I Really Didn’t Want to Be the Savior: 【Extra: Mechanical Star (2)】

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The tranquility of the morning was broken by a shrill scream.

The frightened crowd hurried out of their rooms.

Samantha Swan squatted in horror at the door of her dormitory with her hands over her face.

Five meters from her side, a medium-thin man was lying on his back on the ground. The man's chest was burned with a large hole the size of the mouth of a bowl. The place where the man fell was the door of his dormitory.

Because the burn was so thorough, the inside of the cave had been carbonized, and no blood had flowed from him. At the corners of his eyes and the corners of his mouth, three lines of blood, no more or less, emerged.

He has long since been silent and died completely. His eyes widened, and his face was full of fear and confusion, as if he had seen some terrible scene before he died.

The deceased was Matsuda Masahiro, the man who was supposed to drive a roadheader to other scientific research bases today.

"What's the matter?"

Cissetta leaned forward with a frown, crouching down to examine it carefully. There were two eye mucus hanging from the corners of Cissetta's eyes, showing that he didn't sleep well last night, and even a little sleepy because he got up early, but the quality of a professional soldier still allowed him to quickly adjust to his state and perform his duties. As the only military personnel in the base, he was originally responsible for security, and it was naturally his task to deal with the accidental death of personnel.

Samantha shivered and said, "I don't know what happened. I got up early as usual to prepare breakfast for everyone. Who knew that I would see this scene when I opened the door."

Speaking, Samantha was still trembling as she tried to slowly climb towards Matsuda Masahiro, the sadness and fear that could not be hidden in her eyes, as well as a trace of doubt and confusion.

Nur Ahong frowned tightly, his eyes drifting to another corner of the wall calmly. It was an ion beam gun that was hung on the wall of the hall so that it could be removed at any time in an emergency.

In the base, the only thing that can leave such a scorching burn on Matsuda Masahito is and must be the gun. But the only people who have the authority to open the safety device of the ion beam gun are the team leader Nur Ahong himself and the soldier Cissetta.

Cissetta keenly caught Nur Ahong's suspicious eyes, and immediately retorted, "What are you thinking, team leader? Don't you think it's me?"

Nur Ahong: "Is that me? What is my motive?"

Cissetta is dumbfounded.

We've been together for a few years now, and everyone knows what kind of person Nur Ahon is. He is rigorous, self-disciplined, and focused on his work. He has almost no personal hobbies. He strictly abides by the working principles when dealing with anyone. Nur Ahong and Matsuda Masahiro have no personal conflicts. Moreover, he gave Matsuda Masahito the order to go out today only yesterday. For Nur Ahong, there are uncontrollable variables in the plan, so that the plan cannot be implemented, I am afraid it will make him more uncomfortable than killing him.

But Cicetta is different. He and Matsuda Masahiro have always had a conflict.

In the past, Cissetta didn't kill Matsuda, which can be understood as his kindness and conceit, but it can also be understood as the dual of the ubiquitous strict monitoring in the base and the military intelligence system that comes with his combat uniform. Supervision suppressed his killing intent.

Now, with the failure of all high-end equipment in the base, the information collection functions of monitoring and intellectual brain have naturally disappeared.

Cissetta's lips parted, and then she looked at the other two present, as if hoping that others would defend herself.

But Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu were silent. The base is now fully closed, no one is opening the door inside, and no one can break in outside. Then the murderer is destined to be only one of the five people present.

While there is no evidence, logically, Cicetta is the most likely.

Ou Xiameng didn't speak in a hurry, in fact, because she had already begun to worry about whether her experimental task could be successfully completed at this time.

A loss of life means that the inside of the base is no longer safe, and it means that the large amount of data she has worked so hard to collect has also lost its security. These data have not had time for final verification, and she does not know whether there are backups in other bases.

Liang Zhichu didn't think about it that much, but leaned forward, carefully looked at the round hole in Matsuda Masahiro's chest, and visually inspected it with his eyes.

Immediately, his pupils contracted slightly, and he looked at Nur Ahon with extreme nervousness, and even glanced at Cissetta with a slightly fearful gaze.

Nur Ahong understood and said loudly: "Execute the team leader's responsibilities! Release Cicetta Roy's weapon use rights!"

What is damaged in the base is only cutting-edge facilities. For the needs of stability and reliability, there is also a backup system in the authorization identification mechanism on the ion beam gun and combat uniform, which is based on the voiceprint recognition of traditional semiconductor chips. device.

As Nur Ahon's voice fell, there was a slight click from the ion beam gun on the wall, and then an indifferent electronic voice, "Lieutenant Cissetta Roy's Arming Authority has been revoked."

The same voice also came from Cicetta, whose combat suit was also ineffective.

Cissetta's body sank immediately. The combat suit with its effectiveness turned off lost its anti-gravity function, and it suddenly became heavier, which in turn restricted his freedom of behavior.

Liang Zhichu said: "The distance between the wound on Matsuda Masahiro and the axis of his shoulders on both sides is 22 centimeters, and the error on both sides does not exceed 0.5 centimeters. After losing the assistance of the intelligent aiming device, apart from professional soldiers, I am afraid that No one can shoot so accurately. Team leader, you can't do it. After all, although you have the right to use it, you don't usually practice guns."

Liang Zhichu's subtext is self-evident. But when he said this, he seemed distressed, even a little self-doubting.

Four years ago, during an expedition mission, Liang Zhichu was threatened by a ferocious mechanical beast on the J919. It was Cicetta who fell from the sky and saved his life. Since then, the two have a good relationship, often chatting together and exchanging life ideals. Liang Zhichu knew what kind of person Cissetta was, and his emotions told Liang Zhichu that the murderer could not be him, but his reason could not panic.

Cissetta showed a look of grievance and grief, and said in pain: "Brother Liang, you don't believe me? Don't you know me? Although Matsuda and I often fight, I just take it as a joke. , I'm teasing him. How could I kill him, what am I trying to do? I'm not crazy. Although there are some unexpected situations in the base, I am a professional fighter and have experienced more than one comparison in my military career. This situation is ten times more dangerous. My ideal is to become a leader like Chen Feng. How could it be possible to shoot other humans? Team leader Nur Ahong, you have reviewed my resume. You should know that I am not only on the battlefield He used his own life to cover his comrades once. In my heart, Matsuda is my comrade-in-arms just like you!"

……

In the end, Cicetta was not imprisoned, but his armed authority was banned.

There are two reasons.

First, apart from reasoning, there is really no substantive evidence that Cicetta is the murderer. The ion beam gun, which had not been used for a long time, did not leave Cissetta's fingerprints. According to the principles of the management mechanism of the scientific expedition team, when there is only one professional soldier, the freedom of action of professional soldiers cannot be banned by reasoning alone. Otherwise, while eliminating a suspected potential crisis, it may bring about a bigger crisis.

Secondly, the dead have appeared in the base, and the contact with the outside world has not been restored for a long time. No one knows what happened on the planet, and whether there will be hidden external enemies suddenly appearing to attack the base. The base and others need the protection of Cicetta. If he was put in prison, in the event of an emergency, it would take a lot of time for him to be released.

This whole day, everyone basically got nothing. Masahiro Matsuda, who was supposed to leave for other bases, was dead, and the message could not be sent.

Neither have been able to restore contact with the outside world, nor have they been able to find any useful evidence for the death of Matsuda Masahiro.

In the past nearly 10,000 years of history, human beings have not encountered such a treacherous state for too long. A vicious murder case that cannot be solved has not occurred for many years.

In daily life and work, people have become accustomed to the help of the omnipotent quantum brain. Suddenly losing more than 99% of the intelligent assistance is like being blindfolded, piercing the eardrum, and people's living environment is completely broken, as if returning to the primitive society.

No matter how smart and calm people are, they can't slow down for a while.

Like yesterday, in order to prepare meals, Matsuda Masahiro, who worked part-time as a mechanic at the base, was called by Samantha to toss for a long time before he found a way to create a surge by short-circuiting the wiring to activate the heating device of the induction cooker. When Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu rescued the data, they also used a machine repair screwdriver to unscrew the sealed box that was supposed to open automatically. Fortunately, this situation was considered in the original design, and it was not fully enclosed. Otherwise, according to the material performance standards of the black box for storing data, the immortals would have to be blinded.

Everyone has been busy for two days, and none of the problems have been solved. Most of the time and energy are spent on re-adapting to the basic common sense under the low-tech level, so that the thinking has become rigid, and everyone's logical analysis ability More or less slipped.

……

"Do you think it will be Cicetta?"

In the evening, in the living room of Ou Xiameng's dormitory, Liang Zhichu said with a heavy heart.

His tone was self-denying, but doubtful.

At this time, the two had just had dinner in the cafeteria. Liang Zhichu followed Ou Xiameng into her dormitory "deadly" because he was worried about Ou Xiameng's safety, and he was sleeping in Ou Xiameng's living room tonight. Ou Xia Meng did not refuse. The two used to spend the whole night together because of work. She didn't think Liang Zhichu had other thoughts. Even if there were, it would be useless. Liang Zhichu should be very clear that, as a descendant of Ou's family, he would not consider his children's personal relationships until he obtained satisfactory academic results.

Oxiameng shook his head, "Now the object of everyone's suspicion is Cissetta, and he has even disarmed him. But you still came to me. So I know that you think the murderer is not him, and there is another its people."

Liang Zhichu was stunned, "Am I being so obvious?"

"Of course."

"Uh, okay." Liang Zhichu scratched his head, "Is it because you know that Cicetta and I are good friends?"

"It's not just that, but the evidence is really lacking. Cicetta appears to have a motive, but it's not strong enough."

Liang Zhichu: "Well. I hope it's not him."

Midnight.

Liang Zhichu tossed and turned on the sofa in the living room, unable to sleep. He couldn't help thinking about the tragic situation of Matsuda Masahiro falling to the ground, and tried to reason and analyze the whole thing. He wanted to use his abilities to clear Cicetta from suspicion. But what troubled him was that if it wasn't for Cicetta, then theoretically the biggest suspect would be the team leader, Nur Ahon, which was terrifying and even more unacceptable. In addition, assuming that Cissetta is really not the murderer, then the real murderer must still be at large, hiding in the crowd, not knowing when he will jump out and who will be the next target.

Unable to figure out who the murderer is and the murderer's motive, we can only acquiesce that everyone alive is in danger.

……

Another new morning, another shrill scream.

This time, the deceased was Liang Zhichu.

The screaming was Oxiameng who just walked out of his bedroom door.

The young scholar who once had great ambitions and always longed for classical love fell quietly at the door of Ou Xiameng's dormitory.

Liang Zhichu's neck was wrapped around a Michelle-long alloy rope, which was slack and drooping.

He has a ring-shaped streak on his neck that penetrates nearly two inches into the flesh. The edge of the bruise was purplish red, and the further spread out was a purple-black bruise. His eyes were wide open, his pupils were dilated, and the whites of his eyes and the mucous membranes around the eyes were oozing red.

Ou Xia Meng looked at it from a distance, and seemed a little unbelievable and a little scared.

She didn't have much interaction with Matsuda Masahiro, and in three years, she didn't say more than 300 sentences, basically all work-related.

So when Masaru Matsuda died yesterday, although he described it as miserable, it didn't have much impact on her.

In the age of the universe, sudden death is not uncommon, not to mention that the small-scale war between humans and compound eyes has not stopped. In the distant Virgo supercluster, the massive war between humans and compound eyes is happening every moment of every day.

Even the Andromeda Galaxy, which has been run into an iron-clad country and turned into a logistics base, still gets harassed from time to time.

Ou Xia has dreamed of many deaths, but she gets along day and night, and acts as her right-hand man at work. Yesterday, in order to protect the people who still live on her side, she quietly When she died, it was difficult for her to accept the reality.

"He was strangled to death."

Nur Ahong squatted down, opened Liang Zhichu's mouth again, and saw a tongue with several blood marks from his teeth, so he said.

As he spoke, he raised his head and stared straight at Cicetta with scrutiny.

Cissetta is leaning over at this time, half-squatting on the ground, her eyes sad.

He shivered with his hands, trying to tug at Liang Zhichu's neckline, but pulled back.

Suddenly sensing Nur Ahong's gaze, he raised his head, the sadness on his face was gradually replaced by great grievance and anger.

"You killed it! You killed it!"

Cissetta suddenly fell into a rage and made a gesture to strangle Nur Ahon's neck.

Boom!

His head turned black, and after a moment, he threw himself forward and fell to the ground.

Behind him, Samantha Swan clutches the barrel of the ion beam gun with both hands upside down, gasping for breath.

……

Fifteen minutes later, Cicetta Roy slowly woke up.

He tries to move, but has difficulty even bending his fingers. His combat uniform has been modified by Nur Ahon to become a restraining tool for confining prisoners.

The back of the head is still a little sore, and I was hit pretty hard just now.

The vision gradually returned, and Cicetta saw her situation clearly.

This is the prison at the bottom of the base. It was originally designed to detain compound eye invaders or species with research value and high danger on J919. But it has never been used in the past, and I didn't expect that the first time someone moved in, it was himself.

I am sitting on an iron chair, with my hands trapped in the arms of the iron chair by curved shackles.

Behind the interrogation table directly opposite sit Nur Ahong, O'Xiamen and Samantha.

At one end of the interrogation table, the alloy rope that strangled Liang Zhichu was contained in a transparent polyethylene pocket.

"Wake up?" Nur Ahong in the center asked in a deep voice.

Cissetta turned her face away and did not answer.

There was a brief silence in the room for about ten seconds, and Oxiameng broke the stalemate, "Cissetta, whether you admit it or not, but we all want to know, what do you know, what happened last night, and why do you Do you think the team leader is the murderer?"

Cissetta reacted only then and slowly raised her head, "There is no other reason, because I know it must not be done by me. Then among all the people who have the strength to strangle Brother Liang, only the team leader As for the murderer who killed Matsuda Masahiro, only the team leader and I have the authority to shoot. I have been suspicious of the team leader since yesterday. But I didn't expect you to be so despicable. In order to avoid suspicion, you don't need a gun when killing the second person. , use rope instead."

Nur Ahong said angrily: "Nonsense! Then tell me, what is my motive!"

"Motivation? Another motive! Who knows what your motive is? I want to know too! Maybe you've just been locked up in this base for too long, crazy? Maybe you've been infiltrated by compound eyes? Or maybe you Just a fake at all?" Cicetta was more angry than he was.

Oxiameng spoke, "Cissetta, what you said is still just an inference from your assumption that you are not the murderer. From the team leader's point of view, it is assumed that he knows that he is not the murderer. Then you must be the one who fired the gun on the first day, and on the second day you chose to strangle Liang Zhichu with a rope because you couldn't use a firearm. This is obviously more likely."

After Liang Zhichu's death, she finally stopped focusing on scientific research and began to try to use her wisdom to find the real murderer. "Yesterday, Liang Zhichu told me that he trusts you very much. But now it seems that we did not imprison you in time is a huge mistake."

Having said this, Cissetta finally regained her military essence, gradually calmed down, and was no longer easily controlled by her emotions.

He took a deep breath, "What I said next, whether you believe it or not, but that is what I saw. Last night, after you all rested, Brother Liang came to me. He was serious. He asked me if it was me who did it. I looked into his eyes and told him firmly that it wasn't me. He left. I regret it now, and I shouldn't let him go back alone. Alas."

Hearing that, Nur Ahong, Ou Xiameng, and Samantha looked at each other, but there was only lingering tiredness in their eyes.

Samantha slowly picked up the pocket containing the alloy rope from the side, and said in a hoarse voice: "You stop quibbling. This rope has your fingerprints on it."

"What!" Cicetta exclaimed, "It's impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible. It's not even a fingerprint from grease, but the cuticle of your finger that deforms the surfaces on both sides of the alloy rope, leaving a solid fingerprint. In the base, the body is strong enough on the alloy surface. You are the only one who leaves physical fingerprints and has this power. Even if your combat uniform cannot be used, your strength as a professional soldier can achieve this effect. We have done a comparison when you were in a coma. Fingers fit perfectly."

"This..."

Cissetta's pupils dilated, completely dumbfounded.

Nur Ahon stood up, "Okay, the trial is over. Whether you admit it or not, we already know you're the real murderer. Wait for the court-martial."

The iron door behind closed ~IndoMTL.com~ The three outside sighed.

The three of them didn't feel the ease after solving the case, only the melancholy for the unknown future.

Only Cissetta can manually control the ship, but he is the murderer, so safe evacuation becomes a luxury, and he can only wait for external rescue in the base. But the communication has not been restored for a long time, and no one knows what is going on outside and when the rescue will come.

In addition, there are no professional soldiers, no intelligent weapons, and the energy shield outside the base has already been closed by itself. Of the remaining three, only Nur Ahong has some fighting power. Oxiameng and Samantha basically fought five Slag, the base's security force has fallen to the extreme. Once it is hit by the aggressive native species on the J919, it may happen at any time.

……

The remaining three returned to the base hall, Oxiameng asked for the alloy rope from Samantha and observed it carefully.

After a long time, she said: "Actually, I still have a doubt. You can see that this very shallow mark should be Liang Zhichu's tooth mark. It means that when the rope was wrapped around Liang Zhichu's neck, it was not able to get below it at first. Instead, he was bitten by him. Although Cissetta could not use a combat uniform, how could he give Liang Zhichu a chance to bite the rope with his strength and skills? The strength of the fingerprints left on the surface of the alloy rope, then Liang Zhichu should start from the mouth, and his head will be directly strangled from it. His head will be cut off."

"This..."

Nur Ahon groaned.

Samantha looked at Nur Ahong quietly and tentatively, and said tentatively, "Could it be that there is actually a fourth person in our base now?"

"It's impossible!" Oxiameng and Nur Ahong said in unison.

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