Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 945 Clearance Zone
"Is it an engineer? Or logistics?" The transport plane driver was slightly taken aback. Logically speaking, no matter how poorly a technician with hard goods is, he won't be reduced to a mercenary who relies on his life for money. Judging from the familiarity of the Amran-class transport aircraft, it is not an exaggeration to serve as a tester or technical consultant for those aircraft manufacturers. How low are mercenaries, and their lives are not in danger.

"Neither." "Joker" shook his head, "I just occasionally saw the detailed design drawings of this type of transport aircraft."

"Have you seen the blueprints?!" The pilot showed a hint of consternation. You must know that such blueprints are not open to the public. Even if it is a civilian aircraft, it is also a commercial secret of each manufacturer, and it is impossible for ordinary people to see it.

Even the people in the manufacturing factory can only see the incomplete drawings after dismantling the various parts. This guy actually said that he has seen detailed design drawings "occasionally"... What is his background?
Or, the blueprints he had seen were only for the engine part?But judging from his smooth operation, he is obviously more familiar with the structure of the cockpit, and also has a grasp of the timing of ignition and throwing. Even if the driver is allowed to operate this extreme operation, he may not be able to do it. so perfect.

If the ignition is late or the throwing is early, the engine will not restart, and if the ignition is early or the throwing is late, it will blow up the body of the transport plane, and the opening and closing of the energy shield-these weapons carried on the transport plane There was also a slight delay when the shield generator was activated, but he even counted a few tenths of a second of this delay.

Otherwise, the damage to the fuselage would be even more serious.

This can't be due to luck... Judging from the other party's performance, he obviously has full confidence.

For this alone, even if the driver was told that the person in front of him was once an ace pilot, the driver would not have the slightest doubt.

Ace pilot going to be a mercenary?As far as the pilot knows, there is only one ace pilot named Valentina who became a relic hunter, but the problem is that she joined the famous hunting god hunting group, and the salary offered by her is probably higher than that of those mech sports clubs. The main player is still tall, as for this "clown"...

To put it bluntly, he is completely a "nobody".

The driver still wanted to ask something, but the "clown" had already helped him to the crowd's pile of equipment and put him down.

"Take all the things you want to take, and be mentally prepared that there will be no supplies in the future." The captain of the spear team said, "Even if you can break into the inside of the ark, you may not be able to find the supply point."

"Wait a minute." "Joker" said suddenly, "I suggest leaving all the equipment that uses energy crystals as the driving energy here. No matter the size, power or purpose, don't bring it with you."

"Why?" A heavily armored soldier of the spear team frowned, shaking the wall shield hanging on his arm-this thing looks like a wall shield for fighting, but it is actually a small energy shield The shield generator is considered to be the strongest defensive equipment in the squad, not one of them.

"This is a life-saving thing. What do you mean by asking me to leave the shield here?" The heavy soldier wanted to argue, but the captain of the spear team patted him on the shoulder and said, "He said That's right, do as he said. Like everyone else, leave all the equipment that needs energy crystals to drive here, and only need to carry the minimum energy crystals that are enough to activate the public communication terminal."

"Why, Captain?" the heavy armored soldier was puzzled.

"Brother, are you a bit clueless?" Before the captain could speak, Soap was the first to complain, "Have you forgotten how we were shot down from the sky? Those enemies are obviously very sensitive to energy crystallization, are you Do you want to kill everyone?"

Although the energy response of portable equipment is much weaker than that of crystal engines and anti-gravity devices, their direction of travel is towards the ark and towards the occupied areas of unknown enemies. The closer the distance, the easier it is to The energy response detected by the enemy—even the electronic watch powered by the lowest-level crystals may reveal their whereabouts.

One piece of equipment that used energy crystals as energy was removed and thrown into the equipment box, even the crystal energy bomb was no exception.

Everyone carried only a small piece of the lowest-level energy crystal, which was used to activate the communication terminal in the ark. Moreover, for the sake of safety, these energy crystals were all sealed in a special lead box.

"The equipment with the strongest lethality and the strongest defense has been thrown away. In this way, the combat capability of the entire team has been reduced by at least half." Giraffe complained. Among the equipment he lost was a new one bought last month. The pulse laser assault rifle, this rifle has cost him three full missions, and it still hurts him to lose it at will.

"We should avoid fighting as much as possible... If we can fool those enemies' perceptions, I don't even care if I sneak into the ark naked." Soap said to his companion, "You don't even think about the strength of the enemies we are facing. Say, even giving you an aircraft carrier and battleship won't help."

Soap's metaphor is really not an exaggeration. After all, the flagships of those powerful fleets with aircraft carrier battleships have all crashed on the ark...

"Move to the ark, pay attention to concealment and radio silence." The captain of the spear team ordered.

Soap and the giraffe looked at each other, didn't say much, put their equipment on their backs, and followed silently.

As for the "Joker" and the pilot of the transport plane, they were at the end of the line.

According to Admiral Maginot's request and the regulations in the "mission contract", this special team is composed of regular troops, mercenaries, and relic hunters. The supreme commander is the captain of the spear team.Similarly, the commander of another squad is the captain of the Gray Fox squad.

If the squad leader is killed in battle, he will serve as the commander in order according to the order of military rank from high to low, until the last regular soldier dies in battle.

All in all, these mercenaries have no command over them.

The scout team of the Spear Squad is in charge of leading the battle. A standard-sized scout team consists of two scouts, a sniper and an observer. The scout is responsible for collecting information. The task of the sniper and the observer is to use the micro Use a sniper rifle to deal with some "little troubles"-such as pulling out the secret sentry, and solving the single enemy on the route of travel.

It's just that the sniper was killed when he was attacked in the air, and the observer can only take on the sniper task alone, but fortunately, the observers in the general special team are also selected from elite snipers, one less A sniper, the impact is not that big.

The movement speed of the scout team was slightly faster than that of the large troop, but because the radio had to be silent, the distance could not be too far, about one kilometer or so, and the sniper who replaced his teammates also kept pace with the two scouts. At a distance of about 200 meters - this kind of flexible formation is very commonly used in sneak operations. Scouts and snipers can respond and support each other within the visible range, and can also move backward in time when one party is in trouble. Large troops can ask for help, and at the same time avoid the problem of blind spots in the field of vision when operating together.

"To be honest, I always feel that we are running naked now." The giraffe said to Soap, "There is no shelter on this road, and the target is really too conspicuous. If the enemy has thermal infrared vision or low-light vision, Looking down from the ark, you can see it clearly."

"What can I do? Since we haven't been attacked yet, it means that the enemy hasn't found us yet." Soap replied angrily, "You better shut your crow's mouth, boy, if it's true If the enemy finds out, I will be the first to use you as a human shield."

"If you think my body can help you block those spikes, it's up to you." The giraffe rolled his eyes and lifted the helmet on his head.

The penetration power of the spikes attacking the transport plane was extremely terrifying. After piercing through the outer armor and intermediate structure of the transport plane, they could continue to penetrate the bodies of two people, and finally penetrated from the other side of the transport plane... ...It is no exaggeration to say that this thing may not even be able to block the frontal armor of the main battle tanks in active service.

You know, the "Amran-class" transport plane they took was an improved version for military use, and the thickness of the armor in the cabin alone
More than 1 millimeters, this is already the average frontal armor thickness of a main battle tank before switching to Nino alloy armor. (note [-])

No one can physically block such a weapon. If everyone in the squad stood in a vertical row, a single spike would be able to pierce all of them from head to tail, and make all of them into a bloody " Candied haws".

But what the giraffe said at the beginning is not unreasonable. In order to prevent the hiding of indigenous creatures around the ark, or the existence of hidden ruins of the Alpha civilization, centering on the ark, the range of [-] kilometers from the edge area is covered. The "processed" terrain, as for the way of processing, is also very brainless: first use the detector to scan all the places, after confirming that there are no remains or other man-made structures or nests of indigenous creatures under the ground, use bulldozers and Explosives flattened all the "bumps" on the ground, and filled up the potholes and depressions with cement and sand, and forcibly created a huge artificial plain.

This artificial plain is called the "clear zone". If there are indigenous creatures or exiles with malicious intentions who want to approach the ark, they will be found when they enter this "clear zone" without any shelter—no need What kind of high-tech detection equipment, as long as you take a telescope at a high place, you can clearly see people or beasts walking on the "clearance zone".

The emergency landing position of the transport plane is within the clear zone. If the enemy follows up to search for their traces, they will soon find the transport plane left in place-this is one of the reasons why the captain of the spear team will execute the seriously injured , rather than staying in the transport plane and being captured by the enemy, it is better to leave happily.

"In fact, the situation is much better than expected." The pilot of the transport plane whispered to the others while walking, "After we made a successful forced landing and turned off the anti-gravity device, those spikes never attacked again. Come on, this means that the enemy's method of finding the enemy is very simple, and can only rely on energy response to determine our position, and this kind of weapon locking mechanism for firing spikes is a bit stupid, they will only shoot at places with energy response, The attack will stop immediately after the energy response disappears."

"That makes sense." Soap nodded, "If I were the enemy's commander, even if the anti-gravity device of our transport plane is turned off and the energy response disappears, I will order to continue shooting towards the position where the energy response last appeared. , and even cover that area with firepower.”

"Then we are all wiped out now." The driver shrugged, and the energy shield was turned off together with the anti-gravity device. However, to everyone's surprise, after turning off all energy-responsive equipment, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the enemy's attack stopped immediately.

It's as if the switch for the anti-gravity device and the shield generator is the same as the switch for the spike-shooting equipment.

"Speaking of which, the other team may be in trouble." A relic hunter of the "Snap Turtle" hunting group said, "The cars they take all use energy crystallization engines, and there is no shield generator , if you encounter this kind of spike, I am afraid that after one round of shooting, not many people will be alive."

"Leave them alone, take care of yourself." Soap waved his hand, looked up at the ark - at this time they were still [-] kilometers away from the ark, and the outline of the ark was also in their field of vision became clearer.

"Hey, look, there seems to be something on the edge of the ark...it didn't seem to be there when I saw it on the plane before!" Soap suddenly whispered.

[PS Note 1: I need to make a small explanation here. The armor thickness in military terms generally does not refer to the actual armor thickness. For example, the front armor thickness of a tank is [-] mm, not to say that its armor is really half a meter thick , this thickness is actually an acronym, and it should be called "equivalent thickness" when expanded, that is, "homogeneous steel armor with a protection capability equivalent to [-] millimeters in thickness".

In fact, the thickness of the composite armor used by the tank is not so exaggerated. As for the thickness and weight of the armor after adding the fictional Nino alloy in this book, the thickness and weight of the armor have been further compressed.

In addition, the "how many millimeters of penetration" of the armor-piercing projectile also refers to the "equivalent penetration". 】

(End of this chapter)