Chapter 187 The battle is over! Eva has been captured! Mission completed!

Faced with the intensive artillery attack from the reinforcements of the "Iron Hands" regiment, the beast army controlled by Eva was instantly hit head-on.

Whoosh!

Boom! !

Hundreds of air-to-ground missiles gushed out, streaking through the white tail flames of death, and swept across the flight formation of the Arasaka department at an astonishing speed.

Then, these missiles landed accurately between the beasts and the Na'vi army, bursting into brilliant flowers of life's demise!

Boom boom!

In an instant, a mixture of brown soil, blue flesh and blood, and various dregs.

Along with the strong shock wave generated by the missile explosion and the small mushroom cloud caused by the high-pressure effect, countless blood clots and broken meat quickly rose in the rainforest.

Then, extremely terrifying blood rain fell everywhere in the dense forest, accompanied by the falling of blood clots.

And the situation on the battlefield has been completely reversed!

"What kind of monsters are these sky people?!"

Looking at the tragic and tragic scene in front of them, the Na'vi people who were cheering for the upcoming victory just now suddenly shrank their pupils, and their eyes were full of astonishment and fear.

It is obvious that the firepower bombardment of the Astartes' flying reinforcements has brought them a deep spiritual shock.

Even the chieftain of this Na'vi, Etukon, was also stagnant at this moment, not knowing what to do.

"Okay! Brothers, start the counterattack!"

"Kill these alien bastards!"

"Don't leave any alive! Kill them all!"

"..."

The Arasaka soldiers who were almost ambushed and annihilated by the Na'vi natives shouted excitedly after seeing the situation reversed at two levels, and controlled the fleet to counterattack.

Under the guidance of the flying array of the Iron Hands, the soldiers of the Arasaka department quickly restructured their firepower network.

Then they continued to move quickly towards the destination "Spirit Tree" area!

At this moment, in the command room of Arasaka's assault airship, Goro Takemura suddenly saw three "black spots" through the porthole above his head, quickly passing over his head.

Those were three flapping-wing aircraft responsible for transporting the "matrix" device!

"Report to the commander!"

At this moment, the observer who had restored the communication device reported to Goro Takemura in time:

"The Infinity headquarters command room has sent us a communication invitation. Should we respond immediately?"

Hearing this, Goro Takemura couldn't help but take a deep breath. The local battle here had actually shocked the headquarters command.

This was enough to show that what V said was true. They really wanted to insert the matrix into the "spiritual tree" and extract the planetary consciousness life Eva from Pandora!

"Connect immediately!"

Goro Takemura didn't dare to hesitate at all. If their communication signal was interrupted again and they missed the instructions from the headquarters, it would be troublesome.

"Okay, commander."

Immediately, the observer who received the specific instructions immediately connected the communication between the Arasaka airship and the Infinity headquarters command after some operations.

The next second, the figure that appeared on the holographic screen was Li Ang in the center console of the main ship.

At this time, Li Ang was full of energy, looking at Takemura Goro with sharp eyes, and gave him a new order in a solemn voice:

"Takemura, I now ask you to lead your soldiers to surround the spirit tree area, and no other alien creatures are allowed to approach the spirit tree."

Li Ang sent this conversation to Takemura Goro specifically to avoid the spirit tree area being too crowded and bloated, causing V to fail to complete the task smoothly.

The biggest failure factor in the task of extracting "Eva" from the matrix is ​​not necessarily external reasons, but internal competition for credit may cause the whole plan to fail.

Therefore, there must not be too many interference items in the spirit tree area, and Li Ang must create a good task environment for V.

"Yes! I will do it."

After receiving Li Ang's order, Takemura Goro subconsciously straightened his back and expressed unconditional obedience to Li Ang's order.

After that, Goro Takemura opened the internal communication of the Arasaka fleet and clearly conveyed Li Ang's instructions to the soldiers of each department:

"Attention all Arasaka department personnel, friendly forces are carrying out secret combat missions, do not approach the spirit tree area, only stay on the periphery for defense."

"Repeat it again...!"

Soon, the Arasaka fleet and ground troops responded positively:

[Team A has received it. ]

[Team B understands. ]

[Understood! ]

As the order was issued, the commanders of each department also gave corresponding instructions, asking the soldiers of each department to slow down and stop outside to garrison.

With the offensive cooperation of Arasaka and the Astartes Legion, their ground forces advanced into the "Spirit Tree" area in just a blink of an eye.

The flying formation in the air also began to lower its altitude in an orderly manner, and then hovered steadily in the air dozens of meters above the ground.

At the same time, the Scorpion fighters opened the hatches at the bottom, and nearly a thousand AST infantrymen equipped with heavy mechanical exoskeletons quickly completed the airdrop through steel cables.

The whole process was done in one go!

In order to avoid harming the spirit tree as much as possible, these soldiers will take the approach of hand-to-hand combat with the Na'vi natives to eliminate the enemy forces that hinder them.

Boom!!!

The deafening explosion resounded outside the spirit tree area. The precise bombing of the Iron Hands regiment almost razed the war zone outside the spirit tree to the ground.

The powerful shock wave spread rapidly from the center of the explosion at supersonic speed, and countless beasts and Na'vi were blown into the air.

The fully armed soldiers of the Iron Hand Legion, each holding a heavy power sword, killed the Na'vi in ​​front of them one by one with clean and neat skills.

The Astartes warriors, whose bones and bodies are as thick as city walls, are like a steam train running at full speed with a layer of hard power armor.

The blue-skinned monkey Na'vi, who are as thin as a thin dog, can't even block the giant sword of the Astartes warrior with their weapons. Just touching it with their majestic bodies will make the Na'vi fall apart!

At this moment, the Na'vi can only watch the devil troops led by V approach their sacred tree step by step, approaching the home that their tribe has worshipped for generations.

"No... No!!"

"Soul Tree! It's over, we're all done!"

"These damn sky people, they destroyed the roots of our tribe!"

"..."

The Na'vi who had escaped by chance and hid outside the scope of the explosion saw that their homes were about to be destroyed by the terrifying outsiders.

Each of them showed painful expressions, they all knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands, and some Na'vi did not hesitate to hit the ground with their heads.

It was as if they were begging the soldiers of the Astartes Legion not to knock down their spirit trees.

However, their complaints did not receive any response.

This scene was clearly captured by a drone hidden in the rainforest, and the real-time images were uploaded to the main ship of the Infinity.

Seeing the Na'vi people below showing expressions of pain, Leon couldn't help but frowned slightly, as if he had noticed something strange.

"Lucy, which group do you think these Na'vi people look like now?"

At this moment, Leon turned his head to look at his secretary general Lucy and asked her a question.

After three years of professional training, Lucy's temperament has been completely reshaped into a smart and capable female secretary.

Her every move reveals her absolute confidence and intellectual elegance.

After hearing the question raised by Leon, Lucy began to carefully observe and analyze the facial expressions of the Na'vi people.

After a while, she gave her own answer:

"Drug addicts!"

After the voice fell, Leon agreed with Lucy's accurate judgment, because he and Lucy had the same idea.

When seeing that the spirit tree was about to encounter danger, the fear shown by these Na'vi people was more like a withdrawal reaction when they suddenly stopped using something because they were dependent or addicted to it!

This shows that "Eva"'s control over the Na'vi people may not include brainwashing in terms of spirit and consciousness.

Maybe it also includes physical influence!

If this is the case, then it is much easier for Leon to control these Na'vi people on the ground than he imagined.

The so-called "Eva" can achieve the ultimate spiritual and physical interference, and is completely controlling the Na'vi people like puppets!

In other words, as long as Leon's matrix can draw "Eva" into the server, he will never worry about whether the Na'vi people will rebel against the company.

Controlling Eva is equivalent to absolutely controlling all the thoughts and behaviors of the Na'vi people!

Leon only needs one sentence to make these alien natives willingly sacrifice their precious lives for LA Company.

"Lucy, it seems that I have indeed found the most efficient and convenient colonization plan."

Leon smiled and said, this is the best proof that choice is always greater than effort.

If he invades Pandora in the conventional way of colonial war, he will definitely be strongly resisted by the Na'vi people like the RDA Energy Company in the original work.

Whether he can win or not is still the most secondary.

The most important thing is that once the war lasts too long, it is hard to guarantee that "Eva" will not use other means to brainwash the company's soldiers.

If a group of brainwashed ghosts emerge from the company, it will become a werewolf from another star!

If such a large fleet of starships has an internal strife, it will inevitably cause a collapse that is more terrifying than defeat.

Such a collapse is definitely not something Leon can bear.

Even if he has the ability to go back to the level, it is not certain whether there will be any other negative effects on him after going back.

Therefore, for Leon, a perfect and impeccable P-company player, if he can pass the level with one life, he will never use the so-called life-saving card to lower his own status!

...

Here, the ground forces that have completed the occupation of the Spirit Tree Area began to arrest the Na'vi people in this area one by one.

David Martinez, a member of the vanguard at the forefront of the Astartes Legion, pointed the power sword in his hand at the remnants of the Na'vi army.

"Attention all Na'vi!"

"Lie down on the ground and surrender now, or we will take lethal measures against you. You have five seconds to think."

"Five, four, three... Kill!"

David didn't wait for the terrified Na'vi to react, and chopped him directly on the forehead.

Accompanied by a dull sound of skull crushing, the terrified Na'vi was killed by David's sword.

"Shua shua shua!!"

The Astartes warriors who followed closely behind also followed David to execute the Na'vi in ​​front of them.

In an instant, the Spirit Tree District was filled with heads.

David didn't care whether these natives could understand human language or not. Anyway, he had given these Na'vi five seconds to save themselves.

Since these alien beasts couldn't tell their own situation and didn't understand human intentions, they could only die under their swords.

Puff! !

Under the swing of the Astartes warriors, the power swords chopped the Na'vi's skin, muscles, and bones into pieces, and the flesh and blood splashed everywhere.

Seeing this scene, the Arasaka soldiers standing outside the Spirit Tree District were all stunned, their wide pupils quickly shrank, and their upper and lower lips couldn't help but tremble.

This was the first time they watched the warriors of the legendary "Iron Hands" Astartes regiment at such a close distance!

According to rumors, to become the most elite company soldier of the LA Alliance - the Astartes Warrior, one must go through a number of extremely strict selections and tests.

They must not only have high IQ and good physical fitness, but also have to endure life and death trials at all times.

It can be said that every Astartes Warrior can be called the most outstanding killing individual soldier of the LA Company!

Behind the glory, there will be scars.

Looking at those powerful and cold warriors, the soldiers of the Arasaka department are both envious and afraid of their majestic majesty.

"Oh my..."

"These guys are really tall."

"That's right, the strongest branch of the giant company, the value of just one soldier is as much as one thousand of us!"

"..."

After witnessing the decisive killing style of the Astartes Warriors, the Arasaka soldiers were surprised and sighed.

One of the Arasaka soldiers was even more daring. He actually came to the edge of the spirit tree area in front of everyone and asked one of the Astartes warriors:

"Hey, brother, you really won't leave any survivors."

"What if they have other uses, such as leading the way to find other resource areas? You are too cruel."

Hearing this almost mentally retarded question, the Astartes warrior just glanced at the Arasaka soldier indifferently and said in a cold tone:

"We gave these Na'vi a chance to live, but they did not make any surrender moves within five seconds. Since they insist on fighting to the death, we can only be responsible for sending them to the west."

Hearing the shocking remarks of this soldier, the Arasaka soldier couldn't help but say "WTF" in his heart, but after thinking about it carefully.

It seems to be the truth!

So he nodded and continued to ask, trying to open up the conversation: "By the way, thank you for your rescue. Thanks to your quick arrival, otherwise we would have been completely wiped out."

"But... why are you all staying here and not moving forward? Are there any other alien monsters in the spirit tree area?"

The Arasaka soldier stretched his neck and looked curiously at the spirit tree area in front of him. He found that these Astartes warriors were stationed outside spontaneously.

They surrounded the spirit tree heavily, as if they were conducting some secret experiment.

This time, facing the Arasaka soldier's questions, the Astartes warrior did not give any response.

In fact, even he didn't know why the soldiers of the Iron Hands Legion had to guard the spirit tree area.

The real reason may only be known by a legion leader like V.

Seeing that the Astartes warrior stopped talking, the Arasaka soldier also shut up very tactfully and stood outside the spirit tree area honestly, patrolling and investigating.

At this moment, just as the soldiers of the Arasaka Division and the warriors of the Astartes were stationed in this spiritual tree area.

In a dense forest a few hundred meters away, a female Na'vi was heartbroken when she saw her fellow tribesmen with their heads and bodies torn apart and bloody.

"No... no! Lona... Opara, dead, all dead, the spiritual tree will be destroyed by them...!"

The female Na'vi gritted her teeth with bloodshot eyes, and occasionally let out an angry roar with a hoarse voice.

Just when she wanted to rush out immediately to exchange with these sky people, a strong air flow suddenly came from behind her.

It turned out that it was the chief of the Na'vi, Etukon, who secretly landed in this forest with the legendary beast Phantom Beast.

Etukon is not only the chief of the Na'vi, but also the Phantom Knight here, and this powerful Phantom Beast will only wait for his orders.

"Hey! Neytiri, cheer up!"

Etukon glared at Neytiri and stopped her from rushing forward and dying in vain.

"Listen, Neytiri, our tribe is finished. Now is not the time to give up easily. We have to unite with other tribes and start over again."

"You have to leave with me now. We have to keep the spark of the tribe's revival. Do you understand?"

As the backbone of this Na'vi tribe, Etukon has a more thorough understanding of the situation than Neytiri, who was blinded by anger.

Since they can't deal with this group of well-equipped and large-scale sky people, call more tribal warriors!

He didn't believe that he couldn't drive away these sky people.

After learning about Etukon's revenge plan, Neytiri wiped her tear-stained face and nodded heavily to Chief Etukon.

Now is the time to retreat and find other helpers.

However, just as the two of them were about to climb onto the back of the Phantom Beast, a large-caliber metal bullet, accompanied by a sound of breaking through the air, drew a streak of red flames and instantly pierced the Phantom Beast.

"Roar--!"

Instantly, the intense pain made the Phantom Beast howl in pain. It flapped its wings vigorously and roared angrily at the sky.

"What...!"

Seeing that there were still soldiers of the Sky People nearby, Etukon had no time to think about it. He immediately pushed Neytini to the ground, then drew his bow and arrow, and looked around vigilantly.

"Bang! Bang!"

But before Etukon could realize where the enemy lurking in the dark was, several large-caliber bullets fired from the Tsunami Defense System heavy sniper rifle had been fired continuously.

Bang--!

Etukon's chest and head were shot one by one.

Under the huge impact, his chest seemed to be embedded with a heavy artillery shell, and his sternum and ribs were all annihilated into dregs in an instant.

His head exploded on the spot, and his skull and brain tissue were like a broken watermelon, with blood, flesh and brain matter everywhere, and the smell of gunpowder and stench was also disgusting.

Plop!

Etukon's body fell to the ground with a thud, but his limbs continued to twitch according to his instinctive muscle memory.

Seeing this sudden horror, Neytini, who had just regained her confidence, instantly broke down and cried out.

"No! No! Etukon!"

Neytini rushed over and hugged the dead body tightly. Her hoarse voice had already screamed blood.

And she herself no longer had any fighting spirit.

At this time, several Astartes warriors who were the same height as the Na'vi natives stepped out of the nearby rainforest.

Like majestic gods, they slowly approached the grief-stricken Neytiri.

The leading Astartes warrior was Jack Wells. While carrying a heavy sniper rifle, he spoke through the built-in communication device in the metal skull mask:

"This is Jack Wells, the captain of the Iron Hands advance team. The chief of the Na'vi has been killed. There is no threat factor in the spirit tree area."

As early as when Etukon came over on the Phantom Beast, the drone in the rainforest discovered all his movements.

When seeing that Etukon intended to unite with other tribal natives to continue to interfere with V's secret mission, Leon in the headquarters command room immediately issued a killing order to Jack.

And now, Jack Wells has successfully completed the blocking mission.

Jack had just finished reporting to the headquarters, and V, who was in the spirit tree area, also responded through the communication device:

"We have successfully approached the veins of the spirit tree area, and are currently connecting to the matrix. Everything is going well and there are no abnormalities."

After learning that nothing else happened to V, Jack grinned: "Very good!"

"It looks like we're almost off work."

After saying that, Jack raised his sniper rifle and pointed it at Neytini, warning loudly: "Hey! Surrender immediately, or you will end up like this guy."

However, facing Jack's scolding and warning, Neytini, who had lost her mind, seemed to fall into an endless state of madness. She held Etukon's body in her arms, staring at the ground with lifeless eyes.

It is obvious that Neytini has been shocked by all these changes and has lost her ability to perceive the outside world.

To put it simply, she was scared silly!

Seeing that the native in front of him had lost the idea of ​​resistance, Jack waved his hand and asked the soldiers beside him to use tranquilizer guns to capture him.

These surviving Na'vi will be used for the company's subsequent collection of live blood and tissue samples for genetic engineers to conduct research.

"Roar--!"

At this moment, the Phantom Beast, which had been injured long ago, began to burst out with unprecedented strength when it saw that its master was dead.

It stared with scarlet eyes, wishing to rush up and eat Jack alive.

But before it struggled to get up again, the Astartes warriors around Jack immediately fired high-concentration anesthetics at it.

Accompanied by a loud "boom...!", the Phantom Beast, which was under the physiological limit, could no longer support its tired and heavy body, and immediately fell to the ground and fainted.

Seeing that there were no more Na'vi near the spirit tree area, Jack took back his heavy sniper rifle and turned to order the soldiers of the advance team:

"Attention, all departments, continue to patrol this area, and no one is allowed to relax their vigilance before the mission status is lifted."

"I won't allow you to make any mistakes!"

[Understood! ]

[Message received! 】

【……】

The internal communication of the advance team immediately received responses from various departments.

……

Spirit tree area!

At this moment, V's regiment soldiers have surrounded the core spirit tree. Facing this towering spirit tree, they did not make any destructive moves.

On the contrary, in order to reduce unnecessary trouble as much as possible, V only brought two or three accompanying assistants and slowly approached the roots of the spirit tree.

Looking at the tree roots that were glowing with dim light and slightly swaying like the aorta of the human body, V became more and more convinced that this was the best place to connect to the spirit tree.

"This is V. I am going to start connecting to the matrix now. Please reply to the headquarters!"

V said to the headquarters through the communication device.

[The headquarters has received it, and you can continue to execute the mission! ]

After receiving the exact order, V held one end of the cable of the matrix device tightly and slowly inserted it into the root veins of the spirit tree.

Before the access line of the matrix completely touched the spirit tree, the cable seemed to come alive and pierced into the spirit tree unexpectedly.

Puff! !

Seeing this weird scene, V couldn't help but shrink his pupils. He didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

And when the matrix successfully connected to the spirit tree, the entire spirit tree area began to shake and vibrate violently, as if a major earthquake had occurred.

Then, V saw that the ground of the spirit tree was rippling from the inside to the outside, as if the lake was wrinkled by the wind.

Just when V was wondering if he had failed to access, the spirit tree area, which had been turbulent just now, suddenly returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

‘This…what’s going on? Is this mission over?’

Looking at the neural cables of the matrix, it seems to have merged with the roots of the spirit tree.

V felt that he should have succeeded, but he had to wait for instructions from the headquarters to know what the specific situation was.

At this moment, all the Astartes warriors stationed in the spirit tree area and the Arasaka soldiers on the periphery seemed to be petrified by the Eye of Medusa.

They stood straight and motionless, fearing that their slight movements would interfere with the final result of this mission.

Leon, who was at the main control console of the Infinity main ship in low-Earth orbit, could only wait like this until the latest order was sent to the ground.

Soon, one minute, two minutes, three minutes passed…

Just when everyone’s heart was beating so fast that it was about to hit their throats, the order from the flagship command center was finally conveyed:

[“Eva” has been captured, mission over! ]