Alien Relic Hunter

"I don't think this is the key." Yeager shook his head, "Don't you find it strange? Just now, we were fighting to protect Yagunaktor, and now we are actually being asked to turn our guns to attack ourselves. The object of protection? I have been a soldier for so many years, and I have never heard such an order!"

"Maybe... Yagunaktor really rebelled?" the second lieutenant muttered with a hint of doubt.

"So, that black fleet is a rebellion suppression force from Ark? But if that's the case, why didn't we receive any notification in advance, not even a so-called 'secret order'?" There was something hidden in Yeger's words. With a hint of sullenness, "Have you ever thought about what is waiting for us if the people on Yagunaktor don't let us retreat?"

"yes……"

Before the second lieutenant could tell him the answer, Yegel asked and answered himself: "The whole army was annihilated."

"Ahem... Colonel, please keep your voice down..." The second lieutenant looked back at the door of the medical room with a worried look, and then lowered his voice and said to Yeger, "Questioning the orders above is..."

"So what if you have doubts? When we were fighting the Black Fleet, did the people above think about us?" Yeger said angrily, "If this was a game of chess, we wouldn't even have a pawn crossing the river. Not really! If the group of people on Yagunaktor hadn't asked us to withdraw from the war zone, I'm afraid we would have been labeled as traitors after we died in the battle... As for our families, let alone pensions and subsidies I’m lucky that I haven’t been implicated or held accountable for this.”

The second lieutenant had a dull expression on his face - he wanted to say something to refute Yeager, but found that he couldn't say anything.

What Yeger said was absolutely correct. Including them, the entire Zero Fleet was a chess piece that could be discarded and sacrificed in the original plan. In order not to alarm the "rebels" on Yagunaktor, let alone beforehand, no retreat order was issued to Fleet Zero even during the battle...

The entire Zero Fleet was regarded as part of the "rebels" by Ark's top brass, but Yeager dared to say that until now, the vast majority of the Zero Fleet had not figured out what happened.

On the contrary, it was those people whom Admiral Yagunaktor identified as "rebels" who gave Fleet Zero a way out and allowed them to withdraw from the battlefield... so that they would not be reduced to cannon fodder and be used in a meaningless battle. An abandoned child crushed into dust on the battlefield.

But now, the black fleet that performed the suppression mission was wiped out by the "rebels". The upper management of Ark, which had originally decided to abandon Fleet Zero, remembered them at this time - remembered that their missile was destroyed by the "rebels" The saved abandoned children allowed them to turn around and deal with the so-called "rebels" to complete the mission of the "enemy" that originally belonged to Fleet Zero.

Have the top management of Ark really treated people like themselves...as adults?

Yeager couldn't help but have doubts in his heart.

"Second Lieutenant, have you ever heard of a Chinese proverb from the old era?" Yeger suddenly asked.

"W-what?" The second lieutenant obviously didn't realize what Yeger meant.

"Those who have gained the right will have many helpers," Yegel paused, "but those who have lost the right will... have few helpers."

"Colonel Yeager...although, although I don't understand what you are talking about..." the second lieutenant looked back at the door more frequently, "but I always feel that you seem to be saying something very dangerous... "

"I don't know if Yagunaktor is really rebelling, but now, I -"

Before Colonel Yeager finished speaking, the second lieutenant had already covered his mouth: "Colonel! Stop talking... There are people from the security bureau on the ship..."

Before he finished speaking, three Security Bureau agents in gray uniforms had already walked in from outside... The expressions of the three of them were serious, and they had obviously heard the conversation inside in the corridor.

"Yegor Novikov, captain of the air combat unit of the Zero Fleet 'Betelgeuse' heavy cruiser, with the rank of colonel, that's right." The leading agent said in a cold tone, "As for what you just said, We have recorded it..."

"So?" Yeger pushed away the second lieutenant who looked frightened, and looked at the Security Bureau agent without fear, "What do you want to do with me?"

"Logically speaking, you should be brought back to the Security Bureau headquarters for interrogation immediately, but considering that Fleet Zero and this ship are about to carry out a combat mission, I decided to detain you in the confinement room on the ship until the combat mission is completed. Again--"

"Wait a minute!" The second lieutenant quickly stood between the two of them and reached out to stop the Security Bureau agent who was trying to come up to get someone. "Major Yeager was seriously injured in the previous battle. He must stay here for treatment... If, if you are worried, you can leave someone here to watch him, I guarantee that he will not do anything that violates the regulations."

After saying that, the second lieutenant turned his head sideways and blinked hard at Yeger several times.

"But, I don't think Colonel Yeager will stay here for treatment with peace of mind." The agent pushed the second lieutenant away and walked towards Yeger. Even the medical soldier who wanted to stop him was stopped. He kicked him to the ground.

But just when the agent wanted to reach out and grab Yeger's arm, Yeger suddenly kicked him in the face, and then a carp jumped out of the stretcher!

The newly sutured wound on his back burst open again, and the oozing blood immediately stained the sterile suit Yeger was wearing. However, he seemed to feel no pain at all, and his movements were not affected at all. He quickly grabbed a side and pushed it. There was a large syringe in the car used for dispensing medicine. He took off the cover on the needle and plunged it into the arm of the Security Bureau agent!

"Uh-huh!"

The arm was pierced by a thick needle, and the agent immediately let out a scream, stumbled back a few steps, pulled out the pistol from his waist, and pointed it at Yeager, who was about to pounce.

At this moment, the second lieutenant who was pushed away stopped in front of him - the second lieutenant wanted to reach out to grab the gun, but the security agent pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the huge gunshot echoed In the infirmary.

Crimson blood slowly spread on the second lieutenant's waist and abdomen. The second lieutenant covered the wound with both hands and glanced at the Security Bureau agent who fired the shot in disbelief, and then fell to the ground.

"Damn you!" Yeager yelled angrily, and slammed directly into the arms of the Security Bureau agent. First, he hit the opponent's chest with a powerful elbow, and then snatched him away. After passing the opponent's gun, which was released due to being hit in the chest, he turned the gun, pointed it at the chest of the Security Bureau agent, and fired three shots in a row!

"Bah! Bah! Bah!"

The two fell heavily to the ground together, and a security agent behind him was about to draw his gun, but a medic sneaked behind him and knocked him unconscious with a folding stool.

In the blink of an eye, only the last and youngest of the three Security Bureau agents who walked into the infirmary was left. From the inconspicuous silver chrome-plated copper button on his collar, we can tell that this is only one. A trainee agent in the "internship period".

(Note: The decorative copper buttons on the collars of official uniforms of the Security Bureau agents are in primary copper color, while trainee agents who have not yet passed the internship period are in chrome-plated silver. In addition, it is generally difficult to identify a security guard from his clothing and decorations. Bureau agent’s position and rank.)

Yeager raised his head from the arms of the killed agent, his blood-stained face looking a little ferocious. He raised his gun, pointed the black muzzle at the last trainee agent, and whispered: "Since You heard the conversation between me and the second lieutenant, so you should also know very well what mission the superiors asked us to perform... right?"

"But...but this is an order..." the trainee agent stuttered, "No matter what the orders from above are, we must obey..."

"Why?" Yeger looked directly into his eyes and asked again.

"Because... because, obeying orders... is... the military... is our... duty..." This trainee agent originally wanted to say that obeying orders is the duty of soldiers, but after thinking about it, it seems that their security bureau does not Because he did not belong to the military, he changed his words to "we".

"No, you are wrong." Yeager whispered, "Our bounden duty is to protect the humans on the Ark and protect the only remaining fire of human civilization in this universe... rather than obey those... damn orders! "

"What...what do you...want to do?" The trainee agent's words became increasingly unclear.

"Since the senior management has determined that Yagunaktor is a traitor, then as Yagunaktor's escort fleet, we are certainly considered rebels... Wasn't that the case when the black fleet attacked earlier?" Yege You said with a half-smile, "In my opinion, at least the people on Yagunaktor have left us a way to survive, and the higher-ups of Ark have never cared about our life or death!"

"You want to rebel?" the trainee agent exclaimed. He said these four words very neatly, but as soon as he finished speaking, Yeager had already pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

Yeager did not shoot the trainee agent, but simply knocked off the holster hanging on his waist, and then said to the medic: "Tie these two guys up, and hurry up and rescue the second lieutenant!"

Several medical soldiers immediately swarmed over and tied up the trainee agent and another agent who was knocked unconscious. However, the medical soldier who went to check on the second lieutenant turned around, shook his head at Yeager and said: "The area that was shot was the pancreas...the amount of bleeding was huge. Even if we are sent to the medical cabin now, we would already be..."

At this point, the medical soldier sighed and did not continue.

"Fuck." Yeager cursed in a calm tone, but the calmer he acted at the moment, the more intense the anger accumulated in his heart... He glanced at the body of the Security Bureau agent, and his chest was zero. He was shot three times, two through the lungs and one in the heart. He was already dead and could no longer die.

"Grey-skinned dog... no, you are worse than a dog." Yeager whispered, "At least a dog can distinguish between who is nice to it and who just wants to eat its meat."

"Colonel Yeager... what should we... do now?" After the two security agents were tied up and stuffed with large bags of hemostatic cotton in their mouths, several medical soldiers looked at Colonel Yeager. .

Yeager was the only survivor of the "Betelgeuse" air combat unit. The other pilots who attacked did not even have the chance to return to the mothership for treatment... The injured treated by the "Betelgeuse" cruiser were basically others. They were transferred from the broken battleship...and all of these people were injured in the battle with the black fleet.

Several people failed to hold on during the transfer, and after arriving at Rigel, many wounded people died of serious injuries because they could not get a place in the medical cabin... These soldiers who died one by one, these medical soldiers all See it in your eyes.

The medical soldiers of Fleet Zero are also veterans drawn from various war zones. They have seen no fewer deaths than the combat troops, or even more... But such a meaningless sacrifice, anyone who sees it will feel in their heart It's not the same taste.

What's more, they see it from the perspective of one of the parties involved, not a bystander.

What Colonel Yeager said is absolutely correct... Ark's senior management didn't regard them as human beings at all. They... and even the entire Zero Fleet were just "tools" that could come and go when called upon. .

Moreover, it is a "tool" that was originally abandoned by the "owner", but now the "new tool" is broken and the "owner" picked it up from the "trash can".

But they are people, living people, not mindless tools.

"I will disobey the order." Yeger said decisively, "I will not carry out such an order."

"But if you disobey, you will be considered a traitor!" A female medical soldier worried.

"We have been regarded as a mutinous unit before." Yeger looked at the medical soldier who spoke, and then pointed at the corpse that was placed in the corner of the medical room and covered with white cloth and had not been disposed of. " Otherwise, why do you think they were killed? By whom?"

The female medical soldier bit her lips and said no more.

"What's more, what is before us now is obviously a death mission."

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