People's Federation will live forever

Olivia still didn't think so, but Li De had no time to explain.Bud and Cole have appeared on the edge of the woods, and their iconic features will never be mistaken. Like Dom, real people are always more pleasing to the eye than CG.

They had apparently found themselves too, and had a brief conversation.Although the voice was very low, it still reached Li De's ears. He listened carefully, and then laughed.

kidnap me?Logically speaking, it is indeed an effective method, but who will win the duel between the son of the plane and the time traveler?

"Hey, baby! Yes, what about you, put your hands up!" Cole shouted first, and he pointed his gun at Li De while speeding up, "I count to three, no, I Just count and put your hands up!"

Li De faced them, and slowly raised his hands to the sides. At this moment, Bud felt something was wrong. This was how many times he felt something wrong today.

"Cole, this guy is laughing!"

"Huh? Are you so happy to be kidnapped?"

As soon as the two finished speaking, the officer suddenly disappeared in the next second!They blinked in disbelief, and in the next moment, an arm wearing a black glove stretched out in front of them, pressing their palms on their faces and pushing them to the ground heavily!

"Da da da", the two instinctively opened fire with their rifles, and the bullet grazed Li De's ribs.Li De's force was not small, and the ground was hard concrete. Cole, a big man, seemed to hit his head and fell silent.

But Li De knew that they couldn't kill them like this, and in the next second, Bud under him dropped his rifle, drew a dagger from his chest and stabbed him in the neck, and Li De also retracted and pressed Cole. hand, grabbed the blade of the dagger.

The sharp dagger remained motionless as if being clamped by a vise. With a roar, Bud raised his knee and hit Li De's stomach.This explosive force knocked Li De's 100-jin body into the air. He took advantage of the situation to get up from the ground, and saw that Cole was lying on the ground without moving, and a pool of blood flowed from the back of his bald head.

"Cole, wake up!" Bud slapped Cole hard on the face twice, and the latter remained motionless.At this moment, a voice came over: "You should worry about yourself, soldier!"

Li De's fist brushed against Bud's forehead with a whistling wind, and his iconic goggles shattered with a "click", and a trail of blood flowed down his cheek.Bud narrowly dodged Li De's fist, he met Li De's eyes, and saw a look of interest on the other's face!

"You bastard killed Cole!" His expression became ferocious, Li De let out an "oh", and easily reached out to grab Bud's fist, and Bud's head hit the next second. On Li De's face, he staggered himself.And this veteran stabbed Li De in the stomach with a dagger angrily!

The dagger was undoubtedly blocked by the plastic steel armor, but he swung his fist angrily and hit Li De in the face.One time, two times, three times... Li De counted Bud's fists, the flesh and blood on the alloy face bones were already torn apart, but he still kept swinging his fists as if he didn't know the pain, even if it was an orc's fist The Artillery Soldiers should have been stunned by him too.

Besides anger, Bud was also surprised.My fingers seemed to be broken, but the man in black still didn't even turn his head!At this moment, the man in black seemed to lose his patience, and said to him——

"Is that enough? It's time for me!"

A sharp pain came from his stomach, Bud's waist was bent like a shrimp, and beads of sweat dripped from his forehead.The fist of the man in black shattered the ceramic plate on the armor that could block 7.62mm bullets. He grabbed the collar of the armor like a rabbit and lifted himself up. He looked up at himself and said, "Soldier of Wei An, you..."

At this time, a series of gunshots sounded from the side. The man in black was shot in the head twice, his body shook like chaff and took two steps back, and he finally escaped from the clutches and fell to the ground.Next to him, Cole's iconic loud voice came, and the rifle in the hand of the honest big man was still smoking, which surprised him a lot.This bastard must have just woken up!

"Yo~ Cole played dead and tricked the villain, Oye!"

Bud endured the pain and shouted: "Be careful, he is not dead!"

But the man in black had already taken a step towards Cole, and the strong black man hit him with another shot. The man in black just covered his face with his hands, and sparks jumped on his body, like a piece of steel. , bullets can't stop him at all.

Now that the bullet is invalid-the switch of the chain saw is turned on, and the motor drives the chain saw to emit thick black smoke.Cole, a big man, raised his rifle and rushed towards the man in black. The former football star yelled as he charged:

"I'm...the locomotive!"

The boots made heavy footsteps on the concrete road, and the two men charging at high speed slammed into each other.The chainsaw motor let out a painful roar, and its teeth hit the left hand of the man in black, like a saw splashing hot sparks on steel.The black leather gloves were shredded, exposing the metal palms inside.

The teeth of the chainsaw split, and the man in black's huge force knocked Cole back.He looked at his metal arm, and then he went forward and punched the rifle chainsaw that Cole was using to block--"click", the cavalry rifle was broken into parts, and the metal fist continued to move forward until it hit Cole. Er's breastplate also knocked him out.

"Drink!"

Bud, who was behind him, retrieved his rifle, and also turned on the chain saw and rushed over.The man in black didn't turn his head back, he turned around and dodged the saw as if in response, then reached out and grabbed Bud's arm, lifting him up.

"Boom!"

A bullet hit the man in black's forehead. The round bullet failed to penetrate the alloy skull and broke into pieces on the spot, only making his head shake slightly twice.Cole held up a pistol and watched this scene in disbelief, and then he saw Bud being thrown over and hitting himself...

Li De touched his forehead, and asked Olivia in the tactical network: "How is it, General?"

But the harvest is still disdain: "It's still not very good, but it's more resistant."

A Reckoner armored vehicle drove over, and the apostles escorted two staggering security soldiers over, which made the two lying on the ground in pain very desperate.At this moment, Li De walked up to them, knelt down and looked at the two of them: "I said, if you surrender early, you won't have to suffer. I didn't intend to kill you..."

"Pooh!"

Bud spat at Li De, but he, who was weak, spat on Cole.But the surrounding soldiers were obviously enraged, and they were about to swarm up and step on him a few times, but they were stopped by the man in black raising his hand, and the two knew that the guy in front of them was their commander.

"Security soldiers, you are suspected of illegally trespassing on the Brotherhood's military restricted area, resisting arrest with force, and attacking Brotherhood officers. What excuse do you have for this?"

The man in black said to them, Bud and Cole didn't say anything, they both looked at each other——Brotherhood?Never heard of this character.

"I have..."

Bud was about to speak, but Li De didn't listen.He stood up and waved to the apostles——

"It seems that we have reached a consensus... Take it to the base!"

PS: The recent "Kane's Wrath" battles are always beaten by group friends, embarrassing

Chapter 53 The Tiberian Sky

What Bud's A team saw was the Tiberium mine field, an area strictly restricted by Li De.It is very important, but not that important, because the mine field does not have to worry about being destroyed by the enemy. Only Tiberia can destroy others, and there is nothing that can destroy Tiberia.All Reed had to do was to firmly restrict the Tiberium within the range formed by the sonic barrier and prevent it from expanding.

He never underestimated the destructive power of Tiberium. This dynamic molecular lattice can absorb almost all elements except carbon and silicon, the two most common substances, and there is no substance that can stop its erosion.Although after research, the erosion of Tiberium will be slower for substances with tighter intermolecular arrangements, such as dense alloys, but only for a relatively long time.Based on this feature, a mine that loads and accommodates Tiberium can be established, but the best way is still to accommodate it with magnetic confinement—this subject also involves the research of controllable nuclear fusion technology, and the Brotherhood is currently Still in the laboratory stage.

Some people may regard Tiberia as a programmed nanomachine, but in fact Tiberia is much more dangerous than nanomachines, and can in turn devour nanomachines, because its structure is programmed at the molecular level, much smaller than The unit of nanometers.Reed once thought that Tiberia was a creation of the Scrin, but the knowledge he obtained from Tacitus told him that he was wrong. Tiberia was an item created by an interdimensional existence far older than the Scrin, and Scrins are probably just companions to this product.All attempts to crack Tiberia have been declared impossible, and the effect of the sonic barrier is only to crack it into a spore state instead of clearing it. Coupled with the current stabilizer that restricts the spores to float, Tiberia can barely be restricted .

Perhaps one day, when the Brotherhood's technology can freely assemble molecules into a creator-like existence, the secrets of Tiberium will be fully revealed. (Most refers to mass-energy conversion)

The land grown by Tiberium is like a sponge that has been evacuated, becoming softer than a desert.With the continuous extension of Tiberium's veins underground, the surrounding forests have begun to die in large swaths, and this is only the third day of release.Wearing heavy armor, a mine cart equipped with a synchronous sickle is like a combine harvester that cuts crystals from the roots of the soil and absorbs veins, and puts them into a mixer to heat them into a semi-solid. This process is much slower than imagined, because Tiberium A severe shock can cause a plasma discharge.Each mine cart can handle more than fifteen tons of crystal raw materials, and the collection process takes several hours.There are hundreds of mine cars like this in the mine field, but Bud and the others just missed the start date on purpose.

These security guards will be locked up in the base for two days before being interrogated, especially Bud and Cole, who had several bones broken by Reed.General Olivia will take over this matter. In the process, they will also be lucky enough to get a glimpse of the power of the Brotherhood. This is also Li De's plan. He appreciates Olivia's idea of ​​planting spies in Vian. Program.

But Olivia seemed to have gone to find Ensig, and she didn't go to check her whereabouts.Ever since he made a bad joke before, Olivia's attitude towards him has become much colder, and he has nothing to do.

The vagrants are just on their way, Dom's matter is over, Anna... I haven't figured out what to do, woman, what a trouble.

Now Li De's consciousness is starting to shuttle through the control network of the base, and he can have a panoramic view of the operation of the base through the massive data, so he can't help but worry about it-although the host is diligently building the base, since the second After planning in the first stage and preparing to set up a sub-mine, the resources of this mine field are getting tighter and tighter.

The veins of Tiberium extend thousands of meters underground, gradually draining all the resources in this area.This is just an ordinary suburb of the city, and Li De hopes that the minefield can be kept within the scope of the invisible tower and can be completely controlled, so the scope has not been expanded.

It was Olivia's idea not to establish a base on the mainland, which was supported by Li De.Before the fluorescent tribes deep in the ground are excited to the surface, the ocean islands are far safer than the mainland, and there are considerable minerals in the ocean, as long as a mine is set up on the seabed and a surface mining platform is built.Without the need to defend against enemies, the Brotherhood can unleash all productivity.

After all, you can produce some light units with a single mine. How can you advance technology without a second mine?

The current intensive work of hundreds of mine carts is to provide enough materials for this grand expedition. Correspondingly, the establishment of two aviation towers is not for the formation of an air force, but to produce enough materials to be transported to the archipelago hundreds of kilometers away. transport fleet.This is also not a small project. According to calculations, the Brotherhood currently does not have an aircraft capable of hoisting the MCV, which is tens of thousands of tons. transportation.

The mine car transports Tiberium to the mine. The appearance of this large building looks like a small chemical factory covering an area of ​​several hundred square meters. The winding pipelines spread like blood vessels, and the highly toxic exhaust gas is heavily filtered. Impurities are stored for future use.Although the factory is small, it passes the Tiberium solution through a crushing centrifuge to separate various minerals with extremely high efficiency.These raw materials enter the attached processing center through the conveyor belt to be processed into composites and organic solutions that can be directly used by the printer. The entire system is completely controlled by the host computer, and no one needs additional management.

Right now, a large amount of resources are transported to the aviation tower, and the belly of the vase-like building is a factory.The large printer is more than ten meters high. When the parts are sprayed and formed, the base plate of the carrier needs to be cured by high pressure and cold and heat treatment.The complex robotic arm assembled the parts, arranged the circuit and control equipment, and the saboteurs did the final adjustment.Using the proven STC construction template, an aircraft will take no more than eight hours to manufacture.Two aviation towers and eight workshops work together, and sixteen heavy transport aircraft have been built so far.

The Brotherhood's dropship is a deformed helicopter that looks like a rectangular box with no room for passengers except for the pilot's seat in front.It has a flat belly and is equipped with a modular cargo box hook. A large turbofan engine is installed on the front, rear, left, and right sides, which not only gives it the ability to take off and land vertically, but also allows it to transport cargo weighing up to 40 tons. Can easily mount a Scorpion medium tank.It is a transportation unit with mature and reliable technology that has gone through countless battle tests in the Brotherhood.Although it is not armed for self-defense, its reinforced plastic steel armor can resist some anti-aircraft weapons. With the advantage of cost, it has grabbed its place in the Brotherhood's arsenal.

The first batch of twelve transport planes will transport a survey force to set up a small camp. These transport planes will additionally deploy cloaking devices and be escorted by a formation of Venom fighters.The cleared space near the mine will serve as a temporary landing pad while a more professional aircrew platform is ready for action.

"Master, transmit the data of the expedition to me."

PS: I think it is necessary to explain the core substance of the book Tiberium separately. Even if it goes to other worlds in the future, it will still be the golden finger of the Brotherhood across the stars.

The Brotherhood has the deepest understanding of Tiberium. Even if it is an interstellar civilization that cannot be deciphered, its understanding will not exceed that of the Brotherhood if it does not encounter ribs, fallen empires, and so on.Even if it is used by the opponent, throwing a Tiberium Catalytic Bomb on their mining planet is equivalent to an extinction order.Tiberium catalyst technology comes from Tacitus, which cannot be easily researched.

I don't recognize the Tiberium control network of the fourth generation, so there's no need to discuss it. It's a bowl of shit that EA feeds players, the purpose is to smash the CNC's signboard.

Chapter 54 Preparing for the Expedition

Machine tool is the mother of industry, this saying has never been out of date.On the earth in 2047, because of the abnormal prosperity brought by Tiberium, human beings created the fourth industrial revolution based on mature 3D printing technology, which greatly improved the efficiency of industrial manufacturing.A printer with the right specifications, combined with synthetic materials and standard building modules, can produce all equipment like a snowball, and this has created a new war mode of "frontline rapid deployment" based on base vehicles.Because of Tiberium, wars no longer require long supply lines or fixed bases built with permanent fortifications. One MCV can create a fully functional base.

What the expedition needs to carry this time is the "Crane" construction module - don't take it as a crane just because of its code name, its essence is a large forging printer, and the only difference from MCV is that it has no active deployment capability .With the help of the computing power provided by the host computer, Dr. Ensig redesigned the smaller crane system. Now they are all disassembled into parts, packed into boxes and neatly stacked on the open space next to the airport.

Stepping on the tarmac road paved with quick-drying cement, Li De passed by the aviation tower.The engine roared, and a huge wind pressure emerged from the top of his head. He pressed his hat and watched a transport plane being transported to the top of his head by the tower elevator. He started the turbofan engines on both sides and slowly rose. Under the guidance of the ground indicator light, it landed vertically on the concrete floor painted with white circles.There are quite a few apostles and saboteurs moving there. They are using the power of the hoist to connect heavy cargo boxes to the hooks of the transport planes. Most of them are cargo. Twelve of the sixteen preparatory transport planes are used to load The crane, the rest is the personnel and weaponry.

The officer in charge of the scene was a Black Hand officer. When he saw Li De coming, he immediately saluted his leader. Li De waved his hand to let everyone continue to work, and asked the Black Hand directly: "How is the preparation for the expedition?"

When it comes to people, the superficial data is unreliable, and he wants to hear the report from the black hand himself.

"Respected leader, the expedition was carried out by the third platoon of the first company of the apostles that I led. We cleared the city of Orton together with General Olivia yesterday. All the soldiers have experience in fighting against orcs." Although Dai His expression could not be seen through the helmet, but the black hand was clearly proud of it.

Li De also praised: "A glorious battle, my apostles have proved that their will has not been weakened by the long 'freezing'...What about the supplies? You know the news about the advance team huh, black hand?"

"All the materials have been prepared, my leader. We are the first batch of personnel to take the official action. When we arrive at the target area, we will urgently form a temporary camp to house the crane system. When the transport plane returns, the second batch of personnel They will bring more supplies to reinforce us." He reported in a serious manner, "The advance investigators have been dispatched to the predetermined area, some of them have stayed there, and the rest have returned with a complete resonance scan map. Their report shows that the local There were no orcs, and there were no attacks along the way."

All this was known to Li De, and just as he was speaking, the black hand seemed to hesitate for a moment, but continued to report to Li De.

"Leader, the advance team discovered the local refugees hiding there in the archipelago. Following your instructions, the shadow team has not made contact with the locals for the time being, and the locals have not found them..." At this moment, the black hand paused— — Li De was stunned, as expected, there was still something that hadn't been uploaded in the report.

"Leader, I heard from them that the refugees seem to be fighting among themselves because of the food problem, and the shadow team found traces of cannibalism in many places... They think this is irrelevant to the mission, but I think there is still something to you Reporting is necessary."

"Oh?" Li De was a little curious. This really has nothing to do with the current plan, and it's normal that it wasn't written in the report.But once the base starts to be established, these refugees must be the targets to be controlled.

"We will participate in this matter." Li De said, "but not now, Black Hand...Your tasks will not change, and you will not take the initiative to contact these refugees, including rescue actions. All of this is waiting for my follow-up instructions. I hope to see the day when the base is established as soon as possible, and don’t be distracted by other things.”

The Brotherhood's goal is indeed to save humanity, but it seems that things are complicated on this archipelago.Cannibalism touches upon a matter of principle, and whether these people are worth saving remains to be seen.

"Do what you have to do, black hand. If the refugees initiate an attack, don't be soft."

...

After the cargo was loaded, the apostles also boarded the transport plane.The strong wind from the turbofan engine blew Li De's coat. He pressed his hat with one hand and watched the transport planes float up from the tarmac one after another, forming a fleet in the air and rising towards a higher direction.When their height reached a certain level, the force field device mounted on the back of the aircraft was activated, and this huge fleet disappeared from Li De's eyes in an instant, leaving only the gradually setting sun in the sky.

Another fleet of planes took off, and unlike transport planes, these slender craft were much smaller.They floated up from the tarmac, and the four vector nozzles under the belly of the machine drove the small fuselage flexibly to the sky. A total of eight small fighter planes formed a formation and followed the transport formation.

It's the Venom, the Brotherhood's light scout plane, who works part-time as an anti-personnel gunship.Its nose is equipped with a three-tube [-]mm caliber Vulcan cannon, which can cause huge damage to lightly armored targets.With the help of the vector engine, it can fly to an altitude of [-] meters where the atmosphere is thin, so it can be used to attack lower-height helicopter units. Its agility is excellent at dogfighting.But its shortcomings are also obvious. The Venom cannot go supersonic or mount missiles for beyond-horizon combat. It is a fighter with a very awkward positioning, but it is cheap and easy to mass-produce, which is enough for now.

"The third day of crossing, is this going to pass?"

Looking at the sinking sun, Li De sighed, the time is tight but so short.Too many things happened in these three days. He felt that he had done a lot, but it seemed that it was far from enough.Sure enough, the old saying is confirmed-when something starts, its direction is always not determined by the initiator himself.Li De is now standing in such a position. For the sake of the war, the base has begun to fully operate, and everything has taken shape and is progressing steadily. However, solving one problem brings more problems, and there are still too many unknowns ahead.

"I have to speed up the progress...there is going to be at the camp soon, Dauntless...I have to see what kind of character you are." Li De said to himself, and then he fell into deep thought again.

"Why did Olivia go?"

Chapter 55 A New Day

On the fourth day, in the early morning——

"Boom!"

Bud hit the glass wall of the cell with his arm bound in a clip. He tried his best to beat the wall again and again at the risk of breaking his arm again.However, the high-strength glass walls remained motionless, and even the patrolling guards didn't bother to look at him.This is already countless times of unnecessary struggle, but he seems to never get tired of it.

In comparison, Cole was much more relaxed. His naked upper body was also covered with bandages, and he was lying on the floor snoring, making up for the sleep he lost yesterday.The brothers are all being held on the first floor of NOD. Since they were arrested, these guys who call themselves Brotherhood neither killed nor tortured them, so they locked them at the edge of this hall with people coming and going.For some reason, a wall and a window were left for them, and they could still glance at the scene outside the window.

"Captain, save some effort, they don't care about us at all." Winston squatted by the wall with a sleepy expression, staring blankly at the "apostles" passing by outside the wall.These men in black have already confirmed that they are human beings, they look the same, and they speak the same language as them.Very good, not orcs, but very bad, because this group of unknown guys didn't do anything to them, so they were full of suspicion and panic.

They had taken Harold, and it might be their turn soon.

"I can't calm down if I don't do this." Bud stepped back dejectedly, lying on the edge of the window and looking at the brightly lit and weirdly shaped buildings outside, "Did you see that, Winston? Such a big machine The team disappeared in one fell swoop, how did they do it?"

And the ultimate three questions: "Who are they? Where do they come from? What are they going to do?"

Cole opened his eyes at this time: "I know, baby! They don't talk to us, they just want to suffocate us!"

"Anyway, I know now that their cloaking technology covers several kilometers around, so we can't find them...We've come all the way, I'm afraid they've been watching us for a long time."

"Okay, at least someone didn't kill us...Look, Harold is back."

The three of them looked over together, and at the edge of the corridor, Harold, who was in handcuffs, walked over under the escort of several apostles with a blank expression on his face.At this time, Bud couldn't help but whistled, because among the crowd escorting Harold, there was a silver-haired woman who was clearly in front.She walked lightly, wearing close-fitting armor, and her graceful figure made the three of them look straight.

Somewhat oddly, the woman wears a strange metal contraption on her forehead that looks like a crown split down the middle.Although it is somewhat impossible, but——"Is this their chief? A woman... who was that man before?"

Bud was puzzled, and Cole laughed and said, "Wow, captain, I'm a traitor now, you won't shoot me, will you?"

This was of course a joke. As the woman and Harold approached, the door of the glass cabin where they were held opened, but they knew that they had no chance to escape from here, so they waited for Harold to come in.

However, the female officer actually followed into the room, and the glass door closed with a bang, forming a pattern of four men and one woman.

"Captain, this..." Winston looked at Bud, his captain's face was uncertain, he didn't know what he was thinking.Cole looked at Harold, who was dodging his eyes, and said, "Hey, Harold, you've got it all! Baby?"

The female officer spoke, and she didn't seem to worry about being hijacked among the four strong men.She raised her head with her hands behind her back, and said to Bud with gloomy eyes in a stern tone: "You can try, if you still want to break a few more bones."

The momentum of the three of them weakened a bit, and the scene of being beaten up by the male officer seemed to reappear before them.Damn, are these guys really human?

At this time, Olivia patted Harold on the shoulder with his hand: "Private Harold has chosen to cooperate with us, and he is your role model."

"I'm sorry, Captain!" Harold said in a crying voice with a broken face, "I still have a wife and children... I, I can't..."

"Stop it, Harold! I know." Bud's face was very ugly, and at this time Olivia made up the knife in a timely manner-"Wei An military regulations, leaking military secrets, cooperating with the enemy or a third party, depending on Execution for treason. Sergeant Bud, you, as an officer, know what happens when one of your subordinates commits an act of treachery."