Gundam: From Piece to Player

"Next, it's Mr. Yuri's turn to take charge."

Under Liao's remote control, the war sand table displayed a high-rise building with a very clear internal structure. This was an as-built drawing obtained by the construction contractor through some means.

"General, your biggest challenge is still to capture the target immediately. We need to capture these scientists."

The sand table displays headshots of several important figures from the Murasame Research Institute, with the first one, whose hair is white and who is showing a healthy smile, naturally being "Dr. Murasame".

Although this group of people has a deep understanding of biology, they are clearly lacking in morality.

Yuri cracked his knuckles. "Got it. Kidnapping? It's simple."

They will infiltrate from the air to carry out sweeping and kidnapping operations.

Liao finished explaining Yuri's part and then looked at Mark Bay: "General Mark... I need to know your current infiltration progress."

"I have already made contact with a researcher who posted some comments on social media a few days ago. I have contacted him through an informant and promised that as long as he provides the relevant intelligence and secrets, I can ensure that he can 'safely' evacuate from the neutral zone while receiving a commission, and inform us of the location of Murasame and several PhDs."

Mark Bay was an intelligence officer, which was his forte. He was indeed good at intelligence gathering and defection—without his intelligence, Kalmar wouldn't have been able to so easily inflict heavy losses on the 5th Army in the first phase of the Odessa campaign.

Mark Bay continued, "According to him, the Federation has set up two methods of data destruction: physical destruction and digital destruction. For physical destruction, they planted plastic explosives in the core data center, which are remotely triggered by the Federation military. The second layer of protection is digital destruction, where the hard drive is demagnetized and the data is overwritten after the self-destruct program is initiated."

"Is it really that cautious?"

"Yes, that's why we can't alert them. If they realize our purpose and take action, we might end up with nothing."

Karma was also speechless; this dungeon was a bit difficult.

Char Aznable led the Republic's group in a sloppy attack on the Principality's New Human Research Institute, but they still managed to retrieve all the data.

“I also looked into the commander of the Okinawa base. He is Major Ben Wood. According to previous intelligence, he is one of the few good superiors in the Federation Army.”

Wood, that sounds like a man of martial virtue.

I wonder if it will be a lightning five-hit combo?

Karma thought for a moment and remembered.

In short, it's all about various "Ai Feng TV" shows... He treats Feng like a punching bag.

Finally, when he used the kamikaze attack, many of his subordinates were willing to crash into it with him.

When I saw this in my past life, I didn't think they were particularly worthy of admiration... I just felt like these people were possessed by kamikaze pilots.

"So in order to prevent the enemy from destroying the data, and also to defuse the plastic bombs," Mark Bay said, "we needed to secretly send spies to meet with the technicians first."

"We need to send our technical personnel... This docking operation is quite dangerous, as it requires crossing enemy territory."

It's normal for people to specialize in something.

“That’s not a problem,” Liao said. “General Mark, I’ll handle the liaison with this researcher.”

Mark Bay glanced at Liao, then at Karma, who looked approving, and nodded despite his doubts.

The storm continues, but one of the midget submarines on Red October has been launched.

About two hours later, the submarine arrived at the shallow waters south of Okinawa, and the rear hatch opened.

A girl dressed in a specially made black battle armor, with a special gun slung across her shoulder, sat cross-legged on something unseen.

Something floated across the shallow sea, and when it reached the shallow water, it began to walk. There were deep pits in the sand, like those left by a crab crawling... only magnified dozens of times in size. The girl jumped onto the beach without making a sound.

"Sister Alice, be careful during the docking," Liao's voice came through the communication channel. "It's a pity Dad won't let me come with you."

"You're the operation commander. If you come over, I'll have to keep an eye on you to protect you. Don't worry."

Chapter 290 Flying Dragon Rides the Face

Federal Okinawa Base, Command Center.

Wood looked at the various screens in front of him, and in the images transmitted by CG, the storm clouds were moving away.

"This typhoon is really powerful."

"Sir, you don't know, this place experiences typhoons every day for several months of the year."

The adjutant joked, "Hasn't the sir thought about going to space? It seems there are more opportunities to make a name for yourself there."

“I hate weightlessness; it feels like losing control of my body,” Wood said. “I still prefer gravity.”

"Sir, you should be one of those people bound by gravity in the propaganda about space colonization, right?"

"Is it necessary to care about the opinions of those outcasts?"

"That makes sense."

At that moment, a messenger strode toward him and reported, "Sir, an abnormal increase in the concentration of Minovsky particles has been detected."

"Where is the location? In the upper sky?" Wood asked, somewhat puzzled.

This is the first time in six years that the Okinawa base has detected an anomaly.

Unlike the Federation Space Forces, which often had to deal with troublesome, cunning, and dangerous pseudo-pirates, the Federation withdrew all of Zeon's troops from Earth after signing a peace treaty with Zeon.

When the birds are all gone, the good bow is put away; when the cunning rabbit is dead, the hunting dog is cooked.

The Federation's enemies are now only some armed groups in Africa and the Middle East. Does that mean we have to use supersonic missiles to deal with the "fellow villagers" in the mountains?

Therefore, the disarmament plan led by Djamitov cut 70% of the air force and 80% of the navy.

The army began an elite-oriented and rapid reaction reform, sending all those capable of going to space, and maintaining only enough forces to suppress guerrilla-level forces for those not capable of going to space... In short, to save money.

For a time, everyone in the Earth Federation Forces was filled with anxiety, fearing they would receive a "discharge notice".

Some military regions, in an effort to appear less useless, have even produced promotional videos featuring themselves cleaning beaches for citizens.

Returning to the present, it's impossible for the villagers to possess a Minov dispersing device, and even if they did, they wouldn't know how to use it.

"Enter Level 1 Alert, notify the fleet in port to immediately start the power plants and radar, and depart immediately."

"The 3rd Air Group shall immediately organize scrambles for reconnaissance... especially strengthening air and submarine reconnaissance, and MS units shall be on standby."

Realizing that the situation was extraordinary, Wood began to issue various orders.

"A high-heat target has been detected approaching at sea-skimming speed! It is traveling at 12 kilometers per second and is heading towards our surface fleet."

Wait... this came too fast!

"Ship No. 1, Ship No. 2, Ship No. 3, Ship No. 4, and Ship No. 5 have been hit and their status is unknown."

Before the radar became ineffective, the signals from the high-heat source target and the destroyer were "fused".

The $20 billion destroyer was hit by a missile right in port before it could even activate its radar.

Realizing the situation was extremely serious, Wood's adrenaline surged, and he became flushed... Even if he could repel the enemy, the consequences of insufficient preparation would be enough to cause him serious trouble.

"A target has been detected rapidly approaching our base. It is a mobile suit."

What model?

"Zaku... no, the similarity is only 10%."

The base's wired cameras captured the scene, showing a massive Zaku hovering in the air without any flight ramps or similar devices.

Then, the markings on the aircraft were also photographed.

There is a small white dot in the center, which obviously refers to the sun, and above the dot is a six-pointed star, the meaning of which is self-evident. The ring naturally refers to the asteroid belt and the Earth's orbit.

It seems they want to control and dominate everything under the star ring.

[Space Alliance Flag]

Wood recognized the flag, of course. The nation’s “founding father” had always been the Federation’s greatest enemy, and had been at war with the Federation government since the nation’s founding. The Federation had always referred to him as Space Zeon.

Just then, a hissing sound came from the public channel.

"What happened?" Wood asked hurriedly.

"The communication channel has been hacked."

[I am Galio, Executive Officer for Earth Affairs, Space Alliance.]

[Commander of Okinawa Base, your surface fleet has been destroyed by our forces. To avoid further casualties, I give you five minutes to shut down all radar stations, exit all vehicles, and lay down all weapons. Otherwise, you will face the consequences.]

"Are you kidding me? Open fire!"

Wood was so angry at the other party's unreasonable demands that he laughed and ordered ground missile units and land-based Mega Particle Cannons to attack the MS.

The missiles launched like arrows at the floating MS, which nimbly dodged the missiles and beams. Seeing this, Wood continued to give orders.

"MS squadron, immediately retaliate against the intruders and shoot down that audacious fellow."

Under Wood's orders, the MS wing at the Okinawa base also began operations... Although military spending has been reduced, the Federation still invests heavily in atmospheric MS to maintain appearances and ensure military deterrence against member states.

(NRX-044 Yashima)

The answer is the Yashima variable MS/MA. Due to the use of magnetic coating technology, it can transform within 0.5 seconds, thus meeting the requirements of close combat, flight, and air combat.

The MA form is a unique disc shape with strong durability and elasticity, and its speed and mobility are also at a very high level.

It can usually maintain MA mode for short-to-medium distance cruise flight, and if you want to save fuel, it can also be airdropped to the vicinity of the combat airspace by a large transport aircraft.

After testing, the frontline troops gave it a very high rating... It can do everything, and it does it quite well, it's just a bit expensive.

But considering its versatility, it might actually save money.

"Don't be careless, Argis. Although the enemy only has one machine, each Space Zeon unit costs as much as a Gundam. We must go all out to have any chance of winning."

"clear."

Major Bran, the MS unit commander in the area, and his wingman Lieutenant Aguis took off to intercept.

Meanwhile, other riot control GM teams approached on the ground, preparing to provide support with beam rifles.

"Understood, Major."

Within a minute of the attack, communication base stations and communication rooms at the Okinawa military base were targeted in the second strike.

Ben Wood's command post was also attacked by missiles... If the command post hadn't been underground, it would have been enough to carry out a decapitation strike.

In the red October, Liao watched his father put down the communication microphone.

He wasn't on the Zaku III; the only one on the machine was Banagher's own "new brother"... supposedly a new son-in-law chosen for either Elobi or Minerva's cousin.