#615Chapter 615: What can I use to save you! My great commander!AI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 615: What Can Save You, My Great Commander!
If not for this incident, Cheng had almost forgotten that the "Captain America" template had once existed.
After all, he had entered the FC Batman instance, and only completed a small mission against Killer Moth, without involving the completion of the main storyline. Thus, the Captain America template had remained in an unsettled state.
Although grateful for the help the Captain America template provided him at the time, for Cheng Tian now, this template no longer held much value. Even if settled, it likely wouldn't be the icing on the cake, let alone a timely help… No, its timely help had indeed arrived; it was taken away by the Martians in place of Cheng Tian's main body.
If one were to review all the templates Cheng Tian had loaded so far, perhaps only the Captain America template and the Vampire Hunter template would be relatively easy to deal with… right?
Watching the phantom of the Captain America template being taken away in his stead, Cheng Tian naturally wouldn't do nothing.
Golden light rippled behind him once again, and the cannon barrels prepared to launch an all-encompassing, three-dimensional bombardment against the Hyde-class helicopter bomber where the fake Modern was located.
However, at this moment, a classic spherical Martian medium-sized spaceship with external rings also emerged from its cloaked state, descending directly above the Hyde-class.
"Ah!!!! Ah!!!!!!!"
Continuous, short, high-pitched, and strongly penetrating screams also appeared with the arrival of the spaceship.
General Morden, wearing only his military cap, right eye patch, and strawberry-patterned briefs, was crudely hung on the outside of the spaceship, struggling and wailing. The Morden soldiers below watched in utter shock.
And Cheng, who had originally intended to fire all his ammunition, slammed on the brakes, stopping his King's Army of Weapons.
It has to be said that he truly lived up to his name as General Morden. Despite being held captive and abused by the Martians for an unknown duration, he still appeared quite spirited, wailing with full vigor.
With General Morden as a human shield, the spaceship retrieved the fake Modern right in front of everyone, and began to ascend.
It was at this point that players, simultaneously at the edge of the rocket launch base, belonging to two different factions—the Government Army and the Morden Army—received slightly different spatial prompts.
"Main Mission Change — 'What Can Save You, My Great Commander! / Saving Private Steve!'"
"Team Mission, Multi-Faction Co-op Mission. With the exposure of the fake Modern's identity and the fact that the real Morden has been taken by the Martians, the entire Morden Army, led by Morden Army Sergeant "Allen O'Neil" (the bald machine gunner), immediately changed their strategic objective. They will completely abandon the war with the Government Army and instead choose to fully rescue General Morden, even going so far as to directly ascend into space to fight the Martian forces to the death!"
"Morden Army Faction — Morden Army faction players will be forced to accept this mission.
If you choose to accept, you will need to complete all preparations with other Morden Army soldiers within the next 2 hours and ultimately board the "Morden Army Rocket Cluster" to outer space, engage in full-scale combat with the Martian faction, and find a way to rescue General Morden.
If you choose to refuse, you will be forcibly kicked out of the Morden Army faction and a withdrawal route will be immediately opened. The Morden Army will dispatch a small portion of its forces to carry out a traitor execution mission."
"Government Army Faction — Government Army faction players can choose whether or not to accept this mission.
If you choose to accept, you will enter a cooperative state with the Morden Army faction, and you must also complete all preparations and board the "Morden Army Rocket Cluster" within the next 2 hours. However, your core demands are not the same as the Morden Army faction. After successfully boarding the Martian mothership, while you need to rescue Private Steve, you will need to adapt to circumstances even more.
If you choose to refuse, you will remain on Earth and will not need to participate in the follow-up to the main mission. As long as players from either faction complete the main mission, you will also be considered to have completed the mission, but in the final settlement rating, it will be lowered by one tier from the original basis."
"Whether you actively board the "Morden Army Rocket Cluster" after 2 hours will be considered the final judgment of whether you accept this main mission."
Any player who was careful and willing to meticulously study the instance entries should have already noticed some clues.
Originally, the "Government Army vs. Rebel Army" entry for Metal Slug only described the opposition between the two sides and the possibility of faction switching under special conditions. However, this time, the entry explicitly stated "possibility of cooperation between the two sides."
Many players were indeed somewhat mentally prepared for this, they just didn't expect it to come so suddenly and quickly.
The players from both factions, who were still entangled around the base, gradually withdrew their killing intent and weapons.
Because the cooperation mission triggered too early and too quickly, players from both factions hadn't truly gotten heated, nor was there any deep-seated enmity. The most severely injured was merely the Beast King Dragon Rex, who was shot down by Cheng Tian in an instant.
Moreover, due to his formidable strength attribute, the fatal fall damage that would be critical for other players was truly nothing to him.
Here, we should still thank Cheng.
If it weren't for his 2.4 Mach super-speed with the Silver Surfer board and the Martian forces' aggro skipping the fake Morden's BOSS battle, the considerable time saved by these two factors combined, even a slight delay, would have inevitably led to both factions' players getting heated and developing enmity.
And at this stage, without actual fatalities, it truly wouldn't have any irreparable impact on the subsequent faction cooperation.
Unless someone was truly so petty as to be unable to accept it.
Another point worth mentioning is that Cheng Tian's ultra-high movement speed also successfully bypassed a mid-route BOSS battle.
Before truly confronting the fake Morden on the original route, one would first need to face the Morden Army's most famous immortal bald sergeant, "Allen O'Neil."
This bald man's most famous battle was in Metal Slug 2, where after being defeated by the player, he was swallowed by an orca, spitting out a large number of bones.
But perhaps many people don't realize that the large number of bones emerging from the whale's mouth were actually not from bald Allen, but from the whale.
The tough guy Allen burrowed into the whale's belly and dismantled its bones... Cheng Tian's rapid triggering of the subsequent main storyline also indirectly allowed Allen to "survive" and become the backbone of the Morden Army at the current stage.
As one of the most loyal core members who defected with General Morden back then, Allen's ability to mobilize the Morden Army is unparalleled. Under his impetus, the massive number of soldiers and military supplies currently in the base are being loaded into rockets like an assembly line.
All Morden Army soldiers have one and only one goal: to break out of Earth, rush into space, and rescue their beloved Great Commander!
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