Chapter 447 "Infectious Diseases" (18)

Chapter 447 "Infectious Diseases" (18)

Looking at Han Zu flying over from a distance and landing steadily in front of him, Xin felt mixed emotions. Judging from his irrational actions, this guy and the traitor were indeed planning something, and he, and even the entire team, seemed to be involved.

"I..."

"Don't talk yet, let me think about it."

As soon as Han Zu opened his mouth, Xin reached out her hand to stop him from speaking. She was not a fool, and her mind was turning quickly. She should have been left in the wreckage of the escape pod to die, but now she not only survived, but her injuries were completely healed, and it seemed that she had also completed some kind of evolution. Nothing is without a price, and her life was not cheap.

Han Zu was probably preparing to reveal his identity, at least part of it, and the reason for doing so might be to get Xin to join him. Although it was unclear what would happen after she agreed, based on the current situation, if Xin refused, then the chances of her being killed immediately by Han Zu would be very high.

As an elite soldier who has been carrying out missions in dangerous areas all year round, Xin has no fear of death. So logically, Xin should reject any proposal made by Han Zu, who has a deep connection with the traitor, and fight for the glory of the Tige people until the last moment of his life, although this time may not even be a second.

But the power gap between each other was not actually what Xin was thinking about at the moment. After all, the entire team couldn't take down the naked guy in front of them. It was impossible for him to fight alone, not to mention that he seemed to have been hiding his strength all the time.

Xin was thinking about whether he should die here and whether it was worth dying. After their spaceship was ambushed near the space station, Xin knew that this mission was a death trap that was impossible to complete. Even if the team did find the target of the mission, they would probably be killed. And the killing might be happening. Maybe other team members had been found and killed by the people who attacked their spaceship. Maybe he was the only one who survived, and he survived because of the traitor.

Now, Xin is faced with an important choice. She can stick to her honor as a Tig and die in the hands of this seemingly harmless killing machine in front of her. In this way, she can live up to her identity as a Tig. However, she and her team may be used as scapegoats by the high-level officials who caused the tragedy in the Fourth Star Region. She has no ties and it doesn't matter. However, the other members of the team and their families will be implicated because they are carrying false charges. In order to avoid the possibility of information leakage, those corrupt high-level officials may kill them. Now it seems that the communication interference in the Fourth Star Region was not entirely caused by an accident. Perhaps the mastermind behind the scenes also deliberately destroyed part of the communication channel to avoid information leakage. There are no witnesses here, so once the team dies here completely, no one will vindicate them.

Or, she could choose to abandon this, betray the team's race to a certain extent, and throw herself into the arms of the traitors. Judging from the fact that the traitor was able to teleport in Sector 4, the interference here seemed to have no effect on the traitors. If she became one of them and persuaded other team members who might still be alive, and used the traitors' technology to leave this place, then if they acted quickly enough, they might be able to take their families with them. Doing so would allow everyone to survive, but if the news of their connection with the traitors spread, then from then on, they would be wanted by the entire Tig people and would have no way to return to their hometown.

At present, joining the traitors might be the best choice. If he could make the right choice and avoid information leaks, he might be able to return home and clear his name and that of the other team members. But the premise of all this is that the traitors will not use them to do anything else. Xin is very young. She did not participate in the incident when the traitors split into a group, and she is not clear about the specific actual situation. What she knows about the traitors is all from history books. If the things recorded in the history books have not been tampered with by humans, then the traitors are all a group of executioners and lunatics. Joining them is not a good choice.

However, any written record is not 100% reliable. Maybe everything on it is false or has been tampered with. The defectors may actually be no different from ordinary Tigris. But the defectors are not necessarily completely honest.

The knowledge about traitors that Xin had learned since childhood became a dilemma that made her unable to make a choice. The two choices collided fiercely in her mind, and neither of them could gain the upper hand. This dilemma gave Xin a third idea.

In fact, she still had a choice, which was to run away. Stay away from the Tigs and the traitors. Although the forces of both sides were huge monsters that she could not contend with, the universe was big and there was always a place for her. The lifespan of the Tigs was long, so she had plenty of time to think about countermeasures and try to clear her name.

The sudden light in Xin's eyes interrupted her tangled thoughts, and she raised her head for some unknown reason. She might want to observe the surrounding environment and find a way to escape, but she only took a look and the scene she saw poured a bucket of cold water on her head, interrupting her third idea.

While she was battling with her thoughts, she didn't pay attention to her surroundings. It seemed that the attack from the giant mutant before attracted some other mutant monsters. When her attention returned to the depths of the botanical garden, Xin heard the distorted cries of those mutant monsters.

Before Xin knew it, he looked back and saw that there were no mutants around him. At this time, there were a lot of mutant debris piled up around him. Judging from the flat cuts with ablation marks on their bodies, they should have died under the high-energy rays shot by Han Zu's eyes. Han Zu, who killed these mutants, was floating on the ground not far in front of him to the right, facing him sideways. The traitor appeared next to him again, and the two were communicating. Han Zu had an extra robe on his body, which was similar to the clothes on the traitor, and it should be brought by the other party. While the two were talking, Han Zu occasionally fired high-energy rays from his eyes at the wall at the top of the botanical garden, killing some residual mutants attracted by the previous sound. It looked very easy, without any effort.

"Yeah, there's no way I can escape..."

Not to mention that she couldn't deal with Han Zu, the traitor next to him was definitely not someone to be trifled with. She would probably be killed on the spot as long as she moved in the opposite direction.

"Why is she still standing there in a daze? The information she received was too radical, is her brain damaged? This shouldn't happen. At most, she now knows that I am in cahoots with you guys."

"The unit's scans showed no brain lesions or abnormal brain waves."

"Then why is she still like this?"

"This machine does not have an emotion module installed, so it cannot make effective inferences."

"Γ4, if you are not capable, you should install the emotion module."

"No. The extra energy consumption of installing the emotion module is unnecessary."

"Okay, so what do you think of what I told you?"

“More data is needed to support the evaluation of this behavior.”

"You just don't have the final say, right?"

"Affirmative, the relevant process needs to be unified by the decision library. This machine has submitted this process to the decision library sequence. According to the time required for similar process evaluation in the past, this process will reach a final conclusion in 41 hours."

"So long?! Is this matter so complicated?"

“There are certainly a large number of secondary processes associated with this process, and a comprehensive comparison is needed to arrive at an accurate judgment as to whether the process is feasible.”

"Besides my case, have there been other cases like this? Or similar situations? Of course, I'm talking about the case of letting the team members join the gang, not the other one."

“Affirmatively, there are 1273 related and similar processes, according to the latest data, of which 1011 have been approved.”

"That's about right. A pass rate of around 79%? That's high."

"Affirmative. The current threat in the area has been cleared."

While the two were talking, Han Zu had already cleaned up this area in the botanical garden. As long as no other big noise was made, no other mutants would appear here for the time being.

The reason why Γ4 came here this time was because Han Zu told him something. He planned to bring Xin and other team members onto the contractor's ship. The team members had good tactical qualities, but the contractor's combat units were not lacking in matching combat power. The reason why Han Zu did this was actually that he wanted to build some of his own forces. Although he could use the contractor's technology to produce some mechanical sentinels that were more powerful than the original armies made with XIIV-969-T, they needed operators and managers after all, and it was impossible for him to do everything himself.

It is not impossible to let the contractors manage the sentinel troops that may appear in the future, but the contractors cannot revolve around them. They have their own things to worry about. Then this team of Tige people became the best candidate.

First, they are not from Earth, so they don't have complicated interpersonal relationships. Second, through this period of time, Han Zu also understands the personalities of these team members, and they will not be bribed. Third, their current situation can be described as holding the clock and waiting to die. Their mission is a joke and cannot be completed at all. Even if they are really lucky and recover the storage device, they will be killed sooner or later. According to the invisible warship that Han Zu saw when he was flying in space before, it is impossible for the team members to escape. Judging from Han Zu's own rules of conduct, it is estimated that there are combat units on the way to kill them. And it is very likely that they have completed part of the work.

Without the connection between Xin's team and the contractor, they would surely die. Only by agreeing to his method could the team escape from this dead end. Han Zu naturally thought that the team members might waver because of their families. This matter is not difficult to handle. The contractors have infiltrated forces in various places of the Tigr people. Unlike the mortal Tigr people, these mechanically ascended contractors will not be corrupted. They are united. It is easy to use the energy of these infiltrated forces to bring a few people out.

However, what Γ4 said, that the review time for this matter would be very long, was not just because of these things. It was another idea that Han Zu told him. Wu, a member of the team, and his brother Xu were considered to be a middle- and high-level official in the Tige army. Han Zu's idea, as Γ4 said, was that he was going to directly take the main gunboat "Breaking Rock" commanded by Xu and all the crew members on it to the contractor. The crew on it and the main gunboat that had just been refurbished and upgraded were all valuable assets.

It is not an easy task to take away a main battleship, so Γ4 said that he could not make up his mind. Fortunately, he did not install the emotion module, otherwise he would be shocked by Han Zu's lawless idea. After all, a main battleship, including all the crew members on it, is not a small number, and their situation is different from that of the team members. They may not be willing to leave the society of the Tigris.

However, Han Zu didn't care about these things at all. He let the contractors deal with these troubles. Anyway, he just proposed such an idea and didn't say that he would do it himself.

"This machine has received a communication from the decision-making meeting, requiring it to participate in the relevant process analysis. If there are no other requirements, this machine will return immediately."

"Well, I'm fine now. I shouldn't bother you anymore. Have a safe trip."

"affim."

The energy in the air fluctuated a few times, and Γ4's figure disappeared beside Han Zu.

Han Zu fell back to the ground and adjusted the contractor's robe that Γ4 brought him. This unique style of clothing was much thicker than its thin appearance, but it was very comfortable to wear. According to Γ4 and Han Zu's previous observations, this special fabric was difficult to damage and was a good piece of clothing.

"despair."

"Ok?"

Han Zu walked up to Xin and snapped his fingers. The perfect sound diverted Xin's attention, who was standing there thinking.

"Don't brainstorm yet, look for the other members of your team first. Maybe someone is still alive."

Xin frowned. She knew that Han Zu had his own ideas, but finding other team members was indeed what Xin wanted to do most right now, so she did not refute Han Zu's opinion, but just nodded.

"Your escape pod is the second closest to the bottom of the space station among your team. Except for one escape pod, the others are all above you. Do you plan to find the lone one below first, or go find the ones above that are relatively close?"

"Let's go look for them down there first. People who are alone are in more danger than others."

"Row."