Chapter 347
"Hide, explore carefully, and the rest of you should be prepared to fight at any time." Ning Sang stopped at a valley.
There was no vegetation to provide shelter all around, and if the mecha stayed there for just half an hour longer, it would likely be buried by the sand blown up by the strong wind.
The wind and sand were constantly disrupting the vision of every student, making it very difficult for Huo Chuyi to go forward and investigate.
But if they rushed forward recklessly, they would probably be wiped out by the team resting at the supply point.
Yun Mian slowed down his breathing and changed the weapon on his mecha to an energy cannon.
"Actually, our team is still short of a support." Jiang Yi said softly in silence.
When the system heard her voice, it jumped from the console in front of Yunmian, attracted the child's attention, and said to her: "Mianmian, according to the original plot, Ningsang was using an offensive mecha in the team configuration. Later, during these three days, they encountered a lone auxiliary. After several adjustments, they finally determined the five-member Guardian team."
But now Yunmian is in the strong attack position and Ningsang is in the advance. There is no conflict between their positions. Instead, it will bring more powerful offensive capabilities to the team.
Yunmian is good at close combat, Ningsang is good at long-range advances, and Jiang Yi is good at long-range guns and artillery. These three girls are the ones with the highest attack power and are the most proactive in attacking in this team.
"So Mianmian, I think this Guardian Team should no longer be called a five-member team. It may be a six-member team in the future."
"We are indeed short of a support. With a support, we will have a stronger control over the battlefield... Let's slowly look for suitable support teammates in the future. Didn't the teacher say that a team can also be 6 people?"
The voices of the system and Ning Sang sounded in Yun Mian's ears at the same time. She didn't think much about the fact that she took Ning Sang's original position, because it was Ning Sang who chose first, and then Yun Mian chose.
And there is no rule that a team cannot have two strong attackers.
So Yunmian just listened to it and didn't pursue it further after understanding it.
At this time, Huo Chuyi, who went to the supply point ahead to investigate, also said to his teammates in the back: "There is no one here, but the supplies seem to have been cleared out. You guys come over first."
Yun Mian controlled the mecha to move forward again, and at the same time reminded others in a crisp voice: "Pay attention to the mecha team behind us, they may follow us."
"Don't worry, I'm always watching." Tang Paopao said, and continued on his way.
His mecha is heavy, and even when he is traveling, he has to push the thrusters to the highest level if he wants to keep up with the speed of other mechas. However, now is a non-war time, so he might as well save as much energy as possible.
Two minutes later, all members of the Guardian team successfully arrived at the first supply point on the route.
The situation in the supply point was indeed as Huo Chuyi said, there were not many supplies left, but fortunately the intelligent maintenance robot was a fixed resource point here, so Yunmian's mecha could still reduce the wear and tear of the mecha to a minimum in the fastest time.
I don’t know if the team behind was a little behind. After Yun Mian’s mecha was repaired, Jiang Yi and Huo Chuyi, who were in charge of alert, did not see them coming.
"They will most likely take this route." Ning Sang was very confident. He drew the route he had planned at the beginning again, and then said to the other team members: "If my guess is correct, they may be in the valley where we hid before."
Because the route she chose was the closest to the center point and had the most supplies.
Even though they are all still a group of young children who may not understand war, battlefields, or tactics, their instinct to gain benefits in life will make them more inclined to take this path.
These are all children who have successfully passed the second stage of the attached primary school assessment. They were able to enter the attached primary school on their own merits and have talents in combat, so they are definitely not fools.
"I'll go and try it out." Jiang Yi responded immediately.
Huo Chuyi was also preparing to go to the valley to investigate.
"Wait a moment." Ning Sang called out to them, but his eyes were fixed on the outer battlefield on the map, which was gradually falling and turning gray.
In ten minutes, the gray would invade the supply point where they were, but would pause here for another twenty minutes.
"What are we waiting for?" Tang Paopao scratched his head in confusion: "Shouldn't we counterattack and destroy them?"
Ning Sang shook his head: "Wait a little longer, there might be other teams coming over later. Our supply point is a natural war shelter and we can't give it up easily."
Yun Mian also opened the map and took a look at it, but her eyes finally fell on the number of remaining students.
"There are 375 students on the entire battlefield. Now, almost an hour has passed, and there are still more than 300 students."
Yun Mian said softly, "More than 300 people are scattered everywhere, but there must be more than just our two teams on the way to the supply point from this direction. If there are other mecha teams rushing forward, they will collide with the team ambushing behind us first."
"That's right." Ning Sang agreed. "Even if that team didn't ambush us, we can rest and wait for battle at the supply point and block other teams rushing to the supply point from behind. At that time, whether it's a one-on-one fight or a large-scale melee, with the supply point behind us, we have more advantages than them."
So they don't need to be anxious at all, because the battlefield mechanism will push those mecha teams scattered on the periphery towards the center of the map anyway.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. The team hiding in the valley may be the mantis, but the guardian team is unwilling to be the cicada. They should and must be the strong oriole.
"Then let's take a break and eat something." Tang Paopao found the food he was looking for from the space button of the mecha, and distributed it to other team members one by one.
On the battlefield, nutrients and other food supplies are also very important supplies. After all, driving a mecha is extremely mentally and physically demanding, so this is also well presented in the virtual battlefield. Almost every hour, if supplies are not replenished in time, the physical and mental state of the mecha pilot will continue to decline like the blue and red health bars in the game.
It was Yunmian’s first time eating food in the virtual battlefield.
It's strange that these foods or nutritional supplements, no matter their texture, appearance or taste, are almost the same as those in reality.
It's like a one-to-one copy.
"My grandfather told me that the virtual battlefield is a holographic cooperation between the Federation, major business alliances, and scientific researchers. It is very powerful and includes almost all the battlefield prototypes that we and alien beasts have fought in the universe."
After Tang Paopao had eaten his fill, he started to talk more. His voice was still very childish, but he was much more knowledgeable than an ordinary child, and his speech also had a sense of narration: "This ancient ruins battlefield we are now randomly arriving at is a battlefield on a planet hundreds of years ago, but that planet has been destroyed by alien beasts and has become the lowest-grade, useless garbage planet."
"The map we see now is just a corner of the battlefield on that planet." Tang Paopao said softly, with a sigh in his tone, like an innocent child telling the heavy history: "In the future, we may encounter more battlefield maps of that planet, and then we may encounter the ferocious beasts that wreaked havoc on that planet."
"I've never actually seen an alien beast." Huo Chuyi was a little curious: "Are the alien beasts really like those in the videos and virtual battlefields? Why are they always fighting with us? Don't they have their own homes? Why do they have to come and steal our planet?"
"Of course not!" Ning Sang's firm voice sounded, and she said in a deep voice: "I have seen alien beasts. I am a refugee who migrated from a planet occupied by alien beasts. If I had not been lucky enough, I would have died in the stomach of the alien beasts long ago!"
And he died twice!
She was actually a refugee from a garbage planet, but she didn't want to keep picking up garbage to make a living. She longed for the life of a normal child, for the bright and safe main planet and school, but she died in a sudden tide of small beasts on the garbage planet.
There were only a dozen or solitary strange beasts, but they easily devoured all the refugees on the entire garbage planet as food.
Until now, Ning Sang could still hear the sound of her bones and flesh being bitten and chewed by the strange beasts in her dreams again and again. Her body was twitching in the sticky and smelly mouth of the strange beast, with two rows of sharp fangs and a tongue full of barbs. She could feel her body being chewed and torn into pieces in a sober and desperate manner.
She thought she was dead.
But she was happy again.
In the Federation's incubator, in a warm, living technological womb.
She didn't know why she was alive, but this time she was no longer a fatherless and motherless orphan on the garbage planet. She didn't have to pick up trash. She could live with her parents who were federal border soldiers, see the spoils they brought back, and learn a lot of useful life-saving knowledge.
She was like a dry sponge, desperately absorbing all the nutrients she could for growth.
But her relatively peaceful life was once again disrupted by strange beasts.
Her parents sent her into the starship that was about to jump away. She did not cry, but told her parents firmly that she would become the best federal soldier and the best mecha pilot in the future.
"The alien beasts are far more terrifying than what you see in the video. They are very scary. Their intelligence is no less than ours, but they don't have the emotions that humans and ordinary beasts have. They are full of brutality in their bones. Humans and all animals and plants will become food nutrients for them to expand their population."
Ning Sang said to his stunned teammates, "We are lucky to live on a safe planet now, but I will definitely join the border army in the future to kill all the invading beasts and make sure those ugly and cruel guys never dare to move forward to the border again!"
The children could all hear the hatred towards the strange beasts in Ning Sang's tone.
There was silence in the team channel for a few seconds. Just as Ning Sang was digesting his fear of death alone, a child's soft voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Sister, when I grow up, I will also go to the border army to kill strange beasts."
Ning Sang looked up at the small mark belonging to Yunmian in the team channel.
Yun Mian was still saying to her: "My mother is now at the border to resist the monsters. I want to grow up quickly, become stronger, and then help my mother kill the monsters. Sister, when we grow up, we can join the army together!"
Children of five or six years old actually do not quite understand the cruelty of the army and war. Even Ning Sang, who had two lives, was only a child of a few years old before his death and his rebirth.
But Ning Sang spoke firmly, and Yun Mian spoke equally firmly.
They were so determined that they had carefully planted this tiny seed when they were young, and worked hard to water it every day, going to school, taking exams, training, fighting... The only goal they worked so hard for was to become a member of the border army that killed the alien beasts.
The child did not understand what a difficult and painful path to death he had chosen.
But everyone has his or her own reasons for embarking on this path and never looking back.
"I want to join the army, too." Tang Paopao put down the nutrient in his hand and said seriously, "My grandfather used to be a border soldier, but he was injured. My parents are not in good health, and their mental strength level is only C, so they can't drive war mechas. So my grandfather told me not to waste my talent and not to ignore the protection of the Federation for us. So I will go to the battlefield in the future."
Tang Paopao also has a younger brother named Tang Zhenzhen. His mental strength is also very weak, and he can't even pass the first level of the assessment for the primary school affiliated to the First Federal Military Academy. But the existence of his brother makes the whole family feel at ease.
Because everyone knows that Tang Paopao belongs to the federal border and the battlefield. Even if he dies in the future, at least... Tang Zhenzhen can continue to live with his family.
Huo Chuyi was silent for a long time before he said in a muffled voice: "...I want to join the army too. My parents are in the border army. I want to take over their duties so that they can retire and enjoy their old age."
Jiang Yi's voice was childish and a little cold. She seemed to always be calm, just like the bullets in her hands that almost never missed a target. She said rationally, "We all have to go. No student who enters the First Military Academy will be able to stay away from the battlefield. Military service is a responsibility we should bear from the moment we enter the attached primary school."
The attached primary school is the incubator of the First Military Academy. Ninety-five percent of the children who come out of it will enter the military academy directly. The remaining 5% are the "lucky ones" who are eliminated. For various reasons, they can become ordinary civilians, but they can never have military status or ranks in their entire lives, and they can never rely on the army to gain military merits and become superior people.
Yunmian and Tang Paopao were probably the most carefree of the five. Although they both stated their reasons for joining the army, they quickly put aside those burdens and happily focused on other things.
After Jiang Yi's voice fell, Yun Mian cheered softly: "Then we can serve in the same army after graduation, and we can stay together for many, many years!"
As for the members of a fixed team, even if the military is dispatching, they will most likely consider assigning the entire team to the same base. This is why the affiliated primary school allows children to form teams before they even enter school.
The tacit understanding of war that has been honed over more than ten years day and night is enough for a team to help each other and survive longer on a battlefield full of crises.
Ning Sang was stunned for a moment by the joy and vitality in Yun Mian's words, then he also narrowed his eyes and nodded seriously in the cockpit where no one could see.
That’s right, if nothing unexpected happens, their Guardian Team will fight and live like their family for decades!
Although this was a temporary team formed tonight, their battle rhythm, combat talents, and each other's personalities during chats were surprisingly harmonious.
It was as if they were a carefully selected team and they should have such a good understanding of each other.
It's such a great feeling to have someone by your side, to have everyone working hard to move forward and no one holding them back.
"Be alert." Ning Sang's peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of the gradually approaching gray area on the map. After stopping his divergent thoughts, he and his teammates quickly found an attack point where they could hide.
They could already hear the sound of mechas fighting coming from far away in the valley.
"I'll go investigate." Huo Chuyi quickly left here, rushing towards the valley like an unpredictable black shadow.
"Leave the high altitude to me." Jiang Yi lay on the newly found commanding height, and the sniper barrel mounted on the shoulder of the mecha had begun to charge.
"Mianmian, I'll charge first and break up the opponent's formation, and then you and Paopao will go together." Ning Sang looked at the real-time battle scene sent back by Huo Chuyi in front of him on the screen, and made arrangements calmly.
The two youngest children, Yunmian and Tang Paopao, nodded obediently. Yunmian still held a lightsaber in one hand and an energy gun in the other, but Tang Paopao had already taken out the energy shield that he had found in the supply point.
With this shield, he believes that he can protect his teammates better!
"Paopao, in addition to Mianmian, you must also pay attention to intercepting the attack on Xiaoyi. This may be a little difficult, but we have the advantage. Don't panic or rush."
"Okay, I will do my best to protect you!" Tang Paopao responded seriously, and the energy shield also began to accumulate energy.
Huo Chuyi hid at the back of the valley, and with his great skill and courage, he live-broadcasted the three mecha teams fighting each other to his teammates in real time.
"Some teams are downsized, and some are fully staffed. There are eleven mechas in total, three ranged, two assault, two tank, three stealth, and one support."
"Chuyi, be careful!" Ning Sang was the first to see a pitch-black cannon barrel pointed at the camera.
Huo Chuyi dodged it flexibly and then quickly became invisible and changed direction.
The three teams were now in a melee, and it was difficult to stop even if they wanted to. So although Huo Chuyi was still frightened by what happened just now, he was not afraid. Instead, he took a detour to find a suitable place to continue broadcasting live to his teammates.
Yun Mian looked at the gray area on the map that was getting closer and closer, frowned and analyzed: "They are now outside the trapped area. When the trapped area gets closer, they will definitely come to seize our supply point."
Hearing this, Tang Paopao said to Ning Sang, "We can't let all of their mechas enter the supply point safely to compete with us. Otherwise, once a melee breaks out, our full-strength team will easily be attacked by their concentrated fire first."
Children are the most familiar with using their numbers to bully the few, and they understand better than adults how to make a fight hurt.
"Chuyi, create chaos for them." Ning Sang quickly made up his mind: "Xiaoyi, go help Chuyi and be careful of those three long-rangers."
"We absolutely cannot let all these eleven mechas enter the safe zone. We must try to prevent them from losing four mechas in the trapped zone, otherwise it will be very difficult to fight them later."
Ning Sang said in a deep voice: "Jiang Yi attacks, Mian Mian and I will switch to energy guns to assist Jiang Yi. We must try to leave at least four mechas in the trapped area."
"Okay." The four answered in unison.
All the mechas that were originally hidden in the supply point were dispatched and headed back to the mountain pass. Their movements were not concealed. After all, they could not hide when a fight broke out. They simply rushed forward and posed enough deterrence to the three mecha teams.
Yun Mian's mecha held two energy guns in its hands, both of which were high-attack guns that could quickly recharge energy. Yun Mian's accuracy was not good enough, but there were eleven enemy mechas, so even if she closed her eyes and fired randomly, she could hit them a few times out of ten.
When they found that another team of mechas had counterattacked, the three mecha teams were a little panicked. Behind them was the trapped area that was constantly approaching, and in front of them was the full-strength mecha team that had counterattacked. The situation of having wolves in front and tigers behind made it difficult for the kids who temporarily served as commanders of the three teams to analyze the situation calmly.
However, the three long-range mechas reacted faster. They quickly attacked the new mecha team from high altitude, trying to crush them away.
But the Guardian Squad might all be little reckless people like Yunmian at heart. Under the intensive long-range artillery attacks from the three, they not only did not retreat, but also provocatively fired at the other mechas below despite the artillery fire.
This was originally a life-threatening act, but the presence of Jiang Yi made this kind of suicidal behavior less dangerous.
She was so accurate, so ruthless, that almost every bullet hit the weak points of the enemy's mecha. She even specifically targeted those parts of the mecha that were originally severely damaged. When a volley of destructive bullets hit someone, any mecha master would choose to dodge and retreat.
Huo Chuyi relied on his nimble body to penetrate deep into the enemy camp time and time again, stabbing the enemy's mecha's wounds from time to time, and used the assassin-type stealth mecha to the extreme among children of the same age.
He would even occasionally take the time to work with Tang Paopao to help Jiang Yi who was high in the sky block the stray bullets and other attacks.
The energy shield in Tang Paopao's hand is larger and thicker than the other two tank-mounted mechas in the field. This is all thanks to the remaining energy in the supply point and the large amount of supplies left by another defeated team.
He almost ran after Yunmian and Ningsang, and became more and more speechless.
Tank Shield hates the reckless kids who don't stay in their shield and accept protection the most!!!
But he happened to meet two of them at once!
Ning Sang and Yun Mian clearly had not gone down to the valley to join in the melee, but just by asking them to assist Jiang Yi in shooting, Tang Paopao had already deeply understood what kind of violent elements these two were!
Ning Sang's shooting performance is not bad, so she is very confident in her accuracy. Therefore, she often leaves Tang Paopao's shield range to look for opportunities elsewhere.
As soon as Tang Paopao started to run after her, Yun Mian popped out like a slippery little loach, holding two energy guns and shooting at the same mecha without caring about money or life.
Her accuracy was not good enough, but she had enough firepower. It was okay for her to shoot with two guns at the same time, but she didn't pick and choose her targets at all. She only aimed at the same mecha every time. In this way, out of a hundred bullets, she could hit at least thirty or forty.
Among the remaining dozens of shots, there's a chance that a blind cat will hit a dead mouse and hit another mecha, causing damage.
To put it in a less than flattering way, Yunmian's shooting skills in this battle were like a rat dropping in a pot...
But she just liked to run around, and when Tang Paopao didn't keep an eye on her, she slipped down a little.
If Tang Paopao failed to keep an eye on one more person... the two close attackers he was responsible for protecting would be so eager to put the muzzle of their guns into the heads of the other mechas and kill them indiscriminately.
Tang Paopao was extremely irritable, and finally gave up his initial protective tactics. He followed his two melee teammates and rushed into the melee, using his own strong tankiness to desperately knock away other light mechas.
Every hit is accurate.
Tang Paopao even heard the system's clear and pleasant notification tone: "Congratulations to Guardian Team student Tang Paopao for successfully eliminating student Li Chengbiao."
Tang Paopao: “…”
I seem to have found a new way out for tank mechas?!
Tang Paopao looked around in confusion. There were no other light mechas around him. Other tank-type mechas and long-range attack mechas could not break his tortoise-shell energy shield for the time being. Therefore, for a moment, in the chaotic battlefield, no one cared about him? !
It was not until he saw the Yunmian and Ningsang mechas fighting back to back that he finally remembered how he had just abandoned his protected objects and rushed in.
He swallowed, raised his shield again, and rushed towards his two teammates while shouting in the team channel.
"Don't be afraid, Sister Mianmian Sang! Look at my whirlwind tank that will knock them away!!"
Mianmian: A rat shit
Bubble: A bigger rat shit
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