M1 Garand held a list of goods in her hand, repeatedly checking it as she walked. Upon arriving at the workshop, she looked up and spoke to Renault, who was repairing the data of a neural core.
"Commander, the goods this time have been counted and put into the warehouse. They match the list of materials sent by Agent Helian, but..."
"But what?"
"There seems to be a... um, corpse in one of the boxes?" M1 Garand scratched her head, looking a little at a loss. It was the first time she had encountered a corpse in a material box. This was not a coffin...
Can a goods box still be used after this?
However, the guy in the box, who was probably a corpse, looked a little strange. The upper body was still a normal human, but the lower body had been replaced with something like a mechanical prosthesis.
So she was a little unsure whether the box actually contained a corpse.
"A corpse?" Renault was surprised to hear this from M1 Garand. It wasn't that he thought it was impossible, but because the boxes of supplies M1 mentioned were all moved from Griffin's airport.
This was really strange. After all, the supplies Helian gave him were all hastily transferred after receiving his call. Previously, these supplies should have been kept in Griffin's warehouse as spare reserves.
"What about the box? Thrown away?" Renault scratched his chin. He didn't pay much attention when loading the goods before. Helian knew better than to cause trouble for him over such a small matter, let alone do anything suspicious with these supplies.
Therefore, the contents of the box were probably placed there by people from other forces. It wasn't clear what the specific purpose was. He had to see it to know.
"No, it's outside. It was initially planned to be thrown directly off-ship." M1 Garand pointed outside. At that moment, two Rippers just pushed an ordinary-looking supply box to the workshop door with a flatbed truck.
The two Scarecrows and the soldier ant RPK16 in the workshop all came over, curiously looking at this box that was no different from other supply boxes. The life detectors on them did not detect any living creatures. The contents should indeed be a "corpse" as M1 Garand said...
After opening the lid of the supply box, a girl-like figure curled up inside suddenly appeared in everyone's view.
"This looks a bit like a doll fresh out of the box."
As Renault opened the supply box, several more dolls came over. Nagant Revolver, carrying a lot of scrapped parts in her hands, stretched her head and commented.
"This doesn't look like a doll at all, and she looks like she's still breathing, right? It doesn't look like a corpse at all,"
M1919A4 said, holding a lot of military doll scrap parts like Nagant Revolver.
They were sorting out the pile of parts in the cargo hold. Most of the parts were picked up by them, so the task of sorting them out naturally fell to them. After all, Renault had expressly forbidden the Rippers from helping.
Hearing what M1919A4 said, M1 Garand sighed. "The problem lies here. This guy doesn't look human, but she still has weak breathing. Yet, her body temperature is almost the same as the room temperature in the spacecraft."
Otherwise, she wouldn't have thought the figure in front of her was a "corpse."
For a normal person, if the body temperature is always maintained at around 20 degrees, they would likely be dead.
M1 Garand was worrying about how to handle the figure in the box when Renault suddenly reached out, pulled up the figure who was "sleeping" in the supply box, and slapped the other person's face twice.
"Huh..." Seeing Renault's direct action, M1 Garand was stunned. Several dolls and even the two Scarecrows beside her had similar expressions. They were all shocked by Renault's direct approach.
Even if the figure in front of him was of unknown origin, he didn't need to be so rude, right?
M1 Garand thought this, without any awareness that she had been planning to throw the person out of the ship from a height of tens of thousands of meters.
"Wake up, stop pretending."
Renault's words surprised the dolls gathered around him.
Stop pretending? Didn't that mean the figure lying in the supply box was awake the whole time!?
The moment the supply box was opened, Renault realized that the figure inside was not unconscious. When the lid was opened and light fell on the figure's face, the figure's eyelids trembled slightly.
Additionally, the special heat-insulating coating on the figure's body and the life support device under her body all indicated that this was definitely not a corpse.
After being slapped by Renault, the figure pretending to be a corpse couldn't hold on any longer and opened her eyes.
M1 Garand raised her eyebrows, throwing away all the surprise in her heart. She squinted her eyes at the girl in a black robe in front of her.
"It feels a bit like those... those bone stick soldiers I saw in that town before?" M500, who arrived later, scratched her head, recalling the soldiers in white armor or exoskeletons she and HK416 had encountered earlier.
"It's true that she is a bit like them, but she doesn't seem to have turned into a simple stick figure." Super-Shorty also nodded in agreement. She could feel that the girl in front of her had a very similar aura to those she met earlier.
However, the soldiers she met then were already tattered inside their exoskeleton equipment, but the girl in front of her looked fresh and lively, at least if you didn't look at the lower half of her body.
"Where are you from? Who put you in the Griffin warehouse?"
Renault didn't have the patience to deal nicely and friendly with this unknown girl who had sneaked on board.
The moment she woke up, she began sending interference signals in all directions, trying to block the connection between the spacecraft and the outside world.
Little did she know that the spacecraft itself had a certain degree of interference. If Renault didn't allow it, RFB wouldn't be able to play games online.
This girl used a certain interference module she carried. For Renault and his dolls who had modified bodies, this interference was just a minor annoyance and had no effect at all.
But some dolls were affected, like the jumpy Architect, who couldn't rest all day long. As a result, when she saw the excitement here, she stood there like a fool in a daze..
Oh, Architect was always a fool so there's that.