Chapter 328 War Fortress
"Who's calling the fleet?"
"This is a trap..."
"Abandon ship!"
“…”
Su Xia stared at the replay of the game screen on the computer. His Yamato was gone, and the screams of his good brothers continued to be heard on the screen.
Before he knew it, it was 11 o'clock in the evening. He had played the last game of Terran and was beaten by the Protoss without any chance to fight back. In the end, he could only type "GG" and close the game.
He felt unconvinced while playing the game, but after watching the replay he realized that his loss was not unfair, as the opposing Protoss's operations and management crushed him, a rookie.
He drew aside the bed curtain and looked down. Li Defu was still gathering his troops. A bunch of Protoss aircraft carriers filled the screen. He had no idea how they were fighting.
Su Xia returned to the main interface, and the game was already a little stuck.
Another roommate, Li Sihua, wanted to log into his StarCraft account, but it kept going in circles and it took him a long time to log in.
"Why is it so laggy? Are everyone trying to squeeze in the game?" Li Sihua whispered to himself.
It seems that on the last day of the server shutdown, all the former game players came back to reminisce about the good old days.
Of course, it's just a memory.
StarCraft had actually died a long time ago, but only now did someone remember to bury it.
[There are 0 hours, 25 minutes and 11 seconds left before the mission begins, please be prepared]
A message suddenly popped up on the bracelet, informing Su Xia that it was time to go to another game to save her fans.
He took one last look at the interstellar image, then drew the bed curtains, lay down calmly, and activated the bracelet.
…
On the back of the hillside, the jungle is quiet.
Ding Can and his companions lay motionless at the ambush site. All of them were wearing camouflage clothing, as if they had blended into the environment.
When Su Xia returned to the game, she was shocked to find that snowflakes were falling from the sky.
“It’s snowing.”
Su Xia raised her head and saw snowflakes flying all over the sky, drifting down from the vast night sky.
As a southerner, he had rarely seen snow since he was a child. He only saw a big snow in 2008, but he was still young at that time and did not have much memory.
Later I learned that the south suffered a severe snowstorm that year, and more than 100 million people were affected.
It was approaching midnight and the temperature had dropped to -4 degrees Celsius.
When the cold wind blows, the perceived temperature drops even lower.
In the jungle, an ambush member whispered: "Damn, why is it so cold tonight? I can't feel anything."
The person next to him said, "Shh, keep your voice down."
Another person said, "Go back to the master of medicine. Even if it is frozen, it can grow back."
"Really? The Potion Master is so powerful?"
"Just look for a legitimate master, don't look for those scammers!"
"Alas, it would be a good thing that the old master from Coral City is still here. He is recognized as the best master in the entire southwest. I wonder how much of his skills his three disciples can learn from him."
As southwestern cities, Seahorse City is not far from Coral City, so these people naturally know what happened some time ago.
One of them said: "Just those few disciples? I saw them on TV, they were not that good."
Someone immediately agreed: "That's right... That apprentice named Su Xia is really damned. The old master worked hard to teach him knowledge, but he sold the master out and went back to do something else. What do you think?"
"Okay, I like to beat up that kind of pretty boy!"
"I heard that he might be undead and can't be killed."
"Damn it, those undead people only care about profit. They will sell anything for money!"
"If we can't kill him, we have to torture him. We can't let him have an easy time!"
“…”
Su Xia was not far from these people, her body covered with nanorobots, and she could hear their conversation clearly.
He didn't expect that he would meet someone who wanted to kill him here.
Dad has been famous for many years. He became famous not long after the war started. I don’t know how many people he has saved over the years. If you line up the psychic creatures who have received his kindness, they can probably circle Coral City several times.
In terms of influence, there are probably few pharmacists who are more powerful than him.
Even though he has been in semi-retirement for the past two years, he still has a constant stream of visitors, many of whom even come from another continent to visit him.
After the incident at the pharmacy, Su Xia became a thorn in the eyes of many people.
Even in the Midnight Tavern, there were assassins eyeing him.
But the situation is tense now. Not long ago, even Moser and Yu Tuo took action for him, so no one dares to touch him for the time being.
"Pay attention, a message has been sent from the front!" someone suddenly said in a low voice.
"Coming?"
"Well, ten minutes at most!"
"Everyone get ready!"
“…”
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. No one spoke anymore, and only the sound of falling snow could be heard.
Su Xia looked into the distance and sent out a team of nanorobots.
The little robots formed a little bird, flew into the snow and kept moving forward, and soon found a very long convoy ahead on the road.
One heavy truck after another was driving on the road, with wipers moving back and forth on the windshield, wiping away the snow and water on the glass. The drivers behind the windows looked focused.
[Target has been found]
"call……"
When the cold wind blew , the body of the little mechanical bird scattered with the wind, turning into crystal snowflakes, falling on every truck.
Then, the snowflakes dispersed again and turned into small robots that sneaked into the carriage.
【Armed personnel spotted】
[A large number of armed personnel were found...]
【……】
The little robots share the vision for Su Xia.
Inside the carriage, there was no cargo at all. Instead, it was filled with fully armed elite soldiers.
There are a total of nineteen large trucks, all of which are modified into special combat machinery. Each vehicle has a combat team of 10-12 people, all of which are well-equipped. The captain of each combat team is a psychic creature .
Roughly speaking, there are more than two hundred soldiers in this convoy, all wearing the city emblem of [Seahorse City] on their shoulders.
Judging from their level of sophistication, these people are most likely the city lord's personal soldiers.
In the seventh car, Su Xia suddenly spotted a character that often appeared on posters in the streets of Haima City.
[Ding Yixiu: Lord of Seahorse City, 42 years old, level 3.9 psychic creature, father of Ding Can...]
This is a middle-aged man, also well-equipped.
The information given in the mission was correct. This action would be absolutely devastating for Ding Can.
Once the war breaks out, the few people Ding Can brings with him will not gain any benefit from his father, and they may even be wiped out.
What's more, there are undercover agents inside Ding Can...
In the carriage, Ding Yixiu had a deep aura, a beard, and a scar on the right corner of his eye. He looked like someone who was not someone to be trifled with. He was completely different from Qi Lang from Coral City. It was obvious that he was a ruthless man who had gone through brutal struggles to climb to the top.
"We're almost at the ambush site, get ready!" Ding Yixiu ordered.
"Sir, the young master is young after all. Are we being too harsh?" asked a confidant nearby.
"You call this cruel? When I was young, I crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!"
Ding Yixiu looked down on him and said coldly, "That little bastard is getting bolder and bolder. He used to rob other people's goods, but this time he actually dared to rob his father's goods. If I don't give him a beating, he won't know who is his father!"
"Well……"
Several close associates remained silent.
When other people beat their children, they would at most use branches to hit them a few times. How could they use real knives and guns like this?
If nothing unexpected happens in tonight's battle and it goes according to plan, many people will die and the final result will be cruel.
A confidant reminded him, "Sir, you always like to call the young master a 'little bastard'. This is not good. You are also scolding yourself."
"Bah! Haven't you heard of species mutation?"
“…”
"That little bastard must have mutated, otherwise how could he not inherit any of my good qualities?" Ding Yixiu said angrily.
“…”
Several close confidants remained silent, silently searching for the city lord's strengths in their minds.
In fact, if we had acted earlier, things would not have developed to this point.
Someone had long ago reported to the city lord's office news such as "the young master is stockpiling munitions", and even the "specific location", "arrival time of each batch of munitions", etc. were reported.
Dante Yixiu was not in a hurry. Instead, he was thinking about how much trouble his son could make.
In the past, when those businessmen came to him to complain, he was always calm.
Until this time...
When Ding Yixiu heard that Ding Can had targeted his convoy for robbery, he finally could not sit still anymore.
"Sir, it would be better if we raid the young master's warehouse at night." The confidant next to him said, "The initiative is in our hands. We can make better arrangements and still teach the young master a lesson."
"No, that little bastard won't accept it! He'll accuse me of a sneak attack."
Ding Yixiu shook his head and rejected the suggestion outright.
He said coldly: "Let him sneak attack me, give him the initiative, I want him to lose sincerely!"
The confidant asked again: "Sir, are we going to kill two-thirds of the young master's men?"
This was arranged in advance, but the confidant still asked it to confirm it one last time.
Ding Yixiu's eyes darkened, as if he was thinking, his brows slightly furrowed, and after a moment he said: "Forget it, just kill one-third of them, and leave a few more to serve as a team for that little bastard, otherwise it will be difficult for him to support this city alone in the future."
"OK."
After receiving the accurate order, several confidants breathed a sigh of relief.
Next, they began the final preparations.
"Remember, that little bastard's first attack will definitely be smoke bombs and tranquilizer bombs, so put on your gas masks..."
As the message was delivered and they got closer to the ambush site, the soldiers in the carriage began to wear black gas masks.
After putting on the masks, their breathing sounded heavier, and combined with the black soldier uniforms, they actually looked a bit like the biochemical warriors in the game.
There is a special stabilized night vision device inside the mask, as well as other auxiliary equipment.
As the boss of this operation, the city lord Ding Yixiu actually started wearing mechanical armor.
[Thunder Armor: Level 3 humanoid armor, produced by Anluo Company]
[Type: auxiliary items, custom armor]
[Strong power, full firepower, equipped with basic functions such as poison gas protection, nerve stimulation, electromagnetic scanning, etc....]
【……】
This is a complete set of armor, not inferior to the set of third-level Black Wolf armor that Su Xia got when he first entered the game. Moreover, all the parts are made by Anluo Company. The coupling between the components is stable and the quality is good.
The interior of the armor fits the human body and is extremely comfortable to wear. The streamlined exterior is red and black with a strong metallic texture.
Wearing this suit of armor, Ding Yixiu is invincible in the ensuing firefight.
[The mission is about to begin, please be prepared]
Su Xia received such a reminder.
The convoy was about to enter the ambush circle of Ding Can and his team, and both sides thought they were the hunters.
In fact, there is an easier way to complete this task.
Su Xia can choose to stop it in advance and ask Ding Can to interrupt the operation.
But given Ding Can's character, he would definitely not believe him unless Su Xia revealed the identity of the masked stranger.
"It's good to let him suffer some setbacks. Young people need to grow through setbacks."
On some issues, Su Xia's ideas are similar to Ding Yixiu's.
During this period, the reason why Ding Can was able to be so successful that no one cared about him even robbing a caravan was largely because of his identity as the city lord's son.
Although he kept saying that he hated this identity and the family property, he was actually enjoying the benefits this identity brought him.
When the mission was about to begin, Su Xia suddenly received a prompt.
[You have used the "Scarlet Crystal" for too long today. It has exceeded the time limit. Please remove the crystal immediately.]
The scarlet crystal, the red crystal that Su Xia always wears on his forehead, which can change his appearance and personal description, is one of the earliest auxiliary props he obtained.
With the help of Crystal, Su Xia's personal description was all "?", and others could not tell the truth from his lies.
This thing contains very powerful chaotic energy and ordinary people cannot touch it, otherwise mutations will occur.
In the item description, the appropriate usage time given is "1-2 hours". If this time limit is exceeded, accidents are likely to occur.
But Su Xia didn't care. He had a strong will and would not be bewitched by the strange voices in his ears. He could also restrain his desire for power.
He even thought that he could ignore the warning and wear it all the time.
Su Xia thought about it and decided to take off the crystal, restore her original appearance, and then put on an ordinary black mask.
At this time, the system suddenly popped up another prompt.
[Young adventurer, please do not let your guard down. Some masks cannot be taken off after being worn for too long...]
Another reminder like this.
When Su Xia first obtained this crystal, he had seen something similar.
At first, he was too weak to fully control the crystal and was easily attacked by it. But now he is no longer the same person.
Half a minute later, the mission countdown returned to zero.
[The mission has started, please rush to the mission site as soon as possible]
Su Xia held his breath, concentrating his gaze into the distance.
Amidst the heavy snow and wind, a long convoy of cars drove slowly in, the lights of the cars being a little blurry in the night.
Through the sensors installed in advance, Ding Can and others also made accurate judgments.
“Here it comes!”
"Countdown to three seconds!"
"Three... two... one..."
“Let’s get started!”
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound on both sides of the road, as loud as thunder, but there was no fire or debris. Instead, there were bursts of anesthetic gas that was enough to make people dizzy.
At the same time, the members who were ambushing behind the mountains on both sides rushed to their fixed positions, cooperated with their teammates, carried launch tubes on their shoulders, and fired dark red anesthetic bullets at the convoy.
Anesthetic smoke of various colors, including light gray, dark red, turquoise, etc., instantly flooded the entire convoy.
The drivers of the fleet bore the brunt of the damage.
Even if the car windows and doors are closed, wisps of smoke will still enter the cab through gaps such as the vents and air-conditioning outlets.
"Bang!"
A car lost control, the driver fell asleep, and the car crashed into the car in front.
Fortunately, because it was snowing, the car was driving very slowly, and only the front of the car was slightly deformed, and there was not much damage.
But this loss of control triggered a chain reaction. The cars behind crashed into it one after another, connected head to tail like a long greedy snake. Even the rear door of the car was deformed by the collision.
"It's done!"
Many of the undercover members showed joy on their faces. Usually at this time, the robbery operation was half successful.
Not only the driver but also the guards in the car will fall into a deep sleep.
In this way, the goods can be taken away easily without fighting or killing.
If the anesthetic smoke doesn't work, they still have other means, such as activating interception ropes, launching spike belts, etc., to force the parking team to stop, but that might cause too many unnecessary casualties.
"Team one goes forward, team two provides cover, move forward in turns, pay attention to the guards in the car, just like before..."
Ding Can also smiled and continued to give orders.
As long as it succeeds, the news will spread throughout the entire Seahorse City as soon as tomorrow morning comes.
Everyone could even imagine the sensational scene.
But at this moment, a few "click" sounds suddenly came from the diffuse anesthetic smoke.
Many truck doors were deformed and difficult to open, but what was incredible was that cracks appeared on the tops of all the trucks, allowing them to open as quickly as car doors.
“Crack…Crack…”
Immediately afterwards, one after another, silver-white, cold mechanical cannon muzzles and gun barrels rose from the carriage, controlled by automatic robotic arms, like the rising god of death in the wind and snow.
This horrifying scene made everyone's face change drastically and their scalps tingle.
Those are not carriages at all; they are clearly mobile mechanical war fortresses!
"Boss, they are well prepared!"
"It's a trap!"
