"Follow the procedures! Starting from the fourth line on page 58, read the Space Fortress Coolant Pressure Abnormal Troubleshooting Procedure from the beginning! Safety first, safety... cough... first!"
A burst of rapid coughing interrupted his chatter, and he pounded his chest hard with the back of his hand covered with age spots.
On the other side, Lin Nian'en, who had become a medical soldier, was meticulously counting the items in the medical box.
The tiny tweezers accurately put a piece of insect membrane wing, as thin as a cicada's wing, back into its original place.
She pushed up the pair of rimless crystal glasses that kept slipping off her nose.
The gaze behind the lenses was clear and focused, as if what was in front of him was not a pile of Zerg membrane wings, but a higher-level Zerg entity waiting to be dissected.
Communications soldier Wu Hang was huddled in a creaky old swivel chair in the corner of the maintenance station, his fingertips dancing across the projected keyboard. A dense stream of encrypted data cascaded across the holographic screen.
He held a piece of high-grade nutrient solution in his mouth and mumbled incoherently, "...The signal attenuation from the relay tower is still quite large. The Star Network has been having problems lately. I need to adjust the transmission power again."
"Chen Yanjun, have you finished your business? Don't delay me because I have to go back to the city for vacation this afternoon..."
What he meant by "going back to the city for vacation" was going to Mulan City on the Guiyuan Star below.
"It's almost there, it's killing me!" Chen Yanjun responded impatiently.
Just as I was about to complain a few more times, a shrill alarm, so piercing that it would tear my eardrums, as if it was going to uproot the entire space fortress from the depths of the starry sky, broke out without warning!
The sound was not the monotonous siren of an ambulance, but like countless alloys scraping against rough stone slabs, like the wailing of a dying beast.
And the alarm sound is not constant.
It became louder and louder, forming a sharp high-frequency howl that human consciousness was not accustomed to, and finally settled into a terrifying torrent of noise, exploding in the mind.
The lights on the roof of the maintenance station suddenly flashed wildly.
In an instant, the light changed from white to a dazzling red, splashing violently on every face that looked up in shock, dyeing those frozen expressions of astonishment into a hellish bloody color.
"Combat alert! Highest level!"
Wu Hang was the first to jump up from his chair, not even noticing that the advanced nutrient solution had fallen to the ground.
His voice was distorted due to extreme fear, and it was as rough as sandpaper rubbing against each other.
"All units! Highest alert!"
"The relay station detected a large-scale unidentified organism, breaking through the near-orbital defense circle!"
"The number... the number is incalculable! Oh my God..."
"Zerg! It's the Zerg!"
"Holy crap! How did the Zerg suddenly break through the first four lines of defense and arrive above Guiyuan Star?!"
The holographic data screen in front of him went completely black.
Then, lines of huge, glaring scarlet characters popped up.
"The control system for the Battlestar defense platform is offline."
"The signal from the Battlestar Command Center has been lost."
"Fortress Space Anti-Aircraft Array, Destroy."
One after another, the cold and cruel stream of information declared shocking despair.
Just one second!
The outer orbit and ground defense system of the space fortress that the Beichen Empire once took pride in, which was a huge expense and layered, became as fragile as a piece of thin paper in the face of the sudden attack of the Zerg and was torn to pieces in an instant!
"impossible!"
The probe in Old Man Zhao's hand fell to the ground with a clang, and his wrinkled face instantly lost all color.
His lips were trembling, and for the first time in his cloudy eyes, pure fear and the old man's special attachment to life were clearly reflected.
"Get down!" Lin Nian'en's scream tore through the roar of the alarm and transmitted through everyone's mecha helmets.
She relied entirely on her medic's instincts, like a mother animal protecting her cubs, and subconsciously pounced on Chen Yanjun and Old Man Zhao, who were closest to her, and held down their heads tightly.
At the same time, the second-generation mecha's defense system activated, trapping the three of them together. Boom! Boom! Boom!
It wasn't a single explosion, but a series of devastating impacts stacked on top of each other.
The sound was so loud that the entire space fortress seemed to tremble, enough to shatter everyone's soul.
The entire maintenance station was like being rubbed violently by an invisible giant hand, and then thrown to the ground!
The solid alloy wall twisted and torn instantly.
The ceiling of the pit collapsed.
The broken metal plates and pipes on the roof fell down with a crackling sound, mixed with choking dust and the pungent smell of burning circuits.
This level of shock made Chen Yanjun feel like his internal organs were about to jump out of his throat.
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