"The contest is about to start in a month. Remember to be careful not to stare at your opponent’s cockpit." The middle-aged man in a jumpsuit patted the beam in front of the cockpit and said to the woman.
The woman didn’t respond, but looked down at the controls in the cockpit.
"Hey, did you hear that? I told you to be gentle and don’t kill people again." The middle-aged man had a hint of anger in his tone and couldn’t help raising the volume.
The woman is still not out.
"This is a game here is not a battlefield! They are your opponents, not your enemies! You don’t have to kill your opponent! If you are voted out for this, the prize money will be lost with us! Is it white? " The middle-aged man yelled. He banged the metal beam with a wrench and made a loud noise. "There are always ways to support yourself. What about you? What about you? ! Without the bonus, are you counting on that pitiful disability pension to pay for your medicine? "
He ruthlessly stare at the cockpit woman continued-
"If you don’t want to live, just tell me that I’ll fucking shoot you directly in the forehead and save you the rest of your life from suffering! Did you hear that! "
"I see." Until then, the woman in the cockpit said that her voice was so hoarse that it sounded like two rusty iron pieces were rubbing against each other.
This kind of voice is by no means caused by excessive smoking, and no one can feel the unforgettable pain except herself … It is fortunate to be able to retain her ability to speak.
The middle-aged man’s tone softened as soon as he heard the female mouth. "… it’s good to know … don’t push yourself too hard to make it into the semi-finals. The semi-finals bonus is enough to support a year’s medicine. If you can receive sponsorship, you can improve your living conditions …"
The middle-aged man stepped back and waved to the mecha. "Try to observe the buffer valve pressure gauge first. Those parts are second-hand and badly worn."
Suddenly there was a series of harsh friction at the ankle joint of the skeleton. The middle-aged man immediately waved and shouted, "Stop! Stop! I found the problem is that F5 and G667 fit too closely. I have to loosen some bolts and add more lubricating grease … You go first. "
The young woman nodded her head and climbed out of the cockpit directly. The crude old-fashioned mechanical prosthesis seemed to her like a native hand and foot, and it didn’t affect her movement at all.
"Major" woman walked behind the middle-aged man and whispered.
"I’m not a major anymore … don’t call me that again." The middle-aged man heaved a sigh of relief with the wave.
"At that time, they were going to let you teach at the college … why did you stay?" The young woman asked.
"I don’t want to talk to the army any more …" The middle-aged man said dejectedly, "Although my hands and feet are still healthy, I can’t go to the battlefield any more … I’m a cripple … Maybe it’s a good choice for me to be a pilot coach, but I can’t watch the students I taught myself being sent to hell one by one … Just think of me as an escape from reality."
He took off his shabby jacket and threw it aside. folding stool also had a complete emblem tattoo on his left shoulder-it was a black skull with a white noose on its neck.
If the hound sees this emblem, he can instantly recognize that it used to be an armored squadron with the name of "Death" and "Stranger" in the field army … However, when this squadron participated in a large-scale encirclement and suppression war ten years ago, it should have been thrown into the enemy’s rear to launch a surprise attack because of the deviation of the commander’s instructions … They were immediately surrounded by hundreds of indigenous creatures and were wiped out in less than two hours.
In the post-war notice document, there were no survivors in the strangler squadron, and the special designation of this squadron was revoked and it was not rebuilt.
The deadly commander who made a mistake disappeared like a man disappeared.
Chapter three hundred and ten The new headquarters
"I will definitely find that person …" The young woman said that she pulled out a painkiller bottle from her overalls pocket, poured a tablet out of it and threw it into her mouth "and then killed him …"
"Why do you insist on hatred?" The woman called the major stopped him. "He may have died long ago. Revenge on an undead has tortured you for ten years?"
"He may still be alive … don’t you want to give an account to the 141 people who died?" The female clenched her fist and the mechanical prosthetic joints clicked.
He bent down to pick up a crushed cigarette butt and squeezed it into his palm and said, "They are dead, but you are still alive … You should live by yourself instead of for the dead … Living well is the best way to explain to the dead."
He sighed and continued, "So I can’t watch you die."
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"I heard that the new drug of Hamoni Pharmaceutical Company is on the market, and that thing may make you sleep without taking painkillers every night … but the price will not be too cheap." The middle-aged man walked up to the mecha skeleton and inserted an oversized hydraulic wrench into the ankle joint gap of the skeleton. "The most I can do is to help you here. It’s up to you, valentina."
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After Kelan returned to his residence, he called Leighton and learned the news. Leighton was so excited that he couldn’t even say a complete sentence … Fortunately, if the communication terminal is a landline over there, it is estimated that it has been squeezed by him.
However, when Kelan asked Leighton if he wanted to participate in the competition in person, he calmed down a lot and repeatedly refused, "Forget it, I still know this kind of competition very well. Just watch it as an audience … Those pilots who can make it to the knockout stage are all monsters … You let me be a maintenance engineer, and I may still eat, but the manipulation technology is really a third-rate thing compared with those professional players."
"Really?" Kelan is somewhat unexpected. "Anyway, it’s just for fun, and you don’t have to get any rankings …"
"If you want to play with tickets, that’s fine," Leighton said. "But … if you can find an ace pilot, we may become a dark horse in the competition …"
"Ace pilot?" Kelan couldn’t help thinking of Manstein, a 29-year-old boy named Andrew von Manstein, whose best achievement was the final four of the 19th Ark Competition. I think he should be able to win the title of "Ace Pilot", but it’s a pity that his father’s greed led to his death at the hands of heretics.
"Ah, I’m just kidding." Leighton turned the conversation. "Ace pilots with that kind of strength are either those players who have been trained and trained by professional clubs since childhood; Or retired elite pilots from armored forces … The former is hard for you to dig and now it’s past the transfer period … The age base of the lucky ones who can live to retire completely has exceeded the standard before retiring … Yeah … I’m afraid even the ability to take care of themselves is not necessarily there. "
Leighton went on to say, "The only retired pilots who are suitable for age, have enough actual combat experience and are still in good health will be those who have been removed from the army because of discipline problems like the old dogs. But at the beginning, the old dogs were almost all infantry, and only a few armored soldiers were tank roots without mecha pilots … You want to find a suitable contestant, which is almost equivalent to looking for a needle in a haystack."
Leighton said a lot, which shows that he is also eager to participate in this competition … But it is almost an extravagant hope that the realistic conditions are just there to want to appear in the group stage with the existing resources of the hunting group.
Mecha is not difficult. You can buy it at any time if you have money. Worse, the organizers of the competition have strict restrictions on the specifications of the participating mechs. There is no possibility that a large amount of money will be piled up to revolutionize the model …
But it is difficult to manipulate the mecha.
The same basic model of competitive mecha allows an ace pilot and a new driver who just got a driver’s license to drive, and the performance can’t be better-one side is still trembling when walking, and the other side is already parkour …
"Actually, for Yip’s consortium, the competition is a second time," Leighton added. "The most important thing is to see many new concept machines that have never been published in this competition … Generally speaking, these next-generation organisms and corresponding enhanced accessories will be put into the market after the competition, and this competition can also be regarded as a large-scale conference for these new products, but these things are what I am most interested in."
"I’m going to grab the first supply by being a VIP, right?"
"Hey hey … how can you let go of such a good opportunity? If we wait for the official release, there will be many people snapping up the tickets … How many people like us can’t grab the roots? "Leighton said.
"The problem is that this kind of mecha relics exploration can not play a big role … What’s the most common four-meter and six-meter humanoid mecha that can even be bought back by the ruins department?" Kelan could not help but asks.
"… there is always a time to send a field, so be prepared. Besides, when the hunting group expands, there must be several big towns, right? Even if you don’t take it out and put it at the entrance of the headquarters as a doorman, it’s magnificent! " Leighton quickly argued that it was very much like buying a toy that he had long wanted and making up all kinds of reasons to try to say that parents bear children.
"Oh, by the way, the headquarters of the hunting group … how’s the old dog looking for their room over there?" Kelan said to the other end
"I’ve been looking for it for a long time, and I’m waiting for you to finalize the final contract. I was just going to tell you about it." Leighton replied, "A six-story well-decorated office building with an area of 12 square meters in Shengtang Business District of the East Fourth District is accompanied by a warehouse that is large enough to be transformed into our work."
"Tang business district? Didn’t you say to look for it in one of those newly built development areas? The rent of that building in this bustling old district should not scare people to death? " Ke Lan wondered that although the old business district located in the center of the block is superior to the remote new district from all angles, the cost performance alone is enough for Ke Lan to "pass" this option.
"Although the location is a famous commercial district of the Tang Dynasty consortium, this building belongs to Raytheon Heavy Industry. It is their initiative to find the reason for the change of the old dog industry and want to rent this office building to us at a low price … their price is much lower than the rent in the new development area. What trap do I have? As a result, the old dog talked with their head for a while and then drew up the contract directly, just waiting for you to sign and make a decision."
"Raytheon Heavy Industries?" Koran one leng immediately reaction to come over this Raytheon heavy tool manufacturing field reputation is not small and behind them is the Yip’s consortium in Ye Yan’s home … It seems that Xiao Pang gave himself a gift far more than the VIP card in his pocket.
"I see," Curran said to Leighton. "I’ll sign the contract right away. You told everyone that you were going to move everything to the new headquarters."
Chapter three hundred and eleven Headhunting brokers
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A month passed almost in an instant, perhaps because of the undead crew meeting. Kelan was calm after a month. The Morgan family didn’t bother him again, and the assassination in the alley of the West Third District seemed to have never happened-Kelan didn’t see the report in public media.
And all kinds of matters related to the hunting group are also going smoothly. Many departments that needed to negotiate originally heard the name of the hunting group, and immediately went all the way to the front of the hound to prepare to pay bribes. Those unregistered cards were still piled up in his desk safe, and none of them could be sent out.
In addition to their original core team, Hound has recruited a group of logistics personnel-almost all of them are selected from their families in his old departments. Although they are slightly inexperienced, there is no problem in lacking loyalty. When they are given enough, these people can become the backbone of the whole hunting group.
The first discussion is that Ivan came out and said, "It’s better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish." Although the hounds have money, it’s not a long-term solution to subsidize them all the time. It’s better to give them a stable job in this way. Anyway, the hunting team will never wronged them in terms of treatment
Raytheon Heavy Industries leased this building to the Hunting God Hunting Group, and its rooms were divided into three parts: the equipment room, the equipment room and the mechanical workshop. The first floor to the third floor belonged to the office area, and the reception hall, reception room, conference room, analysis room and archive room were all set up in this area. The fourth floor was transformed into temporary staff quarters, where employees whose residences were far away from the headquarters lived.