Although he was unable to find the Blue Scorpion's forward base for the time being, he still recovered Pendulum City. A small part of the city was in ruins, most of the area was paralyzed, the Roxerland branch building was burned to the ground, and the most regrettable thing was the loss of equipment and samples in the biochemical laboratory. Hundreds of researchers, skilled workers and trained fighters are also deplorable. Fortunately, the city was built with war in mind, the layout of strategic facilities and equipment was scattered, several important factories were still largely intact, and the water plant could be put back into use with only a few repairs.

It will take a long time to clear out the anti-infantry sensor mines and smart reconnaissance units left behind by the Blue Scorpion, but these can be left to the warriors under Quinn and Leigh. Equipped with a specialized scanner, the warriors can find what the blue scorpion left behind from a safe distance if they are careful enough. And the electronic warfare experts at the Dragoon headquarters have begun to study new electronic waves, which, if successful, will be able to detonate all induction mines within a range of 100 meters.

Just like last time, the corpse of the Blue Scorpion Warrior and various equipment can be sold to the Dragoon Headquarters, but this time the price will be significantly lower. And almost no individual combat equipment was cleared. However, the tank guns and armor pieces are all valuable things, and the wreckage of the tracked robot was sold for a high price of 150,000. In this battle, Su received a total of 240,000 incomes.

Early the next morning, the convoy sent by the Dragoon headquarters arrived at the camp outside Pendulum City. In addition to carrying the trophies, the five heavy transport trucks that arrived at the same time also brought a coffin with dark black inlaid gold patterns. This is the coffin that every dragoon will get when he dies, from the general to the private, it is the same material and shape, there is no difference.

Sue watched as Lieutenant Enzo's body was placed in the coffin, watched the lid slowly close, and watched as two muscular men lifted the coffin onto the truck. A bald-headed, bearded dragoon private walked over and handed Su a small message disk: "Ensign, oh no, soon I should call you a lieutenant." Here's the information you want! All the supplies have been handed over, and if you don't have anything else to do, I'll go back. Hopefully you'll be back in Dragon City before dark, you know, it's not peaceful in the north right now. ”

Su took out his badge and pressed it on the bearded private's tactical board to indicate that the mission was complete. It doesn't look like it's very peaceful in the north, as can be seen from the fact that the headquarters actually sent an official dragoon escort convoy. It is said that dragoons have been transferred to the north recently, but the war does not seem to have progressed much. However, Su didn't know who the enemy in the north was, the level of secrecy of this message was beyond his authority, and he didn't have many friends in the Dark Dragoon at the moment to reveal a little bit of information to him privately.

Persephone and Helen couldn't help him. Persephone seems to be forever out on the road, while Helen is only interested in his body. To be exact, the only thing Helen needs now is Sue's male physiological response. As soon as Helen appeared in the field of vision, Su's first reaction was to dodge directly.

The promotion of the rank and authority of the Dark Dragoon mainly follows two criteria, one is to look at ability, and the other is to look at merit. Abilities are evaluated not only by reference to the highest level abilities, but also by the total evolution points that form those abilities. Merit is determined simply and complexly, and the criterion is the amount of honorarium received for completing a Headquarters task. For every 100 yuan received, a little merit will be recorded accordingly. For example, Su, although the encounter with the blue scorpion is not in the original task list of the headquarters, the headquarters will also evaluate the quality of the feedback and give a corresponding honorarium, which is also regarded as merit.

Although Su's starting rank was second lieutenant, his actual merit at the time of the award was 0, so he only had the lowest authority. Generally speaking, all ranks below the rank of second lieutenant have the lowest authority, the second lieutenant counterpart has the first level of authority, which requires 1000 merits, and the second level of the lieutenant counterpart requires 3000 merits.

Su's ability rank has long reached the level of a lieutenant, but his merits have not been enough, so he can't improve his authority and rank. However, there is another way to improve seniority in the promotion of military ranks, that is, staying in the position of second lieutenant for a year, even if there is no merit, Su will be automatically promoted to the rank of lieutenant, but there will be no increase in authority.

In the Dark Dragoon, there are many people who do not match their rank and authority, especially those from major families, and some of them rarely go out on missions. Rank promotion is not entirely good, as the officers of the Dark Dragoons are paid to the headquarters and not receive a stipend from the headquarters. For example, Sue, after being promoted to lieutenant, the amount of money that needs to be turned in every month jumps from 1,000 to 3,000.

Su stood in the billowing smoke and dust, watching the truck go all the way away and disappear at the end of the wasteland, then he took out the tactical board and put the information disk ** interface, and a large amount of information immediately appeared on the screen, all related to Lieutenant Enzo.

As a forty-six-year-old man, Lieutenant Enzo can be said to be quite mediocre in the Dark Dragoon, even belonging to the near-bottom area. The fifth-order control of complex weapons in the psionic domain is the pinnacle of his potential, and his abilities in other realms are only second-order, and the potential in quasi-spells is even more zero.

But even by the standards of the turbulent years, Lieutenant Enzo was a happy man. He has been working diligently on the mission, and with the remuneration of the mission, he built a three-story villa with its own water purification system on the edge of Dragon City. The villa, which has an area of almost a thousand square meters, lived the lieutenant's three women and seven children. Enzo's eldest daughter is fifteen years old, and the other son will soon be fifteen. The youngest son is just one year old. What makes Enzo most proud is his eldest son, who has already formed a first-order ability in the simple and complex weapon control of the psionic domain at this age, and the potential of the fighting domain seems to be good, with the potential to develop to the fourth order. The daughter has also developed the ability of visual reinforcement in the perceptual domain, and is practicing simple weapon mastery.

This is a family that was once happy and stable, and it has begun to have the prototype of a family. Looking at a photo of the lieutenant with all his family members in the document, Su secretly sighed. The burden of a lieutenant is undoubtedly heavy, and children spend a lot of money, which is no different in old and new times. In particular, the lieutenant has to prepare for the cost of ability advancement for his seven children, which is a huge expense.

So the lieutenant had only two official subordinates. One of them was already sixty years old, and he had lost two legs, so he was no longer able to fight. This Hu used to be the second lieutenant of the Dark Dragoon, Enzo's boss. The man had belonged to a small family, but the family had since been defeated in competition with other families, and he himself had to retire from active duty after losing two legs in a battle to cover Enzo. Since then, Enzo has taken his former boss as a servant, as the disability compensation paid by the Dark Dragoon is merit-related and meager. If Enzo hadn't given him a steady income, the second lieutenant would not have had enough money to live on for the rest of his life.

The Dark Dragoons are such a realistic, cold-blooded, and brutal organization. Rights, status, money, resources, and abilities, all need to be fought for by the Dragoon himself, or directly obtained from the family, and the Dark Dragoon will never provide these, but will continue to ask for them. All the Dragoons get by serving the headquarters and contributing resources through guò is a key, a key to greater power.

The vast wealth amassed by the Dragoon headquarters was used to build comprehensive and sophisticated facilities, a large, ultra-modern arsenal, and an energy base throughout the district. Of course, the most important of these is the ability to develop formulas and non-standards. These cannot be built up by the resources and abilities of an individual or one or two families alone. The concentration of wealth can create an effect from quantitative change to qualitative change, which has greatly accelerated the process of research in all aspects of military industry and biochemistry, so that the Dark Dragoon has always stood tall in the Bloody Council, and even expanded its voice in recent years.

The dragoons fought for permission to have the keys to touch these treasures, and of course, the dragoons had to have enough resources to exchange them for them.

This is what the founders of the Dark Dragoon were all about, and as such, mercy and tolerance are not included in the Dark Dragoon's purpose.

Lieutenant Enzo's other servant has two fourth-order abilities in the fighting domain, and is an uneven servant who is beyond the average level, and of course has an out-of-level price. Enzo won't take him into battle unless he has to. On the one hand, because the lieutenant and he were actually friends, on the other hand, many of the tasks performed by the lieutenant were small and trivial, and the remuneration was very meager according to the standards of dragoons, and there was not much to share with the subordinates.

Sue clicked on Enzo's photo, a tall, muscular man with bulging muscles at his shoulders and neck. Below the photo are his various abilities, 3rd Rank of Strength, 4th Rank of Defense, 3rd Tier of Agility, 2nd Agility, 4th Rank of Speed, and Hand-to-hand Combat Mastery.

If Enzo had brought him, maybe he wouldn't have died in battle, Sue thought silently. He found that not every dragoon seemed to be able to afford a large number of servants, and perhaps there were not a few dragoons like Lieutenant Enzo.

Su pulled up the lieutenant's family photo again, looked at it intently for a few seconds, and then clicked on the lieutenant's family account and transferred 50,000 yuan into it. After Enzo's death, the pension he could get from the Dragoon headquarters was only 30,000 yuan. Next, Sue transferred another 5,000 yuan to Persephone's account, and then only 1,300 yuan remained in his own account. This money was just enough for him to pay the monthly fee to the headquarters and the salaries of the three servants. Quinn had all the equipment he needed, but he still had to pay him a monthly salary, albeit only $100, like Leigh and Rigore, but that was the rule.

At this time, thirty soldiers who had already been selected came out of the makeshift camp and lined up neatly outside the camp. The two men assisted Quinn in opening the stacked equipment boxes one by one and distributing the equipment to the warriors. Each soldier was given a helmet, a bulletproof vest, a new-age assault rifle, a medical kit, a field nutrition kit, and a personal battlefield communicator. This constitutes the most basic infantry individual combat system. Speaking of which, the most expensive thing is the battlefield communication system, and Leigh insists on getting this, so the amount of money consumed by each soldier increases by 30%.

This batch of equipment is intended for the next battle. Now the Su already has a small army armed with new-age equipment, although these cheapest and most rudimentary new-age equipment are not as good as some models of old-age equipment, but at least there is a basis for a preliminary confrontation with the Blue Scorpion infantry.

Lily and Rigolei also each got a set of basic equipment. Their equipment level is far from being comparable to that of other dragon riders, and even less than a complete set. Because a lot of money was spent on ten newly ordered "bronze dragons". Su himself was replenished only with bullets.

Compared to the past, the excitement and noise of the fighters when receiving their equipment was much less. Leigh has taken over Quinn's warriors in full swing, and the first thing she does when she takes office is to emphasize discipline. Those who dared to challenge her authority became obedient after fully understanding Leigh's fighting abilities. These murderous veterans couldn't imagine how Li's petite body could have such violent power. Li didn't use any skills at all, and she was a head-on punch to anyone, directly smashing off their face protecting the arm, and the big man who was as strong as a bear flew out more than ten meters away like a weightless piece of paper!

After this happened twice, no one dared to challenge the humanoid she-dragon again.

The clamor of the warriors brought Sue back to her senses from her musings. He looked at Quinn, who was shouting loudly and handing out his equipment, and with a fierce gaze he scanned at each of the warriors, and Rigore, who was leaning against the ammo box and smoking, and suddenly felt a heaviness on his shoulders. On his shoulders, there are more and more things called responsibility.

Su knew that although the strength of the pack of wolves was much greater than that of lone wolves, he was actually not familiar with group combat. Due to the constant sense of crisis, Su always tries to keep his distance from other people, never staying in one place for too long, and does not let people know his details. But now it's different, although the feeling of danger that swells up in the depths of her heart has become so strong that Su can barely sleep, Su still gritted her teeth and persevered, treating everyone around her with the same smile every day.

Su didn't know when the training base would happen again, and he didn't think the Fabregas family would give up on that. Although Fabregas has surprisingly stopped its operations against the Soviet Union so far, the next attack will come sooner or later. The longer the calm, the more elaborate and violent the next attack will be.

No matter what kind of danger he faced, Su knew that he would not leave the Dark Dragoon. There's Persephone, there's the little girl, he's going to have to stay here anyway.