When daylight was about to dawn, the final bombardment battle was over. The desert was still the same desert, but it was glowing scatteredly.
Holes from artillery shells, exploding car bodies, and various traces of impact are all left on the sand.
Everyone made a tacit truce and began to repair the car body. Sifu listened to the clanging sounds around him and the sound of large equipment disassembling and assembling modules, and felt a loss of blood.
"Yo! You're alive and well? Can't you repair just a hole?"
"The repairs are good, but this is a new car..."
"Everyone is as good as a new car. Just stay alive. But don't rest easy now. There may be another fight to be fought during the day."
In the communication, Tien's voice sounded nonchalant. She was even nibbling on the dry food she had not been able to eat all night, commenting highly on today's opponent.
In the independent mercenary support system, Seifer looked at his rising reward: "What should we do with those... captured vehicles and personnel?"
"Didn't you get paid? You were even more rewarded for shooting down rather than killing - this is calculated by some system. Preserving vitality is good for the world, etc."
"Of course, if you feel that this reward is not enough, you can go to those people's cars to dismantle some things and come back to sew and mend them for yourself...Only for tonight, after daytime, everyone can rely on their own abilities."
That is to say, the reward pickup is also timely.
The mercenary support system is really broad. What is the background of this thing? Was it launched by the combined forces of three major companies?
Remotely supervising the car body's armored plate that had been penetrated to be removed and replaced with a new plate (including the cooling duct system), Seifer had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and then suddenly received a message from Dr. Mei.
"Sending you a private commission."
"Send the casualty report in the car. The content is... Dr. Mei has been killed in the battle, and the entrustment has been changed to transport the ashes to the Central Node City."
Cypher almost twisted the spatula in his hand.
He tried to keep his tone steady so as not to lose his composure: "Why do you say that?"
"Because of business issues that cannot be explained in detail. To put it simply, I joined the Desert Transformation Committee to use their name to do something, but it is no longer needed."
"They can't use it, or you can't use it?"
"Of course it's me. Didn't I say that the composition of the team I brought is just like that. Anyway, I am dead, please trouble you."
While Dr. Mei was speaking, on the UI in front of Seve, the cash of the mercenary system jumped out and added 150,000.
"Okay, then I'll report it."
The main tasks have not changed, the process has not changed, and it is not a matter of money. Although the mercenaries are really jealous of money, Seifer is doing it because the mission has not changed, but additional terms have been added, not because of the money.
Some of the city management people were also on the ground, and they were good at counting losses - when Seif reported it, they just said "oh" and it was over.
From this moment on, the VIP protected by Seifer became VIP sauce.
Or Ashes VIP.
Feeling prankish about his idea, he went to the experimental section to visit Dr. Mei while waiting for the car body to be temporarily repaired.
But she found that the other party was leaning on the chair where she usually rested, quite leisurely.
"...So, when the communication is cancelled, Dr. Mei will die without any value and meaning in such a marginal town?"
"To put it another way. In such a remote area, anything is possible - even a prestigious doctor."
She changed her position and folded her legs: "Teach those who come after me a little lesson. This is one of my posthumous arrangements... In addition, I am very curious."
"Your crew has been lost just now. I also went to confirm what would happen to a person if he was directly hit by a shell."
"But I only saw some dissipating limbs and fragments. All the substances slowly faded and disappeared. Then she is now on duty inside the car. What did you do during this period?"
After hearing what she said, Sever was silent for a while and suddenly crossed his arms: "You are now the one who has been removed from the list, Dr. Mei."
"This is the curiosity of a researcher."
People who engage in science are indeed like this, but people like her, who fake their own death with obvious follow-up arrangements, and then continue to engage in scientific research... their minds are much more flexible in all aspects.
So after weighing the pros and cons, Seifer made a bold suggestion: "If you are so curious, why not sign a contract with me and become a registered crew member!"
Dr. May put down his work board and looked at Seifer up and down, even looking at him a little creepy. That gaze seemed to penetrate the skin and fully understand the internal mechanical and driving structure.
"Yes, the contract will last until reaching the central node city. Can you accept it... Commander?"
It seems more comfortable to call him captain, and according to the category, a person who can command such a large vehicle can be called commander, captain, etc.
After sending the onboarding process to Dr. Mei's tablet, she checked various options neatly and even picked up the tablet to take a photo of herself as an onboarding photo.
After finishing all this work, Seve allowed the process to advance for a while after agreeing, and then he received a reminder from the main control cabin - onboarding completed.
After logging in to the personnel list, Cypher saw that she had no intention of continuing the conversation, so he temporarily ended the communication and went to do other chores.
Taking a look at the personnel information on the way, Seifer accidentally saw that the photo on the employment information card was completely black with a question mark on it, which was completely different from Lin Shenxue.
A bit confusing.
Is it because Dr. Mei is now a black man with no identity? But the system on the car seems to have nothing to do with the mercenary system or the population management of the city.
It's better to ask, to avoid any suspicion.
When he was about to take action, the maintenance team outside reminded Seifer that the temporary damage control work had been completed.
Hmm... wait until the matter at hand is settled.
It will be dawn in just a few dozen minutes. Not to mention what kind of wall of fire the high temperature will bring, just the hot wind that has begun to blow is already too much for some people.
All the staff outside could be evacuated back to their vehicles, and all the strongholds were stationed in different areas. When the sky turned from pitch black to slightly white, the sound of fighting had completely disappeared.
All that was left was the howling hot wind and the churning sea of sand, waiting for another round of ravaging the area.
Sipher was on standby in the maintenance room. He found that the feeling here was a little more complicated than in the vision... Because of the vision, he only needed to think about where to go and what to do.
There was a lot to think about here, and if his body hadn't been made of machines, he would have been exhausted.
At least there were very few people in other cars who were mentally prepared to continue blocking the enemy during the day.
When the news came from Lin Shenxue, she was extremely excited and said that she was extremely normal. There was nothing extra or missing organs. In other words, this system did allow the crew to make mistakes.
"Look on the bright side, if you get roasted in the engine room in the future, you will have a chance to stand up again."
'evil……'
But the process must be painful.
In the UI interface, the No. 2 spare body in the spare body warehouse is almost completely broken and is being repaired. Now Seifer is using the brand new No. 3 spare body that just left the factory.
The No. 1 skin is too hard to buy, so it’s better to play it safe.
Checking the weapons and equipment, especially the dagger that can be used for close combat, after Cypher hung them all on his body, the communication sounded throughout all the trains on the sand.
'Sun rise! Cover each other! '
