Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

From time to time, you can see some vehicle wreckage, burned-out tanks and empty shells of cars, perhaps left over from the construction of the border wall.

Several brutal battles broke out here during the construction of the border wall.

At the level of small units, except for units like Raphael's team that can obtain military satellite assistance without being noticed, they basically have to rely on the simplest manual reconnaissance, and each team member is responsible for observing a specific direction.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the First Reconnaissance Battalion were cautious enough and did not pick up AT-4 anti-tank rockets and launch them.

Fortunately and unfortunate things came together and miraculously no fight broke out.

After Fei Niao summarized these things, Harry's expression distorted, and he looked shocked and angry.

It was obvious that someone wanted him to die gloriously here.

With the idea of ​​self-defense in mind, Harry obtained a weapon - Raphael had to provide a P-226 pistol that had long been withdrawn from the Navy's active equipment.

Forget about things like the P320. Even the Marine Corps doesn't want it.

Chapter 190 Flexible Transformation

The forward base built on the abandoned town is not as reliable as it seems.

Most of the Marines were already in position, either holding their M27 IAR rifles and using the AOCG 3.5X scope that hadn't changed in a thousand years to observe the outside world, or sitting at the heavy machine gun positions and using the 20X fixed-magnification scope installed on them to search for figures on the horizon.

The amphibious tracked vehicles used by the Marines have been deployed, and the M19 grenade launchers or .50 heavy machine guns on them can cover targets at a distance of about 1000 meters.

The rooftops of the three tallest buildings in the town are occupied by reconnaissance and assessment teams deployed by the Air Force.

Once a selected area has sufficient concentration of ELID-infected organisms, the Air Force will begin evaluating existing strike munitions.

Seeing this, Raphael knew that Harry's trip was completely meaningless and could be accomplished by simply assigning a lieutenant colonel or colonel with a similar background.

The observers on the rooftops fiddled with their instruments and exchanged information with others. They kept in constant contact with each other, reporting all the observations they had made.

Raphael brought the humanoid team, abandoned the guards specially arranged by the Research Bureau, and took full control of all subsequent itinerary arrangements.

In order to ensure Harry's safety, Raphael canceled the meeting originally scheduled on the rooftop and changed the meeting place to the conference room of the forward base command post.

The reason she gave was simple. Since the Marines needed the support of the Air Force, and the ammunition assessment mission performed by the Air Force here also required the cooperation of the Marines, it would be better to change the simple internal meeting of the Air Force into a negotiation involving three parties.

When Harry heard this suggestion, an unprecedented desire to explore surged from the bottom of his heart.

He was really curious whether Raphael's beginning to consider the operation of "human" relationships meant that she was understanding the complex social relationships between human beings.

"...Raphael, are you free now?" he said.

"No."

Raphael turned her head and rolled her eyes. She had no energy to chat right now. Even the humanoid host couldn't process satellite data, stay focused and observe the surroundings, and answer the questions that curious baby No. 4 sent continuously through the humanoid network.

In addition, the three puppet figures themselves are also a heavy burden.

If she were to allocate more computing power to chatting, she would really be unable to drag it out.

The humanoid is indeed not a human, and it is true that she can carry out multi-threaded activities to keep her mind active, but this is all based on the core having sufficient computing power.

If the limit is exceeded, queues and interrupts will have to be introduced for time-sharing processing.

"...It seems that three puppet figures are my limit," Raphael murmured.

"This isn't a topic you need to think about too much. Do you want to listen to it?"

"Are you serious?" she asked doubtfully.

"Of course. If you take up too much of your remaining energy, wouldn't it be my safety that would be endangered in the end?" Harry answered in the form of a rhetorical question.

"Then tell me."

"Last year, a German neuroscience research institute announced that they would use neuromorphic chips to build a supercomputer..."

"Oh, the plan is for a team to scan the human brain and simulate it using a supercomputer."

Raphael carefully passed by the fortifications set up by the forward base because the area outside the fortifications was mined.

“They’ve achieved something, haven’t they?”

“It can’t be called an achievement, but it just gives us new hope.”

"Hope is such a distant word." Raphael acted calmly, showing no surprise or excitement at all.

“Sometimes, hope is necessary.”

“Hope sometimes brings not dawn but pitch-black darkness.”

Raphael smacked his lips and said bluntly:

"That detailed record of our bodies was like this. It seemed to free me, but it actually told me that we were nothing without DARPA."

"You've realized it. You've made progress."

"The main skeleton material of bionic humanoids is simply not something that outside material suppliers can provide, unless bionic humanoids are fully rolled out in the civilian market and the military also adopts them on a large scale."

Harry smiled and nodded, confirming Raphael's statement: "Yes, this is the prerequisite for you to gain true freedom."

"Humph!"

"Once things are over here, I have a simple proposal."

"If you have something to say, just say it. Keeping it a secret and acting like a riddle teller will only lead to bad consequences."

"Want to go on holiday to Germany?" Harry said.

Raphael looked back at the guy in surprise, and instantly remembered the incident involving a Russian professor hired by Kyoto University called "Sabulov".

She obtained from the professor a document of a robotic arm that was ingeniously designed and ready for trial production testing.

Three years later, this information was used by the new Soviet Union on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Yes, it was the much-anticipated general-purpose industrial robot that the media called the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the ALR-51C(T).

"Stealing information? I won't do that."

"……you."

"I was right."

Raphael raised his eyebrows and said unhappily:

"The last Kyoto University incident forced me to be a good kid for almost four months. Every night, there were Russians squatting in the house a few hundred meters away and spying on me. Do you think I'm really stupid?"

"That's the CIA's problem. They see you as a worthless local recruiting asset."

"No matter what, I won't take on such a high-risk project."

"As support, I can allocate new puppets." Harry offered the bargaining chip.

"It's no use. Humanoids have their limits."

"I understand... what you said just now, the computing power limit of the Ruins Reverse Core is three puppets."

Harry wrote down this data and felt that if the army used bionic humanoids to replace ordinary soldiers in the future, the computing power of the humanoid core should be increased appropriately.

The best team is 6 people - 1 host towing 5 puppets, and 2 humanoid hosts can form a team.

At this point, the army only needs to be equipped with human command sergeants to obtain an army with extremely strong combat effectiveness and fighting will.

The only issues that need to be resolved are loyalty and the enforcement of orders.

Finished products like "Raphael" are not suitable for military use. She is too "selfish", although this "selfishness" is the proof of her advancement.

But the army's killing weapons do not need such a "self", what they need is discipline and order, and the existence of the squad command sergeant makes up for the lack of wisdom of the combat dolls.

This is the ultimate vision of the Department of Defense and the Army.

"By the way, do you really not want to go to Germany?"

"I don't want to go." Raphael answered firmly.

Harry was sure of Raphael, and he said in an orderly manner with a smile:

"Yes, I can admit that. We are very concerned about the results of human brain scans and the simulation of the human brain by supercomputers built on neuromorphic chips. However, there is no need to steal this data."

"What do you mean?"

"DARPA has established cooperation with the institute a long time ago. At this time, the other party has already got on the right track, so according to the agreement, the research bureau must send a liaison officer..."

"Okay, I'm going to go check it out."

"I prefer the way you categorically refused just now."

Chapter 191 Extravagant Hope

By the second half of the afternoon, there were already a sufficient number of ELID-infected organisms in the weapons testing site deliberately opened by the Marine Corps.

Their observers and site-border control troops had been up for almost 36 hours, huddled in Humvees or hand-dug bunker obstacles in plastic-lined chemical suits and rubber boots.

These people's faces were covered with sweat. In between loudly reporting potential targets, in order to avoid being knocked down by sleepiness, they all screamed and sang popular songs at the same time.

They sang at the top of their lungs, making it difficult to understand the lyrics.

The team members rely on caffeine, tobacco, painkillers and ephedra-based stimulant drugs - in theory, these things are strictly prohibited, but everyone here ignores the rules - to stay alert, but a few people choose candy and non-nutritious chewing foods.

The standard military rations are the MRE fast food rations that Raphael had eaten until he vomited in New York and Japan.

The kind that comes in a brown plastic bag and is about three-quarters the size of a phone book.

Main dishes such as a dry spaghetti dish are served with a small bag of stew meat or a cooked meat pie.

No matter how it is prepared, the main dishes and side dishes hidden inside are impressively unpalatable.

In addition to the staple food, the ration also contained many snacks that had little nutrition but provided high calories - walnut chocolate candies, scones, cookies, cheese sandwich biscuits, cocoa powder and the like.

When it comes to things like instant drinks, many Marines are too lazy to waste precious water and just stuff them directly into their mouths and swallow them raw.

The Marines ate with gusto, all turning into the shape of MRE rations.

While waiting for the airstrike to begin, Raphael gradually got used to the shock of the Marines eating MREs.

Not to mention, the Marines seemed quite excited. The entire assessment operation was like a family taking a car out for a trip. Upon arriving at the scenic spot, they could immediately see the legendary wonderful scenery.

The young second lieutenant liaison officer sent by the Marine Corps was like this. As a liaison officer, he had to negotiate with the Marines and manage all aspects of the Air Force's top observation team, including eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping.

"What's going on, Lieutenant?"

"No."

The young man named Lynn Sarah kept asking Raphael.

“Will the fighter show up?”

"Yes, maybe not."

"When does it begin?"

"do not know."

Two hours before sunset, radio traffic suddenly increased near the shooting range.

Wherever the eye could see, there were already many swaying and moving figures.

The instrument specially used to detect ELID radiation values ​​suddenly began to whistle, causing many soldiers to take their anti-radiation drugs in advance.

Some machine gun teams requested to open fire, but such requests were rejected.

The joint control team of the Marines and the Air Force over there clearly told everyone that no firing was allowed as long as the ELID-infected organisms did not cross the designated boundaries.

Although the Marine Corps is poor, the M2HB heavy machine guns in fixed positions are equipped with scopes, and a rough distance estimate can be made based on the density of the scope.^

There was a faint whistling sound in the sky. More than ten seconds later, the fighter plane responsible for dropping the bombs suddenly appeared from the glow of the setting sun, then it lowered its nose and dived towards the bombing site at high speed.

It was not until the sky above the shooting range was filled with Mk series general aviation bombs with open air decelerators and the tail nozzles were completely opened spewing flames and trailing blue-orange halos that the roar of fighter jets breaking the speed of sound slowly reached everyone's ears.

Then, the fighter plane pressed out of the slope, throwing out bright flames, and suddenly disappeared on the horizon.

Boom——

At this time, the 15 tons of ammunition dropped by the F-13EX began to take effect, and the delayed fuse completed the countdown.

The smoke and dust raised by the 500-pound bomb blocked out the sky, making it difficult for all observers present to see the specific situation in the bombing area.

The time waiting for the smoke to dissipate was incredibly slow. Although time was still moving, it felt like a year.