“…… Is it my kill to be robbed by artillery? ”

Qi Lin muttered, he didn't expect a response, but at first the voice still sounded in his ears: "Of course, two-thirds of the progress is currently made, and you are very close to the truth you want to know." ”

"That's good, but I'll leave it here first, and if there are any other moths later, I won't accompany them."

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……

The situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, and the British realized that something was wrong after discovering that two Mark I models had been destroyed by a mysterious German sniper, and the last Mark I model began to slowly withdraw from the battlefield under the cover of infantry and machine guns.

There was no way, Qi Lin could only keep climbing over the trenches, scavenging a small number of smoke bombs from the corpses of dead soldiers, and then using smoke bombs to cover his tracks.

The battlefield was full of gunpowder smoke from explosions, and the smoke bombs thrown by Qi Lin did not attract anyone's attention at all, and at most one or two British soldiers would tentatively fire a few shots into the smoke, but they could not hurt Qi Lin who was moving close to the ground.

Soon, Qi Lin reached the forefront of the position, and after using a trench thorn to kill a British soldier lying on his back in the trench with his calf blown off, Qi Lin poked the G98 rifle out of a firing port for a heavy machine gun.

The muzzle of this machine gun is often about half a meter higher than the edge of the trench, with wood and steel plates as the frame, the outside is tamped with earth, and finally sandbags are placed on the rampart, and the bullet does not hurt the machine gunner behind the heavy cover unless it happens to get through the firing port.

Of course, if a shell or grenade falls into a trench, that's a different story.

Qi Lin soon found the last Mark I in his field of vision, the strangely shaped tank had turned its head with difficulty and was heading towards the British position.

In the historical record, the British army broke through several German positions on the first day of tanks, and the tanks that ignored bullets, trenches and barbed wire caught the Germans by surprise. This time, however, these secret weapons can obviously be regarded as a disadvantage.

If Qi Lin really crossed into the Battle of the Somme in World War I, I am afraid that the new weapon of the tank will face a completely different fate - one is a chicken rib project that is regarded by the military top brass as a waste of military spending, and it is directly cut down, while the other is to directly give birth to a new tank with thicker armor, higher mobility and stronger firepower.

But there are no ifs in all of this, Qi Lin is just completing a test step by step, a test that really makes him a little unhappy.

Of the five rounds, four hit the armor plate of the last tank, two penetrated, two ricocheted, and the last one unbiasedly penetrated through the muzzle of the machine gun in the turret on the side of the tank.

The tank was still advancing, but its movements suddenly became extremely uncoordinated, and the machine gun on one side was also muted.

Qi Lin didn't care about the possibility of attracting artillery fire if he stayed for a long time at the moment, so he quickly loaded the bullets and then shot out the bullets quickly.

His position was more than 200 meters away from the Mark I, and at this distance, the luck factor of whether the K-type could penetrate the armor of the Mark I or not was already a big factor.

However, Qi Lin's luck was not bad, when he fired the 14th K-shaped shell, the tank finally stopped, and at that moment, everything around it was still - the smoke seemed to be frozen, the whistling bullets were frozen in mid-air, and the ripples formed by the air being torn apart could be seen at the tail of the bullet.

"The test was over, the goal was achieved, and it took 1 hour, 17 minutes and 34 seconds."

The sight of the battlefield around Qi Lin disappeared again, and he found himself back in the training room he had been in from the beginning.

"You are really good, and although the pass rate of this test is 87 percent within the organization, the average time for test takers to complete it is 8 hours and 35 minutes, and your score can already be ranked second." The voice said.

"Second place? What is the score of that first place? ”

"17 minutes. But don't be surprised, this score was the ninth time he took this test, and his first time was much longer than yours, using up 2 hours and 50 minutes, and his special abilities fit the test perfectly. ”

"What ability?"

"Magnetic control...... Well, it's similar to that Magneto, but it's not so exaggerated - in this test, as long as you don't trigger some special circumstances, the process of the test will not change, he remembers the location where the shell fell, lies directly in the safe trench and pretends to be dead, and then waits until the tank gets close to directly detonate the tank's power components with magnetic energy. ”

"Reading the file and opening the hanging, seventeen minutes is reasonable......" Qi Lin nodded, if he was asked to take another test, he was completely sure that the time would be shortened to less than half an hour.

"Okay, if there's anything you want to know now, ask, but you can only ask three questions."

"What? Three questions? It's not the same as saying yes, right? Why are you still haggling? When Qi Lin heard this, he was instantly unhappy.

"Three questions are already the limit of my permission, if you want to know more, you can choose to join us...... If you don't want to, you'd better think about the three questions you want to ask, there's not much time, you have ten minutes to think about. ”

Qi Lin exhaled hard, the other party was right, now that the initiative was in their hands, there were not many options left for him.

"Well, first question, what kind of organization is this? Who are you? ”

"These are two questions, not one, but I can indulge your cunning because the answers to these two questions are brief." The voice paused, then continued, "The organization has no name, only a code name, in China, its code name is 'Si Yi', and in the West, it is called 'Prometheus'. The members of the organization are all the human elite of the old era, and we have come together to work together for the same goal. ”

Si Yi? Prometheus?

Qi Lin was stunned, these two characters, one is from ancient Chinese mythology, that is, the well-known Hou Yi, and the other is from Greek mythology.

In order to save the people who were suffering under the scorching sun of the ten suns, the former shot down nine three-legged golden crows symbolizing the sun with his bow and arrows; The latter, on the contrary, Prometheus took the flame from the solar chariot for the development of human civilization and brought it to the humans on earth, for which he angered Zeus and was severely punished.

One is the "Sun Shooter" and the other is the "Fire Thief", although the cultural background is different, although the content of the story is also different, but both of them imply a spirit, that is, resistance, the struggle against those who control the world.

Does the fact that the organization uses these two mythical figures as pronouns also mean that they have been fighting?

Fight against whom? Mastermind?

"That'...... What is your purpose? Qi Lin raised a second question.

"Turn off the mastermind." This time, the other party's answer was more concise and neat.

"Why turn off the mastermind? Is the Mastermind going to destroy humanity? If the Mastermind really wanted to do this, we would be dead a long time ago, right? ”

"The Mastermind has never intended to destroy humanity, on the contrary, its ultimate goal is to continue the human species as much as possible."

"So why are you guys shutting down the mastermind?!"

"Have you ever seen a movie? The name of the movie is "The Matrix", and the English name is "The Matrix". ”

"Of course I did...... What do you mean ......? ”

"In the movie, robots have taken control of the entire earth, they make human beings into biological batteries, and they hold them in vessels filled with nutrient solution, while human consciousness lives in a matrix made of numbers, where people think that this is the real world, that war has never happened, and that human beings are still the masters of the earth."

"Of course I know the plot of the movie, and you realize that the mastermind is going to do that too?"

"I ask you, what would be the first thing a human would do if the door to the Vault was opened and humans returned to the surface?"

"Yes......" Qi Lin thought for a long time, then gritted his teeth and spit out two words.

"War."

Indeed, not the rebuilding of homes, but the war.

The Fourth World War will be renewed for land, resources, and power...... This is human nature.

"That's right, it's war, and the mastermind has calculated that after humans return to the ground, the chance of a fourth world war breaking out within three years is more than 99 percent, and human beings are very likely to be extinct in this war."

"So the mastermind wants to stop this war?"

"Yes, that's why there's that virtual 'wasteland', and this time, it's just an experiment...... Don't you think that this virtual world is very similar to the 'Mechux' in the movie? We want to use this virtual world to train warriors, and the mastermind needs to use us to perfect this huge program. ”

"But...... It is impossible for human beings to live in the virtual world all their lives, even if they are evolutionaries, playing games for a long time will lead to the failure of various organs in the body, and life cannot be maintained by nutrient solution alone...... Moreover, the lack of materials is also a big problem! ”

If the supplies are sufficient, humans will naturally not need to rush back to the ground, and if the mastermind will lock everyone up in that virtual world, this material problem will definitely have to be the first to be solved.

A single supercomputer can't feed the world's people.

Naturally, the mastermind will not ignore this question...... Have you forgotten the 'sarcoma' you saw in the underground mall when you came? ”

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