Chapter 8
On the night when Meta arrived at the battlefield, a group of three are on a patrol mission. This group of three are nonmilitary personnel.
They are a group of mercenaries commissioned by the military. There are many cases in which the military would post mission.
They do that because they are short on people or they did not deem the act as important and is a waste of their precious military time. Or in some cases, they are lazed to act on it.
Anyway, most of the time, their superiors do not care about the process as long as the work would be done.
In any way, the mercenaries are always glad to accept a mission from the military, of course, on the premise that the military will give generous rewards. Otherwise, no one would look at it.
Their group is made up of four people. One tanker, two close combaters, and a gunner. However, the other close combater is not with them for the mission.
This may not be the best group out there, but they are the best group for patrolling missions.
In the three months that the war has been going on, they are always the ones who would discover the scouts from the enemies. This prevented the enemy to infiltrate their camps; thus, saving many lives.
Hence, they are rather famous for this job.
"Parker, is there anything?" Damion asked while driving their hydroplane S-777.
The hydroplane S-777 is unlike the regular plane that the courier service drove. The hydroplane of the courier service is the most basic hydroplane, the hydroplane C-134.
Aside from its speed which is far faster than the planes that we have today, it did not have anything else notable.
Meanwhile, the hydroplane S-777 is equipped with Energy Gun 2.0 and Sunlight Armor.
The Energy Gun 2.0 is a graded C while the sunlight armor is graded D making the Hydroplane S-777 a C grade plane.
Its Energy Gun allows the Hydroplane to shoot compact energy balls toward its target while its Sunlight Armor is purely used for stealth.
It makes the Hydroplane invisible to all low-grade scanners.
Meanwhile, there are seven grades for the weapons, planes, armors, etc., which is, E, D, C, B, A, S, and SSS.
E grade as the lowest and SSS to be the highest.
"Nothing notable as of yet, Damion," Parker replied while holding the binoculars to his eyes.
"There is nothing on this shitty sandy place," Parker continued.
The border between the northern and western parts of the world is the vast sandy desert.
Originally, this is not a desert. However, it become one because of the war that the inhabitants of the present time did not know of.
However, there is one thing for sure. It is full of dangerous radiation. Fortunately, Parker and the rest are equipped with Energy Aura Armor.
This armor may not be able to bot block damage; however, it was very efficient in blocking the radiation.
Furthermore, the ship innately blocks radiation. Hence, it could be said that they are very, very safe.
Meanwhile, they continued to fly for one more hour.
"Okay, this is it for today, there is nothing on our patrol mission."
That is a cue for them to go back. However, it was not Parker or Damion who said that. It was a lady at the back of the ship.
Aside from Parker and Damion, there is another lady on the ship. That is Scarlet Berserk.
Scarlet is wearing fitted denim pants, a leather jacket, a scarlet scarf, and the Energy Aura Armor.
The Energy Aura Armor looked like the bulletproof vest of the cops. However, they could not be underestimated by their look.
Meanwhile, with scarlet included, there are three of them on the ship in total. The other one, which is their leader is not with them for this mission.
"Hmmm, let's go them. I wanna drink a glass of beer," Parker said.
"Me too. I wonder where the boss is," the tanker, Damion said.
In a few more moments, the Hydroplane S-777 rerouted and headed towards the camp towards the west.
"The boss went to the market. I think she wants to replace our equipment," Scarlet said.
"Really, I'm looking forward to the upgrade of the ship."
This is good news for Damion.
Usually, the ship will receive the priority upgrade since it is the most used and their greatest companion. Hence, Damion, the pilot of the ship is the happiest.
"Ha! She said, she will be buying weapons," Scarlet smashed Damion's happiness.
"Don't worry Damion, if you really to upgrade the ship, perhaps…," Parker comforted Damion.
"Perhaps what?"
"Perhaps you can use your wage, hehe."
I guess, not.
Meanwhile, Damion is stunned silent.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
At this moment, the screen on the ship made a series of beeping sounds.
"The ship detected something," Damion said.
At the same time, Parker held his binoculars to his eyes. He immediately scouted outside the windshield.
"There, I see something." Parker pointed to a certain spot in the direction that they are heading to.
After a few moments, they arrived at the spot that Parker pointed to.
"A box? Wait… this is a courier box."
Damion and the others are stunned when they saw the courier box.
"What is this courier box doing here? It looked suspicious," Scarlet asked the question that everyone wants to ask.
"We're not sure. However, we can take a look at it."
Damion then piloted the ship and prepared it to land.
"Parker, are we clear?" Damion asked parker who was scouting the surroundings.
"Clear! We can land now."
The engine of the Hydroplane whooshed as they land.
"The radiation is now very thin, but have you activated your armor? I will be opening the airlock"
There is no need for Damion to say it, Parker and Scarlet already activated their armors.
They came out of the ship when the airlock was opened. But what they did not know is that something is staring at them. Or rather, someone is staring at them.
To be precise, that someone is eying on their ship. Well, not exactly the ship, but the Energy Units on the ship.
This is none other than, Meta.
It's not that Meta did not look for EUDM, but he had detected the Hydroplane S-777.
How? Despite the Hydroplane S-777 having the Sunlight Armor?
There is only one explanation for that. Meta's sensors' grade is above the Hydroplane's Sunlight Armor.
Meanwhile, Parker and Scarlet got off the ship and check the courier box. This courier box is the box where Meta came from.
While this is happening, Smith is not oblivious of the events in Meta's surroundings. He was watching from Meta's perspective.
…
Meanwhile, there might be signal interference on the battlefield due to the radiation and other factors caused by both sides, it is not a problem for me. Or rather, Meta's hardware is just too advanced.
Ha! This credit all goes to Apollo Tech.
Glad, they gave it to me.
The software that I installed in Meta may not be perfect for the body. However, it is the best, for now.
It was filled with errors. But, I am surprised that it could think to wait for that ship.
Let's see, who owns this ship... The Midnight Hunters.
Ok, barely passable group.
Meanwhile, Meta is not far from the ship. He has very advanced hardware. Hence, it is only natural.
That's to be expected.
He used every code that I gave him to hide from the surveillance of the trio.
Hmm, I'm my eyes are wet. *wipes the tears*
Meta waited for a while before he got out of his hiding place. Then, in the next second, he approached the ship.
At normal times, he would have been detected. But, hehe…
"System, disable the sensors of the Hydroplane S-777-*****-******."
The ten asterisks are the serial number of the plane.
Meanwhile, with the command that I gave, the sensors of the Hydroplane did not find Meta.
Hmm, that's genius.
With me here, Meta would be close to invisible to any surveillance system.
Now, all that's left to do is to wait until the Meta is finished taking some Energy Units from the ship.
I, Smith, the good malware, did not want to do this. However, I don't have a choice.
You see, Meta down there is devoid of Energy Units. He was barely living with his power-saving mode.
Sigh. Such a pitiful creature.
Anyway, it's always better to give than to receive, right?
Hence, it could be said that I and Meta are doing them a favor.
Meanwhile, Parker and Scarlet circled the courier box for a moment before confirming that there is nothing wrong with the courier box.
"All good. We're going back," Scarlet said.
"The courier box is suspicious, however, it has nothing that might cause us harm."
That's good news. However, Smith nearly fell when he heard it.
What the fuck. Could you check for a bit more? Meta had not even gotten Energy Units from your ship.
Bastard!
Meta had just entered.
Although Smith had disabled the sensors of the ship. He cannot disable the senses of the pilot, Daimon.
Furthermore, Damion is very vigilant.
"Good, come here now… shit! We've been breached…!"