Tomorrow's Ark, the journey of hardcore and ruthless people

Before Shi Huaiya finished speaking, the scene on the TV changed from the parade of captives in Hongqi City to Chernobog's entry into the city.

High-spirited uprising armed forces; honest and well-organized infantry phalanx.When the constant flow of red heads approached the endurance limit of the Longmen police officers, the equipment team began to play.

T-55s and BMPs are in groups, T-72 tanks and heavy infantry fighting vehicles are calm and atmospheric, armored assault guns of various calibers and fire support vehicles have high muzzles, and all teams are led by off-road vehicles with flying military flags. A stone road through Chernobog.

In the dead silence in the cafeteria of the Longmen Guards Bureau thousands of miles away, the melody of "Song of the Civil Guards" boomed.

Chapter 2 Days in Rhode Island

To some extent, it is a meaningless routine...

All members of the "Military Assistance Command Rhode Island Research and Observation Group" of MACR-SOG for short are queuing up in this hall and handing in their resumes in turn.

Kelsey decided to check out their resumes for herself.But she seemed to be overthinking: the resumes were well written and there were no mistakes.At least nothing looks fake at first glance.As for any black ops that aren't documented...that's not likely to show up on a well-crafted resume either.

Putting away another resume, Kelsey said calmly, "Next."

Comander handed over two pieces of paper.Kelsey looked at his personal experience from the Northwest Tundra: "Why is there only this career history?"

"The work on this land begins there."

For most people who don't know the existence of People's Federation, this sentence is also normal.But for Kelsey, who has been in the sky, the implication is, is it possible that you still want to spy on the secrets beyond this land?

Kelsey's slumped face twitched slightly, and she looked down at her resume: "Operator 'political commissar'. You used to say that you were a sniper operator. But now your resume says that you are a magician and a controler." Magician?"

"Yes."

"You are not a mechanist!"

"I am the Mechanician, even though I don't even know any Originium skills."

"Then what weapon are you driving?"

"Is there any problem with the neural direct connection power armor controlled by the one-way brain-computer interface?"

Kelsey was silent for a moment, no longer trying to ask any new words from the mouths of the Atlas guys.She continued to routinely ask, "So, why did you join Rhode Island?"

"Because I decided to come to Rhode Island to work."

"Then why did you come to Rhodes Island to work?"

"Because the situation requires me to come to Rhode Island to work."

"I mean, why did you decide to be sent to Rhode Island?"

"Because I wanted to experience different organizations."

"Well, what do you want to do in Rhodes Island?"

"Be a Mechanician."

"Then why did you come to Rhodes Island to become a mechanist?"

"Because I want to try a new major."

Kelsey was stunned: "When will this funny language circle end?"

Command did not hesitate: "Until you are satisfied!"

The Atlas personnel behind laughed—everyone had heard of Ms. Kelsey's language style.Tallulah hit Commander on the head with a knife from behind, and everyone laughed even louder.

"..."

Are you here to find fault?

Kelsey rubbed her temples: "I have walked on this land and communicated with all kinds of people. Words are not a sharp edge or a shield to me. Words are a bridge, and the strength of a bridge is It depends on people's choices. Like me, I decided to let you pass. Then it depends on your performance."

Relatively speaking, the meaning is quite obvious——

The meaning hidden in Kelsey's words is simple, she will "pay more attention" to the Atlas personnel in Rhodes Island.

Is it scary?

Yes, it's scary - no wonder.

"What's next?" Commander asked.

"Someone will arrange your dormitory and various tests. Later, an operator will take you to the medical department for a physical examination."

"Is it possible that we did the aptitude test and the initial physical examination back in Kazdale and followed up every year thereafter?"

Kelsey looked calm, and seemed to be planning to follow the script to the end: "The operator's special situation is understandable. You can go to the medical department for a physical examination at any time in the future, and you can even ask the medical staff to arrange a healthy schedule for you. This is the basic operator benefit of Rhodes Island. If there is a need, you can also apply for the anti-Origin Stone serum."

"...Is it possible that all your anti-Originite serums come from Atlas?"

"Anyway, you are an employee of Rhodes Island, and this is your special benefit. I have fulfilled my obligation when I notify you. Alright, next one!"

**

When people from Atlas settled in Rhodes Island in groups, everyone's life suddenly became miraculous.

The first topic of conversation was a well-known cold joke:

"Atlas operators are all sniper operators!"

This is almost a fact: except for a few magicians, members of MACV-SOG have chosen various branches under the sniper operator according to their duties, such as rapid shooters, heavy shooters, gunners, marksmen, scatter shooters, and siege operators. , throwing hand and so on.The light weapons basically conform to the respective uses - By the way, light weapons in military terms usually refer to firearms and other various weapons carried by individual soldiers or teams in combat.So even 12.7MM large-caliber machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, medium-caliber mortars and heavy rocket launchers are all light weapons...

Of course, that's not to say that you haven't seen someone from Atlas before.Everyone knows that Atlas is actually the white glove of the integration movement, which is filled with personnel and equipment of the Tribunal Army, and now it is still owned by His Royal Highness, and a bunch of people from the Kazdel Defense Force are stuffed in it.Besides, as early as Kazdel, there were always Atlas personnel stationed on the Rhode Island ship, and it was not uncommon for everyone to see it.It's nothing more than soldiers, now it's just a bunch of——

However, we know that Rhode Island operators don't know everything.Just like Atlas is not the white glove of the Integration Movement, but the 113th Division of the Extraterrestrial Corps of the People's Federation of People's Federation, led by the Integration Movement and Kazdel.The armies of New Ursus and New Kazdel were unlike any they had ever seen.

As early as the Atlas "Rhode Island Military Assistance Command Research and Observation Brigade" had not yet settled in, when the relevant personnel of Atlas came to Rhode Island to make preliminary negotiations, they proposed a very interesting Unpleasant demands: They demanded that a considerable part of the dormitory area be allocated directly to themselves because "it would be good for everyone."

The only reason that can convince the person in charge is "he is the grandpa of the gold master", so as long as Rhodes Island is not blown up, everything else can be accommodated.

Then the facts tell them-living independently is indeed good for everyone.

Every morning at a fixed time and at a fixed time, the wake-up call is blown on the broadcasting system, and the chief officers of each unit whistle in the corridor.Then there were men and women wearing identical fitness suits piajipiaji running three laps around the top of Rhodes Island.If you don't live with others on the same schedule, who can stand it?

Anyway, the money for the renovation was also paid for by Atlas Investment.

As life continues, everyone feels more and more that Atlas is indeed a magical organization.

"Then you haven't seen it. You are embarrassed to step in the cabins where those cargo are! The floor, wall and ceiling can be used as mirrors, the stair handrails are polished with toothpaste and toothbrush, and the glass is hard for flies to climb on." Gotta slip, I've hit it because I didn't even see it!"

"Daily life? Emma, ​​you are asking the wrong place! How can those people have a daily life? They fold the quilt into a standard cube every day, polish their leather shoes until they reflect the silhouette of people, and jump up at 05:30 in the morning when the whistle blew, wearing Line up to run and clean up, oh my god, the tooth cylinders are arranged in a straight line, and the toothbrushes are all pointed in one direction. A group of, uh, D32 steel straight men! All day long, physical fitness, training training training, shooting targets, shooting targets, under the bed actually Even the [Harmony] magazine and the [Harmony] disc cannot be found..."

"Growing vegetables? If you say that...yes, their hobby is very strange. They contracted a large area of ​​land on the small farm on the ship. I heard that they even have quotas for growing vegetables?"

Simply put, the difference between the daily life in Rhode Island and the daily life in Atlas is probably similar to the difference between the movie "Starship Troopers" and the novel "Starship Troopers".If you say that daily life in Rhode Island is full of sex and sex, that is of course not correct.But if you say that in the Atlas cabin where there are always two sentries standing at the door, the daily routine is to make beds, wash clothes, prepare weapons and equipment, complete various trivial tasks assigned by superiors, and learn all kinds of knowledge to master professional skills or Passing the dry test, there is really no problem.

Incompetent armies are different in their own way, but strong armies are always similar: their commanders and fighters will spend a lot of time on internal affairs, regular life, military training, learning military-related or unrelated knowledge, self-improvement, etc. on, rather than stage a white album.

Therefore, the rumors among the operators of Rhodes Island intensified.Some people say that the people of Atlas are made from the production line. They have steel bones, hydraulic joints, and eyes that emit lasers; at the same time, because the artificial nervous system is not good enough, they are all facial paralysis.

The stereotype was finally reversed after a behest from Commander-Mephisto and Faust received orders: to do a program on the internal radio station of Rhode Island about the experience of using firearms.

Atlas sells all kinds of new firearms all over Terra.From the ice fields of Sami to the deserts of Sargon, AKM can be found everywhere.

Even in Rhode Island, Atlas opened a gun shop early.Opposite Lucille's store is a gun store with a slightly smaller area. The ammunition in it ranges from .22 rimfire bullets to 12.7BMG and 12.7X108, two large-caliber machine gun bullets.The weapons are even more diverse, ranging from normal gadgets to funny toys.

——Don't tell me, Lucille, who always stays at home and looks a little sloppy, bought one of every kind of gun in the gun shop and took it home.Rather than eating instant noodles for a month, I have to disassemble and map these things by myself.

Only later, the relevant personnel of Atlas directly sent her a few T-related materials, which made her money go to waste...

However, the problem is not that simple.Contempt and fear of firearms exist among Rhode Island operators at the same time. Some people use firearms as toys, some people are highly nervous about firearms, and some people like to fight between firearms, firearms, and swords. Beast Chess... In response to this problem, Comand gave Mephistopheles a new task: find a way to spread correct relevant knowledge.

So within a few days, he heard Mephisto's loud ghostly cry on the radio station in Rhodes Island:

"Good morning, Rhode Island! Hey, this is not a cross talk show, this is an advertisement for a new training course!"

"Everyone—"

After a short pause, take a deep breath.Mephisto immediately threw the map cannon over his face: "Gun batch, blunderbuss batch, sword batch, source (stone skill) batch, gunpowder boy, Rutland blower, arch fire fun man, fighting beast A chess patient, a pioneer who can enter any profession, a guard who chooses a profession without knowing what it is, a grandma who is a magician who does not stop CDs, a sniper grandpa who puts on the string, a craftsman who points to a staff and insists on a gun, Immortals who can tear people apart with nothing but relatives from Rhodes Island!

"Ah, I'm Mephisto. This is my favorite today, Ms. W who must be laughing all the time."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, aren't you worried about getting beaten as soon as you go out?"

"It's okay. The political commissar is already waiting outside the door. I'll hang up on the bridge as soon as I go out. It's no one else's turn."

Comand looked around at the comrades who were around, and finally sighed.

Well, this time the stereotype has definitely been reversed, but it has slipped to the other extreme...

**

With the end of the Chernobog war, the Doctor returned to his loyal office.

However, Rhode Island did not immediately pull anchor and set sail, but immediately devoted itself to serving as a rear hospital for the militia and providing humanitarian assistance to war refugees.

To everyone's surprise, in such a full-scale civil war that spread to the whole of Ursas, the number of war refugees was not as many as imagined.

Unbeknownst to most people in Rhode Island, and throughout Chernoborg, while students and various revolutionary organizations tried their best to demonstrate and play urban guerrilla warfare for attention, the underground organization of the integration movement was concentrating on The preparatory work for taking over the city after liberation has been carried out, and various investigation and research materials such as social conditions, class relations, financial economy and production, and enemy and counterfeit industries have been basically completed.

The actions of the Reintegration Movement in Chernobog are not only about bragging rights, but also a quick takeover of the municipality.On the one hand, this is the result of the complete loss of popular support in the Ursus Empire: Except for the Chernobog workers, soldiers, and citizens who directly armed the uprising, the police chief in the imperial official organization directly preserved all police files and handed them over to the security guards. Civilian army; the director of the Social Bureau not only built the archives directly on the wall, but also asked the underground organization to send someone to help him protect the archives.

Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements, and "people's support" is already a cliché that is used to it.However, when all the subjects under the empire no longer regard the empire as their "own" government, when all ordinary people who are trampled and insulted by the empire and despise the oppression, the integration movement at least looks far more normal and more hopeful than the empire Under the attraction and instigation of the powerful forces, every link used every small action within its power to oppose every order of his, how could the empire keep its own information, and how could it be possible to resist the attack of the tribal army as a united force?

This is the reason why the Reich Third Army held out at Chernobog for only 29 hours.However, it was the turn of the Tribal Army and the Integration Movement to deal with this super-large mobile city with a population of one million and one tenth of its buildings damaged by artillery fire, so as to meet the minimum living needs of its residents.

"So, the test of the integration movement is yet to come." Mephisto tapped his pen on the table in boredom, "Hey, but this is not something that I, a captain, can decide. That's it, Sonia."

Lin Dong on the opposite side nodded stiffly: "Maybe."

[Ursas swears], why did we meet this guy again when we ran to this place...

Chapter 3 Break-in

During the post-war work in Chernobog, Rhodes Island actively cooperated with the Chernobog Front Army of the Trinity Army and the Chernobog City Military Control Committee to treat the wounded of the Tribunal Army and provide medical assistance to the citizens , received public praise and written thanks from the relevant departments of the Reintegration Movement and the National People's Army.

The Rhode Island job was only a small part of Chernobog's postwar handling, though.But in the face of a city with a population of over one million, the relevant departments of the integration movement are the backbone of Chernobog municipality, so that Chernoborg does not have a large-scale humanitarian crisis.

As soon as the fire ceased, the people who flocked out of the city took a turn in the wilderness.If possible, go to a relative's house close to Chernobog, walk or find a "snakehead" to drive to a distant place.No matter whether these people were going to the liberated area, the imperial occupied area, or to the east of Yan State, the People's Protection Army would not stop them in any way.

But for many more, escape was just a moment of panic.They couldn't find any way out, so they could only wander in the wilderness outside Chernobog, with little food and water.The Tribal Army did not arrange any food distribution points outside the city, and at most provided emergency medical services to civilians who were dying of sudden illness.

Rhodes Island accommodated quite a few refugees, but most of them went their separate ways.Only a few infected or truly homeless choose to stay.For example, the Ursas student self-government group with only five members left.

Then everyone met Mephisto and his team again.The atmosphere of the encounter was awkward and delicate.But Mephisto, the temporary receptionist who was brought in to handle the physical examination of defectors, obviously didn't mean to talk nonsense.The two sides bid farewell again.

Mephisto would like to pay special attention to these tough and lucky high school girls.But he's more interested in other things now.That is the Rhode Island armed forces reform and construction work.

With MACR-SOG officially and fully stationed in Rhodes Island, it is imminent to update the armed forces, organize reforms and tactical training of Rhodes Island operators.It is the first task of MACR-SOG to make a comprehensive and three-dimensional assessment of the combat capabilities of Rhode Island's operators, the overall effectiveness and functional spectrum of Rhode Island's armed forces.From this perspective, the "Research and Observation Brigade" is not entirely a disguised name.