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The first wave of attacks was carried out by more than twenty hyenas, wolves, and leopards, animals infected by the iron plague. They were more like specialized biological weapons than wild beasts.

The original fangs and claws were replaced by serrated blades, and the heart was replaced by a high-torque small engine to provide continuous power to the body.

The hydraulic pressure and connecting rod structure at the joints greatly enhance the strength and jumping performance. The mechanical prosthetic eyes in the eye sockets can clearly lock fast-moving hostile targets in dark and chaotic environments.

On the back, there is also a minigun or other heavy firepower installed.

Kakakaka——

The infected jumped back and forth on the inner wall of the cabin, using their claws to peel away the power armor of the Zero soldiers at a dizzying speed, and then swung their tails to penetrate the gaps in the armor splicing.

Blood spattered and screams echoed through the cabin. The injured soldiers opened fire blindly and instinctively. Bullets from the Gauss rifle flew everywhere, making holes in the inner wall of the cabin.

The first wave of attacks was just an appetizer. Through the window, one could see several large pterosaur-shaped infected bodies that were as big as fighter jets, following closely on the side of the transport plane in a flying companion manner.

clank!

The side of the belly of the pterosaur infected body opened, revealing the smoothbore gun barrel, and fired more steel cones towards the transport aircraft. All steel cones are like transportation pipes, delivering more small infected bodies to further create chaos.

Li Sheng pulled out the 170 straight knife and held it up in front of him to block the flying bullets. He calmly observed the situation inside the cabin and looked for a potential engine room.

red button.

The Iron Plague creature clearly had firearms mounted on its body, but none of them were used, obviously not wanting the cabin to disintegrate. Some of the infected bodies dragged the surrounding human soldiers, while the rest of the infected bodies rushed towards the sealed lead barrels containing super-heavy elements in the armored vehicle.

The so-called superheavy elements refer to elements with nuclei with atomic numbers above 104. Generally speaking, the heavier the element, the greater the instability of the nucleus, so superheavy nuclei have a great tendency to decay.

But in some cases, such as when the nuclei in the nucleus are arranged in a specific way and the number of protons or neutrons is just enough to fill a certain shell, the element can remain stable. Just like a bookshelf will tilt if there are not many books on it, filling it with all the books will keep it stable.

If stable elements are compared to land, and unstable elements are compared to the boundless ocean, then super-heavy stable elements, like isolated islands offshore, may contain subversive scientific discoveries.

In the real world of Earth, super-heavy stable elements are just a scientific fantasy and prediction. But here, it has become a reality. It is regarded as an extremely important strategic resource by both warring parties.

Tear!

The only tall soldier wearing a red helmet in the cabin casually took off an iron plague beast from his comrade and tore it into two pieces with just his hands.

Then he held the Gauss rifle, aimed and fired continuously as fast as an afterimage. Without damaging the cabin, he accurately killed dozens of iron plague-infected bodies that were rushing towards the super-heavy element lead barrel.

Such provocative behavior naturally attracted the attention of the iron plague beast. A large number of infected bodies jumped on the inner wall of the cabin and pounced on the red-helmeted soldiers.

The latter put down his rifle, took off a long red sword from his back, chopped, slashed, stabbed, and swept through most of the cabin with amazing killing skills.

‘Damn, what a handsome knife worker. ’

Li Sheng sighed in his heart, pulled out the bat grapple gun, and pulled the trigger forward. The metal hook flew out and penetrated an iron plague-infected body hanging from the top of the cabin, intending to attack the red helmet. He dragged it back, pinned it to the ground with one foot, and swung the rusty machete to complete the beheading.

呲呲呲——

A large amount of black liquid mixed with blood and engine oil spurted out from the neck section of the iron plague-infected body, with a fishy and pungent smell.

The red-helmeted soldier heard the movement behind him, turned slightly to the side, nodded towards Li Sheng, and threw himself into the fight again.

The goal of the Iron Plague infected body is not to kill as many humans as possible, but to snatch those barrels of super-heavy elements, deliberately not using heavy firepower to prevent the transport plane from disintegrating, causing the human race to die, and blowing up the plane.

The soldiers of the Zero Civilization were clearly aware of this, and they did not dare to shoot at will. Instead, they used power armor gloves and fist blades to engage in brutal close combat at an altitude of 10,000 meters.

"Button.Button"

Hui Yu, who was walking through the cabin and looking for the red engine room button, did not want to get involved in the battle between the two sides. He only took action when necessary, using cold weapons hanging on the wall to chop at the infected while avoiding being splashed by the latter's black blood. arrive.

Boom!

A loud noise came from outside the cabin again. The third engine of the transport plane also failed and stalled. Black smoke billowed out, and the entire plane began to bump and shake violently.

If the fourth engine was also destroyed, the only possibility was that the plane would crash.

"Everything is secured!"

The red-helmeted soldier shouted and pulled down a lever with a warning label in the cabin, and the tail of the transport plane opened in response.

The wind roared fiercely, and some iron plague beasts that could not stand were blown away by the strong wind and disappeared into the misty clouds.

Red Helmet removed a steel cable for loading and unloading cargo, hooked it to his belt, then picked up a laser sniper rifle, rushed out of the cabin resolutely, braved the strong wind at high altitude, and climbed up the outside of the fuselage.

Finally finding a position, he set up his gun and fired at a giant pterosaur.

The gun fired a high-energy laser beam, which penetrated the pterosaur's tail. Compared to the latter's huge body, it was like using a needle to poke a small hole in the paper.

But this was an altitude of 10,000 meters. The tail of the high-speed flying pterosaur was destroyed, its posture suddenly changed, its speed suddenly slowed down, and it was pulled away in the blink of an eye, falling far behind.

The steel cone transport tube shot by the pterosaur also broke in response.

"The first one."

The red-helmeted soldier was neither sad nor happy. He moved his laser rifle and pointed at the second giant pterosaur.

It has to be said that the Iron Plague infected bodies are a group of natural biological weapons. The iron plague beasts in the cabin climbed out one after another, lowered their bodies to reduce air resistance, and then drove the miniguns on their backs to pour fire on the red helmet.

Forcing the latter to separate his mind and barely escape.

"The button may be in the cockpit! You press the button, and I'll help him!"

Li Sheng shouted to Hui Yu, followed suit, tied a steel cable around his waist, and then used the displacement effect of the bat grapple gun to rush out of the cabin and climb onto the outside of the fuselage.

The left hand releases the Death Curse Torrent, spraying high-pressure water jets at the iron plague creatures, knocking them down, and the right hand pulls the trigger of the rifle one after another to suppress them with strafing fire. Buying time for the Red Helmets.

The red helmet understood and handed his back to Li Sheng with confidence. He lay on the fuselage, set up the laser rifle, and fired at the second and third giant pterosaurs.

As the pterosaur was eliminated, the steel cone pipe finally stopped transporting small infected bodies, and the situation inside the cabin gradually came under control.

Seeing that nothing could be done, the few remaining Iron Plague beasts immediately overloaded the engine heart and tried to detonate themselves and blow up the aircraft. At the very least, they would not let the super-heavy elements fall into human hands.

Fortunately, Red Helmet and Li Sheng had returned at this time. The former swung his sword to kill, while the latter slashed all the iron plague beasts off the plane one by one.

This high-altitude battle sounds thrilling, but in fact it only takes a few minutes.

Of the original more than a hundred soldiers, only twenty or thirty were left. The survivors leaned against the wall, breathing heavily.

The floor of the cabin was covered with stumps and broken arms. Human blood was mixed with the engine oil leaking from the infected bodies, and the smell was overwhelming.

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The red-helmeted soldier silently stepped forward and gently helped a comrade from the side of the armored vehicle.

This female soldier with the word Angelina engraved on her breastplate had just stood on the vehicle and struggled to prevent the iron plague beast from snatching the super-heavy elements. She successfully protected all the lead barrels, but her entire body was cut off by the infected body, and her internal organs and intestines were Bleeded all over the floor.

"Ahem——"

Angelina lay in the arms of the red-helmeted soldier, with blood spraying from her mouth. She weakly raised a photo with her palm and stuffed it into the other person's hand, trying to say something.

Before she could finish speaking, the light of life in her eyes dissipated like a candle in the wind. The red-helmeted soldier stared silently at the photo, which showed a young mother and daughter.

"Li Sheng, I found the button!"

Huiyu's excited voice came from the front of the cabin. She pried open the cabin door of the cab, and the red button was lying on the console.

As for the two pilots, they each had a steel thorn pierced through their chests, corresponding to the holes in the windshield of the cab. They were obviously eliminated early by the iron plague creatures.

Due to the death of the pilot, the entire transport plane gradually tilted downwards, dived and glided, and fell towards the clouds.

"Don't press it yet."

Li Sheng took a deep breath, ignored the doubtful looks of the other Zero soldiers in the cabin, turned to look at the red helmet, and asked tentatively: "Can I take off your helmet?"

Unlike the others, Red Helmet did not have a name engraved on his breastplate.

He was silent for a moment, lowered his weapon, and took off his helmet with a click of both hands.

She was a frosty woman with long gray hair. The outline of her skull was exactly the same as Isaac's, and her beautiful and cold face was very similar to Hui Yu.

Li Sheng's eyelids twitched and he asked, "Is your name Isaac?"

"Elsa."

A woman named Aisha took the initiative to correct her, and at the end of the cabin, Hui Yu, who couldn't wait any longer, pressed the red button.

The scene in front of them changed instantly. Li Sheng and Hui Yu appeared in the empty engine room. Only the power armor shells they were wearing and the blood splattered on them could prove that they had indeed left just now.

"Quick! All the buttons in the five engine rooms have been pressed. Go to the warden's room quickly!"

Seeing that the jailbreak was about to be successful, Huiyu excitedly recovered all the liquid metal, clenched his fists, and rushed out of the engine room first.

Li Sheng followed behind and said slowly: "The red-helmeted soldier in the transport plane looks just like you, but more mature. She calls herself Aisha."

"Um?"

Huiyu was stunned when he heard this, but his body still followed his instinct and continued running, "Aisha, Isaac, are these two the same person? Forget it, as long as you can escape, it doesn't matter what happens. As for looks... maybe It’s because I lost my memory and I thought the face I saw when I escaped from prison was my own face.”

She turned the door handle of the warden's room, and the wooden door that had been closed before finally opened.

The room was brightly lit, and the four walls of the square room were all filled with a small TV from Taiwan Pi Shuai brand. Each TV was playing the previous scenes of what Li Sheng and Hui Yu had experienced in the narration cage. There is a coffee table in the middle of the room.

The warden is sitting behind the coffee table. He is not a human being, but a complex device composed of hundreds of mechanical eyes. There is a red eyeball embedded in the middle, and the sign of [Warden] is hung on his chest. to prove their identity.

"Welcome you two!"

The warden didn't speak (he didn't seem to have a vocal organ), but the televisions on the four walls made a sound similar to an electronic synthesizer, "Congratulations, you are the one who has come closest to successfully escaping from prison in the past three months. group of prisoners.”

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Li Sheng remained silent, looking around and taking in his surroundings. Huiyu didn't have that patience and said quickly: "We pressed five engine room buttons in a row. According to the agreement, it's time for us to leave the narrative cage!"

"Take it easy, young man."

The warden's mechanical eyeball moved slightly and motioned for Li Sheng and the two to sit down. "Unfortunately, although you two have successfully completed the jailbreak process, I still can't let you go."

"What?!"

Huiyu Liuliu's eyebrows were raised, and he was furious. He slapped his hand on the wooden coffee table, "What do you mean? You're just kidding, right?!"

"Believe me, if the decision is up to me, I will honestly follow the rules and let you escape from prison - this is the principle purpose of the narrative cage."

The warden said calmly: "You have broken into five engine rooms in a row. You should have noticed a pattern, right? All rooms are related to Isaac.

Isaac is Elsa, and Elsa is Isaac. "

The warden said: "She was originally a mechanical soldier produced by the Zero Civilization. She performed well in the Iron Plague War. After fighting for ten years, she accumulated enough military merit points and retired with the rank of colonel.

It was just that some accidents happened in the middle, which caused her to defect to the Zero civilization and become the interstellar pirate Isaac.

As for unexpected content”

He paused and looked at Li Sheng, "You should already know."

"Um."

Li Sheng slowly took out the clues, four newspapers, [Unknown virus broke out on Swan B], [Food poisoning cases occurred in schools in Proxima A District], [Terrorists detonated nuclear bombs in Proxima A District], [Navy Special Warfare The team blew up the key nodes of the Iron Plague lair]

A children's drawing of Anna and her mother.

After sorting out all the clues, Li Sheng said: "Taking the Iron Plague War as the timeline, [the unknown virus broke out on Planet Swan B], the virus here refers to the Iron Plague.

Isaac joined the army as a mechanical soldier and completed the content in this newspaper, [Naval Special Warfare Team Destroys Key Nodes of the Iron Plague Nest], which is a plot that takes place in the continuity engine room. "