soul bondage

Two days later

"This is Elijah, the air-to-ground transport of combat personnel is about to begin. All units, please prepare." A monotonous female voice came from the silver ray's console.

"Received, the disaster team is ready and ready to go at any time." Sergeant Tucker, the driver of Silver Ray's Lofis, shouted into the walkie-talkie.

"The landing application has been approved by the ground, and we can start immediately."

"Received, ready to go." I watched the two locking clamps of the hangar outside the window of the silver ray slip off from the sides of the fuselage.The crew quickly moved away from the silver ray.In the next second, a strong inertia pushed me to the opposite direction of take-off, and the silver ray transport plane rushed out of Elijah to a white asteroid in the vast sea of ​​stars.

"It is expected to arrive in 10 minutes. Most parts of this planet are kept at minus [-] degrees all year round. I hope your combat uniforms can resist the cold." Tucker shouted towards the rear.

"Don't worry, our clothes can always be kept at a constant temperature." Ryan knocked on his Beru suit.

"That's good, but it's not easy to drive a silver ray in such an extreme environment. It will be a little bumpy after entering the atmosphere. If you are lucky, you may encounter a blizzard or freezing rain."

"Well, buddy, are you reliable?" Gash looked at the back of the driver's seat with some fear.

"Just kidding. I'm a professional. Besides, if the plane crashes, you won't have too much pain before you die, and you will suffer a little when you land." Tucker said jokingly.

"Concentrate on driving. We are not in a hurry to drive slowly. It doesn't matter if we arrive late." I said to him quickly after hearing it.

"What are you doing, Ryan?" Hank asked, looking at Ryan's ICT.

"I'll check how much impact the Silver Ray's fuselage can withstand if it crashes," Ryan muttered.

"Remember to ask everyone to bring their own nano-parachute bags next time." Stiletine tilted his head and whispered into my ear.

"I will."

I checked the insurance of Beru's suit and the gun, and recalled the mission information after confirming that there was nothing abnormal.There is really no important information other than the usual things like the location and environmental conditions and the deployment of friendly forces. There are only two possibilities for this situation, either there is really no substantial progress, or the level of secrecy is too high and it is inconvenient It was disclosed in advance, but judging from their request for scout troops, the first possibility can basically be ruled out, so there is only the possibility that the confidentiality level of mission information is higher than our own authority.If this is the case, it would be interesting. It stands to reason that the Star Federation would directly dispatch special forces veterans who have many years of service experience for such a mission. strangeness?

"It's almost here, everyone put on your helmets, and don't let the guys on Eternal Winter see your faces." Tucker said to us: "When you arrive at the station, just go to the person in charge on the tarmac, and then you It's time for work, I'll go to the rest area to have a hot drink and wait for you to come back."

"Why are you even more of a jerk than me!" Hank looked at the cockpit with a look of resentment, and his excitement was beyond words.I felt a sense of foreboding.

"I love you too, Yinji."

"Bayonet, you haven't said a word since you left Elijah, are you okay?" I looked at Andel and asked, although we have been together for two years, Andel is still reticent, which is very important to the whole team. Cohesion will not play a positive role, but Ander's achievements in the past two years are enough to show that he is an indispensable part of this team, so I don't pay too much attention to his social problems, after all, everyone has different personalities , If it does not affect the team, there will be no big problem.

"I'm fine." Ander's specially processed deep and hoarse voice came out of the helmet, and I couldn't see his expression so I couldn't predict his condition, so I had to put on my helmet and no longer Squeaks waiting to land.

"The hatch is open."

The six of us stood in front of the door. The moment the cabin door opened, a gust of cold wind blew towards us. I stood in the first place. Even though I was wearing a Beru suit, the cold wind still made my neck lean back slightly. Fortunately, our Combat uniforms are excellent against the cold, but not so much for someone.

"Damn it, get out of here, I'm going to freeze to death!" Tucker yelled, white breath coming out of his mouth.

We jumped out of the hatch one by one. After Hank at the end of the team came out, two Toan men in fluorescent vests and signal sticks in their hands guided Tucker to the nearest temporary hangar.

We followed a Tuoan private into a temporary command center, which was said to be a command center, but in fact it was just a larger simple assembly room. After a few words between the private and the sentry, we entered the house.The whole room is pitifully small, and the six of us plus two staff members, a lieutenant and an on-site coordination officer are already a little breathless.There is only a metal table and a projector in the room. The terrain analysis map is punched on the gray wall covered with smoke stains. The holographic display on the table emits a light blue light. Cups for hot drinks, individual ration packaging bags and garbage can be seen everywhere on the ground.

"Corporal." The coordinator came towards me, the brown eyes were bloodshot in the cracks of the brown hard shell on the face, and the winter clothes were wrinkled and looked like they hadn't been changed for many days.

"How is the situation, Coordinator?" I asked, hoping that he could tell me more information to give me a more comprehensive understanding of the mission. After all, the few words I have now are not enough to be used as a travel guide.

"It's terrible. We are a mobile force under the Star Federation. Except for the supervisor, we are all Tuan people. Two weeks ago, we received news that a team of scientific researchers on the eternal winter planet sent a distress signal. Everyone started I didn’t take it seriously, and just asked the local government stationed nearby to send people to rescue them. Unexpectedly, not only the people were not rescued, but also the rescue force dispatched was involved. Our company came to this ghost place to investigate a week ago. Finally, a communication facility for search and rescue personnel was found 15 kilometers away from here, but people..."

"People are dead, and they're all killed." The lieutenant walked up to the coordinator and joined our conversation.

"The local aborigines?" Stettin asked, leaning on the table.

"No, as far as I know, there are no creatures with high intelligence on this planet. In addition, although the climate of this planet is extremely cold all year round and the geographical location is not conspicuous, it was the Three Saints of the Yakang people more than 1000 years ago. One of the cities, like the Dust Star and the Bright Pleiades, has a certain special meaning in the Yakang people's classics, so no government or individual colonizes here."

Hearing the words "Three Sacred City", I suddenly recalled the classics of the Yakang people I had read in Iron Cave.I have to say that the strength of the Yakang people in all aspects was indeed the overlord of the galaxy at that time. If the historical records are true, then the dust star was still a desertification of 90.00% thousands of years ago before it became the capital of the Star Alliance. The fifth "Death Star" is a planet that is not suitable for habitation. Not only are the biological species poor and lack water all year round, but also the temperature difference between day and night is extremely large. Any colonists, even Rui Beasts, will not visit there.But the Yakon people took a fancy to its special geographical location near the center of the Laniakea supercluster, so trillions of tons of steel were transported from various galaxies to the dust star. After several generations of construction , this once barren and barren land stepped onto the stage of history as the administrative capital of a supergalactic cluster and affected trillions of creatures in the years to come.And Eternal Winter Star is a star used by the Yakang people to store materials and develop weapons during wartime. The temperature here is minus [-] to [-] degrees all year round. The difference, but this is only on the surface, the most powerful army at that time was stationed in the space thousands of meters below this planet.As the largest military fortress of the Yakon people, these Yakon warriors have sealed themselves in the deep underground and dark seabed base all year round, concentrating on studying the art of war and killing skills.Many black ops units, including the current scout unit, were modeled on the Iron Buddha unit of the Yakon people thousands of years ago, so in a sense, if there is no Eternal Winter Star, perhaps I would not be able to It is impossible to obtain "rebirth" without leaving the earth.The Pleiades is a real fairy tale world, a utopian world created with strict laws, without wars and differences, and a paradise composed of hundreds of races from various planets.

However, since the disappearance of the Yakon people, few people have visited this star. It is said that there are undead souls sealed here, and those who set foot on this land will die unexpectedly.Of course, these are all self-defeating rumors, because no normal person except us would come to such a ghost place without staying at home, so no one would believe it.Not to colonize here is not so much fear as it is that there are really no resources available. The relics left by the Yakon people have also been dug out, and the weapons and ships are also equipped with Star Alliance troops. Technology is also used by the Star Alliance, which is why our military power is far stronger than any other race and institutional group. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we can naturally move fast and see far.

"In that case, who killed them?" I asked puzzled.

"That's why you were sent here, to find the killer and the survivors."

"There are still alive."

"We found a total of 21 signals that have lost signs of life. Only Dr. Pipi, the leader of the lost scientific research team, is still alive."

Dr. Pippi, what is a researcher doing here?

"Dr. Pippi is the top expert in the field of brain control technology of the Star Alliance. We must not lose him. We were able to detect his life signal seven days ago, but because the signal has been deep underground, it has been intermittent. Until three days ago we completely lost his signal."

"You mean your life detector can't detect his life signs?"

"Yes, we think this should be some kind of Yakang people's defensive measures. We have encountered many such situations on Eternal Winter Star many years ago, but there has never been such a serious casualty accident. In addition, the geography here The location is very remote, far away from any large Yakon ruins, I really can't figure out what they are here for, so we hope you can go to the underground ruins to start rescue operations immediately." When the lieutenant finished speaking, the coordinator from Standing up from the chair, he rubbed his bloodshot eyes.

"You don't have much time. I hope you will start to act immediately in an hour. Go to the quartermaster now. I have uploaded the relevant information to your ICT. It must be successful, scouts." After finishing speaking, he fell heavily. On the chair, the lieutenant also nodded at us, then turned to the monitor and began to whisper to the two junior officers.

"It's roughly like this, Captain." I said to the ICT screen. On the other end of the screen, Captain Daniel touched his chin and thought for a long time, then said slowly.

"I've heard about that guy named Pippi. As far as I know, his scientific research team has been secretly developing a device for the Star Federation for nearly 20 years. This device is said to forcibly interfere with the flow of organic life. Brain waves can make the enemy fall into confusion, or produce hallucinations, and can even control the enemy or instantly cause the brain death of organic creatures. The vast majority of member races of the Star Federation have always opposed this research, not only because the Star Federation has invested a lot of manpower and material resources over the years but also The harvest is quite small, and there have long been rumors that these people will use some death row prisoners who have no political rights as test subjects. In his academic papers, he once stated that there is something helpful for brain control technology hidden here, but no one knows what it is."

"Eternal Winter Star is a star used by the Yakang people for military use. Could it be that some kind of security system here did it?"

"Until the body is found, we can only guess. No matter what, we must bring the Tuoan man back. This is the meaning of the above."

"I understand. We expect to enter the ruins from point c in 10 minutes. Since we don't know the size and complexity of the space inside, each of us brought three days of liquid water and compressed rations. In addition, I also Your instructions brought an anti-matter bomb, and if abnormalities are found, the bomb will be activated to destroy the ruins." I looked at the gray metal capsule on the table, as long as I enter the password on the capsule display, this is not much bigger than ICT Small things can destroy everything in the entire underground ruins.

"Time is precious, I won't delay you, good luck." After Daniel closed the communication window, I checked Beru's suit and weapon, and after making sure they were normal, I put the bulletproof tactical vest with the built-in viscous liquid in the middle on it. body.Finally, I looked at all the equipment on my body.

Eight bullet magazines, four bullet magazines, four microwave bombs and a portable antimatter bomb capsule, as well as two full tubes of emergency ointment and data memory, are enough to save my life.

I picked up the helmet engraved with the dragon's head and put it on my head. With a slight sound, the Beru suit and the helmet were seamlessly connected together.

"How are you getting ready?" I turned and shouted, stretching my neck in the narrow aisle of the armament room.

"Everything is ready." Everyone responded in a hurry.

"Has anyone seen my water bag?" Gash asked anxiously while looking around.

"Lift your butt, my friend." Stettin put one foot against the chair and pulled out the deformed water bag from under Gash's butt and threw it into his hand.

Hank yawned helplessly.

There were two beeps from the helmet's built-in earphones as we left the quartermaster room and walked through the creaking snow to the entrance to the ruins.

"What's wrong, Tucker."

"After you go down, you must pay attention. The structure of the ruins of Eternal Winter Star is very complicated, and it has many anti-invasion devices. When we excavated other ruins of Eternal Winter Star, we found that the walls of these underground passages are made of special alloys. Yes, it can block the communication signal, so don't get separated after entering! And this area is not yet developed, so I can't provide you with effective intelligence and fire support, you can only rely on yourself."

"Understood, is there anything else?"

"One last thing to remind you, don't take it lightly." Tucker changed his cynical attitude before, and said in a serious whisper: "This is not training. If you encounter any accidents, I'm not sure if the Star Federation will take the risk of sending people down again." Those who save you, be mentally prepared."

"Understood." I ended the call and touched the anti-matter bomb on my waist, hoping that I would not use it.

The entrance of the ruins is not a tunnel leading to the ground as I expected in advance, but a nearly vertical oval hole, much like a missile silo.The few of us looked at the surrounding environment, gray-white ice and snow dotted on the blue rocks, and several crystal-like icicles hung above my head, shimmering under the emergency lights at my feet, ethereal and ethereal. beauty.Let's hope these one-meter-long icicles don't fall down.

"Coward!" Hank looked around. Except for the six of us, the other Tuoan people have already withdrawn from the tunnel. It seems that we can only rely on ourselves next.I walked to the edge of the hole on the slippery ground. The hole with a radius of about 15 meters is made of some kind of alloy. Not only is the surface very smooth, but it seems that the extremely cold environment has not affected it.I used the sonar scanner in the helmet to aim at the dark ground, and the detection results were displayed on the filter of the helmet after three or four seconds.

"How is it?" Everyone gathered around me and looked down.

"This metal well is about 30 meters high. There are no biological signals underground and the structure is quite complicated. We don't know anything about it except that there is a scientific madman with no moral sense here."

After hearing what I said, everyone turned their heads and looked at me blankly.

"I'm really well prepared for the first mission of disaster." Shi Tieting shrugged and took a few steps forward.

"See you later." After saying that, he jumped down.I moved my limbs and jumped down with everyone.After descending about ten meters, I turned around and put my hands and feet against the smooth wall. The magnetic soles and adsorption gloves fixed me firmly on the curved metal wall like a gecko.I glanced down, estimated the distance, and released my feet and left hand. Due to the lack of suction due to the smooth wall, I began to fall at a high speed. The friction between my palm and the wall made a slight noise. I was glad that I was wearing gloves.At the same time, I held the gun grip on the leggings with my left hand. The safety of the gun had been released and loaded, and I could fight back immediately if anything happened after landing.When I was less than ten meters away from the ground, I kicked my feet suddenly. At the last moment of landing, I opened the jet on my calf as a buffer, and landed firmly on the ground. The rest of the people around me also landed safely. And point the muzzle in different directions at the same time.

"Payback," I said.The helmet of each Beru suit has a sound insulation function. As long as it is turned on, other than the six of us and the support staff on the radio will not hear a sound even if they put their ears on it, so we don’t have to waste time learning complicated things like ordinary soldiers. sign language.

"Afterimage is safe."

"Nightmare Security."

"Bayonet safe."

"The battering ram is safe, but the silver halberd." Gash replied with a guilty conscience.

"Battering ram, the hole is so big, why can you knock me into the air with such precision." Hank asked helplessly.

"Sorry, I didn't see it." Gash helped Hank who was sitting on the ground, maybe it would be more appropriate to lift him up.

"It's okay, at least it's not hurt."

"Fortunately, the battering ram didn't sit on you." Ryan shook his head with a wry smile.

I turn on the sonar and adjust the filters on the helmet.Slowly, the dark space became clearer and clearer, and the sonar detector released sound waves every few seconds, outlining the spatial outline of the area we were in through filters.I observed the surrounding environment, several silver tunnels appeared around the entrance of the cave, like giant beasts breathing darkness, although it appeared harmless to humans and animals, in fact, no matter what the reason was, it had devoured several lives.

I slowly stood up and walked to the middle of the line, the rest of the people were already in their positions.Gash put his right shoulder against the shotgun, and at the same time activated the shield generator on his wrist to walk in the front. A protective shield glowing with blue light stood in front of Gash. Although the power of this shield was limited, it was still It is enough to withstand the general large-caliber ammunition and the microwave of the weapon.Behind Gash, Stettin and Ander held the loaded guns and observed the entrances of each tunnel.It is obviously unwise for Ryan and Hank to use long-range weapons as snipers and observers to fight in such a small room, so they simply brought two tube SFGs and used optical camouflage to lurk in the team Surrounding us, protecting us in the dark in times of crisis.I was at the end of the team, with my back turned to cut off the back for them.

"The information provided by the mobile unit shows that Dr. Pippi and the others are heading southwest. We don't have time to try a new route. Battering ram, you take the lead. Silver halberds, afterimages, don't go after turning on your ultraviolet strobes Too far, start moving." I patted my teammates behind me, and then slowly backed away.Accompanied by the sound of low footsteps, I cautiously looked around. The silvery walls and the black marks on the ground stretched into the darkness like annual rings.I backed away as gently as I could, and glanced back now and then, as the others behind me remained silent in the dark, as did I.

Suddenly, a red dot appeared on the ICT radar, and it kept moving towards us.I quickly patted Stettin, pointed to everyone in front of me, and then pointed to the ICT on my arm.Gash rushed to me sideways and quickly blocked me behind him. The others also quickly changed their formation, aiming all their weapons in the direction we came from.The red dot on the radar was getting closer and closer to us, and when it was about to coincide with us, there was a sudden sound of metal collisions from above. I just looked up, and a blurry figure fell down.

A white monster crushed me to the ground, and then my left shoulder seemed to be embedded with a piece of ice, and then there was a burning pain.The monster roared and pulled the weapon out of my shoulder, blood spurted out immediately, the severe pain in my shoulder made my left arm useless, and the assault weapon in my hand was also thrown to the side.

But it wasn't over yet, this guy aimed his steel spear-like weapon at my head again.The moment he stabbed down, I crossed my arms and clamped his wrist, and then turned my hands hard along the monster's wrist with all my strength, and with a crisp sound, his right hand was twisted and hung on the wrist on, and the bones have already been crushed by me.I grabbed his slippery neck with my right hand, pressed my feet against his abdomen, turned my head sideways and pushed him to the ground, then pulled my left hand out of the holster on my leg and aimed at his head Pull the trigger.

When I stood up with difficulty covering the wound on my shoulder, Stiletine quickly helped me up, and took out a tube of emergency ointment from the pocket of the tactical vest and applied it to my wound. Under the action of the medicine, I immediately felt The pain was not so strong, and the damaged part of Beru's suit slowly began to repair itself.I thought it was as cold here as it was outside, but the wound I was exposed to didn't feel the burn. The helmet showed that the temperature here was 15 degrees Celsius. It seemed that the ruins could keep the temperature at a normal level just like Beru's suit.

"It's a good thing I didn't hurt my bones, it was really dangerous just now!" Shi Tieting said while he was tending to my wound.

"It can pierce Beru's suit in one go, what the hell is this guy?" Hank kicked the corpse on the ground, and the green blood sprayed from the monster's head stained the ground and walls dark.

Slowly moving my left arm, the pain still tearing at my nerves, I took a few deep breaths trying to concentrate.The life monitoring system of Belu suit shows that my vital signs are stable except for my fast heart rate.I tried my best not to care about my wounds, picked up the assault gun and focused my attention on the work in front of me.

"Battering ram, afterimage, alert the surroundings, nightmare, take a sample of the corpse. Silver halberd, take a few photos. Bayonet, contact the ground and the ghost (Eliah's ship code name)." I looked up, where the monster appeared just now Now it has returned to its original appearance, and it looks no different from before the monster appeared.

"This ruin doesn't seem to welcome us very much." I took two steps forward and stroked the wall. These black lines are some kind of mechanism, and that monster is probably the guardian of the ruins. Eternal Winter Star has no such thing. In the biological discovery report, I looked back at the monster's pale corpse. Only the chest and limbs were covered with simple alloy armor. A mouth with a row of transparent sharp teeth and a yellow eye staring blankly at the top. Its physical characteristics and the behavior of attacking me just now do not look like a normal creature. It seems that it should be used by the people who built this underground ruins. A defense against intruders, a biological weapon.

"Archangel, what about this weapon?" Ander picked up the spear-like sharp weapon, which was still stained with my black blood.

"Use a laser beam to cut a small piece and bring it back. Hurry up, everyone." I said as I took out the scanner to detect the wall, but I couldn't detect what these buildings were made of.

"The collection is complete." Ryan put the test tube into the tactical vest.

"Report, unable to communicate, the signal is too bad."

"Keep going, I bet there are more creatures like this ahead, stay vigilant and pay attention to the top of your head." Just as I was speaking, the ground under my feet suddenly turned and deformed rapidly, and Stiletine, who was facing his back, stepped on the air , sank down.

"What is this?" Before he finished speaking, I flew over. The moment he fell to the ground, I grabbed the shoulder strap of his tactical vest with my right hand and grabbed the ground with my left hand, but within a second The place where I grasped the clock time with my left hand also retracted.But that's not the worst part, the wound on my left shoulder was so painful from too much force, at the last moment I used all my strength to throw Stettin up, and I watched Gash catch him, but I fell into the abyss.

It's over!