Chapter 4: Captain of the Competition
At the mission coordinate point 200 kilometers southwest of Tiezhi City, Wu Tian and his entourage were responsible for the search mission in a mountainous area of 100 square kilometers 60 kilometers away from 7 o'clock in the direction of the mission coordinate point.
As long as you spend two days in the designated search area, the 400 credits as the base commission will be automatically credited. However, if a rookie mercenary is caught by the Warlord for not seeking to get on the wrong mission, he may be shot on the spot. The time of a rookie mercenary may not be valuable, but the time of a one-star mercenary is very valuable, and if you can't gain something, then this mission will be considered a loss.
"With my coordinate point as the center of the circle, the twenty-five of you are divided into five five-person squads, searching in the direction of 3 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock, and I alone search in the direction of 1 o'clock. If no enemy is found within the search range, after all the squads have reached the search limit, they will move clockwise for 500 meters and return to search with the coordinate point where we are. Do you understand? If you have any questions, ask now! Facing the rookie mercenaries standing in two rows, the Warseer asked in a cold voice.
"Report!" Wu Tian was the first to speak in the eyes of the robots looking at each other.
"Please!" The Warlord looked at Wu Tian and asked.
"Report to Warseer, if we find traces of suspected clones as we are about to leave the search area, do we have the right to leave the search area and search for them?" Wu Tian stared directly at the Supervisor's eye simulation camera that seemed to have a scrutinizing gaze, and reported loudly. Although the synthesized sound has no emotion, it can raise the volume.
"The first time I find accurate traces, I will launch a signal flare, and my unmanned aerial vehicle will rush to search the battlefield as soon as possible. As for the suspected traces that cannot be determined, it is approved to search up to ten additional kilometers outside the designated search area! If you are still unsure after 10 kilometers from the designated search area, report to me immediately, and I will report the information to the relevant search department of the space station! Still have questions? ”
No more problems. Just one question doesn't arouse the Overseer's suspicions, but if more questions are asked, it will raise unnecessary suspicions.
"If there is no problem, immediately form your own team! As a reminder, the Warlord has the power to shoot those who slack off in wartime, don't let my drone find evidence of your laziness, or you'll die! Disband! At the sound of an order, the Warlord robot immediately took out the miniature unmanned reconnaissance aircraft folded in the backpack, and used the controller on the left robotic arm to control the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to fly into the air, quickly integrating with the surrounding environment.
After releasing the drone, the Warlord rushed to the direction of 1 o'clock alone.
"At 11 o'clock in the direction of the mountains, two more people!" Standing with the robots where War Tiger and Blood Rose were, Wu Tian shouted at the robots who were still talking in place.
"Two at 9 o'clock!" As if to compete with Wu Tian, the spearhead and the two robots also shouted.
With Wu Tian and the pioneers taking the lead, the other robots did not delay any longer, and they all gathered their own robot teams. It's just that compared to the quality of the mercenaries of the two teams of Wu Tian and the top soldiers, the quality of the mercenaries of the other three teams is much lower. Judging from the casual style and unformed position of those robot mercenaries, those mercenaries only received a few months of military training when they were on Earth, and did not really experience battles or even wars, but were pure battlefield recruits.
In a short time, there were two more hard-looking robots in Wu Tian's team, codenamed "Brother Qiang" and "Dragon Knight" respectively.
"Your name is Yin Zhiping?" Wu Tian glanced at the robot codenamed Dragon Knight and asked.
"Yin Zhiping is just a pseudo-dragon knight who died with one shot, hello everyone, my name is Yang Guo." The robot said half-jokingly.
After the joke, the five robots began to rush towards 11 o'clock in the northwest. In order to verify their true combat effectiveness before the battle, the five robots will take turns to send one robot every 20 minutes to be the first to open the way. One robot opens the way in front, and four robots score the robots in front of the road, and the one with the strongest combat power is judged as the temporary captain of the team according to the combat performance of each robot.
"I'll be a pioneer first!" The newly joined dragon knight volunteered. At the very beginning, the drone that had not yet flown far in the sky could still be observed. In other words, at the beginning of the road, the dragon knight who acted as a spearhead was not easy to encounter clones. If there are clones hidden, they will most likely be observed by drones in the air. In other words, in the first part of the road, the dragon knight only needs to watch out for the beasts of the primeval forest. Small beasts are almost harmless to robots, and large beasts can also be detected by a thermal imager equipped with the robot's head. As long as the first to spot the lurking beast, the dragon knight has the confidence to shoot it with the electromagnetic assault rifle in his hand before it bursts into action.
The dragon knight's tactical moves can only be considered skilled at best. In other words, the dragon knight has served in the army, but it is unknown whether he has been on the battlefield or not. After all, most of the soldiers in the country are still recruits who have not been on the battlefield until they retire.
Each person has a maximum rating of 25 points, and the ratings of the four people add up to the combat power rating of the fifth mercenary. Wu Tian gave the Dragon Knight a passing score of 15 after 20 minutes.
As for the ratings given by the other three, Tiger Roar, who has always been taciturn, only gave a rating of 13 points, and the only female in the team, Blood Rose, even gave a rating of 10 points. As for Brother Qiang, who joined the team with the dragon knight, he gave a high score of 20 points. Perhaps, in Brother Qiang's opinion, the level of the dragon knight is already very high.
A total of 58 points and a failing rating made the volunteer dragon knight very embarrassed. In addition to being embarrassed, the Dragon Knight also paid close attention to the three Wu Tian who gave low scores, especially Blood Rose. And when he found that the dragon knight, whose strength was almost the same as his own, did not even reach the passing line, Brother Qiang, who was about to move, immediately withered, and shirked and gave up the second position as a top soldier to others.
"I'll get on." The taciturn Tiger Roar glanced deeply at Blood Rose, and walked towards the front of the line with the electromagnetic assault rifle in hand. Walking in a straight line on the map in the primeval forest, if you change to a normal team, it will probably not work. Because you don't know if it's a deep valley or a cliff, a swamp or a lake. Even a robot can't travel in a straight line in a primeval forest. Therefore, the necessary detour is a must, and the reason why Wu Tian chose the direction of exploration in the direction of 11 o'clock is not only because the 11 o'clock direction is close to the location of the target snow mountain, but also because the mountainous terrain in the direction of 11 o'clock is complex, and it is impossible to search in a straight line along the map! It is precisely because of this that Wu Tian also has the opportunity to take the team around the distance.
As the team went farther and farther, the road conditions became more and more difficult. In fact, in the subtropical primeval jungle through which the five robots passed, there was no way out at all! Although Tiger Roar had worked very hard to find his way, the speed of progress was still slowing down. Twenty minutes is only a kilometer of road, and if you were an ordinary person, you might not even be able to pass three hundred meters in a straight line on the map.
"Foreseeer, your code name is a bit unworthy of the name!" The dragon knight waded hard and climbed up a vertical cliff with a drop of more than ten meters, and had a lot of opinions about the direction of exploration that Wu Tian chose at 11 o'clock. And Wu Tian's code name of "foreseeer" also made the dragon knight can't help but want to complain.
"We've deviated from the straight line on the map, and we've gone around to the 10 o'clock point of the mission. If we go any further, we may encounter a team of robots codenamed Spearhead. Opening the flip cover and looking at the electronic map on the palm computer, Blood Rose couldn't help but complain.
"I don't want to take a detour, I can take you shorter!" After the tiger roared back from exploring the road, Wu Tian took on the responsibility of a pioneer in the complaints of everyone. A score of 81 points is enough to be excellent for Tiger Roar, because the discerning Blood Rose gave Tiger Roar a just passing score of 15!
Under the scrutinizing gaze of everyone, Wu Tian stepped forward to take on the responsibility of a sharp soldier. However, to the disappointment of the robots, Wu Tian's performance seemed very ordinary, like a traveler playing in the primeval forest, and there was no tactical action at all!
"Hey, don't even do the least tactical moves, do you think it's an outing?" The dragon knight behind couldn't help but question loudly.
However, Wu Tian did not answer, but just led the way while collecting the tough and thick vines along the way. While most of the vines have stingers, they are not at all a threat to robots. In addition, the stingers of the vines can also have a non-slip effect.
The questioning voice from behind him stopped abruptly when Wu Tian led the way to the tenth minute. Because, because everyone was surprised to find that Wu Tian actually climbed a cliff almost perpendicular to the surface with his bare hands, with a drop of up to 100 meters, and the surface was covered with slippery moss, and a rope of vines up to 100 meters long hung down from the top of the cliff!
"Come up, I'll take you a shortcut!" Wu Tian at the top of the cliff was so tall and majestic at this moment that the robots looking at each other at the bottom of the cliff couldn't help but tremble.
"With such a high vertical drop, and a hard gravel beach underneath, if you accidentally fall, even the body of a robot will definitely be broken into parts, right?" Brother Qiang looked at the vines hanging straight from the top of his head in horror, although he was not afraid of heights on weekdays, but he was really scared at this time.
"I'll go first." Blood Rose first climbed the vine in front of her, which was obviously just woven, and said to the three people behind her, "The foreseeer can even climb a cliff hundreds of meters high with his bare hands, don't we even have the courage to climb the vine?" From this moment on, even the Blood Rose, which had always been above the top, had to admit Wu Tian's identity as the captain. Yes, after Wu Tian showed this hand, the position of the captain was beyond doubt.