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Chapter 614: You Need to First Attack This Character Template with Taunt Effect
There was about a two-year gap between Metal Slug 2 and Metal Slug 3. Although small-scale local wars between the two factions continued during this period, overall, no large-scale battles with heavy bombardment occurred.
Or rather, aside from dispatching special squads, the government forces didn't really do anything substantial.
And from Metal Slug 2 onwards, the Martian forces had officially appeared, making their debut as the final BOSS. It was at this specific point in time that two special events transpired.
General Morden was captured for the first time. To rescue General Morden, his army allied with the Peregrine Falcon Squad and the Sparrow Squad for the first time, jointly fighting against the Martian forces.
With the perfect replica of the scene from the movie 'Independence Day' where a plane sacrificed itself by drilling into a spaceship, General Morden was successfully rescued... However, there was a very easily overlooked detail here.
The General Morden who was previously captured, and then rescued after the spaceship exploded, was most likely already replaced by a fake Morden, mimicked by a Martian.
The evidence was in his... well, his underwear.
The rescued Martian-mimicked fake Morden was almost naked, with only a military cap, an eye patch, and a pair of underwear. At that time, his underwear was a plain, patternless brown boxer brief.
However, the real General Morden, in his taste for underwear, was exactly consistent with Arthur and Cheng Tian. The underwear he usually wore was a white boxer brief with numerous strawberry patterns!
Although the soldiers of Morden's army adored their commander, they clearly couldn't delve too deeply into such private details as preferred underwear styles. Moreover, there was no regulation in the army stating that their commander couldn't switch to other styles, right?
But it was precisely this easily overlooked detail that led to not a single soldier in Morden's army recognizing the fact that their commander had been swapped.
As time went on, this Martian impersonating the commander not only overlooked the underwear style, but even got the eye patch on the wrong eye. Morden wore an eye patch on his right eye, while the fake Morden habitually wore it on his left eye.
A group of foolish Morden soldiers still didn't notice.
If it weren't for Cheng Tian, who possessed the passive skill 'Enemy of Martians' and caused this fake Morden to expose his identity, it would likely have required a BOSS battle, equivalent to the recycled assets from 'Metal Slug 1', to properly advance to the next stage.
One can only say that Morden's army, with its incorporated comedic elements, truly cannot be judged by common sense. When they saw their commander transform back into a Martian on the spot, the escort personnel on the same bomber were so scared that they dropped their weapons and almost jumped out of the helicopter in a panic, without parachutes!
All of them without parachutes... One can only say that these soldiers almost all possessed a 'cowardly-brave duality,' and they were extremely biased no matter which side they leaned towards, with almost no so-called median.
Meanwhile, the fake Morden Martian, who had voluntarily exposed his identity, unhesitatingly pulled the trigger of the special firearm in his hand. What shot out were not bullets, but three consecutive energy rings made of special energy, flying rapidly towards Cheng Tian like a ring toss game.
Cheng Tian, riding his Silver Surfboard, was immediately enveloped in a protective barrier. He also used a triple-layered 'Heart Barrier' to defend himself while rapidly retreating.
Having cleared Metal Slug 3 more than once, Cheng Tian was naturally very familiar with this process.
At the same time the fake Morden's self-exposure as a Martian was triggered in the original game, a '1P Kidnapping Event' would seamlessly follow.
That is, the 1P player, regardless of which character they were controlling, would be forcibly abducted by the Martians, providing a variable for subsequent game content. At the same time, the 1P player would be forcibly changed to another currently idle member of the Peregrine Falcon or Sparrow Squad.
Cheng Tian naturally had concerns and countermeasures for this segment, but when he arrived, he was expecting another BOSS battle. He hadn't anticipated that his previous elimination of the Martian brothers in the 'Cadillacs and Dinosaurs + Adventure Island' dungeon would extend to this critical juncture, even directly skipping the expected BOSS battle segment.
However, an accident occurred.
Relying on the skateboard's characteristics, instantly accelerating to Mach 2.4 in reverse while retreating, ignoring air resistance, and fully enveloped in protective measures, Cheng Tian still couldn't escape the capture and restraint of these three energy rings!
These three items instantly accelerated to the same speed as the skateboard, tightly binding Cheng Tian's shoulders, hands, waist, and legs, even sealing his skills.
Damn it! Is this a forced plot event!?
As soon as he thought he might become the genetic template for the Martian clone army, Cheng Tian suddenly felt a bit overwhelmed.
After all, even the Space had certified that his clones had terrifying potential at a memetic contagion level, and the Martians' cloning technology... if the speculation wasn't off, it was likely a fast-growth unit created using a 'mushroom spore' cultivation method.
From their morphology, it was clear that Martians were intelligent life forms with dual characteristics of both mushrooms and octopuses, and in terms of life continuation, they also shared many similarities with mushrooms and octopuses.
The quasi-green-skinned clones produced using the Martians' mushroom spore-related technology, putting aside their ideological aspects for now, had their combat instincts almost maximized.
But just as Cheng Tian thought he was about to be captured, he suddenly felt something within his body being forcibly stripped away by the rings on him. At the same time, a new Space prompt popped up.
['Martian Binding Gun' forced plot judgment passed. You are about to be abducted by 'Fake Morden' and taken to the Martian mothership.]
[Detected that you possess a number of inherent skills and extra skills far exceeding the current dungeon's specifications —]
[The Martian Binding Gun cannot effectively bind your main body. As a secondary option, it will shift from targeting 'you' to targeting 'a random 1 character template within you that has been settled or unsettled'.]
A revolving lantern, invisible to others, suddenly appeared above Cheng Tian's head. All the character templates he had loaded up to that point were displayed in the revolving lantern.
Immediately, the revolving lantern began to switch rapidly from left to right, finally slowly settling on a long-unseen template.
A sturdy phantom, clad in blue battle attire and holding a star-spangled shield, was forcibly extracted from Cheng Tian's body along with the three energy rings of the Martian Binding Gun, and rapidly returned towards Fake Morden.
[The unsettled native-level protagonist template 'Captain America / Steve Rogers' within you has been abducted by the Martian Binding Gun.]
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