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It should be said whether HK416's luck was unfortunate or fortunate today. After stepping into the town, the group did not attract pedestrians' attention. On the contrary, the town's pedestrians, upon seeing HK416, dressed like the plague, hurriedly lowered their heads and left.
The relieved HK416 now had a mouthful of frustration stuck in her throat that she couldn't express.
"Commander, the people in this town look a bit down," M500 observed.
Outside of the few pedestrians that had just passed by, the entire street was completely deserted, and among the buildings on both sides of the road, the sound of people talking was rarely heard.
"It's normal phenomenon. This kind of place is far from the city and will be abandoned sooner or later. Not to mention that this place is not far from the war zone at all." HK416 didn't think there was anything unusual about it. She had been to quite a few of these places back when she was still teaming up with M16.
Most towns in remote areas like this were deserted, some due to the looming problem of collapse radiation, others due to untenable law and order.
In short, unless someone was willing to pay out of their own pocket to build a barrier wall, places like this would eventually turn into ghost towns.
"There seems to be a sound coming from over there." The bionic ears on top of M500's head moved, and he raised his hand to point to the center of the town.
Renault looked at the pair of bionic ears on top of M500's head. The production of those ears had taken a lot of effort, but now they seemed quite effective. In the future, it might be possible to produce some external bionic ears.
With this in mind, Renault looked at HK416 wearing a beret next to him. If she put on cat ears...
Renault walked towards the direction pointed out by M500, pondering the feasibility in his mind.
Half a minute later, they arrived at a gathering crowd.
Just after seeing what these gathered people were doing, both HK416 and M500 furrowed their brows angrily.
At this moment, the people gathered in the middle of the square seemed to be conducting a rally while dismantling some broken and tattered-looking civilian dolls.
Renault and the others had obviously arrived a little too late. These people had already completely dismantled the dolls into parts, which were scattered around the center's temporary podium like garbage.
"What are they doing!?" Super-Shorty spoke, unable to accept what she was seeing. She subconsciously wanted to walk up and question these people about their intentions.
Even though how to treat the dolls was a matter for their employers and owners, wasn't it a bit too much to smash them into pieces?
However, before she could take a step, she was yanked back by HK416.
"Don't ask for trouble here."
The humans in front of them were obviously following someone's orders to do this, but it didn't matter who took the lead anymore. The state of these people was a little abnormal.
From the eyes of those people, HK416 saw nothing but fanaticism.
That logo over the podium looks a little familiar...
"Commander, haven't we seen that badge somewhere before?"
"Yes, I've seen it often on the news. It's very famous..."
"Ah! It's the one we saw on TV yesterday, the one that constantly publicizes the destruction of the world by electronic devices, called Paramela's Order..." M500 exclaimed, remembering the program he had seen a few days ago.
"What Paramela? Paramela is a car brand. The group is called Paradeus. Let's go, everyone else is already looking over." Patting Super-Shorty's head, Renault turned around to leave.
He had already checked. The group shouting slogans among the crowd did not include their commissioner's voice. Renault still remembered the voice characteristics from the call not long ago.
As for those who were now staring at them with burning eyes? They could do whatever they liked. If they wanted to revert to primitivism, they should go ahead, as long as they didn't involve him.
Super-Shorty was pulled by M500 and turned around still wanted to look back but was pressed down by HK416. "Don't turn around, or if these guys rush up later, you'll be scared and won't be able to sleep for a week."
"I'm not a child!"
"Yes, yes, you're not a child. What's scary isn't even those guys whose brains are already out of whack, it's..." HK416 didn't continue because Renault was already staring at her.
But seeing HK416 suddenly shutting her mouth, coupled with the target of the other party's gaze, Super-Shorty also understood what exactly HK416 was referring to.
Commander Renault is scary? Anyway, Super-Shorty didn't believe it. Although Renault usually didn't show much expression, when talking to them, he was still relatively mild and didn't seem scary at all.
Seeing Super-Shorty's uncertain appearance, HK416 shook her head
This child clearly had never been to the training room since coming to the ship. As long as you go to the training room and try a random training scenario, you wouldn't still look like that.
But after all, even HK416 and the 'old-timers' rarely went to the training room looking for trouble. Of course, G11 was an exception. She treated the training device like a game.
Recently, a few people from Springfield's group had come on board. So far, only wz.29 had gone to the training room, and that was to learn driving skills.
But even in the cockpit, wz.29 had come out of the training room timid, her degree of weakness seemingly increased, likely scared by the scenarios reproduced in the training room.
In short, if those people really rushed at them, the last to suffer wouldn't be their side. Renault wouldn't show any mercy to those who dared to attack them.
At that time, the commission wouldn't be completed, but half the town's population would be killed. How could they do business then?
No wonder Renault had her follow them... It was to watch over M500 and Super-Shorty.
As for the others... if MDR were here, she might provoke them, and if UMP40 saw the earlier scene, she might be even more radical, pulling out her imprint weapon for an attack.
Don't be fooled by UMP40's usually good-natured appearance, jerking a cat every day. At first glance, anyone would think she was temperless.
But remember, this girl once...