Golems are completely alien to mercenaries. The action is strange and unpredictable, and the attack is too paranoid, hysterical, and almost manic in nature. This is not the usual mode of air combat they are fighting, not even a war, but survival.

In Kara's eyes, the puppet is not terrible, at least this thing is a definite enemy.

After the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, she had not had this clear sense of friend and foe for too long. Especially today, when the government army is constantly disintegrating, military companies are shrinking, and the number of safari mercenaries is greatly increasing. Everyone around you goes back and forth between friends and mortal enemies, and the only thing that can tell the difference between this is the battle contract: it's possible to fight with someone in the morning, and by the evening you become the target of your new contract. The First Sino-Japanese War disintegrated moral and social pressures, and everyone did as they pleased. The former U.S. Big 6 battle just passed was a real melee, with a large number of forces involved, but everyone was fighting alone and outnumbered.

It's the frightening thing to live in a cannibalistic environment.

Now, at least these people have a common goal, which is to survive. The enemy is also common, and that is the "headless fighter" represented by the large number of whooping ghost-like electronic signals that Kara tracked in the pod, the puppet.

Puppet, Kara doesn't know anything about it, but it's no stranger. The Vespa Combat Team once showed that the Hundred Days Ghost System was more terrifying than imagined during the experimental stage, it was like a thousand-year-old tree, and it was best for ordinary people not to approach it. When using the whooping ghost-related subsystems, such as the scalp and the wooden man, the driver's consciousness can indeed extend the perception to the entire combat aircraft through the guò device, but the highly intelligent combat aircraft can also regurgitate into the human brain. If the driver's will is tenacious and firm enough, he can control the complete ensemble and become a steel beast weighing tens of tons; However, if the will breaks down and the consciousness is lost, the brain and even the body will be taken away by the Whooping Oni.

Kara left the Vespa Combat Team precisely because she felt some kind of inexplicable fear. In retrospect, she still shuddered: Shishi conducted two-way research on the civilian use of the whooping ghost system, one of which was a training method to prevent and avoid excessive disorientation; The other is healing – Death Valley's Li was once recorded as a "cure" by Shishi, who was deeply lost but later regained consciousness?.?? Carla was initially happy about Lee's recovery, but she later felt that something was wrong, and that a lot of Lee's logic, behavior, and language were too superficial and pompous, as if someone was deliberately playing her. Gradually, Kara felt scared, as if the Centennia had replaced a logical simulation with Lee, and the person she knew had disappeared. The concocted Lee of the Whooping Day Ghost occupies her **, and she becomes a crazy and bloodthirsty fighter Qì.

The whooping ghost can forge a fake personality to replace the original person, turning the person into a puppet at his own disposal, which is Kara's feeling.

She had always been very confident in her feelings, though they seemed bizarre in the absence of evidence.

Later, when the Central 6 rebel peacekeeping fleet attacked Midway, it also encountered something similar.

Carla learned of this new enemy on the new Minsk, when she first heard the word "puppet". The Central 6th Fleet was blocked by a large number of F-11 stealth attack aircraft, the common characteristics of these enemy planes are crazy, ferocious, irrational, not like human beings, but those are not drones, but some kind of non-human and non-AI polymer with both human complex logical judgment and accurate calculation ability.

Carla couldn't get a definition of what a puppet was, but she could smell the shinnifers of this hybrid between humans and AI. When she was on the new Minsk, she felt that even the Central Big 6 was surprised by the appearance of the puppet, and the fleet was constantly trying to find out the source of the puppet. After all, during the Battle of Midway, the scalp and woodman systems had not yet proliferated, and the origin of the puppets was unclear. The Central 6 Volunteer Fleet was not in a hurry to attack at that time, but tried to attract and kill puppets and salvage wooden manipulators as much as possible, hoping to investigate more information.

How many puppets there are, this number is difficult to estimate. The former U.S. blockade of the Central Volunteer Fleet and the north-south confrontation between life and death required a large amount of combat strength. Under the impetus of underground weapons dealers, the civilian whooping ghost system began to spread on a large scale??.?? `bsp; I'm afraid it's what the Hundred Days Ghost wants to see the most. Kara's thought made her shudder herself: in this long battle, I don't know how many people's personalities the centurion has absorbed, and I don't know how many puppets have been created. This qiē was done quietly, and no one even knew it.

Kara only cares about one person, and one of the things she does is to get the Hundred Day Oni back before he turns him into a puppet. She knew that Shishi Company's forward-looking room could save the dying Meng, but once the Hundred Days Ghost was deeply integrated with him, the Mengshen she knew would never come back.

She believed that she was the only one who felt the actions of the Hundred Day Ghost, but she could only save one person. Kara is firmly convinced that this is the only one person who can save the situation, and she has very little time.

On the multifunction display of the F-24 Tomcat II fighter, the High Threat Red Alert lights up. Kara superimposes the signal identification information of the puppet of the search pod on the target tracking of the fire control radar, allowing the fire control system to make a comprehensive judgment and identify nearby golems. She has a lot of experience fighting this kind of thing, and now she needs a team that can work well together.

"I'm Kara, the wingman pilot who was attacked." She continued over the radio, "I don't have time to explain, but each of us can fight the Hundred Days. Now the whooping ghosts are manipulating our people to attack us. If you still want to fight, if you still want to live, follow me to fight back. Those who are willing to fight back now start receiving the number of shares of my fire control system; If you're willing to fight back, say it on the radio! ”

No one answered. Most of the mercenaries are young and lack combat experience. Now most of them are a little confused by the sudden situation.

"Let's go through the battle check together!"

This is a quote from Kara, which many people have not heard for too long. This is what only a truly organized and combat-ready regular aviation unit would say. When many veterans heard this, the battle impulse buried deep in their hearts was hooked; And the new mercenary also seems to have received some kind of psychological hint, and his brain is still a mess, but his hands have unconsciously followed suit.

"Secure all loose objects in the cockpit." She recited according to the rules, hoping to gather more people through the process.

As if they had just remembered, the mercenaries stuffed coffee cups, ashtrays, magazines, toothbrush bags, sandwich boxes, and all kinds of garbage into the pilot's bag, and then tucked them into the fixed space behind them.

"Put on your oxygen mask and pull down your goggles." It's like Carla is commanding an army, though she doesn't know if anyone will follow.

When the sound fell, someone immediately responded: "Understood." Wear an oxygen mask, pull up your goggles, and get ready. ”

"No problem, it's ready."

"Ready, done. Carla, listen to you. ”

"All ready, ready to fight."

Kara heard the answer on the radio, and the number of jùchain messages also showed the various nearby planes willing to become reinforcements. Although there are not many people, and they have not completed the in-flight refueling, they can at least let it go.

"Fuel dispenser 'oil bar', I'm Kara, I've opened up the number of chains. Obviously, you can't go back to the base in Hawaii, you can only die if you go back. ”

The captain of the tanker was silent for a long time: "Understood, I'll listen to you, Kara." ”

"Lower the altitude and adjust the navigation point to Baker Island, where there is an abandoned airbase and the only nearby base that the centolians can't find and link to."

"Understood." The tanker began to readjust the navigation coordinates and check the information with the conventional compass at the same time. The huge four-range tanker began to dive with its head down, whining from its wings.

"Security 717, Security 19, Security 33, and all the members of the state government air defense team who left the United States in the past, we still have an obligation to protect the safety here." Carla looked at the cooperation target information on the chain, "You don't have much fuel, follow the tanker to dive, cover the others to complete the refueling at low altitude, and then refuel together." ”

"Understood."

Although simple deployments have been made, these are far from enough to fight the puppets, and they are just passively avoiding war. Kara looked at the number of chains, and suddenly her eyes lit up: "Falcon 2, Falcon 2 at the end of the team." ”

"Roger, Kara. I'm Falcon 2. An answer was given over the radio.

"You're coming from Alaska."

"Yes. We had been ordered to go south to support, but our route was blocked by the advancing Aleutian fleet. Later, I met the Hundred Days Ghost. It could be the Hundred Days, I saw a huge figure, and my captain and teammates were scattered. The pilot was like he had been locked up for 2o years, and he gushed out.

"Okay, Falcon 2. You are an Alaskan eagle. Carla confirms its model.

"I am." He couldn't wait to confirm.

"Have you changed to a new type of phased array radar and enhanced your cyber warfare capabilities?"

"Of course, there is no doubt about it." His tone was excited.

A flash of lightning flashed at the end of the refueling procession, attracting Kara's attention. This is not an ordinary F-1 Alaskan Hawk, and it is equipped with the conformal bomb bay and camber tail of the SE subtype, and the nozzle has also been dualized in accordance with the SD standard, which has considerable stealth capabilities. It is an aircraft that is the best match for the F-24.

"Falcon 2, follow me to the sky." Carla pushed the throttle to both sides of the afterburner, "We'll be able to resist at least for a while." ”

Under Kara's command, the planes began to maneuver in an orderly manner. They may not know that they are about to embark on a new chapter of air warfare that has never been seen before