Rebirth 1/2 Wastewood

The convoy walked southwest for two full days, but did not encounter the legendary third cleaning team. It was not until the end of the second day that Gu Chen received a message from them—they fell into a trap on the way. The big trap set by the puppet army lost half of the machinery and more than a dozen people. To make matters worse, the energy tank was blown up, and all vehicles lost power and could not move forward. keep going.

Now Gu Chen is faced with two choices, one is to turn to the third team's location to rescue them, wait for the airdrop of supplies, and then set off to the destination together, but this will probably take five or six days.There is another option, that is, their team will continue to move forward according to the original plan, and they will reach their destination in about two days, and then let the transport plane at the station go there directly to provide them with supplies.

The dry season is coming to an end, and the periodic green tide of Ida Star is coming soon. At that time, the entire war zone will be submerged by the green tide. Although all human settlements are amphibious, once the green tide arrives, the fortifications left by the scorpions will be buried. At the bottom of the water, cleaning is more difficult, and many information devices will fail because of this. Neither NTU nor the Marine Corps can afford to delay.After communicating with the captain of the third team, Gu Chen decided to take the people to continue to the destination. Their energy was barely enough. The protein seized in the last fortress could be used as a substitute for food. The only thing missing was water, but it was not enough for two days. It's long, and everyone should be able to hold it.

After two days of recuperation, Lan Se was well served by Chen Jinnan. Both his face and mood seemed to have recovered very well. Hearing about Gu Chen's decision, he came to him specially: "Are you sure you will receive the supplies in two days? Ours There is not much water, and if it encounters danger, it may affect the combat effectiveness."

Gu Chen flipped through the PAD in his hand, and it was the list of supplies that had just been updated: "The transport plane will only leave tomorrow afternoon, and we have to go to the third cleaning team to supply it first. After all, it is the rear, so there should be no large-scale ambushes, so don’t worry too much.”

"Didn't the third cleaning team encounter a trap? The rear doesn't mean there is no danger." Lancer frowned. He had only participated in military exercises before, and this was his first contact with a real war. This kind of plan can't keep up with the feeling of change Make him very restless.

"This kind of situation is rare after all. Besides, our team's defense is stronger than theirs, so don't worry too much." Gu Chen patted him on the shoulder: "The green tide is coming soon, we need to buy time to clean up this area. Get as much information as possible, so that the next stage of the battle will have a greater chance of winning."

Lancer felt his shoulders being warmly slapped by his big hands, and nodded involuntarily. He seems to have gotten used to following Gu Chen's arrangements during this period of time. Gu Chen seems to be born with a strong decision-making ability, and he can always make the right decision at the first time, which amazes him.He paused and said in a low voice: "I hope there will be nothing wrong with the transport plane at the station." The accidents that happened in the past two days made him somewhat suspicious of Yan Yijie's deployment.

"Probably not. It's a serious crime to delay a military plane, and you'll have to go to a court-martial." Gu Chen closed the PAD and stuffed it in his pocket, his long eyebrows furrowed slightly, and Yan Yijie's gloomy face faintly appeared in his mind. The boy has been trying to punish him for a long time, but I hope he hasn't reached the point of madness.

The convoy continued to move forward. Due to the lack of resources, everyone's supplies were compressed to the limit, especially the logistics staff. What Jin Yi got for two consecutive meals was lump protein found in the scorpion cave. It seems that after eating, there is always a smell of shoe soles in his mouth, which makes people sick. He has to comfort himself: In his previous life, he ate so many jelly capsules and Guiling jelly in Tianchao, and later it was revealed that they were made of leather shoes. , Now it’s just eating the soles of shoes, don’t be so squeamish as a hanging silk ==

Food is enough, lack of water is a big problem, as the road bumps, the compressed energy tank behind Jin Yi's buttocks makes the sound of rippling liquid, which makes him want to hold the fuel and drink a few sips.

During the break, Chen Jinnan came to him again and told him that he had gained the preliminary trust of Bi Yanhu: "Which school do you think he graduated from? You must not guess - the Royal Academy of Art! His university degree is actually Art, tsk tsk, let me just say, look at his pretentious style, he wears his hair like an artist in war, and he holds a degree in art in his emotional hand. Hey, I guess I was forced to join the army." He sighed sympathetically, with a sad expression on his face.

Jin Yi doesn't know anything about art, but he was quite surprised to meet an artist in a place like Ida Star, and he couldn't help feeling a little awe-inspiring. It doesn't matter if he engages in art and enters the army. It's very unusual to become a major in such a short period of time. , even if his father is a star general, he must be a talent.

"It's so sad not to be able to do what you like, alas!" Chen Jinnan looked at Lancer walking back and forth in the distance, and sighed deeply, "In this ghost place full of fighting machines, only I can understand his pain gone."

Jin Yiting's goosebumps are on the rise, Lancer has given up his ideals by joining the army, he joins the army is purely a pain in the ass, isn't it ideal to "kill my brother" and "kill your whole family"?

After two days of hungry and arduous travel, they finally arrived at the legendary Ida star war zone headquarters. Fortunately, they did not encounter any traps or ambushes on the way. Even at 12:30 p.m. Supplies.Gu Chen managed to establish a communication with the third team, and learned that they had received supplies in the afternoon, but there was a hurricane over there, and the transport plane could not take off for the time being, and could only leave after the wind stopped.

"Damn!" Lancer cursed the weather, "What if the wind can't stop for more than ten hours? Are we going to be trapped here to death?"

Gu Chen didn't even need to look at the PAD to know that their supplies wouldn't last until tomorrow. He frowned and looked at the silent wasteland in the distance. Below that was the suspected war zone headquarters surveyed by the military. Although he hadn't found the entrance yet, he was sure. The scale of the underground is very grand.

"I'll bring a team in, maybe I can find something underground." Gu Chen made a decision, "Old rules, Lancer, you stay here."

As usual, everyone camped on the side of the wasteland in a defensive formation. Gu Chen selected a group of fighters in good condition to go in and explore the way. Because this stronghold is extraordinarily large and completely underground, he took all the soldiers with him. Surveying equipment and armor.Jin Yi got out of the car to check the car as usual. He was already hungry and his legs were weak, but he still wore an oxygen mask and climbed onto the roof of the construction vehicle. Looking from a distance, he saw Gu Chen gradually walking away under the gray sky, and the machine. Armored warriors disappeared together in the wilderness with strange rocks.

Waiting silently, about a quarter of an hour later, there was a dull blasting sound in the distance, a bright blue flame shot up into the sky, and then a series of explosions were triggered, "Everything--" the earth trembled .

"What's going on?" The soldiers staying behind suddenly became tense and asked each other. Lancer immediately issued an order to let everyone strictly guard their posts. The whole team prepared for the battle, and the communication soldiers quickly established contact with Gu Chen.

"We found the entrance, and the explosion triggered the chain bombs they set up, blowing up some of the outlying fortifications." Soon Gu Chen's calm voice came out, "The instrument has detected a water source underground and compressed energy, but it's too much here. It’s too big, we can’t survey it as a whole, we need more people to come in.”

"I'll arrange it as soon as possible." Lancer replied.

The top priority is to find water sources and supplies, and defense has become secondary. Lancer decided to leave only one base vehicle to guard the periphery, and everyone else went in to help. Jin Yi was no exception, and drove the engineering vehicle into the wasteland.

The terrain of this fortress is stranger than anything I have encountered before. Stalactite-like rocks stand on the reddish-brown ground, which are uneven. Some are five or six meters high, and some are only half a person high, but they are very closely arranged. At the beginning, the base car could go around and move forward, but it was completely blocked after a few minutes. Jin Yi had to use the engineering car to clear the way for everyone - use the high-power manipulator in front of the car to cut off the rocks and throw them far away, clean up Create a path for vehicles to pass through.

With a short distance of more than 500 meters, Jin Yi was so tired that he was about to collapse when he reached the blasting point. He finally climbed out of the construction vehicle and sat on a big rock to rest, wheezing like a dog, but his eyes kept staring at him. Looking at the entrance blown out by them, it took a long time to see Gu Chen walking out with a person on his shoulders.

"Team doctor!" Gu Chen yelled loudly, "Tell the medical soldiers to go in and carry them. There are still two wounded inside. One mecha was cracked by the collapsed rock, and the pilot was also injured." Pointing to Jin Yi : "Engineering vehicle! Come here and dig up here, drag the mecha out for repair!"

"Yes!" Jin Yi struggled to climb into the construction vehicle, manipulated the manipulator to start a new round of work, while digging rocks while supporting it with metal rods and engineering glue, he dragged out the damaged mecha in less than half an hour. Fixed out a solid entrance.

"Good job." Gu Chen praised authentically. From the arrangement of the metal rods, it can be seen that Jin Yi's learning is not in vain, and his work is still very reliable.

The team doctor was saving people, the pilot was repairing the mecha, time passed quickly, Gu Chen gathered everyone together, projected a huge map on the open space in front of the entrance, and said: "This is the result of our survey just now, From the map, this underground fortress is very grand, in the shape of a cube, with three floors up and down, and three parts in the left, right, front and back. There are a total of 27 independent spaces. It is preliminarily estimated that there may be a water storage tank in one of the spaces, as well as compressed energy and food. , we must get these as soon as possible."

Hearing that there are so many good things inside, the soldiers were a little excited. Gu Chen continued: "Now the entrance has been opened, and the internal structure is basically clear. In order to save time, except for the wounded and the peripheral guards, all active people have to Come in with me, search in groups, send a message as soon as you find what we need, and others will come to reinforce it."

Everyone took orders, and Lancer summoned people. As one of the "active ones", Jin Yi was also counted in. After reading the roster, Gu Chen didn't express any opinions. He asked everyone to prepare and entered the underground fortress first.

Bypassing the collapsed boulder at the entrance, the road suddenly became flat. Probably because of the large scale, the underground passage of this fortress is also very wide and smooth. There is also a metal beam on the top, which is very long and extends far away, like a certain A kind of hanging rail, unfortunately, no means of transportation that can be hung on it have been found.Jin Yi didn't know whether it was because he was hungry or because he was too excited to be with her husband. He felt that his legs had regained some strength, and he was able to keep up with Gu Chen's pace while carrying more than ten kilograms of equipment.

"Look here!" Gu Chen said suddenly, the light pointed to a fork in the road, Jin Yi looked along the light, and was surprised to find that it was a series of steps, very flat steps, just at a height suitable for human walking, not at all like a scorpion Or something a puppet can use.

"They guessed right, there are indeed traces of a large number of mutant activities here." Gu Chen walked over, took a video of the steps, prepared to send it to the headquarters after going out, and then led them to continue walking.Soon they came across a metal door with a password. Gu Chen and another pilot spent ten minutes working together to crack the password and open it.

The strange scene inside the door stunned everyone, including Gu Chen, who has been on Ida Star for so long and is used to the rough crypts of scorpions. He has never seen such an exquisite underground structure—here is a The circular underground cavity with a diameter of more than 200 meters is like a huge bubble buried underground. A giant cube is floating in the bubble, like a large silver-white "box". Without cables, this metal "box" seems to be floating in the air bubble under the action of some kind of magnetic field, and it is stable.

"what is this?"

"The underground command post of the scorpions?"

"Why is it suspended? How do I get in here?"

After a brief shock, the soldiers talked a lot. Gu Chen asked someone to turn on the surveying instrument, and at the same time opened the rainbow covering the right eye. After a while, it was confirmed that the "box" in front of them was the three objects they had surveyed on the ground before. It turns out that it is not a cave, but a metal Rubik's cube. Yes, no matter which direction it is counted from, it has three floors. The whole is made up of 27 small grids, which looks like a Rubik's cube.

Gu Chen glanced at the bottom of the Rubik's Cube, and the rainbow showed a blue-green disk there. It may be a high-power energy field buried under the ground. It should be this energy field that supports the weight of the Rubik's Cube, allowing it to float in the crypt. .

It's really an ingenious design, not at all like the handwriting of the Ida Stars, but rather like a masterpiece of human beings.

No, it should be the masterpiece of mutants... Gu Chen corrected herself like this, and for some reason, she subconsciously remembered her father.