Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 69: It is reasonable to eat what you bring yourself (Part 69)
After a brief repair, Cypher drove the machine again and casually pried open the material warehouse of the supply vehicle that had been parked there.

To say it's prying is a bit of an exaggeration. Strictly speaking, it can be opened by pulling the emergency release ring on the outside.

Seifer just glanced at the shells and other things in the warehouse and ignored them... Some of the calibers were too large, and some were too small, and were incompatible with his own artillery.

As for the other mercenary ammunition, it seems that they will not be used. It would be great if there is someone on the car who can help transport it so that they don't return empty-handed.

Continuing to dig inside, Seifer saw a huge box that had been unlocked and closed purely for shock absorption. Inside was neatly arranged a row of rockets that were dozens of meters long.

No, it's a missile.

After a little research, Sefer realized this. He tried to drag the box out and unexpectedly found that it was not just a storage box, but also a standard launch pad.

At the same time, a strange signal suddenly invaded the communication.

"Who are you? Where are the corporate mercenaries I placed here?!"

There was only a voice, sounding like some brat. Cypher was stunned for a few seconds before answering, "He's still alive."

"My question isn't whether he's still alive. My question is... who gave you the guts to invade the container I placed here?"

To be honest, this arrogant voice is much more disgusting than the one who gave me the commission before. I have the urge to beat her up and throw her into the desert.

Cypher chuckled and replied as he dragged the box out the door, "Of course it's from the Independent Mercenary Support System. I'm a mercenary, so I can do anything related to the commission."

"Treasures like these belong to those with virtue and talent. If you don't accept it, why don't you come and take it back?"

The voice immediately raised its volume. "You bastards, you're nothing but a bunch of stray dogs calling yourself mercenaries. Ah, I get it... I/O Enterprise is so enthusiastic because they're giving you dog food, right?"

"They're all dog food. Why not choose the richer side? If you come work for me, I'll pay you double what I/O Enterprises gives you."

"Who would believe it? You're so arrogant hiding behind the communication. If I'm fooled by you, what if you deny it when I ask for money in the future?"

I had intended to bluff her out of her identity, but I didn't expect the owner of the voice to immediately take it back.

"Heh...Node City is almost finished. It won't make much difference whether you're here or not. Don't let me know who you are, mercenary."

After the communication ended, Safe just dragged the box back into the vehicle body. After the automatic mechanism received the box, it even immediately changed the protective plate structure of the vehicle body, leaving half of the missile magazine exposed to the air.

Cypher checked the system and found that the vehicle system was connected to the transmitter. The manufacturer's logo and other logos were all erased, making it impossible to find the source.

Excessive caution means that these devices can be used directly as long as they are obtained and have corresponding interfaces, and even debugging is saved.

Dr. Mei's call suddenly came through: "You seem to have brought back something very interesting."

"Yes, it was captured, but this missile seems to require guidance and aiming to hit the target... I don't know what effect it will have once it is fired."

"Is it effective? Let me see."

A few seconds later, Dr. Mei sent over a document.

The warheads that Sefer brought on board were not of the destructive type. The purpose of this batch was to launch them at long range after tearing through the enemy's defenses, specifically to target and restrict those armored units that posed a higher threat but could not be directly destroyed.

For example, large mobile strongholds, fixed strongholds for urban defense, etc.

The principle is to use the device in the warhead that penetrates the armor after a physical collision to continuously release an energy field and radio waves like "white noise", thereby causing the engine to shut down and communications to be interrupted.

It's non-lethal, but if you get too close, you'll still be cooked by the radiated energy field... probably. Confirming its value, Seifer immediately had an idea. Even a radical one, one that could preserve his own vehicle.

He immediately ordered the vehicle to start, returned to the main control cabin, and hung the spare body on the rack.

Then I switched to the second spare body, and felt more relieved when I found that the third spare body had been prepared - others only have one life, but I have three!
After putting on protective clothing and sitting back in the machine, Lin Shenxue temporarily moved into the main control cabin, mainly responsible for preventing the vehicle from getting too close to the battlefield and ensuring it could support itself. Then it started moving again.

The mercenaries who came here to receive treatment didn't care about this kind of thing, and no one even wanted to report it. After all, their contracts didn't stipulate that they had to continue to ensure the mission after leaving the front line...
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This is what happens when a war is launched in a hurry. There is even a limit of one night to win. This is a puzzling requirement, and the result is that there are loopholes in all aspects.

Thanks to advanced weaponry (missiles capable of melting through any armor), the attackers gradually gained the upper hand.

No one, including the city defense personnel, had ever thought that such a thing existed in the world. They had to allocate part of their firepower to the close-in defense guns to resist the incoming missiles, and even had to pay attention to whether there were other aiming and guidance units nearby.

The scene became increasingly chaotic, but the balance of victory had begun to tilt towards the invading side. If nothing unexpected happened, the mercenaries and others defending the city would either surrender or be wiped out before dawn.

The cleanup work in the city is probably almost done. That’s a secret force directly under the CEO, so they can’t do a bad job.

The commander who was currently directing and coordinating with other fronts felt a little relieved of the pressure on his heart, and even had time to focus on micro-managing the front-line troops.

He didn't tell the mercenaries who were fighting the enemy that all the special warheads he had on hand had been used up, and now he could only serve as a command node...

I won't tell them either.

At this point, no matter how much economic and combat units are lost, as long as we can win, then these sacrifices are worth it!

The alarm suddenly sounded.

"what's the situation?"

"Uh... there's a biped coming towards us from behind."

Suddenly, someone in the car started laughing. They couldn't understand why a 'bipedal machine' was charging towards them; it was simply humorous.

"Just deal with it, don't worry about it..."

The commander was about to give more orders when something suddenly flew towards the side of the "overconfident" machine in the picture.

Before he could figure out what was going on, there was a loud crash outside the car, followed by an unignorable, dizzying noise—all the systems inside the car shut down.

"What happened... Ugh. What happened!"

The answer is that no one knows. Even the hatch can only be opened manually, and the entire vehicle is in chaos.

The engine was completely shut down, and the sparks flowing in the communication device even exploded. The group of people in the car were busy putting out the fire and were completely unable to communicate or even give commands to the outside world.

There was chaos in the car with the communication interrupted, and in this chaos, Cypher had already driven his own body, whizzing past without stopping, and rushed directly to the distant battlefield area.

The exterior of the vehicle's armor plate was shining with obvious light effects of electric current and energy circulation. The huge energy field even made the sand around it glow with a brilliant blue light. If there were an aerial reconnaissance unit now, it would be 100% able to see it.

However, Sefer did not intend to expand his victory. After paralyzing the car, he finally contacted an acquaintance at such a close distance.

She spoke bluntly: "How dare you come over here to join in the fun? You're asking to be killed, aren't you?"

As Sefer walked around a pile of wreckage of various types of tanks, he just thought that this guy... was really lucky.

(End of this chapter)