From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 65 "Vision"

A golden light suddenly appeared in the ruins base.

When the light dissipated and everything returned to normal, the 14x14 meter stone wall door frame directly opposite the altar once again opened a space door that looked like a mercury mirror.

In the command center at this moment, Sanguinius and Leon, who had witnessed how their father opened the space door, increasingly believed that Robert's remarks were correct.

As for Sui Yang, who was standing on the altar, he had actually sensed the emotional fluctuations of his two sons, but he didn't pay much attention to it, because sometimes the more he wanted to explain, the harder it was to explain.

After looking at the palm that healed instantly, Sui Yang walked to the edge of the sacrifice and looked at the advance team that had gathered at the edge of the third space gate and was about to explore other universes for Atlas and mankind.
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Near the third space door.

Not only were the fourteen advance team members gathered here, there were also a large number of technicians wearing white chemical protective suits, and there were also engineering personnel wearing black and orange protective suits.

Moreover, the equipment of the advance team is completely different from that of the year before. Each of them is equipped with a pressure-maintaining, radiation-resistant, airtight protective suit that can continuously operate in a vacuum environment for 70 minutes. Special mechanical skeletons also equip each of them. They are all extremely well protected.

This is actually the "Hazardous Environment Vestsuit", referred to as HEV, specially created by the Ministry of Science and Technology for the vanguard team.

The cost of conventional mechanical skeletons and corresponding armor is sky-high compared to HEV, and much more expensive than Tyrant. The overall appearance and efficacy are actually close to that of Power Armor.

After all, Sui Yang had made it clear that he wanted to provide optimal protection and firepower to the advance team, because the advance team was responsible for exploring unknown areas and also facing dangers.

In terms of weapons, the modular firearms used by the vanguard are similar to the CARB weapon system, but more optimized.

According to the needs of each mission of the team members, additional barrel extensions, grenade launchers, shotgun components, etc. can be added to better coordinate with the individual soldier system to complete shooting calibration. The calibers of rifle, submachine gun and shotgun are 6.2x35mm, 5.7x28mm and 20mm respectively.

Among them, the shotgun and grenade modules have a variety of ammunition to choose from, such as high-explosive, armor-piercing, and cluster ammunition.

Although the machine gun is still of .30cal caliber, the updated and optimized algorithms of the Scientific Research Department have made the .30cal smart bullet fully suitable for the Atlas individual combat system.
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  After the 30cal smart bullet is released, it can complete locking and tracking, and can even "turn" slightly to kill targets hiding behind bunkers.

The weapon system was named "Atlas Modularity Weapon System" (AMWS) by the Ministry of Scientific Research.

Weapons and equipment such as HEV and AMWS make every advance team member a veritable "worth tens of millions."

at this time.

The advance team did not rush through the mercury-textured mirror door, but patiently waited for the technicians who were bent half squatting to complete the final inspection and debugging of the four hellhounds.

And each Cerberus is equipped with wired instruments on the back, which are linked to a control console installed near the door, allowing technicians to intuitively see the scene on the other side of the door.

These four hellhounds are reconnaissance types specially debugged by the Department of Biology for this operation. The virus activity has been further weakened and will not cause environmental "pollution".

On the other hand, the engineering department, which has a large number of people, is equipped with engineering mechas, Hex robots (spider/hexagonal robots) and heavy equipment. They are also waiting patiently. Once the situation on the other side of the space door is confirmed to be stable, they will immediately launch The infrastructure work they are best at.

soon.

With everything ready, the four hellhounds ran to the space door according to the established procedures. Without any fear or confusion, they went straight through the mercury mirror and disappeared from everyone's sight.

On the console side, various screens provide a group of technicians with real-time images and brief information captured and detected by Cerberus.

It appears to be a shopping mall hall that has lost power. Through analysis of shop signs and slogans, as well as data such as gravity and atmospheric environment, it is suspected that the end of the third space door is the earth.

However, it may also be a colony of artificial gravity and atmospheric environment. However, no matter what, the technicians can confirm that the situation on the other side of the door is temporarily stable, so they said on the communication: "Captain Price, the advance team can set off."

"Understood, Xiaoqiang, Soap, Ghost, you three should go through the space door first."

"receive."

After receiving the signal and order, the fourteen fully armed advance team members began to take action.

Xiaoqiang, holding an AWMS rifle with a grenade launcher attached to it, took the lead in passing through the space door with his two comrades, and his figures were swallowed up by the water mirror one by one.
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"Huh...huh..."

Inside the airtight helmet, there was steady breathing.

Xiaoqiang, who has long been accustomed to this job, does not have any drastic fluctuations in mood and heart rate.

And the HUD screen displaying various data, as he walked through the space door, instantly switched from white to a dim and dilapidated shopping mall hall.

Without any hesitation, he and his two comrades hurried forward and half-crouched fifteen meters ahead to guard.

Using the enhanced vision provided by HEV, I briefly looked around and found that the signage and decoration style of the store were biased towards North America.

Immediately afterwards, the helmet screen showed a pulse wave centered on him and spreading to all directions at extremely high speed.

Subsequently, the area that the pulse wave passes through will be displayed on the thumbnail radar in the upper left corner in the form of an architectural blueprint, giving Xiaoqiang and his comrades a general understanding of the mall.

However, after the pulse scan, there was no movement on the abbreviated radar except for the green dots representing the three of them and the four yellow dots representing the Cerberus.

The effective radius of pulse detection fluctuates around 50 meters, which is equivalent to a range of nearly 8,000 square meters. It seems that they are the only "living creatures". However, factors such as wall obstruction and consumption will gradually reduce the detection effect.

"Deadly." But Soap doesn't like this environment very much.

"This place has been abandoned for a long time." The ghost rubbed the dust on the ground with his feet.

"." Xiaoqiang still prefers to remain silent.

While the three of them were on alert, the remaining advance team members also passed through the space door one by one and arrived at the abandoned shopping mall.

Price, who received the same detection result, ordered on the communication: "Everyone be vigilant. Cerberus will sweep the entire mall for us. Once a threat is found, Soap, Ghost, Xiaoqiang, Zero Point, and Scarecrow will be responsible. Cuisine.

The remaining people ensure the safety around the space gate and set up a wired communication base station as soon as possible. Secondly, no one is allowed to leave alone. "

"clear."

Next.

After receiving the order and deactivating the wired link with the help of the advance team, the four hellhounds quickly swept through the first floor of the shopping mall. After confirming that there was no threat, they headed to the underground parking lot, as well as the second, third, and fourth floors of the shopping mall.

Xiaoqiang and others, who were responsible for dealing with the threats, came to the main entrance to wait. By the way, they also saw... a "vision" outside the mall.

(End of this chapter)