15.Patient

"Guys, why are we okay?" Kristin asked a critical question just as she was safe, "What exactly makes us different from the others?"

Joew scratched his head, but unfortunately couldn't catch it through his helmet, "I think we can think of it the other way around - what is it about us lucky guys that's the same?"

Kristin spread her hands, "Well it seems we don't know each other very well, we could go a little deeper, for example my name is Kristin Sanchez, Mech Infantryman Private, I just turned 19 last month, I don't think they differentiate by rank and gender do they?"

"I'm Zhao Yu, Motorized Combat Vehicle Pilot, Private ... I was supposed to be a Private First Class by now, but I couldn't connect to a system with the authority to upgrade me." Zhao Yu said and added, "Oh yeah, I'm one of the hibernators who was resurrected by the aliens, how should I count my age?"

"Don't count it." Kristin said, "It's so weird to remember that you were born before my maternal great-grandfather."

"Fernando Moreno," one of the mech-infantrymen pointed to himself, "Private, 25 years old, was a reporter before, but the paper folded."

The last mecha infantryman spoke, "Luis Rodriguez, Private First Class, 22 years old, mechanic group."

Zhao Yu raised his eyebrows and noticed a question, "Wait, your names ... I'm sorry I'm not racist, but I'd like to ask what ethnicity you are?"

The answer was unexpected to everyone: except for Zhao Yu, the other three were all Latino.

Fernando's reaction was, "Are you trying to say that the person who made this trap is of Latino descent and therefore gave us the green light?"

Everyone replied together, "No way!"

"Then why are Latinos the only ones who are okay?"

Kristin pointed at Zhao Yu, "This Asian is also fine."

Zhao Yu was also in a daze, it seems that being spared is not exclusive to Latinos? Then what exactly is the problem? Suddenly he saw someone, "Gabriel! What's your bloodline?"

Gabriel hadn't been involved in the discussion, out of the five people, he was the only one who had been concentrating on the enemies outside, his marksmanship was just too weird, almost every two shots would ironically put one down, which reduced the pressure on the survivors. Hearing Zhao Yu's question, he was silent for a moment and replied, "My situation is rather special."

Everyone looked at him together, and after Gabriel fired two more point-blank shots and suppressed a fire point, he turned around and went back behind the MF1 shell and took off his helmet.

Jo Yu could clearly hear the rest of the group suppressing their gasps of surprise.

Gabriel appeared to be a young man around his early twenties, his skin was so white that it was almost transparent, even Caucasians wouldn't have this kind of skin, his hair and eyebrows likewise appeared to be translucent white, even his eye lashes were white, and a pair of blue pupils appeared to be very eye-catching on this abnormally white face.

"What's ... this to you," Kristin covered her mouth out of habit-just up to her mask, of course, "what's ... what's going on?"

Jo Yu had been in the hospital for several years and was quite aware of what this condition represented, "Albino?"

In the 21st century, albinism is not particularly rare, Zhao Yu remembers that the incidence of the disease is around 500,000 people worldwide. The patient's body would lose the ability to produce melanin, causing the entire body to appear abnormally white, and like Zhao Yu's acromegaly there were no effective treatments. However, the effect of albinism on people was much better than acromegaly, most albinos were not too different from ordinary people, the main problem was that they couldn't be exposed to sunlight for a long time, and many of them would have some problems with their eyesight.

So it seemed understandable that Gabriel had been wearing a helmet, and as for poor eyesight, it wasn't a problem at all for a mech infantryman with an assisted locking system.

But after determining Gabriel's condition, Zhao Yu's heart was flooded with even bigger waves, "There's actually an albino disease in the middle of the 22nd century?"

This is an era where the entire population receives genetic modification, it is reasonable to say that typical genetic diseases like albinism can be ruled out before a baby is born, so how could there still be such an obvious albino?

Gabriel still had the answer to the question, "Something went wrong during the tactical enhancement genetic modification."

"Tactically enhanced modifications ... Damn, they used you for mutant testing?!" Kristin's voice changed, "You're a mutant right?"

"Of a similar nature, but not a mutant in the usual sense as far as I know." Gabrielle put her helmet back on, "Anyway, that's the price of my current abilities."

Since it was a mutant-like experiment, that explained everything, the mutant transformation program was known for being unscrupulous and inhumane, mainly targeting the modification of human genes, which often had all sorts of unpredictable and undesirable consequences, if anything the transformation reactivated the albino gene was also possible.

"Could ... the enemy's attack tactics be targeting genes?" Kristin suggested a new idea, "We have a majority of white and black people, and now they're all down! What's left are either Latinos or Asians, and people whose genes are already faulty ... Ah, Gabriel, I'm not discriminating against you."

"I understand where you're coming from." Gabrielle had returned to shooting at the enemy, but took the time to answer, "In fact it's a very likely guess. I've noticed the presence of more than one encoder generator in this town, and if it's targeting the Auxiliary Chip to create substances that target racial genetics, that would explain it."

"Auxiliary chips ...?" Kristin froze and snapped open the laptop that was slung over her back and quickly operated it for a moment, "That's right, they've been emitting the code, targeting the two relay transducers in the auxiliary chip! It must be the code interfering with the converters!"

Zhao Yu raised his hand, "Can you make it plain and simple?"

"Well, understand it this way - the military auxiliary chip we use has several devices called relay converters, responsible for scanning the surrounding environment uninterruptedly, the auxiliary system transmits signals to the human body based on the data it provides, assisting the user to operate, and controlling the human body's hormone secretion when necessary, even autonomously processing and synthesizing some hormones! secretion, and even autonomously process and synthesize some substances that the human body needs in case of emergencies." Kristin did not care if Zhao Yu understood or not, clattering a whole bunch of words, "But if the Relay Transformer receives a specific signal while scanning, it may allow the auxiliary system to miscalculate and carry out unnecessary operations, synthesizing elements that are harmful to a specific race ... Perhaps this is what led to Lieutenant Li the reason why their entire army was wiped out!"

"Don't they find it too complicated to kill people like this?" Zhao Yu muttered, although his English level had reached a level where he could hear it in general, the Latin girl's words just now were so informative that he relied on mumbling for several parts.

"It's not complicated, unless heavy weapons are used, fights between mech infantry tend to be long stalemates, whereas this method effectively disarms mech infantry in a short period of time," Kristin said glancing at Gabriel who was shooting at the enemy, "well that private is the special case ... I think they're still in the experimental stage with this method of warfare, the encoder generator isn't powerful enough yet, if the coverage had been greater we could have been nullified right here on the hill."

"But why are we fine?" Fernando asked, "I don't believe they give preferential treatment to Latinos!"

Kristin shook her head, "I don't know ... and I have another question, we three aren't the only Latino's, the others don't seem to have been spared."

Private First Class Luis, who seldom spoke, suddenly spoke up, "So, would getting rid of the encoder help Lt. Lee and the others?"

"I think it will, at least the auxiliary chip will take the initiative to check the person's physical condition after removing the interference and provide some kind of medical treatment ... if they are still alive."

Zhao Yu had already stood up, "Then what are we waiting for?"

Although it was said to be a matter of setting out immediately, no one wanted to advance through a hail of bullets - Gabrielle had probably already put down twenty enemies, but the number of enemies that had appeared in the town had now increased to a hundred.

"Where did these guys come from?" Fernando complained loudly, "It's like bugs in the ground!"

"It could be that they really did come out of the ground." Zhao Yu reminded, "Didn't Lieutenant Li say that this town was doing some kind of military experiment? It's normal for a research institute or something like that to be repaired underground, right?"

"You guys don't dawdle! Zhao Yu, hurry up!" Kristin was getting impatient.

Of course the five people did not intend to just rush out, they directly climbed into the paralyzed MF1, the three crew members in the cockpit had already been paralyzed in a heap by this time, and were lifted into the rear cabin by the crowd, and then the improvised team of five began to operate the MF1 and drove forward.

The main driver was of course the nominal and only licensed chariot driver Zhao Yu, well although injured, but simple operation of the chariot to move forward this kind of thing Zhao Yu is still able to do, Christian connected the computer to the chariot's console to continue to monitor the surrounding situation, Fernando and Luis served as the gunner and co-pilot respectively, while Gabriel opened the hatch cover, half of his body exposed to the outside to continue to use his precise to ridiculously accurate marksmanship to suppress the other side.

For a while, it was amazing that everyone had something to do, it was the cockpit that seemed particularly crowded ...

"The first generator is four hundred and twenty meters ahead, can we get a direct hit?" Kristin asked, "Can MF1's main gun hit it?"

"I'll try!" Fernando fumbled a bit to adjust the parameters, however, no matter how much he adjusted, the predicted ballistic line never crossed the buildings on the simulation map, and in the end, he could only grit his teeth and slapped the launch button, "Fight it!"

The cockpit was slightly shaken, a cannon was fired, only to see the building in front of him enveloped in smoke and dust, but the MF1's camera quickly eliminated the interference, presenting the real results to the crowd: the building was obviously just a civilian level, almost the entire outer wall was collapsed by this cannon, the big hole was shocking to watch, but most of the cannonball's power was borne by the building itself, and the interior of the building had been blown into a mess, the generator more than four hundred meters away from the simulator. The generator more than four hundred meters away was not affected at all, and Kristin quickly calculated the effect of this kind of attack: "At least ten more attacks are needed to completely destroy all the obstacles in the shell's flight path!"

"Ten times? That many? Aren't the buildings in this town a bit too sturdy?"

"Don't forget that this place was originally a large-scale military base, and the buildings were all built according to military standards. Ten times to be able to break through is the ideal situation, if you miss or the attack isn't effective, twenty times is quite possible!"

"I'm afraid we don't have that much time ...," Zhao Yu stared at the front, "but if we don't use the main guns to fight, what else can we do?"

He was, after all, only a halfway decent co-pilot, and had no experience at all in situations like this where he needed to make up his own mind, but an idea popped up - if it was Sgt. Borg, what would he do now?

Instead of stopping, MF1 began to accelerate!

"Zhao Yu, what are you doing?" Luis couldn't help but warn, "If you don't slow down, you're going to crash!"

"I know! Gunner don't fire!" Zhao Yu simply drove his speed to the maximum, "Let's go in a straight line!"

The Battle Spider rushed headlong into the pitiful building, smashing through the various facilities that still survived in the building, taking a headful of crumbled concrete blocks and other messy things with it, before slamming into the wall behind the building, which shattered in response to the onslaught of the 30-odd tons of steel monsters, so that another street and the building on the other side of the street appeared in front of the crowd.

"Gunner, fire the main cannon, let's do it again!"

Fernando had already reacted to what Zhao Yu was trying to do and didn't hesitate to fire another cannon!

"Three hundred meters in a straight line ...," Kristin shook her head, "That's so simple and crude, who did you learn that from?"

Zhao Yu hacked his officer in passing, "My captain ... If he were to execute it, I'm afraid it would be ten times rougher than me."