Chapter 311 Proxy War
Damascus, a remote street.
Ning Shisan, who was carrying a travel bag, walked to the door of a bar called "Hell Fire" and opened a heavy wooden door...
"Wow~""# &%￥#*￥#……”
Compared with the slightly desolate and quiet streets, this bar is bustling with people, and the inside and outside of the door seem to be two worlds.
In the slightly old-furnished bar, dozens of drinkers speaking the local language were chatting and laughing loudly.
Seeing Ning Shisan’s unfamiliar Asian face, many people in the bar looked over with scrutiny.
That look was not friendly.
Ning Shisan ignored the looks of people around him, walked straight to the bar, and spoke in fluent Arabic.
“I’m looking for Emil!”
When the bartender at the bar heard this, he looked Ning Shisan up and down for a moment.
“What are you doing with our boss?”
“Let’s talk some business.”
The bartender glanced at Ning Shisan meaningfully, and then nodded. head.
“Please follow me.”
Seeing the bartender leading Ning Shisan away, the unkind eyes in the bar slowly stopped.
After a while, the bartender took Ning Shisan into a room behind the bar.
“Boss, this guest said he wants to talk to you about some business.”
The boss the bartender mentioned was a shirtless Arab man with a bald head and a fierce aura all over his body.
When Ning Shisan saw the man, he was playing Super Mario with a game console. Hearing this, he raised his head and glanced up. When he saw the man clearly, he was shocked all over.
The bald man was silent for a moment, his expression changed from surprise to gloomy, and he waved his hand.
“You should go out first.”
After the bartender left, Baldhead put down the game console handle, stood up slowly, and walked to Ning Shisan with all his tendons. , looked at him coldly and condescendingly.
“You shouldn’t appear here again!”
“It was supposed to be like this, but... the plan still couldn’t keep up with the changes.”
Ning Shisan sighed helplessly.
“Are you in trouble?” The bald head raised his eyebrows.
"Well...I'm not sure whether it's troublesome or not..."
"Then what are you doing here this time?"
"To do something. .”
The bald man didn't ask what he was doing, he just snorted coldly.
"Hmph! You'd better leave quickly after finishing your work. I don't want to see you here! But..."
The next moment, the bald head opened his arms... and gave Ning Shi a hard blow Three and one bear hug.
“Welcome back, brother!”
……
"Wow~" A secret door in the room was opened, and a large number of arms and equipment displayed inside suddenly came into view.
Ning Shisan glanced at it and picked up a Beretta Px4 with ease...
"Click!" He pulled the bolt skillfully and checked the magazine's sight.
"Are you familiar with your craftsmanship? I heard that it's hard to even get a gun in your country?"
Leaning against the door with his bald head, he ignored the flammable and explosive materials in the room. He joked while holding a cigarette in his mouth.
"Well! It was really a bit uncomfortable at first." Ning Shisan cracked the corner of his mouth.
"What a peaceful country..." The bald head blew out a smoke ring.
“If you are envious, will you come back with me to retire?”
“Come on, that kind of environment will drive me crazy. I’m still used to falling asleep listening to the sound of gunfire outside, ha. Haha!”
The bald man laughed, “Just like your old saying, if I live such a brave life, I must die in battle and be buried in horse leather!
The day you hear that I died, I definitely died on the battlefield! "
The bald man finished with a smile, "How is it? Do you want me to help this time? For the sake of my old brother, there is no charge! "
"No, I have to go alone this time. "
"Hmm..." The bald head still didn't ask what he was doing, but just blew out a smoke ring again.
"Really? Then get out of here after you finish this job. If you die, the world will be even lonelier..."
...
Half an hour later.
Ning Shisan left the back door of the tavern, walked directly to the main road, and got into a taxi.
【Ding! You have new tasks, please deal with them in time! 】
Not long after getting in the car, a familiar notification sound suddenly came from the phone.
The corners of Ning Shisan's mouth twitched.
The intelligence of this electronic voice cannot be said to be high, but the voice style of issuing tasks is a bit confusing.
If you replace the word "task" with "takeout order", there will be no sense of violation at all...
It feels like the hacker behind the scenes was too lazy and just took it off the shelf. The audio clipping is the same as when it is used online.
However, the ability of this mysterious force behind the scenes is really amazing. Air tickets, hotels, and even calling a taxi were all clearly arranged for him.
It's still public funds, and you don't even have to worry about reimbursement...
Coupled with his previous mercenary experience in Zuliya and surrounding countries, he is at least as comfortable as a fish in water in this foreign country, at least it is unimpeded.
He picked up the phone calmly.
[New side mission: receive mission equipment. 】
……
Just returned to the hotel where I was staying.
"Mr. Black, this is your express mail, please sign for it."
The front desk clerk, with a professional smile, delivered a package about half a person's height to him.
“Thank you!”
After giving him a tip of 5 US dollars, Ning Shisan carried the package into the room, then closed the door and locked it, and drew the curtains.
"Is this the so-called mission equipment?" He opened the package curiously.
Then take out brand new packaging boxes one by one.
Juchang Matepad, satellite phone, and DJ MavicPro Platinum Edition rotor drone...
Hmm...
Tablets and satellite phones are easy to understand, as for The DJ drone should be used for reconnaissance.
But... what the hell is this quantity?
Because there are actually 20 DJ drones in this package...
Although Ning Shisan has not been on the battlefield for several years, as a senior military fan, he has a deep understanding of the military affairs of various countries. Of course, it is impossible to know everything about the development of military weapons.
This Mavic drone weighs only 743 grams, can fly at a speed of 65km/h, and has a maximum flight life of 30 minutes in the air.
At the beginning of 2018, the Israeli military announced that it would equip combat companies with DJ small commercial drones before the end of the year.
Although it is not uncommon for drones to be used in the military field, this is the first time that a regional power like Israel has purchased drones in bulk as equipment for combat troops.
This is enough to illustrate the certain application trend of small drones in ground combat.
He could understand that it was used for individual reconnaissance, but was it necessary to deal with so many at once? Even including the spare machines, the demand is seriously overflowing, right?
With a trace of doubt, he began to unpack, turn on, and connect to the Internet according to the task requirements.
Until the end, the entire small room was filled with drones, and the ground was littered with unpacked express boxes.
If there is a teardown party at the scene, the picture should be quite comfortable.
"Is this all right?" Ning Shisan wiped his sweat, took out his cell phone and asked into the microphone.
He knew that this mobile phone had been "monitoring" him.
【Mission accomplished! The ‘Hive’ program is loading! Online connection starts...]
An electronic sound came from the mobile phone again.
Then Ning Shisan saw the screen of the tablet computer in his hand suddenly light up, and pop-up windows began to flash...
Then, the lights of DJ drones all over the room began to flash!
"Buzz~" "Buzz~"...
Then, one after another, the rotors of the DJ drones began to buzz and began to rotate at high speed.
The first station, the second station, the third station...
Ning Shisan was dumbfounded as the drones in the room began to take off, and then each one hovered around him.
Without exception, the cameras of all the drones were all pointed at him...
"Buzz buzz~"
Ning Shisan felt a little stiff. My ears were filled with the hum of the drone's rotors, and I felt as if I was being stared at by twenty eyes. The scene was quite strange.
The tablet in his hand began to flash images from various angles, most of which were super close-ups of himself...
What shocked him the most was that all the drones were flexibly flying around him, floating and sinking.
But from beginning to end, in this small space, there was no collision with each other at all. It seemed that there was an invisible hand controlling everything...
This is definitely not the case. There is manual control behind the scenes, but remote collaborative control through an intelligent computer system!
What shocked Ning Shisan was naturally not the simultaneous control of twenty drones.
But this kind of flexibility, intelligence and collaboration far exceeds any cutting-edge technology he currently knows!
At this moment, he is like a magician from another world. The one beside him is not a drone controlled by others, but a magic elf with only its own consciousness...
Don't say it's a small country. Well, even the five major countries seem to have never announced such exaggerated drone swarm technology, right?
“Gu~” Ning Shisan swallowed.
What level of conflict are you involved in?
“With this kind of technology, you don’t need to hire me as a mercenary at all, right?” He smiled bitterly.
From beginning to end, he seemed to be a puppet being played with on strings.
[Please don’t belittle yourself, Mr. Black Cat, for now, your role is indispensable? 】
“What indispensable role can I play?”
[Adaptability and battlefield escape, in the words of the boss, you are the only humanoid unit in the unmanned battle sequence. , its positioning is similar to that of a 'humanoid self-propelled transportation platform'. 】
Ning Shisan: “…”
So... I'm actually a courier?
Or life and death express on the battlefield?
【Ding! You have new tasks, please deal with them in time! 】
The sound came from the tablet in hand this time.
Then a high-definition terrain map appeared on the tablet, with longitude, latitude and various annotations on it.
"What is this?"
[This is a real-time satellite photo of the mission location. 】
Ning Shisan: "..."
Satellite photos? Still real time? !
Can I still quit now?
"Is it possible that you want me to intervene in a war alone?" He said with a sullen face.
In the face of the mutual confrontation between forces of this level, no matter how capable I am with my small body, I am nothing more than an insignificant little cannon fodder...
[Don’t worry, we don’t have to intervene directly, use the boss In other words, what we are fighting is a 'proxy war'. 】
Ning Shisan: "..."
So...does your boss want to say...
Am I that agent? (End of this chapter)