Chapter 988 Sacrifice
Chapter 988 Sacrifice
Players of Wasteland OL are well-known for their warm hearts, especially cloud players who are eager to grab the helmet and help in person.
Shortly after Medical Miracle posted, comments were quickly refreshed below the post.
”It’s easy to act crazy, just play yourself.”
”Emmm… drink a bowl of hot shit first?”
”Ugh——”
”It’s too hot to look at! And eating shit secretly will get you banned!”
”I think it will only happen in public…”
”Fuck, what’s so difficult about acting crazy? Get up and dance a section of Subject 3 first, then a rap! Not to mention the NPC, I guarantee that A Guang who is peeping at the screen will be confused!”
”Puff——, no, my toes have dug out a four-bedroom and one-living room for A Guang.”
Looking at those unfamiliar IDs and reservation player tags, Medical Miracle was a little confused. After scrolling for a long time, there was no serious suggestion, and he almost spit out the takeaway in his mouth.
”Damn! Give me some serious advice!”
Fang Chang: “Is there a possibility that they are giving you serious advice? (side eye)”
Medical Miracle: “?”
Elf King Fugui: “What the hell?! Brother Fang Chang?!”
Canyon Fleeing Mole: “Wait, aren’t you in the sky? (confused)”
Debt Eyes: “How’s the mission going? Has it been completed? (smirk)”
Irena: “That’s too fast, I guess he just came down to discuss with his teammates off the field.”
An hour ago, Brother Fang Chang was still pretending on the forum, saying that he was about to save the world, but he turned around and appeared on the forum again.
Everyone was surprised that this guy had the time to come to the forum to flood the forum while on a mission.
Perhaps he also realized that now was not the time to slack off, Fang Chang just popped up and disappeared from the post, no matter how he was tagged later.
The post quickly went off the topic.
The original topic was to discuss how to act crazy, but the topic turned to synchronous orbit and the “mysterious mission” that the Burning Legion was carrying out.
Medical Miracle tried to change the topic several times, and it seemed that he was about to succeed, but then another ID appeared and changed the topic that he had finally straightened out.
Quit Smoking: “Uh, screwed up. (Guilty)”
The air was quiet for many seconds.
The originally lively post seemed to be silenced, and there were no new replies for several seconds.
Just when all the onlookers thought that the server was stuck, replies erupted like an avalanche.
Sisi: “……?”
Tail: “???”
Canyon Fleeing Mole: “What the hell is screwed up? (confused)”
Fountain Commander: “Can you guys from the Burning Legion finish your words at once? Don’t say it again and again, it makes my heart sick. (sweat)”
Old White: “Haha, sorry guys, people make mistakes, horses stumble, and this is something we have never seen before… Anyway, we got tricked.”
Edgepad: “Fuck…”
Fountain Commander: “Don’t joke about this…”
Old White: “So this is not a joke.”
Debt-eyed : “Is this true?! (horrified)”
Construction Site Boy and Brick: “That means… the world is going to end?! (horrified)”
Lightning Master Professor Yang: “Shit, the price of silver coins is going to collapse?! (horrified)”
Teng Teng: “Are you speculating on silver coins like stocks… (surprised)”
Ya Ya: “No, I don’t want to restart! QAQ”
Lao Bai: “Well, don’t talk nonsense, even if we fail, it doesn’t mean that the alliance has lost. The near-orbit defense platform that is being installed is the highlight.”
Kuangfeng: “Well, at least we have found out about the Orion .
The true and false of the guided missile cruiser.”
Fang Chang: “I’m afraid that the administrators and we regard each other as the last trump card… (side eye)”
Lao Bai: “Don’t say such discouraging words, it’s just a small setback, not as big as the few setbacks we suffered in the Borneo Province. (grin)” Fang Chang
: “Anyway, we did try our best… Next, we can either ask the academy for another research ship to try, or we can only wait. ”
Medical Miracle: “It seems that I can only rely on me to save the alliance! By the way, what happened after you pretended to be crazy and deceived the interrogator? How can I become a high-ranking member of the Enlightenment Society? Do you want to brainstorm? (grin)”
Battlefield Atmosphere Group: “Speaking of which, where is Ye Shi? He is usually the first to jump out, why didn’t I see him this time?” “
Killing Dagger”: “Hungry… His girlfriend is gone, probably emo.” “
Edge Paddy”: “What?! Jiang Xuezhou… died?”
“Tail”: “giao… (surprised)” “
Fang Chang”: “In that situation… it’s hard to say if he can survive.” “
Old White: After all, it’s in space.”
Most of the people in the post had mixed feelings, and they didn’t know what to say for a while.
Especially Fang Chang.
He couldn’t help but think of Dolly, and then his heart was aching, and it was the kind of pain that made him unable to breathe.
Players can be resurrected no matter how many times they die, but the death of NPCs means that the data is permanently deleted.
He couldn’t imagine a world without her.
It was precisely because of this that he understood Ye Shi’s mood and feelings at this moment.
That feeling must be very uncomfortable…
Fang Chang just thought about it, but a familiar ID jumped out on the screen.
Jiujiu Loves to Eat Pineapples: “Wait… that’s not right. My brother is still online. Did you make a mistake? (Confused)”
Fang Chang: “?”
Quit Smoking: “How is that possible?!”
Jiujiu Loves to Eat Pineapples: “Do you want me to wake him up? (Worried)”
Fang Chang: “…No, leave him alone for now, let him wake up on his own!”
Kuangfeng: “It’s a bit weird, let’s see.”
Jiujiu Loves to Eat Pineapples: “Oh! Got it! (Salute)”
Medical Miracle: “Damn! Look at me! (Crazy)”
Angry Fatty Liver: “Save face.”
“…”
The messages in the post are still refreshing.
Fang Chang, who was sitting in front of the computer, waited for a long time but didn’t see Ye Shi’s ID appear. His tense expression finally relaxed and he smiled. The stone hanging in his heart was gently put down.
”…It seems that I was too sentimental.”
Maybe he is not dead yet.
Looking at the helmet next to the computer, Fang Chang’s heart moved and he reached out to take it in his hand.
What if it was a misunderstanding?
Maybe…
no one is dead. As if
by some strange coincidence, he put the helmet back on and leaned back on the computer chair.
The deep darkness quickly enveloped his vision and thoughts.
Just when his heart was pounding, a line of light blue pop-up windows appeared in front of him, and his originally excited mood sank to the bottom again.
[Remaining time to resurrect: 70 hours, 30 minutes and 15 seconds]
The jumping numbers were like cold water poured in his face. Fang Chang smiled bitterly and took off the helmet.
”That’s right…”
He shook his head and put the helmet on the corner of the table.
”The entire research ship was blown up, how could anyone survive…”
…
Time goes back to an hour and a half ago –
in the deep and dark outer space, a magnificent starship was floating silently in an unattended cemetery accompanied by the vast sea of steel wreckage.
In that boundless cemetery, there were not only broken steel structures and cut cables floating, but also corpses in space suits.
Judging from the oxidized corpses in the space suits, most of these people were starved to death or frozen to death, and only a few died of lack of oxygen.
There were also some fragmented aerospace uniforms, and their owners could no longer be seen.
Their bodies were either exploded or chopped up by orbital garbage.
Without the protection of a space suit, it is almost impossible to leave a complete body in space.
If Shelter No. 13 is a paradise on earth, then the “Orion” missile cruiser is undoubtedly a hell in the sky.
Even though the war had been over for two centuries, the devastated ruins still showed the fierceness of the battle.
At this moment, on a deck of an abandoned starship, a man with a jetpack on his back stared expressionlessly at the hibernation capsule in front of him.
The hatch of the hibernation capsule was open, and a cold skeleton was lying inside.
The skeleton was wearing a military uniform from the Human Union era, and the badge with a gold border was still vivid under the light of the flashlight, not covered with dust after two centuries.
Luo Yi stared at the skeleton for a long time, confirming the almost unrecognizable face.
After a moment, he seemed to finally be sure that the person in front of him was the one he was looking for, so he reached out and searched the skeleton for a while, and finally found a bright silver metal disc under the folded finger bones.
That was the soldier’s military card.
It was also the only remaining relic.
With the help of the flashlight, Luo Yi confirmed the name and rank engraved on the military card.
[Luo Yi, Sergeant. 】
That’s exactly his name!
A trace of nostalgia floated in Luo Yi’s eyes, and his thoughts could not help but drift back to more than two hundred years ago.
But at this moment, the voice from the communication channel interrupted his thoughts.
”There is an unidentified flying object approaching, and the straight-line distance from us is only 1,200 kilometers.”
That was the voice of the starship control system.
If it was on the ground, this distance would not be a big deal, but on an astronomical scale, a straight-line distance of 1,200 kilometers is almost equivalent to the distance of face to face.
With his index finger gently tapping his ear, Luo Yi looked up at the ceiling and asked expressionlessly.
”Can you confirm their identity?”
The gentle electronic voice continued to come.
”Their spaceship is the same model as the one you parked outside.”
Hearing this, Luo Yi had already guessed the identity of those uninvited guests, and a slight sneer rose at the corner of his mouth.
If these people had arrived here a few days ago and acted before he restarted the backup reactor and took control of the starship, he might have been a little afraid.
But now it’s too late.
Although the starship has been sunk for two centuries, it does not mean that it has become scrap metal. After
a pause, he said in a deep voice.
”Retrieve usable close defense weapons.”
After a brief pause, a gentle electronic voice sounded in his ears again.
”There is an electromagnetic acceleration point defense machine gun… According to the calculation of the ballistic computer, it can cover their navigation area.”
Luo Yi immediately ordered.
”Shoot them down.”
The gentle electronic voice responded.
”Okay… The fire control unit is being powered on and is expected to be completed within 30 seconds.”
After taking a last look at the soldier card in his hand, Luo Yi put it in his pocket, then pressed the switch of the jetpack and returned to the direction of the starship bridge.
At the same time, outside the starship, a silver-gray scientific research ship was slowly approaching.
Finally, they passed through the asteroid belt composed of space junk before the energy of the shield capacitor was exhausted. Jiang Xuezhou breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed his shoulders on the back of the seat.
”Done…”
Seeing that they had reached their destination, Ye Shi reached out to unbuckle his seat belt, but was stopped by Jiang Xuezhou who was sitting next to him.
”Wait a minute…”
Ye Shi stopped unfastening his seat belt and cast a puzzled look at Jiang Xuezhou.
”What’s wrong?”
Jiang Xuezhou bit his lower lip lightly and said in a low voice with his head down.
”Can you…stay here with me? I’m scared to be alone.”
Ye Shi was stunned and said puzzledly.
”What’s there to be afraid of? Haven’t we passed the most dangerous area?”
Jiang Xuezhou’s face was full of hesitation. It was unclear whether he couldn’t give a reason or didn’t want to say it.
Seeing that the station was about to arrive, Ye Shi didn’t want to wait any longer and pretended to get up.
Seeing that he was about to leave, Jiang Xuezhou didn’t care about being embarrassed and said in self-abandonment.
”It’s, it’s deep-sea phobia! Haven’t you heard of that disease? Some people are born to be afraid of those very dark places… What can I do.” Huh
? !
Ye Shi stared at this guy dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a word.
”Can’t you get over it?”
”…” Jiang Xuezhou didn’t say anything, just stared at him with red eyes.
Ye Shi finally softened his heart, sighed, and tapped his helmet twice with his index finger.
”Lao Bai, I have something here…”
Before he could organize his words, Lao Bai’s hearty laughter came from the other end of the communication channel.
”Haha, I know, you just stay in the cockpit.”
Ye Shi: “Fuck?! Did you install surveillance on me?”
Lao Bai said with a smile.
”That’s not the case, but I can probably guess it. In fact, to be honest, Fang Chang planned this from the beginning. There was no need for everyone to go down, so leaving someone on the research ship would be good for taking care of it. Remember to keep an eye on offline news at any time, and don’t focus all your attention on your friend.”
Ye Shi was speechless for a while, and finally hung up the communication silently.
Knowing that he was discussing with his teammates, Jiang Xuezhou, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, stared at him intently, and asked immediately after seeing him finish the call.
”What did your teammates say?”
”They didn’t say anything, they told me to figure it out.”
Facing the pair of expectant eyes, Ye Shi suddenly felt embarrassed and looked away.
The NPCs in this game are too human.
Could they be played by real people?
That would be embarrassing.
”Sorry, I’ve been a bit nervous since I was a child, and I can’t understand things like fear of heights, motion sickness, and 3D sickness. So, deep-sea phobia should be similar… Anyway, thank you for sticking with it until here.”
Jiang Xuezhou didn’t expect this guy to say caring words, and she felt her cheeks getting slightly hot.
The feeling of embarrassment prevailed, and she hurriedly looked away and turned her face to the side.
”Well, it’s not as exaggerated as you said… In fact, I can still overcome it if I try hard.”
Looking at this stubborn guy, Ye Shi finally couldn’t control the urge to talk nonsense, and teased him jokingly.
”Then I’ll go?”
”!!!”
Seeing Jiang Xuezhou turning around in panic, Ye Shi couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
”Haha, I’m kidding–”
Before he finished speaking, a warning suddenly crept into his heart, and his heart couldn’t help but twitch.
It was an unprecedented feeling.
Even though he had been on the edge of death countless times, or even experienced death, he had never had the same feeling.
It felt like…
he was about to lose something more precious than his life once every three days.
Driven by that strong omen, he blurted out something that was beyond his control.
”Something is aiming at us…”
The moment he heard this, Jiang Xuezhou, who was swinging his fist as if to hit his head, immediately put away his ashamed look.
Without a trace of hesitation or doubt, she almost subconsciously pounced on the operation interface, and her ten fingers pointed out the afterimage on the holographic panel, controlling the research ship to make a lateral maneuver, changing the original trajectory of movement. Even
without the warning of the early warning radar!
Almost at the same time, the electromagnetic signal that was instantly amplified appeared on the operation interface of the research ship along with the radar alarm that detected a high-speed moving object!
Looking at the series of mass points on the radar screen that passed by the research ship, Jiang Xuezhou’s forehead was instantly sweating.
Good luck!
Just a little bit!
After all, the research ship of the academy is not a military equipment, but a scientific investigation equipment.
Although the deflector shield on the research ship can resist the attack of the mass accelerator, they are facing a dense array of people’s air and space cruisers after all!
Not to mention that they have just left the area covered by space junk, and the energy of the shield capacitor has only recovered to 30%…
Even if there are only one or two point defense guns aimed at them, it is enough for them to drink a pot!
”What happened?” Ye Shi coughed several times before he caught his breath, almost being strangled by the seat belt.
Fortunately, he was slow and didn’t unfasten the seat belt, otherwise I’m afraid that he would have been killed by that blow just now.
Jiang Xuezhou’s reaction was quite calm. He took a few deep breaths and calmed down.
”It’s a point defense system!”
Ye Shi was stunned.
”What is that?”
”It’s the thing on the South China Sea Alliance destroyer… Anyway, it’s similar!” Jiang Xuezhou explained, while his hands kept operating the holographic screen on the control interface, trying to avoid the tracking of the point defense gun.
Ye Shiyi looked at her profile in confusion and couldn’t help but swear.
”Fuck?! This broken ship has been stationary for more than two hundred years and can still fire?!”
Jiang Xuezhou said anxiously.
”This is not on Earth. Things in space are not so easy to break! What’s more, it’s a leaky ship… Let your teammates sit tight! I’m afraid we can’t slow down!”
”They are very stable… They are already cursing.” Ye Shi, with his index finger on the helmet, grinned and stared at the front, trying to make his perception play a greater role.
However, he soon discovered that except for the initial effect, his intuition was of no use in the “hand-to-hand” contest.
The research ship moved like a snake under Jiang Xuezhou’s control, and the whistling mass bombs and the omen of death never stopped!
There is no doubt –
his intuition is reminding him that they can successfully avoid the tracking of the point defense system countless times, but as long as they fail once, they will die without a burial place!
The distance of less than 300 kilometers is almost like face to face!
Both sides are predicting each other’s predictions and silently calculating the next attack and dodge!
As the passive party, Jiang Xuezhou’s side obviously has no advantage at all.
At this moment, the best strategy is not to get close to the past, but to retreat immediately –
but they have no choice.
One hundred thousand neutron torpedoes have fallen into the hands of Tianren!
They have no way out at all!
”Ahhh…”
The light blue data stream was printed in Jiang Xuezhou’s pupils, and the slightly open mouth issued a low roar of competition.
In order to operate the flight of the research ship more accurately, she connected her consciousness to the deep operating system of the research ship, and used the computing power of the spacecraft and all sensors including the panoramic camera for more direct control!
She has completely given it her all!
Thinking of this guy’s “deep-sea phobia”, Ye Shi couldn’t help but feel distressed, but he didn’t know how to help.
At this time, Fang Chang’s calm voice came to his ears.
”Ye Shi! Tell Jiang Xuezhou not to slow down, just throw us directly near the damaged mouth of the starship!”
Ye Shi was stunned and blurted out.
”Fuck, are you crazy?!”
This is not a plane!
The speed and inertia are no joke. Not to mention smashing people into pulp, a bad person will disintegrate in mid-air before his feet touch the ground.
Fang Chang continued in a calm voice.
”This is the option with the highest winning rate. The reverse force of the nitrogen bottle should be enough to slow us down before we approach the target, and we can also share some of the firepower of the point defense system… Compared to everyone dying on a ship, using my method can always get a few people in alive! Don’t dawdle, hurry up!”
Hearing the urging in the voice, Ye Shi did not dare to hesitate, and hurriedly looked aside and shouted.
”Xuezhou! My teammates said that when you get close to the gap of the starship, you don’t need to slow down, just open the hatch!”
Jiang Xuezhou replied without thinking.
”Has your teammate’s brain been shaken?! Or is there something wrong?! Do you think this is a plane?!”
”But there is no other way, right! In this situation, there is no way to slow down… Listen to me, you just fly over the gap and then drive towards the bow. This is the best way.”
Looking at Jiang Xuezhou who was still hesitating, Ye Shi took a deep breath and said in a serious tone.
”I believe you… Use your professional knowledge to calculate and try to let them in, please!”
Jiang Xuezhou gritted his teeth and closed his eyes.
”I’ll try…”
Indeed.
There was no way to slow down in the current situation, so they could only take a risk!
As long as the deceleration distance was sufficient, they might be able to complete the “autonomous merging” with the thrust of the nitrogen bottle.
Just as Jiang Xuezhou changed his strategy and accelerated towards the gap on the side of the starship, Luo Yi, who had just walked into the bridge and sat down, was admiring the elegant “dance” through the dusty French windows.
At that time, the silver-gray scientific research ship was indeed played by these bugs on the wasteland, but so what?
Seeing the dying bugs suddenly start to accelerate, Luo Yi showed a cold smile at the corner of his mouth.
”It’s just a trick.”
After all, he was a soldier of the former United Aerospace Army, so he naturally saw what these people were planning at a glance.
Want to land?
He wouldn’t let them succeed.
Closing his eyes, Luo Yi, who was sitting alone in the captain’s seat, spoke slowly.
”Starship main control system.”
A gentle electronic sound floated into his ears.
”I’m here.”
Looking at the scientific research ship getting closer and closer to the Orion missile cruiser, he ordered expressionlessly.
”Launch a neutron torpedo.”
”Sorry, I’m afraid this distance is not appropriate. With the killing radius of the neutron beam, you will also be affected.”
There was a hint of hesitation in the gentle voice.
As the shipboard AI of the Orion starship, it must first consider the safety of the passengers.
Luo Yi, however, had a nonchalant expression on his face.
”It doesn’t matter, do as I say.”
The captain’s order is absolute.
Even if the order conflicts with the safety regulations.
The shipboard AI hesitated slightly before recognizing Luo Yi’s repeated order and launching the torpedo that had been hanging on the launcher for nearly two centuries.
Although the torpedo has been in disrepair for many years and even the sensor has failed, it is still no problem to explode it.
There is no need to aim at such a close distance.
They are dead!
At the same time, after dodging left and right, the research ship finally flew to the side of the Orion starship!
Without hesitation, Jiang Xuezhou immediately opened the hatch of the research ship and released the safety locks of the seats.
Under the influence of inertia and pressure difference, the power armors sitting on the chairs were like spinning tops, drawing a parabola and smashing into the starship that was close at hand.
”Hold on! Brothers!”
”Hold the nitrogen bottles in your hands tightly! Spray in the direction of the starship!”
”Fuck – where is that starship?!”
”Ugh! I’m going to vomit -”
To be honest, Jiang Xuezhou’s calculated trajectory was still very accurate. As expected, most people could fall into the hole that was neither too big nor too small.
However, the throwing process was too rough, even the awakened ones could not stand it.
The situation of the agile players was slightly better. Fang Chang relied on his agility talent “bullet time” to hold the nitrogen bottle and operate it for a while, barely stopping the speeding chair from rotating.
But at this moment, a flash of white light suddenly lit up from the dark deep space, instantly taking away his vision.
Is that…
a neutron torpedo? !
The burning pain came from the surface of the skin. Fang Chang tried to call his teammates, but the communication equipment had failed.
Objectively speaking, the power of this thing is greater than that of conventional nuclear weapons. After all, power armor is designed to deal with nuclear, biological and chemical environments. Although the
”Sunlight” power armor is self-produced and developed by the Alliance, its performance is not much weaker than that of pre-war power armor.
Especially the protection against biochemical…
The invisible blood bar disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. With the last of his eyes, Fang Chang saw that the silver-gray research ship lost control and crashed into the wreckage of the Orion starship.
It was like a fly with its head chopped off, crashing out of control near the lower deck.
Sparks burst out of the explosion.
He saw a flash of rolling flames, and also saw the flying alloy fragments.
His heart trembled involuntarily.
He has never taken death seriously, but he has never been so afraid of the arrival of death.
”No…”
The game did not pause.
The next second——
The cold numbers have already come into his eyes.
[Remaining time for resurrection: 72 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds]
(End of this chapter)
