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Earth, South America, latitude 22°54 south, longitude 43 ° 11 west.

A slender figure is running through the dense forest.

She wore a set of battle armor with a pink base and bright white armor, a pair of red windproof goggles on her face, a beautiful and heroic face full of confidence, a focused and vigilant expression, and her long, almost snow-white hair tied back into a single ponytail fluttering like a flag with her movements.

The rugged mountain environment and overgrown bushes did not hinder her movements in the slightest, and every leap and rise and fall was flawless, and the whole person was like a female leopard patrolling the territory, calm and elegant.

In the end, what stopped this "ranger" was a huge black shadow falling from the sky.

Bang!

Before the huge black shadow hit the ground, the woman in pink armor had already changed direction and added three hollow flips, completely avoiding the attack range of the thing, and let out an indefatigable exclamation.

"Oh, it's amazing~"

Standing in front of Connor was a heavy mech with a height of more than 5 meters, facing Connor, its left hand clenched into a fist and ready to attack, while its right hand stretched forward, revealing a swarthy hole in its palm.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was a little awkward, and whether Connor chose to flee or attack the mecha, this distance could not easily achieve the goal.

If it chooses to dodge, its right hand "palm cannon" will fire and suppress it, and if it chooses to rush, its left fist will swing in a single punch, and it is unlikely that the flesh and blood will be able to resist such a large steel fist even if it is wearing armor.

Although she is not actually flesh and blood.

In addition, the options given by the Recommendations for Action are:

[The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road!] (Model)】

[All roads lead to Rome!] (Rebellious)】

[There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain!] 】

Connor felt a little silly to fight with a remote-controlled mech, but it wasn't her style to turn around and run away, perhaps...... Can you get around?

She glanced at the third suggestion of action, and suddenly turned into a pink phantom, not fleeing, nor seeking a breakthrough from the empty-handed side, but rushing straight to the path of the palm cannon.

This unexpected situation made the staff controlling the mecha behind it stunned for a moment, which directly caused the mecha to move the muzzle a little slower, so that Conna passed under the muzzle.

Crunch-quack-quack-crunch

Boom Boom Boom ......

The next moment, several lightning flashes flashed all over the mecha that tried to turn around, and then there was a dull explosion sound inside, and then the entire mecha froze.

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Meanwhile, 13 kilometers to the south, Connor's location, in a hall with large screens, computers and monitoring equipment, and data analysis instruments, was buzzing.

“OHOHOHOHOH！”

"Who saw Connor's movements? What did she do? ”

"Oh, don't you choose to run away, but charge at the muzzle?"

"There's a similar technique in martial arts, not letting the enemy attack start when it's most powerful, but I forgot the name."

"Humanoid robots really don't have any combat advantages."

"Don't be so strict with construction machinery."

"Shut up and keep watching."

Connor had already left the battle site, but her one-shot shot of the heavy mech was repeated on several of the large screens, and in addition to those commenting, who looked like officers in military uniforms, many people in the hall who looked like civilians and technicians were busy analyzing and entering data.

On the largest screen in the lobby, arrows representing red and blue are intertwined on the military map, but anyone with a discerning eye can tell that red is at a serious disadvantage.

Obviously, Connor experienced not an ordinary battle, but an exercise, and as for this, it is natural that he knows the situation of both sides well, and has the command headquarters that will be scored after the exercise.

The exterior of the headquarters is a patchwork of buildings hidden in the deep forest, their layout, exterior, roads connecting the buildings, and roadside services are all full of technology, and almost all the pedestrians running back and forth in it are wearing battle armor similar to Connor's, but the color scheme is not quite the same.

This is the "N7 Training Base" of Starlink, its main building complex covers an area of nearly 40 hectares, with a variety of equipment and places for training soldiers, and the nearly 200 hectares around it are all military restricted areas, and even ordinary paths do not exist, and the personnel in the base can only enter and exit by plane and transport supplies.

N7's N,Refers to the field special forces,The entire Star Alliance's troops are divided into 13 military branches codenamed by letters,Relative to other services,N is the most familiar military branch is S,Defense Special Forces,Although the functions of the two are similar,But due to the opposite scope of responsibility,Not only is there no contradiction,The relationship is also quite close,A current example is,This N7 internal assessment actually has S bosses come to observe。

7 refers to the "rank" of the soldier, and if it is simply classified, the criteria for selecting N1 are soldiers with basic professionalism and relatively elite in ordinary troops, while the standard for N2 is to subdue three N1 in a pair of three under the same external conditions.

After that, the higher up the ladder, the more stringent the promotion conditions became, and the weight of "simply able to fight" became less and less, and due to the trend of ability awakening in recent years, whether there was an ability and whether the ability would be helpful in combat was also considered.

However, in order to avoid confusion, from N1 to N6, special forces who have been transferred before graduation are not allowed to wear the logo of their corresponding level, and only those who have successfully passed the N7 promotion assessment can spray N7 on their armor, which directly leads to the ordinary people in the tube who peep at the leopard think that they are a special force called "N7", which is actually true.

To describe the difficulty of N7 promotion with more intuitive numbers - there are only 8030 N7s in the entire Star Alliance, including 7789 combatants, such a low pass rate, not only did not let the Star Alliance relax the standards, but made those old Star League generals begin to take pleasure in increasing the difficulty in the assessment of N6 graduates, however, if they can complete those "additional questions" that are deliberately difficult, even if he or she fails the original assessment, he may be exceptionally promoted.

At this time, Connor is in the middle of her N7 promotion assessment, which is about "helping Red turn the tables when he is at a big disadvantage." ”

Normally, this kind of assessment is not too difficult when the troops on both sides are all "acting out a certain situation", but I don't know which of the frenzied generals made an additional request: Connor must not mobilize the red team's troops, and must complete the entire battle on his own with the red side operating on its own.

As far as common sense goes, it's an "impossible mission".