Chapter 37 Blood Tribulation (1)
“The communication is not connected yet?”
General Sola was pacing back and forth in the main control room, like a beast trapped in a cage.
Half an hour ago, their contact with the Marines was completely interrupted, and the New Pharos also lost contact. Although it was still sliding towards the orbit, its speed had obviously slowed down.
“Did the rioters take control of the bridge?”
General Sora immediately rejected his idea. This was absolutely impossible. It was impossible for a poor and weak slave to capture the strong bridge with water pipes, even if it was just a transport aircraft.
Loken was standing next to a machine not far away. He was analyzing the noise signals he had received previously. He thought he could find something.
Finally, in a piece of vague static noise, he separated a weak voice, which seemed to be the last echo of a dying person, just repeating two words.
“…traitor…”
Omnisiah is on top! They really hit a ghost this time!
Loken immediately stood up, turned around and said loudly:
"Sir, I found out——"
"Sir!"
Another voice interrupted his words, The officer in charge of communications shouted excitedly.
“We have connected with the Marines, but there is some interference in the signal.”
"Play."
Soon, a low and fuzzy voice came from the loudspeaker, and it sounded like the young officer from before.
"...Emergency...retreat...return..."
"What? What situation did you encounter?"
General Sola asked nervously, but The other party only responded to him with a vague noise, and a continuous cycle of words such as retreat and return.
"Sir! It has been detected that the Hyena has left its target and is returning to orbit!"
"Strange?"
General Sola held his fat chin with his hand, thinking about what it was. An accident would cause two hundred marines to come back defeated.
"Sir!"
Loken quickly ran to his side, his mechanical appendages shaking constantly, and he seemed quite nervous.
"We can't let the Hyena enter orbit!"
"Huh?"
Sora looked at him and blinked, not understanding what Loken was talking about at all.
"I just isolated the real voice of the captain of the New Pharos from the channel! Listen!"
Ghostly whispers coming from the small loudspeaker on Loken's mechanical appendage Floating out, General Sola's face suddenly turned pale, and large beads of sweat fell from his wrinkled head.
"This...this..."
"No matter what is on that ship and what happens, it is definitely not something fun! The Hyena is most likely already occupied and it is trying to enter orbit! "
Seeing that this stupid bureaucrat was still shocked, Loken immediately grabbed his shoulders and shook him hard.
"Sir! Sir! Do you hear what I say! Launch defenses immediately and shoot down the Hyena! Shoot it down immediately!"
As a result, the damn fat man just shook his lips and said nothing. Not out.
"I'm going to fuck your piston! I'll die sooner or later with you bunch of losers!"
The angry Loken pushed General Sora away, and then walked to the big screen in the main control room , insert one of his mechanical appendages into the console below.
The next moment, his voice echoed throughout the orbital station.
"Red alert! Level 1 combat readiness! Red alert! Level 1 combat readiness!" Suddenly the bells of the entire orbital station rang, and the soldiers and staff above ran to their posts in panic.
"How far is it from here!"
Loken looked at the auspicious omen officers in the crowd. After the other man operated it in a panic for a while, he said:
"There are still ten... Minutes!"
"What?"
Loken realized that he had underestimated the speed of the Hyena. The landing ship's engine should have been modified, but he did not know about it. Affection.
"The laser array is about to start! Level 1 preheating! Lock on the Hyena!"
He has made up his mind, no matter whether his guess is correct or not, he will destroy the Hyena, even if the idiot is really sitting on it.
Because the threat was real, the Hyena's speed was too fast. It didn't look like a return gesture at all, but more like an attack, a predator eyeing helpless prey.
"Level 1 preheating completed!"
Soon, the weapon array first sent the signal message, but as Loken often laughed at himself.
His luck has always been bad.
"Sir! Emergency!"
"Say!"
"The Hyena has an advanced security identification code. We must deactivate the identification code before we can target it!"< br>
Loken felt the world spin for a while. He looked back at the stationmaster who was still in a daze. He really wanted to stuff him into the general's cannon and shoot him out.
How could he give a landing ship an Advanced Security Identification Code?
Unless...
Loken suddenly thought of the rumors he had heard before about some officers at the orbital station being involved in smuggling.
Everything bad happened to him.
“How long does it take to remove the identification code!”
"It takes...it takes at least ten minutes."
"There are no ten minutes for you here, five minutes to get it done!"
That's what Loken said, but as a priest of the Mechanicus, Loken , knew the characteristics of the Advanced Security Identification Code better than anyone else, so he immediately contacted the garrison in orbit.
"Everyone gather on the landing platform! If you see any target, fire first! Remember! Fire first!"
Under his order, thousands of soldiers on the defensive orbit took They raised their weapons and went straight to the landing platform, but most of them had never seen blood. They came to the orbit just to support their families. There were very few soldiers in the true sense.
Just as Loken estimated, the Hyena plunged into the take-off and landing platform of the defensive orbit before the security identification code was released.
The autocannons on the outer fortifications rattled as they tracked the flying object, but never fired, before its landing forks deployed from below.
The gate of the landing platform opened to accommodate the Hyena, then closed again, and the air pressure in the platform returned to normal levels again.
After the Hyena successfully entered the take-off and landing platform, a large number of soldiers also rushed around the platform. They raised their shotguns and laser guns, using various proposed roadblocks as cover, and watched the uninvited guest vigilantly.
The engine noise reduces to an idling whine, then all sounds disappear.
The sudden silence seemed to force everyone, and some soldiers even felt as if bugs were crawling on their skin.
The heavy front hatch is facing the entrance and exit of the landing platform. There is also a black cockpit and a cannon with an open belly along the upper part of the spine.
The defense forces are waiting.
Finally, as the front door began to lower, there was a vibration of the magnetic lock being released and the whirring of the servo.
The burst of pressurized steam blurred their vision, and whatever lurked within seemed invisible.
Suddenly, the bodies of some soldiers began to tremble because they saw...
(End of Chapter)