Life Copy Game

"Mr. Linn, there are some new situations in the wilderness. Take a look, this may also be the reason why the airship got lost."

The speeding transport plane streaked across the sky over the wilderness, and Meade's projection was also displayed on the center console.

At this moment, the transport plane is establishing contact with the base station on the high wall of Yilan City through its own high-frequency base station.

While Meade was speaking, a piece of information was also passed over.

He Ao glanced at the information, and then he asked softly, "Is there some kind of invisible 'barrier' near Yilan City?"

"Yes,"

Meade nodded slowly, "This 'barrier' is about one kilometer wide. It looks transparent and cannot be observed with the naked eye. You can see the scene outside through the barrier. It doesn't look out of the ordinary.

"But judging from the news from the sentries in the wilderness, once you approach or 'enter' the barrier, you will lose your sense of direction. Although you can still see the surrounding scene clearly, you can no longer tell the original direction. You can only move forward by following your intuition, and then you will end up back to the starting point without even realizing it.

"According to our calculations, this barrier was still passable dozens of minutes ago. Although it would still affect the direction, you could still get out by walking straight along the road, so no one was aware of this problem at that time. After all, it was a wilderness. Most of the roads are relatively simple and easy to identify.

"And this may be the reason why the airship got lost. The current detour route taken by the airship has an intersection with the original route, and this intersection is probably to the west of Yilan City, near this barrier. .

"The airship may have entered the barrier area without knowing it, lost its direction, changed from south to north, and entered the clouds at the same time.

"We suspect that the clouds in the sky have the same psychological induction effect, making the airship pilot feel lost and unaware that he is on the wrong path.

"However, the compound radar that comes with the airship will scan the density of the nearby herds and guide the automatic flight system to follow the 'safe route' that avoids the herds. In this process, they entered the original 'Morning Light- Yilan's route, and flew in the opposite direction, towards the direction of Chenxi City.

"The mercenary group of Copes Mining happens to be lying on this route. Their exercises nearby scared away the beasts and created a large area where the beasts were empty.

"The airship's composite radar scanned this open area, and the walking distance was about the same, so the automatic system thought it had arrived in Yilan City and chose to descend. Then it encountered an accident for unknown reasons and crashed in Copez. Mining neighborhood.”

"I see,"

He Ao spoke slowly, "Can you determine the scope of the invisible barrier now?"

"Currently our sentries are still investigating. I have contacted General Covey, and Nancheng has also sent out sentries at the same time."

Meade paused and said hesitantly,

"Mr. Lin En, the situation may not be good. Judging from the information we currently have, I am afraid that this barrier does not only appear in a small area, but is like a continuous 'cover', together with the clouds in the sky, covering Elan The city and the nearby wilderness were enveloped.

"On the trade road isolated by the barrier, many caravans have been blocked at this time, and even the strange beasts have been isolated."

At this point, Meade's tone slowed down, "I feel that it may be physically completely blocking the road leading to Yilan City, like..."

"A cage specially prepared by hunters to prevent their prey from escaping."

He Ao answered calmly.

"···Yes."

Meade looked at He Ao and spoke hoarsely, "Moreover, the barrier is blocked very quickly. We speculate that the barrier may change from passable to basically impassable in an instant, leaving us basically no room to react."

"Can you roughly estimate the scope of the barrier?"

He Ao asked in a low voice.

"Can."

Meade nodded slightly and sent a map over, "This is our approximate estimate of the barrier area."

He Ao lowered his head and glanced at the map. It was a map of Yilan City and the nearby wilderness area. At this moment, on this map, an irregular circle with Yilan City as the center and a radius of about 100 kilometers was drawn.

"Contact Covey, seal the city gates, prohibit everyone from going out, issue recall orders to all caravans locked in the barrier, and try to get all caravans back to the city, especially the caravans in the north."

He Ao raised his head, glanced at the clouds outside the transport plane window and the continuous wilderness under the clouds, and said quickly.

"yes!"

Mead responded immediately, then lowered his head, as if remembering something, and whispered, "The crashed airship is near the Copes Mining Mercenary Group. According to federal law, they should be obliged to rescue air crash personnel. If necessary, Have someone contact the leader of the mercenary group in advance to ask about the specific situation of the airship? "

"Need not,"

He Ao shook his head and looked down at the Copeth Mining Mercenary Corps station that was included in the circle on the map. "I'll ask him face to face."

"OK."

Meade nodded slightly, but he did not exit the communication. Instead, he opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end he did not ask.

"don’t worry."

At this time, He Ao's calm voice slowly sounded.

The old man raised his head and stared at the seemingly endless clouds, his eyes calm and natural, as if such extraordinary events covering a city were just commonplace for him.

That old and calm voice echoed in Meade's ears, and also echoed in the vast wilderness,

"What's in the cage is not necessarily the prey."

——

empty boat

In the narrow and closed cabin on the ground floor, a woman wearing a steward's uniform looked at the plump woman beside her and said, "This is the airship's communication equipment."

"which one?"

Looking at the densely packed buttons and small modules in front of her, as well as the extinguished screens, the plump woman was a little confused.

"Not which one,"

Standing next to the crew chief, the young man with the mechanic's name tag shook his head. He raised his hand and pointed at all the equipment in front of him, "These are all part of the airship's communication equipment. To be precise, they are the bottom control console and main engine. , the transceiver equipment is installed on the top and around the airship.”

"Good guy."

Looking at the equipment in front of her, the plump woman swallowed. She now really believed what the red-haired girl said about the airship's communication equipment being more powerful.

Then her eyes fell on the device in front of her, "This seems to be broken, can it be repaired?"

"uncertain,"

The mechanic on the side shook his head, "Some of the antennas may have been damaged in the air, but the main unit is probably still good. I will try my best to repair it."

"come on!"

The plump woman took a deep breath and looked at the mechanic, "Please, the faster we attract the city defense troops, the greater the chance of survival and the less pressure she will bear."

——

Koppes Mining Mercenary Corps Station

"Don't doze off."

The inspecting officer raised his head and looked at the mercenary in front of him, and said coldly, "Be alert, if Lin En comes with the Yilan City Defense Force, I'm afraid you will be killed without reacting."

"Boss, are you kidding me here?"

The mercenary raised his head, yawned, and laughed, "Who in the Federation doesn't know that those little turtles in the city defense army can only hide in turtle shells? They have to be coaxed by their mother for half a month before they even leave the city gate."

"that is,"

Another mercenary on the side also laughed and said, "Captain, I think you were scared by those little turtles last time. If we attack the city and they huddle in their turtle shells and beat us, we have to scare you. If he really Whoever dares to take off his turtle shell and run out will be beaten to pieces, hahaha."

"Boss, look what we have in our hands,"

A tall mercenary on the other side raised the rifle in his hand and laughed,

"The latest gadget of Ivis Space System, this thing can open a big hole in a bear with one shot. If that Linn really dares to bring someone to fight, let's show him who is the real boss in the wilderness. ! As long as that old guy doesn’t wet his pants because of us.”

"Hahaha!"

Suddenly, the mercenaries standing guard burst into laughter.

The whole wilderness was filled with a happy atmosphere.

Hearing these words, the officer standing in front was about to scold him when a mercenary standing in the corner suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the black spot under the clouds in the distance.

"Look, what is that?"

boom--

The howling storm approached from far away, and accompanied by a violent roar, a huge transport plane with a mecha team was approaching quickly from far away.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Alert! Alert!"

The officer standing in front immediately picked up his gun and shouted loudly.

Soon, the huge transport plane arrived not far from them, but when it arrived, the transport plane stopped and did not rush directly into the mercenary group.

Then under the nervous gaze of these mercenaries, the transport plane slowly lowered its height, and an old man holding a golden cane and wearing a gray suit jumped out of the transport plane.

He glanced at this sentry point, raised his steps, and moved forward slowly. His steps were obviously very slow and small, but he almost instantly crossed a distance of several hundred meters and appeared in front of this mercenary team. in front of.

"Lin...Lynn...?"

The leading officer trembled and looked at the old man who appeared in front of him instantly. He naturally knew this old man.

After the retreat that day, the regiment leader sent Lin En's photo to all the officers. Originally, this was to prevent the officers from letting Lin En go after one day breaking the city, and to report it at any time, so as to catch the culprit. Mayor's.

But he never expected that Lin En would suddenly appear here, in front of the headquarters of the Copes Mining Mercenary Group, still alone.

He swallowed and said tremblingly, "You, what are you going to do?"

These low-level soldiers didn't know Lin En's strength, but he heard it mentioned by his friends who were with the regiment leader.

The envoy sent by the group to see the group leader brought information about the 'Mayor Lin En'. The information, which was not rich, described the group's attitude. The group believed that the 'Mayor Lin En' was a very powerful high official. Extraordinary person.

For a strong man of this level, at such a close distance, crushing him would be as easy as crushing an ant.

"Boss, is this Lin En?"

However, while he was still speaking, the tall mercenary next to him suddenly brightened up. He raised his gun directly and said, "Old man, if you don't take the road provided by heaven, there is no door for you to enter hell. If you don't hurry, I'll catch you." , your grandfather and I are going to get rich."

Hearing his words, He Ao turned around and glanced at him.

As if a cold beast swept over his fragile soul, the pressure from his life rank made the tall mercenary's body begin to tremble unconsciously.

A cold wind blew under the void, and it seemed that the footsteps of death were gradually approaching, and then they pressed tightly against the mercenary's back.

The mercenary stared blankly at the cold, seemingly emotionless eyes.

That gaze seemed to tear open his soul at any time, cut open his flesh and blood bit by bit, and make him die bit by bit in despair.

The twisted fear spread in the mercenary's heart and gradually took over his entire soul.

"Do not kill me!"

The mercenary dropped the gun in his hand tremblingly and took a few steps back.

The strong fishy smell spread in the flowing wind of the wilderness, and the hot liquid flowed down the mercenary's loose trouser legs, falling into his shoes and into the grass.

He staggered, holding his head and kneeling on the ground, as if praying to the gods not to let the old man see him.

But at this time, the old man could no longer see him.

Because He Ao had already withdrawn his gaze, during the whole process, he just glanced at the mercenary and did not stay even a moment longer on the mercenary.

He looked at the officer in front of him who hadn't even realized what had just happened, and calmly continued the 'conversation'.

"Let your captain come to see me."

——

Copes Mining Mercenary Group·Command Center

The flame furnace burned with scorching brilliance, boiling the white solution in the round-bottomed bottle. The boiling hazy mist passed through the slender cooling device, condensed into flowing droplets, and fell into the beaker below.

The red-haired girl stood in front of the beaker, quietly watching the dripping drops.

"It's been dozens of minutes,"

A screen standing not far away suddenly lit up, and a bearded man appeared on the screen. His eyes were looking at the girl through the screen, "Hasn't your experiment started yet?"

"None of the things your people are looking for are right,"

The red-haired girl stared at the distillation device in front of her without raising her head, "I asked you to find absolute ethanol with a purity of more than 99.5%. For such a simple thing, you actually brought me a bucket of medical alcohol, and then I asked for more Purifying it yourself, it’s amazing to be able to start now.”

"My men are all rough people. They all graduated from high school with a high degree of education. It is normal for them to not be able to distinguish between alcohol and ethanol."

The bearded man said hoarsely, "But I also remind you not to be too clever. Before tonight, I haven't seen the sample, so I will kill one person every ten minutes until you make it.

"If you really can't do it, just think of an epitaph for yourself, and I will leave it next to your body. I hope that after your body is eaten by wild beasts, it can still be preserved for your family to see. "

The red-haired girl's expression darkened slightly.

The bearded man on the screen seemed to be satisfied with the red-haired girl's expression. He opened his mouth and was about to say something when a mercenary suddenly ran in from outside and whispered in his ear, saying a few words quickly.

His expression changed, he looked at the mercenary next to him with an expression of surprise and disbelief, and said in silence,

"Varied?"