Enough people died in the action team, and they were unwilling to fight again. Captain Adams was just keenly aware of the mentality of the people. In fact, Commander Collison also noticed the fear and resentment brewing in the soldiers. More importantly, he had no cards to play. "I think the aliens have already played all their cards. Just a slight push..." Collison was still making a final attempt. "What can you push? Are you going to do it yourself?" Adams asked back very impolitely. Collison also frowned: "Before you came, you were clamoring for wealth and fame, but now life is the most precious thing. I can understand and am willing to sympathize, but you have to think about whether those who sit in the office can understand and sympathize. The task is not completed, it is difficult to report, the boss is unhappy, and the compensation can only be the lowest level, and it may not be generous. As for legal rights protection, those who understand will understand. In short, you weigh it, anyway, I think the boss will only look at the results, not the process. It is not very useful to show your hard work in front of him. Without the alien egg, the laboratory will need to spend a lot more procedures to achieve the goal. Converted into money, the loss must be much higher than the compensation..."
Adams's cultural level is really not as good as Collison, and more importantly, Collison basically tells the truth. In this era of corporate empires, the cold-bloodedness of capital has been directly exposed, and it is too lazy to pretend. Bosses only calculate economic accounts, and human lives are just groups of data. Don't tell your boss how hard it is, it's useless, especially for this kind of shady work. Adams returned to the team in a depressed mood, and then discussed with the team members. The group of people immediately quarreled, some cursed, some wanted to fight to the death, and so on. But the emotions were almost vented, and it was time to make a choice. At this time, the soldiers naturally trusted the captain who had always had prestige. Adams said: "This money is indeed much harder to earn than expected. We are stuck here and can't move forward or backward. If we go back like this, there will be a series of troubles. If we make too much trouble, we may be killed. Killing people is much easier than killing monsters, and the price is much cheaper. After all, even if everyone does not have a family, they have their own living habits and rules, and these data and big data have long been mastered, which can be said to be hard to guard against. So, doing the job well is indeed the first priority. If you stick your head out, you will be cut, and if you shrink your head, you will also be cut. So let's stick our heads out. At least we have the initiative and can also show our courage to not fear death. If we are really pushed to the limit, hehe!" Everyone looked gloomy, listening and thinking, and the atmosphere seemed depressing. Someone suggested: "We have to be careful. If anyone dares to withhold the money, we should expose it!" Someone agreed: "You are too superficial. Those influential media are all being controlled and will not report it. What we are doing is not a humanitarian rescue. Instead, it may cause a crisis similar to this one in the colonies including the mother planet. Public opinion will not sympathize with us. Therefore, if you want to threaten, you must have something solid." "Second!" "Second!" "Just hijack the Adventurer and sell the goods to other companies."... I have to say that you are unkind and I am unjust. As we chatted, we didn't want to talk about professional ethics.
It's not surprising. Life can be lost at any time. In such an exciting situation, professional ethics is nothing! Especially since they are originally money warriors, now they hear that their boss may play dirty, so they naturally want to retaliate. It can only be said that Collison's use of rhetoric to oppress the mercenaries when they are already under extreme pressure is a very dangerous attempt. However, it did make the mercenaries decide to try again. Even if you risk your life, you must get the capital to negotiate with the superiors, otherwise you will not even have the qualifications to start negotiations. Half an hour later. "Oh...oh!" Facing the soldiers who were murderous and pointed guns at his head, Collison raised his hands. The soldiers were not stupid. They knew that if they did not tear their faces apart, they would not have the opportunity to do small tricks under the surveillance of others. You must master the warship and have the authority to control the central AI of the ship to play small tricks. Of course, ships, especially warships, have a special set of "anti-cheating systems". For example, even the captain has no authority to change certain specially set information. For example, the navigation record data commonly known as the black box, or the navigation monitoring information. These permissions are controlled by the higher level of control and become an important basis for judging the performance of ship members. But there are no loopholes, such as no surveillance in the toilet and some lounges. After all, it is not a prison, and it is impossible to not give any privacy. The mercenaries took advantage of this and successfully deceived the surveillance and hijacked the Adventurer. The specific operation was not complicated: Adams first gave Collison a sweet date, indicating that the soldiers had been persuaded and were ready to launch a new round of operations. This was indeed the truth. The plan was basically formulated, and the style was relatively brutal. He argued with Collison for a long time for this, and even stubbornly stated that he would not work if he did not agree. Seeing this, Collison felt that they really wanted to do it again. The judgment was correct, but he did not expect that the soldiers planned to settle him first before fighting against foreign enemies. According to the soldiers' discussion, if everything went smoothly, they would not break up with the employer and pretend that there was no hijacking. This is also the reason why they would rather use coaxing and deceiving to make the hijacking complicated and difficult. The surveillance on the ship did not capture the hijacking scene, and some sensitive shots can be forcibly explained by changing the weapons and cooperating with the new action. Just like what Adams said to Collison: "We are all on the same boat. If everything goes well, we can all forget this part. If it doesn't go well, we can talk about the unsuccessful gameplay." Soon after, the Adventurer entered the attack state, adjusted the speed and angle, and launched a strike on Area B of the space station in a close-range shooting mode. Yes, this is the new plan that the mercenaries were forced to come up with-first raid the house, then take the goods! Area B is indeed the location of the nuclear reactor, and the alien's nest is built around the cooling system of the reactor. But the nuclear reactor is not a big bomb. On the contrary, there are quite a lot of prerequisites to be met if you want to use it as a bomb. And the thorium reactor used in the Sevastopol space station does not have the conditions for weapon-grade application at all. At most, it can be used as a dirty bomb, and the effect is not good enough.
Moreover, with the authority of Marcus, the executive of the space station, and the central AI Apollo under control, there is no need to worry about bombarding the reactor causing grand fireworks. With the blueprint and the cooperation of Apollo, the attack of the Adventurer will not even touch the core and fuel area. In short, this bombardment was carefully calculated. In the process of specific positioning, calculation, and fire control aiming, the mercenaries still had enough time to complete the emergency shutdown of the reactor through Apollo. There was no deliberate prevention of the system's own global warning. Therefore, whether it was Robo, Amanda, Samuel, or other survivors, they all heard the notice of switching to the temporary backup energy supply system at the first time. Robo naturally didn't care. His new D area was self-contained and completely cut off from contact. Lighting, gravity, ventilation, and moving mazes were all running as usual. His attention was now on Amanda, wanting to know how Amanda would choose in the face of such an emergency. Amanda and Samuel's drifting cabin plan has been completed by more than 80% at this time. Space suits are in hand, spare and emergency oxygen cylinders, small oxygen generators, generators are in place, and even the communication equipment has been streamlined and energy-saving. The only thing that has not been done is the detachment of the communication station at the critical moment. Samuel can barely act as a blasting expert, and Amanda's mechanical technician skills can also allow her to handle the connection between the communication station and the space station. But the two have no explosives, which is a bit tricky, and it is not appropriate to start drifting now. Threads? This is a technical job. So the two were tinkering with this in the elevator shaft, and they heard the system alarm. To be honest, both of them were a little unexpected. Because both of them knew that the reactor used in the Sevastopol space station was relatively old and difficult to ignite, especially after an emergency stop like this, it requires a round of professional maintenance, and then several professionals cooperate in the operation before it can work normally again. And only when the reactor works normally can the space station be pushed to fall. If the reactor is shut down now, it is impossible to fall in a short time just by relying on the inherent global flight of the space station. Even if the Adventurer bombards it, it will not work. So, these people who do the dirty work don't plan to destroy the bodies? After thinking quickly, Samuel said: "Since they can control Apollo to modify the work and violate the first law of bionic people (not to harm humans), then using this authority to clean up all past records is also possible." Amanda followed Samuel's thoughts and understood. Without records, there is no evidence, and it becomes an unsolved case. As for witnesses, in theory, it is difficult for survivors to survive until rescue arrives. After the reactor is shut down for a maximum of three hours, the artificial gravity system will stop due to insufficient power. Then facilities such as elevators and electric doors will stop. Then there will be ventilation, and finally lighting. Lighting will last the longest, and it is estimated that it can last until the rescue team arrives to collect the bodies. They can only come to collect the bodies. After all, once the ventilation stops, not only will there be a lack of oxygen, but the heating will also stop, and the space station will become a huge cold storage. There is another disgusting point, that is, even if the survivors want to try to restore the reactor to operation, they can't do it. The alien's nest is there, and going there to operate is equivalent to committing suicide...
Indirect murder! Amanda believes that this gang of black people knows very well what kind of bad consequences their operations will bring, but they still do it. "Samuel, while there is still time, I decided to get more video data about these robbers." Area C communication station is one of the top areas of the entire space station. With such a good position and intentional efforts, Amanda took pictures of the Adventurer with the light of the stars. Samuel stopped her and said, "This is too dangerous, they will definitely kill you." "I am willing to try it!" "Why? I feel that your decision is a bit abrupt. In theory, those people's shutdown operations should not make you make such a risky decision. After all, we have already assumed even worse space station crashes, and have achieved very good results." "I think those bastards deserve to be judged." Amanda replied. Samuel knew that this was not the truth, at least not the whole truth, but he did not ask any further questions. He just shrugged his shoulders, which meant that he did not agree or even understand, but respected the other party's choice. Amanda didn't say much nonsense, quickly armed herself, and then took action. The real reason was that she thought she needed more chips. From this perspective, whether the action team stopped the reactor or controlled the space station to fall, she would take this trip. The drifting cabin plan was just to ensure a retreat. After all, only by ensuring survival can we talk about the follow-up. Now that there is a retreat, there is no need to continue to strengthen it. The space station will not fall, so there will be enough time to wait for the Torrance to receive the signal to come to pick it up. Therefore, the action of obtaining chips became what she thought was the most important thing to do. As for the previous operation of collecting some limbs of the alien by obtaining medical low-temperature refrigeration boxes, Amanda thought it was not enough, and her ideal goal was also the alien egg. After all, in the sequence of the alien, the alien egg is the beginning. If there is one, there are ten thousand, and the steps are not complicated at all. In this way, Amanda, fully armed, went to Area B. The difference from the past was that this time she wore a light space suit. Lightweight space suits are very similar to diving wet suits, with a thickness of 5MM, close-fitting and cold-proof, and equipped with an external oxygen breathing system and helmet. It is generally used for internal fault repairs in space stations. For example, the power supply system in a certain area is broken, or a component needs to be replaced and the power has to be cut off for a long time. With such a configuration, you can deal with problems such as weightlessness, itching, and cold. Even if you are in space, you can stop for three or two minutes. The key problem of this sober space suit is that there is no air pressure system, so it cannot stay outside for a long time. On the other side, with the completion of the shutdown, the Adventurer's drilling strike began.
Originally, it was like trying to cut the area, but unfortunately the ship-borne laser weapons did not support this, so it was changed to drilling. Deliberately let the relevant area fall into a state of weightlessness, decompression, and oxygen deprivation. The mercenaries are not afraid that such operations will destroy the "cargo". The ship-borne medical system on the Adventurer has a simple analysis function. After all, interstellar colonization will encounter injuries caused by various situations. Only timely and correct analysis can be said to be the right medicine. As a warship, it is absolutely reasonable that it is better than civilian ships in this aspect. While Adams and his team launched rounds of actions to complete the mission, the analysis operation has already started. If the aliens encountered this time were not smart enough and had rich cards, and new types and new characteristics of aliens appeared every time, the mercenary team would not have lost so badly under the background of intelligence support after analysis. In any case, the mercenaries now at least know that the aliens have amazing tolerance. They can move normally in the space environment. Whether it is the high temperature of the solar wind or the low temperature of the deep space itself, they cannot kill them. As for the impact of cosmic radiation on them, it is difficult to analyze the accurate results in this short period of time. The mercenaries don’t really need to know this result. It is enough to understand that the space environment cannot kill the aliens in a short period of time. With this understanding, the mercenaries know that even if they give the alien nest a "window surprise" alien or even alien eggs, it will not be a big problem. But the mercenaries firmly believe that this will affect the aliens, and the same impact is much smaller for the mercenaries. The mercenaries' power armor suits can be used as space suits. Power armor suits were originally developed for interstellar colonization, including launching military operations in environments like the moon. For this purpose, a specification called planetary armor was born. Planetary armor not only has the functions of space suits, but also has useful functions such as magnetic boots. This function allows mercenaries to move normally in a weightless environment. However, if you want to play well, you have to go through a sufficient period of adaptive training. And the mercenaries are qualified in this aspect, and even good at it. So, Adams meant to compare adaptability with the aliens, hoping to cause trouble to the aliens through drastic changes in the environment, so as to facilitate action. This goal was indeed achieved. Apart from anything else, the ventilation ducts are basically unusable. Because with the shutdown and other operations, the induction closing function of the entrance and exit of the ventilation ducts is lost, and it is troublesome and laborious to open it manually. In this way, it is almost impossible to suddenly drop from the sky like before. Also, the power comes from the ground. The claws of the aliens are very powerful, but if there is no gravity, it is difficult to achieve muscle linkage without a good fulcrum. Just relying on the arm muscles, even if they swing in a circle, they cannot produce a strong enough striking effect. However, the mercenaries can use the weightlessness effect to reduce the force of the strike to a certain extent. They are also very good at this, and have been specially trained in heavy combat. After this round of gains and losses, the mercenaries finally regained their confidence in fighting and started the fourth wave of killing monsters and taking eggs...