The night passed quickly.
Su Ziyu only discovered the next morning that the man next door had secretly left.
He left so quietly this time that not even Su Ziyu heard a sound.
Just after dawn.
Pasha's figure appeared outside the inn, her expression seemed a bit anxious, and as soon as they met she couldn't help but use a slightly pleading tone to say, "Can we leave today?"
"What happened?" Su Ziyu naturally asked in a puzzled tone.
Pasha paced back and forth a few steps, then lowered her voice and said, "Someone sneaked into the camp late last night and burned our medicine stock. We must get the antiradiation potion formula as soon as possible."
The medicines within Polaris are provided by the Freelancer Organization, and the source of their medicines is temporarily unknown to Su Ziyu.
"Leaving now?" Su Ziyu discreetly observed Pasha's expression changes.
"Yes." Su Ziyu only saw a trace of anxiety on Pasha's face, she nodded and said, "The sooner, the better."
"Our medicines can't last much longer."
Does Pasha truly not know?
Or is she deceiving him?
Su Ziyu hesitated only for a moment before nodding, "Alright. Let's head out now."
This place has become very unsafe.
Having a legitimate reason to leave now isn't bad either, and if Pasha really has some problem, he could find an opportunity to escape along the way. In terms of personal physique, Su Ziyu has far surpassed the average person, and using Time Acceleration, he can even visually catch the trajectory of bullet movement. Continuing to strengthen at this pace, he suspects that soon he will be able to dodge bullets like in The Matrix. His biggest shortcoming currently is insufficient explosive power; even if he can see the bullet movement trajectory, he might not be able to completely dodge it.
"Alright then." Pasha showed a hint of excitement on her face, hurriedly saying, "I'll take you to choose weapons now. We'll leave in an hour."
Doesn't seem like she's lying.
If she were really lying, then her acting skills would be too good.
Could it be that Pasha really knows nothing?
On the way out of the inn, Su Ziyu casually asked, "What happened yesterday? I heard gunfire for quite a while, and a big commotion came from the sewer at midnight."
Upon hearing this, Pasha was momentarily silent, then lowly murmured in Su Ziyu's ear, "Those black gangs didn't follow the rules, they secretly shipped in some contraband medicines. We had no choice but to clean them up."
"As for the sewer over there."
"A Corpse Ghost somehow crawled into the camp through the sewer, it's been dealt with now."
"It's a minor issue."
"The area has been fenced off with iron mesh. Even if there are Corpse Ghosts left in the sewer, there's no need to worry."
Two completely different answers.
Su Ziyu couldn't help but deeply glance at the Pasha next to him, then followed her inside the high wall.
Entering the high wall, Su Ziyu felt as if he had arrived in another world; the ground was clean and tidy without piles of garbage, numerous vehicles parked along the wide concrete road, mostly armored vehicles, and he even saw a tank and an armed helicopter. Neatly arranged buildings lined up, occasionally people in combat uniforms coming and going, plenty of patrolling guards outside, the weapons looking quite advanced, the most eye-catching were those wearing Exoskeleton Power Armor, their numbers were even more than Su Ziyu had imagined, he had already seen five people.
This place looked just like a massive Military Camp.
"Will Exoskeleton Power Armor be deployed for this operation?" Su Ziyu felt a surge in his heart and asked casually.
Pasha turned her head to glance at him, shook her head and sighed, "No."
"Southern Cross is a high radiation pollution area, wearing Exoskeleton Power Armor cannot block radiation pollution, after going inside they won't last long physically."
"In fact."
"The most dangerous thing in Southern Cross isn't those Corpse Ghosts, but the ubiquitous radiation pollution sources. Any of them alone is manageable, but combined they give us a headache. Without protective suits we can't operate within Southern Cross, and wearing them makes combat with Corpse Ghosts inconvenient."
"Fortunately, we've already identified the lab location in our previous attempts, so the success rate of this operation is high!"
The two entered one of the buildings.
The armory was located underground on level two, Su Ziyu noticed some automatic machine guns set up here, electronic eyes monitoring from the hallway. Just entering, Su Ziyu was stunned by the scene inside, because he actually saw a war robot about six meters tall and four meters wide, but this robot seemed scrapped already, its shell rusty, surrounding platforms piled with weapons, of all types, with rocket launchers lined at the entrance. Most of these weapons appeared modified, likely second-hand goods scavenged from the old era's ruins.
"Exterminator."
"Experimental robot from the old era. Found in a military base, long since scrapped."
Pasha pointed at the big iron, introducing while walking, "Here are heavy machine guns. Over there are modified Gatlings, firing eight thousand rounds a minute, but they're meant for those equipped with mechanical arms."
"Here are regular rifles and sniper rifles, probably not your interest."
"The ones over there are Anti-Material Sniper Rifles, I'll show you."
Walking along, Su Ziyu suddenly stopped, pointing at a gun inside a special box, "What's that?"
"Electromagnetic Rifle." Pasha glanced over, "Experimental."
"Power-wise, it's good."
"But energy ammunition production demands are too high."
"There's also a more powerful plasma weapon over there, but after many attempts, our people couldn't fix it. Now only a few large tycoons possess some Energy Weapons, but their power isn't huge, at least nowhere near powerful like a fat-type mini nuclear bomb."
Mini nuclear bombs?
Could these be considered regular weapons of the Wasteland Era?
Su Ziyu was stunned by Pasha's words, unable to imagine two organizations exchanging blasts with mini nuclear bombs.
That's simply insane!
——Incredibly thrilling!
"How about this one?" Pasha raised a thirty-kilogram, one-meter-fifty-long Anti-Material Sniper Rifle, patting it, "BTL82M model modification, length one meter fifty, weight thirty kilograms, maximum range 4500 meters, effective range 3500 meters, able to use Armor-Piercing Bullet, explosive bullet, HE bullet, sniper bullet, etc., capable of attacking armored vehicles, helicopters, drones, ordinary Exoskeleton Power Armor gets resolved with one shot."
Saying this, Pasha suddenly winked at Su Ziyu.
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