The same desert, the same sky, the same desert vultures, the same bird-walking fellow.
Thirst, hunger, scorching heat, stinging pain, mental distraction, and so on, continuously assailed Hitachi.
Pfft—
The familiar sound and the familiar sensation made Hitachi's mind snap to attention.
His originally drowsy brain instantly perged up.
At the same time, because of the sharp blade entering his body, his body still twitched unconsciously.
Yet he no longer had the strength to scream, only able to numbly watch as coagulant powder was once again sprinkled onto the bleeding wound.
At this moment, his legs and arms were covered in densely packed, scabbed-over wounds.
Water deficiency, blood loss, and so on kept him constantly hovering on the edge of life and death.
However, the physical and mental torment still could not change the light in his eyes!
He remained as tough as iron.
Especially since he had also discovered a certain matter...
Subsequently, his spirit greatly revived, and Hitachi cautiously avoided the guards' line of sight, pressing his lips together in absolute silence.
"How is it?"
Black Cat glanced at the pierced Hitachi, then entered the tent nearby.
At this time, Black Cat was holding a copy of Rabbit's Five Thousand Years, reading with great relish: "The people of the Rabbit family aren't that easy to break.
No rush!"
"...Mn."
Shadow paused and continued reporting, "I followed your instructions and notified Scorpion and Hell Butterfly to bring core elites here.
Brain is asking what you want to do?"
"His only hope right now is that someone will rescue him, and if he sees our full strength, I believe he'll know how to choose."
Black Cat closed the book and said with a chuckle, "He's just a technician. Although he has mastered a certain amount of exoskeleton knowledge, I don't believe anyone would make such a huge fuss for him.
Besides, didn't you say that Dog Tycoon still doesn't know who did it?
If even Dog Tycoon doesn't know, let alone the Rabbit, then how are they going to find us?"
Pausing, Black Cat rubbed the bridge of her nose and said, "I had people transferred over mainly not to guard against them, but against our peers.
Rats have their own ways, and some of our peers are quite daring; they don't talk about evidence and reason in everything.
Besides, framing others after hijacking people is something we've done plenty of.
Let's wait. Once everyone is here, we'll change locations...
How about we go look at the snow scenery? I haven't seen it in a long time!"
"Mn."
Shadow nodded with a heavy expression, then tilted her head up to look at the tent ceiling, not knowing what she was thinking.
Back at the factory, a middle-aged man's jaw dropped in shock.
There was such a huge space beneath this special operations base?
The point was that he was hanging upside down, looking at all those busy people before him...
Every single one of them had a backpack on their back, and faint white gas could be seen spitting out, hovering around an An-7 that was almost reduced to a skeleton.
Occasionally, a few people could be seen jointly lifting a huge steel plate and flying around.
As for the problem of abnormal gravity here...
Don't ask; asking meant he had already lost his mind.
"Ye Jiaqiang!?"
A crisp voice woke this person up.
At the same time, a pair of straight, beautiful legs blocked his vision.
He hurriedly looked down to see a medium-sized pair of breasts and a pleasing, round face.
"H~Hello.
Th~This is..."
Ye Jiaqiang wanted to turn around, but his hands and feet thrashed about for a long time while he remained upside down...
"All right."
Gao Linlin held back a smile, flicked his leg, and flipped him right-side up.
Afterward, she took Ye Jiaqiang's hand, floating as she spoke: "My name is Gao Linlin, the head of the secretariat here.
Welcome to join us!
You've read your transfer order, right?"
"Mn, faked death, and then coming here." Ye Jiaqiang nodded, looking left and right: "Other than that, I don't know anything else.
Old Gong—oh, my head—he's tight-lipped about the situation here, so..."
"Mn, you'll learn the specific details later." Gao Linlin pulled him into the elevator leading to the dormitories, then let go of his hand.
The two of them slowly descended: "I'll take you to your dormitory first.
Your locker is already marked inside.
There is exclusive training gear in there; change into it.
Keep your old military uniform safe yourself!"
"...Alright."
Ye Jiaqiang nodded, looked at the gravity returning to normal, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: That scared the hell out of me!
After a long while, Ye Jiaqiang silently followed behind Gao Linlin and arrived at the material control room.
As soon as the door opened, Gao Linlin sighed helplessly.
A corpse was floating inside the room...
As for Ye Jiaqiang, he stared at Gao Linlin in shock, thinking a murder case had occurred.
Just as he wanted to shout, he saw Gao Linlin wave her hand.
Clap—
Gao Linlin aimed a soaring kick straight at the floating corpse: "Wake up!"
"Holy shit!"
Guo Yi opened his eyes to find his mouth giving the ceiling a passionate kiss...
Then Guo Yi rubbed his nose, used the force of pushing off the ceiling to stand firmly inside the room: "Can you be a bit more gentle next time?!"
"Brought him. Ye Jiaqiang, with twelve years of flying experience.
A veteran air force pilot with two stars on his wings!"
Gao Linlin rolled her eyes and said, "Where is your equipment?
I saw the transport plane side is already dismantled, and they're stripping the wiring now."
As for Ye Jiaqiang, the moment he heard Gao Linlin mention him, he snapped to attention, saluted, and reported loudly: "Report, Chief! My name is Ye Jiaqiang.
Instructor of the Third Air Force Eagle Company, Major!"
"Alright, there aren't that many rules here, and I hate these rules the most." Guo Yi scratched the back of his head and said impatiently to Ye Jiaqiang: "I want to ask you, can you fly a plane purely by feel?
In the air without a gyroscope, flight routes, and so on, taking off and landing entirely by intuition."
"Report!"
"..." Guo Yi twitched the corner of his mouth; a newbie was indeed a newbie.
He had finally finished training the factory personnel, and now another one showed up!
As for Gao Linlin, she watched the show from the side...
"Order: don't play bureaucratic games when you meet me; just chat and talk like friends!
Also, I hold no official rank or post—I'm just slacking off here!"
Guo Yi directly gave the order to Ye Jiaqiang, too lazy to talk nonsense: "Can you do it or not?"
"Rep—I can."
Ye Jiaqiang swallowed his habit back down and answered confidently: "As long as it can fly, I can handle it!"
Cough cough—
Hearing Ye Jiaqiang's words, Gao Linlin coughed immediately, then looked at him with a peculiar expression.
Guo Yi remained expressionless, mechanically clapping his hands: "Wow! You can fly both Gundams and space battleships! Invincible!"
"Rep—"
Just as Ye Jiaqiang was bewildered, wondering why the two people in front of him had such strange expressions, Doggie suddenly popped out, startling him so much that his body shook.
"Elder Gu needs emergency backup!"
"Alright, Sister Gao, take him to find Ostrich and let him adapt." Upon hearing Doggie's report, Guo Yi no longer had the heart to keep fooling around and hurried to the console.
Four engine nozzles and two ECS generators were lying quietly on the production line.
In addition, many large and small parts of unknown function were currently being produced.
Afterward, Guo Yi arranged the subsequent tasks and arrived at the space battleship workshop a step ahead with the engine nozzles and generator.
Thanks to the tycoon "KnighetYAO" for the tip!