Advance to the halfway point of the mountain. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info I can't see it, but I'm sure the enemy has confirmed our whereabouts, and it's too late to go back.

Captain, what's wrong?

According to his usual style, he should not have made such a low-level mistake.

Lincoln too, you're a veteran combat hero, why don't you understand that we're in a Jedi?

And Davis, isn't this guy a cadet? Do you usually attend classes? If you can't see such a simple mistake, can you graduate normally?

I slandered all three comrades-in-arms in my heart.

Davis tapped me on the shoulder and made a well-go-or-go gesture to me.

"It's going to be a good one! We're all surrounded, we're dead, do you understand?! ”

The wind was strong, and the sound of the hoplites running overshadowed my shouts.

Davis continued to follow the two of them as if nothing was going on.

I'm out of anger.

Whatever, I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman.

It's a big deal to become a martyr and meet your brothers in another world.

Approaching the mountainside, closer to the man-made sky.

We can say that we are in the clouds.

Surrounded by blood-red clouds, it was like soaking in a lake of blood. In the breathtaking beauty, uneasiness is slowly flowing.

The speed of the ascent up the hill is fast.

Due to the cover of the mountain, we were out of sight contact with our pursuers.

I was grabbed by Davis's arm with a reinforced bone. Running all the way, the armpit rubbing is painful. Abnormal posture causes the left leg brace to deform.

Every step he took felt like a cut in the side of my leg.

The pain made me put aside my other thoughts and wish they had stopped sooner.

Another passenger, our "big" captive was no better.

The veins on his forehead were bruised, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept rolling down.

The thought of a hateful enemy, and perhaps a general or something like that, was suffering the same way, balanced my mind a little. The pain in my legs seems to have been reduced a lot.

I found myself gloating over the pain of others, and I couldn't help but open my mouth wide in surprise.

When did I become like this?

The comrades-in-arms had no intention of stopping to rest.

Looking at this posture, do you want to climb all the way to the top of the mountain?

What's the point?

What should happen or will happen, and what is the difference between the halfway point and the summit?

In a moment's of suspicion, we are close to the top.

To be exact, this is not really a mountain, but a perimeter area of a huge underground space.

As the altitude increased, artificial clouds, the atmosphere, and even the blood-red sky sank beneath his feet.

As you approach the top, the light suddenly dims, and instead the clouds beneath you illuminate it, as if you are on the surface of a blood-colored lake.

The mythical Blood Lake is a wonder that only exists in hell, and under the Blood Lake is a netherworld with countless corpses.

Looking down, I had the illusion of being sucked into a lake of blood.

A voice whispered in my ear:

"You are already in hell, and death is the real liberation."

The urge to shoot myself immediately grabbed my heart and made me unable to extricate myself. So much so that I missed a series of strange actions from my comrades.

When I came to my senses, I was laid on the ground with my captive.

Two of the three experimental exoskeletons flew on Wasps.

Davis, dressed in his mangled exoskeleton, ran back down the path he had come from.

I was baffled by their actions.

What's to be done?

Did I say I was abandoned?

What is Davis going to do again?

What about the other two Wasps? And where are the enemy planes?

A head full of question marks. I saw the captain and Lincoln jump off the autopilot with a pile of supplies.

With the roar of the engines, the fighter flew away with two empty experimental exoskeletons.

My head is short-circuited.

For a moment it was impossible to comprehend everything that was being seen.

What are they doing here?

Just shoot yourself in the head if you kill yourself.

If you want to surrender, go down the mountain and disarm.

What is it to leave a person on the top of a mountain?

Just as I was puzzled, there was an explosion halfway up the mountain.

Something happened to Davis.

I quickly sat up straight and motioned to the two people running in the direction of the mountainside.

The two of them are much calmer than me. They waved their hands absently to tell me not to be nervous.

But can I not be nervous?

Comrades-in-arms who share life and death are in danger. The two unreliable guys sent the weapons away again. It's okay, and put on a calm face.

Which one did they get out?

The Wasp fighter with two exoskeletons plunged headlong into the "blood lake", and in a short time there was a sonic boom and a series of explosions and the roar of the engine.

With a clear, loud explosion, there was a lull under the "Blood Lake".

The Wasp is finished.

Two good comrades-in-arms, but they showed a relaxed look?

Are your brains broken?

……

The cave, which was temporarily carved out with a special engineering charge, was a little more crowded for five people.

But it's better than staying at the top of a mountain and freezing it.

With the first-aid medicine on the exoskeleton and the maintenance of the simple brace, my injuries were finally brought under control.

The fracture of the left leg is no longer tormenting.

Team Nguyen told me about their plans.

Because it was an impromptu discussion in the communication loop, they didn't have time to tell me, which made me worry in vain.

The key to action is to mislead.

Let the enemy misestimate our actions and draw wrong conclusions.

The first is to go up the hill and let the two Wasp fighters fight with the enemy planes at the same time, and the third one will penetrate the clouds and wait for us on the mountain. This must be observed by the enemy.

Then there is the self-detonation of an exoskeleton, and the third Wasp fighter reappears in front of the enemy with two other exoskeletons.

Naturally, they would have thought that we had given up one exoskeleton and that all the personnel had broken out in a Wasp class under the cover of the other two.

That's the key to the success of the program.

On the surface, we have a clever arrangement and a chance of success. The enemy will surely be convinced of their judgment.

In fact, such an escape plan was once part of the Nguyen team's vision, but it was eventually abandoned because it was too dangerous. Therefore, it is extremely deceptive to use a real retreat plan as a pretense.

In the end, all three Wasps were shot down, and the enemy would have mistakenly thought that we were all destroyed.

They may discover that there is no body in the wreckage of the fall, and thus debunk our secrets.

By that time, however, the detachment had already escaped.

Knowing that everything was under control and that I didn't have to be a prisoner, my hanging heart completely let go.

After the nutrient injection, I couldn't hold it anymore and fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but I was woken up by the sound of an argument.

“…… Thought I'd trust you? What nonsense, don't try to excuse your aggression. Damn aliens, you can only pay for your sins with death. ”

It was Davis who spoke, and he was completely enraged, and as he spoke, he kept emphasizing his position with his fists.

"Believe it or not...... By you, no...... That's just the way it is. ”

The "big shot" captive replied laboriously in his solar system lingua franca with a strange accent.

It is estimated that it is the relationship between medicine and nutritional injections, and his complexion is almost the same as that of a normal person.

"Lincoln, why are you stopping me, he is an aggressor, and he is talking nonsense here, as long as he doesn't kill him, no one will care"

Lincoln stopped Davis, who wanted to teach the captive a lesson, and with the grip of his wrist, the young cadet could not move forward a single bit.

"Ask the captain, and he told me to stop you."

I couldn't sleep during the noise, so I had to sit up.

The body recovered quickly, and the action of sitting up did not cause much discomfort. This gave me some confidence in a successful retreat.

Everyone sat in a circle and surrounded the prisoners for interrogation.

It was only now that I had a chance to pause and take a closer look at the captive.

He was a tall white man with short brown hair and a well-defined silhouette.

His expression was different from that of the angry Davis, calm and serious, and at first glance he was the type who was determined and convinced of what he did.

There was some embarrassment in the scene.

Of the three people interrogated, Davis was angry with trepidation, Lincoln was full of doubt, and Ruan was frowning and thinking.

Compared to them, the captives seemed to have the upper hand, and they didn't look surprised.

In the face of my question, Davis slapped his thigh, and he looked angry.

"You didn't hear it, this guy is so shameless. To make excuses for their aggression, the artificial intelligence of the Woolf system rebelled and established a mechanical civilization with the intention of exterminating all of humanity. They are in order to fight against mechanical civilization, to unify the human world, to gather all their strength to compete with the mastermind of the Woolf system, and so on. Please, if you want people to believe, find a reliable reason. Think we'll believe it with just a few words? ”

The captive's rhetoric is indeed like the plot of a crappy third-rate novel, but I can't immediately judge that the other party is lying, like a cadet.

Because Team Ruan's expression is really abnormal.

If he didn't believe the captive, why did he frown and ponder?

Even if you don't shout like Davis, you can make an attitude of indifference rather than a look of serious thinking.

Is there any noteworthy information mixed in with this absurd reason for aggression?

Looking at the captive's demeanor again, there is a face that does not cut nonsense.

There is no sign of any weakness of heart.

I didn't know who the captives were, but he gave me that feeling.

He didn't, and he won't lie.

I believe my feelings are correct.

"Captain, how much of his confession do you think is true?"

I was expecting Team Nguyen's relaxed expression to tell me that he was only interested in the intelligence revealed in some of the details of the confession.

"What would you do if I told you that most of what he said was true?"

"What! Most of it is true!? The three of us exclaimed at the same time.

Look back at the captives again. His expression clearly expressed that there are also people among you who understand.