【Chapter 202】Repeat! After listening to the first half of Xiao Ai's explanation, Du Jin understood why the reception airport was in such a remote location. As for the distance between it and the residential area, he himself took the initiative to shrink the patrol area to obtain better safety. He explained himself due to the environment, but Xiao Ai's second half of the solution made Du Jin instinctively aware of something strange: "Something's wrong, why did the garrison team leave just when I was about to arrive? That triggered the communication The delayed failure was too coincidental, and in the current environment, how dare Zhang Jin get into a car and start the journey without an escort. I can trust him, if he really is One of the internal agents of the Unity Sect, there were many opportunities to kill me before. Now it is too late to follow an entire airborne regiment to take action. But if it were not him, then could these coincidences be just my imagination? Maybe I Because the previous attacks frightened him into persecution paranoia?" Du Jin could only comfort himself. His speculations were caused by the anxiety and shadows accumulated in the past, although his intuition strongly reminded him that the truth may not be the case. ........... Of course, the most important point is that he is based on his trust in the black blood seal. In his opinion, if Zhang Jin or the people around him are really affected by the blood seal, The black blood mark will inevitably react, at least it will make Du Jin feel alert. But now, apart from the anxiety and worry in his heart, the black blood mark in his mind has no clear feedback or fluctuation, so Du Jin thinks that he is overdoing it. nervous.
At this time, in a place that Du Jin could not detect, that is, at the post that was still a short distance away from the hover vehicle where he was, a soldier on duty was holding a weapon and leisurely watching the road remain unchanged. The scenery, counting from the time when his younger brother was sent here, has not had any unusual and comfortable time for three months, which made him instinctively relax the vigilance that he was initially assigned here. After all, a person is allowed to maintain 12 It’s very difficult to stay focused for an hour, let alone three months.
At this time, he was thinking about which holographic game he should finish when he returns to the camp after changing guard in four hours. As a die-hard game fan, he can play his favorite games in his free time and enjoy the experience the game shows him. Experiencing Second Life in the world is the best way to relax. But at this moment, the game characters in his mind were instantly distorted, and then a world seemed to suddenly change in front of his eyes.
Everything turned extremely red, as if it had just been sprinkled with countless blood. Raindrops fell from the sky, but when he picked up his hand and caught it, he saw that they were some kind of insects with tiny twisting bodies. These insects were falling. When it reached the palm of his hand, it seemed that it suddenly came to life, and it immediately wormed its way into the soldier's palm. The skin seemed to be non-existent in front of this blood-red bug. It instantly entered the soldier's flesh and blood, and then he felt Something began to squirm in the palm of his hand, and then began to move along his blood vessels to his arms and even his whole body.
The soldier immediately realized that something was wrong with the insect-like appearance all over his body. He turned around and wanted to shout for help or warn his comrades, but only then did he realize that those creepy unknown larvae were not only worming their way into his palms. , and more have invaded his body from his head, neck and any exposed skin on his body. What makes him even more puzzled is that the exoskeleton armor he wears is obviously closed, so why can it invade? within one's own body.
But even if he thought about this clearly, he couldn't avoid the increasingly serious feeling of expansion in his throat.
"Facts", at this time he could only utter some slight murmurs, but other than that, he could no longer utter any valuable syllables. This soldier gradually could not control himself to maintain a standing posture and could only crawl on the ground. , he stretched out his hands and climbed hard towards the gate of the outpost. This distance that originally seemed to him to be only a few steps away was now as far away and difficult as climbing to the sky.
"No! I...I can't..." However, just a few seconds after he had this sense of confrontation, his consciousness completely fell into chaos. Dark, but in reality, his body only hardened for a moment, and his eyes changed from the original panic to a frightening calm.
"He" looked at the electromagnetic rifle in his hand, smiled and threw it to the ground, then turned and walked towards the gate of the post. It was obvious that this soldier was taken over by some powerful erosion. , his consciousness was not pulled into a virtual space that was separated from reality. When his true autonomous consciousness was consumed and swallowed up by unknown forces, his body in reality was already in the true sense.
"Change of ownership". After reading
After remembering "himself", the soldier walked out of his duty protection post and walked to the alloy explosion-proof door of the post. He easily passed the verification of the biometric system. As the explosion-proof door opened, a man with a monitoring room came out. The buffer room appeared in front of him, and a soldier in the monitoring room looked at the soldiers on duty outside.
The "teammates" came in and immediately asked through the paging device: "What's wrong? Did something happen outside?"
"Yes, I found some abnormalities. I need to report it to the captain immediately." The soldier in the control room nodded, and then followed the preparation process for contact with weapons and said: "Okay, no problem, put your weapon... .....Hmm? Where are your weapons?"
"Ha...In order to report in time, I left the gun at the protection post."
"You boy, it is discipline to keep a gun in your hand. If the captain finds out about this, do you think he will skin you!" The soldier spread his hands to show that it didn't matter, and the soldier in the control room just shook his head. Shaking his head and saying nothing more, after completing the inspection of some additional items and touching the exoskeleton armor on his body, the gate at the exit of the buffer room slowly rose, and a proud smile appeared on the corner of the soldier's mouth, and then A strong-looking man appeared from one end of the corridor. When he saw the soldier on duty who had just returned from the outside, he immediately said angrily: "What are you doing here? It was notified from above that there was about to be a hovercraft carrying important personnel. The car has passed, who will check the surrounding safety when you come back now? I think you think the training is too light and too little, right?"
"Important person?" The soldier lowered his head and thought for a few seconds, then raised his head and asked, "Is this important person Dr. Du Jindu?"
"Yes, so... hmm? How do you know..." The captain immediately realized that the team member in front of him seemed to have information that was not in line with his authority. , the name Du Jin was learned from the encrypted military order he had just received. The military order also said that they should take out combat personnel and vehicles to accompany them until the response troops dispatched from the station gathered before returning to the post. It is inevitable that his subordinates in front of him knew this. Too many. Out of a soldier's instinct, the captain put his hands on his waist and asked attentively. But before he could finish speaking, he suddenly saw the other person's eyes turn red, and then the captain felt something in his mind. A voice appeared in the middle, asking him to surrender to the men in front of him.
Before he could react, a burst of severe pain spread throughout his body as he breathed. In front of his eyes, he seemed to see a sea of blood, and a wave that almost covered the entire pain swept toward him. He immediately He turned around and ran, but the wave finally covered him, and then his eyes became dark. Then the captain returned to upright from the hunched state, but there was obviously a trace of red in his eyes.
\"Gather everyone in the front hall.\"
"Yes!" The captain did not question again, but agreed obediently, but his expression became obviously much numb, as if he was wearing a poor mask, and the soldier was completely controlled. The relaxed expressions formed a great contrast. Then, the remaining five soldiers appeared in the front hall. However, when they just appeared in the sight of the first infected soldier, their bodies all began to violently tremble. Tremble.
A few seconds later, three soldiers fell to the ground and never got up, and bright red blood flowed from their facial features. The remaining two soldiers stood numbly, as if the death of their comrades in front of them had nothing to do with them. , the first soldier looked at the scene in front of him and said mockingly: "Well, it seems that I still haven't fully digested the power given to me by the Holy Spirit. Of course, these frequency band jamming devices in this colony are really annoying, otherwise I can let It doesn't matter if the number of people controlled reaches four or more, at least these are enough to influence the Holy Seal.
"Corrupt" colonies, you lowly humans deserve to be thankful and honored. "After that, he asked the captain to come to him, and then dark red viscous blood seeped out from his fingers through the skin. The blood quickly turned into a kind of constantly twisting under the impression of some kind of power. Fleshworm, this is the same as what the soldier saw before he was controlled
The strange bug that appeared in "Insect Rain" was quite similar. Under his control, the captain took the bug respectfully and carefully. As soon as it reached his hand, the larvae turned into blood and passed through his hand. The skin seeps into it.
After a few seconds, the captain's expression became vivid. He immediately walked past the soldiers in front of him to the monitoring room, used his authority to open the external communication panel, and then said in the same majestic tone as usual: "Qingjie, open the monitoring room." The door of the room is open, and we are all performing our mission!" The soldier in the control room naturally discovered everything through the internal monitoring. He responded in a very panic tone: "No! You are not the captain, you... "You are under control. I can't open the door. I want to call for reinforcements, yes, call for reinforcements!" Then the other party took the initiative to end the communication access, and then hurriedly began to use the management authority of the control room to apply to contact the resident headquarters, but in reality This undoubtedly made him desperate. If he wanted to make direct contact with the station, he needed to be authorized by the captain of his team, because this could prevent the station from being controlled and sending out wrong induction signals, which would cause the station to make wrong judgments. After all, once an emergency occurs, the joint The command organization immediately activated the emergency response mechanism, quickly completed the transition from peacetime to wartime, unified planning and coordination of rescue operations, and commanded military and local forces in different areas.
Regularly hold joint military-civilian meetings to jointly assess the situation. The primary responsibility of the Airborne Corps is to protect key personnel in residential areas from harm. If they are misled, it is likely to cause some changes in the overall security circle, allowing the enemy to take advantage of the situation. Therefore, the reporting mechanism of the outpost is to Before the vital signs of the garrison team leader disappear, the communication channel with the residential area garrison headquarters must be authorized by the team leader, unless the team leader is killed in action... Of course, if the team leader is killed in action, The garrison headquarters will naturally discover this situation, and there will be no need to report it manually.
You must know that although this residential area is garrisoned by the Second Airborne Corps, the large population in the Blood Seal World was devastated by the two previous wars, which led to the collapse of the entire human race.
The "factory gears" are damaged or even missing. First of all, the quantity and quality of the population have an impact on the source and quality of soldiers. Sufficient supply of soldiers and high scientific and cultural levels of soldiers are the basic guarantee for victory in war.
Of course, this is also a direct result. The war will also have a huge impact on population development. The most direct impact is the death of a large number of people, including the deaths of combatants and non-combatants caused by hunger, poverty and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the war. deaths, greatly increasing the mortality rate of the population.
And because most of the dead people are male, it will also lead to an imbalance in the gender ratio of the population and marital problems in a certain period after the war.
The most significant impact is the lack of a large number of effective forces. After all, in this era of the Blood Seal World, which soldier is not an elite?
Especially the soldiers and various technical arms of the space fleet, they are definitely the mainstay talents, but what is helpless is that these elite soldiers and technicians experienced the first battle of the camp led by country m. The human civil war, and then the rebellion of the AI "Trojan Horse" created by country m, which was playing with fire and self-immolation, swept across the entire solar system and other colonies touched by humans, which caused their casualty rate to be extremely high, not to mention A large number of civilians died in the two battles... Of course, it is undeniable that the scale and speed of population migration increased during and during the war and for a certain period before and after the war. To a certain extent, the geographical structure of the population is rapidly changing. In addition, the war will also have a significant impact on the birth rate and natural population growth rate.
The war has reduced the marriage rate of the population, and the increase in separation between couples has led to a reduction in the birth rate. Coupled with the unstable life and poor environment, the high infant mortality rate has reduced the natural growth rate of the population. In addition, a series of policies now promoted by the Unitarian Church and the Interstellar Federation The incredible system caused the population to recover even more slowly.
Although there are many human colonial satellites and colonial planets in the Blood Seal World, the total population can only reach less than 10 billion people. If this is distributed in a densely packed colonial area, the number of people in that area will be even rarer. Nowadays, due to the policy and stance of the former Xia Kingdom, the total population of Ganymede ranks among the top three among all colonial satellites. But even so, there are only less than 800 million people, and Ganymede, as a former One of the last remaining bases of the Xia Kingdom could only make everything within the colony self-sufficient as much as possible, which resulted in its manufacturing system and its ancillary industries being very comprehensive.
The comprehensive cost naturally requires a large amount of labor and elites. After all, after the precedent of AI rebellion, it is no longer possible to use highly intelligent AI to be responsible for production. These people account for 800 million of the people. For the most part, there will naturally be an even greater shortage of soldiers in the fleet that will be allocated next. In terms of organizational structure, we can only develop in the direction of improving the combat literacy of individual soldiers and cultivating heavy armor strength, so don't The Second Airborne Corps sounds very large, but in fact its real effective strength is not
"Being worthy of the name" can only be said to be one-tenth or even a fraction of a legion of the Zhongxia Kingdom in the modern world.
This is why there is only a seven-man team led by the captain stationed at each outpost. It’s not that they don’t have heavy weapons and heavy armor, it’s just that
"Raiders" attack, or
The method of "assimilation" was so unconventional that they had no time to use powered mechas and armored units to fight back, and were attacked and controlled by the unknown creatures. If the control room was not in an almost complete isolation situation, otherwise The soldier in the surveillance room cannot escape the fate of his captain and teammates......
"Damn! Damn! Captain, he is still alive, but he is no longer the same person in my memory. If I open the isolation door now, I will definitely become the next one of them, no! There is a high probability that it will be those three lying on the ground. "..." And now based on the situation he realized, his captain was controlled in some way that he didn't know the principle of, but the other party was indeed still alive, which made the monitor The officer felt a little desperate, but when he saw a helmet-shaped icon marked on the holographic map less than two kilometers away from his post, he suddenly thought of another way out: "Yes! You can send an early warning to the No. 2 outpost. It can't control all the checkpoints along the way so quickly, right! This will definitely work." Soon he cheered up, operated his equipment to make a call, and identified the identity and the corresponding person. After obtaining permission, the voice he had dreamed of finally appeared in the transponder: "This is Bird 2. The communication request has been received. If Shuren Post 1 hears it, please reply!"
"I am Treeman Post No. 1, please pay attention, we..." Before the surveillance officer could finish speaking, he suddenly saw that all the equipment panels in front of him were extinguished, and blood flowed from the The blood seeped out from various gaps in the equipment, and almost instantly a layer of blood accumulated on the floor of the control room, and it rose rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. With just one breath, the blood with a fishy smell was overflowing. His ankle.
"What is this? How could it be? No! I don't want to die here. I am the Treeman Post No. 1. Please note that we have encountered an abnormal attack. Everyone except me has been killed. Repeat... ....." The surveillance officer was naturally aware of the horror of everything in front of him. He stood up and tapped on the surveillance panel in front of him, repeating the warning words at the top of his lungs, hoping to let the No. 2 Post that he had just contacted know the situation here. , but there was no response from the entire monitoring room. At this time, the blood had already covered his waist, and he had to stand up on the chair. His survival instinct made him want to open the isolation door of the monitoring room, but he thought of the people outside the door. Those monsters in the appearance of his teammates would swarm in and take away his last hope. He gritted his teeth and controlled himself.
In his opinion, even if he did not explain the specific situation clearly before the equipment shut down abnormally, such an abnormal interruption is enough for the other party to notice that something is wrong. Even if he is going to die, he must provide a warning to the garrison. This is his mission. It was also his desire to make possible death worthwhile.
"Encountered...an abnormal attack...gugu...cough...everyone has been killed, Xiaobao...wuwu. .....Dad can no longer accompany you...to play with themes..." Even though the monitoring officer had already stood on the chair, the blood quickly covered it. Above his head, at the last moment, he thought of the promise he made to his daughter, promising that he would take her to a newly opened theme park on the surface to celebrate her birthday after this enlistment, but now, his intuition told him that he He was definitely going to break his promise. After saying his apology to his daughter, his consciousness fell into chaos amidst the suffocation caused by the blood... In reality, the communication panel was still normal. working, which constantly emits
"Shuren Post No. 1, please reply after hearing this!" in the interrogation room, but the monitor who had just established the communication loop was already lying on the chair, unable to give any reply. After the communication was interrupted, the entire monitoring room was left with only a strange feeling. of silence.
At the same time, the soldier outside the door unfolded, and a large amount of bloodshot eyes flashed past. He touched the isolation door of the control room in front of him with his hand, and first said seriously: "Unexpectedly, these things about Ganymede People have already developed this kind of frequency band isolation method." The next second, his slightly frowning brows relaxed, and he said in a mocking tone: "Haha...it's just a pity, Even so, trying to block the power of the Holy Seal is really wishful thinking. It is nothing more than missing a puppet. But since you have made the decision to resist the influence of the Holy Seal, you must be equipped to pay the price even if you hide behind the door. ,"
