The structure of the base station is simpler than that of the outpost, and there are not so many underground layers. Lu Ning, who had full authority, easily arrived at the data archive room.
The log file here has been called once by Mo Lianren's team. If there was any superficial information, Mo Lianren would have noticed it long ago. Lu Ning first called up the historical data of the warehouse. Even if the warehouse has been cleared, the previous Inbound and outbound information is also retained.
"Mixed nutrient solution, high-pressure oxygen tank, semi-transparent crystal block, genetically modified fast-growing seeds..."
Looking at the storage list of the previous warehouse, in addition to basic water, food and ammunition, there are many things that need to be produced in large quantities. After these things were extracted, the relevant production orders were also canceled, leaving only the basic materials.
"It seems that the environment at Outpost No. 1 is relatively harsh...or did they deliberately choose a relatively harsh area?" Spider Silk also saw it from the side. "These things can quickly build a green belt. They are basically necessary to quickly generate green space. thing."
Indeed, although there is lush vegetation on the Phantom Star, there is no shortage of extreme terrains such as volcanoes and deserts. Judging from the scenes seen on the landing craft before, there is a long desert group on this continent close to the equator.
"But why do they take so long to plan for a desert?"
After hearing the discussion here, Spades and others also came over.
"I think... it may not be a trivial matter. The people at Outpost No. 1 will not stay so long for the greening of an area. The need for so many supplies must be a large-scale collective action." Bayonet lowered his head and pondered, "Could it be that... Did they find something unnatural? Or is it a Class A hazard?"
Lu Ning was a little surprised. She hadn't told the team members about the discovery of the unknown civilization building, but Bayonet's information sensitivity was really extraordinary. No wonder the superiors arranged for her and Spades to be scouts.
"It's possible!" Clarinet shouted, "They may have entered a certain building and encountered an A-level fantasy beast inside..."
"Don't mix everything together, Clarinet." Spade sighed helplessly, "And if there really are A-level fantasy beasts, then they would have been doomed when they tried it, and there would be no chance for them to proceed further. His command? Although the records here are only for such a short period of time, our outpost had communications with Outpost No. 1 until the disaster occurred."
"Those speculations cannot be confirmed now." Lu Ning transferred this information to his terminal, and then opened the log file, which contained information manually entered by some personnel. This base station has not been used for a long time, so apart from the updated information written by Mo Lianren, the rest are very few records left by people back then.
The first one comes from the completion of the base station.
[Captain of the No. 1 Outpost Construction Force, Zeng Xiaorong: According to the instructions of Captain Zheng Heng, the No. 1 base station was completed here. The production indicators have been entered, and it is expected that the predetermined target resources will be accumulated after five months of the Phantom Star Calendar. 】
The next one is one month from now.
[Captain of the No. 1 Outpost Construction Force, Ren Ju: Captain Zeng was attacked by poisonous creatures during a mission and failed to return to the base. From now on, I will be responsible for monitoring the progress every month. Base Station No. 1 is operating normally. A few robots were attacked and damaged by underground fantasy beasts and were automatically replenished. This issue will be reported to Mr. Pang Xu to try to avoid any reduction in resource accumulation caused by this. 】
Then there is the fixed monthly information.
[Ren Ju: The second time I checked, the total resource accumulation was in line with expectations, or even exceeded. Mr. Pang Xu should have paid attention to this matter. Base stations 2 to 5 have also been established, but base station 1 is still the focus, and I feel deeply honored. 】
[Ren Ju: After checking for the third time, it seems that an accident occurred. The reason is suspected to be the threat of natural disaster caused by the passage of B-class phantom beasts, which even affected the underground. This month's resource accumulation is not satisfactory, and B-level fantasy beast information should be reported. 】
[Ren Ju: After checking for the fourth time, the damage has been repaired and everything is back to normal. The supplies should have reached the quota next month. You can ask Mr. Pang Xu to check. Considering the importance, perhaps we should apply for a group of personnel to be stationed here. 】
The information before extracting materials is more dense.
[Ren Ju: For the fifth check, Mr. Pang Xu has scheduled the material extraction time to be seven days after the ephemeral calendar. We are ordered to guard here to ensure that the materials are normal. After the production of this batch of materials is completed, this base station will be converted into a general material production block, and I will be responsible for command adjustments. 】
[Ren Ju: The material collection team will arrive tomorrow. I have summoned all team members to stay inside the base station. There is no need to guard the outside. People will be mobilized to do a good job of sentry duty. It's best not to have any problems. 】
[Ren Ju: The supplies have been extracted and the relevant commands have been removed. This base station will produce ordinary supplementary supplies. The detailed list of previous production can be viewed in the registration record of the warehouse. Since then, the No. 1 Outpost Construction Force has completed its mission at the No. 1 Base Station. I hope that future generations can benefit from this, and I wish you well. 】
There are not many logs, and they are all very brief. After all, this part is not clearly required by the military. Those are the responsibility of the machine to prevent human fraud. The part here is more like a diary. This officer named Ren Ju wrote down the important things he saw and heard.
"It seems there is no problem." After a while, Spades spoke first, "The establishment of the base station at Outpost No. 1 must have given priority to meeting its own needs. Later, the authorization qualifications were also released, and the relevant records also corresponded to the entry and exit records of the warehouse. right?"
"The problem is big." Spider silk and Lu Ning said at the same time.
"Uh... I don't understand." Bayonet was also a little confused. Recorder didn't look at the log record carefully at all, and couldn't find any problem.
Lu Ning looked at the spider silk: "You should tell me first."
"Okay captain. I really don't see anything else. I just think that the captain at the beginning, Zeng Xiaorong, has undergone some changes after his death." Zhusi said cautiously, "What Zeng Xiaorong said was ordered. It came from Zheng Heng, but in Ren Ju’s subsequent records, it was entirely Pang Xu who gave the order. Generally speaking, the top commander of a project will not be replaced easily. Besides, we all know that Pang Xu and Zheng Heng lived at least for a long time. Isn't it? Why did the change happen here?"
"Construction and gathering supplies may be two orders." Recorder said.
"No, recorder, if we want to divide them, Pang Xu belongs to the military research establishment, while Zheng Heng belongs to the standard army establishment." Lu Ning said.
"Oh?" Recorder's tone rose slightly.
"It is indeed impossible for such an ultra vires order to happen. Although it is just a personal diary, the hierarchy system of the army is very strict. Pang Xu and Du Heng are on the same level. Just like us, if another captain comes to give you an order, you will not obey it. There will be no condemnation from the military department. Soldiers are born to obey only their superiors. This is the rule of the alliance, unless all their direct superiors are dead." Lu Ning's eyes read line by line on the log and continued to think. The situation inside.
"Does that mean there has really been a change of power at Outpost No. 1?" Spider Silk asked.
"It is almost certain that something happened that caused Pang Xu's status to be higher than Zheng Heng in some sense, and this formed a superior-subordinate relationship. This relationship will be reflected in ordinary soldiers, because the orders they receive must Directly signed by Pang Xu... If Zheng Heng becomes a subordinate, it must be the highest order. Pang Xu probably did not want to cover up this matter, so is Zeng Xiaorong's death normal?"
"We can't verify this kind of thing. We don't even know where he died." Spades said.
Lu Ning nodded: "But changing people always feels wrong. This Ren Ju may not be the person who can be involved in many secrets at the beginning, so both Pang Xu and Zheng Heng are superiors to him. But this kind of Will the accident be undetectable? Wait, what he wrote is..."
She looked carefully at the log.
General instruction changes will be left in the system's automatic records, and no one has the right to modify them, they can only call them. It is precisely because of the existence of this process that when the soldiers give update instructions at the base station, they simply mention and leave a date, just like Mo Lianren did before. But Ren Ju obviously mentioned it twice here.
Twice is not necessary. This is not a rule, it is just a tacit agreement among the lower-level soldiers. Therefore, those who served in senior positions from the beginning would not know about this. That is, Lu Ning himself rose from the army to captain step by step. Only then did I understand the habits of many ordinary soldiers.
Deleted things will naturally not be displayed in the log, so did Ren Ju really just delete a command? No one has used this base station for such a long period of time. What if it was the last arrangement made by the captain before he left to prevent the deleted parts from being irreparable due to repeated reading and writing over time?
Lu Ning immediately exited the reading interface, exported the recovery program from her personal terminal, and began to repair the logs. She had no goal and could only find it. Fortunately, the advancement of technology made her terminal function better, and the process did not cost too much. long time.
A long list of material names and model drawings corresponds to the warehouse list, followed by two deleted log contents.
The first one is after the third viewing.
[Ren Ju: Regarding the death of Captain Zeng, there have been more discussions within the team, and the situation has even begun to become somewhat complicated. I have to talk to every team member and appease their emotions... This is my responsibility as the captain. But what is very strange is that there is no problem with the site selection or construction template of this outpost. Captain Zeng has been responsible for building various supply facilities for more than ten years, but this time the damage is too much, as if there is something somewhere. A fatal omission. 】
The other one was deleted immediately after recording before the last message.
[Ren Ju: This is the only way I can think of. I hope someone will have a chance to discover this record. I will set up a system BUG that will last for about five years to ensure that no one can write logs here within five years. If there is such a problem, five years is enough for people to form the habit of not leaving words here.
I'm sorry, I dug up Captain Zeng's body.
Uneasiness has taken root in the hearts of every soldier. We cannot follow a commander who we have no idea what they are doing. They are not even willing to give us a false comfort. We have to find a way ourselves.
Based on our rough inspection methods, there are two conclusions that can be determined: First, the cause of Captain Zeng's death was poisoning, but it was not the biological toxin of the poisonous phantom beast. Secondly, Captain Zeng’s body did not decompose, even though it had been buried in the soil for nearly five months.
There are microorganisms on the Phantom Star. We don't think these things will be picky about alien life, so the only explanation is that kind of poison - a highly toxic poison that can even prevent the decomposition of microorganisms. We don’t know who is crazy, Pang Xu, Zheng Heng, or even ourselves. Looking at the weird-looking creatures in the laboratory, sometimes I even thought that I would become like that.
I may not live long.
But someone must know that something is wrong with Pang Xu and Zheng Heng. They murdered their own soldiers, a crime worthy of a court-martial. But the person who judges them does not exist. Whether it is power, intelligence or force, Outpost No. 1 is the top of the planet, and they are the people standing at the top.
I can die, but soldiers should die on the battlefield, and we will fight to the end. 】
"...How do you say it?" Spade read this long diary, his tone full of doubts, "The two people carefully selected by the alliance, Pang Xu and Zheng Heng, the top two of the advance team, conspired together to rebel, and they were tricked. Everyone else?”
"Correction means eliminating dissidents. They have obviously discovered something and are planning a major operation. Before that, they must eliminate all the people in Outpost No. 1 who are not loyal to them." Spider Silk gritted his teeth and said, "Yes. , loyal to them...not to the Alliance."
Lu Ning sighed: "Spider silk, control your emotions. What we see now is just a log, and we still don't know the true nature of the matter."
"Captain, don't you think we should respect a soldier's intention to convey it even to the death?" Recorder rarely expressed his point of view, "He has made up his mind to fight to the end, and to use this method is considered to be meticulous for him. To leave clues, I think he did a good job."
"Yeah." Lu Ning nodded.
"But... this diary also shows that he is indeed a little soldier who doesn't know anything and just follows orders. So it seems... normal for him to make wrong judgments without complete information." Bayonet said hesitantly. retorted.
"Bayonets, they are already dissatisfied. The fact that soldiers have such dissatisfaction means that there is something wrong with the commander's management." Spades shook his finger, "Just like when we are mercenaries, those who pay us know what we are going to do. It's a life-threatening job, so we are very generous with our actions. After all, no matter who we try to kill, it's the same to us, and they themselves are afraid."
"Uh... I don't quite understand. That means Pang Xu and Zheng Heng don't have the corresponding management capabilities, right?" Bayonet still disagreed.
"How could they not? They are all people who have worked in the army for so many years and are in high positions." Spider Silk was still aggrieved. "When something happens, you sacrifice some of the people below. You don't dare to do that in the alliance. But when no one cares about it, it starts to expand - power is the culprit that causes desires to get out of control, and it has always been like this!"
"Spider silk!" Lu Ning's voice was a little harsh this time, "I know you have experienced some unfair things, but think about everything you went through when you came here. The military has made such a choice for you, if you let If even the same soldiers have this awareness, then are the more senior officers completely untrustworthy?"
"Subordinates are strict in their selection, only superiors are good..."
"I'm also an officer, and I think I know the military's behavior better than you do." Lu Ning said coldly, "I won't punish you for this, but you must stay calm, otherwise I won't dare to give you anything important." work."
