Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 220 219. Is this method of capturing prisoners a bit too humane?
Although I guessed that the other party would be stuck in traffic, I didn’t expect it to be so close... Is the radar useless?

It's no wonder that Feldrich lost his composure. When the navigator discovered this machine, it had already been fully preheated and could fire at any time. So why didn't he predict it before?

Because a few seconds before that, the machine had not moved at all, like scrap metal lying dormant in the desert - but that was impossible. If it was waiting here, it must be on standby.

His mind was in a mess, but Feldrich had never thought that there might be someone who could multitask, who could immediately know their real-time location and then change their body to intercept them.

Seeing the threat of the nuclear bomb approaching, she couldn't help but bite her lower lip and helplessly signaled the spokesperson of the car in front to tell the other party that she was no longer a threat.

Cypher's machine slowly stopped the weapon in his hand, but still stood there motionless.

After a few minutes, a four-legged Centaur machine took a long series of blue steps and entered the convoy that dared not move.

A voice that could communicate came from the machine: "Ms. Feldridge, which car are you in?"

There was silence for a moment, and then a voice came from the car in the middle. She said, "I'm here," and Seifer jumped onto the roof in two steps.

"Nice to meet you, Miss Feldrich. I am the independent mercenary Red Crossbow. Please don't rush off the vehicle. As a mercenary, I will not waste extra ammunition to eliminate your colleagues."

The mission is to capture Feldrich. Apart from that, the mercenaries will not waste their ammunition as long as the opponent does not pose a threat.

"Humph, these useless things, even if you kill them all, it has nothing to do with me. I'm getting off the car, then what?"

The desert had begun to get a little chilly at night, but Feldrich, wearing a double layer of protective gear, was not worried about the impact of this minor environment.

Then she saw that the 'belly' of the machine above her head suddenly opened, and several auxiliary robotic arms stretched out from inside towards her.

"Wait, wait a minute, you're going to let me ride this thing?!"

"Well, what else could I do? Would I let you ride in the car? If you really ride in the car, you might get attacked by a nuclear bomb or be kidnapped by strange mercenaries, right?"

Don't tell me what just happened - Feldridge danced in the air. She knew very well that if she really got into this machine, she would die if it moved a few times!

She had never experienced the kind of rough transformation that mercenaries had!
"Ah... by the way, you don't need to worry about dying. Please go in first for the specific reason."

After saying that, without waiting for Feldrich to say anything, the robotic arm pulled it into the abdominal cavity and threw it into a space large enough for a person to lie inside, then closed several layers of armor and completely sealed it inside.

Light and shadows intertwined before her eyes, and after just a few shakes, she lost her perception of the outside world.

She had no idea what kind of environment she was in, so after a few seconds, she tried to raise her hand - but there was nothing there.

She couldn't touch anything, her body felt weightless, and her back felt empty, so much so that she couldn't even figure out what position she was in.

Even sitting up was just a matter of bending over, and gravity seemed to disappear in an instant. It was pitch black all around, and in this quiet environment, she could even hear her own heartbeat and the sound of blood flowing through her ears.

"Hey! Where the hell did you put me?! Where is this place?!"

Such a loud cry was met with suffocating silence.

There was no sound coming in, and there was no response after he shouted. This sudden feeling of loneliness and terror made Feldrich subconsciously try to curl up his hands and feet.

This mercenary... was he really mistreating his captive so badly? Since he'd captured such a great scientist like me, shouldn't he at least question me? Furthermore, couldn't this damned mercenary, who'd never even read a book... have any idea how much money I, a high-ranking official, had?!

The anger in his heart burned like a flame, and Feldrich cursed in the emptiness with no one responding - but still no one responded.

Flames will gradually go out when they have no fuel, just like Feldrich, whose own safety is no longer guaranteed. After the bluffing, endless emptiness and overwhelming fear immediately gripped her heart.

But as a senior executive of the company, she had to face attacks that were much larger than this one... Thinking of this, she silently cursed Abian's actual president in her heart.

If this guy hadn't recently had the urge to check the accounts, would she have needed to take the initiative to go to the front line and come to such a huge and strange city? There was no need at all!
Along with these complicated thoughts came the loneliness that ordinary people could hardly bear. All around was silent, and this loneliness was enough to destroy a person's spirit. Because she had no perception, she could only count her own heartbeats to calculate time.

But her heartbeat would change, so she could only make a rough estimate and had to endure the endless silence and despair - then she remembered that the mercenary's name was Red Crossbow!

If it was a red crossbow arrow, then it would make sense.

Although it is unknown how she was able to find helpers with super-limited weapons, judging from the results, this mercenary's personal record and equipment are speeding up like a rocket.

From the small piece of trash that had to be moved by borrowing other people's cars in the node city, to now having a strange and bizarre appearance of an alien machine that has never been seen before.

It is absolutely impossible to say that there is no one helping her behind the scenes. So who is helping her?
Were they resources provided by the guys at I/O Enterprise? Or perhaps the Phantom Mist Group? Or perhaps… the Transformation Agency had finally decided to take action against the Commercial Alliance System?
She even suspected that this mercenary was a spy trained by her own president, but these brainstorming sessions obviously could not resist the feeling of loneliness.

No matter how much a person with a vicious mouth looks down on others, he is essentially placing himself in a high position, looking down on or despising others.

But what if there's no one else?

The fragile nature will be exposed.

Countless thoughts were running through his mind, and his previous actions in the company kept emerging like images. The despair of being abandoned and ignored was no less than being squeezed in a narrow stone cave.

The feeling of suffocation and dullness continued to come over me - no matter who sent this mercenary, she must be taking the opportunity to take revenge on me for targeting her, using this soft torture method to try to make me collapse!

Gritting her teeth, Feldrich endured the boundless loneliness alone, spurring herself on to not sink... She was a scientist, one of a kind in the world, capable of creating great inventions. How could she fall here?!
——However, Cypher was returning to the Node City at high speed at this time and didn't know much about the situation in the abdominal cavity of the machine.

He only knew that the objects inside were well preserved, possibly due to the application of some anti-gravity technology. He even expressed his admiration to Dr. Mei in the communication, saying that although this person may not be small in stature, he is quite courageous.

"Guess what? After we caught her, she hasn't said a word. It's totally unlike what our sponsor said. She cried loudly. Okay, I'm going to raise my opinion of her."

At this time, Dr. Mei, who was using the remaining parts of her body to control the half-damaged vehicle, did not say anything. She just calmly said that the enemy had retreated.

Just now, a machine fired at a tank, and the armor-piercing shell exploded on the armor. The hot armor-piercing jet evaporated Tien, the driver, and Lin Shenxue, the gunner, on the spot.

Fortunately, Dr. Mei reacted quickly and wrapped Shengnai up immediately, otherwise the car would have been impossible to drive back!

If it weren't for the resurrection array in the car, Sefer would probably have a cardiac arrest right now.

But from another perspective, it was precisely because of the resurrection array that he dared to let the crew enter the battlefield where armored units were consumables.

(End of this chapter)