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

Faced with the intensive artillery fire 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 spewed out, leaving white flames of death and passing through the Arasaka unit's flight formation at an astonishing speed.

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

Rumble——!
In an instant, a substance composed of brown mud, blue flesh and blood, and various dregs appeared.

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 flesh quickly rose up in the rainforest.

Then, a terrifying blood rain began to fall everywhere in the dense forest, accompanied by the falling of blood clots.

The situation on the battlefield has completely reversed!
"What kind of monsters are these sky people?!"

Looking at the tragic scene before them, the Na'vi, who had just been cheering for the impending victory, suddenly had their pupils shrink and their eyes filled with shock and fear.

It was obvious that the fire bombardment of the Astartes' flying reinforcements had brought them a deep psychological shock.

Including the Na'vi chieftain Etukon, they all stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

"Okay! Brothers, start the counterattack!"

"Kill these alien bastards!"

"Leave no one behind! Kill them all!"

"..."

The Arasaka soldiers, who were almost wiped out in an ambush by the Na'vi natives, shouted excitedly after seeing the situation reversed, and controlled the fleet to counterattack.

Under the guidance of the Iron Hands Regiment's flying array, the soldiers of the Arasaka division quickly reorganized their firepower network.

Then continue to move quickly towards the destination, the "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 sir!"

At this moment, the observer who had restored the communication device promptly reported to Takemura Goro:
"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 fighting here had actually alarmed the headquarters command.

This is enough to prove that what V said is true, they really want to insert the matrix into the "Spirit Tree" and extract Eva, the planetary consciousness life of Pandora!

"Take it right away!"

Goro Takemura did not dare to hesitate for even a moment. If their communication signal was interrupted again and they missed the instructions from headquarters, it would be troublesome.

"Okay sir."

Immediately, after receiving specific instructions, the observers carried out some operations and immediately connected the communication between the Arasaka airship and the Infinity headquarters command.

The next second, the figure that appeared on the holographic screen was none other than Li Ang, who was sitting on the central console of the main ship.

At this moment, Li Ang was full of energy. He looked at Takemura Goro with sharp eyes and gave him new instructions in a solemn voice:

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

Li Ang sent this conversation to Goro Takemura specifically to prevent the Spirit Tree Area from being too crowded and bloated, which would prevent V from successfully completing the task.

When it comes to the task of extracting "Eva" using the matrix, the biggest factor for failure may not necessarily be external reasons. Instead, we may worry that internal competition for credit may lead to the failure of the entire plan.

Therefore, there must not be too many interference factors in the Spirit Tree Area, and Leon must create a good task environment for V.

"Yes! I will do it."

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

After that, Takemura Goro opened the internal communication of the Arasaka fleet and clearly conveyed Leon's instructions to the soldiers in each department:
"Attention all Arasaka Division personnel, friendly forces are carrying out a secret combat mission. Do not approach the spirit tree area, and only stay on the periphery for defense."

“Repeat that again…!”

Soon, Arasaka's fleet and ground troops responded positively:

【Team A has received it. 】

【Team B understands.】

【learn! 】

As the order was issued, commanders of various units also issued corresponding instructions, asking the soldiers to slow down and stay outside.

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

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, each Scorpion fighter opened the bottom hatch, and nearly a thousand AST infantrymen equipped with heavy mechanical exoskeletons quickly completed the airborne landing via steel cables.

The whole process was done in one go!
In order to avoid harming the spiritual tree as much as possible, these soldiers will resort to hand-to-hand combat with the Na'vi natives to eliminate the enemy forces that hinder them.

boom! ! !
Deafening explosions resounded outside the Spirit Tree area. The precise bombings dropped by the Iron Hands Regiment almost razed the war zone outside the Spirit Tree to the ground.

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

The fully armed warriors of the Iron Hands 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 warrior's bones and body are as strong as a city wall. With a layer of hard power armor, he is like a steam locomotive running at full speed.

The Na'vi, a blue-skinned monkey as skinny as a thin dog, could not even use his weapon to block the giant sword of the Astartes warrior. Just a touch of his majestic body would make the Na'vi fall apart!
At this moment, the Na'vi people could only watch as the devil army led by V approached their sacred tree step by step, approaching the home that their tribe had worshipped for generations.

"no no!!"

"Tree of Souls! It's over, we are all finished!"

"These damn sky people, they destroyed our tribal roots!"

"..."

The Na'vi people, who had luckily escaped and were hiding outside the range of the explosion, saw that their homes were about to be destroyed by the terrifying outsiders.

Everyone had a painful expression on their face, and they all knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands. Some Na'vi even banged their heads hard on the ground.

As if begging the warriors of the Astartes Legion not to knock down their spiritual trees.

However, their complaints received no response from anyone.

This scene was clearly captured by a drone hidden in the rainforest, and the real-time footage was uploaded to the Infinity's main ship.

Seeing the Na'vi people below all showing expressions of agony, Li Ang couldn't help but frown, as if he had noticed something strange.

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

Just then, Leon turned to his secretary Lucy and asked her a question.

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

Every gesture and movement of hers reveals her absolute confidence and intellectual elegance.

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

After a while, she gave her answer:
"Drug addiction group!"

After he finished speaking, Leon expressed his agreement with Lucy's accurate judgment, because he and Lucy had the same idea.

When they saw the spirit tree was about to be in danger, the fear displayed by these Na'vi people was more like the withdrawal reaction when they had become dependent or addicted to something and suddenly stopped using it!
This shows that "Eva"'s control over the Na'vi people may not include mental and consciousness brainwashing.

Maybe there are physical effects too!

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

Capable of achieving the ultimate dual interference effect on the mind and body, this so-called "Eva" is simply controlling the Na'vi people like puppets!
In other words, as long as Leon's matrix can extract "Eva" into the server, he will never worry about whether the Na'vi will rebel against the company.

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

Li Ang smiled and said, this is the best proof that choice is always more important than hard work.

If he invaded Pandora in the conventional way of colonial war, he would definitely encounter strong resistance from the Na'vi people, just like the RDA Energy Company in the original novel.

Whether or not you can win is still secondary.

The most crucial thing is that once the war lasts too long, there is no guarantee that "Eva" will not use other means to brainwash the company's soldiers.

If a group of brainwashed traitors emerge from within the company, it would be like alien werewolves killing each other!
If internal strife broke out in such a huge fleet of starships, it would inevitably cause a collapse even more terrifying than a defeat in war.

Such a devastating outcome is definitely not something Li Ang can bear.

Even if he has the ability to go back to the level, there is no guarantee that going back will bring him any other negative impact.

Therefore, for a high-level Paradox player like Li Ang who pursues perfection and is impeccable, if he can complete the game with one life, he will never use the so-called life-saving card to lower his status!

……

Here, the ground forces that had completed the occupation of the Lingshu area began to arrest the Na'vi people in this area one by one.

David Martinez, a member of the vanguard team at the forefront of the Astartes Legion, pointed his power sword at the remnants of the Namei army.

"Attention all Na'vi!"

"Now lie on the ground and surrender immediately, otherwise we will take lethal measures against you. You have five seconds to think."

"Five, four, three... kill!"

Before the terrified Na'vi could react, David chopped at the opponent's forehead.

Along with a dull sound of a skull crushing, the frightened Na'vi was killed by David with a single sword.

“Swish, swish, swish!!”

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

In an instant, the spiritual tree area was crowded with people.

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

Since these alien beasts cannot understand their own situation and do not know what human intentions are, they can only die under their swords.

Phew! !
As the Astartes warriors swung the power swords, the skin, muscles, and bones of the Na'vi were chopped into pieces, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Seeing this scene, the Arasaka soldiers standing outside the spiritual tree area were all stunned. Their wide-open pupils quickly shrank and their upper and lower lips couldn't help but tremble.

This was the first time for them to watch the warriors of the legendary "Iron Hands" Astartes Chapter at such a close distance!

It is rumored that in order to become an Astartes warrior, the most elite corporate soldier of the LA Alliance, one must undergo a number of extremely strict selections and tests.

Not only do they need to have high IQ and good physical fitness, they also have to constantly endure the test of life and death.

It can be said that every Astartes warrior is the most accomplished individual killer in LA Company!
Behind every glory, there must be scars. Looking at those powerful and ruthless warriors, the soldiers of the Arasaka Division envied and feared their majestic majesty.

"I go……"

"These guys are really tall."

"That's right. They are the strongest military force in the giant company. The value of just one soldier is as much as a thousand of us!"

"..."

After witnessing the Astartes warriors' decisive and ruthless behavior, the Arasaka soldiers all looked surprised and sighed.

One of the Arasaka soldiers was even more daring. He actually came directly to the edge of the spirit tree area in front of everyone and asked one of the Astartes warriors:
"Hey man, you really don't want to leave anyone alive."

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

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

"We gave these Na'vi a chance to live, but they didn't surrender within five seconds. Since they insist on fighting to the death, we can only be responsible for sending them to hell."

Hearing the warrior's shocking remarks, the Arasaka soldiers couldn't help but wonder "WTF" in their hearts, but after thinking about it carefully.

This seems to be the case!
So he nodded and continued to ask, trying to open up the conversation: "By the way, thank you for your rescue. It's a relief that you came so quickly, otherwise we would have been completely wiped out."

"It's just that... why are you all just 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 tightly, as if they were conducting some secret experiment.

This time, facing the questions of the Arasaka soldiers, the Astartes warriors did not give any response.

In fact, even he didn't know why the warriors of the Iron Hands Chapter were guarding the spirit tree area.

Perhaps only a chapter leader like V knows the real reason.

Seeing that the Astartes warrior stopped talking, the Arasaka soldiers also tactfully shut their mouths and stood obediently outside the spirit tree area, patrolling and conducting reconnaissance.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Arasaka department and the warriors of the Astartes regiment were stationed in this spiritual tree area together.

A few hundred meters away in a dense forest, a female Na'vi was heartbroken when she saw the tragic scene of her fellow tribesmen with their heads and bodies separated and their flesh and blood blurred.

“No… No! Lona… Opara is dead, all dead, and the spirit tree will be destroyed by them…!”

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

Just when she wanted to rush out and exchange places with these sky people, a strong airflow suddenly came from behind her.

It turned out that it was the Na'vi chieftain Etukon who secretly landed in this forest riding the legendary beast Phantom Beast.

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

"Hey! Neytiri, cheer up!"

Etukon glared at Neytiri and stopped her from rushing forward and foolishly seeking her death.

"Listen carefully, 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 preserve the spark of the tribe's revival. Do you understand?"

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

Since they have no way to deal with this group of well-equipped and large-scale sky people, they will call more tribal warriors!

He just 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 indeed the time to retreat and look for 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 flame and instantly pierced through the Phantom Beast.

“Ho ho—!”

In an instant, the intense pain caused the Phantom Beast to howl in pain uncontrollably. It flapped its wings hard and roared angrily towards the sky.

"What……!"

Seeing that there were sky people soldiers nearby, Etukon didn't have time to think. He immediately pushed Neytiri to the ground, then drew his bow and arrow, looking around vigilantly.

"Boom! Boom!"

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

Bang-!
Etukang was shot in the chest and head.

Under the huge impact force, his chest seemed to be embedded with a heavy artillery shell, and his sternum and ribs were all annihilated into debris in the blink of an eye.

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

Pfft!
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 horrifying scene, Neytiri, who had just regained her confidence, instantly lost her mind and couldn't help but break down and cry.

"No! No! Etukon!"

Neytiri rushed over and hugged the dead body tightly. Her long hoarse voice was screaming with blood.

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 from the nearby rainforest.

They approached the grief-stricken Neytiri slowly like majestic gods.

The leading Astartes warrior was Jack Wells. He carried a heavy sniper rifle and spoke through the built-in communication device in the metal skull mask:

"This is Jack Wells, captain of the Iron Hands advance team. We have killed the chief of the Na'vi people. There are no more threats in the Spirit Tree area."

As early as when Etukon came here riding the Phantom Beast, the drones in the rainforest had detected all his movements.

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

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 smoothly and there are no abnormalities."

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

"Looks like we're almost off work."

After that, Jack raised his sniper rifle and pointed it at Neytiri, warning her loudly, "Hey! Surrender now, or you'll end up like this guy."

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

Obviously, at this moment, Neytiri has been so shocked by all these changes that she has lost the 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 intention of resisting, Jack waved his hand and asked the soldier beside him to use a tranquilizer gun to capture him.

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

"Roar--!"

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

It stared with its scarlet eyes wide open, as if it wanted to rush up and eat Jack alive.

But before it could struggle to get up again, the Astartes warriors around Jack immediately fired a high concentration of anesthetic at it.

With a loud “boom…!”, the Phantom Beast, which was under the strain of its physical 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 retracted his heavy sniper rifle and turned to instruct the soldiers of the advance team:
"Attention all departments, continue to patrol this area. No one is allowed to let down their guard until the mission status is lifted."

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

【clear! 】

【Message received! 】

【…】

Responses from various departments immediately came through the advance team's internal communications.

……

Spirit tree area!
At this moment, the soldiers of V's regiment have surrounded the most core spiritual tree. Facing this towering spiritual 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 assistants and slowly approached the roots of the spiritual tree.

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

"This is V. I'm going to start accessing the matrix now. Headquarters received this, please reply!"

V said to the headquarters via the communication device.

[Headquarters has received it, you can continue the mission! ]

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

Before the matrix's access line could completely touch the spirit tree, the cable seemed to come alive and pierced into the spirit tree unexpectedly.

Phew! !
Seeing this strange scene, V's pupils couldn't help but shrink. He didn't understand whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

And when the matrix was 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 ripples appearing on the ground of the spirit tree from the inside out, as if the surface of a lake was wrinkled by the wind.

Just when V was wondering if he had failed to access the area, the Spirit Tree Area, which had been in turmoil just a moment ago, suddenly returned to calm, as if nothing had ever happened.

"What's going on? Is this mission over?!"

Looking at the matrix's neural cables, it seems that they have merged with the roots of the spirit tree.

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

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

They stood straight and motionless, afraid that any slight movement of theirs would interfere with the final outcome of the task.

Leon was at the main control console of the Infinity main ship in low-Earth orbit. They could only wait until the latest orders were sent to the ground.

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

Just when everyone's hearts were beating so hard that they were about to burst into their throats, the order from the flagship command center was finally conveyed:
["Eva" has been captured, mission completed! ]

(End of this chapter)