It is because of his ruthlessness that Thomas is reused.

Eight years ago, Thomas was known for his ruthlessness.

It was the last year of the previous presidency of the United States, and although the election had not yet begun, the war on terror that had dragged on for several years had caused a lot of social problems, the Republicans were greatly disappointed, and the victory of the Democratic Party in the general election was a foregone conclusion. The Democratic presidential candidate's platform includes the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and the end of the costly war on terror. For several purposes, the Republican president approved a series of assassinations orchestrated by the C.I.A. before leaving office, with Thomas's Navy SEAL Team 6 in charge of carrying it out. During an operation in Iraq, Thomas personally executed more than a dozen members of a family suspected of supporting a terrorist group. Since then, in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries, Thomas's ruthlessness has been vividly reflected. Although there are no exact statistics, the number of innocent civilians executed by Thomas himself in this series of operations must have been in the hundreds.

To the enemy, even if he is a sympathizer of the enemy, Thomas will never be soft.

Two years ago, Thomas's ruthlessness began to play an even more significant role.

After the establishment of the Planetary Defense Council, the Security Affairs Liaison Office was established and began to take full responsibility for security and confidentiality, and the ten member states also stepped up to clean up the portal. For the first half of the year, the main work of the Security Affairs Liaison Office was to prevent the leakage of information related to the 2014X1 asteroid. During the special period, all 10 member states adopted special measures. For those scientists who already know about the 2014X1 asteroid, the Security Liaison Office is trying to get them to serve the Planetary Defense Council as much as possible. If this trick doesn't work, you can only extinguish it.

Someone has to do the dirty work, and Thomas is the one who does the dirty work for Smith.

In the first year of the Planetary Defense Council's existence, Thomas planned and commanded more than a dozen extermination operations, and each time he did a great job. For example, in late 2013, in an attempt to kill an astronomer who was trying to leak information about the 2014X1 asteroid to the newspaper, Thomas orchestrated a vicious shooting and then blamed it on an Army scout sniper who had returned from Afghanistan only three months earlier. Through the falsification of the scene and evidence, everyone believes that the murderer shot innocent people in the downtown because of psychological problems. Because the evidence was conclusive, the Federal Circuit Court sentenced the killer to death after a month-long trial.

Because of his clean work, Thomas won Stark's trust and reuse.

A year ago, the Doomsday Force project was formalized, the United States received 60% of the development share, and participated in the development of all subsystems except the nerve center control unit, Stark decided to secretly form the U.S. Army's Doomsday Force, and Thomas once again took on the important role.

It's just that Thomas is forty-six years old and is not an ideal candidate for a Doomsday Warrior.

Thomas's main task is to find suitable people, then "die" them in various ways, and then integrate them into the "shadow army".

The name was taken by Stark, and no one objected.

It wasn't until five days ago, when the Shadow Force was officially formed, that Thomas became the last member of the Shadow Force on Stark's orders.

Including Thomas, the Shadow Force had a total of one hundred and six officers and soldiers.

Although Thomas's physical fitness is not the best, he is the most effective modulator, and before that, American scientists have learned about the nerve center control unit developed by Luo Jinyong through the desert island Ryuzhijian, and improved the control unit developed by Yasutaro Takeuchi. In terms of performance, Thomas's Doomsday Warrior system is the best, and he has become the most powerful shadow warrior in the world.

It was in this way that Thomas did not command in the rear, as Howard did, but commanded troops from the front.

Seeing the bombed supplies and equipment, the skyrocketing fire, and the fifteen corpses neatly placed together, Thomas was expressionless.

Wearing the mask of the Doomsday Warrior system, others can't see his expression.

Of the fifteen corpses, twelve were naked, ten of them were shadow warriors, and the other two were Aldrich and Alfred.

Apparently, the attackers knew the Doomsday Warrior system very well.

The Doomsday Warrior system has a self-destruct function, as long as the wearer's brain waves disappear, the self-destruct system will activate, and change the molecular structure of the polymer nano-carbon fiber by releasing a strong current, carbonizing the main material, and destroying the main information stored in the control unit.

The boot time of the self-destruct system is sixty seconds.

That is, the attacker must free the Doomsday Warrior system from the shadow warrior within sixty seconds, returning it to its initial state.

If you're not familiar with the Doomsday Warrior system, you obviously can't do it.

As for who the attacker was, Thomas knew better.

There are only ten Doomsday Warriors on the island, Aldrich and Alfred have brought back four corpses, and the Shadow Force has already recovered the bodies of two other Doomsday Warriors. In other words, there are still two doomsday warriors alive, namely Chutianjiang in China and Halevy in Israel.

To be able to quietly kill ten shadow warriors and strip them of the doomsday warrior system can only be Chu Tianjiang and Halevy!

Immediately after the attack, Thomas returned to the airport with thirty shadow warriors, but was still too late.

Being able to kill ten shadow warriors in ten minutes, the abilities of these two Doomsday Warriors are definitely not to be underestimated, and Thomas has long known that they are the most powerful Doomsday Warriors.

If they hide and sneak up on the lone shadow warriors, they will be in big trouble.

It's just that Thomas didn't have the slightest anxiety.

There were only three corpses of the scientists, and the meteorologist named Jacqueline was still alive, most likely with the two Doomsday Warriors.

With a female scientist who is powerless, what can they do?

Even if they had twelve Doomsday Warrior systems in their hands, they would not have any usable control units or modulation equipment, and they would not be of use at all.

"Colonel!"

Thomas came back to his senses and said to the Shadow Warrior who greeted him, "Implement Plan B, Team E and Team F will stay behind to guard the airport, and Team G will follow me back to the sinkhole." ”

"Colonel, what to do with these corpses?"

"Burn them all."

"Burn it?"

"Are you going to dig a cave and erect a monument for them?"

The shadow warrior didn't ask any more questions, immediately beckoning a few of his men and throwing the corpse into the raging flames.

The fire, which was caused by fuel oil, was still burning for some time, and several large craters had been blown out of the runway, apparently unable to be used for transport planes to take off and land.

The so-called plan B is to replace the C-17A transport plane with an MV-22 tilt-rotor plane to send over scientists who study Y objects and the equipment that controls Y objects. If all goes well, the Shadow Force will leave Amsterdam Island with the Y object in a few hours.

What has just happened shows that it will not be smooth sailing.

Before returning to the sinkhole, Thomas used the communication equipment he had brought to get in touch with Stark and briefly reported the situation, mentioning that the mission could not be completed in time and that the time needed to be extended.

Thomas did not send people to deal with Chu Tianjiang and Halevy.

Due to the performance limitations of the control unit, the shadow warrior is not as good as the Doomsday Warrior, and the combat power of a single person can only reach seventy percent of that of the Doomsday Warrior at most. If two Doomsday Warriors were to fight together, ten Shadow Warriors would not necessarily be their opponents. Thomas has already lost ten of his men, and sending someone to deal with two Doomsday Warriors will only spread his forces even more, giving them more chance to sneak up.

Besides, the island of Amsterdam is more than fifty square kilometers, and the space is vast enough that there are many places to hide, and it may not be possible to find two Doomsday Warriors.

Thomas decides to stay on the sidelines, believing that the two Doomsday Warriors will surely reappear.

Chu Tianjiang and Halevi will not hide in the coastal areas around the island, they will hide in the hinterland of the island. The island of Amsterdam covers an area of more than fifty square kilometers, and the terrain is particularly complex, as long as two doomsday warriors are hidden, no one can do anything. But Thomas believes that they will definitely go to the sinkhole. The mission of the Doomsday Force is to prevent others from making contact with the Y object, and they will definitely attack again.

As long as you pester two Doomsday Warriors, everything else will be easy.

Although the Shadow Warrior is not as powerful as the Doomsday Warrior as a single man, the Shadow Warrior is more sophisticated than the Doom Warrior and is designed to deal with the Doom Warrior.

Thomas's pistol, for example, is very promising.

In appearance, it looks a lot like the Smith-Wesson M629 revolver with a 10.6-inch barrel, but in reality it is completely different. The biggest difference is that this gun uses a smoothbore barrel, that is, there is no double line in the barrel. In order to ensure the smooth flight of the warhead, the gun is equipped with a depleted uranium alloy long-rod tail stabilized warhead. The warhead is held in place by a three-lobed toccard and is in close contact with the barrel for the purpose of holding the air. After flying out of the muzzle, the toka automatically falls off, and the warhead is ballistic stabilized by a three-piece tail mounted in the tail section.

This peculiar design is designed to deal with the Doomsday Warrior system.

When studying the Doomsday Warrior system, researchers have long found that the high-hardness surface functional layer has an excellent protective effect on traditional bullets, but the protection effect against non-traditional bullets is not ideal. The main thing is that the molecular structure of a high-speed rotating warhead will be destroyed after hitting the function of a high-hardness surface. Conversely, if the warhead does not rotate, the molecular structure is not immediately destroyed.

This is similar to the tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing shells used in tank guns.

In response to this, American firearms engineers have developed weapons specifically for the Shadow Warriors to deal with the Doomsday Warriors. Like Thomas's pistol, all Shadow Warrior firearms are equipped with depleted uranium alloy long-rod tail stabilized cartridges with smoothbore barrels.

At an effective range, the bullet effortlessly pierces the surface functional layer of the Doomsday Warrior system.

It's just that, limited by the way the warhead is stabilized, the effective range of these guns is not very long. Thomas's pistol had an effective range of only 20 meters, an assault rifle of only 200 meters, a machine gun of 400 meters, and a sniper rifle of 600 meters.

Beyond the effective range, accuracy is not guaranteed.

Thomas understood this, but he didn't care, because the Shadow Troops' numerical superiority was more than enough to offset the disadvantage in the range of their weapons.

Besides, the Doomsday Warrior's weapons pose no threat to the Shadow Warriors.

The ten shadow warriors who were killed were all attacked at close range, and their necks were broken from behind by the enemy. Apparently, the two Doomsday warriors had no confidence in their weapons.

In addition to this, Thomas has a trump card in his hand.

In other words, Plan B includes large-scale support operations. If the Shadow Forces fail to complete their mission, the reinforcements that arrive later will also be able to take out two Doomsday Warriors.

After adjusting his deployment, Thomas returned to the sinkhole with thirty shadow warriors.

At this time, Chu Tianjiang and Halevi had already fled with Jacqueline.

Although neither Chu Tianjiang nor Halevy knew much about the situation on the island, Jacqueline was a living guide and knew the environment on the island well.

Half an hour later, the trio entered a cave hidden behind a waterfall on the east side of Davis Mountain.

Amsterdam Island is an island formed by an undersea volcanic eruption, and Mount Davis is actually a crater, but it has been dormant for millions of years. After hundreds of years of geological evolution, the southeast face of the annular crater collapsed, forming the current topography of high northwest and low southeast. After the eruption, the lava quickly cooled and was eroded by the seawater, creating a large number of karst caves.

It's winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's humid and cold in the caves, with temperatures around zero degrees Celsius.

For Chu Tianjiang and Halevy, who wore the Doomsday Warrior system, humidity and low temperature were not a problem, but for Jacqueline, it was a big problem.

When she was rescued, Jacqueline was wearing only a tight tank top.

Thomas didn't intend to keep his mouth alive, so he naturally didn't care if these scientists lived or died, so there was no reason for them to dress warmly.

After settling down, Halevi went out to collect wood for heating.

"Who the hell are you?"

Chu Tianjiang was fiddling with a captured assault rifle, not hearing Jacqueline's words, or hearing it and not caring about it.

Like the Doomsday Soldier's weapon, this assault rifle has an electronic lock and only has a unique user. Fortunately, if the electronic device fails, it can be unlocked with a mechanical device, and other functions are not affected except for the inability to use the supporting electronic fire control equipment.

"Hey, I'm talking to you, are you deaf?"

Chu Tianjiang began to disassemble the assault rifle, intending to find the mechanical unlocking device. When the U.S. commander shot Alfred, Chu Tianjiang realized that the enemy's weapons were more sophisticated, and they were even specifically used to deal with the Doomsday Warriors, otherwise it would be impossible to kill Alfred with that shot.

"Hey—"

"If you make a lot of noise, I'll throw you out of the city!" Chu Tianjiang finally heard it, or he couldn't bear it. "I'm already starting to regret saving you."

"Really? You don't have to do it, I'll go by myself. Jacqueline stood up and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

"Stop!"

Jacqueline was angry, but she had no intention of leaving.

"The enemy has learned that it was we who saved you, and if you fall into the hands of the enemy again, they will surely let you tell us where we are hiding."

Jacqueline was stunned, and her heart was very uncomfortable. She originally thought that Chu Tianjiang would meander to stay, but she didn't expect that all she got was a cold threat.

"It turns out that you and they are all the way." With her back to Chu Tianjiang, Jacqueline's heart was like a knife.

Chu Tianjiang was not a wooden person, and he immediately heard the change in her mood from Jacqueline's tone. "You're wrong, we're not on the same page as those miscellaneous people. Although we are almost identical to the Miscellaneous Creatures in appearance, we are Doomsday Warriors affiliated with the Planetary Defense Council, and our mission is to save humanity from the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations, and the Miscellaneous Creatures are only in the service of the United States. ”

"You're going to kill them?"

"Yes, there is not a single one left!"

Jacqueline turned around and said, "I will assist you." ”

"You're just a scientist, not a soldier. All you have to do is ......"

"I'm not a scientist."