Chapter 476 Misfire

Although full of unreliability in various senses, the pilot named Sun Ze still displayed super-level driving skills at the moment when his life was at stake, and he was able to control the speed of his descent by relying on the only remaining engine. —

  Although it was barely controlled.

   "Fifty meters to the ground! Get ready for a hard landing—"

  Sun Ze roared loudly, but before the words fell, a loud "Duang" came from under the feet of everyone.

  The acceleration of the instantaneous overload almost made everyone turn pale for a while, and almost didn't faint.

  The seat belt was almost embedded in the exoskeleton, and Ye Shi rolled his eyes and almost couldn't catch his breath.

  At the same time, the muffled sound of hitting the ground spread across the wilderness, and the spiraling and falling "Korca" transport plane set off billows of dust on the flat ground.

   "Ahem..."

  Sun Ze, who was sitting in the driver's seat, coughed violently, shook his drowsy head, and pulled the pull ring hanging above his head out of a trance.

  The hatch at the tail of the transport plane slowly fell, and he also slowly woke up.

   "...unbelievable...I actually brought it down."

  Sun Ze muttered softly, looked outside, then looked at his hands, the bewilderment on his face was gradually replaced by the joy of the rest of his life.

  He stretched out his hand with difficulty, pushed the pilot who was thrown unconscious in the co-pilot seat, and called out excitedly.

   "Hey bro, are you okay? Wake up! We survived!"

  The man didn't answer, but he still had his heart beating and breathing. He probably just hadn't recovered from the impact just now.

  Unbuttoning the seat belt and getting up, Lao Bai took off the rifle hanging on the power armor and loaded it, looking at Sun Zedao who was sitting in the driver's seat.

   "It's better not to rush to be happy. We just made an emergency landing, but it's not that we have successfully returned... This is the wasteland."

  Looking at the strange wasteland outside the cabin, Sun Ze, who finally realized the seriousness of the problem, swallowed nervously and nodded slowly.

"clear…"

  Old Bai then asked.

   "How long will it take to fix?"

   Quickly lowered his head to look at the touch screen in front of the rudder, and Sun Ze started to operate on the screen with his fingers crackling.

   "I don't know, I have to confirm the damage first... The assisted driving AI reported that a foreign object entered the engine and melted the plasma plume nozzle. Maybe some unlucky bird."

"Impossible...It can't be a bird," the co-pilot, who gradually woke up from a coma, coughed and said dying, "I remember that it was written in the radar operation manual that even a bullet within 50 meters can capture it... "

  Sun Ze asked anxiously.

   "Have you brought the manual?"

   "That kind of stuff..."

  The co-pilot gasped for two seconds, and finally choked out the next sentence.

   “… I think it should be in the toolbox.”

   "... you should practice first."

  Looking at the two who were still looking for the manual, Lao Bai turned around with black lines all over his head, and decided that it would be better not to talk nonsense with them.

  He was worried that his blood pressure could not bear it.

  Although he is not a perception department, he always has a bad feeling.

  The radar technology of the Legion is not bad, but the anti-radar technology is not very good, and it can even be said to be as lazy as the air defense technology of the enterprise.

  It can avoid the company's radar search, and the "missile" used by the other party is likely to use some kind of coating that absorbs electromagnetic waves.

  He suddenly thought of the anti-radar coating of the Lingyun fighter.

   If memory serves me, that thing seems to be from Vault 101.

  The director of Vault 101 was one of the three founders of the academy. It is reasonable to suspect that the academy should have similar or even more advanced technology.

  Although I don't understand why the academy suddenly launched an attack, this is wasteland.

  Not everything that happens here needs a reason.

   At the same time as the plane landed.

  A group of players from the Burning Legion had already passed through the open hatch and quickly rushed out of the cabin. Groups of four dispersed, well-trained to find a bunker and prepare for defense.

   Striding out of the cabin, Lao Bai calmly gave the order.

"Gust, launch a fixed-wing drone to search the nearby five-kilometer area. At night ten, look for guns at nearby high points. Quit smoking, take your team to the northeast to search for our pilots, report any suspicious targets immediately, and allow a firefight. The rest The teams spread out their defenses, we need to hold this place until the plane is repaired!"

   A uniform response came from the communication channel.

"receive!"

   Meanwhile, the other side.

  Looking at the aerial footage of the drone projected on the tactical eyepiece, Zheng Hao had an expression of surprise on his face.

  He thought that falling from a height of five or six hundred meters, those people on the plane would lose their ability to move even if they didn't die, but he didn't expect that they would immediately enter a combat state after landing, without even the slightest hesitation.

   "It's a bit different from the rumors..." The voice of deputy captain Song Changfeng came from the communication channel, "It seems that those people on the east coast are not all trash."

"I am very sure of that."

  He felt a little apprehensive, but Zheng Hao didn't show it on his face, and continued to order in a low voice.

"Attention everyone, the enemy target has spread its defenses, and found a total of 19 sets of exoskeletons and a set of power armor... The model is the old model of Renlian, OD-10'Dragon Cavalry', Type 5'Light Cavalry', Type 6' Heavy cavalry, replace armor-piercing ammunition."

   Then, he looked at a young man with an expressionless face beside him.

   "Xuan Feng, you take Team B to the location marked on the map to intercept the 'target'."

"yes."

  The man nodded silently, and a group of six people broke away from the team and quickly moved towards the wetland in the southeast direction.

  Zheng Hao looked at the sky due south, and frowned slightly.

   "Drones..."

  A fixed-wing drone hovers above.

   That thing looked crude, but he didn't underestimate his opponent because of it.

   "Xiao Jiang, can you destroy it?"

  A dissatisfied answer came from the communication channel.

   "Captain... I must remind you that we only have 'two' left."

   "Project a 'honeycomb' to the crash site."

  The communication channel was silent for a while.

   "Are you sure? Actually, we don't need to engage them, just intercept—"

"Sure."

  Hearing the captain's clean and decisive answer, Jiang Xuezhou stopped talking, took a deep breath and said.

"receive."

   A few kilometers away, the cover door on the top of the tracked vehicle opened, and as a column of smoke spewed out, a column with a diameter of one meter was launched into the air. After igniting, it galloped towards the crash point.

   Such an eye-catching scene was immediately seen by the fixed-wing drone hovering in the sky.

  Guang Feng, with his eyes closed, raised his head slightly, and said with a serious expression.

   "Spotted an enemy ground vehicle...they fired a missile at us! The model...hasn't been seen in the game."

"Grass!"

  Old Bai's complexion changed slightly, and he couldn't help but curse.

  Because it was a rescue mission, only some infantry weapons were placed in the transport plane.

   Without time to hesitate, 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, panicked.

"what are you doing?"

   "Missile!"

   "Missile?!" Sun Ze was stunned, subconsciously said, "But the radar—"

  He just wanted to say that the radar did not respond, but before the words fell, a silver-white projectile had already appeared in the sky above everyone.

   Surprisingly, it didn't hit the plane straight, let alone explode, but opened its curved shell outward.

   A palm-sized drone flew out of the missile, like a swarm of killing bees, and rushed towards the people around the transport plane.

  Old Bai's pupils shrank slightly.

   Almost in a subconscious reaction, he removed the EMP grenade he got from the manager from the armor case, set the time-delay fuze at 3 seconds, and then threw the grenade into the sky like a baseball.

  He wasn't sure if it would work.

   But right now it's the only way!

  The distance of hundreds of meters is fleeting.

   Almost at the moment of crashing into the drone group, a series of harsh buzzing sounds squeezed into the communication channel.

  The pulse current excited by nuclear energy instantly paralyzed the tiny electronic devices inside the dozens of tiny drones.

   The drone that was too late to disperse was like a fly hitting an electric mosquito swatter, followed the falling hive, and fell to the ground like dumplings.

   A few kilometers away, Jiang Xuezhou, who was sitting on a crawler car, had a slight pain in the center of his brows, and his brows furrowed unconsciously.

   "The swarm was destroyed...the opponent used an EMP weapon."

  An incredible voice came from the communication channel.

   "EMP?!"

  Jiang Xuezhou panted lightly, nodded his head and said seriously.

   "Hmm... and it's some kind of miniaturized EMP device. It's extremely powerful within a short distance. The strength of the opponent should not be underestimated!"

  The way to resist EMP is very simple. It can basically shield electromagnetic pulses if it can shield electromagnetic waves. In theory, it is enough to put a "Faraday cage" on the device, and there is no need for any very dark technology.

  However, the "swarm" requires the coordination and command of the hive, and it is impossible to block all external signals simply and rudely.

  The college technicians' approach is to add a small buffer component to the communication module, which is enough to fight against ordinary EMP weapons.

  But the buffer components of fifty drones were broken down at the same time!

   This is obviously not a conventional EMP weapon activated by chemical energy!

   As we all know, the miniaturization of EMP weapons is no less difficult than the miniaturization of nuclear weapons, especially to ensure the output power while miniaturizing is even more difficult!

  A small EMP weapon that can paralyze an entire "swarm of bees", the opponent's strength 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 tongue as he watched the drone smoldering and landed at his feet.

   "What the **** is this?"

   The players on the ground were just outside the coverage of the EMP grenade. Although the communication system had a short-term failure, it was not significantly affected, and the functions of the equipment were all normal.

   "It's likely to be a short-range drone like Y-2 'Butterfly Knife'..." Even the good name made the dog whisper, "Damn...Could it be an academy?"

   "Academy?!" Kidney Fighter said in surprise, "Damn, did we recruit them to mess with them?"

   "This is wasteland, you think it's the real world," Murderer Dagger rolled his eyes and complained, "How can there be so much nonsense, just blow up the gold coins of these old things and you're done!"

  Even in the real world, this kind of "unauthorized" military action will not have any official recognition, and the death of a person will probably be an accident during training.

   Wasteland is not to mention.

  In this desolate and uninhabited land, anything can happen.

   But having said that, the entire drone formation was abolished by an EMP grenade. If these people are really from the academy, it feels nothing more than that...

  Different from the other team members, Lao Bai didn't relax in the slightest.

   Especially when he heard that Sun Ze's exclamation.

   "A swarm of bees...it turned out to be a swarm of bees!"

   "Swarm?" Lao Bai asked with a frown.

  Sun Ze swallowed, and explained in a trembling voice.

   "The weapons of the college, it is said that there will be no survivors within a radius of 500 meters. This thing is mainly used to clean up alien species..."

  Old Bai's face darkened slightly.

   No matter what the reason is, since the other party has already made a death move...

  Then they don't need to be polite.

  In the communication channel, the sound of a strong wind came.

   "A small team is approaching us, the distance is less than 800 meters."

  Old Bai stretched out his index finger and tapped on the helmet, calmly ordered.

   "Three groups and four groups defend on the spot, and one group and two groups follow me to attack! All units pay attention, open the insurance, and fire freely! Repeat, fire freely!"

  Almost at the same time as the voice of the old vernacular fell, Quit Smoking, who led the five groups deep into a reed marsh, had already started a firefight with the enemy unit.

  The flame from the muzzle of the gun flickered on the wet ground, and traces of light swished freely through the reeds that were as tall as a person.

  The Burning Corps, like the Storm Corps, adopts the three-three system. The ten-man squad is similar to the infantry squad in reality, 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 bring new ideas by the way, whether it is a large-scale battle or a small-scale military operation.

  However, the disadvantages of this tactic are not without. For example, when the equipment gap is not large, the firepower seems to be stretched.

   Facing the crossfire of six people, the five groups with only three people couldn't help but fall into the disadvantage for a while.

  The helmet stuck tightly to the mud pit in the shoal, quit smoking and pouted the grasshopper that got into his mouth, and turned sideways to change the magazine.

  Just as he was about to raise the muzzle of his gun to fight back, a round of bullets seemed to have eyes, and whizzed and nailed to the mud pit in front of him, forcing him to shrink back.

   The splashed muddy water got into the collar, quit smoking and cursed on the microphone.

   "Five groups approach the enemy! The opponent should be coming after our pilot! Damn... these people seem to be driving something!"

  The other end of the communication channel was also full of gunshots.

  Obviously there was also a firefight on Lao Bai's side.

   "Normal, there are also drones on the opposite side, there is no reason not to... Have you seen Luo Yu?"

   "Not yet—wait!" Seeing the bright spots that suddenly appeared on the VM map, Quit Smoking 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 on the back of his head, his eyes darkened, and his entire face was buried in the mud.

   "Grass! Sniper!"

   Without time to hesitate, the prop manager pulled out the smoke bomb, threw it into the reeds on the left, and shouted angrily after taking over the command.

   "Boss!"

   "He's cold again after quitting smoking!"

  At the same time, the hillside on the east side of the reeds.

  The young man with the sniper rifle skillfully pulled the bolt, biting a piece of dogtail grass, the corner of his mouth curled up in a triumphant arc.

"one."

smoke bomb?

   Or with heat source interference?

interesting…

  The bullet case was thrown out of the gun chamber, and Zhao Xiao continued to aim at the person who threw the smoke bomb.

  However, just as he was about to pull the trigger, an omen of death suddenly climbed over his head.

  Responded almost subconsciously, he suddenly rolled to the side, and almost at the same time, the rain of bullets splattered the gravel from the stone slab he was lying on before.

  The bitten off half of the grass root was swallowed into his stomach, Zhao Xiao quickly gave up the sniper rifle, pulled out the submachine gun hanging on his waist, and shot behind him without looking at it.

  The rock in front of him exploded into a cloud of gravel and dust. Although he missed him, Ye Shi was secretly surprised.

   "Oh my god... this guy is also a perception system?!"

   The purity may not be high, but the grade should not be low!

  Hiding behind a half-person-high rock, Zhao Xiao glanced at the sniper rifle he abandoned not far away, cursed in a low voice, and then shouted out of the rock mass.

   "How did you find me?"

  Ye Shi laughed.

   "Joke, do you still need to find it? There is such a high point nearby."

   "..."

  Zhao Xiao's expression froze.

  It seems to be the truth...

  The two sides fell into a stalemate.

  The distance is less than ten meters, each occupies a bunker, and no one can do anything to each other...at least for now.

   Not wanting to drag on any longer, 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 drew out the dagger at the same time. Provocatively knocked twice on the rock mass.

   "Fight! Dare?"

  He is a professionally trained fighter.

  As long as the opponent dares to fight him hand-to-hand, he will never lose!

   "Dare, why not dare?"

   Seeing the other party put down the gun, Ye Shi was immediately happy. Without saying a word, he pulled out a grenade and threw it towards the left side of the rock mass.

   "I hate you!"

  Zhao Xiao's face suddenly changed when he saw this, and he didn't bother to pick up the gun anymore, and rushed to the other side of the bunker with curses.

  The roar of the explosion sounded almost at the same time as he lay down, and the shock wave and fragments of the explosion made him unable to bear a muffled groan.

   Enduring the pain and was about to get up from the ground, the cold muzzle of the gun had already reached the back of his head that had just been raised.

   "I advise you not to move."

  Hearing the voice above his head, Zhao Xiao's face turned pale, he gritted his teeth and was speechless.

  Ye Shi was about to taunt this guy, when a sign of crisis suddenly rushed into his mind, and along with it came a scarlet killing intent.

  He backed away quickly to open the distance.

  Almost at the same time, the whistling sound almost scraped against his exoskeleton breastplate, forming an intersecting afterimage in the air.

  There was only one thought in Ye Shi's mind.

So fast!

  A figure slowly walked up from the hillside.

  The man's face was expressionless, as stiff as a robot.

  There is no gun in his hand, replaced by two short knives that are integrated with his arms and fold inward—much like the forelimbs of a praying mantis.

  Ye Shi's pupils shrank slightly.

   Good guy.

   What kind of cyberpunk look is this? !

   The moment he saw that person, Zhao Xiao had surprise on his face.

   "Xuan Feng?!"

  The man replied with a voice that did not waver.

   "Leave it to me here."

   Zhao Xiao excitedly wanted to say hello when he saw a grenade thrown towards him.

Again? !

  Zhao Xiao's expression changed instantly, and just as he was about to dodge, a huge force hit his chest.

  He almost lost his breath and let out a muffled grunt. When he came back to his senses, he was lying face down in the muddy ground under the hillside.

   After taking a mouthful of mud, Zhao Xiao could not stop beeping softly.

   "Damn, you can't be gentle."

  Kicking his comrades down the hillside, the man named Xuan Feng turned his head and looked at the hostile target who had been more than ten meters away from him.

  His targets are mainly aliens or mutants occupying the ruins. In the underlying logic of his AI core, there is a line of code that reads "do not kill unless necessary".

   But now, it is obviously a "necessary situation".

  Organisms that pose a threat to Beacon team members must be removed by any means possible, even with dismemberment tools used against larger xenomorphs.

   Patted the metal fragment stuck on the artificial skin, Xuan Feng did not speak, and walked towards the person as if nothing had happened.

  Looking at the monster walking towards him in front of him, a drop of cold sweat rolled down Ye Shi's forehead, and pointed the LD-50 in his hand at his head.

   "What the **** are you?"

   Even grenades can't kill you!

   What the **** is this Terminator? !

"Nothing to do with you."

  The man swung the inwardly folded praying mantis knife, his legs slightly bent, like a praying mantis poised to strike, ready to kill his prey with one blow.

   At the same time, Ye Shi's heart rose to his throat for an instant.

  He can predict the threat of death...

   But that doesn't mean he can dodge.

   At this critical moment, dozens of scarlet tentacles shot out from the reeds below the hillside, wrapped around Xuan Feng's back like chains, and quickly locked every joint in his body.

  Motor function was restricted, a rare confusion appeared in Xuan Feng's eyes, as if he had never encountered such a situation.

  He tried to move, but couldn't move at all.

  The switchblade cuts inward like scissors, but it is just a little away from the joint, and the sharp edge cannot touch it at all.

  The tentacles that entangled him seemed to be familiar with the structure of the human body.

   Xuan Feng lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

   "Hmm...it's difficult."

   Coincidentally, Xiaoyu, who was squatting in the reeds, was almost in the same confusion as him at this moment.

   "Yeah???"

  The person bitten by it is like a cold and hard stone, no matter whether it is eyes, ears, mouth or nose, there is not a single cell that can penetrate it.

   There is no neuron that can be invaded.

This guy…

  Why can’t I eat it?

   "Damn... what the **** is that?!"

  Looking at the scarlet tentacles that suddenly shot out from the reeds, Zhao Xiao's face was imprinted with panic for a moment, and he moved back subconsciously to distance himself.

  Xuan Feng is already the highest-equipped bionic in their team, dedicated to dealing with high-threat targets that are difficult to deal with conventional weapons such as death claws, mutant leeches, and mutants.

   It is no exaggeration to say that its individual combat capability is the ceiling of their entire team's combat power, and even the captain is not his opponent!

   But now—

  He was accused of being unable to move.

   Gritting his teeth, Zhao Xiao mustered up his courage, pulled out the pistol stuck in his tactical vest, and was about to aim at the tentacles wrapped around Xuan Feng's body.

   This is the last gun he has.

  However, at this moment, the cold muzzle of the gun hit the back of his head again. At the same time, a loud shout came.

   "Drop your weapon! Lie on your stomach with your hands on your head!"

  Hearing that voice, Zhao Xiao's expression froze.

  The tentacles startled him earlier, and he didn't notice the movement behind him for a while.

  Seeing that the man didn't move, Luo Yu kicked him on the back.

   "For the last time, put down your weapon immediately!"

   "Don't, don't shoot!"

   I didn't expect to be captured twice in one day.

  Zhao Xiao smiled wryly and threw away the pistol, holding his head in his hands and slowly propped up his body.

  However, just as he was about to get down on the ground, his eyes met the black mud, and his expression froze on his face.

   "Uh, can I... change my position?"

  He whispered in embarrassment, trying to ask for permission, but the person behind him didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, so he raised his foot and kicked his ass.

  Looking at the guy whose head was stuck in the mud, Luo Yu rolled his eyes.

   "If you are told to lie on your stomach, you can lie on your stomach, so much nonsense."

   Pointing his index finger on the VM, Luo Yu selected the blinking communication window, cleared his throat and said.

   "This is Luo Yu. I have successfully joined the person who came to pick me up... How is the situation on your side?"

  The gunfire over the communication channel has subsided.

   It looks like it should be over soon.

   "Our side is almost done... Those 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 fell into a stalemate for a while.

  Luo Yu continued with a subtle expression.

   "Uh, there's something wrong with us here... If it's convenient for you, please send a few people over."

  Lao Bai's answer was very straightforward, without delay.

"receive."

  (end of this chapter)