Chapter 448 "Infectious Diseases" (19)
The time goes back to half an hour ago, below the second floor of the botanical garden area, in the secondary cargo area of the space station.
Baduo, one of the members of Xin's team, was hiding in warehouse 291-C, waiting for a team of out-of-control mechanical sentinels outside to leave.
Because he didn't have time to put his melta weapon on the protective frame when the escape pod crashed into the space station, the power reactor of the melta weapon exploded on a small scale when it hit the space station. Although he activated the energy shield on the armor in time, he still lost half of his right arm because of the close distance. The explosion also destroyed his communication system, and he couldn't contact other people. The isolated and helpless Baduo chose to find a place to hide and heal his wounds. Fortunately, the medical module of the armor was very strong. After detecting his injury, it took effect immediately, so Baduo was lucky that he did not lose his combat effectiveness due to excessive blood loss.
Having just treated the wound on his broken arm and stopped the bleeding, Baduo opened the visor of his helmet and wiped the sweat from the pain with his left hand. He took a few deep breaths to calm the pain and avoid shouting out after the effect of the powerful analgesic wore off.
"Out of the Sentinel's detection range."
Outside warehouse 291-C, the team of out-of-control mechanical sentinels had gone far away. This was good news. It was safe here for the time being. Baduo then sat down and rested for a while leaning against the nearby goods.
Baduo is in a very bad situation now. Due to the damage of the communication device, it mistakenly sent the final agreement, which is a suicide note sent when the combatants in the armor die. It is similar to the black box. If others receive the final agreement sent by their communication devices, they are likely to think that they have died. If they have already reunited and decided to leave, they will be left in this dangerous space station. This is not a good thing for Baduo. He must find other team members as soon as possible and reunite with them.
It turns out that Baduo's thinking is completely correct. Currently, Xinle, the only one with intact armor, has indeed begun to gradually receive the final agreement from other members of the lost team, including Baduo. Xinle, who has already contacted Wu and Hai, has now classified Baduo as one of the victims. And they are indeed ready to give up the mission and leave for the transmission area in the center of the space station. However, they have not yet met up.
After confirming his situation, Baduo began to recall the approximate locations of the escape pods of the team members when they were forced to land on the space station. Most of the escape pods were gathered in the middle part of the right side of the space station. Baduo couldn't remember whether there were any on the top, but he was sure that the location where Xin's escape pod crashed seemed not too far away from him.
But based on Baduo's assessment of the situation in his escape pod, he thought that the other team members might not be in good condition either, and it was very likely that someone had died in the crash. He might also be the only survivor.
Baduo shook his head and threw the worst-case scenario out of his mind. No matter what, he had to go find other team members. Even if he was the only survivor in the end, there was nothing he could do.
Baduo used the equipment to check his equipment. Except for the complete damage to the right arm guard and the failure of the communication device, the armor was relatively intact and all modules were usable. As for weapons, he had lost his main weapon, but he still had a plasma pistol and a power sword. Although his right hand was gone, fortunately, Baduo was left-handed. Except for the lack of long-range attacks due to the damage to the main weapon, Baduo's combat effectiveness did not decrease too much.
Moreover, Baduo's personal fighting style is actually somewhat different from that of the entire team. Compared with other team members who graduated from the military academy, Baduo, who was originally a hunter, may be a little worse than others in frontal combat or surprise attacks, but if it is an ambush or a cold shot, Baduo is a good hand.
On the main planet of the Tigs, hunters are not as rare as on Earth. The main reason is that where they live, there are a large number of wild beasts in the wild, which are extremely ferocious and cannot be compared with the creatures on Earth. Baduo, who has been following his elders to hunt wild beasts since he was a child, can be said to be a sharpshooter. Not only that, he is also an expert in making traps.
Baduo, who accidentally joined Xin's team, fully utilized his talent in this area. He became the team's scout and almost always completed the tasks of reconnaissance and sniping. With the help of Xinle, Baduo's talent in making traps has improved a lot. Whenever the team completed the mission and evacuated, or fought behind enemy lines, it was always right to give him the task of covering the rear and clearing traps.
But Baduo's outstanding features are not only that, his experience of fighting wild beasts since childhood has made him strong and flexible. He can easily avoid the attacks of wild beasts, and can also find the right time to kill the prey with the dagger in his hand. And now, when the original small daggers have been replaced with half-human-high power swords, Baduo's use of cold weapons has also been invincible in past battles.
The most important thing is that Baduo has something more powerful than other team members.
patience.
Although he had anticipated the worst, Baduo remained calm and patient. At this time, being alone was the worst thing to do. He thought of the time when he hunted wild animals when he was a child. As long as he remained calm and thought carefully about countermeasures, even the most terrifying wild animals would eventually be defeated by him and become a delicacy on his plate.
After leaving warehouse 291-C, Baduo walked forward slowly and cautiously, observing the situation around him and began to think about his own countermeasures to the current situation.
I am alone, and although I have enough confidence, it is better not to engage in a firefight with those out-of-control mechanical sentinels. These emotionless war machines have combat agreements that allow them to cooperate seamlessly. Their powerful processing cores allow them to use almost every environment and tactics to increase their combat advantages. Unless there is a chance to annihilate a team of sentinels at once, the best countermeasure at the moment is to stay away from these tin cans as much as possible.
As for the mutant monsters that can be seen everywhere in the space station, although there are many of them, they are still easy to deal with compared to those out-of-control mechanical sentinels. Although Baduo saw several powerful special mutants on the way to the warehouse area after leaving the wreckage of the escape pod, their number did not seem to be large, and they would not patrol everywhere. They would only attack when they encountered a target. His armor had sufficient energy, and without the main weapon, the energy consumption was further reduced, allowing Baduo to open the shielding position more frequently, so these mutants were still easy for him to deal with. As for those ordinary mutants, those stupid guys were no match for Baduo, but if there were a lot of them, it would be better to avoid them.
Following the transportation channel of the warehouse area, Baduo arrived near Area 289. There seemed to be far fewer mutant monsters here than in other areas.
"Crack!"
After waving the power sword in his hand and quietly splitting several mutants from behind, Baduo came to warehouse 289-A. The situation here seemed a little wrong. Next to the open door of the warehouse, there were some remains of mechanical sentinels.
"No special units found in the current area."
After scanning with the equipment, the cautious Baduo came to the wreckage of the mechanical sentinels. He did not rush to check their bodies, but first carefully looked inside the warehouse. There was nothing special inside, but some cargo compartments showed signs of damage. However, according to the scanning and analysis of the equipment, the weapons that caused these marks did not seem to come from the mechanical sentinels that were stopped on the ground.
"Damage source scan completed, unauthorized non-standard military weapons."
The mechanical sentinels in front of Baduo were not the common ones. They were probably specially produced by the person in charge of the space station. They were stronger, more defensive, and more powerful than ordinary mechanical sentinels. However, according to the equipment scan and Baduo's own observation, these mechanical sentinels were not destroyed by fire suppression, but by precise attacks on their energy cores. This shows that the attackers must have known these mechanical sentinels very well.
"The marks are still fresh..."
According to the equipment's detection, these sentinels were eliminated within 40 minutes, and the people who eliminated these mechanical sentinels should not have left the secondary cargo hold area. So the identities of these people are worth pondering, which will determine whether Baduo will follow these people who eliminated the mechanical sentinels.
First of all, there are more than one team of mechanical sentinel wreckage here. According to the current clues provided by Baduo, there are three possibilities for the identity of the person who could kill these mechanical sentinels.
First, it was his own team members. As an engineer, Sinler was very proficient in these mechanical gadgets. With his help, the Hai with sufficient firepower could easily kill these sentinels by relying on favorable terrain. However, when the team members were escaping from the explosion, the escape pods fell in very scattered locations, and they should not have gathered together so quickly. Moreover, according to the equipment's analysis of the attack direction, the source of the attack was in the corridor outside the door, where there were no obstacles that could block these powerful mechanical sentinels. There were a lot of signs of damage on the walls of the corridor, from the weapons equipped by these mechanical sentinels. His teammates were equipped with energy shields, which would only absorb attacks. Unless the shields were completely damaged, energy would be deflected. The firepower of these mechanical sentinels was enough to consume the team's energy shields, but he did not see their bodies in the corridor, so the people who attacked and annihilated these mechanical sentinels should not be them.
The second possibility is Han Zu. Although he stayed on the spacecraft that was about to be destroyed, Baduo believed that he might not have really shown all his strength. He might not have died in the explosion of the spacecraft, but survived and came to the space station in some way. And according to the equipment's calculations before the sentinels were destroyed, the attackers should have blocked the saturation attack of these mechanical sentinels head-on, which is very consistent with Han Zu's abnormal physical fitness. He can completely ignore these attacks and easily kill these tin cans.
But after thinking about it, Baduo denied this possibility, because the way the sentinel was attacked was wrong and too precise.
Although Han Zu's high-energy rays can snipe targets, and his ability to sense energy can quickly find the location of the energy core of the mechanical sentinels, based on past experience, Han Zu's attacks usually involve high-intensity, large-scale destruction of targets, such as using high-energy rays to directly split these sentinels in two, or using those biological weapons to create large-scale explosions. In short, when facing a large number of enemies, Han Zu often leaves obvious traces of battle after fighting. However, there are not many signs of damage on the nearby walls, and there are no signs of death in close combat among these mechanical sentinels. Only their energy cores are damaged. This kind of precise attack is not like his fighting style, it is too conservative.
The last possibility is that they are in the same group as the people who attacked their spaceship outside the space station. They should be the annihilation team that everyone discussed before to ensure that the secrets of the space station will not be leaked. According to what we have seen and heard now, it is a normal possibility to send an elite secret combat team to ensure that no secrets of the space station will be leaked. Their appearance is not a good thing. If nothing unexpected happens, the target of this annihilation team should be their own team.
Baduo was not blindly optimistic. It had been several hours since the escape capsule arrived at the space station. From this point of view, his other teammates had probably already encountered the annihilation team. If the personnel were dispersed, the lone or outnumbered team might not be their opponent. Conservatively speaking, some team members should have been killed.
According to his memory, the team member closest to him should be the team leader Xin. According to the equipment's calculations, the annihilation team should be the closest to him now, so Xin should be fine.
However, the premise of this situation is that there is only one annihilation team in the space station, and they landed on this floor. However, according to Baduo's guess, this should not be the case. If this is the case, then Baduo's choice to look for Xin may not be correct.
Baduo stopped and carefully listed the pros and cons of continuing to look for Xin. Finally, he made a decision. He had to avoid the locations where the annihilation team might exist and operate. The premise of all this was that he had to be able to survive. Therefore, avoiding encounters with the annihilation team was undoubtedly the best option now.
And from what Baduo knew about Xin, she might not be killed by the annihilation team. Maybe she knew some news or clues and had left, or she might have reunited with others. If that was the case, then maybe he could take a detour and look for other team members on higher levels of the space station first, maybe he could meet them by then.
After confirming his next action plan, Baduo quickly rushed to the depths of the secondary storage area in the opposite direction of the sentinel wreckage, preparing to use the transport elevator here to quickly go to the upper level of the space station and meet up with others. It must be said that Baduo's perception of danger is very accurate.
Time returns to the present.
After Baduo left the secondary storage area through the transport elevator, the annihilation team that was previously in the botanical garden area arrived at the location of Baduo's escape capsule. Baduo's guess was correct, there was indeed more than one annihilation team in the space station.
"We're here. There's no one in the escape pod. According to the inspection, the weapon's energy core should have exploded, causing the people inside to be injured. They lost an arm, but it's not a fatal injury."
"Can you confirm the status?"
"There are only some broken pieces of right arm armor wreckage. No other armor parts were found, and no weapons were left. They must have escaped. Did other teams that were in the area find any?"
"No, it seems you have to do more work."
"No problem."
"echo" Build completed.
"That's it for now. I'll report immediately after confirming the target."
After the communication ended, the annihilation team learned about Baduo's movements through the echo, and following the restored trajectory of action, they quickly arrived at the secondary storage area.
"Begin search. Be on guard."
"clear."