Chapter 987 Mission
(I've been a little busy these past two days, and Yi Zui caught a cold again. I've only updated one chapter for the past few days, and will resume on Monday.)
The successive explosions on the island, especially the explosion at the military base, also made the evacuating Mithril AS Unit and the Danner's Son people who were observing all this from a distance realize that the incident at the base on the island was probably just as Xiao Ran said, from beginning to end it was a conspiracy against their Mithril and Xiao Ran.
If Xiao Ran had not ordered AS Unit to retreat, once AS Unit entered the military base under such circumstances, even if AS Unit had someone patrolling the realm nearby, the final result would be completely conceivable.
Therefore, the expressions on everyone's faces at this time were not very good-looking, and they also thought that there might be more ambushes nearby, which made those who were retreating a little nervous. Until Xiao Ran's Variable Fighter suddenly landed at the back of the team, and more than a dozen aircraft suddenly turned around and aimed their weapons at Variable Fighter.
Xiao Ran was driving Variable Fighter, which transformed into MS Form. After seeing the movements of the planes, he also said, "It's me."
Captain Makalan deliberately slowed down his movements and drove the AS to land next to Variable Fighter. He asked in a deep voice, "Mr. Alex, you are back. What happened? I just heard that there seemed to be a battle over there?"
"All the hostages in the base were dead before we arrived. Everything was just to attract us, or to be my bait." Xiao Ran replied, while paying attention to the situation behind him on the rear monitor, and said, "There is no time to say so much now, hurry up and evacuate. Someone is chasing you at high speed. It will take at most two minutes to catch up with you."
Malanka Captain frowned, looked at the surrounding situation, then slammed the screen in front of him with his hand, and said angrily, "Damn it, this mission failed without even knowing who the enemy was, and so many people in a base were killed. We must not easily bypass these guys!"
Xiao Ran understands what Makaran is thinking. After all, Mithril was entrusted to deal with the incident here, but Guts had to leave in a panic without saying a word. The mission was a complete failure. As one of the most powerful troops in the world, how could Makaran accept it easily? Moreover, it seems that the most fundamental reason for all this is still them.
After being silent for less than three seconds, Xiao Ran rejected Captain Makalan's idea of asking for a fight and said, "The opponent is not a simple character. Next, I, Sousuke Sagara, and Luo will cover you. The others will retreat immediately. This is an order."
"Yes." Although Captain Makalan was reluctant, Xiao Ran had no choice but to comply with the order as the combat commander. What's more, he also had the obligation to bring his team members out of Mithril and let them return to Danner's Son safely.
In a short period of time, Xiao Ran also saw the thoughts of Jiulong and the others as the current pursuers through these things that happened on the island.
Not to mention anything else, if he had not come with Mithril's team today, even if Sousuke Sagara existed among these AS Unit, those ten completely different blue AS Hell Monarch and two red Hell Monarch would not have been able to deal with this Mithril unit.
The greater possibility is that the Mithril team entered the base after breaking through the layers of defense, and encountered the explosion when searching for it. As for how many people will be left in the end, let's not say, but these people will definitely become hostages of Amalgam again, forcing Mithril to send troops again to rescue the remaining people.
The greater possibility is to find him, a guy with super fighting ability and a Mithril collaborator, to join the rescue operation. At that time, he will definitely agree to Mithril's request, and then fall into the opponent's carefully prepared encirclement again. It can be said that Amalgam's move is aimed at Mithril, but it is also aimed at him Xiao Ran.
But today's preparations actually took Xiao Ran and even the existence of Variable Fighter into consideration. Otherwise, why would they deliberately prepare three air defense positions? Although it is not clear what happened on the Kowloon side, it is also true that Xiao Ran's combat power is strong and it easily solved the defense lines on both sides. It really disrupted the opponent's plan.
"The blue-grey AS seems to be a mass-produced model that appeared later, and it is the model carrying λ-DRIVER. Of the two red Hell Monarch, one must be from Kowloon, so the second one... wait, if it is Kowloon, it will not commit such a thing of blowing up its own air defense positions."
"I'm afraid the only one who can do this is the funny golden retriever in Amalgam. The two generations of bosses really look up to me, but I don't know if there are any participants in those ten machines."
Xiao Ran controlled Variable Fighter to stop and said, "Luo, Zongsuke stays and covers their retreat."
Sousuke Sagara: "Understood."
Luo: "Okay."
The two of them instantly controlled their bodies to stop and watched the members of the Mithril Team evacuate at full speed. Xiao Ran also led the two of them to find a bunker and hid behind it.
"Attention, there are two machines among the pursuers that are sure to have λ-DRIVER, and ten mass-produced machines that may have λ-DIRVER. Don't take it lightly. Once they catch up, it's impossible for your teammates to resist λ-DRVIER. You know the consequences very well."
"No matter what, we must intercept all these enemies. I will look for opportunities to kill as many of the opponent's combat forces as possible in the shortest time. You two have to work hard, otherwise, you may really be terminated here."
When the two heard what Xiao Ran said, they both felt like they were breaking out in a cold sweat. The twelve to three combat power comparison put a lot of pressure on them, especially when they heard Xiao Ran say that it was possible that all twelve machines were equipped with λ-DRIVER.
Sousuke Sagara has used λ-DRVIER, so he knows very well how powerful this thing can be. He also knows that his teammates will never be opponents equipped with λ-DIRVER bodies, and they will bear the pressure of sacrifice from both enemies and teammates.
For Luo, he is just a new participant who has experienced the third world. He is driving a machine that he is not familiar with. Facing enemies that are four times more than his own, he also feels a lot of pressure, and even He also received a C-level Side Mission that Xiao Ran had not received, which was to protect Sousuke Sagara and the mithril combat team from leaving safely. This was a C-level task difficulty for him.
Once he accepts this mission, he will definitely not be able to leave until Sousuke Sagara leaves safely. And Sousuke Sagara's current attitude is probably that he is risking his life to protect the safety of his teammates, which means that he Luo will also have to fight to the death for this mission. Just when Luo was hesitating, something suddenly occurred to his mind.
"C-level mission difficulty?" Luo was stunned for a moment, looked at the motionless Variable Fighter not far away through the screen, patted his head gently, and thought, "Three times the combat power comparison, or every enemy They all have machines with their own skills, and maybe there are participants like us on the other side, so the difficulty of the mission is only C-level. Maybe it's because of this mysterious captain. From this point of view, this mission doesn't seem to be very difficult."
Thinking of this, Luo opened a separate communication and asked, "Captain, I have triggered a C-level Side Mission here to protect Sousuke Sagara and the Mithril team from safely evacuating."
"Huh?" Hearing Luo's words, Xiao Ran was also stunned for a moment. He looked through his mission log, but there was no prompt for any mission at all.
Xiao Ran also seems a little baffled. They are obviously members of the same team, but one person has a task and the other does not have a task. Moreover, the two of them triggered the same event in the same place. This is not inexplicable. Logically speaking, this should be triggered by the team.
Xiao Ran felt that he didn't quite understand, but he still said, "Accept it, the requirements of the mission are the same as our purpose, there is no need to let it go."
"I know." Luo breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Xiao Ran's words, and directly chose to accept this reward, which was pretty good for him. C-level Side Mission, he was relieved a lot with the presence of Xiao Ran.
After hanging up the communication, Xiao Ran touched his chin. "Could it be that the purpose of the amalgam was originally me, but actually had nothing to do with Mithril? Or if I wasn't here this time, then the task I received was to rescue the Mithril team that was almost cheated?"
But before Xiao Ran could confirm this idea, a voice suddenly popped up in his mind. "The branch C-level mission is triggered, repel, defeat or capture all pursuers. The successful mission will reward Merit Points three thousand, the behavioral tendency will be righteous, and the favorability of Mithril will be greatly improved. If the mission fails, Merit Points 5,000 will be deducted. The behavioral tendency will be evil and the favorability of Mithril will be greatly reduced."
"Accept." Xiao Ran chose to accept the task without thinking. While Xiao Ran accepted the task, Luo also accepted the task because of Xiao Ran's relationship. The department was forced to accept this task. What was originally just a matter of ensuring that the Mithril team's retreat began and allowing Sousuke Sagara to leave safely suddenly turned into having to defeat all the pursuers, which also made Luo feel a little frightened.
It can also be seen from the tasks that the C-level tasks of Xiao Ran are much more difficult than the C-level tasks of Luo. One only needs to persist for a while and then run away, while the other must kill the other party to complete the task. It is just a C-level task. It can be regarded as a vague hint to Xiao Ran about the opponent's combat power. How could Xiao Ran, who could even complete A-Class Side Mission, be frightened by a C-level Side Mission.
Killing the opponent and stopping the opponent are completely different concepts, but Merit Points with a total of 5,000 Merit Points in two tasks made Luo a little excited, especially when he hugged a thigh. It seemed like he was about to pick up 5,000 Merit Points for free, which was so exciting.
The next moment after accepting the mission, the beeping sound in the cockpit and Sousuke Sagara's steady voice sounded in Xiao Ran's ears at the same time, "Here we come!"
The position chosen by the three Xiao Ran was almost flat. Except for some boulders that could be used as bunkers, it was an unobstructed view. Xiao Ran could even hear the mechanical sound of more than a dozen ASs running fast, jumping high and landing on the ground. His eyes suddenly lit up, and a dazzling golden light burst out. His hands turned into an afterimage and he resumed control of Variable Fighter, who was sitting down.
I saw Variable Fighter, under the control of Xiao Ran, instantly turned into a black shadow and flew straight towards the sun. The sudden appearance of Variable Fighter caused the twelve ASs to raise their guns at the same time and start to move towards Variable Fighter. fired. At the same time, Kharg driven by Sousuke Sagara and Demon King Mecha driven by Luo also jumped out from behind the hiding boulder. They raised their guns and attacked the chasing soldiers who were also scattered.
Due to Xiao Ran's sensitive response and powerful operating ability, countless bullets could only fly past Variable Fighter, but could not really hit Variable Fighter at all. With the dazzling light emitted by the sun hanging in the sky, Xiao Ran also suddenly controlled Variable Fighter to deform, turned around, deformed, and rushed straight towards the ground.
The two Beam Guns on the flying wings and the Gatling laser gun hanging under the body also launched a charge attack from top to bottom towards the ground. In Xiao Ran's eyes, everything he saw became so slow. He could see every bullet flying towards him, and he could also see every piece of grass raised by his attack.
He sensitively controlled the body to make movements one after another to dodge the bullets, and accurately adjusted the attack angles of the three weapons. At the same time, a cold word came out of his mouth. "Luo, report your values at any time."
When Luo heard Xiao Ran's words, the movement of his hands caused the machine's attack to stop for a moment. Then he saw two blue ASs shooting in his direction and rushing over. He quickly controlled Demon King Mecha to hide behind the bunker again and attack.
However, he also understood what the value Xiao Ran asked was, and replied loudly, "Fifty!"
What Xiao Ran asked was the power index possessed by Super Robot participants, but because Sousuke Sagara was there, it was easy to explain too clearly.
After Xiao Ran heard Luo's words, he remembered this number in his heart. At this time, Variable Fighter was about to reach the ground under his operation, and he was directly heading towards a blue AS with an indomitable momentum as if he was about to ram it, causing the AS to put down the gun in its hand and hurriedly avoid it.