Chapter 90

The missile streaked across the dark space like a meteor. The light spot of a mecha on the communication channel disappeared immediately. The One-eyed Eagle made an emergency jump for the third time. He felt the protective gas hitting his chest. His vision went dark and he almost lost consciousness. The net fell off, and the nosebleeds had already come down - he thought, he is getting old after all.

　If there was another emergency jump, he felt that he might die on the spot.

　One hundred and ninety-seven years old, I am still on the tip of the so-called "youth" tail. There are no wrinkles on my face, I have not yet gone bald, and I have not yet gained weight. Walking on the street, there will still be girls with hooked noses and odd-colored hair. Pupils looked back at him, deceived by his face, unable to tell that he was almost past the shelf life.

　He has seen buildings rise and fall, catch fire, and turn into ashes. He has lived and died intoxicated for hundreds of years, accompanied by wine and sex. The muscles in his body and the spirit in his chest have quietly abandoned him. He is no longer the one waiting for him. Young man.

　"One-eyed Eagle," William Yu's voice came from the communication channel, "They are catching up again!"

　Their team was an old part of the Free Alliance Army. There were seventeen or eight people in total, and they opened ten small mechas - —Some people are no longer used to driving mechas. For safety reasons, two people have to take turns driving.

　This group of middle-aged and elderly men did not come out to fight in groups. Before they came, they thought about the spring breeze and a glass of wine, and the ten-year lamp in the rainy night in the rivers and lakes. They lit a fire and poured oil to heat the spatula. They planned to make a splash, but when they came out, they were all served cold food. ——Everyone's reminiscing often turns into drunkenness. After drinking hot wine, we cry into each other's arms. After reminiscing about the turbulent years, all that is left is a pile of chicken feathers, and there is nothing to say except complaining.

　As I get older, my ideals atrophy along with my muscles, and I can no longer hold a lie as big as the Eighth Galaxy.

　On the way back in vain, when this group of demoralized old brothers suddenly detected a nearby mecha corps, the distance between the two sides was less than 500 kilometers - this could not be an accidental encounter, because a corps of this size, if Instead of using technical means to hide oneself, passing merchant ships and mechas would have noticed it half a day away even if they didn't deliberately scan it.

　The One-Eyed Eagle immediately ordered everyone to evacuate at full speed, and at the same time sent out a call for help to Qixing. The ambush soldiers opened fire without explanation, shooting down two of their small mechas in a flash, and refused to communicate. It was like a cat catching a mouse along the way. and chased them away.

　No one knew why the other party ambushed them, who it was from, or who betrayed their itinerary.

　"No, One-Eyed Eagle, they have heavy armor. The heavy armor can use the jump point to scan remotely. They can't get rid of it! When will support arrive?"

　"Look at the star map for yourself. See if this damn place is even close to the fucking morning star. How far is it?" The One-Eyed Eagle raised his sleeve to wipe away the nosebleed. "Bullshit support. If you come here, you can only serve as a corpse collection team. Save yourself!"

　"What on earth do these people do? Just sneak away from us?" Someone said on the communication channel Asked, "I said, let's surrender strategically first."

　The one-eyed eagle blew out a breath from his nose, feeling very suffocated, but he felt that this proposal made sense.

　The old arms dealer is not a martyr who would rather die than surrender. Although he has a hot temper, he can definitely bend and stretch at critical moments. He is not afraid of running out of firewood to keep the mountains alive. He still doesn't know who betrayed them. It's too shameful to die in such a confused way. Resigned. Besides, facing such a large legion, these old guys wouldn't be ashamed to kneel down, and surrendering would be nothing.

　In fact, this place is not far from the underground channel that Sister Stinky goes to outside the territory - Sister Stinky's underground channel has two sections, one is the road from the eight star systems to the base, which was accidentally discovered by Prince Gloria's guards, and the other One section leads from the base to the outside of the territory. It was used by Bai Yinjiu to store reserve supplies. The residents of the base and supplies from far away were slowly transferred to Morning Star. Prince Gloria's guard was completely silenced by Lin Jingheng. No one knew about the underground passage leading to the outside world except their own people.

　All jump points in the underground channel are encrypted. People without hidden maps will have a hard time identifying the direction inside. They may be able to escape in that direction.

　However, this thought flashed in One-Eyed Eagle's mind, and then disappeared again, because the underground channel is still some distance away from here, and unfortunately, it happens to be in the direction from which the enemy mechas are outflanking. If you want to get over, you have to fight head-on. After breaking through once, just this group of old, weak, sick and disabled, let alone forcing a breakout, if they were asked to make an emergency jump again, they would all perform a collective performance and die on the spot.

　One-Eyed Eagle: "Actually, it's not..."

　Before he could express his position, William Yu flatly refused on the communication channel: "Impossible!"

　Although they were all members of the Free Alliance Army in the past, there are members of the "Free Alliance Army" all over the world. In the eighth galaxy, we fought in different places and never fought side by side with each other. One-Eyed Eagle knows a lot of people because he has been doing business with a wide range of people over the years. Usually everyone uses the "Free Alliance Army" as a stepping stone to each other. It's just an approximation, a bit similar to the relationship between "schoolmates association" and "fellows association".

　Among the people who came out together this time, only two or three were old comrades of One-Eyed Eagle. The others were comrades of comrades, relatives of comrades, and other roundabout relationships. They only got to know each other through this mutant rainbow virus outbreak. They all still had a bit of unfamiliar politeness, and William Bangchui spoke in the same tone as their chief mummy.

　William Yu righteously accused the person who offered to surrender: "Have you forgotten the oath you swore to become a warrior? If you want to be a coward, I will never surrender!"

　The communication channel was silent for a moment, and then there was a sound of silence. 's chattering.

　"Inspector Yu, I understand how you feel, but we also have to be objective."

　"Are we still going to carry it if we don't surrender? We can't handle it!"

　"Soldiers don't surrender, but we are no longer soldiers."

　"Stop talking nonsense. "I'm on the 3rd plane. My co-pilot has fainted. If I keep running like this, I'll be faster. Let's be more realistic, guys!"

　"Change the pilot on the 4th plane. My blood pressure is too high." I can't stand it any longer!"

　One-eyed Eagle cleared his throat: "Inspector Yu..."

　William Yu interrupted him coldly: "If they didn't take action, it wouldn't be impossible for me to surrender, but they would kill us first. Two mechas, four brothers inside, did they die in vain?"

　Inspector Yu seized the moral high ground this time, and the others could not answer, so they had to shut up for the time being. They all thought that William Yu was a fool. I don't think it's a long life, but I still carry the big hat of morality to catch and suppress whoever I want, and I have to drag a few more backers. If I had known this, I should have let him rot into soup when he was infected with the rainbow virus.

　At this time, in the communication channel, the signal on Plane 6 flashed, and a person nicknamed "Gray Wolf" said: "I brought the people on Plane 2 and Plane 7, and the pilot on Plane 2 just now The members are the brothers of the wife, and I know you are not familiar with them. In an emergency, as a relative and friend, I should be qualified to represent the deceased - One-eyed Eagle, we will talk about avenging the dead later. It is important for us to save the lives of the living first. "

　The one-eyed eagle walked down the slope and said, "Well, indeed, sorry... Missiles, disperse quickly!"

　He suddenly warned, before he finished speaking, everyone dispersed like frightened birds. Then, a long-range missile came over like a hydrangea. , this is a tracking missile. After being dodged, it immediately detects the energy fluctuations around it, re-locks on the target, spins quickly in the air, turns around and comes back again, heading straight for the slowest Unit 9.

　The moment they passed each other, the model number of the tracking missile "TOC-RV230", produced by the Sixth Military Factory of the Alliance Military Commission, was detected on the One-Eyed Eagle's mecha.

　The one-eyed eagle's pupils shrank, but it was too late to think about the opponent's whereabouts: "Open the anti-missile, you are still stunned, can you outrun the missile!"

　The locked No. 9 aircraft quickly activated the anti-missile system and launched a missile with the intention of intercepting the opponent. Unexpectedly, due to the nervousness, the interceptor missile actually operated incorrectly. The pilot fired it by mistake before it could complete the aiming!

　You must know that intercepting missiles is different from actively launching missiles. Because of the anti-missile system, the aiming is automatic, the computer is locked, and the driver only needs to issue a launch command. Even a fool can miss it with a little training. One-Eyed Eagle almost fell down. His imagination was limited and he really couldn't figure out how this interception went wrong.

　The enemy's firepower is fierce and their equipment is well-equipped, as if they were descended from the gods. Our pig teammates can't even make a semi-automatic fool's operation!

　For no reason, the one-eyed eagle thought of what someone said on the communication channel just now - we are no longer warriors.

　It's really dumbfounding and has mixed feelings.

　The panicked Unit 9 was chased by the tracking missile, but Yu William rushed forward and blocked the tracking missile with a missile. The missile fragments exploded everywhere, like a handful of raised sand.

　The one-eyed eagle said in his heart: "Just beat me up."

　As the leader, he decided to ignore the tough Inspector Yu and surrender on behalf of the majority of people's opinions.

　He once again sent a communication request to the enemy not far away. At the same time, he used the mecha to send a special peace signal. Next, according to interstellar practice, they should automatically jump off the mental network and hand over control of the mental network to Showing that disarming is harmless.

　As soon as the signal was sent, before the disarm command could be issued, the "middle-aged and elderly professional surrender group" led by One-Eyed Eagle scrambled to jump off the mental network. After jumping out of the mental network, they were automatically disconnected from the internal communication channel. In the blink of an eye, During this time, there was no one else on the communication channel except Inspector Yu and the old Persian cat himself!

　One-Eyed Eagle: "...No, you can at least let me shout "Ready to Jump"?"

　Yu William, the only remaining listener on the communication channel, said coldly: "When I was a hundred and fifty years younger than I am now, I would have jumped." I never imagined that I would be dragged to my knees in such embarrassment by my companions to beg for mercy."

　The one-eyed eagle didn't bother to share his knowledge and smiled bitterly: "Don't be a hundred and fifty years old. If I were a hundred years younger, I would not die with them today. No end - you jump first or I jump first?"

　Yu William fell silent, seemingly determined to fight to the end. The opponent's mecha group was already pressing up, and the One-eyed Eagle couldn't control him, so he sighed silently: "Get ready to disconnect. Fine..."

　However, at this moment, Unit 9 and Unit 3 next to him suddenly changed their orbits.

　If the driver disconnects the mental network by himself, the mecha will become unmanned. This operation is obviously man-made. The enemy should have controlled the mental network of these two small mechas.

　The silent Yu William suddenly said loudly: "Wait a minute, be careful!"

　The one-eyed eagle suddenly raised his head. From the perspective of the mental network that had not yet been disconnected, he saw Unit 3 and Unit 9, which were modifying their orbits, speeding up and interacting with each other like crazy. They spun around a few times, did a funny eight-figure dance for a while, and then they actually bumped into each other!

　At the same time, the communication request sent by One-Eyed Eagle was rejected again!

　Not only did the opponent not accept surrender, they even planned to take them for fun and then kill them like a child playing with bugs!

　The One-Eyed Eagle cursed and yelled at Yu William on the communication channel: "No. 3!"

　Yu William understood, and the two of them deployed their mental nets at the same time, covering the accelerating Unit 3, and snatched the mental net of Unit 3. There were two pilots on board No. 3, and they obviously realized something was wrong. The four of them crashed into the man-machine interface at the same time. The short-term local advantage squeezed out the enemy troops occupying No. 3 from the mental network.

　Afterwards, One-Eyed Eagle and William Yu quickly withdrew. The pilot who had regained the authority over the mental network suddenly braked, and the mecha deflected a large angle, narrowly passing by Unit 9.

　The people on several other mechas also came to their senses, and began to panic and try to recapture the spiritual network.

　The small light in the communication channel that had been silent just now lit up and went out, like a dying firefly.

　As the decision-maker, One-Eyed Eagle was really to blame for this situation. He gritted his teeth and first sent the coordinate map of the underground channel to William Yu and Unit 3, then suddenly accelerated, as if he had no idea. Unit 9 and Unit 3 passed through, used missiles to clear the way, and rushed straight into the enemy camp. The mecha army surrounding them quickly dispersed and opened a large net, intending to trap him in it. The One-Eyed Eagle's 360-degree particle muzzle fired at the same time.

　William Yu and the pilot of Unit 3 who had just regained their authority seemed to have a tacit understanding with him. They took advantage of him to attract enemy firepower and made a sudden emergency jump.

　A small mecha tried to cover the escape of its companions. The enemy ambush immediately responded. The heavy armor's mental net ran over the jump point and re-locked the two small mechas that fled. Two small teams were immediately separated to pursue them. , the one-eyed eagle heard a loud noise coming from the side of the mecha, and chose to detach part of the machine body without thinking. The next moment, the hit cabin exploded, and the backup energy system was also shattered by enemy missiles. The one-eyed eagle was in the dense During the artillery fire, the mecha speed was accelerated to the extreme, drawing a blade-like arc and drawing a long line out of the enemy's encirclement.

　At this time, due to the sharp change in the relative positions of the mechas, some of the mental nets that were originally covered together quickly separated. The pressure on the few small mechas that had been robbed of the mental net authority by the enemy suddenly eased, and the two pilots had the advantage. , took the lead in regaining the authority of the mental network. Without any instructions, he could start an emergency jump in the third direction to disperse the enemy forces to the maximum extent. Unit 4, Unit 6, and then Unit 8... who

　were originally gathered together Eight small mechas ran in seven directions, and only one small mecha stayed in the encirclement to contain the firepower at the expense of others. Faced with this small group of rogues who were scattered like sand, the enemy also responded quickly, reducing the number of troops they were tracking separately, and only captured one.

　The one-eyed eagle had just taken the initiative and sent a peace signal for everyone, and now he was holding back the fire for everyone. He looked like a leader. The enemy no longer used missiles and surrounded him in the middle, with overwhelming high-energy particle cannons. Colliding with his protective shield, the mental net pressed down, trying to capture him alive.

　The One-Eyed Eagle did not hesitate to inject himself with a large dose of soothing agent, feeling that every inch of his muscles was being stirred by the blade. However, the compatibility between man and machine was still declining under the heavy pressure.

　Legend has it that a guerrilla fighting method used by the Free Alliance Army back then was called "Wild Wolf Pack" - when they were at an absolute disadvantage, a small group of people would be left as bait and suicidally rush towards the enemy to contain the enemy's firepower for their companions and win over them. At the moment of an emergency jump, the others took the opportunity to flee. If the enemy commander was cautious enough, he would abandon the individual mechas that fled and concentrate on eating the "bait". After the escaping mecha escaped tracking through an emergency jump, it immediately turned around and continued to harass the enemy from all directions. Everyone cooperated to shoot and change places, so that the "bait" surrounded in the middle had the opportunity to escape in the chaos.

　But most of the time, this kind of "wild wolf pack" is destined to be nothing more than a legend, because the emergency jump will send them to far away places. After the mecha team disintegrates, the internal communication channel will be disconnected. And everyone knows the feeling of dying in an emergency jump under artillery fire. Once the people who escape escape from the pursuers, they will be like the drowning people who finally surface. Unless the people trapped in the encirclement are important and must be saved, otherwise they will not be allowed to escape. It's almost anti-human for them to risk their lives by going back.

　How do you know someone who escaped will come back?

　What if I was the only one who foolishly went back and everyone else ran away?

　And if the person trapped in the encirclement was really important, everyone would not agree to let him be this dangerous bait in the first place. What's more, this kind of single-player guerrilla operation has really high requirements on mecha operation.

　Anyway, One-Eyed Eagle has no hope, not to mention whether these surrendering elements are willing to come back to rescue him. Even if they are willing, can they fight a high-intensity guerrilla with their physical fitness and mecha quality?

　So he simply gave the route map of the underground channel before parting ways.

　In this life, rounded to two hundred years, it is almost enough.

　An alarm came from the weapons depot. The missiles had been empty and the high-energy particle cannon had insufficient energy.

　The One-Eyed Eagle thought optimistically. It seemed that the other party was not necessarily planning to kill him. Otherwise, they would have bombarded them with a swarm of high-energy particle cannons as soon as they met. No need to go to such trouble. I am afraid that the other party originally planned to kill most of them one by one. , leaving a few mentally broken prisoners as prisoners, and then captured them to threaten the people behind them.

　However, it is impossible for these people to imagine that the armed man behind them is Lin Jingheng. That boy is so hard-hearted that he will not pay attention to threatening his own father, let alone others.

　The one-eyed eagle thought about it and felt a little funny. He felt very sorry for these thankless enemies. His temples ached violently, and the mecha sounded an alarm. The human-machine matching degree had dropped to 51%, and he would soon be deprived of mental network permissions. The one-eyed eagle's vision began to blur, and he tried to accelerate the mecha while following the inertia. He opened the mecha's music library and tried to find out if there was any Legion Song of the Free Alliance Army back then, but he was really at the end of his rope and couldn't even complete this simple operation.

　The human-machine matching degree is 51%, 50% -

　continuous decline alarm -

　the mental network is about to leave the alarm -

　there are nearly forty navigation days from the morning star to the last coordinates of the One-eyed Eagle.

　When Ares Feng discovered their long-range patrol on Saturday outside the base, the distance between the patrol and the Stinky Sister base was about ten sailing days. The quality of the base's reinforcements was too poor, so they could only take the conventional jump route and walked the entire journey. Twenty hours.

　But this time, if it drags on for another twenty hours, it will really be a corpse collection team.

　So the Self-Defense Forces members who joined the army for the first time after merging with Shiroganejiu felt what it meant to be an "alliance elite".

　The original self-defense team members each received a soothing agent before setting off, and they only served as backup drivers. The entire emergency march was led by people from Baiyinjiu. As soon as the march route came out, Saturday was almost dumbfounded - the regular jump route requires Passing through more than ninety jump points, this route has less than thirty jump points.

　"How can this be achieved?" Saturday couldn't help but ask, "With such a long jump, the energy at the jump point is not enough to send us to the next channel!"

　"Have you ever heard of what is called a 'cross jump'? Every mecha today They all carry two extra backup energy sources, because we need to initiate an operation similar to an emergency jump when crossing the jump point. The energy is superimposed, and "bang" -" the driver patted his shoulder, "Enjoy the roller coaster, brother! "