#613Chapter 613 Fake Modern, Real MarsAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 613: Fake Modern, Real Martian
Now Cheng Tian finally knew which game this guy's Bamboo Copter came from.
It was the game of the same name, "Doraemon," on the FC platform.
This game was said to be set against the backdrop of three theatrical films—"Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld," "Nobita's Little Star Wars," and "Nobita and the Castle of the Deep Sea Devil King"—but in reality, it was just a superficial skin; the content, if not entirely unrelated, was pretty close.
The main character controlled by the player was the blue Fat Man Doraemon, and the main objective was to go to different areas in three levels to rescue his scattered companions.
The game content was also very disjointed; each level was a separate game format, combining side-scrolling action-adventure and clear-the-screen shooting, and the second level, "Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld," was a flying shooter level.
The blue Fat Man needed to split up to rescue Gian and Suneo, and these two rescued kids would join the battle sequence as wingmen wearing Bamboo Copters on their heads. As long as the blue Fat Man fired bullets, they would follow suit.
Aside from the slightly different textures, in terms of combat style, it could indeed sit at the same table as Chou Aniki.
So, the question was, could Cheng Tian bring himself to harm Gian and Suneo?
Cheng, who inherited the "Humanity's Oldest Gian" Noble Phantasm, had already given his answer through his actions.
Behind Cheng Tian, who was riding a silver surfboard, a golden ripple-like glow had appeared, and one cannon barrel after another, of different specifications, extended from the Gate of Babylon.
Seeing this scene, the Modern Army players immediately widened their eyes, a mix of disbelief and confusion. Their minds raced, but they couldn't find a single similar image in their knowledge base.
"Fire!"
With a wave of Cheng Tian's hand, whether it was the Valkyrie fighters, the Aerial Contra, or the two guys using humans as wingmen, all were brought into the range of the cannon fire and experienced Cheng Tian's enthusiastic baptism.
Having already witnessed the dragon crash, these people dared not take the hit head-on and immediately scattered in all directions, each displaying their unique abilities.
This was the special nature of aerial combat; the vast sky offered too much space for dodging and maneuvering. While Cheng Tian's firepower coverage was indeed astonishing, it was difficult to precisely hit enemy groups equally skilled in aerial combat.
Cheng Tian was well aware of this. As a special task force of the Government Army, their mission objective was not to annihilate all hostile players, but to destroy as many enemy single-person bombers and important supply transport planes as possible.
However, compared to meticulously executing the Government Army's mission plan, Cheng Tian, who already possessed clairvoyance, had his own agenda.
The Government Army was rotten to the core, and the Modern Army, whose starting point seemed worthy of sympathy and empathy, had also lost its original intention over time, leading to chaos at the grassroots level.
However, when their beloved Commander-in-Chief was kidnapped, the Modern Army displayed a belief and execution that they would rather sacrifice their lives to save Modern, which was objectively many levels higher than that of the Government Army.
General Modern's personal charisma was evident.
On the other hand, the Government Army, when this plot was triggered, had almost no official involvement; the entire process involved the Falcon Squad and Sparrow Squad making their own judgments and exercising subjective initiative.
It was understandable. From the Government Army's perspective, Modern being abducted or even killed was the outcome they most desired. The more severe the attrition between the Modern Army and the Martians, the happier the Government Army would be.
The Government Army was uninteresting, while the Modern Army was spirited.
From the perspective of the upcoming plot developments, Cheng Tian actually sided with the Modern Army.
While it wouldn't go so far as to make Cheng Tian directly defect from the Government Army to join the Modern Army, he naturally had a certain bias in his methods.
For example, the single-person bombers Cheng Tian shot down earlier were basically only damaged, not destroyed, giving the pilots ample time to eject and escape.
Although they were hostile NPC grunts, they were the players' greatest allies in space. Every person who survived could potentially mean one more person joining the space combat sequence.
Therefore, Cheng Tian's large-scale bombardment from the Gate of Babylon served more as a deterrent and a means of dispersal.
Cheng Tian's true objective for this mission, in essence, was only one thing—
That was to expose the disguise of the fake General Modern right in front of all the soldiers!
"Continue to engage them. If you can hold back, do so. If you can't, then go for the kill. But first and foremost, ensure your own safety. I need to force the next plot point!"
Facing Cheng Tian's seemingly peculiar instructions, she, in her Wind Elemental Spirit state, directly gave an OK sign.
In terms of plot, Eileen never had any actual doubts about Cheng Tian's judgment, which was a sense of trust Cheng Tian had built up through his actions over time.
Having received an affirmative reply from his teammate, Cheng Tian leaned even lower.
Tarma, meanwhile, had already learned from Cheng Tian during their journey that General Modern was being impersonated.
Although he still had some doubts about Cheng Tian's baseless source of information, Cheng Tian was the dominant one now, and Cheng Tian was also controlling the aircraft through the tank matrix. Tarma merely existed as a human plug-in that provided extra bonuses to the vehicles, with no power to resist, so he silently accepted Cheng Tian's strange command.
Boom!
Accompanied by the explosion of a powerful sonic boom, Cheng Tian, in front of both enemy and friendly forces, burst out at twice the speed of sound, quickly overtaking the Modern Army's aerial escort fleet and leaving them all behind.
The main reason Cheng Tian was willing to maneuver with them for a while before was due to route guidance, and now, the Modern Army's rocket launch base was already within sight!
And at this very moment, "General Modern" was aboard the Modern Army's large bomber helicopter, the "Hyde," patrolling above the rocket launch base.
Every time he passed an area, he could see the soldiers below all stop their work, raise their arms at a forty-five-degree angle, and give Modern a standard military salute.
A silver light streaked across the sky, triggering the alarm at the rocket launch base.
Surrounded by his escorts, "General Modern" naturally turned his gaze towards the silver light.
But the next second, his right eye, uncovered by an eye patch, suddenly snapped open, staring intently at the newcomer, which was Cheng Tian on the skateboard.
Almost without warning, the fake Modern, who was supposed to require a BOSS battle to truly shed his disguise, rapidly morphed and transformed like a mollusk amidst the astonished cries of the surrounding escorts, finally taking on the appearance of a standard mushroom-shaped Martian!
And from the tentacles below, he pulled out a strangely shaped pistol, aiming it directly at Cheng Tian.
Cheng Tian, on his end, also simultaneously received a spatial prompt.
[Fake Modern, disguise torn.]
[Due to your past actions of killing the "Martian Three Brothers" having spread among the "Martian Faction," all Martian units have made killing or capturing you their top priority.]
[Your personal reputation with the "Martian Faction" is: Hostile.]
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