Rashid lit a cigarette and took a hard puff. The light of the cigarette butt suddenly brightened in the darkness and then dimmed again, burning on its own and turning into a wisp of light smoke. After a long silence, he asked, "Then what are you going to do?"

Yuri took out the electronic map, input a coordinate point, and pointed to the screen glowing with a pale green fluorescence in the night. He said to Rashid, "Going twenty kilometers southeast from here is the mountain area. Along the way are dense forests. If we're lucky, we can enter the mountain area before the enemy finds us. Mechas are not easy to conduct searches in the mountain area. There should be a way to hide. If it really doesn't work, these several hundred people can be armed and fight to the death. It's always better than just waiting here to die."

Rashid carefully looked at the map and said, "Then how will you get back? Even if you avoid being searched, you can't stay in the mountains until the end of the war, right? And it's easy to solve the food and drink for one or two people. Where can we find food for several hundred people?"

Yuri smiled and said, "Take one step at a time. The task now is to take them out first. The food and weapons that can be found in this base are probably enough for a while. My plan is to wait until they recover a bit of combat effectiveness. Then find a way to attack an enemy's logistics transportation base, seize a transport ship, or contact the air force to see if they have a way to pick us up. If it really doesn't work, I plan to take them to Rocky City in the south. Although it is surrounded by the enemy, it is always a bit safer."

Rashid stared fixedly at Yuri. Suddenly, he reached out and patted him on the shoulder and said seriously, "Brother, in any case, this time I really admire you. It's not easy to make such a decision. I'll leave you a squad, one [Antenna] and one [Wrath]. We will go back and join the third platoon and head northeast. If there are pursuers later, I can hold them off for a few hours for you. I can't help you with anything else. It's up to you."

"No!" Yuri flatly refused. "The first company has its own tasks. I've already held back the whole company. I can't let the brothers accompany me on this adventure again."

Rashid angrily said, "Are you looking down on people? You can take several hundred people and escape alone. Are the soldiers of my fully armed special reconnaissance company worse than you? Our task is to conduct unlimited rear harassment. Taking them away counts as part of your plan. Didn't you also plan to capture a logistics base? Without mechas, relying only on these people to bite with their teeth? Nonsense! Don't say anything more about this. It's settled. I'll give you Tolik. He admires you so much. He said he has never seen anyone play with guns as well as you."

Seemingly recalling the way gun enthusiast Tolik's eyes shone, Rashid smiled and then continued, "Do a good job. Let's both stay alive. Meet again alive. I'll make up your welcome banquet for you. We won't stop until we're drunk."

Yuri didn't hesitate anymore. At this time, any words were unnecessary. Time was running out. He solemnly saluted Rashid and said, "It's a deal. We'll meet then and not leave until we're drunk."

"Meet then and not leave until we're drunk."

Under the yellow base streetlights, groups of unknown flying insects were circling around in the light. From time to time, they would hit the permanent light bulbs, making a sizzling sound with their wings. These insects are very similar to moths on Earth. They have an instinctive reaction to heat sources or light sources. There is a saying in the East of Earth that moths fly into the fire. Clearly knowing the danger, these moths still keep approaching the light and heat one after another, not hesitating even if they are burned to death.

Sometimes, humans are indeed like these moths. And the people of this nation inherited from ancient Earth have a spirit of going towards the tiger even when knowing there is a tiger on the mountain hidden deep in their bones. When they determine their goal, they will burst out with extremely powerful strength. This strength is fire, blood, and boiling lava. It can destroy everything.

"Who is the moth and who is the fire?" Looking at Yuri's back as he strode away, Rashid thought.

"Hurry up! What are you still dawdling for? Hold on for at least three hours. I need time."

The distant voice of Yuri interrupted Rashid's contemplation. This despicable person put on an air of taking it for granted since you promised.

"Damn it." Rashid left with the soldiers of the special reconnaissance company in depression. There was a desire in his heart to strip the fat man naked and hang him up for exhibition: "This guy learns to turn his back on people quickly. He's even more proficient than me."

In fact, he knew that the guy who turned his back on people had already unhesitatingly entrusted his back to him.

This kind of entrustment means trust. It also means that they will become brothers who live and die together. Brothers closer than real brothers.

The soldiers of the first company who were leaving already knew the choice made by this chubby deputy company commander.

"This is a real man, a real hero." They all said.

When parting, everyone walked up to Yuri one by one, saluted this hero in their minds, and showed the highest respect.

The hero was very excited, with tears welling up in his eyes and his body trembling uncontrollably. He couldn't say a word.

He was just trembling.

Yuri was thinking: "Damn it. On impulse, I just showed off. What a man should do. Being alive is being a man. Dead people, regardless of gender, are called corpses. Looking at everyone's expressions, they are all saying goodbye to my corpse."

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The fake hero sent off the people who were saying goodbye to the corpse and began to conceive his escape plan.

Walking on two legs is definitely not possible. For a distance of twenty kilometers and in the dense forest, these people can't reach there in a day. The east-west highway can't be used either. Going on the highway is seeking death. There aren't so many mechas suitable for advancing in the jungle. In a few hours, even a god couldn't create so many mechas. Moreover, the imperial mechas in this base are basically destroyed, and the remaining materials are not enough.

Although Logic can transform into a small transport ship, after all, it is a single-soldier mecha. The transportation capacity is only a dozen people. It is not realistic to transport all these people. Moreover, if the interior of the mecha is crowded with people and they really encounter the enemy, Logic that can't transform can only be beaten.

Going on the ground is not possible. Going up in the sky is not possible. Then we have to go underground.

Underground can effectively avoid the detection of most radars. However, if the empire uses high-altitude reconnaissance satellites, no matter how deep the tunnel is, it will be revealed. As long as the tunnel is revealed, then these people will become cornered rats. A pot of boiling water can scald a nest of them.

How can we prevent them from using satellites to conduct fixed-point scans around this base? The anti-detection jammers around this base show that the Gacharin Empire is afraid of this base being exposed. The crime of anti-humanity, recognized by the entire universe, will make the Gacharin royal family be condemned and sanctioned by the entire human society. They will never allow these prisoners of war to escape. The pursuit will be endless. Even if a batch of pursuers can be annihilated, after all, this is the enemy's controlled area. Here, they are like boxers who never know fatigue. Groups of pursuers will be sent to this place to catch up and kill these federal prisoners of war.

Only by letting the pursuers witness the death of these prisoners of war with their own eyes can we dispel their doubts.

Yuri has already thought of the location of the tunnel. It is right under the highway next to the base! Following the highway, the high-grade highway base course on the ground can effectively isolate radar scans. Moreover, the high-strength pavement on the ground will not show any traces due to the underground cavity.

All of this only requires a magic show to be completely achieved. Even the problem of the entrance of the tunnel, which is easily detected by the enemy, can disappear in the enemy's inertial thinking.

Having made up his mind, Yuri asked the soldiers of the first squad of the second platoon who stayed behind to help. First, collect all the means of transportation, weapons, ammunition, and compressed energy blocks in the base. Then disassemble those destroyed imperial mechas.

Several imperial mechas parked in place but whose owners were killed became the main targets of the fat man's transformation this time.

The mechanical arms and legs of these mechas were disassembled and formed the mobile system of a huge drilling machine. The engine transmission parts of the mechas were gathered together to drive the energy drill transformed from the energy cannon whose detonation device had been removed. Other means of transportation were selected. The useful parts were welded into soil-dividing carriages. Food and weapons can be placed in the carriages. This will greatly reduce the burden on these physically weak federal prisoners of war. In the carriage, there is a groundwater extractor transformed from the imperial drinking water device, as well as an air purifier assembled from the air conditioner and negative ions in the base defenders' club. Oxygen supply uses the equipment of the base biochemical laboratory.

The underground drilling vehicle like a big centipede was quickly manufactured with the joint efforts of everyone. A barracks of the base defenders was used as the entrance to the tunnel. After opening one wall of the barracks, this centipede easily drilled into the ground. The energy cannons gathered at the head could only emit a continuous and stable ray because the detonation device had been removed. It was certainly not good for attacking, but it was extremely suitable for drilling holes. A six-meter-diameter hole was formed. The soil excavated by the centipede's head was divided to both sides by its body. Then countless mechanical hands quickly compacted this soil to both sides of the hole wall.

Except for a few dozen people who needed to stay behind and act, all the federal prisoners of war entered the tunnel along with Tolik's reconnaissance squad.

Half an hour later, the tunnel had been dug under the highway and began to turn and dig eastward along the highway.

At this time, the voice of Yuri ordering them to stop digging came from the communicator. Everyone knew that the performance on the ground was about to begin. The entire underground passage was silent. All the people were praying.

Meiduo and Niya didn't pray. Yuri had already brought them too many surprises. In their eyes, this fat man seemed to be able to do everything. Since he arranged it this way, then he must have a way to take everyone and escape. When it comes to escaping, not to mention the whole universe, just counting the whole federation, if the fat man admits to being second, who would dare to claim to be first?