"The Navy... is actually better. You don't have a very intuitive feeling about the number of casualties. You press the button and activate the weapon, and death is at least tens of thousands of kilometers away from you... You can even regard it as an accident. .”
"Thanks, but I'm going to be Army."
"...Have you thought about it clearly? Today's interstellar battlefield is completely different from the former home planet. The duration of the war is not measured in years, but in decades, or even hundreds of years. There are countless soldiers who have psychological problems on the battlefield. Because it is too long. A tough person can endure a life of killing for more than ten years, but no matter what kind of mind, it is impossible to remain motionless in death."
"Yes, I have read some information. Although the name has been withheld due to confidentiality, I can still see some clues. But I choose the Army. No, I don't mean to blame the Navy and your mentality. After all, I want to be normal. As time goes by, people always need to find some psychological treatment methods for themselves. But I want to understand those deaths."
"You're still young."
"So, I can carry more death than other people."
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"team leader?"
Lu Ning opened her eyes and yawned slightly. Her eyes swept across the screen in front of her. The self-cleaning system was working normally. Contact work in multiple areas had been restored, and the wandering phantom beasts had also been reactivated internal defenses. eradicated by the system.
Most of the mechanized tasks within the outpost have long since been automated. Lu Ning didn't need to completely restore parts that required manual intervention, such as research facilities, so her team could still control the entire outpost with ease.
Then, she turned to look at the man with the bayonet who had just called her.
"Didn't I say that I can move freely? The system is running automatically now, no manual effort is needed."
"Uh..." The bayonet stuck, "I have something to report."
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"Do you still remember that primitive habitat egg? The one we found buried in the ruins before. The sheep went there after the area was cleared, and many people insist that it is too dangerous to contact the phantom beast again now. In short... everyone has some disagreements."
"Where's Qiu Shu?"
"He said he had no objection, and Yang Hao felt this was tacit approval." Bayonet's tone was a little anxious.
"Okay, what do you think?"
"I don't agree."
Lu Ning looked at Bayonet and thought for a moment before saying, "Bayoonet, in terms of experience, you may be the least outstanding one in this team."
"Uh... I know." Bayonet nodded, "Everyone is great. Even insect bait has profound knowledge of medicine, and I only..."
"I'm not being sarcastic or blaming, Bayonet. You played a lot of roles in this operation. No one will look down on you, and your knowledge of firearms is no less than the knowledge of insect bait in medicine. I mean ...Have you not realized that your intuition is actually very sharp and accurate?"
"Huh?" Bayonet was stunned.
"I have seen many soldiers. Years of tactical literacy, battlefield experience, and combat instincts... these allow them to make correct judgments before their bodies react. By chance, you are exactly the same as them. Bayonet, you have Talent, I don’t know how this talent is stimulated, but judging from your performance along the way, your instantaneous judgments are often correct, and you need to be confident.”
"Really? Oh! That's Captain. Do you agree with me?"
"Well, the containment room has been cleaned, and Yang Hao is ordered not to conduct any research on the egg without my permission. You can inform me now."
"Yes!" Bayonet immediately turned around and left, his steps becoming much brisker.
"Ah... it's quite difficult to be a leader." Lu Ning smiled and shook her head, pressed a communication button in front of her, and connected the communication key.
"This is BW-001, Outpost No. 10, and I am the captain here. Please state your team number and outpost number."
"DU-003, I'm at Outpost 48. Good morning, Mo Ningyan."
After a second of silence, the other party spoke again.
"I said my name in the communication unit, but specifically called me by that name, and I thought we knew each other."
"That's right. Didn't you come to me specifically?"
"Is that Lu Ning?"
"Your tone is quite calm. I originally thought that in your opinion there was a deep hatred between us, so much so that Rosicrucian would intervene to control the problems between us. But now it seems a bit worrying?"
"...People often have more serious conjectures about things they cannot judge, but it is not wrong." Mo Ningyan turned off the sound filtering system and restored her original voice, "As expected, you are not unsuspecting."
"Ah, now that I have been reminded, I naturally need to understand the situation carefully. If you can be accepted by Rosicrucian, then at least the bottom line of your character is guaranteed, and most of the time I am partying with dolls in the scene. If the villains are hostile, you should have nothing to do with those people. In this way, the scope will be almost narrowed."
"You probably didn't expect so many things to happen at the time."
"No, I know very well...the past will keep coming back to you like a ghost, trying to drag you into the abyss of the past. It's just that Carl's incident is not that serious. Now that Robert has returned safely, I think you will too Know what the specific situation is.”
"Yes, Carl made the choice he would have made. No matter how I simulate it, he will definitely bear that part of the responsibility."
"Can I ask about your relationship?"
"Karl saved my life in the first level. He has been taking care of me since I first grew up. Although he sometimes behaves unreliably, he deserves respect as an elder."
"Um……"
"Then, in a test site with some serious consequences, I successfully survived and tried to go back to share this joy with Carl...Uncle Robert told me that Carl was no longer here." Mo Ningyan said calmly, " You have reached the third level, and you should also know this feeling. We are always ready to welcome an unexpected departure, but when it actually comes, it seems that nothing is ready."
"…Okay, I understand."
"So I want to take revenge on you - if I don't do this, I will owe something to myself. I understand the situation of your confrontation, and I also know the difficulties of the tourists in the confrontation scene, but all this can never escape the fact: Karl ’s disappearance, in which you played a large role.”
"Yes."
"I will use my full strength, Lu Ning. You can treat this as a joke, a test, or something else. But I never joke. In this scene, I will use what I have learned from previous experiences. , destroy everything arranged in the distribution center, stop me, or survive from it, no matter what you do, you are free. We have a clear feeling of victory for each other, and there is no need for a referee."
"Okay, I also want to see your methods." Lu Ning said, "But I really didn't expect that I would have the honor to be revenged one day. Thank you for your communication."
"It's okay, I don't mind chatting."
Lu Ning smiled and cut off the communication. Then she stood up and walked to another workbench.
At this time, except for Longmai, Spider Silk and Qiu Shu who were still at their posts, no one else was in the central control room. The previous chaos at the outpost was not simply caused by the phantom beasts, but also by that special disease. Now we don’t have to worry about these, and since none of the threatening monsters can be seen, the security of the cleared blocks is pretty much guaranteed.
"Captain, good news, we have restored most of the workshops in the production block." Seeing Lu Ning approaching, Longmai happily reported to her, "Now that the mineral vein collection machine has restarted operation, we can produce collection robots to monitor the surrounding areas. Resources are being collected. Of course, I have replaced the original old design with the latest structural drawings, which at least ensures that the robot's work efficiency will be increased by about 60% compared to before."
"Thanks for your hard work."
"Hahaha, it's not hard, Captain. You must know that I have long wanted to try the feeling of building my own fully automated mechanical defense base step by step, just like playing a real real-time strategy game. I really didn't expect it. There is still this opportunity in this life, if you will allow me to install some small things of my own design, we can even..."
"It's best not to come to me for approval for this kind of thing. I just don't know." Lu Ning interrupted him immediately.
"Hey! I just told you to give it a try. Captain, you are really willing to let us go and do it!"
"I let Bug Bait use his talents, and let Bayonet develop her confidence. Of course, I will also give you a chance to show yourself. You can do whatever you want as long as it does not threaten the safety of the team."
"Are all the soldiers in the alliance like you? Then why should I run an underground research institute? Wouldn't it be better if I just sign up to join the army?"
"...Not entirely. Every officer has his own style, and I just don't like subordinates who are completely unified."
Lu Ning lined up her shoulders and walked towards the spider silk.
As a medical soldier, Spider Silk himself also conducts research on biology and other related subjects. Under the premise that Insect Bait and Yang Hao are somewhat unreliable, Spider Silk can be said to be the only stable researcher that can be counted on. Of course, her current workload is also very heavy. She is checking the previous records of phantom beasts through the restored database, and comparing them with previous videos to determine the nature and characteristics of each phantom beast. And this will also be limited by the constraints of the old system many years ago, and the speed is not very fast.
"Spider silk, what did you find?"
"Captain? Oh, um... the number of phantom beast samples discovered around this outpost is actually not many, only thirty three types, but the database contains a large number of samples previously received from other outposts, with a total of more than a thousand The records are so detailed that it would take me a lot of time to go through them all, and this does not include research reports and papers..."
"What? What kind of papers can't be published in this place?" Longmai also heard the conversation here and asked loudly.
"I don't know whether it's because I have this hobby or because I was the first to be published when I was preparing to develop the Phantom Star. In short, it's an advantage for us now. Well... among the more than a thousand fantasy beasts, a total of five B-level fantasy beasts have been discovered. species, but they all live in extreme terrains such as the polar regions, mountains, deep seas, and rift valleys. There seems to be no B-level fantasy beasts reported in hilly areas like ours. There are more C-level monsters. I think in the mountains and forests outside There will probably be one or two C-level fantasy beasts."
"Well, don't ignore it. This is old information from a long time ago. If the speed of change of those phantom beasts is affected by disease, then even just twenty years will be enough for them to increase in number and variety several times. Times." Lu Ning warned.
"Yes! Captain, but things like living things can never exist without the past. How they evolve and mutate, and studying their ancestors is still valuable." Spider Silk said with a smile.
"Okay, continue your work. If you are tired, take a rest... Qiu Shu, where are you?"
"Archives." Qiu Shu answered simply, and then explained in detail, "I performed data recovery on some previously damaged modules to try to extract some of the conditions at the outpost when the disaster occurred, whether it was sounds, text, or... Image records. But there are also a lot of damaged parts. I am trying to filter out some useful things and try to form a complete time series. But I want to really use this outpost to restore what actually happened at that time. It’s difficult, Captain.”
"I know, but we can't easily contact other teams so soon."
"Oh? I don't know the reason for this."
"The composition of the team is very complicated, and our freedom of movement on the Phantom Star not only provides great convenience, but also provides the soil for competition. I cannot guarantee the character of some team leaders."
"This is a very serious accusation." Qiu Shu said.
Lu Ning sneered.
"You and I know very well that the people who are able to come here have some problems. Even if there are one hundred and twenty-five teams, you feel that you really don't know anything here. You are dedicated to acting for the alliance and are willing to take care of the other teams. How many captains are there?"
"Ah, then I have to say...none." Qiu Shu also smiled, "We always keep the lowest level of bottom line, and then we can't do higher things. Even if we are soldiers, among everyone The gap between them is quite big.”
"Now we don't have to hide anything." Lu Ning raised her hand and turned off a recording button on her clothes, "I don't know your resume, but I believe that every soldier who comes here will know nothing about it. Qiu Ning Excuse me, let’s exchange information. How many internal ‘trouble’s do we need to be wary of on this phantom planet?”
Qiu Shu also did the same thing.
"I can't guarantee you this, captain. You also know the style of the military. Soldiers like us don't have the ability to investigate who has accepted the call. After all, the warships traveling between the galaxies never stop. No one except the marshal and the chief of staff knew who was on those ships."
"Just tell me."
"I only know that one of my former bosses, Lu Lin, was transferred from the team at about the same time as me. She did not have any military exploits or special contributions during that time, and her term of office was not completed. This kind of It shouldn’t have happened.”
"Ah... that's enough." Lu Ning laughed, "It turns out that I can't escape either."
