Data Wasteland

After about twenty minutes...

On a certain farm in the Principality of Nice, several large agricultural machinery were stuck between two houses.

The faint sound of artillery fire came from a distance.

Behind the heavy tractor squatted a few heavily armed soldiers. The person in front stretched his neck and observed the cold and dark plain through the gap in the driver's seat.

There were seven or eight other people hiding in the corner, some looked nervous, some were smoking and chatting in low voices.

A team of twelve people, two wing mechs, and a deserted farm formed a small stronghold.

How small is it?

So small that it wouldn't even be marked on the commander's tactical map.

But it is these thousands of small strongholds that constitute the huge Nice line of defense, preventing the advance of the desert army.

"Boss, why did you join the army?"

Probably to ease the tension before the battle, a young soldier asked the captain who was observing the front.

The captain is a woman in her early thirties. Although she is not very old, she has vicissitudes and calmness that do not match her age.

The female captain focused on the front, the young soldier asked several times in a row before putting down the binoculars in his hand, and said in a low voice, "The reason is not important..."

"What matters is that we are here, with our weapons, to defend our country."

"You really are like what they said..." The young soldier joked, "A loyal soldier of the Kingdom!"

"Maybe..." the female captain said with a bit of self-mockery, as if she didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, picked up the binoculars again, and looked ahead through the gap in the tractor.

Although the captain was not enthusiastic, the young soldier still said to himself, "Do you know why I joined the army?"

"It's kind of ridiculous to say that I have a beautiful girlfriend and we've been together since high school."

"When the army passed through the street, her eyes were full of admiration, saying that the soldier is so handsome."

"Then you joined the army?" the female captain asked without looking back.

"I can't make her fall in love with others. If she wants to worship, she can only worship me." The young soldier said conceitedly.

"You are a brave boy." The female captain praised, still looking ahead without looking back.

"I want her to look at me and return to her with medals all over her body." The young soldier said with longing.

"Your wish will come true soon," said the female captain.

"I heard that meritorious deeds can be exchanged for a lot of money. After I go back, I plan to buy a big house in the city, propose to her, and hold a wedding that everyone will envy." The young soldier became more and more excited as he talked.

"Well, it sounds good." The female captain said.

"We will go to Neuss for our honeymoon, take a sightseeing train, and go to the Holy See to witness our love."

"It's really enviable..."

The two chatted without saying a word. As time went by, the sound of guns and guns around became more and more clear and dense. It seemed that the enemy army was approaching here.

The atmosphere became more and more dignified, everyone repeatedly clenched their guns, and sweat continued to ooze from their palms.

As the war approached, the young soldiers became panicked, clutching the barrel of their guns, muttering to themselves, "I, I can't die here, I definitely can't die here..."

"If I die, she will find another man, she is so beautiful, she will definitely not wait for me, I have to go back..."

The young soldier was trembling, repeating a sentence - I must go back!

At this moment, several flares rose from all directions, illuminating a large area with incandescent light.

A huge body appeared in everyone's sight, with a human head and a scorpion body, with a ferocious face, and thousands of golden arcs danced on the red body surface, like an ancient fierce **** standing in an open field.

The moment their eyes met, the huge coercion made their chest feel like a boulder, making it difficult to breathe.

All the details show that what they are seeing at this moment is the legend from Saudi Arabia—the Scorpion King!

The atmosphere became extremely oppressive, no one made a sound, and expressions of despair appeared on their faces.

Seeing the terrified look of the team members, the female captain gritted her teeth hard, pulled the bolt of the gun violently, and said loudly, "Everyone, get ready to fight!"

A shaggy bearded man was the first to come back to his senses, and asked the female captain in a rough voice, "Even Ashidoro is here, and our reinforcements are here!"

"Didn't it say that the Southern Army led by Bai Ye is in Nice!"

The female captain gave the other party a cold look and said, "Don't ask me why, I'm just a second lieutenant."

"The only thing I can do is to obey the orders of my superiors and stick to this stronghold!"

"That's the Scorpion King, we don't even have the qualifications to stuff his teeth!" the brawny man roared loudly, his voice full of unwillingness and anger.

"No, I can't die here, I can't die here..." The young soldier just now shook his head, looking lost.

"Show some manliness!" The female captain shouted, "We are warriors of the most powerful kingdom, and nothing can scare us, even in the face of legends!"

"No, it's impossible!" The young soldier shouted out of control, "I want to go back, I can't die here."

"Captain, let's go, let's go home, captain, let's go home..." the young soldier said while backing away, "Stay here, we will definitely die!"

"Shut up!" The female captain yelled loudly, "Do you know what you are doing!"

"No, I can't, I can't die!" The young soldier shook his head, "I want to go home, go home!"

"Let's go together, that is a legend, we will definitely die here..." the young soldier said desperately. The soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, and they were a little shaken.

They are just soldiers at the bottom, not even cannon fodder in front of legends.

Seeing this, the female captain closed her eyes, took a deep breath, looked at the young soldier opposite, and said slowly, "You just asked me why I joined the army."

"Okay, I'll tell you now..." She looked around the audience, "Not long ago, the mob in Saudi Arabia was in front of me..."

"Chopped off my husband's head, slit my five-year-old son's throat, and then the men of their entire tribe raped me for three days and three nights, until I fainted, they still refused to let me go."

"I am alive now to seek justice for my dead husband and children!"

With tears in her eyes, the female captain pointed to the dark field behind, "Look behind you..."

"There are your family members, your parents and children, your relatives and friends there."

"If, if you don't want your loved ones to be harmed and humiliated to death, please take up your weapons." "No matter what is ahead, we must fight, even if our role is only to plug the gap between our teeth, we must also plug it!" Make the other party feel uncomfortable!"

The eyes of the soldiers gradually became firm, their strength gradually returned to their bodies, and they tightened their grip on the weapons in their hands again.

However, the young soldier did not change at all. He shook his head and muttered to himself, "No, I don't want to die here, I don't want to!"

"Obviously we can send reinforcements, why let us die in vain!"

"I'm still young, I have a beautiful girlfriend, and I don't want to die yet!" the young soldier yelled in despair.

"Don't force me!" The female captain pulled out her pistol, pointed at the other party, and said sharply, "If you run away, we will deal with it according to the military law!"

"Why!" The young soldier grabbed his hair and shouted almost madly, "Why does Chen Erliu have so many beautiful women, but I have to suffer here!"

"Why can he hide behind a safe place, but I have to face that Saudi lunatic here!"

"Is my life not my life?"

"You're crazy!" the female captain growled.

"Why, why!"

"He's just a **** mercenary, his background is worse than mine!" the young soldier shouted hysterically, "Why should I be here!"

"I will never, never die here!" The young soldier yelled, turned and fled.

The female captain gritted her teeth and pulled the trigger.

"Boom!"

Tongues of flame spewed out, and bullets shot at the young soldiers. There was a flash of blue light on his back, and the bullet hit the thin spiritual armor, and the star dust flew away immediately, and his body fell forward under the impact of the bullet.

The young soldier struggled to get up and ran forward.

The next second, a dark wind came from behind, and the young soldier pushed his chest forward, and a sharp knife protruded from his chest. The shining blade is particularly pale in the dark night. The young soldier stared wide-eyed, looking at the sky in disbelief, with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

"spit!"

The strong man pulled out the **** sharp knife, spat at the corpse, and cursed, "Coward!"

The female captain raised her pistol, "For the country, for the glory..."

"For revenge!"

"Let's fight!"

The soldiers were in high spirits, raised their weapons one after another, and shouted, "Fight against sand dogs!"

However, just when the morale of the whole team was booming and they were about to fight, the Scorpion King who was thousands of meters away slowly turned around, looking at the farm in the dark with his two scarlet eyes.

His gaze did not fall on the farm, but on the huge black shadow behind the farm—a steel puppet tens of meters high and moving slowly.

In the next second, the Scorpion King swung his lightning fork and shot it out.

A golden glow swept across the darkness, the huge force distorted the surrounding space, and countless electric arcs burst out.

The moment the electric fork passed over the roof of the farm, a million volts of high voltage electricity was released. Before the whole team had time to scream, they turned into charred corpses all over the place.

The fuel tanks of the two wing-shaped mechas were broken down by the electric current, and the ammunition also exploded, forming two **** of fire.

The steel puppet in the distance was pierced by the electric fork, and its heavy and slow body crashed down, crushing the soldiers behind it into a meat paste.

When the lightning disappeared, the deserted farm returned to silence, with only a faint smell of burning, as if no one had ever been there.