Chapter 476 The one who is recognized is the prisoner
Facts have proved that technological content and combat effectiveness are two-dimensional concepts:
On the way to the crash site with Group A, Zheng Hao quickly came into contact with the group of corporate soldiers, and a fierce exchange of fire immediately broke out with them.
And at this moment, Zheng Hao felt a hint of obvious difficulty. Those people were very strong!
And it’s the kind that’s visible to the naked eye!
The smooth progress of Group B caused him to misjudge the situation, and even misjudged what he shouldn't have. They were able to easily get rid of these people by relying on their equipment advantages, and then intercepted the abnormal mother body without anyone noticing.
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However, the advantage of Group B is that they have the upper hand in numbers, eight against three and one sniper supporting them outside the battlefield. When it comes to his side, the situation is completely different.
The soldiers on the opposite side spread out in groups of three and used alternating firepower to hold up the defense line. Then he found a small team coming around to his flank.
These people use tactics almost fluently, without even the slightest pause or hesitation.
The tacit cooperation makes people’s scalp numb.
The evenly matched battle situation soon took a turn for the worse with the death of a team member. The gunshots from all directions made him feel that he was not fighting a group of ten stragglers, but a well-trained army. These people were absolutely
They are not employees of a company! They are more like professional soldiers!
Just as they are professional in exploring ruins here, they are also professional in work like fighting! "Captain! The firepower of these people is too strong! I'm afraid we won't be able to survive for long just by relying on us."
A team member who was shot in the leg shouted in horror and fired at the distant slope with his rifle, trying to suppress the advancing soldiers.
However, the gunfire he fired did not even last for three seconds. A high-explosive grenade launched by an RPG dragged a slender tail flame and hit the slope in front of him.
The air wave and fragments of the explosion hit his chest together, pushing his whole body out from behind the slope, and fell to the ground unconscious like a rag. "Liangping grass"
Seeing another teammate die, Zheng Hao's eyes turned red for a moment, and he punched the soil with his fist, but there was nothing he could do.
The voice of the deputy leader of Group B came from the communication channel.
"Captain, the mother body has mutated! Its body split into dozens of tentacles and entangled the team leader! Zhao Xiao was also controlled by them... We need support!"
Seven against three, one has been eliminated, and he was actually killed in counter-attack
Although he still had a C team on standby on the crawler vehicle, he knew that even using the last reserve team would not help.
Perhaps after discovering that the "swarm" could not succeed in a single blow, he should decisively order a retreat... These people were obviously not something they could deal with!
Zheng Hao gritted his teeth and finally squeezed out those words from between his teeth. "Retreat."
After paying the price of four casualties, the academy team that raided the crash site seemed to finally realize that they had kicked an iron plate. "They retreated."
The sound of strong wind came from the communication channel.
He was in the sky through the drone's perspective, and had a clear view of the opponent's movements.
Aiming at the thick gray smoke ahead, the murderous dagger leaning against the bunker looked at Lao Bai beside him, eager to try.
"Boss, do you want to catch up?" He wanted to catch up.
These guys are weaker than expected. It would be a pity not to explode their gold coins. Lao Bai thought for a while and said, "No need, the mission is important." The enemy vehicle is five kilometers away.
Judging by the wind, it didn't look like a tank or a rocket car, but more like a large SUV that traveled through swampy terrain.
The identity of these people’s colleges is self-evident.
Judging from the equipment they carry, it is not like it is used against people, but more against alien species. Therefore, it can be inferred that this team is most likely a "scientific expedition team."
It is not difficult to deal with this group of people, but it is too close to the Wandering Swamp, so it may not be a good thing to scare the opponent.
Giving them a lesson is enough.
As a corps leader, he has more things to consider.
Right now, the task of the managers is still the most important. They need to avoid unnecessary complications as much as possible. The good names are given to dogs. "What will happen if those people come back?" Lao Bai raised his chin and pointed at the two people lying on the ground dying not far away.
"Aren't there prisoners here? Bandage them up... By the way, log off and go to the official website to update the mission status."
Murderous Dagger lowered the muzzle of the gun with a look of helplessness and turned off the safety. "Okay."
The battle has entered the stage of cleaning up the battlefield.
Of the four people abandoned by the academy, only two died. One of them was a bionic man and one was a prosthetic man. Some parts can be recycled.
The guy who was hit by the RPG before unexpectedly survived, but just passed out. The players were also in disbelief.
In addition, there was a female prospector who was shot once in the abdomen and right leg and basically lost the ability to move. The "Orca" transport aircraft contained a medical kit, including spray to stop bleeding, bandages to speed up wound healing, and medicine to speed up hematopoiesis.
Oral reagents are produced by Kangmao Group in Ideal City.
Lao Bai asked for a few medical kits from Sun Ze, distributed a few to his teammates, and then walked towards the female prospector who was leaning against the crooked neck tree.
Looking at the man walking towards him, Chen Yutong's originally weak breathing quickened, and his eyes shrank back in fear, but he soon took a breath of cold air due to the pain of the wound. He stared at the burly figure in front of him.
He was so big, she said with a trembling voice, "What... do you want to do..."
Almost everyone on the entire planet, whether they are human or not, regards them as "hot cakes." Even if they are not interested in their knowledge, bionic prosthetics can be sold for a lot of money.
She had heard about the miserable fate of those researchers who fell into the hands of other forces, but she never thought that she would be in such a situation one day. She simply didn't dare to think about what would happen next.
However, the man in front of her didn't do anything to her. "I'll bandage your wound, or you can bandage it yourself." Chen Yutong looked at him warily, with obvious distrust on his face, "Why... why did you want to save me?"
"Lao Bai said casually.
"For no reason, our army will not kill prisoners."
Except for the mutants and predators who throw people into the frying pan.
The main reason is that the game is too realistic, and sometimes he can't help but get mad.
But in fact, since the mines in Qingshi County opened, except for mutants who are still killed without mercy, they have rarely executed predators.
Leaders who refused to surrender would be hanged in public, while some of the minions were sentenced to hundreds of years of hard labor, mostly based on the victims' confessions.
As for the raw materials downstream of the active substance and nutritional paste industry chain, they have basically been replaced by slime mold fruiting bodies. Although the conversion rate is not high, they are abundant and cheap.
Chen Yutong looked blankly at the man in power armor in front of him. When did the company have this tradition?
Seeing that this guy still had the strength to speak, Lao Bai dropped the medical bag next to her. "Since you can still move, I won't help you." Wearing power armor, it was not easy for him to control his strength.
After taking a look at the medical bag, Chen Yutong hesitated and reached out his hand, then lowered his head and whispered thank you.
Lao Bai didn't pay attention. He walked to the side to take a look at the condition of the other prisoner, and then walked straight outside the temporary camp.
The team members who went to support Group 5 have returned. In addition to the pilot and "his SSSR-class battle pet", they also brought back a sniper with a mouth full of mud, and an android tied into a rice dumpling.
"These guys... are indeed from the academy." Looking at the expressionless android, Sun Ze had a surprised expression on his face and murmured to himself in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Lao Bai looked at the pilot curiously and asked. "How do you judge this?" Sun Ze said with a smile.
"This is too easy. The bionic people of Kangmao Group are much more advanced than them." Lao Bai was stunned for a moment.
He had never seen the expressions of the company's androids on the battlefield. This was the first time they had faced off against androids.
More advanced than those in the academy... Is there such a thing?
Xuan Feng lay expressionless, not really caring about this innocuous ridicule.
On the other hand, Zhao Xiao, who was standing next to him, was a little excited. When he heard someone mocking the technology of the college and comparing it with an enterprise, he immediately jumped up like a rabbit that had its tail stepped on. He pouted the mud in his mouth.
, he glared at the arrogant guy and said. You guys are farting... you are no longer advanced than us."
"Otherwise" Sun Ze glanced at this guy, couldn't hold back his laughter, and continued in a teasing tone,
"You can't even make emotion simulation programs and expression adjustment plug-ins, how can you still be considered advanced?"
"Keep farting! Who told you we can't do it? You stole the core AI related technologies from us."
Zhao Xiao blushed anxiously and argued, "We are just too lazy to waste time on such meaningless things."
There's no point in giving robots so many fancy expressions! Isn't it enough that things like androids can work? Sun Ze took out his ears and said disdainfully.
"Stealing is okay... That was so many years ago. Even Endpoint Cloud has been updated with more than a dozen new versions, so you still remember it. By the way, if we really want to talk about it, the AI core is also from the People's Alliance.
The technology, at best, is temporarily kept with you, so why does it become yours?"
Although the secret from a century and a half ago is rarely mentioned, it is not a secret in Ideal City. If you spend some time, you can even check the records of the lifting of the ban on the endpoint cloud.
But even if he had learned about it out of interest, he had no interest in delving into this past.
The research institutes on the east coast were originally funded by the Ministry of Production. Water, electricity, food, research consumables, and consumer goods all came from the Ministry of Production. Their ancestors just took away what originally belonged to them. Speaking more broadly, after the war,
The bankruptcy of the Reconstruction Committee was not originally the responsibility of any one person. It just completed its life cycle like a big tree.
He felt that even without Valant and the Long Winter, there would be other issues that would cause them to diverge from each other.
Maybe one day in the future, Ideal City will disappear in the long river of history, just like the once flourishing People's League.
But honestly, he really doesn't care.
Even the sun is not eternal, how can mortals dare to say it is forever.
He didn't want to stretch his neck and look too far ahead, nor did he want to be a person who twisted his neck back. The path under his feet was quite good now.
When he returns to Ideal City, he can go to Duandian Cloud to brag, no, share his new life.
During this mission, he not only took the same flight as the legendary Burning Legion, but also fell from the sky with them.
This is no more awesome than 2000 points in "Battle Royale"
However, the prisoner's attitude still made him a little unhappy, so he looked at Lao Bai who was standing aside watching the show. "Can I give him a couple of kicks?"
After all, he was not the prisoner he captured, so he still asked out of politeness. Lao Bai shrugged and said with a grin.
"We can't torture the prisoner, but I can let him go temporarily and let you have a fair fight." Sun Ze shrank his neck. "That's okay."
Zhao Xiao looked eager to give it a try, but unexpectedly the guy facing him gave up and spat out his tongue in disappointment.
However, I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but Sun Ze happened to hear this disdainful retching, and the two started a verbal spat again. But it was obvious.
When it comes to antagonizing people, it is obvious that corporate employees who have been surfing on the endpoint cloud all year round have more experience.
It was completely one-sided that Zhao Xiao was blushing.
Anyway, it looked like the plane couldn’t be repaired, and the players watching the excitement started to discuss it with interest. The sixth man in the corner said, "I think the company should be more advanced. Those androids understand art films, and they can also buy things and pay."
money."
"That's not necessarily true. I think that Mantis Knife is even more awesome. I almost lost my life..."
Speaking of extraordinary things in a casual tone, Ye Shi stretched his neck and looked around, and suddenly found that someone was missing, "I just wanted to ask you about quitting smoking."
The sixth person in the corner said, "Hey, that guy is gone again, did you just realize it? Wait, why did I say that he is gone again?" Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, he really didn't pay close attention just now, and then asked, "That prop
Where's the brother?"
The sixth man in the corner smiled sheepishly, "That guy was shot twice in the leg. When we were in the reed swamp, he asked me to patch him up...and asked me not to tell everyone." Ye Shi couldn't help but said, "It's a waste."
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The old man in the corner smiled shyly and said: "Intelligence department, it's normal to be weak, please understand." The lost and cute new man said "hahahaha" Guangfeng "..."
Chen Yutong looked at these people nervously.
Seeing the two sets of recovered exoskeletons, she guessed that most of them were dead people, but she didn't understand why these people could still laugh. What made her even more nervous was Zhao Xiao.
This guy got into a quarrel with the employees of that company, and the more he cursed, the worse he got. She was really worried about what these people would do to them.
The only thing that surprised her was what the man in power armor said just now. They are not on the same side as the company,' Chen Yutong thought in his heart.
However, regardless of whether it is true or not, their mission seems to have failed, and there seems to be little point in studying this now.
In a corner not far away, Luo Yu touched Xiao Yu's head comfortingly.
"Okay, don't be depressed... That guy is not an organism. It's normal that he can't eat. If you can control it, you have helped me a lot. By the way, don't put everything you pick up into your mouth and eat it badly.
"How do you fix your belly?" The brothers of the Burning Legion changed the rope to tie the iron lump, but they no longer needed to use the tentacles to tie the thing.
Xiaoyu still had a frustrated expression on her face, and she muttered, "Uh-huh..." She still couldn't understand why she couldn't eat that thing.
At this time, Murderous Dagger, who had just logged off and reported the progress of the task, walked towards everyone. "New task" Lao Bai immediately looked at him and asked. "What did the manager say?" Murderous Dagger said helplessly. "
The manager said...let us stand by near the crash site." Lao Bai frowned.
"I'm afraid we can't stay here for too long...Have you told him about the exchange of fire with the academy's exploration team?"
"Say, he even praised us for doing a great job in the mission pop-up window..." Murderous Dagger smiled sheepishly and continued, "Anyway, he is busy negotiating with the company to see if he can persuade them to send another plane.
Come here... But the company seems to be shocked. They didn't expect to lose a plane. "Good job."
Lao Bai looked at him blankly and asked in a low voice, "Ah... doesn't it matter?"
"It doesn't matter if the manager says the pilot is fine," Murderous Dagger glanced at the cerebral palsy who was still arguing with the prisoner, "The company means that it doesn't matter if the plane explodes if it can't be repaired, but the pilot must be alive, otherwise they won't
Take risks for us again...this is the bottom line." The players around them looked stunned.
After a while, Ye Shi scratched his head and glanced at the transport plane reluctantly, as well as the co-pilot next to the transport plane scratching his head at the manual. He finally couldn't help but complain. "Oh my god... that's bad."
Just throw the engine away..."
This is such a waste!
Edge of the Golden Lizard Kingdom.
A man in luxurious clothing stood on the sand dunes, followed by a row of brightly dressed dismounted cavalry. His name was Blair Golden Lizard, and he was the prince of the Golden Lizard Kingdom.
Looking at the tracked vehicle approaching in the distance, a cheerful smile appeared on his face, and he opened his arms from a distance.
"Welcome! Friends who have come from afar! On behalf of the Golden Lizard Royal Family, I welcome you!"
Put together with the more than a hundred cavalrymen behind Blair, the angular tracked vehicle in the distance looked out of place, but it didn't feel out of place against the background of the wasteland. The vehicle stopped on the sand dunes.
Li Ke got off the car and walked up to the aristocratic-looking man. He smiled slightly and extended his right hand, shaking hands instead of hugging.
B-level researcher Li Ke, I would like to send my greetings to you on behalf of the Special Planning Group of the Foreign Affairs Department of the college."
Blair didn't care that the B-level researcher didn't hug him. Instead, he was surprised by the level of the visiting personnel.
Generally speaking, A and B-level researchers rarely leave the academy, let alone the Wandering Swamp. There seem to be only two visits from B-level researchers in the history of the Golden Lizard Dynasty. "We have prepared a hotel for you.
Palace...please come with me."
Suddenly, his eyes fell on the tracked vehicle. As if he remembered something, he smiled sheepishly and said, "Of course, you can just be on the vehicle... We will lead the way for you." Li
Ke smiled and nodded. "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey."
The college has not changed at all over the years, at least they have "sacrificed" a lot in terms of doing as the Romans do.
A long time ago, they suffered the loss of not knowing how to adapt and not paying attention to politics, so they were deprived of their family property by two traitors.
The college, which escaped into the swamp, carried out a series of painful reforms under the leadership of Dr. Juju. It strengthened cooperation with the outside world on the basis of attaching importance to academics, and established two departments, namely the Foreign Affairs Department and the Internal Affairs Department, and the Investigation Department.
The Research Department is a parallel administrative department.
According to the guiding ideology of Dr. Conclusion, in the past 150 years, they have used some "simple techniques" to win over a group of weaker survivors, and established a "scientific" center with the academy as the core on the Wandering Swamp.
Committee".
Under the framework of the Science and Technology Committee, they can absorb fresh blood from the affiliated survivor settlements and enter the college to become grassroots cadres. They can share limited technology in exchange for the affiliated "primary production" and "secondary production", and rely on those survivors to settle in the academy.
The land's dependence on the college has turned it into a moat for the college.
The Golden Lizard Kingdom is one of the moats of the college and one of the greatest achievements of the Department of Foreign Affairs since its establishment. The food it produces not only supplies the college, but also supplies other "technical allies" of the college in the wandering swamp.
Now the war in Luoxia Province has seriously affected food production.
Especially since a nuclear bomb was detonated last month, it caused panic within the Science and Technology Committee. Many people were worried that the storm sweeping through the desert would spread radioactive fallout to the farmland of Oasis No. 8.
Although this kind of concern seems a bit funny in the wasteland, who doesn't have it these days, but in order to appease the anxious children, the chief technology officer of the college did some necessary work after listening to the report of the Science and Technology Committee.
, and handed over the task of mediating the war to the Department of Foreign Affairs. To be honest, Li Ke found this very difficult.
With the company's current attitude of "fighting at the head of the army", even his android assistant felt that the probability of a full-scale war breaking out was close to 60%.
Maybe by next spring, a tidal wave of clone armies will rush into Luoxia Province carrying the Legion's strategic nuclear reserves.
But even so, he felt that if he did nothing, the little legacy left by his ancestors in Luoxia Province might not last a few years.
A good choice is to persuade the company to stop when things get better.
However, according to what the pilot named Yukar said, the Legion was not beaten on the head by the enterprise, but beaten black and blue by a group of united wastelanders. This was completely beyond his expectation.
No matter how weak the legion's deployment in Sunset Province is, it is still the legion that dominates the west of the Central Continent. Those guys fight against the barbarians they call them day and night.
Mutants and alien warfare, why can't they defeat a group of wastelanders? He once suspected that Yukar was lying. But he really couldn't analyze the motive of that guy's lie.
So I decided to go to the vassal country to understand the actual situation before making the next step.
If it is true as Yukar said, it is the "alliance" that is leading this war, and companies are just fanning the flames behind the scenes.
It is obviously much easier to persuade a regional survivor force to retreat when things get better than to persuade their old enemies to cease fire.
Li Ke returned to the car and motioned to the driver to follow the group of cavalry. However, at this moment... he suddenly received a call from the Department of Foreign Affairs. "Failed."
Li Ke suddenly sat up from the chair, surprise written all over his face. Impossible.
The "Beacon" team is somewhat famous in the containment planning team of the Investigation Department, and that group of people can be considered experts in exploring ruins.
How could it not even be able to deal with a half-dead gnawer and its resentful mother body?
Realizing that the situation might be more complicated than he thought, Li Ke frowned slightly and continued to ask. "What is the situation?" the other end of the communication channel continued.
"According to the leader of the beacon team, they encountered the enterprise's transport plane...a group of people came down from above and intercepted the matrix. And there are various signs that the matrix should be related to the enterprise. Not only did it not attack the employees of the enterprise, but it also helped
Enterprise employees captured one of our android operators." Enterprise's aircraft
Li Ke was stunned, and his face quickly turned serious. Although he didn't want to interpret too much, the appearance of the company's plane near the Wandering Swamp was not a friendly gesture. Especially since they had been studying those variants secretly.
Slime mold... He pressed his index finger between his eyebrows, thought for a moment and said, "Can the captured android be contacted?"
"Can't contact... They should have wrapped it with some metal object, or removed its communication chip." That's right. The other party is not a fool. Li Ke closed his eyes and thought for a long time. His first thought
The priority is to mediate the war.
As for the matrix... Although he is very interested, if it is caused by a company, this matter is beyond the scope of his authority. It can only be left to the Director of the Foreign Affairs Department or even the chief technology officer of the college to decide how to deal with it.
"Don't act rashly on this matter yet. Let the Beacon Team stop operations and be on standby. Don't expose our identity."
The other end of the communication channel hesitated.
"But... we have shot down their plane." The corners of Li Ke's mouth twitched.
"It's okay. That kind of industrial waste will cause problems even if left alone...maybe it will cause them to fall down. A bitter smile came from the other end of the communication channel. "We have prisoners in their hands. Bionic humans."
"No...it's an E-class operator, maybe two or three, I'm not sure. They retreated too hastily and didn't have time to confirm the status of their teammates." This bunch of losers who fail to achieve anything but fail!
Li Ke couldn't help but cursed in his mind, took a deep breath, and tried hard to lower his soaring blood pressure. However, at this moment, he had completely forgotten that the person who ordered the mother to be captured was himself. The prisoner...
...is indeed a problem.
The Al of the academy can guarantee absolute loyalty, but the same cannot be said for a human being, let alone an E-class one.
Fortunately, E-class probably won't have complete information about the mission, and even if they are interrogated, they probably won't be able to ask anything sensitive.
The first priority now is "war mediation". As for the mother body...
Without the authorization of the chief technology officer, even if he wanted to recruit people, he could not do anything with the authority in his hand. He could not send another exploration team there. The Investigation Division would never agree.
Li Ke tapped his index finger on the armrest of the seat and said slowly, "The one who is recognized is the prisoner."
There was silence on the other end of the communication channel for a while.