Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 215 214. How far you can go depends on your ability
Preparations are in full swing, but they cannot be too conspicuous, because there must be spies watching from other families.

When the painting work was almost at the stage of mincing meat, Seifer withdrew from the front line, not tempted by the generous rewards because he had more important things to do.

Because they couldn't move in large numbers—nonsense, if you assembled troops, wouldn't others know? Therefore, the Phantom Mist Group didn't recruit many people at all, and didn't even tell Cypher how many people would be joining the attack.

They contacted Cypher one-way and offered some help... whatever they could.

"The so-called help within one's ability means renting me this tank."

Cypher stood in the vehicle bay, patting the armored unit weighing at least a hundred tons beside him and saying to Shengnai, "They said they rented it, but they didn't charge me a penny. They even thoughtfully spray-painted off the logo and features for me."

"And we don't plan on recycling it. After all, this thing might have a crushing effect on other vehicles, but for mercenaries with mobile suits, it might be a pretty good moving target."

Shengnai blinked his eyes and looked at the armored unit around him, which was fully armored, with sharp edges and curved turrets.

"I see, but did Cipher find the crew?"

Cypher shrugged. "Call that Tien out. I bet five bucks she's somewhere nearby."

"Hey, looking for me?" Tien suddenly popped up from behind the car, then walked over leisurely, looking like nothing had happened.

Pointing to the bullet holes in her outer protective suit, he asked, "Where did you go to fight?"

"Haha, it's just a minor problem at the hospital, don't worry about it. So, you finally found a more promising job?"

"Three hundred thousand, do you want to do it?"

"Tell me, where is the driver's manual for this car? Let me see it."

They reached a consensus immediately. Tien jumped into the car without hesitation, opened the sealed cover of the driver's seat with familiarity, and chuckled after observing for a while.

"This thing hasn't had any plans to change its operating logic in all these years... Tsk."

Then he jumped in and closed the cover. In just a few seconds, a low roar was heard from the car.

The engine has been started and preheated, and the tracks can be rewound and moved forward at any time. Seifer turned his head to look at Shengnai, and she immediately prepared to get on the car with the medical bag in her hand.

Seifer simply climbed onto the track armor plate, lifted her up easily, found the same sealed cover on the complex main gun structure of the turret, and stuffed her in.

Then I jumped into the car myself - wow, it’s quite spacious.

Unlike the rather narrow spaces of tanks I had encountered before, this vehicle, even though it had a turret and a spindle mortar on the side of the cockpit, had a very spacious interior, enough for multiple crew members to move around and work.

Next to the cab is the gunner's operating position, which can operate two main guns. As for the loader... uh, the automatic loader is on standby. The gunner has to work hard and use the coaxial machine gun and automatic machine gun fire control while loading.

The communicator also has to work part-time as a close-range fire control, which is not too tiring, but a bit troublesome... How should I put it, as a 100-ton heavy armored vehicle, the personnel of this thing is indeed streamlined enough.

Seifer suddenly wondered what the commander did, and then he found out that the commander's position was right next to the autoloader... I got it, he was just a loader.

"Alright, familiarize yourself with the car. Once it gets dark, you'll set off immediately. Call Lin Shenxue over. She should have learned a lot about artillery recently—and this car has automatic fire control."

"As for Dr. Mei, I think she probably doesn't want to come."

"Who said I don't want to?" Dr. Mei's voice came from the communication. She said, "Call me when the car arrives. I'll be there right away." She must have tinkered with something new, otherwise she wouldn't be so enthusiastic.

Seifer sat in the car and asked Tien to start the car at the right time. When the whole car trembled and turned on the tracks, the familiar movement inside the car was particularly familiar, except for the lack of background noise brought by the engine.

"Then let's go. I'll leave this body here for now. It might be useful later... Well, I'll use that machine to go directly to the predetermined meeting point. See you later?"

The last part was addressed to Shengnai, who tilted her head slightly, winked a little cutely, and then chuckled and replied, "Well, I'll see you later. To me, Seifer is just sleeping next to me."

Standby mode is indeed like falling asleep. Seifer found a place to put his personal belongings, adjusted his posture, disconnected, and entered the special spare body, which is the body equipped with weapons and equipment.

To be honest, after making all the preparations, we didn't get much and had to change direction to continue our journey. We really couldn't hold on any longer.

Spreading his four legs, Cypher walked towards the door with a clang clang clang sound like a real centaur, attracting a lot of people's attention.

They had indeed seen four-legged machines, but they usually walked like crabs or spiders - don't ask why they were called such insects, the answer is that they had seen them in visions.

It was quite rare to see someone walking straight like this, but when they saw the humanoid part of Cypher's body with a machine-like head that was not very suitable for interacting with humans, they didn't bother to get closer.

We are all mercenaries, so what’s so great about customization?

The moment the sun disappeared from the horizon, the mercenaries who had been preparing to go out all relied on their own abilities. Even if the wind and sand brought by the temperature difference between day and night could polish their bodies after the sun left... it didn't matter.

Cypher blended into the crowd, manipulating a machine that was much larger than the surrounding machines or transport vehicles. After moving a little away from the crowd, he immediately entered cruise mode.

Its horse-like legs occasionally kicked up dust, and the flying sand that collided with Cypher was like a moving wall, scraping everything it could touch.

When it is hit, it emits a faint blue light. From a distance, it looks like a dynamic light band moving forward in a dark fog wall.

Seifer had no idea about the external environment. He quickly headed to the designated location according to the guidance of the cruise map, correcting his course many times during the process.

It is not outrageous to say that they hit it off with Gaoshan. Haven't these big companies been fighting with each other secretly?

Not to mention bombing each other's mines, production bases or snatching talents, even the harassment or suicide attacks on important figures' travel have hardly stopped.

Otherwise, why has the leader of the Phantom Mist Group been traveling back and forth to Node City less frequently in recent times? Only the guy from Abian is strange, he insists on going back and forth every day.

It was as if she would be restless if she didn't go back, which gave many people an opportunity to take advantage of her.

But from another perspective, she must have done this because there must be something in the company's fleet that made it inconvenient to carry out activities while being in contact with the outside world.

What kind of activity is that? It's hard to say.

Besides, Sefer doesn't have any special scientific research spirit, and he is not even very clear about his own existence.

This time, he didn't want to rush directly to the location of the convoy. That would be considered brave but foolish... He just needed to be prepared and attack the convoy at the scheduled time.

As for the convoy's members and firepower configuration? Seifer pulled out the file, carefully reading it while moving, and found it... quite complete. He just wondered how much impact this complete convoy could withstand.

Mutual personal attacks (physical), and whoever is embarrassed in the end will have less say at the table, which is consistent with the style of each company.

(End of this chapter)