Chapter 428: Extermination Order (2)
"Then from then on, an abnormal situation occurred. We didn't investigate what happened specifically, but from that time on, there were many cases of hunter groups appearing on this continent of this planet. The front-line troops sent back a lot of video data, but when our people repelled the group and prepared to clean up the battlefield, they could only find some residual limbs, and couldn't find any active hunter groups at all. This is completely different from what we have encountered before. Moreover, it takes exactly one hour for them to appear and disappear each time. This is very strange. It doesn't seem like a portal that appeared randomly, but someone deliberately opened the portal and sent them to, or led them to, this continent of this planet."
As time went by, the locations of those portals became fixed, and those bizarre raids became much less frequent, but at the same time, the fixed portals that continued to be opened were continuously transporting deadly swarms of hunter creatures here, but at this time an extremely troublesome problem arose.
"Those groups of hunter creatures that appeared seemed to be in a different plane from us. Although our people could see them, they could not attack them. And although they could not attack our people after that, the state of those groups of creatures was not right."
"What do you mean?"
Hearing Xin's question, Xu raised the manipulator on his arm, ready to pass the message from the front-line soldiers to the team members. The team members understood what he was going to do, so Wu leaned close to Xu's ear and told him that all the equipment on everyone had disappeared.
"What... I get it. Your equipment... is damaged."
The implanted device suddenly disappeared, but the people did not bleed extensively, and even had no wounds. This was indeed not right. If this matter was reported back to the home planet or the military department, although the team members would not get into big trouble, they would have to wait for several months or even a year for an investigation. If the team had boarded another ship, they would definitely have been in trouble. Fortunately, they were now on their own ship, and their own military rank was not low.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the medical bay first to repair your equipment, and then go to the engineering area to get you a few new sets of armor. As for weapons, you can go to the armory to find them later. The location of the armory has not changed, but it has become a little bigger. The person in charge is still the same guy."
Leaving his guards in the cockpit, Xu took the team members to the medical area alone. Because of their identities, although their clothes were a little eye-catching, after all, in the eyes of others, this team had been missing for more than a year. In the absence of supplies, the armor and weapons were completely damaged, which made sense, especially under the current situation below. In fact, in the eyes of other crew members who saw the team members, being able to survive in such a situation and send out a distress signal was already a remarkable situation.
"You all should take a rest first, we have something to discuss."
"Yes, Captain."
Thanks to their usual efforts, everyone on the City Breaking Rock, from the navigator and first mate to the logistics maintenance worker, respected Xu as the captain. Unless the mother planet headquarters gave a direct order, on this gunboat, Xu's words were like an imperial decree. In fact, sometimes they were even more effective than an imperial decree. The medical staff in the No. 3 medical room where everyone was, were quickly dismissed by Xu and returned to their cabins to rest. Only the team members, Xu, Gloria, and Han Zu in the sealed container were left here.
Unlike the team members who focus on frontline combat and deep behind enemy lines, as the captain of the main gunboat, Xu may not be very good at combat, but he can do everything. Xu is also one of the few nobles in the Tig fleet who started from the grassroots and became a captain after many meritorious deeds. With his talent in command, he quickly sat in the captain's seat. Although he may look "weathered", Xu is actually not old, only in his early 30s. Before he joined the army, he was actually a doctor.
So naturally, for him, re-implanting the device manually was no problem at all, not to mention the automatic assistance equipment in the medical cabin. That was why he dared to send all the medical staff away. After all, the disappearance of the equipment was much more serious than the damage to the equipment.
First, everyone was placed in their respective medical cabins. Xu operated the control panel skillfully, and then personally mixed some necessary medicines. While he began to re-implant their equipment, he continued to chat with them. After more than ten minutes, everyone's equipment was re-implanted. The equipment had some minor upgrades, but the main system did not change much, so everyone's equipment was quickly debugged and reconnected to the unified network.
"Our equipment has been debugged."
"Very good. I have also revised the medical records. This will save you the trouble of being investigated by the Military Affairs Department. Where was I just now?"
"The hunter biota is in another dimension."
"Oh, yes. Although those hunter groups can be observed, they cannot attack or be attacked. Moreover, their status is completely wrong. Unlike usual, these hunter groups that emerge from the fixed portals are very quiet. They don't look for prey everywhere like usual. They just stand quietly beside the portals like a line. Because they are in another plane, their numbers are increasing. Before you return to the City Breaking Rock, did you see a large number of our troops?"
"Hmm, so they are planning to install particle bombs near those fixed portals? To destroy those fixed portals?"
"That's right, but the news I got from the front line is that the advance scouts have already detonated the particle bomb, but the effect is not good. It can only temporarily close the fixed portals. But after one or two hours, those fixed portals will reappear, so this operation has been interrupted. Now those troops entering the surface of the planet are recovering the ground troops and the minerals we harvested. It is estimated that it will be almost done in another one or two hours."
"But why did we still have a main gunboat entering the atmosphere? If those hunter creatures suddenly leave their plane, wouldn't the gunboat be vulnerable to attack?"
"I don't know about this either. The gunboat was originally located in another star zone and was temporarily transferred here. One of my contacts told me some information. It is said that the order for the gunboat was issued directly by the leader himself. So no one knows the specific content except the leader and related personnel. However, we did receive the order, but..."
"The order is a bit strange?"
"Well, I received a direct order from the Military Affairs Department, saying that if the gunboat is attacked, no support should be provided and it must evacuate to the outermost position of low-Earth orbit."
"Suicide Squad? But using a main gunboat as... Wait, why do I have a bad feeling about this?!"
Wu, who had a quick mind, quickly thought of two possibilities. After all, a main gunboat that had entered the center of danger could not get support. There were only two possibilities. One was that the gunboat's energy core was completely damaged and was about to explode. However, the gunboat was in good condition, and the hunter creatures did not appear in the air this time, so this possibility was untenable. Then there was only another possibility left.
"Extermination Order No. 3?!!"
"Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. Although I didn't get an exact explanation, it looks like this is the case."
It is easy to understand what the Extermination Order means, but according to the size and range of power, the Extermination Order of the Tig people is a complete set of final attack methods. There are 13 types in total. However, in fact, the Tig people have only researched 12 types and used 9 types. The No. 3 Extermination Order is one of them. However, in fact, the research on the last Extermination Order has been completed, but for safety reasons, no sane Tig people will formally assemble it when the No. 13 Extermination Order is not needed.
Extinction Order No. 3 is the lowest level in the Extinction Order mission. It affects not the entire planet, but part of a planet, most of the time half or one-third. After the execution of Extinction Order No. 3, the planet will not be completely destroyed, but there is a 3% chance that the planet's surface will be completely shattered. Generally, Extinction Order No. 3 is basically used in some events that require underground minerals or facilities, but the surface of the planet is occupied by the enemy, and it is difficult to recapture the surface through conventional operations. The construction technology of the Tig people is very powerful, and many important underground facilities can withstand low-level Extinction Orders to a certain extent. For Extinction Order No. , some large facilities can basically remain unscathed as long as there is no part of them on the surface.
The current state of this planet is just right for using Extinction Order No. 3. The actual form of Extinction Order No. 3 is a giant mine that requires all the energy of the main gunboat. Yes, that's right, it's not a bomb, it's a mine. So it needs someone to install it, but because of its large size, almost a quarter of the gunboat, the transportation of Extinction Order No. 3 must be carried out by the main gunboat or a large military transport ship. However, the situation here is unstable, so the transport ship may not be able to successfully reach the designated location of the Extinction Order, so this job can only be done by the main gunboat.
"Wait a minute, I can understand the meaning of using the extermination order, but what about the people on other continents on this planet? I remember that the Military Affairs Department would not..."
"People from other continents? What are you talking about? There are only two continents on this planet, and there is no one on one of them?"
"what?"
"This is the frontline investigation information of the scouts. Take a look."
General Xu passed the information about the other continent to the team members. After reading it, they were obviously surprised.
"But when we communicated with the locals, we learned that there are several continents in this world, and each of them is inhabited by a large number of people. What's going on?"
"Maybe it's a matter of time and space transfer? Xu, what was the surface of this planet like more than a year ago?"
"Is it the same as what I showed you?"
"What's going on?"
Everyone still believes in the technology of their own race, and Xu will not lie about it.
"Maybe we heard fake news. The indigenous people of this continent have disappeared? Or were they wiped out by those monsters?"
"Well, when we arrived here, we found out that there were only a few hundred thousand natives on the planet, and more than half of them died in the civil war and monster attacks. The research ship of the institute took away the remaining tens of thousands of people, put them in hibernation capsules, modified their memories, and took them to other habitable primitive planets."
"What about the people in the castle? When we came back, the castle wasn't damaged at all, and the people inside were taken away by the people from the research institute?"
"People in the castle? In the castle, there is only dust besides you? That place has become an empty city at least before we arrived here."
"This is absolutely impossible! We clearly remember that before we were rescued, there was a grand wedding banquet here with a lot of people. How could there be no one here?"
"Wait a minute, a wedding banquet? I think I heard those gravediggers (researchers of alien cultural history) from the research institute mention it before. Let me see if there are any research reports they left behind."
The experiences of both parties were totally inconsistent, which made everyone begin to suspect that the team had encountered an abnormal time and space transfer state, and the time they skipped might be more than a year.
"What the hell... Is this the wedding you're talking about?"
"Yes! I recognize the woman in the portrait. She's the bride we met. Wait... This! This is impossible!"
The wedding did exist, and so did the banquet, but based on analysis of the samples found by the researchers, the wedding was not held just over a year ago. Based on analysis of geological samples, the correct time for the wedding should have been more than three hundred years ago.
"I know you guys, I don't think you're talking bullshit, but I really hope you're kidding me instead of stating the facts."
More than a year can be called time and space transfer, but more than three hundred years has nothing to do with time and space transfer. This falls into the category of time and space travel. However, based on the advanced technological level of the Tig people, time and space travel (referring to a period of more than ten years or more) has been confirmed by research and is simply impossible.
"..."
Silence is suitable for all kinds of times when you don't know what to say, such as now. However, after nearly half an hour of silence, Wu was the first to break the silence.
"Let's just pretend this never happened. From now on, let's keep this experience to ourselves. I don't want to be sliced and studied by those lunatics in the Research Department."
"agree."
"Row."
"I have no opinion."
“Gulp, gulp, gulp…”
A discordant voice attracted Xu's attention.
"Speaking of which, what's in this sealed container you guys are carrying? I see you guys can't leave it, is it important? And there's something else."
Xu pointed at Gloria who had been following him.
"If I remember correctly, this is one of the two hunters before you disappeared more than a year ago?! Why are you still carrying her???"
Gloria spread her hands, indicating that this matter had little to do with her.
"Hiss... Actually, she's not a hunter, and neither is the other one. We saw it with our own eyes, and we have conclusive evidence."
"Uh, is the evidence in this jar? Where's the other guy? Is he dead?"
"Uh... That's not the case, but there is indeed evidence that they are not hunters. At the same time... Uh..."
"Xu, I suggest you be mentally prepared. After all, we were also very shocked when we first saw it."
"It's not like I've never seen the world. Don't waste time. Open this sealed container and let me take a look!"
"Okay then... Bro, we've already told you in advance anyway."
Wu opened the sealed container, and unlike what Xu expected, no steam came out. He lowered his head and took a closer look, and saw a pile of liquid similar to liquid alloy. Something floated up, it was an arm and a head.
"Isn't this the other guy? Is he dead?"
"Dead? Of course not! Why don't you talk to him?"
"Are you stupid? How can I talk to a brain? Is this a dream?"
"Really, try it bro."
Xu scratched his head. His younger brother Wu didn't seem to be playing a joke on him, so he tentatively greeted him.
"Are you alive?" Xu waved his hand towards his head.
The next scene made Xu's brain freeze for a while. He saw the head in the container of liquid turned around, opened its eyes, and smiled at him. Then the arm was lifted up by the liquid inside and waved at Xu.
"..."
Then, everyone witnessed that a pool of liquid alloy, which currently only had a head and an arm, "flowed" out of the container by itself. Of course, it is normal to stop thinking for a while after witnessing such a situation.