The ice and snow beside him slid down, and the faces of the two people who split their heads and covered their faces were a little painful, and the speed of the slide was getting faster and faster, which was very thrilling, but fortunately, the slide was not long, and his feet fell to the ground, making a muffled sound.

This snow cave was not too deep, Xu Le's legs were still sore, and he knelt down, but his arms were still tightly hugging Shang Qiu. The two of them were extremely calm, especially Shang Qiushen, who didn't let out a scream, but the hand around Hele's neck was extremely tight.

Xu Le's brows twisted slightly, he straightened up with some difficulty, put Shang Qiu down, glanced at the dark environment around him vigilantly, and did not notice any danger, so he took out the light rod from his arm pocket and twisted it with a thud.

A faint light instantly illuminated the surroundings of the cave, and it was quickly judged from a fast-setting concrete wall beside him that it was a man-made space. This space is huge, and the brightness of the military light rod is not endless, and the two people faintly saw countless dense gray cloth bags piled up on the ground in the distance, guessing that it should be some stored materials:

Xu Le glanced at his watch for the first time, and confirmed that the signal contact with the ground was not interrupted because of the underground space and the ground bandits, so he put his mind at ease and shouted to the system in a low voice: "Safety, don't worry, the underground distance is about meters;

Shang Qiu fluttered at the ice and snow stubble on his body and asked: "You have obviously installed an echo positioning device on the T, why didn't the mecha call the police, if it was because the mecha we sat on was seriously damaged, the lights in the front two did not alarm......

"This was originally the exploratory shaft system used by the Donglin Mine, but I changed it, and now this system will only alert the regular space of the human structure. In this case, the underground space is based on the top surface of natural ice rock, and MXT naturally does not sound the alarm. ”

Xu Le picked up the light rod, glanced at the dry and cold rock face above, and frowned: "The rock wall should be very thin, because of the long-term cold, the ice and snow layer above has also torn a weak force line, so we will fall." ”

"Why this change?"

"I don't know how many natural cavities there are under the entire glacier area, if the Federation mecha even has to call the police for the natural cavities, then we don't have to wait for the Imperial people to fight, we can't take a step ourselves. ”

Xu Le explained, while listening to the sound from above, Magnolia should be preparing for the zipline at this time. The air in this underground space is not dangerous except for being dry and cold, so he is not in a hurry, he picks up the light rod and shines it into the distance, his eyebrows suddenly wrinkled, and he always feels that those gray things look a little weird.

For the sake of safety, the two of them did not move, and stretched the light closer, and found that under the wall not far to the right, there were also many gray things piled up messily.

Suddenly, two subtle reflections appeared between the gray objects, Xu Le squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, and finally recognized that it should be...... A pair of eyes.

It was a pair of eyes frozen by the bitter cold, full of horror and sadness before death, and around the eyes, after careful distinction, it was a very small face, the skin on the face was all covered by dust, and only the brittle-looking hairs outlined the outline of the face.

Xu Le's eyes widened suddenly, and he looked around from the little girl's corpse, and finally saw that these gray objects that had been piled up like garbage were not materials, but ...... , countless corpses dumped on top of each other.

In a dark underground cold cave, suddenly seeing so many corpses, Shang Qiu, who was still calm when he fell into the deep cave before, suddenly turned extremely pale.

Xu Le knew that she was frightened, so he quickly took her into his arms and buried her face in his chest to prevent her from seeing this miserable picture again.

Shang Qiu's body was trembling slightly, Xu Le patted it lightly twice, those small eyes were extremely round, and his gaze was so warm and indescribably cold, sliding over those gray corpses.

There was a sound of ropes above, Magnolia slipped down the zipline, and naturally followed Xu Le's gaze, and his body was also stiffened by this picture, they were all iron-blooded men who had experienced life and death on the battlefield, and they had seen no matter how miserable their deaths were, but it was the first time they had seen so many corpses, piled up in such a dignified place, the light was from near and far, and the place where it was illuminated was a piece of gray, and it was impossible to count how many people were buried in this empty underground space.

Probably didn't hear an echo, and a few more people slid down from the ground, and in shock, they hurriedly sent Shang Qiu, who was trembling, up according to Xu Le's instructions.

With a snort, the high-brightness lighting was pinned into the wall, and the light in the underground space suddenly brightened, and it could be seen more clearly, and everyone couldn't help but gasp, and their expressions became shocked and confused.

Xu Le squatted down and began to check these frozen corpses, just about ten meters in front of him, there were probably at least hundreds of corpses, including old people, children with frightened eyes, women with half bodies, and young men with ice flowers-like wounds on their bodies, all of which were covered with a thick layer of ash.

Magnolia picked up a piece of ash from the body of a woman who had been piled up, gently rubbed it twice, and said to him: "It is a wolf hair latex explosive used by the Empire, which has been frozen for a long time and decomposed into gray powder. It seems that they were going to burn all these dead to ashes at the beginning, but for some reason, they didn't finish it in the end. ”

Xu Le nodded, and silently turned over the little girl who still had her eyes open after death, and because of the long-term cold relationship, all the dead were almost glued together, and this action was a little difficult to do, especially the sound of those flesh and skin tearing, so that the hearts of him and the officers and soldiers behind him couldn't help but tremble.

"It's our people. Xu Le stared at the blood hole on the back of the little girl's neck, and said in a voice without a trace of emotion: "You check the other corpses." ”

Sure enough, the corpses piled up here had a blood hole frozen in ice at the back of their necks, revealing Bai Sensen's cervical vertebrae, leaving traces of brutal destruction on the joints, and the chips in the vertebral cavity had disappeared without a trace.

Since the tragic First World War, the Imperial people hate the glory of the Federation's charter the most, they don't want to crack the secrets of the Federation's charter all the time, and the chip behind the neck of the Federation's captives is naturally their most important trophy Although after a long time of experiments, the Imperial side confirmed that there is no way to obtain the technology they need through these chips, but this bloody and cruel method has become a reserved habit of the imperial team.

"It looks like it's all our people here. Xu Le stood up, looked at the endless gray in the darkness, and thought of not knowing how many compatriots had died here, and his mood was unprecedentedly heavy and gloomy.

"I found an exception. Lan Xiaolong waved his light stick not far away, pointed to a corpse in front of him with a complicated expression and said: "This guy is from the Empire, because he is wearing the military uniform of the Empire, and his neck is intact. ”

Everyone walked over, staring at the corpse of the emperor ** in confusion, not knowing why he appeared here. Magnolia lowered her head slightly and said: "The wolf ** glue decomposes for at least a long time, the military uniform of this emperor ** official is old-fashioned, it seems that this screen killing happened many years ago, due to the dry and cold environment of this place, so ...... The remains are all fairly well preserved. ”

Xu Le didn't speak, just stared at the corpse of the emperor ** official and was silent, and the right finger on the side of his leg trembled slightly, until Lan Xiaolong stood up and handed over the booklet.

"What is this?"

"It should be the officer's diary, and he should be of a fairly high rank to be able to use this fiber paper extravagantly, and be careful when turning it over, as it may be broken at any time. ”

There is nothing surprising about this diary, about 90% of the first day, it is about the mood of the officer named Arthur who is far away from the homeland of the Empire, the boring life of seven years of interstellar retorting, and the words are full of a kind of boredom, and then he tells about his fighting life on planet 5460, and nostalgia for the rows of maple trees in his hometown, until the last page tells about the eve of this massacre...... His mental activity.

"An imperial officer who was unwilling to massacre the commoners of the Federation was killed by his own army. Xu Le closed the diary, looked at the corpse under his feet, and was silent for a long time.

"It's not surprising that there is occasionally one more person in the animal, but that doesn't detract from the definition that they are animals. Magnolia's eyes were cold, and she replied.

"It's hard to locate it right now, but we still have to record it. Xu Le looked at Gu Xifeng and said, "Because a memorial hall will be built here in the future." ”

"Understood. Gu Xifeng replied in a serious tone.

Since the victorious military operation, the federal army has launched a major counteroffensive on the three fallen stars, but the troops have basically not found any living federal citizens in these enemy-occupied areas, and after great efforts, they have only found some wild graves, and occasionally there are very few remains. Seven groups have found some in 5460 and Pengshang, but the number of these graves and remains does not match the population statistics before the occupation by the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

The federal government and the military upper echelons have long had some very bad speculations, fearing that those civilians have already died in the secret massacre of the Imperial Expeditionary Force. Today, the occasional discovery of the new 17th Division testifies to this tragic fact.

Xu Le looked at the countless dusty corpses in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and after a moment of silence, he took off his military hat, and the soldiers behind him also took off their military hats or helmets, and everyone lined up to salute and bid farewell to these compatriots who had been dead for many years very seriously.

(I was already in a tangled mood, but after writing this chapter, I was even more entangled and depressed)