Chapter 1107: Chapter 359: I’ve Never Fought a Battle This Loaded (Part 2)
But the others were not quite reconciled, especially Shui Yue, who had just arrived in Cuba and hadn’t even set foot on the ground before dying in the sky. Even if he shot down a fighter jet, it had nothing to do with him.
At least Potato could claim he was involved and shared some of the glory.
But Shui Yue didn’t understand tanks either, and looking around, the other three had already given up; only the screen showed an adjutant in Germany’s uniform standing tall.
Unwilling to give up, he quickly asked,
"Adjutant, is there any way to escape now?"
"According to data calculations, the survival rate of continuing the conflict is zero."
"What about not continuing the conflict? Is there anywhere we can escape the battlefield?"
"Wherever you run, you’re not going to be faster than the fighter jets." Potato, just looking at the screen where those fighter jets disappeared in the blink of an eye, knew with his toes that escaping was impossible.
However, the Giant had included numerous player battle records in the adjutant AI, making its thinking not just rigid like traditional AI, but rather flexible.
"SIR, maybe we can escape the battlefield by shutting down the engine and falling."
Giant: "Shut down the engine? Wouldn’t that break into pieces once it falls?"
Even a solid piece of iron falling from twenty thousand feet would shatter.
Normally, a tank would be doomed, but a floating tank is different.
If fighter jets can reignite after stalling, can’t a floating tank?
With the adjutant proposing this highly improbable plan, they immediately agreed.
Players don’t care about risks; even if there’s only a one percent chance, they will try to seize it.
Anyway, they’ve discarded concerns for their lives, so whatever happens, happens—what’s there to fear?
And those Cuban battle jets that had already locked onto the tank quickly noticed changes in the tank’s movement trajectory, beginning to fall and lose balance.
It’s not like on land where you observe whether a stopped tank is broken down or aiming.
Falling freely from the sky, nine times out of ten there’s an engine issue from the previous attack.
No salvation, just wait for death.
The missiles on the fighter jets are limited, so they won’t waste firepower on a single tank, turning instead to engage with other Military Technology aircraft.
The seven-meter-long, thirty-some-ton tank fell out from under the clouds, free falling in the sky, appearing so small.
Looking up from the ground, you couldn’t even see a speck of dust.
This height would make anyone without parachuting experience despair.
And the players, lacking parachute experience, could only learn through Mewtwo’s experiences passed by Military Science.
Fortunately, during the fall, the adjutant and Giant continuously restarted and shut down the engine, slowing the fall while avoiding detection by the Cuban Air Force.
This kind of operating severely damages the engine; they can only pray Military Science’s material control is decent enough to withstand their reckless maneuvering before landing.
Watching the free-fall maneuver, Wildman was extremely nervous and only glanced at the map for some psychological comfort.
"Where are we below, it still isn’t our territory?"
Giant: "Seems it’s not; I don’t see any friendly markers. Adjutant, report our position."
Can’t find markers from above, after all this flight they don’t know where they’ve flown.
[Adjutant: Central plains of Matanzas province, this should be behind enemy lines; our previous combat has crossed the enemy’s air defense.]
[Proceeding with body correction, initiating deceleration landing]
Boom!!!
The Komodo main battle tank in a nose-down free fall suddenly defies physics, flipping and stabilizing without any external force interference.
In this special high-risk environment and under the powerful gravitational inertia, any slight mistake would cause the entire tank to reach its material limits and disintegrate mid-air.
Moreover, there’s no such parachuting procedure in the tank’s control system, nor any precedent data to consult, meaning everything relies on the adjutant and Giant’s on-the-spot equipment control.
Experience and coordination must reach a high degree of tacit understanding to have a slight chance of survival.
Directly below are no streams or lakes, nor forests, just endless plains of tobacco fields.
A few farmers are checking the tobacco leaf production in the fields.
Although the sky above has been chaotic, the tobacco must be maintained; otherwise, they wouldn’t have meals, and those drug dealers would feed them lead bullets till they’re full.
Strange sounds from the sky reached their ears, one person looked up, and a black spot rapidly grew in view; he quickly made out its shape.
It’s a tank, damn it! A tank fell from the sky!
The person rubbed his eyes, confirming he hadn’t seen wrong, and collapsed in fright, muttering.
"Oh my God, I must’ve been doped by those guys, seeing things."
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Wildman looked at the battle report, momentarily speechless,
He could understand the transport squad being detected by enemy air force.
Only the vanguard Giant got caught up in the battle; other transports bypassed normally for airborne drops.
Giant having such rotten luck, he understood too.
But what does it mean they strayed into the battlefield, engaged in aerial combat with tanks, shot down a fighter jet, and attained server-wide first kill achievement notification?
These were Chinese, why couldn’t he recognize them altogether?
Sent several voice messages with no reply, and if not for the still-visible avatar, he’d think Giant and the others were dead.
Fortunately, the other nineteen tanks successfully parachuted to surrounding areas and are now gathering at the front line.
