Chapter 477 The One Who Is Recognized Is the Prisoner (1/2)

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 are 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 could easily get rid of these people with their equipment advantages, and then unknowingly remove the abnormal matrix intercepted.

However, Group B's advantage was due to their superior numbers, six against three and a sniper outside the battlefield for support.

When it comes to him, 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's use of tactics was almost fluent, 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 against a group of ten stragglers, but a firefight with a well-trained army.

These people are definitely not employees of the company!

They are more like professional soldiers!

Just as they are professional at exploring ruins here, they are also professional at work like fighting!

"Captain! The firepower of these people is too fierce! I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on 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 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 waves and fragments of the explosion hit his chest together, pushing his whole body out from behind the slope, and he fell to the ground unconscious like a rag.

"Ryohei! Damn!"

Seeing another teammate die, Zheng Hao's eyes turned red for a moment, and he hammered his fist into the soil, 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 of them has been eliminated, and he was actually killed in reverse!

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 are obviously not something they can 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 a brick wall.

"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 gray-white 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 shame not to explode their gold coins.

Lao Bai thought for a while and said.

"No need, the mission is urgent."

The enemy vehicle is just five kilometers away.

Judging from the strong wind, it didn't look like a tank or a rocket car, but more like a large SUV traveling through swampy terrain.

The identity of these people’s academy speaks for itself.

Judging from the equipment on them, it seems that it is not 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 urgent, and they need to avoid unnecessary complications as much as possible.

All the good names were given to dogs: “What if those people come back?”

Lao Bai raised his chin and pointed at the two dying people lying on the ground 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 the other was a prosthetic man. Some of the parts could 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 her ability to move.

The "Orca" transport aircraft contains medical kits, including sprays to stop bleeding, bandages to accelerate wound healing, and oral reagents to accelerate hematopoiesis, 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 with fear, but he soon took a breath of cold air due to the pain of the wound.

Staring at the burly man in front of her, she said with a trembling voice.

"What do you want to do……"

Almost everyone on the planet - even human or not - regards them as a piece of cake. Even if you 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 encounter such a situation one day.

She simply couldn't imagine 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 do it yourself."

"Bandage?" Chen Yutong looked at him warily, with obvious distrust on his face, "Why...why do 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 killing 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.

Since when did companies have this tradition?

Seeing that this guy still had the strength to speak, Lao Bai threw the medical bag next to her.

"Since you can still move, I won't help you."

Wearing power armor, he doesn't have much control over his power either.

After taking a look at the medical bag, Chen Yutong hesitated before reaching out his hand, and whispered thank you while lowering his head.

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 the fifth group 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.

After hearing this, Lao Bai looked at the pilot curiously and asked.

"How is this determined?"

Sun Ze smiled and said.

"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 company's androids perform on the battlefield. This was the first time they had faced off against androids.

More advanced than the academy's...

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 as an example, he immediately jumped up like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on.

He swallowed the mud in his mouth and glared at the arrogant guy.

"Fart! You... are no longer more advanced than us!"

"What else?" Sun Ze glanced at this guy, couldn't help but laugh out loud, and continued in a teasing tone, "You can't even make simulated emotion programs and expression adjustment plug-ins, how can you 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 on such meaningless things. time."

It’s useless to give the robot so many fancy expressions!

Wouldn’t it be enough if things like androids could do work? !

Sun Ze took out his ears and said disdainfully.

"It's okay to steal... That was so many years ago. Even Endpoint Cloud has been updated with more than a dozen new versions, so you still can't forget it. By the way, if we really want to talk about it, the AI ​​core is also from the People's Alliance. The technology is kept with you for the time being at most, so why does it become yours?”

Although the past events of a century and a half ago are rarely mentioned, it is no 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.

To put it more broadly, the bankruptcy of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee was not originally the responsibility of any one person.

It just completes 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 someday in the future. The ideal city will also disappear in the long river of history, just like the once flourishing People's Union.

But honestly, he really didn'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 - oh 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.

Isn’t this much 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 kick?"

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 cannot 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 clicked his tongue in disappointment.

However, I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but Sun Ze happened to hear this disdainful smacking of the lips, and the two started a verbal spat again.

But it's 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 Zhao Xiao's face that turned red.

Anyway, it looked like the plane couldn't be repaired, and the players watching the excitement started discussing it with great interest.

The sixth person in the corner: "I think companies should be more advanced! Those bionic people not only understand art, but they can also buy things and pay for them."

"That's not necessarily true. I actually think that Mantis Knife is even more awesome. I almost lost my life..." Saying the outrageous things in a normal tone, Ye Shi stretched his neck and looked around, and suddenly found that someone was missing. , "I just wanted to ask, what about quitting smoking?"

The sixth person in the corner: "Hey, that guy is gone again, did you just find out? Wait, why did I say that again?"

"No more?" Ye Shi was stunned for a moment. He really didn't pay close attention just now, and then asked, "What about the prop 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: "Damn! What a waste."

The old man in the corner smiled shyly and said, "As for the intelligence department, it's normal to be weak. Please understand."

Lost and cute: "Hahahaha!"

Kuangfeng: "..."

Chen Yutong looked at these people nervously.

Seeing the two sets of recovered exoskeletons, she guessed that they were probably 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.

‘Aren’t they with 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 treat your stomach? ”

The brothers of the Burning Legion changed the rope to tie the iron lump, but they no longer needed it to tie the thing with its tentacles.

Xiao Yu still had a frustrated expression on her face and was mumbling.

"Uh-huh..."

It still doesn't understand.

Why can't I eat that thing?

At this time, Murderous Dagger, who had just logged off and reported on the progress of the mission, walked towards the direction of everyone.

"new task!"

Lao Bai immediately looked at him and asked.

"What did the manager say?"

Murderous Dagger said helplessly.

"Managers 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?"

"Speaking of which, he also praised us for doing a good 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 over. ... But the company seemed shocked. They didn't expect to lose a plane. "

Well done and okay.

Lao Bai looked at him blankly and asked in a low voice.

"Ah...it doesn't matter, does it?"

"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 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 another risk for us...that's the bottom line."

The surrounding players 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...throw it away if the engine breaks down."

This is such a waste!

…

Edge of the Golden Lizard Kingdom.

A man in rich clothing stood on the sand dune, followed by a column of brightly dressed dismounted cavalry.

His name is Blair Golden Lizard, and he is 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 hundreds of cavalrymen behind Blair, the angular tracked vehicle in the distance seemed out of place, but it felt incompatible against the wasteland background.

The car stopped on a sand dune.

Li Ke, who got off the car, walked up to the aristocratic-looking man, 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 swamp. There seemed to be only two visits from B-level researchers in the history of the Golden Lizard Dynasty.

"We have prepared a palace for you to stay in... Please come with me." Suddenly, his eyes fell on the tracked vehicle. As if he remembered something, he smiled sheepishly, "Of course. Just be in the car...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 great importance to academics, and established two departments, the Foreign Affairs Department and the Internal Affairs Department, to coordinate with the Investigation Department and the Investigation Department. The Research Division is a parallel administrative branch.

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 institute" 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 academy to become grassroots operatives. They can share limited technology in exchange for the affiliated "primary industry" and "secondary industry", and rely on those survivor settlements to 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 political 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 last month, a nuclear bomb was even detonated, which caused panic within the Science and Technology Committee.

Many people are worried that the storm sweeping through the desert will spread radioactive fallout to the farmland of Oasis 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 difficult.

With the company's current attitude of "fighting at the head of the legions", even his android assistant felt that the probability of an all-out war was close to 60%.

Maybe in the spring of next year, 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 option 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 was beaten black and blue by a group of wastelanders who united.

This was completely unexpected.

No matter how weak the legion's deployment in Luoxia Province is, it is still the legion that dominates the west of the Central Continent.

Those guys fight day and night against what they call barbarians, mutants, and alien species. How can they not be unable to defeat a group of wastelanders?

He once suspected that Yukar was lying.

But he really couldn't analyze the guy's motive for lying, so he 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 stop fighting 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 and continue moving forward.

But at this moment...

Suddenly he 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 without stopping.

"what's going on?"

The other end of the communication channel continued.

"According to the captain 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 He also helped the company’s employees capture one of our android operators.”

"Corporate plane?!"

Li Ke was stunned, and his expression quickly turned serious.

Although he didn't want to read too much into it, the appearance of a corporate plane near the Wandering Swamp was not a friendly gesture.

Especially since they were secretly studying those mutant slime molds...

He pressed his index finger between his eyebrows and thought for a moment.

"Can the captured androids be contacted?"

"Can't make contact... They should have wrapped it up with some kind of metal object, or removed its communication chip."

Too.

The other party is not a fool.

Li Ke closed his eyes and thought for a long time.

His first priority was to mediate the war.

As for the mother body... although he was very interested, if it was caused by a company, the matter was beyond the scope of his permission. It could 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 identities."

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 it is left alone... maybe they dropped it themselves."

A wry smile came from the other end of the communication channel.

"We have prisoners here in their hands."

"Androids?"

"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 he was the one who ordered the mother to be caught.

captive……

A real problem.

The academy's AI can guarantee absolute loyalty, but the same cannot be said for humans, let alone an E-level 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's body...

Without the authorization of the chief technology officer, even if he wanted to recruit people, he could not do anything with the permission 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 acknowledged is the prisoner.”

There was silence on the other end of the communication channel for a while.

"yes……"