People's Federation will live forever

We are accompanied by death, but we are detached from death; we work in the dark, but we serve the light; we hide behind the scenes, but we fight in front of the stage.

Our allegiance to the Brotherhood is for the teachings of the pure and selfless Holy One, for his divine will and eternal truth—

Peace comes from strength. "

Tai watched silently at the black-armored warriors, who said a prayer before they acted—or at least it seemed to him that was a prayer.These black-handed soldiers named apostles recite scriptures silently, and then their spirits merge into one in such a ceremony.All of this is really familiar to Taiyi. In his hometown, the warriors of the tribe would cut their arms with daggers before hunting, so that each other's blood would melt into the will of unity.

Such similarities made Tai very curious about the beliefs of these gangsters. Although they claimed that it was not superstition, they did not worship any unnatural creations, and criticized their own "wrong understanding", Tai believed that he was right.This common behavior of soldiers made Taiyi develop a good impression of this group of black hands. Ever since he failed to carry out the colonel's order to pursue the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was captured by an invading army, his subordinates were all in a state of tension. Only he passed Talked and discussed with the black hands. Although there were many differences, they miraculously reached a lot of consensus with the black hands.

"The body is just a skin, only the spirit lasts forever. The earth gives us life, and the sky gives us our soul. Human beings have a mission in the sky and the earth. When the mission is completed, our soul can get rid of the bondage and gain unlimited freedom."

When he said this, a senior black-handed officer named Miles denied such a statement, but he did not retort in a tone of reprimanding heresy like others, but added another sentence for him——

"It is true that our destiny is guided by the universe, but you should think about it. The mission you are pursuing may also be your own obsession. You believe that you can be freed after the mission is completed, but does it conform to your own value? Are you willing to do it for yourself? You dedicated yourself to your mission, but have you realized its correctness? Only those who realize the Tao can be martyred, so where should your awareness be used?"

(In the original book, Taiyi was captured because of a bitter battle. After being tortured by orcs, he believed that his mission had been completed before committing suicide. This is related to his belief)

Miles' questioning was like a boulder falling into the lake, which aroused the shock in the soldier's heart.Taiyi resolutely abandoned his responsibility as a security officer and volunteered to participate in the operation of the black hand.Although such a move is like treason, a person of faith does not care about secular constraints. He perceives wisdom from Miles' words-it is worth everything he pursues.

Miles didn't know that he had inadvertently recruited a special talent. He just led the troops to quickly approach a border city according to General Olivia's order.A hammerhead shark helicopter took off into the sky, and it was accompanied by dozens of huge fleets.Among them are the hovering transport planes of the Black Hand, but more of them are the giant crow helicopters of the security forces. The planes are full of soldiers, and many security soldiers are confused. They don't even know that they are sent by Colonel Hoffman. Well.

The Brotherhood's actions were very fast. The Black Hand first approached Hoffman's headquarters with an overwhelming force. Dozens of holy spirit mechas destroyed the base's defenses, ignoring their weak artillery fire and gave Hoffman a disarm.The black hands interfered with all of Wei'an's communications, demanding that Hoffman make a choice between losing all his subordinates and negotiating.

The most senior military commander in security, the colonel's stubbornness was no match for the brotherhood's toughness, and Li De played tricks in it. He informed the news that the orcs were about to attack, and he didn't ask Hoffman to surrender. He just hoped that The two sides form a coalition, and he only needs the consent of the colonel himself, not President Prescott who lives in the capital.

During this process, Li De was of course severely scolded by Hoffman, but after witnessing a series of evidence Li De showed, and even the confession of the captured black-armored elite officer, the mature and stable colonel reluctantly clicked. head.

"I did this for the safety of the 50 civilians on Jasintu."

For the first time, Marcus and others saw the cunning side of this old man.

With security soldiers leading the way and Colonel Hoffman giving permission, this small contingent landed on the ground without arousing the confrontation attitude of the garrison troops.Although the Black Hand's obviously different equipment made the garrison troops who didn't know why they were on guard, they reluctantly accepted the reason of the so-called "alliance forces", but they were more curious than suspicious.

"They're the Brotherhood? Are they really here to help us?"

The soldiers communicated privately. When the helicopter dropped off the coalition soldiers, black-handed soldiers wearing a full set of exoskeleton shell armor and holding particle beam rifles walked past the guarded crowd, and the group of security soldiers looked at them enviously. Equipment - their bulletproof armor is heavy and heavy, and it's hard to tell how strong the defense is.

However, there are also self-comforting people who criticize: "Look, they don't even have bayonets on their weapons, so how can they fight the orcs in close combat?"

Because there was no prior notice, when such a huge aircraft group approached, the administrative officials of Toruń City (the second-generation underground city) rushed to the scene and immediately angrily reprimanded the leading garrison officer: "You don't have the president's permission. , This is an illegal mobilization of troops! I ask you to leave immediately, or I will call the president's office!"

And when he saw the Black Hands, he was even more shocked—"Brotherhood? God, you are treason!"

However, the officer did not speak, and the leader Miles gave an order, and the black-handed soldiers pushed the mayor to the ground.The terrified local garrison raised their guns, but was reprimanded by the officer to retreat: "Toruń will be managed by the coalition forces from now on. This is the order of the colonel. Now you all accept the command of the coalition forces... Colonel Miles! "

"It's impossible, you guys are forging this, this is treason, I'm going to call the colonel!"

The commander of the garrison protested, but immediately dozens of guns were aimed at him—"If you don't accept the protest, you can choose to cooperate or retire immediately, Captain."

Miles said so, his words were understated, but from behind him, the Scorpio tanks dropped by the hovering transport plane had a very strong voice.

PS: The progress is a little faster, and the characters will not be used as foreshadowing. After all, everyone who has played knows the plot of the game, and friends who have not played it are not interested. Everything is for the new chapter in early August.

(Double update) Chapter 60 The Decisive Battle of Jiaxintu ([-]) The Great Collapse

When the siren sounded over the city of Toruń, it was the time when the citizens got off work from the farms and factories—no, it wasn’t really off work, the [-]-hour shift left them with a short time for dinner, and then there was There are busier moving jobs.The wartime system requires that these cities that are not on the front line cannot leave any reserves of materials, and all agricultural products and industrial accessories produced must be loaded and transported to the rear of Jasintu every night.Although hard work, more than ten years of military life has made many citizens get used to this rhythm.

They become submissive and live with executive orders as their guide.Those who refused to obey had long since fled and become refugees, and those who remained knew that they depended on the protection of security.Therefore, no matter how bad life is, even if the rations make everyone malnourished, overwork and disease destroy the body and mind, they are used to not saying a word.

But today, they were a little overwhelmed.A train of military vehicles drove into the farmland and the factory, and many of the soldiers who came down were unknown to them. They rudely asked everyone to put down their jobs and jobs, and immediately arranged for a transport convoy and the airport.Almost having a heart attack, the managers of the factory stammered:

"Sir, today's target has not been completed, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will throw me in a court-martial!"

It seems that they did not understand the current situation. Many people in the management class did not believe the words of the army, and many civilians also had opinions. They hoped that they could reunite with their families, but this small request was completely rejected. They He was asked to evacuate immediately, without delaying a second.

"We don't have time to do these things slowly, the key is to save as many lives as possible before the orcs attack!"

Soon, several cities like Toruń fell into such chaos-the black hands did the same thing in almost all front-line cities. They led the security garrison to mobilize the people with orders, And for those who are unwilling to obey, clinging to security assets and unwilling to believe the reality, the black hands don't even have the leisure to persuade them.

A remote-controlled Scorpion tank crashed into the gate of the factory with a bang. Its shovel smashed up the piled up supplies, broke through the wall with its body weighing dozens of tons, and then shot out a hot laser from the slender barrel—— The production equipment that managers regard as life is fused into a ball of molten iron.

All the trucks, military columns, and helicopters of the security garrison were sent by the black hand to evacuate civilians. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a race against death.Long before the implementation of Jacinto's plan, the Brotherhood had placed a large number of geological detectors all over Sira, and now more and more detectors have sent alarms, and the seismic waves are collected in the Brotherhood's data processing center It became a chaotic symphony, and the spearhead was directed at Jia Xintu!

"too slow."

Miles frowned. With the withdrawal of the transport convoy, the job of defense fell to the black hand, and the consequences of such an emergency operation were also being revealed. Although there was a full plan, the execution Many uncontrollable factors in the process still dragged down their steps.

"Notify the garrison officers of Wei'an," the templar looked at the city that was gradually becoming silent, and called his adjutant, "The resettlement of the civilians will be handed over to them, and we will stay here to create a cordon... .”

Miles said so, but suddenly, a wisp of dust drifted onto his eyepiece.

"?"

Dust...It's unlikely that sand and gravel will fall from a high-rise building, unless the building is cracked.The black hands raised their heads and noticed that dust was falling from the surrounding buildings, and the cables on the telephone poles were swinging up and down rhythmically.

Small tremors are not easy to be detected by the human body, and they are more reflected in the affairs around them. Black hands who have dealt with orcs can easily distinguish the movements of the burrowing beasts, but no matter how much those monsters dig, it is impossible to produce an earthquake. General impact—Myers was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately called all the troops:

"The epicenter is in the center, all troops, withdraw from the city!"

Accompanied by the order was a violent tremor, as if something exploded underground!There are countless cracks scattered on the wide concrete road. These cracks spread from the surface to the walls, and the crisp sound of glass breaking can be heard everywhere. Some old buildings couldn't bear it and began to collapse.

It was an earthquake, almost a magnitude 9 earthquake!

After the steel bridge let out a painful groan, it could no longer bear the pressure and began to twist and deform. Although they had been alert for a long time, the black hands were still put together by such a formation - the helicopter could not land, they took armored vehicles, and even Run and do your best to get away from the center of the city!

"boom"

The tallest building in the city didn't collapse, but the millions of tons of cement bricks on the entire building fell straight into the ground. With the center of the city as the dot, a large-scale subsidence was spreading around.

This time, it's not the orcs who drilled into the city from the ground, but the city is sinking into the ground!

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The Nibelungen quietly floats in a low-earth orbit at a height of [-] meters, forming a relatively stationary state with Sira.Its guns are closed and only minimally functioning, while the light blue "flame" of the plasma engine burns slowly and quietly, resisting the pull of the planet's gravity, and dotting the sky above Sira, proclaiming Human beings have since escaped the shackles of gravity, stepped out of the cradle and began to toddle.

Although it is due to the surging energy brought by the four fusion cores, it is these engines based on ion cannon technology, with huge power and the highest thrust-to-weight ratio in history, that have achieved a miracle in the history of human spaceflight and achieved a powerful brick flight. The ultimate achievement of this mission - to send a vehicle to a space orbit at a speed beyond the universe by a method other than a rocket, this achievement is much more advanced than GDI's stratospheric vehicle.

Human beings in the future will remember everything it represents, but for the current Nibelungen, just being a stationary space station is by no means the original intention of Li De to build it. Empty, its cargo bay was initially emptied to save weight, so it's been waiting to be resupplied these days.

"System accessing..."

"The core diagnostic program is running well, the air pressure level in the ship is -0, the circuit operation is maintained at a normal level, and it is ready to be loaded into the watchman control system."

"The orbit of the Blizzard has been captured, ready to perform the rendezvous procedure."

The 300-meter-long Nibelungen is obviously in operation, and the indicator light on the armor is shining like thinking, so that every action of such a huge ship will spread a large amount of ion air around it, except for the middle section of the hull and the tail. In order to prevent this [-]-ton monster from spinning in space due to inertia, there are hundreds of vector nozzles hidden under the armor for attitude adjustment.

Turning is a bit difficult. Such a complex flight control is definitely not something that humans can grasp at the moment. In fact, Nibelungen does not have any human crew members. Just kidding, this ship has no artificial gravity and no basic life support system , not even oxygen, its control completely depends on the powerful computing power of the mainframe, and the authority is firmly grasped by Li De and carefully handed over to the watchman, the guy who has the most spare time.To be honest, it's a bit of a risk, but a non-emotional alter is best suited for the dull stuff.

The lack of crew and life support system also has its benefits, at least 60.00% of the hull space can be used to load weapons and equipment.For space, even the Brotherhood is just crossing the river by feeling the stones. Everything the Nibelungen has experienced will accumulate improvement experience for future standard warships, and that will not be far away.

From the surface of Sira, the bright plume of the Orion-class super-heavy launch vehicle launched from the space control platform of the Blue Eye Islands can already be seen by the ship's optical observer. When it enters orbit and falls off the last stage of the engine, The Buran space shuttle it carried started its own attitude engine. After three hours, it circled Sira twice and finally met the Nibelungen. Under the guidance of the laser, the tiny spaceship was captured and docked by the Nibelungen. , the [-] tons of super-magnetized tungsten-core steel rods carried on the plane were extracted by the mechanical arm to the ammunition depot of the battleship.This kind of thing is going on every day. Thirty tons of cargo is just a drop in the bucket for the Nibelungen, but before the orbital accelerator or orbital elevator is built, there is nothing to do.

"Ship replenishment completed."

In the empty bridge, the black and white watchman stands in front of a group of core processors in the form of holograms. It doesn't need eyes, but it can see and know everything that happens on the ground.The war on Jiaxintu has already started, and I must do my best to help Ontology win this war.

"Nibelungen, 49°01' north latitude, 0°48' west longitude, the target is Jasintu."

"Forward...two!"

PS: How many advances is a naval term, and how many advances can be made specifically, and the three bodies endow it with a soul 23333333

Chapter 61 The Decisive Battle of Jacinto ([-]) The Battle Begins

Twenty-five minutes ago, the city of Toruń, a city with a population of 25 at its peak, was destroyed by a huge earthquake, and the entire city was destroyed from the center of the city.It was as if a huge void suddenly appeared below the city, but within a few minutes all the buildings were swallowed up by it.The seismic waves peaked just as the Fraternity's satellites captured the moment of disaster.

The flying smoke and dust gathered into a bunch of ash columns several kilometers wide. Even after the collapse was over, the scene was still shocking.The black hands who escaped by chance could not help but have such doubts - "Probably only detonating a tens of millions of tons of fusion warheads underground can have such destructive power. This is really what a living thing can do." ?"

"Don't treat the Pandong Beast as a living thing! It's just a large shield machine, and the capabilities of a flesh and blood body can only go so far."

Li De's voice sounded in the communication at the right time, and his arrival made the gangsters full of surprise and joy - the leader is also watching here!

But for Li De, all this is necessary. If even the most determined black hands are shaken mentally by this monster, he can't think about those ordinary soldiers with weaker wills.The shock of the fall of Toruń spread to the entire Jacinto through seismic waves and radios at the same time, and both the Brotherhood and the Vian received the orcs' declaration of war.

Now, even the most stubborn people understand what they are facing. If a city can fall into the abyss in an instant, whose turn will it be next?The shadow of fear hangs over the civilians and soldiers who are still in the evacuation operation, and unnecessary chaos occurred in many places.People panicked and wanted to escape from their original homes. The soldiers' shouting and even firing guns had no effect. The collapse of confidence was like a flood bursting a bank. Someone had to stop all of this.

So Li De immediately released his trial, quickly and decisively, his voice spread around Jacinto through the public channel and through the loudspeakers of the military vehicles: "Strengthen your will, remember your mission! It is The embodiment of malice in this world is the evil of gluttony that we must eradicate! It dug out the orc dwelling in the earth's crust, the accomplice to all disasters on this planet, destroy it, black hands, and use the punishment of the Brotherhood!"

But mere words are still not enough, and weapons of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons. At the same time that Li De made a declaration, the black hands outside the collapsed city of Torun felt the tremor of the earth again——Miles opened The roof of the armored car, what he saw from his eyes was a mythical scene.

From the hollow of Torun City, which has become a deep pit, an ancient anger penetrated the rock formations on the surface, like the breath of a giant whale, and like a volcanic eruption, the airflow ejected from the depths of the ground will be tens of thousands Thousands of tons of earth and rock rolled into the sky.

"Roar--!"

The roar of thunder was like a sledgehammer hitting the hearts of the soldiers, and the rocks thrown into the air returned to the ground, smashing the already dilapidated city of Torun once again. In the "Meteor Shower", the gangsters struggled to maintain the front line. Many unmanned vehicles they brought were hit by falling rocks the size of a car and turned into scrap iron. The scattered fragments swept across the surroundings like bullets, and their power was comparable to a salvo of heavy artillery.

When Myers broke free with the apostle who was still fighting, a low-pitched horn sounded from the sinkhole—through the funnel-shaped pit, the lingering sound of the horn echoed throughout the vast sky and earth, and lasted for a long time reverberate.

The black hands got off the armored vehicle, and they stood in front of the evacuation of the civilian convoy holding their weapons in silence. These black armored and black cloaked soldiers formed a human wall, and only the sound of exoskeleton machinery was left in action.The Reckoner armored vehicle drove to various intersections. These huge vehicles stretched out their chassis like inflating—the tires were placed horizontally, the hydraulic supports were driven into the ground, the roof collapsed to expand the space, and a gun was pushed out from the firing port. The barrel of a machine gun.

Miles checked the cables connecting the particle beam rifle to the box battery on his back, as usual during design exercises.He turned his head and looked at the apostles around him. They had set up a cover and mounted heavy weapons. Even if they didn't order them, they knew what they should do.

"We are the Black Hand, the first and last line of defense, and a line of defense that must never be lost!" He said, aiming his gun at the direction of the city, "The leader ordered... to kill them, to kill all the orcs !"

The sound of the horn gradually faded away, replaced by the roar of mountains and tsunami.When the first orc figure appeared in the smoke, Li De and Olivia were looking at a holographic map on a large early warning aircraft converted from a Vertigo bomber.

It was a map drawn from seismic waves, a map showing the network of tunnels beneath Jasintu.

"The battle has begun."

Olivia said so, she seemed to be able to see a line of defense standing still in the overwhelming offensive of the orcs.In that line of defense are all her soldiers, shouting her, soldiers fighting in the name of the man in front of her, and on this map, they are just a tiny dot of light, like a flag.

Torun City is just the beginning. If the Pandong Beast is not dealt with, the orc army can easily overwhelm the entire Jiaxintu.The granite formations are no longer the shelter here, they will be dug all the way to the rear of Jasintu, and even if the Brotherhood has all hands and eyes, it is doomed to fail.

On the other hand, even if the Defense Force Navy arrives to evacuate all the civilians, the security government standing in front of the Brotherhood still controls the most densely populated capital area. It is like a nail, but in this crisis Right now, it cannot be pulled out at will.If the abscess inside Wei'an is not properly treated, bloody surgery will still be unavoidable when he integrates into the Brotherhood.

But as to how to resolve this matter, the two leaders have long had a tacit understanding with each other.

"I'll be in charge of the security affairs." Li De said, "Leave it to me in politics, and you in military affairs."

"Wu Wei won't be happy if you say that. The special forces of the Defense Forces have come to assist me, and I can only take half of the military." Olivia squinted her eyes and put her hands on Irena, who was inseparable from her. On the head, it seemed that it would be fun, the nano lifeform looked at her sister expectantly, and was pinched by Olivia on the cheek.

"But, I'm really not interested in politics, so I'll leave it to you and your new subordinates." Olivia said with a smile.

PS: Today is a temporary update, because the rhythm has not been adjusted, and the time is not well grasped.But the horn has already figured it out, no matter whether you can become a professional writer or not, as the most basic quality of an author, keeping up to date is a must.At least one update, preferably two updates, only after I have achieved this can I be qualified to approach professional writers.

The strength of the horn still needs to be improved. The quality of the recent chapters is a bit unsatisfactory. I apologize to everyone here.The plot is a bit overwhelming for newcomers who have never played "Gears of War". For veteran players who have played, Marcus and other protagonists are too little, because the technological foundation of the Brotherhood has also been laid, and it is time to wait for the starry sky to develop Other stories, a little rushed, sorry for that.

Everyone has gone through 60 words with this book. The horn is really the king of water words. I don’t think Shuke can find a second one when writing 60 words in a world. Of course, this is not something worthy of praise, but I hope everyone and I can Keep up that grit.

By the way, the horn’s thinking has also changed now. Readers who feel that this book still has potential, please don’t be stingy with monthly tickets, recommendations and blades, or comments. Now that the work is unstable, give the horn a little encouragement, and we will strive to move closer to 200W.

You can wait and see for the future development. What the horn writes is not a one-way traversal but a sandbox universe. To give a simple example - it is equivalent to putting various sci-fi game mods in "Stellaris". I believe readers will like it. See Reaper's in Mass Effect and Octopus' in Crysis.

Chapter 62 The Decisive Battle of Jiaxintu (4) Beast Tide/[-]K Update

This is not the first time Miles has fought orcs in a city, but it may be the first time he has seen so many orcs.When the horn sounded in the deep pit, even with the audio isolation of the helmet, more than 100 apostles could still feel the screams of the overwhelming orcs. They crawled out from the edge of the deep pit like evil spirits in hell. Flocking to the defense line of the black hands, as far as the eye can see, there are orcs with red fruits everywhere——

"Are they... here to die?"

Some apostles asked doubtfully, it is not difficult for them to have such thoughts.In the many wars with the orcs, although the opponent's combat effectiveness is really hard to praise, and the battle is always won by quantity, but even the most basic cannon fodder infantry will have basic armor and a crude but reliable rifle.The black hands have never underestimated the orcs. Although they are crazy, they are not stupid. There are also commanders among the orcs, who know how to outflank and sneak attack, and have basic tactical qualities.If they fall into their traps, even veteran troops who have been close to hundreds of battles will inevitably suffer casualties.

But the orcs I saw now had almost no cover on their bodies, not to mention weapons in their hands, most of them were cold weapons made of scrap iron.Compared with ordinary orc soldiers, they are obviously haggard, and their bodies are thinner than normal humans.But such a group of scum, who are not as good as cannon fodder, has gathered tens of thousands of beasts and swarmed in. The madness contained in it made the black hands feel sick.

"These are Orc civilians?" Seeing the hordes of beasts who are not even considered cannon fodder, Miles took a deep breath, and then corrected his wrong statement, "No, they are slaves, they want to consume us!"

After entering the defensive formation, they pulled up the barbed wire fence, and the apostles moved out the large-caliber mortars from the armored vehicles that turned into bunkers, and following the officer's order, the long strips of shells roared into the sky. , sprinkled snowflake-like plastic sheets in the air, creating a minefield in an area two kilometers wide in front of the defense line.The charge of these anti-infantry cluster mines is no more than a grenade, and the number of mortars that can be spread is very limited, and they quickly encountered the enemy's forward - the hard labor hidden in the herd is faster than ordinary orcs, Like hounds, they rushed into the minefield first, and although the chain explosions they caused crippled a large number of mobile hard laborers, they also cleared a broad road to the position for the rioting animal horde.

"Fire!"

Although there was a faint guess in his heart, Miles gave the order without hesitation-a few mortars aimed at the most densely populated place and fired salvos, and the flame whirlwind caused several monsters to appear on the horizontal line of beasts. The gap, the white phosphorous bombs mixed in the shells began to burn after landing and exploding, even crazy orcs, if they don't want to be swallowed by the poisonous fire, they can only choose to detour.

In this way, several spearheads appeared on the offensive front, and the shells harvested the lives of the slaves one after another. Moreover, although these orcs were fanatical, they seemed to have no command. They used cold weapons but did not even do basic outflanking. It is convenient for the black hands to concentrate their firepower.

Machine gun, fired.This is not a short burst shot for suppression. To maximize the killing efficiency, the soldiers in the liquidator's bunker can unscrupulously pour ammunition without wasting it.Even the calibration tracer rounds that are fired every ten rounds spread a dense barrage on the battlefield. The firepower net of death is like weaving tons of metal into an iron curtain to sweep across the beast tide, and the eyes are full of flying metal storms. The hoarse roar of the machine gun filled the ears, and it would not hesitate to hit the barrel of the gun red.

Even the massacre caused by the most brutal positional warfare that humans have ever fought is nothing more than that. The corpses are piled up layer upon layer on the vast plain. It is difficult to make an inch of defense.The blood has soaked the ground, but they still did not give up. As the subsidence further expanded, countless winding fissures spread along the huge pit to the edge, and countless earth-drilling beasts emerged from the cracked ground—— While Black Hand was concentrating on clearing the cannon fodder and squandering ammunition, these monsters slowly gnawed away at the granite soil layer, and finally dug tunnels around the defense line.

"Gah-"