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On the other side of the hemisphere of the planet where the ground base is located, above the Grand Canyon, two Marines, 035 and 036, were squatting beside a hidden boulder pile on guard with guns.
The reason why they stay here is because they were ordered by Captain 031 who performed this reconnaissance mission to guard the rigging here. They must ensure the safety of these two sets of rigging before they return within three hours.
Otherwise, when the four or five people who have gone down return, they will not be able to get up without the help of this rigging!
And due to the strong magnetic field, the transport plane cannot get too close to the canyon.
Therefore, if there is any problem with these two sets of rigging, those people will probably be trapped at the bottom.
As for this Grand Canyon, the fissure below is a bit narrow, a bit too deep, and winding. There is really no way to use the flying jet device to fly up forcefully. Whether it is going down or up, it can only Only if you can use the downhill rigging to help you climb.
Except for 035 and 036, who were guarding the rappelling device above the canyon, the other eighteen people, after checking their weapons and equipment, descended one by one into the deep canyon fissures below.
"Captain? We have traveled several hundred meters deep, right? How long do we have to go?"
Now, these eighteen marines are walking down the twisting gravel crack trail. They have been walking for nearly half an hour, and they have barely penetrated a distance of more than a thousand meters. .
Then, after going deeper and deeper, a team member who was second in front with 039 on his chest finally couldn't help but ask the captain who was walking in the front.
Now he walked deeper and deeper, and the further he walked, the more panicked he became. When he thought about those unmanned detectors that had disappeared inexplicably, he felt a wave of panic in his heart.
He felt that Commander Doug of the base, did she have to send them to find out what was in the canyon fissure?
Since we know there are bugs inside, wouldn't it be enough to let the drone carry some self-explosion bombs or wait until the fusion bombs are produced and shoot them down?
He knows that outside the ground base command center, a nuclear bomb silo has been transformed by SCV. That tactical-level fusion intercontinental missile must also be on the production list, right?
"Don't say anything! Be patient, we still have half the journey. As long as we reach a place that the unmanned reconnaissance planes can't reach, after some investigation, if there is no special discovery, we can return immediately!"
In fact, Captain No. 031 was a little trembling in his heart, but since he took over this on-the-spot investigation mission ruthlessly, he had to give it a try!
This time they came here. In addition to the nominal investigation, they actually had another more important secret mission, but others didn't know it.
And once he discovers that there is really a large-scale insect swarm below, he will probably implement another action plan!
So, while encouraging the team members, he continued to take the lead and walk at the front.
"Everyone, please pay attention and follow closely. Ahead is the electromagnetic chaos area! By then, communication may not be very effective. If you can, just try to stay quiet! None of us know what will happen there. There is something..."
While whispering, Captain 031 took the lead and continued walking towards the small crack diagonally downward.
The current depth is almost reaching the predetermined chaotic area.
The marines in their group have seen that there seems to be something abnormal with their electronic equipment.
The holographic images in everyone's helmets began to vibrate inexplicably...
Therefore, after giving a final explanation and asking the people behind to follow up, he took the lead and continued walking.
"..."
After a while, everyone's equipment, including the captain, except for power armor and lighting equipment, which were rough and rough and had no precision electronic equipment and were not affected by the strange magnetic field, other high-end equipment, Including radar, camera equipment, night vision equipment, communications, etc., all have been seriously interfered with.
It was clear that now, they had entered the final area of their mission objective.
Because they had already seen that the downhill road ahead was slowly opening up, and in a corner, they also discovered the remains of an unmanned reconnaissance equipment that was obviously a human product of the Hope.
It seems...it was torn apart by violence?
"Everyone, check the weapons one last time, we are about to enter the mission target area!"
Without the help of communication equipment, Captain No. 031 made gestures while speaking directly into the mask in a muffled voice.
Although this planet has an atmosphere and sound can travel in the air, his words were a bit muffled due to the fully enclosed mask. The team members behind him could not hear clearly what their captain said. You can only guess based on the actions of the person in front and the captain's non-standard tactical gestures.
"Okay! Everyone, keep going, keep quiet, and don't speak loudly!"
After seeing that everyone had completed the final inspection of equipment in accordance with his order, 031 nodded, and after saying a dull final word, he took the lead and walked forward.
Then, the other Marines followed one after another, using the two pairs of white light searchlights next to their respective armor chests and helmets to carefully look at the ground while following closely the teammates in front...
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The difference from other citizens in the Hope game platform who engage in various confrontations or equipment training is that in this special copy of Stratholme that Little Annie asked Zhinao to make specifically based on her memories and requirements, Galen and De The members of Laius's two teams were practicing their skills in using cold weapons in the open space outside Stratholme Bridge.
They were forming a group of two, each shouting funny slogans of "Demacia" or "Noxus", and then their bodies were flashing with golden holy light energy or blood-red anger, and they were catching and slashing at each other. With.
Sometimes, someone accidentally gets half of his body chopped off by a big sword...
Or, someone stumbled and reacted a little slowly, and his head was chopped off by a blood-red axe...
All kinds of blood and internal organs flowed to the ground outside the bridge, and then were quickly flushed away.
But in fact, they are not so much training, but rather they are relying on the fact that there is no real dead person in the holographic simulation game. They are holding murderous weapons and killing each other without any rules?
The opponent who was cut in half by an ax in the previous second was refreshed in the next second and joined the battle again. It was so exciting!
For veterans like them who have undergone many trainings, in the game, except for a little low-intensity simulated pain at the moment of being hit, there will not be much discomfort. The feeling when it explodes is no different.
They have long been accustomed to this.
"Hey! Darius, let's not fight for now, right? I think we are almost proficient in using weapons now! How about we try to open up Stratholme?"
After fighting each other for nearly half an hour, they became more and more adaptable to the sword and axe, and shouted slogans more and more smoothly!
Correspondingly, the feedback of the special energy on the weapon has become more and more solid.
So, Galen thought, if they continue to fight each other like this, how boring would it be to kill each other?
Then why not go to the city early to have a look and try to practice sparring with those undead?
Anyway, Galen feels that they have basically mastered these cold weapons and the strange energy fed back by the weapons. He also feels that he can now defeat ten of himself in the past, and he will never be the same again. , was easily overwhelmed and torn to pieces by those undead!
Therefore, with his self-confidence extremely inflated, he decided: while everyone is in the mood now, how about clearing this so-called Stratholme dungeon in one go?
Those ghouls and abominations don't seem to be that difficult to deal with, right?
Besides, they are different now from just now. Now, they have basically mastered these powers that transcend mortals!
"Let's go into the city now...are you sure?"
After Darius heard Galen shouting to stop, he took two steps back, carrying his huge two-handed battle ax, and was a little undecided for a moment.
He always felt that by doing this, Galen seemed a little too impatient?
After all, they had just trained for half an hour. It didn't seem right to just run into the city so carelessly, right? Who knows how many evil undead there are inside?
"What are you afraid of? We are invincible now!"
Galen waved the sword in his hand with great courage, letting the golden light from the weapon slightly cover half of his body. Does it really look like that?
It’s just a game anyway, and you won’t die, so there’s no harm in trying it!
"That's right, Captain! It's okay for us to keep sparring like this! Let's go to the city and give it a try?"
"agree!"
Some team members who heard it also stopped and agreed with Galen's decision.
"That's right, I agree! Captain, you don't know: Those bastards who were sparring with me just now are all dirty idiots! They want to take advantage of me all day long! When they use the knife, they also pick out Cut it in three ways!”
A female soldier jumped out at the right time and loudly condemned the perverts who were sparring with her to Darius.
Just now, she was split in half by those bastards in an extremely obscene way!
"Sister! You misunderstood me!"
"That's right! Every time you swing the ax, it opens and closes wide. The gaps and holes at the bottom are so big, of course we have to chop at the bottom first..."
"That makes sense!"
"Captain, you don't know: She always raises the ax so high. If we don't cut her lower back quickly, she will definitely have her head chopped off on the spot!"
"That's right! When I see her preparing to chop her down from above, why don't I just stab her through her right away? In that case, who cares?"
"That's it! She just split my neck twice!"
Seeing someone accusing him and others of being cunning, the team members who had trained with this female soldier were a little unhappy, and they all jumped out and retorted.
In this short half-hour of training, the number of people who were split in half by this female team member was by no means less than double digits!
Her opponents have changed several times, and few of them can stand her invincible and violent fighting style. That is not practice at all, but fighting hard!
Every time, she never cares how the opponent defends or attacks, she always raises her big ax high, and then cuts it down directly with the force of Huashan. That momentum alone can scare many people. .
Therefore, after they suffered a loss from this female team member's ax and came back with revenge, they quickly changed their opponents!
"I also agree, go to the city and open up Stratholme!"
"Let's go! Go to the city, go to the city! Let's open up wasteland!"
"Yes! Destroy the undead in the city and kill them all!"
"Yes! Enter the city!"
"Long live Demacia!!"
"Noxus, unrivaled!!!"
A group of Marines, who boasted themselves to be invincible, stopped what they were doing and started making noises loudly.
They are now a little tired of this boring sparring training. This kind of sparring has no meaning at all except killing the opponent or being killed by the opponent. It is so boring!
Moreover, they were "eaten" by those undead just now. This revenge must be avenged!
"Okay, let's go to town!"
Seeing the excitement among the crowd, Darius didn't want to stop him too much. After thinking about it, he finally nodded in agreement.
It's just a training game. If you can't beat it, you can just go back and continue practicing later. It's not a big deal anyway.
"Okay! Where is the dawn of intelligence? Hurry up and put on our armored power combat suits. We are going to the city to open up wasteland!"
After obtaining everyone's consent, Galen began to loudly call out to the brain of the Hope.
Since it is officially opening up wasteland, they must put on equipment, and they must start attacking the city in an actual combat state!
Of course, it is just a combat uniform. As for the electromagnetic rifle, it is not needed for the time being.
"The order has been received!"
Suddenly, Dawn's electronically synthesized female voice sounded.
Then, all the Marines put on their CMC-300/400 armored power combat uniforms in an instant and turned into twenty interstellar heavy-armed paladins holding big swords or giant axes ( Apprentice?) and warrior (Apprentice?).
"Haha! Are you all ready? Now, listen to my order: start attacking!"
After the gate of Stratholme in front slowly opened, Galen raised his long sword and shouted loudly at the city gate.
He decided: they would rush in at once, kill all the movable monsters they saw, and completely clear this seemingly small city dungeon before dinner time was over!
Then, a group of people made a loud noise, waving their big swords or axes, and followed Galen one after another, speeding up and rushing in towards the city gate of Stratholme...
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In a supply station at the ground base, little Annie was sitting at a square table in the public dining room, devouring her dinner.
Although the taste of these fast-growing fast-growing plants or the meat animals cultivated on the Hope is not very good, some are even synthetic protein meat?
However, with the passable skills of the chefs and the cover of those seasonings, the taste was quite good. After all, it was better than what she had eaten in the previous world in the Caribbean. Those dark dishes are so much better!
Therefore, Annie had to reluctantly come here to eat a little bit from time to time. Anyway, it was provided for free and it didn't cost her any money!
"Annie? Why are you the only one eating here today? Where are Galen and Darius and the others?"
At this time, Doug, the commander of the base, also came here to eat.
When Doug discovered that for the first time, the people who could almost see a group of people having fun eating and drinking were nowhere to be seen. Out of curiosity, she walked to Annie's house with a plate full of food. At this table, he sat gracefully opposite little Annie, who was eating a big meal and didn't even look like she was eating.
"Tame Menzai... train your face..."
Little Annie, who was grabbing the big drumstick of a fast-growing broiler and chewing on it, was talking incoherently.
After taking two bites, little Annie looked at the chicken drumstick with a bit of disgust. The taste of this thing always remains the same!
In the breeding warehouse on the Hope, before everyone on the Hope woke up, the meat products were controlled and cultivated in large quantities by Zhi Nao Dawn. The supply is not too large. Only combat troops can open up the supply. Even if the meat quality is not very good, it is still quite popular and is one of the edible non-synthetic meat products that is more acceptable to Little Annie.
"Training? Are they usually so active?"
Doug was a little confused. When did those Marines need to train to the point where they forget to eat and sleep?
Look, it's already half the meal time, and they don't even come?
"Oh! I remembered it. Could it be that you asked them to do the special training in cold weapon combat?"
After thinking for a while, Doug suddenly came back to his senses.
Before, after seeing off the captain's armored transport spacecraft, Darius had told her about this matter. It seemed... it was the special training called cold weapons, right?
It seems that there is some kind of special weapon? Or was it provided by this magical little girl in front of me?
"Yeah...it's just spicy!"
After wiping her mouth with her greasy hands, Annie continued to chew the food in her mouth and nodded vaguely.
"..."
Then, she thought about it and looked around her again.
After being reminded by Aunt Doug, she finally realized: There seems to be no scoundrels like Darius and Galen in the cafeteria today who like to share their own food?
So, you can secretly eat something delicious?
hey-hey……
After thinking about it, little Annie quickly threw away the chicken leg, took out a large roasted bobcat leg from her space pocket, and started to eat it again.
Today, without that gang of scoundrels, I should be able to have a nice meal?
"But, Anne...will cold weapons really be effective against our Marines?"
Doug was just thinking about things and didn't even notice where did Little Annie's big piece of barbecue come from?
So, she just wiggled her nostrils curiously and smelled the charming fragrance while continuing to ask questions that confused her.
She still felt that it might be better to use a rifle to deal with the bugs on this planet! As for the means of close combat, it is better not to use them casually unless absolutely necessary, as it will increase the casualty rate!
"Bu Zhidao...the hotness depends on...the effect of their training!"
Continuing to nibble on the salt and pepper bobcat legs in her hand, little Annie dealt with it casually without raising her head.
How would she know if there was such a question? Anyway, she was just playing around with it on a whim!
As for what they can achieve in the end, it depends on the training effect of the big guy Galen and the big guy Darius.
If they can clear the real mode of the Stratholme dungeon, they must have at least the strength of a paladin or warrior hero, right?
When the time comes, it will definitely come in handy!
If a total of twenty hero-level warriors like paladins and warriors were to fight face to face, it is estimated that even a demigod mage like herself would have to run away, right?
As for when they will be able to clear Stratholme, only Varimathras knows...
Anyway, that big bat should be considered the last boss in the dungeon, right?
That kind of thing is just something that little Annie can easily crush to death by herself. I hope Galen and the others can defeat each other soon?
With the weapons she set up and the game's feature of not being afraid of death, little Annie felt that after countless attempts, as long as they were not too stupid, they could still barely find the right way to pass the level within a year or two. Strongly qualified.
Unfortunately, what she didn't know was that those twenty Marines were already eager to march towards Stratholme City after just fighting each other for half an hour...
"By the way, little Annie, this barbecue of yours is..."
While eating the tasteless food on his plate and smelling the wonderful aroma across the way, Commander Doug finally couldn't help but speak.
Therefore, after she stopped what she was doing, she looked at the hind leg of the animal in Little Annie's hand with some confusion, which had most of the animal's hind legs chewed off.
The crispy skin that was browned and shiny, and the strange and breathtaking aroma made Doug very confused.
She must have...never seen such barbecue food in the cafeteria, right?
Or...could it be that I missed something in the cafeteria buffet area just now? Didn't you pay attention?
"What barbecue?! No more barbecue!"
As soon as she heard the other party ask this, little Annie's eyes immediately changed.
He's not another scoundrel who wants to share his food, is he?
It does look a bit similar...
Then, after staring at the other person warily, she tore off the last piece of meat from the bobcat's leg and swallowed it into her stomach. As soon as she turned around, she quickly picked up her empty dinner plate. , jumped directly from the seat.
"Okay, Aunt Doug, I'm full, bye!!"
Little Annie, who was afraid that the other party would be like the big guy Galen and come to her asking for something to eat, so she hurriedly carried the dinner plate and ran to the recycling area of the cafeteria.
"..."
strangeness!
Doug stared at the other person's back in stunned silence. She had no idea what the hell this little kid was doing.
She just wanted to ask her where she found the barbecue in the self-service area, and then she wanted to get some of it herself!
That little kid, is he so nervous? It’s not like I want to compete with her for food!
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At this moment, in the game, outside the bridgehead of Stratholme, Galen and Darius, a group of twenty marines who had just been discussed by Little Annie and Commander Doug, were looking at each other with dull faces.
Just now, they were full of confidence and felt that they could clear the entire dungeon before the end of the meal, but they were taught a lesson by the cruel reality!
A bloody lesson!
More than ten minutes ago, after they put on armored power combat suits and rushed into the city, they had just had time to cut down some zombies and skeletons when they were attacked by a not very big ghoul, leading a group of smaller ones. The ghoul was easily knocked to the ground and gave him twenty fresh and sweet meats for free...
Finally, after the opponent left with a bulging stomach and burping, the copy was reset by Zhinao, and they were resurrected and returned to the original place at the bridge.
"Darius... how long have we been in the city just now?"
Looking at the re-closed huge wooden and iron structure city gate in the distance, Galen felt that his self-confidence seemed to have suffered some huge and cruel blow, and he was in urgent need of comfort.
"It should be...about ten minutes..."
Darius said with a slight expression on his face.
He looked at the current time, and then thought about the time he waited for others to set off when the meal started, so it was easy to come up with a relatively accurate number.
"Ha! That's not bad. At any rate, we have persisted for ten minutes?"
Galen smiled awkwardly and spoke to comfort everyone in a self-hypnotic manner.
Although they failed in the end and did not attack many meters into the city, they could still be considered successful in holding on for ten minutes, right?
This is a huge improvement!
Galen felt that they must not be frustrated because of this, and should keep up their efforts. Next time... try to last for an hour and a half without being destroyed?
Anyway, at this point, Galen has temporarily given up any hope of clearing the entire dungeon before dinner is over!
He just hopes that later, after the next attack starts, they can hold on longer?
"Galen..."
Darius looked at Galen with trembling lips, hesitating to speak, as if he didn't want to hit him?
"We were in there just now, and we only lasted for a minute at most... Then, those monsters, it took nearly nine minutes for them to eat us up..."
Although he didn't want to dampen Galen's enthusiasm, Darius still told the truth without expression.
Thinking of what happened just now, Darius still felt a little frightened.
That kind of monster is too scary, right?
The ghoul that had just wiped out twenty of his people was not an extremely huge, powerful, or invulnerable monster, but just extremely fast...
How fast?
As soon as they saw each other, before they had time to react, the monster accelerated and ran. Then, it quickly interspersed among the team. In less than ten seconds, all of them had their armor torn apart and were knocked over. On the ground...
Thinking of the speed at which the opponent quickly shuttled between the twenty of them, almost invisible, and then thinking of its terrifying claws, tearing apart the weak points of the armor and taking out the group of them. He couldn't help but tremble with the feeling of despair when he felt his internal organs, and he felt like urinating...
Fortunately, this extremely fast monster only exists in the game...
"Ah...it turns out that we were only in there for a minute?"
Galen, who originally wanted to continue to mobilize his morale, couldn't help but stiffen after hearing this.
Later, Galen felt that maybe it was because the difficulty of this dungeon was too high?
So, should we order Dawn to change this dungeon from real difficulty mode to difficult or normal mode? Or, just try setting it to the lowest simple mode?
Decided! That’s how it should be done!
"Everyone, don't be discouraged! After all, we are all novices, and this failure was actually within our plan!"
After thinking about it, Galen turned to face the others and mobilized again.
"So! Later, we will start from the simplest mode first! Everyone must believe: we will definitely be able to clear this Stratholme simple mode dungeon this time! We will definitely!!"
"You must believe: We are the strongest marines on the Hope! There is no one else! Victory will always belong to us!"
A leader who cannot open his eyes and tell lies is not a good leader!
Therefore, after talking a lot and seeing everyone's morale being slightly mobilized by his lies, Galen nodded with satisfaction and immediately asked Zhi Nao Dawn to change the difficulty of the dungeon to the real difficulty mode. , adjusted to the lowest and lowest gear!
Galen thinks that if this is the case, they should be able to pass the level this time, right?
