Pluto, the Hill region of Region 94.

The craggy maroon rocks resembled the fangs of demons, the cold wind howled through the ridges, and the roar of monsters echoed in my ears, setting off the eerie image as hellish as hell.

And in this purgatory-like world, a small group of Scouts of the Raymond Federation are close to each other back to back, with an attack rifle in their hands, carefully searching this mountainous area with complex terrain.

Since the sudden appearance of a Republic paratrooper detachment in Area 94 three days ago, the reconnaissance units of the Federal Army entrenched in this area have suffered a devastating blow, and the strength of nearly two field platoons has been silently wiped out in these three days, which has suddenly made the front-line staff of the Federal Army very nervous, and the troops that had been continuously sent to the front line to prepare for the liquidation of the 11th Army Division of the Republic have also canceled their battle plans and have been stationed on the spot to guard against a surprise attack by the Republic paratroopers.

The paratroopers, the force that the Union Army so feared, were the trump card used by the commander of the Republic's Flying Forces, Colonel Achill, to reverse the current unfavorable situation. Although the Republican Flying Force could not compete with the Union Army due to the caste of the aircraft, Colonel Archer began to use a large-scale paratrooper force in a different way.

In the months since the war began, Colonel Archill, as the commander of the Pluto Air Force, has never had his flying group engage in even a single aerial confrontation with the Federal Air Force. Even when the Army was fatally bombarded by the Federal Air Power in a superior situation, he did not send a flying group to provide air support.

For this reason, he was once accused by the officers of the War Department that it was a dereliction of duty on his part as an air force commander. But in reality, Colonel Achill had his own considerations. As the commander-in-chief of the flight unit, Colonel Archier is well aware of the capabilities of the multi-purpose fighters under his command. In a head-on confrontation in the air, he knew that his fighter group would never be able to defeat the fighter group of the federal army. Therefore, he decisively gave up the aerial scramble and instead set the target on the ground.

A large paratrooper unit thus took to the stage, and relying on the comprehensive surname of the multi-purpose fighter and its good concealment, Colonel Achill commanded his fighter group to avoid the frontal battlefield and deliver airdrop strikes against the weak points of the Union defenses.

Ground bombing with multi-purpose fighters was carried out first, and then large-scale airdropping of paratroopers. The results of this plan of operations were striking, and although the Federation Army had made several aerial interceptions, each time they encountered it, Colonel Archer's fighter group chose to flee the battle. This hide-and-seek-like tactic left the Federal Army Staff at a loss for what to do.

Colonel Achill's tactics are actually very simple, nothing more than you fight yours and I fight mine. However, in practical effect, the destructive power of Colonel Achill's airdropped troops is completely comparable to the six flying groups of the Federal Army. So, in the eyes of the staff of the Federal Army, the paratroopers of the Republic have become a nightmare.

The sudden appearance of a paratrooper detachment in Area 94 undoubtedly made the nerves of the staff officers of the Federal Army overtense, and the painful memories of the past made the front-line staff of the Federal Army dare not be careless, so they mobilized a large number of reconnaissance troops into the Area 94 in an attempt to pull Robin's team out of the mountains and forests. However, the complex terrain of Area 94 made the progress of the carpet search of the Federal Army slow, and because there was no way to deploy troops on a large scale, most of the reconnaissance units of the Federal Army searched in small teams, but they did not know that this happened to give Robin a great opportunity to break through one by one.

At this moment, the reconnaissance team, which was trembling in the mountains and forests carrying out the search mission, had unknowingly walked into the trap laid by Robin.

Not far from the outpost of the federal army team, an invisible thin line as thin as spider silk was hidden between several chaotic pieces of rubble, and the two high-explosive grenades connected to the thin line were hidden ten centimeters under the rubble, forming two staggered mines that could instantly form a large-area kill.

Unlike the current popularity of self-ejecting heat-tracking mines, the ancient method of laying out mines is more secretive, and the metal detector in the helmet of the Federation soldier is undetectable when it is smeared with a substance that insulates metal reactions. Therefore, the two outpost soldiers who walked at the front of the line did not even notice that five centimeters away from their feet was the dividing line between life and death.

Bite! ――

At the same time that the soldier's boots inadvertently snapped the thin thread, a faint and almost imperceptible pull of the tab jumped away. Then, before the soldier could let out a desperate scream, a huge roar mixed with flames and shrapnel shot out in all directions, instantly swallowing the view of the Union soldiers.

The two sentries at the front of the team were immediately beaten into a sieve by the flying shrapnel, and the smoke and chaos caused by the explosion immediately made the reconnaissance team panic and overwhelmed.

And at this moment, a sharp stone that was silent not far away suddenly disappeared like an illusion. Robin, already equipped with heavy infantry armor, appeared out of thin air, and before he could turn around, he stabbed the heavy loader in the heart from behind with his tactical knife.

Blood turned into a boiling mist of blood gushing out from the cracks in the armor of the heaviers, and after killing the enemy in one blow, Robin took advantage of the chaos of the federal army formation, picked up the large-caliber machine gun in the hands of the heavy loaders, and frantically strafed another federal heavy loader not far away.

The Federal Army heavy loader was not slow to react, and immediately deployed the folding shield on his wrist to defend against Robin's ferocious strafing. However, while he focused all his attention on Robin, he ignored Aven, who suddenly appeared behind him like a ghost.

The furious fire engulfed the unsuspecting Union heavy loaders in an instant, and three Hummingbird rockets hit the same spot on the back of the Union heavy loaders one after another.

While the first two rockets blew up the armor on the back, the third missile penetrated the back of the Union Army heavy loader almost unimpeded, and its strong penetration directly pierced the heavy loader's chest, blowing up a huge wound with blurred flesh.

The heavy loader fell in smoke, and with the loss of two heavy loaders in an instant, the fate of the reconnaissance team was sealed. With the cooperation of Robin's strong combat force, the four of them slaughtered the remaining Union soldiers almost instantly, and even before another reconnaissance team received the news and rushed to support, Robin and his four-man special team still had time to clean up the battlefield, take some of the loot they needed and leave calmly.

The corpses on the ground and the graffiti-like mottled blood stains on the rocks were the only sights seen by the reconnaissance team that had come to their aid.

In the past three days, such a picture has appeared many times, and Robin and his four-man special team have become a real nightmare in the minds of the Federation Army.