From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Earth Zero Three.

September 30.

13:44.

On the first floor of the main building of the front-line base (formerly the shopping mall), in the equipment preparation warehouse;

Nearly two hundred combat personnel have all put on their exclusive individual equipment. At first glance, the appearance is not much different from the conventional combat uniforms and mechanical skeletons of the ARS company.

However, if you look closely, this set of individual equipment combat uniforms is composed of tiny diamond-shaped "◇" blocks, showing a black fish scale effect.

The helmet can be connected to the combat uniform in a closed manner to achieve the function of filtering toxic substances. The mechanical skeleton is also not equipped with any defense modules, and the overall texture is "light".

Judging from the appearance alone, it is impossible to confront the conventional combat equipment of ARS or AECS head-on, but in fact, this is the "Individual Stealth Combat Equipment/ISCE" developed by the Research Department, and its purpose is not to conduct frontal assaults.

Since the 1980s, Atlas has invested a lot of resources in the field of optical camouflage. It was not until the end of 1993 that it broke through the technical shackles and was the first to apply it to buildings and vehicles.

The first actual combat application of optical camouflage for individual soldiers occurred in 1994. When the second space gate began, the scientific research department provided the Hunter Company with six sets of stealth equipment that were still in the experimental stage to perform reconnaissance missions in the rain forest of Pandora.

At this moment.

The members of the Hunter Company are checking each other to ensure that their comrades' equipment is in good condition. At the same time, the logistics personnel wearing orange vests are assisting more than a dozen investigators, including Lyon.

"Okay!" The logistics personnel patted Lyon on the shoulder and smiled and reminded him: "Major Morgan cherishes these equipment very much. They are simply treasures to him, so be careful, otherwise you will definitely be remembered by him, hehe."

After that, the logistics personnel continued to be busy with other matters and no longer paid attention to Lyon who was adapting to the new equipment.

"..."

Seeing the logistics personnel walking away, Leon moved his shoulders and jumped a few times on the spot, and found that all the movements were very easy and smooth.

The most important thing is that when his feet landed, there was almost no sound. It was indeed a stealth weapon.

Leon nodded with satisfaction.

"Everyone listen up!" At this time, Arthur, who had already finished dressing, reminded on the helmet communication: "Don't forget to take more supplies. Our mission may often be in units of days. After all, Minova's area is ten times that of Los Angeles."

Hearing this, Leon put an AMWS rifle with a suppressor on his back and walked to the right side of the equipment warehouse with several investigators. There were a lot of bulk ammunition and magazines with subsonic bullets pressed by logistics personnel.

After taking enough ammunition, Leon took emergency medical kits, four kinds of compressed military rations, and spare drinking water bags in other supply areas.

Before long, his waist, thighs and chest storage bags were filled with various supplies.

Next, when Leon put on his helmet and connected it to his combat uniform, he heard a slight air flow. Then, a screen with various functions appeared in front of him.

The calibration line for auxiliary shooting also appeared in the center of the screen, and it quickly completed the synchronization link with the AWMS rifle on his back. The data such as the remaining bullets, bullet types and spare magazines were also displayed in the lower right corner of the screen.

"Five minutes left! Everyone, set off and board the plane!" Arthur's order came again on the communication channel.

"Huha!" and the war cry of the hunters.

And Leon immediately held the rifle in his hand, followed everyone out of the equipment preparation warehouse, and came to the open vertical take-off and landing apron.

At this time, if you look down from the air, the front-line base now has no traces of the original large shopping mall, and it has become a real military fortress.

There are many vehicles parked in the hangar, including the old Dragon aerial gunboat, V44-Red Eagle transport aircraft and RH-66 armed helicopters, as well as many new models that have abandoned the main rotor engine (propeller), or new aerial gunboats.

There were no "antiques" on the ground armored vehicles. Most of the equipment was developed by Atlas, including the "Titan" main battle tank with four tracks and a certain variable structure.

In addition, there is a larger double-barreled heavy tank without any tracks, the Tank-740 Hover "Killer".

Leon and his party left the equipment maintenance warehouse and were heading quickly towards a distance.

The aircraft waiting for them to ride was also a new model. It looked like a more compact and lightweight Black Hawk helicopter, but its double wings and jet engine structure showed that its speed and maneuverability were by no means comparable to the Black Hawk.

And this was the first vehicle to be equipped to the Hunter Company - the "Black Falcon" assault boat.

Beep-beep-.

Hearing the subtle electronic sound effects, and then through the helmet vision, Leon found that everyone's head was marked with words such as "H1-01" and "H2-01", and his number was "H7-14".

At the same time, the twelve Black Falcons that were being inspected by the ground crew were also marked "H1" to "H12" accordingly.

Without Arthur's explanation, Leon knew that he was assigned to the H7 combat group, so he immediately entered the Black Falcon that was also marked as H7.

Wait for the investigators and hunters to board the plane.

The ground crew helped to pull up the detachable doors on both sides of the cabin, then bent down and ran to a few meters in front of the cockpit to half-kneel, raised their clenched right hands and extended their thumbs, indicating that everything was ready.

Seeing this, the pilots also nodded in response, controlled the Black Falcons to rise to the air one after another, turned the fuselage angle, and quickly flew north.

Then, the twelve Black Falcons turned on the optical camouflage effect, and almost instantly merged into the gray sky, disappearing without a trace.

In the cabin;

Looking at the empty streets and the desert outside the city, Lyon, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly felt sad.

Intelligence shows that the human compatriots on Earth Zero Three are suffering great hardships, but the numbers and descriptions on paper are just cold documents after all, which is completely different from the experience of witnessing the actual situation in person in the air.

"Everyone, pay attention." At this time, Arthur began to use the individual soldier system to mark the targets of each group on the screen, and dictated:

" Groups H1 to H4, and groups H9 to H12 will be responsible for investigating prison areas α (Alpha) and β (Beta), respectively. Groups H5 to H8 will infiltrate and investigate the core area, and try to obtain Minova's architectural blueprints so that the company can more accurately drop metal hydrogen bombs.

Ten minutes later, unless there is a major incident, only internal communication will be allowed. If there are any questions, please contact me as soon as possible. Do you understand?"

"Understood."

Lyon looked at the enlarged bird's-eye view and responded in unison with everyone on the communication.

"Okay!" Arthur changed the subject and said fearlessly: "Let us first break into this hell cave for our brother troops! Hahaha!"