Life Copy Game

——Half an hour ago——

"Captain Feisi, we are about to arrive at Yilan City."

Soldiers wearing lightweight black armor that covered their whole body jumped onto the large operational command vehicle. Amidst the undulating roar in the distance, they walked quickly towards the blond middle-aged man who was sitting in the middle of the command vehicle and was filing documents.

The armor covering his head quickly faded to the sides, revealing the young face underneath.

At this moment, the officers sitting on both sides of the blond man also heard the sound and focused their eyes on him.

"Um,"

The blond man put down the document in his hand and looked at the soldier, "How far is it?"

"About one hundred and twenty kilometers,"

The soldier looked at the blond man, raised his bracelet, and scanned a sensor in the command vehicle. A photo of flames and troops was projected on the command vehicle, "This is a scene captured by a remote reconnaissance drone." , the mercenary group of Ivis Space System is attacking the city."

"It seems that a lot of things happened after we left Kaya City."

Faith stared at the photo projection in front of him, looking at the aerial behemoths and sonic fighter jets in the projection. He raised his head and looked at a brown-haired officer in front of him, "How is our marching speed now?"

"The southern part of Yilan City is mountainous. Because we have to escort the food caravan, we take relatively flat and safe roads, and the detour distance is longer."

The brown-haired officer stood up, raised his hand, and displayed a march map in front of everyone. "At our current speed, even if we set off at full speed, it will take more than two hours to reach Yilan City at the earliest."

"not enough time,"

Faith glanced at the photos of the war in front of him and said, "Ilan City can't last more than two hours."

"We might be able to move faster if we abandon the caravan."

The brown-haired officer hesitated and said slowly.

"How much faster?"

Faith asked in a low voice.

"About an hour."

The brown-haired officer thought for a moment and replied.

"It's still not enough,"

Faith lowered his head and stared at the map in front of him, raised his hand, and drew a line among the mountains on the map, "Is this road feasible?"

"You can go,"

The brown-haired officer looked at the map and hesitated, "But we have to give up heavy firepower by taking this route."

"Ilan City's high walls will not lack heavy firepower,"

Faith shook his head. He raised his hand and drew a point on a mountain peak near the high wall on the map. He looked at another skinny officer and said, "The artillery unit will take a separate route. Mount the missiles and long-range artillery here. You can directly Is remote support available?"

"We can support you,"

The skinny officer was a little confused, "But with such a long distance, wouldn't there be interference from flying alien beasts?"

"listen."

Fei paused and pointed to the top of his head. Some sharp screams were mixed with the sound of cannons in the distance, echoing above everyone's heads.

"Have you heard these cannons and roars? Flying alien beasts are very sensitive to sound. In such a large battle area, there will be no flying alien beasts within a radius of a hundred kilometers. Of course, there will still be some interference. , but we can’t take care of that much.”

Then he slowly stood up and looked at the officers around him,

"The situation developed faster than we imagined. Our original plan had to be modified a little. The fourth brigade stayed to defend the caravan. The artillery force took this road up the mountain. The remaining three brigade gathered immediately, all heavy firepower and Leave the baggage for the caravan, we must get to Yilan City within half an hour!"

He glanced at the exoskeleton armor of the soldiers next to him, and then at the officers around him, "Although the sky beast is good, our products are not bad either. It's time for the entire federation to see if what we sell is worth it. It’s worth so much money!”

The atmosphere in the entire command car froze for a moment, and then all the officers stood up almost at the same time and said loudly, "Yes, sir!"

——

Yilan City Beicheng Command Center

"Is this Scott's office?"

He Ao glanced at the simple and plain-looking small door in front of him, then turned to look at the young officer in front of him.

"Yes, it's also where he rests and sleeps,"

The young officer nodded. He looked at the electronic lock at the door of the office and quickly explained, "Scott does not allow anyone to enter his office. This office is not connected to the network. No one can open it except him." door,

"It is said that when this office was built, a lot of expensive alloys provided by Ives Space System were used. If you need explosives, you can tell me."

"Okay, I know,"

He Ao lowered his head and glanced at the electronic lock, "Let me take a look first."

"Okay, Mr. Lynn."

The young officer nodded, and then he turned halfway when he stopped, raised his hand and glanced at the bracelet.

Then he looked at He Ao, and said with some nervousness and embarrassment, "Mr. Linn, Chief Meade asked me to ask you that the troops of the Copes Mercenary Group are about to break through the boundary of the safe area, and they need to send a message to warn them. ?"

Buzz——

At this moment, He Ao's bracelet also vibrated. He raised his hand and glanced at the message on the bracelet. It was a reminder that the encryption instrument sent to him by Eve had been cracked.

"Need not,"

He Ao put down his bracelet, shook his head, stretched out his hand, held the electronic lock in front of him, and said, "Keep all channels silent, do not send any messages, and do not respond to any messages from the Copes Mercenary Group. "

"ah?"

The young officer was stunned for a moment and asked hesitantly, "Are we really not going to issue any warnings?"

"Don't send it."

He Ao shook his head, took out a data cable, and connected Eve to the electronic lock in front of him.

"Yes, Commander."

The young officer was obviously hesitant, but in the end he nodded, stepped aside, and responded, "You can call me if you need anything."

"OK."

He Ao nodded slightly.

Click——

With a soft sound, the entire electronic lock slowly opened. It was Eve who cracked the lock.

He Ao pushed the door gently, but there was no response from the whole door.

He pressed the alloy door lightly.

This door and the surrounding office walls are made of reinforced super alloy, so it would take some effort to directly destroy them violently.

He lowered his head and looked at the electronic lock in front of him, and then discovered a hidden cover on the side of the electronic lock. After opening the cover, a complex mechanical keyhole appeared in his field of vision.

"Is there anything small like a key?"

He Ao turned around and looked at the young officer behind him.

"key?"

The young officer was stunned.

It took him a while to realize that the key He Ao was talking about was a mechanical key inserted into a keyhole.

In a federation where electronic locks are everywhere, people are accustomed to biometric identification and passwords, and mechanical keys have almost completely disappeared, leaving only some records in students' textbooks.

“Can I have a nail file?”

The young officer thought for a moment, recalled the possible shape of the 'key', and asked carefully.

"Can."

He Ao nodded.

Then the young officer rummaged in his pocket and pulled out a small, slender piece of iron with frosted textures.

He Ao took a look at the iron piece. It was slightly smaller than the mechanical keyhole. It could be inserted in and barely usable.

Then he put the iron piece into the keyhole, and his consciousness spread from the iron piece. In an instant, a complex lock cylinder structure appeared in his mind.

Then he quickly found several key points of the lock cylinder, directly controlled the movement of these key points with his consciousness, and then held the nail file and twisted it gently.

boom--

With a slight sound, the entire door opened.

The young officer standing behind He Ao's eyes widened instantly.

"Thanks."

He Ao returned the nail file to the young officer, opened the forty-centimeter-thick alloy door, and walked into the office inside.

The young officer stared at the nail file in his hand, observing carefully, as if he wanted to find out what made this nail file different from other nail files.

At this moment, He Ao had already walked into the office behind the door.

A cold wind that seemed to freeze his soul followed his steps into the office and blew towards him.

This wind didn't seem to be some kind of reserved trap or killer move, it was like some kind of aura that had always existed in this office. It just caused a disturbance when He Ao opened the door and blew over He Ao's body.

The entire office is located in a command building, with the sky and night outside. But standing at the door of this office, He Ao felt as if he was gradually 'walking' to the deepest part of the underground.

He Ao calmed down, raised his head, and looked at the pieces of furniture in front of him.

The decoration of Scott's office is very simple, with a simple wooden desk, a wooden chair, and several scattered wooden bookshelves filled with books.

There are no guns or weapons. The decoration of his office is more like that of a teacher studying literature than that of a general.

He Ao's eyes fell on the paper books on the bookshelf near the door, and he scanned the books on them.

The contents of these books are mostly political science books and some advanced books on war and chess games.

He continued walking in and looked at the next bookshelf, his eyes slowly scanning Scott's 'book collection'.

——

Beicheng Command Center·Third Brigade Command Room

"Lynn said not to send an alarm yet?"

Meade looked at the young officer in the projection in front of him in confusion.

"Yes, Mr. Linn said not to raise an alarm and not to respond to any news from the Copes Mercenary Group."

The young officer said slowly.

Meade sat back on the chair and rubbed his eyebrows slightly, "The troops of the Copes Mercenary Group are already close to the boundary of the safe area?"

"Yes, the vanguard army should break through the border soon. In more than an hour at most, their main force will be within siege distance."

The young officer nodded.

"How long is more than an hour?"

Mead leaned back in his chair and asked quickly.

"Seventy minutes max."

The young officer paused and said slowly.

"It seems we have to thank them for not bringing a large air force, otherwise they might have already started to attack the city at this time."

Mead sighed, he slowly stood up, walked around the table, then looked at the young officer again, and sighed, "Do you know what news I just received?"

"Um?"

The young officer was stunned.

"Scott is back,"

Meade sighed again.

Hearing these words, the young officer's expression changed instantly, "When?"

"Our sentries in the city saw his rapid return to the city with troops."

Meade rubbed his forehead, "But marching in a city full of high-rise buildings is much slower than marching in the wilderness. St. Yilan District is also far enough away from us. At their current speed, it is estimated that they can come back in more than an hour. This One inside and one outside, maybe we can get together when the time comes.”

The young officer was already a little distracted at this moment. After a brief panic, he quickly said, "We should tell Mr. Linn about this."

"Need not,"

Meade waved his hand and sighed, "I just sent him the news."

"How did he say?"

the young officer asked immediately.

At this time, Meade's bracelet vibrated.

He raised the bracelet, took a look at it, and then showed the contents of the bracelet to the young officer.

Just a short reply above,

[wait]

——

Wilderness outside Beicheng

The roaring machine was speeding through the vast night. The bearded man standing on the war fortress was lowering his head and looking at the projected map in front of him.

The wilderness outside the north gate of Yilan City is divided into two parts. One-third of the area on the west side is mountains, and most of the two-thirds area on the east side is plains.

The bearded man carefully looked at the area on the map and kept looking at the surrounding mountains.

At this time, a vigorous officer walked over quickly and stopped beside the bearded man. "Captain, our vanguard force has breached the boundary of the city's safety zone."

"Have you received the alert from Yilan City?"

The bearded man still looked down at the three-dimensional map in front of him and asked casually.

"No, we have not received any news from the Yilan City City Defense Force,"

The officer shook his head, "All the provocations we sent to the city defense army have not received a reply, and the internal intelligence in the city has not sent us any news yet."

"Where's the city defense equipment?"

The bearded man continued to ask.

"All city defense artillery currently does not seem to be firing, there is no sign of any attack, and the missile launch window has not been opened,"

The officer said hesitantly, "The performance of the city defense troops in Yilan City is a little strange?"

The bearded man still didn't raise his head. He pointed his hand on the map and spoke calmly,

"Stabilize the formation, maintain speed, and keep moving forward!"

"yes!"

The officer responded and stepped back.

The bearded man lowered his head and stared at the map in front of him, thoughtfully.

——

Nancheng Command Center

boom--

Accompanied by the violent explosion, the officer walking in the hall shook violently.

But at this moment, no one cared about the sudden shaking. The officers walking in the hall were running under the shadow of the huge sky beast in the holographic projection, quickly passing on information and orders.

"General, the city gate has been damaged and we won't be able to hold on much longer."

An officer staggered over and handed the document in his hand to Covey.

"How long can it last?"

Covey directly turned the document upside down on the console in front of him, "How many missiles do we have?"

"Running out,"

The officer said quickly while shaking, "Sparse the blows, you can still hold on for more than ten minutes at most."

"Pull out all the old stuff from the warehouse,"

Covey looked calmly at the three sky beasts smoking in the projection in front, "They won't last long."

"General, there are not only giant beasts in the sky and sky outside!"

The officer's eyes widened.

"Everything we can destroy is worth it. When these big things enter the city, we will all be responsible for the deaths."

Covey slapped the table and said, "Go!"

"yes!"

The officer staggered to his feet and rushed to the side.

"General Covey,"

At this time, a middle-aged officer on the side rushed over with a storage chip, "We received a compressed communication data package from an unknown source. It seems to be a software. The cover is signed by Mr. Lin En."

"Where did it come from?"

Covey was slightly stunned and asked in a low voice.

"The source has not been determined. Judging from the direction in which the message was sent, it should be in the wilderness, behind the Ivis space system army."

The middle-aged officer hesitated, "Mr. Lin En should be in the city now. Do you want to open this program? Is this data packet a virus?"

"Find an offline device."

Covey raised his hand, looked toward the back of the hall, and said quickly.

In a very short period of time, an old device with a screen was brought over.

The middle-aged officer quickly inserted the device into the device.

Covey raised his hand to operate the device and unzipped the compressed package.

Soon, the device's screen flashed, showing an installation progress bar, and completed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hello, I am Artificial Intelligence Eve - Military Type,"

Immediately afterwards, a little girl in a red dress appeared on the screen. She looked up and looked out of the screen, and seemed to see Covey looking at the screen. "Please connect me to a physical antenna."

"Pull out an antenna."

Covey directly extended his hand.

The middle-aged officer glanced at the little girl on the screen, looked around, opened a console, and pulled out an antenna cable.

However, the connection line was still a little short, so Covey took the device directly and connected the line to the device.

After the antenna was plugged in, a successful connection sign popped up in the hand of the little girl in the red dress.

"Coding is in progress, please wait."

"Coding successful, data packets are being received."

The little girl in the red dress on the screen raised her hand, and a window popped out of her palm.

"You have an invitation for tactical cooperation from the Nolanka Mercenary Group, please check it."