Chapter 20 nineteen

"This is Greyhawk Three, Greyhawk Three is back." I turned the radio back on. "You will definitely be court-martialed!" The voice from the headset surprised me, it was the general's. "I know," I said, "I'm rapidly approaching where Gray Eagle One and Two are." "I know your location, look at your radar." "I took a look at the radar and was surprised to see a friendly aircraft following me just below and to my left. I looked down and could make out the Harrier and the People's Liberation Army Air Force emblem on its wing with the naked eye.

"I'll follow you, don't try to run away this time." The general said. "Boss, this is not a joke, is it?" "Has the boss ever made a joke?" The general's voice sounded indifferent and rough on the earphone, but it sounded like a young man, "Now I am Gray Eagle No. 4. Pan Hantian is the captain. If the captain is killed, I will replace him. It was Zeng Yu, and after Zeng Yu was Jiang Yang." I turned on the monitor screen in the cockpit, and it was indeed the general's old face that was sometimes loose, sometimes hideous, and sometimes I didn't know the so-called.

"You! How can you do such a thing?" The general's voice was almost furious. I was also dizzy, when I turned on the monitor screen in the cockpit, the general would naturally see Lu Yiyi sitting on my lap. "You... hello..." Lu Yiyi's reaction was a little faster than mine. After being stunned for a moment, she broke into a bright smile and waved to the general on the screen.She's wearing a spare helmet, plugging directly into our comm channel. There was five seconds of silence. "Hello..." the general finally spoke. He cleared his throat: "Bad news. The command tower on the ground was destroyed by the shock wave. We have no support now, and we must complete the flattening of the bubble defense by ourselves. Gray Eagle One, you now take over the entire command authority!"

"Understood!" said the big pig's voice in the earphones sonorously, "we are already trailing behind you. Now all up, I will manually open the hole. We will be face to face with those things soon. Hope they are safe for us little bugs Not much interest." The Harrier rises almost vertically like a monstrously large bird at full engine output. "500...400...300...200...100...ON!" We all passed the surface of the bubble defenses and the plane continued to ascend.With countless predators flashing on my radar now, we're literally in a bug nest.No, the correct analogy would be a school of fish, like a sea turtle rising to the surface watching a school of mackerel scurrying around it.

I popped up the bubble defense's flat operating interface, and the onboard computers of Big Pig and Erzhu and I were juxtaposed under a virtual server. From my side, they also started to operate. At 16:40, Shanghai will sink soon.Each city block has been activated, and we can slowly depress that bubble. "Damn..." said Big Pig. I see what he means.The software is detecting the energy flow on the surface of the bubble defense at high speed and keeps reporting errors.This was not expected to be the case.The whole bubble defense is close to collapse, we can't flatten such a thing at all, it's about the same as a ignited bomb now.

"what to do?" "Start balancing." The voice of the big pig was as quiet as a stone, "The Harriers are all equipped with a bubble defense balance system. As long as the balance fluctuation index is below 0.43 in the metastable state, we can start the flattening system." program!" "Keep in formation, evacuate and fly in a straight line, don't disturb these things!" The general's voice was low in the communication channel. I called up the page of the balance system, just like sitting in the office of CITIC Pacific Plaza hundreds of times in the past, and started to balance a page full of holes.There's no mouse here, just a touch pointing system and a miniaturized keyboard that I have to operate with one hand and still hold the joystick in the other.This is when Big Pig can be proud. The three of us are making up for the energy turbulence in three different areas, and his progress is obviously faster.

Soon the high-risk red of one block was replaced by metastable yellow, the big pig moved to the second gap, and I was only halfway through the operation. It's not convenient for me. After all, Lu Yiyi weighs more than 90 kilograms. If a person carries a burden of more than 90 kilograms in a small cockpit, it will inevitably be difficult to stretch, not to mention that she is still a living person. "Be quiet, don't just hug my neck, you strangle me?" I said. "Outside..." Lu Yiyi's voice was full of fear. I know what it's like out there, and I'll never forget it in my life.Countless predators are like devils that have been hungry for tens of thousands of years, but they maintain absolute tranquility before pounced on the food.They fly at high speed and in an orderly manner. The distance between the two individuals is less than one meter, but they can be controlled so precisely that they will never collide.

They are very, very close to the surface of the bubble defense. The reconnaissance type, which is much larger than ordinary predators, is just above our heads, slowly opening and closing its dozen of giant eyes the size of a football field, so slowly, as gentle as a lover's. gaze.My scalp is tingling, these are scenes that can only be produced in the dreams of the most avant-garde artists. We now live in these alien societies, watching them like ravenous worms lying on the lighted windows, waiting for the opportunity to jump in and suck the blood. "Keep quiet, don't have abnormal acceleration, deceleration and turning. We will be noticed at any time. It only takes them to spit to destroy us." The general's voice is quiet in the earphones, but it is powerful enough to oppress us heartbeat.

"Currently, the completion progress of the statistics is 67.45%." Da Zhu said, "We still have about 17 minutes, the block in Xuhui District has dropped, and the Jing'an District and Huangpu District are behind, the power supply of the whole city should have been cut off. The command authority for the defensive generators is currently entirely with us. The ground command system automatically cut off the network connection with these generators." "This is what is planned. Each ground command has a secret senior officer responsible for destroying the ground command system at this time." The general's voice was cold, "In other words, they were blown up. Otherwise who It is also not certain whether the ground command will operate the defensive circle without authorization for self-protection."

I looked down and saw that the whole city was covered by smoke and dust. Has Xuhui District really sunk?And that Sichuan restaurant that I love... "Jiang Yang Jiang Yang!" Lu Yiyi shook my arm. "What's wrong?" "Look there!" I followed Lu Yiyi's gaze and suddenly found that the flying methods of these predators had changed.I don't know how many predators we have around us right now, thousands, maybe tens of thousands.They split into groups and began to circle each other, like a swarm of bees buzzing around a hive.They completely blocked the airway ahead, and we had to risk a large arc of turns to avoid them.

They ignored us, and more predators began to gather in this direction.We pulled the distance to two kilometers away, and saw those things in the distance surrounded each other like a huge cocoon. "What are they going to do?" "It won't be a good thing," said the general. "It's a pity we don't have time to see it." "Be alert! A predator is approaching us!" Erzhu said first. I was in a cold sweat, and the radar showed about 20 Predators approaching our small fleet in a wide arc.Obviously this is a semi-surrounded formation, they have noticed us! "Continue to balance!" Big Pig said, "We retreat." We reversed course entirely.The degree of completion is still rising, the speed of the big pig is the fastest, and the second pig has already entered the state. I hesitated and pressed Lu Yiyi's hand on the joystick. "Remember "Flight Simulator 2005"? You go to our dormitory and I will teach you." "Well, I remember." This girl was rarely obedient. "Press and hold the joystick, don't pull it up or down, and slowly keep up with the one in front...in fact, it's the same as driving a car, it's not difficult." "What do you want me to do?" "I want you to fly the plane." I slowly let go of my hand.Lu Yiyi's body in my arms suddenly tensed up, but miraculously, she controlled the plane! The plane was still at the end of the column and did not deviate. "What a genius and beautiful girl!" I couldn't help but praise. Once my hands are freed, I can immediately operate the keyboard and position the touchpad respectively, and the balance speed has suddenly more than doubled.I think I understand what these predators and big pigs are up to.The predators are trying to force us back into that cocoon, and the piggies just want us to get this balance before we get destroyed. Balance one last time. In fact, it should have been expected a long time ago. With such a small amount of fuel, can we still expect to make an emergency landing in Lanzhou? "87.62%." Big Pig completed another gap repair. At this time, we are almost at the end of the road, and if we want to move forward, we will directly bump into that terrible "cocoon".I gently pressed my hand on Lu Yiyi's, ready for the big pig to turn, and I would take back the control at any time. Suddenly, something unexpected happened.A gap suddenly appeared in the huge "cocoon", which happened to be on our route.Everyone didn't speak, I think at this time their hearts were completely attracted by this gap like mine.The intelligence of these things is by no means low, they want to show us something, they have expressed their call. Harriers rushed through the outer wall where countless predators were circling, we activated the air hover, and the four fighters faced the huge chrysalis hatching in the cocoon.I expected this thing, but didn't expect it to be like this.There were predators breaking away from the line and rushing towards the whirling ugly pupa-like thing with a granite-like surface, or some kind of shellfish with shale deposited on the surface, and the difference was that each The protruding veins are tangled vertically and horizontally, pulsating like blood vessels. When I saw a predator approaching it, I suddenly understood how it got here.At that moment, several thick veins popped up from the surface, easily engulfing the predator, a crack appeared on the granite-like skin, and the opening widened.Yes, it was definitely a mouth, and it literally swallowed that predator's head in! The predator was like a poor child in front of this huge thing, unable to struggle at all.It seemed to feel pain, and suddenly its whole body twitched, those tentacles waved wildly for a while, and then stuck tightly to the outer wall of the chrysalis.This thing is dead, or it has been fused by that big thing, and its tentacles are also sucked in by the surface, gradually turning into those vein-like things. In the end, I couldn't even make out the shape of the predator, only the yellow acid splash from the swallowing was still slowly dripping down. More predators still approached the huge chrysalis without hesitation.Its shape is gradually becoming complete. I have seen it in the high-precision radar scans. It is a secondary mothership! "This thing..." said the big pig. "The report from the Fudan Institute of Biological Sciences seems to make sense." The general sighed softly, "We can't use our own logic to understand these things at all, because we actually only have one enemy." "An enemy?" "The Predator cannot be regarded as an individual. The truly intelligent individual we are facing is the guy in the orbit of the moon. Whether it is the secondary mothership or the Predator, it is just a part of this huge intelligent creature. Thinking unit. The predator may be the smallest thinking unit, and the secondary mothership is a collection of hundreds or thousands of thinking units. When the secondary mothership splits into a predator, it does not actually give birth to a new one like a larva Individuals, it just dismantled itself. Then when the main body needs, these individuals can also gather into a new secondary mothership." "Like building blocks?" Big Pig said. "Yes, and it is speculated that the Alpha civilization is also just a set of building blocks..." "It's just a fight between two people, isn't it? Everyone dismantled the brain cells, you hit me and I hit you." Erzhu said. "Yes, the highest level of social rules is that all units are absolutely subordinate to a certain matrix. They are not even considered as individual individuals, so they must obey the matrix. This requires them not to have absolute self-awareness, or even It has too high IQ, which is the reason why we can fight against them until now. But if the mother body needs it, all the thinking units gather, and they are super intelligent creatures that far exceed our intelligence. This is the overlord of biological development Compared with the road, the human model is really too old-fashioned." "Boss, you have said so much, can we still have a chance to escape?" My hands are still operating at high speed on the keyboard, 92.15%, we are close to success.But I don't know if these predators will give us any more time. I felt something cold slide down my spine.At this moment, the huge secondary mothership opened its eyes. It is the huge eyes inherited from the scouting predators, green, with human-like pupils.When it opens in front of us, it is like a huge mirror hanging in front of us.In fact, at least 12 eyes were opened at the same time, arranged radially. Its cohesion has taken shape, or rather, it has awakened. I could clearly feel this thing looking at us.It is what brought us here, and it wants us to witness the miracle of Delta, the great process of fusion of tens of thousands of units giving up their individual consciousness.I can't imagine what a majestic and terrifying Gothic-style scene it would be in a vast space if it was merged into that huge air carrier. My fingertips were numb, and I thought of the legend of the mind-stealing technique in ancient China, and I felt that I was captured under a huge coercion. "Descent at full speed!" The general's voice was high and sharp, piercing my fear like a needle. Without a chance to hesitate, the four harriers accelerated and landed vertically downward, like seabirds rushing to the sea to prey on fish swimming in the sea.For a fighter with a thrust-to-weight ratio of only 0.78, this is the fastest way to escape.The leader of the team was the general, and 18 smoke trails were fully deployed under his wings, and all 18 anti-aircraft missiles were released by him at once.The huge barrage was distributed in a large circle of thousands of square meters, and a violent explosion occurred directly below. It's also where the Predators are weakest, and those things are busy circling up and circling overhead.We rushed out. "Already alarmed them!" I yelled. "Nonsense! They even showed you the condensed miracles. Do you think they didn't pay attention to you? The table for worshiping the gods has been set up. What do you think you are? You can't be a distinguished guest, right? What people lack is sacrifices!" The old man bit the words between his teeth viciously. Immediately a small group of about 20 predators separated out of the huge predator group and tracked behind us.I don't think we were considered very important, but 20 was enough for four of us poor little birds. "Keep balancing!" the general yelled through the channel, "I block them!" "Grey Eagle No. 4, you have no missile reserves, and I will carry out the interception mission with you." Er Zhu's voice was calm with awe-inspiring arrogance. "Understood!" The general actually had no choice. The big pig and I are still frantically fleeing the battlefield, while the general and the second pig have slowed down and lagged behind.I saw from the rear view monitor that Erzhu also released barrage. We all knew that the machine gun was useless, and the Cerberus triple was our only weapon.Erzhu released nine bombs at a time. At the same time, he and the general's landline raised their elevation angles and swooped down, leaving the battle up and down. The barrage and the approaching pack of predators collide head-on, with three predators being hit simultaneously.Lao Lu is right, Erzhu is the most talented pilot among us.He doesn't use his head to fly, but purely uses the nervous system that comes with his fingers and feet. 96.45%, success is in sight.The big pig is still balancing the last big gap, and I'm finishing some small gaps. "They're coming!" Lu Yiyi shouted suddenly. "Open the hatch in front of the console, the red button below, that's a missile!" "How do missiles work?" "Still the same as Flight Simulator 2005!" I glanced at the radar, the general and Erzhu's feint did not stop the entire Predator team.They separated again, some were chasing them, and some were still approaching us at high speed.I started to regret it a bit, if I spent more time teaching Lu Yiyi before, maybe our chances of survival would be better.But at that time, I was usually waiting for a text message from Lin Lan. "Grey Eagle Two! Gray Eagle Four! Call for backup!" I couldn't count on Luiyi. "I'm approaching you," Erzhu's voice was calm, "If someone is going to approach you..." Trembling violently, I feel and touch to locate those small openings, checking their energy flow density one last time.What a fucking annoyance! My fingers started shaking again, uncontrollably. The fuselage suddenly vibrated slightly.I was taken aback, it was a reaction to a missile launch.I looked up and saw six trails of smoke spiraling away from under our wing.Turning a huge arc in the air, just in front of us, a predator close to the top of the big pig failed to escape, was hit head-on by four of the six, and fell burning. "Accidentally pressed twice..." Lu Yiyi slightly expressed regret, "The missile was wasted..." "You can hit it like this! You are a goddess of luck!" I couldn't help but admire. "Don't move! I can't hold it steady and we will fall!" Lu Yiyi also shouted. "Above you! Dive in!" Erzhu's voice on the channel was extremely oppressive. I raised my head, and a huge black shadow fell over my head. Lu Yiyi screamed and hugged my neck. Fortunately, I took over the joystick in an instant.I try to avoid it by pushing down on the joystick as hard as I can, but I'm not very confident that I can match the speed of this thing. Cannon tracers flashed on both sides of my wing, and when I looked up desperately, Erzhu's Harrier was roaring towards the Predator.The predator hesitated for a moment and then counterattacked, and the Harrier brushed past it in an instant. At that moment, like a sharp knife, Er Zhu's plane was completely cut into two pieces! A snow-white umbrella flower popped out of the huge sparks.Erzhu parachuted.But what's the use of skydiving? Below is a bubble defense circle with a radius of hundreds of kilometers. Those who fall on it can only die.I looked at the tiny figure under the umbrella flower, and felt that Erzhu seemed to be waving his thumb at me with all his strength. What a madman... "Pan Hantian! Pull up! Pull up!" The general's roar rang in my ears. When I turned back to look at the radar screen, I realized that the height of the big pig had dropped to less than 3,000 meters, and he almost fell to the surface of the defensive circle like a meteorite.The following four predators pursued at the same high speed. "Pull up! You're crazy, you're going to stall!" I yelled with all my might, too. "It's already stalled, don't talk too much, and continue to receive data." Big Pig's voice was calm. Indeed, Gray Eagle 1 has completely entered a stalled spin. If those predators are aware of this feature of the Earth aircraft, they should know that they are just chasing a dying person, not that this person is playing a difficult game in the air. technical action. But on my on-board computer, the trimmed equations are constantly being transmitted, and I can't see the scrolling data at all... The big pig is still trimming.That guy really doesn't have a balance bar in his ears, and he can continue to balance equations in this state. "Leave him alone!" said the general, "Execute Flattening! I'll cover you!" After saying this, he swooped down on a Predator at high speed with the cannon. "Boss! I am touched by you! Because you never give up!" I said. "Continue to balance!" The voice from the earphones was like chopping iron. The moment Gray Eagle One landed on the surface of the bubble defense circle, there was no fire or sound.I saw him die while my progress bar reached 100%.I don't know if such a dead pig is satisfied, I think maybe I should ask him for the password of his blog, and then leave a message to his readers saying that the person you are waiting for will not update again. My hands stopped shaking, my right hand used the cursor to position the bubble defense interface map, and my left hand tapped the keyboard to start the flattening program.Equations one after another, flowing like clouds and water.Like my army of Rangers crossing the ice, this is a close war, Iron Horse Glacier, Iron Horse Glacier dreaming.New gaps caused by optical flow appear one by one and are repaired one by one.This instant noodle is already fragile, but I can repair it faster than new damage can appear.Many of the restoration formulas transmitted by Big Pig can be applied. He is indeed the best technician among us.The flattening process has already begun. But the big pig is gone, I need to hurry up, hurry up! There is no one to rely on, I must balance, otherwise all the people below will die, and so will Lin Lan...if she is still alive. "Up, full speed up!" said the general. I didn't hesitate, I pressed the confirmation button, and the program started to do the final check before execution.I shot straight into the sky like a sharp arrow, and I looked back one last time. Gray Eagle IV turned its nose as hard as it could, and swooped down on the predator group again. "They are all old men, why play so hard?" I said softly. There was a slight murmur in the earphones, and then nothing could be heard.All channels are off. "Plan S program number A0862283, please confirm to activate fully closed." Electronic's female voice is flat and calm. "The fully enclosed program starts, the password is 998472311, the confirmation password is 998472311, the program executor is Lieutenant Jiang Yang, the identity code is 7488000007171042, I am Captain Gray Eagle!" I felt countless fine needles piercing my whole body. Now I am Captain Greyhawk, the last Captain Greyhawk. The harrier broke through the clouds, and I saw the sun, and I slumped on the backrest as if my bones had been removed. The engine stopped temporarily due to overheating, and the Harrier lost all power, like a huge cross hanging in the air. I looked at the watch on my wrist: at 17:35 on July 16, 2008, Shanghai Luchen. A kind of long-lost relaxation surged in the body, making people want to stand up and walk around, but it's a pity that this is a small airplane cockpit.I stared out, the radar team of Predators trailing up. "I love you." "What did you say?" Lu Yiyi froze for a moment. "It's amazing to hear someone say something. I just want to say it and feel it myself." I didn't look at her, and said this softly to the dazzling white light outside the canopy. Lu Yiyi was stunned for a while, then turned around and put her arms around my neck. I let out all the remaining Rattlesnakes, 12 smoke trails.The engine was ignited again, and the power was fully turned on. The Harrier raised its head at the highest angle amidst the roaring sound of the Pegasus engine's beast.I pressed the cannon engine to death, and rushed towards the three Predators who rushed forward in a zigzag shape. Since the ending has been changed, we have nothing to fear.