Chapter 7: Escape from the Battlefield
Nelson didn't know how long he had been asleep, perhaps because he was too nervous before, but after he relaxed after falling asleep, he slept very deeply, and he didn't wake up until someone pushed his shoulder hard.
He had just woken up, and he was still a little confused, and he wanted to open his mouth to blame the people who pushed him and disturbed his rest, but as soon as the words reached his mouth, he saw the surrounding situation clearly and realized that he was still on the battlefield.
Nelson looked at the pitch black sky around him, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and found that it was already four o'clock in the morning of the next day, and according to the time, it would be about two hours later, and it would be almost dawn.
At this time, he saw that Jason, who had been sleeping before, had woken up and was ready to go, while Leo was nowhere to be seen, which made him inexplicably panic.
"Where's Leo?" Nelson asked Jason in a whisper that he was worried that Leo would leave him behind and run away on his own.
Jason didn't answer Nelson directly, but gestured to the box on the side to signal him to stand up, and then pointed to the fire set up by the soldiers of the French Empire.
Following the direction of Jason's finger, Nelson didn't see anything, and was about to ask, but suddenly something seemed to move in the direction he was seeing, but when he looked closely, he couldn't see anything unusual.
With doubts in his mind, Nelson adjusted the glasses on his mask to make the distant scene clearer.
At this moment, he finally saw something abnormal, only to see that at the edge of the light emitted by a fire, a shadow that almost merged with the surrounding darkness moved quickly to the ground like a gecko, and when it passed a fire, it threw something into the fire.
However, in the face of such a large living person moving rapidly under their noses, the swordsmen who were patrolling back and forth on the other side of the fire all turned a blind eye to it, allowing Leo to manipulate it in front of them.
"How did he do it?" Nelson couldn't help but wonder when he saw such an amazing scene.
Jason on the side seemed to be able to hear Nelson's heart, and said in a very soft voice: "I also want to know how this kid did it?"
Compared to Nelson and Jason standing in the trenches and being able to sigh easily, Leo obviously didn't have the energy to take care of other enemies at the moment, and he used most of the abilities of the subbrain to calculate the deepest shadows of the fire and the blind spots of the patrolling swordsmen.
He had been waiting since last night, waiting for the moment when the wind would change, and it was not until the early hours of the morning that the wind around him began to change direction, blowing towards the soldiers of the Francoian Empire.
Seeing that the opportunity came, he immediately woke up Jason, and then took out the bandages that had been prepared long ago and were soaked in poison, cut them into small pieces equivalent to the number of fires, and then the whole person was attached to the ground, and drilled into the shadow blind area of the fire, and put those poison cloth strips into the fire, one fire, one fire.
This is Leo's only chance to create a breakthrough, because he found that with the early morning dew, the smoke over the battlefield has completely settled, once the sky is bright, the army of the French Empire will enter the battlefield to complete the final elimination of the characters, and then he may have a chance to break through with his personal ability, but Nelson and Jason may not be able to protect it.
If it was when he was a biological weapon before, Leo might not feel any guilt and anxiety because he didn't save Nelson and Jason, but now, he has integrated into his current body, and even merged with the soul of the former Leo, and after gaining the memories of the other party, his mood will inevitably be affected, making him have some emotions that he didn't have in the past.
Although these emotions may become a burden to Leo, he is not disgusted, but is happy to accept this extra ordinary human emotion.
Because he found that when he had more of these emotions, the world in his eyes seemed to change from a single gray to a colorful one, which was also a feeling that he had never had as a half-human and half-machine, but he dreamed of.
With this mixed emotion, Leo quickly threw all the poisoned cloth strips into the fire, and instead of hiding in the trenches, he quietly lay on the ground and waited for the poison to take effect.
Perhaps it was because the big picture was decided, or maybe it was because the hours of the early hours of the morning were the least alert for people, and in short, neither the patrolling swordsmen nor the annihilators behind the makeshift bunkers noticed Leo's movements, unaware of what was about to happen.
About five minutes passed, and the sword-armor soldiers patrolling near the fire where the poison was first thrown seemed to feel uncomfortable, staggered a few steps, and sat down on the ground, and then the annihilators in the nearby bunkers also fell one after another, without making any sound, and then a row of more than a dozen sword-armored soldiers and annihilators near the fire fell one after another.
At this moment, Leo immediately stood up from the ground, bent his waist, waved his hand at the trench where Jason and the others were, and then quickly ran over the fire, and quickly ran to the cover where the Annihilator was, and took the steam repeater launcher from the poisoned Annihilator and held it in his hand.
"Target projection, target lock!"
Leo, who gave the order to the sub-brain system, opened the valve of the steam engine on the ground according to the operation technique of the steam repeater he had observed earlier, adjusted it to the highest state, lifted the launcher, and aimed the launch port at the positions of the other annihilators and swordsmen who were not affected by the poisonous gas locked by the sub-brain, and pulled the trigger.
Only a small swishing sound was heard from the launch port, and with a slight vibration transmitted to Leo's hand, dozens of arrows were fired, and then a scream was heard in the distance.
Leo didn't stop to check the results, or was confident that he didn't need to, so he turned the launch, aimed at the other side, and fired the crossbow with the steam in his hand before the other side noticed something was wrong.
The recoil of the steam repeater was much lighter than Leo expected, and the accuracy was naturally much improved, and with the help of the subbrain, the positions of all the targets were projected onto the eyeballs by him in the form of phantom positioning, as long as the target did not move faster than expected, none of these targets could escape his sniping.
In fact, it is true, regardless of those poisoned sword soldiers and annihilators, under the two rounds of strafing just now, there were as many as fifty people who died from the arrows, all of whom were targeted by Leo's sight, and such a big movement naturally alarmed the troops farther away, and even caused a commotion because of the large-scale death of people in a short period of time.
A command came from a distance, and although Leo did not know French, he could tell from the movement of the Franch army in the distance that they did not approach this side as he expected, but chose a steady approach, advancing slowly, and sending people to make a detour to the other side to expand the encirclement.
Under the cover of Leo's sniper strafing, Jason and Nelson escaped from the trench to another bunker.
Seeing this, Leo immediately put down the steam repeater in his hand and ran towards the place where the two of them were. As he got there, he saw that Jason and Nelson seemed to want to take the steam repeaters from the two Raiders and deal with the Francois as he had done before.
"You two fools, don't put your things down yet, run away!" Leo saw this, and immediately cursed in a low voice to the two of them, and then turned a corner, and quickly ran away from the battlefield.
Seeing Leo like this, the simple-minded Jason immediately reacted, obeyed Leo's instructions, put down the steam repeater he had just lifted, and chased after Leo, while Nelson took a step slower and followed.
Not long after the three of them ran out, the steam repeater used by Leo before did not continue to use the repeater because the air valve was opened to the maximum, causing a large amount of steam to quickly accumulate in a small space, causing an explosion and instantly forming a large amount of fog.
At the same time, this powerful explosion also caused damage to other similar steam devices in the vicinity, and the steam in the machine erupted from the breach and quickly gathered in the air, forming a thick fog.
"Damn! I should have turned all the gas valves to max out if I knew this thing would explode so easily. Looking back at the movement behind him, Leo immediately felt annoyed at the mistake he had made because he didn't understand the situation.
But fortunately, this wave of explosions did not affect their escape in any way, but because of the huge movement caused, the attention of those French troops was attracted to them, and the best opportunity to pursue the three of them was wasted.
Under the cover of darkness, the three of them quickly ran into the forest close to the battlefield.
Although it was relatively safe after entering the forest, Leo did not stop, but continued to walk away from the battlefield with Nelson and Jason. Because Leo would pick some relatively easy paths, the speed of the three of them was quite fast, and it took more than an hour to climb over a mountain and come to the small river on the other side of the mountain.
"Can you ...... Can you rest...... Take a break, I, I, can't hold on anymore?" said Nelson, who had already taken off his mask and untied his clothes, panting and sweating profusely, as he sat down on the rocks by the river.
After all, Nelson is only a temporary military doctor, not a real soldier, and has not received formal marching training, and it is already very good to be able to walk the mountain road for more than an hour in a row.
In fact, Nelson already wanted to rest as early as the other side of the mountain, but when he thought that there might be pursuers behind him, staying a little longer, it would be more dangerous, so he could only grit his teeth and hold on.
But now, he was pretty sure he was at his limit, and when he was almost at the river, he even needed Leo and Jason to take a step from side to side. ,
"Rest in place for five minutes. Leo also knew that Nelson really couldn't walk, so he nodded and agreed to Nelson's request, and then ordered him: "Take off all the doctor's isolation gown, military uniform, and all clothing related to the Kingdom of England." ”
After speaking, Leo quickly untied the isolation suit on his body, took off the mask, and then took off the bright red Inge Kingdom military uniform on his body, along with the military pants and military boots with octopus marks.
Although Jason and the others didn't quite understand why Leo did this, they already regarded Leo as the leader, so they naturally obeyed Leo's instructions and took off all the items with the mark of the Kingdom of England on their bodies according to Leo's example.
Leo examined the items again, found nothing worth keeping, and then wrapped them in turn with some stones, and threw them into the small river in front of him, where they soon sank into the murky water, and it was impossible to float up again in a short time.
In the slightly puzzled eyes of the two, Leo briefly explained, and said: "The French Empire will definitely issue a bounty in the surrounding towns to capture any soldiers of the Inge Kingdom, and if we wear such clothes again, we will only cause fire." ”
Then Leo took out the map and compass he had found from the officer yesterday, spread them out on the ground, and asked Nelson, "Doctor, do you know where we are now?"
"Our battlefield is in the Breteu area, and according to the direction we fled, we should be in the Bremar Forest now," Nelson drew the approximate location of the map with his hand, and pointed to the small river in front of him, "This small river should be a tributary of the Pombo River, and if you go downstream along this small river, you should be able to reach the Pombo River." If the Kingdom of England had not been completely defeated, the port of Venaya, near the mouth of the Pombo River, would still be in our hands, and we could go there. ”
Leo didn't immediately make a statement about Nelson's proposal, he looked at the map carefully, and after a while, turned to Jason and asked, "Jason, what is your opinion?"
"Me?" Jason was a little surprised that Leo would ask his opinion, scratched his head a little dazedly, and said: "I'll go with Leo, I'll go wherever you go, but I don't want to be a soldier again, because if we become a soldier again, we will be left on the battlefield to die, and next time we may not have such good luck to escape." ”
Although Jason's words were direct, they were not unreasonable, so Leo nodded slightly in agreement.
Leo then asked Nelson, "If we go to Venaya Harbor and the war is not over, will we still be integrated into other armies and sent to battle?"
Nelson opened his mouth and didn't know how to answer for a while, with what he knew about the noble officers in the Kingdom of England, their attitude towards civilian soldiers was definitely that as long as they didn't die, they would always be thrown into the battlefield.
He may be able to avoid re-entering the battlefield with his status as a doctor, but Leo and Jason may not be able to escape the fate of going to war again.
Thinking of this, he closed his open mouth again and asked in a deep voice, "What are you going to do?"
"We don't go to the port of Vinaya. Leo pointed to a city on the map and said, "Let's go here." ”