Chapter 4 Trouble on
Su cautiously checked back and forth along the passage twice, and after confirming that there were no problems, he returned to the N11 base. This rigorous style made him very popular with large organizations such as Payne, and it also allowed him to obtain two licenses from Payne Company very easily.
The process of handing over the task was very smooth, as Tony said before, old Anthony is still a very good person, and after confirming Sue's results, at least he is very happy in terms of payment, and has no intention of remorse. Although he couldn't hide his surprise that Su had completed the task so quickly.
Old Anthony didn't say a word about the whole nest of living corpses led by wise leaders, which certainly didn't mean that he didn't know. However, compared to what Sue had encountered in other settlements, old Anthony could be called reputable, and in that respect, Tony was not wrong. As for the small information asymmetry, it is really a very small thing in this era.
A 10-centimeter test tube filled with dark green liquid was the main part of Su's remuneration, the primary genetic evolution potion. In fact, the gold content of the potions produced in the N11 base is not high, because this formula tends to improve the ability of the psionic domain, and the effect of other ability domains is much worse. While psionic domains are arguably the most widely used ability domains, improved potions that favor one ability domain are far less valuable than general-purpose potions that are stable in terms of effectiveness.
As soon as the potion was acquired, Su already vaguely felt that this was a semi-general-purpose potion that tended to the psionic domain, and if a suitable buyer was found, this potion with a reduced effect could also be sold for about 4,000 yuan. Although it was still twenty percent worse than the expected 5,000 yuan salary, Su did not intend to continue to dwell on this detail, and old Anthony may have only done it out of the shrewdness of a businessman. And negotiation requires strength, and Su doesn't think he has the strength to make the N11 base, which has 20 first-order fighters, give in.
After taking a preliminary inventory of the equipment and the remaining money, Sue bought three more boxes of rifle ammunition for pistols from Tony, and replenished a pot of high-purity water, and Sue quietly left the N11 base.
The harvest of this mission is quite rich, deducting consumption and housing costs, it is estimated that the net income is around 3500, not including most of the evolution points brought by clearing a litter of living corpses. Since Su's ability has reached the third order, there is less than one evolution point that can give ordinary people a half-evolution point to a living corpse. Of course, it is also difficult for ordinary people to survive a battle of this intensity.
It's another sunny day.
The sun with strong ultraviolet rays scorched the earth mercilessly, but Sue's heavy cloak kept all sunlight out. He wasn't walking very fast, but his speed was constant, and he didn't stop until noon in front of the ruins of a lonely house. During the day, when the sun is strong, most mutated creatures will inhabit the nest, so Sudo chooses to rush at such times, although he can use his abilities more at night.
Sue relented after carefully inspecting the villa, which had lost half of its roof, to make sure that there were no deadly creatures hiding and that it was not some kind of nest of a large carnivore like an ironclad bear.
He took out the bullets used in the pistol and used an alloy file of less than 10 centimeters to engrave strange patterns on the bullets. In this way, the bullet will explode shortly after firing or when it is fired into the target's body, increasing its power exponentially. As for the accuracy of the loss, it was no longer within his consideration, and when Su used the pistol, he would never be more than 30 meters away from the target.
Suning handled the bullets steadily, one after the other, never seemingly bored or tired. In the blink of an eye, a box of bullets has been processed, and the pattern engraved on each bullet is exactly the same, even if it is engraved with a precision machine tool, it seems that it is nothing more than that.
Su carefully put away the bullets, took out a second box of bullets and opened them, as if the two hours of repetitive work did not bore him. The experience of wandering alone in the wilderness taught him that enough patience is necessary to survive.
Su suddenly frowned, catching the slightest faint but unusual tremor of the ground. He gathered the bullets and tools with incredible speed, and copied the rifle in his hand, and with a flash of his right hand, he had already loaded a modified cartridge. Then he flashed to the wall in a few steps and looked out through a gap in the wall. While doing this qiē, Sue did not make any sound at all, except for the sound of the metal striking of the rifle load.
At this time, Sue had no sights on his rifle at all. That old-fashioned optical sight was completely useless to Su, who had reached the third level of vision enhancement. The reason why this thing is still kept is only to confuse the people of the settlement or base.
Su narrowed his eyes slightly to block out the reflection of his eyes, and looked out cautiously. He himself is good at shooting from a distance, and of course knows what will reveal his whereabouts.
A few kilometers away, you can see billowing smoke and dust, and it looks like a convoy. And the shock from the ground can be judged by the fact that there should be at least one combat vehicle in the convoy. Looking at the speed of the smoke and dust from a distance, the convoy was not moving fast, only about 20 kilometers.
Looking at the direction of the convoy, it is the N11 base.
Su's heart moved, and he sat quietly for a few minutes, and finally slowly stood up, hunched over, and ran towards the N11 base at a constant speed of 25 kilometers.
Despite not being friends with the residents of Base N11, Sue decided to go over and have a look. At least the N11 base gave him a warm feeling, somewhat akin to a "home" feeling. This had never happened before, so even though Sue knew from the time he entered the base that N11's independence would not last, he still had to go over and take a look.
With the ability to process water, and possibly even a hidden water source, the N11 base is the largest piece of fat in the region. There is no one who would not be tempted by the N11 base. The N11 base will either be wiped out or attached to a more powerful force like Payne Corporation in order to survive. After all, Turner's twenty men alone could not defend the independence of a base capable of treating clean water.
Sue arrived on the periphery of the N11 base almost simultaneously with the convoy. Along the way, he already knew the composition of the convoy.
The convoy was one in front of the other and one behind the other, each with an old chariot from the old era. In the center are three trucks crammed with soldiers, and the most striking is a wheeled armored command vehicle.
The convoy was well targeted, and as soon as it reached its destination, two tanks drove to the front, blocking the exit from the N11 base. More than 100 soldiers on three trucks laid a second line of defense behind the tanks. Although this group of soldiers did not have first-order abilities like Turner's team, and they were not as well-equipped as Turner's team, they were five times as numerous and two tanks could completely overwhelm the N11 base.
Several more fighters jumped out of the armored command vehicle, and the dark camouflage uniforms, new-age automatic rifles, and vigorous movements distinguished them from ordinary fighters.
Su Pupils, who were hidden a kilometer away, narrowed slightly, these warriors all possessed second-order abilities, and there were two third-order warriors among them! Seeing the sophisticated sniper rifle in the hand of one of the third-order warriors, Su hid it more carefully.
The fighters in front had already begun to shout through loudspeakers to persuade them to surrender, while several special operators cautiously entered the cave. At this time, the roof of the command car opened, and the two men in the commander's costume stood up from the car and looked at the hill in front of them that hid the N11 base.
"Listen to the people inside! This is the Oxserland Corporation's direct guard! Now this base will be taken over by the Roxerland Corporation, and you will have three minutes to open the base gates and come out and surrender, and the base facilities must be intact! Otherwise, you will be responsible for the consequences! ”
While the loudspeaker's repetitive, monotonous but real threat echoed through the air, a dense and muffled sound of gunfire rang out in the cave. Although far away, Su immediately made out that it was the sound of gunfire from the base's automated defense platform. Several of the special operators then withdrew from the cave in a somewhat awkward manner, and when they came out, there were two fewer people than when they entered, but the packages they were carrying were missing.
After a few moments, there was a loud bang, and a thick smoke with countless gravel erupted from the cave, and then the mountain showed cracks all over the place, and the roar continued, and finally almost half of the hillside was blown away by a powerful explosion!
The scattered rubble kept falling, striking on the tank shell, and on the fighters who had long been lying on the ground. Roxserland's fighters were armed with steel helmets and bulletproof vests, so almost no one was injured. In the rain of stones, although the command vehicle was shaken and flew half a meter high, the two commanders on the vehicle stood straight, as if they were nailed to the car.
After the hillside was completely lifted, the gate of the N11 base was revealed, and the automatic defense weapon platform outside the door was long gone, and the gear-shaped gate overturned inward, and the tractor was also exposed. All it takes is one more blast, or a few direct-aim rounds from the tank, and the base gate will be open. With the sturdiness and structure of the base gate, although such an explosion is powerful, it is not enough to destroy the gate so completely, but somehow, the gate of the base is broken.
That's when the unexpected happened. The violent tremors were transmitted to a kilometer away, directly causing a row of abandoned two-story buildings to collapse, and Su, who was lying on the roof, had to jump out and fall gently to the ground.
As soon as he showed his form, the two commanders in the command car immediately noticed it! Almost at the same time, they raised their binoculars and looked this way. And the elite fighters around the command vehicle also spotted Su, and they raised their guns to aim, of course, at a distance of nearly 1,200 meters, only the RF1000 sniper rifle produced by the Catrowin Company in the hands of the third-order sniper was the real deadly threat.
Su landed on the ground, immediately half-knelt on the ground, set up a long rifle, and aimed at the third-order sniper. The tremors of the ground continued, and the strong wind from the blast wave howled by, lifting Sue's cloak. However, the rifle in his hand did not move in the slightest. When the aftershockwave hit, Sue saw that the muzzle of the sniper's gun seemed to move slightly.
Sue's pupils immediately contracted into a doji, but he didn't pull the trigger.
At this distance, without the help of any optical sights, Su had already recognized that one of the commanders in the command vehicle was Liji who had broken into his room that night!
The woman was dressed in a crisp senior officer's uniform, with a dazzling gold star on her epaulettes, her short hair tied under her beret cap, her face covered with frost, and her eyes glittered with murder. At this time, Liji is completely an iron-blooded soldier on the battlefield, how can she still have half of the drunken and languishing atmosphere that night?
The commander next to her raised his hand and pointed at Su Yaoyao and shouted, "Kill that person!" ”
The third-order sniper responded to the call, his fingers tightening the trigger, and began the final aiming.
Su didn't move like a statue, his blue eyes amplified the sniper's movements, and even the slight muscles on his face could be seen clearly. Sue didn't shoot first, and at this distance, Sue could shoot first and then dodge as long as the sniper showed signs of firing. And he had a strong instinct that he shouldn't be the first to shoot.
"Stop!" Liki immediately shouted, and pressed the commander's hand.
The sniper obviously knew who the real commander was, and immediately released the phone that pulled the trigger when he heard the command, and the moment he released his fingers, the heaviness that pressed on his heart suddenly disappeared.
"Sir, that guy is suspicious, he seems to be following us all the way, and he seems to be a sniper, it's better to kill him......" The commander didn't seem to agree with Riggie's orders.
Liki interrupted him coldly: "I said let him go!" Don't provoke him! ”
"But ......" the commander was not an easy character to be convinced.
Liki's face became even more gloomy: "Do you want to question my orders for the third time?" Answer me, Lieutenant Colonel! ”
The commander snapped and replied loudly: "Complete obedience to your orders!" Checkmate! ”
The commander, despite his youth, courage, and military talent, did not dare to challenge her authority a third time. Although he was keenly aware of the seemingly unspeakable relationship between Riki and the sniper in the distance, and the faint burning jealousy made him want to kill the guy immediately, it didn't make him lose his mind, especially when Liki reaffirmed his order for the third time. At Roxerland, almost everyone knows Liggie's decisiveness, ruthlessness, and unscrupulousness, in addition to her military prowess. She allowed her subordinates to question any of her orders, but only twice. Anyone who tried a third chance never left the battlefield alive.
The plan for the annexation of the N11 base this time is her typical style, that is, she does not give the base any chance for peace negotiations at all, and directly blows up the gate of the base with a large amount of chemical high explosives, and then comes to the so-called negotiations. In Liki's opinion, a turtle that has lost its hard shell has no bargaining power. After blowing open the gates, the remnants of the N11 base have only two choices, either to surrender unconditionally, to become slaves or free people, it all depends on her mood. Either they were all put to death, if they dared to resist.
Liji glanced at the elite soldiers around the command vehicle and said coldly, "Put down the gun!" Do I need to repeat it a second time? ”
These elite warriors immediately put down their guns, they knew that there must be no hesitation in carrying out her orders, let alone unnecessary actions or words that would mislead her. On the battlefield, Liki is a butcher, both for the enemy and for her own people.
After suppressing her men, she looked at Sue in the distance. Instinctively, despite being far away and without any sights, she knew that Sue would be able to read her every expression.
She raised her hand and designated Sue from afar, a vague smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and her eyes were even brighter as if they were about to breathe fire. She was confident that Sue would be able to read her.
"You're my man sooner or later!" So says her left eye.
"I'm going to catch you!" Her right eye said so.
Su Moran didn't think about what would happen after that hypothetical scenario, he just put away the modified rifle, turned around and disappeared into the ruins of the wilderness.
Liki turned her head to look at the adjutant beside her, still with that ambiguous, lustful smile on her face, and the adjutant's eyes almost burst into flames.
She stretched out her left hand, tapped it on the adjutant's forehead, and said, "I know you're not convinced. But at this distance, he can smash your head lightly! ”
The adjutant turned pale, not at all believing that a person could hit a target at a distance of 1200 meters without relying on sights. However, out of the corner of the adjutant's eye, he suddenly saw the third-order sniper he relied on as his trump card. The sniper was half-kneeling on the ground, his face was pale, his sweat had long been soaked in his military uniform, and only with the support of the sniper rifle did he not completely sit on the ground.
It was only at this time that the adjutant was truly surprised. He knew how many battles the sniper had fought in, and how brilliant his record was. How could such a veteran who crawled out of the pile of dead people collapse like this at a distance where only a sniper can play a role, and the confrontation with a Catrovin RF1000 sniper rifle against an old-fashioned modified rifle that does not even have a scope, and it only lasted less than a minute? This seems completely inexplicable.
There are so many unexplained things in the new era, and this is just one of them.
The adjutant's face was still iron-blue, and he didn't dare to challenge Liji's authority on the battlefield, which didn't mean that he was afraid of her. Within the company, his backer is even higher than Lige's.
The fiery sun finally disappeared into the clouds, and then the whole sky began to darken, and darkness gradually enveloped the ubiquitous ruins, and it was another starless and moonless night.