Kochugunshikan Boukensha ni Naru

002. Emergency landing

He was stunned in the falling escape pod. The unknown attack, the death of a fellow, could not yet be taken as a reality.

On the ship, he just acted as Iris said. When I was alone in the pod and calmed down, I could feel a little bit.

Think of all the platoons and the captain's face. I was shedding tears.

"Shit!"

Then the pod began to shake violently.

"What ?!"

"You have entered the atmosphere"

The AI of the escape pod responds.

"Are there any problems?"

"No problem, within expectations"

Further shakes violently.

"Hey! Are you really ok?"

"No problem, within expectations"

It started shaking violently.

"Wow!"

"No problem, within expectations"

Something is wrong. Despite the disposable escape pod AI, there will be no answer. It may be broken somewhere.

I guess it's really OK. Speaking of which, I have never heard of a descent to the planet in an escape pod. Let's check with Nanom.

(How many times have you landed on a planet in Nanom's Escape Pod?)

[12 times in the past millennium. The last one was done 320 years ago]

After all it is few. Well, of course, fighting near the planet doesn't happen that way.

How long has it passed? When I could no longer understand the sense of time, the shaking stopped. The thruster fires and the rotation stops. After a short while, a shock came with a bang.

After that, a swooshing sound was heard. Is something leaking?

"what!?"

"I opened the parachute, but it seems that the shock caused a crack somewhere."

Hey! What is it! This is the first time I have ever encountered a machine with such poor performance.

Did the parachute open and crack? I don't think it's very imperial.

"Is parachute OK?"

"No problem. Twenty-five minutes to the surface."

Huh ... How pretty?

"Hey pod, where is your manufacturer?"

"Orlando Heavy Industries Ltd."

Oh, that's it. Orlando Heavy Industries is a company that has been around for a long time, but two years ago it was discovered that performance impersonation of a product was discovered. This escape pod must also be a fake.

"Is landing OK?"

"No problem. There is enough oxygen."

"Isn't airtight maintained?"

"No problem. There is enough oxygen."

No, no. …… That's it!

"Is the outside air breathable?"

"I can breathe. I meet safety standards."

It was helpful ... I looked at the outside scenery with an external monitor, but I couldn't understand it because the monitor was small.

......

"I will land in one minute."

Finally. Huh? What is landing! ?

"What does landing mean?"

"Arrival location is on the lake"

"Avoid!"

Tell me, faster!

Immediately, the thruster starts to spray.

"Impossible. The main thruster is for space only."

Seriously, I started to get stuck with this AI.

"Does this pod float on water?"

"There is a crack somewhere. There is a high risk of flooding."

I thought it would come!

"I will land on the water."

A considerable shock came. Quickly remove your seat belt and get ready to get out of the pod.

What to bring is a backpack, a pulse rifle, a laser gun, a bag with a processor module, a uniform, a cleanroom jumpsuit and two blankets. Good luggage.

Do not bring water from plastic bottles. I could only bet that I could drink the lake water. If you can't drink it, it's only a little longer to die if you have a few bottles.

He put a laser gun, processor module, uniform and cleanroom jumpsuit in his backpack and carried his rifle through his head into the sling.

The blanket also had something like a sling, so I held it on both sides through my head.

Check the outside with an external monitor. Hey! It's really starting to sink!

"Okay, open the hatch!"

The hatch opens and water flows in! I managed to get out of the pod by grabbing the stay near the hatch and passing by.

The air is ... no problem!

The shore was seen about 75 meters ahead. Apparently, he had come to a very sad place.

I'm not good at swimming, but I can't do anything. The blankets held on both sides seem to be a material that does not absorb water, so they float very well in the water, which is very helpful. Rifles are plain heavy.

In three or four minutes, he swam to a shore that was covered with gravel. Wow! It was nice in the daytime. If this were midnight, it would have been difficult.

Look around. Vegetation is similar to the planets we have been to. It is basically green and has the shape of a leaf as seen somewhere. It can't be said that it is similar to the home planet.

What should we do now? When I thought, I realized something serious.

Originally, the ship had no oxygen and would have been a stance to evacuate to the planet until Iris finished rebuilding the ship.

Without Escape Pod's communication device, I couldn't contact Eris. The communication function of Nanom does not reach Eris. The conditions are good and only reach a few kilometers.

"Escape pod, respond! ...... Respond!"

No, I tried it for a while, but there was no response. Is the pod water resistant in the first place? I should have asked a question.

At that time, I was frustrated by AI's sickness and it wasn't far from it.

I feel like it is water resistant because it can withstand a vacuum, but I can not expect it with that tightness.

At worst, you have to pull it out of the water? However, it is impossible, though not very, alone. Do you get along with native creatures and help? I can only think about it. That's such a stupid thing.

I realized again. What are you off guard! This is the same as the battlefield. Wildlife often come to the waterside. Set up a pulse rifle in a hurry.

It was so familiar that I was careless.

For now, let's move away from here to a place with a good view.

There is something like a hill, so head there.

There is a column-shaped, insanely large rock with a diameter of more than 10 meters and a height of about 5 meters near the top of a small hill. It was quite easy to climb because there were a few steps.

Well, the view is good. As you may see, the rifle is here. There will be a minute here.

Looking down, you can see something falling from the sky in the east direction.

Soon I knew what it was. I've seen these scenes on the holobit several times.

Oh, it's burning ... A lot of burning objects are falling not only in the east but also in the sky in the north and west.

Ah ... definitely a ship shard.

"Oh ... wasn't it?"

Iris said the probability of a successful rebuild was 54%.

Half the odds, but I knew it was going to work. Even though there is only half the probability ... I couldn't imagine that Iris would fail.

Is there anything other than failure? No, dumping anything on the planet is a serious violation of military regulations. And I can't drop Iris on a planet I know I am.

"Ahh…"

That was the only word. Ship shards seemed to descend forever.

I don't know how long I was looking at the sky. I returned hungry. Let's eat for the time being.

Damn, I was careless again. Well this was a shock. The feeling of being stabbed is strong. You are now determined to live on this planet until you die.

No, isn't it? I don't think that Iris fell down when I knew it would fail. There must have been enough time to fire a beacon with a message.

A Galaxy-class battleship is missing. The search squad will come out. If the search squad finds the beacon, it must search the entire planet! I decided to think positively.

However, he was aware in his chest. Certainly the search squad may be out. But the probability of discovering this planet, even this planet, is very low.

Command knows the sailing schedule. The search will be centered on the warp-out space. I warp out on the way and I can't imagine looking for this space.

The emergency food was unexpectedly moist and very tasty. I'm thirsty, so let's go to the lake to drink water. I regret not being able to collect water from the plastic bottles.

Is it about 4 pm now? A refreshing wind is blowing and it feels good.

I noticed approaching the shore.

"Ooh that!"

About five bottles of drinking water were flowing in the wind. There should have been more than ten, but did they sink with the pods? It was a good unexpected harvest.

Also check the lake water. Squeeze out the lake water by hand in the scoop. Yeah, it felt like ordinary water.

(How about?)

Confirm with Nanom.

[Meets safety standards for drinking water]

Alright, so you can drink for a while.

At that time, he noticed that there were countless human footprints on the soil near the water's edge.

Immediately raise the alert level and set up a rifle. Be careful, but there is no particular abnormality.

The footprints were not so new and seemed to be a day or two later. If you look closely, you notice that it resembles human footprints but is strictly different. First, the number of fingers is four and the size is as small as a child.

Let's get away from this place anyway.

However, if there are too many luggage and you have five PET bottles, you have to hold it with both hands, so you can not hold a rifle. I decided to hold the three with my left arm and hold the rifle with my right arm.

Let's hide the other two in an inconspicuous place.

I managed to get back to the rocky spot.

I took off my luggage and took a break. If you think about it, this rock is a pretty good place. If you lie down on the rock, it is almost invisible from below. A great place to overlook the lake.

It might be nice to watch the lake at this location for a while.

At last I have calmed down. We've panicked a bit earlier, but if you think about it, it's much more likely that monkey-like animals are more than humans on this planet. No four-finger human race has ever been discovered.

It's already evening. I was really tired today because of various things. It is unavoidable to stay asleep, so be careful and ask Nanom to sleep today.

Even if Nanom is vigilant, the only way to do this is with sound alone, and with a sense of hearing that has been raised several times by Nanom.

It's not too noisy to sleep, but it's just too quiet. Nanom intercepts you even if you hear the sound.

It is very convenient because it will wake up when it is judged that the nanom is abnormal.

Lay one blanket and cover the other. Only ears will be out.

(Alert mode. Wake up at dawn.)

I can't hear any sound immediately.

[Roger that]

I was so tired that I immediately released my consciousness.

[It's dawn. Get up]

As soon as the birds sing, you hear them. Just as the morning sun was rising. How do you know that Nanom is dawn when I close my eyes? It is a guy that can be done as usual.

I don't feel like sleeping very much. How many hours a day on this planet? Wake up at dawn tomorrow, let's check.

I will monitor the lake here all day today. I can't do it anymore. Grip emergency solid food and drink water.

Watch the lake lying on a blanket. The vision is enhanced by Nanom, so you can afford to zoom about ten times.

It came up when I was thinking that it would be much higher and it was almost noon, and I had to go to get the remaining plastic bottles.

Three hundred meters apart. At first glance, it was shaped like mankind. But short. Zoom quickly. Is it about 120 centimeters tall? There are five in all.

But I didn't think it was human. Because its body was green. Even though it was green, it was a strange color that was darker than green by adding green and white.

The enhanced hearing can also be heard with a faint "gukaguka" voice.

I have a wooden stick in my hand. Is it a club? Some have a pointed spear like a long tree. He was wrapping something like a dirty waist cloth.

It has something like a club or a spear and is wrapped in a waist cloth.

The zoomed face looked very ugly. It had the worst appearance, with no good points, such as a squashed face, raised eyes, and sharp ears.

There may be only intelligent life on these planets. No, it's more likely. Don't have weird prejudice.

Nothing changes even if you hide in this place. Let's say we have a greeting.

There is no danger with that opponent's equipment. Keep your luggage hidden in the pit and bring only your weapon. With a pulse rifle, a laser gun and an electromagnetic blade knife are put in the pocket of a jumpsuit.

Their destination is like a lake.

He approached the lake with caution. Although he sometimes lost his appearance, he was loudly screaming, "Gugagkya", so he could find it immediately.

There is no piece of caution. Is it really an intelligent life form?

No, but I reconsidered that if a human child was also making noise at a higher tension, it might look like this from the perspective of an unknown alien.

They reached the shore and made a bigger fuss.

If you call in the immediate vicinity, you may panic, so I decided to call in from a certain distance.

"Hello!"

I shouted out to keep up with their loudness.

Immediately silence came. All five are hard to see.

I raised my hands to show that I had no will to attack. Of course the rifle is on my shoulder.

"Hello!"

Call out again. Of course not. It's just that the tone of the voice conveys this feeling.

Then they made eye contact with each other and all started laughing grinning. Some have started drooling. It was approaching me little by little.

That is! Two spikes are stuck in their spears. It looks like he found it hidden and stabbed it in play. When I saw it, my patience broke.

These are definitely not intelligent life forms! On the contrary, I'm full of eating.

Hold a rifle on your shoulder. Those who saw the action start running. The distance was less than ten meters, but that was enough.

They have already locked on their foreheads with the aim on the virtual window displayed by Nanom. It doesn't matter how hard you move.

I just aimed the rifle at them and pulled the rifle.

The M151 pulse rifle linked to Nanom automatically targets the movable lens on the muzzle and radiates the pulsed laser.

It takes less than 0.5 seconds to fire five shots. The rifle was silent and silent. It looks like a pulse rifle with imperial military system.

They crumbled without doing anything.

"Shit! If you're not good, you'll get on the beat!"

Since yesterday, I was keenly aware of the greatness of plastic bottles. Humans cannot act without water. Perhaps the only water area nearby is this lake. Without a plastic bottle, you might not be able to leave the lake forever.

These precious PET bottles are destroyed by play!

Punska was angry for a while, but when calm down, Nanom said, "Please dismantle if possible."

Although he was reluctant, he couldn't say unpleasant if he could rely on him. Let's dismantle.

I don't want to touch them as much as possible, though I don't have any repellency in blood. I didn't want to touch it, so I decided to put it in two.

Using an electromagnetic blade knife, I made two pieces from head to crotch. Oh smell! Smell of sewage. After cutting, move them with their spears to make them look nanom.

[There is something under the ribs]

When I touched it with a spear, a bloody ball about 2 cm in size came out. I wonder what if? It has a white cloudy color.

Nanom wanted to get the genetic information, so she patted the ball with her finger and immediately washed her hand and knife in the lake.

The PET bottles stabbed by them had a hole in the middle, so they could cut them with a knife and use the bottom to make two cups.

This is good! For me without any necessities of life, this was like a treasure.

Still, it is just noon in the way the stars move. I really want to find some food.

In the first place, can I digest and feed on this planet?

I met them and had a great harvest. She lives with herahella taking such actions. There must be no threats nearby.

Or is it possible that you did not know or forgot the threat? ...?

Not enough. Let's tighten up.