Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 515 514. One Step Forward and Then Another Step Forward... (Three More)

The three machines, their combat prototypes... no, it should be said that they are 'independent mercenaries'.

Three A-rank independent mercenaries fought Cypher in a complex rocky environment, even though they had already selected equipment that was relatively suitable for combat in this environment...

But compared to the machines of this generation, which are fundamentally different from the current generation and can even manipulate anti-gravity when necessary to make their own "falling" direction random, it is far inferior!
The Centaur's fiery sword swept across, and the left leg of a machine was separated from the body, hitting the ground and turning into a piece of garbage in an instant.

Cypher swung his sword, transforming it back into a spear. "Since you can communicate, it means you're not mindless automated units... Why can't you just chat? Why are you aiding and abetting this evil?"

This word does not exist in the desert. To the other party, it sounded like Sefer was jokingly saying a famous sentence, meaning to help a vicious guy like a dog or something.

One of them couldn't help but sneered: "That's because you haven't experienced the good feeling of this..."

"But at least I know that you guys don't even have any protein, let alone brains anymore. So, is the digital world fun?"

The guy whose leg was cut off struggled to maintain his posture. He landed on the ground, blowing away all sorts of fine sand. He said in a rather unhappy voice, "It's not fun. Or rather, I kind of regret it."

"Hey, you idiot, are you trying to boost other people's morale?" The last man, holding a sniper, said in a somewhat unfriendly tone, "Why don't you just find a place to turn off your phone right now?"

"That's not good either. It's not good anyway. I think..."

The man who had lost his will to fight looked at Sefer and the other two shooting and moving at high speed around various shelters in the sky and on the ground, and he suddenly sighed.

"Even sighing has to go through data review, and I even have to adjust the intensity, sound quality, and color myself... This reaction is said to be a feeling, but it is still calculated. Do you think it's really good?"

Three people were fighting, and there were people next to them making sarcastic remarks. The two machines circled for a while, and were blown to pieces by a round of rockets from Cypher that circled the mountain. Many of the nozzles collapsed one after another.

Then the three of them started arguing, and even quite loudly - with the support of Leica, the encrypted communications between the three of them were so clear that it sounded like crosstalk.

In the end, Cypher even stood on the rock and watched the three people quarreling and then starting to use their weapons. In just a few minutes, only the core of the three machines could still move.

"You guys came to attack the convoy, but ended up donating your units because of some internal strife. Isn't that a bit..."

Hearing Cypher's question, one of them suddenly laughed a few times and said without any concern, "The machine? It's just an external object. The body is also just an external object. If you didn't complete the mission, you can come back to complete it next time."

"Independent mercenary, you don't think that people like us who are striving for greater power would be so obsessed with a small victory or defeat, right?"

Cypher's machine opened the magazine. "You say you've gained more power, but honestly, don't you think your personality has become a little strange?"

The three of them were stunned and were about to say something when a strange noise suddenly came from inside the machine.

Cypher immediately sheathed his weapon and retreated. The next second, the attacking machine suddenly exploded, and the flames shot up into the sky, even making the entire area abnormally bright...

These three obviously did not choose to self-destruct, but for some reason - for example, remote control.

After the threat scan showed no enemy, Seifer advanced towards the mobile base.

In the communication, Leica thought for a moment and then said, "Red Crossbow, you probably didn't encounter the mercenaries themselves... No, it should be the mercenaries themselves. The three mercenaries just now were deregistered about half a year ago."

"What's the reason?"

"Corporate conflict."

So the guy who died in the conflict came back to life in this way - no, it can't be said to be alive, it can only be said to be a copy, and there are some flaws.

So what exactly did the mercenary system do with the energy of the anomaly...

Back in the car, Weiwei was very happy to see that there were not many scratches on the four-legged body. This meant that she only needed to pay attention to various wear and tear and did not need to repair the heavy and troublesome armor plate.

After her hardship, Cypher switched back to the main control unit, and suddenly turned his head, feeling something in his heart. Dr. Mei was slowly walking towards the main control unit, standing at the guardrail behind him, which was above his head, with the tank containing the main body at his feet.

"Dr. Mei, what are you going to do?"

"Don't worry about it, just do your own thing."

"I'm concerned, especially since I saw you were about to open your protective suit."

She made a tsk sound, walked a little further away, and took out a metal strip containing the storage protocol. "Your...those students have been busy, helping me improve some things."

Throwing it to Cypher, she continued, "Remember the dagger I gave you for the invasion?"

That thing is quite useful.

"The students you brought with you created an improved version, and it just so happens that the opponents that have appeared recently are also non-human-operated machines."

"Try using this system. If you use it well, you might be able to get some additional intelligence."

Seifer recalled how he had silenced most of the entertainment company's systems active in the desert with a dagger... Well, it was worth a try.

A human virus might require a lot of activity to spread. The mercenary system is incredibly fast, perhaps even eliminating contact.

Saying that he would give it a try later, Seifer saw Dr. Mei's body suddenly disintegrate and then disappear into the cracks in the floor.

You he——

"Don't eject this can, the car will stop."

Dr. Mei was only slightly outside, but he could still speak: "Your nurse and I need to investigate some more things. Look on the bright side...it's not like you'll lose a piece of flesh anyway."

But I don't want to share a jar with a slime.

Cypher looked at Shengnai, and she hesitated for a moment: "If Cypher feels bad, I will let Dr. Mei come out...?"

"Never mind. I don't feel anything anyway. Just consider it a sacrifice for science and your investigation... If you were in there, I'd probably be excited."

"Is that so... I understand, Cypher."

For some reason, there was a hint of joy in Shengnai's smile - unfortunately, this leisurely atmosphere could not last long.

In just a few words, Laika reminded Cypher that some machines had appeared on the route again, and this time they even brought a lot of autonomous units.

It seems like they are trying to set up an area similar to a blocking point on the road, with the goal of slowing down...

"Hold on. Red Crossbow, update the intelligence... the numbers reported by the reconnaissance unit seem to be inconsistent."

After a few seconds, the alarm in the car suddenly sounded. Leica turned around and tried to keep his tone calm: "The number of enemies... is over a hundred. The reconnaissance unit has stopped advancing, but the signal is still there."

"Red Crossbow, with so many units, with the firepower of this vehicle, how can we escape smoothly..."

Cypher told her not to be nervous, then stood up, holding onto the railing and looking down. "So the other side finally couldn't help but send out all their forces. We're still two days away from that point. What do you think, can you two mobilize the troops?"

Hearing his question, Frederick sneered and said that it was just that little, not to mention the pioneers, even Abian's own weapons could kill a turkey.

As for Ms. Jin Junmei... she didn't say anything, but the other mobile bases around that could keep up with this vehicle had already opened their thick armor plates.

(End of this chapter)