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The inside of the research center was pitch black, there was no light source, not even an emergency power supply, not even the indicator light of the escape passage was not lit, and all people who entered here, whether they were mercenaries or GDI soldiers, could only use their own lighting sources.

But all this is not a big problem in front of these people who have been prepared, in addition to lighting equipment such as tactical flashlights, GDI has also prepared a lot of disposable fluorescent balls, which can be opened and thrown on the ground, which can illuminate the surrounding radius of three meters - this is also technical equipment from another world - as long as they pass by, a large number of fluorescent balls are almost equivalent to restoring normal brightness.

It's a pity that the mercenaries who opened the way don't have such good things, they can only find a safe route, and the GDI soldiers who follow them will put those amazing fluorescent balls on the route they have walked to illuminate, and the mercenaries can't enjoy the additional effects brought by those good things.

Following the safe route that the mercenaries had probed, three Wolf Warrior power armors also entered the research center. When it was discovered that the internal passage of the research center was quite spacious, these mechanized weapons with more firepower and sustained combat time than the regional armored troops were put into the search and combat mission of the research center, until they could no longer walk, these power armor would be the best fire support force for the infantry units entering the research center.

The factory's research center, like other similar secret research institutes, is also an underground multi-storey building, and most of the ground parts are also used to confuse people's eyes, so on this level, the exploration team didn't find any useful findings - they didn't even find a single corpse, let alone the large number of infected people like Taijing outside.

Because the whole process was safe, they easily found the entrance to the next floor of the research center after ten minutes, a ramp entrance that was enough for the Wolf Warrior Power Armor to enter - the research center actually has a large cargo elevator, which can also transport mechanized equipment like the Wolf Warrior to the next floor, but in the current situation without any power supply, they don't have to count on the vehicles that the research center was originally equipped with.

The same is to let those captured mercenaries take the lead, but at this time those mercenaries have been rearmed, and the original small-caliber pistols and submachine guns have been replaced with more powerful large-caliber assault rifles - the version used by GDI itself, and the body armor and combat clothing on the body have been replaced with a powered exoskeleton with an armor protection module - this is not the GDI version for its own use, but more like the cheap mass-produced version that is currently being popularized in various countries - at least it can protect themselves better than the body armor that the mercenaries just used...... Although the equipment used by the main mercenaries outside is better......

I don't understand why GDI's attitude suddenly changed, but even if they changed their weapons and equipment, these mercenaries didn't dare to immediately turn their guns on those GDI soldiers. Not to mention that the dense muzzles of the original models of Cerberus power armor are still aimed at them, even if they are replaced, they still can't penetrate the power armor of the GDI soldiers around them, even if they are replaced, they have already made these mercenaries dispel the idea of dying together-even if you want to die together, then you have to have the capital to die together, not to mention that these mercenaries can't easily make any choices to die together, they take money to sell their lives, but they don't need to take their lives for everything.

However, even if they don't understand why GDI suddenly changed their attitude towards them as pathfinder mice, these experienced mercenaries still know one thing, that is, GDI knows how dangerous the road will be in the future, if they don't want these pathfinder mice to be wiped out in the first place and lose their pathfinder effect, then it is naturally one of the options to increase their survival chances.

While these mercenaries were changing their clothes, the GDI soldiers who followed them were not idle, several soldiers turned on the lighting equipment on the power armor, carefully checked the surrounding environment, including walls, floors, ceilings, and even air vents, and from time to time took out some bottles and cans to load some unknown objects taken from those facilities.

"Captain, there are large lead plates embedded in the walls, floors, and ceilings here, no wonder the previous external scans were useless, and only a silhouette was scanned." Pulling his hand out of the hole in the wall, a regional armored officer said to the lead officer, "The outside of the wall is also coated with high-performance sound-absorbing materials, and ultrasonic detection will also be greatly affected." The institute did a good job of keeping secrets, and if it weren't for the test subjects running out, we wouldn't have known what was going on here. However, if we couldn't use the help of probe scanning equipment, it would take us a lot of time to explore the entire facility. ”

The officer glanced at the mercenaries who were about to finish their costume changes, and replied, "The above has already negotiated with Future Technology Company, and these mercenaries, as well as the equipment they brought, will all be requisitioned by us." Later, the troops outside will bring those mercenaries over, and then use the Gordon-style combat robots they brought with them to explore the mission. Although there is no power supply here, the interference is very serious, and the micro drones we brought with us will not work here at all, so we can only borrow something from others. ”

"So, at what cost?" The subordinate asked, "When will the technology companies of the future become so easy to talk to?" Although we have cooperated with them a lot, it is impossible to lend us all their mercenary units without complaining like this, right? ”

"A whole space fleet." The captain said.

"What?" Several of his subordinates did not react for a moment.

"One of our space fleets flew over North America, especially over several important factories of Future Technology, in the name of protection." The Captain continued, "Of course, if they refuse our request, not to mention what will happen to the projects we are still working with them, the fleet will probably start with a round of orbital bombardment to destroy the factories of Future Technology - of course we will bomb them under the guise that they are already controlled by the Holy Brotherhood, and we will have the evidence we need." ”

"In other words, you can't use those mercenaries as consumables like before?"

"You can't do that until the last step. Because the future technology companies have put forward a quid pro quo, even if our fleet guns have been pointed at their factories, they still put forward some quid pro quo, that is, they do not want all these mercenaries they hired to be wiped out, because that will cause their company's credibility to be reduced, and it will be difficult to recruit good people to work for them. Of course, this condition was also agreed to above. So before those Gordon robots are consumed, let those mercenaries live well. ”

I don't know what the GDI people are talking about, and they can't hear the voices of the armored soldiers in the area where they are all close to the radio communication after the mask is closed, and the mercenaries who have changed their equipment have begun to explore the situation on the basement floor of the research center - anyway, there are still a lot of mercenaries on the ground, and the death of them will not affect the agreement between the future technology company and the GDI, and the GDI will not really care about the life and death of these mercenaries, and naturally will not tell them the truth.

Those who can be selected to use optical camouflage equipment to carry out infiltration missions are naturally the best in the mercenary team, although the equipment they use now is very average (compared to the equipment they used before, which is provided by Future Technology for free), but at least it will not affect their normal strength.

Besides, so far, they have not encountered any opportunity to shoot in the research center, and they have not even encountered a target that needs to pull the trigger, and they have only completed the exploration work on the ground floor in the vigilance-hurry-vigilance-hurry.

This somewhat relaxed their spirits, although it did not affect their work, but after all, they were not as nervous as they were at the beginning.

It was just when they had just finished exploring the entrance and exit passages and were waiting for the GDI soldiers behind them to deploy the fluorescent balls and automatic defense platforms, that the entire building suddenly shook, which made everyone, including the GDI soldiers, stop all their work and look around.

"What's going on? That was an explosion just now, right? Who attacked the research center? Want to bury us all underground? The first to react was Captain GDI, who led the team, and he immediately contacted his colleagues outside - although there was strong interference in the research center, which affected long-range communications such as radio communications, the GDI troops had communication relay equipment laid along the way, so that their communications could be transmitted to the ground through those equipment in sections.

"There's a lot of ...... Appears in ...... Facade ...... Attack aircraft against it...... Bombing...... There was a bomb ...... The exterior wall ......" Although the noise was heavy, the captain still heard the reply from outside, "Ba...... Lieutenant Colonel...... Additional Support Division...... Nursing Research ...... Heart...... Thunder...... Captain's ...... Standby ......"

"It's bad luck." The Captain shook his head, although he could roughly understand what was going on outside from the intermittent communication, but the presence of such a situation that would make their Iron Eagle communication so bad still made him feel a little uneasy, unlike those clone recruits, a veteran like the Captain who had recovered the human emotional response was able to experience a variety of emotions.

"Captain, what now?" Several subordinates gathered around, pointed to the mercenaries and asked, they also heard the content of the reply just now, and also knew the general content, "Do you want to continue or wait a while?" ”

"Go ahead." Looking at the time, the captain replied, "It's not worth wasting too much time here, and when we find the information we need, it will blow up here, and we can't let the fleet stay above us all the time, right?" If it is attacked by the fleet of the Sijing people at this time, the losses will be greater than ours. ”