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Mia was indeed prepared. Maybe she had suspicions before boarding the ship, or maybe it was for other reasons, such as caution. The "boy" followed her through many cabins and connected behind an airship's weapons launch channel. In the magazine, three small escape boats disguised as large weapons casings were seen.
There was someone here to answer her. Judging from the number on the uniform, he was an old black-haired crew member who had served on the airship for many years. He should also belong to the "open" camp.
In the task of protecting "Xingyue", most of the people sent were the backbone and elite members of the "open" camp's detachments. There were more than 130 people in total. These people had to be divided into three parts and "stuffed" into three ships. Lifeboat.
In a small space, even if each ship only accommodates more than forty people, it is still extremely crowded.
Fortunately, space is a state of weightlessness, and everyone floats together. Even if it is crowded, they can barely fit in.
The serial numbers of the camouflaged weapon shells are very old. Even a "young man" can tell that they were not temporarily hidden just before the mission started. The open party probably made various preparations a long time ago.
But even so, it can be seen that the struggle between the two factions has reached the point of incompatibility, overtly or covertly. Perhaps, there will be a temporary result after the victory between Suimai and Enjue is decided.
The shell had just been removed, and more than 130 detachment members were nervously guarding the entrance to the No. 612 bomb depot. They saw a large number of other soldiers. I don't know where they got the news from, or they might be following them. After all, they The target of so many people was too obvious, and all the running soldiers rushed towards the entrance.
This is the only hope of escape. Even senior officers are desperate at this moment. All weapons are opened and bullets are loaded immediately.
No one gave an order, and Miya didn't even say a word. The soldiers from both sides opened fire as soon as they met!
The three escape boats cannot hold too many people. Even if there are more than 130 detachments, more than half of them will die for various reasons on the way. Now hundreds of soldiers have arrived, and the number is still increasing. . There is no room for negotiation at all. Only the dead are not eligible to escape.
One moment we were comrades on the same ship, and we were compatriots who went through the disaster together. At this moment. It's only you and me who live and die!
No one wants to lose the last chance to escape. Everyone wants to miraculously escape back, reunite with their families, and become the "hero" who returns from the Jedi in this disaster.
No one cares about how they came back. People will only pay attention to the most dangerous and exciting process of their escape. Regardless of how many people they killed before they could get a "position".
Those who die will be promoted as heartless losers, while those who live will have various heroic reasons for living.
Dense bullets flew across the passage, accompanied by screams and splashes of blood, almost staining the walls red, and blood flowed tragically along the pipes.
Rush, rush, rush!
The soldiers outside the passage rushed in with red eyes!
Keep, keep, keep!
The team members behind the tunnel screamed and sprayed out a violent stream of bullets!
On the video system on the wall next to it, the tragic farewells of the heroes were still playing continuously. They were united as one and said their last words of unyielding death, but their voices were already drowned in the roar of bullets and blood.
On the other side of the transmission of the film and television system, countless people shed tears and mourned the night, and no one knew the cruel life and death struggle inside the spaceship at this moment...
Corpses gradually filled the passage, and soldiers rushing over stepped on their corpses. It was too late to replace the bullets. Swords of dark objects were waving a faint red light, criss-crossing in the narrow passage, leaving broken limbs and flesh. Flying across.
The torrent of soldiers finally collided. The fighting was chaotic, the bullets were exhausted, the dark sword was exhausted, and they were killed bloody and brutally in hand-to-hand combat.
Except for screaming and screaming. No one spoke, as if speaking would break something, there was only killing, only robbing, only fighting!
The silent killing proceeds crazily at the end of the narrow passage.
Bang!
The first lifeboat was launched.
All the soldiers in the pile of blood and corpses were slightly startled and suddenly came to their senses. The collective roared, and then there was an even crazier fight, killing at all costs!
At this time, more than half of the detachment members had fallen, and the main force of the fighting had gradually turned into more and more soldiers who came after hearing the news.
Just fighting for that position where they can go back alive.
They were killed in blood, and their eyes were dyed red with blood...
Bang!
There was another sound, and the second lifeboat was launched!
The soldiers who were still standing during the fight were suddenly stunned. They all looked at the last lifeboat, then let go of their hands and ran towards it.
"I can get one more!"
Miya stood on the edge of the hatch with a dark sword in hand. Three corpses fell at her feet, looking coldly at the crowd rushing up.
…
Bang!
A third lifeboat was launched.
Looking out the transparent round window at the faces of the soldiers stained with blood and with only dull eyes visible, the "young man" turned his head. The moment he left the ballistic path, he seemed to hear crying.
The lifeboat took a high-speed trajectory and left the airship, guarding against the retaliatory ship-borne weapon strikes from the crazy soldiers who didn't grab the ship, and they didn't appear until they flew out of a safe distance.
After a long time, a communication request from the airship was received in the lifeboat that was getting farther and farther away. Miya hesitated and ordered the connection. However, all she saw was the picture, but no one spoke——
In the pool of blood in the 612 bomb bay passage, the team members and soldiers who had not boarded the ship silently paid their last military salute to them, with sadness in their eyes.
Then, there was the sound of bullets being loaded.
The gunshot rang out...
"Sorry, take care!"
These were the last words that could be heard in the three lifeboats, the last words from an officer with infinite pain in his eyes before committing suicide.
In just a moment, there were cries in the three lifeboats.
Only Miya silently gave them a military salute.
The "young man" looked a little indifferent, because in the last communication screen, he also saw the heavy weapons man who had acted and trained with him, and shot himself.
In space, the huge figure of the spaceship that lost power flew into the deep dark universe.
No one knows where it will end. It may end up as an icy coffin orbiting a star, or it may be captured and crashed by a planet, or it may leave the planetary system under the continued influence of the "stars and moon".
But all this has little to do with the three lifeboats. They have to go through a process of deceleration and braking, and then fly in the direction of the star's gravity. Find a trajectory back to the cold planet.
The on-board computing system quickly calculated the best flight route and required time based on the parameters. It hardly gave anyone at least a moment to dream and long for, and once again forced the people who escaped to a desperate situation!
It would take at least a month for the three lifeboats to encounter the first and fastest rescue craft, if not. It will take them at least another month to return to the space base.
The material reserves in the small lifeboat are barely enough for a full crew of fifteen people in less than half a month. It is a miniature spacecraft designed to wait for rescue, not to fly back to the base.
But they have an astonishing number of more than fifty people per ship. In other words, even if they save food. They will also die of hunger and thirst before the second month begins - if they don't eat each other's own bodies.
Food was immediately rationed, and all the weapons of everyone were forcibly handed over by Miya at the first opportunity. Only a few soldiers who guarded the food storage at all times were still fully armed.
On the first day, almost no one asked for food. Everyone endured hunger and thirst. They never took any food or water until they had to eat. Everyone knew that whether they could survive until rescue depended on water and food. When will it be consumed completely?
After the fight before boarding the ship, many people were already red-eyed, but after the final communication with Channel 612. Almost everyone burst into tears.
Some people couldn't bear the huge self-blame and pain after waking up, and committed suicide sporadically.
One of the veterans wrote his last words before committing suicide. When they were read out, all the soldiers on the lifeboat bit their lips and shed tears in silence——
"Please don't throw my body out in a hurry. I can keep you alive for at least three more days."
This is space, vast and lifeless. The three lifeboats are like tiny dust drifting, waiting for rescue that will come at an unknown time.
This is also a battlefield, dark and cold. Enemies emerge from the darkness at any moment and tear them to pieces with ease.
During the long wait, the "young man" kept looking at the darkness outside the thick window, trying hard to distinguish the direction of the stars.
He is hungrier than anyone else. Because of his large appetite, Mia did not give him any special treatment. He still had the same portion as everyone else every day, but she and another sharpshooter teammate would share some of their portions for him from time to time.
But even so, he still felt hungry.
In the darkness of space, it was almost impossible to feel the lifeboat flying. It seems like being still makes people more irritated.
There was no response from the space base, no information about rescue, which made people desperate and even more angry.
"Xingyue" was affected, the engine and the rescue cabin were destroyed, and there has been no rescue so far... All of this is becoming more and more like a conspiracy. Some people don't want anyone to go back alive. When the "young man" was too hungry and couldn't sleep, he was thinking, maybe even The long-distance strikes of alien warships are all a huge lie.
Miya decisively changed the route, and the three spaceships immediately separated into three routes to return. Only the first one still followed the original route, perhaps because she still had a glimmer of hope for the outcome of the struggle there, at least from the rescue mission of her own group. You won't be able to find them when you arrive.
But more than ten days later, they received a distress signal from the first lifeboat in anger and despair - they were destroyed by high-speed weapons!
And the weapons didn't come from an alien fleet.
Miya immediately shut down all communications after making her final call to the second lifeboat.
They are like abandoned dust floating alone in the boundless dark universe.
More than ten days later, the extremely hungry "young man" vaguely saw the direction of the cold planet.
This gave the soldiers who had long been curled up to save energy and reduce consumption finally some movement.
They floated in the cabin with turbid air, crowded with each other, and began to starve to death.
They were like hibernating insects, and they started to stir at this moment, discussing in low voices what they must do if they return to the ground.
At this time, someone stood by the window on the other side and screamed with a pale face.
In that dark direction, one after another, the magnificent space battleships revealed their ferocious hulls, and the stars and thousands of rays of light flying towards the cold planet roared in volleys!
^(To be continued.)
