From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 74 Official Action
  Earth Zero Three.

October 9th.

13: 44.

On the first floor of the main building of the frontline base (former shopping mall), in the equipment maintenance warehouse;

Nearly two hundred combat personnel are wearing exclusive individual equipment. At first glance, the appearance is similar to the conventional combat uniforms and mechanical skeletons of the ARS company.

However, if you look closely, you can see that the combat uniform of this individual soldier equipment is composed of small diamond-shaped "◇" blocks, showing an effect similar to black fish scales.

The helmet can be tightly connected with the combat uniform to achieve the function of filtering toxic substances. The mechanical skeleton also does not have any defensive modules installed, and the overall texture is "light".

Just looking at the appearance, it is impossible to compete head-on with the conventional combat equipment of ARS or AECS, but in fact, this is the "Individual Stealth Combat Equipment/ISCE" developed by the Scientific Research Department, and it has its own purpose. Nor is it a frontal attack.

Atlas has invested a lot of resources in the field of optical camouflage since the 1980s. It was not until the end of 1993 that it broke through the technical shackles and was the first to apply it to buildings and vehicles.

The first actual combat application of optical camouflage for individual soldiers occurred in 1994. When the second space gate opened, the Scientific Research Department provided six sets of stealth equipment that were still in the experimental stage to the Hunter Company for reconnaissance in the rainforest of Pandora. Task.

now.

The members of the hunter company are checking each other to ensure that the equipment of their comrades is in normal condition. At the same time, logistics personnel wearing orange vests are assisting more than a dozen investigators, including Leon.

"Okay!" The logistics staff patted Leon on the shoulder and warned with a smile: "Major Morgan cherishes these equipment very much. They are like treasures to him, so be careful, otherwise, you will definitely be killed by him. Keep me in mind, haha."

After saying that, the logistics staff continued to be busy with other matters, no longer paying attention to Leon who was adapting to the new equipment.

"... "

Seeing the support staff walking away, Leon moved his shoulders and jumped a few times on the spot. He found that all movements were very easy and smooth.

The most important thing is that when his feet land on the ground, he makes almost no sound. It is indeed a stealth weapon.

Leon nodded with satisfaction.

"Everyone, listen up!" At this moment, Arthur, who had already finished dressing, reminded on the helmet communication: "Don't forget to get more supplies. Our missions may often be based on days. After all, meters Nova’s footprint is ten times the size of Los Angeles.”

After hearing this, Lyon carried an AMWS rifle with a suppressor behind his back, and walked with several investigators to the right side of the equipment warehouse. There were a large number of bulk ammunition, and there were also magazines of subsonic bullets that were helped by logistics personnel. .

After getting enough ammunition, Leon also picked up emergency medical kits, four flavors of compressed military rations, and spare drinking water bags from other supply areas.

Not long after, the storage bags on his waist, thighs and chest were filled with all kinds of supplies.

Next, Leon put on his helmet and connected it to the combat uniform. He heard a slight surge of air, and then a screen with various functions appeared in front of his eyes.

The calibration line for auxiliary shooting also appeared in the center of the screen, quickly synchronized with the AWMS rifle on his back, and data such as bullet remaining capacity, bullet type, and spare magazines were also displayed in the lower right corner of the screen.

"There are five minutes left! Let's all set off and board the plane!" Arthur's order came again on the communication channel.

"Huha!" and the war cry of the hunters.

Leon immediately held the rifle in his hand and followed the others out of the equipment storage warehouse to the open vertical take-off and landing apron. If you look down from the air at this time, today's frontline base no longer has any trace of the large shopping mall, it is already a real military fortress.

There are many vehicles parked in the hangar, including old Dragon aerial gunships, V44-Red Eagle transport aircraft and RH-66 armed helicopters, as well as many new models that have abandoned the main rotor engine (propeller), or new aerial gunships.

There are no "antiques" on the ground armored vehicles. Most of the equipment is independently developed by Atlas, including the "Titan" main battle tank with four tracks and a certain deformable structure.

In addition, there is a double-barreled heavy tank that is larger but does not have any tracks, namely the Tank-740 Hover "Slayer".

Leon and his team left the equipment storage warehouse and were walking quickly not far away.

The aircraft waiting for them was also a new model. It looked like a more compact and lighter Black Hawk helicopter, but its double wings and jet engine structure showed that its speed and maneuverability were by no means comparable to that of the Black Hawk.

And this is the first vehicle to be installed on the Hunter Company - the "Black Falcon" assault boat.

Beep-beep-.

Hearing the subtle electronic sound effects, and looking through the helmet's vision, Leon discovered that everyone's head was marked with words like "H1-01" and "H2-01", and his number was "H7-14".

At the same time, the twelve Black Falcons being inspected by ground staff were also marked with "H1" to "H12" accordingly.

Without Arthur's need to explain anything, Leon knew that he was assigned to the H7 combat group, so he immediately entered the Black Falcon, which was also labeled H7.

Wait for the investigators and hunters to complete boarding.

The ground crew assisted in pulling up the removable doors on both sides of the cabin, then bent down and trotted to a few meters in front of the cockpit, half-kneeling, raised their fisted right hands and extended their thumbs to indicate that everything was ready.

Seeing this, the pilots nodded in response, controlled the Black Falcon to rise into the air one after another, turned the angle of the fuselage, and quickly headed north.

Immediately afterwards, the twelve Black Falcons turned on the optical camouflage effect, and almost instantly merged into the gray sky and disappeared without a trace.

in the cabin;
  Looking at the empty streets and the desert outside the city, Leon, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly felt sad.

Intelligence shows that our fellow humans on Earth Zero-3 are suffering tremendous suffering, but the numbers and descriptions on paper are just cold documents after all, completely different from the experience of witnessing the actual situation in person from the air.

"Everyone pay attention." At this time, Arthur began to use the individual soldier system to mark the goals of each group on the screen, and dictated:

"The H1 to H4 teams, as well as the H9 to H12 teams, will be responsible for investigating the prison areas α (Alpha) and β (Beta) respectively. The H5 to H8 teams will penetrate the core area of ​​the investigation and try to obtain Minova's architectural blueprints in order to The company delivers metallic hydrogen bombs more accurately.

After ten minutes, unless there is a major incident, only internal communication will be allowed. If you have any questions, please contact me as soon as possible. Do you understand? "

"clear."

Leon looked at the enlarged bird's eye view and responded in unison with everyone on the communication line.

"Okay!" Arthur changed the topic and said without fear: "Let us break into this hell cave for our brothers first! Hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)