I Really Didn’t Want to Be the Savior

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The tranquility of the morning was broken by a shrill scream.

The frightened people ran out of their rooms in a panic.

Samantha Swan crouched in horror at the door of her dormitory, covering her face with her hands.

Five meters away from her, a medium to thin man was lying on his back on the ground.A large hole the size of a bowl was burned out in the man's chest.The place where the man fell was the door of his dormitory.

Because the cauterization was too thorough, the inside of the hole had been carbonized, and no blood flowed from him.Three streaks of blood emerged from the corners of his eyes and mouth.

He had long been silent, completely dead.His eyes were wide open, and his face was full of horror and confusion, as if he saw some terrible scene before he died.

The deceased was none other than Masahiro Matsuda, the man who was supposed to drive the boring machine to other scientific research bases today.

"what happened?"

Cisetta frowned and leaned forward, squatting down to check carefully.There were two eyeballs hanging from the corners of Cicetta's eyes, which showed that he didn't sleep well last night, and was even a little sleepy because he got up early, but the quality of a professional soldier still allowed him to quickly adjust to his state and perform his duties.As the only military personnel in the base, he was already responsible for security, and it was naturally his task to deal with accidental deaths of personnel.

Samantha trembled and said, "I don't know what happened. I got up early as usual and prepared breakfast for everyone. Who knew that I saw this scene when I opened the door."

As she said that, Samantha was still trembling and trying to slowly crawl towards Matsuda Masahiro, with sadness and fear that could not be hidden in her eyes, as well as a trace of doubt and bewilderment.

Nur Ahong frowned, his eyes drifted to another corner of the wall calmly.It was an ion beam gun that was hung on the wall of the hall so that it could be removed at any time in case of emergency.

In the base, the only thing that could inflict such burns on Matsuda Masahiro was the gun.But only the team leader Nur Ahong himself and the soldier Siseta have the authority to open the safety device of the ion beam gun.

Sisetta keenly caught Nur Ahong's suspicious eyes, and immediately argued loudly, "What are you thinking, team leader? You don't think it's me, do you?"

Nur Ahong: "Could it be me? What is my motive for committing the crime?"

Cicetta was dumbfounded.

We have been getting along for some years, and everyone knows what kind of person Nur Ahong is.He is rigorous, self-disciplined, focused on work, has almost no personal hobbies, and strictly abides by work principles when dealing with anyone, and hardly has personal relationships with anyone, only business affairs.There is no personal conflict between Nur Ahong and Masahiro Matsuda.Moreover, he gave Masahito Matsuda the order to go out today just yesterday.For Nur Ahong, uncontrollable variables in the plan made it impossible to implement the plan, which probably made him more uncomfortable than killing him.

But Sisetta is different. He and Masahiro Matsuda have always had conflicts.

In the past, Cisetta did not kill Matsuda. It can be understood as his kindness and conceit, but it can also be understood as the double supervision of the ubiquitous strict surveillance in the base and the military brain system that comes with his combat uniform. His killing intent.

With the failure of all the high-tech equipment in the base, the information collection function of the monitoring and intelligent brain will naturally disappear.

Cicetta opened his lips, and then looked at the other two present, as if hoping that others would defend himself.

But Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu remained silent.The base is now fully enclosed. No one opens the door inside, and it is impossible for anyone outside to break in.Then the murderer is destined to be only one of the five or more people present.

Although there is no evidence, it is logical that Ciceta is the most likely.

Ou Xiameng was not in a hurry to speak, because she was already worried about whether her experiment task could be successfully completed at this time.

A life was lost, which meant that the interior of the base was no longer safe, and it also meant that the large amount of data she had worked so hard to collect had lost its security.These data have not had time to undergo final verification, and she does not know whether there are backups in other bases.

Liang Zhichu didn't think so much, but leaned forward, carefully looked at the round hole in Matsuda Masahiro's chest, and inspected it with his eyes.

Immediately, his pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Nur Ahong nervously, and even glanced at Cisseta with a slightly fearful gaze.

Nur Ahong understood, and said loudly: "Execute the duties of the team leader! Remove Sisetta Roy's authority to use weapons!"

All that was damaged in the base were cutting-edge facilities. For the sake of stability and reliability, there is a backup system in the authority identification mechanism on the ion beam gun and combat uniform, which is the voiceprint identification device attached to the traditional semiconductor chip.

As Nur Ahong's voice fell, there was a slight clicking sound on the ion beam gun on the wall, and then an indifferent electronic voice sounded, "Lieutenant Sisseta Roy's armed authority has been revoked."

The same sound came from Cicetta, whose combat uniform had also lost its function.

Cicetta's body sank immediately.The battle suit with its effectiveness turned off lost its anti-gravity function, and suddenly became heavy, even restricting his freedom of action in turn.

Only then did Liang Zhichu say: "The distance between the wound on Masahiro Matsuda's body and the axis of his shoulders on both sides is 22 centimeters, and the error on both sides does not exceed [-] centimeters. After losing the assistance of the intelligent aiming device, no one except professional soldiers can Shooting so accurately. Team leader, you can’t do it, after all, although you have permission to use it, you don’t usually practice guns very much.”

Liang Zhichu's subtext is self-evident.But when he said this, he seemed distressed, even self-doubting.

Four years ago, Liang Zhichu was threatened with his life by a ferocious mechanical beast on J919 during a field trip.It was Cicetta who fell from the sky and saved his life.Since then, the relationship between the two has been very good, and they often chat together and exchange life ideals.Liang Zhichu knew what kind of person Cicetta was, and his emotions told Liang Zhichu that the murderer could not be him, but his rationality did not allow him to panic.

Cisetta showed a look of grievance and grief, and said in pain: "Brother Liang, you don't believe me? Don't you know me yet? Although Matsuda and I often fight, I just treat it as a joke and tease He played. How could I kill him? What was I trying to do? I’m not crazy. Although some accidents happened in the base, I’m a professional soldier. My ideal is to become someone like the leader Chen Feng, how can I shoot at other humans? Leader Nur Ahong, you have reviewed my resume. You should know that I used myself more than once on the battlefield to protect his comrades in arms. In my heart, Matsuda is also my comrades in arms just like you!"

……

In the end, the crowd did not imprison Cicetta, but only banned his armed authority.

There are two reasons.

First, there really isn't any substantive evidence that Cicetta was the murderer, other than reasoning.The ion beam gun, which had not been used for a long time, did not leave Cicetta's fingerprints either.According to the principle of the management mechanism of the scientific expedition team, when there is only one professional soldier, the freedom of movement of professional soldiers cannot be banned based on reasoning alone.Otherwise, while eliminating a suspected potential crisis, it may bring about a bigger crisis.

Second, there are already dead people in the base, and the contact with the outside world has not been restored for a long time. No one knows what happened on the planet, and whether there will be hidden external enemies suddenly appearing to attack the base.Base and others need the protection of Cicetta.If he is put in prison, it will take a lot of time to release him in the event of an emergency.

During the whole day, everyone basically got nothing.Masahiro Matsuda, who was supposed to leave for other bases, was dead, and the message could not be sent.

Neither contact with the outside world could be restored, nor was any useful evidence found in Matsuda Masahiro's death case.

In the past tens of thousands of years of history, human beings have not encountered such a strange state for too long.Vicious murders that cannot be solved have not occurred for many years.

In daily life and work, people have become accustomed to the help of the omnipotent quantum brain.Sudden loss of more than 99% of intelligent assistance is like being blindfolded, eardrums are pierced, and people's living environment is completely broken, as if returning to primitive society.

No matter how smart and calm a person is, he can't slow down for a while.

Just like yesterday, in order to prepare meals, Matsuda Masahiro, who worked part-time as a mechanic in the base, was called by Samantha to toss for a long time before he found a way to activate the heating device of the induction cooker by using a short circuit to create a surge.When Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu rescued the data, they also forcibly used a machine screwdriver to unscrew the sealed box that was supposed to open automatically.Fortunately, this situation was considered in the original design, and it was not made fully enclosed. Otherwise, with the material performance standards of the black box for storing data, the gods would have to be blinded when they came.

Everyone has been busy for two days, and none of the problems have been solved. Most of the time and energy are spent on re-adapting to the basic common sense at a low-tech level, so that their thinking has become a bit rigid, and everyone's logical analysis ability is more or less Both slipped a bit.

……

"Do you think it will be Cicetta?"

In the evening, in the living room of Ou Xiameng's dormitory, Liang Zhichu said with a heavy heart.

There was self-denial in his tone, but it was full of doubts.

At this time, the two had just had dinner in the cafeteria.Liang Zhichu followed Ou Xiameng into her dormitory with a "sneaky face", the reason was that he was worried about Ou Xiameng's safety, and he would sleep in Ouxiameng's living room tonight.Ou Xiameng didn't refuse either.In the past, the two often stayed together overnight because of work.She didn't think Liang Zhichu had other thoughts.Even if there is, it is useless. Liang Zhichu should be very clear that, as a descendant of the Ou family, he will not consider the personal relationship of his children until he has achieved satisfactory academic results.

Ou Xiameng shook his head, "Now the target of everyone's suspicion is Cisseta, and he has even been disarmed. But you still came to me. So I know that you don't think the murderer is him, but someone else. "

Liang Zhichu was stunned, "Am I acting so obvious?"

"of course."

"Uh, okay." Liang Zhichu scratched his head embarrassingly, "Is it because you know that Cicetta and I are good friends?"

"It's not just that, but the evidence is lacking. Cicetta appears to have a motive, but it's not strong enough."

Liang Zhichu: "Yes. I also hope it's not him."

midnight.

Liang Zhichu tossed and turned on the sofa in the living room, having trouble falling asleep.He couldn't help but think about the tragedy of Matsuda Masahiro falling to the ground, trying to reason and analyze the whole thing.He wanted to use his ability to help Cicetta get rid of the suspicion.But what bothered him was that if it wasn't for Sisetta, then theoretically the biggest suspect would be the group leader, Nur Ahong, which was terrifying and even more unacceptable.In addition, assuming that Cicetta is not the murderer, then the real murderer must still be at large, hiding in the crowd, not knowing when he will jump out and who the next target will be.

Without knowing who the murderer is or the motive of the murderer, we can only assume that everyone who is still alive is in danger.

……

Another new morning, another scream.

But this time, the deceased was Liang Zhichu.

The one who screamed was Ou Xiameng who had just walked out of her bedroom door.

The young scholar who had great ambitions and always yearned for classical love fell quietly at the door of Ou Xiameng's dormitory.

Liang Zhichu's neck was wrapped with a Mixu long alloy rope, hanging loosely.

There was a circular strangle mark on his neck, which penetrated nearly two inches into the flesh.The edges of the strangle marks were purple-red, and then spread out to become purple-black bruises.His eyes were wide open, his pupils dilated, and the whites of his eyes and the mucous membrane around his eyes were glowing a deep red.

Ou Xia Meng looked at it from a distance, seemed a little unbelievable, but also a little scared.

She and Masahito Matsuda didn't interact much, and they didn't say more than [-] sentences in three years, and they were basically work-related.

So when Matsuda Masahiro died yesterday, although he described it as miserable, it didn't have much impact on her.

In the age of the universe, sudden death is not uncommon, not to mention the small-scale war between humans and compound-eyed people has not stopped.In the distant Virgo supercluster, super-large-scale wars between humans and compound-eyed people are happening every day and every moment.

Even the Andromeda Galaxy, which has been turned into an iron plate and turned into a logistics base, still gets disturbed from time to time.

Ou Xia dreamed of many deaths, but she stayed with her day and night and acted as her right-hand man at work. Yesterday, in order to protect the person who was still living with her, she died quietly. She has difficulty accepting reality.

"He was strangled to death."

Nur Ahong squatted down, opened Liang Zhichu's mouth again, and saw the tongue with several bloodstains bitten out by his teeth, and said so.

While speaking, he raised his head and stared at Cisseta with scrutiny.

Cicetta was leaning over at this moment, squatting on the ground with sad eyes.

He trembled with his hands, trying to pull Liang Zhichu's neckline, but he retracted again.

Suddenly sensing Nur Ahong's gaze, he raised his head, and the sadness on his face was gradually replaced by great grievance and anger.

"You killed it! You killed it!"

Sisetta suddenly fell into a rage, trying to pinch Nur Ahong's neck.

Bang!
His head suddenly turned black, and he rushed forward in an instant, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Behind him, Samantha Swan was holding the barrel of the ion beam gun upside down with both hands, panting heavily.

……

Fifteen minutes later, Cicetta Roy woke up slowly.

He tried to move his body, but it was difficult even to bend his fingers.His combat uniform has been modified by Nur Ahong and turned into a restrictive tool for restraining prisoners.

There was still some dull pain in the back of the head, and it was quite hard just now.

The sight gradually recovered, and Cicetta saw her situation clearly.

This is the lowest cell in the base.It was originally designed to detain compound-eyed intruders or species with research value and high danger on J919.But it has never been used in the past. I didn't expect that the first time someone lived in it was himself.

I was sitting on an iron chair, and my hands were trapped on the armrests of the iron chair by arc shackles.

Sitting behind the interrogation table directly opposite were Nur Ahong, Ou Xiameng and Samantha.

At one end of the interrogation table, the metal rope that strangled Liang Zhichu was packed in a transparent polyethylene bag.

"Are you awake?" Nur Ahong in the middle asked in a deep voice.

Cicetta turned her face away without answering.

There was a brief silence in the room for about ten seconds, and Ou Xiameng broke the deadlock, "Ciseta, whether you admit it or not, we all want to know, what exactly do you know, what happened last night, and why do you believe that the team leader Is it the murderer?"

Only then did Cicetta react, and slowly raised her head, "There is no other reason, because I know that I definitely did not do it. Then, among all the people, the only one who has the strength to strangle Brother Liang to death is the team leader. As for killing The murderer who killed Matsuda Masahiro, only me and the team leader have the authority to shoot. I have been suspicious of the team leader since yesterday. But I didn’t expect you to be so despicable. In order to avoid suspicion, you don’t use a gun when you kill the second person. Instead, use The rope is gone."

Nur Ahong said angrily: "Nonsense! Then tell me, what is my motive!"

"Motive? Motivation again! Who knows what your motive is? I want to know too! Maybe you've just been imprisoned in this base for too long, are you crazy? Maybe you were infiltrated by compound-eyed people? Or maybe you're just A dummy?" Cicetta was angrier than he.

Ou Xiameng spoke, "Cisetta, what you said is still only an inference based on your assumption that you are not the murderer. From the perspective of the team leader, assume that he knows that he is not the murderer. Then first You must have been the one who shot the gun one day, and you chose to strangle Liang Zhichu with a rope the next day because you couldn’t use a gun. This is obviously more likely.”

After Liang Zhichu's death, she finally stopped focusing on scientific research and began to try to use her wisdom to find the real culprit. "Yesterday, Liang Zhichu told me that he trusted you very much. But now it seems that it was a huge mistake for us not to imprison you in time."

Having said that, Cicetta finally regained his military essence, gradually calmed down, and was no longer easily controlled by emotions.

He took a deep breath, "What I said next, whether you believe it or not, is the fact that I have seen. Last night, after you all rested, Brother Liang came to me. He asked me seriously , Did I do it? I looked into his eyes and told him firmly that it wasn’t me. He left. I regret it now too, I shouldn’t have let him go back alone. Sigh.”

Hearing this, Nur Ahong, Ou Xiameng, and Samantha looked at each other, but there was only lingering fatigue in their eyes.

Samantha slowly picked up the bag containing the alloy rope from the side, and said in a hoarse voice, "Stop making excuses. This rope has your fingerprints on it."

"What!" Cicetta was shocked, "This is impossible!"

"Nothing is impossible. This is not even a fingerprint formed by grease, but the cuticle of your finger caused the deformation of the surface on both sides of the alloy rope, leaving a physical fingerprint. In the base, the body is strong enough to leave a solid on the surface of the alloy Fingerprints, and the only one with this power is you. Even if your combat uniform can’t be used, your power as a professional soldier can still achieve this effect. We have done a comparison when you were unconscious, and it perfectly matches your ten fingers .”

"This……"

Cicetta's pupils dilated, completely dumbfounded.

Nur Ahong stood up, "Okay, the interrogation is over. Whether you admit it or not, we already know that you are the real culprit. Wait for the court-martial trial."

The iron door behind closed, and the three people outside all sighed.

The three of them did not feel the relief after solving the case, only the melancholy about the unknown future remained.

Only Sisetta can manually control the ship, but he is the murderer, so safe evacuation has become a luxury, and they can only wait for external rescue in the base.But the communication could not be restored for a long time. No one knew what was going on outside and when rescue would come.

Moreover, there are no professional soldiers, no smart weapons, and the energy shields outside the base have already shut down by themselves. Of the remaining three, only Nur Ahong has some fighting power. The security force of the company has slipped to the extreme, and once it is attacked by the aggressive native species on J919, accidents may happen at any time.

……

The remaining three returned to the base hall, Ou Xiameng asked for the golden rope from Samantha, and observed carefully.

After a long time, she said: "Actually, I still have a doubt. You can see that this very shallow mark should be Liang Zhichu's tooth marks. It means that when the rope was wrapped around Liang Zhichu's neck, it was not strangled down at first, but was He bit. Although Cicetta was unable to use the combat uniform, with his strength and skill, how could he give Liang Zhichu a chance to bite the rope? In other words, if Cicetta really played enough to make fingerprints on the surface of the alloy rope The power of leaving fingerprints, then Liang Zhichu should be strangled from the mouth, and his head will be cut off. His head will be cut off."

"This……"

Nur Ahong pondered.

Samantha looked at Nur Ahong quietly and vigilantly, and said tentatively: "Could it be that there is actually a fourth person in our base now?"

"This is impossible!" Ou Xiameng and Nur Ahong said in unison.

……

(End of this chapter)