"Dong, dong dong..."
In the dark corridor, eight volunteer exploration team members walked slowly. As their magnetic space boots repeatedly stepped on the metal floor, dense and dull footsteps echoed in the deep corridor. The overly gloomy environment made several players with poor psychological quality break out in cold sweat, but seeing that their teammates around them did not intend to give up, their eyes became firm.
Realizing that the gravity generating device inside the space city was still operating, Elliot, who was walking at the front of the team, motioned to the people behind him to turn off the magnetic boots to save energy for supplying the constant temperature system in the space suit.
Looking at the slowly declining battery indicator bar on the helmet and the terrifying low temperature of more than 200 degrees below zero, every exploration team member was under tremendous mental pressure. Even with spare energy batteries, they must find a safe area where they can take off their helmets as quickly as possible.
People are not machines, they need to eat and rest. Although the ruins of the space city are large, there may not be many places that can meet the needs of the team members.
After working with another team member wearing an exoskeleton to open the alloy sliding door at the end of the corridor, Juarez took the lead and rushed out of the door with a crowbar, scanning the almost invisible environment in front of him with vigilant eyes.
If it weren't for the bits of starlight passing through the transparent dome at the top of the space station, everyone wouldn't even be able to see clearly within a five-meter radius centered on themselves.
"Everyone turn on your searchlights, now is not the time to save energy."
After casting an approving look at Juarez, who was facing an enemy outside the door, Elliott warned in the team communication channel: "Everyone must always pay attention to your companions around you, and report immediately if you feel you are falling behind. Although time is very tight. , but I hope everyone can get out of here alive."
After finishing speaking, he raised his electromagnetic pistol and came to Juarez in the light of his helmet's searchlight. Together they looked at the silent street outside the door.
After discovering through the structure of the houses that the location he was in was probably a residential area of Space City, he frowned slightly, looked at Juarez's face that was flushed due to excessive tension and asked: "Marseille, what do these houses look like to you?" ?”
"It's probably the place where aliens lived before they were alive, but I know that's not what you mean." Glancing at the equally nervous but invisible ace pilot next to him, Juarez sighed: "It's hard to imagine that before the space station was abandoned , how noisy and bustling the streets here are. As for now, they are just graves that have not been cleaned. "
After leading the team members to examine more than a dozen alien corpses lying on the side of the street with various postures, the doctors in the team did not make any judgments because they did not understand the specific physiological structure of these creatures. They only did some basic examinations. It was concluded that they did not die of natural causes.
What puzzles everyone is that there are no obvious injuries on these corpses that were shriveled and dehydrated due to the extreme cold. They most likely did not die from fighting with others. As for any other way to instantly wipe out all life in the space city and make the entire street covered with alien corpses, the team members all have their own guesses.
Ignoring the baseless speculations made by the team members in the communication channel, Elliot knelt down and asked the female doctor who was cutting the corpses with a laser scalpel: "Doctor Hailey, what do you think the cause of death of these unlucky guys is? "
After removing a frozen tentacle from the side of the body, the female doctor shook her head and replied in an uncertain tone: "Before I came to Base No. 1, I was just a physician in a small clinic, not a forensic doctor, so your I can't give a clear answer to the question.
"But the death state of these creatures is very strange. Logically speaking, if they died for the same reason, the difference in the posture of the corpses should not be so big. And look at this." Hailey said from the position below the head of the corpse. Pulling out a purple-black tubular organ, he guessed: "The presence of a trachea means they also need to breathe."
Hearing the implication of the female doctor's words, Elliot nodded and said, "I understand what you mean. The living environment these aliens need is similar to that of humans. However, the life support system of the space city is obviously shut down now. They It's possible they died of suffocation or hypothermia, but that still doesn't explain why the bodies have different postures."
After a while, Elliot, who did not intend to waste any more time on the corpse, called the co-pilot and asked him to use an exoskeleton and a crowbar to force open the door of a house near the street.
If the truth was close at hand, then he believed the answer must lie in these cold graves.
"Creak, creak, creak..."
Since the state inside the space city is almost a vacuum, the sound of demolition is not harsh. Juarez, who possesses the Holy Sword of Physics and superhuman strength, quickly opened the door and covered the team members behind him to enter the house one by one.
"Aren't you curious? The purpose of these aliens building a space station in the solar system."
Everyone who had the temporary shelter relaxed a little. A younger team member looked at the other teammates who were searching the house, and while wiping away the thick dust on the table, he asked the question he had had from the beginning.
"You have all seen the scanning results of the Immigration Agency. Most of the space cities have been torn into pieces by the gravity of Uranus. But even so, the size of this space station is still not inferior to the Elysian Space that was destroyed by the Star Group half a year ago. Now after With at least hundreds of years of development, I doubt whether the current power of the earth can withstand the invasion of this mysterious civilization."
Opening a door that led deeper into the room, Elliot answered the younger team member's questions before entering.
"If humanity really comes to a critical moment of life and death one day, I believe that the stars will protect our civilization and tide it over."
...
At the same time, the sky was clear outside the capital of the Earth North American Alliance. The bright sunshine shone on every visitor who came to the Stars Memorial Park to pay homage to the leader's monument. The warmth that fell on their shoulders made their faces show expressions of enjoyment. , making the originally slightly noisy environment appear particularly harmonious.
And it was such a day that was suitable for going out for an outing and enjoying the sunshine. In an area of the park that was shrouded in the shadow of a majestic monument, some agents wearing black suits and sunglasses were watching the occasional people passing by with vigilant eyes. , to prevent anyone from disturbing the conversation of important people behind you.
Such a scene is rare for many people, and some curious tourists squinted to try to see through the human wall of agents. In the vague field of vision, they seemed to see a young man and a hunchbacked old man standing side by side, seeming to be talking about something.
"When I handed over the Memorial Plaza project to you, it was more to fill the bill. Haaland certainly didn't expect that you would invest so much manpower and material resources in a flashy project."
Looking up at the majestic monument standing in front of him, Yang Tianyi raised his hand to touch the complex carvings with a humanistic feel on the pedestal of the monument. Then he smiled casually and looked at the former President of North America and the current Group North America. The Governor said: "I feel ashamed to say that it is obviously a memorial park built for the group, but this is my first time to visit here."
"The leader joked, your status is so noble, it is our greatest honor to come here despite your busy schedule and take a look at the works created by North American artists and engineers. As long as this park can get a positive comment from you , in my opinion their work is not in vain.”
Maybe others don't know it, but the Governor of North America, who personally supervised the entire project from start to finish, knew full well the actual cost of the memorial park.
In order to accommodate more statues, gardens and memorials, and to put this unprecedented masterpiece in the history of architecture on the altar with no upper limit on cost, the architects and artists of the North American Alliance poached an incomparable piece of land from the Bureau of Land Management. It is a vast land, and they even did not hesitate to bulldoze the houses where more than 100,000 residents have lived for half their lives.
Thanks to the full compensation directly paid by the government, these residents happily moved out of their houses, and there was no forced land acquisition. This made the group personnel responsible for supervising the construction project very happy and recorded it in the report submitted to Yang Tianyi.
After hundreds of large-scale construction machines leveled the land, which was already of immeasurable value, the designers responsible for designing the memorial park planning scheme were pleasantly surprised to find that they had a blank picture that had only appeared in their dreams before.
After months of construction by mechanical construction teams, around the clock, and the efforts of thousands of top artists in various fields, this building is ten times larger than Central Park in Manhattan, New York, and is filled with various art treasures. The grand memorial square was presented to the group's acceptance personnel by officials of the North American Alliance.
When they saw the more than 300-meter-high statue of the leader in the center of the square, enlarged to the same proportion as Yang Tianyi himself, and the gorgeous theaters and memorial halls scattered throughout the park, even the most demanding inspector had to give it a thumbs up in the acceptance report. "Stars Park" is highly rated.
But this alone is not enough to prove the success of the Stars Park, because thousands of tourists who heard about the completion of the park are coming to North America through various ways and means to have a sneak peek.
Half a month ago, as the first batch of tourists to receive free tickets, these lucky people stood at the entrance of the park, facing the rising sun and looking into the distance at the tall figure holding a scale in his left hand and a sharp sword in his right hand, and pressed the shutter. I did not forget to pay my highest respect to this statue, which cost tens of thousands of tons of metal and stone.
After groups of tourists poured into the park and dispersed, they found that the most eye-catching thing in the park was the scale held by the leader's statue in his left hand. On both sides were the earth and a dark golden star that would shine brightly at night. Pentagram.
Regarding the meaning behind this statue, the robot tour guide responsible for introducing visitors to the park enthusiastically answered their questions.
The earth and stars on the scale tray mean that Yang Tianyi, chairman of Qunxing Group, founder of the World Parliament, co-leader of the world's seven major governorates, and a progressive leader who leads human civilization towards the starry sky, will always stick to his heart and remember that he founded Qunxing Group. The promise I made in my heart.
"Humanity cannot lose Qunxing Group, just like the solar system cannot live without the sun. As the chairman of Qunxing Group, I solemnly promise to you that the group will treat every citizen of the earth fairly who contributes to the progress of civilization. No matter you are the lowest worker, Or you may be an official with many things to deal with. In my eyes, you are all human beings in essence, and you are all the ones I and the Stars Group serve."
Listening to the ups and downs of the mechanical tour guide's narration, many tourists who believed deeply in it shed tears of emotion, and even fainted from excitement about this great promise. Fortunately, there is a complete medical security system in the park. Within half a minute, a medical team affiliated with Qunxing Group came to take him away for treatment.
However, Yang Tianyi came here not to personally listen to his image in the minds of tourists. Although this is also important, he has plenty of time to slowly realize the benefits that the former brings to him.
Looking at the old man beside him who nodded and bowed, Yang Tianyi patted his back and said softly: "I will only ask the question once, so you listen carefully."
"Who gave the order for the Mars exploration team and more than 300 civilians to land on Uranus Space City first?"
Through the other party's determined tone and declarative question, Thomas Washington, the governor of North America, knew that the matter had been exposed. However, in order to save his official career, he still bite the bullet and replied: "I can't answer your question for the time being. I hope you can." Give me a day to investigate, and I will definitely find out this guy who deserves to go to hell after one day."
"Oh, Washington, Washington..."
After hearing such an insincere answer, Yang Tianyi shook his head, looked at the beads of sweat on the old man's forehead, and said with some pity: "Your ability is not bad, which can be seen from the completion of the global integration project assigned to the North American Governor-General. It can be seen that you are indeed doing your best to serve the group."
Thomas' tense nerves relaxed slightly after hearing this. Before he could think about who to put on the scapegoat stool this time, Yang Tianyi's next sentence directly pronounced his death sentence.
"Starting today, you are no longer the Governor of the Viceroyalty of North America. I will give you six hours to complete the transfer of power. After six hours, if I don't see you reading your resignation letter on TV, the Washington family will become history. .”
Looking at the rickety figure of the old man who seemed to have aged twenty years in an instant, Yang Tianyi carefully straightened his posture, saying that he knew from the beginning that there was a secret political group within the North American Alliance, and most of its members were immersed in the glitz of the past and could not extricate themselves. Politicians and wealthy people try to influence the fair decisions of the group and the world parliament through small means that cannot be put on the table.
Considering the social status of these people, I have never used any other means of dissuading them other than verbal warnings.
The reason why Yang Tianyi and Thomas are standing here is not only because he doesn't like to use civilians as cannon fodder, but also because these guys who have repeatedly tested the blade have finally touched their taboos, the Star Group for which he has worked so hard. .
This time, their behavior violated their own bottom line.
Since the communication between the Mars Immigration Agency and the fleets of various countries was artificially interrupted, he could easily see the other party's intentions - these insects who usually hide in the shadow of the group wanted to secretly explore the Uranus space city and use it before the second fleet returned to the solar system. Obtain technology or weapons that are enough to subvert the group's rule.
As far as he knew, North American Governor Thomas Washington had always been aware of the existence of this secret group, but had never explicitly supported them. At most, he had provided some political convenience for them. Therefore, he who cherishes talents came up with the idea of giving this person a second chance. Unfortunately, Thomas's choice disappointed him.
"Rumble..."
As a thunder sounded in the distance, the sky that was clear just now was suddenly shrouded in layers of dark clouds. Yang Tianyi looked at the dimming sky and the stars that suddenly lit up in the hands of the statue, raised his head and thought for a while before giving the order.
"It's time to end this farce. The Army Department will immediately arrest all dangerous elements on the list. No one will be missed. In addition, a squadron will be sent to Uranus to assist the evacuation of the exploration team members, blockers."
"Kill without mercy!"
