At 5:53, kl3014's two new subordinates sent him an abnormal information report almost at the same time - kl3014 only glanced at the content of the report, and then almost without any pause, sounded the enemy attack alarm on the Defender and all surrounding space stations. , and at the same time submitted an application to the staff department to immediately transfer all defensive weapons to wartime status - although this is the fastest response speed of the entire system, it is still slow compared to battlefield needs.
The enemy has obviously been preparing for a long time. The siren has only sounded for a few seconds. Many people have just woken up from their sleep. They subconsciously put on their headphones and are ready to follow the AI's arrangements for them, but the battle has already arrived.
First, the power system was cut off, and the space station immediately became dark. This is different from the previous plane wars, because the space station in space has a very large manpower, and the Defender is only a space station mainly focused on military scientific research. The priority level in military equipment is not very high, and it has only been more than half a month since the end of the last war, so most of the Defender's power system is traditional wired transmission.
What followed was almost a repeat of the previous battlefield - the interruption of the power system directly led to the failure of the entire space station's AI battlefield intelligence. It was as if two people were fighting and one of them was suddenly thrown a handful of sand by his opponent, and panic was ignited. Like gunpowder, it spread rapidly within the space station.
Most of the soldiers stationed on the station and military reservists follow the training and rush to the predetermined assembly points of the space station - usually these locations are chosen at important traffic thoroughfares, or in places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and where personnel can easily be concentrated, such as stairs. Intersections, power and power control centers, squares, and armories. For example, Ned now, after being inexplicably saved by a sharp alarm, almost subconsciously picked up a pistol and shot into the bathroom. He only saw the bathroom. There was blood spattering on the door, but he didn't even have the courage to check the results of the battle, so he ran out with his two roommates - only to find out when he ran out that he had a communicator, a wireless headset, a rifle, and even shoes. I didn't bring any of these things.
However, they were not the most embarrassed - after they walked out, they discovered that the passage, which was not spacious in the first place, was crowded with dense crowds. Most of them were wearing pajamas, some were even naked, and many of them had good looks. women - but no one has time to appreciate these now, a group of people are like refugees, running along the passage like a preset meeting point.
When the power was cut off and the entire space station suddenly turned dark, Ned heard many people in the crowd scream out of fear. The originally orderly team suddenly became chaotic, and everyone tried their best to speed up. , but the speed of the entire team actually became slower. There were curses in various languages ??everywhere in the darkness, as well as small white dots flashing faintly one by one - those were the dim lights emitted by some people's mobile phones. .
In this chaos, Ned was soon separated from his two roommates - they didn't even bother to put on their shoes, so their speed naturally slowed down, and he at least had a pair of slippers on his feet, standing in the crowd. , Ned drifted with the current like a leaf. He had previously imagined where he would choose to take refuge if a war suddenly came. According to kl3014's suggestion, the area where the engineering ship was stored was the best option for escape. He also He agreed with this, but at this moment, he didn't think about it at all. Fear was like a whip driving a flock of sheep, driving everyone to escape in an instinctive way.
The crowd fully hoped that they would see the troops ready at the scheduled gathering place - but they were soon disappointed. In the square where the crowd was scheduled to gather, most of the people they could see were "refugees" like themselves, except for one. A small number of them were wearing military uniforms, but from their faces, everyone could see the same confusion as themselves - most of these people were soldiers on duty at night, as well as some staff of military projects, even though they were all wearing military uniforms. , but almost no one has actually been on the battlefield - even among these people, there are brave and calm people. After seeing the scene of magic killing with their own eyes, faced with this situation where they can only be beaten and cannot fight back, only That little bit of courage was quickly shattered.
Disappointment was soon followed by despair: the enemy's speed was astonishing. After the few resisters in the space station were quickly eliminated, the enemy began to compress along the main passage of the space station. At this time, Ned had already recovered a little. After regaining consciousness, he originally thought about heading towards the outer edge of the space station to see if there were any usable engineering ships, but he quickly gave up the idea because in the direction of the stairs, the crowds were like water pouring in from outside. The layers of people poured into the inner layer, and as they arrived, there were countless chaotic screams. In this chaos, the panic of a group of people began to gradually calm down, and the military training they had received began to take effect¡ª ¡ª Loud shouts began to appear in the crowd, and someone began to call forEveryone calm down.
Ned can be considered one of these people. After all, he has also been in the war and witnessed the bloody scenes in person. When his rationality returned, he quickly began to analyze his surprise. Ned had participated in the previous events in New York. Although he could only be regarded as a peripheral member of the war, personally experiencing that war still made him remember many details. If he remembered correctly, the enemy massacred 800,000 people in New York. , very similar to what I experienced today. First, the power was cut off, and then the crowd was driven away. When the crowd was so dense that there was no place to stand, the final concentrated "processing" was done.
Ned didn't want to be dealt with. Although human instinct told him to stay in the group, his reason and countless previous conversations with kl3014 told him that doing so could only delay the time of death, so he had to find a way to break out, but how to escape. , the enemy is well prepared. Judging from the posture, it must be a large-scale operation. How can he leave a loophole and let people take advantage of it
"It's a spell caster!" Just when Ned was racking his brains to recall the many "escape tips" that kl3014 had introduced to him before, Ned heard someone in the crowd suddenly utter an exclamation, and he followed everyone's gaze and looked towards In the distance - only a black enemy corpse was seen there. It was obvious that the caster had just arrived but left quickly.
The appearance of the spell caster made everyone feel more or less relieved - this meant that they were still in contact with the outside world, which made the order of the crowd begin to stabilize. After about a while, someone announced that they had passed through the consciousness network and The coalition forces got in touch - and his words were soon confirmed. A spellcaster appeared in the crowd, carrying a large package of communicators with him, and handed them over to the soldiers in military uniforms for distribution.
After Ned entered the consciousness network, he learned that the Defender was not the only one that was attacked - there were quite a lot of enemy attack points, currently involving about 28 space stations. These space stations were mainly like the Defender, including civilians. In areas with many residents, judging from news from other space stations, the scale of the enemy's attack is not very large. There may only be a few thousand people in each space station, because the attack came so suddenly, and these space stations are separated from each other. It's far away, so it might be a while before reinforcements arrive.
These news have given everyone a lot of confidence - if these are true, it means that the enemy's attack this time is not large in scale. Compared with the previous key large-scale attacks, it can only be regarded as fire reconnaissance - but confidence So fragile, when a group of black figures appeared, the crowd collapsed again - how to get out of the dangerous situation in front of them was the most important thing.
More caster reinforcements appeared, but their numbers were still a drop in the bucket compared to the number of enemies. At the same time, the enemies began to increase their speed - which meant that they were "squeezing" harder and harder. The crowd in the space station is like an orange being put into a press. When the pressure is high enough, the cells that make up the orange will inevitably begin to burst - Ned soon heard something like a piece of cloth coming from not far away. As a soldier, he could naturally hear the cracking sound. It was the sound of an automatic rifle tightening its trigger and firing 30 bullets in 3 seconds. His judgment was quickly confirmed. Someone in the Consciousness Network saw it. People would shout: "They have guns, get down, get down!" However, this sound often only appeared for a few seconds and then fell silent forever.
Ned didn't hesitate at all. He used his hands and feet to clear a way through the crowd, just like a fish trying to swim in mercury. When he passed a fire station on the road, he put more than ten kilograms in without hesitation. He carried a large, heavy carbon dioxide fire extinguisher on his back. He originally wanted to bring a fire ax, but he couldn't hold it with both hands.
The dormitory where Ned lives is not far from the place where he works, which is a military laboratory, and because of the importance of the laboratory, most of them are located on the inner floor of the space station. In other words, just now As Ned ran with the crowd, the straight line distance to the laboratory was getting closer and closer.
"Thank God!" When he came to the entrance of the laboratory, he saw that the laboratory's own power supply showed normal lights. Ned secretly shouted in his heart. This meant that there should be no enemies here for the time being. He took out his ID card from his pocket. , gently detecting a stroke at the entrance, the door opened, he rushed straight into the work preparation room, found his own set of off-site work clothes, and put them on in the shortest possible time, with the clothes on his back Matching the oxygen cylinder, and using the ready-made equipment in the room to do a simple tightness test for himself as soon as possible. After doing this, he came to his desk and gave himself the long-empty pistol. He put on a full clip of bullets, then hugged the fire extinguisher and walked out the door without looking back.
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