Base No. 2 has reached this stage of development and seems to have fallen into a bottleneck period. It has been three years since the home planet encountered a major beast tide. All the accumulated organic materials have been exhausted, and many equipment are about to stop working. Seven of the ten large editing machines just built have been converted to produce heavy alloys. In just one day, all the editing machines will be converted to do the same thing.
Chu Jungui was in a daze, and Lin Xi's voice sounded on the communication channel: "Jungui?"
Chu Jungui transferred back some of his computing power, otherwise he would not even be able to speak. "Um?"
"We don't have enough raw materials, and a lot of equipment will stop working soon."
"There seems to be no good solution to this."
"We shouldn't have used fusion bombs last time." Lin Xi sighed.
"If we don't use fusion bombs, more people will die."
"I know." Lin Xi sighed again and said, "We can't stop like this."
"There are no war beast materials, but aren't the double-leaf trees and comfrey endless?"
"They alone are not enough. I think..." Lin Xi hesitated.
"What do you think?" Chu Jungui asked.
"We have to go fight the beast tide." Lin Xi finally said what was in his heart.
Chu Jungui didn't expect Lin Xi to be so tough. After smiling bitterly, he had to quickly comfort him: "Look, we need the materials to make weapons. The purpose of making weapons is to kill war beasts, kill war beasts..."
"It's to get more materials." Lin Xi answered.
"Uh..." The test subject choked suddenly.
"I haven't seen a war beast for three consecutive days. This is not normal. Even the alien beasts and lizard beasts that usually appear in the forest are gone. There must be a reason for this. We have to find them and see what happened. .I’m not doing it for the material, really."
The test subject always felt that the last sentence she added was the truth. But in any case, such a quiet situation is indeed a bit strange. He mobilized all his computing power, quickly formulated a plan, and then said: "Give me 12 hours to prepare, and then we will conduct a reconnaissance within 50 kilometers."
"12 hours, okay."
Half a day later, three armored off-road reconnaissance vehicles set off from Base 2 and drove towards the direction of the live missile attack.
The reconnaissance vehicles have all been modified and made larger, from four-wheeled to six-wheeled all-terrain vehicles. Moreover, the battery pack on the car has been doubled, which means it is more powerful and can carry more equipment. Each all-terrain vehicle is equipped with two double-mounted fifth-generation mechanical keyboards. Only the car Chu Jungui was sitting in had four air defense towers. At the same time, the armor of these three vehicles is all 'survival' composite material armor. Both the Spinyback Beast and the Lizard Beast are helpless against this new material armor.
Under full power, the reconnaissance vehicle can advance on relatively flat terrain at a speed of more than 80 kilometers per hour, and has a range of up to 400 kilometers.
Although this speed is not faster than the alien beasts, it is far superior to other war beasts, and the alien beasts can only run at the highest speed for a few kilometers, so the safety level is greatly improved.
The three reconnaissance vehicles moved forward in sequence, with Chu Jungui and Lin Xi at the beginning, Hathaway and Middleton in the middle, and Rose and Roland at the back.
Chu Jungui said while driving: "If we run into a tide of beasts, the upper levels of the base will be wiped out."
"We can run if we encounter one and take the beast tide back to the base." Lin Xi accidentally let it slip again.
Chu Jungui had no choice but to move forward. Furthermore, it is still unsettling to not understand the dynamics of the beast tide, and Lin Xi's decision-making is also reasonable.
It was a peaceful ride.
After driving for about an hour, Chu Jungui's personal terminal sounded a prompt that the scheduled 50-kilometer reconnaissance had reached the end.
Chu Jungui stopped the car, and the two reconnaissance vehicles followed him one after another, parking on the left and right respectively. Lin Xi jumped on the roof of the car and even stood on the air defense tower, looking far into the distance.
Chu Jungui got out of the car, looked around, and then asked, "How are you doing? Did you see anything?"
"No, nothing."
Next to her, Rose was also looking around with a scope. After looking for a long time and finding nothing, she immediately said: "Where have all these damn war beasts gone? Why are none of them missing?"
Lin Xi thought for a while and said, "Let's go 50 kilometers deeper."
Chu Jungui was taken aback and said, "No! Once we encounter an accident, it will be difficult for us to escape back to the base."
"As long as we escape in advance, the beast tide will not be able to catch up with us. The alien beasts have never separated from the main body of the beast tide and acted alone in the past. Besides, if it is just the alien beasts that chase us, wouldn't that mean death?"
"Up to 10 kilometers."
"50 kilometers!"
"20!"
"make a deal."
"..." The test subject felt as if he had been tricked.
After a while, the reconnaissance vehicle started driving again, but this time the speed was much slower. Chu Jungui controlled the speed below 40 kilometers and observed the surrounding situation while driving.
As a test subject, Chu Jungui can automatically identify all unusual targets in his field of vision. But after walking another 10 kilometers, I still didn't see any war beasts, not even moving animals. At this point, everyone knew something must have happened.
Chu Jungui slowed down again, not letting go of any clues. At this time, Lin Xi, who had been standing on the roof of the car observing, suddenly said: "Herd of alien beasts!"
Chu Jungui drove the car up a relatively high slope, then jumped to the top of the air defense tower and looked in the direction of Lin Xi's finger.
Near the horizon, a group of strange beasts were trotting into the distance. There are approximately more than a hundred strange beasts in this group, and there are no other groups of beasts around. With this size alone, it is not even a beast tide.
Lin Xi held up a high-powered telescope and said, "There is a messenger above them."
High-power telescopes are still better than Chu Jungui's eyes. After Chu Jungui was reminded, he could barely see clearly that there was indeed a messenger above the group of strange beasts. The messenger hovered above the alien beasts, constantly leading the alien beasts forward. After flying for a while, the messenger left the alien beasts and flew in another direction. The herd of alien beasts, on the other hand, already knew the direction, moved forward on its own, and kept moving away.
Lin Xi marked the routes of the alien beasts and the messenger on the map, and then asked, "What should I do?"
Chu Jungui looked at the direction in which the messenger was flying and suddenly said, "Wait for me here."
After that, he jumped out of the reconnaissance vehicle and flew away in the direction where the messenger left.
Before Lin Xi had time to stop him, Chu Jungui was already far away, even faster than the reconnaissance vehicle.
"What is he going to do?" Hathaway was surprised.
"Maybe..." Rose had a vague guess.
At this time, there was a faint gunshot in the distance, and the messenger suddenly fell to the ground. Chu Jungui passed over the messenger like a ghost, picked it up, and ran back all the way.
After a while, Chu Jungui returned to the reconnaissance vehicle, threw the messenger into the vehicle, and said "alive".
Rose on the side suddenly felt a little shy and whispered: "How do you know that I am good at torturing foreigners?"
