Chapter 15 Race against time
Ming Chenhai mentioned Academician Murong. Of course, Long Xingyi remembered that he gave Long Xingyi a "certificate of innocence" from a technical perspective. Now, Long Xingyi is still a little grateful when he mentions it.
"According to satellite detection, after Murong Shaokang's spacecraft was shot down, he urgently landed in Huaiyang Town on the edge of the desert. I see your trajectory, and he is also heading there. The spacecraft that responded to yours arrived in an hour, rescued Academician Murong, and boarded the spacecraft before the Skynet plan restarts!" Ming Chenhai ordered.
"Yes!" Lei Ling replied, then looked around and looked at the people around him, one veteran, two new recruits, and two technicians... Such a team was a bit reluctant to go to unknown terrain to carry out search and rescue missions. But after the order was given, he had to obey.
"I heard that Academician Murong has some important information to share with us, which is important information about the 'Judgement Day', so we must do our best to rescue the intact Academician Murong." Ming Chenhai's expression was extremely serious.
"I have done the search and rescue mission before. I'm farting with you!" Yin Zhendong's stubbornness broke out again.
"That... the signal is not very good! Then I'll hang up first, Commander." Long Xingyi quickly covered Yin Zhendong and hung up the phone.
"Now we have an extra hour, and the destination remains unchanged. Let's go!" Lei Ling said.
When the hope was ignited again, everyone seemed to have the strength again. Several people got up from the ground together, looked at the burial place of their comrades behind them, and set out to continue their journey.
20 minutes later, Lei Ling's team finally climbed up to the high platform and arrived outside the gate of Huaiyang Town. Everyone was resting outside the gate.
"The defense of townships is not as high as that of cities. If strange beasts invade, I'm afraid the town will be hell on earth at this time. After entering Huaiyang Town, we must be more cautious." Lei Ling delivered his pre-war speech.
"Just just now, the commander-in-chief sent my PC the location of the crash site. We searched around here as the center, and we should be able to find Academician Murong soon?" Long Xingyi suggested.
Lei Ling nodded, "Be careful."
Several people wore their respective mechas and had already been destroyed in the town gate.
Judging from the shops and light signs on both sides of the street, this place should have been a prosperous town in the past, but now only the dull puppets walking on the street.
"There are only puppets, and I haven't seen any trace of the undead yet. It seems that only alien fighting beasts are invading here." Yin Yuting whispered.
Lei Ling walked in front of the team, staring at the front, and said through the communication system inside the mask: "Try to use laser guns. Ordinary rifles are too noisy and are easy to alarm the enemy. Try not to trigger large-scale attacks before the rescue ship arrives."
Long Xingyi looked at the positioning on the PC, pointed to a smokey place in front of him and said, "It should be there, the crashed spaceship."
The six-man team was moving quickly and quietly as if they were playing "Resident Evil", only using a laser gun to clear out a few puppets that blocked the road when necessary.
Even so, the number of puppets on the road is still increasing. It may be because of the presence of strangers, or the sound of the spaceship hitting the ground earlier. The closer the spaceship lands, the more puppets there will be.
"When I walked for so long, why didn't I see a strange beast?" Long Xingyi became more and more suspicious and finally couldn't help asking.
"Can't you... go for a nap?" Luo Bing guessed timidly.
Everyone present didn't say anything, but Long Xingyi laughed out loud. "Girl, are you here to act cute?" Luo Bing smiled foolishly and stopped talking.
After walking for a while, several people finally saw the crashed spacecraft in a small open space. The hull of the spacecraft left a long gully on the originally flat road, with stones on both sides. The head of the spacecraft had penetrated deeply into a house. Like Long Xingyi and his spacecraft, the stern was also burning with unfinished flames and thick black smoke.
"Let's go in and take a look first, and move quickly. If you are ambushed by a strange beast here, you will be unable to survive." Lei Ling said.
At this time, Pei Xiling suddenly pointed to a puppet in the distance and said, "Look! That puppet is wearing the uniform of the pilot of our command center. It seems that the personnel in the spacecraft have been attacked."
"...And the strange beast is nearby, maybe it is lying ambushing and staring at us." Long Xingyi expressed his premonition.
Lei Ling thought for a while and said, "But people still need to be saved. Let's act quickly. If you find Murong Shaokang's puppet on the road, you will stop the action directly and find a safe place to wait for rescue. If you don't find the puppet he has turned into, you will have to go in and check it."
"Yes, if you live, what if you are still alive?" Yin Zhendong finished speaking, looking at the dense group of puppets in the distance, and sighed. He also knew that the chance of an intellectual surviving in such an environment is not high.
After preparing for a while, the few people dispersed in fan-shaped teams and covered each other to advance. Along the way, they used laser guns and laser swords to kill the puppet army blocking the road, but they never found any traces of Murong Shaokang.
The team arrived near the spacecraft, and the cabin door had fallen off the hull, but it seemed to have been manually reinforced and hidden at the door. Yin Zhendong and Long Xingyi stepped forward to move the cabin door, and a scattered black smoke from the object hit the face.
"Long Xingyi, you know Academician Murong, Team Yin and I are observing outside, you can go in and search! Come out as soon as possible." Lei Ling said to Long Xingyi.
Long Xingyi nodded, lowered his body and got into the cabin, and Yin Yuting and others also entered the spacecraft.
"Can this pair of mechas help search for survivors?" Long Xingyi asked Yin Yuting.
As soon as he finished speaking, a line of text was displayed on the mask: Signs of life were found. Then a red human-shaped outline appeared on the edge of a row of seats in front of the cabin on the mask, and a line of words were displayed next to it: "Signs of life: Weak".
"I'll check the communication system." Pei Xiling said that, and then led Luo Bing straight towards the cab.
Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting walked cautiously to the vital body detected by the mecha with guns.
It was indeed Academician Murong, but his situation seemed not optimistic. Murong Shaokang's abdomen seemed to have been bitten by wild animals, leaving behind a large and uneven hole, and blood was slowly flowing out of the wound. Murong Shaokang himself was already dying.
When Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting saw it, they immediately put down their guns and ran over.
"Academician Murong!" Yin Yuting shook Murong Shaokang's body.
Murong Shaokang slowly opened his eyes, saw two pairs of mechas wearing masks in front of him, and asked, "You are..."
Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting lowered their heads to avoid the thick smoke above, took off the cover below, and suddenly a burnt smell of flesh came to their noses. Long Xingyi endured the burning smell and said to Murong Shaokang: "It's us! Academician Murong."
Murong Shaokang could still vaguely recognize Long Xingyi and Yin Yuting, "Ah...you, thank you..."
At this moment, Lei Ling's voice suddenly came to the helmet: "Not good! There is an ambush! Retreat quickly!"
When Murong Shaokang heard this, he suddenly used all his strength to grab Long Xingyi's arm: "Conspiracy! Tell the Commander-in-Chief...Judgement Day...Conspiracy..." After saying this incomplete sentence, he collapsed limply in the seat like a breathless balloon, and never woke up again.
At this time, Pei Xiling and Luo Bing came out of the cab, "The communication system is still useful! I have just contacted Star Covenant, and the spacecraft is already on the way."
Yin Zhendong was not very happy when he heard this through mecha communication outside the spacecraft. "According to the original plan, they will take more than ten minutes to arrive, and we may not be able to hold on for more than ten minutes!"
"Let's go! Go out and take a look." Long Xingyi said, then looked back at Murong Shaokang's cold body, "Do we want to bring Academician Murong's body back?"
"It's better to cremate it on the spot!" Yin Yuting said, "or he will become a puppet like those outside in a short while."
Long Xingyi nodded and, together with Pei Xiling, moved Murong Shaokang's body to the stern of the spaceship and threw it into the flames. He stared silently for a few seconds, as if he could hear the hissing and low growling of the puppet outside in the flames.
Long Xingyi turned around and was about to go out with the others to assist Lei Ling and the others, but Lei Ling and Yin Zhendong had already come back first. "The firepower is not enough! Hurry up, block all gaps, don't let them in! Wait for the firepower support of the rescue spacecraft."
So the six people guarded both sides, relying on the spacecraft cabin as a barrier, waiting for rescue.
There were more and more alien beasts outside, and many alien beasts were lying on the outer wall of the spacecraft, scratching the iron sheet outside the spacecraft with their sharp claws, trying to dig a hole. The others rushed to the two gaps and were repelled by the firepower of several people in the spacecraft.
The time here seemed to be extremely long. Several people tried their best to repel the strange beasts outside, but their gunshots attracted more ferocious beasts from a distance. A loud roar came from a distance, and everyone's hearts were suddenly pinched.
"It's the mother body!" Lei Ling said, "When will the spaceship arrive? If the mother body comes, we can't defend at all!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard an explosion outside the cabin, which shocked several people almost tinnitus. However, the short tinnitus could not stop their joy.
The smoke of gunpowder dissipated slightly, and Long Xingyi and Yin Zhendong were the first to get out of the cabin and looked up. As they wished, a spacecraft fired high-energy laser cannons above them at the strange beasts around them.
The high-energy laser cannons on the spacecraft are different from the conventional laser guns on the earth. They are powerful. Under the strait of the high-energy laser cannons, the strange beasts around them turned into ashes. The spacecraft covered the six people on the ground and talked to Leiling through the communication system. "I am the pilot of the rescue No. 1, Commander of Leiling, please quickly board the ship after we land. There is a strange beast nest around, and more scarlet scorpions are also rushing in this direction. I am afraid I can't handle it if I'm too late."
Chapter completed!