The violent shaking prevented Zero from seeing the mission briefing on the tactical board in his hand. But the content of the mission has been fully printed in his mind, so Zero put away the tactical board and looked at the outside world from the trunk of the big truck.
Outside the car is a desolate world. At first glance, there is an endless land, and there is no one inhabited.
The mutated grass piled up in threes and fives, becoming one of the few decorations on the earth. Compared with the weeds of the old era, the vitality of plants in the turbulent era is more tenacious. Like Zero, weeds with an average length of no more than 50 centimeters, but their roots are about ten meters deep underground. Just 10MM of water can keep them alive for a week, how tenacious it is.
Except for the weeds, there are only high-voltage electricity towers left on the ground that are no longer working. Some of them were bent, like old human beings, allowing the cables to break and hang down on the ground; And their stumps lay helplessly on the ground, like dead beasts.
At the end of the earth, there is a radiation cloud that covers the entire sky. In the cloud layer, occasional lightning flashed around, and streaks of lightning flashed quickly from extremely far away, just like the celestial phenomenon before the heavy rain.
The wilderness is as lifeless as usual, desolate and desolate.
Compared with the wilderness, Asgard is tantamount to a heavenly existence. And Zero, who stayed in Asgard for almost a month, almost forgot about the outside world. It wasn't until now that he returned to the wilderness that he suddenly realized that the world hadn't changed. Asgard is just a beautiful illusion, and more people are still living in hell.
It's just that Zero is not the savior, and the cruelty of the great era cannot be saved by his personal ability. He knew this very well, so Zero turned his attention back to this actual combat mission from the wilderness.
This task is carried out jointly by the three teams of Windrunner, Vanguard and Blaster. In order to successfully complete the task, Cario let the personnel of the three teams break up and merge. Zero is the main person in charge of this mission, and the captains of the other two teams, Anthony and Rankin, are adjutants, responsible for implementing Zero's orders to their respective team members.
The cause of the mission was that a supply vehicle in the Hall of Valor was robbed, and all the guards and drivers were killed. Although Asgard can be self-sufficient to a large extent, it is a closed city after all, and there are some things that Asgard does not have. For example, some special medicines, metal raw materials, etc., so the Hall of Valor purchased these materials through some "*people" in the wilderness, and then shipped them to Asgard.
The robbery of the material vehicle this time was largely due to the negligence of the transportation management department. The long-term safety record made the person in charge paralyzed and reduced the strength of the guards in order to save resources, which led to the tragedy. At present, the person in charge has been dismissed. But naturally, the supply vehicle couldn't fall into the hands of a certain wilderness force in the wilderness for no reason, so there was zero action by these soldiers.
Although there are medicines and food in the supply cart, these are only secondary. What matters are those custom-made metal components, which are the parts needed for the development of the new tanks of the Hall of Valor. If these things are lost, the development cycle will have to be delayed. And Zero's main task is to investigate, find the murderer, clean up and retrieve these metal components.
Currently, because the location of the incident is near Phoenix. This independent city that is not affiliated with any faction has already dispatched troops to control the scene of the incident, and the bodies of the victims were brought back to the city by Phoenix City for cryopreservation. The Hall of Valor has contacted the person in charge of Phoenix City, who will wait for the arrival of Zero and his party at the scene of the incident, and provide Zero and them with the greatest assistance in carrying out their tasks.
And that person was the officer George that Zero knew. After all, he was an old friend.
George let out a sigh, shook his hand, and spilled the freshly brewed coffee all over himself.
"Damn." He cursed angrily, and the loud voice startled the two recruits on duty in the camp.
George is now in the wilderness 300 kilometers away from Phoenix City. Just two days ago, a large number of corpse vultures appeared in the direction of Phoenix City. Corpse vultures, like corpse wolves, feed on carrion. But they are picky eaters and prefer fresh dead bodies. For this reason, Phoenix City sent a team to investigate, and found Asgard's supply vehicle.
Originally, there was no mark left on the supply truck, and at first Phoenix City also regarded them as owned by some unlucky company in the wilderness. But after Asgard lost contact with the guards, they soon discovered that the convoy had run aground near Phoenix. So the transportation management department reported the matter, and then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Asgard contacted the high-level officials of Phoenix City, and the Phoenix City side controlled the incident first, waiting for the people from the Hall of Valor to take over.
In the cities in the coastline area, the Death God Ridge is used as the dividing line. Most of the cities or bases north of Death Ridge turn to the Dark Council for protection. But the various cities and bases south of Death God Ridge are in a relatively loose state, and only a small part of them have to rely on the Dark Council to survive. What's more, it has independent administrative power like Phoenix City, Titan City and Remut.
Of course, the Dark Council is not a magnanimous organization. Starting from the concept of "controlling all resources", it is difficult for the Council to let these cities have their own resources and develop independently. But in these cities, some of them are the leaders of the Hall of Valor in the wilderness, or some have commercial or even military "communications" with Asgard.
For this reason, under the interference of the Hall of Valor, the Dark Council could only give up. After all, the Dark Parliament doesn't want to start a full-scale war with the Hall of Valor in a short period of time, so it is necessary to maintain superficial peace.
Although Phoenix City is not the leader of the Hall of Valor, from military to biochemical research, this city has close ties with the Hall of Valor, so it can be regarded as an ally. For this reason, Phoenix City attached great importance to the hijacking of the material vehicle of the Hall of Valor this time, and appointed senior officer George as the main person in charge of assisting the Hall of Valor to resolve the hijacking incident.
Otherwise, George wouldn't have stayed in this camp in the wild for nearly five days.
He drank the rest of his coffee, still feeling unfulfilled. At this time, a soldier ran in from outside the camp and reported, "Sir, the people from the Hall of Valor have arrived!"
"It's finally here." George threw away the paper bag.
The officer strode out of the tent, and not far from the tent were parked the material vehicles of the Hall of Valor and the off-road vehicles of the guards. Both vehicles are currently surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers in Phoenix.
George looked up and saw two trucks coming down the land to the west. The truck came to a slow stop near the camp, followed by Asgard soldiers who jumped out from the rear of the truck and wore night god tactical uniforms. Sweeping across these soldiers, George's eyes suddenly lit up. There was an eye patch on his right eye, and his black hair fluttered gently in the wind. A soldier with a handsome face appeared in George's eyes.
"Damn it, when did this kid go to the Hall of Valor?" When George saw Zero, a smile appeared on his old face involuntarily.