Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 254 God's Perspective
But from another perspective... the "hard drive" carrying this data is actually Ke Lan's brain... If Ke Lan chooses to shoot himself in the dream, there is a high probability that Ke Lan in the real world will also shoot himself in the head. Doing so can indeed escape from the dream, but the price paid is really a little bit high...
Ke Lan had to find a way to "hot shut down"... He felt like he was trapped in an immersive game. He was the god of this gaming world and could do anything here... but he couldn't find the "Exit Game" button.
Moreover, this game has a serious bug, and the resources related to Hound and others cannot be called out...
Wait? Can't be called?
Ke Lan was very keenly aware of something unusual: If this dream world is really regarded as a game program, then these resources that cannot be called upon have been occupied?
A running program cannot be deleted or modified... In other words, Hound and the others are also in this dream now, and they are also "players" in this "game world", so all memories related to them cannot appear in this dream?
"Computers can be connected to the Internet... Can they be connected to the Internet even in dreams?" Ke Lan muttered to himself in disbelief, but other than that, it was difficult for him to come up with another more reasonable explanation.
Just as Ke Lan was thinking this, the surrounding environment changed drastically... Before he could even see clearly where he was, the dense sound of gunfire and artillery burst into his ears.
Ke Lan found that his consciousness was floating in the air hundreds of meters high. Looking down, he saw a human army surrounded by countless armored beasts in a fortress-like fortification with a diameter of no more than 100 meters. It seemed that they were about to collapse.
The armored beast is a relatively rare social creature on the planet Alpha. Despite its rarity, each colony is very large, with the number of "worker ants" alone exceeding one million.
When talking about "worker ants", we have to talk about the characteristics of this creature: the social structure of the armored beast is very similar to that of ants on Earth. Except for the "queen" and "male armored beast" who are responsible for breeding in the colony, the largest number are the "soldier ants" and "worker ants" who have no reproductive ability.
The size and appearance of these four types of armored beasts are very different. The "soldier ant" armored beast is like a giant land tortoise, 20 to 30 meters long and about 15 meters high. It has six short and powerful legs and a solid carapace. It moves slowly but has amazing defense. Its main means of attack are collision, crushing and the "plasma ball" spit out from its mouth. Although the attack power of the plasma ball is not as good as the plasma cannon on human warships, ordinary people will be vaporized instantly if they accidentally touch it...
The "worker ant" armored beast is about the same size as an adult man. It moves with six limbs wrapped in an exoskeleton. It is very fast, but its attack methods are relatively simple. It can only use limbs or sharp beak-like mouthparts for close combat. Generally speaking, as long as a sufficient distance can be maintained, a human soldier with moderate marksmanship can easily kill a "worker ant" in a one-on-one fight.
However, the biggest feature of worker ants is that they are numerous and fearless. When worker ants all over the mountains rush towards the human army, if there are no strong enough fortifications or heavy firepower, even the most elite troops among humans will not be able to hold out for long.
There were about 100,000 armored beasts besieging the fortress, most of them were "worker ants" and there were only about 20 "soldier ants". Despite this, the plasma cannon with a cooling time of only about half a minute still caused tremendous pressure on the human side - with repeated bombardments, the luster of the energy shield covering the fortress was rapidly dimming, and it would not be long before the shield would completely collapse due to lack of energy supply.
Below the energy shield, countless "worker ants" were still charging towards the outer wall of the fortress in wave after wave. The machine guns on the wall were roaring madly, and the base of the machine guns was piled with empty shells and discarded gun barrels.
Ke Lan could fully foresee that without air support, it would only be a matter of time before the entire army was wiped out... But what puzzled Ke Lan was - why did this battle appear in his dream world?
At this moment, a familiar figure appeared in his field of vision, Hound - no, to be precise, he was still called Nick at that time, a field force commander with the rank of colonel .
Nick stood at the entrance of the temporary command post in the center of the fortress, holding a high-powered military communicator in his hand, and was shouting into the microphone: "Why is the reinforcement delayed! My people are almost wiped out! Why can't we see our warships in the sky! Are your reinforcements here to collect my corpse?!"
"Ten minutes! Ten minutes! How many fucking ten minutes have I waited? When you first said this, I still had 25 tanks and more than a thousand soldiers - now? I still have three tanks and less than 150 men!"
Nick became more and more angry as he spoke. He raised his hand and was about to smash the communicator, but when he glanced at the soldiers who were still struggling to resist on the wall, he sighed imperceptibly and put his hand down again.
"No matter what your excuses are, I need reinforcements, the sooner the better. Even if there are no warships, get me a few transport planes... Save as many as you can, I can't let them all die here!"
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Ke Lan finally understood. This was the Hound's nightmare... As for why the Hound retired from the army, he had never told anyone the details. Ke Lan had only heard some rumors from Layton. It was said that in addition to the pension issue, it was also related to a disastrous defeat he had commanded... From this point of view, this incident should be the shadow hidden deep in the Hound's heart.
Ke Lan wanted to just wave his hand and kill all the armored beasts besieging the fortress, but he found that he could not influence this world at all - this was the hound's dream, not his... He was just a bystander.
What puzzled him was why his consciousness could travel into the hound's dream. Could it be that their dreams were connected by something, just like a computer local area network?
But judging from the hound's performance, he seemed to be deeply immersed in it and had no idea that it was just a dream.
