Star Hatching

basement one.

The veteran sat near the door and took out a cigarette from his jacket pocket. The door suddenly trembled, and ash fell.This is someone blasting outside.The veteran patted the dust off his head, smoked slowly, but seemed to have forgotten what to do next, holding the cigarette between his fingers, staring blankly at the void in front of him.

The freshmen stared at the crumbling door, some stiffened their bodies and forgot to blink their eyes, some swallowed their saliva, and their Adam's apple kept rolling.

"It doesn't seem right." The crown prince hidden in the newborn leaned weakly against the wall. It was almost night, he hadn't eaten for a day, and the hunger began to torture his spirit, which made him very depressed, "Spark, I don't think it's right."

He looked at Spark with some confusion, but more of fear of the unknown.

Finally found out?Finally...not too slow.

Spark smiled wryly in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it.He leaned close to the crown prince's ear and comforted him softly: "There will be no mistakes, please bear with me a little longer."

The crown prince nodded, looked around carefully, and whispered: "I'm very hungry."

Spark quietly took out a piece of chocolate and stuffed it into the crown prince's hand. The crown prince's eyes lit up, he turned his back, and swallowed the chocolate like a wolf.Cora, who happened to turn her head to see this scene, had her eyes straightened, holding her grumbling stomach, and her face was pale.

"Chocolate is really a good thing." He stared straight at the corner of the crown prince's mouth, with an expression of wishing he could rush up and lick it.

Cora's exaggerated expression attracted the attention of some freshmen. They followed Cora's gaze and straightened their eyes.Spark looked back, his eyes flashed, and he quickly reached out to wipe the chocolate from the corner of the crown prince's mouth.The Crown Prince looked at Spark in surprise. Spark glanced at the hungry and thirsty freshmen. After seeing them lower their heads, he said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

The crown prince smiled and shook his head, licked his lips, still savoring the taste of chocolate.

Cora moved her bloated body closer to Spark, and poked him: "Hey buddies."

Sparky gave him a disgusted look, and sat down beside him.Cora squeezed out a flattering smile, and moved closer to Spark.Spark frowned deeply, the Crown Prince held out his hand to hold him, and showed a friendly smile to Cora: "What's the matter?"

Cora coughed dryly: "Then what... buddy, where did you get your chocolate?"

In an instant, all ears on the basement floor perked up.

Spark gave him a wary look: "No more."

Cora raised her sensual little finger: "I'm really hungry, just a small bite... just a small bite... okay?"

Seeing the freshmen looking here, Spark's eyes were green and his face was blue: "It's gone, it's gone."

However, at this moment, Cora's eyes lit up, and she pointed at Spark and shouted, "Look at his pants!"

Spark reflexively covered his trouser pockets, but the next second he noticed that Cora's eyes were brighter.

Scammed!That guy had no idea he had chocolate in his trouser pocket!

The freshmen suddenly realized that they looked at Spark's trouser pocket. Seeing Cora's terrified expression of complacency and hunger, Spark almost fainted from anger.Why would he be deceived by such a mere civilian deception!This is the chocolate that he took a lot of effort to hide from the instructor!

Spark, whose heart was bleeding, glared at Cora viciously, surrounded by countless stares like hungry wolves, tremblingly took out the remaining piece of chocolate.The piece of chocolate was divided up within a second, and each person was given a piece of chocolate the size of Cora's pinky fingernail.

Spark silently looked at the fingernail-sized chocolate left in his palm, and the veins on his forehead twitched.But Cora still thanked him with tears in her eyes...

Ah ah ah ah this damn civilians!He will kill him for sure!He's going to sacrifice this guy's soul to the devil, and let him suffer the pain of hunger forever in hell!

Spark looked at Cora with a piercing smile, and said quietly, "You don't need to thank me, I'll pay you back later."

Cora nodded cheerfully: "Yes, it is necessary."

The freshmen a, b, and c who wanted to thank each other looked at Spark's weird smile, silently swallowed the words on their lips, and shrank to the corner of the wall.They will erect a monument to the great Cora, they will.

After eating that helpless piece of chocolate, the freshmen's stomachs writhed even more cheerfully.It would be fine if I was hungry all the time, but I just ate such a small piece of attractive chocolate... The stomachs of the freshmen decided to make a revolution, and the "grunt" sounds from the stomachs of the freshmen were heard one after another in the basement.

Can we really wait for rescue?The freshmen thought blankly, their hearts were getting heavier and heavier, and they felt that their hopes were getting slimmer.

The enemy's blasting is almost successful.

Will they be captured?

Or will it be killed directly?

Or be taken back for human experimentation?

Maybe the brain will be dissected...

Can I just fight?

At least...at least death is worthwhile, and pull an enemy to back it up.

Finally, they thought of the question that they had never dared to think about. The instructors... are you okay?

Four 10 minutes ago.

Hogan drove the mecha crookedly forward.After a while, Karl woke up from the impact he had received when he landed before, and took back control of the mecha.

Karl glanced at Christian and his men who were blocked and ran away outside the air defense cover, barely suppressed his excitement, and said confidently: "My lord, are we going to rescue those lost lambs now?"

"..." Hogan said, "Although most of the terrorists are blocked by the air defense shield, if I'm not mistaken, there are at least three people at the entrance of the basement level, including their previous internal correspondent in the base, Dr. Mason. This person is very skilled, and his mecha operation skills should be good. The other two people, even if they are only at the middle and lower levels of those who just chased us, they are still good combat power. And we only have one mecha that is almost scrapped. "

Carl said in a natural tone: "Isn't it because you are here..."

Hogan said, "Is this also the reason?"

Carl was inexplicable: "Is this not enough?" He looked at Hogan with the expression of "You alone are worth a regiment".

"..." Hogan said, "I think we should hide first."

Carl nodded: "What's your plan?"

"What plans can I have... have a full meal first, aren't you hungry?"

Carl looked at Hogan with a pale face, and then realized that Hogan was serious: "No...my lord, there are only three enemies, can you do nothing? We are only one step away from rescuing the freshmen."

Hogan sighed: "We were able to lock Christian and his men out of the air defense shield mainly because of great luck. Nearly [-]% of the weapons in the base's arsenal are scrapped. The training ground that was barely used before, When starting the obstacle training, they were bombarded by our mecha. The only weapons we can use are the laser launchers installed on various buildings and this mecha. How do you think we can save them?"

Carl whispered: "I don't know...but how could you..."

Hogan shook his head: "No one is omnipotent, let's go eat something, the only thing we can do now is wait for rescue."

"Damn it..." Carl was extremely frustrated. He slammed his forehead heavily on the operating table, unable to accept Hogan's words. The slight pain suddenly touched a sensitive nerve in him, and he suddenly raised his head, "But it's really like you said Why are you so calm?"

Hogan said calmly, "That's my personality. In fact, I'm so nervous. Look at my hands."

Carl saw that Hogan's fingers were shaking, as if he was really nervous.But Karl always felt that this was just a semblance, and he asked suspiciously, "Is there really nothing you can do?"

Hogan said reverently: "Let's pray to God."

"Bang!" Karl slammed into the console unwillingly, and fell on it again.

Hogan smiled at him, and quickly stopped smiling when he looked up.

Carl drives the mecha to the cafeteria, Hogan leaves the co-pilot and walks into the back kitchen, Carl looks at Hogan who starts to cook food in disbelief.

"At least do something!" Carl looked at Hogan anxiously. If it wasn't Hogan, he would have punched him hard because of his cold blood. "Who knows when rescue will come?! Mason didn't bring People came to attack us, they must be trying to break through the door!"

Hogan put away the freshly made noodles, sat down and ate.

"..." Carl suppressed his anger, "My lord!"

Hogan ate his noodles in silence, and Carl circled back and forth. At the tenth circle, he finally couldn't take it anymore: "My lord, I'm sorry, I have to go."

Karl turned over and got into the cockpit of the mecha.

Hogan wiped his mouth, walked out slowly, and stopped him when he closed the cockpit door: "Where are you going?"

Carl said in a deep voice, "Don't worry about it."

Hogan said: "Indeed, the only way now is for you to lure Mason and the others away."

Carl said numbly: "No, I will get rid of them."

"Surrender is meaningless." Hogan said, "If even you are killed, what will everyone do?"

Carl gritted his teeth and said, "Otherwise, what else can I do? The base is so big, where can I lead them? Please hide it well and tell the major for me, I am ashamed of his entrustment!"

Hogan said slowly: "So... have you made up your mind to fight to the death?"

Carl paused and said, "I would like to rest here forever, with all the instructors."

Hogan said: "Okay, I want you to hold this kind of thinking, desperately lure away all the remaining mechas, and buy enough time for the transfer of new students, can you do it?"

Carl was taken aback: "Have you thought of a way?"

Hogan's voice rose, repeating: "Tell me—can it be done!"

"can!"

Hogan nodded: "This time is likely to be your last battle. I have more important things to do, so I can't be by your side. Take care, Carl."

The more important thing the adults said is to transfer new students.It seems that adults have found a safe place.

That's great.

"Take care, my lord." Carl jumped off the mecha, saluted Hogan with a "snap", then boarded the cockpit without hesitation, and drove the mecha to the entrance of the basement with a tragic mood.

Hogan looked at his back and thought, that's right, just do it with this kind of mortal thought. Not only will the enemy believe that you are desperate, but even yourself will think that this is a mortal battle.This will be a flawless deception. After all, the executors of the deception do not know that they are deceiving.

Yes, it was impossible for Hogan to let his companion die.From being helpless at the beginning to cooking and eating noodles as if he gave up later, it was all just to convince Karl that he was in a desperate situation.The most brilliant deception undoubtedly deceived himself, and Karl was about to become the executor of this most brilliant deception, but he himself knew nothing about it.

Hogan quickly drank the remaining noodle soup, held his brain and ran towards the entrance of the basement in the direction Carl left, but when he was close to the basement, he turned a corner and crawled through the ventilation pipe of the building next to it. go in.Several terrorists guarding the entrance did not see him.

Hogan put his ear to the wall and soon heard the sound of fighting.Karl, like a wounded beast in a desperate situation, used crazy suicide attacks to firmly attract the attention of the terrorists.

Mason quickly mentioned Evan and entered the mecha together, and ordered the remaining two terrorists to form an angle with him and surround Karl.However, Karl's unorganized attack made them unable to get close for a while.

"Let's just bombard him," said the terrorist.

Evan frowned and said, "Obviously Hogan is also in this mech. He was able to find a way to turn the tide of the battle in such a dangerous situation before. How could he suddenly go crazy?"

Evan and Mason looked at each other, and they were suddenly surprised, and said in unison: "There is a fraud!"

"Stand back!" Mason yelled, and took a few steps back quickly.

Terrorist B yelled: "No, Mason, I didn't know you were a coward before!"

"Hogan is extremely cunning, and everyone has lifted their spirits." Mason said coldly.

"Cut...we are three against one..." The other two terrorists looked at each other depressedly, "Please, we have to deal with them sooner!"

"It was almost time to break open the door! There is not so much time to delay!"

Mason frowned and said, "You can't underestimate them."

Karl found that facing his own provocation, the three enemy mechas only carefully surrounded him, neither attacking nor narrowing the encirclement range, but they blocked his way out.

It is impossible to complete the task assigned by the adults if this continues!

Carl gritted his teeth and aimed at a mecha to break through. Unexpectedly, the mecha avoided it, and he rushed out.Carl braked quickly and turned around.The three enemy mechs stared blankly at him, showing no signs of chasing him.

He took a deep breath and had no choice but to rush back and continue to provoke the enemy.

"Is this what you said you shouldn't underestimate?" Terrorist A wondered, "Are you fucking kidding me? I don't see anything worth guarding against them."

Terrorist b said that he saw some clues: "I think they seem to want to lure us away. Ha, they probably want to blow themselves up to die with us. Young people are always so passionate about sacrificing themselves for their companions."

Although Mason's intuition was not the case, he couldn't refute it. He glanced at Evan silently, and Evan hesitated: "It seems... really trying to lure us away."

Mason smiled bitterly and said, "I think we were confused by Hogan. Look at this mecha, it has actually lost its ability to fight. He is delaying time. He must have sent a distress signal."

Evan suddenly realized, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it became: "Yes, he must be delaying time... He is very good at this kind of fraudulent scheme, and we have all been deceived. We can't let him delay any longer!"

"How about it? Do you want to bombard him? Anyway, the boss said, he is not the target."

Mason took a deep look at the tattered red mech that was persistently provoking, and said, "Let's fire."

The death beam cannon barrels of the three mechas aimed at the red mecha, and the red mecha reacted suddenly, jumped up and ran, but he was in the encirclement, he would die in any direction he ran!

But he hasn't finished the task yet!Carl's face was as white as paper, and he clenched his teeth tightly.No matter what, he must lure these three mechs away to buy time for the transfer of freshmen!

At that moment, time seemed to stand still. When Carl was struggling to break out of the encirclement, and when the three mechas aimed at the target at the same time, Hogan, who was hiding in the collapsed building next to him, launched out of the base with a very short time difference of almost only 0.1 seconds. The only other attack weapon that can be used besides the laser launcher is the microwave bomb.The nearly [-]% weapon damage rate does not mean that there are only poor laser launchers left, and there are microwave bombs anyway.It was difficult for Hogan to describe how he felt when he was found.

This kind of bomb can trigger extremely high currents inside the mecha through high temperature, radiation, etc., thereby destroying the data stored in the mecha AI and completely paralyzing the mecha.

But the problem is that most of the mechas have defense systems against this kind of bombs, because microwave bombs can do too much damage to mechas, and no mechas can withstand this level of damage. The mecha will trap the mecha pilot in the cockpit, that is the most terrifying thing.

Only by taking advantage of AI's sluggish response at the moment when the dead light cannon is launched can the microwave bomb play a role.

Carl stared blankly at the suddenly dark screen, and fell to the ground without any surprise.He has lost control of the mecha.

How is this going?A new weapon for terrorists?

Did he not complete the task in the end!

I'm sorry, my lord...

He pulled out the dagger from behind his military boots, held it in his arms, and looked coldly at the direction where the hatch would open.

He didn't know that the other three enemy mechas all stopped at that moment and fell to the ground.

Forget about the two completely dazed terrorists A and B, both Mason and Evan were swept away by a huge panic.Hogan...what did Hogan do!

Mason slammed hard at the hatch, but the excellent memory material that could withstand even a laser was obviously not something that could be smashed open with brute force.

"Is there a pry bar?" Evan eagerly groped for the gap between the hatch and the mecha, "We must pry open the hatch, otherwise..."

How else, they all know it, but who's going to have the crowbar in the cockpit?

Mason dug into the gap with his nails, trying to break the hatch open.

By this time Hogan had come out of his hiding place.Holding a steel bar he picked up at random, he glanced at the three mechas other than the red mecha, and was about to pry open the cockpit of the red mecha, when he suddenly saw the door of one mecha being slammed one time.

Hogan thought for a while, raised the steel bar, and slammed it at the hatch of the mech.After a heavy impact, the mech fell silent.

Hogan looked at the other two mechas again, and seeing that there was nothing unusual, he breathed a sigh of relief, and walked back to the red mecha, first tried to widen the gap between the hatch and the mecha, and then inserted the steel bars into- Going in, I tried my best to pry the hatch, but failed.

His arm was sore, and he looked around, but he couldn't find any good tools, and he had a terrible headache.

Let's rescue all the freshmen first. There are many people and strength is great. When the time comes, everyone will rescue Karl together.

Thinking this way, Hogan picked up the deformed steel bar, walked to the heavy door that had already started to shake due to the explosion, cushioned the weight of the steel bar, raised his hand violently, and slammed the door hard.

"Bang!" The steel bar snapped and the gate collapsed.Amidst the flying dust, the figure of a veteran holding an electromagnetic gun loomed in front of Hogan.

Hogan threw away the remaining half of the steel bar and raised his hand in surrender: "Wait a minute, it's me!"

Behind the veteran, the freshmen with different expressions but all very nervous were stunned.

At the same time, outside the air defense cover, the terrorist C in charge of the lookout reported to Christian: "Boss! There is a black mech squad approaching!"

Black mecha, that is, black mecha, is a military standard.This is not good news for the terrorists, because it means that the rescue of the base has finally come.

Christian looked down at the ruined base, but couldn't find Hogan's figure. He must have gone to the entrance of the basement floor, which was the only place that was hidden enough to be seen from the air.

"Boss, they're almost here!"

"Mason and Evan are still inside!"

"Damn you want to stay and save them? Everyone die together!"

"To die together!"

"Shut up." Christian closed his eyes, "—withdraw!"

Almost at the same time as he issued this order, the leading black mecha descended from the sky, and the death beam cannons loaded on the left and right were activated at the same time, blasting towards him violently!

Christian retracted his legs, rolled backwards, and made a perfect evasive action. One of his men rushed over, grabbed him at that moment and flew towards the atmosphere.

"Major, do you want to pursue?"

Cedric didn't even look at the fleeing mechs: "Rescue the hostages first."

"The base has opened the air defense cover."

Cedric looked at the ruins, his pupils narrowed into a sharp straight line, and his lips were pursed white: "Dissociate immediately."

"receive."

Several black mechas stepped forward and used disintegration weapons together to disintegrate the air defense cover.Immediately, they followed Cedric, bent down, landed on the ground, and began to search for survivors.

"Report, the dormitory building has been searched, nothing."

"Report, the training ground has been searched, nothing."

"Report……"

Cedric said: "Search for signs of life and report to me... There are people there!"

Cedric drove the mech and flew towards the place where there was a looming figure, and the black mecha team quickly followed. When they arrived, Hogan just happened to pry open the cockpit with a few strong freshmen. Get Carl out of the cockpit.

Carl, who was already thinking of dying, almost stabbed him with a dagger, but when the light entered his pupils, he was shocked to find that the person in front of him turned out to be Hogan with a guilty face.

Hogan stretched out his hand and pulled him up: "Sorry, I lied to you, but this is for the sake of effect... Carl, what are you doing?"

After standing up, Karl knelt down on one knee without hesitation, held the dagger in both hands and raised it in front of Hogan, raised his head and said reverently: "My lord, I ask for my sword and follow you as your loyal knight." .”

Cedric, who had just arrived at this time, saw Carl kneeling in front of Hogan in this proposal position, and there was a hint of excitement on his expression, which cracked in an instant.