Invasion - Chapter 5

Invasion [5]

     It turned out that what was played in the video was the memory in Ni Ji's mind.

    The Guide forcibly hacked into the criminal's spiritual realm, read his memory, and while using herself as a medium, under the operation of the cylinder brain system, the memory was played live in front of everyone.

    But, could a Guide actually do such a thing?

    The audience didn't really know. Most of the Sentinels here were low-level Sentinels who were born as civilians.

    The very few Guides that were born were kept in the White Tower, and to them they seemed to be something that only lived in newspapers and TV.

    In the past, they always thought that those gorgeously dressed Guides were just flowers used to decorate the prosperity of the empire.

    It was a delicate and docile decoration that was honorably kept in an ivory tower.

    At this moment, the Guide in front of them left them dumbfounded. They feel a chill on their foreheads.

    Looking at the pale prisoner with his eyebrows pinned down on the high platform.

    Look at that delicate white hand.

    Thinking of what it would look like if this hand held them down, everyone couldn't help but shudder.

    "Can a Guide actually do such a thing?" The clerk standing in front of the window murmured in disbelief.

    She was beginning to feel very annoyed.

    If she had known that Lin Yuan was so powerful, that she could directly invade the sentinel's spiritual realm and play back the memories, she shouldn't have been allowed to do this in public.

    After all, some things might not look good if they were displayed.

    But think about it, as long as you can find the chrysanthemum jade and complete the task assigned by the lord above, imperfections in some parts were not a big deal.

    It was a whole piece of living insect jade.

    Not dead, nor fragments that only worth a penny. God knows how there was such a big treasure in that polluted area.

    Thinking of this, the clerk became happy again, and stretched out her hand to push Roy who was sitting next to him, "You have such powerful Guides in Special Research, why didn't you tell me earlier."

    Roy rolled his iconic white eyes, as if laughing at the Military Control Office that they had never seen the world and making a fuss out of nothing.

    Who knew that Roy himself was also biting the handkerchief in his heart.

    The young girl really hid herself deeply, he missed this part, he really didn't see it at all.

    On the screen, the burly Sentinel walked over and sat down in front of the screen.

    That was, sitting down beside Ni Ji.

    He handed over a cup of steaming drink.

    "Captain." The tower-like Sentinel smiled a little embarrassedly, "Can I take some time off after this mission?"

    Ni Ji turned to look at him.

    "The one in my family is going to give birth next month." The big Sentinel smiled and stretched out his hands to rub his head. "This is our second child. It's too hard to leave her at home alone."

    He looked a bit rough, and there were three scars across half of his face, making his smile distorted.

    But he liked to laugh very much. When he laughed, he grinned and showed his white teeth.

    Ni Ji took a sip of the steaming drink, and his eyes stayed on the smiling face for a while. "Okay, this time the task was completed smoothly. There will be a bonus, and you just take it home." Ni Ji's voice sounded on the screen.

    The voice was pleasant, like an ice spring slowly flowing through a mountain stream, with a calm and steady power.

    If you only listened to this voice, you would never have guessed that it was a murderer who would shoot someone in the head.

    When it was time to change shift, the female Sentinel lurking in the tall tree slipped down from the tree like a shadow.

    She had a high ponytail tied behind her head and a pair of long, powerful legs.

    When it landed, by the way, it crushed a washbasin-sized human-faced spider that crawled out of the darkness.

    Another short-haired female Sentinel in the camp greeted her happily and handed her a cup of hot food. The two girls sat down by the campfire holding hands.

    "Jiějiě, the captain said that there will be a lot of bonuses for this trip," the short-haired girl said happily. "I want to buy some candy for the younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage."

    "No." The elder sister pressed the gun firmly with one hand while drinking the soup with the other hand, not lifting her head.

    "Why, I really want to see those children cheering and rushing over." The short-haired girl approached her, rubbing her rough little face against her elder sister's shoulder, acting like a spoiled child. She shook until the soup in the cup jingles.

    "This winter will be very cold. Mother Ma said that there is a shortage of coal and food in the yard." The long-haired girl put down the cup and counted with her fingers. "Buy some more cotton. If there is money left, I want to buy some medicine for frostbite. Mother Ma’s fingers are swollen every winter.”

    The short-haired girl whimpered unwillingly, lowered her head, and looked dejected.

    The elder sister turned to look at her, stretched out her hand, and pinned a lock of her short hair behind her ear. Finally, she made a gesture and said, "You can only buy a little."

    The girl clapped her hands happily like a real little girl.

    Noticing Ni Ji's gaze, the two girls stuck out their tongues.

    After making an apologetic military gesture, the older sister gave her younger sister a reproachful look.

    There was a little commotion from two or three young Sentinels around the campfire.

    One of them was red-faced, and his neck was clamped by the arms of the comrade next to him.

    "This boy, this boy said that he will propose to the girl when he goes back," said the brother who was sandwiching him.

    "Really? You have solved your romantic problems so early?"

    "Where did you get the girl from?" Everyone around laughed and asked eagerly.

    "What kind of good family does this kid know? It's a girl from the red-light district, who is older than him," someone said.

    The young Sentinel, who was caught under his arm, blushed and summoned up courage to explain, "She, she is a good girl."

    "Can a good girl fall in love with us? You silly boy, you won't be deceived by women, right?"

    The atmosphere began to become active.

    Ni Ji got up and walked over there.

    "Captain."

    "Captain Ni."

    As the perspective advances, vivid faces of Sentinels appear on the screen. They looked over with respect or trust.

    Among them, only the researcher wearing glasses seemed out of place with the whole team. He was wearing expensive non-standard clothes, holding a dark backpack tightly in his arms, sitting alone by the fire, looking a little out of his mind.

    Ni Ji's eyes lingered on him for a while, then swept over.

    Finally he came to the bonfire.

    "At dawn, we will leave this polluted area and end this mission. I have said many times, we need to be more vigilant at the last moment."

    Ni Ji's voice was not loud, but concise. The efficiency was very high. After hearing this, everyone immediately restrained their relaxed expressions and regained vigilance.

    "I'm sorry, Captain."

    "Sorry, Captain."

    The Sentinels who made the noise bowed their heads and apologized first.

    Ni Ji's eyes fell on the young Sentinel whose blush had not faded. He was the youngest recruit in the team.

    "Don't listen to their nonsense." Ni Ji pressed his hand on the young man's shoulder, "People like us whose lives can be lost at any time*, if there is a girl who is sincerely willing to marry, you should treat her well. Family backgrounds shouldn't matter."

*the original text is 像我们这样把脑袋挂在裤腰上的人 - literally 'People like us with our heads hanging on our waistbands'. Apparently, heads hanging on waist is a metaphor for people with dangerous jobs who can lost their lives at any time, because during the war, people hang enemies' head on their waist.

    The young Sentinel's face was flushed, but his eyes became bright.

    Ni Ji looked past him and cast his gaze into the dark distance. His eyesight was exceptionally strong, and he can see into extremely far and minute places.

    He raised his eyes and stared, carefully searching every corner in the darkness, but found nothing unusual.

    Only then did he retract his gaze, and fell back on the Sentinels who were about to end their mission and return to a safe place, and who had begun to cheer up.

    Orange flames hit the faces of the whispering soldiers.

    The tone of the entire screen gradually became warmer.

    Off the screen, all the audience watching such a picture together can feel empathy and feel the heart of the owner of the line of sight gradually warming up.

    At this time, everyone couldn't help but have a thought in their hearts.

    Would such a Captain really be willing to kill these people in his sight?

    Human beings were sometimes easily affected by emotions.

    When looking at the memory of the dead researcher, everyone assumed the perspective of the deceased.

    They just felt that the killer with the gun was hideous, cold-blooded and ruthless. He was an absolutely unforgivable murderer.

    At this time, while watching the video from Ni Ji's perspective... Even if it was not the whole story yet, many people couldn't help but whisper in their hearts.

    This was obviously a very gentle captain, would he really be willing to kill his comrades?

    Without having to say it, there was some injustice here.

    Videos made of memories were not coherent. After a large snowflake appeared on the screen, it cut to the next set of pictures.

    Still in the ruins.

    Ni Ji stood on a high place, stepping on the edge of the ruins, staring at the dark world in the distance.

    In the darkness, there were some vague and strange sounds, as if there was something running towards here in groups.

    It was vaguely far away, but those things were extremely fast, approaching like a torrent.

    Beside Ni Ji stood the big man who looked like an iron tower and the female Sentinel with the high ponytail.

    "A lot, a lot. They came directly at us," the tower-like big man looked solemn.

    "How could this be? Why did such a large number of abnormal species suddenly appear?" The girl with the high ponytail frowned.

    "We don't have time to think about it." It was Ni Ji who spoke, "Give me the inducer."

    "Captain?"

    "Captain! It's too dangerous."

    The two soldiers around him objected in unison.

    "Don't talk nonsense, give it to me." Ni Ji stretched out his hand.

    This man was an arbitrary captain in times of crisis. He got what he wanted.

    He drew out his short knife and drew a rough road map on the ground with a few knives.

    "You go this way. We will meet before the exit."

    After saying this, his eyes moved back and forth between the faces of the two people in front of him, hesitating slightly.

    "Captain, my sister and I will break the rear." The female soldier said first, with a confident voice of a strong woman, "My sister and I are the strongest combination in the team except for the captain."

    Ni Ji no longer hesitated and waved his hand in agreement.

    He turned around, opened the bottle of inducer, and poured it all over his head. Raising the blade, he ran towards the dark world.

    Facing the direction of the rolling monsters.

    "Crazy, is he a lunatic?"

    "Does he not want to live? That's a whole bottle of inducer."

    The audience watching in front of the screen turned pale with shock. As Sentinels, all of them knew what the inducer was.

    It was extremely dangerous to use that thing in a polluted area.

    Even if you just take out a little bit and apply it somewhere, it will attract monsters nearby who smell it.

    It would be a disaster if the whole bottle was poured on the body like Ni Ji. He'll be a moving target, pulling all the monsters in a frenzy all the way. No madman would dare to do such a thing.

    But he did so, and the whole team got a chance to evacuate safely. He alone was in extreme danger.

    The video that followed was very messy, with the camera spinning very fast.

    It's all battle scenes that rock back and forth.

    The screen was filled with weird and distorted creatures from the polluted area.

    Hairy sickles, squirming chunks of flesh, huge blood-red eyes... surged up one after another.

    The severed limbs kept flying up, and the screams that pierced the eardrum covered the sky and the earth.

    The screen was covered with thick blood again and again.

    The borders of the sky, the earth and the screen are gone.

    In everyone's eyes, only the captain who was fighting hard remained.

    The captain, with flesh and blood, led away all the monsters by himself.

    Fighting alone in the crowd of monsters covering the sky and the sun.

    After the bullets ran out, he drew out the long blade, and the long blade severed the remaining flesh and blood.

    A well-deserved captain.

    Don't die.

    Hold on, Captain.

    Get out, Captain!

    This was the cry of the audience in front of the screen.

    At this time, no one called him a murderer anymore, and no one wanted him to fall down. Even if everyone knew that he was able to leave alive in the end.

    A huge whale loomed beside him.

    At first it was the size of a calf, then it was like a house, and soon it shook the sky and the earth like a mountain.

    That big black and white fish, with a pair of purple flaming eyes, hovered in the air, and its powerful tail fin slapped away groups of monsters.

    The crowing of whales sounded like singing. In such a fierce battle, it seemed that the call from a distant home broke through the thick despair.

    One person and one whale, with their scarred bodies, opened a gap in the monster's encirclement.

    Breakout.

    The screen went dark and brightened again.

    The terrible battle is over.

    Ni Ji was walking in the streets where spores were flying all over the sky, reaching out several times to wipe away the blood that blocked his vision.

    He walked quickly, breathing clearly, with a little restlessness.

    At that moment, when he saw there.

    The sound of breathing on the screen suddenly disappeared.

    There was an eerie silence between heaven and earth.

    It was gray there, and it no longer belonged to living life.

    The older sister hugged her younger sister tightly.

    A huge, withered finger penetrated both young bodies at the same time.

    It was unknown who cut off the huge finger of the monster, so that the lives of the two people were frozen in this posture.

    In the sky, countless flocculent spores slowly floated down, gently falling on the body of the dead like flower petals.

    The long-haired girl's braids were spread out, and her long hair fell down, gently covering the person she was guarding in her arms.

    It looked like two sisters fell asleep hugging each other.

    Ni Ji's gaze was fixed on the two corpses hugging each other, but his footsteps did not stop.

    He passed them, and he looked away. Set his foot! Run wild!

    The air around him was turbulent, and the sky was filled with spores stirred up by the turbulent air, like the messy ashes of a funeral.

    The black shadows of ruins and plants receded rapidly in his field of vision.

    Ni Ji ran wildly in the dark night.

    The corpses of the soldiers gradually became more and more.

    Mixed with the remnants of monsters.

    How could it be?

    Everyone outside the screen asked questions from the bottom of their hearts. Obviously their captain has tried his best to lure away the monster.

    It was obvious that they were almost at the safe exit.

    Why were there so many monsters chasing after them?

    Why were so many people still dead? So much blood?

    Some lay on their backs amidst the fluttering dust, their empty eyes open, staring at the sky.

    Some people were crippled, and their appearance made even a seasoned warrior unable to bear to look directly at them.

    But this was outside of the screen. In the video that was displayed in front of everyone's eyes, it was a memory.

    Ni Ji, who was running all the way, took a good look at every dead face.

    The color of the whole world disappeared from his eyes.

    The earth was a vast expanse of gray and black.

    Only the bodies of those tragic deaths remained in sight with strong colors, etched into memory.

    He stopped before a Sentinel who was still alive.

    Although this soldier had no hope of rescue.

    That was the youngest sentinel in the team, almost a big boy. He was very shy and wants to marry a girl from the red-light district as his wife.

    "Cap... Captain," The young sentinel saw him.

    Ni Ji, who ran all the way, stopped for him.

    "Do you have something to say?" He stood there and spoke in a very calm tone.

    It was as if he was the same as before, the calm, composed, powerful captain who could solve any crisis.

    "I, there is a letter under the pillow in the dormitory, take it, put it..."

    "Give it to that girl for you?" Ni Ji asked.

    "No, no." The big boy wanted to raise his arm, but he had no hands left, "Burn that letter. Don't let her see it, don't let her be sad for me."

    Ni Ji looked at him, and after gritting his teeth for a while, he said a word: "Okay."

    The boy began to cry, "Give her all the money I saved. Let her live a good life and change her way of life."

    "Okay."

    "Captain, Captain. I still want to be your soldier. I still want to be your soldier..."

    He had no other words.

    Ni Ji waited for a while, but heard no other voices. He turned around and walked forward.

    The red blood covered his vision again and again, and he no longer raised his arm to wipe it off.

    The whole world was a blood-red world.

    The sound of chaotic breathing filled the screen and filled the ears of every audience.

    The square in front of the screen was silent, and the black sentinels pursed their lips, the silence was terrifying.

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