I can downgrade maintenance

Chapter 230
On the rotor transport plane, Zhou Ning's eyes swept over the positioning and configuration of his family's personnel for this operation one by one.

Heavy backup × 2.

Medic × 2.One is Lena, and the other is a cameo by him.

There are two remaining, scout and marksman, and the captain is a blaster and marksman.

This is obviously due to the fact that the VIP who needs to be rescued has a fragile skin and cannot run, and the situation that the enemy has been alarmed and can only fight a bloody way.

This area gave Zhou Ning the feeling of being in the world of sand dunes.

In addition to sand, there are Gobi rocks.

At the same time, like the Dune World, the Gobi Rock Mountain is a good place, because the land is stable and the infrastructure cost is relatively low.

In other areas, the sand is as deep as thousands of meters, and the construction can only be like offshore oil mining. First, the platform is built, and then the superstructure can be talked about.

Zhou Ning's rescue target this time is on such a platform.

Looking down from the air from a distance, what Zhou Ning thought of was the chain warship of the Wei Army in the Battle of Chibi.

The modes are almost the same, the sea of ​​sand is regarded as water, the platforms are regarded as boats, and the soft bridges connecting each other are regarded as chains...

As my mind drifted away, the battle began.

It seems that the monsters have already built a flying nest in the captured sand station, and a large number of flying wing monsters took off to fight. From a distance, it looks like a cloud of black clouds.

The co-pilot of the gyroplane immediately controlled the drone to meet him.

This rotorcraft has a heavy-duty straight tandem seat structure, the co-pilot is behind the driver, but sits higher and has a good view.

It's just that there is a big belly at the slanted position behind their seats, and there are seats for Zhou Ning and his party in this belly compartment.

The flying wing monsters are old opponents of human beings. There are too many of them, and the killing effect of the machine guns is limited, so they use mother-child rockets.

The fired warheads quickly ejected a large number of quantum explosives, and then formed a range of damage in an area. A large number of these rockets exploded one after another, covering an extremely wide area, and immediately blood and wreckage rained down.

But even so, the driver still notified Zhou Ning that they had made an emergency cable drop.

It is said to be a rope drop, but it is more like bungee jumping. You jump directly, and there are special counters and other equipment to control it. As soon as the force of the fall is removed by the elastic rope, the lock will automatically disconnect.

People seem to fall from a height of about 2 meters, with equipment on their bodies and sand underneath, so the possibility of injury is extremely low.

After Zhou Ning landed, he went to check the steel mule first.

You can tell from the name that this guy is the logistics force of the group and is responsible for carrying heavy loads.

The steel mule has a high weight and lacks human intelligence and agility, so the probability of problems when playing bungee jumping is higher.

But this time it was okay, although he fell to the ground, he got up by himself.

Zhou Ning just helped to balance the supplies he was carrying.

This steel mule is not easy to complete by itself, and often requires personnel to help.

In such a short time, the two unmanned wingmen of the rotorcraft have lost one.

The gyroplane flew straight away.

After the VIP is rescued, it will be this gyroplane that picks up the group to leave.

It's just that at that time, they will either help clear a safe area, or designate an evacuation location to move there first. In short, the rotorcraft will not stop for them.

Under the calm command of the team leader Frank, the team quickly completed the silent lurking.

The main sense of the wing monster is hearing, followed by touch (more sensitive to vibration, especially if the rhythm is clear) and smell.

Therefore, while the hatred of the rotorcraft has not subsided, the group can avoid this wave of monsters by lurking.

Sure enough, after a while, the remaining winged monsters began to return to their nests.

Zhou Ning and the others waited for half an hour before starting to act.

The location of the VIP is at the other end of the sand station. Walking straight through the nest area, Frank decided to take a detour.

This seems to be a good idea, but in fact, the desert area is also unsafe. There is a kind of sand-diving monster that can sneak under the sand. Although it has not been seen here, it does not mean that there is no such thing.

Of course, I didn't come here for an outing. At least I can have some illusions when walking on the sand.

Compared with this, Zhou Ning cares more about the gray line connecting the sky and the earth in the west.

If he read correctly, it should be a sandstorm.

Calculating the time, it happened that they received someone to kill them, and the sandstorm arrived.

He informed Frank of the situation.

Frank cursed under his breath, "Damn the weather."

Then just keep moving.

Hidden VIPs are in danger of being discovered by monsters at any time, and they have recorders.

The addition of the two means that it cannot be worn out, but can only be merged first.

While advancing, Zhou Ning pulled out a power cord from the steel mule's back compartment and connected it to his own equipment.

Immediately, his right eye mask gained enhanced detection function.

In fact, this function can also be activated by the battery of the equipment, but Zhou Ning hopes to consume external power first if conditions permit.

This detection equipment was made by him under the guidance of the system last night.

After all, he has always attached great importance to the concept of intelligence support.

After walking for a while, it really came in handy. He raised the Gauss gun in his hand and fired a shot at the slightly raised sandy ground dozens of meters away.

This Gauss gun has also been modified by him. It can be attached with an external gun rail, and the burst fire can be changed from three bursts to a single shot. battery, or external.

It can be said that Zhou Ning has turned himself into an explosive shooter who can be awesome with external energy, and can be awesome for 3 minutes without it.

The blue-purple blood soon polluted the sand.

Marksman Hunter glanced at Zhou Ning in surprise.

Frank said, "Nice job!"

Afterwards, Zhou Ning shot and killed several sand-diving monsters steadily, and Frank stopped praising them.

In short, because of Zhou Ning's excellent performance, the team completed the detour in the sand easily.

When we got to the No. [-] platform where the VIP was, a new problem appeared. The sand station put away all the ladders that bordered on the ground. If you want to go up, it is tantamount to climbing a ten-story residential building from the outside.

Zhou Ning took the initiative to ask for orders: "Let me try. After the VIP is rescued, it is very likely that I will have to go down to the ground and simply build a new ladder."

As he spoke, he pointed to the soft bridge between platforms No. [-] and No. [-].

Frank understood his intention, thought for a while and said, "Be careful. I'll cover you with Hunter."

"it is good."

So Zhou Ning took the tools and small equipment from the steel mule's back compartment, then fired the rope gun, then pressed the switch, pulled himself up to the platform to get closer, and then deftly raised his legs high, sending his legs to the platform first. Once on the platform, he clasped his hands on the edge of the platform and exerted force, straightening his upper body and completely flipping onto the platform.

This is definitely a difficult move.

After all, there is no place for his legs to hang on the platform, and the platform itself has a certain thickness. It is only through the skillful exertion of the arms and a series of linkages such as the waist and back that the center of gravity can be changed, and then the upper body can be reached. The effect of the platform, and then forced to change the center of gravity, completely retracted the body back on the platform.

But what Zhou Ning did was not only neat, but also elegant, as elegant as a vigorous and agile cheetah running.

One of the team's heavy backups, the black Wilson murmured not far from Frank: "Have you noticed that the weekend after returning from the hospital has changed a lot."

Frank snorted: "It's become more powerful and reliable, isn't it?"

Wilson shrugged and said nothing more.

Before Zhou Mo joined the team, he, the only black man, was the pressure relief valve in the team, and anyone could piss him off and make a few jokes.

After Zhou Mo came, he was replaced by Zhou Mo, especially him.

Now, he feels a little guilty, because Zhou Mo seems to be no longer the 'handyman' who is only good at maintaining equipment...

With the tools in hand, dismantling the platform connections of a suspension bridge is not difficult.

The trouble is making as little noise as possible.

Zhou Ning insisted on doing it. Through the pulley block, he will dismantle the suspension bridge connected at one end and lower it step by step.

After getting down from the No. [-] platform, the suspension bridge is connected with the load-bearing column frame at the bottom of the No. [-] platform with equipment, steel cables and pulley blocks.The simple ladder is done.

The ramp is somewhat steep, almost 45°, and the personnel are okay, able to pedal and grasp.

Steel mules are not so good.

The main reason is that the things it carries are 'deadly heavy' items, and if they don't know how to adjust them, they are an absolute burden.

Of course, this is not a problem for the group, just like hanging the items up with a gun rope, it will be fine.

It's just that in this way, some time was wasted.

In addition, the temporary bridge can only bear the force of 1 or 2 people at the same time, and the personnel can only be divided into batches, waiting for the people in front to completely get on the bridge, and then go on.

So, when the group of people boarded the No. [-] platform, the sandstorm to the west was already a huge gray wall that was scary to look at.

"It seems that we'd better take shelter from the wind here." Another heavy-armed backup, Todd, who looked like a big bear, said.

Frank didn't comment.

According to his experience, such a sandstorm lasts at least ten hours.

He really didn't think the team could stay here that long without being noticed by the monsters.

The next step is to enter the building. The surface building here has not been attacked by monsters and looks relatively complete.

However, since the slope ladders connected to the ground are all put away, the whole sand station is naturally in a closed and fixed state, and it is extraordinarily laborious to open the door.

In particular, the core management and control system cannot be contacted, and there is no way for the smart sand station AI to open the door and unlock it.Then you can only play the trick of sliding the door and picking the lock.

And this is also Zhou Ning's job.

There is a system reminder that Zhou Ning carried no tools in this operation, and he can easily meet most of the specific needs.

This is what the previous Zhou Mo didn't have.

Therefore, when Frank and the others watched Zhou Ning open the window with a laser cutter, quickly manually controlled the access control, and successfully opened the door with high efficiency and low noise, they really felt that this team member was much stronger.It doesn't feel like going to recuperate, but rather like going to study for a while...

Entering the facility on Platform [-], Zhou Ning felt the visual sense of the sci-fi version of Resident Evil blowing away as soon as the painting style changed.

Unidentified equipment is everywhere, and quite a few of them that are relatively easy to move have been knocked down and used as obstacles.

There are not many bullet holes, but there are many dried blood, which proves that there has been fierce resistance and massacres here.

If we only evaluate the overall situation based on the situation here, Zhou Ning thinks that this place should have encountered a surprise invasion.

Zhou Ning even suspected that the invading monsters were strongly supported by human traitors, which led to such a massacre.

After all, the environmental background and even the social background of this world are very different from the settings of the {Resident Evil} series.

People are no longer in the state of quiet and peaceful life.

Humans in this world have lost their original hometown.

Originally, human beings lived on another co-orbital (revolutionary orbit) planet, and successfully developed to the height of civilization in the star system.

Then during the period of colonizing co-orbiting planets, a major accident occurred, similar to the discovery of alien cells, and then secretly conducted research on the spaceship. As a result, the spaceship fell, and the automatic navigation drove the ship back to the earth, and then spread rapidly. Humans play GG.

The main base is destroyed, and there are still sub-bases for development.

About 150 years later, the humans at the sub-base expressed their intention to take back their home planet.

As a result, after a series of big victories, it was a trick, and the aliens landed in the sub-base...

The sub-base was ravaged, and the main base also showed its fangs. The counter-offensive was reckless, and the Liberation Army was beaten to its knees in one breath.

This is the contemporary social background, the background of civilization.

Under such a background, Zhou Ning doesn't think that people can still enjoy the time and enjoy the show.

What's more, a place like Shazhan, which obviously provides enough risk allowances to recruit enough staff, he believes that everyone has a string of vigilance in their hearts.

Even, the usual team building projects are mostly about how to evacuate in the event of an invasion crisis, how to resist, and so on.

Under such circumstances, he was still abused so badly, and he didn't believe that there was no one who cooperated with the inside and outside...

'Di! ' With a soft sound, the green light on the device turned on.

Zhou Ning reported to Frank: "Captain, I have contacted the VIP."

Frank used to be a captain in the Marine Corps, a title he liked.

"Very good!" Frank praised again.

Zhou Ning's professional ability shown today is too high, even Frank feels that he praises a little too much, but he can't do it.

This is a heartfelt appreciation.He is too aware that the plan is well done, and in reality, all kinds of unexpected moths keep happening.

And Zhou Ning, with his excellence, smoothly opened up these links that were prone to problems, and a few words of appreciation are really not too much.

"Hello, we are D4, security code, 40KG33, please reply."

"I'm Eric Payton, are you here? This is really great!" The excited old man's voice came from the other end of the communication.

"Report your code." Frank followed the process meticulously.

"39LS31!" The feedback from the other side was quick.

"Correct. Report your location."

"I'm in a lounge in Area B on the thirteenth floor of the basement, come quickly."

"Understood, keep the device unblocked, we will find you. The call is over."

After Frank turned off the communicator, he asked Zhou Ning, "Can you track his signal location?"

"I'll try it, it should work." Zhou Ning said while operating.

Frank took a few glances and joked: "You are the most powerful person now, no wonder you have such a heavy high-power battery."

Zhou Ning's method is indeed to provide enough energy to enable the device to have a strong search power, and then better obtain the location of the signal source.

However, he was not complacent about this, but reminded him with the true nature of an old player: "For a non-combatant who is in a panic and waiting for rescue, I think this Dr. Peyton can reply the security code. The high efficiency is a bit abnormal."

Frank frowned.

Hunter and Lena who were not far away looked at Zhou Ning meaningfully.

Zhou Ning noticed it, but ignored it.

After a while, Frank said, "Then what's your suggestion?"

"Steady, give me some time to ensure the retreat."

Frank pondered, finally nodded: "Yes."

Zhou Ning heaved a sigh of relief. In this way, he had enough reason to install the self-made adapter on an information device capable of networking.

And after completing this step, the system can act as a 'Skynet', or even 'Ultron'...

(End of this chapter)