This game is too real.

Chapter 399 Lead the snake out of the hole
In the communication channel, there was a busy tone accompanied by the sound of electric current.

Pressing the center of his eyebrows with his index finger, Chu Guang, who was sitting in the office of the manager of Vault No. 79, hung up the video call from Dawn City a little tiredly.

It has been three days since he got permission to shelter No. 79.

In order to set up a resurrection point and a temporary base in the No. 79 shelter, Chu Guang stayed at the front line to arrange work these days, and did not ride Nicole back.

Just 10 minutes ago, his little player finally set up a temporary communication base station in the urban area of ​​Ruigu City.

And Chu Guang finally got in touch with the rear, and learned about Kaliman and the news that the Legion was invading Luoxia Province from Luca.

Of course he understands the reason why the lips are dead and the teeth are cold.

Once the Legion takes the Sunset Province, the southern corridor of the River Valley Province will become the front line of the Legion's battle with the Great Rift Valley.

At that time, from Dawn City to Dawn City and even the entire southern part of River Valley Province will become a battlefield.

And all the wealth created by the players and the residents of the alliance in the past year will also be wiped out in the war.

If it wasn't for the Heart of Steel coming to their doorstep, thousands of Alliance players would have already turned into mercenaries and rushed to the front to fight against the Legion.

Just when Chu Guang was planning to discuss countermeasures with Vanus, the communication that had just been restored for less than 10 minutes was suddenly interrupted.

There were footsteps outside the corridor.

Before the doorbell rang, Chu Guang opened the trap door of the office, and as expected, he saw a head of long silver-white hair.

Standing at the door of the office, Heya complained with a depressed face.

"I was copying the data here and sending it back to the alliance's server, but the speed suddenly lost just now... What happened?"

Chu Guang did not answer immediately, but glanced at the VM, and saw the report from the player flashing in the light blue pop-up window.

[Tail: giao!We are under enemy artillery attack! 】

[Tail: Sir!The balloon floats away! Σ(Д;)]

From these two lines of messages, I can roughly understand what happened just now.

Sighing and closing the pop-up window, Chu Guang briefly answered Heya's inquiry.

"Probably the source of the signal has been located... Legion's airship fired a few shots at the temporary communication device we just deployed."

Putting away her complaining expression, Heya asked worriedly.

"Ah? Then... are you all right?"

"There is still news, it should be fine."

There are many bunkers in the urban area, unless sub-nuclear weapons such as cloud bombs are used, the shelling damage is limited.

For the Heart of Iron, this is after all the "enemy rear" far away from the supply line, and their shells are obviously not rich enough to bomb randomly without feeling distressed.

Guessing that the opponent would probably send ground troops to confirm the damage, Chu Guang issued a new order to the players performing the mission to evacuate from the vicinity of the shelling area.

Although long-distance communication has not been restored, short-distance communication is still fine.

It is difficult to pinpoint a specific location with a weak signal. At most, the opposite side knows that there is someone there, but it is difficult to accurately judge where the person is.

"People safe is good……"

Scratching the back of her head, Heya was too embarrassed to continue urging her, so she changed the subject and continued talking about other things.

"...By the way, when I was searching the server of this refuge, I accidentally found some interesting things, you should be interested."

"What?" Chu Guang raised his eyebrows curiously.

His little Qi was disconnected less than 10 minutes after connecting here, and he has not yet conducted a full scan of the servers of this shelter.

The sanctuary had brought him enough surprises.

So after hearing Heya use the word "interesting" to describe his discovery, he immediately became interested.

Seeing the expression on Chu Guang's face, He Ya's mouth curled up into a smug smile, and she continued speaking in a cheerful tone.

"I found a set of exoskeleton blueprints designed for Death Claws in the private database of a researcher numbered A-7274. Although this project is not included in the catalog of research topics in the shelter, the degree of completion of the blueprints is But it's surprisingly high, almost to the point where it can be accepted... I'll send it to you directly."

As she spoke, He Ya stretched out her index finger and tapped twice on the screen of the VM, and quickly shared the data on Chu Guang's VM.

Chu Guang opened the file and took a look, and found that it was a [-]D model containing the parameters of each part.It contains hundreds of parts, and the complexity is probably between "Miner Type I" and "Type Five".

Give this blueprint to Xiao Qi, and it won’t be difficult to make a prototype with a magnetic confinement cutting machine tool. As for industrial mass production, if some configurations are omitted, it shouldn’t be difficult to imitate a beggar’s version.

Although this set of equipment is still on the blueprints, the designer of the equipment still gave it a name that fits the identity of Death Claw——

hunter!

Looking at Chu Guang who was very interested, He Ya who was standing aside continued to speak.

"...Deathclaw's body grows very fast. It can grow from a cub to a height of 1.5 meters in one year, and will reach 2 to 2.5 meters in five months, entering adulthood."

"Therefore, this set of exoskeletons puts the focus of the design on the adaptability of the equipment, strengthens the extensibility of each structure, and can be worn by adult individuals with a spine length between 2 and 4 meters. However, relatively, the exoskeleton The coverage of the bone armor is slightly lacking, it can only protect the wearer's head and chest."

"My guess is that the researchers here probably considered that it would be difficult to operate the tools originally designed for the human body after transplanting consciousness into the Death Claw, so they designed a set of exoskeletons specially prepared for the Death Claw."

It is also easy to understand why the program was abandoned.

Even if Heya didn't mention it, Chu Guang could probably guess it.

Just look at the mother of deathclaws outside.

As long as the serum is injected, the growth will not stop. No matter how perfect the equipment design is, it will accompany them for more than ten years or even a few years at most.

Compared with the endless life span, this time is only a sneeze effort.

Due to the different growth rates of various tissues and bones in the body, the idea of ​​enlarging the exoskeleton in equal proportions is not feasible, and can only be redesigned for different life stages.

Therefore, the idea of ​​mechanical reinforcement was simply abandoned.

"Not bad... This set of equipment can be used by our wolf cavalry." Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction, and archived the blueprint, intending to pass it on to Xiao Qi after the communication is restored.

"Wolf cavalry?"

"The Army's ongoing research project, we plan to build a fast-moving cavalry unit...Although it sounds outdated to say this in 2341, we plan to give it a try," Chu Guang replied casually, "Don't worry, leave the war to us, you don't have to worry about it."

He Ya nodded with half understanding.

She doesn't know much about war.

But she knew in her heart that if the alliance lost, she would no longer be able to focus on the research she was interested in like now.

"Anyway, it would be great if I could help. I'm going back to the lab first, you guys... come on."

When she reached the door, she stopped, and suddenly made a joke in a teasing tone.

"By the way, that sentence just now sounds quite safe."

Without waiting for his answer.

The brisk footsteps went away from the corridor.

……

The urban area of ​​Ruigu City.

Commander Quanshui, who was crawling on the roof of a residential building, was holding a telescope in his hand, looking at the billowing smoke that was gradually dissipating in the distance.

Next to him is the abandoned water tank, and the stairwell is at the diagonal corner, and his current position happens to be impossible for the airship to directly see.

Buffy, lying next to him, was also holding a binoculars in his hands, staring in the same direction as Brother Quanshui.

A few days ago, he was killed by a field guy, and he parachuted back two days ago.

Although the battle field guy said on the forum that he helped him "destroy the corpse and wipe out the traces", but out of safety considerations, he still stayed away from the front line and followed Commander Springs.

According to past experience, nothing will happen if you follow this old Goubi.

The only fly in the ointment is that it is a bit boring, unless it is a last resort, this guy will hardly appear on the front line.

And even if it does appear, it will basically not work.

Like now.

Not to mention exoskeletons.

The guy didn't even have a gun.

Lying on the ground was really boring, and Buffy at the Grave Head couldn't help but ask.

"Are you sure the people from the Legion will come?"

Quan Shui thought for a while and replied.

"More than [-]% probability."

"Then why is there no movement at all?"

Annoyed by being asked, Quan Shui rolled his eyes at him.

"Doesn't it take time for others to come over? Don't rush, just wait."

The voice just fell.

Sure enough, there was movement in the street in the distance.

A group of soldiers with live ammunition carefully surrounded the explosion area, covering each other and rushing through the collapsed wall.

Those who lead the battle are naturally those subordinates with mixed equipment, and the soldiers in black robes are behind the formation, urging the cannon fodder to enter the wreckage of the building.

Seeing the sneaky figures, the old ghost suddenly had a surprised expression on his face and muttered in a fuss.

"...Damn, the people from the legion are really here."

"With such a large signal power, if I were the commander on the opposite side, he would send someone to check it out."

The opposite side should regard that communication base station as their headquarters.

Thinking silently in his heart, Quan Shui stared intently at the group of soldiers on the street in the distance, carefully observing their equipment and staffing.

According to the investigation these days, he has basically figured out the attendance pattern of the legion.

If it is a normal attendance mission, the Space Marine Corps will send a small team of about ten people to act together with the Centurion of the retinue army.

The former is often responsible for supervising and supporting battles, while the latter is responsible for charging, sweeping buildings, exploring roads, and breaking the rear... In short, these are tasks with a high mortality rate.

However, if it is an encirclement and suppression against guerrillas, more than three regular army centurions will often be dispatched to cooperate with more than five subordinate army centurions.

According to the intelligence of the old man in the battlefield, the number of survivors in the Fallen Leaves camp is close to 500, and the size of the retinue has also expanded from the initial 2000 to [-].

If it weren't for the fact that the organizational system of the retinue army in the Fallen Leaves camp hadn't been established yet, the legion would have wished to send a Ripper to every young man who could carry a gun.

Due to the lack of dog legs who can fight, the current rate of promotion of junior officers in the subordinate army is like riding a rocket.

By the way, the Warzone is now the top contender for Commander.

After all, he was a centurion personally promoted by General McKellen. Not only had he hunted Deathclaw, but he was also the only one who had won the battle against the enterprise's guerrillas on the frontal battlefield.

And most of the players who mixed in with him also got into the positions of grassroots officers like ten commanders.

After confirming that the Zhandi guy is not in this group, the grave hunter said eagerly.

"Would you like to surprise them?"

"This place is too close to the airship, and their gun barrels are probably aimed at this urban area." Commander Quanshui looked up at the sky, thought for a while and continued, "Wait until it gets dark."

Just now, he suddenly thought of a good idea.

I heard that the brothers of the Death Corps have recently caught a lot of garbage kings, and they have also bought a new batch of new equipment made with the help of goblin technology.

Just give them a chance to try their skills...

……

late at night.

A group of soldiers in black robes advanced in the darkness.

About ten hours ago, they had just destroyed a communication base station in the urban area, and the sky had just darkened, and a new high-power signal source was located in the urban area.

Without any hesitation.

As the coordinates were sent to the gun position, the artillery crew on standby immediately fired three rounds of 100mm artillery at the target, and a total of nine rounds bathed the area where the signal source was located.

To set up this radio station at the risk of being bombed, the other party obviously has something important to communicate with the rear.

Whether it was requesting reinforcements or reporting front-line news, they did not intend to give the opposite party the opportunity to speak.

Rachel conveyed the order from the headquarters to the Fallen Leaves Camp.

Soon a hundred-man team composed of wastelanders completed the assembly, and merged with the ten-man team sent by the Air Marine Corps, and marched mightily into the urban area shrouded in night.

"Why don't we just serve them with shells... Do you have to go and see?"

Looking around at the dark buildings around, the soldiers in black robes advanced vigilantly, and couldn't help asking the officer beside him in a low voice.

Going into town after dark is not a good idea.

There could be a gun muzzle hidden in any window here.

The officers walking in the line just repeated the order blankly.

"The artillery has exploded for a round, and the signal source has been weakened, but it has not been completely interrupted. It is suspected that there is an explosion-proof bunker for reinforcement. We have to go and see what was blown up just now, and whether there are any living people there."

As he spoke, the officer looked at the pangolin at the side.

"Take a few of you to investigate ahead."

"Yes!"

As a cannon fodder with professionalism, the battlefield atmosphere team responded cleanly and walked ahead consciously.

Not only that, he also recruited several confidantes he trained, including the young man named Li Ba at the beginning.

"You guys, follow me!"

Everyone who was called to lead the battle had bitter faces, but they still reluctantly followed behind this "pangolin".

Looking at their expressions, the battlefield atmosphere team smiled inwardly, but did not explain.

There is no need for explanation at all, and these people will naturally thank themselves after a while.

As for the others.

Just ask for blessings.

In war, no one is immortal.

……

Leading his men to walk at the front of the team, Zhandi quickly approached the building that had just been baptized by artillery.

It was probably a shopping mall before, with a height of only five floors. The dome of the steel structure was wrapped with green vines, but at this moment it had collapsed along with the broken steel bars.

Looking at the area in the open-air shopping mall, Li Ba, who was following him, was holding his rifle tightly, only feeling his calf trembling constantly.

Swallowing, he nervously glanced at the centurion beside him—that ruthless man named Pangolin.

"... shall we go in?"

The Zhandi guy didn't bother to explain to him, so he just said something briefly.

"Follow me for a while."

Li Ba nodded immediately.

Although he couldn't tell the specific reason, his intuition told him that as long as he kept close to the guy in front of him, he could survive.

Passing through the security check passage at the main entrance, the battlefield atmosphere team inside the shopping mall took a look around with a gun in hand, and couldn't help but click their tongues.

"Damn it... these big noses are quite accurate."

The previous rounds of shells passed through the dome of the shopping mall almost without error, and landed in the center of the wide courtyard, blowing up the surrounding area to pieces.

According to the information verified by the Storm Corps with their lives, the Legion can locate the position of the radio signal, but the positioning accuracy is not clear.

But now, the Zhandi guys can almost be sure that for radio signals within a specific power range within [-] kilometers, the positioning technology of these big noses can almost be accurate to a point on the map.

Walking towards the center of the explosion, the Battlefield guy searched carefully, and soon found a backpack that fell from the fifth floor next to a pile of scattered shopping carts.

The backpack is made of ordinary linen, and contains a radio station and a solid-state hydrogen battery. In addition, a walkie-talkie is tied with tape, repeating the pre-recorded recording intermittently with a weak voice.

This is where the signal comes from.

It is also the radio bait prepared by Brother Quanshui.

Leaning closer to take a look, Li Ba, who was closely next to him, couldn't help asking.

"What's in it?"

Although the walkie-talkie kept beeping, he couldn't understand what it was saying.

The warfield guy replied casually.

"do not know."

As a double agent of the alliance, of course he could understand it. The cross talk of Mr. Zhao was playing on the walkie-talkie. Just after the broadcast of "Selling Abductees", "Teasing You" was played again.

The only thing that is uncertain now is whether the Heart of Iron can monitor the specific content of the radio.

If he could, he could probably imagine that scene.

A group of electronic warfare officers sat at a table, listening to the cross talk attentively, and racking their brains to analyze the information that might be hidden inside.

No...

Anyway, he is a double agent of the alliance, so he can't laugh at this moment.

The unbearable warfield guy hid the smile leaking from his mouth with a dry cough, took off the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder, and read the lines he had memorized long ago to the officers outside.

"The first floor is safe. I found an enemy radio station... It was in a backpack. It must have fallen from upstairs. Do you need to continue searching upstairs?"

And the officer who was guarding outside soon received the expected answer.

"Keep searching!"

"Roger that!"

The corner of his mouth curled up a bit, and the Zhandi guy hung up the communication, turned around and looked at the few confidantes behind him, cleared his throat and ordered.

"Start the search from the second floor, check every corner carefully, and don't let go of any suspicious clues!"

"action!"

Just as the warlord was leading his henchmen to explore the second floor, the street outside the mall was completely silent.

Seeing that there was no movement in the building, the officer standing outside could probably guess that the people inside were either dead or had already evacuated.

Seeing that there was probably no battle to be fought tonight, he simply took out a cigarette from his pocket, struck a match and lit it.

Spicy smoke came out of his nostrils.

He was about to check the time on his watch.

However, at this moment, through the moonlight shining on the street, he caught a glimpse of an amber pupil hidden in the darkness.

A low hissing sound came.

The monster crawling on the wall was staring straight in his direction, its amber pupils filled with desire for killing and blood.

The officer's face lost all color in an instant, and the sparkling cigarette butt fell from his stiff lips, smashing the ash into pieces.

Especially when he discovered that it wasn't a pair at all.

But when in a group——

"It's Deathclaw!"

The officer roared loudly, at the same time reached out and grabbed the rifle, and pulled the trigger first.

"Ready to fight--!"

Almost at the same time as the voice fell, the death claws crawling on the walls and roofs screamed and rushed towards the soldiers guarding the streets outside the shopping mall.

The tranquility on the street was instantly torn apart by the sound of firecracker-like gunfire, and the flickering gun flames reflected the faces distorted by fear.

It wasn't just the deathclaws that frightened them.

It's that there are people riding on the backs of those death claws!
Those people not only tied themselves to the back of Death Claw in an extremely brutal manner, but also held various weapons in their hands.

Some were rifles, some were spray guns, and some looked like rifle grenades or something like that.

Before they collided with the claws of death, the soldiers guarding the street had already been blown up by a round of pre-emptive grenades and grenades.

And in just a few breaths, this group of "flying over the wall" cavalry had already rushed to their vicinity, and the scorching breath even blew onto their faces.

And from this moment--

Only then did the soldiers of the Legion truly understand what fear and cruelty are.

This group of bloodthirsty beasts are almost invincible in the fight at the extreme distance. Often, just a wave of sharp claws will result in a bloodbath and broken limbs.

Whether it was the wastelanders of the retinue army or the soldiers in black robes, they were all frantically harvested in the fear of death, unable to raise effective resistance at all, and could only scatter and flee into the building.

The people in the mall obviously heard the commotion outside.

Looking at the chaos on the street outside the window, Li Ba's face was full of fear, and the rifle in his hand was aimed at a galloping cavalry, but he couldn't muster up the courage to pull the trigger.

At this time, a hand reached out from the side, grabbed the barrel of his gun, and gently pulled it back from the window.

Li Ba turned his head and saw that it was his centurion, with a surprised expression on his face.

"Don't shoot those monsters here, we are not their opponents..." Making a silent gesture, the warfield guy glanced out of the window and said in a deep voice, "You are hiding here, I will find a way to get us The chief officer rescued..."

There was chaos in the streets.

Gunshots could be heard before, but now there are almost only screams and wailing, as well as shocking severed limbs and blood.

The methods of these beasts are extremely cruel.

In order to enjoy the fresh prey, they almost never kill the prey, but after the opponent is completely incapacitated, they rush to the next end without delay.

Since the two sides have already started a hand-to-hand exchange of fire, the airship watching from the sky can only be in a hurry, and there is no way to support it.

In just 2 minutes, the Centuries of the Retinue Army suffered heavy casualties, and the Ten-Man Corps of the Legion was almost wiped out.

Seeing that there were no more targets to attack on the street, the cavalry who flew over the walls retreated from the battlefield without delay, just like when they rushed out suddenly.

Seeing the ghosts scattered into the darkness one after another, the officer who was dragged into the shopping mall by a subordinate still had a shocked expression on his face.

Panting heavily, he looked down at the bloodstain on his chest, then looked at the centurion named pangolin, and squeezed out a sentence gratefully.

"thanks……"

The warband didn't speak.

The main reason is to worry about showing off.

Finally recovering, the officer took a deep breath and calmly made a judgment.

"We have to get out of here..."

The warfield guy glanced at the howling soldiers and followers outside, and asked in a low voice.

"What about the wounded?"

A trace of resentment flashed in the officer's eyes, but it was quickly replaced by sternness.

"They...are dead."

I didn't expect the company to be able to drive the alien species to fight, which is quite different from the information they have, which is a bit unacceptable.

In particular, he couldn't be sure how many death claws like that just now were hidden in the city.Under such circumstances, it is impossible for the command to approve support.

Hearing the officer's answer, the Zhandi guy secretly sighed.

Pity……

……

After the surviving ground troops withdrew, the Heart of Iron projected area firepower towards the urban area, and the cannon blared for more than ten minutes.

Standing in front of the French windows of the bridge, General McLennan stared at the city lit up by the artillery fire, his expressionless face was full of haze.

He always has an illusion.

The longer they stayed here, the more corporate soldiers they killed, and instead of weakening their opponents, they became stronger and stronger.

First it was an airplane that flew faster than a cannonball, and now it was a cavalry charging on the death claws. Their moves became more and more outrageous, but their advantages became less and less obvious...

In other words, how many reinforcements have the company sent here?

Or was his information misleading from the very beginning...

Shen Sheng, the staff officer standing aside, reported.

"That signal source... seems to be a bait set by the other party."

"Just now, we detected more signal sources in the urban area, from different areas, and in different frequency bands... We can monitor the content of their calls, but we cannot analyze what language they are using."

General McCllen was about to speak.

However, at this moment, an officer walked to the bridge door.

"Report! Communication request from General Griffin!"

McLean said with a blank face.

"Connect to the conference room and ask him to wait for me for 2 minutes."

"Yes!" The officer replied, turned around and trotted away from the bridge.

After temporarily handing over the command matters to the adjutant, McCollen then turned around and left the bridge, heading for the meeting room upstairs.

There was a table in the conference room, and in the center of the table was a silver-white machine. Seeing General McClenn nodding, the officer standing at the door immediately left the room.

Dome light off.

The conference room was dark.

However, light blue particles of light floated from the device in the center of the conference table, re-lighting the space.Not long after, a man about 50 to [-] years old appeared in the holographic image.

His nose bridge is raised, his face is resolute, and the aura exuding from his body is like a lion, but his eyes are very like a fox.

Looking at the face in the holographic image, there was a trace of boredom in McLenne's eyes,
However, after all, that guy had one more star on his shoulder than himself, so he still offered a military salute, and spoke patiently after the other party returned the salute.

"what's up."

"Be happy, it's good news," the person in the holographic image smiled faintly, and continued calmly, "Your Excellency, Legion Commander, has adjusted our deployment in Luoxia Province, and now we have officially intervened in Falcon A war between kingdoms and kings of the desert."

As a main combat faction, this is indeed something to be happy about.

Only by expanding the territory of the legion can we make achievements, and only by war can we plunder more wealth, land and slaves.

However, at this moment, McClenn's face did not have much happy expression.

Obviously, the man in front of him has already taken away the greatest credit, and when he goes back, he probably won't even have a mouthful of soup left.

As if understanding the expression on the captain's face, Griffin continued in a gentle tone.

"I originally wanted to start the next step after you came back, but we were unexpectedly attacked by corporate reinforcements... Before those desert residents get support from the east coast, we can only act first. Of course, I believe You've heard about it from other places."

Clearing his throat, the man standing in the holographic image continued.

"Now, I ask you to execute a new order and set off immediately to the No. [-] desert to support the ground troops of the Falcon Kingdom! I hope you didn't waste all the ammunition. Before you return to Hong Kong for supplies, there are at least two tough battles waiting for you .”

"Enterprise reinforcements?!"

He didn't listen to the second half of Griffin's sentence at all. The moment McClenn heard the first half of the sentence, obvious surprise appeared on his face——

Or unbelievable!

The composure he made could no longer be maintained, he put his hands on the table violently, and couldn't help but raise the volume of his speech.

"This is impossible!"

"The reinforcements of the enterprise were pinned down in the southern part of the River Valley Province by us, and our airships have been blocking this plain! I can be sure that since the beginning of this month, no team...not even a caravan has come from here. Here into the desert."

"And, if you encounter reinforcements from the enterprise, who are the people who are fighting us?!"

A chuckle came from the communication channel.

There was some irritating sarcasm in that hehe.

"Who knows."

"Perhaps a native."
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(I have to hang the water for two days... I have to go in a while, and the doctor already knows me well...)
(End of this chapter)