General Lightner leaned out of the armored vehicle and looked left and right. This convoy has a total of dozens of main battle vehicles, several heavily armored mechas, and dozens of various load-carrying armored vehicles. The entire army consisted of approximately one thousand people. Compared with the more than 6,000 troops at the time of departure, the force at this moment seemed extremely thin.
The old general couldn't help but think of those abandoned soldiers again, and sighed secretly. He was not the one who gave the last order at that time, and the overwhelming tide of beasts really shocked him. In the end, he had to make the decision to give up on those who couldn't keep up.
Leitner sighed again, calculated the troops on hand, and felt deeply inadequate. He decided that the first thing he did after returning to the base was to ask for more reinforcements and equipment. After fighting this beast tide with the Lancers in the Doomsday Shadow Fortress, Leitner knew very well that with the few people he had and being dispersed between the two bases, he could not stop the beast tide at this level no matter what.
He had no complaints about the departures of Looney and Hathaway, knowing that was the norm. There's no way Looney and Hathaway could actually stay in this damn place for years. They have to do the hard work of persisting and pioneering.
Just as he was thinking about it, he could faintly see the outline of the advancing base in the distance. Leitner frowned and said to the team members in the car: "We have seen the base, why haven't we received any reply from them? Are all the sentries asleep today?"
"I have sent confirmation messages several times, starting from ten kilometers away, but there has been no response."
The old general's eyebrows were already locked together and he ordered: "Everyone is on first-level alert, get into battle formation, slow down, release the mecha, and approach slowly."
The armored convoy immediately slowed down and spread out in all directions. Several heavy-duty mechas also got off the transport vehicles and approached the forward base surrounded by tank troops.
The base was quiet, no one was there, not even a light could be seen.
The leading tank has already approached several hundred meters away, but there is still no movement in the base.
At this moment, a soldier suddenly exclaimed: "Tide of beasts!!"
In an instant, the troops exploded. They were really frightened by the overwhelming sea of beasts. All of a sudden, the tank's gun barrel was pointing in all directions, and the mecha was spinning in circles, looking for traces of the enemy.
However, there was silence all around.
Finally, a strange beast appeared on the fortress wall. When it saw the armored troops outside, it was frightened, turned around, jumped off the wall, and ran away. Several cannons were aimed at it, and they watched it go away, but no one fired.
A moment later, another timid voice sounded on the channel: "The response signal of the war beast...that one has disappeared."
Leitner was so angry that he didn't have the strength to curse, and ordered: "The first team went into the base to see what was going on, and the second team responded."
More than a dozen combat vehicles started up, opened the ajar base gate, and drove into the base. Suddenly there was an exclamation in the communication channel: "Everyone is gone! Things are gone too!"
A moment later, Leitner stood in the center of the base, his face ashen.
The staff officer next to him was puzzled, "Did these guys defect? Where could they escape? And why would they escape?"
What’s really hard to understand is the last question.
At this time, the communication vehicle brought back news from another base. Just like here, the people were gone and all the equipment was gone, leaving only the empty building shell.
Leitner looked at the damaged walls and turrets, and said: "Within half a day, collect all the clues. Then see if there is anything else that can be used, and bring them all. Let's... go back to the Shadow of Doom."
This is a last resort decision. There is no energy or food here, and the more than a thousand of them cannot survive for long. And only the Doomsday Shadow Fortress has the equipment to communicate with the orbit.
One day later, William looked at the armored convoy outside the fortress in shock. He couldn't react for a while. Why were they back again?
Base No. 2 is very busy at the moment. There are more than ten small buildings of two or three floors around the main base, all of which are made up of residential modules. Viewed from the sky, they look like blooming daisies.
These are temporary living quarters, half buried underground to ensure a shooting perspective from the main base. Signal transmission and communication are still difficult problems. The distance between the weapon stations that Chu Jungui can accurately control cannot exceed 100 meters.
In this attack, not only did they get the pirate flag's supplies, but they also got a lot of technology. However, after thinking about it, Chu Jungui and Lin Xi decided to focus on the agent's technology. The Jolly Roger's technology was incomplete and not suitable for Planet 4. It is impossible for the two small agents to continuously obtain corresponding equipment and raw materials from the federation in the future.
Two special transport ships are currently the focus of Chu Jungui's research. They are able to repeatedly pass through storm clouds thanks to new ion protection armor attached to the hull. This armor will continuously eject small fragments, release powerful currents, and form an ion protective layer around the spacecraft to repel the ion storm in the storm clouds.
Needless to say, this layer of armor is extremely expensive. The more materials can withstand extreme environments, the price will rise exponentially. For example, the price difference between materials that can withstand 5,000 degrees and 50,000 degrees is more than ten times different.
Moreover, this layer of armor is still semi-consumable, and the cost is even higher.
Calculated based on the degree of loss during descent, the two transport ships can safely pass through storm clouds about three times. This is a remarkable achievement, and at least it gives hope to the people who landed on Planet 4. But Chu Jungui will not use them to escape from Planet 4 now.
In the outer space of the planet, the Jolly Roger and Lancers monitor all airspace. The slow transport ship cannot outrun the battleship, so leaving Planet 4 will lead to death.
Chu Jungui obtained a large amount of information from the Jolly Roger base, including the locations of the two legions' orbital bases and the troops deployed in the galaxy. Lin Xi was also shocked when he saw the number of troops, because the Federation put almost an entire legion here, and its strength was comparable to that of the Ninth Fleet of the Tang Dynasty.
This kind of strength is enough to suppress several star fields. How come they are all piled up in such a small galaxy, just waiting to open up the planet's surface?
It doesn't take much IQ to smell the unusual smell inside. No matter what the Federation wants to do, it is not something that two small agents can interfere with at this moment.
After learning about the true military strength deployed by the Federation, the test subject decided not to leave Planet 4 for the time being. The storm clouds actually become their natural protective umbrella.
There are still many things that can be done on Planet 4, such as unplugging the Doomsday Shadow Fortress?
The two bases of the Jolly Roger have given the test subject a taste of the benefits, and he is now curious about what is in the Lancer's fortress.
In the distant valley, in the new beast's nest, four groups of black shadows were surrounded together, and there were several smaller groups of black shadows on the periphery.
The largest black shadow in the center is teaching other black shadows, "You must feed the bandits to enrich yourself!"
A small black figure in the outermost circle was fiddling with a virtual scale, but no matter how it put weights on one end of the war beast, several groups of giant rhinoceros were placed on the clouds, but they could never weigh down the scale.
It couldn't help but mutter: "How come Kou is fatter than us?"
