Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 2169 Restart Unlocking Surgery
Even with the support of internal personnel, they attacked from two directions at the same time and broke through the enemy's defense line. The troops who went out to collect supplies still suffered tragic casualties. If the supplies they carried were not carried by Gu worms, which was relatively space-saving and did not require the protection of the convoy, I am afraid there would be no way to bring back the needed supplies.

A death rate of nearly 70% is unbearable for any army. It is no exaggeration to say that those who escaped had a narrow escape from death.

The experiences of these people are legendary. Many of them who survived were like completely changed people. Many people still remember that some of them survived when they were facing certain death. After that, this person seemed to have become a superman, repeatedly surviving desperate situations and leading the team to survive in almost impossible circumstances.

Qu Siyuan was such a soldier. He was a refugee who had fled to the underground base and was taken in. Because of his good physical fitness, he was selected and reorganized into the first batch of troops to go out on missions. They only went through a few days of rigorous training before being pulled into the battlefield. Although he used the equipment to accelerate his thinking during these few days and temporarily familiarized himself with various military skills, he could only barely understand how to use the simple power armor on his body. When he really operated it on the battlefield, he was in a mess.

His company was led by a junior non-commissioned officer. His immediate superior was a veteran who had survived the previous battle to defend the city wall. He had also accompanied the tanks and had broken through the enemy's defenses.

It was precisely because of this experience that he was chosen to lead the team on this extremely dangerous mission. Compared to the simple equipment worn by these ordinary soldiers recruited temporarily, the NCOs leading the team were all wearing heavy ceramic steel armor. The armor weighing more than 2 tons had extremely strong protective capabilities and was an important semi-armored unit during the breakthrough.

However, even with such a sergeant leading them, they still encountered fierce resistance when breaking through the enemy's defense line. The number of enemies was too large and their abilities were varied. The officer leading the team was attacked from nowhere and entangled in the legs of the mecha. Then a dark liquid flowed in from the gap of the mecha.

The strong corrosiveness caused bursts of pungent smoke to come out of the interior of the mecha. Even if the mecha had been completely cut off from the material circulation of the outside world, it would still be harmed by this liquid after the isolation layer was corroded.

In just a few breaths, the heavy steel armor stopped moving. Without the heavy armored officers as cover personnel, the ordinary grassroots soldiers without the command had almost no chance of survival. Even worse, the tanks that broke through with them also broke down on the spot because the enemy focused on attacking the tracks. The crew members in the tanks had to change into light equipment and get off the vehicles to fight, so that their combat team did not even have a barrier to block the enemy's heavy firepower.

On the battlefield, silver moon blades, red magma, and white ice cones flew everywhere, just like machine gun fire. Several people in Qu Siyuan's team fell down in an instant.

Without the cover of heavy firepower, a large number of soldiers soon surrounded them. There were almost no ordinary people in the enemy's army. The worst was at the first level of cultivation. Relying on the poisonous insects, they could launch powerful long-range attacks or greatly enhance their physical fitness. Although the power armor on them could narrow the gap between them and their opponents, it was almost the same level as the enemy's miscellaneous soldiers. Facing an enemy that was ten times their number, they were almost desperate.

When Qu Siyuan was cornered by three enemies holding ice spikes, he didn't know where he got a surge of courage from. He only felt his heartbeat quicken, and his blood boiled. He knew that if he didn't fight hard, he would die. He even felt that the flow of time in his eyes slowed down. With his concentration, the simple power armor that was originally difficult to control was used flexibly by him.

Although the operation still looked a bit clumsy, it seemed that it was due to his rapid thinking. He relied on his reaction speed to make up for the lack of proficiency. In the blink of an eye, he saw the sound of ping-pong. He held the alloy dagger to block all the long-range weapons flying towards him. In the horrified eyes of the enemy, he fired three shots with the assault rifle in his other hand. It was not a single shot, but a continuous shot with the trigger pulled, which happened to blow up the heads of all three people.

At this moment, with his blood boiling, he felt his mind was clear. He immediately gathered the other people who were still resisting, divided them into groups of three, covered each other's firepower, and continued to rush forward.

There were comrades around him who were stunned and turned around to escape, but they were also gathered by him.

At this time, they had already rushed through half of the enemy's formation. Retreating seemed to be a safe option. In fact, it was closer to death. Only by catching up with the large force in front and breaking out completely would there be a glimmer of hope.

Although a large number of people fell behind and died along the way, they actually managed to find a way to survive in the end.

Qu Siyuan felt incredible. He had never thought that he could do this. On the chaotic battlefield, he felt dizzy. Then he felt severe pain all over his body. When he woke up again, he was carried on a stretcher to a grassland, where they were collecting organic matter quickly. Small machines like harvesters were released. They weighed only a few hundred kilograms and could be pushed by one person wearing power armor. Bundles of grass were collected. Then they were highly compressed and packed. They were loaded into the space device.

The purpose of this group of people breaking out was to collect a large amount of organic matter and transport it back to the bacterial culture tanks, where they could produce a large amount of food to ensure the survival of the large population accommodated in the base.

Qu Siyuan thought he was dead. Unexpectedly, he not only survived, but was also temporarily promoted to an officer. He thought he didn't have the ability. He was just a shepherd on the edge of a small tribe. His biggest wish in life was to get married and have children. He had never been to school. He couldn't even read the manual of the power card. He never thought that he would become an officer one day.

However, he soon returned to the underground base. He proved his ability again. In the midst of the hail of bullets, he seemed to have entered an unknown state again because of the extreme danger. Then he relied on his keen intuition to command the dozens of people around him. He withstood the most violent wave of the enemy's attack and created an opportunity to break through the defense line. He persisted until the arrival of the reinforcements, and then he fell into a coma again.

He was not alone. Because the previous military operations were too brutal, many people had experienced near-death situations. Many of them had survived near-death situations and had initially mastered the ability to break out in crises.

After returning to the underground base, most people were still in a panic. Those who had exploded in the crisis were all promoted to non-commissioned officers. Someone explained to the other soldiers at the bottom that these people had actually unlocked the potential of the human body. Even ordinary people, after releasing their potential, could easily kill well-trained special forces soldiers. However, such potential release was very dangerous. It was almost only possible to do it at a critical moment of life and death.

But after going through the most dangerous first few times, this can become a normalized ability. You can maintain that almost superhuman state for a long time.

"There are equipment in the underground base that can help you transform into that super state. But the risk is also very high. There is almost a half mortality rate, and that requires you to be determined and have a strong desire to survive. If you have the idea of ​​seeking death and don't have enough will to survive, you will almost certainly die. The half mortality rate is an average value calculated after a large-scale test. Whether each person can survive depends more on your personal will to survive. If your will is above the average level, the probability of survival will be much greater. But if your will to survive is not enough, then don't try it."

A large group of people had gathered at the door to unlock the operating room. They all gathered here after hearing that they might also possess that super state. Although those who had participated in a mission would not need to participate in a second mission in a short period of time.

But anyone can see that in this difficult battle, they will sooner or later carry out the second, third, or even more missions. There will be more and more people in the underground base. If you don't want to die, you'd better make yourself stronger. The state after unlocking may be much worse than those powerful Gu Masters, but this is the most suitable state for survival. Many people have seen it on the battlefield before. Those who have unlocked their own qualities in all aspects may not improve much, but they can find the best way to survive on the battlefield and survive in the end.

However, after hearing that the unlocking surgery also has a mortality rate, many people are discouraged. It will take at least a month for them to perform this dangerous mission again. Wouldn't it be better to live a little longer? Why gamble with a mortality rate of nearly 50%?

However, quite a number of people stayed. Some of them thought that instead of betting on themselves being among the 20 to 30 people who survived the next mission, it would be better to take a gamble now. As long as they could complete the unlocking operation and have that superhuman combat instinct, the probability of surviving the next mission would be as high as 90%. There would be more than one mission in the future. Even if the cold winter came, they would probably have to continue to go out to collect supplies. If they wanted to survive for a long time, they would have to spread it out again and again. The probability of survival would still be higher after unlocking.

In addition to those who wanted to survive, more people who stayed behind wanted revenge. They were forcibly captured before being driven to the underground base. In the process, their families were inevitably broken up, and their wives and children were separated. The enemies of these people were among those who besieged the underground base. Before, they had no power and no possibility of revenge. So they could only endure and live in humiliation. But now there is a possibility of gaining power and a possibility of leading the army to avenge themselves, so with a mere 50% chance of death, these people are completely willing to take a gamble.

All those who have completed the unlocking operation can obtain more cultivation resources. There are more equipment to choose from. It is even said that they can directly obtain the Dao marks of others, thus directly having the combat power of the second or even third level. This is enough for many of them to take revenge.

There are certainly some people in this world who cannot tell who is the enemy and who is the safe. They hate the underground base that sent them to the battlefield. But more people can still tell clearly that it is those outsiders who sent them to die. It is precisely because the underground base needs to accommodate them that it must regularly send people to perform difficult tasks and go out to collect resources.

Ultimately they are fighting for their own survival, and to stay alive some of them must risk death.

Although the overall proportion of people who choose to participate in the unlocking surgery is very low, the total number is still large if the population base is large enough. On this day alone, more than 10,000 people have signed up to participate.

They were screened through elimination after strict training. Only those with strong willpower were eligible to participate in the unlocking surgery.

Because the conditions in the underground base were limited, there weren't that many medical devices or high-tech electronic equipment to monitor people's brain waves and other reactions, so the training became extremely simple and crude, just a test of their willpower and their tolerance to negative sensations such as pain.

Each person participating in the selection has a button in front of them, and their bodies are covered with electrodes for electrical stimulation. The electrodes will discharge at a voltage that will not cause permanent damage, stimulating the nerves to transmit pain signals, and the intensity of the electric shock will gradually increase. They can press a button at any time to decide when to stop.

This is a rather crude way of testing one's willpower. If one cannot even bear a certain level of pain, then it is basically impossible for one to survive the unlocking operation. Those who cannot pass this test should not waste their lives.

In this round of testing alone, about 30% of the people were screened out. Their willpower is far from enough. They need more training, or they need to set more firm and ambitious goals for themselves before they can pass the test.

The rest of the people, after a brief physiological adjustment, participated in the unlocking operation that could be described as disregarding human life. They were betting on the 50% chance of survival. The underground base needed enough elite fighters, so the refugees who were taken in had to show their own value in order to survive together.

[To be continued]

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