Chapter 195: All-Star Investigation Team! Nuclear Disaster! Strange Cause of Death!

Seeing that the Astartes warriors present all expressed their puzzled doubts, Morgan Blackhand felt that this was understandable.

After all, before this, he had repeatedly thought that this was a aircraft on a reconnaissance mission, and some malfunction had occurred, or there was some special magnetic field interference in the airspace.

It was not until Morgan sent out more than a dozen reconnaissance aircraft to conduct a more comprehensive and detailed investigation, as well as to shoot and conduct reconnaissance from other airspace angles.

He firmly believed in such an outrageous and strange situation.

"I know you don't want to believe this, but from the information we have so far, the hotspot that suddenly disappeared and reappeared is real."

Judging from what Morgan Blackhand described, the suspicious heat source seemed like some kind of flashing light that would "light up" from time to time.

Such a strange and bizarre feature immediately aroused V's vigilance.

If the information Morgan detected is true, there might really be some alternative alien life on this earth!

Perhaps one of the characteristics of this alien life is the ability to hide or control its own temperature freely to avoid enemy detection.

"It seems that the dirt on this alien earth is more powerful than I thought."

V thought to himself.

Here, Morgan Blackhand didn't care about the soldiers below or what they were thinking, and directly began to explain the mission of their trip.

"In short, the boss has attached great importance to this matter. The results of your subsequent investigation will directly affect our subsequent action plans."

"So I hope everyone can cheer up and complete this crucial exploration task!"

Seeing that Morgan had said so much, the Astartes warriors present also understood the importance of this matter and the actions to be completed next.

"Yes!"

The soldiers below responded in unison.

"No wonder the boss arranged for us to go there. It seems that this mission is really difficult and critical...!"

V could sense from Morgan's expression and words that this investigation might be the key to unlocking the suspicious heat source.

"In half an hour, a Skyhawk shuttle will take us to the suburbs of Sanaa."

While Morgan Blackhand explained the specific mission of this operation in detail to the soldiers below, he operated the holographic screen to present the terrain modeling of the Sanaa area.

"After I take you to Sana, I will remain hidden on the shuttle and remotely direct your every decision and action."

"Of course, the highest order is still based on the boss's orders."

After saying that, Morgan Blackhand enlarged the topographic map of Sana city several times.

"Your mission is to sneak into this city on foot and collect as much relevant intelligence and clues as possible."

"Everyone, do you have any questions now?"

Morgan raised his eyes and looked at the Astartes warriors present. At this moment, the answer he most wanted to hear was no objection, and then these warriors would carry out their mission without hesitation.

Fortunately, these most elite warriors from the "Iron Hands" Legion, after becoming aware of their mission, all said at the same time that there was no problem.

"very good!"

Morgan Blackhand smiled with satisfaction. He turned off the holographic screen in front of him and gave orders to the Astartes warriors below:
"Then from now on, you all go down and prepare yourself. Go to the logistics warehouse and take whatever equipment you want."

"Okay, disband!"

As soon as the words fell, the Astartes warriors immediately stood up and responded: "Yes!"

Immediately, Morgan picked up the black windbreaker hanging on the chair and left the small meeting room. He was going to report on his work to Leon.

In the conference room, V looked a little solemn as he watched Morgan's black hand walking away.

For some reason, he always felt that the next mission might be a hundred times more dangerous than the one he had carried out on Pandora!
"V, what are you worried about?"

Seeing V frowning slightly, looking as if facing a formidable enemy, Jack Wells, as a good brother, walked forward and asked with concern.

Jack and V have been life and death partners for many years, and Jack can guess most of what V is thinking.

"Are you worried that this operation might be dangerous?"

Jack smiled and put his arm around V's shoulders, saying nonchalantly, "There's nothing to worry about. It's just a place to investigate a heat source."

"We were able to crush even the Arasaka soldiers back then, and we were able to defeat the Na'vi a few years ago, let alone the Earthlings here."

Jack didn't take the flickering heat source that Morgan Blackhand mentioned seriously at all.

No matter how strong the humans here are, how could they be more powerful than these Space Marines?

It's totally impossible!
"Jack, I don't think things are that simple. I'm afraid we really have to be more cautious on this trip. It's better to be safe than sorry."

V thought more deeply about this than Jack.

The premise of being brave is to have fear in the heart, but V still firmly faces the fear in his heart. He is not afraid that something will happen to himself, but he does not want these good brothers to suffer.

"Jack, logically speaking, the heat source won't disappear quickly in a short period of time. With such an abnormal situation, I really doubt whether there is a so-called 'ghost' here."

From what Morgan just said, V could sense that his boss Leon knew that there was a dangerous life form here.

But he wasn't 100% sure, so he asked them to go and investigate it in person.

"Hey! How can such a fantasy be possible? If there really is such a thing as the underworld in this world, then those human rebels who died at our hands would have come here to seek revenge long ago."

Jack didn't care about the "ghost" that V mentioned. After reminding V to prepare for battle as soon as possible, he turned and walked outside and left the meeting room.

V also put on his coat, picked up his things, and walked straight towards the logistics department.

"Huhu...!"

A sharp cold wind blew past, scraping V's face like a soft ice knife. The current temperature of the earth is relatively low, and it should be winter.

Having gotten used to living in an ideal city with a constant temperature where it feels like spring all year round, V found it a little difficult to adapt to the climate here for a while.

Zizzi——!
Boom! !

While passing by a front-line base that was under construction, V saw a large number of AI robots busy with construction tasks.

He couldn't help but sigh in his heart at the convenience and efficiency brought by technology.

In just half a day, the outline of a large front-line base has taken shape!
At this moment, V inexplicably recalled the time when he first joined the company.

He was running around for the LA company with a few broken guns and a fatal Relic chip in his head.

Now, he has been transplanted with the most advanced cyber prosthetic devices and 19 genetic organs with different functions, making him the strongest humanoid warrior in the giant company.

If we talk about the prosthetic doctor Senji Fox at the time, it is said that his prosthetic devices are worth several million euros.

Now, V's prosthetics and organs from head to toe can be called a miracle of mankind and a priceless treasure!

Not long after, V passed through a newly built large military camp, bypassed a secretly blocked area, and finally entered the logistics department.

There are many logistics staff wearing mechanical exoskeletons here. They are busy carrying supplies, equipment boxes, organizing guns and ammunition, and classifying them accordingly.

Soon, V came to the head of the logistics department. He took off his cold-proof coat, revealing his strong and tall body.

"My name is V, company employee number A001, and I need to pick up equipment to carry out my mission now."

V said as he played his employee ID message through the holographic device.

"Of course, Mr. V, you can take your equipment."

The head of the logistics department obviously knew the famous V. After seeing V show his identity, he immediately shouted to the staff behind him:
"A001!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen logistics staff members immediately stopped and moved out several equipment boxes marked with [A001] from the safe room specially used to store the Astartes' equipment.

Soon, the staff placed the box in front of V. When they opened the button of the box, the MarkX power armor and standard weapons and equipment inside were instantly revealed.

Because the mission to be completed this time is an investigation operation, the power armor model equipped by V is the most conventional and comprehensive tactical power armor.

Then, with the assistance of the logistics personnel, V quickly put on the power armor and equipped himself with corresponding weapons.

However, the careful V suddenly discovered that there seemed to be a strange pistol in his batch of weapons and equipment.

Without time to think about it, V simply took the pistol with him.

"Have Jack and Reed come yet?"

V turned his head and looked at the head of the logistics department and asked.

"They have been here, and they just left here."

"Ah."

V nodded, then went straight outside. It was clearly noon, but the sky outside was quite dark and gloomy.

Not far away, there was an open vertical take-off and landing apron where several Skyhawk shuttles specially used to transport Astartes warriors were parked.

Due to the huge height and size of the Astartes warriors, with an average height of over 2.5 meters per person, transport aircraft such as Scorpion fighters and ornithopters are unable to transport them.

Only this kind of large transport aircraft is suitable for transporting and deploying Astartes warriors.

After a while, under the command of Morgan Blackhand, a group of Astartes warriors, including V, boarded the Skyhawk shuttles.

The lineup of this investigation team, where every member of the team is a regiment officer, is nothing short of luxurious.

This was exactly what Leon had specially arranged, not only to train this group of people's ability to coordinate operations, but also because he believed in their abilities.

Since the purpose is to find out the truth, it would be better to do it in one step. Li Ang doesn't want to investigate for a long time but still not get to the bottom of it.

When all the Astartes warriors were on board, the pilot began to retract the doors on both sides of the shuttle, closing the cabin completely. The ground crew nearby ran to a farther position, remained in a half-kneeling position, raised his right thumb, and told the pilot that it was time to take off.

Upon seeing this, the pilots in the shuttle also raised their right hands to indicate receipt, and then started the engine of the shuttle.

boom--! !

Along with a loud roar, a strong airflow ejected from the shuttle's engine instantly swept around, blowing the nearby ground crew members so hard that they could not open their eyes.

The Skyhawk shuttle slowly took off, and after reaching the designated altitude, it turned its wings and began to accelerate its engines.

A few seconds later, several shuttles immediately disappeared from the range that could be observed by the naked eye of ground personnel.

At this moment, inside the cabin of the Skyhawk shuttle.

With the shuttle's engine running at full power, all the Astartes warriors could feel the violent vibrations in the cabin.

David, who was sitting at the back of the cabin, had now deeply experienced the feeling of being chased by a ghost.

The other Astartes warriors in the cabin all frowned and cursed in their hearts.

The Skyhawk shuttle they were riding on was constantly accelerating, heading to a low-Earth orbit 200 kilometers above the ground, and then quickly heading to the Sana'a area 8,000 kilometers away.

Fortunately, these Astartes warriors had long been accustomed to this feeling of oppression. When the obvious vibration of the cabin disappeared, it was replaced by a feeling of weightlessness.

This means they have come within close proximity of the planet's low Earth orbit.

If they were not wearing safety belts, the Astartes warriors would be like floating tin cans, floating up and down and colliding with each other, making "bang bang" sounds.

"Oh my god! V, look out the window."

At this time, Jack Wells tilted his head to look outside the cabin and hurriedly called out to V.

After hearing Jack's reminder, V also turned his head and looked at the porthole beside him, looking over there.

At this moment, what came into V's eyes was the earth shrouded in a layer of gray haze. The earth, which should have been blue and pure, now seemed to be covered with a gray coat.

"This is air pollution caused by a nuclear explosion."

Li De, who was serious about everything he said, suddenly said in a deep voice: "The dust, debris, soil and various waste materials raised by the nuclear explosion entered the low-altitude orbit."

"These impurities are like dirt embedded in the Earth's surface, blocking the transmittance of sunlight and causing the Earth's temperature to drop significantly."

"That's why we see deserted cities and desolate environments."

When Li De was explaining the situation to everyone, he couldn't help but think back to what happened more than ten years ago.

If it weren't for the establishment of the Universal Corporation, perhaps their final fate would be the same as that of the humans here, falling into the miserable situation after a nuclear war.

V: "..."

Faced with the dilapidated scene before him, V felt very complicated. He became more and more eager to find out what happened on this earth through this investigation.

What on earth is that suspicious heat source?
……

……

Sana'a, located in the desert, should be a city with plenty of sunshine.

However, due to a series of adverse effects brought about by the nuclear war, the lighting in Sana'a has become dark and depressed, just like other desolate cities.

The Astartes warriors overlooking the city from the air can feel the beautiful scenery of the city in the past just from the exotic buildings.

Unfortunately, the civil war among humans has caused the desert city, which was supposed to be a famous historical site, to become a ruined and abandoned building blown by the yellow sand.

Not long after, the shuttle pilot began to maneuver the plane to land in the suburbs of Sana'a. When the engines of the two wings rotated into a vertical position, the shuttle maintained a hovering posture.

Then, the shuttle released its landing gear and slowly landed in a flat desert area.

Finally, the cabin door opened, and the impatient Astartes warriors immediately rushed out of the cabin under Morgan Blackhand's instructions.

After getting off the shuttle, the soldiers immediately became alert and looked around at the surrounding environment with sharp eyes.

All Astartes warriors are equipped with MarkX power armor and have extremely advanced air filtration devices, so the fine flying sand here will not penetrate into their respiratory tracts.

After a brief observation, everyone did not find anything unusual here, nor did they find any signs of life.

"Such a damn place... How could there be a heat source? Does this look like a place where people live?"

After observing that the area was completely uninhabited, Jack Wells couldn't help cursing. He suspected that the investigators had got the information wrong.

Although V didn't say anything to Jack, he couldn't help but start to doubt in his heart whether the people at headquarters had made a mistake.

boom--! !

At this moment, the shuttle with its hatch closed took off again, and gusts of flying sand were raised all around.

Only after the Skyhawk shuttle rose to an altitude of one thousand meters did the area return to its previous state of silence.

"Attention all members!"

Morgan Blackhand, who was sitting in the shuttle, had issued instructions to the Astartes warriors through their internal communication channel:
"Next, you will be divided into teams of three, a total of ten teams. Each team will begin to disperse and investigate the Sana'a area. Pay attention to safety and report immediately if there is any situation."

"If you encounter troubles that you cannot solve, I will provide you with firepower support as soon as possible and dispatch the most ferocious bombers."

When the voice on the communication ended, V immediately called up the holographic function of the helmet to provide him with additional visual motion capture assistance.

This time he and Jack are a pair of partners, their code names are 01 and 02 respectively. In order to maintain efficient communication, they will report the situation using code names.

"Everyone, our mission this time is to investigate the suspected heat source in Sana'a. If you encounter any danger, you must retreat immediately and report the situation."

"Don't fight too long. Try to avoid exchanging fire with the enemy unless it is absolutely necessary. Do you understand?"

Before officially setting off, V, the captain of the investigation team, spoke up to remind the group of soldiers.

"Yes, sir!"

The Astartes responded positively.

"Let's go."

After giving the final instructions, V and the others headed towards the ruined city five kilometers away.

Although their mission this time is just a simple investigation and reconnaissance, the equipment these soldiers are equipped with are all of the most sophisticated and top-level quality.

After all, no one can guarantee whether those suspicious heat sources are ferocious alien creatures or something else weird.

Having a gun and not using it and not having a gun to use it are two different concepts.

A few minutes later, V and his teammates came to an abandoned town. The remaining traces here all showed that the town had a prosperous past.

But now, all that is left is a dead desolate scene.

From what V observed, no one had been here for at least five years.

After reporting the intelligence here, V and his teammates began to disperse in different directions, but their search targets were all directed towards the city in front of them - Sana'a.

With the speed and strength provided by the power armor, V and Jack quickly reached the edge of the Sanaa area with almost no effort.

But when they entered the city, what came into view were bones scattered all over the ground and skulls broken by the wind.

But the strangest thing is that the clothes of these corpses were all well preserved, with no obvious damage, no bullet holes, and no traces of scratches from sharp weapons.

These people seemed to have died in an instant, which was exactly the same as what they had observed in the abandoned city before.

"V, do you have any idea now?"

Jack looked at the dead bodies on the ground and didn't know what to say for a moment. He thought that this place had also suffered a nuclear attack.

But judging from the condition of these corpses, this should not be the case.

V half-crouched beside the corpses and looked at the inner city not far away. He was afraid that if they wanted to know the real cause of death of these corpses, they would have to go into the city to investigate.

"Just keep walking."

V didn't say much to Jack. He continued to lead everyone towards the marked place where the heat source had appeared, and walked gradually towards it.

Long before this group of Astartes warriors set out, Morgan Blackhand prepared a complete and clear thumbnail map of the terrain for them.

The 3D model of the city had already been constructed by their investigators.

V only needs to follow the designated route to reach their investigation area.

Soon, V and Jack arrived near a park square, where there were some shops that had not yet closed and were equipped with convenient buildings.

And a lot of dead bodies.

But unlike the corpses V had just seen, these corpses did not show any signs of decay, as if they had just died not long ago.

"Could it be that... someone has been here before, and it was considered a heat source!"

V began to wonder if those suspicious heat sources might be the dead humans.

After noticing the strange situation, V subconsciously reported the situation here and then took Jack to conduct a detailed investigation.

When they approached the corpses, they discovered how "weird" their deaths were!
The skin of the corpse was clearly not damaged, but V could see that the blood vessels inside had completely ruptured and exploded, with damage from the inside out... What a strange cause of death.

At this moment, V's mind was a little confused.

He was wondering what kind of attack could cause fatal injuries to the human body from the inside. Could it be some kind of ultrasonic attack that shattered the person's blood vessels?

But before V could figure it out, his next observation immediately overturned his previous guess.

(End of this chapter)