Ning Shisan, who was carrying a travel bag, walked to the door of a bar called "Hell Fire" and opened a heavy wooden door...
"Wow~" "#&%￥#*￥#..."
Compared with the slightly desolate and quiet streets, this bar is bustling with people, and it feels like two worlds inside and outside the door.
In the slightly old-furnished bar, dozens of drinkers speaking the local language were chatting and laughing loudly.
Seeing Ning Shisan's unfamiliar Asian face, many people in the bar looked over with scrutiny.
That look was not friendly.
Ning Shisan ignored the looks of people around him, walked straight to the bar, and spoke in fluent Arabic.
"I'm looking for Emil!"
When the bartender at the bar heard this, he looked Ning Shisan up and down for a moment.
"What are you doing with our boss?"
"Let's talk some business."
The bartender glanced at Ning Shisan meaningfully before nodding.
"plz follow me."
Seeing the bartender leading Ning Shisan away, the unkind glances in the bar slowly disappeared.
After a while, the bartender took Ning Shisan into a room behind the bar.
"Boss, this guest said he wants to discuss some business with you."
The boss described by the bartender is a shirtless Arab man with a bald head and a fierce aura.
When Ning Shisan saw the man, he was playing Super Mario with a game controller. Hearing this, he raised his head and glanced up. When he saw the man clearly, he was shocked all over.
The bald man was silent for a moment, his expression changed from surprise to gloomy, and he waved his hand.
"You go out first."
After the bartender left, the bald man put down the game controller, stood up slowly, walked up to Ning Shisan with all his tendons, and looked at him coldly and condescendingly.
"You shouldn't be here again!"
"It was supposed to be like this, but... the plan still couldn't keep up with the changes."
Ning Shisan sighed helplessly.
"Are you in trouble?" The bald man raised his eyebrows.
"Hmm...I'm not sure whether it's troublesome or not..."
"Then what are you doing here this time?"
"Do something."
The bald man didn't ask what he was doing, he just snorted coldly.
"Huh! You'd better leave quickly after finishing your work. I don't want to see you here! But..."
The next moment, Baldhead opened his arms... and gave Ning Shisan a bear hug.
"Welcome back, brother!"
…
"Wow~" A secret door in the room was opened, and a large number of arms and equipment displayed inside suddenly came into view.
Ning Shisan glanced at it and picked up a Beretta Px4 with ease...
"It's stuck!" He pulled the bolt skillfully and checked the magazine sight.
"Are you familiar with your craftsmanship? I heard that it's hard to even get a gun in your country?"
The bald man leaned against the door, ignoring the flammable and explosive materials in the room, and joked while holding a cigarette in his mouth.
"Well! It was really a bit uncomfortable at first." Ning Shisan cracked the corner of his mouth.
"What a peaceful country..." The bald man blew out a smoke ring.
"If you're envious, why don't you come back with me to retire?"
"Come on, that kind of environment will drive me crazy. I'm still used to falling asleep listening to the sound of gunfire outside, hahaha!"
…
The bald man laughed loudly, "Just like your old saying, if I live such a brave life, I must die in battle and be wrapped in horse leather!"
The day you hear that I die, I will definitely die on the battlefield!"
The bald man finished with a smile, "How about it? Do you want me to help this time? For the sake of my old brother, there is no charge!"
"No, I have to go alone this time."
"Well..." The bald head still didn't ask what he was doing here, but just blew out the smoke ring again.
"Really? Then get out of here after you finish this job. If you die, the world will be even lonelier..."
…
Half an hour later.
Ning Shisan left the back door of the tavern, walked directly to the main road, and got into a taxi.
[Ding! You have a new task, please handle it in time!]
Not long after I got in the car, a familiar notification sound suddenly came from my phone.
The corners of Ning Shisan's mouth twitched.
The intelligence of this electronic voice cannot be said to be high, but the voice style used to announce tasks is a bit confusing.
If you replace the word "task" with "takeout order", it won't feel inconsistent at all...
It feels like the hacker behind the scenes was too lazy and just took the ready-made audio clips and put them online.
However, the ability of this mysterious force behind the scenes is really amazing. Air tickets, hotels, and even calling a taxi were all clearly arranged for him.
It’s still public funds, so you don’t even have to worry about reimbursement…
Coupled with his previous experience as a mercenary in Zuliya and surrounding countries, he was at ease in this foreign country, at least without any hindrance.
He calmly picked up the phone.
[New side mission: Receive mission equipment.]
…
Just returned to the hotel where I stayed.
"Mr. Bck, this is your express mail, please sign for it."
With a professional smile on his face, the front desk clerk delivered a package about half a person's height in front of him.
"Thanks!"
After giving him a $5 tip, Ning Shisan carried the package into the room, then closed the door and locked it, and drew the curtains.
"Is this the so-called mission equipment?" He opened the package curiously.
Then take out the brand new packaging boxes one by one.
Juchang Matepad, satellite phone, and DJ Mavic Pro Platinum Edition rotor drone...
Um……
Tablets and satellite phones are easy to understand. As for DJ drones, they should be used for self-reconnaissance.
But... what the hell is this quantity?
Because there are actually 20 DJ drones in this package...
Although Ning Shisan has not been on the battlefield for several years, as a senior military fan, it is of course impossible for him to know everything about the development of military weapons in various countries.
This Mavic drone weighs only 743 grams, can fly at a speed of 65km/h, and has a maximum endurance of 30 minutes in the air.
At the beginning of 2018, the Israeli military announced that it would equip combat companies with DJ small commercial drones before the end of the year.
Although it is not uncommon for drones to be used in the military field, this is the first time that a regional power like Israel has purchased drones in bulk as equipment for combat troops.
This is enough to illustrate the certain application trend of small drones in ground combat.
He could understand that it was used for individual reconnaissance, but was it necessary to assemble so many machines at once? Even including the spare machines, the demand was seriously overflowing, right?
…
With a trace of doubt, he began to unpack, turn on the computer, and connect to the Internet according to the task requirements.
Until the end, the entire small room was filled with drones, and the ground was littered with disassembled express boxes.
If there is a dismantling party at the scene, the picture should be quite comfortable.
"Is this all right?" Ning Shisan wiped his sweat, took out his cell phone and asked into the receiver.
He knows that this mobile phone has been "monitoring" him.
[The mission is completed! The ‘Hive’ program is loaded! Online starts...]
An electronic sound came from the phone again.
Then Ning Shisan saw the screen of the tablet in his hand suddenly light up and start flashing pop-up windows...
Immediately afterwards, the lights of DJ drones all over the room began to flash!
"Buzz~" "Buzz~"...
Immediately afterwards, the rotors of one DJ drone after another began to buzz and began to rotate at high speed.
The first one, the second one, the third one...
Ning Shisan was dumbfounded as the drones in the room began to take off, and then each one hovered around him.
Without exception, all drone cameras were pointed at me...
"Buzz buzz~"
Ning Shisan's whole body was a little stiff, and his ears were filled with the hum of the drone's rotors. He felt as if he was being stared at by twenty eyes. The scene was quite strange.
The tablet in his hand began to flash images from various angles, most of which were super close-ups of himself...
What shocked him the most was that all the drones were flexibly flying around him, floating and sinking.
But from beginning to end, in this small space, there was no collision between them at all, as if there was an invisible hand controlling everything...
This is by no means manual control behind the scenes, but remote collaborative control through computer intelligent systems!
What shocked Ning Shisan was naturally not the simultaneous control of twenty drones.
But this kind of flexibility, intelligence and collaboration far exceeds any cutting-edge technology currently known to him!
At this moment, he is like a magician from another world. The one beside him is not a drone controlled by others, but a magic elf with only its own consciousness...
Let alone a small country, even the five major countries have not announced such exaggerated drone swarm technology, right?
"Gu~" Ning Shisan swallowed.
What level of conflict were you involved in?
"With this kind of technology, you don't need to hire me as a mercenary at all, right?" He smiled bitterly.
From beginning to end, he seemed to be a puppet being played on strings.
[Please don’t belittle yourself, Mr. Black Cat, for now, your role is indispensable?]
“What integral role can I play?”
[Adaptability and battlefield escape, in the words of the boss, you are the only humanoid unit in the unmanned battle sequence, and its positioning is similar to that of a ‘humanoid self-propelled transport platform’. 】
Ning Shisan: "..."
So...actually I am a courier?
Or is it a life-and-death courier on the battlefield?
[Ding! You have a new task, please handle it in time!]
This time the sound came from the tablet in my hand.
Then a high-definition topographic map appeared on the tablet, with longitude, latitude and various annotations on it.
"What's this?"
[This is a real-time satellite photo of the mission location.]
Ning Shisan: "..."
Satellite photos? Real-time?!
Can I still quit now?
"Is it possible that you want me to intervene in a war alone?" He said with a sullen face.
In the face of the mutual confrontation between forces of this level, no matter how capable I am with my small body, I am nothing more than an insignificant little cannon fodder...
[Don’t worry, we don’t have to intervene directly. In the words of the boss, what we are going to fight is a ‘proxy war’. 】