Section 34: The Quietly Approaching Threat(1/2)
On the Aix Mountain Road in Hezhou Mainland
An army of the Papal State of Tomir was moving rapidly on the mountain road. They struggled to disperse all kinds of fanatical believers who came to "worship the gods", drove them to the Fortress of the Axes Pass, and then walked into the mountains regardless of everything.
Although they felt fear at the huge airship flying over their heads at first, the generals discussed for a day, but did not discuss the result, especially the "devil's descending" claimed by the priests, which made them even more at a loss. Until the angry messenger of Tomir XI arrived, the news of the "devil's arrival" was announced along the way, and all those who saw them were to attack them with all means and eliminate the "enemy of God."
The Fortress of Ax is at the intersection of the mountain and is also the only entrance and exit of the mountain. The defenders had 15,000 people. After repeated weighing the order, they had to execute the order (the news of civil strife in the capital has not yet been heard), and quickly detained the priests who announced the "God's Descendence" in the fortress. While driving out the nearest worshipers, the gate was closed, and a group of 10,000 troops were gathered, carrying various large crossbows, and heading towards Longmen No. 2.
Longmen No. 2
Several researchers are checking the returned Gauss rifle, from the material to the structure, and even the design of the bullet, which aroused their interest. After all, compared with the Gauss rifle that is still in the test stage in China, this one is much more mature.
Now, it was the morning of the next day. Colonel Wang Zhongguo, the person in charge of the operation, could no longer hold back, got off the airship, came to the scene to sit in person, and lost contact on the other side of the gate and did not return anything, he could only wait anxiously with helplessness.
"No news has been sent back yet?" Wang Zhongguo didn't know how many times he asked this question. According to the original plan, they should have used Tianna's ability to send back some foreign objects, videos of the filmed, and handwritten reports every hour. However, after more than a day, nothing was sent back, which made him vaguely worried about the safety of his subordinates on the other side of the gate. What's more, his airship was limited in supplies and carried a large amount of gold and silver harvested this time, which must be transported back to China as soon as possible.
Everyone around shook their heads. They were at a loss for the current situation. Even after being let go, Fiana had no idea and paced back and forth in Longmen No. 2.
"How long can our airship last?" the colonel asked with the communicator.
"At most, it's up to tomorrow night." Captain Lu Shaohua arrived. Their situation is indeed not optimistic now. The airship has a long time to stagnate, but it is not infinite, especially this airship that is almost "hand-assembled". The food and fresh water are exhausted. This is just the smallest problem. The supplementation of hydrogen and the generator sets that rely on magic power are not perfect enough, and do not include mechanical wear and loss of various equipment, not to mention carrying more than 20 tons of gold and silver. If you cannot fly back safely, everything before will be futile.
"Wait until noon tomorrow, if they can't come out..." Wang Zhongguo sighed and immediately began to order his men to make a Chinese inscription board, which wrote instructions to them in Chinese and left a set of communication equipment as a means of contact. He was ready to use these as "tokens of God" for those priests to pass them on to them - anyway, it will take at least several hundred years to figure out the working principle of digital communication equipment with their technology.
The other side of Gantry No. 2
Tianna closed her eyes and solemnly reached her hand between the two boxes. The location of the door - nothing happened.
"No, it has not recovered yet." Tianna sat on the ground with a frustrated look on her face and said, "I don't like this place, there is no one, everyone is dead."
Wu Zuren, who was standing beside him, hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him: "It's okay, it's okay, have a good rest and you will recover soon."
Then he helped her back to his temporary base, and smiled and took out a chocolate bar from the supplies and gave it to her.
Turning his head, Wu Zuren's face changed color instantly. Not only can't convey messages now, but they didn't bring enough supplies for a short-term mission. There were only one day's supply, and there were two more people. If they were in the wild, they might be able to find some animals or plants to satisfy their hunger. However, in this ruin, no one dared to eat something similar to food, not to mention that the animal and plant environment here is different from the earth. If something goes wrong with eating, it will be in a state where the earth should not be called "Daily".
"Instructor, look at this, we found that there was a convoy approaching, from the east." The warrior operating the drone moved the joystick and began to lower the height of the drone. He could clearly see the smoke and dust raised by the floating car below. Then a purple light flashed quickly from the screen. The screen shook for a while, and continued to broadcast tenaciously.
"...WC and they started attacking our drones." The soldier screamed in panic.
Wu Zuren rushed over quickly and saw that in the screen, his drone was dodging along the zigzag route. Below was a convoy of only 5 cars. The convoy consisted of broken vehicles of different sizes of about 1 meter suspended on the ground, and countless dust was raised on the sandy surface of the east. A group of beggars who could see were standing on the roof of the car or holding a window with one hand, holding a Gauss rifle in the other hand, and shooting in the air with a ghost.
Of course, this kind of shooting is really not accurate, even if they are holding a Gauss rifle, and many of the shootings seem to be shooting randomly and not aiming at all.
"This is a group of bandits." Wu Zuren said with a grimace, "How long will it take to arrive here?"
"From the speed, it's within 1 hour." The operator replied.
The drone turned on the heat source to scan. The entire fleet had a total of 27 heat sources, concentrated on all five cars. The middle one carries a huge car. No matter how you look at it, they are all trucks carrying cargo, and the rest are more like the size of a Hummer. However, Wu Zuren was very interested in these cars that could be suspended on the ground. Although these cars that were already like broken copper and iron are really unsightly, if this suspension technology can be mastered, the progress it brings will be immeasurable.
With a "bang", the screen of the drone operation table was spent. Finally, a blind cat hit the dead mouse and hit the drone. The huge mobility of the Gauss rifle instantly smashed the drone to pieces.
"I guess these guys are here to rob. They will shoot all moving targets and steal all valuable things."
"Robbery?" The soldier looked around. Not to mention robbery, there was no good thing in this ruins.
"It's not us. Looking at the direction, passing through this 'city' is the only way to go to the village we discovered yesterday, and it is also the shortest route."
Of course, as an officer with a mission, Wu Xuanren was not so naive that he wanted to help the poor village. Even if he wanted to, his language was not understandable, and the weapons gap made it impossible to implement the operation. Now he just wanted to avoid the common plunder in the wasteland and not to get involved in his own people. After all, the villagers cannot communicate, and the bandits cannot communicate. But the trouble is that they obviously know things like drones, which makes their over-visual reconnaissance impossible.
Wu Zuren looked at his subordinates and found that the military qualities of the four special forces soldiers were still guaranteed. The problem was that it would be more troublesome to take care of Layla and Tianna at the same time.
"Contact Team Zhao immediately and pack up our things. We are ready to retreat at any time."
The western edge of the city ruins, the entrance to the tunnel
A soldier was left at the entrance to guard the war, and Zhao Yi and three of them climbed along the ladder into the dark entrance.
Zhao Yi was the first to land. He picked up the rifle, turned on the flashlight hanging on the rifle and illuminated it forward. This was a circular passage that seemed to lead to a very distant place.
Zhao Yi moved the flashlight down 30 degrees and shone it on the ground. The ground area was filled with dust, and no corpses were found. Two rows of chaotic footprints could be seen. It seemed that they were left by the two children before.
"Captain Zhao, there is no signal here."
The warrior following behind said, fiddling with his headphones.
"That's why we have to leave one person on it." Zhao Yi waved his hand, and the team members moved forward in a vigilant posture. However, without taking two steps, a rapid sound of climbing a ladder came from behind, and the soldiers watching from above ran down hurriedly:
"Captain Zhao, Instructor Wu reported that an enemy is approaching us."
"WC." Zhao Yi put down his gun, raised his head and looked at the top helplessly, then looked at the hole in front of him that didn't know where he led, and had to climb up the ladder again...
This authentic exploration ended before it even started...
Under Zhao Yi's order, all three teams gave up their exploration mission and began to assemble. After all, after encountering a group of people who shot down their drones, they had to prepare for combat. Dispersing their troops would not benefit them.
The sound of explosions and collapses quickly sounded in the city. In fact, even if Wu Zuren did not inform them, they could hear the sound sooner or later - the team that looked and style very similar to bandits began to make tragic screams at the ruins as soon as they entered the city, and then fired guns. The speeding warhead of the Gauss rifle hit the dangerous houses that had collapsed halfway, causing them to collapse completely, causing a louder sound. In addition, the squeaking sound of the engine of the levitation truck that had been disrepaired for the past year echoed in the city. Soon the convoy that entered the city was divided into three routes, with trucks and two small cars driving west along the main road. The other two cars seemed to be planning to wander around the city and run in two directions respectively.
Tianna seemed to be frightened, hugged her head with her hands, squatted on the ground, closed her eyes and said to herself: "They are not survivors, they are not survivors, I don't want to lead them."
"Don't cause trouble, they probably didn't come for us." Wu Zuren's command team packed up the equipment - they had too much equipment and could not take it away, so they covered the equipment outside the equipment with camouflage cloth, and sprinkled some rubble fragments around them. Then the command team walked deep into the ruins.
Although this city is already a ruin, the route can still be seen on the main road of the city. The door opening of Longmen No. 2 is on the side of the main road, not far from their base, and it is easy to be accidentally injured or discovered. Therefore, Wu Zuren led everyone to the depths of the ruins, far away from the main road, thinking that he could avoid this bandit team - obviously, these bandits could not come here to find them, just "passing by with soy sauce".
But Wu Zuren ignored one thing. The levitation car is different from the cars he knew. This kind of levitation car emits a repulsive force from the chassis, shoots it to the ground, lifts the car and floats it in the air. Therefore, as long as there is ground or even water, it does not necessarily need to walk on the road. Moreover, these driving thugs themselves are rushing and loving straight-line distances. Except for the large trucks that are too heavy and too large to walk directly on the rubble piles in the ruins, how can such flexible small cars be honestly walking on the road?
A strong wind suddenly passed by Wu Zuren and others, accompanied by a harsh roar and a wave of air that could almost knock people down. It was brought by the projectiles of the Gauss rifle when they flew past.
"They are right behind us, scattering and hiding." After Wu Zuren gave the order, he grabbed Layla and Tianna, pressed the two of them behind a half-piece building more than 1 meter high, similar to a stone tablet, and then signaled them to lie down and not move, picked up the gun, and stared carefully at the rear.
The other four were also special forces soldiers. They jumped to the nearest hidden point after the order was issued, and hid it motionlessly.
Although the ruined city has always been gray, and the smoke and dust raised after the Gauss rifle fired seriously affected the sight, after a while, the soldiers hiding at the end were surprised to find a hover car the size of a Hummer that was actually rolling the ruins in the direction of them. The ruins under the car seemed to be affected by some thrust from the chassis, and kept collapsed downward, causing the car body to start to bump up and down. However, the people on the car became even more excited, as if they were drunk, and they shot wildly at the building that had not yet collapsed.
Looking at the exaggerated lethality of the Gauss rifle, Wu Zuren felt a little nervous - after all, since the mission, they have been carrying advanced weapons to crush the ancient army. Now, for the first time, they have seen enemies who have used weapons better than them. And even if the Gauss rifle's bullets were rubbed over, they would probably have broken a few bones.
"Instructor, we are aiming and can attack at any time." Four special forces reported that instinctively, they all hated such swaggering guys, and obviously, the dirty and worn clothes on them were not bulletproof, and the car was also convertible, which did not prevent them from eating bullets.
"Be careful to hide and let them go." Wu Zuren ordered in a low voice. As soon as he finished speaking, a bullet flew at high speed pierced through the half of the stone tablet he was hiding. The fragments of the stone tablet immediately scattered from above like snowflakes. Wu Zuren quickly opened his body and spread it on Layla and Tianna, using his own body to block the floating gravel pieces.
Fortunately, I don’t know if it’s the age of time or the special material, so the stone tablet itself is already very crisp. In addition, the super high speed of the projectile caused some of the gravel to fly too far, and only part of it fell on Wu Zuren, and part of the impact was blocked by the bulletproof vest.
"Do you do them." Wu Zuren realized that it was difficult to hold back the pain in his body and immediately ordered. Sure enough, while he ordered, Tian Na beneath her was so scared that she closed her eyes and screamed.
Several bandits heard the girl's scream almost at the same time, and turned their faces toward each other, with malicious smiles on their faces. At the same time, four 95 rifles also spit out flames at them.
After more than twenty gunshots, the annoying cry of killing chicken finally stopped.
The hover car advanced two more steps and then slowly stopped. As a circle of glowing matter on the chassis dimmed, the height of the hover car became lower and lower until it fell completely into the rubble of the ruins.
Wu Zuren walked out with a gun carefully, and then found that he had no need to worry. There were 5 people in the car, and his head was punched like a sieve. At least 4-5 holes penetrated, and he could no longer see his head. I think the warriors who shot the gun were also a little afraid of the "high-tech" weapons here, so they all started to say their hands and greeted them on their heads.
He hurriedly looked back at Layla and Tianna: "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Leila replied generously. She had also encountered some natural disasters and man-made disasters while traveling around. She was not afraid of these, but Tianna was different. She always flew in the sky, so she would not encounter unlucky things that were smashed by a stone from above. She raised her tears and looked at Wu Zuren, then pounced on her, hugged Wu Zuren and burst into tears.
The four soldiers also walked out from all over the world, with an incredible expression on their faces, as if they didn't believe that these people were beaten to death so simply, and were still talking.
"I thought there would be some high-tech shields or something, it turned out to be a headshot."
"I'm always worried about whether they're like Wolverine. The bones are wrapped in alloy materials and the bullets cannot be penetrated, so I switched to Gauss rifles. It seems that 95 is enough."
The four people walked up with guns, now they looked around, confirmed that there was no one else, and immediately took their Gauss rifle from the body. They turned to look at their instructor.
Wu Zuren was so scared that he hurriedly raised his hands. Such a beautiful woman hugged her and cried, which was something she had never seen before. He couldn't help but compare - this figure was worse than Sera's, and her wings were quite inconvenient.
"That... instructor, we didn't see anything." The four soldiers and those who had a tacit understanding turned around together.
"It's okay, it's okay." Layla hurriedly came up and pulled Tianna away, saving Wu Zuren's siege.
The lieutenant turned around and looked at the soldiers seriously: "Nothing happened just now, do you know?"
"Yes, we have been studying this rifle here just now, you see." A soldier handed over the Gauss rifle.
Wu Zuren nodded and then looked at the rifle carefully - he did not participate in the "trash picking" activity, so he had never really seen a real Gauss rifle.
A soldier opened the magazine and found that this type of machine gun-type rectangular box-type magazine similar to the US military squad can hold about 100 rounds. Now one-third of the ammunition has been knocked out by these wasted guys, but the bullets are only equivalent to common pistol bullets, and they are very light.
"I don't have time to watch it, so I'll join Team Zhao and the others first." Wu Zuren carried a Gauss rifle on his back, pulled several corpses out of the car, and then sat on the hovering car. The systems around him seemed to immediately detect the user's body temperature, and all kinds of flashing indicator lights were on.
"Instructor, can you drive this thing? It's high-tech."
"I believe that the higher the technology, the more foolish the operation will be. In the future, the best tool for us to operate spacecraft should be the game controller." Wu Xuanren looked around and did not find the steering wheel. So he put his hands on both sides of his body and touched a spherical object with his right hand. He pulled the spherical object up with some confusion. The hover car actually turned on the chassis system and began to rise slowly again.
"Instructor, great." The soldiers around gave thumbs up, and Layla and Tianna also forgot about their dusty appearance and looked at the car with curious eyes.
"This thing is really a gamepad operation, so that's easy to get in the car." Wu Xuanren waved his hand and 6 people jumped into the car immediately. Although the car body was not big, it was at least a convertible. It was no problem to sit 5 or squeeze 7 people.
"Sit down, let's go and see how many high-tech things can make." Wu Zuren pushed the joystick, and the floating car immediately started crawling forward at a speed of 1 meter per second...
“Which is acceleration?”
"Try this!"
"This is the audio, what kind of bird music, noise, turn off, turn off."
"Push the handle twice."
"No response."
“Are there any pedals?”
"No!"
...
To be continued...