Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 232 231. Let’s start the next step without stopping! (Fourth update)

Seifer felt sorry for not being able to pick up a car that should be very valuable, even more valuable than an armored vehicle, but not that sorry.

That piercing noise was clearly the sound of the transformation mechanism temporarily dislodging this excavation device, but… how should I put it, something so high-tech and yet so irrational, so massive that one wondered why it hadn't been crushed to death by itself…

It's strange that he's afraid of noise.

After that thing left, the devastated Node City should theoretically be on the verge of collapse - the transformation agency immediately gave everyone a good job.

In the twisted node city, when the mercenaries and medical organizations were doing their best to rescue people, a series of identification light spots suddenly lit up from the node city, and countless autonomous units flying in the sky, running on the ground, and even propelled by rockets suddenly appeared.

After these things appeared with great fanfare, they immediately began to clean up the debris on the ground, big and small, twisted or falling off.

From large items like collapsed devices and objects, even pressure tanks in danger, to small items like screws that have fallen to the ground, they are all caught in one fell swoop.

They ignored the people around them and came out specifically to renovate the entire node city, so many mercenaries quickly retreated, fearing that these things would weld themselves into the wall or underground.

The entire underground of the node city was filled with the sounds of welding and flying units, which even drowned out the sounds of personnel dispatch between various companies. Mercenaries were interspersed among them, struggling to escape to a safe area.

The three parties are clearly all in the node city, but they are like three unrelated rivers, clearly separated.

Cypher heaved a sigh of relief when he saw his machine was safe and sound in the temporary maintenance area. And beside him, Saint... Hey, where's he?
Contact them quickly, Shengnai said in a light voice, the medical station is overcrowded now, if she doesn't go to help, some medical staff will really be exhausted to death.

Would it be easier if I added you?
Shengnai smiled and said that she was not the only one. There were many independent mercenary groups of this size gathered in this node city, and there would definitely be other Doctors Without Borders coming to help.

Anyway, I won't get hurt for the time being... Cypher looked up at his own machine, suddenly sat on the chair under the machine, and switched to the spare body.

When he opened his eyes again, he did not enter the body. What he saw before him were pieces of glowing crystals. He raised his hand to remove the minerals, and immediately saw that the numbers on the box that was halfway under the crystals were still jumping.

The entire underground mineral deposit seems...unaffected, so the huge shield machine itself is not here to look for mineral deposits, it is heading for the node city?

Is it because of the giant anomaly? Wait, the point is that that thing is from the transformation agency. How can it come back to attack its own people?

So far, the reformatory has not made any statement, as if the whole sudden ordeal had little to do with them.

The companies also remained silent on the matter, even though Seifer had immediately learned the news that a small half of the people in the conference room had died in the sudden collapse and conflict.

But the leaders of all parties are currently safe and are waiting for renewed talks.

After confirming that there was no problem below, Seifer immediately switched again, this time back to the spare body of the machine. Just as he came over, he heard the communication from the car.

Tien yawned. "Wow, you guys made quite a noise! I could hear it even from the car. So, are you finally going to stop pretending to be normal and blow up the Node City?"

"Am I such a horrible thing in your mind?"

"Perhaps. Anyway, I've never seen a robot that can fight a small body and an independent mercenary's vehicle without replenishing energy, eating or drinking."

You are praising me too much. Without the right environment, if we were on the ground, the independent mercenary could easily crush this backup body to death.

"This is the situation..."

After explaining the current situation to Tien, she was silent for a moment, then adopted a gentler tone. "How about this? In the next node city, we'll go to Q Company and sign a long-term contract. How about having them provide some food besides chicken in the future?"

"You make it sound like I'm allergic to worms... but I'm not. Anyway, let me show you an image. Have you seen it?" "Hoho..." Tien's voice was a little amusement-filled. "The legend is actually true. Earthquakes are caused by these worms turning over. If you haven't seen one, why don't you ask how much money you can make by destroying them?"

Don't even think about taking it down. The mercenaries have already tried it. The armor of that thing is so thick that even a large mobile base and those 500mm and 600mm cannons can't penetrate it.

And I didn't hit it to the point of collapse with one shot, so I was counterattacked...

That thing must be more flexible in the sand than in the water. For it, the huge mobile base should be no different from chewing stones.

While discussing with Tien whether to drive the tank over for repairs and whether to replace the body's equipment, Laika reminded Cypher that the transformation agency was recruiting mercenaries and preparing to assign tasks.

Immediately throwing Tien's communication aside, Sefer switched the line and heard the transformation agency explaining the situation.

In short, they admitted that the giant device that was running rampant in the node city just now was their creation, and its full name was N4090 [Worm] Flexible Armed Shield Machine.

It really is a tunnel boring machine.

It was originally a fully autonomous device used to dig in rocky areas under the desert and search for underground caves where anomalies may exist. It has a complete repair, modification and weapon maintenance work chain within it.

After being created, they functioned well for a period of time until the modification agency lost contact with them.

The rehabilitation agency did not say how long they had lost contact.

They said that the current expulsion could only temporarily keep the worms not far from the node city, and that the out-of-control worms must now have identified the node city as a mine with rich mineral deposits.

A giant anomaly has just emerged from underground. Its intelligent device, no longer receiving external communications, has determined that it is a rich mine. It's time to devour it. Before that, it needs to replenish its metal elements, etc...

The details were quite detailed, implying that they were planning to recruit mercenaries to deal with the "worm." But honestly, everyone was terrified when they saw the information.

Damn, if this money is really that easy to make, why would the reform agency come to me? They can handle it easily!

Sefer looked at the information and felt it was unreliable.

No mercenaries were willing to accept the order. Even when the transformation agency said that if the [worm] was not dealt with, the node city would still be drilled through, many people sighed, packed up, and packed up their profits, preparing to leave.

Seifer was also considering that even if the transformation agency promised to eliminate the "worm" and they would not care about the profits in the future, this thing was not something that could be handled by one person...

Watermelon: Are you still alive? Are you free? Do you have time to do a task?

Red Crossbow: I can’t win, I have no ideas, no money, no life, goodbye.

Watermelon: Are you scared? If you are, just tuck your tail between your legs and shake it. If I’m in a good mood, I might even send you a gift package of snacks.
Red Crossbow: Never mind. I can buy my own snacks. I can't handle worms, so forget it.

Xigua: Just participate. Participation is the important thing. Or are you not only afraid of facing the big bug, but also afraid of making a fool of yourself in front of me? You are such a small fry, a small fry mercenary.

Red Crossbow: Provoking the opponent is useless. It is an objective fact that we cannot win.

Then, the female brat who spoke online, Ms. Jin Junmei, who actually had a strong aura and made people fear her from the bottom of their hearts, told him a weakness of the [Worm] that was hard to refuse.

　It's paid off! Time to rest!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)