Glancing up at the spring buds in the trees, Rhodes took a puff of cigarettes, the thin sticks from southern Thailand were becoming his new favorite, and the carter cigarettes were loaded on them, and there was an exotic taste in holding them.

Of course, his cousin was puzzled by this, because he did not like dry tobacco, and he also did not like the thin tobacco sticks when eating it, and he scoffed at Rhodes's practice of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep.

"It's spring." His cousin also glanced at the branches above him, and Suder muttered, the riflescope in his hand had been adjusted no longer knowing how many times.

"yes, it's spring." Carmen was handling the barrel of the gun in his hand with the cleaning rod, and a rifle cartridge was placed on the table in front of him.

"Captain Harsan Chandler is back!" A soldier shouted, and the soldiers who were doing adaptive shooting training at the range stood up, and they saluted the returning captain, and the young man saluted them, and then he walked up to Rhodes: "I'm back, and the doctors say my arms and legs are brand new. ”

"But Lord Marin hasn't come back yet, it's spring." After Rhodes finished speaking, he began to smoke again.

His cousin reached out and patted him on the head: "You don't talk to no one when you're dumb." ”

Rhodes glanced at his cousin, and Carmen sighed.

Harsan looked at his comrades-in-arms: "I'm sure Your Excellency Marin will come back." ”

"Yes, we all believe, but a month has passed, spring has arrived, and the buds have sprouted, and our lord is still in the warm south, in the arms of his lover." Rhodes finished speaking, turning his head to look at his cousin and his raised hand.

Then the two brothers widened their eyes, and Halsan shook his head, and he was too lazy to say anything to the cousins, so he went to Carmen's table and sat down on it: "What about you, do you believe your Excellency?" ”

"Of course I believe Your Excellency, he swore to us, he said that he would lead us from one victory to another." With that, Carmen pulled out the cleaning strip, set it aside, and prepared to put the barrel back in.

"I also believe in Your Excellency, even if it is said in the army that Your Excellency will not come back." Halsan turned his head to look at the soldiers: "How are our soldiers doing?" ”

"It's okay, at least it's not like those big heads outside, they can even fight in groups in companies for whether Your Excellency will come back." Carmen replied.

"I've heard of it." Harsan said as he looked at his newbie.

In fact, he didn't know whether his Excellency would come back or not, because in his opinion, this Excellency, as a southerner, had done too much for him.

He brought with him countless supplies, countless equipment, and now there are nearly 100,000 Marin private troops pinning down the Chaos forces on the western front, and these former bankrupt citizens and serfs are as good as their professional armies.

Your Excellency led them through the most difficult moments at the beginning, the Sacred Lake is still producing a large amount of holy water, and even if he has been in the south for the past two months, there will be a large number of new weapons that have been half-sold and half-given to them.

For example, they now have two repeating weapons called machine guns in their team, 200 rounds of long bullet chains, quick-changing barrels, air-cooled designs and casings like works of art, and most importantly, the rate of fire of this thing far exceeds that of all rifles, so even a blind man can confirm from the sound of shooting that the rumor that a machine gun can block an intersection is the most true proverb.

"Actually, I don't think Your Excellency needs to come back, after all, he is a southerner, even if he is now an earl, but after all, he is the Prince of Farol, the most honorable Excellency of Fort Carter, did he come to the north to roll in the muddy fields of spring with us mud legs." Rhodes glanced at his cousin, and this time Suder did not raise his hand or glare, he pulled out his cigarette case, smoked it, and then found a match in his mud-stained uniform.

Rhodes pulled out a lighter and lit a cigarette for his cousin.

"How did you get this lighter?" His cousin asked, glancing at the Marlin Group insignia on the lighter.

"Our Earl of the Holy Lake, the great savior from the south, the noble prince, belongs to each of our big-headed Lord Marin, who has rewarded me for his cleverness and cleverness." Rhodes put away the lighter with pride: "This is my family heirloom." ”

"Look at what you want." Harsan said with a smile.

"That's not it, it's the only one." Rhodes smiled and took a drag on his cigarette as Carmen's voice rang out.

"Lieutenant Natalie is here."

Halsan turned his head and saw a blonde-haired Rose woman approaching, this female lieutenant with a very good chest, she came to the four captains with his report board: "Your independent strike company seems to be doing well, you have a mission, one of the reconnaissance groups of the battle mages disappeared while reconnoitering in the wasteland area twenty miles east of Stevens south of Copenhagen, and the follow-up fire reconnaissance of the battle mages failed to find the missing members, and they asked the army's army to send a team to do an investigation. ”

"The military thought of us, well, that's right, we are indeed the benchmark of combat effectiveness, but has the military department forgotten that we are under the command of His Excellency Marin." Rhodes leaned his back on his cousin's thigh and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Your Excellency hasn't returned yet, I think you'd better stop daydreaming, Commander Suder, please accept the mission." The blonde Rose woman didn't care about Rhodes' murderous eyes and handed the report board to Suder.

"Halsan, Carmen, we're in trouble." Suder took the report board, wrote his name on the report in duplicate, and then tore off one of the copies and took it in his hand.

"Women are troublemakers." Carmen stood up and cursed as she rubbed shoulders with the lieutenant.

"Your mother must be very sad to hear this." Halsan followed him in a strange way.

"My mother ran away with men before I could understand anything, and my father was living alone in the wilderness at that time, and she thought he was dead, so she left me alone at home, and if the church hadn't found out about her departure and found me, I'm afraid I'd have died long ago." Carmen finished speaking, and snorted at the position of the female lieutenant.

The latter pointed at Carmen in a rage: "You must apologize to me!" ”

"What are you doing crazy, Lieutenant Natalie, you and your guards are standing on our training ground right now." Carmen pressed one hand on the holster on her waist and looked at her and the two gendarmes who followed her: "And when it comes to apologies, it should be you who apologize to us, if we tell the big-headed soldiers outside what you just said, guess how you will die." ”

The lieutenant eventually turned around and walked away.

"You're really not a gentleman." Rhodes stood up, he went to the long table, stood opposite his cousin, took out the map and spread it on the table.

"I have such a mother, and you still expect me to be a gentleman, Rhodes, you are too demanding of me." Carmen came to the other side, stood beside Suder, and stretched out his hand to the target area: "It's very desolate, there were many pioneers who went there twenty years ago, but the land there couldn't afford to grow food, and soon the pioneers retreated, leaving a lot of empty towns. ”

"You know?" Harsan looked at the area he was referring to: "I always thought it was no man's land. ”

"My father was there with a survey team of the goddess of harvest to explore the area, and they were unlucky, they came across a herd of living corpses from the black area, and more than forty people died leaving my father and three lucky ones, and my father and three men were in the wilderness while escaping the pursuit of living corpses, while struggling to survive, it took three months to escape from the area and escape the pursuit." Carmen said this, looking up at his comrades: "This area should be full of living corpses now, there will be a battle between Chaos and them, if the survivors of that reconnaissance team are lucky, there are no wounds and bleeding on the surface, they should be able to escape the first wave of pursuit with the help of the empty town, and if Chaos and the living corpses are in the follow-up search, then he should have a chance to survive." ”

"There are many ways for mages to hide themselves, and the question now is how do we find him?" Suder picked up the report card: "Ah, our battle mages have good news and bad news for us. ”

"Let's start with the bad news." Carmen, Halsan and Rhodes said in unison.

"The missing area is in Old Karn, we need to search an old town, and the reconnaissance team has three people, and they have found the remains of a war-dead in the center of the town, presumably falling to their death or being shot down and being eaten by the living corpses; On the edge of the east side of the city, find another guy who was hung on a pole by Chaos. ”

"Great, that means we just need to find one person, so good news." The trio then asked.

"The fire reconnaissance team has confirmed that there are a large number of traces of Chaos and living corpses in the missing area, we have two different waves of enemies to deal with, and we need to search the entire area, there will be countless living corpses and chaos waiting for us in all kinds of places we don't think of."

With that, Suder threw the report card on the table.

"Can we not go?" Rhodes scolded and looked at the map of the old Kahn city that he had brought up: "This was originally intended to be built as the capital of Copenhagen?" ”

"Yes, the year after the city was built, seawater poured into the area, and our engineers never wondered why this area came into existence in the first place." After Carmen finished speaking, she glanced at Sudel: "Is there any reason why we have to go?" ”

"Of course, the missing person is Miss Meng Qiyi, she is the trump card, this would have been a very pleasant task to take the newcomer to the shopping, just like the time we led the team to deal with the bank robbery a few days ago." Suder said of glancing at his comrades, "It's a big place, but it doesn't need too many people, just the four of us. ”

"It's true that there won't be much chance of exposure if there are few people, but just the four of us, will the living corpses starve." Rhodes looked at his cousin with a sad expression.

"Then let's gather all the people, go there and occupy a place, and call all the living corpses and chaos within a radius of several kilometers, for a real grand event?" Halsan asked with a smile.

"That's still it, but to be honest, it's just the four of us, who is the door-breaking group and who is the hydraulic cover group."

"I'll do the door-breaking team with Carmen, and Rhodes, you and Halsan will be the fire cover group, take the map of the city, let's divide the city, find it one area at a time, leave a mark, if our Miss Tynan is still alive and sees them, we will understand that we are looking for her."

Suder asked Rhodes to put a map of the city on the table, and soon he divided the city into five districts with a pencil: "So, with Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Ip, with the Great Clock Tower in the Central District as the base point, search for Ip, this area is the lowest-lying area of the city, we must arrive at noon, and clear this area by four o'clock in the afternoon, we need space bags, at least two dozen spare mufflers, and quite a few weapon parts." ”

"The four of us can't carry so much, because we need to carry a lot of ammunition, and how to enter the city is also a problem, so we need professional space bags and space manipulators, maybe we should ask the Mage Tower to find a talent?" Carmen said.

"Who are you looking for, can these delicate mages be able to bear it?" Rhodes said with some uncertainty.

"Excuse me, Halsan, where are you going?" Suder looked at Halsan, who nodded, then turned to leave.

"Rhodes, tell the logistics department and our Lieutenant Natalie that either we will be supplied enough, or we will refuse to die." Suder looked at his cousin.

"Why me." Rhodes pointed to himself.

"Because your little mouth is covered with honey." Suder raised his eyebrows after speaking: "Either you go, or I will let Carmen go and slaughter her." ”

"I'll leave it to me." After speaking, Rhodes picked up the military hat on the table: "Captain Suder, Lieutenant Rhodes is ordered to go." ”

"Hurry up, before I change my mind with that lieutenant's fate." Driving Rhodes away, Suder glanced at Carmen, who smiled: "What are you going to complain about next?" ”

"I didn't even think I pulled out a gun and destroyed that damn woman." Suder sighed, and Carmen took over the conversation, "Maybe it's because of that Miss Meng Tuyi, everyone says that she is a close friend of Lady Lulu and the lover of Lord Marin. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, the flies who follow this young lady know much better than the ones who make up these stories." Suder said dismissively, "I just think that if she dies, Lady Lulu will be very sad, after all...... Your Excellency has not been back for two months. ”

"It's only been two months, and my father hasn't seen my mother for twenty years, isn't it alive and different." Carmen was a bit of a counterpoint, and Suder looked at him and finally decided not to tell his father about his father's nineteen-year drunkenness.

Every family has a proverb that is difficult to read.