This is a dark rainy night, this is a quiet forest, dark clouds pressing against the sky, and the cold drizzle drifts drifting with the wind. The sky is pitch black and the land is pitch black. Suddenly, the drizzle above the forest is disturbed by some kind of interference, and abnormal repulsion occurs. A dark shadow appears out of nowhere, spreading its wings and gliding silently, and finally disappearing in the dense forest. The rejected drizzle then returns to normal, and is still a dark sky and a quiet forest.

The ancient iron fell lightly to the ground, and the unfolded cloak and the hem of the clothes were then closed, as flexible as a bird's wing. He squatted motionlessly, only his eyes were slowly turning, observing the strange woodland, and listening to every slight whirlwind around him. This place is closer to Jingyue Ruins, and shadow demons often come here to abuse kittens and dogs for fun, so the small animals at night were hidden, without saying a word. The forest was as quiet as a cemetery, and occasionally a cold wind blew, causing rustling branches and leaves to shake.

Gu Tie used the spiritual ability field to offset the gravity, then slowly stood up, floating silently like a ghost. Through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the treetops, you can see a bright sky and some aircraft navigation lights. It was the sky of the Cang Tong Alliance. The lights from the base were so strong that the clouds were as obvious as the ceiling. The Cang Tong Alliance was so brightly lit, not because of the worry that the plane could not land, nor because of the overcapacity of the electric lights and electricity, but because of the shadow demon in Jingyue Ruins was too troublesome.

The Shadow Demon looks at people and monkeys. They look at people and monkeys. The Shadow Demon looks at people. A few days ago, the five-headed dragons harassed the Shadow Realm. So a large number of Shadow Demons enter the real world with raging energy and linger on the living people. Who is the five-headed dragon that invades the Shadow Realm? They cannot recognize the innocent Cang Tong. So they rush in indiscriminately. Because of this, the Cang Tong Alliance cannot attack the Five-headed Dragon day and night. Once at night, they have to withdraw from the ruins.

Thanks to the Shadow Demon in Jingyue Ruins, the five-headed dragon would have long lost its armor and retreated all the way.

Gu Tie floated silently and moved forward, activating the psychic vision every minute to search for the surrounding high-energy signals. When he reached a hillside, he suddenly saw a ball of white light floating in the air and flying at high speed. It should be a helicopter. He immediately stopped beside a big tree, cancelled the psychic energy, then squatted down, and covered his head with a hood. His whole person was covered by the combat suit, revealing only a pair of dim eyes. The combat suit changed color continuously, turning into a group of black and brown rocks covered with moss.

After a while, the helicopter hovered above the forest and scanned with a variety of energy waves that were invisible to the naked eye. Gutie could feel the strange feeling of the energy waves touching the combat suit, as if the hot wind in summer blew through the skin, wave after wave. Obviously, this is a high-power active scan that can penetrate the target like an X-ray. Even bones can be seen. Faced with this powerful scan, Gutie had no idea, and could only pray that the combat suit produced by Ash was excellent enough to deceive such intensity.

The scan lasted for about one minute. But the helicopter did not leave and still hovered above the forest. The spiral buzzed, causing the fallen leaves in the woodland to fly. After a while, the cabin door opened and two ropes were thrown out. Two power armored warriors landed along the rope, and the landing point was not far from Gutie. Gutie heard the sound of their impact on the ground and the sound of the mechanical joints. The impact and the sound of the collision were not heavy, indicating that the power armor was lightweight and did not carry heavy weapons.

"The noisy sound, too high-profile scanning, means that the performance of the helicopter is not advanced. The light power armor, without heavy weapons, means that the soldiers are average, maybe not players, but native mercenaries. Then..." Gu Tie had some ideas while listening to the sound. Suddenly, another wave of energy swept through the forest. This time, the scanner from the power armor was not as strong as the airborne scanning, but the accuracy was higher than that of the airborne scanning, just like the difference between a microscope and a telescope.

A warrior scanned and complained: "It's so strange, it appeared out of thin air and disappeared out of thin air."

"Maybe it was a shadow demon who wandered around and returned to the shadow realm." said another warrior.

"Can the Shadow Magic appear outside the ruins?" said a warrior.

Gu Tie guessed what was going on when he heard their discussion. Any psychic spell has psychic radiation, but it is just a difference in strength. Previously, he used the spiritual ability field to offset gravity to prevent himself from trampling on dead leaves and making noises. The Cang Tong Alliance has been monitoring this forest. Once he discovered a psychic reaction of unknown origin, he sent a reconnaissance plane to the scene to investigate. If this is true, the Cang Tong Alliance's early warning was very good, and it was really good, because the signal of the spiritual ability field was very weak and almost impossible to detect. Gu Tie would rather use the spiritual ability field to offset gravity than trampling on leaves, just because the spiritual ability field is more hidden than the footsteps.

The two soldiers were very dedicated. Although they kept complaining, there was no omission to the scanning. After a while, the soldiers a came to Gutie and carried an instrument similar to a hand lantern and muttered: "Hey, this stone has a metal reaction. Is it a meteorite? Uh..., no, the metal reaction is not like iron, nor like stone, but more like a carbon element, with a slightly strange composition."

"Hehe, carbon is not metal, how can there be a metal reaction?" Warrior b laughed.

"I said that the carbon element is not carbon element. Have you passed the middle school chemistry?" Warrior A didn't politely retorted.

Warrior B came over with a scanner, scanned Gu Tie hard, and said with a smile: "Let me see... I'll fuck."

"What's wrong?" warrior a asked.

"What signal is this?" Warrior B said in surprise: "Stable super-heavy element?"

"It's impossible. If so, we'll get rich. Hurry up and pass the data to me." Warrior a said curiously.

"Hahaha, it's just a joke." Warrior B laughed proudly: "According to the comparison of the database, this stone is probably a petrified substance of a spacecraft wreckage. You should know that this is the West Coast area, the territory of Hurricane Siren. Those slutty and ferocious female Siren often glared at people, and they were a stone carving when they glared. Some powerful Siren can even petrify metal machinery."

Warrior A cursed and turned around and left with the scanner. Warrior B said proudly, turning around to scan other places. Gu Tie still squatted motionlessly. He slowly let go of his tight left hand. He thought to himself with a laugh and cry: "What are they scanning out? Carbon elements? What elements are there in the carbon race? Damn. Chemistry knowledge is all given to the middle school teachers."

The helicopter lowered the height and threw down two ropes. The two soldiers who had nothing to find each grabbed a rope and slowly left the ground. After a brief hesitation, Gu Tie kicked his legs and flew up to the sky, whistling past the two soldiers, and directly drilled into the open cabin door. The cabin was quite large, enough to accommodate more than a dozen fully armed warriors, but there were only two light-armed warriors. The cockpit in front was only separated by a toughened glass. A driver could be seen in the main driver's seat, and the passenger seat was empty.

The two light-dressed soldiers stared at Gu Tie foolishly, as stiff as wood. Gu Tie walked towards them calmly, without an attacking posture, and grinned. The two soldiers didn't know what to do. If Gu Tie took the initiative to attack, they would fight to the death and admit it even if they died. But Gu Tie did not attack, what should they do, actively seeking death. Or passively hesitate? Gu Tie passed by them, sat in the passenger seat, and patted the driver's shoulder, showing a friendly smile.

"Hey, soldiers, you..." The driver looked back and his mouth suddenly opened, making people worried about dislocating the jaw joints.

A few seconds later, two powered armored soldiers returned to the cabin and were nervously on guard. They soon discovered Gu Tie in the passenger seat and realized the strong and delicate atmosphere, and didn't know what to do. If they were loyal to their duties, they would definitely die bravely and might die miserably; if they waited passively, they would at most die, and might die more comfortably.

Gu Tie smiled and said, "Send me to the base, three thousand star diamonds per person."

For players, three thousand star diamonds are nothing. But for natives, this is a huge sum of money with a hot and shining gold. The monthly salary of ordinary mercenaries is only 2,000 to 3,000 gold coins, the driver is about 8,000, and the elite veterans who operate power armor are about 12,000. Three thousand star diamonds, that is, 30 million gold coins, are enough for elite veterans to serve more than 2,500 months. The atmosphere in the cabin suddenly became active. Five mercenaries looked at each other, and finally an armored soldier asked: "How to cash out?"

Gutie pulled down his hood and asked with a smile: "Do you recognize this face?"

These mercenaries had indeed seen Gu Tie's information and were stunned again. Gu Tie smiled and said cheerfully: "You all know who I am, and you must know that I am not short of money. You can give me an account now. After the matter is done, I will directly transfer the money to the account. I guaranteed with the reputation of the Five-Headed Dragon that no matter where you are, I will send the money to the money."

The five mercenaries looked at each other, nodded vigorously, and then started to work. Two light-equipped soldiers packed up their ropes and closed the hatch, the driver turned around and returned, and the two armored soldiers also took off their helmets and looked for paper and pen to write their accounts. After a while, a card was handed over to Gu Tie, with five bank accounts on it. The only public bank in the Killing Ruins was the vending machine Terra. Each player and the citizens of each neutral city had a bank account, saving money and withdrawing money at any vending machine. The natives in non-neutral cities were black households and had no accounts, but they could cooperate with a certain citizen to enjoy the convenience brought by the vending machine.

Gu Tie glanced at the account, put away the card and smiled, "Maybe after the sunrise, you are all millionaires."

The five mercenaries were all excited and even more nervous, just grinning and saying nothing.

After a while, the helicopter entered the base and was about to land on the apron. Gutie saw many hangars on both sides of the airport, lined with sentry towers and turrets, and teams of patrol soldiers, and said calmly: "We have a mutually beneficial cooperation, you can hide me. I can do it again after a while, so that you have plenty of time to avoid the war."

Several mercenaries looked at each other and looked at a metal box in the corner of the cabin. The box was more than two meters long, enough to pack the ancient iron into it. The pilot looked back and said nervously: "This is a part box. When the plane is repaired regularly, the ground crew sent this box of replacement parts first, but there was not enough manpower and there was no repair. If we send the box back to the repair station and tell them that the repair station has been completed, the repair station has been busy these two days, so there is definitely no time to verify and will not check it."

"Yes, we can send it to the repair station and throw it into the warehouse." said an armored warrior.

"They certainly have no time to check," said a light-dressed warrior.

"Where is the repair station?" Gu Tie asked.

"That." The five soldiers pointed to the left front together.

As soon as Gu Tie saw this repair station, he nodded with satisfaction. Next, the four soldiers took out the parts and hid them in the corner of the cabin. Let Gu Tie lie in the box. The pilot parked the helicopter and completed some follow-up work. He took the plane off the part box and sent it to the airport repair station. For the convenience of maintenance, the repair station is located in the center of all hangars, next to it is a fuel station and ammunition depot. The technicians kept taking small cars to the hangar, repairing damaged planes, and transporting fuel and ammunition.

Five mercenaries sent the boxes to the repair station and put them directly at the door, saying, "This is an old part that has been recycled, you can handle it yourself." The technicians immediately protested unhappily, "You send them to the warehouse, we have no staff at all." The mercenaries protested unhappily, "We have to go to the art troupe, so we have no time to go." After some entanglement, a senior officer ran out and put a military rank of several levels higher. The five mercenaries had no choice but to send the boxes to the scrap warehouse and place them in a hidden corner.

Ten minutes later, five mercenaries left far away, Gu Tie opened the lid of the box and sat up. He looked at the messy warehouse filled with various old parts, and recalled this wonderful infiltration. Suddenly there was a ridiculous feeling. Is the Cang Tong Alliance not strictly guarded? It was very strict. They could find a slight psychic reaction dozens of kilometers away, and they could immediately discover that a reconnaissance plane was sent to investigate on the spot. Then why could Gu Tie fail to put in any effort and successfully sneak into the base and arrive next to the fuel and arsenal?

Is it blamed the loyalty of the five mercenaries? No, the mercenaries were originally loyal to commissions and were not loyal to their employers. Between death and 30 million gold coins, they would definitely choose the latter. Is it blamed that the base was tight outside and loose inside? No, during the war, any military camp was messy, not to mention that the Cang Tong Alliance was an expedition that was raided thousands of miles away, and it was impossible to be messy. So what was the problem?

"It turns out that Lord Gu Tie is too smart and charming, holding the truth of the universe."

Gu Tie touched his head proudly, then jumped to the ground, pulled up his hood and raised his collar, and walked out of the warehouse with great confidence. A truck was parked at the door of the warehouse, and several tired technicians were unloading the goods. When they saw Gu Tie stepping on the rhythm of the march, they wondered: 'Who is this guy? Look at the equipment is a player, why is the momentum so unique?'. Gu Tie has no birds and they walked straight towards the arsenal. They looked at each other for a while, shrugged together, and continued to cheer up their energy to work.

It is around 5 a.m. It is about dawn and the war will begin. All attack aircraft and bombers need to be filled with fuel and ammunition. Therefore, the arsenal and ammunition warehouse are very busy. There is a long group of vehicles parked at the door, and all the mercenaries have red eyes and white lips. Not only are they not sleeping, they don’t even have time to drink water. When Gutie arrived at the arsenal, a large truck was parked at the door. A clumsy-looking engineering mecha was holding a thick and long missile and was slowly loading it onto the truck.

When an officer saw Gu Tie, he frowned in confusion and took the initiative to come forward and asked, "Sir."

Gu Tie asked calmly: "What kind of missile is this?"

The officer involuntarily said: "'Hornet' cluster bomb, sir."

Gu Tie nodded and asked with a smile: "How many more are there? Is it enough?"

"There is currently 12 pieces in stock, and the task is just completed." The officer said.

"12 pieces, not bad." Gu Tie continued to walk towards the arsenal.

The officer quickly stopped Gu Tie and said tactfully: "Sir, please show your identity."

"Identity?" Gu Tie asked with a smile.

"Yes, sir, the mercenary group operates independently, and the player must show his identity." The officer tried to keep his tone calm and did not stimulate the strange player. The mercenary group was indeed operated independently, accepting the player's commissions, and then performing the player's tasks. Players generally did not care about the mercenary group, but would only inspect regularly to see if the mercenary group worked seriously. If a familiar player inspected the mercenary group, the officer would definitely not stop him. He would do whatever he should do, and would scold the soldiers for being more diligent.

The problem now is that the officers do not know Gu Tie, but Gu Tie is not like an enemy. It is like a fat white man who goes to a grassroots government and claims to be a certain department, and wants to investigate anything. The grassroots leaders have never seen a fat white man, but the fat white man is swaying, with a real general belly, a real face full of flesh, a real swollen eyes, a real official accent and a horoscope, which looks very much like the leaders of a certain department. Therefore, although the grassroots leaders doubt the identity of the fat white man, they dare not be polite. The grassroots leaders can only smile and perfunctorily while secretly calling: "Is there a new leader of a fat white man in a certain department?" If the answer is yes, then the grassroots leaders must be prepared to be high-end, fashionable or low-key and luxurious.

Based on the same principle, the officer did not know Gu Tie, but did not dare to directly arm the war, so he had to ask politely.

Gu Tie smiled, suddenly lifted up his cloak and shot a beam of silver lightning. This was a chain drawn out at high speed, only the thickness of a thumb, the lock rings were tightly linked, and each section had sharp spikes as sharp as a razor. It drew the officer's left waist diagonally upward, cutting the torso like a chainsaw cutting watermelon, and finally shook it out from his right shoulder. The officer's upper half flew into the air, leaving only a bloody lower half. The scene suddenly became quiet, everyone stared at Gu Tie in a daze, his eyes widened, but his pupils contracted rapidly.

Pupil contraction symbolizes fear and indicates the subconscious escape of the person involved.

Gu Tie smiled slightly, raised his left arm and pointed at the cluster bomb. His left arm quickly deformed into a thick and long cannon. The body of the cannon flashed a large number of orange-red runes, symbolizing a large number of gathering fire elements. The soldiers present drew their guns in panic, but it was too late. Gu Tie sprayed out a dazzling red column of fire, hitting the middle of the cluster bomb, causing a violent explosion. The female bomb exploded into two pieces on the spot, and the sub-bomb inside then exploded continuously, causing an extremely violent explosion.

The engineering mechas and trucks disappeared instantly, and all ground crew members were shattered. The shock wave swept across all directions, flying half of the arsenal. The ammunition in the arsenal then exploded, and the rumbling explosions continued one after another, becoming more and more fierce. The adjacent fuel warehouses and repair stations were leveled, dozens of trucks were flying like leaves, and thousands of ground crew members and drivers were swallowed by the shock wave. There were also dozens of adjacent hangars, which were also severely damaged by different sizes, some were blown away, and some were flattened...

After the explosion stopped, a large pit appeared on the ground that was larger than the football field, and fires, smoke, screams, and wailing everywhere. The brightly lit Xingsheng base has disappeared, leaving only a disaster scene on the verge of destruction. At the bottom of the explosion pit, a ball of soil suddenly dispersed and a huge silver metal ball rolled out. It floated in the air, blooming like a lotus, revealing the ancient iron sitting in the middle. He looked around and smiled and said, "It's such a disaster on earth. Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk, it's so terrifying."

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ps: Sorry, I'm in a bad state, I've already conceived a plot, but I can't figure it out, and I'm stuck regularly (to be continued...)
Chapter completed!