Zhao Xiaonan dragged his tired body back to the ghost base under Fort Augustus.

The main artillery bombardment incident has passed, and it has been more than half a year since the official league calendar, and during this time, she has been searching.

Because she believed that he must still be alive, but for some reason, he never appeared in front of her.

During this time, with the base left to her by Han Jifei and the help of Dobby, she is growing at an astonishing rate.

Sometimes she thinks that maybe she was born to be an assistant to this mercenary leader.

Finding him, even if it was a corpse, and investigating the secrets of the destruction of Huangyang Town became the only two goals in her life.

Every time she returned to the ghost base, a fantasy flashed through her mind, as if as soon as she opened the closed door, she would see the nasty scumbag with his trademark nasty smile and say to her, "It's not even close, girl." ”

Although for half a year, she has been dealing with Chen Mingyuan's people in Fort Augustus, fighting with the people of Old White Mountain.

But every time she dragged her tired body back to the ghost base with her scarred body, he was always greeted only by the cold electronic synthesizer, and the cry of Mavis's cat, whether tsundere or resentful or disturbed.

On this day, Zhao Xiaonan returned to the ghost base again, and with the same illusion, he gently opened the door.

Suddenly, she felt that something was different here.

The base was still deserted, but she had a hunch.

"Mr. Funny?" She tried to scream, but there was no response, only the cat, named Kelly, jumped down the escalator handle from the second floor and ran quickly into her arms.

The cat shifted into a comfortable position in her arms and purred in satisfaction.

Zhao Xiaonan looked around with the lazy cat in his arms, and finally noticed that there was something different today.

The black mobile armor that had been parked in the hangar was gone!

While Dobby often loads his core into various devices and runs around, it only likes robot bodies, and it doesn't think it does.

Then there's only one possibility—he came back.

Zhao Xiaonan threw away the cat and ran towards the hangar.

It was empty.

Except for the black armor is gone, nothing else seems to have been passive.

Did he come back and leave again?

Zhao Xiaonan looked at the equipment in the hangar that barely had any traces of movement, and laughed lightly.

Even if he came back and left, even if he didn't plan to see him, at least that guy wasn't dead, was he?

This should be the best news she's gotten in more than half a year — in every sense of the word.

She walked out of the hangar and sat down on the steps in front of the door.

Just over half a year ago, she was eager to exchange her life for the opportunity to kill him, but now, knowing that he was really not dead, she suddenly felt a little happy—a rare happiness since the Huangyang Town incident.

Humans, what a strange thing!

"Human, what a strange thing!" At some point, Dobby also returned to the base, and after seeing Zhao Xiaonan sitting at the door of the hangar, it sighed in a tone that artificial intelligence should not have.

"Mr. Funny," Zhao Xiaonan said, "that guy is not dead, he is back." ”

"I don't want to spoil your mood," Dobby's human voice said, sounding like a complaint, "but I just replayed the surveillance data, and he didn't come back." ”

A huge hologram was projected into the middle of the base lobby, and the black mobile armor could be seen disappearing into the fixed bracket at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if melting.

"No, it doesn't matter if he comes back or not," Zhao Xiaonan shook his head and pointed to the hologram and said, "At least it's certain that he should still be alive, and no one in this world can do this except him." ”

"I admire your human optimism." Dobby's voice rang out throughout the hall, "But you're right, it's a directional leap, it's not a technique you can master at the moment, and he's the only one I know of who can use it. ”

A rare smile bloomed on Zhao Xiaonan's face covered in oil from pipe soot and engine oil.

The lights in the base suddenly went out, but the system was quickly switched to backup power and the red emergency lights were lit.

Zhao Xiaonan got up from the ground and glanced at the monitor that was still working.

A group of heavily armed soldiers in black special operations uniforms had just passed in front of the holographic sensor, and the last soldier quickly spotted the sensor and raised a whispering pistol at the camera.

It's the people of Old White Mountain!

They somehow blocked Dobby's near-ubiquitous surveillance and quietly approached the base.

For more than half a year, Zhao Xiaonan had been cautious, convinced that he had never exposed the location of the ghost base. But the other party still found here, and it happened to be at this time.

"Careless!" Dobby, an artificial intelligence who had just plucked himself from a wheeled robot, suddenly let out a voice of annoyance.

As soon as it finished speaking, there was a muffled sound outside the door, and the gate of the base was blasted open by a directional bomb, and several shock bombs bounced and rolled in.

Mayvis's white cat was the first to sense the danger coming, and it was long since she didn't know where to hide.

After a few loud bangs and flashes of intense light, heavily armed mercenaries burst into the base.

Zhao Xiaonan is no longer the little girl who follows Han Jianfei and runs around like a headless fly, for more than half a year, she has been dealing with Chen Mingyuan's people in the ghost pipe, and she has learned how to fight at the cost of blood.

So when the stun bomb rolled in, she rolled into the hangar and hid as soon as possible.

While the backup power was still working, Dobby took over control of the base's automated defense system almost immediately, and began to exchange fire with these trained mercenaries, ferocious automatic fire cross-fire, weaving a web of death at the entrance, pinning the intruders into the limited space at the doorway.

"Withdraw," the artificial intelligence with only the spherical body left said to Zhao Xiaonan, "I can't hold it here." ”

Zhao Xiaonan hid in the hangar and glanced out.

The dozen or so soldiers who attacked in the real face were suppressed by two machine guns, but whenever the automatic machine guns were heavily loaded, they seized the gap and rushed inwards for a while, hiding in nearby cover.

The self-consistent robot guards on the second floor, long since been destroyed by those seasoned mercenaries, flickered with electric sparks from time to time.

Zhao Xiaonan nodded and took out two submachine guns from behind his back.

She liked the weapon, which was capable of raining down barrages in close combat.

The crossfire of the automatic machine gun rang out again, and the mercenaries were once again suppressed behind the bunker, and Zhao Xiaonan took the opportunity to go around to the other side of the hangar and silently counted down.

“3、2、1……”

As the countdown ended, the crossfire stopped again, and the mercenaries jumped out of cover and rushed closer to the position.

Zhao Xiaonan got up and left the bunker, and fired his two-handed submachine gun at the same time.

The submachine gun in rapid-fire mode emptied all fifty small-caliber rounds in the magazine in five seconds, and fired a dense rain of bullets almost as much as two automatic machine guns.

The unexpectedly mercenaries were hit head-on, and the soldiers who rushed to the front were instantly knocked to the ground, but the experienced soldiers quickly retreated to the nearest bunker and pulled their comrades back behind the bunker who had been shot on the ground.

Zhao Xiaonan, who lost the angle of shooting, quickly jumped out of the hangar and ran towards the passage on the left.

As soon as the mercenaries tried to get up and fight back, Dobby's two automatic machine guns rang out just right again.

Zhao Xiaonan's agile figure disappeared into the passage in an instant.

Two explosions sounded from the ceiling of the hall one after another, and the Baishan mercenaries who detoured from the other direction directly blew through the ceiling and jumped up to the second floor, and with two roars, the two automatic machine guns hidden on the second floor were finally hit by two plasma bombs and melted into a pile of scrap metal.

The suppressive fire disappeared, and the mercenaries, who had been suppressed in front of them, finally rushed through the uncovered death zone and took out the last few robot guards.

"Dobby, what are you going to do?" Zhao Xiaonan's voice turned into a silent message and passed into the processor of the artificial intelligence sphere.

"Leave me alone, they don't know I exist, I'm about to hibernate, good luck, Xiao Nan!"

After sending this message, Dobby's body fell into a pile of equipment in the hangar, and the lights on the surface gradually dimmed.

The mercenaries quickly took control of the entire uninhabited base, and a soldier who detoured from the ceiling, carrying Kelly's soft neck skin, walked down from the second floor.

"Team D stays behind to take control of the scene," said one of the captain-looking men, "and the others will follow, make sure to capture or kill the Black Mamba alive!" ”

Zhao Xiaonan left the ghost base through a dark pipe, pressed the thumbs of both hands, and two steaming kinetic magazines flew out of the submachine gun, and she skillfully swiped on the sides of her thighs to replace the other two magazines.

An explosion was heard not far behind him.

It was a trick mine she had just laid out, and it was marked on the map Dobby had given me, and it would blow up the pipe, enough to keep the enemy out for a while.

After Han Jianfei disappeared, she got a map of the entire ghost pipeline from Dobby, but this alternate evacuation channel was also the first time she used it, vaguely identifying the location in the dark, and opening the safety door of the left pipe at a "Y" shaped pipe opening.

But she was greeted by bullets fired in the dark.

The other party seemed to have been prepared, and sent someone to block the passage in advance, Zhao Xiaonan just opened the security door, and was knocked back by a dense rain of bullets, and was shot twice in the right leg, staggered out of the pipe, and limped to the right passage.

According to the drawings given by Dobby, this curved passage does not communicate with any exits, and appears to be a dead end.

There are pursuers in the back, and there are interceptions in front, and she has no choice.

After setting up the thunder at a bend, she had time to pull out the medical glue and spray it casually on the wound.

But the right leg hit by the bullet still had no strength, and she could only drag the injured leg deeper into the dead end.

But she hadn't gone far before she heard footsteps behind her, and the thunder didn't explode.

"!" Zhao Xiaonan burst into foul language for the first time in his life.

But she didn't stop, and when the enemy turned the bend to show his head, she returned and fired a barrage of bullets.

The enemy retreated into the corner and did not hit.

Zhao Xiaonan dragged her injured leg and continued to walk deeper into the pipe, even if she knew that she was no longer lucky, she didn't want to give up until the last moment.

Several bullets came at her and hit her other leg.

Zhao Xiaonan fell to his knees with a thud, still stubbornly turned around, half-lying and raised the gun in his hands.

There were only two mercenaries who chased after them.

But before she could shoot, the enemy bullets hit her in both arms.

Just got the news that Han Jianfei was still alive, and she didn't want to die like this.

But she didn't seem to have any other choice but stubbornly open her eyes and waited for the last bullet.

The enemy seemed to see what she was thinking, and the green dot of the laser scope was aimed at the center of her brow.

"Bang!"