A second passed, but the other party still didn’t answer. Warrant Officer Yu Lian grew impatient. He had limited time and no time to waste with these shorties.
“Ugh, probably an idiot.” Warrant Officer Yu Lian sighed and raised his gun again.
“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! My name is Babas, I’m… I’m a Union citizen… Ah, spit! I’m an employee of Compass Trading Company! I… uh… right! The ten large cannons here were all transported by the trading company. They’re Tsunami, no, they’re ion cannons, land-to-air, modeled after the Union Tsunami Mark IV! We still have 20 people here, all employees of the trading company! We’re just wage slaves! We’re really not dangerous enemies, please don’t hurt us! Wuwuwuwu!”
Seeing Warrant Officer Yu Lian’s unmoving, emotionless expression, the Goblin Engineer named Babas repeated himself in halting Earth Common Tongue, then added, “I… I’m willing to cooperate, truly, truly! Everyone will cooperate. You can make us do anything!”
Now that’s more like it. Warrant Officer Yu Lian nodded in satisfaction, then looked at the headless corpse next to him with its head blown off and said, “This gentleman was hit by a stray bullet from the Sand People. How unlucky! I hope the universe spirit can bless him. Is that right?”
“Ye-yes…” Babas only now understood why the other party had picked up the Sand People’s gun, and he became even more terrified. What was more frightening than a madman in this world was a madman who still possessed reason and judgment.
“Your cannons are operated together with a central computer, right?”
Actually, they didn’t use vacuum tubes, so they should be called information terminals, but to make it easier for the observers outside the grand universe, let’s just call them computers from now on.
Warrant Officer Yu Lian had already confirmed those few RVs. Besides a few for living, the largest one was clearly a multi-purpose terminal command vehicle, which should be the central command post for this artillery position.
“Yes, yes.” Babas nodded obsequiously. He was sure Warrant Officer Yu Lian knew his stuff, so it was even harder to fool him.
“Then why aren’t you all getting over there and getting to work!”
The Engineers, wailing like mice chased out of their holes by a cat, rushed out of their respective RVs and were all herded into the command vehicle. Warrant Officer Yu Lian gave Captain Winter a thumbs-up. The latter had also recovered from his daze by this point, feeling somewhat conflicted: “Heh, to be rescued by a student, how embarrassing! Haha… If all Moon People were of this caliber, then there truly would be peace under heaven.”
Thinking this, the Captain also returned a thumbs-up to Warrant Officer Yu Lian, waving for a few soldiers to follow Warrant Officer Yu Lian inside, while he himself turned all his attention to the defense of the position. This was equivalent to entrusting the entire artillery command to Warrant Officer Yu Lian, but he didn’t feel there was any problem with it. The other officers of the 101st Company also didn’t seem to find anything amiss.
“Just as Warrant Officer Yu Lian said, that Goblin was killed by a stray bullet from the Sand People. If anyone leaks this, I’ll shove a cannonball up your ass!” The Captain roared into the company’s comms channel, then received a string of “Yeah, yeah!”, “Who’s a Goblin?”, “I didn’t see anything!” and other such replies, followed by some incomprehensible remarks. Things like “If he dies, he dies,” and “The death of a Goblin is actually a philosophical question,” which made the soldiers burst into laughter. The channel was instantly filled with joyful air.
“I like this Moon Person. More interesting than all the Moon People I’ve met! No, more interesting than all the elite bureaucratic groups I’ve met!” Lieutenant Parkin summarized.
The Present time was 8:17 PM. Archi 6th Highland and the ten heavy cannons had all changed hands. The defenders on the position were completely wiped out, with over a thousand Sand People soldiers and laborers killed, while their own side suffered no casualties, almost flawlessly smooth.
And even by this time, most of the Sand People hadn’t even reacted. The brawl over there was still boisterous, and the tank and firearms training ground was still bustling with activity.
Warrant Officer Yu Lian stood in the command vehicle, one hand holding his C10, the other still holding the White Raven he had picked up, smiling as he stared at the Goblins’ backs of their heads. These short creatures trembled as they operated the computers, pulling up a battlefield map on the holographic screen.
“Three aiming at A7, two at B12, two at H11, the remaining three on standby. Let’s get moving… Oh my, that unlucky gentleman over there, why are you adjusting the cannon angle? Won’t moving it one tick to the left hit empty ground? What a shame!” Warrant Officer Yu Lian stepped forward, and before the Goblin could beg for mercy, he had already swung the butt of the White Raven rifle onto the other party’s head. The yellowish-brown, hairless little head instantly splattered across the surrounding ground like a watermelon with a “boom.”
The Goblins shrieked, but a soldier guarding outside the vehicle merely fired a shot into the sky, and they instantly fell silent.
This ominous star knew his stuff. There was no way to fool him! The Goblins suppressed their fear and grief and could only obediently get to work.
Warrant Officer Yu Lian hadn’t intended to operate so many cannons by himself anyway. Although he could, even if he awakened two or three more Star Rings, he simply wouldn’t be able to handle it all. Since later history had already told him that there was a large group of Goblin mercenary Engineers who also served as artillerymen here, why not let them handle the heavy labor?
The reason he followed along was that he needed someone who knew their stuff to keep an eye on these toad-like fellows and ensure they carried out the orders diligently.
As for the so-called Union citizens… Heh heh, indeed, the citizens of the two major hegemons were free to roam the universe, which might cause Captain Winter, a righteous man, some slight doubts. But how could this fool Warrant Officer Yu Lian, a transmigrator and reincarnator who had once roamed the underworld? Did this great hero not know the roots of your Compass Trading Company? Its registration place is in some unknown small country in the galaxy, and behind it are naturally Union financial groups, but there are also quite a few other forces and even intergalactic underworld organizations. To put it bluntly, they are the outer peripheral of the outer peripheral, serving as black gloves for a bunch of big shots. If you join such an organization and get caught red-handed, what does being a Union citizen matter? Even if they were active Union military personnel or even diplomatic staff, if they were killed, they would be killed. Do you really think anyone would acknowledge it?
Under Warrant Officer Yu Lian’s gentle gaze, the Goblins finally adjusted the trajectory and looked over timidly.
“Captain, what about the enemies down the mountain?”
“The Sand People have already tried to attack the mountain, but it’s not a big problem right now.”
“We are also ready here. Do you approve of firing?”
Just based on this attitude, the other military academy elites couldn’t compare! The Captain sighed with emotion, suppressing the excitement in his heart, and said in a stern tone, “Approved to fire!”
The Captain couldn’t help but be excited! How could he not know that his order this time could go down in history?
Seven large cannons began shelling! Energy condensed into light clusters, whistling out of the muzzles and streaking across half the sky. They were originally going to directly rush towards the light curtain that enveloped the entire Tulon, but now, halfway through their flight, they went straight towards the dense Sand People encampments on the ground.
“Whoosh! Swish!” A conceptual explosion of photon beams occurred. The rapid changes in airflow and temperature caused the energy light cluster to explode in mid-air. Its sound was not too loud, but it formed a deadly high-temperature field, completely destroying all stone houses and living beings within its Diffusion range.
Then, an even more terrifying explosion occurred, accompanied by rising smoke and truly deafening blasts. That was the high temperature igniting all explosive materials. The Sand People who had fortunately survived the high temperature were once again subjected to the assault of light, heat, and lethal shockwaves.
Kaz Khan naturally saw the flames rising from the direction of the Grand Elder and was stunned for a moment. He knew that the most terrifying thing had happened: the heavy artillery position had truly been seized by the enemy. The Sand People had bought these super weapons by extracting every last drop of their essence, but they had become their own death warrants.
Should I go rescue Hessen teacher over there, or should I recapture the position? This thought flashed through Kaz Khan’s mind, but he quickly made up his decision.
Although this shelling was fierce, it shouldn’t be able to harm the Grand Elder, and there were already many people rushing to curry favor with him. However, if we don’t recapture the position and the cannons, we will all be targets for slaughter.
“Mo Wei! Gather everyone, quickly…” Before he finished speaking, he felt a sudden scorching heat source above his head.
“Khan, be careful!” Mo Wei, somehow, burst forth with an ability that was even faster than Kaz Khan, who was a one-ring spiritual energy user. He pressed him to the ground and then used his own body, which was much more robust than the other’s, as a shield.
The scorching heat of the energy blast instantly took Mo Wei’s life, and then, like swords, it pierced into Kaz Khan’s body. Subsequently, his hearing and perception were completely dominated by the ensuing massive explosions and vibrations. If he weren’t a Guardian, who originally possessed much stronger physical functions and resistance than normal life, he would have likely died at that moment.
After an unknown amount of time, the almost-fainting Kaz finally regained a little sensation and struggled to crawl out from under Mo Wei’s body, only to find to his shock that his loyal friend’s remains were no longer recognizable.
He looked around almost blankly, and then he also saw that small training ground. A minute ago, hundreds of the tribe’s most excellent young people were training hard there, struggling with gritted teeth for themselves and for the future of their tribe. But now, only a huge shell crater remained, along with scattered charred limbs and broken arms around it.
The young Khan stumbled forward blankly, instinctively shuffling towards his stone house, where his wife was, and then his knees buckled, and he knelt blankly on the ground.
He saw the collapsed stone house, and he also saw an arm wearing a bracelet, wrapped in beautiful white scales.
Only one arm…
Kaz Khan sat there blankly like a puppet that had lost its soul, not even hearing the sound of military bugles coming from Tulon Port behind him.
But to the other Sand People, it was like the wails of demons from hell.
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