soul bondage

"Hey! What are you doing? You are still queuing up at the back. Go to the rest area and stand up after lighting up one battery." Han pointed to me at the back.I unplugged the battery and handed it to the wise servant next to me and walked to the rest area with my head down. I haven't seen him since then until today, and the most regrettable thing is that I never even asked him. What is his name? We have been calling each other by nicknames for such a long time. It would be great if we could know what his name is. Then maybe I can go there someday...

"How do you feel?" Stettin asked Hank beside him.

"It's not bad, but I've never touched a gun before, so I didn't expect the grades to be so good." When we disbanded and walked out of the feeder, Hank next to him pretended to hold a gun and said.

"I think part of this is due to the technology of the Star Alliance. If we were ordinary people, we might not even be able to hold a gun steadily." Ryan took off his helmet and took two deep breaths of air. "We come from different planets. It is reasonable to say that the composition of the atmosphere on each planet is different. The substances that some races depend on can easily kill the creatures of another race, but here I don't feel any difference from the air in my hometown. What's the difference, except for some unexplainable smells, but it's not unpleasant."

"Maybe our body structure has changed due to surgery, but the strange thing is that I don't feel any discomfort after waking up from a deep sleep. I used to be much thinner than I am now." I looked at myself being blackened Beru's body wrapped in a suit.

"That's because we are more fortunate than the previous generations of scouts. In our generation, all the technologies of the Star Alliance have been able to ensure the safety of the experimental subjects." A familiar voice came from behind us.I looked back, and a Lorgar smiled at me.

"Huck, the leader of the seventh group." He stretched out a sharp claw at me, and I stepped forward to shake it, wondering if the Lorgars would accidentally be scratched by my sharp fingertips.

"Pierce-Lofes, Aka-Tambu people, Hillman-Saugar people." We nodded politely in the direction of Huck's fingers, and the three students beside him also stepped forward. Shake hands with us one by one. When I shook hands with the student named Aka, I felt that the Tambu people are like a cat that can walk upright and has no tail. They have beautiful blue eyes that are unique to the Tambu people. After undergoing transformation, it has turned into the same crimson color as me, making the person in front of me look like an immature lion cub, or more like a cute house cat, which makes people want to touch it Touch the forehead covered with golden hair.

And Hillman is an out-and-out Suojia man. After undergoing the transformation operation, I am afraid that only Gash in our group can keep his eye level when talking to him. According to my estimation, this guy is as big as a Han instructor of the same race. It can’t be compared with it, the condescending look and the pair of sharp tentacles are a bit scary, but when I reached out to him, this guy with a shark’s head and a salamander’s body immediately grinned, revealing a mouth full of sharp silver teeth. He shook my hand vigorously with his two thick arms, his two small red eyes were narrowed to a slit, and he kept saying that I look very friendly, much like the one I raised when I was a child. Green-faced ape.Everyone laughed, and even Andel, who was serious about his speech, raised the corners of his lips rarely. I must look back to see what the green-faced ape looks like.

"By the way, everyone, do you have time in the afternoon? Anyway, ICT said that these two days are mainly for adaptation training in the iron cave in the morning, and the afternoon and evening are at the discretion of the students. In this case, why don't we go to the iron cave to have a look around? I guess there will be no chance in the future." Huck patted Hillman, then spread his hands and proposed.

"Why not?" Stettin responded, "I've never been so free when I grow up. Although it's only five and a half days."

"Let me take a look." Huck turned on his ICT to check the surrounding map. Everyone gathered together and discussed where to go first. Finally, everyone decided to go to the nearby Star Alliance History Museum. Of course, Hank also Proposed to go to a bar, but I later told him that we are going to that kind of place now to find an excuse for Kan to kill us, Hank didn't insist after hearing this, after all, for this "gentle" instructor It's a waste to say that having hands and a mouth that don't need to be used to hit people and swear.However, my talk gave everyone a good talk. Originally, everyone came from different planets and different cultures, but they met here. There is nothing in common in communication, but on the way to the museum, everyone treated us like this. I became very interested in this respectable instructor, and had a great chat along the way.

Just when everyone was chatting and laughing, Huck suddenly came to my side, and several barbs stretched out regularly on that black face.

"Hey, remember that time we took on the spikes together? Your marksmanship is pretty good." I felt a little uncomfortable when he spoke suddenly.

"Where, you are also very good." I have always responded bluntly to the proactive gestures of the Lorgar in front of me. After all, what happened five years ago is still like a stick in my throat, and the individual of the Lorgar is in my opinion. It doesn't make any difference, so I can always see the shadows of those invaders from Huck.

"You look different from the earthlings in my mind. I used to think that earthlings were very repulsive to other intelligent life forms."

"Yeah, if someone slaps us, I don't think anyone can be kind." I said angrily, beside me, Pierce was explaining his religion to Ryan, and excitedly thought that he It was fate to be here.

"Sorry, did I offend you?" Huck asked uneasily, his eyes full of doubts.

"Don't you know about the war five years ago?" I asked, staring into his eyes, and Huck lowered his eyelids.

"If you hadn't attacked our ship first in that incident, the two sides wouldn't have ended up like that." Huck faltered and defended, and when I heard this, I suddenly felt like throwing the Lorca man in front of me directly. The urge to let a nuclear vehicle run over him directly on the moving track.

"We didn't even know who was attacking us beforehand, and we weren't even sure if there was intelligent life in aliens before that."

"But our leader said..."

"You don't think that normal person will admit that he has done such a thing." I sighed helplessly.

"It's also possible that your government has covered up the facts. Well, just guess and don't be angry." Huck was startled by my eyes, and quickly changed his words.After I sneered, I never said a word to him along the way.Although I hated the Lorgar people very much before, I have had a great prejudice against the Lorgar people since then. It is no longer because of national hatred and family hatred. These Lorgar people have never cared about their past crimes. They just Chose to cover up the truth and deceive yourself.Because of this, I never really had a serious conversation with him until I graduated and left the Iron Cave. I am a human being, and I will never be with the Lorgars.

I can't remember what happened after that, everything about that day seems to be blurred in my memory, only Huck's apologetic eyes are still lingering in my mind.He is the enemy, and he may be a victim of war like me, these two voices echoed in my head at the same time.

Three months later

"Yu Zhe, I think Gash is going to pass out!" Shi Tieting shouted at me with his big compound eyes. Behind me we huddled together with the comrades in groups 6, 4 and 2. Everyone was noisy. The sound and the stuffy space enclosed by the silver ray made my head buzz.

"What are you talking about? I can't hear you clearly!" I shouted loudly while leaning on the one-man-high handles set on both sides of the cabin.

"Gash's old problem is happening again!" Ryan and Andel drove Gash, who had already fainted from fright, and pointed at me at the window made of bulletproof glass.Gash's eyes were tightly closed, and his teeth were chattering constantly. By his side, Ryan and Andel were almost unable to breathe due to the weight of the equipment on their bodies and Gash. His right hand stretched out along the gap between the bodies of the two students in Group 2 and patted Gash on the shoulder.

"Can you hear me? Gash, ahem, Gash! Are you okay?" I waited anxiously, and Gash reluctantly opened his eyes after a few seconds.

"I, I can't take it anymore, I can't!" Gash whispered in pain, and I stretched my neck and shouted at him: "It's nothing to be afraid of, it's just skydiving, take it easy."

"But, I, I don't..."

"3 minutes, all trainees check their equipment." Silver Ray's captain shouted to us.

"We will take you with us as before, don't think about anything else, we won't leave you behind." I put on the helmet and helped the students in Group 2 check the nano storage bags behind them, and patted his hand after making sure there was no problem Shoulder.

After adjusting the storage bag, I took a breath and looked back at my teammates behind me. Gash had already put on his helmet, and Ryan nodded at me beside him.

I activated the ICT on the arm and the auxiliary system on the helmet, and then my field of vision was occupied by various parameters and codes. After waiting patiently for a few seconds, the code quickly exited the filter of the helmet.The energy tank on the left is now glowing green, which means that the electromagnetic force field shield has been activated. There is a blue human icon on the LCD screen on the right arm. This small icon shows the health status of the human body. If the icon shows Red means injury, green means bacterial toxin infection, yellow means the surrounding environment is not suitable for survival, and if the icon turns gray, the soldier's life may have been burned out. In the upper right corner of the filter, the temperature, humidity, wind speed and For gravity, the right side of the filter corresponds to the energy tank and there is also a rectangular measurement table that is specially calculated for the environment of the earth's physique in real time. The left and right ends are dark red and dark blue respectively, and there is a small blue arrow in the middle Walking on both sides, always monitoring the changes in the elements in the air.Directly above the filter is the status of tactical equipment such as Beru suits. Although these are complicated alien texts, a microchip was injected into my head during the transformation operation, which stored information including official language and There are more than 300 languages ​​including some local languages ​​in the universe. Even though I have this little thing in my mind, there is still a built-in simultaneous translation device in the Beru server. After all, there are many strange pronunciations of alien words that are not suitable for Human vocal organs.

"1 minute." The cabin door opened slowly, and the golden sunlight filled the cabin. I looked at the map on the ICT, and a green coordinate point was covered by a large area of ​​rainforest.I took a deep breath and looked back for the last time. Everyone was silent, the previous noise suddenly disappeared without a trace, and only the captain's voice echoed in the entire cabin.

"It has arrived at the scheduled location and started airborne."

As the order was issued, the people in front began to trot out of the silver ray cabin and melt into the blue sky. Gradually, the crowded cabin became more and more empty. I made a gesture to let the two students in the second group go first. Then he took a step sideways and came to Gash.

"Gash, listen to me! We didn't give up here, you have to do it!" I pulled him forward hard.

"No, I'm going to faint, it's too difficult!" Gash grabbed my wrist tightly.

"Don't be afraid, we will follow you. Think about it, Gash! In the past few months we have only been able to sleep for three hours a day for training. We have broken bones and pulled muscles, but you have survived, you It will work, trust me!"

Gash looked at me and nodded slightly, then walked forward while holding on to the handrail, his legs trembling constantly.But at the last moment, he shook his head and jumped down.

"Others follow." I waved at the companions behind me.I stood at the end of the line, and when everyone left, I jumped into the blue sky.

Through the filter, I looked down at the dense jungle below and the river meandering into the distance. The brilliance released by the sun made the whole land glitter golden, and all of us were like a group of eagles flying in the blue sky.

"Keep in line," I said.

"Gash, adjust your posture, you are descending too fast." Ryan shouted into the headset, Gash immediately adjusted his posture to slow down the descent.

"We're going to the green ring, see you later, guys." The leader of the second team cut off the communication after finishing speaking.I watched a few figures below us open the nano containment bag, and a few gray parachutes flew slowly towards the southeast.

After the prompt voice showing the opening of the parachute sounded on the filter, I activated the switch of the containment bag, and then a huge gray parachute rose above my head.Others around me also activated this encyclopedia-sized titanium alloy nano-containment bag, and thousands of nano-robots inside were released from the upper port, and within less than three seconds according to the pre-set program The entire parachute is fully formed, and since this parachute is "intelligent", you can change the direction as long as you gently pull the parachute.In addition, when the parachute bag is installed on the Beru suit, it is automatically connected to its system, so the landing speed and landing position can be set directly through the screen on the arm, and then the parachute will do the rest by itself.

The sea of ​​forest under my feet was getting closer and closer to me. I took one last look at the fascinating beauty of alien stars in the distance and fell into the green ocean of huge tree canopies.

When my legs stepped on the soft soil, I saw Gash fall from the sky and hit the ground. I stepped forward and helped him up from the hole.

"Very good! It's a big improvement compared to your previous ones, just grasp the center of gravity when landing next time." I encouraged Gash while brushing off the dirt on his body.

"I'm still not used to it." Gash panted heavily.I patted him and looked at the rest of the team, everyone has landed safely.Well, at least a good start.

When I pressed the closing button of the containment bag, the gray parachute slowly began to deform and compress, and was finally sucked into the nano containment bag through the port like a liquid.

Three days ago, the scout trainees who were training in Iron Cave received the notice of the first assessment.Everyone, including me, was curious about the difficulty of the first assessment. At first, I guessed that we would find a team of attacking intelligent servants to fight us.Well, I admit that my thinking is too naive.

"The general history of this incident is like this. Do you have any questions, students?" Kan stood on the high platform and looked at the group leaders sitting below. A top view of the rainforest was displayed on the holographic image behind him.

"The leader of the fourth group asks questions." A Tuo'an raised his hand and asked.

"speak."

"You just said that the location of our assessment this time is on a colonial planet of Lofes. But I don't understand why Lofes, as the signatory race of the "Special Weapons Restriction Law", found it on his own colonial planet. Suspected hybrid creatures of non-native species, and the number seems to be quite a lot, judging from the time, the reaction of these guys is too slow."

"That's not the case." Joe stood up from the chair next to him and walked to the top view, tapping his ICT twice with the hand that looked like an eagle's claw.

"Although planet 3021 is our colony planet in name, the area used by Lophis on this planet is less than [-]% of the entire planet. In addition, most of the area where the incident happened is a tropical rainforest ecology. system, so at first the local government thought that the recent frequent disappearances of livestock and people were caused by some kind of local carnivorous creatures. If the locals hadn’t killed a lone monster, we probably wouldn’t have investigated and caught This big fish." I think this Starfleet instructor is justifying his own race, which is no wonder that high concentrations of hallucinogens, biological weapons, and anti-human rights weapons have been regarded as "special weapons" many years ago. Strictly restricted, but after such a long time, some races still go their own way. Although the Star Federation will also impose sanctions on races that do not abide by the law, there are still rogue groups like the Purnathan galaxy that believes in the Guizheng. Such secrets Although experiments are not as rampant as they were many years ago, the profits and value behind them still attract many egoists and terrorists.

I turned my gaze back to the ICT to stare at the corpse in the photo, no normal creature would look like this.The brown body is covered with some kind of metal. At first glance, it looks like it is wearing armor, but if you look closely, you will find that these metal coverings have grown from the flesh torn from the body.While some crustaceans or invertebrates have similar body structures, this is by no means the case.There was something like an infusion tube inserted into his arm, but it had been interrupted, and the green liquid splashed all over the ground, which looked disgusting.I switched to another picture with a swipe of my finger. There was a polygonal interface with a radius of about one centimeter near the neck of the creature's head, and more infusion tubes between the brown skin and the dark gray metal. Interlaced among them, and finally all connected to the position of the spine.I clicked on the last photo, looking at the drooping head, the reptilian legs and the arms similar to the Nori people, it is impossible to understand who created this ugly monster, at least the body proportions should be adjusted Figure it out.

"I repeat! You have only one mission, to kill all suspected biological weapons. However, because this rainforest is too dense and the scanning system cannot penetrate, we cannot use satellites to support your operations." Han stood up and said.

Well done!The first assessment is actual combat, the opponent is a suspected biological weapon and we don't even have a monitoring satellite.Clear them all, we don't even know how many enemies there are.

"However, as a substitute for satellites, we will send four teams to place small detectors in four places in advance. We will input the data of you and local creatures, and the detectors will scan the surrounding environment based on the data stored in advance. It will be screened automatically, and the rest is your target, is it clear?" Han glanced around to see that no one asked any questions, then nodded his head.

"Since there is no objection, let's adjourn the meeting. Good luck!" Kan yawned long.

"The detector is activated." I said with a thumbs up.Around me, other people held guns in a circle to watch for signs of enemies nearby. On the trunk of a towering giant tree not far away, Hank was observing the surrounding environment 200 meters away with the telescope in his helmet. , beside him, Ryan sat on a rough branch, holding a Lophis' black magic gun, ready to attack at any time.

In our ICT, the detector synchronized the detection data to the map, and several red dots were slowly approaching us not far from where we were.In this opaque forest, these artificial creatures may be more suitable for the environment here than us modern people, but we have the technological power to adapt to any environment to deal with them.

Gash took a light machine gun made by the Soga people and ran to a higher place to set up the tripod of the machine gun, and then sent the shooting fan and height to the ICT, so that we would not be accidentally injured by him .After a few words with Ryan, Hank slid down the tree trunk to join us.

"Gash will contain the enemy. At that time, the four of us will take advantage of the terrain here to detour to the enemy's two flanks and wipe out these monsters. Ander and I are on the left, and Stiletine and Hank are on the right. Ryan beware of the slipping net nearby. Zhiyu, wait for your signal to be a sniper.” Fortunately, our helmets have a sound-proof effect, as long as they are turned on, even if we sing inside, people outside will not hear a little sound.

"Received." Ryan aimed at a monster that was crouching and approaching his teammates and pulled the trigger. The bullet pierced through the monster's metal-covered chest, and blood and minced meat splashed into the wet soil like raindrops.I poked out the body of the gun from behind the tree trunk and fired a burst of bursts at the three enemies from far to near. All the bullets were accurately shot into the opponent's muscles.These biological weapons left their dead companions and rushed towards us. At this time, there was loud gunshots behind us. Most of the enemies who did not hide in the bunker were left with several wounds emitting green smoke by the laser beam, becoming Fertilizer for this forest.

After Gash suppressed the enemy's attack with a machine gun, the five of us began to "roll the roll" one by one. All the enemies who dared to charge us again were killed by us, and there were two or three sane delusion to sneak behind us, but Before he succeeded, he was shot and killed by a sniper from a high place.

There are fewer and fewer enemies on the map, and our firepower net slowly strangled the enemies dozens of meters away. I watched the corpses everywhere in the scope and mechanically pulled the trigger, but at this moment...

"Go to hell!" Shitting yelled and ran out from behind the tree trunk and rushed towards the only remaining enemy. Before I could react, a laser beam shot from behind and hit him on the back. fell down.

After Ander killed the last two monsters, I rushed to Stettin's side and blasted the monster's skull with a gun. After making sure it was safe, I looked carefully at the Norui people on the ground.Fortunately, the shield blocked most of the energy of the laser beam, and Stiletine quickly got up from the ground, but this did not mean that the matter was over.

Stettin strode forward and strangled Gash who was running with a light machine gun. Hank and I, who were in charge of security, quickly pulled the two of them away, and Gash, who was still in shock, quickly hid behind me and touched his neck. .

"You damn bastard! You want to kill me, you always want to kill me, you always want us to die!" Hank hugged Stiletine, who was waving his limbs, but the latter cursed Want to break free from it.Hank's incoherent explanations and my efforts to dissuade him were of no avail, and the accidental injury was just the fuse.

"This is Kan, all targets have been killed, and everyone is ready to evacuate!" Kan's bored voice came from the radio.

"And don't let that crazy bug take our time," Kan added.The instructor's indifference made Shi Tieting, who was still struggling a second ago, stop suddenly, but his paws were clenched tightly.

"I'm not a bedbug!" Stiletine argued feebly, but what was the use?To them we are bedbugs.I looked at the comrades in front of me, maybe there is still a long way to go before we can really put aside our prejudices and accept each other's identities, not just Stiletine and Gash or me and Huck, although our bodies have evolved, but all of us Thoughts are still stuck in yesterday.