“…… Unlike other theaters of war with vast strategic depth and roundabout space, the struggle for the European theater of operations can be described as intertwined, and often the loss of a strategic node may lead to the fall of an important industrial town, and in fact, the competition for the European theater of operations is often measured in kilometers or even meters, so it is extraordinarily bloody and cruel. ”

-- "Allied Times" supplement, "Military Experts Interpret the European Theater of Operations for You"

***

In the early hours of February 15, 2178, the "Kuroshio" base in Geneva, Allied Geneva, airfield No. 17, the third pilot's lounge.

"It's twelve."

Linya Petterson tightened her gloves, as if this action could relieve her nervousness, the girl turned her head and looked at Ling Yu, who was lying on the sofa, paddling around with an electronic board to read the comics, and spoke a little urgingly.

"Well, I'm looking at my watch."

Ling Yu replied nonchalantly, but without taking his eyes off the electronic board in his hand, Linya sighed and moved her gaze to the two people next to the coffee table.

", I've lost again, you can hang up."

Logan threw the cards in his hand on the table, slapped them on his face full of notes, stretched out his hand, picked up the cup of battlefield coffee with three servings of milk and almost turned white, leaned back on the sofa and sighed, "No wonder Ling Yu, you don't play with Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

"I told you a long time ago that if you don't die, you won't die." Ling Yu released the taunt without raising his head, "Playing any gambling game with her is death, do you look down on her left eye?" ”

"I really didn't see it through," Jesse shrugged, placing the cards on the table, then reached out to put the cards on the table away, put them in the box, and raised her hand to tear off the two notes on her face, "Besides, I didn't win them all." ”

"No, no, defeated," Logan's languishing expression seemed as if he had just been beaten out of the beautiful woman's bed for a night and then immediately pulled out to run a marathon, and the young man who crumpled the coffee cup into a ball and threw it into the trash can in the corner watched Jesse put the playing cards back in the bookshelf, and turned his head to look at Linya like a high school student anxiously waiting for the results of the college entrance examination.

"Relax, Your Highness," Logan beckoned to Linya, "with me." ”

"It's because I'm in a group with you that I'm not at ease." Linya glanced at Logan and ran to Jeunse's side, "Why can't Jeuness let those two go together, ahhhhh ”

“…… Linya, you can't speak......" Jesse raised her eyebrows, revealing a slightly embarrassed and angry smile, "Isn't it impossible?" ”

"Well, because if Jeuness is in a group with you, then our group will be overweight, among us, the heaviest is Logan, the lightest is you, Jeunse is slightly heavier than me, so we have to be in a group, if you and Jesse are in a group, Logan and I will be overweight."

Ling Yu was probably the only person in this room who could puncture the truth without any scruples, but it was obvious that Ling Yu, who didn't usually have a mocking mouth like Logan, spoke at this time purely to help Linya attract firepower.

"The owner...... You're too much......" Sure enough, Jesse sighed deeply like a deflated ball.

"What's this," Ling Yu finally raised his head, pressed the button to lock the screen of the electronic board, the young man looked at Jiesi with a resentful face, picked up the military coffee that had cooled down on the table, and took a sip, "Look at it rationally, I think you are really slim." ”

"Ling Yu, you really don't understand people's hearts." Logan curled up in the sofa and smiled coldly, then picked up a paper clip on the table with a meaningful expression and changed the topic - in a war zone where EMP may be shrouded at any time, it is absolutely necessary to use paper to draw up plans and give orders, "So, there are two drones traveling with us this time?" ”

"Well, to be precise, it's not our 'peers'" The perfecter of the plan, Linya, who has a senior staff officer qualification certificate of the Knights, finally found a topic that she could talk about, "Large-scale drone activities will cause the ACA authorities to be vigilant, so two groups of drones maintain a distance of thirty kilometers, each with a group of flight crew and an equipment box. ”

"That is, we are actually moving separately, with a difference of 30 kilometers." Ling Yu stood up and walked to the coffee machine with half a cup of coffee, "There should be no problem with landing at a fixed point." ”

"Yes." Jessie stood in front of the window, looking at the "Cormorant-R" reconnaissance drone that was sliding from the hangar to the runway on the airport runway not far away, and touched her chin with her hand, "You can't release it from the plane too early, otherwise two points will appear on the ACA's radar in advance, but if it is too close, it may be affected by the air wave of the explosion." ”

"The GPS signal will be tracked and cannot be used, so try to find the weapon case if necessary, and the guerrillas will cast a net to find the weapon case, and the weapon box will send a directional pulse at regular intervals." The coffee machine in front of Ling Yu produced a stream of hot coffee, mixed with the iced coffee in Ling Yu's hand, and he looked up and finally summed it up, "If you really can't converge, move to the small town of Alanga-Valsesia, where there is a secret stronghold of the guerrillas, and keep the radio silent." ”

"Ready, are you going now?" As if to put an end to Ling Yu's summary, as soon as the black-clothed young man finished speaking, Bashile, who was wearing an overcoat, pushed the door in and nodded at Logan.

"Let's go." Ling Yu drank the half-warm coffee in his hand, walked to the table at the door, and picked up a helmet and buckled it on his head.

***

The response of the ACA's air defense units was a little slower than Ling Yu and Jiesi imagined, it seems that because this boring reconnaissance and target shooting game has been going on for many years, in terms of efficiency and cost, the alliance is sure to lose money, but in the face of the ACA, which is good at infiltration and attack, if there is no such wasteful reconnaissance as the alliance, it is very likely that the ACA will cross the Alps and go straight to the hinterland of Switzerland.

Therefore, when the missile flew in, Ling Yu did not feel nervous or excited, but a little anxious and impatient, fortunately, there was no accident, Jiesi activated the hook accurately, and the two people who were connected by the ring buckle were loosened before the drone exploded into a fireball, and were just below the drone, and the explosion did not throw them too far away from the predetermined orbit, so that the two could wait until the final landing before separating - for Ling Yu, The smooth lì Cheng dù of this flight mission is almost like a drill, compared to the last time.

"I hope the two of them landed safely, too."

"Hmm."

Ling Yu casually responded to Jath's words while throwing some unnecessary equipment into the burning wreckage of a drone not far away - another unexpected surprise that was unreal was the wreckage, which could not only hide the traces of the two of them landing, but also the raging flames could also mask their heat signal, allowing them to prepare calmly and set off.

This good fortune even benefited a lucky ibex.

"It's done," Jess happily tied the knot of the bandage into a bow, and the ibex, whose thigh had been punctured by a metal shard falling from the sky, was so frightened that he could not move in the snow, but fortunately the beautiful and kind angel knight came to her aid.

"Anyway, let's get back to the ammunition box on the third machine first." Ling Yu threw the last cushion airbag into the fire, raised his hand and looked at his watch, the cold wind at two o'clock in the morning even if he had a TF physique, he felt a biting chill, tightened the alliance standard combat uniform on his body, Ling Yu checked the mystery pistol on the outside of his right leg and the short knife behind his waist, and spoke thoughtfully.

"You...... Worried about something? Jiesi gently stroked the back of the highland goat, turned her head, and looked at Ling Yu.

"Hmm...... It's not that kind of perception of danger," Ling Yu shook his head, hinting with a smile that Jess didn't have to worry too much, "I just noticed the ammo box...... I'm kind of wondering what kind of weapon it is...... Let's go. ”

"Okay." Jeunsy nodded, and the highland goat, which had broken free from fear, turned its head and gently licked Jessy's palm, which was wearing cold gloves, Jess gently touched its head, then stood up and followed Ling Yu's footsteps.

****

"That...... Does it still hurt? ”

"Shhh......h It's good to lick this little injury. ”

Compared with Ling Yu's side of bad luck, Logan's side gathered almost all of his bad luck.

The first is that the missile that hit them did not succeed in detonating the drone at close range, but directly pierced the drone with its engine like a long arrow, and then exploded.

This caused Logan and Linya to be thrown off the original launch track by the air waves.

On the other hand, unlike the No. 1 machine that Ling Yu and the others carried, the No. 2 machine was almost completely blown to pieces, not a few intact pieces, and a large number of fragments cut the back of Logan who was on it like a sharp blade.

But this is not the end of the bad luck, I don't know if it was because of the "win" or the damage caused by the fragments, the hook that connected the two people together was stuck and could not be loosened, so the two had to hit the ground much faster than expected - at the cost of an open fracture of Logan's left hand that had cushioned himself underneath at the last minute.

"Honor students are good, the bandages are so beautiful." Logan gasped heavily, the blood oozing from the wound on his back pooling into a small puddle of blood under the young man sitting against the tree.

"How's the injury on your back?" Linya cut the bandage on Logan's hand, in this era, an open fracture is not a too difficult wound to deal with, not to mention that TF also has an extremely strong self-healing ability, but obviously, Logan's bleeding is dangerous even for TF.

"Now there is no condition for surgery, just spray a hemostatic spray." Logan gritted his teeth and barely stood up with his right hand propped up, the winter suit on his back was riddled with holes, which made Linya frown.

Under normal circumstances, TF's physical fitness can ensure that he only wears a single shirt in temperatures of minus 20 degrees, but whether it is for injury or to preserve combat effectiveness, Logan's current condition does need to be kept warm.

"Here, put it on." Without hesitation, she detoured behind Logan and sprayed him with hemostatic spray - the fragments that had penetrated too deep could only be removed if they were surgically conditioned - Linya put away her medical bag, took off her cold-proof jacket, and buckled it on Logan's back.

"Hey, hey, underestimate me." Logan grabbed the collar of his winter suit and tried to take it off again, but Linya grabbed the wound on his left arm.

"If you dare to take it off, you'll break your arm." Linya tries to make herself look vicious, but in fact the expression is just that of a kitten with teeth and claws.

"Yes, yes, sir." Logan looked helplessly at his left hand that was hanging from his chest, then turned his head and gave Linya a reassuring smile, "No need to say thank you." ”

"Next time, remember to use this face to please Lady Luck, don't be unlucky." Linya, who had seen through her thoughts, gave Logan a blank look and moved her limbs to adjust to the cold temperature.

"Let's go, let's go to the ammunition box dropped by Plane Four first," Logan pushed away the big tree he was holding onto, the pain in his back and arm made his movements a little deformed, but he still shook his hand at Linya who was about to come to help, "I'm a big man who hasn't been pretentious enough to be that Cheng dù." ”

"Whatever you want." Linya gave Logan a roll of the eye again, but deliberately slowed her pace and kept within arm's length of Logan's right - like a walking cane.

In the middle of the night, there was silence in the huge taiga, and the four of them went in the same direction.

And in the dense forest on the other side, a young man wrapped in a thick coat, looking at the flickering pulse signal light, pushed his glasses, and hooked the corners of his mouth.