Chapter 432 "Infectious Diseases" (3)
"The first method is relatively simple. No matter what happens on the frigate, we can go directly to the fire control platform of the High Wall and shut down all the weapon system sequences on it. Then, we can drive the High Wall directly to the side of the space station. We can leave a few people to operate the fire platform, and the rest of us can go to recover the storage unit. After the recovery is completed, we can go directly back to the High Wall and modify the program on the landing ship we are riding. Send out a signal that the mission is successful, and then let it automatically fly back to the evacuation point. After the top leaders learn that the mission is successful, they will definitely lock onto the landing ship first, and then blow up the landing ship directly after the recovery is completed. While they are doing the dirty work, we can drive the High Wall directly back to your home planet and make the things in the storage unit public."
But at the same time, everyone also knew that this method was also the most dangerous, because the "High Wall" was so huge. If such a thing suddenly appeared near the orbit of any planet without orders, it would be discovered immediately, not to mention the home planet of the Tig people. It would probably be torn to pieces by the planetary defense firepower network in the orbit of the home planet as soon as it emerged from the jump tunnel. Even if it was not attacked immediately, the news of the "High Wall" returning to the home planet would be discovered immediately, and those senior officials would know it first, unless they broke through the firepower network in the planetary orbit. But with only one frigate, it was basically a dream to break through, so they chose this method, which was completely tantamount to committing suicide.
"The second way is to run. You can go with us to our planet. With the relationship between me and the contractors, or the traitors you call them, it will be easy to hide you and turn you into a ghost in the control network. With the help of the traitors, you can live a good life and don't have to worry about your life every day. But in this way, you will become real traitors among the Tig people. In this way, those high-level officials can put all the blame on you. In this way, you will no longer be Tig people, at least the Tig people will never accept you again, but you will not become a real traitor unless you have the courage to become a metal rib like them."
Running away and then becoming a scapegoat and bearing the infamy will make the team members despised by the entire Tig race, but they can indeed survive. However, Xu will be in trouble. As a senior military official related to the team, he will definitely be to blame. The best case scenario is that he will be locked up in some heavily guarded super prison and rot to death in there. Obviously, Wu does not want to let his brother die like this.
"What about the last method? The first two methods sound like they have absolutely no benefit to us, except for staying alive."
"The third option? This is easy to do, but it may not succeed. However, as long as it succeeds, even if you really do something anti-human and anti-social here, it will not cause any waves within your society."
"So what exactly are we going to do?"
"Easy. If you can't solve the problem, you can solve the person who caused the problem. Just get rid of all the high-level people involved in this matter and eliminate any witnesses. Then you will have the final say on what happened. After all, history is written by the victors."
"So what you mean by the third method is that we need to kill a large number of our own people?!"
"That's right. If you have a better idea, we can follow your idea. But as an outsider, I can only provide you with ideas based on my experience. But I am not a Tig after all. I am not very clear about your social form and consciousness structure, so maybe our ideas are different. Of course, it is very likely that my guess is not correct. Perhaps there will be no such high-level people in your society, and the Fourth Star Region has indeed been invaded. It is not a conspiracy. We did not see any hostile ships. Maybe it is just a coincidence. But as a... you can say an experienced person, it is not necessarily a bad thing to anticipate the worst outcome of things in advance. After all, when bad things really happen, at least there is a countermeasure, at least some ideas."
After listening to Han Zu's words, everyone began to think. Indeed, as Han Zu said, the society of the Tige people and the social form and consciousness structure of the earth people are indeed quite different, but there are also many similarities. Although there have been no such conspirators in the current Tige society for a long time, there are many such conspirators in the history of the Tige people. Among them, some people in different eras have indeed made some major events that almost shook the entire Tige people. So Han Zu's overall speculation is indeed possible.
Based on the contact with Han Zu during this period, the Tig team probably understood that the social form and consciousness structure of the planet where this guy lived were much more complicated than those of the Tig people. When he made judgments and took actions, he would never drag his feet, but would solve them cleanly and neatly, and would think in advance of countermeasures for some extreme situations that might not happen. A being would not imagine out of thin air a vicious incident that had never happened, let alone have corresponding ideas, let alone countermeasures. Therefore, the team members believed that Han Zu must have experienced these evil incidents and successfully solved the difficulties, at least most of them. Therefore, the possibilities and countermeasures he proposed, although extreme in the eyes of the Tig people, were definitely helpful, and even completely correct. After all, it now seemed that this guy had much more experience in this area than they did.
But even so, the team members still found it hard to believe that they were involved in a shocking conspiracy. They had a good basis for this idea, that is, if this was really a conspiracy, the scope involved was too large, an entire star region. Even if there was a conspiracy, the possibility of accurate execution was not actually great in such a large scope. So naturally, the team members also expressed their opinions and expressed their doubts.
"But for a whole star zone, even some simple normal communications will have errors when they reach the edge of the star zone if there are no files or information to be transmitted. If this is really a trap set up because of a conspiracy gone wrong, then they will have to spend an astronomical amount of resources just to transmit the message. After all, these things will not be recorded in files or transmitted using the command network. That would be too conspicuous and too stupid. Are we thinking too much? Maybe this place was simply invaded without any conspiracy?"
There are all kinds of coincidences happening every day in this world. Some coincidences are linked together to become a bigger and more incredible coincidence. So the situation described by the Tiger team members is not zero. Han Zu is not a stubborn guy, so he did not refute the other party's statement, but nodded to show his agreement. As the leader of the team, Xin also discussed with others.
"But the premise of all this is that we need to get that storage unit first. If these things don't happen, then the reason why such an incident occurred in Sector 4 is right there. If by chance, I'm right, then the evidence is also there, so our top priority is to..."
"Go directly to the space station to complete the mission?"
"No, we have to go to the weapon control platform of the High Wall first and shut down the weapon sequence or weapon system on it. If there is nothing fishy about your information, but it is indeed hacked, then if we don't shut down the weapon sequence on the frigate, we are likely to be bombarded when we arrive at the space station."
"Okay, by the way, I'm also curious about what happened on this frigate. What about you guys?"
Wu looked at Han Zu and Gloria. They didn't seem to care too much about what happened. It couldn't be said that they didn't care either. It was just that compared to the tense other team members, they seemed very relaxed.
"I followed him."
"I have no objection. I just need to find a way to return to normal from this liquid state. My height and body shape are eye-catching enough. In my current state, I feel like a big light ball shining in the dark. It's too high-profile. I don't really like it."
Everyone had reached a consensus, so they decided to go to the weapon control platform of the "High Wall" first and shut down all the weapons on the frigate to prepare for their trip to the space station. They could also take a look at the situation on the road, perhaps knowing what happened on the "High Wall" and where the crew members on it had gone.
After waiting in front of the elevator for a long time, everyone finally stepped into the elevator. After Sinler checked the control panel, he found nothing abnormal, so everyone used the control panel to go to other floors of the "High Wall". This elevator could not directly reach the weapon platform of the "High Wall", but could only be used to leave the lower deck area where the port was located. They needed to take the elevator to the warehouse area above, and then continue upward through other elevators at the end of the warehouse area.
The elevator slowly ascended, and everyone was silent, with a somewhat depressing atmosphere. Suddenly, the elevator shook violently, and then the lights flickered. Everyone immediately became alert, pressed against the walls of the elevator, and held their weapons tightly.
"What's going on? There's obviously nothing wrong with the elevator?" Sinler asked nervously.
"Maybe there was interference. Or the elevator itself had some minor damage or something like that," Han Zu analyzed calmly.
Fortunately, the shaking of the elevator was just a minor incident and it only happened that time. Soon, the elevator stopped and arrived at the floor where the warehouse area was located.
"boom."
However, there seemed to be some problem with the elevator door and it couldn't be fully opened. And it seemed that more than that, the two sides of the elevator door seemed to be blocked by something, causing the elevator door to repeatedly open, but each time it could only open a small gap. Without forcibly destroying the elevator door, other people wearing armor would not be able to get through. However, Han Zu, who was still in the form of a liquid alloy man, could easily "flow" through this gap.
"I'll go over and check the situation first."
As Han Zu spoke, his body gradually deformed and he slowly "flowed" out of the door. After leaving, he first observed the situation. Outside the elevator was the outermost corridor of the warehouse. He could see that the warehouse area outside was dark. The lighting system either had a large-scale failure or was deliberately turned off. However, judging from the emergency indicator light on the wall, it was most likely a failure.
"What's stuck in the elevator?"
The others who were still inside the elevator asked why the elevator door couldn't be opened, and Han Zu turned around and looked at both sides of the elevator door. There was indeed something blocking the door, which seemed to be some fungal webs that stuck to both sides of the elevator's outer security door, preventing them from opening completely.
Han Zu pulled hard a few times, but in his current liquid alloy human form, he was temporarily unable to do anything about these fungal webs that were even stronger than they looked. He needed to think of other ways.
"Give me a knife, or a dagger, preferably a power weapon or an energy dagger."
"Here, this is a dagger that uses a high-temperature energy stream instead of a blade. It's just the right size to fit through this gap."
Taking the dagger, Han Zu began to use it to cut the fungus nets blocking the outer security door. This energy dagger might not be very useful in a battle, but it was more than enough to cut these things. Soon, Han Zu cut off part of the fungus net on one side, allowing the elevator door to open halfway normally. This size was enough for others to come out, so there was no need to completely destroy the fungus nets. After all, they were very strong and destroying them was a waste of time.
"What is this? It looks like a fungus web?"
"Not sure, Wu, please scan it and see if there is any sample comparison in the Tongyu network."
After Wu scanned these things, although he did not find completely consistent sample information in the Tongyu network, he did find some suspected information. However, after comparison, Wu soon confirmed that none of the suspected information could match the bacterial network they had scanned. Either this thing had never been seen before, or the relevant information about this thing was completely confidential.
"Sinler, can you override the lighting in the warehouse area? It's too dark in here, but I don't want to waste the armor's power unnecessarily."
"I'll try. It should work. The lighting system isn't a very important part. It shouldn't be too much trouble."
Sinler was right. In less than a minute, Sinler successfully covered the lighting system of the warehouse area. It was locked for some reason. After unlocking the blockade of the lighting system, the entire warehouse area soon lit up. Although there were some places where the lighting was not turned on because the fungal web covered too severely and some parts of the lighting system may have been damaged, it would not affect normal observation as a whole, so the brightness problem was basically solved.
"How did these fungus webs appear? Seeing them for so long is really disgusting. E, scan them to see if they are poisonous or something."
"We've already scanned it. These things are not poisonous, but their activity seems to have increased a lot."
"Keep going, and scan the warehouse area to see if there are any other crew members from the High Wall."
At the current location where everyone is, the number of fungal webs is not large. There are only some on both sides of the security door outside the elevator that was blocked before, and some on the wall, so it is not something worthy of attention. So everyone began to move forward cautiously and steadily, preparing to move towards another elevator at the end of the warehouse area.