"Have you checked it out yet?"
"It's been mapped out. That ship came to this city was just here to deliver some people. It's their client and some children from an orphanage."
"Children?"
"Yes, just children picked up from an orphanage."
"Where's the orphanage?"
"It's the place we scouted last time, the town where the Sangvis Ferri train line was cut."
"Hmm, got it. Go back and get ready. Leave here first thing in the morning, and report any suspicious people immediately."
"Understood."
...
"This is clearly not Gentiane's jurisdiction, right? Why do we have to come over to scout the situation? Wouldn't other doll squads be able to do this kind of thing just as well?"
M16 squinted her eyes; the scenery full of white blankets was really a bit unpleasant.
"This... that's unknown, probably another whim of Persica's?" RO said as she scratched her head and looked at the M4A1 walking ahead of her.
"This time the mission were set up from Miss Helian's side. It's mainly to check out what exactly Sangvis Ferri is doing in the middle of this area without alerting them."
The other doll teams could do the job, but they were never as safe and as skilled as their AR Team.
The Sangvis Ferri that had been silent for quite a while might be just like a hornet's nest now and couldn't be touched at all. In case the dolls stirred up trouble while scouting, it wouldn't just be a matter of Griffin having to face Sangvis Ferri's onslaught at that time.
If Sangvis Ferri really came over, then the military might even be able to obtain the authority to act at will in their jurisdiction.
Once the military was able to move around at will in any G&K outpost, it would become a serious issue as to whether or not G&K still had a need to exist at that time.
"Ugh, another covert operation. Although I don't hate this type of mission, it's just that it's boring to sneak around on missions every time." M16 sighed somewhat helplessly.
This kind of thing is something she hadn't done much, even back when she was still teamed up with HK416.
Almost alll of Angelia's missions were unrecorded and no one would check up on her afterward.
Not to mention that no one would remember that her squad had ever done anything, whether for good or bad...
"It's really boring... but at least it's better than playing cards with Commander Gentiane in her base, right?"
Over at the S05, because of the temporary retreat of Sangvis Ferri and the fact that Gentiane had sent people to clean up the remnants of Sangvis Ferri in the middle of the entire jurisdiction before, there wasn't much to do at all other than the daily patrols.
Apart from the occasional check of their bodies every day, the rest of the day was mostly spent playing cards with Gentiane.
"That's true... but wasn't it said that there was another squad coming over to help this time? Why haven't we seen anyone until now?"
While saying that, RO635 looked around, trying to find the doll team that was supposed to come to support them from the surrounding forest.
"Ugh, don't expect anyone. This is probably a covert operation. Anyway, don't expect to see those guys until the mission gets to the critical moment." M16 raised her hand unconcernedly, tightening the modular strap of the weapon in her hand as she walked forward with a big grin.
"Maybe, but M4, are we really going in the right direction now? It's been a full two hours, there's not even a trace of Sangvis Ferri's presence in sight." RO asked towards M4A1 somewhat strangely while following her.
"Well, there's no problem with the direction or positioning. Probably the Sangvis Ferri has retreated again to a place we don't know about."
During this period of time, it wasn't just Gentiane in the S05 jurisdiction that didn't have anything to do. Those commanders in several other jurisdictions didn't have much to do either.
Even the S08, which had previously been completely occupied by Sangvis Ferri, saw a great reduction in the frequency of Sangvis Ferri's activities, as if these Sangvis Ferri would also be hindered by the winter winds and snow.
...
As a matter of fact, this sky full of snow and wind is indeed inconvenient for the movements of the entirety of Sangvis Ferri, not to mention how power-consuming it is for those heavy armored automatons to move around.
Just the movement of ordinary dolls is very costly. In a place where they often encounter half a meter of snow, it is enough to give any dolls a headache.
Well, aside from a moronic advanced doll, like this girl who was looking for something to aim at.
"What the heck! There's nothing in this field of view that can be called a target at all! There's just white blobs everywhere!"
Architect looked at the real-time image transmitted back by the Sangvis Ferri Scout and scratched her head in a somewhat devastated manner as she exclaimed.
"Then test-fire somewhere random."
"Do you think I'm stupid! Wouldn't that directly expose Jupiter's attack range?" Hearing the helpless voice of Gager, Architect screamed frantically.
Hearing Architect's words, Gager widened her eyes rather surprised. She was somewhat unable to believe that these words actually came out of Architect's stupid mouth.
When did this girl become so smart?
"Hey, what's that look in your eyes? Nah, did Intruder call back?"
Looking at the surprised eyes of Gager, Architect also sat down with some boredom and asked Gager while continuing to look for a test target that could be used as a target without exposing the range of the Jupiter Cannon.
While Gager was tinkering with the targeting system, she saw the cell phone nearby.
Seeing it, and seeing it near Architect, it didn't take a normal person to see that Architect used it. She instantly had bad feeling, then inspected it.
Seeing the last call was very recent and the recipient being Renault's Intruder, she instantly questioned Architect.
"Intruder? Why would Intruder call back... You called her didn't you? What did you told her? You didn't leak the location of the Jupiter Cannon, did you!?"
Upon hearing Architect say this, Gager's heart immediately thumped.
While she had a bad premonition, she directly commanded those Scouts under her command to start paying attention to the areas in the surrounding airspace that could be passed through.
Ahough Architect was forced to run to Renault's side to get a meal, that was due to circumstances, and Renault being nearby.
But Gager didn't imagine she wanted go to Renault again!
Besides, although there were already a lot of Sangvis Ferri dolls under Renault's hand, and Sangvis Ferri's elite dolls were even more numerous, it didn't mean that that man and them were on the same path!
That man was still a human after all, and still the owner of a security contracting company.
If the military really questioned him about Sangvis Ferri's movements in this regard, could he still hold back and not say it?
However, without waiting for Gager's side to find any suspicious people or vehicles, Architect's side had already shouted.
"Hey, hey! Quickly look! There seems to be a transport flying this way over there!"
"Huh!?"
Hearing this, Gager's heart sank straight to the bottom.
Transport...
The only people using this thing and possibly passing through the air in this area where they were, then there was no doubt that it must be G&K!
And it was still transported here by transporter!
G&K definitely had more than one doll team nearby!