Alien Relic Hunter

"The base...does the base have any emergency measures?" Maginot asked hurriedly. For some reason, he suddenly felt an unspeakable fear.

Just after he asked this question, the ground shook violently, and a loud "rumbling" sound came from outside the office.

The bone-spurred coffee cup with gold rims and crystal-like jade on the table swayed a few times like a drunkard, and then jumped off the table without hesitation. He fell to pieces.

This is Lieutenant General Maginot's favorite piece in his private collection - this cup was made on Earth before the Ark was completed. Even in the old era, it can be considered a fine piece of porcelain. In order to get this cup, Lieutenant General Maginot spent four years of his salary, plus some unexplained gray income, before he successfully bought it at the auction.

He even used his personal connections to bribe four appraisers from the auction house, asking them to "mistakenly" identify the cup as an imitation produced between one hundred and three hundred years of the New Era... Otherwise, even if Ma Even if Chino's bid increases five times, he may not be able to win the auction.

Collecting porcelain is a well-known hobby of Maginot. In his eyes, the white and delicate porcelain is like the delicate skin of a peerless beauty, and those exciting curves and glazes make people intoxicated.

This coffee cup was often placed on the table by Maginot to show off, but he would never use it to serve coffee - whenever a new officer was transferred to Maginot's staff, the veterans would tell him Newcomer: When you go to report to the lieutenant general, as long as you are "inadvertently" attracted to the coffee cup on the table, and then praise and ask a few questions, you can instantly increase the lieutenant general's favorability by several levels.

This trick has been tried and tested, and Lieutenant General Maginot is also willing to introduce to his subordinates who are attracted by the cup what a precious piece of art it is... But now, this piece of art is broken.

The Venus with its arms cut off can still be called a masterpiece, but the broken porcelain fragments scattered on the ground will not be appreciated by many people... even though it was once priceless.

Silent moans came from Lieutenant General Maginot's throat, and he felt his heart bleeding... But just when he was tremblingly trying to sweep the debris on the ground together, the major He suddenly threw him to the ground, then took off the steel helmet hanging on the wall next to him, and buckled it on Maginot's head.

"General, danger!"

"Earthquake?!... No! The base was attacked?" Maginot realized what he was sitting on the ground and couldn't help but reach out to his waist.

He first touched a pistol and was stunned for half a second. Then he threw the pistol aside and continued to fumble before finding his personal communication terminal - a special mobile phone for the commander - from the big pocket of his windbreaker. .

"Hello? Is this the guard camp? What happened outside? Report to me quickly!" Maginot pressed a speed dial button, and the phone was immediately connected, and a burst of noisy voice came from the other end of the receiver.

"Report General! Inside the base, between the third wall and the fourth wall, a small-scale strong earthquake of unknown cause occurred. A section of nearly a hundred meters of both walls collapsed, and the other four walls also collapsed. Various degrees of damage!”

The person on the other end of the phone paused, and then continued: "A deep pit with a diameter of about 80 meters appeared at the shaking point! The original location of the pit happened to be the hangar of the 1st Armored Battalion. The 1st Armored Battalion had 100% Seventy of the mechas fell into the pit... The specific casualty data are still being calculated, but it is estimated that it will not be less than two hundred!"

"Don't count the casualties yet! Let the entire base enter a state of first-level combat readiness! Let all the troops performing tasks outside rush back to support! Also, request reinforcements from Ark and the Air Force fleet, and tell them that the Mukah base has encountered unknown circumstances. Enemy attack! The situation is critical!" Maginot repeated what the major said, but when the same words came out of his mouth, he added a bit of calmness and self-power.

Although when he said this, he was still sitting on the ground in a somewhat funny posture, and the helmet on his head was still crooked.

No matter how embarrassing the real situation is, a person who can climb to this position cannot be a idiot who can't do anything. Magino has quickly fallen into his role.

"General, it's no longer safe here. We have to go outside." The major helped Magino up, and then put a composite light protective vest made of carbon fiber and Kevlar on the lieutenant general. on the body.

This protective vest is already the largest model that can be found in the warehouse, but when it is put on Maginot's body, he still cannot zip up the front zipper...

"Okay, let's go out." Maginot glanced at the debris on the ground for the last time, then stretched out his hand to straighten the helmet on his head, "By the way, Major, what's your name?"

"Levi, Levi Cruz. I am the battalion commander of the 9th Infantry Battalion of the 7th Armored Mixed Division. I am responsible for the daily security of the base."

"Major Levi...no, it should be Colonel Levi. From now on, you are the colonel. In addition, you are no longer the commander of the infantry battalion, but my adjutant." In a few words, Maginot raised Levi's military rank by two levels.

He is a lieutenant general, and this situation is a front-line promotion. These two sentences are still very effective... Even if the merit is re-evaluated afterwards, the most he can do is to be demoted one level and promoted to lieutenant colonel... If this Colonel Levi If he unfortunately dies in the attack, then the title of colonel is basically a certainty.

However, Levi's face did not show any joy - he had stayed at the Mukakh base for four full years, and the Mukakh base was last breached exactly four years ago.

He arrived at Mukakh as the second batch of reinforcements. At that time, the remaining enemies had basically been wiped out, but the tragic images in the base were still deeply engraved in his memory - that time The garrison at Mukach Base is also a mixed armored division, with about 11,000 people. However, when the casualties were finally counted, after excluding the missing, including the lightly and seriously injured, there were only 29 soldiers left in the entire division. survivor.

Of these twenty-nine people, six died of their injuries after being returned to the Ark. To be precise, the number of survivors should be twenty-three.

Out of more than 11,000 people, twenty-three people survived...

This does not include the casualties of the first batch of reinforcements...

If the Mukach base was breached for the twelfth time... Levi couldn't help but close his eyes hard, trying to put those horrific scenes behind him.

[P.S. Thanks to No. 5 Ball for the 100 starting coins. 】