Chapter 57: Saved Five Female Soldiers

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  While flying, Xia Xingxiao occasionally looked up at the starry sky. Such an intense battle, he had never seen it with his own eyes before. This had a great impact on his thoughts. Such scenes might be encountered frequently in the future. However, what surprised Xia Xingxiao himself was that he didn't feel afraid. On the contrary, he felt some hot-blooded impulse. He really wanted to rush up and punch all those sand worms to death with one fist.

  Of course, he also clearly knew that this was impossible. With his current strength, not to mention joining the battlefield, even approaching the battlefield would be dangerous. Whether it's energy bullets or energy balls, or even nuclear missiles, they all have enough power to destroy him. Wanting to dominate this battlefield without having at least 18th-level cultivation strength is simply impossible.

  In other words, even if Chen Duo Hai himself took action, he couldn't decide the outcome with a single punch. His strength was only at the 16th level after all. Only someone who had cultivated to a higher level than him could take out the entire battlefield with a single punch. For the first time, Xia Xing Xiao felt that his life seemed to have gained a goal. This goal was to explode a sandworm with a single punch!

  After losing a destroyer, the federal troops became more courageous. The 112th Division is indeed the main force of the federal army and will not retreat because of the loss of a destroyer. On the contrary, they will fight even more bravely to avenge their companions. Under intense artillery bombardment, sand worms and sand eagles were constantly blown to pieces.

  "Ah!"

  Suddenly, Xia Xingxiao felt something passing by. Upon closer inspection, it was a lifeboat. This round and bulging thing should have been ejected from the destroyer. These were the surviving crew members of the warship that Li Yuzhi had mentioned.

  The escort vessel exploded, and most of the personnel were likely killed in action. However, it is also possible that a small number of people survived. Before the escort vessel was completely destroyed, there were several smaller explosions. These smaller explosions lasted for about three minutes. If they had time to get into the escape pod, they should have had a chance to eject.

  "Hah!"

  Xia Xingxiao immediately exerted himself and burned his true energy, chasing after the escape pod's landing point.

  His speed was more than a notch faster than Li Yuze, and soon he had left everyone else in the dust. He didn't need to worry about his true energy being depleted at all. Because, suddenly, he discovered that in the intense battle, the various energies that were constantly spreading out could actually be absorbed and transformed by his dantian. It was easy to imagine how thick the energy on the edge of the battlefield was. Even if he struggled with it, it was likely that he wouldn't be able to deplete his true energy no matter what.

  After the lifeboat landed, it crashed into a deep pit on the rocks. The lifeboat was very sturdy and generally had no major problems with impact. Xia Xingxiao rushed over, but found that the lifeboat couldn't be opened at all. It turned out that the lifeboat could only be opened from the inside. To be precise, it would only open when the people inside were sure it was safe outside.

  This is to prevent the pursuing soldiers from causing secondary injuries to the people inside the lifeboat. After all, when the lifeboat was ejected, no one knew where it would land. Maybe the landing point just happened to be within the enemy's control range. Therefore, the safety of the lifeboat after landing for a period of time must be guaranteed, and it cannot be killed by the pursuing soldiers as soon as it lands.

  In fact, if the pursuers do not have powerful weapons, it is impossible to open the lifeboat in a short period of time. The people inside the lifeboat have some time to prepare for battle. There are also some basic self-defense weapons inside the lifeboat, as well as some food and clean water. These supplies can last for half a month if used sparingly.

  Of course, even if the lifeboat is perfectly designed, it can only barely save itself. The most fundamental way to rescue is still to dispatch a search and rescue team to tow the lifeboat back to a safe place. A lifeboat is safest when it falls into its own people's hands. Otherwise, in the vast wilderness, all kinds of dangers are possible.

  A moment later, Li Yuzi caught up. He checked the lifeboat and said in a low voice, "Can't open it here. This place is affected by five times gravity. If we open the lifeboat, everyone inside will be crushed."

  "What can we do?" Xia Xingxiao said casually.

  "Take him back to base."

  He didn't know where he got a high-strength alloy rope, tied to the four corners of the lifeboat. The lifeboat itself was designed with special hooks. After the alloy rope passed through, it was equivalent to lifting the lifeboat up.

  Everything was ready, and Sanfo also arrived. Li Yuzhi said: "Come on, let's carry it back. Xia Xingxiao, you're in charge of covering us."

  Xia Xing Xiao nodded slightly and flew into the air, closely monitoring the movements around her.

  The battle in the outer starry sky is still going on, and sand thieves will fall at any time. Sand thieves are very interested in the prisoners of the federal army, especially female prisoners. However, being sexually assaulted is not the worst result. The worst result is that if you are caught by the sand thieves, the prisoner will be forcibly merged with the genetic material of the sand clan and become one of them.

  For many humans, this is an absolutely desperate process. Because this process is temporarily irreversible. With the current scientific and technological level of the Starry Sky world, it is impossible to remove synthetic genes from human blood. In other words, once a person is forcibly transformed into a synthetic human, there is no chance of turning back. From then on, they can only live as a synthetic human. And with the gradual strengthening of the Sha clan's genes, he will eventually become a thorough and complete Sha thief.

  In the past few hundred years, the Sand Bandits have been repeatedly eradicated but never completely eliminated. A major reason for this is that humans are constantly being captured and forcibly assimilated into the Sand Clan's genes, transforming them into hybrid humans. As a result, humans had to maintain a safe distance from the Sand Bandits, deploying large numbers of troops between humans and the Sand Bandits to prevent further abductions.

  Li Yuzi and three others, including Fotou, Fogong and Fozu, carried a lifeboat back and forth.

  Fortunately, there were no unexpected events along the way, and they returned smoothly to the base. Li Yuzi communicated with the people in the lifeboat through the intercom, identifying himself. The lifeboat was quickly opened, and inside were five female soldiers. They were all wearing the light blue uniforms of the Federation's communications officers, presumably communications officers from the escort ship.

  Due to the severe impact when the lifeboat landed, all five female soldiers were initially in a state of coma. They gradually came to during the process of being carried back on stretchers. What had happened along the way, they naturally knew very clearly. They seemed extremely joyful and tearful about their own rescue. But thinking of their stranded companions, their emotions sank again. After leaving the lifeboat, none of them were in the mood to talk.

  "What should we do? Do we need to send him to the hospital?"

  Li Yuzhi shook his head and said in a low voice, "Don't worry. Their bodies should be fine, just their emotions are a bit out of control, they'll be okay after a while."

  Xia Xing nodded slightly, not saying a word. His gaze fell on the five female soldiers. Without a doubt, they all looked quite good. After several eras of human evolution, various genes had evolved to be more perfect than in ancient times, and some ugly genes had been eliminated, resulting in significant improvements in women's appearance. Although it couldn't be said that every woman was a stunning beauty or a national treasure, there were definitely no "Phoenix Sisters" or "Furong Sisters" among them.

  In fact, for women, youth is the greatest capital. The five female soldiers in front of us are representatives of this. They should be under twenty-five years old. Graduates of the Federal Warship Command Academy are generally only around twenty-three years old. Girls of this age, from any angle, are the most beautiful and moving.

  Among the five female soldiers, the highest rank was lieutenant. The lowest rank was probationary officer. Because they were technical troops, their rank system and that of the cultivators were completely different. There was no comparison between the ranks of the two troops.

  As military school students, they can obtain the rank of lieutenant as soon as they graduate. However, Xia Xingxiao, who is only a third-class soldier, does not need to salute them. Because warships and cultivators are two different systems that are independent of each other and have no affiliation with each other. Of course, if Xia Xingxiao is willing to salute voluntarily, it's also fine.

  Li Yuzi gave the five female soldiers a brief introduction to the Mian Luo military base, and then let them gather at the reporting place in the depths of the base on their own. The Mian Luo military base has been searching for survivors of the rescue warship for more than a year or two, and there is already a standard execution program. In the depths of the base, they will receive proper arrangements from the base's logistics personnel.

  "Alas!"

  Xia Xingxiao suddenly let out a sigh. Although he was a thoroughbred second-generation rich kid who rarely had any sentimental moments, thinking about the five female soldiers, so young and almost losing their lives in the vast starry sky, still couldn't help but feel some emotion.

  How many such young girls are there on that escort ship? Do they have a chance to escape into the lifeboat? And how many such young female soldiers are there on other warships? Will their fate also be similarly tragic?

  The federal troops have a relatively large characteristic, that is, they are heavily biased. Different types of soldiers have different biases. For example, cultivators are severely biased towards males. Female cultivators are very rare and can almost be ignored. On the other hand, warship teams are mostly female. Some warships are almost all female, with not a single male.

  This is not to say that the federal troops have serious gender discrimination. The main reason for all this is that men and women have different talents in some skills. Men are definitely better at fighting and killing, so practitioners are almost all men.

  Driving a warship requires rich knowledge, careful thinking, calm consideration and accurate judgment. This is the strong point of many knowledgeable women. In the starry sky world, women's learning ability and leadership are absolutely not inferior to men. Therefore, most warships naturally become a woman's domain.