Volume 1 Glacial Relics Chapter 28 Death Light
"What's the meaning?"
"These people came from the Ark, not exiles from outside!!"
"Are you sure?" There was a hint of solemnity in the Hound's tone. He retracted his flaps and dived quickly towards Layton.
"Sure! If you don't believe me, come and see for yourself." Leighton said confidently.
"Stop chasing, gather the formation and land!" After giving the order, the Hound landed quickly, used a few jogs to cushion the inertia of the fall, and then ran quickly towards the prisoner who was subdued by Layton.
When he got closer, the hound found that the prisoner was about to die. His limbs were twitching constantly, and saliva mixed with white foam was overflowing from the corners of his mouth. He used his hands to pry open his eyelids and saw that his pupils were dilated.
"Fuck, I told you to catch his tongue, but he's dead!" The hound kicked Layton on the knee.
At this time, Ke Lan also landed on the ground, followed by Ivan. As for Asano Akira, he stayed on the battleship and did not participate in this operation.
"He took the poison before I even landed. The pill dissolved as soon as it entered his mouth, and I couldn't get it out." Leighton raised his finger, which was stained with some saliva and a small amount of paste-like light yellow powder.
"Fuck... these assassins!" The Hound rubbed the stubble on his chin in annoyance. "By the way, you just said that this guy is not an exile. Where is the evidence?"
"Look." Leighton tore off the dead man's camouflage cloak, revealing a well-made set of standard light infantry armor. Ke Lan had seen this thing on the black market, and a second-hand piece could be sold for more than 10,000 credit points.
"…It's the 'Ranger IV' armor. The exiles really can't afford such good stuff." The Hound squatted down and began to feel around the waist of the corpse.
"Don't look for it. The production batch and number on it have been scratched off - but I can guarantee that this set of armor is definitely new and has been out of the factory for less than a month. I can even smell the oil left by the stamping machine on the armor plate." said Layton.
"It seems that things are far from that simple... We may be involved in a big trouble..." The Hound curled his lips, "Let's go back to the ship. I will talk to the lieutenant colonel about this."
"Why don't we take the body back? Or take some blood samples, or scan the iris? At least we can find out this guy's identification code." Layton followed the hound and whispered.
The hound looked around and found that they were the only ones there. Then he waved to Layton and said mysteriously, "Come here."
"Hmm?" Layton moved closer obediently, but was hit hard on the head by the hound.
"Fuck! Why are you hitting me?!" Leighton felt a little aggrieved.
The Hound lowered his voice and said, "If you want to die, don't implicate us... This group of people obviously came from a strange background. If we just go back and take their statements, then this matter will have nothing to do with us. But if we find out the identities of this group of people, then we will be in serious trouble and we won't be able to get rid of them. Brothers, remember, when you go back to take the statements, if you are asked why you didn't collect biometric samples, just say you forgot. Those people will only follow the procedures and won't make things difficult for us."
"Hiss... Old dog, do you know some secret?" Layton glanced at the Marines behind him with some worry. Without the Hound's order, they certainly would not take the corpse away without permission.
"I don't know shit. If I knew, I would have turned into fertilizer long ago!" The hound spat and said, "Let's go...let the warship come to pick us up."
"Wait a minute." Ke Lan seemed to have suddenly thought of something and pulled the old dog. "Since these people are not exiles, why did they attack us?"
"Alas, I've said it all... Let's not delve into this matter too deeply. Don't mess with those you can't afford to offend. Why are you young people..." The Hound sighed and said.
"That's not what I meant. What I meant was, if they weren't exiles, what's the point of their suicidal attack? With just that kind of individual rocket launcher, they can't even penetrate the armor of the battleship, let alone the shield..." As he spoke, Ke Lan suddenly realized something was wrong and shouted, "Quick, raise the battleship to a higher altitude and adjust the power of the energy shield to the maximum! The attack is not over yet!"
"Are you saying these people are just bait?" The Hound was startled and was about to contact the captain, but all he could hear on the communication channel was a strong electrical noise.
"Damn it, I forgot about this!" The Hound tried changing several channels, but to no avail. The river valley was shrouded in an electromagnetic interference field. Short-distance communications within a few hundred meters were not greatly affected, but there was no way to contact the battleship.
"Flag language, does anyone among you know flag language?" Ke Lan had an idea in his mind, and ran back to the corpse, using a dagger to cut off the entire camouflage cloak.
"I can." Layton took the cape and was about to wave it, but stopped. "But... how do I tell the people on the ship? There are only a few common flag signals... If I use letters, this sentence will have at least hundreds of movements!"
"Idiot, just send the enemy engagement signal!" said the Hound anxiously.
However... before Layton could wave his cloak, the ground in the valley suddenly shook violently, and then a dazzling white beam of light broke through the rock and headed straight for the warship in the air!
Almost in an instant, the white light beam collided with the battleship's energy shield... There was no explosion as imagined, nor any flying sparks. All that could be seen was that the luster of the energy shield quickly dimmed, just like a pot of hot water poured on snow. In just a few seconds, the shield melted away.
"That's...'Death Ray'!!" Layton swallowed with some difficulty.
"Death ray? What is that?" Ke Lan asked. Compared to the expert Layton, he knew very little about weapons.
"That is a high-powered weapon of the Alpha civilization! I didn't expect that there was a 'death ray' buried under this valley!" Leighton sighed repeatedly. At this time, the white light beam had begun to contact the armor of the battleship. Large pieces of armor silently turned into ashes, and the internal structure of the ship was gradually exposed.
"I don't know how the Alphas did it... They captured a large amount of antimatter in a stable state and made it into a weapon. Nothing can block the death ray. It will annihilate all the matter and energy it touches... until the antimatter in it is completely neutralized."
There were explosions everywhere on the battleship, but where the death ray came into contact, even the shock waves and flames of the explosions were swallowed up...
"Since it is a weapon of the Alpha civilization, it must be powered by crystals. If we cut off its energy source, can we stop it?"
Layton shook his head. "Most of the energy weapons of the Alpha Civilization use crystals as energy, but the death ray is an exception. The antimatter it emits was stored by the Alpha people tens of thousands of years ago, so it basically does not need external energy supply... I just don't understand how these guys activate the 'death ray'... This thing is not the kind of thing that can be fired by pulling the trigger."
The battleship had begun to disintegrate, large amounts of burning debris fell from the sky, thick smoke dragged black trails, and more than a dozen escape pods were ejected from the tail of the battleship - obviously, the captain had already given the order to abandon ship and escape.
"Sometimes... even if you don't want to cause trouble, trouble will come to you." The hound stared blankly at the warship falling from the sky and muttered.
