On the other side of the planet, on this side of the hemisphere, above the Grand Canyon, two Marines, 035 and 036, were bored and squatting next to a hidden boulder pile, armed and on guard.

They stayed here because they had been ordered by Captain 031 on this reconnaissance mission to guard the rigging here, and to ensure the safety of the two riggings within three hours, before they returned.

Otherwise, when the four or five people who had already gone down returned, they would not have been able to get up without the help of this rigging!

And the transport plane can't get too close to this canyon due to the strong magnetic field.

Therefore, if there is any problem with these two sets of rigging, then they will probably be stuck at the bottom.

And this Grand Canyon, the crack below, is really a little narrow, a little too deep, and crooked, there is really no way to use the flight jet device to force the flight to fly up, whether it is down or up, you can only use the downhill rigging to help climb.

Except for 035 and 036, who were guarding the rappelling device on the canyon, the other eighteen people, after checking their respective weapons and equipment, all descended into the deep canyon crack at the bottom one by one.

"Captain? We've traveled hundreds of meters deep, but how long will it take? ”

Now, the eighteen marines were walking diagonally downward, twisting and twisting gravel crevasse path, and they had walked for nearly half an hour, barely reaching a distance of about a thousand meters.

Then, after going deeper and deeper, a player who was in the second place in front and had 039 on his chest finally couldn't help but ask the captain who was walking in the front.

Now he is going deeper and deeper, and the more he goes, the more panicked his heart becomes, and when he thinks about those unmanned detectors that have disappeared inexplicably, he feels a burst of hair in his heart.

He thought, Commander Doug at the base, that she had to send them to find out what was inside the canyon rift.

Now that you know that there are bugs inside, why not let the drone bring some self-detonating bombs or wait until the production of fusion bombs is down?

He knows that outside the command center of the ground base, a nuclear bomb silo has been transformed by SCV, and the tactical-level fusion ICBM must have been included in the production list, right?

"Don't make a sound! Be patient, we still have half the way to go, as long as we reach the place where the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft can't reach, after some investigation, if there are no special findings, we can go back the same way immediately! ”

In fact, Captain 031 was also a little trembling in his heart, but since he ruthlessly took over this field reconnaissance mission, he would have to go!

This time, they came here, and in addition to the nominal investigation, they actually had another more important secret mission, but no one else knew about it.

And if he finds out that there is a large swarm down there, he will most likely carry out another set of action plans!

Therefore, while cheering up the players, he continued to take the lead and walked in the front.

"Everyone's pay attention, follow closely, in front, it's the electromagnetic chaos zone! When the time comes, communication may not be very effective, so if you can not speak, try to be quiet! None of us knows what will be there......"

As he whispered, Captain 031 took the lead and continued to walk diagonally down the chasm.

Now the depth is almost reaching the predetermined chaos zone.

The Marines in their group had seen that there seemed to be something unusual about their electronic devices.

The holographic images in everyone's helmets began to beat inexplicably......

Therefore, after giving a final explanation and letting the people behind him follow up, he took the lead and continued to walk.

“……”

After a while, everyone's equipment, including the captain, except for the power armor and lighting equipment, which are coarse and fleshy, and there are no sophisticated electronic equipment, are not affected by the strange magnetic field, and other high-end equipment, including radar, camera equipment, night vision equipment, communications, etc., are all seriously interfered with.

It is clear that now, they have entered the final area of the objectives of their mission.

Because, they had already seen that the downhill road ahead had slowly become open, and, in one corner, they had also found the wreckage of an unmanned reconnaissance equipment that was clearly a human product of the Hope.

Seem...... Is it torn apart by violence?

"Everyone, check your weapons one last time, we're about to enter the mission target area!"

Without the help of communication equipment, Captain 031 said in a sullen voice directly in the mask while gesticulating.

Although this planet has an atmosphere and sound can also travel through the air, due to the fully enclosed mask, his words are a bit dull, and the players behind him can't hear what their captain is saying at all, so they can only guess based on the actions of the people in front of them and the captain's tactical gestures that are not standard.

"That's it! Everyone, keep going, be quiet, and don't speak loudly! ”

After seeing that everyone had completed the final action of checking the equipment according to his orders, 031 nodded, and after a dull final word, he took the lead and walked forward.

Then, one by one, the other Marines followed each other, using two pairs of white searchlights next to their armor chests and helmets, carefully looking at the ground while following their teammates in front of them......

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Unlike the other citizens in the Hope game platform for various confrontations or equipment training, in this special copy of Stratholme that Little Anne asked Zhi Brain to make based on her memories and requirements, the members of the two squads, Galen and Darius, are in the open space outside the Stratholme bridgehead, you are going back and forth to exercise their skills in using cold weapons.

They were split into groups of two, each shouting the comical slogan of "Demacia" or "Noxus", and then flashed with golden light energy or blood-red rage, catching and slashing at each other.

Sometimes, if someone is not careful, half of their body is cut off by a big sword......

Or maybe someone stumbles and is slightly sluggish and has their head cut off by a blood-red axe......

All kinds of blood and internal organs flowed all over the place outside the bridge, and then, it was quickly refreshed.

But in fact, they are not so much training, but rather that they are relying on the holographic simulation game that there will not be a real dead person, and they are holding murder weapons, slashing each other in an orderly manner?

In the last second, the opponent who was cut in half by an axe refreshed in the next second, and then joined the battle, which is so lively!

For veterans like them, who have been trained many times, in the game, except for the moment of being chopped and a little bit of low-intensity simulated pain, there will not be too much discomfort, and it is no different from the feeling of being blown up by a cannonball in normal training.

They have long been accustomed to this.

"Hey! Darius, let's stop fighting just yet, right? I think we're almost proficient in the essentials of weapons now! Why don't we try this Stratholme? ”

After they fought each other for nearly half an hour, they became more and more adaptable to this big sword and axe weapon, and when they shouted slogans, they became more and more smooth!

Correspondingly, the response feedback of the special energy on the weapon has become more and more condensed.

So, Galen thinks, how boring is it for them to continue to fight each other like this?

Why don't you go into the city early and try to practice with those undead?

Anyway, Galen felt that they had basically mastered the strange energy fed back from these cold weapons and weapons now, and he also felt that now, he could beat ten of himself in the past, and he would never be easily overwhelmed and torn apart by those undead like before!

Therefore, under the extreme expansion of his self-confidence, he decided: while everyone is on the rise now, he simply cleared this so-called Stantholm copy in one go?

Those ghouls and abominations aren't that hard to deal with, right?

Besides, they are not the same as they were just now, they are now, basically, they have mastered these powers beyond mortals!

"Let's go into town now...... Are you sure? ”

When Darius heard Galen shout to stop, he took two steps back, carrying his huge two-handed battle axe, and for a moment he was a little undecided.

He always felt that Galen was a little too impatient to do this?

After all, they've only been training for half an hour, so it doesn't seem like a good thing to run into the city like this, right? Who knows how many of those evil spirits are inside?

"What are you afraid of? We are now unbeatable! ”

Galen waved the big sword in his hand arrogantly, so that the golden light on the weapon slightly enveloped his small half of his body, it really looked like that?

Anyway, it's just a game, and it won't die, so there's no harm in trying!

"Yes, Captain! It's not a problem for us to practice like this all the time! Let's go into town and try it, right? ”

"Agreed!"

Some of the team members who heard it around also stopped and spoke in favor of Galen's resolution.

"Yes, I'm for it too! Captain, don't you know: those bastards who just practiced with my mother are all nasty blanks! I want to take advantage of my wife all day long! When they go under the knife, they also pick three ways to cut! ”

A female soldier jumped out at the right time and loudly denounced to Darius the perverts who were playing against her.

Just now, she was split in half by those bastards of theirs in an extremely nasty way!

"Big sister! You misunderstood me! ”

"That's it! Every time you pick up the axe, it opens and closes, and the gap and flaw below are so big, of course we have to pick the bottom and cut it first......"

"That's right!"

"Captain, don't you know: she lifts the axe so high every time, if we don't hurry up and cut her down three ways, then she will definitely have her head crushed on the spot!"

"That's right! Seeing that she is about to slash down from above, why don't I hurry up and stab her? In that case, who cares so much? ”

"That's it! I've just been slashed in the neck twice by her! ”

Seeing that someone sued him and others, the team members who had been sparring with this female soldier were a little unhappy, and they jumped out and retorted.

In this short half-hour training, the female team member was split in half by no less than double digits!

Her opponents have changed several batches, and few of them can stand her invincible and violent play, which is not practicing at all, but desperate!

Every time, she never cares how the other party defends or attacks, she always raises the axe high, and then directly cuts it down with the posture of splitting Huashan, just that momentum can intimidate many people.

Therefore, before, after suffering a loss on the axe of this female player and coming back with revenge, they quickly switched opponents as soon as possible!

"I also agree, go into the city and clear the land of Stratholme!"

"Let's go! Into the city, into the city! Let's go out of the wasteland! ”

"That's right! Destroy the undead in the city and kill them all! ”

"That's right! Town! ”

"Long live Demacia!!"

"Noxus, unbeatable!!"

A group of Marines who boasted that they were already invincible in the world stopped what they were doing and began to make a loud noise.

They are also a little tired of this kind of boring slash training now, this kind of sparring training, except for killing each other, or being killed by the other party, is not interesting at all, it is too boring!

Moreover, they were "eaten" by those undead just now, and this revenge must be avenged!

"Alright, let's go into the city!"

Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Darius didn't want to be too obstructive, and after thinking about it, he finally nodded in agreement.

Left and right is just a training game, if you can't beat it, just go back and continue to practice later, anyway, it's not a big deal.

"Okay! Where is the dawn of the brain? Hurry up and dress us in armored power combat suits, we're going to go into the city to clear the wasteland! ”

With everyone's consent, Galen began to call out the Hope's brain.

Since it is an official wasteland, then they must put on equipment, and they must start attacking this city in a state of actual combat!

Of course, it's just a combat suit, and as for electromagnetic rifles, it's not needed for the time being.

"The order has been received!"

Suddenly, the electronic synthetic female voice of the dawn sounded.

Then, in an instant, all the Marines put on their CMC-300/400 armored power combat suits and turned into twenty interstellar heavy paladins (apprentices?) armed with greatswords or great axes. And warriors (apprentices?) ）。

"Haha! Guys are ready, right? Now, listen to me: attack! ”

When the gate of Stratholme in front of him slowly opened, Galen raised his sword and shouted at the gate.

He decided: they were going to rush in one go, kill all the movable monsters they saw, and completely clear this seemingly small city dungeon before dinner time was over!

Then, a group of people made a loud noise, brandishing their swords or axes, and they all followed Galen and rushed towards the gates of Stratholme......

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In a supply station at the ground base, little Anne was sitting at a square table in the communal dining room, munching on her dinner.

Although these fast-growing fast-growing plants, or the meat animals bred on the Hope, don't taste very good, some are even synthetic protein meat?

However, under the skills of the chefs, under the cover of those seasonings, when she eats it, the taste is not bad, no matter how much better than the dark dishes she ate in the Caribbean in the last world, when she was in the Caribbean!

Therefore, Anne reluctantly came here from time to time to eat a little, and it was provided for free anyway, and she didn't want her money!

"Annie? Why are you eating here alone? Galen, and the Darius guys? ”

At this time, Doug, the commander of the base, also came here to eat.

When Doug found that on weekdays, almost all of the people who could be seen frolicking and eating and drinking were gone, but they were all gone, so she walked to Annie's table with a plate full of food, and sat down generously opposite little Annie, who was eating and had not yet eaten.

"Stepping on the boring plant...... Face training ......."

Little Anne, who was crowning a large chicken leg of a fast-growing broiler, said inarticulately.

After two bites, little Anne looked at this chicken leg with a little disgust, this thing, the taste is always like that, it has always been the same!

This kind of meat products that were manipulated and cultivated in large quantities by the dawn of the brain before the people of the Hope woke up in the cultivation warehouse on the Hope are not too much, and only the combat troops can open up the supply, even if the meat quality is not good, it is still relatively popular, and it is one of the edible non-synthetic meat products that Little Anne can accept.

"Training? Do they usually have such a positive attitude? ”

Doug was a little puzzled, when did that guy need to train to the point where he forgot to eat and sleep?

Look, it's past half of the meal time, and they don't even come?

"Oh! I remember, could it be that you made them conduct the special training of cold weapon combat? ”

Doug thought about it for a moment before he suddenly came to his senses.

Previously, after sending off the captain's armored transport ship, Darius had told her about it, as if it were ...... It's called a special training for cold weapons, right?

It would seem, there is some kind of specially made weapon? Or is it provided by this amazing little girl in front of you?

"Uh-huh...... It's spicy! ”

After wiping her mouth with her oily little hands, Anne continued to munch on the stuffed food and nodded vaguely.

“……”

Then, she thought about it and looked around herself.

After she was reminded by this Aunt Doug just now, she finally reacted: There doesn't seem to be Darius and Galen in the cafeteria today who like to share their own food?

So, you can secretly eat something delicious?

Hey......

After thinking about it, little Anne quickly threw away the chicken leg, and took out a large roasted bobcat leg from her space pocket, and began to gnaw on it again.

Today, without that scoundrel, I should be able to eat a good meal?

"But, Anne...... Will cold weapons really work for our Marine Corps? ”

Doug just thought about things, but he didn't even notice, where did little Annie's big piece of barbecue come from?

So, she just stirred her nose curiously, sniffing the enchanting scent, and continued to ask questions that she was puzzled by.

She still thinks that it might be better to use a rifle to deal with those bugs on this planet! As for the means of melee combat, if it is not a last resort, it is better not to use it casually, it will increase the casualty rate!

"Don't squeak...... Spicy depends on ...... Their training has worked! ”

Continuing to nibble on the salt-and-pepper lynx leg in her hand, little Anne dealt casually without raising her head.

Is there such a question, and where will she know? Anyway, she's just playing around on a whim!

As for what kind of training can be achieved in the end, it depends on the training effect of Galen and Darius Black.

If they can clear the real mode of the Stratholme dungeon, they must have at least one Paladin or Warrior Hero level strength, right?

When the time comes, that's sure to come in handy!

There are twenty hero-level powerhouses of paladins and warriors, and if they really fight face to face, it is estimated that even herself, a demigod mage, will have to run away quickly, right?

As for when they will be able to beat Stratholme, only Varimathas knows......

Anyway, that big bat should be the last boss in the dungeon, right?

That kind of thing is just a thing that little Anne can pinch to death casually, I hope Galen is a big guy and they can take each other down sooner?

With their own weapons, coupled with the function of not being afraid of death in the game, Little Anne felt that after countless attempts, as long as they were not too stupid, within a year or two, they would find the right way to clear the customs, and they would still barely pass.

It's a pity that what she didn't know was that the twenty marines had already rushed to the city of Stratholme after only half an hour of slashing each other......

"By the way, little Annie, this barbecue of yours is ......"

While eating the food on his plate that tasted like chewing wax, and smelling the wonderful fragrance on the other side, Commander Doug finally couldn't help but speak.

So, after she stopped what she was doing, she looked at the animal in Little Annie's hand with a little confusion, which had already gnawed off most of the animal's hind legs.

The browned, oily crispy skin, the strange scent that caught the heart, made Doug wonder.

She should...... You've never seen barbecue food like this in a cafeteria, right?

Or...... Could it be that I just missed something in the cafeteria self-service area? Didn't pay attention to it?

"What barbecue?! No more barbecue! ”

As soon as she heard the other party ask about this, little Annie's eyes immediately changed.

Wouldn't he be another scoundrel who wanted to share his own food?

It really looks like it......

Then, after staring at the other party vigilantly, she tore off the last piece of meat from the bobcat's leg and swallowed it into her stomach, and as soon as she turned around, she quickly jumped off her seat with her empty plate.

"Alright, Aunt Doug, I'm full, goodbye!!"

Afraid that the other party would be the same as the big guy Galen, little Anne who came to ask for something to eat with a dead face, and hurriedly took the plate and ran to the recycling area of the cafeteria.

“……”

Odd!

Doug stared at the other party's back dumbfounded, she had no idea, what the hell was this little kid doing?

She just wanted to ask her where she found the barbecue in that buffet area, and then she wanted to get some of it herself!

That little brat, as for the nervousness? I don't want to grab food with her!

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“……”

“……”

At this moment, in the game, outside the bridgehead of Stratholme, Galen and Darius, a group of twenty marines who had just been talked about by Little Annie and Commander Doug, looked at each other with a blank face.

Just now, they were originally full of confidence and felt that they could clear the entire dungeon before the end of the meal, but they were taught a lesson alive by the cruel reality!

A bloody lesson!

More than ten minutes ago, after they put on their armored power combat suits and rushed into the city, they had just had time to cut down some zombies and skeletons, when they were easily knocked to the ground by a not very large ghoul with a group of smaller ghouls, and sent each other twenty fresh and sweet meat corpses for free......

In the end, after the other party left with a bulging stomach and burping, this copy was reset by the brain, and they were also resurrected back to the original place at the bridge.

Darius ...... Just now, we were in town...... How long have you been here? ”

Looking at the huge wooden and iron gate in the distance, Galen felt as if he had been hit by some kind of huge and cruel blow to his self-confidence, and he needed to be comforted.

"It should ...... It's about 10 minutes......"

Darius said with a little darkened face.

He looked at the current time, and then thought about the time when he waited for the others to set off at the beginning of the meal before, so it was easy to arrive at a relatively accurate number.

"Hah! That's not bad, okay, we've lasted ten minutes? ”

Galen smiled a little awkwardly, and self-hypnotized to comfort everyone.

Although they still failed in the end, and they didn't attack many meters into the city, but they managed to hold out in the city for ten minutes, didn't they?

That's a huge step forward!

Galen felt that they must not be frustrated by this, and should continue to work hard next time...... Strive to hold on for an hour and a half without annihilation?

Anyway, so far, he Galen has no hope of clearing the entire dungeon before the end of the meal!

He just hoped that, later, after the next attack began, they would be able to hold out a little longer.

"Galen......"

Darius looked at Galen with a shudder at the corner of his mouth, a little speechless, as if he didn't really want to hit him?

"We were in there just now, and we only lasted a minute at most...... And then, the monsters, it ate us up for almost nine minutes......"

Although he didn't want to discourage Galen, Darius still told the truth with a blank face.

Thinking of what had just happened, Darius still felt a little frightened.

That kind of monster is too terrifying, isn't it?

The ghoul who had just eliminated twenty of his own people was not a huge, or powerful, or invulnerable monster, but just, just extremely fast......

How fast is it?

Almost to the point where they saw each other, before they could react, they were accelerated by the monster, and then, quickly interspersed in the team, in less than ten seconds, they all tore their armor and fell to the ground......

As soon as he thought of the speed at which the other party quickly interspersed between the twenty of them, barely seeing the figure, and then thinking about its terrifying claws, the sense of desperation as it tore through the weak parts of the armor and pulled out the internal organs of their group, he couldn't help but shudder, and the urge to urinate came out......

Thankfully, this kind of monster with incredible speed only exists in the game.......

"Ah...... It turns out that we were in there just now, only for a minute? ”

Galen, who originally wanted to continue to mobilize morale, couldn't help but stiffen his body when he heard this.

Subsequently, Galen thought, perhaps, because this copy is too difficult?

So, do you want to order Dawn to change this quest from a real difficulty mode to a hard or normal mode? Or maybe just turn it to the lowest easy mode?

It's decided! That's how it should be!

"Don't be discouraged, everyone! After all, we are all newbies, and this failure is actually within our plan! ”

After thinking about it, Galen began to turn to face the others and mobilized again.

"So! Later, let's start with the simplest mode! Everyone should believe that this time, we will definitely be able to clear this Stratholme simple mode dungeon! Definitely!! ”

"You must believe that we are the strongest Marines on the Hope! Not one of them! Victory will always be ours! ”

A leader who can't open his eyes and talk nonsense is not a good leader!

Therefore, after messing around and watching everyone's morale slightly mobilized by their own nonsense, Galen nodded with satisfaction, and asked Wisdom Brain Dawn to adjust the difficulty of the dungeon, the mode of direct real difficulty, to the lowest and lowest level at the first time!

Galen thinks that in this case, these people should be able to clear the customs this time, right?