Although it was unreliable in various senses, at the moment of his life, the pilot named Sun Ze still demonstrated his superb driving skills and relied on the only remaining engine to control the speed of descent -
Although he only barely controlled it.
"Fifty meters to the ground! Be prepared for a hard landing -"
Sun Ze shouted loudly, but before he finished speaking, a loud "Duang" sound came from under everyone's feet.
The instant overload acceleration almost made everyone pale and almost fainted.
The seat belt that was almost embedded in the exoskeleton made Ye Shi roll his eyes and almost couldn't breathe.
At the same time, the muffled sound of hitting the ground spread across the wilderness, and the circling and falling "Orca" transport plane raised a cloud of dust on the flat ground.
"Cough cough..."
Sun Ze, who was sitting in the driver's seat, coughed violently, shook his groggy head, and pulled down the pull ring hanging above his head from a trance.
The hatch at the rear of the transport plane slowly fell down, and he slowly woke up with it.
"... Incredible... I actually landed it."
Sun Ze muttered softly, looked outside, and then looked at his hands. The confusion on his face was gradually replaced by the joy of surviving a disaster.
He stretched out his hand with difficulty and pushed the pilot who was knocked unconscious in the co-pilot seat, calling out excitedly.
"Hey, brother, are you okay? Wake up! We survived!!"
The man did not answer, but there was still a heartbeat and breathing, probably just not awake from the collision just now.
Unbuckling the seat belt and standing up, Lao Bai took down the rifle hanging on the power armor and loaded it, looking at Sun Ze sitting in the driver's seat.
"You'd better not be too happy. We just made a successful emergency landing, not returned home successfully... This is a wasteland."
Looking at the unfamiliar wasteland outside the cabin, Sun Ze, who finally realized the seriousness of the problem, swallowed nervously and nodded slowly.
"I understand..."
Lao Bai continued.
"How long will it take to repair it?"
Quickly looking down at the touch screen in front of the rudder, Sun Ze, who became serious, clicked on the screen with his ten fingers.
"I don't know, I have to confirm the damage first... The auxiliary driving AI reported that a foreign object entered the engine and melted the plasma plume nozzle. Maybe it was an unlucky bird."
"Impossible... It can't be a bird," the co-pilot who was gradually waking up from a coma coughed and said dying, "I remember it was written in the radar operation manual that even a bullet within a range of 50 meters can be captured..."
Sun Ze asked anxiously.
"Did you bring the manual?"
"That kind of thing..."
The co-pilot took a breath for two seconds and finally managed to utter the next sentence.
"...I remember there should be some in the toolbox."
"...You guys fix it first."
Looking at the two people who were still looking for the manual, Lao Bai turned around with a frown on his face and decided not to talk nonsense with them for the time being.
He was worried that his blood pressure would not be able to bear it.
Although he was not a perception system, he always had a bad premonition.
The radar technology of the Legion was okay, but the anti-radar technology was not very advanced, and it could even be said that it was as bad as the air defense technology of the enterprise.
The "missile" used by the other party was able to avoid the radar search of the enterprise. It was likely that some kind of coating that absorbed electromagnetic waves was used.
He suddenly thought of the anti-radar coating of the Lingyun fighter.
If I remember correctly, that thing seemed to come from Shelter No. 101.
The director of Shelter No. 101 was one of the three founders of the academy. It is reasonable to suspect that the academy should also have similar or even more advanced technology.
Although I don't understand why the academy suddenly launched an attack, this is a wasteland.
Not everything that happens here needs a reason.
At the same time as the plane landed.
The players of the Burning Legion had passed through the open door and quickly rushed out of the cabin. They dispersed in groups of four and trained to find shelters for defense.
Walking out of the cabin with big strides, Lao Bai calmly gave orders.
"Kuangfeng, release fixed-wing drones to search the nearby 5-kilometer area. Yeshi, find a nearby high point to set up guns. Quit smoking, take your team to the northeast to search for our pilots, report immediately if you find suspicious targets, and allow exchange of fire. The rest of the teams dispersed for defense, we need to hold here until the plane is repaired!"
A uniform answer came from the communication channel.
"Received!"
At the same time, on the other side.
Looking at the drone aerial footage projected on the tactical eyepiece, Zheng Hao's face showed a hint of surprise.
He thought that after falling from a height of 500 to 600 meters, the people on the plane would lose their ability to move even if they didn't die. Unexpectedly, they immediately entered combat mode after landing, without even a trace of hesitation.
"It's a little different from what was rumored..." The voice of deputy captain Song Changfeng came from the communication channel, "It seems that the people on the East Coast are not all useless."
"That's for sure."
He was a little apprehensive, but Zheng Hao didn't show it on his face. He lowered his voice and continued to give orders.
"Everyone, pay attention. The enemy target has dispersed its defense. A total of 19 exoskeletons and one power armor were found... The model is the old model of the Human Alliance, OD-10 'Dragoon', Type 5 'Light Cavalry', Type 6 'Heavy Cavalry', replace armor-piercing ammunition."
Then, he looked at an expressionless young man beside him.
"Xuan Feng, take Group B to the marked location on the map to intercept the 'target'."
"Yes."
The man nodded silently, and a group of six people left the team and moved quickly towards the wetland in the southeast direction.
Zheng Hao looked at the sky in the south and frowned slightly.
"UAV..."
A fixed-wing drone hovered in the sky.
The thing looked very simple, but he did not underestimate his opponent because of this.
"Xiao Jiang, can you shoot it down?"
A dissatisfied answer came from the communication channel.
"Captain... I must remind you that we only have 'two' left."
"Send 'beehive' to the crash site."
The communication channel was silent for a while.
"Are you sure? In fact, we don't need to engage in a firefight with them, just intercept-"
"Sure."
Hearing the captain's clean and decisive answer, Jiang Xuezhou stopped talking and took a deep breath.
"Received."
A few kilometers away, the cover door on the top of the tracked vehicle opened, and with a column of smoke, a column with a diameter of one meter was launched into the air, and after ignition, it rushed towards the direction of the crash site.
Such a striking scene was immediately seen by the fixed-wing drone hovering in the sky.
Kuang Feng, who had his eyes tightly closed, raised his head slightly and said seriously.
"Enemy ground vehicles were found... They fired a missile at us! The model... I have never seen it in the game."
"Fuck!"
Lao Bai's face changed slightly, and he couldn't help cursing.
Because it was a rescue mission, only some infantry weapons were placed in the transport plane.
Without hesitation, Lao Bai immediately rushed to the side of the transport plane, picked up the two pilots who were repairing the equipment, and pulled them away from the plane.
Sun Ze, who was flipping through the manual, said in panic.
"What are you doing?"
"Missile!"
"Missile?!" Sun Ze was stunned and said subconsciously, "But the radar--"
He was about to say that the radar did not respond, but before he finished speaking, the silver-white missile body had appeared above everyone.
Surprisingly, it did not hit the plane straight, nor did it explode, but opened its curved shell outward.
Palm-sized drones flew out of the missiles, like a swarm of killing bees, and pounced on the people around the transport plane.
Lao Bai's pupils shrank slightly.
Almost subconsciously, he took the EMP grenade he got from the manager from the armor shell, set the delay fuse to 3 seconds, and then threw the grenade into the sky like throwing a baseball.
He was not sure if this would work.
But this was the only way at the moment!
Hundreds of meters passed in a flash.
Almost at the moment of crashing into the drone group, a series of piercing buzzing sounds squeezed into the communication channel.
The pulse current stimulated by nuclear energy instantly paralyzed the microelectronic devices inside the dozens of micro drones.
The drones that did not have time to disperse fell to the ground like flies hitting an electric mosquito swatter, following the falling beehive.
A few kilometers away, Jiang Xuezhou, who was sitting on a tracked vehicle, felt a slight pain in his brows and frowned unconsciously.
"The swarm was destroyed... The other party used EMP weapons."
An incredible voice came from the communication channel.
"EMP?!"
Jiang Xuezhou panted lightly, nodded and said seriously.
"Well... and it is some kind of miniaturized EMP device, with extremely strong power in a short distance. The opponent's strength should not be underestimated!"
The method of resisting EMP is very simple. If you can shield electromagnetic waves, you can basically shield electromagnetic pulses. In theory, it is enough to put a "Faraday cage" on the equipment, and no dark technology is needed.
However, the "swarm" needs the coordination and command of the hive, and it is impossible to simply and crudely shield all external signals.
The method of the college technicians is to add a small buffer component to the communication module, which is enough to resist ordinary EMP weapons.
But the buffer components of fifty drones were penetrated at the same time!
This is obviously not a conventional EMP weapon stimulated by chemical energy!
As we all know, the difficulty of miniaturizing EMP weapons is no less than that of miniaturizing nuclear weapons, especially to ensure output power while miniaturizing!
A small EMP weapon that can paralyze an entire "bee colony" may exceed their expectations...
Zheng Hao's eyes were full of caution, and his eyes became more and more fearful.
At the same time, around the transport plane, the murderous dagger smacked his lips at the drone that was smoking and fell at his feet.
"What is this?"
The players on the ground were just outside the coverage of the EMP grenade. Although the communication system had a brief malfunction, it was not significantly affected, and the functions of the equipment were all normal.
"It's probably a short-range drone like the Y-2 'Butterfly Knife'..." The good name made the dog whisper, "Damn... Could it be the academy?"
"Academy?!" Kidney Fighter was surprised, "Damn, did we provoke them?"
"This is the wasteland, you think it's the real world," Killing Dagger rolled his eyes and complained, "Why are you talking so much nonsense, just blow up the gold coins of these old guys!"
Even in the real world, this "unauthorized" military action will not be officially recognized, and the death of people will probably be an accident during training.
Not to mention the wasteland.
In this uninhabited and unowned land, anything can happen.
But then again, the entire drone formation was destroyed by an EMP grenade. If these people are really from the academy, it feels like that...
Unlike several team members, Lao Bai did not relax at all.
Especially when he heard Sun Ze's exclamation.
"A swarm of bees... It's actually a swarm of bees!"
"A swarm of bees?" Lao Bai asked with a frown.
Sun Ze swallowed his saliva and explained with a trembling voice.
"The weapons of the academy are said to leave no one alive within a radius of 500 meters. This thing is mainly used to clean up alien species..."
Lao Bai's face darkened slightly.
No matter what the reason is, since the other party has already made a fatal move...
Then there is no need for them to be polite.
In the communication channel, the voice of Kuangfeng came.
"A team is approaching us, less than 800 meters away."
Lao Bai stretched out his index finger and tapped on the helmet, and ordered calmly.
"Groups three and four defend on the spot, and groups one and two follow me to meet the attack! All units pay attention, open the safety, and fire freely! Repeat, fire freely!"
Almost at the same time when Lao Bai's voice fell, the smoking cessation who led the fifth group deep into a reed marsh had already started a firefight with the enemy unit.
The muzzle flames flickered on the wetland, and tracers whizzed through the reeds that were as tall as a man.
The Burning Corps, like the Storm Corps, adopted the three-three system. The ten-man squad was similar to the real infantry squad, consisting of a captain and three tactical teams.
The advantage is that the division of labor is clear, which can effectively reduce casualties and can also help newbies, which is very useful for both large-scale and small-scale military operations.
However, this tactic also has disadvantages. For example, when the equipment gap is not large, the firepower seems to be stretched a little.
Facing the crossfire of six people, the five groups with only three people could not help but fall behind for a while.
The helmet was tightly attached to the mud pit in the shallows. Quitting Smoking spat out the grasshopper that got into his mouth and changed the magazine sideways.
Just as he was about to raise the muzzle to fight back, a burst of bullets seemed to have eyes and whizzed into the mud pit in front of him, forcing him to shrink back.
The splashing mud and water got into his collar, and Quitting Smoking cursed on the microphone.
"Group 5 is engaged! The other side should be heading for our pilots! Damn... these guys are like opening something!"
There was also a burst of gunfire on the other end of the communication channel.
Obviously, there was also an exchange of fire on Lao Bai's side.
"Normal, there are drones on the other side, there's no reason not to use them... Have you seen Luo Yu?"
"Not yet - wait!" Seeing the bright spot suddenly appearing on the VM map, Quitting Smoking's eyes suddenly lit up, "I saw him -"
Just as he was about to say that Luo Yu was close to the communication range, there was a bang at the back of his head, his eyes went black, and his whole face was buried in the mud.
"Fuck! Sniper!"
Without hesitation, the prop master pulled out the smoke bomb and threw it into the reed marsh on the left, took over the command and shouted angrily.
"Boss!"
"Quitting Smoking, he's dead again!"
At the same time, on the hillside east of the reed marsh.
The young man holding the sniper rifle skillfully pulled the bolt, biting a dogtail grass, and raised a proud arc.
"One."
Smoke bomb?
Or is it with heat source interference?
Interesting...
The shell was thrown out of the gun chamber, and Zhao Xiao continued to aim at the person who threw the smoke bomb.
However, just when he was about to pull the trigger, a foreboding of death suddenly climbed over his head.
Almost subconsciously, he rolled to the side, and almost at the same time, the rain of bullets hit the stone slab where he was lying before, and the broken stones flew.
Swallowing the half-bitten grass root into his stomach, Zhao Xiao quickly gave up the sniper rifle, pulled out the submachine gun hanging on his waist, and fired at the back without even looking.
The rock in front of him exploded into a piece of gravel and dust. Although it didn't hit him, it also surprised Ye Shi secretly.
"Oh my god... This guy is also a perception system?!"
The purity may not be high, but the level should not be low!
Hiding behind a half-man-high rock, Zhao Xiao glanced at the sniper rifle he had abandoned not far away, cursed in a low voice, and then shouted outside the rock.
"How did you find me?"
Ye Shi laughed.
"What a joke, do I need to find it? There is only one high point nearby."
"..."
Zhao Xiao's expression froze.
It seems to be the truth...
The two sides were in a stalemate.
Less than ten meters away, each occupying a bunker, neither can do anything to the other... at least for now.
Not wanting to drag it on, Zhao Xiao gritted his teeth, put the submachine gun on the side of the bunker, pushed it out with the tip of his shoe, and pulled out a dagger at the same time. He knocked on the rock twice provocatively.
"Fight! Dare?"
He is a professionally trained fighter.
As long as the other party dares to fight him in close combat, he will not lose!
"I dare, why not?"
Seeing the other party put down the gun, Ye Shi was immediately happy, and without saying a word, he pulled out a grenade and threw it to the left side of the rock.
"Fuck you!"
Zhao Xiao's face suddenly changed when he saw this, and he didn't care about picking up the gun. He rushed to the other side of the bunker with a curse.
The roar of the explosion sounded almost at the same time he lay down, and the shock wave and fragments of the explosion made him groan.
He was about to get up from the ground while enduring the pain, and the cold muzzle of the gun was already against the back of his head that had just been raised.
"I advise you not to move."
Hearing the voice coming from above his head, Zhao Xiao's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and couldn't speak.
Ye Shi was about to ridicule this guy, but the omen of crisis suddenly surged into his heart, and along with it came the scarlet murderous intent.
He quickly retreated and distanced himself.
At almost the same time, a whistling sound almost scraped past his exoskeleton chest armor, leaving an intersecting afterimage in the air.
Only one thought flashed through Ye Shi's mind.
So fast!
A figure slowly walked up from the bottom of the hill.
The man's face was expressionless, stiff like a robot.
He didn't have a gun in his hand, but instead had two short knives that were integrated with his arms and folded inwards - very much like the forelimbs of a mantis.
Ye Shi's pupils shrank slightly.
Good guy.
What kind of cyberpunk style is this? !
The moment he saw the man, Zhao Xiao's face was filled with surprise.
"Xuan Feng?!"
The man answered in a calm voice.
"Leave it to me."
Zhao Xiao was about to say "OK" excitedly, when he saw a grenade thrown over here.
Still coming? !
Zhao Xiao's face changed instantly, and just as he was about to dodge, a huge force hit his chest.
He almost fainted and groaned. When he came to his senses, he was lying face down in the mud at the bottom of the hillside.
Zhao Xiao spat out a mouthful of mud and couldn't help but mutter something.
"Damn it, can't you be gentler?"
After kicking his comrade down the hillside, the man named Xuan Feng turned around and looked at the hostile target that was more than ten meters away from him.
His target was mainly the aliens or mutants occupying the ruins. In the underlying logic of his AI core, there was a line of code that said "no killing unless necessary."
But now, it was obviously a "necessary situation."
Organisms that pose a threat to the members of the "Beacon" team must be eliminated by any means, even if it means using dismemberment tools against large aliens.
After patting the metal fragments stuck on the artificial skin, Xuan Feng walked towards the man as if nothing had happened without saying anything.
Looking at the monster walking towards him, a drop of cold sweat slid across Ye Shi's forehead, and the LD-50 in his hand was aimed at his head.
"What the hell are you?"
Even a grenade can't kill you!
What the hell is this Terminator? !
"It has nothing to do with you."
The man waved away the mantis knife folded inward, and his legs were slightly bent, just like a mantis ready to attack, ready to kill the prey with one blow.
At the same time, Ye Shi's heart was instantly raised to his throat.
He could predict the threat of death...
But that didn't mean he could avoid it.
At this critical moment, dozens of scarlet tentacles shot out from the reed marsh under the hillside, and wrapped around Xuan Feng's back like a chain, quickly locking every joint in his body.
With his motor function restricted, Xuan Feng's eyes showed a rare confusion, as if he had never encountered such a situation before.
He tried to move, but couldn't move at all.
The switchblade cut inward like a pair of scissors, but it was just a little short of the joint, and the tip couldn't touch it at all.
The tentacles that entangled him seemed to be very familiar with the structure of the human body.
Xuan Feng lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
"Hmm... It's difficult."
Coincidentally, Xiao Yu, who was squatting in the reed marsh, was almost in the same confusion as him at this moment.
"Eh??"
The person bitten by it was like a cold and hard stone. Whether it was the eyes, ears, mouth or nose, there was no cell that could be penetrated.
There was no neuron that could be invaded.
This guy...
Why can't I eat it?
"What the hell... what is that?!"
Looking at the scarlet tentacles that suddenly shot out from the reeds, Zhao Xiao's face was instantly filled with fear, and he subconsciously moved back to distance himself.
Xuan Feng was already the most highly equipped bionic man in their team, specializing in dealing with high-threat targets that were difficult to deal with with conventional weapons, such as death claws, mutant leeches, and mutants.
It is no exaggeration to say that his single-soldier combat capability was the ceiling of their entire team's combat power, and even the captain was no match for him!
But now -
He was controlled and couldn't move at all.
Gritting his teeth, Zhao Xiao mustered up his courage, pulled out the pistol inserted in his tactical vest, and was about to aim at the tentacles wrapped around Xuan Feng's body.
This was the last gun on him.
However, at this moment, the cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against the back of his head again. At the same time, a sharp shout came.
"Put down your weapons! Lie down with your hands on your head!"
Hearing that voice, Zhao Xiao's expression froze.
The tentacles startled him, and for a moment he didn't notice the movement behind him.
Seeing that the man didn't move, Luo Yu kicked him on the back.
"For the last time, put down your weapons immediately!"
"Don't, don't shoot!"
I didn't expect to be captured twice in one day.
Zhao Xiao threw away the pistol with a wry smile, and slowly straightened his body with his hands holding his head.
However, just as he was about to lie down, his eyes met the puddle of black mud, and his expression froze on his face.
"Uh, can I... change my position?"
He whispered awkwardly, trying to ask for consent, but the man behind him didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, and directly raised his foot and kicked him on the butt.
Looking at the guy with his head stuck in the mud pit, Luo Yu rolled his eyes.
"Just lie down if I tell you to, why so much nonsense."
Tap the VM with his index finger, Luo Yu selected the flashing communication window, cleared his throat and said.
"This is Luo Yu. I have successfully reunited with the people who came to pick me up... How is the situation on your side?"
The gunfire on the other end of the communication channel has weakened.
It looks like it will be over soon.
"We are almost done here... The guys who attacked us suffered heavy casualties and are retreating. Can you come back by yourself? Or I will send a few more people to pick you up."
Luo Yu looked back at the hillside.
Ye Shi was trying to turn off the bionic man controlled by Xiao Yu, but the progress was not smooth, and the three guys were in a stalemate for a while.
Luo Yu continued with a subtle expression.
"Well, we have a little problem here... If it is convenient for you, you should send a few people over."
Lao Bai's answer was very straightforward and without any hesitation.
"Received."