Chapter 10 Open the door and go home

In the sandy town, time is running out for Jiangxia.

Following Rogge's instructions, he found the host computer under the main console and violently removed its outer casing, revealing a dense array of card slots.

He took out the purple circuit board and stopped at the third card slot from top to bottom, but did not insert it immediately.

Instead, he turned around, strode over, grabbed the headscarf that covered the frightened girl's mouth and nose, and stuffed something roughly into her mouth.

The girl felt something hard and cold being stuffed into her mouth and instinctively tried to spit it out, but Jiang Xia grabbed her chin and pushed her hard.

The thing was stuffed into the esophagus and fell into the stomach along the throat.

"Ga Gong!"

Jiang Xia pulled off his mask and shouted to the girl who was shivering and holding her throat and retching.

It was the local dialect he had just learned from Roger.

The girl understood the meaning of this local dialect very well.

The next moment, her face turned pale. She stretched out her hand and put it in her mouth , moving her tongue, trying to spit out the bomb she had swallowed.

"Hahaha"

Jiang Xia laughed, pulled the girl up roughly, pulled her to the control console, pointed at his temple, and then made a malicious explosion gesture.

This means that the bomb is controlled by his brain wave chip.

If you don't obey, I'll explode!

The girl understood the meaning.

Wearing worn goggles, she stood there shivering like a quail, not daring to move. Her eyes were filled with tears under the worn goggles.

She didn't know what this evil man wanted her to do, and the deaths of her two "mentors" in an instant made her terrified.

What happened next was a bit bad.

Jiang Xia didn't understand the local dialect and the girl couldn't understand him, so communication between them became difficult.

He scratched his hair and turned to look at the optical projection screen beside him. The surveillance footage transmitted back through the vision of the robots still fighting outside the town showed that the wasteland warriors of the Black Hand Society had already launched a counterattack.

not much time.

Jiang Xia looked around the room and his eyes fell on the belt of the corpse with its head exploded on the ground. There was something like a notebook lying in a pool of blood.

His eyes lit up and he picked it up without caring about the blood on his hands.

He picked up the pen that was still stained with blood, wrote and drew on the paper, then tore off the paper and roughly stuffed it into the girl's hand.

He breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to touch the girl's head.

He made her already messy hair even more messy, pointed at the paper in her hand, and made a malicious explosion gesture again.

Finally, he pushed her hard on the shoulder and pointed outside the house.

Signaled her to leave quickly.

Get to a safe place.

The girl was stunned for a moment, a trace of confusion flashed in her eyes behind the goggles, and she touched her belly again. Then she saw on the screen next to her that the Black Hand Society warriors were rushing into the town in the wind and sand.

She was also startled.

As a member of the Eternal Life Society, even if she is just the lowest-level research assistant, she knows the mission of this trip to the desert, and she is even more aware of the completely irreconcilable contradiction between the Black Hand Society and the Eternal Life Society.

If they saw that he was still alive, the outcome would be very dire, so he quickly grabbed the paper in his hand, ran out of the house in two or three steps, and disappeared in the wind and sand outside the door like dark fog.

Watching the girl running away crying, Jiang Xia's worries eased a little.

He breathed a sigh of relief, licked his lips, squatted down, and inserted the purple circuit board into the vacant slot on the console.

The preset program was activated by the circuit board, and the Oasis Town's defense system came online the next moment.

Outside the town, Rogge was advancing under the chaotic firepower of three hunters. His face under the mask and goggles changed, and a hint of joy was in his eyes.

He lunged forward and fell on his back in the sand. He raised his left hand and placed it on the information device above his ear. The tiny light there flickered slightly.

An order from him was sent to the defense system which was nearby and was restarted.

Click, click, click.

Following the crisp impact sound, the next moment it was heard under the ground all around the oasis town.

The four semi-permanent defensive turrets buried there were activated, and the launchers that looked like black iron boxes were sent out of the bunkers by rails.

The moment it popped out of the ground, the black weapon box changed direction.

Using Rogge's position as the positioning point, the cover on top of the box slid in all directions, revealing the neatly stacked pointed missiles inside.

whoosh whoosh whoosh.

Just like an arrow flying from a bowstring, in an instant, more than a dozen streaks of smoke with flames rose from the wind and sand.

Those pointed missiles, as thick as an adult's arms, first rose to a height of nearly fifty meters, and then shot out towards the outside of the town.

Second stage thrusters activated.

They began to accelerate in the air and deployed their tails like RPGs.

The wind caused by the launch even stopped the sandstorm for a while. Under Jiang Xia's gaze, these destructive fireworks fell from the sky and slammed into the sand outside the town.

Then……

It is the pleasing sight of flames rising.

The explosion was not very powerful.

As he expected, small missiles of this type, unless loaded with special explosives, are mostly used to penetrate enemy fortifications.

Amid the flickering flames and the roar of sand being blown away by the air waves, the projection screen in the room behind Jiang Xia instantly dimmed.

This means that the three hunters outside the town are offline.

Without their operators giving orders, these old turret-type robots were even a step slow in responding to orders to deploy their defenses, and were attacked from all sides, being wiped out in an instant.

Looks powerful, but it's really useless.

Ten seconds later, in the center of the town, a dusty Rogue, holding a pulse rifle, rushed over with a group of cheering wasteland warriors. Their joy was beyond words and they did not hide it.

In front of them, Jiang Xia was sitting cross-legged on the shoulder of a shut-down hunter robot, holding an electromagnetic heavy sniper rifle and looking at them with a smile.

The Victory cigar in his hand was already lit, the rich tobacco burning with gas. He placed it at the corner of his mouth and took a deep breath, then exhaled a string of smoke rings.

It seems that in this way, we are sharing the joy with the wasteland warriors.

"The battery pack is in there."

Jiang Xia climbed down from the hunter's shoulder like a monkey, landed beside Rogge, pouted at him and said:

"Both operators have been killed. Perhaps the Eternal Life Society has received the news. Let's start now. Let's go there to avoid any more trouble."

Rogge did not answer immediately. He walked into the room. The bloody smell was already spreading in the air. Two bodies wearing the uniforms of the Eternal Life Society were lying there in a mess, with blood all over the floor.

There seemed to be traces of a gunfight, and the whole room was in a mess.

In the corner of the room, there is a battery pack that is connected in parallel in a complex way using thick cables and more than a dozen high-energy square batteries.

That is the energy that Rogge said would be used to activate the star array.

It is indeed a big guy, and one or two people can’t move it at all.

"We just finished the battle. Let's take a rest. We will wait until night..."

Before Roger could finish his words, he felt Jiang Xia's hand on his shoulder.

Very hard.

The young man, who was smoking a cigar and wearing a very sci-fi jumpsuit, blew out a puff of eye circles, took the cigar out of his mouth, and put it out on the operating table next to him.

The action was a bit rough, which seemed to represent his mood at the moment.

He said to Roger:

“No! Right now!

You can withstand the radiation in the desert, but I can't!

I don't have as much time as you do.

My good friend, are you going to break your promise?"

Rogge looked back and saw Jiang Xia's left hand was already on the gun handle at his waist.

His gaze fell on the corpse lying in a pool of blood on the ground. The Black Hand Society warriors were celebrating their victory outside the house. Only he and Jiang Xia were in the house.

If a fight breaks out now, I'm not sure I can subdue this merchant of death.

"How could that be? You're too nervous. Relax."

Roger said calmly:

"Since you're so anxious, let's start it now, as you wish, okay?"

"@%!￥@!"

As he spoke, he shouted to the outside.

A few seconds later, the young soldier Su ran in. Rogge pointed to the battery pack in the corner and shouted something to him in the local dialect.

Su also responded and ran out. Not long after, several wasteland warriors came in pushing a transporter and used something like a jack to put the heavy battery pack on it.

The room was too small, so to activate the star array, we had to go to an open space outside.

Jiang Xia seemed satisfied, and the nervousness on his face also dissipated a lot. As he followed the battery pack out of the house, Rogge looked at his back and narrowed his eyes.

He didn't do anything.

But above the ear, the light of the information transmitter of the brain wave chip flickered rapidly a few times.

Several data packets were sent out silently.

The sandstorm was subsiding, the wind and sand covered the sky, and the darkness was alleviated a little, but there was still a howling wind blowing around the town, making the roofs of the low houses rustle.

The fighters of the Black Hand were all researchers before.

They set up the battery pack very quickly and placed it neatly, then retrieved the iron box containing the star array from the back of the tracked motorcycle.

They took out the star array slab and laid it flat on the ground.

It then connects to the battery pack through a metal electrode arranged in a quadrilateral, and finally the deformable electrode is embedded in the groove in the center of the star array.

As long as the battery pack is started, huge amounts of energy will be transmitted through cables to the stone slab, activating it.

No matter which world it is, the blue stone used by Master Bao, or the huge battery pack in front of him, the working principles are actually the same.

Energy access.

You can activate the mysterious star array and open the door across the world.

Jiang Xia stood with his hands on his hips, carrying two guns on his back, watching them busy themselves.

He also felt a bit nervous and expectant. Although he had not been in this desert for a long time, he no longer had any good feelings towards this fucked up world.

The numbness in the wound on my waist became more and more severe, and there was even a slight tingling pain, which was the kind of pain that you would feel when being pierced by a needle without any feeling.

It's hard to describe.

But it's definitely not a good sign.

He had to leave here immediately.

There were also Black Hand Society warriors nearby, constantly carrying large and small bags and piling them aside. Those were supplies that they had prepared in advance to be taken away.

They had already prepared for this "adventure", with several ammunition packs containing weapons, several cans of purified water, and so on.

Ten minutes later, everything was ready.

Rogge also rushed over, holding a silver toolbox in one hand and something like a syringe in the other.

"You helped us, outsider. As agreed before, we hired you. Now that the work is done, it's time to pay you."

The leader of the Black Hand Society stood about ten steps in front of Jiang Xia. Although he was still wearing goggles and his eyes could not be seen, there was a sincere smile on his rough face.

He raised the syringe in his hand and said to Jiang Xia:

“This is the best chip we have. It’s a pity that you can’t communicate with us without it.

Don't underestimate this chip, it can provide a lot of help to a warrior like you, so before entering your world, let us take a moment to install this for you.

Don't worry, our world is already very familiar with the technology of implanting chips.

It will be done in ten minutes at most.

Then, we became real brothers who knew each other very well.”

"Thank you for your kindness."

Jiang Xia shrugged, pointed to his head, and said:

"But I like my current state. I don't want to add anything else to my brain. Since this is the best chip, you can keep it for yourselves."

"Well"

Roger still had a smiling face, but his tone became playful the next moment.

"My friend, this is not up to you."

"Shua"

In front and behind him, four pulse rifles were raised at the same time and pointed at Jiang Xia.

The latter curled his lips but did not resist. He obediently raised his hand and gave a standard French military salute.