Kingdom of Corrosion

Shana recalled the words of the bald man when they parted: if there’s work to be done, do it swiftly, don’t hesitate or wait. Currently, Veteran Base has a moral obligation to fully support the Railway Bridge Base, but once the base is relocated, they’ll be out of reach.

An interesting fact is that only a few people at Veteran Base are aware of the Railway Bridge Base possessing a helicopter.

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To evade possible drone surveillance, Lin Wu, Maya, Xiaoji, Little Girl, Xiao Wu, and Little Knife left the base at four thirty in the morning the next day. Snow Egg, in addition to being responsible for command work, was researching electromagnetic interference equipment to counter drones.

Command work meant instructing the helicopter to hoist a small oil tank with a net rope.

This set of net ropes was already part of the helicopter’s supplementary equipment. There were multiple hook grooves on the underside of the helicopter for lifting cargo. This device should not have been present on an armed helicopter, but was fitted at the special request of the naval base.

Xiaoji had calculated the weight. Last night, all 35 rocket rounds were extracted, and the 30mm cannon’s ammunition box removed. As for the missiles, they were left untouched due to lack of equipment.

Since it was an empty oil tank, the impact on takeoff was not significant. Maya balanced the helicopter slightly, and it successfully took off.

Xiaoji, seated in the co-pilot’s seat, nostalgically said, "Little Girl, do you still remember the jungle raid? We flew at low altitude for three hours in the dead of night, dropping your squad and a motorboat onto the lake surface."

"Uh-huh," Little Girl responded. For her, the operation was quite routine. They arrived at the hostage location, raided it, rescued the hostages, and left. They used the Gatling heavy machine gun on the motorboat to sweep pursuers. At the retreat point, they hooked the helicopter’s drop-down hook onto the motorboat and the helicopter towed the motorboat away.