Chapter 192, Special Forces
"What's its name?"
After watching the functional demonstration of the Purple Fire Jet, Gu Hang asked this question to its developer, Mr. Hu Ke.
Hu Ke was quite modest: "It doesn't have a name. It's just a little gadget I've thought about before. It compresses high energy and releases high-energy particles and special chemicals. It's some targeted gadgets I developed during the six months in the south. It would be great if it could come in handy and help the Governor."
Gu Hang shook his head and exclaimed: "This is not a small thing, this is simply landform transformation!"
Hu Ke waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't say that, Governor. I am still far from being able to reshape and transform the landform. That kind of equipment and technology are far from being achieved by such a small thing. In fact, it can be mass-produced thanks to the production capacity of concentrated energy crystals you have created. Without this outstanding energy support, it would be impossible for it to function or even be mass-produced. Even so, it can only deal with the jungle..."
"Indeed, compared with those legendary landform reshaping technologies, it is not worth mentioning." Gu Hang said, "But it is indeed the best way for us to solve the Qinggu problem now."
At this point, Hu Ke sighed: "Are you...really determined to do this? Completely eradicate every inch of the jungle in the Qinggu area?"
"Why not?"
"That would require a huge amount of manpower and resources, and would also destroy the environment of the Qinggu area..."
"Yes." Gu Hang did not deny these two points, "But we have enough ability and enough time to do this. Moreover, this is not a purely invested job. Look at the reports sent back from the front. This business has already generated positive benefits. It has solved the unemployment problem of a large number of refugees in the Qinggu area. Although the wood produced is of poor quality, it is also valuable. The production department has already transported the latest batch of synthetic starch production lines to the Qinggu area, and a factory will be built there. When the scale reaches a certain level, these refugees may not need us to pay extra to support them. Their own output is enough to support themselves, and even reverse output to generate a surplus..."
After a pause, Gu Hang said the second point: "As for the problem of the natural environment, it accounts for too small a proportion in my decision-making process. Compared with the threats posed by those monsters and the cult organization established by your students, the problems caused by environmental degradation are too small. Moreover, if there are really problems, we will have the opportunity to make up for them and solve them in the future."
Hu Ke nodded repeatedly as he listened.
He is a researcher and an engine prophet. Although he once held a high position in the Mechanicum, he was not involved in actual management work. He just did his job and was not very knowledgeable about industry and some political considerations. His comments on the environment were because he had seen many planets where the environment was destroyed due to human over-exploitation, and the quality of life of the people there was not good.
However, what Governor Gu said seemed reasonable to him.
He realized that the per capita resource consumption enjoyed by the current residents of the Angry Owl Star was not a question of over-exploitation or not. For the development of the planet, to be honest, they were not qualified to care about that.
Not to mention, there are also threats from cults and mutant monsters.
Let’s develop first and then govern.
But Hu Ke still had doubts: "But even if that's the case, it will take too long. I understand that you have plenty of time to develop that land, and you can even use years or even decades as the time unit. And this is indeed a radical solution. After the jungle is eradicated, the mutants will have no breeding environment, and the Natural Salvation Society will have no place to hide. No matter what they plan, it will be meaningless. But that's too slow. Do you want to use ten years to eliminate the Natural Salvation Society?"
"I can see you're worried."
"Yes." Hu Ke has been in Shuangcheng for a while. During these days, he has seen the state of the city.
Other things can be disguised, but the living conditions and psychological state of the largest number of people at the bottom of society cannot be disguised.
He has been to many different worlds, and the living conditions of the people on the Angry Owl Star are certainly not good, and may even be considered poor.
But that was not the ruler's fault - at least not the current ruler's fault. The conditions on Angry Owl Star were too poor. Not to mention the civilians, even the Governor Gu Hang and many of the alliance's high-ranking officials he had met all lived a simple life.
Compared to the not-so-good living environment, the mental outlook of ordinary people in the Twin Cities is very good. Something called "hope" is brewing in their hearts and overflowing on their faces.
They have visions for the future, and they truly recognize that under the rule of the alliance, they can make their lives better through their own hands and hard work.
It sounds common, but in the entire universe, there are only a few places that have this kind of vitality.
Hu Ke was not infected by this or anything. He was just able to rely on his experience to believe that an alliance that could make the people under its rule have such a psychological state would not be a garbage regime.
Flying to the stars and finding a new home was not a very reliable option. On the contrary, staying in the alliance and living a stable life was a good choice.
In this case, he still has to contribute to the entire alliance.
In his opinion, the Natural Salvation Society is one of the major threats to the world.
He said carefully, "I have recently thought carefully about what Gawaga wants to do. When I was in the south, after he thawed me out, he didn't trust me enough at first, and I didn't get to know too many secrets of the organization established by my student. However, since he rescued me, he naturally wouldn't give up the knowledge I have. Some marginal research projects were placed with me. I am trying to piece together his goals for those projects."
"Tell me your guess?"
"First of all, I'm not completely sure. It's just my guess, and there's insufficient evidence. That's why I didn't tell you at the beginning..."
"It's okay, I'll make the judgment."
"Well... I think that Gawaga and the others are trying to summon the devil again..."
"Oh, that's a terrible guess."
"You don't look surprised? Did you guess it a long time ago?"
"In a sense, it is true." Gu Hang spread his hands and said, "I have no evidence, and it's not like you have pieced together some fragments of the truth through some experiments you have done with them. I am just guessing. After all, those so-called cult members, the guys who have been contaminated by the demons of the abyss, are thinking about this all the time. You can know their goal with just a random guess."
Hu Ke smiled bitterly and said, "You are right...indeed."
"But just knowing the goal is not enough. I want to know what means they have to achieve it and how we can stop them."
"That's exactly what I want to say." Hu Ke sighed, "We can't destroy the Natural Salvation Society by destroying the jungle. I'm not against your strategy, but that's used to destroy the deformed monsters, and to destroy Gawaga and the others by destroying the jungle, that's too slow. Maybe, before we succeed, those guys will succeed first."
After a pause, Hu Ke continued, "I guess they may have a complete, undestroyed psychic energy field. If you know the history of Angry Owl Star, you will understand that in the past, it was precisely because of the existence of the rich psychic energy field that an extremely abundant energy source was formed, which was used as a means to open the curtain between reality and the abyss of hell."
"In the past, the main psychic energy fields of Wrathful Owl were on two other continents, which should have been completely destroyed. There are also gas fields on the main continent, but they are very few, and most of them should also be in a state of destruction. The one that Gawaja found should not be large in scale. But we can't let our guard down. Once he really tears open the curtain of the real world, even if it's just a small crack, we will be in big trouble."
Gu Hang pondered: "Then do you have any guesses about the possible location of the spiritual energy field?"
"No, not at all." Hu Ke smiled bitterly, "It's not even certain whether it really exists. I said all this is just my guess..."
"But your guess is always more reliable than mine." Gu Hang said comfortingly, "Thank you very much for your notice. I was originally planning to send a special operations team to the southern end of Qinggu to find out the situation there and guide bombings. Now, they may have an additional mission."
…
Aiaro Lacroxia felt as if he had been cheated.
He said he didn't want to be an officer, he just wanted to be a soldier. His wish had been approved by the Governor, and now he was not an officer, but more than 30 soldiers were still stuffed into his subordinates.
Doesn’t this still make me a squad leader?
Earlier, he was transferred from the Beast Slaughter Brigade to the 10th Special Forces Brigade as a squad leader. He and his 30 new subordinates were equipped with a full set of individual equipment that they had never seen before.
Each person has a set of individual exoskeleton, inlaid with armor plates made mainly of plastic steel and additionally coated with ceramic steel, which protects the torso and limbs. It is far from being as majestic as the Space Marine power armor, but it has a slender beauty.
The full-coverage helmet is equipped with different visual modes such as night vision, anti-glare, color temperature, and also has a shooting assistance system.
This so-called shooting assistance system is provided by a servo skull that accompanies the combat. The servo skull that belongs to him can also help control the two drones in the backpack to perform reconnaissance, auxiliary firepower strikes, suicide attacks and other tasks.
The weapons in their hands were all replaced with LR5 laser rifles. Each person had ten high-energy batteries, which could support 15 rounds of shooting before the batteries needed to be replaced. The firepower sustainability was not good, but the power was much stronger than the regular G9 rifle. In order to supplement the firepower, they also carried a short-barreled bullpup tactical rifle, which was a special variant of the G9.
Among them, Lacroxia himself was equipped with better equipment than his teammates. The most important thing was that he did not use high-energy batteries, but energy crystal blocks that looked like crystals. This thing was said to be much more expensive than the laser rifle in his hand. For such a large wind falcon to fly in the sky, this crystal block was enough.
As a result, this thing only powered his rifle and exoskeleton...
The powerful energy source allows his exoskeleton, designated as the 'Ranger Generation 1', to maintain overload mode throughout the entire process until it breaks down; the laser rifle in his hand can also perform overload shooting throughout the entire process.
Other people's LR5s can destroy a high-energy battery with one full overload. According to their training ethics, they are strictly prohibited from doing so when it is not necessary.
But the energy crystal in his hand can allow him to overload shooting almost infinitely without having to replace it. He only needs to worry about the gun in his hand and make sure it doesn't collapse.
All this made him feel a little like he was in a dream.
He always felt it was unreal when others called him "Soldier King" and he didn't like being called that in person. But now... he seemed to be treated like a Soldier King.
And in the so-called special operations brigade, he also has to perform special tasks.
The formation of three Wind Falcons, after completing the bombing mission at Crocker Manor, made the corresponding preparations for the return journey, and then carried Lacrosse and his formation and headed straight for the southernmost part of the world.
Their goal was to investigate a place called "Singer Town". According to intelligence, it was the headquarters of the so-called Natural Salvation Society.
There is no specific location, only a vague description.
After the Feng Falcon landed, they searched on the ground while maintaining contact with the three speed attack boats that were temporarily assigned to them to cooperate with the operation.
Through the joint air-ground reconnaissance, they found a number of suspected targets, but eventually confirmed that they were not. They were just the ruins of some villages, which had long been deserted. The jungle was slowly extending and reoccupying those places.
On the third day of the operation, they finally made a major discovery.
According to the description of the intelligence and the accompanying hand-drawn map, they were almost certain that this was the Town of the Singers.
But this place also looks abandoned.
After some discussion within the team, they still planned to go in and explore.
To be on the safe side, they also called Lieutenant Kuchi, and three Wind Falcons would provide them with air support.
Lacroxia was still quite nervous about this.
It was still a war and a battle, but the way of fighting was completely different from his past experience.
He wasn't sure if he could do it well enough, so he could only be cautious.
And his caution saved many lives.
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
