Chapter 1015: Chapter 1015

Mecha floating in the air and Dragon Cavalry Fighters swiftly weave through mountains and forests.

"Abnormal beast herd detected."

Inside the Dragon Cavalry Fighter, a communicator lifts their head, looking at the sky filled with fleeing birds then lowers their gaze to the equipment in front of them, rapidly pressing buttons,

"Anomalous vibration signal detected, attempting to decipher."

"Decipher unsuccessful, interference too strong, signal distorted."

"Is it possible to determine the source of the signal?"

A wide-faced officer suddenly asks from behind.

The communicator rapidly operates the equipment. The clear windscreen in the front flickers, displaying a map.

A green shoulder marking indicates the current location of the Dragon Cavalry Fighter, and to the south-southeast of the fighter, a red dot is flashing intensely.

The wide-faced officer gazes at this dot with a profound look, "Is this what Mr. Lin En mentioned, where there might be some ’stirring’ happening?"

Then he raises his hand, "Stop trying to decipher these reports, order everyone to prepare for battle, full speed ahead!"

"Is this really going to be of any use?"

Looking at the incessantly blinking device interface, the service manager sits at the side and sighs, "Will the City Defense Army really receive our signal and come rescue us?"

"Since it’s done, there’s no other way, we can only wait."

The plump lady also heaves a sigh and takes a seat on the other side,

The mechanic glances at the communication equipment continuously sending out distress signals, falls silent for a while, then speaks slowly, "I think I just saw them bring in a signal jamming device outside, our rescue signals might not be able to get out."

The service manager’s eyes widen in an instant.

The entire narrow corridor falls into a brief silence.

The plump lady hesitates for a moment, about to speak.

The service manager takes a deep breath, forcing a smile, and says to the two, "They might have brought signal jammers but might not have activated them. Signals are invisible and intangible; they might not discover it for a while..."

Just then, a flight attendant rushes into the corridor, addressing the three people in front of them, "Three people have run off."

All three pairs of eyes immediately turn to the flight attendant.

The service manager quickly walks over, "Where did they run off to?"

"When I was counting the people just now, I found three were missing, then I asked the people around,"

The flight attendant turns and leads the service manager outside, while quickly explaining, "They might have snuck off when no one was paying attention."

The plump lady and the mechanic exchange a glance and follow suit.

"Where could they have gone?"

The service manager looks at the flight attendant ahead, "Outside are all Mercenary Corps."

As she says this, her speech suddenly halts, as if realizing something.

"They might have gone to snitch to the Mercenary Corps,"

The mechanic following behind speaks up, "Although we didn’t say it outright, most of them could guess what we were doing when we started sending rescue signals."

While they talk, the three of them return to the passenger cabin. At this moment, most of the people are sitting in their seats, some chatting amongst themselves, some trying to sleep with closed eyes, others are just staring blankly.

The service manager quickly scans the crowd, her expression growing increasingly grim, "Indeed, three are missing."

For a moment, the expressions of those around her appear downtrodden.

"What on earth are they after?"

The nearby flight attendant can’t help but speak, "We’re also trying to save them."

"They might think that betraying us to rely on the Mercenary Corps for rescue is easier than depending on the City Defense Army."

The plump lady sighs, then she looks at the few people around her, hesitates for a moment, and then slowly begins to say, "Actually, the young girl had anticipated..."

In that instant, the sound of roaring cannons accompanied by severe tremors erupt outside the airship.

"Enemy attack!" "Enemy attack!"

The intense shouts also seemed to come from a distance.

Everyone immediately rushed to the nearby safety door.

One Seraphim Mech after another descended from the sky, their spurting flames illuminating the entire dark sky.

The roaring sound of mech guns, like thunder in the clouds, struck the sudden drums of war.

And the Dragon Cavalry Fighters emerged from the mountains and forests in the distance, crazily raining fire down on the Mercenary Corps’ positions below.

The stewardess looked up at the sky.

"It’s the City Defense Army."

Waves of fire brushed the plump woman’s hair, the bright glow reflecting on her smooth forehead as she looked up at the mechs in the sky that gleamed like true angels.

"Why, why is this happening?"

The stewardess and the mechanic both looked at the plump woman beside them, bewildered, "Has our distress signal been sent out?"

"The distress message didn’t go out,"

The plump woman shook her head, she watched a distant light-flashing jammer get obliterated by one shot from a mech gun, and then glanced at the scattering beasts fleeing not far away,

"But our ’signal’ did go out, the girl anticipated this, it doesn’t matter what the distress message was, what’s important was the strong electromagnetic wave interference on the surrounding beasts, alerting the City Defense Army sentries that something was happening here."

"She anticipated the current situation?"

The stewardess’s eyes widened in disbelief, "How old is she, and how did her brain develop?"

The plump woman nodded slightly, "I can’t understand how her brain is wired either, but"

She looked toward the outside troops with a puzzled expression, "The City Defense Army seems to have arrived a bit too quickly."

It was as if they arrived shortly after she had sent out the signal.

While talking, accompanied by a thunderous explosion, a Dragon Cavalry Fighter descended in front of them amidst intense gunfire, then the door opened, revealing a cramped cabin to everyone’s view.

A broad-faced officer, along with several soldiers wearing lightweight Exoskeleton Armor, appeared at the doorway, shouting loudly, "Please make way."

The plump woman and others quickly stepped aside, and the soldiers leaped from the safety door into the airship.

Then the leading broad-faced officer looked at the survivors in the airship and shouted loudly, "We’re from Yilan City’s City Defense Army, Mr. Lin En sent us for your rescue, everyone line up in two rows, board the fighter one by one."

The plump woman looked baffled at the officer in front of her.

While he spoke, a stray shell seemed to land near the airship, exploding with a violent sound, causing the entire airship to tremble.

The officer nearly lost his balance in this sudden shake, he didn’t answer the plump woman’s confusion but immediately raised his hand, steadying himself with the chair and shouting,

"Hurry, get on the fighter!"

Amidst the roaring gunfire, passengers in the airship finally snapped out of their daze, desperately crowding towards the safety door.

"Line up in two rows! Line up in two rows! Those queuing out of order are the last to go! Line up properly! Line up properly!"

The soldiers who followed the officer inside quickly stood on both sides of the safety door, shouting forcefully to maintain order.

The scorching flames lit up the dark clouded sky outside the door, scorching the earth and sky.

The plump woman didn’t immediately join the queue. She just stood by the safety door, watching the crowd one by one board the Dragon Cavalry Fighter.

The space inside an individual fighter was actually very cramped and couldn’t hold many people, but whenever one was filled, a new one would come by.

And in the distance, the Kopes Mining Mercenary Corps, caught off guard, also quickly started to organize an orderly counterattack.

Several times the plump woman heard terms like ’enemy reinforcements’ and ’enemy counterattacking’ from the broad-faced officer’s communicator.

At the same time, ground weapons of the Kopes Mining Mercenary Corps also carried out saturation bombardment on the airship’s area.

Although most of the shells were intercepted by the City Defense Army’s anti-air fire network, there were still some that slipped through and landed close to the airship.

At its closest, a shell landed beneath the airship, blowing another hole through its already crash-damaged body, causing the whole airship to tilt forward about fifteen degrees.

This caused a girl who was about to jump from the airship to the Dragon Cavalry Fighter to slip, nearly falling through the gap between the airship and the fighter.

It was fortunate that a soldier at the door, quick-eyed and fast-handed, grabbed her.

Of course, all of this happened in a very short amount of time.

No one had much time to think or hesitate as the deafening sounds of war drew irresistibly nearer.

Some of the passengers had obviously never witnessed such a scene before, but they hardly had time to scream in fright or lament, because the slower they moved, the closer they could feel the shells.

They might reflect on their lucky escape from death afterward, but not now when the adrenaline was fully surging, with an absolutely tense present, almost everyone had only one thought—survival!

Soon, almost all of the passengers inside the airship had been evacuated, with even the unconscious pilot and co-pilot being lifted up by passengers and crew to be sent to the Dragon Cavalry Fighter.

In the sky boat, only the plump woman and the crew chief remained. The last Dragon Cavalry Fighter had also stopped in front of the slanted safety door.

"Are you the ones in charge here?"

Finally, the broad-faced military officer glanced at the people in front of him, "Is everyone here?"

The crew chief responded instinctively and then paused slightly.

The plump woman beside him almost immediately spoke up, "There’s a red-haired girl, she was captured by the Mercenary Corps! She should be at the core of the Mercenary Corps’ camp now."

She seemed to have been waiting for the broad-faced officer to ask this question, and continued without any pause, "I know this may be difficult, but please, you must find a way to rescue her. Without her, we would have been killed by the Mercenary Corps long ago."

The broad-faced officer’s expression gradually darkened upon hearing the plump woman mention the girl being at the camp’s core. He opened his mouth, about to speak.

A loud tremor violently shook the sky boat.

He steadied himself using a chair and turned to look, seeing a squad wearing Exoskeleton Armor, holding portable railguns, quickly moving towards their position through a dense barrage of fire.

The tremor just now was caused by the squad’s gunner hitting the sky boat, and at this moment, that gunner was aiming at the Dragon Cavalry Fighter in the sky.

The Dragon Cavalry Fighter originally hovering in the air quickly maneuvered, evading the projectile.

"These guys actually broke through; these Kopes bastards have got some tricks."

The broad-faced officer looked up at the plump woman, "No time for talking now, get on the fighter jet!"

Then he waved his hand, a few soldiers and he rushed down the twisted and deformed folding staircase made by the Dragon Cavalry Fighter, standing in the middle of the staircase, starting to counterattack the squad below.

At the same time, the Dragon Cavalry Fighter descended again.

The plump woman and a few others were pulled onto the fighter jet.

At this moment, the assault team had also nearly reached the sky boat.

Ricocheting bullets flew off the metal, and the twisted staircase creaked, as if it would collapse at any moment.

Several Dragon Cavalry Fighters quickly flew over, strafing the squad below with machine-gun fire, and then, together with the last Fighter standing in front of the chancery, dropped rope ladders.

Several City Defense Army soldiers immediately grabbed the rope ladders, lifted by the Dragon Cavalry Fighters.

Soon, only the broad-faced officer remained on the entire staircase. He looked down at the mercenary squad that had reached the bottom of the stairs, pulled a laser grenade from his waist, and threw it down without hesitation, then grabbed the last rope ladder and was pulled into the sky by the Dragon Cavalry Fighter.

Flashes of light bloomed like flowers upon the earth.

Amidst the flying bullets and artillery fire, the broad-faced officer picked up the intercom on his chest and spoke rapidly,

"All squads of Group Two, mission complete, evacuate according to the contingency plan."

The darting Dragon Cavalry Fighters sped off to the north, while the Mechas in the sky blocking the Mercenary Corps’ ground forces rapidly changed formation, covering the retreat of the Dragon Cavalry Fighters.

The tumultuous gunfire faded into the distance, and it was faintly visible that a Mecha squad was flying from the direction of the Mercenary Corps’ camp, but they were clearly unable to catch up with this highly mobile unit.

Seeing this scene, the broad-faced officer hanging on the rope ladder breathed a sigh of relief.

The rope ladder he was hanging on swiftly retracted, carrying his body forward.

Soon, he reached the edge of the Dragon Cavalry Fighter, several hands reached out, and pulled him onto the jet.

And this was the last Dragon Cavalry Fighter that had stopped in front of the chancery.

Among those who pulled him up was the plump woman who had just inquired about him at the sky boat’s doorway.

At this moment, the plump woman was staring intently at him.

"Do you have the little girl’s photo or something like her name?"

The broad-faced military officer looked at the plump woman, asking slowly, "What exactly did she do? Why does the Mercenary Corps want to capture her?"

Upon hearing the broad-faced officer’s question, the plump woman realized something, paused for a moment, and then shook her head, "I don’t know her name, I don’t have her photo either,"

Then she paused briefly and recounted to the broad-faced officer what the red-haired girl had done.

"So you’re saying that the business with the beasts was also the little girl’s idea?"

The broad-faced officer was slightly stunned, "This little girl is really something."

The plump woman nodded and then looked at the broad-faced officer with some expectation, "Can you save her?"

"The core area of the camp might be difficult, but Mr. Lin En may have a way,"

The broad-faced officer looked at the plump woman, speaking softly.

The plump woman was slightly stunned.

She vaguely remembered that the broad-faced officer had made it clear upon trying to enter the sky boat, that it was Mr. Lin En who sent him.

Even though the plump woman was in Dawn City, she had received piles of messages from her hometown in the past few days, almost all of them related to that legendary Mayor of Yilan City.

He seemed to be a hero capable of turning decay into miracles, an omnipotent figure.

"This rescue operation was arranged by Mr. Lin En,"

The broad-faced officer looked at the plump woman’s puzzled cheeks and further explained, "However, you are also very impressive. If it weren’t for those beasts, we could not have located your position so quickly."

"It’s that little girl who is amazing."

The plump woman said softly.

"In a sense, that little girl you mentioned, together with Mr. Lin En, completed a ’remote coordination’ despite their absence, successfully promoting this near perfect ’rescue operation’."

The broad-faced officer seemed to think of something, slowly speaking, then he looked at the still somewhat nervous plump woman and continued to ask,

"Speaking of which, does that little girl have any distinguishing features? At least we need to identify her first, understand what the Mercenary Corps wanted her to do, and then I can report it and see what methods we can use for the rescue."

The plump woman blurted out immediately.

The broad-faced officer was startled.

"It doesn’t seem so,"

The plump woman shook her head, "It seems natural."

The broad-faced officer lifted his wristband, "Such people should be rare; maybe we can use this to search for her. Wait a moment, I’ll send the message back to North City through the military channel, see if we can find her information."

After putting down the wristband, he no longer looked at the plump woman’s worried gaze but instead directed his to the surrounding Dragon Cavalry Fighters.

Behind them, there were still some sounds of cannon fire and gunshots, but much less than before.

The strategy of Mr. Lin En’s light mobile unit was correct. As long as they are fast enough, catching the enemy off-guard, no matter how powerful the enemy’s firepower, it would be useless.

While he was contemplating, his wristband vibrated.

He picked up the wristband with some doubt, and then his face took on a strange expression as he fell into brief silence.

The plump woman next to him looked at him nervously.

"Is this the red-haired girl you mentioned?"

The broad-faced officer raised his hand, projecting a photo of a red-haired cool-looking girl.

The plump woman was slightly startled; she didn’t expect the City Defense Army to be so efficient. She looked at the photo, scrutinized it carefully, then gently nodded, "Yes."

Then the broad-faced officer fell into silence again.

The plump woman saw his expression was off and asked cautiously and softly, "Is there something wrong with the girl? Is her identity not clean?"

Smart people, more or less, all have their secrets.

Now, the plump woman only hoped that the smart little girl was not a powerful fugitive, preventing the City Defense Army from taking action.

But such a kind girl, could she possibly be a fugitive?

The broad-faced officer shook his head, "Her identity is clean; she is Mr. Lin En’s daughter."

The plump woman breathed a sigh of relief, then she suddenly realized what she had just heard, her eyes widened in astonishment looking at the broad-faced officer, "What? She is Mr. Lin En’s daughter?"

The flight attendants and chief steward nearby, as well as several people around, also widened their eyes in surprise.

That girl is indeed the princess from the Mayor’s family.

At this moment, everyone seemed to understand why the red-haired girl was so formidable.

Mercenary Corps Camp Wilderness

"The situation has changed,"

Mid’s holographic projection quickly spoke to the young officer standing in the fighter, "Group two’s rescue was successful, but they’ve brought a new message - Mr. Lin En’s daughter, Lin Na, was among the passengers and was taken into the core area of the Mercenary Corps Camp by someone suspected to be the Mercenary Corps Leader of Kopes."

He took a deep breath,

"I am currently gathering troops; one or two squads might not be enough to carry out this rescue mission. When you report the message to Mr. Lin En, try to put it gently, hold him back, don’t let him impulsively rush into the Mercenary Corps to save her. He only has this one child, and I’m afraid he’ll do something foolish.

"Nevertheless, the Kopes Mercenary Corps is so well-defended and hostile towards him, he probably can’t get in, but even if he’s just injured, that’s not good. You must stabilize him and wait for me to bring the main force over.

"The good news is, from the current situation of Kopes Mining Mercenary Corps, they probably don’t know that the little girl they caught is Lin Na. Maybe we can work something out from here."

Hearing Mid’s words, the young officer was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke,

"Mr. Lin En has already gone in."

There was a long silence on the other end of the communication, and after a while, Mid asked hoarsely, "Did Mr. Lin En know his daughter was on that airship from the start?"