At this moment, the nurse's slightly anxious voice suddenly came from outside.
"Sir, who are you looking for? You need permission to visit, sir, please stay."
"I'm not here to visit the patient. I heard Major Armstrong is currently inside, I look for her," A male voice sounded.
"Sir, please show your visit permit," the nurse insisted.
"Scram! don't get in my way!" The male voice seemed a bit domineering.
Oops! As soon as Jeanne heard the voice, she knew who was coming. She quickly pushed Keiko with all her strength and said urgently.
"Keiko get up! Someone is coming!"
But, Keiko wasn't in her right mind right now and couldn't understand her words at all, just acting according to her own hallucinations.
She was now in the heat of passion and had no reason to pull the brakes. How could she stop it so easily?
As a result, when the owner of the voice outside barged inside, he saw a woman lying on top of Jeanne, trying to kiss her, while Jeanne in her disheveled state was pushing her strongly as if she was struggling to resist the woman's assault.
The visitor immediately became furious, took a step forward, grabbed Keiko, and pulled her off the bed with a forceful pull. After that, he raised his hand and punched Keiko's left cheek mercilessly.
Keiko let out a stifled groan and then fainted on the spot. He had already suffered from the neurotoxin, added with such a heavy blow she couldn't hold her consciousness anymore.
"Bastard! Why did you hurt her?!" Jeanne immediately jumped off the bed, pushed the man away, and then pulled Keiko up from the ground.
"Why?! She had the gall attempting to violate you and you asked me why I beat this little shit down?!" The man raised his eyebrows and said angrily.
"Who told you she violated me? Did I call for help? Sistine are you stupid?!" Jeanne retorted back fiercely, it was apparent that she wasn't less angry than the man, or even angrier.
"But...she..." The man was startled, unable to say a complete sentence for a long time, just stared at Jeanne with wide eyes in disbelief.
Jeanne didn't bother to pay attention to him, and with some effort, she picked up Keiko horizontally, put him back on the bed, and then checked the wound on the back of her neck. Fortunately, the wound didn't open again.
But she was punched on the left cheek, and his pretty face was already bruised, making Jeanne very distressed. She hurriedly ordered to the startled nurse who was standing at the door.
"Go get the medicine and help her deal with the wound on her face."
"Okay, I'll come right away." The nurse hurriedly left.
"Jeanne! You are my woman," The male officer, whom Jeanne called Sistine, said angrily.
"Who is your woman?" Jeanne stared dagger at Sistine, while her voice became much colder than before, "I, Jeanne Armstrong, are not anybody's possession. I am me, and no one in this world could control me."
"Have you forgotten my engagement with you?"
"Oh, the so-called engagement that my father and your father made privately? How many times have I told you Sistine, no one in this world can force me to do what I don't want to do, not even my father. No exception, let alone your father. That marriage contract is child's play, you actually take it seriously, I really feel pity for you."
"Mo Jian Ni!" Sistine gritted his teeth angrily.
"Who allows you to call me by that name? Sistine, don't push your luck and mess with me or you'll taste the meaning of suffering," Jeanne's voice turned sharper than a sword.
"You..." Sistine looked at Jeanne with a livid face, but there was nothing he could do about her, and then his eyes shifted to Keiko. After taking a closer look, he suddenly sneered:
"Heh, I don't pay attention to her before, it turns out to be the little soldier who saved you back then. I really don't know what you think Jeanne. What is the status of your Armstrong family? you don't need me to remind you, this female soldier has no background, and is only a second lieutenant at the lowest level of an officer, do you really think your father would agree with you to be together?"
"Whether my dad will agree or not, what does it have to do with you? Sistine, you have crossed the line tonight, let me remind you, no matter how good your father, Lieutenant General Smith, is in the federal government, your family is just still a vessel of Armstrong family."
Sistine's face turned ugly quickly, but he couldn't find a word to refute her.
"Now please wait for me outside, and I'll come out after I've dealt with the affairs here. Unlike you, I won't be carried away by personal affairs. I'll ask you about Sister Bailey later."
"..." Sistine clenched his fists, looking at Jeanne with an unresigned expression.
"What about the answer?" Jeanne raised her voice.
"Yes, Miss." Sistine did not give a military salute but bowed with one hand touching his chest, and then turn around and exited the room.
After he went out, Jeanne's expression gradually relaxed. She stretch her hand and caressed Keiko's head and sighed deeply.
At this time, the nurse came in with the medicine, and Jeanne regained her senses, stood up, and made way for the nurse to deal with the wound on Keiko's face. And she herself turned her back to the bed, tidied up her messy clothes, tied her hair again, and said to the nurse.
"I'll go out, please take care of her."
"Yes, Major," the nurse replied.
Jeanne walked out of the account and was about to lift the curtain when she suddenly turned around and told the nurse, "She will sometimes have a period when her dereliction returned, she would hug and kiss anybody she saw. You'd better tie her up and don't let her move."
The nurse looked at Jeanne with a bewildered expression, and Jeanne had already opened the curtain and walked out.
***
Stein Field Base is currently the westernmost military base of the Federation and the closest survey base to the Himalayas. At an altitude of 4,200 meters, it is a plateau area with thin oxygen and a cold climate.
The base had a small population, no more than 30 people all year round. Half of them were well-known military geologists and climatologists. Their survey and research data were regarded as a very valuable asset for the entire federation.
At the entrance of the valley near the base, there was a spring in which water came from the melting of ice and snow layers in the surrounding, people in the base knew it as Frozen Spring.
Every day, soldiers from the logistics team at Stein Base drive snowmobiles to fetch water there. The amount obtained was not much, only enough to make coffee and tea for the scientists in the base.
Every time they came to fetch the water, a snowy mountain mastiff dog called Titan would welcome them. This mastiff dog was a new breed after the great biological mutation. It was huge and like freedom. Therefore, it is generally not bound in the base but is only kept around the base, maintaining a semi-wild state.
Titan was very familiar with the soldiers of the logistics class. Every morning, it would wait at the entrance of the Frozen Spring valley, waiting for a familiar figure to drive a sleigh motorcycle and bring it fresh beef for breakfast.
On the morning of September 16, a soldier from the logistics team came to fetch water as usual Frozen Spring but the soldiers didn't see Titan around. He didn't think much about it, and fetched water, as usual, put it on the sleigh motorcycle, and rode back to the base.
When passing a corner, he suddenly saw a series of conspicuous red marks on the snow, stopped the sled, stepped forward to take a closer look, and found that it was actually blood, and the amount of blood was so great that he turned the corner.
The hillside behind the entrance was all dyed bright red. Just under the hillside, he could see Titan's corpse was falling miserably below.
The soldier took a deep breath and hurried back to the sled. He rode on the sled and rushed back, while activating the contact device on the sleigh motorcycle, calling for rescue. He didn't know whether Titan was already died or not, but at least he attempted to save it.
But the strange thing was that no one answered his call. He subconsciously felt ominous premonition in his heart, and he accelerated to the base.
When he arrived at the gate, a sight that resemble a scene of hell in the tale entered her sight, causing his body to tremble involuntarily.
There he saw a massive number of Zergs and predators are wreaking havoc and slaughtering everybody in the base. He only left for twenty minutes, the world had already upside down when he returned.
'How, how could there be so many Zerg and predators? Why didn't they notice it at all? This is impossible!'
The soldiers panicked and hurriedly drove their sleigh motorcycles and ran away. However, no matter where he fled, he could see the figures of the Zerg and the predators. The base was besieged from all directions.
"Red alert! Red alert! Stein base is attacked by unknown Zergs! The number is uncountable! Request support! Red alert! Red alert! Stein base is attacked by unknown Zergs! Request support!"
He slumped on the snow, desperately sending distress alerts to the central main city, but no one respond as if he was the only human left in the world.
Just below the snow where he was slumped, a huge black shadow suddenly pounced at him, biting the soldier's body into two pieces, and the blood and internal organs splashed all over the ground....