However, this is not the time for a war of words.
Technically speaking, the Rainbow Virus has indeed been conquered. If this was a peaceful era, then even in the sewer-like eighth galaxy, the Rainbow Virus might not have serious consequences. But now it has reached the point where nutrition injections are exchanged for supplies. If a large-scale plague spreads, it is impossible to control the situation with Baiyinjiu's little manpower and material resources.
What's more terrible is that this skeleton man caused panic in the narrow alleys and crowded crowds. The frightened vendors crawled away from him. The screams and fear had already spread before the virus, with various forms. Strange carts and robots with insufficient intelligence collided into each other, blocking the narrow path and making it difficult to move even an inch, threatening to cause a stampede.
Lin Jingheng reached out and pushed Lu Bixing toward the corner. At the same time, he stepped on a sloping shed next to him and jumped up. He grabbed the outer window sill of the second floor and threw himself up with both hands. The person who was peering out of the window was so frightened by General Lin who suddenly jumped out that he sat down on the ground and ran away as if he had seen a ghost.
The broken window sill, which had been in disrepair for a long time, already had small cracks. It could not bear the weight of an adult man. Lin Jingheng stepped on it, and the cracks on the windowsill were already rustling and ready to bloom. The somewhat restrictive shirt did not affect his movements. Lin Jingheng only stayed on the window sill for a moment, and immediately used his strength to rush towards a broken flagpole a few steps away. After the window sill for his feet was destroyed in this way, less than half of it collapsed. , earth and rocks fell into the crowd, and those who were unlucky enough to be hit almost had the illusion that the world was turning upside down. They were afraid that the world would not be in chaos, so they started spreading rumors on the spot: "There was an earthquake!"
And the flagpole was not a sea-fixing needle. Under the huge impact, The iron flagpole was tilted unbearably. Lin Jingheng used the excellent balance unique to the Space Force to climb up the fallen flagpole. When he was almost near the top, the iron flagpole finally couldn't bear it anymore. The part connecting the bottom and the bracket broke and fell forward along the street. Like an extra tall pole in pole vaulting, Lin Jingheng was thrown out of people's heads, "flying" directly through the flow of people blocking the way, and smashed into the stairwell on the sixth floor of another small building.
Lin Jingheng held up her hands to absorb the shock, rolled into the stairwell, jumped to the top of the building in three steps and two steps, and chased the skeleton from above.
When the chaotic flow of people rushed in, Lu Bixing immediately picked up a little boy who had no time to run and raised it high above his head - when people were running forward in confusion, this kind of old boy who happened to be blocked in front of the crowd. Young, sick and disabled people are very easy to be pushed over, and once someone falls down, it will cause a domino-like effect in such a narrow street.
Humans, two-legged animals that cannot run very fast, are not much safer than a herd of wild horses if they trample over in a group.
"Shhh-" Lu Bixing smiled at the little boy who was about to cry. He placed him on a high place and hacked into the commercial street broadcast like a personal terminal connected to Galaxy City's internal network. Then, he put a The recording applet was used as a microphone. He took out a small pocket gun/gun from his pocket, switched it to blasting mode, removed the silencer, fired three shots into the sky, and said loudly through the radio: "Stay where you are, don't allow it." Move! We have antibodies to the rainbow virus!"
The crowd was silenced by the sudden loud noise for a moment.
Lu Bixing took a breath, and his voice came from the commercial street radio: "Hello everyone, the Silver Ninth Guards Corps of the Alliance Silver Fortress has now retaken the eighth galaxy. It has just taken over the anti-Ukrainian base three hundred miles away and will soon rebuild the eighth galaxy. Galaxy order, please don't panic. Emergency antibodies to the rainbow virus are one of the military's standing drugs. If you have any abnormal reactions, please seek medical treatment immediately and be isolated and sent to the base for treatment."
He spoke every word with a sense of purpose. The sound was clear and powerful without being overbearing, and the crowd's panic gradually subsided.
"This is a narrow alley, and it is easy to cause a stampede. Let me reiterate, don't panic, spread out freely, and evacuate in an orderly manner," Lu Bixing said. "Rainbow virus was no longer a terminal disease a hundred years ago. Please believe that the Alliance We will never give up any citizen... Please, let me go."
The people of Galaxy 8 have always been immune to the alliance's false rhetoric, but when they saw Lu Bixing walking through the crowd, he walked quickly and not in a hurry. Going against the flow of people, he chased in the direction where the skeleton was escaping, as if he didn't take the Rainbow Virus seriously at all.
This indifferent attitude is an effective tranquilizer.
"Bullshit citizen, I've never heard of it. I'm a public servant, not a citizen."
"What did he just say? What kind of army occupied the base? Did he mean that we changed the government again?"
"This son of a bitch government is worse than the government. " I change my socks frequently. "
"Who are you? What do you do in the alliance? Do you think your words matter?"
Lu Bixing smiled and laughed, not getting angry or responding - he cursed and pointed at him when he was in the mood. Reason is back, and finally I won't trample the child to death.
The pointing crowd gave him a passage, and Lu Bixing passed by smoothly. He saw Lin Jingheng waving to him not far away, but the skeleton had disappeared.
Lu Bixing was stunned: "What, it's a space field?"
Lin Jingheng contacted Bai Yinjiu at the base, said something to the other end, and nodded to Lu Bixing - the skeleton man just now was so frightened that he fell from the sky that he actually activated The space field escaped.
The ground space field is similar to the space jump, but the principle is different. The ground space field can be said to be a torture. Who knows who wears it? The strong ones have to peel off their skin, not to mention that the skeleton man's vagina is rotten. It became like that.
"Are you crazy?" Lu Bixing raised his wrist and quickly collected the remaining energy radiation. "If he passed through that state, he would have to be quartered by five horses before he hit the ground. What is the time for the opponent to jump to the space field?"
Lin Jingheng: "Standard time, thirteen "Fifty minutes and twenty-eight seconds."
"Okay, you wait." Lu Bixing rolled up his sleeves and quickly simulated an energy attenuation model on his personal terminal. Time seemed to have frozen in his hands, and he followed the traces. The vague line quickly restored the space field opened by the skeleton and gave a precise description - the ground space field usually has eleven to thirty-six parameters. On Lu Bixing's personal terminal, a message about the space field popped up. Seventeen parameters.
"The destination has been deduced." Lu Bixing passed the coordinates to him, "I will send them to the captain of the Tulan Guard at the same time."
Lin Jingheng sneaked out of Wulan College, stole Zhan Lu and sent Lu Xin to escape, using the space field, because space Fields are extremely difficult to track and are a major safety hazard. Interference signals targeting space fields are activated in many places. He has never seen such a coquettish operation.
"Nothing," Lu Bixing shrugged, "This trick can only be used within three minutes after the space field is turned on. If it exceeds three minutes, the energy has almost decayed, and the surrounding climate conditions will also change accordingly. The tracking and positioning error often exceeds fifty kilometers. Then It makes no sense."
Lin Jingheng's remote-controlled mecha stopped at the nearest intersection and entered the coordinates of Lu Bixing's location: "Has this technology been patented?"
"No," Lu Bixing said, "This is what I wanted to do when I was young. "It's just a joke when I run away from home."
"Okay, I'll buy it out and pay you royalties every year based on Class A military technology."
"Wow," Lu Bixing followed him into the mecha, "General, then I will. Does this count as being taken care of by you?"
After he finished speaking, the mecha car seemed to be frightened by his words and "flyed" directly to the ground. The huge acceleration hit the people in the car side by side on the backs of their seats. superior.
Lin Jingheng was speechless for too many times and was silent for a while. Whether it was anger or helplessness, she actually smiled.
Then, he dug out the small storage compartment on the roof of the car and saw that there was only a stick of space field balancer left in it, so he stabbed it at Lu Bixing like lightning.
As soon as Lu Bixing got over his addiction, he was caught off guard and received a shot. He said, "Mr. Lin, if you were in a nursing school with your level, you would have to repeat the grade for eight years!
" "Lin Jingheng said, "Sit still, I'll activate the space field."
Everything around him began to distort, and the energy was changing violently. The instruments on the mecha car made all kinds of harsh noises, and Lu Bixing felt that his internal organs were shaking. After being punched in, the injected balancing agent took effect quickly, isolating the sad feelings, and he seemed to have turned into a rubber man that could be pulled at will.
A few seconds later, the mecha vehicle passed through the space field and landed at the new coordinates. It immediately sounded an overheating alarm and almost jumped on the ground before stopping, its energy bottoming out.
Lin Jingheng had experienced the semi-finished space field quadruple jump with her mortal body, so she didn't care about the impact. She just staggered when she got out of the car and stood firm without waiting for Lu Bixing to help her.
From the map, the location of the base is southwest of Galaxy City, and this should be north of Galaxy City.
This seemed to be an abandoned factory site. There was a man-made ditch in front of the two of them, with a layer of unprocessed garbage floating on it. The dilapidated door was open, and next to it stood a six or seven-meter-high bell tower. The station was full of crows.
The clock on the bell tower is still running faithfully. It is different from the "standard time" in Lin Jingheng and others' hands. It is the "private time" of Daystar. Because each planet has a different autobiographical cycle, each planet actually has its own way of keeping time, and "standard time" is only used by arrogant interstellar travelers.
Lu Bixing himself likes to play with all kinds of strange technologies, so he often feels that others have a few "secret weapons" in their pockets. Although he complains that the other person is crazy, he is still optimistic that the reason why the skeleton dares to pass through the space field with bare hands is Maybe it was because they had some black-tech props - such as a more stable balancer... until the two of them picked up the man's body under the big clock.
Countless crows were hovering over the carrion, salivating, but out of biological instinct, no one dared to come down and take the first bite.
Lin Jingheng put on her gloves and took off the skeleton's coat. She found that his spine seemed to have been broken into several pieces. His whole body was twisted in a strange posture. His left arm had basically rotted away. The impact he received when he landed on the ground was The joints that were barely connected were broken, and the forearm and hand bones fell more than ten meters away—it was found under the guidance of the crow.
"Why?" Lu Bixing asked incomprehensibly, "Did he...did he open the space field in a hurry without having time to hear what I said?"
Lin Jingheng said nothing.
When Lu Bixing shouted on the radio, they all actually heard it, and the skeleton opened the space field just after listening.
Because those high-sounding words were too wishful thinking, and both the people and the alliance were beautified, and everyone felt weird looking at each other.
The Charter of the Union stipulates that the Union will not abandon any citizen.
And the citizens of the eighth galaxy are not citizens.
Just like the Alliance collectively calls all outsiders "pirates", the eighth galaxy is a barbaric land between the "civilized world" and "pirates". The people of the eighth galaxy are not interstellar pirates who can be punished by everyone. , but they are barbarians who are inextricably linked to them - similar to the cannibal tribes that drink hair and blood, they are not my kind.
In the center of the alliance, everyone knows that the government of the Eighth Galaxy is symbolic, and its main task is to show off and make up the numbers. The anti-missile system in the capital city of Gloria was built more than a hundred years ago when Lu Xin just recovered the Eighth Galaxy. In one hundred and forty years, that thing has not been upgraded once despite the vicissitudes of life.
Due to the semi-autonomous status of the Eighth Galaxy, many taxes and fees are difficult to collect, and financial allocations from the alliance are intermittent. The government is often in a dilemma of having no money to pay wages. Lin Jingheng dug out a work permit from the dead body, which read "Secretary-General of the Central Government of the Eight Systems" written on it. It looked like someone bought at a flea market for five yuan to play house.
Lin Jingheng took off her gloves, dug out the emergency medical kit in the mecha, found a disinfectant spray gun, and cleaned up the virus-laden corpses: "If you are so sick, you don't hesitate to activate the space field and run here. You should have companions. I Go in and take a look, you wait here."
Lu Bixing didn't listen to him and followed him in.
Lu Bixing, who was still talking glibly just now, was silent for a long time. He stepped on the grassy ground and suddenly asked: "Lin, if you were still in the Silver Fortress when the pirates invaded on a large scale, would you give up the Eighth Route Army under the last resort?" Galaxy?"
"If I were still in the Silver Fortress, the interstellar pirates would not have entered the Alliance at all." Lin Jingheng paused and said bluntly, "As for the eighth galaxy, it is also the territory of the Alliance. But if necessary, we will not stick to it. A strategic temporary withdrawal is acceptable."
Lu Bixing: "If necessary, we will abandon the eighth galaxy like a desert, right? Not only you, the alliance will also choose this. , the ideology of the entire society thinks so."
Lin Jingheng acquiesced without comment.
"Because we are savages in the desert, and our position is unclear. When the Alliance comes, we are Alliance people, and when pirates come, we are pirates. Without souls and short wisdom, talking to us about the Alliance Charter and the Declaration of Freedom is just playing the piano to an ox." Lu Bixing nodded, deeply Take a breath and look at the desolate and distant night... Lin Jingheng is not a slick politician, and he won't do those big and unnecessary performances. And because he is used to being a bastard, he doesn't even bother to maintain the universal values of political correctness. He just wants to treat you as Our people basically only respect objective facts and say whatever they have to say.
Lu Bixing: "So...if the rainbow virus really breaks out on Morning Star, Baiyinjiu will evacuate directly and will not waste medical rescue...Forget it, you don't need to say it, I understand, of course."
Just like except for extreme animals Conservation organizations, no one believes that animals should have the same rights as humans - cats have no portrait rights, dogs have no sexual rights, lab rats have no right to free speech, and the most elite troops of the Alliance will not stay because of chicken plague. This is a given.
"The Silver Nine is the smallest unit among the Ten Silver Guards. It is a forward assault force. It does not have the quality of large-scale rescue and disaster relief, nor does it have the public coordination capabilities and material reserves," Lin Jingheng said flatly, "If there is an uncontrollable situation, The plague broke out, and direct evacuation was the only option. "
So it's best not to happen, he thought, using his personal terminal to connect to the mecha vehicle and turning on the virus monitoring on the shield.
However, the strange thing is that there is no big movement in the virus monitoring, but the armed alarm is on.
Lin Jingheng suddenly grabbed Lu Bixing's shoulder and pushed him aside. At the same time, the laser gun hit the place where Lu Bixing was standing, and Lin Jingheng's sleeves were swept black. He fired back, and a cry of pain came from behind the glass window of the abandoned factory. The two people quickly looked at each other and rushed in along the edge of the factory.
Lu Bixing kicked open the broken door of the factory building and saw a staggering man running around the corner, dripping with blood. The ulcerated skin on the back of his neck was obviously infected with the rainbow virus.
"Hey, wait a minute, we are not pirates from the Anti-Ukrainian Society," Lu Bixing called him, "There is no harm!"
The other party turned a deaf ear.
Lu Bixing: "You are from the Eighth Galaxy Alliance government, right?"
The man paused, turned his head warily, and pointed his gun at Lu Bixing shakily.