Chapter 3
After a simple meeting ceremony,
Liu Ruobing, the deputy head of the group, began to introduce the group situation to Du Fei.
"Commander, this air-raid shelter is the camp of our field regiment. There are 108 people in the regiment."
"Our regiment has 3 commanders, 60 armored infantrymen, 10 machine gunners, 10 machine gunners, 8 signalmen, and 17 medical and logistics soldiers."
"They were equipped with... 2 armored vehicles, each with a submachine gun or pistol, and probably a few pieces of various ammunition left.……"
When it comes to equipment and ammunition, Liu Ruobing is a little lacking in confidence. After a pause, she continued,"There should be more than 3,000 rounds."
"I can take you to the ammunition depot later. Anyway... there aren't many left.……"
"Don't you have any drones?" Du Fei asked.
Liu Ruobing shook her head and smiled bitterly.
Drones? That was simply a fantasy. She couldn't even think of such equipment.
Du Fei:...
He only now realized that the most expensive asset of the entire field regiment was the two armored vehicles that were coming to pick him up.……
"Report!"
At this time, a female communications soldier suddenly reported.
Liu Ruobing looked at the female communications soldier:"What's the matter?"
"According to the news from the 48th Division, our Women's Field Regiment has been ordered to arrive at the Blackwater River at coordinates 269:71 at 10 a.m. tomorrow to participate in the battle!"
"What? Blackwater River?"
Dimple beauty Xia Ying jumped up and said angrily,"They are such bastards, didn't they say Honggu Dam?"
Liu Ruobing frowned,"How far do we need to go?"
"Detach 30 kilometers more, deputy commander... It's not about the detour, the key is our equipment……"
"Needless to say, reply to the 48th Division, my women's field regiment will set out at six o'clock tomorrow and arrive at the Black Water River on time at ten o'clock!"Liu Ruobing ordered.
Du Fei frowned after the order was issued.
He felt a hint of helplessness and sadness from the expressions on the faces of all the female soldiers.
"Can I interrupt you? Although I have just taken office, I am already a member of the field regiment. I should have the right to know the specific combat mission this time, right?"
Du Fei looked at Liu Ruobing expressionlessly.
"I just reported to you that our regiment has three commanders, Xia Ying is one of them."
"If you want to know the specific combat mission of this time, then she will report to you. I also need to go and see if the detector has been repaired."
Liu Ruobing pointed at the dimpled beauty holding a cigarette, and then rubbed her temple and left.
Du Fei looked at the dimpled beauty Xia Ying
""Captain, since you want to know the mission of this operation, please sit down."
Xia Ying kicked the stone beside her, then handed over a cigarette, and said with a slight smile:"This is rolled with my saliva, do you want one?"
Du Fei took the cigarette and sat down.
Xia Ying was slightly surprised, and took out a lighter with a skull pattern to light it for him.
"Cough cough... cough... damn……"
Du Fei took a sip and choked on tears.
It was really powerful.
Xia Ying and the female soldiers around her all laughed.
Du Fei simply took another sip, coughing while staring at Xia Ying's pretty face.
"Do you want to say I'm beautiful?"
"Ahem... I want to ask if your lungs are very black"
""Oh."
Xia Ying took a deep breath and blew out a smoke ring. There was a trace of sadness in her beautiful eyes.
She looked as if she had reached the end of her life. It didn't matter to her whether her lungs were black or not.……
"Okay, let me tell you the details."
"First, let me tell you about our Women's Field Regiment. We have no organization, we are a ragtag army, and we are not eligible for federal financial support."
"Many years ago, we were abandoned by the federal government like garbage, and all expenses depend on self-reliance."
"You should understand what I'm saying, right?"Xia Ying said calmly.
Du Fei nodded slightly. He understood this.
This world is clearly divided into classes, and there is basically no human rights.
Especially for a ragtag army like this that is not in the regular system, the Time Federation would not care about its life or death at all.
"Our women's field group is in a very bad situation recently. It's a desperate situation and we can't even make ends meet."
"Fortunately, I received the mission from the 48th Division. I have to thank you for that."
Xia Ying looked at Du Fei and continued,"The 48th Division asked us to accept you as the commander and cooperate with them in tomorrow's beast hunting operation."
"After completing the task, we will be awarded 20,000 hours"
"They have two hunting areas tomorrow, one is Red Valley Dam and the other is Blackwater River"
"When the 48th Division launched a cleanup operation, we were originally scheduled to help with the encirclement and suppression of the Time Beasts at Honggu Dam."
"But those bastards just ordered us to go to the Blackwater River.……"
Du Fei interrupted and asked,"What's the difference?"
Xia Ying glanced at Du Fei, her beautiful eyes showing the look she gave to a child.
"For us, Honggu Dam still has a glimmer of hope, but Heishui River is doomed."
She lit another cigarette and continued,"The Time Beast at Honggu Dam is Level 1, while the Time Beast at Heishui River is Level 2."
"It is very difficult to hunt down a Lv1 Time Beast with our current weapons and equipment, let alone a Lv2 Time Beast from the Blackwater River."
"Although our mission is to cooperate with them in the encirclement and suppression, the Time Beast in a violent state is not afraid of gunfire."
"A Lv2 Chronomon can smash our armored vehicle to pieces with just one claw. It's so terrifying.……"
Du Fei fell into deep thought. Although he had never seen a time beast, he remembered that he had learned a lot about it in the academy.
The time beast in a violent state was indeed just as Xia Ying said, even more terrifying.
"So, wouldn't the field regiment be sending themselves to die tomorrow?" Du Fei looked up and said.
At this time, Liu Ruobing finished her work and came over and said,"No matter what, we have to fight. If we go, there is still hope. If we don't go, we will only wait for death."
"What are you willing to risk? The lives of 108 soldiers in the field regiment? Who gave you the right to do that?"
��Fei glanced at Liu Ruobing and said,"I don't agree!"
The voice echoed throughout the air raid shelter.
Instantly, all the female soldiers were silent.
Liu Ruobing gritted her teeth and said coldly,"I know this mission is like going to die."
"But do you know how important 20,000 hours is to us? This is our only hope for survival."
"You are the son of a rich family, you can be parachuted into the commander, you don't know what we have been through all these years"
"When we were eighteen, we left the base city and joined the army just like you do now."
"I had dreamed of saving enough money in 30 years to hand it over to the Federation, and then return to the base city to live a stable life."
"Oh, what is the truth?"
Liu Ruobing smiled bitterly and continued,"I only saw my relatives die tragically, and I only saw the sisters around me fall one by one.……"
"Radiation, viruses, and beasts are tormenting us all the time."
"Every time a time beast is hunted, 20% of the time gained will be taken away by the Federation, and every time a time is transferred, a 10% handling fee will be charged by the Federation.……"
"Drinking water, food, and daily necessities must be purchased at the federal base, which is three times more expensive than the base city.……"
"We really want to go back to the base city, but we have to pay 30 years before we can go back."
"We have hunted many time beasts and gained a lot of time, but we still have nothing."
"I want to ask"
"Where did the time go?"
Liu Ruobing stared at Du Fei and said,"Can you answer me?"
Du Fei was stunned and silent.
Everything Liu Ruobing said was not in his memory, which means he had not learned it in the academy.
Where did the time go?
Needless to say, the time was squeezed out by the Time Federation.
Everyone has to leave the base city at the age of eighteen, except for those rich children who can afford thirty years of time.
In other words, the moment the children of poor families come to the outer city, they are destined to become a tool for the federation to earn time.
It is harder to go back to the city than to climb to the sky.
At this moment, Du Fei felt a little sad in his heart.
Because he saw that all the female soldiers lowered their heads and covered their faces and cried.
Including Liu Ruobing and Xia Ying, there were tears on their faces...