Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 145 Outpost
However, the development of things was faster than Jiatu imagined.

After helping the tree wolf tribe to complete the basic reconstruction, the work in the door was handed over to the second corps.

Wu Ning explained briefly to Jiatu and the others:
"After the destruction of the Nordwa family, the power system of the second corps has basically collapsed. Some young people have been assigned to the third corps. The rest of the core backbone can only be used as waste in the world of the wolf clan."

Jiatu knew that with the strength of the explorers, with the help of various modern equipment, it would not be difficult to suppress the army of the tree wolf clan, but leaving the world of the tree wolf clan and entering the "outside"——

After "The Surface World" it was different.

At present, this responsibility can only be assumed by the third team.

Although Jiatu and the others felt a little complicated about this, they didn't say anything in the end.

"The sky is falling, and the tall ones will take it up", it's perfectly normal in any world.

However, because of the failure of the blood exchange plan, the vitality of the Second Corps was seriously injured, and the entire establishment was reduced by half, leaving only about 50 people.

The size of the third corps, on the contrary, has expanded from before to 200 people, which is almost the sum of the first and second corps.

Up to now, Jiatu has roughly understood the difference between the first team, the second team and the third team.

The "First Corps" is equivalent to the guards of the refuge, and its main responsibility is to be responsible for the stability of the entire refuge. In terms of positioning, they are closer to the military police of the refuge than the combat troops, and they are the explorers who manage other explorers. Desolate.

The backbone of the army is mainly composed of a large number of explorer veterans who have lived to the age of 30 and have not died in battle. The number is about forty to fifty.

After the training of the trainees of the third corps was over, the trainees like Yinxian who belonged to the upper area were directly transferred away.

Instead, Noah, the trainees who originally belonged to the second team.

Compared with the nature of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs" of the First Corps, the Second Corps is similar to the "Ministry of Foreign Affairs", which is the intelligence and espionage department of the entire expedition team.

Compared with the refuge and the "ground world", they pay more attention to maintaining and communicating with the world inside the door.

It is the department with the highest EQ of all explorer troops.

It's just that with the cessation of the largest blood exchange plan, the extra manpower was temporarily assigned to the third team to support the exploration work here.

And Jia Tu and Hua Lun's third corps, which they directly belonged to, was the only combat force in the refuge that focused on "exploring wilderness".

Their purpose is to expand the exploration territory of the shelter by any means—

Because far away from the shelter, there are not only a large number of materials left by the pre-civilization era, but also "doors", these magical passages that can lead to different worlds.

And the annual "Great Expedition" of the shelter is not what the residents usually understand, it is a comprehensive exploration of the unknown wasteland world——

During the years when the First Corps and the Second Corps were in charge of exploring the wilderness, the mission of the expedition team was to transport back to the shelter the materials from the "world inside the door" far away from the shelter.

Although some people will be lost on the way, more people will be lost during the three years of maintaining the world inside the door and waiting for the handover of personnel.

After Jiatu and the others left the world of the tree wolf clan, they completed the basic training of trainees and began to formally learn the operation of rotor drones and combat exoskeletons.

Although most of the time they are in the simulator, but with the personal experience of the tree wolf world, they get started very quickly.

On the contrary, it made Noah, the "newcomers" selected by the second team, feel very depressed.

There are about a dozen people like Noah, all trainees who were temporarily transferred due to the lack of manpower in the second corps, and thus did not complete all the explorer training courses——

The oldest of them is 23 years old.

The body and appearance are also different.

Among them was a big fat man dressed as a wine waiter, who weighed two to three hundred catties. Just to lose the fat on his body and re-enter the combat sequence, he spent a lot of energy and endured a lot of pain.

And there are many pains and running-in like this.

While Jiatu was learning the techniques on the refuge side, he controlled Xu Yang and maintained the situation on the side of the Skyfire Forest.

After three months like this, Jiatu and the others finally completed all the trainee courses and obtained the qualifications of official explorers.

Sun Simiao and Wu Yao held a simple graduation ceremony for them. They also graduated with them, as well as some trainees from the second corps. Unfortunately, Yinxian and the others are no longer here.

"After all, they are the favored sons of the upper district - the management should be very worried that something will happen to them..."

Noah said coldly beside Jiatu.

After finishing the training in Skyfire World, the first team lacked a spot because of Xu Xiu.

At this time, the members of the second team joined, and Noah was assigned to the first team by Sun Simiao.

At the beginning, Jiatu and Wei Wei were very resistant to this decision.

But Sun Simiao talked with them in private, and after experiencing the incident of the Nordwa family, Noah did become a little different from before. After three months, the two sides gradually got along.

The current team leader of the first team is "Wei Wei" because of the bet Sun Simiao made when he was in Henry's slave hunting team——

Jiatu and Wei Wei almost forgot about it, but Sun Simiao still remembered it.

So during the graduation ceremony, he announced that Wei Wei was the leader of the first team, and when Jiatu and Noah were both his subordinates, everyone was shocked——

However, Jiatu thought about it later and felt that this arrangement was appropriate.

Because compared with Wei Wei, he spends too much time alone, even if he barely leads the team, because of "To Alice" and Xu Yang, his growth rate cannot match the others.

Therefore, rather than being a team leader, it would be better to fish in troubled waters under the leadership of Wei Wei like Noah.

Therefore, Wei Wei was greatly encouraged by the name of the group leader, which neither Jiatu nor Noah had much interest in, and vowed to declare that he would definitely be worthy of the position of the group leader!
As a result, within two days, he became depressed——

As the five members of the team, Jiatu and Anjie acted together, and Tajima resolutely stood with Noah after Noah joined. Although the two sides would not conflict, it was obvious that Jiatu and Noah Follow the lead.

Wei Wei, the team leader, doesn't have any "direct" supporters, and he needs at least the consent of one of them to do anything—

As Warren's "friend", he was at least naturally closer to Jiatu.

And such a pattern that five people can be divided into three camps has become the status quo of the first group.

Jiatou didn't complain too much about this——

Firstly, he has to worry about Tianhuo Forest, and secondly, he is also experienced in office politics. For the current Noah, he at least recognizes it quite a bit.

After graduating from the trainees, Jiatu and the others were assigned some simple tasks and began to act alone in groups.

Jiatu once wondered why Sun Simiao and the others didn't mix himself and the others with Wu Ning and the others.

It wasn't until he caught a glimpse of Wu Ning's mission list once that he realized that they didn't have the space to take care of himself and others——

Growing up in actual combat is their best choice!

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"50 meters ahead, two spider drones..."

Jiatu gestured to his companion more than ten meters away, and he took out the team's sniper rifle from the storage space——

Although the maximum power of the electromagnetic rifle can also penetrate these unmanned machines covered with titanium alloy armor, the anti-material sniper rifle is undoubtedly a better choice——

At least it can do a one-hit kill!
As four assault rifles and an anti-materiel sniper rifle pulled the triggers at the same time, the two spider-shaped robots in the distance fell to the ground, a large number of electric sparks erupted from their bodies, and they lost their movement.

"Didn't hit the chip part?"

Jiatu put away his sniper rifle and jumped out from behind the rubble.

They were wearing dim gray shadow cloaks, and they were patrolling the underground pipe network that was densely covered like spider webs in Jincheng City.

Most of the entrances to the underground pipe network have been blown down or blocked. Occasionally, light hunters like spider robots will dig a narrow hole and drill in to search for human survivors.

And Jiatu's task is to destroy the spider robots before they go back to report, collect precious titanium alloys and computing chips from them, send them to the manufacturing plant on the industrial floor, and repair the damaged exoskeletons and various types of robots. autonomous drones.

"Boss Noah, please go with Tajima to check the entrance where the 'Hunting Machine' comes in...Boss Jiatu, please come with me to recover the chips on the Hunting Machine."

Wei Wei looked very respectful.

Obviously already used to being in such a team but being the coordinating commander.

Although Jiatu also hoped that he could be tougher, but looking at the situation between himself and Noah, he knew that this was unrealistic.

"Perhaps in the army, we should order and prohibit... But here is in the 'wild'... Rather than putting everyone's life in the hands of one person, it is better for everyone to discuss and act together..."

Jiatu thought silently, took out a wrench and a screwdriver, and pried off the shell of the spider-type hunting machine——

A bullet hit its battery, destroying its ability to move and attack, but an attack aimed at the spare battery failed to penetrate the thick armor, and the Hunter-Killer's chip, which had activated its self-destruct procedure, was rendered useless.

Garto collected some other complex parts that might be useful, and went to check another hunting machine.

The hunting machine that Wei Wei was in charge of was in good condition. His anti-material sniper rifle penetrated its backup power supply and preserved the host chip.

"These shit hunting machines...compared to ten years ago, the protective shell of the backup power supply is one centimeter thicker..."

Wei Wei jumped off the one-meter-high hunting machine.

Compared with the drones in Jiatu's understanding, these "hunting machines" developed by artificial intelligence are each about one meter high, coupled with the spider-shaped shape, and the two automatic cannons on the back, they can be called astonishingly powerful. Weapons against humanity.

It's a pity that the explorers are also evolving here. The use of the outer-mounted and main-mounted Brain can allow them to easily target the vital points of the drone. In many cases, it is even more accurate than a one-meter-level drone——

Because a highly intelligent unmanned computer cannot be made the size of a human brain in an offline state.

In fact, the single-chip microcomputer and central processing unit of the entire hunting machine are enough to arm three individual exoskeletons. Let the explorers like Jiatu become stronger and stronger.

After taking care of the battlefield, Jiatu and the others followed the traces of the spider-type hunting machines and found the place where they invaded.

After throwing in plastic explosives equivalent to four kilograms of TNT, they detonated the explosives and resealed the entrance.

This is the third line of defense in the shelter.

There is another line of defense in front, which is in charge of the First Corps.

Coupled with the first line of defense in charge of the third corps, it is enough to ensure that no hunting plane can approach within ten kilometers of the refuge.

The "ten-kilometer defense circle" is the absolute safety range that humans in the refuge can extend at present.

After leaving the third line of defense, you will enter the field of artificial intelligence.

The artificial intelligence of the first line of defense will have the network, and the explorers of the third corps will carry out targeted elimination of unmanned base stations.

After losing the networking function, humans have the possibility of defeating unmanned machines.

And this aspect is in charge of the First Corps, which has the strongest strength in the annihilation battle.

Three elastic lines of defense are everything in the shelter.

What Jiatu and the others were facing were just some fish that slipped through from the three lines of defense.

After destroying the two hunting planes, Jiatu and the others returned to the outpost.

There are three similar outposts on each line of defense. The purpose is to prevent the location of the outposts from being discovered by drones, and then report to the Skynet system, and finally use ground penetrating bombs to carry out key strikes.

Only when facing artificial intelligence, Jiatu and the others can feel the oppressive atmosphere that is completely different from that of empires or natural disasters——

This is even more so if one considers that what they are dealing with is an unmanned intelligent industrial civilization that has surpassed the human age.

"Yo... you're back..."

Back at the outpost, Jiatu and the others were greeted by a shelter "sentry" whose body had been mechanized by more than 70%.

Because a large number of bodies have been turned into machines except for the brain and internal organs, she is even more difficult to find in the life scanning system of the hunting machine.

And because her body can be directly connected to the intrusion monitoring system of the outpost, she is far more sensitive to hunting machines than ordinary explorers like Jiatu.

Half of her face has been turned into a machine, and the only remaining eyeball is not a human limb.

Because her lower body was fixed to the outpost, she couldn't move at will, and she didn't need to eat.

Cato doesn't know her name, only that she calls herself "K"

Cato and they all called her "Miss K".

After Jiatu and the others returned, Miss K had prepared hot water and hot meals for them——

Although it is just a simple food thrown into the microwave oven, it is already considered a delicacy in the environment of the outpost.

Jiatu and the others who ate cold food near the outpost for three consecutive days devoured them, and then lay down in the dormitory to rest.

There was only one big bunk in the small outpost, but fortunately there was hot water for bathing, so Jiatu was still clean, and he lay down on the bed without smelling bad.

After finishing this mission, Jiatu and the others can return to the shelter.

So he and An Jie indulged a little bit, taking advantage of the opportunity of other people taking a shower early, and had some deep skin-to-skin kisses in the bathroom.

When I came out, I saw the ambiguous eyes of Wei Wei and the others, and I was no longer surprised.

After all, the refuge and the expedition team did not have male and female divisions, so maybe they already had such considerations.

　The first volume will probably only push these two
　　
　
(End of this chapter)