Steel Chang'an

Chapter 119

about twelve hours ago.

He Kai stood in the hangar hall of the Jiangbei branch of the Tengjia Bank, still a little dizzy.That seaman named Black Fang defeated three sharp guards by himself.He slashed at the head of a sharp guard with a knight's saber, and there was a hard and crisp sound from under the artificial skin. nodded.

He never imagined that one day he would fight side by side with the free folk and rob the hangar of the most powerful nobleman in the entire East Forest.

He pressed the directional blast button in his hand, and the hangar door smashed to the ground amidst the smoke and dust.

I'm a bandit now.He thought with some shock.

A month ago, he was an apprentice knight of Eagle Castle, a son of Donglin's aristocratic family, had a brand new battle armor whose loan had not been paid off, and a girl whom he had been secretly in love with for a long time.At that time, he never thought that one day he would join the notorious Knights of the Rose.But the trip to Dead Castle changed everything.The female knight he had a crush on died unexpectedly, and the young master of Eagle Castle whom he was loyal to had used them up and planned to kill them all.Although they teamed up with the knight who claimed to be Li Jing and finally killed the young master of Eagle Castle, they could no longer stay in Donglin. Teng Wengong personally investigated the death of the young master of Eagle Castle. If the behavior is found out, they will be publicly sentenced to death.

His cavalier career has come to an end before it officially started.In order to prevent anyone from tracing him from the battle traces left in the dead castle, his father took the risk and secretly destroyed the comet armor that hadn't even paid off the loan.His mother managed to raise a small sum of money and let him leave Donglin overnight with the money.As long as he hides his name from now on, this money can allow him to buy a small shop in a small border town like Wuge City, be a small boss everywhere, and spend his life comfortably.

This was already the best ending for him, and he knew very well that the few trainee knights who entered Death Castle with him had already done so.Little people like them are not worthy of the long-term bounty that the Lord of the Eastern Forest has to offer to kill them. As long as they don't attract attention, they can survive. All they need to do is wait to be forgotten.

But he was not reconciled—not reconciled to ending his knight career for nothing, not reconciled to being forgotten in obscurity.He promised that female knight, that fool who, like him, only secretly fell in love with others, that fool who died without having time to say the words I love you, would one day become a famous knight all over the world, By that time, he will let the whole continent know that he likes her.If he was forgotten, who else would remember her name, who would know that he liked her?
So he must be a knight, he must be famous, even if he will be executed for it.

He told his parents that he had left Donglin, but did not take the money.The loan of the destroyed comet armor has not been paid off, and the bills will continue to be sent home. He doesn't know how his mother borrowed the money this time, but he can't increase her burden.He felt ridiculous about why he insisted on buying such an expensive mecha back then, but even at that time, he never had such a strong desire to become a world-famous knight.

Now he is penniless, cannot use his family name, and cannot take out the knight coat of arms of Eagle Castle. He has lost his status as a nobleman. No lord will take in a knight of unknown origin, even if he wants to be one A hedge knight, but he doesn't even have a battle armor.

But never had his desire to be a knight been so strong.

He needs a battle armor, even if it is just the simplest zero-type armor.

At this time, he saw the notice of the Knights of the Rose order recruiting knights.

He took the test among the free folk.According to what the member of the Rose Knights named Old Wei told him, as long as he proves that he has the talent to become a knight in the test, he can get a battle armor.Those tests were not difficult for him, and he carefully controlled his performance, not letting his level look too outrageous among the group of free folk who had never touched a battle armor.He felt that he was cautious enough. He didn't pass the test with the highest score. He even deliberately lost two games in the virtual battle. When he was escorted to the infamous knight leader, he didn't know it What the hell went wrong.

"Boy, do you know where you are exposed?" The big man in bright pink knight armor patted his cheek with the roll of test report.Little Rose suddenly looked bigger and more burly than in the legend. He Kai looked at the arm thicker than his thigh stretched out in front of him with some trepidation, and grabbed his collar.His feet left the ground, and the loud voice shouted above his head: "Your stats are too stable, boy, it is impossible for a freeman who has not been trained as a knight to play such stable stats. Come on, you Which noble lord sent the undercover agent?"

He refused to reveal his true identity. "I'm not an undercover agent sent by anyone, I just want a battle armor." He repeated this sentence.He could almost foresee his own fate - he knew what would happen to the noble knights who fell into the hands of these bandits, just like the members of the Knights of the Rose order were caught by the nobles, he would be hanged, his body would be He was hung up at a busy intersection to show the public.But it's better than his identity being exposed, and if the bandits hand him over to Teng Wengong for a bounty, his parents will be hanged with him.

To his surprise, the bandit leader didn't immediately hang him. "Give him a battle armor," Meng Zhang Fei ordered in a loud voice, "If you have the ability to fight out from here, you can take this battle armor and leave," he announced, "If you don't have the ability to fight out, you can just leave." Obediently save your life!"

He remembered defeating at least five members of the Order of the Rose.Just as he expected, the strength of the civilian knights was no more than that after all, and those five members were already the top masters of the Knights of the Rose.For a moment, he felt that he could successfully break out of the siege, but when the bandit leader shot himself, he knew he was wrong.He couldn't last more than 1 minute.If it wasn't for the fact that the bandit leader didn't feel sorry for the battle armor, he would have lost even faster.

"Are you an apprentice knight from Eagle Castle?" He Kai was startled when he heard the bandit leader tell his background.He still underestimated this group of bandits, especially the bandit leader. When he inferred from the data that he had received formal knight training, he should have thought that this big man in pink was by no means his appearance. It looks so vulgar and reckless, he deliberately gave himself a battle armor, just to test his true strength and deceive himself.

With the clue of Eagle Fort, they quickly found out his identity, "That ghost Fei Cheng gave birth to a good daughter, but the students he taught are not good. Such a straight-forward style of play is simply unreasonable." It's exactly the same as copying the textbook. Tsk, all the good seedlings have been taught to be fools!"

"My life is already yours, take it if you want, and don't continue to humiliate me." He Kai said dejectedly, he was ready to be hanged.

"Humiliate you? I'm praising you, boy. Your strength is not very good, but fortunately, your basic skills are solid, and you are not hopeless. Follow my old Zhang to fight a few more actual battles and learn more tricks. There will still be a future!" The bandit leader patted him on the shoulder vigorously, "The most important thing is that you were born in Eagle Castle, and saving your life is just right for you, this is fate!"

"How about boy, your life is mine anyway, are you interested in joining the Knights of the Rose, and follow my old Zhang to do a great job?"

"Big cause? How big is it?" He Kai was a little moved. He knew that with his current strength, it would be very difficult for any noble knights to have a bright future, but in this commoner knights , his level can already be regarded as a first-class master.If this knight order was not just a group of bandits who robbed and robbed houses as in the legend, and only stayed at the level of making troubles for the nobles, but had greater ambitions, then he Wouldn't it be easier to realize his wish of becoming famous in the world by joining this knight order than by joining the noble knight order?
"Since it's a big cause, it's natural to aim at the entire continent!" The bandit leader said proudly with his hands on his hips, "We not only want to become the most powerful civilian knights in the entire continent, but we also want to become the most powerful knights in the entire continent." The Knights of Chang’an, the Black Mountain Knights, the Xuefeng Knights, all the most famous noble knights on the continent, all under their feet, let this continent remember our name!”

"I like this goal!" He Kai wanted to praise the bandit leader from the bottom of his heart.

"Boy, I like it very much!" The bandit leader put his arms around his shoulders, "There is a big deal right now, don't you want a battle armor..."

He Kai's eyes widened when he heard the bandit leader whispering in his ear, "Isn't that still robbery?"

"Borrowing two battle armors, how can it be called robbery? My old Zhang and Xiao Teng Wang are old friends!" The bandit leader stared, "Besides, what is the saying? That soldier If you want to be good at something, what weapon must you use first? In short, if you want to become the number one knight order in the mainland, you must first get the armor and arm all these brothers. Let's do a big fight, let's do something big in Donglin first, and make a name for yourself! By the way, do you have a map of Eagle Fort? After getting the armor, I, Zhang, will take people to Eagle Fort to do something... ..."

At this moment, standing in the hangar hall of Tengjiahang Jiangbei Branch, He Kai recalled what Lao Zhang said, and always felt that he was fooled by this bandit leader—this was a real robbery, and the target of the robbery was Noble hangar, and he is the leader - because he is outstanding in the Knights of the Rose, he can be regarded as a first-class master, this time he was directly appointed by Lao Zhang as one of the six captains of this operation, let him Leading the group of free men like Black Fang, they shouldered the important task of commanding the robbery of the Jiangbei branch.

Not only is he a bandit now, but he is also a small bandit leader. If he is arrested, he will not even be tried, and he can be beheaded directly for a felony!He Kai muttered inwardly.

But he thought about it again, he was originally a wanted criminal who couldn't even tell his surname, this life was picked up, even if he was caught, could he have his head chopped off twice?No matter what, I earned it myself!

Then cherish this life, and let this continent remember your name starting today!
Let a civilian knight order become the number one knight order in the mainland. Those who achieve this goal will definitely be remembered by history!

"That's it... let's go forward!"

He Kai pointed to the front, cheering himself up.

"Why rush, there are only so few guards here, all of them have been overthrown, there is no need to rush..."

"Huh?" Hearing the mutterings of the freemen behind him, He Kai realized that his team had completely occupied the hangar, and there were several completely disabled bodies of sharp guards lying in the hall, responsible for taking care of them. The hangar and the servants who received customers squatted in the corner of the hall with their hands raised above their heads. There was no resistance to humans in their program.After blasting the hangar door, they thought they would encounter more resistance from the sharp guards, but in fact there were even fewer guards in the hangar than in the hall.They didn't even have any serious casualties.

Something is wrong.He Kai thought to himself.Not only are there no humans here, but the number of sharp guards is too small.

It's as if someone knew they were going to rob the hangar and removed the guards on purpose...

"Akai, come and see this!"

The person who called him was Old Wei, an old man from the Knights of the Roses. Although his combat effectiveness was average, he was an experienced thief.From the moment they rushed into the hangar hall, one of He Kai's most important tasks was to cover the automatic defense system of Lao Wei's invasion of the hangar. At this moment, the position where Lao Wei was standing was the main control of the entire hangar system. tower.

"The automatic defense system of this hangar...was adjusted to the lowest level from the beginning?"

"It was only when I invaded this floor that I discovered that the entire hangar system had been tampered with before I entered. Otherwise, with our few armors, we wouldn't even have the chance to enter the hangar hall."

He Kai frowned, looking at the line of code that Old Wei pointed at.They originally thought that it was all due to Old Wei that the alarm was not triggered after entering the hangar, and only an honest person like Old Wei would not be greedy for credit at all and tell the truth directly.

The person in charge of Teng Jiahang's hangar system is Ji Yan, the well-known butler of the Zhizu. Who can bypass his super brain and tamper with Teng Jiahang's system?Could it be that……

"This is very likely to be a trap." Old Wei took the lead in expressing his inner doubts.

He Kai nodded. The sharp guards were here deliberately to confuse them. The purpose was to delay the time and let them all enter the hangar.He looked around at the free people who looked alert. They, like himself, solemnly clenched the weapons in their hands, waiting for the sound of the enemy encircling the hangar from outside, and fought to the death.

They waited nervously for a while, but nothing happened.

Lao Zhang's loud voice sounded in the communication channel: "New boy, how is your side going?"

He glanced at Old Wei and truthfully reported the situation of his occupation of the hangar.He heard Lao Zhang click his tongue on the other side, "The situation on my side is similar to yours. The other teams took down the hangar without any resistance. According to Lao Zhang, this is not bad. It seems to be a trap, but it seems that some noble person is helping us, and we brothers must make a fortune today."

"Great man?" He Kai remembered that Old Wei mentioned that they robbed Teng Jiahang's hangar a few times ago, relying on the information of a certain nobleman, "Which old acquaintance of yours is it, leader?"

"My old Zhang didn't have any idea about this for a while, and I can only think that God wants us to get rich." He Kai seemed to hear Lao Zhang scratching his head through the headset, "By the way, look at you What is there in the hangar over there? Tengjia Bank seems to have received a big order from some big lord. The hangars of those branches are not only full of goods, but also quite neat, as if they were specially prepared for our new brothers. It’s like a gift package for beginners…”

He Kai turned his head and watched those free men climbed up the protective frame and pulled down the pieces of cloth that covered the mecha.What appeared in front of him were row after row of brand-new Sky-reaching battle armors. Few knights used this kind of battle armor. Although this kind of battle armor was a [-]-ton mecha, its actual tonnage was less than [-] tons. The height of the top of the machine is only ten meters, and the weapon system equipped is also very simple. Apart from a thermal saber used in close combat, the only weapon on the entire fuselage is the armor-piercing cannon on the back——

The large gun body consists of thirty barrels with a caliber of 50 mm. When firing, the base of the turret rises from the back of the mecha, and the shoulder of the fuselage is used as a bracket for aiming. An automatic tracking mode with a maximum firepower of 59800 rounds per minute, close to 100 rounds of armor-piercing rounds per second, and the entire fuselage except for the cockpit and the power furnace are all ammunition depots.

It is also because of this that the Tongtian battle armor is not so much a battle armor, but a moving humanoid turret.Its individual combat capability is very weak, and the weight of the fuselage after loading far exceeds the weight ratio of the general armor, so it cannot be used for complex tactical actions. A mobile and powerful firepower network is formed on the battlefield.

Including He Kai, most of the knights on this continent do not recognize the Tongtian armor as a armor, because even ordinary soldiers can control it, but it is indeed one of the most famous armors on this continent. one.It's just that most people don't know the name Tongtian armor. They call this model Tengjia, because the Tengjia soldiers of King Teng use this kind of armor.

But in fact, Xiao Teng Wang originally gave this kind of mecha and its operator a rather domineering name, called Tianbing.

"There are a total of [-] Heavenly Soldiers, none of which have activated the identification system," Lao Wei reported. They've all been reloaded."

There are [-] Celestial Soldiers in the hangar of the Jiangbei branch alone... If the inventory in the hangars of the other six branches is similar, they have close to [-] Celestial Soldiers.He Kai calculated in his mind that in addition to the [-] Tengjia soldiers stationed in the six major branches of Donglin mobilized by King Xiao Teng, plus the [-] Tengjia soldiers stationed in Yongjiang City, there are a total of [-] armors. , and the [-] feather forests held by Teng Wengong, among the seven masters of Donglin, the total number of [-]-ton battle armors in the territory of any lord is no more than a thousand.

This means that the Knights of the Rose is now the knight order with the largest number of armors in Donglin Continent except King Teng and Duke Teng Wen.

Most importantly, these celestial soldiers do not need real knights to operate.Only basic actions such as walking, running, and turning need to be completed by body control operations, and all other operations can be performed with the help of artificial intelligence in the armor, which means that as long as they receive simple training, even ordinary people can control the heavenly soldiers.

He Kai thought in shock, the bandit leader was right, this is indeed a great gift from God to the Knights of the Rose.

(End of this chapter)