Karen is a young mercenary employed by SOMA consortium. He saved five years’ savings and bribed a consortium executive to be assigned to Leviathan base with the highest commission. He has been a machine gunner for two years, but he hasn’t even pulled the trigger once in these two years.
There is an old saying in their line that if Alpha is the safest place, apart from the Ark, there is Leviathan.
There is no harsh natural climate here, and it is not strong enough to need a fleet to compete with indigenous creatures. Except for the mine department, the radiation in other places is much lower than the average of Alpha Star. Except once a week, they don’t even wear heavy protection.
Eat, sleep, work, play cards or watch. This is the life of Karen and his teammates in the past two years. Although it is a bit boring, it is better than leisure, and the income is no less than that of those who have risked their lives.
Karen once thought that if Alpha was heaven, it would be here.
But it’s often just a moment when heaven falls into hell.
"Karen! Karen! Load! " The officer shouted without looking back, but he shouted several times in succession, but he didn’t get a response. He turned around and saw that the normally honest gunner had disappeared at the moment.
"Bastard! Coward! Coward! Damn deserters! " Swears kept popping out of the officer’s mouth, and when he was going to move the box of ammunition next to him, an anemone head had climbed to the top of the tower along the vertical wall and met the officer
"I grass!" The officer consciously went to pull out the pistol, but the anemone moved his head much faster, and the thick forearm had penetrated out of the officer’s back in a blink of an eye, clutching a still beating heart in five fingers.
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In the disappearance of Karen at the moment is already fled the tower ran towards the base center total control building.
"Finished … base finished … all finished … I don’t want to die …"
He lost all his equipment and could run faster-he knew those things were a burden. He saw with his own eyes that soldiers in power armor could not carry those monsters for an attack; And the officer who grabbed the machine gun killed all those monsters who had not come back yet … 127 mm armor-piercing bullets couldn’t tear their skin …
He didn’t know where those monsters came from … The peripheral defense of the base was almost breached in an instant. Although the energy shield hanging over the base burned those monsters raw, it couldn’t cause enough fatal damage. Less than 25 minutes after the alarm sounded, those monsters had already been killed in the side of the fence.
Karen remembers that there are several vertical take-off and landing planes parked on the roof of the main control building all the year round, which may be his only means of escape.
The gun on the sixth sentry tower has stopped, but Karen dare not look back … He knows that this means that the team he belongs to has been wiped out except him …
Everyone is dead, but at least he is alive now.
"If you can escape to the tarmac on the roof of the general control building, you will definitely be able to leave here!"
It’s less than 100 meters away from the general control building. On weekdays, this place is full of guards-those guards are not the same as the mercenaries who signed the contract. Those guys are all SOMA consortiums. The armed forces are not only equipped and fighting capacity is far better than them. These mercenaries’ loyalty to the consortium is not comparable to those who work with money.
If Karen had dared to get close to the general control building before putting it, she would have been beaten out by those guards with rubber sticks, but now the guards around the general control building have disappeared and all the sentries are in an unguarded state.
"This group of guys … it won’t be to let us mercenaries stay and die and escape first, will it?" Karen thought to herself.
"It’s coming … it’s coming …" Karen kept remembering that she had studied the driving course of vertical elevator before-although it was an elective course that most mercenaries would take, few people had practical driving experience, including Karen.
But in any case, if you can start the plane, you can choose to abandon the plane and skydive after flying out of Leviathan.
Just as Karen climbed over the railing, a group of soldiers dressed in purple and black suddenly ran out of the main control building in a panic. These people were the first units of the consortium. At this time, many of them were stained with blood. Obviously, they had just experienced a fierce battle.
Seeing these people, Karen quickly hid behind the sentry box and couldn’t help wondering, "Should those monsters have entered the main control building?"
If that’s the case, isn’t it equal to the sheep entering the tiger’s mouth if he wants to enter the building?
Or wait for these people to lure the monster away before going in? But what if there is more than one monster in the building?
Karen’s side is still tangled with a black shadow, but suddenly it breaks out of the window of the general control building and falls right into the center of this consortium guard.
This is a man wearing a black robe. His bare half chest and right arm are embedded with Cybertron biochemical armor. The surface of the armor has a flowing purple light path. His face has no eyes and it is replaced by a linear eyepiece. It makes people wonder whether this is a completely simulated robot or a highly modified biochemical person.
When the black-robed man hasn’t landed, he has already drawn out the scabbard long knife and pulled out a 360-degree circular knife light in the middle!
When the long Dao was sheathed, the guards of the SOMA consortium fell to the ground one after another, and the blood surged out.
"This guy is so strong!" Seeing this, Karen didn’t even dare to go out of the atmosphere … Although killing these guards is not the kind of monster with tentacles, this black man is more horrible than those monsters.
"Let’s wait for this guy to leave before we act," Karen thought, but the black man turned out to be walking straight towards him after killing the man.
Damn it! This guy has thermal vision. He’s been discovered!
Karen’s head and hair suddenly stood upright, and the feeling of being taken as prey made him want to run … but reason told him that human legs alone were absolutely unable to run away from each other’s advanced prostheses …
"hey! Hey! Don’t do it Don’t do it! " Karen walked out of the hiding place with her hands raised. "I’m not with those people. Please don’t kill me. My contract with SOMA consortium has been terminated just now. I’m not from SOMA consortium … Of course, if you need my place, please feel free to ask … but don’t kill me …"
The man in black didn’t speak. His eyes flashed a purple light, and then he quickly rushed towards Karen.
"Shit!" Karen reached for a gun and touched one-his weapons had been thrown away just now when he ran away!
He didn’t see each other clearly, so he felt his body suddenly lighter, and then his vision became blurred … He felt like he was flying, and he moved his eyes a little hard to see that his blood was pouring out of his neck …
Vaguely, he seems to see a badge on the back of the other party’s neck, which is a black nail plate and a white diamond with three equal-length horizontal lines in the center.
"Three … Mitsui consortium emblem?" This is Karen’s last thought.
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Leviathan No.7 Mine
"Well, it’s finally finished." Leighton clapped his hands excitedly. In front of him was a thing shaped like a tractor-in order to make the machine move, Leighton even installed a pair of big wheels with a diameter of one meter.
The place that should have been the pumping port is welded with the epee charged with the heat energy of the drill bit. The energy of the epee is generated by the crystallization engine of the pump itself. When the pump engine is started, the epee will rotate at a high speed, and the high-temperature sword blade will cut the rock, which is just a little different from cutting tofu.
"This thing … can really dig through the tunnel?" The hound looked at the pump, which was completely unrecognizable at the moment, and asked suspiciously, "Is the blade too thin when it is used as a drill?"
"Never!" Leighton patted his chest and said, "The heat energy epee cuts things not by the sharpness of the blade, but by the high temperature attached to the blade. Even if the blade collapses, the efficiency will not decrease. This time, it is enough."
With that, he pushed the tractor to the place where the tunnel was blocked and stuffed two crystals into the entrance of the converter.
The epee blade turned dark red again and then turned.
"It feels good." Leighton pushed the tractor forward for one meter, and there was almost no obstacle. The rocks in the blocked tunnels were cut into fist-sized pieces and fell to the ground along the reserved passages on both sides of the drill.
"Help me clear the cut gravel to the back! Be careful! Don’t get shot in the head! " The drill made a lot of noise, and Leighton almost shouted at the top of his voice
"No, you say! I am doing it! " The hound growled at the same volume and replied
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As the drill bit kept advancing, they were getting closer and closer to the entrance, and when the last three meters were left, Kelan stepped forward and patted Leighton on the shoulder to stop the machine.
"What’s the matter? Our horse can go out, and I can feel the fresh air coming through the crevices, "Leighton said with some incomprehension."
"Don’t worry about the last few meters," Kelan said. "The situation outside now … but it’s much more dangerous than in the mine."