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

"...Well, just this once. If you're lying, I'll hate you forever."

Greenhui nodded.

Fei Niao took a small bite doubtfully, but the expected strange taste did not appear, and his mouth was filled with bitterness.

"A regular chocolate energy bar?"

"Hmm?" Luhui tilted his head, his bright eyes full of grievance.

The bitter taste was described as good. Fei Niao wondered if there was something wrong with Xiao Si's taste system as it was obviously so unpalatable.

Oh? She remembered the happy expression on Lu Hui's face when he ate the MRE rations before, and suddenly realized it!

"I've already told you that Xiao Si has no bad intentions."

Lingyin lightly hit Fei Niao's back. Her palm hit Fei Niao's body through her clothes.

"..."

Asuka wanted to say something, but didn't know where to start.

She didn't know what she wanted to say, and fragments of her thoughts were scattered all over her mind.

Fei Niao stretched out his hand and tried to pick up the fragments, but every time he was about to touch them, the fragments slipped silently through his fingers.

"It's better not to think too much. The relationship between us is not something that can be described as that between ordinary human sisters. We are lucky to be able to get together and have this kind of activity now."

Lingyin concluded in a brisk tone.

Asuka looked up tremblingly. Lingyin was comforting herself. Looking at her tender eyes, he always felt that something was jumping and surging deep in his mind.

The vest felt itchy, and all the heat exhaled was concentrated on the face.

Asuka quickly turned his face away and forced his attention to the generator.

"Ah - you can be so cute sometimes."

"Please don't use any excuse to brag about yourself." Raphael interrupted and complained.

Lingyin seemed to have discovered a new world, staring at Fei Niao excitedly:

"Hey, can you let me see that expression again?"

"leave me alone."

"Oh." Lingyin shrugged, and immediately lost interest when she found that there was no fun. She walked to Luhui and exchanged places with her.

Raphael eavesdropped on his sisters' interaction and took out his hidden water bottle to take a sip.

The spicy liquid with the aroma of grain slid down her esophagus. The person who invented the brewing method was really amazing, she sighed in her heart.

This day was destined to be difficult. It took more than four hours to check the bird from front to back, and several attempts to ignite and start the engine failed.

She finally wailed, "This thing is so broken, there's only rust on the surface..."

"That's it. Let's go back to our hiding place in the forest. Let's rest for 12 hours, and then move towards the Main River."

"Can we cross the river?"

"What else can we do? The high walls to the north of Frankfurt are full of mines, and there are heavy machine guns and grenades mounted on the walls. We have no way to deal with them."

Raphael emphasized again: "There is no way."

“It would be nice if we could get in touch.”

Yes, it would be great if the satellite phone wasn’t burned out, Fei Niao muttered to himself in his heart.

If we can establish contact, we can know where the evacuation route is, or directly arrange an evacuation helicopter and leave by air.

To be honest, the method of walking underwater is very embarrassing.

Raphael had to drag the three burdens along. Not only did he have to fight against the undercurrents in the river, but he also had to prevent the three lumps of iron from sinking to the bottom. It was a rather troublesome job.

Water is a natural barrier.

The frequencies of commonly used communication electromagnetic waves are almost all within the absorption frequency range of water molecules, causing the electromagnetic waves to attenuate very quickly in water.

In addition, factors such as underwater noise, multipath effects and complex underwater environment will also have an adverse impact on the reliability of underwater wireless communications.

How to solve the problem of underwater communication has always been a difficult problem in the fields of ocean exploration, marine resource development and military reconnaissance.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario.

Chapter 45 Search and Rescue Mission

"You've almost got that diagram memorized by now."

"It's no use watching it again." Joey Danny glanced at Tony Collins and said, "You're still awake. Are you worried about something?"

"What happened to that woman?"

"Which one?"

"It's on the left side of the fuselage, the second one from the door."

"Oh, her. Ms. Cecilia Ant, an official from DARPA, is accompanying us in the search."

Joey Danny remembered that Cecilia was a survivor of the New York incident and had been a combat agent of SHD, a veteran of many battles.

"Tell me what's going on. It's not your habit to start a conversation with a woman."

“The mission was to do a high-jump, low-drive into an area that had just experienced some kind of electromagnetic pulse weapon strike.

In addition to people from USEC, there were also BEARs from Russia, French, and refugees from Eastern Europe.

This seemed like the perfect time to talk about my career.”

"Don't worry, your promotion to chief sergeant is just around the corner." Danny said and continued to stare at the schematic.

It was filled with densely packed small characters, circles drawn in red pen, and a rough route of action drawn in black pencil.

The word "Minerva" is written on the top of the simple picture, and there is also a college-style half-length portrait.

"That's good...very good."

"Why doesn't your tone sound like that?"

"I was so focused on being the chief sergeant that I never really considered the downsides."

Collins sat down and looked up at Danny, who had just been promoted to major this year and became their mission commander this year.

"This is the army, Tony." Danny leaned down slightly so that his hands could rest on the table. "Everything comes with a price."

"You and I both know that there can only be one chief sergeant in the team. This is everything to Alan. The only way for him to leave the team is if he dies in battle."

"So you want to consider changing teams?" Danny thought for a moment. "Some teams have people retiring."

"I've thought about it, but I can't help but feel... that I'd be letting my teammates down if I left Centaur."

Danny nodded when he heard this, he understood what Tony meant.

"Is being the Chief Master Sergeant the best choice for my family?"

"I do not quite understand."

"I'm considering not being a chief sergeant and going the warrant officer route instead."

"That's a big change. It's a different direction than what you've been working towards for years."

"Yes, but this is a high-paying rear-line position. I don't have to leave the Centaur team, and I can get the status of an officer, which will allow me to help the team win and complete the mission in more ways."

In fact, the salary of a warrant officer is not high. It should be said that the salary of a junior warrant officer is not as high as that of an E-9 chief sergeant.

But he can go on missions with the team and receive various subsidies for high-risk activities.

Just like what the Centaur team will do four hours later, jump from an altitude of 500 meters and open the parachute at an altitude of about meters below the ground.

As long as he is deployed overseas, this tax-free allowance and tax-free amount can bring his salary to a higher level.

More importantly, the promotion pressure for warrant officers is not as great as that for E-8 to E-9. They only need to wait for another two years to be automatically promoted, and their basic salary at this time directly exceeds that of the E-9 chief sergeant.

"Being a Centaur-2 means you can never command a team on your own, but it does offer a lot more opportunities than a Chief Master Chief.

You'd be a solid expert in special operations, and becoming an officer would change your life in many ways, Tony.

A lot of people are going to look to you for answers, but do you understand what this means to the team?"

Tony Collins looked back at his teammates who were sleeping soundly in the hammocks in the cabin. Captain Alan Bright, as he did in the past, was checking information with a tactical PAD while the others were sleeping. He would not miss any details of the mission briefing.

Only when all the contents are deeply engraved in my mind and will not be missed will I go to bed.

"Yes, I know exactly what that means."

"Even if the Army would conduct a more rigorous and detailed review of you, perhaps this decision would hurt your teammates?" asked Danny Collins.

"I'm ready, that's what I want."

"Okay, I'll write a detailed description for you and submit an application to the headquarters."

Danny raised his hand and patted his arm. "Go back and rest. Skydiving after dark is not easy."

Joey Danny turned his attention back to the details of the mission. The Centaur team's mission this time was not easy.

The fact that JSOC is only willing to deploy a small team can only mean that they are not very optimistic about this mission.

But it is an important asset of the US military, and although DOD Advanced Research Projects Agency officials did not elaborate, they accepted this statement after repeated repetition.

"Mission codename: Minerva". Isn't it a bit of an overreaction to use the goddess of wisdom to describe the search target?

By the way, the missing lady's name is "Raphael", which is a borrowed name of an angel, which always gives people the impression that the person who chose the name is a devout believer.

This "Raphael" works at the Institute of Neuroscience on the outskirts of Frankfurt. He is a senior computer security expert and has made great achievements in computer graphics and vision.

From this point of view, the other party is indeed worth rescuing, very valuable.

However, Major Joey Denny always thought of someone else, the girl he met in New York - her name was also "Raphael".

Could it be the same person? Impossible, he thought.

That Raphael was a Navy electronic warfare officer and surface ship personnel, and he is now probably back on the cruiser to serve.

Maybe he is on the Ticonderoga-class cruiser of the CSG aircraft carrier strike group in the Mediterranean, sitting idly in the CIC combat situation center all day, ordering his subordinates to do this and that.

The "Raphael" who was to be rescued was a computer expert, and the two industries were completely unrelated.

They would go to the institute to see if she was still hiding in some hidden room there; in addition, they would also visit several safe houses provided to foreign affairs personnel.

If none of them can be found, we will have to search for an additional three days.

The team carried a total of 9 days of food and water. The excessive supplies required the Centaur team to set up a temporary hiding place to store supplies and rest.

The combat quality of Russian BEAR operators needs no further explanation, except in one word: very impressive;

The personnel of the US Army USEC were also drawn from corresponding units, but due to communication limitations, their contact was temporarily interrupted.

In addition to normal search and rescue, the Centaur team also carried two additional sets of long-distance communication equipment.

In a sense, the team also serves as couriers.

I don’t know if the Russian army has taken similar actions, but Danny thinks there must be one.

As for how the express would be delivered to the BEAR personnel, that was not something he could predict.

Chapter 46 Airborne

The pointer was spinning rapidly, and the reading on the dial was decreasing rapidly. Tony Collins turned his head against the strong wind to look at the transport plane that was flying away, then adjusted his flying posture and floated towards his teammates who were falling together.

Whether it is being promoted to Chief Sergeant step by step, or undergoing more rigorous review and training to become a warrant officer as mentioned earlier, they all have one prerequisite in common: surviving the subsequent search and rescue and dispatch missions.

If he were to die during the mission, all would be over.

Collins knew that it was not a good idea to think about these things on the eve of the operation, or even in the current situation of skydiving, as it could potentially kill people.

But people are so mean, he thought sarcastically.

There are many examples of people killing themselves or their companions due to distraction for various reasons.

Someone was so nervous that he brought live ammunition to the comprehensive training instead of the non-lethal rimfire warhead. Because the on-site safety officer did not notice the situation in time, he eventually killed the trainee who was playing the terrorist.

"Damn it, Tony, calm down."