After waiting for quite a while, Xiao Ran, who had been sitting with his eyes closed, finally heard a transmission from the three transport helicopters over the comm channel.
"Unit One, Unit One, please respond. We will reach the designated target location in five minutes. Please advise."
"Received." Xiao Ran abruptly opened his eyes and pressed the reply button. As he rolled his neck, he said, "Proceed according to the plan. Once you enter the combat area, deploy Units Two, Three, and Four. After the ground forces are suppressed, immediately send personnel in to search."
Unit One was naturally Xiao Ran. Units Two, Three, and Four were Luo, piloting the Demon King Mecha, and the sisters Yulan and Yufang, piloting M6s. Units Five, Six, and Seven were the three transport helicopters.
"Understood."
Once the transmission ended, Xiao Ran straightened up in his seat and restarted the Variable Fighter. Countless startled birds took flight as the Variable Fighter slowly rose from the forest, transforming from Fortress Mode into fighter form before charging straight toward the Amalgam base.
The reason Xiao Ran had concluded it was an Amalgam base after observing it for nearly half an hour was largely because of the lavish Western-style villa built beside it. After all, how could a proper military base possibly have such a luxurious villa next to it?
The two simply did not belong together. Only people like Amalgam, wealthy and armed with private forces, would do something like this.
The three transport helicopters could reach their designated location in five minutes, but Xiao Ran did not truly have five minutes. In perhaps just three minutes, the helicopters would enter the base's field of view and gradually move into range of its anti-air fire.
So Xiao Ran had to eliminate every weapon capable of anti-air