Chapter 325: Vanguard
Although the daytime temperature in Siberia is still hovering around zero degrees Celsius under the influence of nuclear winter, this temperature will not affect normal operations at least.
"How? Are you going to stay here any longer? Qi Lin glanced at Jiang Yi, who had just escaped death together, and asked.
"Why not? I made 50,000 points just now, and I didn't necessarily get 50,000 points a month when I was doing that kind of work to clean up mutant creatures. Jiang Yi said happily.
Not only him, but the other mercenaries who escaped together seemed to be in a good mood now, gathering together in twos and threes, buying several beers with the money they had just received, and drinking happily.
Qi Lin was speechless for a while, he used to be a mercenary - still the cheapest kind, after all, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old kid, holding a tattered AK, can earn fifty dollars a day is already a very good pay.
And Jiang Yi's appearance made Qi Lin recall the past time.
This outpost camp is located on the front line of the Gray Ridge Mountain Theater, and the beer sent to the front line as military supplies is almost sky-high, and even if the mercenaries participating in the war can enjoy discounts, the price of a can is close to more than a hundred resource points.
Now, the surviving mercenaries were sitting in a few ammunition boxes in the corner, throwing their depleted beer cans on the ground, munching on the greasy luncheon meat dug out of the cans, and drinking wine and boasting about the battle with the mercenaries in the camp.
For these people, living a day is a day, and when they get the money, they naturally have to spend it immediately and enjoy it...... Otherwise, who knows if the next battle is over and whether he will be able to walk off the battlefield alive.
"Where's your bounty? How do you spend it? Qi Lin turned his head and asked Jiang Yidao.
Compared to those mercenaries, Jiang Yi seemed to be a little more restrained, and only bought two cans of beer, one of which was lost to Qi Lin.
"I bought a life, and then I bought an F-grade serum on the online exchange, and stored it in the alliance, and then there was not much money left." Jiang Yi said.
"Bought a life", this is a unique saying among players, which means that he bought a resurrection opportunity from the mastermind, and Jiang Yi also bought an additional serum, so that if he unfortunately dies in the next battle, he will not be completely washed after hanging up, at least this serum can give him a chance to start again.
"The vanguard of the alliance has arrived, and it is estimated that a real attack on the Gray Ridge Mountains will be launched tomorrow." Jiang Yi took a sip of beer and pointed to the open space in the center of the camp, where the alliance soldiers were trying on power armor, and the armbands of these soldiers' uniforms had this special mark, indicating that they belonged to that kind of very elite troops.
"Is this the league's striker...... Damn, so even this thing was taken out? Qi Lin glanced at the soldiers who exuded a murderous aura, but when he swept a soldier out of a box marked with radiation and a peculiarly shaped bazooka, he couldn't calm down.
"What's that?" Jiang Yi is not a soldier in reality, nor has he ever been a mercenary, so he obviously doesn't know what that bazooka is.
"I don't know the exact model, we all call that thing the 'Fat Man' launcher, this thing is no different from a bazooka, except that it contains a small tactical nuclear warhead......"
"Nuke?!" Jiang Yi was obviously also shocked, "How far is the range of this thing?" Damn, I don't want to be swept up in a nuclear explosion......"
"I don't know, it's only a kilometer or two to die, I've just heard that in the later stages of the war, the Mi army used it when dealing with enemy bases on some islands, but I didn't expect the consortium alliance to also have this kind of weapon."
"What about the explosion range?"
"Anyway, as far as I'm aware of, this thing wiped out everything on a small island two kilometers in diameter." Qi Lin shrugged his shoulders, although it is a miniaturized tactical nuclear warhead, it is also a nuclear bomb......
"Two kilometers in diameter? Doesn't that mean that the person who fired the weapon was also within the range of the explosion? Jiang Yi glanced at the soldier carrying the "fat man launcher" with a strange look and asked.
"Pretty much, but that time I remember shooting from a helicopter. Anyway, when we see anyone with this thing, we try to stay away from them...... However, I guess that the alliance should not use this weapon unless it is absolutely necessary, after all, our goal is to occupy the machinery factory of Yamato Heavy Industries, and if the machine factory is blown up directly with the fat man, the alliance will not get any benefit except for a piece of polluted ruins, and a fool will do this business. ”
The soldier checked the "fat man launcher", then carefully put it back in the box, then locked the box and put it on an SUV, which several soldiers immediately jumped on, started the engine, and drove out of the camp.
"Where are they going?"
"I don't know." Qi Lin shook his head, in fact, he didn't know the bottom of his heart, it stands to reason that this kind of powerful weapon should not appear in the vanguard troops, unless it is a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, otherwise Yamato Heavy Industries will not let the vanguard of the alliance approach to the range of one kilometer of the machinery factory, and the "fat" nuclear bomb will not hit the machinery factory at all......
Unless...... They are planning to use this "fat man" to open the way!
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Qi Lin guessed correctly, more than an hour after the off-road vehicle drove out of the camp, a huge explosion came from the direction of the Gray Ridge Mountain Range, which attracted the attention of everyone in the camp for a while.
Qi Lin and Jiang Yi quickly ran to the top of the camp wall, looked at the place where the explosion came from, and saw a small mushroom cloud rising from the Gray Ridge Mountain Range.
", 9527, look at the brain, this group of people is crazy!" Jiang Yi lowered his head and suddenly exclaimed.
Qi Lin also hurriedly looked at his brain, only to see that the mission information about the "Battle of the Gray Ridge Mountain Range" had been updated by the mission publisher three seconds ago-
"We've blasted a gap in the Greyridge Mountains with a nuclear bomb, and in three hours, the vanguard will be attacking! Players involved in this operation are requested to prepare anti-radiation potions - at that time, all camps and supply points affiliated with the alliance will also sell a certain amount of anti-radiation potions at a discounted price, so you are welcome to buy them. ”
Compared with conventional nuclear weapons, the radiation left behind after the explosion of the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb is much weaker, and the dissipation time is also very short.
Merely...... The guy in charge of the command this time is really a madman, right? In order to open up a passage for the mobile troops, they actually used a small nuclear bomb to blow up a gap in the mountain?!