Chapter 799 - 78: Karma (3)

[BT7274: The following is the briefing on Anderson’s mission as reported by Commander Briggs of the SRS resistance.]

[Sarah: Major Anderson, we intercepted IMC communications two weeks ago; they’ve discovered something on Tifon Star.]

[Sarah: A massive energy was released at that location, causing a temporal distortion.]

[Sarah: I need the SRS on the ground to infiltrate that facility.]

[Anderson: Received, I’ll bring back the answers.]

[Sarah: The wrist device we recovered in Operation Grizzly should protect you.]

[Sarah: We know that the IMC has contracted Kuben Brisk and his mercenaries to protect something important over there.]

[Sarah: Watch your back—and remember, Anderson, you know how much I hate writing death reports, so don’t act on your own.]

[Sarah: The SRS is a team.]

The holographic projection released by the helmet is turned off.

Colonel Anderson’s body is stuck in the ceiling of the reception hall.

Where he is stuck, the surface of the concrete wall seems to bulge as if blown open, but the inside is intact...

The way he’s stuck is very strange; his entire torso hangs beneath the ceiling, with one arm hanging down while the other arm is pressed against his body, naturally staying with the legs above the ceiling, which is the floor of the upstairs.

Unless this person was stuffed inside during the building’s casting, it’s hard to imagine how he got stuck there.

Jack looked at Colonel Anderson’s body, sighed inwardly, but the mission had to continue. He took Anderson’s helmet and let BT, a Titan also belonging to the SRS, read the data inside the helmet.

The SRS has a system: Pilots within the same operation sequence can inherit others’ missions from the helmets of deceased comrades.

Just as Jack inherited Captain Lasticomasa’s mission, he now inherited Anderson’s task—

[Johnny: When the person in front dies, the person behind takes their mission from their gear. It’s relentless; never seen such a situation in the company’s forces.]

[Johnny: In corporate warfare, when the person in front dies, it’s good enough if the person behind doesn’t think about selling their corpse for a good price.]

After completing the briefing in the helmet, BT stands up from the ground: "Objective complete, successfully have met with Colonel Anderson."

"...BT, that’s not a good joke."

"I am not expressing humor." BT firmly states, "Pilot, the data collected by Colonel Anderson is incomplete, we have a responsibility to adhere and complete Special Operations 217.

Advise that we prioritize finding Anderson’s wrist device before continuing."

"He doesn’t have anything on him..."

[Lille: Maybe it’s on the body on the other side.]

BT’s eyes moved slightly, affirming Lille’s guess: "That possibility is quite likely."

Lille gazed at Anderson’s body, the object he needed was on the other side of the corpse...

What he needed was that wristband.

[Ironhide: Lille, the signal on your side is fluctuating, similar to when the fluctuation happened last time; if you’re saying you’re shuttle traveling in different times of other worlds, it’s likely happening soon.]

Originally, Jack needed to find another route, enter from the adjacent security building, then take a detour to the second floor of this reception room to retrieve the watch from Anderson’s body.

During the detour, Jack would repeatedly shuttle between different worlds, facing the uninitiated security robots at the present moment in the security building, and the soldiers of IMC from past times, fighting a bloody path.

This design in the game is astonishing, allowing Lille at that time to experience the industry’s pinnacle level...

But facing such sudden time-space swapping and the sudden appearance of enemies in reality isn’t as pleasant—

A better plan forms in Lille’s mind:

He could cut through the reinforced concrete ceiling from the downstairs, directly retrieve the wrist device, then stabilize the temporal rift with the wrist device, directly get to the central ring facility of this installation for data, even...

Even directly activate the Holy Chest, piercing through dimensions isn’t impossible.

Since in the original Jack’s repeated traversing actually took almost half an hour, but cutting the ceiling and then immediately running to the circular device control panel at the door takes only a few minutes!

[Lille: Jack, BT, I can directly use my device to cut the ceiling, but I have a request.]

[Lille: I hope to gain access to the wristband, let me study this equipment.]

[BT7274: That’s unlikely...]

[Jack: Wait BT—Lille, why?]

Johnny appears in front of Lille, leaning against the wall, not speaking but clearly showing a kind of "you’re doing this again? Whatever you want" expression.

[Lille: ...I feel my appearance is somewhat related to the explosion on Tifon Star, I hope to obtain more information.]

[Lille: At the same time, I have a plan. If we can master this technology of reaching the past from now, can’t we just complete our mission directly in the past...]

[Lille: This way, no matter what IMC is researching here, we can get more information in the past, continue Anderson’s task, also have the chance to disrupt IMC’s plans...]

[Lille: If the situation allows.]

Jack and BT outside the door exchanged glances.

[BT7274: I believe this plan has a certain feasibility, the central design of this facility has become a ruin, if we want to get more detailed information, maybe indeed we can only obtain it from the past.]

[Jack: Then... give it a try?]

Ka...

Four damaged Destruction robots walk in from the doorway, body ejecting several power cables and fuel pipes directly connected to Lille—

Lille’s body here doesn’t possess Cybertron King’s Blade, such high-temperature cutting weaponry.

But the laser cutter from the IMC factory has quite high power as well.

A series of commands issued, Lille and the destruction robots’ chest nuclear fission batteries simultaneously begin to overload, four sets of Octopus Arms become incredibly robust under the destruction robots’ support, claws enclose, releasing dazzling red light!

[IMC Multimodal Industrial Fiber Laser Cutting Device (Enhanced Version)]

[Description: Standard laser cutting device in IMC general factory configuration.]

[Because you are familiar with multiple plasma state control technologies: Centaur Mecha Thermal Melting Cannon and Cybertron King’s Blade (similar to Leader’s Blade weapon), your technical support has allowed you to interconnect and improve this device to be a Super Laser Cutter capable of cutting through alloy mixed walls.]

[The cores of the four destruction robots will fully react in a short time, releasing energy that will provide you with a peak sustained pulse output of over 500 kilowatts.]

All-around overload of the nuclear battery, metal gradually becomes red-hot under high temperature, destruction robots’ internal circuits even gradually melt under high temperature, and even the Octopus Arms that have absorbed most of the pressure begin to heat up!

The heat dissipation slots fully expand, the flowing liquid coolant fiercely boils like water, instantly melting the outer layer of the ceiling’s concrete under high temperature, the laser immediately contacts the ultra-high-strength alloy beneath the concrete!

[Ironhide: Lille, did you do something? The fluctuation has intensified...]

Space-time begins to distort, Lille’s sensors gradually blur, as if the entire universe begins to change—

Lille understands what this means, immediately sent out a warning to Jack and BT:

[Lille: Jack, BT, prepare to engage! Hold here!]

Buzz——

"They’re here!"