Chapter 162, The meaning of life
La Crocha was thinking about an important question: What is the value of life?
He didn't think about this bullshit problem before. When I was wandering with the tribe in my early years, all I could think about all day long was how to eat more food so as not to go hungry. Later, when I became an adventurer, it was also for the purpose of eating;
Later, all the brothers from the same wandering tribe died, and he joined the beast-slaying group. He was able to eat enough, but his goal became to fight greenskins and provide food to the brothers who had fought side by side. revenge.
Later, the people above didn't know what to say, but he changed from an adventurer to a serious regular army under the governor's command, with a military rank and a unit designation.
But he didn't have much to say about it, and he even supported it.
The food was more filling, and the governor also gave me weapons, which looked much better than the junk I used when I was an adventurer. Moreover, there are also heavy equipment such as artillery and other friendly armored vehicles to provide support to them. This will obviously greatly increase their efficiency in destroying the greenskins.
So what's there to be unhappy about?
Support, ten thousand support!
Some time ago, the green skin of the ruins of the tower was dried up.
According to the officer above, in order to stop these green skins from proliferating, it is necessary to ensure that all areas of the ruins of the tower are burned with flames.
He sometimes wondered whether the waste energy storm that often blew up in the ruins of the tower could replace fire?
But even if we don't care about that, the big problem is solved anyway. Even if green skins occasionally regenerate later, the number won't be too many at once. Just eliminate them and burn them again.
Just as he and his comrades were chatting among themselves, wondering whether their performance this time was enough to win back the title of 'Beast Slaughter Group' that originally belonged to them from the Governor, another A new task has been assigned.
They will take a transport spacecraft and enter a starship parked in the orbit of the planet to perform a mission.
When hearing about this mission, La Crocha and his comrades were stunned.
Is this going to heaven?
He had looked up at the stars countless times, but he never thought that one day he would be able to leave the surface and fight in the stars.
They were inexplicably excited.
Although they could think that it might be a very dangerous thing, when they got on the spacecraft and looked at the outside getting farther and farther away from the ground, they jumped out of the atmosphere and looked down from a distance, almost able to see the entire planet. He still felt a huge shock when the originally boundless land turned into an arc, and then turned into a planet mixed with earthy yellow and gray blue.
It turns out that this is the world we live in.
This is the angry owl star that our ancestors have lived with for generations.
It was even difficult for him to describe the feeling in his heart. His comrades may have the same mentality. The comrades who were still chatting with each other were now silent.
The transport spacecraft carried their group of people and slowly approached the huge steel creation hovering in the void.
A hatch opens and the transport spaceship enters, then the hatch closes and gas seems to fill it. Another door opens, and the spacecraft goes inside. There is a huge, airport-like place.
From multiple exits, one transport spacecraft entered one after another, the hatches opened, and groups of soldiers walked down.
Soon, he had no time to look. The transport spacecraft he was in also opened the hatch. Their entire company walked down and followed the instructions of the ground crew waiting below. They walked all the way inside and entered the land. Team camp area.
The temporary residence allocated to them is very crowded. Their entire class was squeezed into a narrow space of a few square meters. There are four sets of beds here, each set of beds are closely adjacent to each other, with about 40 centimeters of aisle left in the middle. Each set of beds has three floors above and below, and can theoretically sleep a total of twelve people.
There are still two beds available for us to put our things...
This is what they complained about.
There is a cafeteria for eating, and the food is completely made of synthetic starch. It is said that if you eat it for a long time, it will be very greasy, but at least now they feel that it is okay and they can just eat enough. Maybe they will get tired of it in the future, but will they stay on the starship until then?
However, it is said that in some places on the starship, there are markets and bars where you can get something different, but they have never seen it, and they are not allowed to walk around on the starship. Even these rumors came about because some restless soldiers in the company ran to chat with the so-called Starship Marines who also came to the cafeteria to eat, but didn't like to communicate with them very much.
La Crocha had little interest in these.
What he cares about is a thought he has had since he took the transport spaceship to the starry sky and saw the magnificent scene: What is the value of life?
He didn't know why he was thinking about such boring things, but he had nothing else to do while he was stuck in the cramped cabin.
He thought about it for several days, but couldn't figure it out.
To this day, scarlet lights were flashing everywhere and sirens sounded one after another. He and his comrades received the order to leave the cabin where they lived and gather outside.
Everyone was very uneasy.
They knew that there seemed to be a war now. The starships kept firing and engaged the greenskin fleet.
This is different from their past war experience.
In the past, no matter how powerful the enemy was and how bad the situation was, they would always fight with their feet on the ground and with the weapons in their hands. To a certain extent, life and death are controlled by oneself.
But now, they are far away from their hometown and the planet. It is said that light takes a long time to fly.
If the naval battle fails, all of them will be buried in this sea of stars.
But soon, their mission arrived.
He saw the company commander saying a few words to the instructor, and then ordered the entire company to set off.
After walking outside for dozens of minutes, he saw a violent explosion and saw with his own eyes that almost all members of the row next door were engulfed in flames and debris. Then, while his head was spinning, he saw a figure rushing towards him from behind the breach.
He almost subconsciously and instinctively raised the gun and shot there.
Although it looked like a human being, La Crocha was very sure and familiar with it. It was a green skin.
Indeed, his shot even saved the company commander's life. With his guidance, many comrades around him opened fire, and the green-skinned one was quickly killed on the spot by the concentrated fire.
However, more greenskins rushed in, stepping on the still burning flames.
A bloody battle broke out unexpectedly at a very close distance.
There is no heavy firepower, no artillery, no armored vehicles... In the environment inside the starship, these things are difficult to deploy.
All they have is the gun in their hands and their iron will.
As more and more greenskins came in, they couldn't even continue shooting. They could only go up and fight with their bayonets straight.
It was a chaotic beating, with almost no room for commanding skills. The two sides fought with all their might. Bayonets, bullets, blood, stumps... these things were flying around in this narrow passage.
There was nothing left in La Crocha's head, only the stabbing movements one after another. The comrades around him fell down one by one, and they came up one by one. He was fine. Even if he was hit by a green-skinned machete in the chest, the plastic steel bulletproof armor plate saved his life. Turn around. Ignoring the pain in his ribs and being knocked to the ground by the green-skinned force, he stabbed the bayonet hard into the unbalanced green-skinned neck.
With blood all over his face, LaCrocha pushed the body away forcefully, gasping for air and stood up. And this seemed to be the last greenskin, and there were no other living enemies in sight.
But in this purgatory-like scene, there were only seven people like him still standing.
LaCrocha looked confused.
There are only seven of the company of one hundred and twenty men left?
He couldn't count the number of corpses covering the corridor, especially since some of the corpses were in terrible shape. All he knew was that almost everyone he knew was dead, and the seven in front of him were unfamiliar. They were all covered in blood and looked confused.
The seven people gathered together instinctively, and for a long time, no one dared to speak.
Finally, La Crocha spoke: "Here... who has the highest military rank?"
He still remembered that during the previous surface battles, the company instructor had taught them many military regulations. If the team structure is broken up, surrounding soldiers should spontaneously gather together, with the person with the highest rank serving as temporary command.
Now...it should be considered broken up, right? Or should he be considered beaten to death?
"I am a private..." a timid voice sounded, "I have just been recruited into the Third Independent Regiment..."
"I am also a private...", "I am a first-class soldier...", "I am a private..."
After listening around, they are all big soldiers.
LaCrocha rubbed his head, he really didn't know what to do now.
Not a single officer left, right? What to do?
In a daze, he saw everyone's eyes looking at him.
He remembered that he had not reported his military rank yet: "I...I am a corporal."
When he was first reorganized, he was just a private; after fighting the battle in the ruins of the tower, he was considered an old man of the beast-slaying regiment, and received the rank of corporal during a large-scale award ceremony.
Corporal means that he has the equivalent of the D1 rank in Fuxing City as advertised. The food rations and training allowance combined are enough for him to live a much better life than just food and clothing. If he doesn't serve in the army, he will also be transferred to the same level of employment, which will ensure his future security. When a war breaks out, combat allowances will also be given.
He was promoted quickly. In his class, only the squad leader was a staff sergeant and the deputy squad leader was a sergeant. Other than that, he was the only one who was higher.
But overall, in the entire company, it is still a small shrimp.
As a result, he heard the superior soldier say: "Well, it seems that you are the highest-ranking military officer, and we all listen to you now."
LaCrocha was stunned.
I, I, I... I can't do it? !
But he quickly calmed down again.
This is not power, but responsibility, and he cannot shirk it. According to regulations, he has to shoulder this responsibility.
Taking a deep breath, he seemed to understand the question he had been thinking about before.
I dare not say it from far away, at least his current value is to lead the 2nd Company of the 6th Battalion of the 3rd Independent Regiment, the only seven remaining people.
The last seedlings of the 362nd Company are all here.
What's next?
Their previous mission was to station in area B7752 and eliminate all alien enemies that appeared there.
However... the company commander and instructor may know where B7752 is, but how does he, the corporal, know?
Scratching his head, he heard the sound of fighting in the distance.
He greeted and said: "Let's go over there and see if we can find other friendly forces."
If there were friendly forces, especially officers, it seemed that he could be relieved of his responsibility.
……
Fully armed, nearly three meters tall and wearing super-heavy armor, Gene Kuangya opened the half-rotten hatch and was the first to step out of the landing ship. What greeted him was the concentrated fire of more than thirty electromagnetic rifles and laser guns.
His armor was clanking, but it couldn't stop his pace for a moment. He stepped forward with a pair of mechanical legs and rushed forward quickly, shielding the green-skinned boys behind him from the wind and rain, while also leaving space for them to form a formation.
And, in the process, he also raised his left arm. The multiple rocket launcher mounted under the forearm fired a full nest of rockets, blasting the elite Marines in the platoon in front of them, as well as the few who were coming up behind for support, into the sky.
The violent explosion even caused some damage to the cabin of the metal tunnel, blasting out several potholes. You can also see the cracked mechanical structure and the evacuating groups below the potholes.
There seems to be the gun cabin of a Quintet's 'Reflector' interception laser cannon.
Kuang Ya grinned with a ferocious smile.
Is there such a gain?
He raised his hand again and aimed the rocket launcher downward. The automatic loading structure has stuffed a new batch of rockets into the bomb nest, and there are two orc boys carrying large bags. They put more than a dozen rockets into the armored entrance of Kuangya's butt. The cannonballs were added to Kuangya’s combat backpack.
The next moment, more than a dozen rockets flew out and hit the independent gun warehouse below.
The operating crew of the 'Reflector', which consisted of dozens of people, was wiped out almost instantly. The energy storage device of the Reflector laser cannon also exploded immediately, creating an even larger gap in the surrounding area. .
The fire wave of the explosion even spread to the upper floors. Gene Kuangfang was not affected at all, but several unlucky green-skinned guys were caught in the explosion and thrown out of the ship.
Without the ship's life support system and gravity system, those who entered the void, even the green-skinned orcs with strong vitality, would have no chance of survival.
But it doesn't matter, the value of destroying a naval gun is much higher than a group of unlucky guys being blown up.
Seeing such a gorgeous explosion happening right in front of their eyes, the living boys were extremely happy.
Kuangya also laughed!
He waved back and called on the boys to get out of the landing cabin quickly, they were going to fight inside!
As the governor of the Tenth Robbery Fleet of the Iron Teeth Clan, he is the leader of the entire fleet. Today, he is going to fight in person to completely win this war!
The supreme commander of the fleet personally joins a gang to fight. He is so reckless that he is almost stupid, but he is green enough.
(End of chapter)