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

The red-haired old man flicked the AK in his hand and swiped half of the shuttle, and immediately retracted behind the rock that served as a cover.Immediately, the firepower of four automatic rifles came back, chiseling the heavily weathered rocks with bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, and splashing a large amount of dust and debris.

"Ines!" He called out the name of his comrade-in-arms loudly, "Where did W go?"

A Sarkaz female mercenary with big white legs dazzled the eyes and roared from the other side of the rock to answer: "Hedley, she's not dead yet!"

"I asked where she died?"

Before the words were finished, another billowing cloud of smoke exploded in the distance.

Hedley turned his head and glanced in that direction, saw the flashing red-gray figure, saw the short gray-white hair and red horns passing by; saw the guy throw another small black dot, and press the detonation button with the other hand The bomb exploded in mid-air, sending down a storm of fragments that pinned several enemies to the ground.

The retaliatory firepower flew over, and W scrambled and scrambled into the back of the slope.I still didn't forget to take off the MK18 automatic rifle I was carrying and shoot two bursts from behind the slope, which was almost provocative.

"That guy..." Hedley gritted his teeth, then crawled and quickly changed positions, set up his automatic rifle behind another slope, and fired two bursts.

Resistance gunshots were also heard on the left and right sides.But compared to the dense movement on the opposite side, which is non-stop and can't count the number of muzzle flashes, Hedley's team still has quite a few people using semi-automatic weapons and even manual rifles. Not only does it have a huge disadvantage in terms of numbers, but also in terms of firepower. Up is also at a disadvantage.Everyone could only retreat continuously in the dense fire net, struggling to delay the enemy's attack.

Mercenaries are synonymous with extreme realism. Although it is necessary to complete tasks to earn rewards, no matter how much money you have, you have to spend your life.In the past, the teams of Hedley and Ines would immediately break away from the battle by any means, including betraying their allies.

However, the mercenaries are also aware of this point: there is no difference between a dishonest mercenary and a dead mercenary.What's more, this task is extraordinary——

It comes from Her Highness Theresia.

Chapter 6 WE ARE ATLAS!

The team of Hedley and Ines has served the princess and her "Tower of Babel" for a long time.This time it was a similar task - to meet the transport team that came here.

The last time everyone was escorting the Babel Landing Ship from Lemm Billiton, and His Highness was in that convoy that time.And this time, His Highness asked them to "treat the coming convoy as if I were in it"—

Because the transport team carried a huge amount of weapons and equipment transported to the Tower of Babel.

This transport team must be picked up as soon as possible!So everyone can't stay too far away from this area or run fast enough.The warriors of His Highness's enemy and biological brother, the regent of Kazdaele, Tresis, bit the mercenaries.

After integrating most of Kazdel's armed forces, Tracy, the leader of the "Military Council", began to spare no effort to arm his soldiers.But with an automatic weapon in hand, it must be the most elite regular army under Teresi's command.They have arms issued by the military council of the Regent.Mercenaries can only be responsible for their own profits and losses, and it is impossible to match them in terms of weapons.

Now, Hedley's team is in trouble, and it's slipping to the brink.

With the dull and powerful sound coming from the opposite side, an extremely curved trajectory was drawn in the sky, and both Hedley and Ines changed their expressions——

force!hit!gun!

Of course there will be mortars. Opposite is at least a fully equipped infantry company. Is it incredible to bring two or three light mortars?

But for Hedley's team, it was a disaster.

Mortars are curved fire weapons with a long range, and can fire outside the killing range of the mercenaries' machine rifles.The mercenaries can only use their heads to harden the mortars, but they have nothing to do with the enemy's mortars.

The first round of shelling set off a cloud of dust at the position of W.

……

The world recovers from the tumultuous chaos.Those Sarkaz loyal to the regent formed a sparse skirmisher line, which was already close at hand.

W arched out of the mud, shook his head to shake off some of the mud between his short hair, widened his sore eyes, and looked at the automatic rifle aimed at him.She could even see the rifling in the muzzle.

One of those monster-like enemies pointed a gun at her, but didn't fire for a long time, and didn't look at her.

The guy was trembling.

W couldn't guess why he was trembling.Her hearing seemed to be slightly damaged by the blast, and she couldn't make out what they were saying.But she knew that they were afraid.

The extremely short-term decision has been made. Rather than following the enemy's gaze like an idiot, it is better to fight back immediately.Whether it's rushing to grab a gun or a knife, or grabbing the M4CQBW at hand——

The guy suddenly exploded.

Very fine flesh and blood hit the Sarkaz girl's head and face forcefully, and W, who narrowed his eyes again because of the blood, minced meat, fat, and bone fragments, saw two wooden stake-like objects rolling towards her hand.

It's the guy's two legs.

The dull sound of footsteps came from behind, very fast. W didn't realize the sound was footsteps at first.Because it was too heavy. If it were footsteps, they couldn't be so dense - how could such a heavy guy run...

A gray afterimage passed by her.

The Sarkaz girl looked at the armored warrior in astonishment.It—we can only call it "it" for the time being—wrapped in heavy armor, its body is at least [-] meters tall, and its size is huge, but it is running at an unimaginable high speed.

It holds a pistol in one hand and a one-handed hammer as long as its own forearm in the other.These two weapons looked normal at first glance, but they were square and thick.However, think about the height of this fighter's [-] meters, and then enlarge it by the same ratio...

Although cold weapons can hardly hide their disadvantages in front of the oldest black powder rifles, but with the Sarkaz's strong body and Originium skill armor, cold weapons still have some practicality in assault.Despite the latest automatic weapons, the Sarkaz, who have been using cold weapons for a long time, have not completely abandoned these inefficient and reliable partners.

A Sarkaz swordsman greeted the uninvited guest first.He dropped the automatic rifle in his hand and drew out the outdated sword.

The huge armored warrior wielded a strange buzzing hammer covered with blue and white electric lights, and the Sarkaz swordsman even looked small in comparison, but they still faced each other, raising their swords——

The power hammer sliced ​​through the greatsword, the breastplate, and the body of the Sarkaz easily and smoothly, as if it was only an unhindered illusion.

monster!

W, who has always been crazy, showed a "horrified" look.Hedley and Ines would be surprised by this if they were here.But it is more likely that they are as terrified as W: the Sarkaz people who are good at witchcraft have a lot of experience in forging sword armor and "enchanting", and the first-class breastplate can even effectively resist 7.62MM full-power rifle bullets , It is also very practical today when hot weapons are spreading.However, this warhammer with azure blue electric light cut through the sword and armor with ease, and smashed a strong Sarkaz man in the chest!

The splattered blood and viscera paint a terrifying picture.At least ten automatic rifles fired desperately at the armored soldiers. With Sarkaz's strong physique, these soldiers were able to hold the trigger and hold down the muzzles of the guns and jump up until the magazines were empty.

But the powerful short-distance rapid-fire firepower of the AK rifle is like a breeze on the face of the armored warrior. When the bullet hits its armor, not even a spark can jump out.The armored warrior didn't even slow down on the way to knock down a Sarkaz swordsman. Facing the AK rifles shooting close at hand, it didn't even evade. Wire.In ten seconds, eight fragmented Sarkaz corpses fell to the ground, blood sucked by the dry sand in the blink of an eye.

The battle-hardened Sakaz elites under the regent screamed shrilly, sounding like castrated roosters.The entire platoon of skirmishers immediately collapsed and ran backwards at an alarming speed.It was not an organized and covered retreat, but a disorderly rout.

The last Sarkaz soldier who was still raising his gun was torn apart by the exploding bomb that penetrated his body.The lone armored warrior didn't pursue, and put the big pistol on his waist—even though there was no holster, it was "glued" there—then strode towards W.

W held the automatic rifle tightly, and there were all kinds of bombs in her waist bag and backpack, but for the first time she felt that these things could not give her any sense of security.

The armored soldier ignored W, and just calmly dropped a sentence when passing by her:

"follow me."

……

The survivors of Hedley's team gathered together at this moment, looking at the four armored soldiers with awe.

The height and shape of these humanoid steels are more than a circle larger than ordinary people, like a steam boiler with hands and feet.The armored fighters are tightly wrapped under the heavy armor, which perfectly covers the difficult-to-process protective armor such as the back and waist.

They are equipped with guns such as automatic rifles and light machine guns, but the caliber and size are unbelievably large; the daggers, chain saws and swords are exaggerated in size and hideous in shape.Those things were anything but fake. All the mercenaries saw with their own eyes that the large firearm that resembled a sniper rifle shot out a ball of blue light.The light ball flew at high speed and penetrated the Regent position on the opposite side, directly detonating the ammunition of the Sakaz company's mortar position.The damn mortars all rose to the sky when their ammunition exploded.

Hedley gritted his teeth, took a step forward, and asked, "Are you..."

The first armored soldier who rescued W also took a step forward, casting a shadow that directly covered Hedley.It pointed to the huge shoulder armor——

The armor of this man is also different from the other three armored warriors. The shoulder armor of the three men seems to be just iron pans buckled on the shoulders. It is much thicker, the thickness of the shoulder armor almost reaches the top of the head, and the helmet is sandwiched in the middle, and the helmet cannot be rotated. The entire head and shoulders directly form a whole piece of protection, which looks very solid.

The mercenaries looked at its huge shoulder armor, and saw the red crossed sickle and hammer logo for the first time.The mercenaries have never heard of the power of using this logo, so everyone still cast doubtful eyes on it.

The armored warrior wearing the Red Scythe Legion's "Will of Vengeance" space fighter power armor heavy armor assault seemed a little speechless, so he pointed to the shoulder armor.

This time everyone noticed a sticker on the lower edge of the shoulder armor, which is a red triangle with a white border...

Everyone bowed their heads in unison, and saw that the receivers of their rifles had exactly the same logo.The mercenaries raised their heads in unison, with surprised expressions.Hedley said loudly: "Atlas? Are you Atlas?"

"Yes." The leading armored warrior replied, "We are employees of the Kazdale Regional Department of the Atlas Group's military service and trading company, and we are contracted to provide products and services for the Tower of Babel."

"Military Services and Trading Company"...

The mercenaries looked at the melee weapons that were about the same length as their height, and felt that this joke was a bit cold.

"Then what's your name? How should we call you?" Ines cautiously asked the leading armored warrior.

The armored warrior replied with a toneless voice like a repeating machine: "I am a space warrior, and you can call my code name: 'Silly Dog'."

Unsurprisingly, the expressions of the Sarkaz mercenaries on the opposite side immediately began to twist.If he didn't know at a glance that he would definitely not be able to offend this group of people, plus they had just saved his life, the movement of laughter would probably be insignificant.

W had the most distorted expression because of her suppressed laughter - she even began to sympathize with those Regent soldiers who had just been smashed to death by the silly dog ​​with a hammer.Being killed by a stupid dog is as funny as being killed by a weapon called "Pink Furry Rabbit".

Seemingly unhappy with the comedy of his unlucky code name, Silly Dog continued: "Leave the Regent's company across the way to us. You guys can rest here and prepare to board the ship later."

Hedley let out a sigh of relief: "You also drove the land ship."

Hangou's tone was a bit strange: "Yes...he's here."

The mercenaries could hear that there was something in this guy's words, but they couldn't figure out what was going on.Until everyone noticed that although the black spot on the distant horizon gradually became larger as the distance got closer, it didn't seem to be attached to the ground...

"The people of Kazdel."

The airship, which was 250 meters long and 47 meters high, was propelled by a mixture of turboprops and rocket engines and flew straight here. The sound spread in all directions through powerful loudspeakers and radio transmitters.

"There is no need to panic, our intentions are peaceful."

The menacing shark mouth painting is big enough to swallow an airliner, and its size is comparable to any ship in the land ship except for the giant battleship.Although the airship has begun to reveal details, the large group of accompanying helicopters and VTOLs are still fuzzy dots at this distance, forming a neat dot matrix.

"We are - Atlas."

The "Kirov" heavy armored airship is equipped with a large number of battlefield surveillance systems such as radar, sound and light detectors, laser radars, thermal imagers, low-light night vision devices, and magnetic detectors, and has a complete electronic system. The combat system is used to provide the fleet with long-range early warning to overcome terrain interference at high altitudes-land is not the ocean, and the radar of land-ship ships is subject to more complex interference such as terrain and vegetation.

It quickly flew over the mercenaries and Space Marine teams, casting a huge shadow over them.The accompanying helicopters and vertical take-off and landing machines made similar beeps, but the decibels were N times louder, which was enough to make people shout at the top of their voices when they were face to face.

The mercenaries, who were stunned and had stiff necks, didn't react until Silly Dog clapped his hands with those iron gloves. They lowered their heads and moved their stiff necks, wiping the saliva that had flowed out without noticing it - it's not their fault, "This Although there are many hand-thrown small drones on the "big land", aircraft have not been widely used, and most people do not even know that there are man-made objects that can fly.

A "double-blade" heavy armed transport helicopter with parallel twin rotors flew lightly towards here and landed in an open area not far away.A platoon of light-armed combat infantry from the People's Alliance filed out, and the helicopter immediately took off and returned to the fleet in the distance.

All infantry platoons are equipped with medium and light power armor, their tactical movements are impeccable, and their cooperation with each other is also quite tacit.Every time a group of men and horses leap forward with a single gun, another group will lie down for cover, pulse plasma rifles and heavy pulse rapid-fire guns pointed in different directions.Within a few breaths, the infantry platoon dispersed its defensive formation.

Hedley gave the opponent high marks in his heart: These guys are well-trained, not empty weapons.

"Okay, that platoon will clean up the enemies. Next, please follow us to book a rendezvous point and prepare to board our land ship..."

W raised his hand: "Wait, there is a whole company over there. Although they suffered losses, they are not that easy to deal with."

"One platoon is already a bit of a waste." Hangou replied, "They don't need our help, nor do they need your help."

The mercenaries looked at each other, not knowing whether they should be dissatisfied because their side was so underestimated, or whether they should complain about the arrogance of the new forces for using a platoon to fight a company, which is not exhausting but a waste.

"But if you are really worried, the worst we can do is wait here until the battle is over. It won't be long anyway." Hangou said and turned around, looking at the wounded mercenaries lying not far away. "Considering that you have a lot of injured people, we can set the rendezvous point directly here. Anyway, the elders of the land fleet don't have to walk."

"Then..." Hedley glanced at the wounded beside him who hadn't finished treating their wounds, "Okay."

As soon as they received the order to rest, except for the mercenaries who were in charge of security, the rest of the people spread out and picked a place to sit down, and at the same time kept looking over at the 113th Division's space fighter killing team.

Hangou calmly pinned the bolt pistol and chainsword back to the magnetic hanging point on his waist, but did not take off the pulse plasma rifle and held it in his hand, because it was useless.He sat on a rock, looked at the Sarkaz mercenary who even took out the lunch box on the field cooker, and thought that the pot of water might be wasted.

While the mercenaries were lighting the fire, the light combat infantry of the People's Federation began to attack.The three mortar gunners in this platoon's fire squad all brittle on one knee, and the armor of their whole body was instantly locked, firmly fixing their posture.

Although their power armor is not as large, powerful, and defensive as the Space Marines, it can still carry weapons that cannot be controlled by a single soldier.All three of them have backpack-type weapon modules, with a fist-high muzzle protruding from the side of the box behind them.

The first mortar shell was loaded into the breech of the gun by the automatic loader inside the box. There was a soft "tom" sound, and the shell flew out of the muzzle, crossing a parabola high and falling towards the Regent, whose legs were limp from the fright of the airship and the fleet. Send soldiers.

Three backpack-type 60MM self-loading mortars emptied a total of 48 shells in half a minute, and the deputy of the mortar team immediately came up to load the shells.At the same time, three infantry squads had dispersed the skirmish line and rushed towards the Sarkaz company's position at an alarming speed.

When the report that the enemy had been wiped out jumped out on Hangou's electronic eye mask display, he stood up and saw that the water in the lunch box was indeed not boiled.