The shepherd climbed the monitoring buoy in the ocean, and now he does not wear an armored suit, but only the most ordinary combat suit and jumping device.

It is this weight that will not allow the buoy to sink significantly, thus attracting the investigation of the troops stationed on the coast.

As a new recruit selected by Task Force 141, the Shepherd completed a series of combat training and achieved a passing grade before being allowed to participate in the operation.

Unlike the shepherd, whose duty is front-line reconnaissance, Holt is responsible for rear data stabilization and the provision of drone fire support.

This division of duties and responsibilities comes from the characteristics of each of them, and the shepherd is the typical soldier who will complete all the tasks assigned to him. Holt is an excellent intelligence and data deciphering expert and drone expert.

Of course, only newcomers like them will be assigned obvious job responsibilities, and as long as they are fully accepted by the task force and become transformed super soldiers, there will be no such distinction.

At that time, the way they fight will also change dramatically.

Holt provided the shepherd with monitoring data from his surroundings, and the two chatted boredly in the channel.

Holt said: "Do you think this is going to be another test? It's like being on a space elevator. ”

The shepherd shook the drops of water from his body, and the magic engraved on his suit worked instantly, drying the entire garment.

Touching the garment, the shepherd did not perceive any thermal reaction on it, and could only interpret it as an incomprehensible magical power.

The shepherd, who was on the front line scouting, was not as easy as Holt, who held up a hand-held telescope to observe and photograph the situation in the distance.

In the distance, there is a steel dome that encloses the entire city, and to the outside is a military dock with gun-wielding soldiers patrolling back and forth. Searchlights constantly illuminate the surroundings, leaving almost no dead ends.

But people on land could not have imagined that someone would lie on a buoy and observe them.

After confirming the data back, the shepherd slowly replied to Holt in the channel.

The shepherd said, "Didn't you read the fine print? The kind of test that only happens once in a person's life, just like the simulation training of the pilot, everyone leaves a harmless joke after being judged to be qualified. ”

"But that's too real, and I wonder how Sam found out that the world was fake!"

Sam Fisher, the legend of legend, the shepherd is also curious, but he knows that he can't take the initiative to ask.

Holt also sensed that his words had the implication of snooping on intelligence, and forcefully changed the topic and asked, "What kind of existence is the Iron Pilot?" Now that we're the only super combat force in the Authority, I thought Task Force 141 alone was a good enough layer of secrecy, shepherd, right? After all, you're trained in jumping gear! ”

The Shepherd had already demonstrated his ability to slide walls in testing, and his jumping gear allowed him to appear among enemies in unexpected ways, regardless of terrain and space.

However, the shepherd did not behave well, and he needed Holt to throw smoke grenades at him to obscure the enemy's vision.

"The Iron Pilot is the top hunter. No! You can't say they're hunters, that's what APEX Season Champions call them. Every action of the Iron Pilots is to open the way for the Legion with their personal strength, and they are the best existence. ”

Just a few words, Holt was fascinated and said: "It would be nice if I could compete with them on the same stage!" Even if it's to sneak into the equipment to see ......"

The shepherd, however, laughed, and the laughter was full of helplessness and exclamation.

Holt didn't know why, and said, "What's wrong?" ”

The shepherd asked, "We are from the same world as the Rainbow Squad, what do you think of the Rainbow Squad's level?" ”

After thinking about it seriously, Holt said: "Although the Rainbow Squad is now going to play the apex competition, they are still at the T1 level, and the two sides have different focuses, if the Ghost Squad plays against the Rainbow Squad, indoor CQB and urban battles, they win." Out of the city, we win. ”

"That's right! It is such a combat unit, and the APEX competition, which gathers the combat forces of the same level from all worlds, is actually a peaceful battle between the worlds, and the armed confrontation allowed by the Temporal and Space Authority. ”

"But do you know what such a combatant looks like in front of the pilot? The only publicly available content I've seen in my Jumping Device training is the Pilot's frontal kill demo of the Jumping Device. The opponent is the multi-world joint combat force that has won the championship in the APEX competition. The Rainbow Squad was one of them, and that game allowed the use of all lethal weapons and tactical equipment. And the pilot only has jumping equipment, and he didn't even take out his own pistol! ”

"He first stunned an unlucky guy, grabbed the weapon, and began to kill one-sidedly throughout the arena. He uses his skilful sliding wall with a jumping device to accurately dodge every line of gun. Appear in locations you didn't expect and take you out with your own weapons. He knows every weapon so well that he won't even run out of ammunition in his magazine. ”

"It was a real battle royale! Let's run, kill the pilot! ”

The shepherd's words reveal helplessness and yearning, and he also wants to be like that.

The Iron Pilots have a long history of strength, and they are the pinnacle of the Temporal Authority's technological prowess. In terms of their own body transformation after 600 years, coupled with the various enhancements of the Space-Time Authority, they have been physically separated from human descriptions.

Not to mention the Titan that can be nerve-linked, the current Titan is the only super combat weapon made entirely of orichalcum and covered with a pure gold coating, except for the Admiral Barron.

The Iron Pilot and the Titan are the strongest equipment of the Space-Time Authority.

Warbands such as Task Force 141 only issue call-ups for their favorite candidates, which can be traced, but the pilots have not made their selections public so far.

That's a real ghost force.

Three helicopters flew low over the sea, searchlights and radar scanning everything around them.

The shepherd grabbed the buoy in the sea and sank himself into the sea one step ahead, avoiding the detection of the helicopter.

'CELL 5 Coast Guard, I'm Hunter 3. Please note that we have detected resistance troops passing through the 33rd Medic Corps to the west of the dome. Maybe it's okay? But stay calm. That bastard is a dangerous person. Complete. ’

The helicopter's communication channel conveyed the panic of the people above, and this was also heard by Holt and the shepherds, who had been fully monitored.

"They've arrived."

The shepherd stuffed a small ball of seaweed into his mouth, which looked like countless slippery gray rat tails, held it in his mouth and did not swallow it, and said vaguely: "I dived under the surface of the sea, and you report to your superiors according to the predetermined procedure." ”

"Understood. I'll be right there, done. ”

Holt's voice disappeared from the two of them, and the shepherd endured the slippery taste in his mouth like an octopus's tentacles, and didn't want to chew it at all, so he swallowed it hard.

Gill sac grass, a magical plant that allows people to grow gills on their cheeks and webbing between their hands and feet.

As long as you have a good grasp of the dosage of gill sac grass, you can accurately grasp the deformation time.

The shepherd's bite allowed him to maintain his transformation for half an hour at most, enough for him to go from the coastal buoy to the dock under the cover of the sea.

Even if there is sonar monitoring under the sea, the flexible speed like a fish, and no metal signal, it will not be regarded as a frogman at all.

Under the warning of the helicopter, the dock quickly conducted a self-inspection, and the lack of any enemy made them gradually let their guard down.

'Hunter Three, there's no one here tonight. Complete. ’

The soldiers at the dock responded, causing the shepherds who had just come ashore to shake their heads in disappointment, it seemed that these guard soldiers were not strong in combat. After getting a warning, the troops should be gathered to start a comprehensive investigation, how can everyone disperse for inspection? After the inspection, there was no gathering to confirm the number of people, so when the enemy did not exist?

With so lax guards, it's no wonder it's a world about to be destroyed. ’

The shepherd, hiding on the edge of the shadows, saw the helicopter depart, and expressed regret for what happened to the soldiers.

The helicopter serves as an aerial platform, and the guards here have the first fire support before it leaves.

When the helicopter leaves, it means that the enemy is going to attack.

The soldier in the storage area of the dock swayed towards the sea, his colleagues behind him, and a little further away were searchlights and heavy machine guns.

The soldier thought he would be fine, after all, he had teammates.

Coincidentally, his teammates thought the same thing.

The teammates behind him had already turned around at some point and started talking to the people upstairs, and the heavy machine gun was not stationed, who would want to be stupid to stand by the hot searchlight all the time.

Walking past the container, the soldier suffered a severe punch in the upper right abdomen, and the pain in the liver area was so severe that he collapsed on the ground without being able to scream.

And the person who attacked him did not spare his hand, and directly twisted his cervical vertebrae on the spot.

The assailant was a soldier who looked like a soldier in his face, and with his hairless bald head, he was the brightest boy in the dock lights.

After killing the sentry, the bald head waved his hand behind him, and two guys tumbled up from under the concrete dock, one of them guarded backwards, and the other followed the bald head.

The trio armed with weapons in hand coordinated the assault, and the sound of silencer gunfire was hidden in the noisy docks.

The trio had a plan and a goal, and they searched for a container that was being protected.

The voice came from the dock soldier's channel again, 'Call Team R, the hardware can be evacuated, bring it back.' Complete. ’

The bald head pressed his hand to his headset, which didn't seem to work well, and he eavesdropped on the docks' communication channels.

Just as he had said this, the bald head signaled to his companion to attack, and walked out with his gun in hand.

Leisurely walked to kill the soldiers next to the container, looking at the container in front of him with mixed feelings.

This may not be called a container, it is an angular stone vessel with multiple cables inserted on both sides, and it is not known whether it is for energy supply or extraction.

The bald head stood in front of the container, and from the staggered transparent glass above, he saw the guy inside.

It was a humanoid object, with black muscles that leaked out, and his whole body was wrapped in restraints, and under the blue light inside the container, only the slight chest heaving of his breath could tell that he was alive.

The bald head put a decoder on the switch and quickly walked away.

As the decoder operated, the entire container was opened, and the people inside kept twisting their bodies, as if they were fighting against the restraints.

Suddenly, the blue light of the container went out, and he wasn't struggling.

One of the guards outside tentatively approached him, wanting to check on his condition.

At the moment of approaching, the person inside broke through the ice in front of him, reached out and lifted the guy in front of him by the neck.

This guy is more than two meters tall, and he walked down with a person in one hand.

"Oh oh! Take it easy! Allies, do you remember allies! ”

The bald head hurriedly walked over from the side with his hands raised, signaling that he was not a threat while constantly emphasizing his identity.

And at this time, the whole picture of the humanoid creature that used the person in his hand as a shield was really displayed in front of everyone's eyes.

The black muscles that I just thought were actually the strengthening muscular system of the garment, which is similar to the muscular system of the human body, attached to the metal on the crotch of the chest and the back of the garment. The head is composed of a matte metal helmet, and the face is a red goggle with an ignorant system.

This is an unusual humanoid muscular armor suit.

Seeing the identity of the bald head, the humanoid creature threw down the hostage in his hand and asked suspiciously, "Saiko?" Where's your nano biochemical suit? ”

Saiko glanced at the ground, as if to hide his pain, and then said indifferently, "CELL skinned me, skinned everyone outside. You're the last one, and now it's all about your biochemical outfit! ”

The humanoid creature pulled up the fallen man to the side, looked at the bald Saiko, and asked, "How many of you came?" ”

Saiko pointed his finger and said, "Just the three of us, the human race is about to be wiped out, and our resistance army can't draw many manpower at all!" ”

"Three!"

The humanoid creature looked not far away, where the shepherd, who was keeping a record of everything, lay on his stomach.

'Oh no! ’

The shepherd removed the electromagnetic smoke grenade from his lower back, and the Nano Biochemical Suit required an electromagnetic pulse and electrostatic particles, which can overload the reverse current heat exchanger to temporarily disable it.

Although the paralysis time is measured in milliseconds, it is enough for the shepherd to jump into the sea and flee for his life.

However, the shepherd who had just removed the grenade lost all traces of the humanoid and disappeared.

"I kind of know how annoying I am in the invisibility suit!"

Complaining in his heart that the enemy would be invisible, the shepherd smashed the electromagnetic smoke grenade directly into the ground.

However, before the grenade landed, and even the safety spring on the grenade could pop off, one hand firmly pinched it.

The humanoid grabbed a grenade and threw it into the ocean in the distance, a cloud of blue electromagnetic smoke suddenly exploded.

"Targeted weapons!"

Faced with this enemy, the humanoid creature threw its fist directly at the shepherd who was about to flee.

If they didn't keep their hands, they would be cruel to themselves at this time, how could they not understand as warriors.

And the punch went straight to the shepherd's spine, and a broken tendon would be the most merciful captive.

'Tom~'

There was a dull thud, and the humanoid's fist was captured.

McTavish 'Soap' appeared behind the shepherd's back and took the punch for him.

And Soap's height of two and a half meters is only a head taller than him in front of humanoids.

"Just woke up so angry? What do you want me to call you? Prophet? Barnes Lawrence, or Arcatez from USS Armed Reconnaissance Team O1? ”

(End of chapter)