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Chapter 57 Extra Story. Chapter 35.5. Secret Operations
A few kilometers away from the New National Theater, above the clouds, a large military transport aircraft without any markings was slowly opening the springboard at the rear of the aircraft's belly.

In the spacious belly of this large transport aircraft, known as the "Hercules", at the rear of the cabin near the opening of the cargo bay springboard, a group of particularly burly STF members were forming.

Although these warriors are indeed tall, what makes them occupy a larger space than ordinary people is actually the powered exoskeleton each of them wears.

In addition to the power and control parts, the huge backpack also contains a foldable paraglider with a wingspan of several meters after unfolding.The iron-red mechanical auxiliary arm and mechanical auxiliary leg extend from the power backpack and are supported on the outside of the arm and thigh. The lines of the mechanical arm are straight, and various interfaces and cables are directly exposed without decoration, full of practicality of machinery and heavy industry. ism beauty.

——The group-standard exoskeleton, commonly known as "EXOS", is specially prepared for military operations of STF and MTF team members. Its modular design helps group operations experts improve their mobility and equipment carrying capabilities before arriving at the combat location.

To be honest, whether it is from the perspective of indoor combat, hostage rescue operations or covert operations, such equipment is a bit over the top.But this time the commander of the operation obviously didn't think much of it, and he even brought something even more extreme.

A little far away from the STF team, the entire middle part of the cabin has been transformed into a dedicated preparation platform.On the maintenance rack in the center of the platform, there is a special exoskeleton armor that is obviously derived from another design idea that is completely different from EXOS.

This night gray exoskeleton is more than two meters tall, and unlike the design where the EXOS robotic arms hang directly on both sides of the user's body, the auxiliary arms and legs of this special exoskeleton completely cover the user's hands and feet. The wearable armor is more than twice as long as the wearer's own hands and feet, and the outline lines of the external armor are mainly arcs, slender and smooth, and the overall look does not look like a machine, but more like some kind of carefully crafted Armor.

On both sides of the maintenance rack, the weapon racks obviously specially prepared for this special exoskeleton seem to emphasize this impression - in addition to various heavy guns, there are also many spears, shields and swords hanging on the weapon racks. Melee weapons such as daggers.It's just that these melee weapons do use modern technology and design, and the size can be seen at a glance that they are specially equipped for exoskeletons.

——"Night Knight", this is the name of this night gray exoskeleton.

The person wearing the Night Knight is a handsome young man with long golden hair tied behind his back - the commander of this operation himself, Arthur.

While he was stretching the mechanical auxiliary arm to make various movements and making final confirmation of the various functions of the mechanism, he was having a conversation while wearing a head-mounted communicator.But in the noisy cabin, even if he got closer, he could only hear the boy's own voice.

"You can give up Orukui when necessary? But I have heard this once before - in the communication just now, from Orokui herself. I must say that she is indeed your biological daughter."

"Haha, don't worry, Chairman." Arthur smiled happily, "Of course I will forget this kind of bastard order immediately."

"By the way, I would also like to thank you for approving my unexpected application for the use of A2."

As he said that, the blond boy turned his head and looked deeper into the warehouse than where he was.A suspicious cabin that is similar in size to a normal human being is peeking out of a small corner from the dim light in the depths.The angular lines with metallic luster on the sleek cabin are vaguely visible amid the busy comings and goings of technicians around it.

"It works. The technicians are accelerating the emergency thawing process. They assured me that although they will not be able to catch up with the start of our battle, they will only be able to complete the thawing in a few minutes at night, and they can be released at any time according to my needs..."

"To be honest, I have no idea at all. Just like why I applied for EXOS and Night Knight, and why I went to the site myself, I can't tell you the reason, but I just intuitively feel that it is necessary... Haha, yes, you really summarized it. That’s right, it’s the feeling of ‘the noise this time can’t be made small’.”

"Will the National Public Security Commission have any opinions? Ah, isn't it the job of the board of directors and you to communicate with the cabinet? It has nothing to do with lower-level operatives like me..."

"No more talk, no more talk. The time has come and the action will begin soon. I am going to enter the communication silent state. Please wait for our good news."

After turning off the communication, the blond boy still seemed to be in a good mood and hummed a few words to the tune of the Happy Birthday song: "Wish me good luck in martial arts, and wish me to eradicate bed bugs..."

Glancing at the oversized electronic clock on the cabin wall showing the action timing, he stuck his head out and shouted to the mechanic in front of the maintenance desk below: "No. 3 vibrating sword, C-type monomolecule dagger, active Macedonian buckler. "

The mechanic responded with an "OK" gesture, and immediately manipulated the maintenance robot arm, sending the three pieces of armament to the front of the exoskeleton.The boy first reached out to drive the mechanical arm, picked up the dagger and inserted it into the slot on the mechanical leg, and then picked up the long sword and small shield.

He suddenly slashed horizontally and struck with a shield.The round-table-sized shield and the several-meter-long sword blade passed through the small space in the cabin with a heavy sound of wind, passing over the head of the mechanic below, and then accurately and instantly stopped at a place just a hair away from the inner wall of the cabin, as if there was no trace at all. Not affected by inertia.

At this time, the mechanic below, who was immersed in observing the exoskeleton data on the screen of the preparation station, realized that his hat was blown off by the strong wind, raised his head, laughed and cursed a few times.

Ahead, the cargo bay ramp of the transport plane had been opened, and the high-altitude wind outside was pouring in.The members of the special operations team began to jump off one by one.

Soon, the path between the "Night Knight" and the gangplank had been cleared.

"Arthur Pendragon, 'Female Knight Violet,' is requesting an attack." Arthur also switched the communicator to the combat channel and asked the command center for instructions.

The command center responded: "...Please do not modify the operation code at will. Knight 202 is allowed to attack. Please follow the instructions of the takeoff commander."

At the sound of symphonic sirens, the maintenance personnel around the exoskeleton began to quickly retreat to a safe position.The vertical three-eye signal lights in front of the maintenance platform turned green in sequence, and finally the takeoff commander issued a "ready to attack" gesture.

Accompanied by the "squeak" sound of pneumatic and hydraulic activation, the exoskeleton came down from the preparation platform.Arthur shouted happily: "Knight 202, attack."

First the steps were normal, then faster and faster. After a few steps, Arthur reached the edge of the springboard and jumped down as well.

After five seconds of free fall, the glider silently popped up from behind the armored exoskeleton, and the wind quickly lifted his body.

Ahead was a field of vision shrouded in clouds and fog. Arthur could not see the STF members who jumped before him, and he could not confirm their positions in other ways under the condition of silent communication.But Arthur wasn't worried at all and just continued humming and staring ahead.

After humming a few more words, Arthur suddenly stopped, then turned on the communicator and called: "This is Knight 202, the Snake Eagle Team's communication silence is lifted, everyone reports the situation! Repeat, this is Knight 202, the Snake Eagle Team's communication silence Cleared! Everyone reports the situation."

"Snake Eagle 2 received, everything is in normal condition."

"Snake Eagle 8 is normal."

The silence was suddenly broken by calls one after another on the communication channel.At the same time, on Arthur's tactical eyepiece, although the field of vision in front of him was still occupied by clouds and fog, the symbols marking the position of his companions lit up with each voice.Soon, all twelve teammate markers appeared in his field of vision.

Arthur called again: "Knight 202 calls the blackbird. Please reply if you hear it."

"This is Blackbird. Knight 202, please report your situation? Why did you suddenly lift the communication silence in violation of the relevant code of stealth type operations?"

"Prepare two rounds... no, three rounds of 105 howitzers."

"what--"

"The Snake Eagle team will arrive at the scheduled landing site in 2 minutes. I will need your cover and fire at that time. Now prepare, reduce the charge of the shells by 40.00%, the target point is still the scheduled landing site, but the detonation point is set It is ten meters above the landing site, in air burst mode. I will judge the specific timing of firing. After receiving the firing order, pay attention to reprogramming the fuse time of the ammunition according to the wind speed and position at the time."

"...Isn't this a secret operation???" The tactical planner on the plane was stunned.

"Oh, really?"

The tactical planner was silent and could only say: "...Yes."

Instead of repeating to Arthur that this is a secret operation, he said that he would obey.

Arthur gave another order: "Tell me again, no matter how much A[-]'s thawing process is still missing, it will be forcibly completed immediately and transferred to the ejection preparation stage. The ejection control is also waiting for my order."

Afterwards, after flying for a while in the returning clouds and silence, the team member at the front reported: "Target distance, 300, minus 600."

The clouds were broken instantly.

The building suddenly appeared, and their landing target - the roof of the New National Theater next to the building also entered the range visible to the naked eye.

…It looked like there was no one on the roof.

A slight noise suddenly came from the headphones.Arthur stood on his head.

"Cover artillery fire, two bursts, 5 seconds apart. Immediately!" He immediately gave instructions to the transport plane at the fastest speaking speed.

In the time it took for him to say this, the noise in Arthur's earphones had grown from a subtle noise to a huge wave, instantly drowning the transporter's reply behind the harsh noise: "Ride——"

Arthur suddenly pushed the control stick hard, causing the glider to do a violent and reckless roll.

At the same time, several rockets screamed and rushed towards the STF members in the sky.

There was also a sudden noise on the rooftop platform.There were countless voices, running sounds, and continuous gunfire, mixed with particularly heavy sniper gunfire.

Because of the emergency evasion just now, Arthur escaped a direct hit, but the price was that the glider entered a stall and was spiraling and falling downwards.Countless stray bullets passed by, and the surrounding world flipped rapidly. In the flashing images around them, several hang gliders were shot to pieces and falling.But Arthur remained calm. He was not even in a hurry to correct his flying posture. He just concentrated on listening, and silently counted the seconds in his heart: "[-], [-], [-], [-]..."

His last order before the communication was interrupted was to ask the transport aircraft to immediately start supporting the artillery bombardment, but the artillery bombardment has been delayed so far.The transport plane may confiscate all his orders due to interference, or hesitate to execute them due to communication interruption.No matter what, if the support bombardment does not come after the buffer time specified in the operation manual has passed, it probably will not come.At that point, he must take other action.

After another ten seconds, Arthur finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to correct his flying posture: "...here he comes."

A certain kind of scream sounded from far away, gradually getting louder and louder, and in a blink of an eye, it suppressed the intensive gunshots on the roof of the building.

The attackers on the roof immediately noticed the sound.From a certain moment, all the gunfire suddenly disappeared.

The next moment, a gorgeous giant firework exploded in the sky above the roof of the building.Amidst the dense explosions like firecrackers, countless sparks poured down on the roof of the building below like rain, creating a thick cloud of gunpowder smoke at the same time.

But as the sparks gradually dimmed, the interference noise in the headphones also weakened, and the shouts of the various team members began again, creating a slightly chaotic mess.

"This is Snake Eagle 1, can Knight 202 hear it? Can Blackbird hear it?"

"Snake Eagle 4 reports that Snake Eagle [-] has fallen!"

"Snake Eagle 7 reports that the glider was hit by a bullet and lost control, and is about to leave the combat area."

"Will the operation continue? Knight 202 please give instructions!"

Having stabilized his flight attitude again, Arthur glanced at the team information that came back online in the tactical goggles and sighed - the logos of two team members had dimmed and were marked as MIA, while another team member was also marked. A sign to withdraw from combat.

Just then, the screams appeared again.A few seconds later, huge fireworks lit up the sky above the roof of the building again.

This time, before the sparks were completely extinguished, Arthur decisively ordered: "The whole team is down! Start suppressing operations!"

(End of this chapter)