Memory of the Empire Chapter 5 (Machine Translated)

 

Calling Tower FG-67, there is an emergency at the bio lab in Area C. Please immediately dispatch AVX drones 122-127 to go ahead and conduct air strikes and send reinforcements as appropriate."

"Reply to Executive Officer Smith, demand confirmed. AVX 122-127 end standby and go forward for strike mission in Area C; armed peacekeeping droids in the vicinity of the area will be on alert at the center of Area C and will send reinforcements as best they can. Light peacekeeping droids will rush to the scene in concert with peacekeeping infantry."

 

Molin put on his armored exoskeleton, took a plasma launcher from Lao Li, and quickly ran to the lab that was billowing thick black smoke - purple lightning was still flashing.

All the non-combatants in the vicinity had been evacuated. Only those guards with stun guns were left to rush in one after another, the sound of stun guns mixed with shouts - it was not clear who had actually been hit.

Molin rushed into the gap on the wall of the laboratory along with some peacekeeping robots that came quickly, gritting his teeth - this was his first time fighting a non-human creature.

"PK261 & 273, cover the Commissioner!" Molin shouted to the two peacekeeping robots on his left, turning off the power amplification of the armored exoskeleton on his body and switching to the armor mode.

 

"Confirming orders, cover Commissioner 203," the two peacekeeping robots moved to Molin's side, mechanically holding up their laser rifles as they marched through the rolling smoke - the red glow from the identifiers on their heads creating a red beam in the smoke.

Molin saw a purple flash ahead through the scope of the plasma launcher, and a piercing thunderclap around it. "Ball lightning." Molin whispered to himself, tightening his grip on his plasma launcher

"Damn thing!" It was a guard's voice, "Ah!"

Behind the figure struck by lightning was a looming horse-shaped creature.

"Fire!" Molin pulled the trigger, and with a dull thump, several blue plasma bullets were then shot forward at high speed. The two peacekeeping robots also did not spare any time in shooting dense blue lasers at the figure and automatically searched for cover.

After hearing the loud explosion of plasma, more peacekeeping droids open fired and marked the location.

"Peacekeeper Infantry Sector C Squad 12 coming to support!" Someone shouted behind him.

Not bothering to turn back to report the situation, Molin controlled the recoil of the plasma launcher while heading for the lab security door that was only half left on the right - it was a good cover.

"Everyone, hit them hard, no one left with bullets is going back!" That captain shouted, taking his laser rifle and firing continuously into the center of the smoke.

 

Molin hid behind the security door, removed the plasma magazine that had been emptied, and moved nimbly to take out another one from behind him As he was about to insert this magazine into the launcher, a scene that everyone did not expect happened -

An extremely intense purple light blossomed from the center of their attack. All the people and robots who were not behind cover were all instantly tossed to the ground by the huge shockwave, and their weapons were thrown out dozens of meters.

The smoke rushed into the sky in an instant and dissipated very quickly.

With the smoke gone they could a clear picture of the lab. The ceiling was gone, the floor and walls were full of pungent smelling charcoal, and the messy experimental equipment on the floor had been burned beyond recognition.

Immediately after, the purple light began to divide into several small points of light, around the center began to rotate, and accompanied by a gradual up cyclone ......

Just as this glow was getting brighter and brighter and gradually floating up into mid-air several AVX drones swooped down and shot a series of high-energy laser bombs that exploded viciously in the center of the light.

Instantly, the light disappeared.

A purple horse-shaped creature fell to the ground ...motionless

It had quite a few burns on its body, and there was still a hint of smoke coming from its body.

And, everyone then realized that there were 5 other similar creatures standing there - the same size, just with different body colors and forms, and one of them seemed to be wearing a costume.

Everyone just stood there at a standstill with them, no one taking the lead to attack - the robots didn't seem to recognize the threat and just stood there with their guns.

 

"Twilight!" Suddenly, a slightly indistinct English came galloping out of the mouth of one of them, a white horse - and at once, everyone snapped back to attention.

Pop!

Five electroshock shells hit five of them precisely, and the powerful electric current made them fall to the ground quickly one after another ......

 

Those peacekeeping infantry soldiers threw down some boring words, carrying laser rifles, pushing those robots and gradually dispersed.

The engineering maintenance team then came to the scene, along with two ambulances, and three or four guard armored vehicles that blocked the scene. Sirens and people's shouts were heard.

Molin's body was covered in some dust, and he coughed a few times and slowly stood up.

"Shit." Molin glanced back at the six alien beings lying on the ground and was annoyed - usually at this moment, he would usually swear at things with dirty words. For example, some people who upset him, or things that he thought were unlucky.

But now he didn't know what to curse, because his mind was all about the replay of that scene - "Twilight!" ...... Obviously, it was an English phrase. But how could an alien speak English? It puzzled him, but then he felt a little creeped out.

The purple pony - he thought the creatures looked so much like ponies that he thought so - it had horns on its head and wings on its body, a clear copy of a legendary Greek unicorn - only smaller in size.

However, this creature was indeed dangerous... the laboratory walls were designed to withstand small nuclear fission with high-performance explosion-proof radiation-proof material, only a tank's high-speed depleted uranium ammunition or higher-strength warheads can penetrate.

If one day it escapes the base ...... the consequences will be unimaginable.

 

However, the other five ponies do not seem to be so powerful - rather more like, a bullet can take the life of livestock. Although the white one of them also has a horn, another two have wings ...... the remaining two are not much different from the ordinary pony.

It looks like only that purple pony is dangerous.

Molin came to this not incorrect conclusion and thought it necessary to submit a report to the information department tonight. -- The superiors demanded that for all unexpected tasks, you can get a bonus for writing a valuable report

 

He thought, slowly walking back.

"Wait!" Looking back, it was the female scientist, "That Commissioner--"

"What is it?" Molin asked with a sideways glance, "I don't have enough time."

"I feel I need to show something to your war department." She paused for a moment and her eyes went to the busy guards and maintenance personnel, "About the reason why they can speak English."

 

Molin listened and immediately turned around and asked, "What?"

"You also think it's strange, right?" She finished and walked backwards, "Come with me, it's not simple."

"I'm Janet, an information specialist who just got the assignment today to research the origin of these alien beings from the NASA database." She led Molin to another building in the lab, "The strangest thing about those alien beings is not themselves, but the one-piece hibernation pods they slept in before."

"One-piece hibernation pods?" Molin frowned and closed the door, "So ...... they were launched to Earth? And didn't fly the ship themselves?"

"Exactly." She turned back to Molin, "And the weird thing is not just that."

With a slip of paper drawn from the lock on the door next to her, Janet opened that glass door - she avoided the lock's authentication of her identity information. Moline frowned at this action.

After passing through a narrow sterilization room, the two of them came inside.

It appeared to be a cryogenic warehouse.

Six black coffin-like hibernation pods lying in the cold carbon dioxide gas, with a blue glowing glass window on the front. The entire warehouse was dimly lit, and several of the main lights were not on - probably because the previous firefight accidentally interrupted the cables underground. For this reason, the whole room had a depressing atmosphere.

"Look here." Janet pointed next to a window of a hibernation chamber, "That's why I called you here."

Molin walked forward and leaned down to take a look - surprisingly, there was a line of English letters written.

 

It read: From ISNA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

 

"Listen, this prank was a success, but it’s very boring." Molin shook his head and said, "You're probably overwhelmed by whatever research you're doing, or just scared out of your mind in the middle of the firefight just now."

"I've been to war." She said very seriously, "I have no sense to bullshit you here - this thing should not have been known to anyone!"

Then she came closer and said, "The six wooden crates that were brought down from the van were brought straight here, and the six ponies were eventually carried here on stretchers by 12 peacekeeping robots - no one has ever seen the hibernation pods except for the robots whose memories can be erased at will. "

"Then how do you know?" Molin asked, "And now I think I can ask you, for what reason didn’t you want the door lock to verify your identity information?"

"I stumbled upon it this morning when I was checking the warehouse data access of GSDS before the experiment - the access information of this cold room was blocked, and I realized that this was exactly the place where that hibernation chamber was stored." She said quickly, "Then, while trying to access the information from other sources within the system, I discovered that the lock on the door to this room had been programmed with an alarm - anyone who swiped their PDC (a terminal worn on their left hand) would *immediately* be reported directly to the ISNA command center. skipping all information screening.

"...... And this behavior," she continued, swallowing, "is no different than what the GCE used to purge 'those in the know' before Operation Deception in the first place ' in no different way. That's how that war ended up being provoked."

The air seemed to freeze, and Molin felt like he was stuck in some kind of quagmire.

"Give me a reason to believe you and not to arrest you." After deep thought, he still said coldly.

"This is a matter of human security." Again, Janet replied coldly, "ISNA is doing things that even our own people don't know about, and they're things that you and I can sense are probably driving history backwards ...... Regardless, we have to lay low until things take a turn for the worse, and pretend you saw nothing today --The Mission Control Center will certainly have arrangements later, when I have my own ideas. Remember - for 2 minutes just now I was discussing your bravery with you, nothing else."