Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 663: β-type replicant Collins
In addition to Connelly and Moriyama, there are also Gino, Gary, Martin, Samuel, Joseph and Danny... These are the names mentioned by Sergeant Ken in the black box recording, and these people mentioned by name are basically confirmed to be missing or dead...
Samuel was a fearless warrior, and he was on the middle transport plane that was loaded with engineering mechas and hydrogen bombs. Apart from him, several other people were on this plane.
As for Liao Xing, Ke Lan looked around at the soldiers in the cabin and did not see the familiar face.
He was not on this transport plane.
At this moment, Connelly said, "Boss, we are all on the plane now, so it's time to tell us the target of this operation, right?"
"Yes, yes." Joseph also said, "Although I have roughly guessed the content of the mission - the hydrogen bomb must be used to blow up the nest of indigenous creatures somewhere, but this kind of mission can be completed independently by the Army Aviation Corps, right? There is no need to mobilize so many troops, right?"
"Shit, could the target be deep underground?" Connelly yelled with a depressed look on his face, "So our mission is to bring the hydrogen bomb underground and detonate it? Damn... This mission sounds like a one-way ticket..."
"I'll tell you the details of the mission when we get there." Sergeant Ken rested the butt of his rifle on the cabin floor, leaned back in his seat, and closed his eyes to rest.
"By the way, Captain Walcott, you should know the destination of this flight, right?" Connelly turned his attention to the pilot of the transport plane.
"I know , but it's useless." Walcott shrugged. "We won't take you directly to the mission site. You need to drive the last leg of the journey. As for your final destination, I don't know either."
"Okay, Walcott." Sergeant Ken opened his eyes and glared at him. "The recording equipment on the plane is still working. If you don't want to be punished later, shut your mouth."
"Oh." Walcott responded obediently.
"We actually have to drive there..." Cornelius smacked his lips, "I hate traveling by land."
"Me too." Joseph nodded.
On the map of Alpha Star at this era, most of the land is red "danger zone" and gray "unexplored area". The probability of encountering indigenous creatures by land is almost 100%. Although the 776 Special Forces Team is very powerful, if they cannot win the battle quickly, the noise of the battle will attract other indigenous creatures in the surrounding areas. If they are surrounded, in the absence of air rescue, it is only a matter of time before the whole army is wiped out.
For some reason, although Sergeant Ken did not allow Walcott to speak, he was unusually tolerant of the discussions among his soldiers - but the more he did so, the more nervous these soldiers became.
Sergeant Ken is not an easy-going leader. On the contrary, his strictness ranks among the top three among the commanders of several special forces.
It's like when you were a child, your parents always liked to scold you, dislike you, and even beat you up for no reason. But suddenly one day when you came home from school, you found your parents waiting for you at the door their faces, holding your favorite snacks and toys in their hands. As long as the child's IQ is not too shabby, he or she will most likely feel strange rather than surprised at first.
There must be something wrong when things are not normal...and Sergeant Ken's current performance has made these soldiers more convinced that this is a one-way mission.
"Collins, Collins..." The soldier sitting next to Ke Lan whispered Collins' name and poked Ke Lan lightly with his elbow.
"Ah...what's wrong, Martin? I was a little distracted just now." Ke Lan - or rather, Collins was stunned for a moment and turned his head away.
Sitting next to him was a young blond boy with freckles all over his face - just looking at his face and body shape, one would even doubt whether this guy was an adult... But Ke Lan knew that this guy named Martin was very strong, and his total score in comprehensive training projects always ranked among the top two in the company.
As for the other one of the top two, it is Collins himself.
Collins and Martin were transferred from the 1st Reconnaissance Company of the 3rd Armored Combined Brigade to the 776th Special Forces Squad. Collins was the captain of the 1st Squad of the 1st Reconnaissance Company, while Martin was the captain of the 2nd Squad. The two had known each other for several years before joining the 776th Special Forces Squad. In the 776th Special Forces Squad, Martin and Collins had the best relationship.
"Have you written your suicide note?" Martin's face looked a little grim. "I... I thought this mission wouldn't be difficult, so I didn't write it..."
"Why write that? It's so unlucky." Collins rolled his eyes at him and said.
As a type β replicator, Collins naturally has no parents (not an insult), and the fake identity that Ark set for him is a test-tube baby born from the "Public Human Cultivation Center" - in a sense, this is actually true, the embryos of type β replicators are also developed and matured in artificial wombs, but compared to those normally developed infants, when they first open their eyes, they are already 16 to 20 years old teenagers.
Collins has no family (also not an insult), he is not married, has no wife or children, and his only girlfriend ran away a year ago with a wealthy man from an unknown family.
When Collins received the breakup message from his girlfriend, he had just withdrawn from a battlefield where the survival rate was less than 30%... Then the next day he killed more than 140 mutant creatures by himself and earned a Silver Star Medal... But to that rich man of unknown generations, the Silver Star Medal was actually no different from scrap metal... Collins' ex-girlfriend had posted a photo of her new boyfriend's medal on her social account to show off - although this young man, whose body was hollowed out by alcohol and sex, had only served as a gilded technical sergeant in the garrison for two years, the medals he had won, both in quantity and quality, were enough to beat Collins up.
As for the origins of these medals, there is actually nothing to hide - killing the enemy bravely on the battlefield is a contribution, and donating huge sums of money and military supplies to the military in the name of an individual is also a contribution.
The only thing that comforted Collins was that the woman had been played with by the rich man for who knows how many generations less than two months after she abandoned him... When she came to Collins with an obviously bulging belly, Collins simply turned around and left.
From then on, Collins never saved any money and never wrote a suicide note.
