Chapter 9 Infiltration
"That kid named Su seems to trust you very much."
In the sandstorm, the motorcycle stopped silently at the edge of the oasis. Jiang Xia put away the purple circuit board in his hand and said as if was chatting:
"He will definitely be a good fighter in the future."
"Well, Su is an orphan who was adopted by the Black Hand Society since he was a child. He regards this place as his home. If I die unfortunately, Su will become the third leader of the Black Hand Society."
Roger also said with emotion :
"He is just too young and sometimes too impulsive."
"Young people are all like this."
Jiang Xia agreed and pulled a black grenade from his belt. It had a unique and sci-fi shape and could be held in one hand. It was slightly smaller than an egg.
He had seen the power of this thing before. The plasma that would erupt during the explosion had incredible destructive power.
"What is this cute little thing called in your language?"
Jiang Xia suddenly asked.
"Ga Gong."
Roger replied casually.
By now he had stopped the motorcycle and was taking out weapons and observation equipment.
Less than a few hundred meters away was the entrance to the oasis town. Through the smoke and dust, a rust-red-painted Hunter could be vaguely seen, standing on all fours and on standby in defense mode.
If they attacked head-on, the firepower of just one robot would be enough to wipe them out.
Jiang Xia was also looking at the oasis town in front of him through goggles.
Its shape is very similar to the desert town in the Middle East, built near an oasis, and often has some decorations such as palm trees.
But there is nothing in this town right now.
Bald.
Just some weird brown vegetation.
The reason why this place is called an "oasis" is probably because of the plants that have become ugly and weird due to radiation. In addition, there is a small pond in the town, which is probably the only water source in this desert.
However, even in the cover of wind and sand, Jiang Xia could see that the color of the water was extremely strange.
Beside the pond, there stands a very punk-looking machine, which looks like a water-pumping machine, but it also has a centrifuge-like wheel and several valve-like things.
This should be a water purifier.
It's the machine that Rogge and the others talked about, used to purify polluted water to the point where it can be drunk.
The town was filled with flying sand and shadows, with no sign of human activity. Apart from the low noises and ground vibrations from patrolling robots, this place was like a dead zone.
Full of unknowns.
"Okay, it's my turn."
Seeing that the Black Hand Society fighters had gathered together, Jiang Xia stretched himself, stood up from the truck bed, took the anti-thermal imaging suit handed to him by Su, and gave the young man a gentle smile.
Then he swiftly put on the old grey tights and hood.
As several small heat shields on the outside of the tights were activated, the lines around the tights also emitted a faint light, which made Jiang Xia, who was carrying two guns, suddenly look sci-fi.
It looks very much like the classic shape of frogmen warriors.
"Don't drop the ball."
He moved a little and said something to Rogge in a muffled voice.
The latter gestured to him not to worry, and took out the last two cigars from the cigarette box on his belt and gave one to him.
This is the victory cigar. You can only smoke it after winning the battle. It can also be considered a blessing on the battlefield.
Jiang Xia took it in his hand, put it under his nostrils and sniffed it, then put it in his pocket, made an OK gesture to him, turned around and slipped into the oasis from the side in a lurking and leaping posture like a monkey.
"Click"
The safety of the pulse rifle was turned on. Rogge looked back at the soldiers behind him and didn't say much. He just waved his hand and everyone dispersed.
They fled all the way here, losing so many brothers and companions, just to have this glimmer of hope. Now that things have come to this, there is no need to say any more extra words.
They have no other choice.
Soon, the sound of fierce gunfire rang out in the dust at the edge of the oasis.
Several hunter robots patrolling the town responded quickly, and the robot at the entrance of the town fired rockets, splashing a sea of fire in the wind and sand.
Two robots came to support from two directions, moving on tracks, and the remaining two hunter robots guarded the center of the town, motionless.
There!
That must be where the robot operators sent by the Eternal Life Society are.
Jiang Xia, crawling forward in the ugly brown vegetation, locked onto that location. While moving towards there, he searched back and forth in the "grass".
After a few seconds, he saw the fruits of the vegetation before him.
It looks like a walnut, but more like a lump of earth.
I seemed to have seen Su and others eating this kind of thing before at the temple.
You have to break the shell before eating it.
Jiang Xia smiled, picked up two pills at random, and then quickened his pace. Like a monkey wandering on the ground, he rushed into the center of the town under the cover of wind and sand.
He hid in the shadow of the street about ten meters away from a Hunter.
I had seen it from a distance before and thought it was just so-so, but now observing it from such a close distance, this hunter robot does appear to be much more ferocious.
The four tracked legs have been propped up, like a fixed turret, and behind the humanoid's shoulders, four open rocket pods are pointing obliquely towards the sky.
A wave of more than sixty rockets can unleash devastating force at any time.
The arms have joints that allow them to move in four directions, and the hands are made to look like six-barreled machine guns, with exposed ammunition belts connected to the thick external armor.
This thing, with a caliber as big as two fists, can tear Jiang Xia into pieces in an instant once it fires.
The robot's head has no eyes.
Instead, it was replaced by a Y-shaped helmet with dark red spots of light moving around in it. That was probably the optical information and infrared search device that Rogge mentioned.
It also had an armor layer like the external armor of a main battle tank, painted rust red, and a weird logo, very crude, like a snake shaking its tail.
The Ouroboros symbolizes the cycle of life and death, and eternal immortality.
Wow, that’s really exquisite.
It’s no wonder that they call themselves the Eternal Life Society.
Although Rogge did not elaborate on what their "evil research" was, Jiang Xia was no fool. He could guess what it was by hearing the name.
He held a pulse rifle in his hand, an electromagnetic heavy sniper on his back, and a large-caliber revolver on his waist. After taking a few deep breaths, he took a step outside.
This range has been exposed to the robot's field of vision.
But just as Rogge said, the robot didn't seem to notice him at all.
Perhaps there were invisible information waves scanning, and those electromagnetic waves were rolling around Jiang Xia, locking onto the information frequency bands emitted by every chip that stepped into them.
This invisible lock cannot be escaped in this world.
But now, it encountered a guy who had no chip implanted at all. This layer of Skynet was useless. The thermal imaging suit on Jiang Xia's body was always working, blocking all the heat he emitted .
The gray exterior blended perfectly with the dust at the moment. Not to mention the robot's rigid optical device, even if a vigilant living person was not far away from him, it would be difficult to spot him.
After trying several times, Jiang Xia felt relieved.
But he couldn't just rush over like that. After observing the terrain, Jiang Xia climbed up the low wall and trotted along the wall like an Assassin's assassin, finally stopping above the house in the center of the town.
He looked down and saw three people in the room.
Two men and one woman.
Two men, dressed in researcher-like robes and helmets resembling hospital gas masks, were busy in front of several box-like computers.
Several scenes were being displayed on the optical projection screen, showing the fierce battle outside the town.
The two men seemed somewhat excited, and from time to time they entered commands on the keyboard, or touched their temples with their fingers, issuing instructions to the hunter robot through the brain wave chip.
The Ouroboros logo was also on the clothes of these two people.
And the girl next to them seemed a little redundant.
She was also wearing clothes of similar style, but both the shape and texture were inferior to the two guys, and she did not have a full-protection helmet like a gas mask on her face.
He simply wore goggles and covered his mouth and nose with a headscarf.
She seemed like an assistant, but more like their slave. Amidst the scolding that Jiang Xia could not understand, she was ordered around by the two men and was so busy that she had no time to rest.
Occasionally, I would be scolded by those two for not transmitting information quickly enough or inputting commands fast enough.
“Hiring child labor is rubbish!”
Jiang Xia curled his lips.
The next moment, he jumped down from the eaves, rolled over when he landed to release the force, and when he stood up, the revolver at his waist fell into his hand.
Before the three people in the room could react, they heard a muffled gunshot.
Blood splattered. The guy closest to Jiang Xia had his gas mask helmet exploded in the center of his eyes. Warm blood splashed onto the goggles of the girl next to him, scaring her into screaming.
The other person reacted quickly and immediately reached for the weapon.
But the next moment, the barrel of the gun, still emitting smoke, was pressed against the left eye of his helmet.
This action made his body stiffen in place. As Jiang Xia's gun moved upwards, his hunched body stood up, and he raised his hands and made the French military salute that is used throughout the universe.
“@￥! %@￥!!!”
He shouted.
It could be begging for mercy, or it could be persuasion.
It may be a fragrance swallowed orally.
Unfortunately, Jiang Xia didn't understand a word.
In his other hand he held the pulse rifle, pointing it at the terrified girl. According to his and Rogge's plan, they should kill the two, then replace the circuit board and restart the defense turret.
However, he did not do so immediately.
The girl was very well behaved. When the rifle was pointed at her, she didn't dare to move and her body was shaking.
But the man was not obedient.
He was being pointed at with a gun, but the small light on his temple flashed more rapidly.
As the brain wave chip issued the order, the two hunters guarding outside the house received the order, but before they could break through the wall, Jiang Xia waved his pistol and hit the Eternal Life Society operator hard on the temple.
This time I used all my strength.
The man who was beaten curled up on the ground and screamed in pain. The device that sent the brain wave chip signal was hit hard, causing him to bleed in his ears, and the movement of the robot that had just been started also stopped.
Without target guidance, they couldn't launch rockets into the small house.
"That's really naughty."
Jiang Xia said this and turned back to look at the thin girl. She was also a member of the Eternal Life Society and had a brain wave chip. She should also be able to control these hunters.
But Roger said so.
The Hunter's control system is very old.
The permission tree is fairly rigid.
In addition to what Jiang Xia just observed, given this girl's identity, she probably doesn't have such high authority.
"boom"
With a gunshot, the skull of the operator curled up on the ground exploded along with his helmet.
"Fu"
Jiang Xia blew away the smoke from the muzzle of the gun, performed a gun dance, and inserted the revolver into the gun bag, based on his superficial understanding of things like the permission tree system.
Both high-level manipulators are dead and their permissions have been locked.
This time, the girl should have enough authority.
Anyway, she just needs to create some chaos at the critical time.
