After driving hundreds of kilometers, Xie Yuan asked Yermak to stop at a station that was heavily guarded by a team of armed personnel.
"Are you sure they won't shoot as soon as they see us?" Miller looked cautiously at the heavily armored soldiers who were casually observing the entire locomotive, and asked his son-in-law without confidence.
He is an elite veteran. It can be seen that soldiers in this state mean that they are completely suppressing the situation and can instantly switch to wartime state.
And aside from the elite combat temperament, even the weapons and equipment also highlight a kind of modernization integrated by large industries: all winter cold-proof hooded coats, winter combat boots, and military full-face gas masks.
The weapons are also 80% to 90% new ak-74m and ak-105, which are small weapons made of engineering plastic components that were only available before the war.
This equipment is even more sophisticated than the Hanseatic League. How is it possible?!
Miller was worried that they would be detrimental to him...especially since he didn't know what kind of relationship this place had with the Hanseatic people.
"Otherwise we'll have to deal with their double-barreled anti-aircraft guns."
Xie Yuan whispered to Miller, and his father-in-law immediately became helpless and silent.
Zu-23 anti-aircraft gun. There are two twin 23mm anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the high point of this small station. After the gun barrel is flattened, it can form effective fire suppression at a distance of 2.5 kilometers, not to mention that there are more firepower behind the cannon.
There are two individual rocket launchers - this is a combined projectile and artillery system!
Twenty years have passed since the Hanseatic League, and they don’t even have the ability to manufacture small-caliber artillery shells, but here they can still use high- and low-level dual-purpose artillery for defense?
Miller said this was very surprising, and because the small station gave a stop signal through an anti-aircraft gun, their train had to stop as instructed.
Well, it's actually because the Hanseatic League didn't have any use for these things. It's not that they didn't have them. After all, they had been fighting an asymmetric security war for twenty years, and no matter how good their qualities were, they were reduced to bullying ordinary people.
Of course, after today, things will probably change... maybe.
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Miller and everyone else were indeed, because after the stop, the leading heavy-armed soldiers only asked if they had conspired to seize the Hanseatic League's locomotive and then nothing more happened.
Miller even found that these guard soldiers didn't care at all - the leader just told Miller that they would not think anything of the locomotive, but they would not provide any protection.
They can allow the people in the car to have 30 minutes to purchase supplies, and after 30 minutes, they can quickly leave without providing any form of protection.
These words surprised the entire Ranger team, and the most surprised among them was Colonel Miller. He muttered to himself, but couldn't explain the reason.
He seemed to find that the situation here was somewhat different from what he had grasped.
But since they had thirty minutes to relax, everyone except Miller hurried to the market behind the station... to do the last crazy thing allowed on the way to escape.
At first, everyone was a little cautious, not knowing whether this kind of hospitality was genuine and afraid of running into a trap.
But they were soon fascinated by the dazzling array of small commodity shops and food stalls - the pre-war third- and fourth-tier commercial streets have now become a grand view garden that they can't take their eyes off.
But soon they discovered a problem: no money.
Yes, payment and transactions need to be made in the station's custom equivalent "Ruble-Kopek" - pre-war currency. Except for precious metals, other transactions similar to "military bullets" are not accepted.
It is a new thing that rubles and kopecks are still used in the station, but unfortunately after twenty years of abuse, almost no one will collect this thing anymore.
Of course, it's almost, but in fact, someone still has a considerable amount of storage - in the savings room at the innermost part of the station, near the security room.
That is Xie Yuan himself.
Under the surprised looks of everyone, including Anna, Xie Yuan took out 120,000 rubles from the counter and at the same time took out the two military suitcases he had stored.
Xie Yuan arranged for Anna and himself to carry the military suitcase back to the train, and the others each received fifteen thousand. They were free to eat and buy whatever they wanted.
"Yeah!" Soon all six guys dispersed in a rush.
"You've also hidden a lot from me." When she and Anna walked back to the train, Anna's face was full of melancholy.
Xie Yuan wanted to apologize, but when his words came to his lips, he turned around and said, "Before I met you...except for the old stationmaster, I regarded everyone as an imaginary enemy."
After a moment of silence, Xie Yuancai continued: "I don't know what the road ahead is, and I don't know how long I can endure it, so I have to prepare for all possible situations... even prepare for the worst - after all, I do
It has the ability to destroy everything."
As soon as these words came out, Anna was immediately frightened. She immediately looked at Artyom - calm and calm, seemingly not at all disturbed by the treasonous thing in his words.
But soon she felt a little relieved: How could a person who could make an army by force have no temper at all?
In other words, Artyom is in a very abnormal state right now.
Then I heard Xie Yuan continue to say: "But I don't know what happened, but I met you, so I thought about it. In order to prevent you from being unhappy, I'd better restrain my impatience and take a step back to tolerate it.
That’s how it is until today.”
The two continued to look at each other in silence until they reached the locomotive, and Anna looked at Xie Yuan seriously: "Anyway, I will go wherever you go from now on. We can always find a place where you can calm down."
"Yeah! I believe that." Xie Yuan also agreed with his woman's words.
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Thirty minutes was quite short. After putting away the military suitcase, Anna immediately took the remaining 30,000 rubles that Xie Yuan had taken out and rushed to buy some personal items for her father, Artem and herself.
Thirty minutes later, the restarted locomotive left this unexpectedly established station on time, carrying a group of reluctant wandering wolves.
Just ten minutes after the train left, the Hanseatic recovery train that followed immediately drove in... but was also forced to stop here by anti-aircraft cannons.
A squad leader in the formation questioned the station guard captain very angrily, but he quickly recovered under the double attack of the cannon barrel aimed at them and a piece of gold secretly stuffed in his hand.
Later, the recovery team even had a delicious dinner here, and then stayed at the small station for one night.
However, when they woke up, they all looked poor and groggy, as if they had done a lot of physically demanding work yesterday.
But at this moment, all of them began to treat the guards with much more respect. After boarding the train, their complexions returned to normal, and they went home.
After all, this group of people must go back to give an explanation to their superiors and do a good job of operating secretly.
Building bricks and mortar to covertly replace the deep state.
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Xie Yuan still didn't tell the truth to Anna.
She thought she had given up the fight for power and chose to retire. In fact, she had just turned the original "change of dynasty" into a "Hydra" infiltration operation.
This shelter was established a year ago to secretly intercept travelers who came to Moscow subway stations to die. Since the establishment of this shelter, Xie Yuan has been completely liberated.
The people inside the station are real people, but the guards outside the station are not as simple as real people.
It is better to say that they are covered in human skin, but inside are intelligent robots made of engineering plastics - bionic humans.
These MEC robot armies were the military branch that would inflict a major blow to the Earth's resistance forces in the future. Although their weapons had to be temporarily replaced by chemical energy weapons, they were still powerful and deadly - especially since they were camouflaged with real skin.
It is not that the Hanseatic League has never tried to remove this stronghold, but after all the small-scale battles, the Hanseatic side suffered heavy casualties.
So if we couldn't win, we arranged peace talks! Moreover, this small station did have what the Hanseatic urgently needed: large quantities of food and scarce industrial products, at the price of gold stored in the Bank of Moscow.
It’s not like there is no gold in the Moscow subway station. It is stored intact in the Bank of Moscow. But in order to better let the shadow government control the economy, they deliberately arranged to use military bullets for settlement.
If the shadow government is content with the current quality of life... to be honest, it is actually very difficult to deal with people who are strong without desire.
Unfortunately, as a profit-seeking person, I couldn't do it, so I had to trade with this small station.
Anyway, the price here is cheap, and the Bank of Moscow's vault has enough gold reserves, so there is no need to worry.
But once the opening of trade exchanges is opened, what will happen next is beyond the control of your shadow government.
In this project, Xie Yuan boldly used a psychic incarnation to control key personnel through slavery, and even used faceless monsters to replace some of the "little transparency" that were common in human relationships, using "ghosts"
of nanobots to control the interrogation.
All it takes is to infiltrate the Hanseatic League step by step and then control the top-level shadow government.
Although this method has a long cycle and high hidden dangers, fortunately it will not be as violent as the open war between the Red Line and the Fourth Reich, and it will cause heavy casualties.
And for Anna, it won't be too exciting...after all, she doesn't know if she will come back one day.
Of course, from a long-term perspective, controlling the Moscow subway station will also serve as the basis for controlling other subway cities and post-war civilized settlements in the future.
After all, this is a planet that has lost the process of civilization after a nuclear explosion, but the key lies in the planet and not in the nuclear explosion.
After settling his relatives and friends here, Xie Yuanhui will find a way to connect Johnny Silverhand's Metal Gear Group here and rebuild his own earth civilization through the pioneering and colonizing technology of the Mass Effect world.
In the future, if the Reaper invasion of the galaxy really breaks out, once the situation reaches an irreversible point, this place can even become a temporary refuge for the Pan-Asian people.
In the last reincarnation, the Prothean civilization was harvested, and the reaper army raged for hundreds of years before it was dealt with completely, but this time it is estimated that it will take thousands of years to leave, completely making it impossible for any civilization in this reincarnation to revive.
If the battle is really not successful by then, then the Reaper army will probably eventually kill the entire galaxy's Citadel civilization, and the last survivors will probably not be able to survive hiding underground for so long.
So in addition to the Andromeda expedition plan, if one more cave is prepared here, it is estimated that more survivors can be gathered.
With the knowledge they can possess in their heads, and if they add 1,000 years of development, they might be able to accumulate enough power to send troops into the dark space where the Reapers are hiding when they fall asleep.