"Open the hatch!"
"It's no use! It's too late—"
Boom!
Being directly hit by the Jupiter Cannon, the transport belonging to Griffin didn't have any chance to react at all!
After spinning in the sky, it fell straight towards the ground!
Several dolls in the middle of the cabin tried to break open the door and jump out.
While this kind of behavior is potentially suicidal for humans, it was no problem at all for dolls, especially in a low-flying situation.
Instead, if they continued to stay in the cabin, they would most likely be affected by the chain explosions generated by the transportation plane's fuel tanks or engines.
Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time.
From the moment they were hit to the moment they confirmed that the doll in charge of piloting the transporter had been completely destroyed, there was only a second or two in between.
During this time, the transport plane fell from the sky...
There were still two meters...
The result was obvious.
The heavy transport plane directly brought the dolls in the cabin down and smashed into the ground!
Boom!
After a short period of tranquility, without waiting for the transport to catch fire, the cabin door—already twisted and deformed by the Jupiter Cannon, and in some places even beginning to transmit light—was violently kicked open from the inside!
A cold-faced silver-haired doll, dragging a doll in pilot's clothes, walked out from the cabin.
"Hiss! What a different kind of welcome. What's wrong with Sangvis? Are they having a party and firing off a couple of cannons to celebrate?"
Not to mention the fact that those Jupiter Cannons modeled after the Marduk program were not meant for air defense.
There was more than one explosion that she heard just now.
The other side apparently used too many Jupiter cannons to fire at their transport plane...
Was that necessary? Is a single air transport that much of an eyesore for you guys?
"AK12, are you okay with your injuries?"
AN94 walked out after AK12, holding the RPK16 with a broken leg in her hand.
"It's fine, just some small scratches, but... this one's condition is a bit of a headache..." AK12 turned back and helped to rack RPK16 that was still clutching her imprint weapon in her hand, walking towards AK15's position in front.
"Well, don't be so serious. This is a very fixable problem." RPK16 raised her head, smiling and saying this to the two of them.
"The leg is completely broken. It's not like you can just hit two fixation plates and keep going."
Moving RPK16 to where AK15 had stopped, there happened to be a rock there, and AK15 had already placed the doll responsible for piloting the transporter on it, checking the condition of the other's doll body.
The two also placed RPK16 down and looked with some headache at RPK16's right calf that was broken directly. The reason why it was said to be completely broken was that the entire lower part of RPK16's right calf had completely disappeared.
If they wanted to repair it in this condition, the only way was to find a new calf and replace it.
With their current condition, they obviously don't have this ability...
"Don't worry about me. It's just some minor injuries. You guys go ahead and rendezvous with that squad of Griffin's. I'll be able to catch up with you in a little while. It's this doll—the condition doesn't seem to be too good."
Hearing RPK16's intentional digression, AK12 also turned her head to look at the doll.
When the Jupiter Cannon's shells hit the transporter, the front half of the transporter happened to be the direct hit area, and this doll sitting in the cockpit in charge of controlling the transporter had completely lost its human shape at this moment.
Half of her head had been torn off, and the other half of her body was in a bizarre twisted state. The chassis under the bionic skin occasionally burst with arcs of electricity.
Judging by general common sense, this doll has no salvation.
They could clearly see this doll's neural core had been completely deformed, and the neural cloud must be close to collapse.
Hearing RPK16's absolute silence on the matter of her broken leg, AK12 sighed.
"Alright, since you put it that way, at seven o'clock, there's a safe house three hundred meters away. If you can still move one of your legs, you can temporarily carry it there for a while, and we'll come over to regroup with you after the mission is over.
"Understood."
While saying that, RPK16 waved her hand at the three of them with disinterest, urging them to leave quickly.
Hearing this, the two of them, AK12 and AN94 glanced at each other, then nodded somewhat helplessly towards AK15.
"What a surprising start. I had thought that this mission could be easier, don't you think so?"
After the trio walked away, RPK16 also lowered the weapon in her hand, placed the carry bag she was carrying behind her back in front of herself, and began to rummage through her tools while talking to the doll next to her, who was already on the verge of meltdown.
"I've really done myself a favor this time. I didn't realize that the 'Legacy' that I've only gotten a short while ago would already be of use it now. Ah! Found it!" RPK16 said this, her hand gave a beat, and then she took out a pair of pliers from her bag, as well as scissors, a screwdriver, a hammer, and other tools.
"Nah, I mean, since you're already in this shape, you shouldn't mind if I borrow something from you, right?"
RPK16 spoke, her eyes already falling on the doll whose human shape was mostly distorted.
As if it understood RPK16's meaning or was unable to do anything about the current situation, the doll that was about to go down struggled and blinked, and then the light in its eyes dimmed. It was down.
"Alright, I'll take that as a yes then." RPK16 tugged at the corner of her mouth, directly reaching out and dragging the doll's body over, directly and roughly ripping open the neural core compartment in the doll's torso area.
The neural core inside was directly pinched out, and then she backhandedly took out a box-like device from her satchel. There was already a neural core inside there, several times larger than the one she was currently holding, but that didn't matter, as the device could hold up to four normal sized neural cores.
Once that was done, RPK16 then looked at the doll shell.
"Well, the leg bone has been broken, the hand bone is broken and can't be used, this drive shaft is good, and this motor over here... Poor guy, even if you are broken to pieces, you can't rest. You'd better become a part of me and move on with me."
Looking at these scattered accessories dismantled in her hand, RPK16 hummed a light and cheerful tune and began to assemble it.
In the core of her neural cloud , however, she remembered the words that guy used to chant a few times before 'she' left.
'Be prepared.'
"Heh, do I count this as learning from now?"
Looking at the makeshift part that was gradually taking shape in her hand and looked like a bird's claw, RPK16 directly attached the thing to her broken calf.