"You'd be interested if they were under ten years old, wouldn't you?"”
"It's best if you're below eight years old.”
Octopus Head said," It's said that those who retire from the airborne troops are unable to adapt to a peaceful life after returning. They either become criminals, anesthetized people, or commit suicide.”
"It should be. Even if we retire now, we probably won't be used to that kind of peaceful life." And there are rumors that the nerve needles and muscle needles we inject have long-term side effects.”
Huo Lian didn't want to talk about such a tragic future, so he changed the topic.""The holidays are over. Regardless of whether we replenish our manpower or not, I'm afraid we'll have to go on missions. With so few airborne troops, there would probably be a lot of work. What kind of work do you think we might be assigned?”
" The Queen Insect of the Giant Planet has been killed," the Go player said." The surface of the planet has been turned into a flaming mountain by the self-destructing starship. We can forget about working even if we go down there. The rest of the bugs were definitely hiding underground and wouldn't come out anytime soon. I think even if we have a mission, we won't go and sweep the bugs. It seems that there have been no traces of bugs in other places for many years.”
" It's better not to deal with insects," the old lion said." It's much safer to fight humans."”
"It's not that safe…it's just that the death rate has been reduced from 99% to 50%."”
He returned to the airborne base and went to the administrator to cancel his leave. The slut applied for a new combat suit. The lost combat suit required a report, and it was not so easy to fool. However, under the halo of Team 75, the preparation department could only turn a blind eye.
The next day after his leave, the transfer order came. Just as he had guessed, the old lion was sent to the airborne training base as an instructor. At the same time, Fire Smelting's team had two new members.
Arhat the Cannon Fighter, a young airborne soldier who had performed brilliantly on the Giant Planet and received a medal.
The former starship pilot, Nina, violated military law and was supposed to be executed. However, she was exempted from the death penalty because she served as an airborne assault soldier and was also sent to the 75th unit. She had a head of fiery red hair, hence the name Red Hair Lady.
One person left, and two people came. Although the one who left was a veteran, and the two who came were rookies... but at least they were slightly replenished.
Two days later, Huo Lian was summoned to the Starship Troop Headquarters, the Blood Palace, the super fortress. However, the fortress was much quieter than before. Most of the starships had self-destructed, so there were almost no starships in the fortress. Only some small and medium-sized transport ships and frigates could be seen occasionally.
The person who appeared before her was the secretary who had sent Huo Lian to the base camp of the airborne troops. When she saw Huo Lian, she happily asked for his autograph. Fire Refinement was now the hero of the starship troops. Although the starship crew usually looked down on the airborne assault infantry, it was an exception for the hero who killed the queen insect.
Following her to the meeting room, the person who appeared in front of Huo Lian was the commander of the airborne troops, Mo Long. This was the third time Huo Lian had seen him. He looked much more haggard.
After Huo Lian saluted, he quietly waited for Mo Long's order.
"How was your vacation?" Mo Long asked after a long time.”
Fierce Fire was stunned by his words. Fierce Fire didn't like the commander, and he was disgusted by the Chaos Concept Armor. Why did he ask about his vacation?
"Very good. Thank you for your concern, Commander.”
" You've done a good job on the Giant Planet. You should have received the highest reward, but there's a lord who's worried about you and thinks that you might have been infected by your thoughts. On the giant planet, there are fluctuations of the black universe, but your report did not mention it at all.”
"Everything we encountered has been written in the report, Commander. If you suspect us, we are willing to be suspended for investigation.”The Taiji spirit had warned them that if they reported their encounter with the Chaos Heavenly Demon, the entire team would be purified. In other words, it would be thrown into the energy furnace to be completely vaporized. Therefore, Huo Lian did not report. It seemed that this choice was correct.
"I believe you. If the mind is contaminated, he should be able to detect it. Since you didn't detect the mental corruption of the black universe, it means that you haven't been infected. Even law enforcers couldn't punish soldiers without evidence.”
Huo Lian's heart skipped a beat when he heard that the enforcer was suspecting them. The rule of the Empire was based on the Star Zones, and the Star Zones were divided into three levels. Empire central, Star Cluster area, Star Constellation area. The constellation area was the smallest star area, and the Ox and Crab Star Constellation belonged to the constellation area. The highest official in the Constellation District was the Constellation Consul. The Consul was sent by the Star Cluster government and was responsible for the management of the Star Constellation, taxes, trade protection between planets, the development of new planets, the declaration of war, the guarantee of interstellar transportation routes, and so on. The consul could not dismiss the highest ruler of the planet, such as the Star King or the governor of the planet.
The Consul had the greatest authority in the Star Constellation, but he was not the Emperor. According to the Empire's laws, there were two independent officials under the Supreme Consul in every Star Constellation, the Starship Commander and the Holy Church Enforcer.
The Starship Commanders, the Holy Church Enforcers, and the Consul were all sent by the Star Cluster. The consul had the right to decide on the development of the planet and the launch of the war. However, the consul could not interfere with the details of the war. This was the job of the commander of the starship. The starship commander commanded the starship troops, but if the consul did not issue a war order, the starship commander could not launch a war attack.
The law enforcers were in charge of the Holy Church's laws. They had the right to conduct tests on anyone to determine if they had been infected by the evil forces of the dark universe, or if they had been corrupted by the strange life forms in the universe, such as the Zerg and the Night Body. And to judge anyone who blasphemed against the Empire and the Holy Church.
The consul, the law-enforcement officer, and the commander of the starship troop were the cornerstone of the Imperium's rule. The Imperium was too big. It was said that it would take seven years for an ion synchronization mail to reach the Imperium's committee from Planet Bull Crab. However, if a spaceship were to fly at the speed of light without performing a space jump, it would take almost a hundred years to reach the central planet where the Imperium's Committee was located. Under such circumstances, autonomy was the only option for remote Star Constellations and even Star Fields.
The population of the Bull Crab Star Constellation was in the hundreds of billions, and the law enforcement officer was only below one person and above hundreds of billions of people. He was suspicious of cannon fodders like Huo Lian and the others. Even if they were captured and purified without trial, no one would say anything. Fortunately, Fierce Fire and the rest were the heroes who had killed the Zerg Queen. In addition, the starship's airborne assault infantrymen had all been lost. If Fierce Fire and the rest were punished instead of rewarded, the remaining airborne assault infantrymen would probably go crazy and cause trouble. Otherwise, Fierce Fire did not think that the commander of the airborne assault infantrymen would go against the law enforcement officer's wishes for a few infantrymen.
Huo Lian's heart was filled with an uncontrollable killing intent towards the high and mighty law-enforcement officer. I have no enmity with you. I fought bravely against the enemy and fought with a monster like the Insect Queen. It's already too much not to give me any merit points, but you actually want to kill me! If you want to kill me, then I want you dead. Officer, don't fall into my hands…
Although he was infuriated, he remained indifferent on the surface and listened to the commander calmly.
"Forget it. It's in the past. After you've been tested and proved that you're not infected, this matter will be over. I called you here this time because I have a mission for your team.”
As expected, there was a mission. He really knew how to use people. He was given even a little free time. He was unhappy, but he still had to show his military image on the surface."Commander, please instruct us."
The commander pointed at the holographic device on the table, and a three-dimensional image appeared in front of Firecloud. "This is Crab Claw Star Buer City, the capital city of Crab Claw Star King Trafar. You lead your team and descend into Bur City to capture him.”
"Yes." Huo Lian did not ask for the reason and directly accepted the order. In any case, the airborne assault troops did not need to know the reasons for the actions of the higher-ups. They just carried out the orders unconditionally.
" There are tens of millions of citizens of the Imperium in Bur City, so you can't use thermonode bombs, and you won't have starships to support you. The eastern part of the city was the base of Crab Claw's First Army. There were more than 100,000 troops, 600 fighter jets, 1,500 armored infantrymen, and 3,000 combat vehicles. Crab Claw Star King Trafalgar also knows that we might attack him. He is currently hiding in the underground fortress of the military camp. You have to sneak into the underground fortress, find him, and capture him alive. Then, we will send a recovery ship to retrieve you. If they really couldn't bring him back alive, they would use the storage device to bring his brain back.”
As long as it had a human brain, it could use biological technology to create another body. However, this process was not easy. It could be said to be living hell. Moreover, the brain and the body could easily develop incompatible symptoms. Even in such an advanced era of civilization, brain transplantation was the most advanced surgery that only a few people had the courage to accept.
He would go deep into the military camp of 100,000 people, capture a person, and then come back. They had no backup and could not use weapons of mass destruction. Although this mission wasn't as deadly as facing the Insect Queen, it wasn't an easy task.
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