()||9<黑屏1>0,10黑屏1>BGM_Empty:
()||98<黑屏2>BattlefieldGunfightCampaion-58-3:3rd Platoon temporary command post, outer rim of the Red Zone. +It's impossible to make out anyone within view; the ceaseless sound of barrages is the only proof that the battle is still ongoing. +The wrecks of three destroyed transport vehicles within the crater are producing thick clouds of black smoke.
NPC-Pan(0)Pan Squad 2 Leader0,60||:We actually intercepted the American troops?! With our pretty much non-existent experience?! +I've got to write a ballad to commemorate this!
NPC-Ange(28)Anna||:Fighting isn't that hard. I'll teach you little by little later on.
NPC-Pan(0)Pan Squad 2 Leader0,60||:You're awesome, ma'am! From now on, I'll do whatever you say!
NPC-Ange(28)Anna||:Rest up for five minutes while we wait for further directives.
NPC-Pan(0)Pan Squad 2 Leader0,60||:Yes, ma'am!
()||:Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Several objects whizz past above them towards 3rd Platoon's battle position.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||AVG_Explosion<震屏3>:Get down!!!
()||183AVG_Cloak_Whoosh:Anna pulls Alexander, who is the closest to her, down to the ground. Then, a powerful shockwave sends her rolling almost immediately.
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()||<黑屏2>9BGM_Empty:The world brightens and darkens. Dirt mixed with green crystal fragments smelling of rust and decay is sprinkled all over her head and body. +Someone seems to be shouting something. Anna glimpses a familiar figure, then darkness claims her...
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()||632<黑屏2><回忆>:Command College. +Many portraits of renowned figures are hanging on the wall in the fourth floor corridor. +The fifth from the right is a female scientist—Martha Meitner, who "gained international fame for her groundbreaking achievements in Relic technology research.”
()||AVG_Creep:On this quiet afternoon, Anna hears the hiss of a spray paint can as she walks down the corridor.
NPC-Ange(23)Anna||:Hm?
()Tall Male Student||:amerikosi have no place in our school!
()Small Male Student||:Get the hell out of the NSU, pindosi!
NPC-Ange(24)Anna||BGM_23S_Crossroads_Warrior:What are you doing?!
()||AVG_XXS_kick<震屏3>:Anna runs up to the two cadets and shoves them angrily aside. +Martha's face on the portrait is now a smear of black, and profanities are scrawled above her head.
NPC-Ange(24)Anna||:You assholes!!!
()||<震屏3>AVG_Punch_Hit:Anna punches one of them right in the face. +The cadet freezes in shock for a second, then he returns the blow, and the three of them are locked in an all-out brawl.
()||AVG_Combat_Hits%%type_id=2%%duration=3%%delay=0.1%%range=5:Anna takes a few blows before unleashing a flurry of punches on the two cadets, making them cower and back away. She glares at them with blazing eyes.
()Tall Male Student||:You assault your fellow cadets over a portrait of some pindosi bitch?!
NPC-Ange(23)Anna||:Ha. And you take your anger out on a portrait just because you don't have the balls to fight on the battlefield?
()Tall Male Student||:Херня! I'm gonna go out there and kill her right now!
()||:The cadet suddenly spots a figure in his peripheral vision. He looks up.
()Small Male Student||:I-I-Instructor Ra-Ramzan?!
()Tall Male Student||:Run! That's her brother!
()Small Male Student||:...
()||RunStep:The two cadets sprint down the corridor and disappear like the wind. +Ramzan is standing silently at the end of the corridor, his eyes dark and flat.
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()||<黑点2>630ClothingUp:Anna spits out a gob of blood angrily and dusts herself off. +The tall, straight-backed instructor finally walks up to her.
()Anna||:You saw the whole thing, then?
()Ramzan||:I've got to say, you fight like a gorilla drunk on vodka.
()Anna||:Ha, well, sorry for embarrassing you, Combat Instructor.
()||:Anna turns to leave.
()||<黑点1>ClothingUp:
()Ramzan||<黑点2>631:Stop right there.
()||:Anna keeps walking without looking at Ramzan.
()Ramzan||:Anna Viktorovna Tsoi!
()Anna||:What, are you going to give a personal demonstration on how to fight properly because I was so bad, Instructor? Right here?
()Ramzan||:Take the portrait down. Martha Meitner's.
()||ClothingUp:Anna whirls around.
()Anna||:Ramzan, are you human?!
()Ramzan||:I'm a Soviet, without a doubt. +What about you?
()Anna||:What kind of Soviet? The kind that cower in the safety of this school and can only gloat by defacing portraits?
()Ramzan||:She is an American researcher of Relic tech. What is your nationality?
()Anna||:I don't need to prove anything to you.
()Ramzan||:You need to prove it to yourself. +Take it down, or... take that off.
()||:Ramzan points first at the portrait, then at Anna's cadet armband.
()Anna||:You have no right!
()Ramzan||:I will never let someone who doesn't know which side they're on go on the battlefield.
()Anna||:You're the one who doesn't know!
()Ramzan||:Are you taking it down or not?
()Anna||:...You just don't want me out there.
()||:Ramzan gazes at Anna coldly.
()Anna||:Are you scared that I'd outrank you one day? +You've always been like this. Back in Beslan—
()Ramzan||:How dare you bring up Beslan?! +My brother is dead, but you live. +Anna Tsoi, why wasn't it you who died that day?!
()Ramzan||:...
()Anna||AVG_Creep:...!!
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()||<黑屏2>9Heartbeat:...
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()||<黑屏1>:
()||<关闭蒙版><睁眼>BGM_EmptyAVG_Creep98AVG_Tinnitus:Anna can feel herself being dragged along. Her head is spinning as if she had downed a whole bottle of vodka.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||BGM_23S_War_Sacrifice:Ma'am? Ma'am!
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Are you... trying to shake me to death...? Promotion?
()||:Anna's ears keep buzzing. She retches twice, but nothing comes out.
()||ClothingUp:Alexander rolls his eyes and lets go of Anna. He offers her a transparent pack labeled "glucose".
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Drink this.
()||Rope:Anna takes the pack, tears it open at the slit, and starts taking small sips from it.
()||:The survivors of 3rd Platoon are either lying prone or sitting upright. A medical Doll is tending to their injuries.
()||AVG_Camera_Focus:Wiktor is sitting back-to-back with another soldier and fiddling with the communicator in his hands.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Captain Ramzan got here and mounted a rescue with a Doll force. +Look at that pretty medic Doll. If Pan saw her, he'd definitely try to flirt...
()||:The burly man suddenly starts blinking back tears.
NPC-Ange(30)Anna||:What... happened to Pan?
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:The pindosi fired four mortar shells when they were retreating. +One of them hit Squad 2's position. Pan... was right where it landed.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:...How many have we lost?
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:...Four. Four more are injured.
NPC-Ange(31)Anna||:...
()||:Not far away, an injured soldier moans in pain. Other survivors stare dazedly at the sky while cradling their guns. +Alexander's head is buzzing and blank.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Pan was always going on and on about how popular he was with women and how great a poet he was. He kept calling himself the Pushkin of the 21st century...
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:I know it was an order from the brass. We had no choice but to fight. I just... I just...
()||:Alexander takes a deep and shaky breath and turns his face away.
()||ClothingUp:Anna pats him on the shoulder.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Alexander, you are the only veteran who enlisted willingly in the 3rd Platoon. Why did you enlist?
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:...I've got nothing left. +No family, no friends, no lovers... +I couldn't throw away even my country, could I...? +Well, it wasn't actually that noble. I simply had nowhere else to go, so I stayed with the Military.
()||:He tries to keep his tone casual and nonchalant, as if he were talking about the weather or what to have for lunch.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Enough about me. What's your story? +You want to be a field marshal. I, for one, know that's not true.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:You want the truth?
()||Rope:Anna finishes her last sip of the glucose solution.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:...I want to end the war.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60;NPC-Ange(29)||:...I've heard many people say that.
NPC-Alexander(0)0,60;NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:And?
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60;NPC-Ange(29)||:And they all died. +And the war carries on.
NPC-Alexander(0)0,60;NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:... +I have a question.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60;NPC-Ange(29)||:Shoot.
NPC-Alexander(0)0,60;NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:If everything in life is futile, then what is the point in struggling?
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:I think...
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,60||BGM_EmptyClothingUp:Vice-Leader, Leader, I detected that radio signal again!
()||BGM_23SF_zonghe_1:Alexander's answer is interrupted.
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,60||:These people are definitely nearby. Could they be the Rangers in the Red Zone?
()||:Wiktor holds onto their one last compact radio transceiver and stares at Anna with wide eyes.
()||ClothingUp:Anna turns to Alexander.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Didn't you say you couldn't crack their channel encryption?
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,60||:I can't with our equipment, but it'd be a walk in the park for those Dolls! +I hear Tactical Dolls come with a bunch of functions. They're fearsome fighters and are also computers on legs. If we can just borrow one or two...
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:They're elite forces. They are off-limits for 3rd Platoon.
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,60||:Isn't that captain your—
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,600.1||AVG_Punch:OW!
()||:Alexander kicks Wiktor in the shin. Still holding the transceiver in one hand, Wiktor hugs his shin and hops around, howling in pain.
NPC-Ange(31)Anna||:I'm dizzy.
()||ClothingUp:Anna leans against a large rock and closes her eyes. +Alexander shrugs, and Wiktor limps away miserably.
()||<黑点1>:
()||<黑点2>AVG_wind_grass:Wearing the protective suit in this muggy wind is as unpleasant as wearing a wet raincoat that sticks hotly to one's skin. +Anna keeps her eyes closed and drums her fingers lightly against her thigh. +After a moment of silence, Alexander eventually decides to venture a question.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:...Are you two fighting?
NPC-Ange(31)Anna||:Don't stick your nose into things that don't concern you.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:It's a good thing that you can still fight. +If Martina was still alive, we would be fighting every day, and nothing would make me happier.
NPC-Ange(28)Anna||:If... +Ha, you almost sound like a babushka who has to mediate all the fights at home.
()||:Alexander watches as Wiktor returns just as miserably. Anna opens her eyes.
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,60||:Ma'am, the captain won't talk to me. He's asking for you personally.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Мудак!
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Why don't I go?
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Are you asking for a dressing down?
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:If it means he'll lend us the Dolls, he can dress me down as much as he wants. +"Merits on the battlefield don't just jump into your hand", no?
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,60||:What do we do, ma'am?
()||HeartbeatBGM_Empty:Anna gets to her feet sullenly.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:I'll go ask for them. Don't follow me.
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()||<黑点2>469GF_2022_Summer_Battle_3:Temporary command post. +Ramzan is talking to a Doll with a grim look on his face.
()||ClothingUp:Anna approaches him and gives him a standard military salute.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Captain.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:...Take KS-23 to the Red Zone entrance and gather topographical data in the area. +If you encounter any life forms, you are authorized to decide if they're friend or foe and open fire at your own discretion. +If you lose our signal, save the data offline until you return to the rendezvous point and then share them with your teammates.
SVT38(0)SVT-38||:Yes, Commander.
()||ClothingUp:The T-Doll turns to leave.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Wait.
SVT38(0)SVT-38||:Ma'am?
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Captain, I—
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:Junior Lieutenant Tsoi, thank you for your help in intercepting the enemy reinforcements. The subsequent recon mission will be undertaken by the Dolls under my command.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:The 3rd Platoon has already conducted scans and surveillance on the terrain of the outer rim of the Red Zone. +I can hand over the data on one condition.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:You want to borrow some Dolls to crack the enemy's radio encryption system? +Anna, what is the top priority in any recon mission?
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Staying hidden. +You're no longer an instructor, so don't talk to me in that tone.
()||:Anna quips out of habit.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:What if you expose your own location in the process of doing that? Have you considered that at all?
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:What if the intelligence that we fail to obtain due to our own inaction ends up putting us at a massive disadvantage in the war?
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:Get out.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Ha, booting me out already? Fine, I'll go.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:Stop right there! +You, get out.
()||:SVT-38 stares in confusion for a second, then she hurries away immediately.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:Listen, our mission is to intercept the American's reinforcements. We've done that, you understand?
NPC-Ange(29)Anna;NPC-Pamzan(4)||:You're just gonna ignore Capita? That person is in the Dead Sea, and the Rangers can take him away at any moment.
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:That's the main force's job, not ours.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna;NPC-Pamzan(4)||:What, scared they'd give me a medal for this? Or maybe you simply don't want the 3rd Platoon to take the credit from you?
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:If military merits could be quantified in a bank account, your balance after ten years would still be small change compared to mine. +Remember—don't do anything outside of your assignment. Making unnecessary moves could very well drag us all down.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna;NPC-Pamzan(4)||Rope:Am I hearing this right? Are you telling me to run away from a fight?!
NPC-Ange(29);NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:Doing too much could lead to even more casualties. Just count the numbers. How many men you still have in 3rd Platoon?
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Doing too little will definitely result in irreversible loss, Captain. You know that better than I do.
()||BGM_Empty:Ramzan's eyes harden.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:...
()||ClothingUp:He closes his eyes and rubs the center of his brow. His eyes are ringed by dark circles.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:I know what I'm doing. +The way forward may be covered in barbed wire, but I have no choice but to keep going, even if I must do it on all fours.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Ever since that day, there's been no going back for me.
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()||<黑屏2>72Campaion-58-3:...
()??||:...The Professor won't wait. Hurry up, you lot.
()???||:Team 9, two vehicles just loaded. Preparing to return.
()???||:Team 6 still searching. No specimens found yet.
()????||:Team 7 is on our way back.
()??||AVG_whitenoise:If the Professor's work is delayed, you'll be the first to be thrown into the specimen processing room. +Make sure you complete the preliminary screening and loading of the specimens back at the plant by 1122. We'll all be out of here by 1130.
()???||:Understood.
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()||<黑屏2>469:Temporary command post.
()||AVG_keyboardtype_sci:The two Dolls pool their computational capacity together as a torrent of data flash across their eyes. +Anna and Ramzan are both deep in their own thoughts.
NPC-Wiktor(0)Wiktor Squad 1 Leader0,60||:What are they saying?
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Is that English? I only caught a few words here and there.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:Shut up.
()||:Ramzan glances at the map from time to time with a frown.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:Are they the Army? Mercs?
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:"Professor"? "Specimens"?
()||:Ramzan and Anna exchange looks and continue listening.
()???||:Still, the USA is practically a powder keg. They have a civil war on their hands any day now, so what are they doing over here?
()????||:Haha, if the Rangers hadn't come, how would we make a fortune? +We should thank them for giving us so many specimens.
()???||:But we wouldn't have had to relocate if the Rangers hadn't attracted a bunch of enemy troops. It's always a chore every time we move.
()Anna & Ramzan||:The Professor is Capita!
()||:The two blurt out the same realization they have come to at the same time, then look away from each other.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:Capita will slip through the Rangers' net and escape unscathed.
NPC-Ange(28)Anna||:We've caught a big fish this time.
NPC-Pamzan(4)Ramzan||:What you've caught is a shark. We don't have enough manpower. +KS-23, withdraw from the information black zone.
KS23(0)KS-23||:Yes, sir.
()||AVG_keyboardtype_sci:[Disconnecting...]
KS23(0)KS-23||AVG_21Winter_Error:Commander, I cannot break the connection.
()????||:The enemy troops are still a long way away. We'll be long gone by the time they get here.
()??||AVG_PauseBGM_Empty:Are you having fun eavesdropping, little bugs?
KS23(0)KS-23||GF_21winter_avg_betray:They've traced it back to us!
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||:!!!
NPC-Pamzan(6)Ramzan||:Force reboot!
()||AVG_Power_Down:Beep. The Dolls' eyes grow dull. They have initiated a forced reboot.
SVT38(0)SVT-38||AVG_keyboardtype_sci:Commander, an unidentified flying object has appeared within the Red Zone.
()Sentry||:What is that?!
()||:Bright blue orbs of flames light up in pairs amidst the light green fog like eyes.
()||AVG_Jet_Passby:Whum... The unidentified aircraft comes hurtling in their direction, its fiery tail leaving a bright trail in the sky.
NPC-Pamzan(6)Ramzan||:We have a situation. Withdraw at once.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||<震屏3>:It's coming for us? Find cover!!!
()||:The aircraft passes by at low altitude, and a shell falls on them.
()||9Explode:Boom!!! +Tongues of flames and black smoke rise into the sky amidst the explosion.
NPC-Ange(29)Anna0.1||:Ramzan!
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()||<黑点2>41<火花>AVG_20Winter_Burnfire_Loop:The aircraft roars away in an instant. Anna immediately scrambles to her feet and stumbles towards where she remembers her men are. +There are no soldiers standing anymore. One of the survivors is trying to save his comrade next to him, but even just dragging the comrade a little makes him howl in agony. +Memories of the past suddenly wash over Anna like a large wave.
()||:Gunshots, pitiful wails and cries, the delirious moans of dying people... +The terror-stricken crowd, the girl shivering behind a safety box, her eyes brimming with tears...
NPC-Ange(30)Anna0.1||ClothingUp:...!!
()||:Someone grabs Anna by the arm, making her shudder.
NPC-Alexander(0)Alexander0,60||:Ma'am!
()||:Half of Alexander's face is suffering from burns. He is in a terrible state.
NPC-Pamzan(6)Ramzan||:Anna? Anna!
()||ClothingUp:Ramzan also claws his way out of a mud pit. His protective suit is riddled with holes and scorch marks.
()||Rope:Ramzan holds on to Anna's arm as if to make sure of something. Then he drops her arm and pays no more attention to her.
NPC-Pamzan(6)Ramzan||AVG_tele_connect:Dolls, to me. Prepare to force our way through.
()||:The smoke slowly dissipates.
()||AVG_Team_Running:They can just about make out the rows of heavily armed soldiers closing in on them from a distance...
NPC-Ange(29)Anna||AVG_weapon_reload:Whoever can still move in 3rd Platoon, follow me! We're getting out of here!
()||<黑点1>: