The short but dangerous ambush was over. Not all of the enemies were wiped out. Instead, they chose to retreat after realizing that they had lost the advantage of ambush. Hao Ren returned to the mercenaries and saw Nolan jumping down from the weapon platform on top of the truck. The teenage girl still had a blank look on her face as if what happened just now was just an illusion. She did not panic or anger.
"Heaton defected and defected to the Rangers," Nolan explained to his team members what happened in the car with a flat expression. "It was my oversight."
Hao Ren recalled the scene where she fought back with the revolving machine gun from the top of the truck, exposing herself to the hail of bullets. Although her tactic was brave, it was even more reckless. But as an outsider, it was not his place to comment. He could only nod with a dry smile and said, "You were mighty just now."
Ulyanov said in a muffled voice, "The boss fights like a madman, but she always survives until the end. That's Gray Fox's luck."
Nolan shook her head. "There are bad times too. It's just that you won't remember it. Let's not talk about this. Are you really a civilian?"
Her last sentence was, of course, directed at Hao Ren. As soon as her voice trailed off, several other mercenaries turned their puzzled eyes to Hao Ren. Although Hao Ren did not use any superhuman strength, it was surreal for a civilian to be able to take out a few firing points with his bare hands under the eyes of professional soldiers. Ulyanov nodded to Nolan. "He knows how to fight, and his movements when looking for cover and moving are very professional. This is definitely not his first time on the battlefield."
"If you really want me to explain … I can come up with a few excuses," Hao Ren said bluntly. He was not afraid of anything. Since he knew that he could always act alone after disbanding, he said, "Anyway, I don't know how to explain this phenomenon to you."
"Forget it. I'm not interested in your skills." Nolan looked at Hao Ren for a while and shook her head indifferently. She handed something over. "Thank you for your help just now. This is your gold. You can take it back. We are all about fair trade."
Hao Ren did not stand on ceremony. He took back his gold nugget. Nolan then took out another gold nugget and handed it to him. "And this is the gold you just threw out. I'm curious how rich you are. Do you usually throw gold at people?"
Hao Ren finally knew what the hidden weapon he just took out from his dimensional pocket was.
The mercenaries looked at Hao Ren as if they were looking at an alien creature. Unarmed, wandering in the lawless zone, carrying half a pound of gold as travel expenses, throwing gold at people without any awareness of self-preservation. Just when everyone thought he was a brainless rich man, he killed several professional soldiers with his bare hands. Where the hell did this weirdo come from? What was wrong with him? Was he brainless or brainless?
Hao Ren knew that the more he explained, the more troublesome it would be. So he simply said nothing. He just smiled innocently and bent down to pick up the blonde girl, the temporary body of the MDT. "Let's go. We can't stay here for long."
"You still have her with you?" Ulyanov asked in surprise.
Hao Ren nodded helplessly. "Of course. If I leave this guy behind, she will annoy me to death."
Nolan opened her mouth and swallowed back the words "she's dead" that were already at the tip of her tongue. The rest of the mercenaries looked at each other and each of them came up with an explanation for Hao Ren's abnormal behavior: this man had probably gone mad.
The mercenaries got on the truck and left the troublesome place. Nolan drove in front. The interior of the truck had been modified. The entire carriage was a mobile military station. As the weapon station platform had been raised to the top of the truck, the space inside was very spacious. Hao Ren saw a body lying on the ground in the middle of the truck with its head blown off. It was the traitor Khiton that Nolan mentioned. This soldier was originally responsible for driving, but somehow he had hooked up with the enemy.
It seemed that the situation in this so-called lawless land was more chaotic than they had imagined.
"The two newbies are dead," Nolan's voice came from the driver's seat. "Khiton is also dead. The other teams have also suffered heavy losses recently. We have to find a way to replenish our manpower when we get back."
"Tsk, I quite like those two recruits." The only female mercenary in the team other than Nolan spat on the ground. "Both of them are good men … I was thinking of having some fun with them when I got back today."
Hao Ren suddenly choked and coughed. This big sister seemed to have an unrestrained lifestyle.
Apart from Nolan, who was driving in front, there were now only four mercenaries left in the truck. The two young soldiers who were called "newbies" and were responsible for retrieving equipment from the battlefield were dead. And because they were directly hit by the enemy's large-caliber weapon, even their bodies were difficult to retrieve. In the end, only their nameplates were taken down as souvenirs. The mercenaries talked about their comrades who had just died in battle. Their tone was somewhat sorrowful and lonely, but other than that, there were no other feelings. They were people who were used to death. Dying on the battlefield, especially in this chaotic Lawless Zone … was a common occurrence.
Hao Ren looked at Nolan through the bulletproof window in front of the truck, who was concentrating on driving. He suddenly remembered something. He kicked Khiton's body in the truck with the tip of his foot. "Since there is a machine gun in the truck, why didn't this traitor just use it against us? If there was that thing, it would have been done long ago. "
Nolan raised a hand and tucked her hair behind her head. She replied without looking back, "All the heavy weapons in this truck need my physical connection to activate."
Her long gray hair was lifted, revealing a silver light at the back of her neck. Hao Ren saw a mirror-like metal object inlaid on the back of Nolan's neck. There was a groove on the edge of the metal object, which seemed to be able to be opened.
He remembered some of the knowledge about this world he had heard before. He hesitated and asked, "Are you a second-generation Evolved?"
"Now the extremist Naturalist schools don't even teach this?" Nolan's voice sounded a little helpless. "Only the first-generation Evolved will have this kind of visible modification. The electronic part of the second-generation is implanted in the body at birth, and can't be seen from the outside at all."
Ulyanov pointed to the blonde girl (corpse) beside Hao Ren. "Isn't your girlfriend a second-generation Evolved? Didn't she tell you about this? "
"She's really not my girlfriend …" Hao Ren did not know whether to laugh or cry. "This is actually … Forget it, you guys can think whatever you want. I'm still confused."
The car gradually drove out of the dilapidated city and into the even more dilapidated suburbs. Through the narrow bulletproof side window, Hao Ren saw a barren land outside. There were almost no plants. The ground looked like it had been soaked in concentrated acid, showing a strange state of corrosion and potholes. Looking at the miserable situation, he could not help but guess to what extent the war had spread in this world. According to the few words that the mercenaries had leaked, it seemed that there was no peace on this planet. Big and small battles had permeated the entire world. Even the 'peaceful city-states' where civilians lived were, in fact, just a place to support a certain army, struggling at death's door under the protection of the army.
Hao Ren felt a weight on his shoulder. He turned his head and saw the blonde girl lying on top of him. Her lifeless body kept shaking with the jolting of the car. He reached out to steady the girl whom he had never met before, but now he was mistaken as his lover. He felt a little emotional and began to guess what kind of person the girl who was "parasitized" by the MDT was, where she came from, and why she would appear in this chaotic war and eventually die tragically.
It was just some senseless and random thoughts.
"How long have we been in the dream?" Hao Ren asked casually in his mind. "Does your family know the situation here?"
"It has been more than four hours. Vivian just tried to wake you up, but I stopped her," the MDT replied lazily. It seemed to be very bored being trapped in an unfamiliar body. "Let's explore more here. And to be honest, you don't want to suddenly disappear in front of people. "
The MDT could still control its body in the Surface World when its consciousness entered the Plane of Dreams, so in this case, it acted as a mouthpiece between the Plane of Dreams and the Surface World.
"What's your plan after this?" Ulyanov's voice suddenly came, interrupting Hao Ren's thoughts.
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