Chapter 685: Hey, hey, hey, stop giving yourself a flag, asshole!
In the early morning hours, Juno Cousins woke from an uncomfortable sleep.
According to her habit, she took a cold shower and changed into a robe. She planned to go for a stroll in New York City today to relax and spend the last bit of her vacation time.
The "Redeemers" she led had just completed an attack on the Monster Kingdom of the Old World in the Red Moon Realm, helping Lady Helya and the witch hunters successfully liberate a small country.
Everyone is very tired.
But there is never enough time to rest.
They had received a new mission last night. The Black Hand had paid a large sum of money to the World Tree Consortium to hire Redeemers to go to the wasteland and carry out a large-scale operation to cover the evacuation of refugees.
It is said that a swarm of radioactive insects attacked a large desert city-state, and the latter's defeat was inevitable.
The Black Hand will evacuate the innocent people in the city to a safe area before the city is overwhelmed by the swarm of insects. Such a mission is in line with the action philosophy of the Redeemers, so Juno took on this bounty without hesitation.
We will set off this afternoon and it will be another tough battle.
However, Juno did not feel disgusted by the years of war in several worlds. Instead, the satisfaction of constantly doing the right thing alleviated the terrible guilt in her heart.
Dr. Liu Chu, who had been trying to comfort her, also reminded her to continue doing those things that could improve her mood.
Dr. Liu Chu also said that her current schizophrenia condition is much better than before.
Perhaps if she persists like this, one day she will be able to get rid of the terrible shadow in her heart, but what is certain is that the wait for that day to come will be quite long.
"Huh? Who would write to me?"
When Juno walked out of her small courtyard, she saw an extra letter in the mailbox at the door. This made her a little confused and curious, as her popularity in the MAGA world was not very good.
When the letter was taken out and Captain Juno saw that the name was Lao Qu, he smiled helplessly.
This non-staff member of the Redeemer team is an Edenian. Since the first day he joined the team, he has been trying to get closer to me.
Juno is just a little crazy, not stupid.
Of course she knew what Lao Qu was thinking, but how could she put it? Someone with a complicated past like her didn't think she had the right to pursue happiness.
Juno walked on the streets of Paradise Island, watching the girls running around. At this time, the Spartan boys had already started training in the square below Valhalla.
She reached out and touched the head of the little girl who passed by her. The little girl gave her a silly smile with a few missing teeth. The child was in the teething period, or maybe she used too much force when fighting with her friends.
The Spartans were very fierce. If the little girls had a disagreement, they would fight fiercely. Losing teeth was just basic stuff.
Fortunately, they have special physiques and the teeth that are knocked out will grow back.
In the warm sunshine, Juno opened the envelope casually. Although she did not intend to respond to Lao Qu's emotional appeal, as a woman, it was still good to enjoy the feeling of being pursued.
As a result, the first sentence of the letter from Lao Qu made Juno narrow her eyes.
"I took a dangerous mission from my world. I may not be able to come back, Captain."
"This...is this a suicide note?"
Juno, who had experienced many battles, realized the unusual content of the letter when she read the first sentence, which made her originally relaxed mood become a little heavier.
"You guys who are always so silly and happy, you finally get exposed to these things."
The superhero sighed.
As part of the World Tree Consortium's military system, she and her team naturally maintain intelligence exchanges with the top leaders at all times.
Juno knew about the Sin Abyss in Ku Mu Realm, and also knew about the Lord of the Wasteland.
She knew very well that this universe was about to face irreversible destruction, and the most despairing thing was that in the face of such a crisis, she was completely powerless to save it.
All she could do was obey the arrangements of the World Tree Foundation and do what she could in each world.
In the words of Boss Jiang, it means piling up small victories one after another, which will eventually become the driving force that can reverse the general trend.
But this is more like a self-comforting statement.
Juno had no concrete idea of how powerful the Lord of the Wasteland was, but in all the worlds she visited, they all suffered the fate of being destroyed simply because of their relationship with the vanguards sent by the Lord of the Wasteland.
They couldn't even defeat the messenger sent by the Lord of the Wasteland...
Juno shook her head and continued reading the letter. The letter was not long. After all, it was a suicide note, not a love letter, so the briefer it was, the better.
"I learned the truth from the Navigation Center and the boss. My companions were very silent. They were worried and perhaps could not accept this sudden and cruel reality.
I should have been as sad as they were, about the fact that I had 'died' five hundred years ago.
But in fact, I found that I didn't feel sad.
Because compared to the suffering in the past, I look forward to the future more. To put it more bluntly, it is the bright future that supports me through the sad moments.
In that future... there is you.
I wanted to wait a little longer before saying this, but I’m about to go to the front line, and I may not have time to wait for the perfect moment.
I step into the darkest places among the stars as a warrior, not a gamer, to find a ray of light for others and for you.
I am very scared.
Because I might actually die there.
But I'm not afraid.
Even if I die, it won't be meaningless.
It's not just the disappearance of a string of characters in the virtual world. I have stepped into reality. Countless worlds, countless distant places, and countless people are already related to me.
I am a soldier now , Captain.
I am doing the same thing as you, although we are on different battlefields, we are serving the same goal.
What makes me even happier is that I can finally be sure that you are no longer the cute image made up of a string of data that I thought you were.
You are real.
It is as real as I am now, and this truth is enough for me to step into my battlefield with confidence.
Wait till I come back...
Can I invite you to dinner?
I have a gift for you."
Juno finished reading the letter in silence. The slender figure stood under the shade of the tree. She looked forward, but in the end, she did not take a few more steps. Instead, she turned around and walked towards home.
She suddenly didn't want to go shopping anymore.
Perhaps it would be more valuable to take this time to sharpen the axe and practice combat skills. After all… even a group of gamers have begun saving the world.
As a superhero, how could she waste time on boring things?
"Want to have dinner with me?"
Juno shook her head and put the letter back into the envelope. She glanced at the name on the envelope and said softly:
"Then you have to come back alive first, you young warrior. Don't die... You've gone too far, I can't save you."
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"Bang"
The rotating heavy bullet was fired from the turbo-accelerated hand cannon on the right arm, accurately exploding the storage location of the mind chip of the spider-shaped mechanical life that pounced in front of him .
The spider tank mechanical body, which was three or four times larger than its own body, made a loud explosion. Amidst the flames and explosions, this horrible thing staggered and emitted black smoke, then fell to the ground amid splashes of blue arcs of electricity.
"good."
Lao Qu, who was manipulating a humanoid mechanical body, moved his mechanical head with a clacking sound. From the scan of the large red spot visual radar on his face, he could sense that his four companions were searching for mechanical bodies nearby to hunt.
This is a standard tactical squad.
He is one of the one hundred tactical teams of Eden players sent to the Alpha World this time. He is now carrying out a self-strengthening mission. However, without the game system and mission prompts, Lao Qu is a little uncomfortable with it.
There are no skills to use in real-world combat, you have to rely on your own control, which is a bit uncomfortable.
But it's not a big problem.
They have been in the Alpha World for three days.
They were very familiar with the situation and rules here. After three days of non-stop hunting for mechanical bodies, they had collected enough reinforcement modules.
The turbo-accelerated hand cannon on Lao Qu's right arm was the trophy of a battle he had encountered yesterday.
And his mechanical head, which doesn't quite fit his body, was also stolen from another mechanical body.
His current image is very similar to that of a fortress, and all the modules on his body are full of punk mix-and-match style. Although it is ugly, it greatly enhances his destructive power.
"I'm going to use this spider robot's chassis to replace my lower limbs."
The robot, Lao Qu, stretched in a very humane manner, and then looked at the scrapped spider tank mechanical body in front of him.
This guy is one of the most powerful guys in the nearby metal valley, and replacing two legs with a spider-like six-legged chassis will double his movement speed and stability.
The appearance by then will probably become very strange.
but……
The aesthetic taste of machines is always different from that of humans. Maybe other mechanical life forms will think that such a combination is very cool.
"Old Qu, what are you standing there for? Clean up the battlefield."
Soon, a track-driven strange mechanical body with four mechanical arms installed on it, two hands holding knives and two hands holding guns, rumbled over and shouted to Lao Qu:
"Hurry up. After this round of sweeping, we will go to participate in the 'Promotion Battle'. Commander Nia and her lieutenants are already waiting for us in the twelfth ring to form a battle group."
"Don't worry, come and help."
Lao Qu said to the other four people in the communication band under the war network:
"I need to replace the action module here. It will probably take some time. The four of you help me keep watch and don't let those mechanical slaves disturb me.
After replacing this spider module, passing the promotion battle will be a piece of cake."
"Indeed, the promotion battles are all fought against these brainless mechanical slaves. It's easy to defeat ten of them."
The crawler-type mechanical body waved its four mechanical arms, making a noisy clacking sound, and said to Lao Qu:
"But the mission in the twelfth ring is not easy. Commander Nia has already planned the combat objectives. When we get there, we will immediately start the battle.
It will be a huge melee then, and if one is not careful, one will be doomed.
To be honest, I feel a little bit uneasy. "
The guy lowered his voice and said:
"This is different from playing games. There is no option to quit or admit defeat."
"What are you afraid of?"
Lao Qu glared at the guy sideways, and he quickly removed his lower body and, with the help of the other two mechanical bodies, cleaned the spider-type module of the spider tank.
He took out a box-like access module and fine-tuned the access form while saying:
"We are not real mechanical life forms. Even if our bodies and mind chips are destroyed, as long as our consciousness data is still there, we can still be 'resurrected' in other mechanical life forms.
As long as you're careful and don't get detected by the inspectors roaming the war network, you'll be fine.
Besides, didn’t the Central provide the camouflage program before we set off?
That, in my opinion, is the sure thing.
I won’t die here!”
Lao Qu supported his mechanical body with his arms and connected himself to the spider-shaped chassis by assembling the access modules.
As the unique "self-transformation" ability of mechanical life was activated , the two mechanical remains quickly completed a transformation and upgrade in a weird way, constantly spewing out various damaged parts.
"Click, click, click"
Lao Qu tried to move his new chassis, running very fast with his six mechanical legs moving like a spider. He raised his head and waved the turbo-accelerated hand cannon in his hand proudly.
He shouted to his companions:
"There is a girl waiting for me in a faraway place. I will go back with victory to date her! You bunch of singles can't understand my determination.
We will win! "
