People's Federation will live forever

Since Li De, the giant dragon, flapped its wings, although it was not very obvious, Sira, the undercurrents of all sides of this alien planet gradually began to converge in one place. Humans, orcs, and even the entire planet All beings and their destinies are tied together by an invisible thread. In the past, this thread was called Im, but now, it is called Brotherhood.

On that day, when the gears of fate began to spin and the thread of the Brotherhood began to intersect with Marcus, Li De issued plans for the Black Hand and the Defense Force to move forward in the east and west—just like the previous declaration from the passive Turning to the initiative, he wants to fight for the political and military initiative.

Under the blue sky, at a distance of [-] kilometers from Jacintu, which is the front line where Liszt sneaked in, several unknown black spots appeared on the unfamiliar coastline—these black spots expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, Approach the coast with astonishing speed.

And that's not all, faster than these black dots is a group of three fighter planes whizzing past in the blue sky - supersonic sonic booms tearing the eardrums of the homeless people, these gathered on the coast looking up at the sky The men covered their ears and opened their mouths, taught by the fraternity officer who contacted them.The fighter jets flying at low altitude and high speed are not the models of the Defense Forces or the Venom helicopters, but the latest product of armament upgrades.

Dizi bit her hand and rubbed the cigarette, her eyes widened, the sparks of the cigarette flickered and she was almost speechless.He is just a representative of the crowd, as a guerrilla "brotherhood faction" took great risks to come here to negotiate with representatives of the fraternity, it is said that they will come by boat-my boy, how did I forget How big is the boat?

It all started half a month ago, when that shocking and incomprehensible declaration was broadcast around the world in Sira, it was undoubtedly a blockbuster to this almost dead world.Diz Waring, this old guy who is about the same age as Brown is a team leader of a group that wanders outside of Wei'an (the second and fourth generations have appeared in the game), and is different from ordinary refugees. The tough guys who fight, not run, call themselves guerrillas, and they've received the radio for granted and are skeptical of it.

But soon they heard even more incredible things from the black market merchants in Jasintu, and the secessionists who escaped from Jasintu confirmed one thing - this brotherhood may not be some crazy warlord group, They used high technology to instantly block the security communication system, and there was a rumor in the army that the control of the Hammer of Dawn had been stolen.

This shocked Deez and his family greatly. Some hot-blooded young people advocated radioing the fraternity to see if they could get support or something. This incident almost split the group and he didn't know what to do.

In all fairness, those of them who managed to escape being bombarded and killed in the city by the security satellites hate Vian from the bottom of their hearts, but they also know that Jacinto is the last hope of mankind, so they maintain a semi-detached state. Now a new Choose to appear in front of them, but worry that it is a trap.

But looking at all this, his son was extremely excited, jumping and cheering amidst the roaring noise of the plane: "Dad, it's true, what they said is true!"

Dizi slapped the kid, in his opinion, this kid is a little stuck: "What's your name, who knows what will happen next... I risked such a big risk to support you here, I don't want to see you respond to this Help the guy do what he says."

The team members took the risk of contacting by radio, and the result was very good. The other party said that they would send contact personnel to contact the information, and after a further step, they would send an official representative. If they wanted to, they could be picked up to a safe place.It was also because of this that the team fell out, and he suppressed everyone with his seniority and made a suggestion: "It's just a representative, let's see what's going on first."

Now it seems that things are a bit out of his expectation... But he immediately became strange: "I haven't seen a fighter jet for many years, but what are they sending fighter jets for, and who do they want to hit?"

If you really want to deal with these stragglers like yourself, you don't need such a big scene, right?Just thinking about it, the liaison officer yelled: "Low your head down, the shock wave is coming!"

The three fighter planes lifted up respectively, and dropped the round glide bombs mounted on the belly at the same time. The area on the coast is a dense jungle, and the three bombs are scattered in a relatively flat area. These guerrillas exploded in the air at a distance of more than 1000 meters, and white dust floated like clouds.

Dizi, who was more knowledgeable at the scene, recognized this gadget that was widely used in the pendulum war: "Cloud Bomb!"

The flames and air waves of the explosion spread, but fortunately they were not affected by the distance.Dizi got up from the ground and spat, his heart palpitating with shock: "Is this how they cleared the way?"

Before the heat wave subsided, another batch of larger aircraft flew low above their heads.These flat guys with four engines hang cargo warehouses on their belly. The transport plane that landed first disconnected the steel cable to drop a huge tank, or the cable lowered a group of infantry wearing black armor. These guys started to take action as soon as they landed. Tanks with blades push a path through the woods to the coast.One transport plane after another, the scene looked chaotic, but it was actually orderly.And the distance from the landing site to the coast is advancing at a pace visible to the naked eye.

The liaison officer fired a signal flare, and soon a parallel-rotating biplane helicopter flew here.Including Dizi, the guerrillas felt like they had opened the door to a new world, and many of them were even speechless with excitement.But soon they became even more excited, because a woman with fluttering silver hair appeared from the hatch of the helicopter. She was tall and slender, and she was looking down at them in a majestic yet gorgeous uniform.

That figure almost pulled the eyeballs of these straight men out.

"My mother." Dizi took two puffs of his cigarette, "Is such a woman the negotiating representative? How does it look..."

The word "unreliable" hasn't been said yet, it seems that the helicopter can't land on the coast, this woman actually jumped off from a height of ten meters!What surprised them even more was that the woman's landing posture was extremely light, and there was no movement or scene as they had imagined.

Olivia stood up, the exoskeleton boots on her calves—the thing was retracting its splayed recoil assembly.Behind her, a group of apostles came down to guard her with guns. The glowing eyepieces on their masks watched the guerrillas vigilantly, and the liaison officer immediately saluted Olivia and reported. road:

"General, the No. 17 advance team has achieved its mission. They are representatives of the local settlements and intend to negotiate with us."

Dizi was stunned by the opponent's unbelievable way of appearing on the stage, and when he heard that the woman was a general, he immediately blew out his cigarette butt and straightened his posture.He wanted to show some momentum to gain some initiative in the negotiation, but the female general turned her head and looked at them, and just one look wiped out their hearts.

Olivia didn't get in touch with these people right away. Before that, she gave a few orders: "Expand the landing field. If necessary, the 'Annihilator' team is repeating. A forest!"

"The security team has expanded the control area to seven kilometers. The orcs must have noticed our arrival. Don't let them take advantage of it!"

Slamming Fang Qiujian into a large army began to operate, and the power that this woman showed at will surpassed all words. When she noticed her group of people, Dizi bit the bullet and said hello to her: "Uh... .. General, I am"

"You are the leader of this group of vagrants, right? I read the report and it is the right choice for you to respond to the Brotherhood's call, and you will surely be rewarded by the leader." Olivia waved her hand, completely ignoring them. superior.Just when Dizi wanted to explain that she was not the head, she seemed to think of something again.

Olivia held the pistol at her waist with one hand, and a silver scepter carved with inscriptions of unknown purpose in the other.The current look is completely different from her previous one, less murderous and more majestic.Said to these guerrillas as if ordering his own men:

"Since you have decided to merge into the Brotherhood's jurisdiction, it happens that you are familiar with the environment here, and you can be used right now. Let's use your talents for the Brotherhood...Senior Priest Miles?"

A black-handed officer with a dagger and a cloak behind him took a step forward: "Please order."

"You make the arrangements, let these newcomers cooperate with the construction of the forward base, resettle their families, and everything will follow the No.12 plan."

The black hand bowed his head and saluted: "Follow your will, Your Excellency."

Only then did Olivia show an approachable smile to Dizi and the others: "You have been protected by the Black Hand Legion, you can rest assured about everything, and your family can also be decently arranged. Believe it, we can Not Vian."

Talking about a group of tall and murderous apostles, they greeted them and wanted to "arrange" them. At this time, Dizi and the others didn't have the heart to say "no", so they had to swallow their words and follow them.At this time, Olivia seemed to have received some news, and closed her eyes looking towards the sea.

"The deployment of the forward base, everything is going well...Yes, leader, I have noticed the situation in the direction of security, and my troops will be able to intervene soon."

Olivia opened her eyes, and there were no shadows of ships on the endless sea in front of her. There were only a few giant flying machines with nearly half a hundred wings spread, which were shaped like manta rays—they were flying machines, and these black steel monsters flew again. so low that even the wake sank into the sea.

They rushed onto the beach with big waves, and a powerful airflow spewed out from the giant air cushion at the bottom, and one truck after another, as well as a new model of MCV, drove out of their open bellies.They will build a complete base here, and will have an airport and a simple port to support a military operation.

These are just material preparations, but about more important goals——

"Marcus Phoenix? Understood, leader, if he is really that important, I will find a way to subdue this guy."

Chapter 19 Long Farewell Greetings, Liszt and Marcus

Marcus Phoenix, who is he?

Just as Li De knew that only he in the entire fraternity could understand the value of this person, the people who watched the world through the fourth wall for entertainment probably understood no more than double digits.

To put it bluntly, the difference between Marcus and a certain little green man is nothing more than the lack of strengthening surgery and a Thor's hammer.And Li De has a wicked idea, which is to make up for these two shortcomings for this tough guy, so that this hero can have a bigger stage.

But the Brotherhood's technology is far from reaching the heights of the UNSC, and Marcus has not yet realized the huge responsibility on his shoulders.He had just escaped from the prison and ran into his best friend Dom head-on. The two long-lost friends didn't have much to say now, and the gunshots from outside reminded them that this was still the center of the battlefield.

Dom hadn't changed much from what he had looked like back then, but the honest man's eyes were much brighter than then.He put down a package, which contained a complete set of security armor——

Marcus touched the familiar pattern of the armor without raising his head: "Did you be sent here?"

"above?"

Dom was stunned for a moment, and said vaguely: "It's almost like that, someone told me to let you out when the time comes." He picked up an orc rifle from the ground and threw it to his old man while he collected some ammunition. Dude, the corpses all over the floor made him frown, and asked what happened here, but Marcus was silent.

This warrior who was almost made of steel was also as cold as steel. He put on the armor silently, and walked to the door stepping on the corpses all over the floor.Marcus looked at the sign of the Vian gear on the armor with a complicated expression. In his opinion, his friend's actions had another meaning: "How much risk did you take to save me?"

"Risk? You talk to me about risk?"

Dom walked to the door with a gun in his hand, feeling as if he had gone back in time: "There is a price for violating military orders, you know better than me...but you still did it, didn't you? Then why did you do it and I Can't do it?"

From the passage outside the door came the shouts of orcs, and it seemed that they had attracted the attention of the enemy here.Marcus loaded the rifle, Dom took out the grenade, and the two stood shoulder to shoulder and got ready in tacit understanding, but their mouths didn't stop.

"It's different, you'll be hanged!"

"Come on, those big shots are having a headache right now, no one will care about such a small matter."

An elongated figure appeared in the light of the corridor, and the enemy was already approaching...Marcus, who was speechless by Dom's words, raised his gun, and finally said softly: "Thank you."

But what greeted them was not the expected hordes of orcs. A series of dense gunshots rang out, followed by the roar of chainsaws.The orc's roar was drowned in the more violent attack, the sprayed blood smeared the wall, and the big orc's head rolled in front of the two of them. For a while, they thought it was Wei'an's reinforcements who had arrived.

Until another strange figure came out from the corner, he was so soaked in blood that he couldn't see his face clearly, the only thing that was certain was that his close-fitting full-coverage armor was not Wei'an's model.

"Dom!" The other party spoke first, and he came here with a sword-shaped chainsaw, the orc's flesh was still dripping on the saw teeth—"Long time no see, buddy, I thought you didn't receive my letter." Where's your message?"

The man wiped the blood on his face, revealing a young man's face with a warm smile: "I've already cleared the way for you, originally I just dealt with the orc's artillery and it's still early, so I stopped by Look, it really happened.”

"Liszt! You...why are you here? You're still in Jacinto!" Dom was so excited that he didn't know how to organize his words. He just wanted to ask more questions, but he was worried that Marcus was by his side. .

Liszt came up and gave Dom a hug, and rubbed some blood on him by the way: "Of course I will come, shouldn't you know?" The same as the character in the original, except that Marcus, who is wearing a turban, is much taller than he imagined.

"I've long wanted to meet you, Vian's hero, our last hope, Marcus Phoenix."

Liszt stretched out his hand, hoping to be more enthusiastic, but the eloquent and half-understandable words failed to impress him.Marcus did not shake hands with Liszt, but stared suspiciously at the eye mark on Liszt's clothes.

"Although you are dressed in black, you are not an elite black armor."

"No, I'm not from Wei'an, let alone those eagle dogs."

"Then who are you, Dom's friend? He can always meet some freaks." Marcus looked at Liszt. Although he put down the gun, his finger never left the trigger. The bloody guy in front of him Not like an enemy but not like one of his own, he hasn't let his guard down yet. "And you said what happened to the artillery of the orcs, and what happened to you alone?"

Really pay attention to details... It seems that it was kicked down on the iron plate.Liszt waved his hand to bypass the topic: "I know you have a lot of questions, but this is not the place to talk."

He turned around and made a gesture: "Your helicopter is still waiting for you, let's go, I will give you a ride."

Engaging Marcus in the plan was an imperative, and trying to change his mind politically before he took on the role of vigilante was key to the operation.The problem lies in the direction of the implementation of the plan. Such a battle-hardened tough guy with a hard heart like iron cannot be persuaded by a single word of mouth. According to Li De's analysis, Marcus is not completely disappointed with Wei An at this time.

The avatar can also know this, but everyone has something they care about. Just like Pedek was to Sophia, Dom was eager to find his wife, so Marcus would also care about something.

Brother, ally, lover?In this desperate world, the only thing that can make people resist firmly is to protect their important people, although bloody, but at this time the unbreakable truth.This is the benefit of Li De's definition of the Brotherhood as a savior rather than a conqueror-although it will take a little longer and the resources will be spent a little more, but the harvest will be practical and risk-free.

Liszt will not lead the army to forcibly take the two away. His goal is to rewrite the original tragic ending instead of creating a tragedy.The three of them were walking side by side for the time being, and everyone had their own thoughts—Marcus was on guard against this guy named Liszt. Not only did he appear suddenly, but he also showed exaggerated fighting power along the way, almost One person took over the battle, and his marksmanship and combat awareness were not inferior to his own.

Dom clearly knew something, but was reluctant to tell him right now.

As they rushed out of the prison and basked in the sun, a Raven helicopter roared overhead.

A call came from Dom's radio: "This is Captain Jin Mingyang, report your location!"

"Captain? The bald guy was actually promoted because of this?" Liszt was a little surprised, but Marcus was surprised that he, an outsider, could actually hear the content of the private radio communication.

He finally couldn't bear it anymore, stepped forward and grabbed Liszt's collar: "Now, can you give me an explanation?"

"Hey, calm down, tough guy, I don't have time to fight with you." Liszt didn't show any weakness, and also pinched his arm, which was much slender compared to the tendon-filled Marcus.

"As far as the status quo is concerned, I am your ally. If you want more news, you can ask your old friend. Dom and I are still life and death friends."

"I'm in prison, but I've heard some rumors."

Marcus narrowed his eyes, the two were competing, and neither of them planned to take a step back until Dom stepped forward to hold them down after reporting, and joked with his usual kind mouthparts: "I don't Knowing that you two hit it off the first time you met...Trust me, Marcus, I doubted what you doubted, but I believed him."

In the distance, the helicopter had already begun to descend. Liszt recognized some acquaintances from the plane, but he didn't want to meet them yet.At the first moment, he took out a thick stack of paper letters from his clothes.

"I'm sorry I can't continue with you guys, Vian won't welcome me." As he said, he patted the stack of letters on Marcus—"I found it in the warden's office, it seems to be Someone wrote it to you, maybe you'll want to read it."

Before the two of them could react, Liszt took a step back, bursts of blue light appeared on his body, and the invisibility cloak was being activated, and he waved goodbye to Dom.

"The agreement is still valid, Dom. We will meet again, but you have to go the rest of the way." Liszt said, his face gradually blurred with the invisible force field until it merged with the air One.

"By the way, Anna wants me to say hello to you, and...remember to remind Carmine, be careful of snipers."

PS: For the necessary transition, there are too many things involved in the game, please forgive me.

Chapter 20 The savior?of course

The city was burning, and the raging fire devoured the white Roman-style buildings, and the soaring smoke column was still faintly visible even at the forward base more than 200 kilometers away.Since the orcs launched an attack in the early morning, the city's resistance has dropped to a dangerous level in less than twelve hours. According to the information sent by the reconnaissance plane, Wei'an does not seem to be willing to defend the city. Reinforcements came from the rear, and their troops began to withdraw when the defense proved unsustainable.Judging from the images taken by satellites, army trucks lined up along the road along the river bank, and a large number of civilians dragged their families along to slow down the troop's speed. Fighting will, they did not abandon civilians but escorted them, but compared with vehicles on foot, it is always easy to fall behind.

"It's over, Sylvie City is over."

When witnessing the soaring smoke column, the guerrilla leader Dizi said these words dully.And what he said is true. From a military point of view, Sylvie City located outside the Jiaxintu Plateau is just a prominent part of the security defense line to attract the attack of the orcs. If necessary, it can be abandoned without hesitation. As for living there The [-] residents in the city just maintain the basic operation of the city.And as a window for circulation, it is easy for a large number of fugitives and smugglers to appear.

From a political point of view, this place has long been an abandoned child.The Fraternity's infiltration of Wei'an was forced by the lack of time to fully understand his organizational form, but the refugees who kept fleeing and would rather face the threat of orcs proved how harsh the living conditions of Jasintu's civilians are, otherwise Li A broadcast from Germany would not have had such good results.

Some might be grateful that they had made the right bet, that they were indeed under the protection of the Brotherhood, unlike their own countrymen who were facing the orcs' attack.But for Dizi, although he couldn't hear him, knowing what kind of threat his compatriots were facing but being powerless was not a good thing for this man.Being at the frontline base, he witnessed more and more soldiers arriving at this fast-formed base from the sea and transport planes, but those soldiers were just busy with their own affairs, and seemed to have no idea about the battlefield that was close at hand. interest.

His growing anxiety was seen by his own son, Little Dizzy, a young man who woke up from the shock of being immersed in the fraternity's efficient engineering capabilities.Now he follows his father as the organizer of the guerrillas, but his main job is to stand at the resettlement site and look around in a daze.

These guys called the Brotherhood never explained their origins, but their power gave them a big shock when they appeared on the stage-the trees were emptied, and the ground was flattened by the huge engineering equipment pushing the rollers, A three-story steel scorpion, belching black smoke, swaggered from the shore to the center of the clearing.As if alive, the two scarlet eyes rolled around and looked at him.

Little Dizzy and Dad have lived in Jiaxintu for a long time, so they have a more complete understanding of industry than Anna and other vagrants, but when this thing stared at him, he felt as if he was bitten by something, and his whole body His hairs stood on end.But what even he couldn't understand was that when the thing walked to the center of the clearing step by step, it smashed the claw-like walking limbs into the ground, and then the scorpion shell—I mean the tower-like body layer Layers unfolded, metal floors and pipelines were laid out on hundreds of square meters of open space like mercury pouring into the ground, and a square facility that he couldn't understand at all was arranged.

An open-air factory appeared in front of them, and soon a group of small cars and guys in burqas with a mechanical arm protruding from their backs would rush to the scene, stepping up welding and debugging the equipment inside.They couldn't understand the rest of the things. There were no furnaces, no lathes, and no workers. There were only conveyor belts and countless mechanical arms—is this also called a factory?

When this big guy appeared on the stage, the whole system seemed to come alive at once. More and more vehicles were driven from the transport ships on the seashore, the runway was paved, the fence was built, and the warehouse was built...all of this Done in an hour!

"Father, are you okay?"

Little Dizi pushed the old man, who was watching a soldier covered in an iron case pushing forward what looked like three tons of cargo.It made him feel worse that the soldiers at the base, all carrying guns, were guest workers rather than ready for battle.

"Boy, I'll find a way to find that female general." Dizi touched the ID card on his chest and said, his complicated expression made his son even more worried.

"Are you trying to persuade them to save people?" The son's eyes widened. "Old man, I know you can't let go, but they said they came to establish a foothold. I think it's useless for you to go."

Then he also raised his ID card, and the officer who gave them this thing said that with this thing, the automatic turret will not sieve them as enemies, but it is also a proof of identity: "They will protect us, It's all the result of our active contact and cooperation. Dad, have you forgotten that they are hostile to Wei'an..."

"Then why are they making such a big fight? They are obviously here to do big things!" Dizi asked back, pointing at the bustling construction site, and the old man seemed a little angry, "I have taught you how to survive these years, but I didn't think I have taught you to be selfish! Anyway, I will go, at worst, I will be scolded!"

Dizi left with a wave of his hand, the boy stayed where he was, struggling for a while and followed the old man.

Contrary to what Diz thought, Olivia didn't have time to scold him, and he couldn't see Commander Blackhand either.At this time, Olivia had already returned to a "giant ship" off the coastline—it was called a giant ship only because it was three times larger than other transport ships, and it looked extremely simple.

The Brotherhood Navy was built with the utmost speed, and with speed comes a compromise in quality.In order to catch up with the needs of the war as quickly as possible, the "Guide" class light aircraft carrier fully adopts the mature GDI aircraft carrier design to reduce risks, and cut off all active defense systems within the tolerance of the army, only retaining the function of taking off and parking aircraft .Like its name says - it will lead the Brotherhood's Navy from nothing to space, and spend its last value once in a short service life, doomed not to survive the next maintenance (not planned) .

The general didn't come to see the scenery. The construction of the base is going well. The orcs are still more than 200 kilometers away. The first stage is perfect, and she can't wait to enter the second stage.But before she entered the bridge, just walked from the helicopter to the deck, Li De's signal had been connected to Olivia's electronic brain, and the leader seemed to have brought good news——

"As I expected, General. The informant of Vian's army told me that Bud and Cole have accepted a top-secret plan. Vian has already jumped the wall and prepared to use a super photon bomb to destroy the tunnel network of the orcs from the ground. , in the hope of eradicating the orc threat once and for all."

"Although according to my calculations, this operation will undoubtedly fail, but it is also an opportunity for us. Except for the infiltrating Lister, Jia Xintu is counting on your black hand to open the situation."

"Informant?"

Olivia raised her eyebrows. She didn't respond to Li De's words and didn't pay attention to her work. Instead, she noticed a detail—"You mean the chief security officer named Anya? I remember that you seemed to be very special to her." She seemed concerned, and even talked to her personally."