Chapter 187 The Final Battle of Crotan (End)

What the Marquis of Kane needs are heroes who can serve the country loyally, not cowards who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Aldrich looked at Aros, who took the elevator to attack the interior of the ship, killed all the way, and went straight to the bridge command center. He took a deep breath, and suddenly there was a sneering smile on his face. But I don't know whether to laugh at the naivety of the other party, or my own incompetence.

"Lord Kane, in the next life, Aldridge will be loyal to you again!" He pressed the touch interface under the armrest of the seat, entered a few character passwords, and then pressed the vermilion button in the center without hesitation.

"No...it's not good. The energy supply exceeds the threshold, the engine unit is overloaded, and the main operating system is unresponsive. If this continues, it will explode!"

The head of the power group suddenly stood up and reported loudly. Everyone on the bridge was startled, and quickly turned their heads to look at Aldrich. It so happened that the governor just retracted his hand and gently closed the lid.

There was no response or instruction, so he just sat down and leaned on the sofa, quietly watching the temperature reading of the reactor rise and rise again.

Even a mentally handicapped person would probably understand after seeing such a scene. He was crazy, and even activated the mothership's self-destruct program. It doesn't matter if he wants to die, but he actually wants to drag everyone to be buried with him.

Even if Aldridge is Governor Croatan, their immediate boss. However, at this moment, facing such a situation, some people have already ignored their duties and quietly moved towards the door.

Aldridge turned a blind eye and remained silent, quietly watching the temperature indicator rise and rise again.

More and more people left their posts and quickly rushed towards the door, eventually turning into a riot. Most of the young officers and staff rushed out of the bridge and ran towards the outer escape pod. Few people are willing to be buried with him. For young people, especially these young people who have a small status and don't worry about food and clothing, it's important to live. Military merit is far more attractive than any honor.

It is his business that the governor is willing to die for the country. But... please don't drag others into the water, according to the current situation. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that the Northern Expedition has failed, the mothership cannot be kept, and even Aldrich himself will become a prisoner of the rebels. After that, the entire Croatan star will fall into a leaderless situation, and a revolutionary uprising will sweep across the entire continent of Odin , Celebrities and rich people will tremble, and nobles, politicians, and military officers will flee in panic. The chaos will sweep the entire world like the autumn wind.

In such a situation, the social order will collapse. The law would become a dead letter, and even military discipline would cease to exist. Go to tm's loyalty to serve the country! Only a fool will be foolish and loyal to the end.

The younger officers fled completely, and only a few elderly staff officers stayed where they were, motionless, together with Aldridge.

Quietly watching the temperature indicator rise and rise again.

They are old, if they stay and die generously with the Governor, when the Marquis Lord's fleet wipes out the bandits and reoccupy Croatan, they will be named heroes, which will benefit their families and even future generations. on the contrary. As high-ranking generals in the military, if they flee in fear of death, what awaits them will be the sanctions of the military court and their descendants.

Wealth, power, and status are always a double-edged sword. In a harmonious and prosperous age, maybe you will have a comfortable life and generous treatment. The superhuman sense of superiority can even bully the weak and play with women at will. But... Once the rebellion came, those low-level weak people who suppressed endless anger and long-term resentment in their hearts. They will tear down your fortress, overthrow your throne, trample your face that you used to only know how to look down on, and even blow your head off with a single shot, or push you to the guillotine, in front of those who you can't even look at Take a look at the faces of the ants and cut off your head in exchange for their cheers and support.

In the past, when you went to high-end clubs, fashionable ladies, beautiful wives and beautiful concubines would become the playthings of the mob, so that even if you went to hell, the top of your head would be full of greenery.

The higher you stand, the harder you fall! Everyone understands this truth. Therefore, dying in battle is the best choice right now. At the very least, the empire will take good care of their offspring.

"Rumble..." There was a muffled sound coming from under his feet, and the ship shook violently.

The temperature indicator bar was on the verge of an extreme value, and the explosion spread from the engine room to the entire power system.

Aldrich sat quietly on the chair, his face had returned to normal. The moment before death might be a good time to meditate on the meaning of life.

On the other side, Tang Fang passed the mothership status information obtained by Euglena to Aros. The veteran who was determined to capture the governor alive couldn't help but cursed, turned around and went back the same way.

The mothership is already in chaos, the explosion is like a gale passing through the border, spreading rapidly upwards from the lower space, all kinds of sundries are blown up, the corpses of the crew members are scattered on the corridor in twos and threes, and some crew members who were blown up by the air waves were heavily injured. Crash against the bulkhead and be engulfed in a flood of flames.

The young officers on the bridge had already rushed to the escape cabin, however, something happened that made them desperate. The power supply to the escape system was artificially cut off.

It was the governor who did it, it must be him, he wants everyone to be buried with him!

One young officer after another grabbed the communicator on the bulkhead and cursed Aldrich with the most vicious words they thought. Fear of death and despair of life made them forget their usual awe of the Governor. Psychologically, the resentment and anger accumulated for a long time completely broke out.

Aldrich was still sitting on his noble leather chair with a solemn face, his expression was indifferent, his eyes were like a blue lake, so calm that there was not even a ripple.

The empire does not need cowards, and the marquis does not need deserters. He has already chosen a path for these people --- to die together, to honor the "Celtic" holy sword, die for the empire, and the time has come to be loyal to the marquis.

The old staff officers next to them showed their faces unbearably, they were still young, and some of them were descendants of old people.

"My lord governor, isn't it too cruel to do this? We old guys have lived for so long, and we will die when we die, but...but they are still young." Finally, a staff officer couldn't see it and left Step forward and say something.

Aldrich tilted his head and gave him a sideways glance, narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his right hand, and snapped his index finger on the trigger of the "Silver Knight".

"Boom." A gunshot rang out.

The staff officer's head suddenly burst like a watermelon falling from a height of 100 meters. "Boom" the half-headed body hit the floor, and red and white things spilled all over the floor.

The stinky blood and brains splashed on the faces of several staff officers who wanted to speak out, and they took a few steps back in a "thud thump thump" manner.

"Do you have something to say?" Aldridge swept across several people with a calm expression.

"Boom!"

At the moment when the faces of the high-ranking officers became extremely miserable, with a tremor, the hull began to tip over to one side, and the lights of various electronic equipment flickered and then dimmed.

The entire bridge was dim, only the dark red light of the emergency lights shone on everyone's faces, which were as red as blood.

...

"rumble……"

The entire continent was trembling, a huge cloud of dust covered several kilometers of the sky, frozen soil and ice shards fell like raindrops, hitting the armor on the surface of the hull with a "crackling" sound.

The sound of the explosion lasted for a long time, and the tumbling flames were like a fountain, sending large groups of black smoke into the sky.

The nearly 800-meter hull of the "Skyd Platney" No. 1 mothership collapsed on the ice field, the frozen snow melted, and the ground "hissed" with flames. The thick armor layer of the mothership cracked, the flames continued, and the smoke billowed, filling a sea of ​​smoke within a range of several kilometers.

The sound of guns and guns gradually stopped, and sporadic flames "beeped" in the permafrost on the ten thousand miles of ice sheet, and the extreme wind stirred up the smoke clouds, which quickly drifted into the distance. Faint groans and screams floated by, and occasionally there was a wolf howl or two, which were the excited cheers of the direwolves who smelled blood.

Tang Fang stood on the back of the eyeworm, looking calmly at the huge "coffin" of the governor, at the dots of fire on the vast snow field, at the mottled muddy soil layer full of blood and steel debris, silently. language.

Aros jumped from a king worm to his side and whispered, "It's over."

Tang Fang glanced at the red-eye in the distance, and nodded at Hao Sen who was sweeping and bombing the wreckage of the No. 2 mothership, "Yes, it's over..."

Aros patted him on the shoulder: "I know what you are thinking? Kill or be killed, you can only choose one. Life may be a philosophy, but living is never thoughtful. In the face of killing, either Kill, stop killing, then live, go on. Or throw down your weapons and let yourself be mermaid."

Tang Fang nodded: "I know..."

Aros turned and jumped on the other eyeworm: "Let's go, remember, people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves."

"You old guy, pretending to be deep." Tang Fang shook his head with a wry smile, and then looked down at the huge wreckage of the mothership. With a thought, he retracted all the king worms into the system space, and then directed the eye worms under his feet towards the missile base fly away.

About 3 minutes later, Howson's furious roar came from the communicator: "Tang Fang, Aros, you two bastards, how can I go back when you are gone?"

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In this battle, the three races invested a total of over a thousand troops, and the total population reached the upper limit of 3,000. Excluding the lost combat units, the remaining troops of the three clans are as follows according to post-war statistics.

Zerg: Overlord x76, Overseer x30, Puppy x658, Queen x87, Cockroach x151, Spine Crawler x88, Population 805/850.

Protoss: Zealot x268, Stalker x57, Dragon Knight x64, Mechanical Sentinel x52, population 882/1000.

Terran: Machine Gunner x189, Reaper x8, Marauder x23, Firebat x16, Medic x26, Hellion Chariot x29, Siege Tank x67, Viking Fighter x119, Medical Transporter x19, Population 753/1000.