Chapter 402: Underground Operations in the North North
Fourth District, 23:45:05 at night
In the dark and cloudy night sky, two large black aircraft slowly descended, penetrated the moist corrosive thick clouds below, and dived into the cold sky above the earth. The whistling wings quickly dispersed the water vapor.
The red indicator lights on the aircraft fuselage were like two barely visible dots, flickering, and then quickly swept across the sky.
[Arrived above the target, began to deploy combat units]
The monotonous mechanical voice of the AI sounded in the cockpit, and then the belly of the aircraft slowly opened, and the four-rotor autonomous units flew out one by one, and then spread out close to the ground.
Behind these hundreds of autonomous units, there were several large humanoid mechas that slowly landed. They were painted black and gray, and were very hidden and inconspicuous in the dark night. Only the scanning light that flashed across the head revealed its dangerous side.
[The Sawnose Shark Squad has landed and is searching…]
A report sounded in the cockpit of the mecha, and then the 3D scan results of the terrain in the area were projected on the screen in front of them.
[Find the mission target, and then eliminate the resistance organization]
[Received]
After that, the communication was closed and the mechas also entered a silent state.
It has been three months since the three singers performed on stage at the same time. In these three months, the situation in the Four-Leaf Crystal Star Region has changed a lot. Although the battle between the Saint Ingo and Edes camps has not ended, the intensity has greatly decreased, or the main focus of both sides is not on this.
After the New Year, the federal star region government launched a new large-scale plan, which is about the climate restoration of the Jade Skirt and the improvement of the environment in the old area. In the past, this huge plan may not even pass the initial review, but this time it has received the attention of most congressmen and even star region residents.
Amid the calls and appeals of countless people, this huge plan was passed very smoothly. Not only that, many large companies also expressed that they would actively participate in and support this plan, including companies from the Edes camp and the Saint Ingo camp.
In the past, they were reluctant to invest because such a plan would most likely fail, and the resources and money invested would hardly see a return.
But this time, the situation is different. The overall public opinion environment and the will of the people in the star region mean that even if the investment is huge, for votes and political achievements, countless congressmen will firmly stand on the side of this plan. Once this plan succeeds, it will also bring huge economic benefits.
Because of the downturn in the past hundreds of years, the prices of many lands and resources in the Jade Skirt have been suppressed to very low levels. If the climate and environment recover, these lands will soar again. It is precisely because of this that these large companies are so actively involved in supporting the plan.
The absolute contradiction between Saint Ingo and Edes disappeared for the time being, but a new competition began.
Since the two sides have become enemies, and in order to occupy more benefits in the future, both sides feel it is necessary to defeat the other side and squeeze out the competitive market.
After the new goal was set, the companies of both sides sent representatives to the northern districts of the Jade Skirt, which were seriously polluted, to prepare to enclose land in advance. For such behavior, the star region government half condoned and half advocated.
Land cannot be taken for free. For each piece of land, the corresponding environmental governance indicators must be claimed, and the corresponding land also has a limited lifespan. In order to encourage a large number of companies to participate, the government also announced that it would reduce taxes for the first 50-100 years and provide some preferential policies.
With the guidance of federal officials, various companies began to use methods to go to those sparsely populated northern areas to persuade local residents and descendants of the survivors of the disaster, hoping to obtain signatures of the agreement from these residents.
Many of these companies went smoothly, but some areas encountered obstacles.
Companies in the Saint Ingo camp encountered great resistance in the North Fourth District. Some towns had already reached an agreement, but on the eve of the signing of the agreement, local residents suddenly regretted it. Sometimes, even if they promised generous returns, local residents still refused to agree, which was simply against business common sense. Later, under the investigation of the firm commissioned by large companies, some hidden facts gradually came to light.
These abnormal situations are all because there is a hidden resistance organization in the area. Many of their members are local residents, but they are particularly fierce. Under their influence, local residents refuse to cooperate with the companies under Saint Ingo, which led to the previous incident.
For the sake of profit and to clear obstacles, several large groups in the Saint Ingo camp jointly led tonight's action, and these black mechas are also mercenaries in the gray field of the Federation. They will be responsible for some dirty work that companies are not easy to do directly.
On a dark night, rows of four-rotor autonomous units flew over the barren land, and the matching ground and rock scanning devices filtered below like a grid. A lot of information was transmitted to the command vehicle moving forward in the rear.
[Abnormalities were found in the northern K-1794 area, which may be the location of the mission target]
[The Sawnose Shark Team received it and started to go]
The four mechas that were originally scattered and slowly moving forward behind the autonomous units changed direction, then floated up and accelerated forward.
A special earth-penetrating bomb was fired from a distance and sank into the ground. Soon a dull explosion spread.
[Scanning, anomalies were found 219 meters underground, which was a man-made building with a special magical residual aura that matched the preset target]
"This is it." The pilot in the mecha operated the long and thick tube raised behind him, and then several ground-penetrating missiles were fired, sinking deep into the ground, constantly blooming and exploring the underground situation.
[Target locked, action begins]
Five blue arcs of light quickly swept across the ground, and then these mechas began to approach the exploded underground entrance.
Underground world.
In the collapsed passages and ruins, there were alarms and footsteps, and autonomous units were walking everywhere to put out fires and clear passages. There were also many armed personnel awakened by the alarm and began to prepare for battle.
"What happened?" A rough man grabbed a young man who had just run over. Judging from his messy hair, he should have just woken up.
"Someone attacked, maybe an official!" The young man shouted, looking anxious.
"Official?" The big man glanced at the ruins and broken places around him after the bombing, frowned, and then shook his head slowly.
"No, it shouldn't be like that. If it was official, we would have died long ago." He had served in the military before and understood the true strength of the federal military.
If it was an official, a ground-shaking bomb would have directly come down, and most of the people here would have been shocked to death. Then, the passage would have been cut accurately, and military mechas would have descended one after another to clean up the battlefield.
"It's not an official, you go." Knowing that it was useless to continue asking the young man, he let go.
Recalling the location where the weapons were stored in his mind, the big man moved quickly, first passing through the passage constructed by the steel racks, and then sliding into a hidden long-pole shaft on the side, and soon fell to the ground a hundred meters below.
Letting go of the hot steel pole in his hand, he walked towards the underground command center, where the personnel were in a hurry, constantly reporting the situation in the base.
"The enemy has entered 89 meters underground, and all the intercepting autonomous units have been shot down!"
"Damn, where's the emergency team? Let them take heavy firepower and intercept at the 200-meter fault!"
"Emergency is rushing to the scene, but time is tight and they may not arrive on time."
"Shoot three more 'Black Viper' missiles into the passage to stop them."
"Yes!" After that, the personnel on the side began to mobilize the defense system in the base.
Looking at the tall man in front of him who was walking back and forth and constantly giving orders, the big man walked over and then stood still to report.
"Groban is here to report!" After hearing this loud shout, the tall man in front turned his head. He had short gray hair and looked a little old, but he was particularly tough.
"You are here, Groban. Go and drive the captured 'Pelican' and make sure to intercept the enemy."
"Yes!" After that, the big man quickly ran to a corner of the underground space, where the steel corridor led to the storage of the captured 'Pelican' mecha.
"With Groban, Xuda, and Hei Lin driving mechas, we should be able to stop the enemy." The adjutant on the side spoke to comfort everyone.
"It's hard to say." The old man, who was the highest commander, sat down and frowned.
"Although Xuda and Hei Lin were pilots in the army before, they were both discharged early due to violations of discipline, and their strength is not top-notch."
"Groban has good physical fitness, but he has not received systematic education before. He is a latecomer and may not be able to defeat those mercenaries."
The old man was once a high-ranking officer in the military. He has a certain understanding of the armed forces within the system and those mercenaries who live on the edge of a knife.
Although many mercenaries are not in a high position, many of them are veterans who can survive various dangerous missions. Their experience and strength are not weaker than those of the official pilots of the Federation.
"But the 'Peiyan' is a mecha used by the military and police after all, and its performance will be much better than those assembled by mercenaries."
Mechas produced by regular military enterprises have internal mechanical codes. Once they are found, it is easy to trace the source. Therefore, mercenaries usually drive privately modified mechas. These mechas get various spare parts through the black market and then let some engineers privately assemble them. The performance is not stable, but it is also flexible.
"They have started to contact!" Someone shouted in the command room when the old man was thinking about the other party's origin.
Then everyone turned their eyes to the projection screen, and saw that in the narrow passage, three Pelican-class mechas were attached to the fortifications inside the passage, and they kept shooting through the laser machine guns mounted on their shoulders. The light streams penetrated the passage from time to time, some hit the side walls, and some even shot straight into the sky.
Inside the passage, the five mercenary mechas that descended kept dodging, but soon two of them were hit, their surfaces burned and pierced. Later, they adjusted their positions and simply let the two injured mechas block in front, and continued to advance downward as shields, while the original drivers in the two mechas used emergency escape devices to escape, rushing towards the hole above their heads like rockets and leaving.
With two shields, the other three mercenary mechas also began to launch a counterattack. One of them continuously shot out dark red laser beams. Although the power was not as bright as that of the Pelican-class mecha, it also burned several large holes at the bottom of the passage, forcing the armed personnel who were originally preparing to show their heads and counterattack to retreat temporarily.
The other two mercenary mechas threw out rockets from behind to lure the enemy. Countless small missiles with fierce sparks tilted down, illuminating the entire passage, shining extremely, blocking the line of sight, and interfering with the locking of the scanning device below.
"Boom--"
With a loud noise, the damaged mecha shell hit the fortifications. In the smoke and ruins, two mercenary mechas drew out the large lightsabers they carried and pierced the partition in front, piercing the burning part of the Pelican-class mechas that had no time to retreat.
Then, in the fierce steam heat dissipation and sparks, three mercenary mechas and three Pelican-class mechas underground launched a dangerous street battle.
Limited by the closed terrain, the six mechas did not have much space to evade, and almost instinctively launched close combat, waving lightsabers, burning and piercing the opponent's fuselage. From time to time, you can hear the sparks of explosions and gushing high-temperature airflows. In such a fierce and chaotic battle, other personnel in the base wanted to help, but it was difficult to get close to the battlefield. They could only use laser guns to shoot and interfere from a distance.
"Bang——"
The orange flame exploded from the inside, lifting the white shell of the mecha. A Pelican-class mecha slowly fell down, and its head rolled into the flames, while the chest of the mecha was torn apart by the explosion, and the driver inside also died in the explosion.
In this fierce and dangerous melee, the three mercenary mechas were more experienced. In the dangerous exchange, they killed the opponent's Pelican-class mecha at the cost of their mecha arms and arms.
With the first breakthrough, the situation of three against two soon became precarious. The other two Pelican-class mechas were also injured one after another, and they were not far from defeat.
"What about the other one!?" Someone at the bottom of the base shouted anxiously and angrily, and seemed to not understand why all the mechas were not sent out.
"That one doesn't have a suitable driver yet." The technician on the side answered in a low voice.
Driving a mecha is by no means an easy task, especially for high-level mechas, which require extremely high quality of drivers.
Not only is the inertial impact caused by the high-speed movement of the mecha enough to crush an ordinary person into a pulp, but also because of the intense magic power generated by the core of the mecha, in order to master it, one must have an extremely strong supernatural core and the ability to resist the erosion of magic power.
It often takes several times the resources and energy of a supernatural person of the same level to train a qualified mecha pilot. This is why all the pilots of the Federation are born in military academies, and there are almost no transferees or temporary personnel.
This is still the requirement for driving a mecha of sequence 5-6. Going up, some special mechas require special talents and match with supernatural positions, so that they can adapt and exert the full strength of the mecha.
(End of this chapter)
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