The setting sun is sinking downward. This planet is neatly divided into two halves by the land and the sea. The earth has ushered in the beginning of a dark night again. The low valleys and plains are already very dark. Only the higher Rocky Mountains are still bathed in the mountains. In the red twilight.
It is probably also based on the unique geographical structure of this planet. Most of the bases of the charter network reconstructed by the Federation are also set in the mountains.
Between the last splendid twilight between the huge rocks on the hillside, the seven groups of players who escaped from death silently relaxed their tired limbs, enjoying the air without the smell of gunpowder and the environment without bullets flying around, but even if they were tired and nervous After being paralyzed and resting, the team members still did not relax their vigilance and stretched their bodies towards the sky, but they used the rocks beside them to isolate the reconnaissance eyes of the imperial people who might exist on the opposite mountain or below.
Almost every member of Group 7 had serious or minor injuries, especially Liu Jiao, who had basically lost the ability to move. If the members of Group 7 were not strong in quality and style, it would be hard to imagine that they would be able to treat these serious injuries. comrades-in-arms on the back of the rising peak.
The medical officer Hou Xiandong had been busy until this time, before he had time to lower his head and take a sip of the water in the water bag in his left elbow. Hearing the voice not far away, he couldn't help but look up, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes. and anger.
The doubts and anger are not directed at Xu Le, but at the officers and the Charter Bureau who are far above the battleships. If the Charter Bureau has not made such a stupid mistake, how could the seven teams who have been working all night continue to be exhausted. adventure
Xu Le sat beside a solid gray-white rock, stared at the satellite phone in his hand, and glanced at the data cable between the watch and the phone, confirming that there was no problem.
"I don't care how many people you have died, you must arrive at the designated place within forty-seven minutes!"
A woman's voice came from the satellite phone and said something very bastard. This sentence made Xu Le's straight and rich black eyebrows frown, and then stretched out in a very indifferent way. The voice asked, "Who are you?"
"I'm the Deputy Director Bai of the Third Division of the Charter Bureau." On the phone, the indifferent and strong voice of the female Charter Bureau official sounded again, "The time is very tight now, you must set off immediately."
Xu Le took a deep breath, and a trace of forcibly suppressed anger could be seen on his cheeks covered by black ash, and his bright eyes in the twilight were burning like fire in the field.
As a soldier, a Nutshell engineer, and the closest human being to the Federal Central Computer, he knows better than anyone how important it is for the Federation to restart the Charter Network on this fallen star. In fact, in the early morning hours At the time, he did not hesitate to accept the order issued by the officer of the Curly Hair Charter Bureau, which was also based on this understanding.
Xu Le really wanted to complete this important task of the Federation, but the loss of the seventh group today was too heavy. The bodies of the comrades in the 13th floor of Xiao were still soaked in the river water, and there were several other team members who escaped on the mountain road without breathing...
He is only 22 years old this year. He used to be a virtuous, capable, and responsible young man. Later, he was mulled by the cruel reality of the Federation into a somewhat silent, still cheerful, hard-to-believe in the law, and more in himself. Inner judgment, with a bit of stinky stone style, a fierce guy who is not afraid of killing and being killed.
But he is not a qualified commander after all. Wearing sunglasses, he can't learn the real ruthlessness of people like Du Shaoqing, and he can't treat every passing life on the battlefield as an abandoned child on the chessboard. leave temporarily.
Looking at the tired team members lying between the rocks, looking at the wounded soldiers with bandages on their bodies and the smell of medical glue all over their bodies, looking at the silent and restless expressions on their faces, Xu Le was reluctant, so he remained silent.
The silence between the white limestone peaks made the officers anxiously waiting in the battleship feel a little uneasy and angry, and the female officer's sharp questioning and urging voices sounded again on the satellite phone.
Xu Le's fingers tightly grasped the high-strength plastic casing of the phone, and his brows did not wrinkle again, but the emotion in his eyes became a little indifferent.
As the top commander of the seventh group, he has not yet made an accurate judgment on the current situation, but the rude questioning and urging from space made his mood a little difficult to calm down.
At this critical moment, the encrypted communication between space and the ground was directly covered by a contact request from a farther and higher authority, and there was a deep and deep voice from the other end of the phone, with a sense of majesty in the calm.
"Lieutenant Colonel Xu Le, I am the Supreme Commander of the Federal Xilin Theater..."
According to the plan of the federal military, tonight's general offensive will be launched in the evening. The evening referred to here is the time zone where the ground diamond base group is located. At this time, the seven groups of lonely rock peaks were admiring the sunset without any taste. In fact, there was still some distance before the launch of the federal army's general offensive.
At this time, Xu Le spoke to the famous Xilin tiger for the first time.
In the autumn of the 65th year of the Xianli calendar, the ancient bell from Xilin bombarded Qingqiu on the outskirts of Hexi Prefecture, blasting the black M52 and the uncle in the mecha into smoke, and then meeting the cute little girl on the spaceship that escaped from Donglin. Boy, there are many hidden connections between him and Commander Zhong of the Fourth Federal Military Region, but he has never seen the overlord of the dominant side, and even the phone has never passed.
The members of the seventh group looked tiredly at Xu Le not far away, watching him talking on the phone in silence, not knowing what would happen to their already heavy casualty team.
"clear."
Xu Le took the satellite phone and answered mechanically, the wound on his left arm was still bleeding at this time, because he was worried that the medical glue would affect the later battle, he refused Hou Xiandong's intensive treatment, and only carried out the treatment with a white cloth tape. Random dressing.
The night in the farther mountains is almost coming, and the flames in his eyes have been extinguished, and he said to the big man on the other side of the satellite in a deep voice: "If you believe me, I can try it myself, but my people are still sleepy. In the mountains, the Imperials sent too many skirmishers in the mountains, you must send a helicopter to pick up my people and leave."
On the other end of the phone is the supreme commander of the Federal Victory Military Operation. He is just a small lieutenant colonel with hundreds of people and hundreds of guns under his command. The military rank and power are very different, but at this moment, he is bravely bargaining with the other party. .
Not knowing what was said on the other end of the phone, Xu Le hung up the phone and put the heavy satellite phone into the marching backpack behind him, then took off his watch and exchanged it with Magnolia's.
"You wait here with these guys, and the above promises me that they will send planes to support you within half an hour." Xu Le cleaned up the tools that needed to be carried, lowered his head and said softly to Magnolia: "The general attack will start soon, just us A team is still stuck in a war zone, and it's not bad that they send planes over."
Magnolia looked at him silently, and could easily sense what the little boss was going to do from her movements, she said with a smile, "Why don't you just send a plane to repair that base point?"
"The imperial people are crazy today. Sending a plane to the target is too big. If the enemy touches that important point, the Federation cannot afford this risk." Xu Le quickly counted the number of tools with his fingers and explained casually.
"You are going to go crazy, and the headquarters agrees with you to go crazy?" Magnolia asked immediately.
"It's just some simple repairs. As long as the Charter Bureau can transmit the data to the ground in time, the problem shouldn't be a big problem." Xu Le raised his head and said, "Today's task is not to lay the net, and it doesn't make a difference between me and everyone. Big."
"The problem is that you might run into Imperials along the way."
"That's why I want to go alone. You know my ability to escape." Xu Le smiled, his face full of smoke and dirt, his teeth looked extremely white.
"Personal heroism kills."
Magnolia took out the deflated blue box of Panax notoginseng cigarettes in her jacket pocket, subconsciously took out two, but suddenly thought of the battlefield records, her fingers full of black mud froze in front of her.
Xu Le took a cigarette from his finger, put it between his dry lips, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said seriously, "Promise me, take these guys back alive."
Magnolia tore off the cigarette paper, put a pinch of cut tobacco in the mouth, moistened it with saliva, and tasted the spicy taste carefully. After a moment of silence, she finally nodded.
"Big bear." Xu Le shouted to Xiong Linquan, and threw the 2126 long sniper beside him.
After Xiong Linquan was stunned, he silently inspected firearms and equipped ammunition. At this time, the team members on Yanfeng vaguely guessed what Xu Le was going to do, and the expression on his face suddenly became stiff.
The members of the seventh group, regardless of whether they were recruits or veterans, knew very well what kind of temperament their superior was in their field careers these days, so no one stepped forward to persuade them angrily, weeping to keep them, and just looked at him quietly.
Gu Xifeng came over, checked the satellite phone and military watch for Xu Le, confirmed that there should be no problem with the data transmission later, and said softly, "If you want to repair something, at least take me with you?"
"I'm also a good engineer." Xu Le patted him on the shoulder.
He suddenly turned his head and squinted at Magnolia: "If there is a problem, after you return to the capital star circle, help me do a few things."
"What's the matter?" Magnolia listened seriously.
"Tell Zou Yu, Shi Qinghai is good. Tell Jian Shui'er, I'm sorry, I can't help her check Uncle's affairs."
"Don't say anything at Tai Zhiyuan, let Li Xiaotong tell Li Wei and let him pay attention to safety there."
"Remember to go to Parliament Hill and tell Zhang Xiaomeng... What kind of man she will find in the future, she doesn't need my consent."
A very relaxed smile flashed across Xu Le's brows, and suddenly thought of one thing, and continued seriously: "Tell Nan Xiangmei... I like her too."
"The suicide note is not auspicious." Magnolia chewed the tobacco in her mouth and said with emotion, "I really didn't expect that the stone could become so sensational."
"Shit, I've read a lot of books, my lord, and I'm full of literature, but I just don't want to let you guys know about it."
Xu Le carried the marching backpack, picked up the 2126 long sniper handed over by Xiong Linquan, buckled the magazine on the outside of the bulletproof vest, waved to the team members briefly, and ran along the slender ridge towards the distance. With some minor injuries, he still ran so swiftly, like a briskly jumping antelope, gradually disappearing at a speed that shocked the seven team members, and his figure gradually disappeared into the burning twilight.