Chapter 13 Shelter Residents

Monica was born in a nuclear shelter. Her childhood was filled with dim lights, drinking water full of disinfectant smell, tasteless nutrients to fill her stomach, and the meat of mutant insects that she loved to eat when she was a child.

The shelter was her childhood. She didn't know what the outside world looked like, but she could get a glimpse of it from the precious images preserved before the war, such as the blue sky, the green grass on the ground, the forests, rivers, and cities.

Oh yes, the city is the place she longs for the most. I heard that there are skyscrapers made of glass there, hundreds of meters high! This is incredible for her young age. I also heard that the people living there are very happy and have countless delicious foods. Although I don't know what is delicious, it must be something more delicious than the meat of mutant insects!

If it weren't for the nuclear war between the Great Bear Country and the Little British Alliance, she should still be attending classes in the legendary school and wearing her favorite fancy clothes, but it was all because of that war!

The vibration in the distance pulled Monica back to reality from her memories. Now she was wearing clothes made of dark black tattered linen and huddled between two collapsed ruins.

She had been homeless since the riot broke out in the shelter three years ago and the director detonated the reactor and air purifier. She wandered among the ruins all day long and made a living by hunting mutant insects.

The sky was still gloomy, and volcanic ash was floating in the air. The green plants in the city had long disappeared, replaced by dark red moss. These mosses absorbed radiation and grew, replacing plants to produce oxygen for Monica's survival.

Monica was motionless, her eyes fixed on a mutant carbonyl in the open space in the distance, her hand tightly holding a javelin made of discarded steel bars.

As the carbonyl slowly approached, she charged the javelin in her hand and threw it out, and at the same time the whole person popped out like a cannonball! Monica, who was still in the air, pulled out the two daggers on her waist. This was the only thing she brought out of the shelter!

Poof. The javelin pierced Carbonyl's abdomen fiercely. Monica just fell down at this time. She kicked the javelin with her foot and jumped onto Carbonyl's back, which was two meters high! The two daggers were aimed at the seams of Carbonyl's head armor and back armor and stabbed hard!

"Ziz!!!" Carbonyl let out a wail! He began to shake his body violently, trying to throw the guy on his back off. But Monica didn't give it this opportunity. She pulled out the dagger, jumped forward, turned his body 180 degrees, and stabbed the dagger fiercely into Carbonyl's two huge compound eyes!

Not wanting to fight, Monica pulled out the dagger and jumped out of Carbonyl's attack range. While Carbonyl was struggling in pain because of the injury to his compound eyes, she went around Carbonyl's side, held the javelin and slashed it hard to the side! Dark green body fluids gushed out from the cut wound.

After a while, Carbonyl was silent. Monica skillfully cut off Carbonyl's six thighs, which were the most valuable parts of this mutant insect. She didn't need to go out to adventure hunting for at least five days!

Just as she happily carried the spoils and prepared to leave, countless carbonyls slowly surrounded her! These bugs actually have simple wisdom! This is a trap!

Monica was desperate in the face of such a dead end, and resigned herself to pointing the dagger at her neck.

At this moment, a few flashes flashed in the sky, and a small group of drones appeared in the sky. The drones opened their magazines, and thumb-sized missiles fell like snowflakes. There was a deafening explosion around Monica, and the air waves caused by the explosion blew her hair in the air.

"What is this?" Monica was a little confused. She had only seen this kind of explosion scene in documentaries. Since civilization was destroyed by a "bomb", no one has used this weapon again!

The drone that had dropped the bomb whizzed over Monica's head and flew into the sky.

Monica, who was still in shock, saw a huge fireball appear in the sky in the distance, and a huge spaceship flashed red light and flew quickly.

She didn't know that this exploration and research ship had been staring at her for a month. As the first industrial civilization encountered by the Empire, although it is an industrial civilization that is almost destroyed, it still has great research value!

The creatures of these civilizations are also very receptive to advanced technology! They are the best candidates for slaves and cannon fodder!

Li Mingze thought that when landing on other planets in the future, millions of "cannon fodder" orbital airborne soldiers wearing simplified power armor would fall from the sky! No pension is required for death in battle! There is no need to consume the precious population of the Empire! I drool just thinking about it!

The exploration ship slowly landed in front of Monica, and the hatch at the bottom opened. Several guards wearing power armor ran out quickly, took out the electric shock device to knock Monica unconscious in a daze, and lifted her onto the spacecraft.

The exploration ship started the anti-gravity engine and quickly left the planet and returned to orbit.

Monica, who was sleeping, was stripped of her dirty clothes by several robots and sent to the cleaning chamber, which sprayed high-speed water mist, followed by disinfectant, then biodegradable shower gel, and then water mist.

The fragrant Monica came out. The robot waiting nearby shaved off the blue hair on Monica's body and put it into a storage device (which was excellent research material), and then used a laser to remove the scars left on Monica's body. Another robot put the prepared work clothes on Monica and put a safety ring around her neck.

The safety ring penetrates deep into the spinal cord, extracting cerebrospinal fluid while implanting vaccines and medical robots. This safety ring also has the function of self-destruction to prevent some natives from falsely landing.

After sorting it out, the robots placed it in a lounge. Monica, who was sleeping soundly, didn't know that her life would change dramatically from today.

In the blue brick, Li Mingze said to AI Tianyi: "Prepare for the landing warehouse, I want to meet my future cannon fodder captain in person!"

After that, he stepped into the landing warehouse.

Dozens of light years away, in the 005 Exploration and Research Ship. Li Mingze's landing stand-in Youyou woke up from the dormant warehouse. Wearing a handsome power armor and cloak, he walked towards the observation room.

In the observation room, Monica sat on a white rubber bed at a loss. The light blue skin turned a little pink because of nervousness, and the two tentacles on her head also shrank inward because of nervousness.

Li Mingze opened the heavy gate of the observation room and came to the chair in front of the bed.

I pulled out a chair, sat down facing Monica, and stared at her. I have to say, although I have seen photos of her, it was still shocking to see her in person. It was not because she was beautiful, but because I could actually find mammals in the universe that are not much different from humans!