On the other side of the planet where the ground base is located, above the Grand Canyon, two Marines, 035 and 036, were bored and guarding with guns next to a hidden pile of rocks.
The reason they stayed here was that they were ordered by Captain 031, who carried out this reconnaissance mission, to guard the rigging here, and be sure to ensure the safety of these two riggings within three hours before they return.
Otherwise, when the four or five people who had already gone down returned, they would not be able to get up without the help of this rigging!
Due to the strong magnetic field, the transport aircraft cannot get too close to this canyon.
So, once there is any problem with these two sets of rigging, they are likely to be trapped at the bottom.
The crack below this Grand Canyon is really a bit narrow, too deep, and curved. It is really impossible to use the flight jet device to force it up. Whether it is going down or coming up, you can only use the descending rig to help climb.
Except for 035 and 036 who were guarding the rope-landing device on the canyon, the other eighteen people, after checking their respective weapons and equipment, all descended into the deep canyon rift below.
"Captain? We have been walking about several hundred meters deep. How long will it take to go?"
Now, these eighteen Marines are walking towards the twisting and twisting gravel crack path. They have been walking for nearly half an hour, and have only been able to penetrate about a distance of about a thousand meters.
Then, after getting deeper and deeper, a team member who was walking in the second place with a 039 on his chest finally couldn't help asking the captain who was walking in the front.
Now he goes deeper and deeper, his heart becomes more and more panicked. When he thinks about the unmanned detectors that have been missing for no reason, he feels a burst of heart.
He felt that Commander Doug of the base had to send them to find out what was inside the canyon rift?
Since you know there are bugs inside, just let the drone carry some self-destructive bombs or wait until the production of the fusion bomb is shot down?
He knew that outside the ground base command center, a nuclear bomb silo has been transformed by SCV. The tactical-level fusion intercontinental missile must have been included in the production list, right?
"Don't speak out! Be patient, we are still halfway away. As long as we reach a place where the UAVs cannot reach, after exploring, if there is no special discovery, we can return immediately!"
In fact, Captain No. 031 was also a little trembling, but since he had taken on this on-site investigation mission, he would always have to go!
This time they came here, in addition to the nominal reconnaissance, they actually had another more important secret mission, but others didn't know about it.
Once he finds that there is really a large-scale swarm below, he will likely implement another action plan!
So, while cheering up the team members, he continued to take the lead in walking in the front.
"Everyone pays attention, keep it close. In front of you, there is an electromagnetic chaotic area! At that time, communication may not work very well. If you can stay quiet without speaking, none of us knows what will happen there..."
While whispering, Captain 031 took the lead and continued to walk towards the small crack that was diagonally downward.
The depth now is almost reaching the reserved chaotic area.
The Marines in their group have seen that some abnormalities appear on their electronic devices.
The holographic images in everyone's helmets actually began to jump for no reason...
So, after giving the final explanation and asking the people behind to follow up, he took the lead and continued walking forward.
“…”
After a while, in everyone's equipment, including the captain, except for the rough skin, steel, and things such as power armor and lighting equipment, and those without precision electronic equipment, were not affected by strange magnetic fields, other high-end equipment, including radar, camera equipment, night vision equipment, communications, etc., were all seriously disturbed.
Obviously, now, they have entered the last area of ​​their mission objectives.
Because they had seen that the downhill road ahead was gradually becoming wider, and in a corner, they also found a wreckage of an unmanned reconnaissance equipment that was obviously a human product of Hope.
It seems...it was violently torn apart?
"Everyone, check the weapon for the last time, we are about to enter the mission target area!"
Without using the communication equipment, Captain No. 031 said muffled in his face mask while making gestures.
Although this planet has atmosphere and sound can also spread in the air, due to the fully enclosed mask, his words are a little dull, and the players behind him cannot hear clearly what their captain said, so they can only guess based on the movements of the people in front and the captain's not standard tactical gestures.
"Okay! Everyone, keep moving forward, keep quiet, and never speak loudly!"
After seeing that everyone had completed the final inspection of equipment according to his order, 031 nodded, and after saying a dull sentence at the end, he took the lead in walking forward.
Then, the other Marines followed one by one, using the two pairs of white light searchlights beside their respective armor chests and helmets to look carefully at the ground while following their teammates in front...
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The difference between the other citizens on the Hope Game Platform is that in this special copy of Stantosom that Annie asked the Intelligent Brain to make based on her memory and requirements, the members of the two teams Galen and Dryus were training their skills in using cold weapons in the open space outside the Stantosom bridge.
They were split into a group, shouting the funny slogans of "Demacia" or "Noxus", and then they flashed with golden holy light energy or blood-red anger, catching and slashing each other.
Sometimes, if someone accidentally gets cut off half of his body by a big sword...
Or maybe someone staggered and had a little slow reaction, and his head was cut off by a blood-red axe...
Various blood and internal organs flowed out of the bridge all over the ground, and then they were quickly refreshed.
But in fact, they are not training, but rather they are relying on the fact that they are not really dead in the holographic simulation game, holding weapons and slashing at each other in an unorganized manner?
The opponent, who was cut in half by an axe, joined the battle after refreshing the next second, was very lively!
For veterans like them who have been trained many times, in the game, except for the moment they are chopped, there is not much discomfort in the game, except for the slightest low-intensity simulated pain, and it is no different from the feeling when they are blown up by shells during training.
They have long been accustomed to this.
"Hey! Dryus, let's stop fighting first, right? I think we are almost proficient in the key points of weapons now! Or let's try to open up this Stantamme?"
After fighting each other for nearly half an hour, they became more and more adaptable to this great sword and axe weapon, and they became more and more smooth when shouting slogans!
Correspondingly, the response feedback of the special energy on the weapon has become increasingly solid.
So, Garen thinks it would be boring if they continue to fight against each other like this?
So why not go into the city early and try to find the undead pairs?
Anyway, Galen felt that they had basically mastered the strange energy feedback from these cold weapons and weapons. He also felt that he could beat the ten heels of the past by one person, and would never be easily submerged and torn apart by the undead like before!
Therefore, with extreme self-confidence, he decided: Taking advantage of the fact that everyone is in high spirits, just pass the so-called Stantamme copy in one breath?
Those ghouls and hatreds don't seem so difficult to deal with, right?
Besides, they are different now than they were just now. They have basically mastered these powers that surpass mortals!
"Let's go into the city now... are you sure?"
After hearing Garen's call to stop, Drayus took two steps back and carried his huge two-handed battle axe, and was a little confused for a moment.
He always felt that Garen seemed a little too impatient when he did this?
After all, they have only been training for half an hour, and it seems not good to just run into the city carelessly, right? Who knows how many evil spirits are there in it?
"What are you afraid of? We are unparalleled now!"
Garen waved the big sword in his hand boldly, letting the golden light on his weapon slightly cover half of his body. It really looks like that?
Anyway, it's just a game and won't die, so it's okay to try it!
"Yes, captain! It's not a big deal for us to practice like this! Let's go to the city to try it?"
"agree!"
Some of the team members who heard it around also stopped and spoke in agreement with Garen's resolution.
"Yes, I agree too! Captain, you don't know: the bastards who just played against me are all vulgar ones! I want to take advantage of me all day long! When they cut the knife, they even chose three ways to cut!"
A female soldier jumped out at the right time and loudly condemned the perverts who were practicing with her to Dryus.
Just now, she was split in half by those bastards in an extremely obscene way!
"Sister! You misunderstood me!"
"That's it! Every time you swing the axe, you'll open and close it. The gap and flaw below are so big. Of course, we have to pick the bottom and cut it first..."
"This is reasonable!"
"Captain, you don't know: she always lifts the axe so high. If we die, we will cut her down on the three roads, and then she will definitely be smashed to death!"
"That's right! Seeing that she was about to chop off from above, why don't I stab her quickly? In that case, who cares about so much?"
"That's it! I was slashed in the neck twice by her just now!"
Seeing someone suing me for the sarcasm of the sarcasm of the people, the team members who had trained with the female soldier were a little unhappy and jumped out to retort.
In this short half hour of training, the female team member was split in half, and there were no less than double digits!
Her opponents have been replaced in several batches, and few of them can stand her violent fighting style that is invincible to me. That is not practicing at all, but fighting desperately!
Every time, she never defended or attacked, she always raised her axe high, and then cut it down with force as she chopped down Mount Hua. The momentum alone could scare a lot of people.
So, after they suffered losses on the axe of this female team member and came back from revenge, they quickly changed their opponents as soon as possible!
"I also agree to go into the city and open up the soil of Stantam!"
"Get up! Go into the city, go into the city! Everyone will clear the land!"
"Yes! Destroy the undead in the city and kill them all!"
"Yes! Go into the city!"
"Long live Demacia!!"
"Noxus, unrivaled!!!"
A group of Marines who claimed that they were invincible in the world all stopped their actions and began to make noise loudly.
They are also a little tired of this boring chopping training now. This kind of training has no meaning except killing the other party or being killed by the other party. It is too boring!
Moreover, they were "treated" by those undead just now, so this revenge must be avenged!
"Okay, then go into the city!"
Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Dryus couldn't stop him too much. After thinking about it, he finally nodded in agreement.
The left and right are just a training game. If you can't beat it, you'll just turn around and continue practicing later. Anyway, it's no big deal.
"Okay! Where is the dawn of the smart brain? Get us armoured and powered combat uniforms quickly. We are going to enter the city to open up land!"
After obtaining everyone's consent, Garen began to call out the intelligent brain of Hope loudly.
Since it is officially opened up, they must put on equipment. They must start attacking this city in actual combat!
Of course, it’s just about equipment combat uniforms. As for electromagnetic rifles, it’s not needed for the time being.
"The order has been received!"
Suddenly, the electronic synthesized female voice of Dawn sounded.
Then, all the Marines wore their CMC-300/400 armored combat uniforms in an instant, and turned into twenty star-held big swords or giant axes with star-mounted Paladins (apprentices?) and warriors (apprentices?).
"Haha! Are you all ready? Now, follow my order: start the attack!"
After the door of Stantamme in front slowly opened, Garen held his sword and shouted loudly at the city gate.
He decided: they had to rush in in one breath, kill all the movable monsters they saw, and completely pass this seemingly small city copy before supper time ends!
Then, a group of people made noise loudly, wielding their own big swords or axes, followed Garen, and accelerated toward the city gate of Stantholm...
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At a supply station on the ground base, little Anne was sitting in front of a square table in the public restaurant, enjoying her supper in big mouthfuls.
Although these fast-growing fast-growing plants, or the meat animals cultivated on Hope, do not taste very well, some are even synthetic protein meat?
However, under the skill of the chefs, the taste was quite good when they were covered by the seasonings. In any case, it was much better than the dark dishes she had eaten in the Caribbean Sea!
So Anne reluctantly came here to eat a little too often, anyway, it was provided for free, so she didn't need her money!
"Anne? Why are you the only son here to eat today? Where are Garen and the guys of Dryus?"
At this time, Doug, the commander of the base, also came here to have a meal.
When Doug discovered that on weekdays, he could almost see a group of people playing and eating and drinking, and they never saw each other for the first time. With curiosity, she walked to Anne's table with a plate full of food, and sat generously opposite the little Anne who was eating and not having a look.
"Taking a slutty...tea face..."
Little Annie, who was holding the big chicken legs of a quick-growing broiler, said in a daze.
After chewing two bites, little Annie looked at the chicken leg with disgust. The thing always tasted like that and never changed!
In the cultivation warehouse on Hope, before the people of Hope wake up, the supply of meat products started to be manipulated and cultivated in large quantities by the smart brain dawn. The supply is not too much. Only the combat troops can open the supply. Even if the meat is not of good quality, it is still relatively popular. It is one of the edible non-synthetic meat products that Little Anne is more acceptable.
"Training? Are they so active in normal times?"
Doug was a little confused. When did that group of Marines need to train to the point of not having enough food and sleep?
Look, it’s halfway through mealtime, and they don’t even come?
"Oh! I remembered it, could it be that the special training you asked them to conduct cold weapons combat?"
Doug suddenly came to his senses after thinking for a while.
Before, after sending the captain's armored transport spacecraft away, Drayus told her about this, as if... it was the special training called cold weapons, right?
It seems that there is some special weapon? Or is it provided by this magical little girl in front of you?
"Yeah...it's just spicy!"
After smearing her mouth with her oily little hand, Annie continued to nod her head vaguely while chewing the food stuffed with her mouth.
“…”
Then, she thought about it and looked around her again.
After being reminded by Aunt Doug, she finally realized: There seemed to be no rogues like Dryus and Galen who like to share their own food in the cafeteria today?
Then, can you secretly eat something delicious?
hey-hey……
After thinking about it, little Annie quickly threw away the chicken legs, took out a big roasted bobcat leg from her space pocket, and started gnawing on it.
Today, after the rogues are gone, I should be able to have a good meal?
"But, Anne... cold weapons, really do they work for our Marines?"
Doug had just thought about the matter but didn't notice where did Little Anne take out the big barbecue cube?
So, she just shook her nose curiously and smelled the charming fragrance while continuing to ask questions that confused herself.
She still feels that it may be better to deal with the bugs on this planet with rifles! As for melee methods, if you are absolutely required, it is better not to use them casually, as it will increase the casualty rate!
"I don't say... it depends on their training results!"
He continued to bite the salt-salted bobcat legs on his hands, and little Annie responded casually without raising her head.
How could she know if there is any problem with this? Anyway, she just played casually on a whim!
As for what you can practice in the end, we have to see the training results of Garen's big guy and Darius Black guy.
If they can pass the real mode of the Stantam duke, they must have at least one Paladin or Warrior Hero level, right?
At that time, that will definitely come in handy!
If there are twenty paladins and warrior hero-level heroes who really fight face to face, I guess even her own demigod mage will run away quickly?
As for when they can pass Stantam, only Varimasas knows...
Anyway, that big bat should be the last boss in the dungeon, right?
That kind of thing is just a guy that Little Anne can kill you by herself. I hope Garen and the others can take the other party as soon as possible?
With the weapons they set up and the function of not being afraid of death in the game, Little Annie feels that after countless attempts, as long as they are not too stupid, they will barely pass the right way to pass the level within one or two years.
Unfortunately, what she didn't know was that the twenty Marines, after only half an hour of chopping each other, could not wait to march into Stantolme...
"By the way, little Annie, your barbecue is..."
While eating the food that was chewed with wax on his plate and smelling the wonderful fragrance opposite, Commander Doug finally couldn't help but speak.
So, after stopping the movements in her hand, she looked at the one in Little Annie's hand with a little confusion, which had been bitten off most of the animal's hind legs.
The browned and greasy crispy skin, the breathtaking and strange fragrance made Doug very puzzled.
She should...never have she seen barbecue food in the cafeteria with such supply?
Or... Could it be that I just missed something in the canteen self-service area? Didn't pay attention to it?
"What barbecue?! No barbecue anymore!"
As soon as he heard the other party ask about this, little Annie's eyes immediately changed.
Could it be another rogue who wants to share his own food, right?
It looks a bit similar...
Then, after staring at the other person with vigilance, she pulled off the last piece of meat from the bobcat's legs and swallowed it into her stomach. When she turned around, she quickly took the empty plate and jumped off her seat.
"Okay, Aunt Doug, I'm full, goodbye!!"
Afraid that the other party was like the big Garen guy, he came to ask for something for him, so he quickly took the plate and ran to the recycling area of ​​the cafeteria.
“…”
strangeness!
Doug looked at the other person's back in a daze. She had no idea what the hell was doing?
She just wanted to ask her where she found the barbecue in the self-service area, and then she wanted to get a little of it herself!
That little brat, is that nervous? I didn’t want to compete with her for food!
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“…”
“…”
At this moment, outside the bridgehead of Stantolme, Garen and Dryus, a group of twenty Marines who had just been talked about by Little Anne and Commander Doug, were staring at each other dull.
Just now, they were full of confidence and felt that they could pass the entire copy before the end of the meal, and were taught a lesson by the cruel reality!
A bloody lesson!
More than ten minutes ago, after putting on armored combat uniforms and rushing into the city, they had just had time to cut over some zombies and skeletons, and were easily fucked to the ground by a not-so-large ghoul with a group of smaller ghouls, and sent twenty fresh and sweet meat to the other party for free...
Finally, after the other party left with a burp in his stomach, the copy was reset by the intelligence brain, and they were resurrected and returned to their original position on the bridgehead.
"Dryus... just now, how long have we been in the city...?"
Looking at the huge wooden iron-structured city gate in the distance, Garen felt that his self-confidence seemed to have been hit by some huge and cruel blow, and he urgently needed some comfort.
"It should...it's about ten minutes..."
Dryus said with a little dark face.
He looked at the current time and then thought about the time he had waited for someone to set off at the beginning of the meal time, so he could easily come up with a relatively accurate number.
"Ha! That's not bad. After all, we have been persevering for ten minutes?"
Garen smiled a little awkwardly, and spoke hypnotically to comfort everyone.
Although they failed in the end and did not attack much of the city, they could have been successfully held in the city for ten minutes, right?
This is a huge improvement!
Galen felt that they could never be frustrated by this. They should continue to work hard and strive to persevere for an hour and a half to not be eliminated?
Anyway, now that things are happening, Garen is temporarily clearing the entire copy before the meal time is over, and there is no hope for him!
He just hopes that later, after the next attack begins, they can hold on for a longer time?
“Galen…”
Dryus looked at Garen with a trembling mouth, a little reluctant to speak, as if he didn't really want to hit him?
"We were inside just now, and only lasted for a minute at most...and then, those monsters, it ate all of us and took nearly nine minutes..."
Although he didn't want to smite Garen's enthusiasm, Dryus still spoke the truth without expression.
Thinking of what had just happened, Dryus felt a little scared.
That kind of monster is too scary, right?
The zombie ghoul who just destroyed his twenty people was not a huge monster, or a powerful monster, or an invulnerable sword or gun, but just a very fast speed...
How fast is it?
They were almost there. They just saw each other. Before they had time to react, they were accelerated by the monster and then quickly penetrated into the team. In less than ten seconds, they all tore the armor and fucked to the ground...
When he thought of the speed of the other party interspersing between the twenty of them, he could hardly see the figure, and then his terrifying claws, the despair when he teared the weak parts of the armor and took out the internal organs of the group of people, he couldn't help but tremble, and his urge to pee...
Fortunately, this extremely fast monster only exists in the game...
"Ah... it turns out that we were inside just now, and we only stayed for a minute?"
Garen, who originally wanted to continue mobilizing morale, couldn't help but stiffen after hearing this.
Then, Garen thought, perhaps, it was because this copy was too difficult?
So, should you order Dawn to change this copy from a real difficulty mode to a difficult or ordinary mode? Or, just try to adjust it to the lowest simple mode?
I decided! That's what I should do!
"Don't be discouraged by everyone! After all, we are all newbies, and this failure is actually within our plan!"
After thinking about it, Galen began to turn around and face the others and mobilize again.
"So! Later, let's start with the simplest mode! Everyone should believe that we will definitely be able to pass this Stantam simple mode copy this time! It will definitely be!!"
"You must believe that we are the strongest Marines of Hope! None of them! Victory will always belong to us!"
A leader who can't open his eyes and tells lies is not a good leader!
So, after a lot of twists and seeing everyone's morale mobilized slightly by their own lies, Garen nodded with satisfaction and asked the Intelligent Brain Dawn to adjust the difficulty of the copy and the real difficulty mode to the lowest level!
Chapter completed!