​has no other options: "All 470 seven firewalls have been cracked, and I have taken over the internal closed-circuit television server of the space city, and I am establishing an external cluster electromagnetic wave communication channel—information is being uploaded."

Projected from the bridge is a moving blob of blue light, a hologram of rapid construction in progress.Titan City, this joint earth creation is [-] times larger than Phobos, the largest planetary base of the People's Federation. It is a core pulled out of Titan by UEG's planetary cracking technology, and a holographic image is woven into its entire body. The layer-by-layer structure, on the surface of the huge asteroid, there are many modules for human life.

From the perspective of the People's Federation, UEG people don't care about the efficiency of space utilization compared to the geometric space brought about by hollowing out the interior of Phobos and using the vertical axis.Perhaps it is because they mastered the planetary cracking technology too early, so there is no shortage of living space, so all aspects appear rough and undisciplined, so that inefficiency is deeply rooted in the heart of this civilization—the surface of Nuoda’s Titan asteroid is covered with countless A large dome is indeed concentrated in the center of the asteroid in a semicircle like several urban agglomerations.

The main body of the space city is the public area and the government area, and there are multiple intersection tunnels connecting the people in the area. Olivia regards it as a strategic node and draws a red circle.The administrative area is much smaller than the public area, but it has an independent star port and energy center, and the corresponding public area is very large. There are millions of permanent residents in only one block, and there are many such blocks.They are divided into business districts, villa districts, factory districts, agricultural districts, hospital districts and several residential districts, which are marked with different colors on the hologram.

"As the main management department of Titan City, the administrative area has not yet been attacked by necromorphs."

The intercepted surveillance footage showed that the passage from the public area to the government area had been artificially closed when the disaster started.Not only that, the Titan security forces in the government area have set up bunkers and heavy firepower fortifications at every major crossing, armored vehicles have also entered the shooting position, some engineers are busy reinforcing the closed part of the tunnel with materials, and the armed gunboats that take off Machines were flying inside the canopy-like dome, and they didn't dare to enter the already chaotic public area, probably just wanting to defend the government area.

"The armed forces of these security forces don't look worse than the marines that landed in Sira. I thought UEG has been suppressing local armed forces?" Olivia observed these heavily armed security forces, and she remembered the information obtained from the breakaways. Intelligence, a wealthy colony like Titan City already has its own administration and laws—"UEG's own generals have defected, no wonder Li Yi often said that any system that remains unchanged for 30 years will inevitably rot."

"Warning, the necromorph threat has covered 40.00% of Titan City's area."

"The first batch of recorded infections occurred in industrial mining areas, and now it has spread to agricultural areas, water treatment areas, hospitals and residential areas. The scale of interference is continuing to expand!"

"It is estimated that the number of necromorph infections has reached between 200 and 250 million, and the remaining population in each area of ​​Titan Space City is still tens of millions."

"Warning, the outer wall of residential area No. [-] is found to be broken!"

Outside the battleship, Olivia witnessed with her own eyes a large square artificial building attached to the edge of the star, which was directly hit by a ship that deviated from its course. A kilometer of hole.

A large amount of air and dust-like debris sprayed out from the building, among which were mixed a large number of humans.Through the outer wall, you can see the grid-like apartments inside the space station. The colorful lights are flickering as usual, and the signs of life are rapidly disappearing. Residential area No. 30 has a permanent population of [-]. How much did it come out together?

Life is disappearing like weeds, the scale of the United Earth is beyond the cognition of the citizens of the People's Federation, and the ruthlessness of the cold space is deeply imprinted in people's hearts——

"Commander Olivia, there are still more than 130 ships of various types in the area, some of which have also been infected inside."

Needless to say, the spaceship that hit it just now was the result of the infection penetrating into the ship.The internal conditions of these ships cannot be guaranteed, and what is worse is that due to too many ships taking off and the space debris blocked by the accident, the normal route has been disrupted, because the damaged ships that hit the garbage blocked the channel outside Titan City, Chaotic as headless chickens lead to more collisions!

"The advance fleet was out of control, and many spaceships chose to flee out of fear of the People's Federation. Some of the ships were heading to the Earth-Moon galaxy, and the other part was heading to other space station groups."

Although Titan City is large, it is not the only space city in the entire Saturn circle.There are a dozen space cities living on Titan's ice water, minerals, and fuel harvested from Saturn, not to mention several large cities on Titan-who have absolutely no idea what's going on in their capitals You know, but now these places are still enthusiastic, or are they boldly sending ships to try to save these people who are in disaster?

Tragedies always repeat themselves, and the tragedy of tragedies is that the beginning of many disasters is actually kind and tender.

But the People's Federation still has a chance to prevent this disaster from continuing to spread, just because Olivia, the supreme commander, knows exactly what kind of necromorph is, and she is thinking about it—but the news from Interferon does not make any difference. stop.

"Commander, the infection has covered the Titan City Water Treatment Center, and many key facilities have come to a standstill due to unmanned operations."

"what does that mean?"

"The oxygen and living water in the space city come from the ice cubes drawn from Titan, and it does not have an automated circulation system." Interferon can't explain why it is so inefficient here, it can only explain the objective reality, "Experienced Check, the water treatment center is responsible for melting ice and converting it into oxygen and sending it to all units in the city through ventilation pipes (the same is true for the infection route). These processes from melting to electrolysis are concentrated in this block. When it stops working, the entire building Titan City will lose its oxygen supply."

And this means that if the People's Federation does not take action to restore the work of the water treatment area, the millions of citizens who are still alive in this space city will die due to lack of oxygen if they are not transformed by necromorphs, and there is another bad news ——“The degree of automation in the water treatment area is very low, and most of the work is manual. It is suspected that it is a measure to ensure employment, or there is no local automation process technology.”

"I have analyzed the entire workflow through previous video recordings. I have calculated that about 3 manpower is needed to ensure oxygen and water supply for tens of millions of people—only [-]K+ manpower is needed to maintain oxygen supply."

In this half hour, Olivia blinked her eyes for the first time. The prosthetic body kept a stern expression as much as possible, but the words from the commander's mouth were not so calm: "All the troops of the First and Second Fleets are also Without 1 people, how can we have so many people to help them do this work?"

What's more, these jobs can be regarded as highly professional affairs. When almost all the personnel of the water treatment station have been killed by necromorphs, it is impossible to just pull a group of people in and maintain the work. There is no such thing!

But if the oxygen supply is not restored, it will be tantamount to watching the people here die-can Olivia calm down?

The commander-in-chief was really unhappy: "We don't have that much time at all. Doesn't such a big space city have an oxygen storage tank?"

The answer is yes, but this leads to another bad news: "Commander, the breach in the fifth residential area is rapidly leaking oxygen, and a quarter of the space station's 32 oxygen storage tanks have leaked. The relevant ventilation diversion The work must be done manually, otherwise the air pressure of the entire space station except the administrative area will be lost after 48 minutes."

Suddenly, the long knife scabbard in Olivia's hand lightly tapped on the ground, showing a bit of impatience: "It seems that these locals had better be lucky, because my AI has been telling me bad News—I led this fleet here to completely destroy the military power of the United Earth Government, not to carry out humanitarian rescue across fifty light years!"

The projection of the interferon flickered, but this time, it finally stopped telling the bad news, but proposed its plan to the commander.

"This unit has reviewed 22 hours of past video recordings, analyzed the workflow of seven major work categories and 1500 departmental posts, and copied all the operating procedures in simulation calculations. This unit can be unmanned for Renlian Engineering According to calculations, only [-] engineering drones can resume work, and Yaoxing has [-] in reserve.”

"But the premise is that we still have to clean up the necromorphs here, and we need to project our troops downward." Olivia turned around, took a few steps on the bridge, and then stopped again, "Since A catastrophe happened, so it means that there is also a seal here, right?"

"According to the available data, the local administrative department has set up an unnamed department in the hospital area and the abandoned mining area, and mentioned the progress of the 'plan' many times in the governor's private emails. However, the relevant specific information uses physical isolation and SSD Data transmission, there is no specific information on the external link - but the infection broke out from the mining area, there is enough space for the copying of the god seal."

"The spiritual pollution of the seal of God is much more troublesome than that of necromorphs."

Olivia shook her head: "The two assault landing ships in the fleet have a total of two air cavalry regiments. They are required to wear electromagnetic shielding protection in combat suits, and they are strictly prohibited from approaching the mine area within ten kilometers—and then send them to clear the corpses." Mutants, Rescue Refugees."

The Lantern incident had a huge impact on the People's League, because if the storm event was not actually man-made, but if the People's League just hit a sinking blood moon, then the Lantern was a completely man-made disaster.This proves the worst possibility, that is, someone will use the power of the God Seal to use it as a weapon, and they are acting in an organized manner, and the harm will be multiplied by a thousand times—Guo Yijiao!

Since then, the Council of Syrah has begun to disclose the existence of necromorphs and the behavior of Unification to the main body of Syrah people who are already all soldiers, almost the army.Undoubtedly, this has indeed brought about a huge impact, especially the brainwashing of human thinking by the seal of God is even more frightening, but after the fear has passed, a comprehensive public countermeasure has been formulated, and the army has also carried out measures to prevent terrorist attacks similar to the Lantern walkthrough.

And these are the biggest reliance for Commander Olivia to make a decision-after all, the Commander of the People's Federation cannot sit back and watch such a disaster happen in front of his eyes, even if objectively the other party is his enemy.

But Olivia did not say clearly: "I hope that our soldiers, under the leadership of General Kanifik, did not neglect the drill, otherwise this disaster was not caused by us, and the lives and deaths of millions of UEG people are still in danger." It's not worth my soldiers' lives in exchange for it."

The interferon flickered for a moment: "The order has been received and is being passed on to the Special Warfare Command onboard. This unit will conduct global navigation and assistance for the marines, and establish a command frequency band in front of the enemy for the flagship."

"That's it. The first and second fleets continue to move forward, completely destroying the local defense forces of the Ground Guards, and preventing them from taking advantage of the chaos to counterattack. Then order the advance fleet to broadcast, and all local ships must gather in the designated space area , For ignoring the broadcast, or directly destroying the ships that are confirmed to be carrying the deadly virus infection-the explanation must be strictly enforced, and the locals must first fear us."

"The order has been recorded and is being sent on behalf of Fleet Command."

"Deploy [-] Thunder-class ships, combine two assault landing ships to control Titan City and provide necessary support means. It is allowed to deploy transport ships to support the fleet to rescue survivors, but necessary screening must be done. Since the people from the Security Bureau are with the ship, Then give them the job."

Finally, and the most important point, Olivia connected to the Renlian Advanced Quantum Communication Network and posted a striking @ in it.

"Li Wei? Turn your attention around, what do you think about the seal of God?"

PS: Good news, there will be barrage soon, Oye

Long live the great CCP, long live the great Chinese people!

Chapter [154] The Fallen City

For ordinary citizens like Falke, today's Titan City is not as boring as it used to be, but it is full of life-like atmosphere.In the past, he hated such a stagnant life, but now he longs to be able to get by.

It all started yesterday.The cloud of war spread to the Saturn circle from 12 hours ago, and the panic came from then.The entire social network is talking about the battle that took place on Pluto's defense line. Who made them be in the middle of the solar system, so they can more easily see the light of artillery fire there?

The commercial street has been closed for a long time. In the past, there were not many customers in the crowded entertainment area even though it was open. People who are under fear are not in the mood to have fun, but correspondingly, the supermarkets have been frantically snapped up—all daily necessities, Food and beverages, bottled water and even toilet paper are quickly out of stock, people are stockpiling other things after raiding supermarkets, and people have even started stealing oxygen reserves from public areas.The price of goods in Titan City more than doubled within a few hours, which forced Governor Tedman to immediately dispatch a security team to seize dozens of groups hoarding and stealing public property, and there were more than 1 crimes committed on the same day. , It is said that the guards were so busy that there was smoke on their heads that they issued an order for martial law that day.

But at that time, the public news from the defense fleet stationed in the Saturn circle was that Pluto's defenses were impenetrable, and the invaders would be beaten to death.The fleet stationed here is preparing to rush to help Pluto's defense line, but the main force of the Inner Solar System Defense Alliance Defense Force has not yet moved, and the invasion army of the People's Federation will surely fail!

And it was hours ago that several brilliant flashes of light from Pluto's line of defense also reached behind Saturn's circle.A large number of UEG personnel boarded the resident alliance defense fleet for emergency evacuation.This incident was not noticed until Xinggang workers took photos and uploaded it to the social network, and the tranquility of the city was completely broken——

Many people desperately rushed to the star port, hoping to get a ticket to leave, but the public ships could not afford so many people, and the rich evacuated from the private port, which further deepened the despair of the people, the shadow of the People's Federation Before I saw it, many thugs under the banner of the People's Federation appeared, and more people went to the administrative area to petition Governor Tidelman.

Now that the Allied Defense Forces have almost given up here, the citizens who do not want to be caught in the flames of war hope that Governor Teideman will declare neutrality in the name of Saturn, at least not to confront the People's League, because they heard that the Lisbon colony in the occupied area was " Totally destroyed, no survivors", that's terrible, they don't want to be blasted from orbit into Titan's atmosphere!

Falk was the latter. He shouted with everyone who was petitioning in the crowd, but he heard that several areas in the space city were on fire, and "thugs" were wreaking havoc, so the unbearable Titan security team forcibly dispersed them. The SWAT team Take the armored vehicle and drive to the scene of the incident, leaving these dazed petitioners locked in front of the gate of the administrative area.

"The governor did not evacuate, Mr. Tidelman did not leave Saturn, it seems that he will agree!"

Someone said with great anticipation that the reason is very simple, Mr. Tidelman is the highest local officer, since he did not escape with the Union Defense Force, he would not sit back and watch Titan City be destroyed by the People's Union——

But not everyone thinks so, and many people are still very scared: "Lisbon was destroyed, haven't you heard? People from the People's Federation replaced their brains with computers, so they are inhumane. How could they accept us?" A neutral request?"

"Surrender is not impossible... Anyway, it can't be worse than death."

The frustrated crowd was clamoring, and no one could convince each other.And it wasn't until dense gunshots came from the direction of the departing SWAT team, and a magnetic flying car that was hit and out of control in the sky plummeted into the street with thick smoke and hit the fountain in the square garden in front of the administrative district, people didn't know. Waking up with fright.

"Is anyone hurt? Call an ambulance..."