Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 216 215. Active attack is the best defense
The mission time is actually very short, only about half a night, because if you don’t evacuate by the time, it means you will have to face the scorching sun during the day.

That dazzling thing could easily turn all living things on the ground without any insulation into dead things. No matter who it was, they had to avoid its edge in broad daylight.

Even if you wear a shiny protective suit, it is still difficult to continuously reduce the heat through internal circulation. It can only be said that it is so harsh that it is unreasonably harsh.

When they arrived at the designated location, the strong wind had not yet stopped. Seifer lowered his body, hid behind a sand dune, and brushed off the sand on his body.

Well... to be honest, this body is not as good as a real horse's, because the spine cannot rotate slightly, which means that if you fall down, you can't get up unless you use thrusters to help you get up.

Of course, these were minor issues. After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Tien's energetic voice came over the line: "Hey! We're here. Come take a look. We brought the things you requested~"

The whistling of the wind and sand could not stop the metal friction sound of the tracks rolling up the sand. When the heavy vehicle body broke through the sand dunes with a faint blue light, it was dragging a huge metal box behind it.

The sight of Cypher waving with such a massive body was a bit shocking, and he immediately disconnected once the tanks… or armored units as they called them, arrived.

Switch to the backup body and open your eyes from inside the tank's cabin.

This action made Lin Shenxue, who was fiddling with the fire control system in the car and had complaints written all over the tablet, suddenly turn around, and then continued to flip through the operating manual with confidence.

Shengnai was sitting obediently in the communicator's seat, learning how to operate these tools. Dr. Mei was watching the windy and dusty environment outside with some interest in the commander/observer's seat.

They were all very interested in this new device, as if they had received a big toy and couldn't wait to fully understand it.

To be honest, other than Dr. Mei, people of this age should be wearing beautiful and fashionable clothes, shopping in a safe city with their peers, and expressing their opinions on snacks or clothing stores.

Especially Shengnai, operating complex communication tools or using cold medical equipment, facing all kinds of wounded people...

Seifer shook his head slightly. He had not been in such an environment, so of course he could not arbitrarily think that this was a bad thing - maybe some people just liked steel toys?
"I'll assign you tasks and prepare you first. If the intelligence is correct and it's not from the Allied intelligence, a convoy will be passing through this sandy area soon."

Everyone nodded.

"Once the surrounding feint attacks begin, we'll immediately join the fray. It'll mainly be me... Strictly speaking, I'll start this machine and then go in."

Cipher emphasized that he would be driving the newly towed mobile suit and explained, "To maximize your chances of survival in this conflict, your role will be to serve as a mobile firepower point on the periphery."

Tien, who was gently wiping the steering wheel in the driver's seat, suddenly looked up: "Huh? Just hanging out outside?"

"Or else, if some machine comes along and crushes the car, I'll have to recover the wreckage... You don't want me to recover the grape juice that spurted out of your body, do you?"

Tien shrugged helplessly, while Dr. Mei, who was sitting in the driver's seat, lowered his head: "That's quite simple. You're planning on letting us shoot from behind?"

What else can you do? Go up and fight with bayonets?
First of all, the other party must be escorted by an organism. Secondly, if a fight breaks out, Cypher will have no time to take care of his own crew. The last and most important point is.

Just because communication was working smoothly now didn't mean it would work in the future. He still remembered the feeling of not being able to get any information out during the last battle at Edge Node City.

This place is filled with nothing but metal. If communications were to be cut off, some people might become ill... But that's a side topic. The point is, communication would become very difficult. Just in case, we must prepare countermeasures.

After making an agreement with the group that it didn't matter if they were wiped out, but they must find a way to survive if possible, Seifer opened the sealed hatch, and some hot sand still whistled in.

He quickly jumped out of the vehicle, closed the roof, and knocked on it. He then went to untie the tank's towing hook in the wind and sand and got into the box it was dragging over.

To be honest, there's nothing special in this box. It's just the machine that Cypher had worked so hard to get. He can start it up immediately by sitting on it. As for the difference between it and ordinary machines... it's that the weapons are different.

His left hand only had an energy-tracking pod mounted on his shoulder, along with a short-barreled melee shotgun. In his right hand, he held a complex, hideous, and unrefined cylindrical weapon.

The mechanical arm on the shoulder was obviously equipped with a weapon that was part of the same set as it was, and this complex weapon set also had an even more complex external energy tank and ammunition conveyor belt.

—Extended Armament. For other machines, using it would mean permanent damage to a part of the machine, but for an advanced machine like Cypher...

Sacrificing two weapon racks to use this super-limit weapon, this is Sefer's struggle to survive!

Except for the mobile base that is too conspicuous and cannot be brought here, these are all the forces that Sefer can currently mobilize.

I just hope this thing is as useful as the rumors say, otherwise Sefer will definitely give it a bad review.

As preparations were complete, Cypher suddenly received a communication from a strange frequency band he had never heard of before.

"This is Gaoshan T-3. Everything went smoothly during the freight transport, with no abnormalities. We will then unload the cargo midway to ensure that the subsequent transport units can keep up. That's all."

After the special band communication, Seifer realized that the normal band radio seemed to have been gradually interfered with. The bustling communications around him had now become silent, as if they did not exist.

Is this the only frequency band that can be used... Cypher passed the communication to the tank, and after re-establishing the connection, he broke open the box and let the machine stand in the wind and sand.

"It's time to work. This time it's a big order... Did you hear that? There's gunfire."

Yes, the sound of gunfire.

Shortly after the special frequency band communication ended, the external device received bursts of continuous artillery fire and the sounds of various weapons exploding.

The sound came from far away, and even with the wind and sand blocking the view, one could still see the flashing and exploding light on the horizon.

The feint attack team has already taken action, which means that the enemy convoy is speeding up. This time, it’s finally not the Allied intelligence officers!
In the distance, dazzling beams of light cast circles of light in the dust. There were many of them, but they were not as messy as imagined.

Advancing steadily, at the same time, Seifer had already positioned the machine on the sand dune.

During the threat scan, a fairly large convoy was rushing towards this place, providing covering fire at a rapid speed.

(End of this chapter)