Proceed to Extraction Point - Part 3

I sat against the rocks to calm my nerves before heading toward the Extraction Point. By my count, I have dealt with nearly 200 enemy soldiers since leaving the research dome ... which is about 200 more than I preferred to handle.

The US Army Corps of Engineers developed a powder back in 2017, that when mixed with water, produced a drink that is not only refreshing, but works to calm the nerves of a soldier after being involved in severe combat situations. This powder became known as blue gold, because of both it's color and power.

The use of blue gold was intended for situations like a death of a squad member, heavy combat action which included several fatalities, or situations where the soldier is put into a position where he is outnumbered by the enemy. Since I qualified for all three, I used the entire powder packet in one setting, instead of using the recommended allowance of one-half a packet. I don't think the Engineer Research and Development Center figured a single soldier would be put through so much trauma in such a small amount of time.

Feeling the blue gold drug race through my body was a wicked feeling ... especially, with the entire packet being administered into my body in one canteen of water. The feeling of my blood cooling brought back memories of the frozen research dome. My Nanosuit began to warm me, before I disabled the feature in order to let blue gold do it's job.

Within about 10 minutes, my heart rate had calmed, along with my nerves. It was time to move toward the Extraction Point and there was less than 200 meters to go now. I re-enabled the Nanosuit's Climate Control feature.

Headquarters informed me that I won't have the honor of meeting General Kyong now, but that I am going to be air-lifted out of the area once I make it to the Extraction Point. While the communications were scrambled, I found it coincidental when I heard another helicopter off in the distance a few moments later.

I knew the noise was not my ride, because the US Army wouldn't send a simple helicopter to extract me. So, this sound had to be coming from the Korean People's Army (KPA). So, I moved up the hill and hid under the cover of trees to wait things out.

The helicopter noise got louder and before long it flew over the top of me. I tagged the chopper with my binoculars to keep an eye on it's position.



This helicopter seems to be designed to carry troops more than to perform tactical bombing missions. So that must mean that the KPA overheard the conversation and placed some troops near by to foil my extraction.

My point was further justified when the helicopter continued to head in the same direction. Had it been looking to take me down, it would have been in some sort of search pattern. This chopper took a direct path out of the area ... as if to return to it's original place of origin.



I decided to take my time to the Extraction Point and stay up on the side of the hill as much as possible. I encountered no troops on my path toward the Extraction Point. Finally, I got within 60 meters of the marker and realized they had targeted an old grave site.



The US Army can be quite morbid at times. For the most part, it was a typical grave yard, complete with large crosses marking the graves of former occupants of the island. Some tombstones were huge, while others were pretty much non-existent. I am guessing the same held true then as it does now, that the bigger the tombstone, the more important one wanted to be portrayed.

Well, there doesn't appear to be anyone on my radar at this point. Maybe that helicopter wasn't dropping off troops. Maybe they did not intercept my signal. Maybe that blue gold Kool-Aide I drank is making me paranoid instead of relaxed.

As I approached the center of the marker, my rescue pilot alerted me that they are ready to land, except there are enemy forces near my location. Before they will attempt a landing, I need to take care of the situation.



I am going to take a look around and see what I can find.

I will be back soon.

Nomad ... signing out.

Secure the Extraction Point

I moved back up the hill and took a look around while in cloak mode. I found four soldiers on the other side of the grave site. They were stationed several feet apart from each other and were focused in different directions. From what I could tell, these were the most advanced Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers I have found so far.



I continued to use the trees as cover and my cloak feature to move closer to the first KPA soldier. I got within 30 meters of the soldier and used the scope and silencer of the submachine gun to take him out.

For the first time, the KPA soldier had more gear on. I decided to put the submachine gun into multi-fire mode. All I had to do is begin shooting and hold the trigger down until he fell down or I had to reload. As I started shooting, I realized this gear is more advanced than anything I've seen before ... that is, except my Nanosuit!

It took the entire 51 bullets to take down the first solder. Soldier number two was heading my way quickly. I had used up all the energy in the Nanosuit and had to hide behind the tree until the energy charged back up.

When I turned back around after enabling cloak mode, I noticed the second soldier had thrown a smoke grenade at me and was heading my way.



As I watched him, I saw him go into cloak mode! It appears that the KPA also has a Nanosuit! How in the world did this happen? My issue now is that I am already in cloak mode and he just enabled cloak mode. So, in theory, I will likely be seen before my enemy. How did this superior technology find it's way into enemy hands?!!!

About a year ago, all Delta Team members were forced to go into a six week training course on the Nanosuit. During the training, you learned how to spot the Nanosuit in cloak mode, in the event one of the suits are captured in working condition by an enemy. Right now, I was very glad this training took place. Quickly, I began to wonder if the soldier not even 60 meters from me attended a similar class.

With that thought in mind, I quickly began to scan the immediate area, looking for Light Difference Traces (LDTs) which were a minor side effect of the Nanosuit ... or at least the USA Nanosuit. LTDs are basically pixelated images that occur when the soldier steps into a different light pattern. As an example, if the soldier were to be walking on a sandy beach with the ocean in the background, then walked in front of some large brown rocks, the edge of the soldier would emit pixels that didn't match the correct background for a second or two. It is within that second or two that a window exists to locate and destroy the cloaked soldier.

Quickly, I found the LTDs as the soldier moved from heavy vegetation to be in front of a thick tree. I had a fix on him and unloaded 51 bullets into the path of what I believe was the soldier.

I hit part of him and caused his suit to malfunction. I could see him at point blank range. The issue was, he could see me too - since the Nanosuit I wore would automatically exit cloak mode once a weapon is fired. Without hesitation, I continued to throw lead in his direction until he too fell to the ground.

The next two soldiers were on their way. I used the same approach on the third soldier as I did the first soldier, which was pretty easy the second time. For the final soldier, I decided to plant a rocket at his mid section, then follow up with some submachine gun ammo until he too fell to the ground.

I looked down at the soldiers and noticed quite a few similarities between their Nanosuit and mine. How could this have happened? What other US secrets does my enemy maintain?



I stocked up on submachine gun ammo, since this battle cut into my 350 round supply.

My ride out of this part of the island was able to land in the grave site. I still think that is kind of morbid! As you can notice, the extraction vehicle looked nothing like the helicopter used by the KPA that I tagged earlier this evening.



I moved to the rear of the vehicle and noticed the back latch was open and for the first time since Prophet was stolen from me, I had comrades waiting to greet me.



I am going to take a seat and catch-up with the squad. By the look in their eyes, it doesn't appear that were are getting to the easy part of the mission. Meaning, much more trouble likely lies ahead.

I will be back in touch soon.

Nomad ... signing out.