Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 1019: Final Battle (VI)
As soon as he finished speaking, three dazzling lasers shot out from the humanoid giant machine, instantly cutting the metal centipede that was entangled with it into four pieces.
At the same time, the few people who boarded the giant humanoid machine had already locked onto the position where the laser was fired and directly used their strongest means of attack!
The flying energy particles hit the armor, leaving dense burn marks. The three out-of-control laser beams turned inward and "dismembered" the humanoid giant into dozens of pieces in just a few seconds.
The giant object over a kilometer in size collapsed with a loud bang, and the pale fragments began to turn into sand after disintegration, and were unable to become independent individuals with self-acting ability again.
Zhuo Ligetu and others were floating in the air , looking down at the huge machine that was collapsing like a building demolished by explosion, and they couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"We won... What is this?" The Hound standing on the deck was stunned in place, his hands still maintaining the posture of carrying the missile launcher on his shoulders. It was not until the powdered wreckage of the giant machine swept over and wrapped him up as if he had just been fished out of a pile of flour that he suddenly reacted, "Damn it, we actually won..."
He wanted to cheer loudly and curse loudly... Although he was so excited that he couldn't express it in words, his body seemed to no longer obey his consciousness. The Hound only felt waves of dizziness coming from the depths of his mind. This was a sequelae of excessive drug dosage. Previously, he had been able to hold on from fainting by relying on his own secretion and external injection of adrenaline, but now that the tense state was relieved, irresistible fatigue and sleepiness immediately surged up.
"It's good enough as long as we win..."
The Hound slowly closed his eyes, and all the muscles in his body relaxed. But just before he lost consciousness, he locked the joints of the power armor, allowing the armor to support his limp body and keep him in a standing position.
“Beep—beep—”
The shrill alarm that he had always hated sounded inside the helmet, but he could no longer hear it, and could no longer curse.
In the lower right corner of the display screen inside the helmet, the graph representing the heart rate has become a straight line with no ups and downs anymore.
"Old dog?" Layton's voice sounded in the communication channel, with a hint of caution, "Old dog, are you... asleep? Damn it, old dog? Old dog, don't scare me! Old thing, please make a sound! You can even curse me!"
Layton's voice became panic-stricken and broken. For a moment he was suddenly at a loss. He stood stupidly in front of the console, looking at the column with the Hound code in the life monitoring device.
The border color of that column has changed from red to gray, all data has been reset to zero, and glaring white fonts are displayed in the middle of the hound's avatar.
"The vital signs are gone."
The seven cold and emotionless Chinese characters, like the dark side of two moons, slowly drained the warmth from Layton's body.
Layton raised his hand with some difficulty and gently touched the holographic screen with his stiff fingers. A circle of ripples spread out from the touched position.
"Information review in progress..."
"Review completed, the information is correct."
"The target's vital signs have completely disappeared, confirmed dead."
"Ah!!" Layton suddenly roared and punched the screen, but the holographic projection screen was not a physical entity, and his fist went straight through it, causing Layton to lose his balance and stumble onto the guardrail of the console.
After hearing Leighton's voice, Ivan and others immediately fell from mid-air and found the location of the hound.
The Hound held the missile launcher with both hands, his back straightened by the support of the armor, his head slightly raised, looking up at the chest of the original humanoid giant - but now the humanoid giant has disappeared, his sight can pass through the space unimpeded and directly see the distant Alpha star - assuming he can still see it.
Ivan wordlessly took out the medical equipment he carried with him and connected the two cables to the reserved interfaces on the outside of the Hound's power armor. His normal left hand quickly tapped on the keyboard, while the tentacles on his right arm rolled out a bunch of syringes from the backpack and inserted them one by one into the external injection port of the Hound's armor.
Five minutes later, Ivan stopped everything, stood up, and shook his head silently to the others.
"Is there no chance?" Chi Hanfeng asked softly.
"All his organs were severely failing, he had multiple fatal injuries, and he was taking dozens of times more drugs... The fact that the old dog could hold on until the humanoid giant machine disintegrated was a miracle in itself," Ivan said. "His body enhancement level was not very high, and his drug tolerance was not comparable to those of the cyborgs... When he was injected with those drugs, he should have known his fate."
"Even the consciousness cannot be preserved?" Chi Hanfeng asked again.
"His consciousness was not condensed enough... It completely dissipated after the death of the body." Ivan said, "Even if we use the energy of the alien god to separate the , it will only be torture for him."
"What the hell are you trying to show off, old man!" Layton's emotions finally broke down. "You obviously don't have any skills, and your level of enhancement is not high... Why do you have to charge into the battle yourself! Can't you just sit quietly in the command room? With your fighting ability, it doesn't matter whether you are on the battlefield or not! Aren't you most afraid of death? Why aren't you afraid today? Why? Why the hell do you answer me!!"
"I remember Nick told me during another casual chat," Chi Hanfeng said, "He told me that when he was still in the army, he often emphasized one thing to his officers: when charging, they should shout 'Follow me' instead of 'Charge for me'... He said that if even the leader is not brave enough to risk his life, then what qualifications does he have to let his subordinates die for him..."
"He's a person... sometimes he's very smart, and sometimes he's like a fucking idiot. Damn, he's really an idiot!" As Layton kept cursing, a low whimpering sound gradually began to be heard, accompanied by the white noise of electric current, echoing in the communication channel.
Ivan unplugged the cable and syringe plugged into the hound, took a deep breath, and reached out to wipe off the layer of white powder covering the hound's helmet mask.
The hound closed his eyes and looked relaxed, as if he was having a good dream.
"Good night, old dog," Ivan whispered, patting the hound's helmet gently.
"It's... not over yet! The war is not over yet!" Layton gritted his teeth and cried, "The war is not over yet! We have to help Ke Lan! If the Crescent Fortress falls... Old Dog, Old Dog's death was in vain!"
"Leaton, check the hangar. How many X-type high-speed shuttles are left?" Chi Hanfeng said in a deep voice.
The X-type high-speed shuttle is an ultra-high-speed space fighter that only existed in concept drawings half a year ago. The "X" is named after the four forked overlapping wings. A large rocket thruster is installed at the end of each wing, plus the explosive thruster at the tail. In the space environment, the maximum speed of the X-type shuttle can reach 27 Mach. The crew must be enhanced people above level four and must be placed in a fully enclosed anti-gravity cabin to ensure their safety... This was originally developed for exploring the space area around Alpha, but because the exploration plan was shelved, this type of shuttle has never been mass-produced.
Until the semi-finished design drawings were taken out by Ke Lan from Heijing's database and casually thrown to the engineering department of the God Hunting Group.
"There are six planes left. Including the pilots, we can only send eighteen people to support Ke Lan." Layton replied while sniffling.
Although the X-type high-speed shuttle is not small in size, it can only carry three crew members because it needs to be equipped with an anti-gravity cabin, and its weapon system is relatively scarce... This thing originally needed many improvements, but because the war broke out too suddenly, they had to rush the prototype into production.
But the only good news is that by emptying its ammunition compartment, it can fit a Blasphemer mech with its limbs curled up - the mech does not need the protection of an anti-G cabin, and Valentina inside the mech does not need to enter the anti-G cabin, so in total there are nineteen people.
The fleet that bypassed Yaguna Tor and attacked the Crescent Fortress was even larger than the one they had just destroyed... The rescue of nineteen people felt like "a drop in the bucket."
"We can't worry about that. What if we are the straw that breaks the camel's back?" Chi Hanfeng said in a resounding voice, "Leighton is right. The war is not over yet... Zhuo Ligetu, go and select a group of people with strong personal strength. The minimum physical enhancement level is required to be above level five. Leighton, immediately open the hangar authority and transport the remaining six X-type shuttles to the deck!"
With the sacrifice of the hunting dog, Chi Hanfeng naturally became the most suitable combat candidate among the top leaders of the Hunting God Hunting Group - although his strength was not the strongest, he had the most extensive command experience, so this heavy responsibility naturally fell on him.
"Ivan, Thirty-three, how are you two doing?" Chi Hanfeng turned and looked at the two people standing on the other side.
The tentacles growing out of Ivan's right arm were wriggling in the vacuum. In the previous battle, many tentacles were destroyed. Although the tentacles have the ability to self-repair, recovery requires energy and nutrients. Not only are the number of Ivan's tentacles much less than when he joined the battlefield, the length and diameter are also far less than before. Those newly formed tentacles look extremely immature and do not seem to be able to fight at all.
As for Thirty-Three, except for the hound, it was probably in the worst condition among the few people - even with one ten-millionth of a unit of Esgod energy, it almost drained its own strength in order to give birth to the giant metal centipede just now. At this time, the two flames in the skull's eye sockets flickered, flickering, and seemed to be completely extinguished at any time.
"I'm fine... As long as there are enough nutrients, the Seed of Erosion can be restored." Ivan said, "Thirty-three's overdraft is a bit serious... He can no longer withstand the replenishment of EsGod's energy."
"How about Thirty-three stay?" Chi Hanfeng turned his head and looked directly at the fire in the skeleton's eyes.
The skeleton shook his head and waved his hand gently. A line of text appeared on the deck between the two of them: "My remaining strength is always stronger than that of an ordinary soldier. There are also a large amount of Nino alloy in the Crescent Fortress. I can at least play a certain auxiliary role."
"But if you continue to use this ability... you'll... become like Nick..."
"I'm already a dead man." Thirty-three continued to answer using the words that appeared on the deck, "When I received the energy replenishment from the EsGod for the second time, my remaining time was compressed to less than four hours... Even if you don't let me participate in the battle, my consciousness will soon dissipate."
"Okay, count you in." Chi Hanfeng gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!"
Time was running out, so he didn't say anything more and floated directly to an X-type shuttle that was teleported out. But before Chi Hanfeng could open the cockpit, the hatch opened by itself.
The person lying in the anti-gravity cabin at the driver's seat was Layton.
"Major Chi, you are the temporary commander now. You should stay in Yaguna Kotor." Layton said in the communication channel, "Things like charging into battle should be left to me."
"If you go to Crescent Fortress, what about Yaguna Tor? I can't control this thing!" Chi Hanfeng asked.
"The battle of Yaguna Kotor is over. Major Chi, you don't need to do anything. Just sit in the control room and give orders. If the second commander also dies in battle, the situation will be a real mess. In addition, someone is needed to deal with the aftermath of Yaguna Kotor. I am not good at this kind of work. People who are good at it have become part of the aftermath. You should stay."
"I..." Chi Hanfeng wanted to say something, but found that he could not find any reason to refute Leighton.
"Stay away a little, be careful not to get burned ." After making sure that the Blasphemer mecha had entered the cabin and Asano Akira and Zhuo Ligetu had also entered the anti-gravity cabin, Layton decisively started the engine.
"I'll leave this place to you. If the Crescent Fortress's star destroyer can't fire, take the Yaguna Tor and the people on the ship and escape quickly. The farther the better!" After leaving these words, six X-type shuttles flew out from the deck of the Yaguna Tor and turned into six flashing spots of light in the blink of an eye.
