into the sheath

Seat Sentinel must be bound; Seat Guide must be unbound.

Tang Heng spent the whole night and the next day, but he didn't understand what the two regulations were for.

Early in the morning of the third day, he was woken up by a notification sound from the terminal—another task arrangement from the Special Guards.

What Qiao She said was correct, maybe he didn't receive the notification the day before yesterday, it was really because the terminal permissions hadn't been updated.

The number of people at the assembly point was reduced by nearly half compared to the day before yesterday. Wu Tianjun didn't know where he went, and the leader of the team was Qiao She, who arrived before Tang Heng.

After Qiao She succinctly organized the team and introduced the content of this task, he led the people to stand aside and wait.Taking advantage of the gap before boarding the plane, Tang Heng began to look around for Jiang Feng's figure.

As expected, this time he still followed Jiang Feng out for a walk.Qiao She didn't explain the purpose of Jiang Feng's trip, but Tang Heng could probably guess that it was nothing more than an inspection tour, or a small punishment like yesterday at the light source.

After roughly recalling the itinerary of the past few days, Tang Heng couldn't help but slander: "You must follow me after leaving the safe zone of Target City", in fact, there is no way for you not to follow.

Jiang Feng appeared 10 minutes after the special guards assembled.

Before Tang Heng saw his figure, a sudden threat suddenly made his nerves tense up.His eyes froze, and then he precisely landed on the man beside Jiang Feng.

is a Sentinel.

Tang Heng frowned at the unfamiliar appearance, but his nervous tension did not stem from the identity of the two as sentries, but from the inexplicable coercion carried by that person, who obviously never even looked at I have seen my duty here, but for no reason it gives people a feeling of contempt, silently forcing people to surrender.

Tang Heng swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

The threat even made his scalp tingle.The cub yelled in the mental scene, almost showing his figure, eager to make gestures with him.

After a pause, Tang Heng noticed the badge on the sentinel's shoulder similar to Jiang Feng's, with a scabbard painted with iron gray on the rose red background.

—He should be the commander of another division.

Knowing the identity of this person, Tang Heng didn't feel a little better because of this knowledge, on the contrary, he felt that the feeling in his heart was even more awkward.

Fortunately, Jiang Feng did not show much familiarity with this colleague.

After being extremely vigilant in an instant, Tang Heng went to observe the reactions of other special guards who were also sentries.

Unlike when he was the only one who showed obvious abnormalities during the bug swarm, this time, not only Tang Heng, but also the other team members showed varying degrees of vigilance and awe.This kind of awe is different from when facing Jiang Feng. It is not a recognition of identity, but a purer instinct of respect and fear.

In this silence, Tang Heng became less conspicuous.

Tang Heng's Adam's apple twitched.

[Who is this person? ] He asked his guide through the link.

As soon as this sentence was formed, Tang Heng had not received a response, and suddenly met the look of the sentry in the next second.

It was like a cold awn glowing from a vertical sharp blade.

After the moment when the eyes collided with each other, Tang Heng gritted his teeth and looked back to meet the gaze.

Jiang Feng heard Tang Heng's question and looked for someone, only to find that the two of them were looking at each other.

[Zou Bingxuan, commander of the western division. ] Jiang Feng briefly introduced.After finishing speaking, he shifted his gaze to Tang Heng's clenched fist, paused, and said again: [His strength far surpasses yours. ]

Tang Heng clenched his fists even tighter, [Are you implying that I can't beat him? ]

After a longer silence, Jiang Feng responded: [If there is a chance, I can introduce you to him.Although he is not from the same system as you, having his guidance should help you. ]

[If you are willing to 'guidance' Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will be useful enough, do you still need him? ]

[......]

[......]

Tang Heng looked away and stopped talking.

He Mu didn't show up, Tang Heng speculated that this might be the cause of yesterday's accident.

This time they turned in a different direction than they had traveled from the walled office building last time.The aircraft flew at low altitude in the city, shuttling between rows of tall buildings.The boring street scene outside the window repeated rotation for nearly 10 minutes, and then stopped in darkness because the aircraft landed again.

Tang Heng walked out of the aircraft cabin with the special guards.

This place still belongs to the range of the target city, but it is located at the other end.Different from the clear boundary pattern on the side of the office building, this area is open. The towering urban buildings spread to an invisible boundary and then stop abruptly, followed by a piece of ruins with a height of no more than two floors. .

Yes, ruins.

None of the buildings in this large area are intact, and they are even damaged as if they were intentional.The walls are mottled and dilapidated, and some parts of the buildings have been cut off in half, exposing the bricks and internal steel structure. Under the uneven section, no furniture that represents the traces of life in the past can be seen.

Further afield, the aftertaste of the ruins merges with the desert environment.

Tang Heng probably understood where the dusty smell he smelt when he first came to Target City came from.

A group of people did not stay in this berth for too long.

Due to the prior greeting, the officer in charge of this area quickly greeted him.

Tang Heng has read all the versions of the "War Preparation Manual" in his hand in the past few days. Because he was concerned about the target city where he was at the time, he took note of the division of each area in the target city. Qiao She's getting along with him let him know that for the sake of simplicity, the soldiers prefer to call the area connecting the inside and outside of the target city a "shooting range" in private.

Sounds like the name of a game's location.

Passing through the ruins of a sentry every 50 meters, they soon came to the real outside of the city.

It was only then that Tang Heng saw the soldiers guarding Target City.

The visual aid Jiang Feng gave him did not know when it was launched. With its help, Tang Heng was able to see the whole picture.

The "shooting range" is not next to the target city, but about 500 meters away, and it extends to an invisible end.At this distance, the figures could not be seen clearly, only the Zerg were still moving around, but perhaps due to artificial traction, the scene looked far from the mess Tang Heng thought it would be.The corpses of the dead Zerg appeared one after another, like black fireworks on this gray and yellow background.

Tang Heng glanced in Jiang Feng's direction again. He was talking with the sergeant in charge at this time, and he seemed to have no intention of going to the front line.

After walking around here but actually doing nothing, Tang Heng felt like a decoration.

And as a decoration, besides the accompanying members of the special guards, there should be Zou Bingxuan - from the beginning to the end, he didn't say a word.

"The bug swarm is imminent. Even if the defense line can be pushed to 7000 meters away, the monitoring of the interior of the defense line and even the inner city cannot be careless."

This inspection ended with Jiang Feng's words.

After that, the non-commissioned officer answered "Yes" loudly, but under the influence of Zou Bingxuan who stood coldly and said nothing, he seemed a little lacking in momentum.

Compared with some unexpected experiences that happened at the light source, the inspection time this time was not long, and the process was also lackluster.

Not long after, the group was ready to return.

Almost walking back along the same route as when he came, but just as he approached the parking space of the original aircraft, Tang Heng suddenly felt something was wrong.

This berth is a specially opened area, surrounded by low ruins nearby and tall buildings in the distance, it looks a bit abrupt.

Tang Heng couldn't tell what was wrong with it, so he pursed his lips and looked at the guards beside the berth.

It's not strict here, but it's not lax either.Most of these guards are guides, perhaps influenced by the shooting range not far away, their expressions are calm and serious.

Guides have the ability to "see", so there is no reason why their senses should be more accurate than theirs.

Thinking of this, Tang Heng was a little relieved, only thinking that it was a nervous reaction caused by long-term exposure to the excessive mental noise of the Zerg.But just as he took another step and was about to walk towards the prescribed aircraft, he suddenly felt an unusual vibration from the soles of his feet.

[Be careful! ]

During the connection, a warning from Jiang Feng suddenly sounded, and then another sentence from him was also captured by hearing.

"alert!"

Tang Heng felt baffled by this warning, but his body had subconsciously followed the guide's prompt to avoid it——

In the next second, the flat ground on which he was standing suddenly cracked, and a black-brown behemoth broke through the ground, and within a few seconds, it had already emerged in full shape.

It was a Zerg over three meters tall.

Tang Heng's eyes widened.He looked at this giant scorpion-like monster. The idleness of this trip made him relax his vigilance to the surrounding environment, so he did not expect it to appear in this form at all!

But the Zerg will not give him extra time to daze.

In the blink of an eye, a sharp thorn that should not have appeared on the "Giant Scorpion" suddenly appeared. At the same time, it rushed down and smashed the thorn that one person could not embrace directly to the ground.

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A bug has been modified: the time point of weapon distribution is advanced to before the departure of each mission.

If there are no accidents, there will be another update tomorrow... In fact, I thought I could finish writing this episode today (why do I "think" every day?!