I also lit one for myself and inhaled hard, I can't do it like Junior to wear a mask and smoke, although I have tried, but the diffuse smoke has no way out, quickly make my eyes a blank and choking my eyes with tears.
As a sub-captain with eleven men under me, I had called Junior to my tent to comfort him, but now I didn't know how to speak, so I smoked one cigarette after another.
Then a female voice at the door asked, "May I ask if this is Captain Lao Pan's tent?"
Another medic who came to report for duty, in the past two days the above suddenly gave us a large number of medics for this unit, I'm afraid this is a sign of a big battle to be fought. In any case, the appearance of this medic broke the dull atmosphere in the tent, and I said as if I saw a savior, "Come in, I am the captain."
The curtain was raised and a fully equipped young nurse walked in, you could tell by her eyes that she was fresh out of nursing school, it was usually only these types of girls that had that clarity in their eyes, but it wouldn't be long before she became like everyone else, assuming of course that she survived until then.
"Medic b415, reporting to Squad 7." Her voice was just as clear as her gaze.
I nodded, "Alright, I'll keep everything simple here, you're a soldier in Squad 7 from now on."
Her expression looked surprised, it looked like she couldn't get used to the style of the front line for a while as she said, "Is that all? Don't you have to fill out a form?"
"No need."
"Then I'll go down and rest." She turned and took two steps, then turned back and asked, "Excuse me, where is the medic's tent?"
I replied to her, "You can stay in whichever tent you see is cleaner and has a more eye catching looking soldier in it."
She opened her mouth wide in surprise, "What? Don't male and female soldiers live separately?"
So this really was a girl who was so simple as to seem like an idiot, I had to tell her, "The medics and soldiers live together for emergencies." In fact, the machine gun soldiers and nurses of those things, in the whole army has long been open and tacitly approved by the top, in some places, the medical nurses are privately known as "military prostitutes".
I don't know if I'm lying to her, but I think she'll get used to it.
She didn't insist, and gently walked out.
I sighed and looked back at Junior, who hadn't made a sound since the nurse had just come in, and hadn't opened the visor on his helmet, leaning slumped against the ammo crate and not moving, like there was only an empty combat suit there, with no life in it at all, much less a soul.
Knowing that it wasn't a good idea to wear him down like this, and that as his superior and close friend I had to shoulder the responsibility of bringing him back to life, I finally said, "I'm sorry to hear about Shana, but the way you are now, I don't think that's what Shana would want to see even if she had a spirit in the heavens."
Koji's mask opened and he spit his cigarette on the ground and looked at me coldly.
I continued, "I don't know what you're thinking right now, I've never been in love, much less experienced the loss of a loved one, I just want to say one thing, if you're a man, live on the battlefield, live until the day we completely wipe out the Bugs, it's the only thing you can still do for Shana."
Koji laughed coldly, but finally spoke, his voice raspy and completely different from before, "Complete extermination of the Bugs? As long as the Federation exists, that's just not going to happen."
I know that he is particularly antipathetic to the Federation right now, when Camp 9, where Shana was stationed, was attacked by the Bugs, the two nearby camps received orders to stay put, in fact, at that time, as long as either side sent out troops to provide reinforcements, Camp 9 wouldn't have been lost, and what he said wasn't completely unreasonable, the Federation's attitude towards the Bugs has always been in a mysterious state of ambiguity, and at times even condoning it that is both puzzling and infuriating.
I said, "Your Shana is a hero, and as far as I know, in the final moments of the fall of Camp 9, she positioned a nuclear bomb, ready to die with the enemy." Shana and Junior, and I all graduated from the same training camp at the same time, Junior and I were machine gunners, she was trained as a ghost warrior because of her unusual psychic powers, and her loyalty to the Federation was as unquestionable as her love for Junior. In fact the nuke she used her life to locate didn't work out in the end, the reason given by HQ was that it was too late to deploy it.
I added, "You should be proud of her."
Junior didn't say a word, I was sure my words had struck a chord with him, I continued, "All aspects of the situation now foretell that the Federation will be making a big move in the near future, Shana is watching you from the heavens, I hope you don't disappoint her."
At that moment our conversation was interrupted by a shriek from outside, the shrieking grew closer and closer and finally it actually came to the outside of my tent, the curtain was lifted and a man rushed in.
It was the new nurse who had just reported for duty, her face was full of panic, Junior and I manned our respective gauss machine guns at the same time, and I asked loudly, "What happened? Is it a bug sneak attack coming?"
She kept shaking her head, her big beautiful eyes suddenly shedding tears, as footsteps sounded again at the door, and a lanky figure crossed in. The visitor shuttled his eyes around the tent, saw me and hurriedly said, "Excuse me, Captain, I'm here to see my nurse, she got into my tent on her own but now she's running away again."
The man was called Da Niu, a soldier under my command, I understood what was going on, I put my gun down and reprimanded loudly, "You bastard, how many times do I have to fucking say it, there is no coercion allowed here in my place, only if the person is willing to do so, you get your ass back to me right now!"
Da Niu is usually very afraid of my captain, but this time he did not immediately obey orders, but instead seems to have drummed up a lot of courage to whisper: "Captain, I beg you ...... this nurse to me okay, no matter what kind of I don't want it later, I really like her! ......"
"You also know what is called fucking like, I repeat, roll! Or I'll shoot you right here!"
The bull wandered off and I said to the nurse, "He's gone, so get out too, go find another tent."
The nurse shook her head and cried again. I was in trouble, this was not going to be easy to get rid of, I scratched my head and suddenly thought of Junior, who was standing next to me, I took my eyes and looked at him, Junior's face was expressionless and he did not show any obvious opposition.
So I said, "Tell you what, you go back with this Junior, he won't violate you." I knew that Junior only had Shana in his heart, and wouldn't have any thoughts about other women at all. But I also hoped that this nurse could cheer up Xiao Er's mood a bit, not to mention that she was indeed very pretty.
Without a word, Junior walked towards the door, I don't know if he believed my words or trusted Junior, the nurse followed him, just as they were about to go out the door, I suddenly remembered and asked, "By the way, what's your name?"
She looked back and smiled with tears in her eyes, "My name is Ling Yin."
My guess was completely correct, the Federation really started a series of actions against the Bugs in the following time, unlike usual, the Federation took the initiative completely, with the cooperation of cruising giant ships and heavy artillery units, we pushed forward step by step, recovering several planets in succession, and suppressing the Bugs' forces to a limited number of areas, at the same time, the Divine forces in the northern end of the galaxy also gathered in large numbers, with the spearheads Directly pointing at the Bugs' home planet, I don't know if it's because the Federation and the Divine Race have reached some kind of covenant that they have such a tacit understanding, but the Divine Race has indeed stopped their military actions against the Federation and turned their full attention to the Bugs.
Under the pressure from both sides, the Bugs were simply unable to catch their breath, and we also because of the absolute superiority in numbers and the rationalization of troop types made the casualties unprecedentedly low, my seventh squad only had one new recruit killed in action, and the nurses were not lost. Xiao Er also indeed did not waste my words, on the battlefield he showed great valor and was also very resourceful, he was awarded a combat medal for successfully eliminating a Bug Lord, at the same time I wasn't wrong about Rei Yin, she became the head of the nurses in my squad because of her superb medical skills, even though she cried a lot on the first day she came to me, she was very strong on the battlefield, no matter how horrible the wounds she faced she was able to calmly resuscitate the wounded, and often rushed into the enemy with the machine gunners to mend their combat uniforms, the low casualty rate of the 7th squad was largely due to her and the nurses under her leadership.
Just as we were speculating on when we could defeat the Bugs for good, my 7th squad and I were moved away from the front lines, we sailed off to an unknown region in three interstellar transports, accompanied by a spherical tech ship, and it wasn't until we were all down on the ground and the transports had departed, that we were informed of the mission of the trip ---. --Exterminate the Brain Bugs.
I yelled at Command for being assholes over the high-powered interstellar radio, and the command bureaucrats left a message that said, "You are in full command of this operation." Then hastily cut off contact with us. I looked around, my entire force was eleven machine gunners including myself, eight nurses, and the lone tech ball in the sky. I fully realized that this was another speculative operation by the Federation, thinking that throwing a few soldiers at the back of the Bugs would yield unexpected results, and even if it failed, it would only result in the loss of a small squad of machine gunners and nurses and a tech sphere, which would be irrelevant to the Federation's so-called bigger picture.
I told everyone about our current situation, now that we are in the heart of the Bugs, we must be especially careful at every step, we must be hidden, once we reveal ourselves, we will attract the Bugs' siege, we must find the brain bugs and destroy them, so that the entire Bug force will become a scattered sand, then our main force will attack all the way until the Bugs are completely destroyed, and we can go home at that time. will be able to go home.
Everyone listened in silence, we all knew in our hearts that this process was almost impossible to accomplish with just a few of us machine gunners, but we were running out of options.
We moved deeper, the techballs gliding along behind us against the ground, we were lucky not to have encountered any Bugs along the way, thanks to the valor of the frontline fighters, who had left the Bugs' backs empty as they poured on the resistance. My probes marked us as getting closer and closer to the Bugs' lair, the location of the Brain Bugs.
But our luck didn't last long; just as we were about to pass through a narrow valley, sharp, angular spikes suddenly protruded from the ground, and there were thorns lurking underground!
I ordered loudly, "Fall back! All fall back!"
But it was already too late, the two team members at the front failed to exit the spikes' attack range in time, their combat uniforms were pierced and they fell to the ground screaming. Just as I ordered a retreat, Ling Yin, however, rushed forward with a few nurses, trying to pick up the two team members, and I yelled at them, "Come back! They're dead!" Several warriors immediately pulled back Ling Yin and the nurses following her.
The tech orb slid noiselessly towards the mouth of the valley and turned on the ground probe, which immediately marked the correct location of the ground spikes in our masks. The ground spikes had five heads a ****, and were completely superior to us in terms of combat strength, and with the range of our gauss machine guns being less than that of the ground spikes, a hard hit was not an option.
Time is very important for us, if this stalemate continues, it is likely to invite a large siege of the insects, at this time Xiao Er came over to me and said, "Call the tech ball to give me a matrix shield."
I know what he wants to do, the matrix shield does not give full protection, it only increases the number of attacks it can withstand, and seeing that I was depressed and undecided, Junior added, "If you still consider me a friend, give me a matrix shield."
I knew he had made up his mind, and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. I immediately informed the tech-sphere pilot through the headset in my combat suit, "Crew member number dc424, raise the matrix shield."
At the same time, I ordered, "All personnel, prepare for neural stimulants!" Just give this paragraph!