Alien Relic Hunter

Bianca has been hiding in the East Ninth District for four days. In order to avoid the detection of the men in black, she had to remove the cybernetic body that used energy crystals as a source of energy, dragging her severely disabled body with her. The body was hiding here and there in the dilapidated and abandoned residential area.

She lived in a semi-collapsed ruin and smeared her body with cold and smelly sludge dug out of the sewers to lower her body surface temperature to avoid thermal infrared detection equipment. Even though the temperature control system in this residential area had long since been scrapped, whether it was The temperature was only around freezing during the day and night, and Bianca could only grit her teeth and endure the cold.

She didn't want to die, what's more, her life was bought by the lives of her teammates who got along day and night.

It's not that Bianca doesn't want to stop her, it's just that she knows very well that even if she wants to stay, they won't agree - the result of not being decisive enough is to waste precious time, make them pay a greater price, or even pay in vain The price makes those sacrifices meaningless.

When they proposed to let Bianca escape first and stay behind, Bianca knew that she couldn't persuade them. She could only hold on to the chance of survival that her companions had given her and lead them with her. That obsession to live on.

Her life no longer belongs to her alone, so she must not die.

Even if she couldn't avenge her companions, at least she had to bring out the news here.

Although people who work as mercenaries are said to be selling their lives for money, they have an unwritten rule - even if they die, they must die with value, whether the value is money or something else.

Like a stray wild dog being beaten to death and abandoned on the street corner is the most despised way for them to die. Even if they can't resist, they must at least bite a few bites... Even if they can't bite, they must at least send a message to those people. Angry barking.

Bianca huddled behind a half-broken low wall, wrapped in a deliberately dirty blanket. There was a large gap at the joints of the blanket, and the biting cold was constantly pouring in from the outside along this gap... However, Bianca, who had only one hand, could only grab one end of the blanket - the upper end and the lower body. You will be numb from the cold, and if you hold the lower end, the cold wind will continuously penetrate into the collar.

Her consciousness was already in a semi-dissociated state, cold, tired, hungry... If she were a character in an MMORPG game, there would probably be so many negative states at this time that the status bar would not be able to fit in them.

Her crossbow was abandoned not far away. In the day's battle, the crossbow had been severely damaged, and she was unable to repair it with only one hand left to use... In fact, this crossbow The cannon was now nothing more than a pile of scrap metal, but even Bianca didn't know why she kept it with her.

Maybe it's to pursue that ethereal sense of security?

She couldn't help but think of the "last mission" that caused her to lose her right eye, right arm and right leg... At that time, she also thought she was going to die, but at that time, she had no fear of death. It's just a sense of relief.

However, the doctors at the rear hospital brought her back from death, but because of this, the cost of rescuing her had exhausted the military's compensation budget. After that, Bianca could only I receive a very meager retirement compensation and the lowest level of disability compensation every month. Apart from the cost of follow-up maintenance treatment and daily medication, this amount of money can only provide the lowest level of living expenses - with a trace of She ate a diet of weird-tasting protein cubes, unpalatable synthetic foods, and cheap vitamin supplement tablets for half a year. During this half-year, she owed a lot of money to the hospital in order to completely heal her injuries. money.

She had no money to install a prosthetic body, and it was an amazing perseverance to be able to take care of herself with this incomplete body - even daily life was full of troubles, let alone making money. In the dead of night, Bianca thought about ending her life more than once.

She remembered the first words the doctor from the rear hospital said to her after she woke up: "You are lucky that you didn't die...but the rest of your life may be more painful than death."

The pain and embarrassment made Bianca realize what it means to be human - almost all of her close comrades-in-arms died in that mission, and their families also had to face difficulties while suffering great pain. Due to her financial situation, no one could help her... Someone once suggested that she rely on the media for help, but her messages to various media received no response at all.

Those emails clearly show "read", but the person who read them seems to have forgotten about them after reading them.

In order to survive, she once worked a very "special" job in the black market - many pretty women will choose to sell their bodies when they are desperate. Bianca, who has been tortured by life and has no dignity at all, doesn't care about those things that are considered important by normal women. It's just that her mutilated body and horrific scars have stopped many male guests... She is there I stayed in the small building painted with ambiguous pink paint for a month, but not a single "transaction" was completed.

However, the "boss" of that small building did not drive her away, but introduced her to a group of very special people... no, perhaps the adjective "very perverted" is more appropriate...

Not only will those people not lose their "appetite" because of her disability, but they will become more excited because of it... However, their methods are also more bottomless. In half a month, Bianca was tortured to death .

She finally escaped from that place, but she still kept in touch with one of the people... That was a person who made money from loan sharks. She borrowed a loan from that person with an outrageous interest rate. With this loan, she installed the cheapest second-hand prosthetic body for herself.

This kind of second-hand prosthetic body is removed from the corpse and can be bought from the staff of the incineration plant at a very low price. After simple cleaning and renovation, it flows into the black market for those who perform illegal transformation surgeries. in a private clinic.

After putting on this mechanical prosthetic body that could only be described as "junk", Bianca felt as if she had come back to life. She went to someone she knew in the army and bought one that was about to be scrapped. After grabbing the pistol, he stepped into the wilderness.

It took her four years to pay off the loan sharks and replace her with a military-grade prosthetic body. Although it was not as good as the high-end products produced by big companies, the price of military-grade prosthetics was affordable to ordinary people. It can be said that it is already a sky-high price that is out of reach.

Few people know the story between Bianca's retirement and becoming a mercenary, but she quickly gained a reputation after becoming a mercenary. Everyone knows that there is a severely disabled retired soldier who has a high completion rate for difficult tasks. It was terrifying, and her income crushed most of her peers... In four years, she went from a disabled person who was almost crushed to death by life, to a rising star in the mercenary world.

But only Bianca knows that the reason why she is where she is today is simply because she is not afraid of death and is lucky enough.

This time, her luck seemed to have come to an end.

Scenes flashed through Bianca's mind, and the timeline of the scenes went from near to far, from the scenes that took place during the mercenary period at the beginning, to the dark days that she least wanted to recall, to serving in the field corps. All kinds of things that happened during that time... In the end, she even recalled her childhood.

She once thought that those things had been forgotten by herself.

She always remembered the others, and those memories were sealed in her head, but she didn't want to think about them.

Is this the so-called revolving door? Bianca thought silently... I heard that a revolving lantern will appear in front of a person who is about to die, playing the person's life like a slideshow one by one...

But when he was seriously injured and on the verge of death on the battlefield, he didn't seem to have seen the revolving lantern...

Could it be that this time, he was really going to die?

Just when Bianca wanted to stop thinking, a strong sense of crisis suddenly seized her heart - this sense of crisis was like giving her a shot in the arm, and her heart, which was already beating very slowly, suddenly It started to pulse violently, and Bianca took a deep breath, and her slightly closed eyes suddenly widened.

The revolving lantern disappeared, and although her remaining limbs were frozen and stiff, she could still feel their presence.

"I'm still alive," Bianca said to herself, "I'm not dead yet... I can't die!"

The sense of crisis that awakened her was still approaching. She struggled to get up from the ground, knelt on the ground with her only left knee, and leaned her bare right shoulder against the wall. There was a gap to observe the situation outside.

"Those things...are they here again?" Bianca pulled out a spur with the front end broken off and the blade cracked in many places, and held it in her hand. She tried her best to control her breathing rate, and at the same time, she held a thorn in her hand. He took out a grenade from his pocket and gently passed the index finger of his left hand through the ring.

This spur and this grenade were her last weapons. During these four days of escape, she had really run out of ammunition and food... The reason why there was a revolving door just now is probably because there was no food for more than forty hours. The hallucination of starving after eating...

She discovered something very puzzling: these men in black who were hunting her seemed to know everything about her. Whether it is a plan of action or some inconspicuous little habits, such as the habit of choosing routes and hiding places, and some subconscious actions during battle, they all know it clearly.

For example, on the first night, those men in black found Bianca's hiding place, but at that time Bianca was not as defenseless as she is now - or in other words, that place was her choice. On the battlefield, she was lying in ambush there, waiting for these men in black to come to her door.

She set up a large number of booby traps in the surrounding buildings, and also buried four clay explosives under the two load-bearing walls of the building. As long as the men in black entered the building, she would detonate the explosives and kill them all. Buried in the ruins.

However, those men in black seemed to know her plan and did not enter this trap at all. Even the extremely concealed booby traps were not triggered... When they appeared in front of Bianca like ghosts, Bianca had no choice but to escape.

They don't feel like enemies they are contacting for the first time, but like old rivals who have been fighting against each other for many years...or close comrades who have been together day and night.

Could it be that those who stayed to break up the family...someone rebelled?

No, not possible.

Bianca shook her head vigorously. She didn't believe those people would betray her... If they were that kind of people, they wouldn't choose to stay at all.

Since they chose to exchange their lives for Bianca's, they would never surrender, let alone help those men in black.

Could it be that someone couldn't bear the torture after being captured? That's even more impossible... Bianca believes in these comrades, just like they believe in her. Both parties are people who can trust each other with their lives, and they will never do such a thing because they can't stand the torture.

The most critical point is that these men in black know themselves in too detail... This level of detail is no less than Bianca's understanding of herself. To put it another step back, even if someone really confesses, It is impossible for the confessions to make these men in black so familiar with their tactical thinking and action patterns.

Bianca had the illusion that the people chasing her were not the men in black who killed her comrades, but those killed by the men in black... her comrades!

Thinking of this, Bianca couldn't help but shudder... She remembered one thing. When she was in the field corps, she heard that there was a device in the institute that could read the memory of the human brain, even if the person was dead. Yes, as long as the person died not long ago, this device can also extract memories from the dead person's brain.

Could it be that... those men in black have such equipment in their hands?

Regardless of whether this guess is true or not, at least the reality is before Bianca, which forces her to consciously change her thinking mode and use a completely unfamiliar fighting method to deal with those pursuers...

I have to say that it is a miracle that she can survive to this day.

"Is this a kind of luck or another form of misfortune?" Bianca asked herself in her mind, "Perhaps, at that time, it would be better to die on the battlefield?"

But since you are not dead yet, you must live, even if it is only for a second, you must work hard.

She could already see the shadowy figures of those men in black. They had surrounded the ruins and were shrinking the circle inwards.