Arknights' Lock of Heaven

Even Fariad, who is usually good at mediating disputes, is acting this way, so it goes without saying what the other mercenaries are thinking.

"Boarding?" W's eyes widened upon hearing this, and he said in an incredulous tone, "Who told you there would be a boarding battle?"

"No boarding?" Yan Ke's eyes widened as if he had heard something unbelievable. "You're not saying that the Ursus troops will just destroy the Orville with artillery fire, are you?"

"How could that be! With the way they were so eager to plunder everything in Chepulini, how could they possibly let our entire ship of supplies go?"

"Besides, as a cargo ship, the Orville is stronger than those two warships combined. If they want to destroy the Orville with cannon fire, they probably don't have enough ammunition. So how can they fight without boarding it?"

"Our only way to survive now is to hold off their boarding maneuvers! We can only survive if we hold out until we reach the Patriots' ambush location!"

At this point, Yan Ke glanced at W, then shook his head and turned to command the other mercenaries.

Now is not the time to assign blame; we need to figure out how to survive first.

"Scareye, take some men and see how far those two warships are from us."

"Anthony, take your men and go..."

"Wait, why are you giving orders like this?" W protested, grabbing Yan Ke by the collar and saying, "What? Trying to seize power?"

"You!" Yan Ke snapped, "What kind of time is this! You're still doing this! Let go, since I can't count on you, I'm going to command the battle..."

"Battle? What battle? Where did this battle come from?" W scoffed upon hearing this. "You didn't think I called you here to fight, did you?"

"W, are you awake?" Yanke asked incredulously. "I'll ask you one more time, how can the Orville defend against those Ursus troops without our help?"

"What do you mean we're not here to fight? Are you planning to lead us to surrender?"

Is W awake?

In fact, she didn't know if she was sober.

They actually listened to that guy...

In the communications, he told himself to say things like this, to provoke as much conflict as possible, so that the mercenaries would be more easily won over by him when faced with the situation.

Mr. W felt he had been fooled by him... but he had no evidence.

Even now, while she's putting on an indignant act and grabbing Yan Ke's collar, she's actually thinking to herself that Yan Ke's temper is surprisingly good.

If our positions were reversed, there would be no need for whining; we would have already started the bombing.

Indeed, she could understand the feelings of these angry mercenaries very well. If she were in their shoes, she would never be able to say a fourth sentence after the third.

Because his bomb was probably already stuffed into his mouth.

But understanding is one thing, the play still has to go on.

"Don't you understand that we can only survive if we hold out until we reach the Patriots' ambush site?"

Yanke continued to attack, then broke free from W's grip on his collar. "What's wrong with you, W?"

"Persist? I don't understand what you're talking about," W said, feigning confusion. "Haven't we arrived already?"

"arrive?"

Upon hearing this, the furious mercenaries around him paused in their rage.

We've arrived?

Yan Ke was completely dumbfounded.

"Didn't you say you wouldn't arrive until the afternoon?"

“When did I say such a thing?” W spread his hands and said, “That was when the Sixth Army launched its attack. Why should we follow their lead?”

"Is that so?" Yan Ke was stunned by this shocking fact.

"Wait?!" But as expected of a battle-hardened soldier, he quickly realized what was going on. "You actually kept something as life-or-death as this from us?"

384 stopped?

Isn't that ridiculous?

Seeing the incomprehension looks on the faces of the mercenaries around him, W sighed softly.

From a mercenary's perspective, she also found it quite absurd.

After all, in their eyes, these mercenaries and the Orville were in the same boat.

How can you keep something like this a secret?

But from the perspective of the Orville alone, W felt she could understand.

After all, at least for now, they can't really be called comrades. Although they have the idea of ​​recruiting these mercenaries to their own side, they haven't even started yet.

There are spies hidden among them, so you can't trust them completely in this situation.

Furthermore, the mercenaries felt that the Sixth Army, facing a life-or-death crisis, was not taken seriously by the Orville.

Yes, Mudstone was very worried, but her worry was not about a life-or-death crisis, but rather that if something went wrong and someone else had to cover for her, it would affect her efforts to secure more inhibitor shares for her hometown.

Eyjafjalla and the Earth Spirit, the two scholars, were also not very interested, because they disliked killing. Although they could understand the necessity of it and knew that it was unavoidable, they still felt somewhat resistant to it.

Of course, it's not their fault.

Looking at the big picture, you'll find that almost none of the high-ranking officers on the Orville were worried about the so-called life-or-death crisis.

This is the gap caused by information asymmetry.

"W! What kind of spell did they cast on you?!" Yan Ke shouted at her incredulously, "Don't forget you're a Sarkaz! A mercenary just like us!"

"Are these people really worth your unwavering devotion? Will they truly accept you?"

"Haven't you had enough of all the ridicule and sarcasm you've endured all these years? Just because we're Sarkaz!"

"What's wrong with you?"

"Are you still the W I know?"

"Don't try to pull strings, we're not that close," W rolled his eyes at this, "What kind of sweet talk is this... You really don't know what Rhodes Island is?"

She sneered, "To be honest, I initially really thought you were that scumbag spy. After all, you weren't on our side during the Civil War, and now you're so eager to contact us."

“I was thinking of keeping accounts first and then cleaning up, but I didn’t expect you to be so clueless. Even that person didn’t notice your problem,” W clicked his tongue and looked Yan Ke up and down. “You clearly know who we are, yet you’re still so eager to contact us. What are you up to?”

This refers to the Lion Scorpion, who has been silently monitoring these Sarkaz and regularly reporting the situation to W.

I have to say, the manticore is really great for this.

"Even on that day, you knew exactly what the Patriot was like, but you didn't tell anyone else."

"I'm curious, what are your thoughts?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Ke was stunned.

What he's really planning... maybe he doesn't even know himself.

“But it’s okay,” W said, turning to look behind him before he could answer. “Let’s talk properly after you’ve seen what happens next.”

"What do you mean?" He had barely uttered those words when he felt a jolt beneath his feet.

"Wait, is it just my imagination?" a mercenary exclaimed in surprise. "Why do I feel like the ship is slowing down?"

"That's how I feel too!"

“We are indeed slowing down,” Yan Ke said, ignoring the rest of the conversation and shouting to W, “What’s going on? Why are we slowing down?”

"Why, you ask?" W leaned against the deck railing, looking at the two Ursus warships that looked like black dots behind him, and said calmly, "Of course, it's because we've arrived at our destination."

"This is the battlefield we've prepared. I remember I told you, didn't I?"

"Here?" The Sarkaz mercenaries looked around and saw nothing but the Orville and the two warships behind them on the vast snowfield.

"right here?"

"Didn't they say there was a Patriot army? Where are they?"

“Oh, there’s something I forgot to tell you,” W said slowly, turning to look at the noisy mercenaries. “I didn’t call you to the deck just now to have you fight.”

“I was planning,” she said, looking at the rising dawn on the horizon, “to let you see the sunrise.”

"How about that? Aren't I a pretty considerate boss?"

-

"General! That ship has stopped?" The adjutant looked through the glass of the command room at the Orville, which was slowly slowing down ahead, and said incredulously, "What... are they trying to do?"

Boris couldn't understand it either.

But his intuition was about to explode; something was wrong here!

But something's not right.

The wide channel, wide enough for moving blocks to pass through, contained only their two warships and the target. The vast, boundless terrain meant that no powerful enemy could possibly be hiding here.

There are some mountains and forests on both sides of the waterway, but it is absolutely impossible to hide warships there.

But without warships, how could ordinary infantry pose a threat to themselves?

Boris couldn't understand it, but that didn't stop him from issuing orders based on his intuition.

"Pass on my order: all warships slow down and come to a stop, but keep the propulsion systems warmed up!"

Just as he gave the order, the Ursus officers, who were already prepared, stood ready on the deck with their soldiers.