Everyone was watching Chu Jun return, waiting for the next step. Changing strategy is not a trivial matter, but can determine the life or death of the entire base. It can be said that the survival of Base No. 2 to this day is basically based on Chu Jungui’s miraculous record.
Chu Jungui said: "The beast tide has developed long-range attack methods. We need to go forward to defend and find ways to increase the warning time. In this case, we need longer patrol routes and stronger individual firepower. I recently developed a set of functional components that can be loaded on a personal terminal for use. It can control four remote-controlled gun towers at the same time, and the accuracy is only slightly worse than full manual control. It is enough to deal with slow-flying missiles. I just want to use it For this component, the lowest level permissions of the personal terminal must be opened.”
Hathaway and Middleton looked at each other, and Hathaway nodded slowly.
Middleton said: "Miss's authority cannot be given to you, but other than that, including myself, I can give you low-level authority."
Opening up low-level permissions is equivalent to handing over the power of life and death into human hands. As long as Chu Jungui wants to, he can turn off the life support system of the armor at any time and kill anyone who wants to rebel.
"Very good, then I will transfer the components to you now and load them. In addition, I also have a design drawing here that should be useful."
The long night is finally over, dawn is coming, getting brighter and brighter, and the temperature is slowly rising.
Two light vehicles, one behind the other, were crawling on the hillside.
The car at the beginning was not driving very fast and slowly climbed to the top of the mountain. This is a light off-road vehicle with armor plates hanging around it. It looks like it can seat up to two people. There are two side-by-side gun towers on the back of the off-road vehicle. Judging from the long barrels, they should be anti-aircraft types. The front roof is a small rapid-fire gun tower.
The driver of the off-road vehicle following behind was not in the cockpit, but was sitting on the roof of the vehicle, leaning against the small gun tower next to it.
He said to the communication channel: "Hey! Joey, why are you always hiding in the cab? The signal there is not very good, I can't even hear what you are saying."
A vague voice sounded in the communication channel, accompanied by bursts of electromagnetic noise, "I want to live for two more years! I don't want to be nailed to the roof of the car by the spines of the Thornback Beast."
"Haha! That's right. If I were the one taking the lead, I would hide in the cab."
"Although you don't start it, you finish it."
The driver's smile became a little stiff, he muttered a curse word, got off the roof of the car, and returned to the cab.
"Hey, Joey! Don't you think we should ask the boss to install a communication antenna on this car? Otherwise, patrolling will be too boring."
"I'd rather be bored than encounter those damn beasts."
"I would like to run into a few of them, shoot them while retreating, and blow them up one by one! Ha, it's exciting just thinking about it."
"I hate sports shooting."
"Please, you can hit it more accurately than me."
"We are about to reach the top of the mountain. We only need to stay here for ten minutes. If nothing happens, we can go back."
"By the way, I heard that the boss is improving the reconnaissance vehicles. I hope the next batch of reconnaissance vehicles can be more powerful."
"I'd rather have thicker armor and run faster."
While chatting along the way, two off-road reconnaissance vehicles climbed to the top of the mountain one after the other, chose a position to stop, and looked at each other's horns. At this time they all stopped talking and concentrated on observing. Being able to detect the enemy earlier is the key to saving your life.
This mountaintop is about three kilometers away from the main base. If the off-road reconnaissance vehicle drives at full speed, it only takes a few minutes to get back. And as long as you escape within 2,000 meters of the base, you will enter the main fire protection circle, which is considered basically safe.
In the other direction, Chu Jungui and Mei Mei each rode a simple motorcycle and drove until they were six or seven kilometers away from the base before stopping.
The location where the two stopped was the highest area in the area. Chu Jungui inserted a metal pole here, then took a suitcase-sized device from Rose's hand and placed it on the top of the pole.
There is an omnidirectional motion capture camera on the top of the device, and three launch tubes next to it, each containing a flare. Once the motion capture device detects the presence of a live missile, it will fire a flare, providing the crucial early warning time. The built-in battery allows the early warning device to operate continuously for less than 3 planetary days, which is roughly equivalent to ten days on the home planet.
If it were on other planets, even working continuously for ten years wouldn't be a problem. But on Planet 4, slightly more sophisticated components can last for a little more than a week at most. Although biochips are not afraid of harsh environments, video recording devices do not have such resistance.
Chu Jungui and Mei Mei rode on their motorcycles and rushed to the next location to continue installing early warning devices. When these simple early warning devices are all in place, they will provide an actual early warning within a range of ten kilometers. Within a range of three kilometers, mobile patrol units will provide a second level of early warning and the first interception. As long as the first few flying missiles are knocked out, all the air defense towers in the base will be in place to intercept the biological missile attack of the beast tide with saturated firepower.
At the same time, in addition to the original satellite base, two new satellite bases have begun to be constructed. In any direction, if the beast tide wants to attack the main base, it must first break through the interception of the satellite base.
Among the experts brought by Jolly Roger this time are construction experts who are proficient in the design of various types of fortifications. The new satellite base has specially strengthened support structures and can completely withstand the bombardment of biological missiles. The main base has also made new additions to strengthen the support structure. At least if it is hit by a missile, there will be no large-scale collapse.
The materials provided by the herd in the previous round were consumed rapidly, and most of them were turned into gun towers and ammunition. Two materials science experts are working day and night to research new building materials based on local materials in order to replace the original design that consumes biological materials.
Of course, the most efficient research is actually agent chips, but the number of chips is limited and the number of research and development projects being carried out at the same time is limited. As a supplement, this group of experts can speed up the research and development process to a considerable extent.
However, as a side effect of the measures to deal with the existential crisis, the construction schedule of a series of leisure facilities such as bathrooms, lounges and even entertainment rooms has been postponed. Almost every expert under the pirate flag has put forward requirements for building a laboratory and provided design drawings for a complete set of experimental equipment.
Of course, these design drawings cannot be used directly. They must be optimized and turned into alien versions before they can be used on Planet 4. There are also very few pieces of equipment that cannot be optimized, so it is necessary to build a laboratory that can adjust the internal environment, and the workload is even greater.
Looking at hundreds of design drawings, both Lin Xi and Chu Jungui felt a kind of happy worry, not knowing where to start first.
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