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The ice and snow beside him slid down, slapping the faces of the two people, some painful, the speed of the slide became faster and faster, very thrilling, fortunately, the slide did not last long, 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. Both of them were extremely calm, especially Shang Qiu, who fell all the way and did not let out a scream, but the hand around Xu Le's neck was extremely tight.

Xu Le's brows twisted slightly, he straightened up with some difficulty, put Shang Qiu down, and glanced at the dark environment around him vigilantly, not noticing the existence of any danger, and then took out the light stick from his arm pocket and twisted it with a click.

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 unexpectedly illuminated, and the two of them faintly saw countless dense gray cloth bags stacked 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 due to the underground space and geomagnetic storms, so he put his mind at ease and shouted to the system in a low voice: "Safety, don't worry, the distance between the underground is about 6.4 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 MXT first, why didn't the mecha call the police, if it is because the mecha we sat on was seriously damaged, the first two MXTs did not call the police." ”

"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. This underground space is built on top of natural ice rock, so the MXT naturally does not sound an 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 extended 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 were 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 the corpses that had already been frozen, just about ten meters in front of him, there were probably at least hundreds of corpses, including old people, children with frightened eyes, half-naked women, and young men with ice flower-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 was piled on top, gently rubbed it twice, and said to him, "It's the wolf latex explosives 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 was still with her eyes open after death, 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 Empire has hated the glory of the Federation's charter the most, and they have never wanted to crack the secrets of the Federation's charter, and the chip behind the neck of the Federation's captives is naturally their most important trophy. Although after a long period of experimentation, the Imperial side confirmed that there was no way to obtain the technology they needed through these chips, this bloody and cruel method became a reserved habit of the Emperor [***] 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 rod 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 and stared at the corpse of the emperor [***] in confusion, wondering why he appeared here. Bai Yulan lowered her head slightly and said: "Wolf Hao latex decomposes for at least a long time, the military uniform of this emperor [***] official is old-fashioned, it seems that this massacre 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 a booklet.

"What is this?"

"It should be this officer's notebook, and his rank should be quite high, so that he can use this fiber paper extravagantly, and be careful when turning it, it may be broken at any time. ”

There is nothing surprising about the first part of the book, about 90 percent, it is about the mood of this officer named Arthur who is far away from the homeland of the Empire, the boring life of seven years of interstellar voyage, and the words are full of a kind of boredom, and then he tells about his battle life on planet 5460, and the 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 slaughter the commoners of the Commonwealth was killed by his own army. Xu Le closed the notebook, 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 on both 5460 and 163, but the number of these graves and remains does not match the population before the Imperial Expeditionary Force took over.

The federal political axe and the upper echelons of the military have already 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.

(To be continued)