Chapter 312 Zofia

Sakhalin Island, Russia.

The morning sun rises from the horizon.

In an old apartment, a girl wearing a dark green vest stood in front of a mirror, looking at the brown foam of the hair dye in her hands, then looked at the pink short hair revealed after the hair in the mirror faded, and sighed helplessly.

She slowly took off the silver rings on her earlobes and ear cartilages and placed them on the sink. Then she lifted up her vest, revealing her slender waist with a clear waistline, and took off the navel piercing on her round belly button and placed them on the sink.

All that was left was a necklace around her neck, with two rings hanging on it, one dark blue and one emerald green.

Zofia picked up an electric shaver and turned her head to look at the sofa behind her. On the cushion was a thin brown paper bag with the "PPDC" logo printed on the cover and a title written in four languages: Chinese, English, Russian and Japanese:

"Mecha Hunter Academy Recruitment Application Form"

The pink-haired girl gritted her teeth, pressed the button, raised the buzzing clipper, then lifted up the hair on her temples and pressed the clipper on it.

"Buzz…"

Tufts of hair fell like drizzling rain.

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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is the largest city on Sakhalin Island, close to the sea. This small coastal city celebrates two Christmases a year, one in December, which is mainly celebrated by expatriates from all over the world and traditional Korean families, and the other in January, which is mainly celebrated by local Russians.

Sakhalin has three treasures: trees, oil and cheap labor. Now the number of factories on the island has greatly increased, and foreign workers have poured in. They used to be responsible for producing low-end parts for mecha hunters, but now they are responsible for producing chemical products for anti-monster walls, such as concrete additives.

Fu Qinghai was strolling on the street.

I was thinking about the action plan for this reincarnation world.

As far as he knows this is the first time the Pacific Rim universe has been opened.

Fortunately, he was randomly assigned to the side that had already won the major event in the plot line, which is commonly known as the "easy win" camp.

This is good news. Apart from anything else, Fu Qinghai doesn't know how the reincarnations in the enemy camp will communicate with the pioneers.

Their own camp is on the other side of the wormhole, they don't speak the same language, they are of different races, and their ultimate goal is to destroy all of humanity. These parasites attached to the Earth are making room for new guests in this ancient hotel... How can the pioneers and the reincarnators build mutual trust?

In short, it's not easy to be a "traitor".

How to play the reincarnation of the pioneer camp?

This is not a question for Fu Qinghai to consider.

So how can I get involved in the plot?

This is what Fu Qinghai should consider.

He first recalled his experience in the Marvel Comics Universe, namely the Marvel Earth-36 Universe.

At that time, he was imprisoned at the beginning. By chance, he met Justin Hammer, who was sent to prison by Tony Stark. After some PY transactions, with the full support of Hammer Industries in terms of money, equipment, materials, etc., he made his first set of power armor, the Blue Shell.

The Pacific Rim universe does not have as many technological oligarchs as the Marvel Comics universe, such as Hammer Industries, Stark Industries, Osborn Industries, etc. The more famous one is Shaw Industries. The most important thing is to make a set of power armor and a mecha hunter by hand...

This is not a concept at all.

The size difference between the two, the materials and technologies involved, the production space, processing equipment and maintenance personnel required...

Of course, I can't just rush up and fight the monster in a one-on-one duel wearing a power armor and carrying a flight backpack. To the monster, I'll be at best a fly with hard wings, or a bee with a sting. It might hurt a little if it stung me, but I can just slap it away.

Fu Qinghai does have a lot of powerful weapons in his hands, but the size difference must also be considered. An elephant cannot be killed by a needle. At present, the best way to deal with monsters is mecha hunters, or at least another type of Titan unit.

As for the "Boxer" mini mech that Amara Namani used the remains of a mech hunter to create in Pacific Rim 2: Uprising...

It's not that Fu Qinghai looks down on it. To be honest, the "Boxer" is not even as good as a fly.

At least flies can fly.

However, Fu Qinghai has obviously lost the qualifications to become a mecha hunter pilot - his age, identity, and background cannot pass the PPDC's screening and strict review.

The most crucial thing is race - how can the Earth, which is suffering from the threat of alien colonists, easily trust a biochemically modified person with two hearts and three lungs, neural interfaces embedded in the skin, a black shell implanted under the skin, and an unknown origin and identity?

Fu Qinghai couldn't even pass the physical examination.

This time, the reincarnation interval was very hasty, and there was no advance preparation, but Fu Qinghai estimated: not to mention that there was no usable Titan in the entire Forge World, the mere 14,000 assimilation points might not be enough to assimilate an Emperor-class Titan. As for those riding Titan dogs, what was the point of assimilating them, to deliver food?

Space Marines would not learn how to drive Titans, which were troops under the Adeptus Mechanicus, and Fu Qinghai was a new recruit who joined the White Scars at the end of the Great Crusade. In his past service experience, let alone fighting side by side with the Titan Legion, he had never even seen the true appearance of a Titan, and he was indeed not very worldly.

After much thought, there is no answer.

Fu Qinghai walked towards the seaside, ready to check out the monster's corpse first. The monster, code-named "Fish-Eyed Monster", was killed here by "Cherno Alpha" a few years ago.

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Zofia was not a newcomer to the reincarnation world. She had been through many reincarnation worlds, seen corpses, and also seen things that ate corpses, such as maggots, crows, and wild dogs...

But nothing will eat the monster.

There were no scavenging birds flying overhead, no maggots inside the monster—just humans, dressed in crude yellow hazmat suits that resembled AIM's Minions, with even their heads covered, though Zofia could see their faces through the clear plastic visors.

This is a black hill with a foul odor, but the smell is not like a rotting corpse. It is more like some kind of... chemical sewage mixed with fishy smell. It is a very strange and weird smell.

The monster was so huge that she couldn't tell whether she was looking at its belly or its back, and the hundreds of holes pierced through its blue-black scales made it completely useless for identification.

A tall white man was standing at the entrance leading to the monster's body, and was loudly preaching something to the people lined up in front of him, spitting heavily.

"Most of the good stuff is taken away immediately after the monster dies," Andre explained. "It's the monster's living tissue, liquid blood and other highly profitable things."

"Someone brought all kinds of high-end equipment from Hong Kong to collect them. They filled the monsters with carbon dioxide and performed various operations. After they were done, I was responsible for the rest. Let me tell you, kid, those guys from Hong Kong - they are not easy to mess with, and I am their subordinate, so I am not easy to mess with either."

"No embezzlement. Everything you get from the monster must be placed in a backpack and handed over to me. Work hard, don't steal, follow the rules, and everything will be fine. Do you understand?"

"I understand." Zofia said.

"The new members should follow the old members and go in together."

Zofia put on protective clothing, took various tools - chisels, shovels, hammers and the like, and followed a group of boys into the monster's body.

Outside the monster's body.

A sturdy man asked in a low voice,

"Andre, she's too tall. She can't get into the bone marrow cavity at all with a height of 1.75 meters. She can't dig anything out."

Andre smiled and said,

"I know she can't get in. Don't worry, we pay according to the harvest, not wages, so we won't let her make any money."

The subordinates were even more confused:

"Then why did they recruit her?"

Andre gave a smile that all men understand:

"A brainwashed European girl who dreams of becoming a Jaeger pilot, but is a little over the age limit. I told her I have connections in the PPDC..."

The subordinate immediately understood and said nothing more.

The middle area of ​​the monster's body has been completely dug out. The entire space is wide enough to accommodate a village. Light shines in from the holes that penetrate the monster's body from all directions, but when going deeper, the main light still comes from the LED lights they carry.

Zofia finally understood why those who came in were a group of half-grown children aged eleven or twelve. The bodies of adults could not fit into those narrow blood vessel walls and bone marrow cavities, and the spacious aortic valves and internal organs had already been cleared out.

Zofia was about to give up.

At this moment, she saw a girl beside her working hard to drill a hole. Even through the mask, she could see an ugly scar extending from the top of her head to her chin, which looked somewhat hideous.

The girl noticed her gaze.

"Monster blood," she said. "Most of the blood flows into the black market in Hong Kong. After the monster dies, the blood will coagulate into crystals - this is what we are looking for. But once it comes into contact with water, the crystalline blood will melt again."

"Some idiot suggested drilling a hole in the top of the fish-eyed monster's head. It was still winter, and there was a lot of snow. In the spring, the snow melted and flowed into the monster's body, and the blood melted and dripped onto my face."

"I see." Zofia asked, "Did the blood melt your mask?"

"I wasn't wearing a mask," the girl said. "Sometimes we have to get into tight places and the mask gets stuck."

Zofia understood. She didn't say anything more, turned around and walked straight to the outside of the monster.

What a shitty way...

Zofia thought.

Two men were waiting for her outside. They didn't seem surprised at her early return. Zofia took off her protective suit as she walked and said:

"I quit."

Andre nodded and asked,

"Do you still want to participate in the Hunter Academy selection?"

Zofia glanced at him with a hint of sarcasm in her eyes, threw the protective suit on the ground, and said,

"I'll think of other ways."

After saying that, he walked past him and walked out of the venue.

An arm stopped her.

Zofia turned her head and looked over. Andre looked down at the girl with short hair, his eyes full of undisguised greed and desire. He lowered his voice and said:

"Are you really not going to consider it anymore? One of my cousins ​​works in the K-Science Department of PPDC, and some of the monster materials here are provided to them. Think about it."

What he said was very concise.

Zofia remembered that her MK2 cavalry assault rifle was still in the apartment, so she looked up and smiled, saying:

"Let's talk about it tonight, okay?"

But Andrei didn't buy it. He said:

"We can talk in the back office."

"Click."

The sound of a pistol being loaded was heard behind me.

Zofia glanced at him calmly from the corner of her eye, quietly tensed the muscles on her slender calves, pretended to smile to relax the enemy's vigilance, and then suddenly pounced forward, like an agile female leopard, and punched Andre on the carotid artery.

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"Bang!"

Fu Qinghai, who was walking alone on the road with his head down, heard crisp gunshots coming from the direction of the seaside.

Hmm?

Fu Qinghai stopped alertly, thought for two seconds, then raised his legs and ran towards that direction faster.

As soon as the hill-like back of the monster's corpse appeared in sight, Fu Qinghai took a closer look and with his enhanced vision he could see the situation in front of him clearly from a distance.

A girl with a crew cut hooked a brown-haired man's neck with her elbow from behind. She held a small knife in her hand, just above the man's chin, and held the man hostage. Opposite her was a burly man holding a pistol with a hesitant look.

That girl with a crew cut... Fu Qinghai squinted his eyes and looked at her carefully. Why did she look familiar?

"Let me go, I'll let you go!"

Andre shouted anxiously.

"Do you think I'm a fool? Or do you think you can fool me a second time after you fooled me once?"

Zofia sneered.

"Wait until the rest of my men get here, you're not going anywhere!"

Andre didn't expect that this seemingly slender and tall girl could move so quickly and have such great strength that she could subdue him in a flash.

"Okay, then I'll drag you to be buried with me."

Zofia paid no attention to his threats.

"Swoosh—"

A sound of breaking through the air was heard.

"Bang!"

A ball of blood burst out from the gunman's forehead, and he fell with his head back without firing a shot. The sudden change shocked the other two. Zofia reacted very quickly, and pulled Andre to the ground with force, with her knees pressed hard on his back.

Zofia looked up and saw Fu Qinghai with a calm expression. He was walking towards her leisurely with a stone in his hand. He was even too lazy to take out the weapons and equipment from the white briefcase.

"Aoyama!?"

Zofia shouted in surprise.

"What happened? I just came here and saw this scene."

Fu Qinghai asked.

Zofia pressed down hard with her knee, causing Andre to scream miserably. She gritted her teeth and said,

"He's a local gang leader who hired poor children to enter the monster's body to collect materials. He lied to me and said that he knew an official in the PPDC and could help me waive the age limit and join the Hunter Academy. What a damn bastard!"

"I, I didn't lie to you! I know Hannibal Zhou, the Hannibal Zhou from the Hong Kong Skeleton Slum. After the United Nations withdrew the funding for the Jaeger Project, he was the one who funded Marshal Stark Pentecost. I really didn't lie to you!"

"Project Jaeger" is the official name of the "Mech Hunter Project".

Fu Qinghai's ears moved slightly when he heard the sound of someone slowly approaching. He bent down to pick up the pistol on the ground, and without even looking at it, he casually raised his hand and fired a few shots to empty the magazine. Muffled groans from being shot were heard all around, and then there was silence without any sound.

Andre closed his eyes in despair.

Skeleton Slum, Hannibal Zhou, Jaguar Plan, Marshal Pantecost... Hearing those key terms, Fu Qinghai's mind moved and he said,

"Let him go first, Zofia."

Zofia was very obedient and immediately loosened her knees.

Andre's face was full of pain. He rubbed his back and staggered to his feet. Fu Qinghai said calmly:

"Let's go find a place to talk about your boss, the legendary 'Hannibal Zhou'."

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　Thanks to the book friend 20180828210150957 for the reward

(End of this chapter)