But this is the high altitude of ten thousand meters, with the tail wing of the high-speed flying Winged Dragon destroyed, its posture suddenly changed, its speed sharply decreased, and in the blink of an eye, it was left far behind.
The steel spike transport tube fired by that Winged Dragon also snapped accordingly.
The red-helmeted soldier was neither sad nor joyous, moving the laser rifle, aiming at the second giant Winged Dragon.
It must be said that the iron plague-infected bodies are a group of natural bioweapons. The iron plague beasts in the cabin one after another came out and lowered their bodies to reduce air resistance, then activated the rotary machine guns on their backs, pouring firepower towards the red helmet, forcing the latter to divert his attention to barely dodge.
"The button might be in the cockpit! You go press the button, I’ll go help him!"
Li Cheng shouted to Gray Rain, then buckled himself with a steel cable around his waist, and using the displacement Special Effect of the Bat Hook Claw Gun, burst out of the cabin and climbed onto the outside of the fuselage.
With his left hand releasing Death Curse Torrent, he sprayed high-pressure water at the iron plague creatures, knocking them down and away, and with his right hand continuously pulled the rifle trigger, sweeping fire to suppress them. He bought time for the red helmet.
The red helmet tacitly understood and confidently entrusted his back to Li Cheng, himself lying on the fuselage, set up the laser rifle, and opened fire at the second, third giant Winged Dragons.
As one Winged Dragon after another was dealt with, the steel spike tubes finally stopped transporting small infected bodies, and the situation inside the cabin gradually came under control.
The remaining few iron plague beasts, seeing that there was no hope, immediately caused the engine’s heart to overload, attempting to explode themselves to destroy the plane, at the very least not allowing the superheavy elements to fall into human hands.
Fortunately, at this point, both the red helmet and Li Cheng had returned, the former swinging his sword to kill, the latter one strike each, knocking down all the iron plague beasts off the plane.
This high-altitude battle, when described, sounds thrilling, but in reality, it all took place within a few minutes.
Of the original hundred or so soldiers, only twenty or thirty remained, the survivors leaning against the wall, gasping for breath with difficulty.
The cabin floor was littered with severed limbs and arms, with human blood mixed with the oil leaking from the infected bodies, emitting a pungent smell.
The red-helmeted soldier silently stepped forward, gently helping up a comrade-in-arms from the bed of the armored vehicle.
This female soldier, with the name Angelina inscribed on her breastplate, had stood on the vehicle earlier and fought hard to prevent the iron plague beasts from seizing the superheavy elements, successfully protecting all the lead barrels, but was cut in half by the infected bodies, with her internal organs and intestines spilled all over the place.
Angelina lay in the arms of the red-helmeted soldier, constantly spewing blood, her hand weakly lifting a photo, stuffing it into the other’s hand, trying to say something.
Before she could finish, the light of life in her eyes dissipated like a candle in the wind, the red-helmeted soldier silently watched the photo, which showed a young mother and daughter. Discover more novels at novelꜰire.net
"Li Cheng, I found the button!"
The excited voice of Gray Rain came from the front of the cabin, she had pried open the cockpit door, and there lay the red button on the console.
As for the two pilots... A steel spike pierced through each of their chests, corresponding to the broken glass in the cockpit’s windshield, obviously they had been dealt with by the iron plague creatures early on.
Due to the death of the pilots, the entire transport plane gradually tilted downward, gliding in a nosedive towards the clouds.
"Don’t press it yet."
Li Cheng took a deep breath, ignoring the puzzled looks of the remaining Zeluo soldiers in the cabin, turned his head and tentatively asked the red helmet, "Can... you take off your helmet?"
Unlike the others, the red helmet’s chest plate wasn’t inscribed with a name.
He paused for a moment, then put down his weapon and with a click took off his helmet.
She was a cold, frosty woman with gray long hair, the skeletal contours of her skull identical to Isaac, her beautiful yet indifferent face was extremely similar to that of Gray Rain.
Li Cheng’s eyelids jerked as he asked, "Your name, is it Isaac?"
The woman, named Aisha, took the initiative to correct, while at the end of the engine room, the impatient Gray Rain had already pressed the red button.
The scene before their eyes changed instantly; Li Cheng and Gray Rain appeared in the empty engine room, only their Power Armor shells and the blood splattered on them could prove that they had indeed been elsewhere.
"Quick! All five engine room buttons have been pressed, let’s head to the Prison Director’s Room!"
Seeing that the escape was about to succeed, Gray Rain excitedly retracted all her Liquid Metal, clenched her fist, and charged out of the engine room first.
Following behind, Li Cheng slowly said, "The red-helmeted soldier in the transport ship, she looks like you, just a bit more mature. She calls herself Aisha."
Gray Rain was momentarily stunned at these words, but her body continued to run instinctively, "Aisha, Isaac, are they the same person? Forget it, it doesn’t matter as long as we can escape. As for the face... maybe I’ve lost my memory, mistaking the faces I saw during previous escapes as my own."
She twisted the handle of the Prison Director’s Room, and the previously sealed wooden door finally opened.
The room was brightly lit; four walls of the square room were filled with screens of Pishuai brand TVs, each playing scenes of Li Cheng and Gray Rain’s experiences in the Narrative Cage. In the middle of the room stood a coffee table.
The Prison Director was seated behind the coffee table; he was not a human but a complex assembly made up of hundreds of Mechanical eyes with a red eyeball embedded in the middle, and a tag reading [Prison Director] on his chest to prove his identity.
"Welcome, both of you!"
The Prison Director did not speak (he seemed not to have the organ for it) but left it to the TVs on all four walls to emit a synthetic electronic voice, "Congratulations, you are the closest to successfully escaping jail in the past three months."
Li Cheng remained silent, looking around, assessing the environment. Gray Rain, losing her patience, exclaimed sharply, "We’ve pressed the five buttons in the engine room, according to the agreement, the Narrative Cage should let us go!"
"Easy there, young one."
The mechanized eyeball of the Prison Director slightly rotated, gesturing for Li Cheng and Gray Rain to sit down, "Unfortunately, although you have successfully completed the escape process, I still cannot let you go."
Gray Rain’s eyebrows shot up as she was overtaken by a rush of anger, slamming her palm down on the wooden coffee table, "What does this mean? Are you playing foul?"
"Trust me, if the decision was up to me, I would strictly follow the rules and let you escape — that is the principle and purpose of the Narrative Cage."
The Prison Director continued at a leisurely pace, "You’ve stormed through five engine rooms, you should have noticed the pattern, right? All rooms are related to Isaac.
Isaac is Aisha, Aisha is Isaac."
The Prison Director said, "She was originally a Mechanical Soldier produced by the Zeluo civilization, performed excellently during the Iron Epidemic War, and after fighting for ten years, accumulated enough Military Merit Points to retire with the rank of Colonel.
Only an unexpected incident happened in between, causing her to defect from the Zeluo civilization, becoming the interstellar pirate Isaac.
As for the incident..."
He paused, looking at Li Cheng, "You should already know, shouldn’t you?"
Li Cheng slowly took out the clues, four newspapers, [Unknown Virus Breaks Out on Swan B Star], [Food Poisoning Incident at Proxima Centauri A District School], [Terrorists Detonate a Nuclear Bomb in Proxima Centauri A District], [Navy Special Combat Team Destroys Critical Node of Iron Epidemic Nest].
A child’s drawing, Anna and her mother.
After organizing all the clues, Li Cheng said, "Taking the Iron Epidemic War as a timeline, [Unknown Virus Breaks Out on Swan B Star] refers to the Iron Epidemic.
Isaac, as a Mechanical Soldier, enlisted in the military, fulfilling what is described in the newspaper, [Navy Special Combat Team Destroys Critical Node of Iron Epidemic Nest], which is also the storyline that took place in the Coherence engine room."