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Of course, the Kodiak-class battle cruiser does not have the ability to moor on the ground, although it can enter the atmosphere to fight, but the original design did not consider the maintenance and docking operations on the ground, but there are a lot of large equipment in the belly of the ship, and if you have to moor the ground, you need a huge support slipway to park. Ｘ

Therefore, when the "Battle Till Dawn", the flagship of the GDI space mobile fleet, sailed over the Mediterranean, the transfer of Lin Hai and his party, as well as the one with the brain-shaped jellyfish storage box, was a large transport aircraft, and of course, a whole group of escort aircraft was indispensable, and they were afraid that there would be another collision.

You know, Lin Hai lost contact with the headquarters because of the collision this time, but there was a lot of chaos, if it weren't for the fact that the people at the top of the GDI who knew about it were all from Tieying, I am afraid that someone would jump out soon to grasp the GDI that lost the supreme commander.

But even if the GDI senior management from Tieying blocked the news in the first time, Lin Hai had not been seen for nearly a day, which still aroused the suspicion of many people, after all, it was the war period, and he had a lot of work, but there was no way to be absent from his post for a long time.

Fortunately, Brigadier General Towin personally went out to carry out the search and rescue work, and after spending nearly eight hours searching the surface area from space, he finally discovered the fire that appeared in the area where Lin Hai and them were fighting, and personally lowered the rescue site in the first time It took a lot of time to find the explosion and fire generated during the battle, mainly because Lin Hai and they fell in the desert area of the Middle East, and there were also battles in the nearby area, and Brigadier General Towin had to pick out the right location from these battles.

Of course, the full-range jamming of the Sijing people actually helped Brigadier General Towin make some choices on the issue of selecting targets from another aspect.

"Sir, I don't think you need to deliver that thing yourself, do you?" In the hangar of the "Battle Till Dawn", Brigadier General Towin glanced at the brain-shaped jellyfish that had been transferred to the transparent storage box, and said to Lin Hai alive, "Due to the unfavorable situation in Poland, the Geneva side has held several meetings in a row, demanding that GDI must take the factory within 24 hours, so they want you to attend those meetings as well." We've all dragged off for a bit of time, though, on the grounds that you're still dealing with the aftermath of the space battle. But if you don't go to Geneva, I'm afraid it's going to turn the sky upside down. I have heard that many people have complained that GDI only attaches importance to the development of the Space Force and does not attach importance to the development of the ground forces. ”

"It's not just handing over that thing to Dr. Kane." Lin Hai said, "I still have some important things to discuss with him. Also, as for the Gorgon base, you have a starship stationed here to enhance security. The Sijing people also took that thing very seriously, and if it weren't for the fact that we controlled the cosmic power in orbit, they would have sent a much larger force to snatch the creature. I don't want to be attacked by the Sijing before I figure out the value of that thing. ”

"I understand, a starship will be arranged to be stationed at the Gorgonne experimental base in a while." Towin nodded, "However, our current number of starships is still relatively tight, and after the loss of two orbital ion guns, if any ground support mission is handed over to the space fleet, it will inevitably affect the fleet's anti-ship mission." If possible, let Dr. Kane design a dedicated intra-atmosphere flying ship, or simply modify the design of the Higra-class destroyer to make it also capable of intra-atmosphere operations. This will solve the problem of insufficient number of combat ships in our atmosphere. ”

"Needless to say, I have this plan too." Lin Hai sighed, "Ever since I was hit by the Sijing people's stealth aerial vehicle, I have been thinking that if I had returned to the surface on a starship at that time, there would have been no such chaos. It's a pity that even the Kodiak class and the sea behemoth class, the so-called ability to enter and exit the atmosphere alone, is only after entering the altitude of low-earth orbit, it can fly out on its own, once the descent altitude is less than 30 kilometers or even 50 kilometers, if you want to leave the surface and return to space, you can only go to the ground base to install auxiliary lift-off equipment. So I also wanted Dr. Kane to design a large combat ship that could really enter and exit the atmosphere on its own. But until then, the ground support mission will have to be left to your fleet for a while longer. ”

"I'm relieved to know that the chief has this idea too."

After a period of exchange, Lin Hai took the plane to leave under the escort of the escort fleet, and the "Battle Till Dawn" also turned randomly and flew towards the Obia base, which is currently on the surface, and the base that can be equipped with auxiliary propulsion engines for the starship, except for the Antarctic base that cannot be exposed, is only the Obia base, and the Gorgonne base is still in the territory of other countries on the surface, and it is not convenient to build a large starship mooring slipway in the early days, although there are plans to rebuild this aspect, but Commodore Towin is definitely not needed at the moment.

Seeing Dr. Kane in the research laboratory area specially prepared for Dr. Kane at the Gorgonne base, Lin Hai told Kane all the information he had, and then handed over the brain-shaped jellyfish to the research center.

Kane only listened to Lin Hai's narration and carefully observed the brain-shaped jellyfish creature, and also determined that the creature must not be something as simple as a pet, not to mention whether there is such a species on the earth, but there is no such thing on the earth as a jellyfish that can survive without water.

Brain-shaped jellyfish organisms could only be species outside of Earth, according to Dr. Kane's conclusion after examining genetic fragments extracted from jellyfish. His genetic source is one of the great masters of biology, and although his clone has never been assigned to study biotechnology because of the problem of the source body, he still has a considerable level in this regard.

"For the time being, I can conclude that this jellyfish-like creature is very likely to be what the Sijing people use for remote communication." Kane pointed to the tightly guarded jellyfish in the observation room and said, "We have never been able to understand how the Sijing people can maintain communication on their own while jamming at full range. I thought they were more advanced in communication than we were, but since you met the mind-controlling Sitter species in Geneva, I've been inspired by the fact that they probably use creatures like telepathy to communicate faster-than-light, and this jellyfish is a tool-like telepathic creature. ”

"I personally doubt it." Lin Hai had a different opinion on this statement, and he had always admired Dr. Kane's ability, and he refuted it, "If it really has telepathic ability, then wouldn't all the secrets in my brain be discovered by it?" Besides, we know so little about such abilities that it's impossible to stop them from communicating telepathically, so how do we keep our secrets from being passed on by this thing? ”

"And what do you think it is?"

"I don't know anything other than that it can't be a pet and has a special identity." Lin Hai replied, "That's why I'm giving it to you, doctor, and I want you to find out the answer." ”

"It takes too long to figure out what this is without knowing anything." Kane glanced at the jellyfish again, "If you can find a few more of these, I might be able to speed things up." There were so few samples that I couldn't even do an autopsy study. ”

"I tried my best." For this request, Lin Hai felt very tricky, after all, catching this creature this time was just a super surviving collision incident that seemed to be a super survival now, otherwise they would not have known that there was such a creature in the hands of the Sijing people before.

"Besides......" Lin Hai took out two paper documents and handed them to Kane, "These are some of my recent new ideas, although they will be handed over to the General Staff for discussion later, but I hope you can evaluate the feasibility of these ideas in terms of technology first." ”

Kane took it and looked at it, and the two document shells read "Project Mars" and "Project Dawn" respectively. He opened it and glanced at it twice, and said, "The Dawn Project is theoretically feasible, but it needs to be studied in detail before an answer can be given. But the Mars project, I can answer you right away, that's fine. After all, the ability to colonize Mars, even in our original world, has been going on for half a century, and it is technically relatively mature and reliable. It's just that I don't quite understand, at this time, where do we have time to engage in Mars colonization? ”

"It's not really colonization." Lin Hai pointed to the document in Kane's hand and replied, "I just want to build a super-large self-sufficient military base on Mars, so that in addition to collecting the mineral deposits we urgently need, it can also have the ability to produce starships." Don't we have five years to go? While this may be shorter, I hope to make Mars an outpost that will give us more time in the wars that follow. ”

"It's a bit difficult." Kane shook his head and said, "To colonize Mars, it will probably take nearly half a year just to build a preliminary dome-type underground base, which is still the speed of military engineering operations." Then the mine is opened, and the production line is built, all of which take a lot of time, not to mention the manpower aspect. Our clone army is already understaffed, and the needs here on Earth alone are not enough, and where can we send them to Mars. Could it be that you plan to get countries to send people to participate in this project? ”

"No, of course it can't be. Even if I could, how could the elites of those countries learn our stuff in a short period of time and then go to Mars? My thoughts, but ......" He looked around, and it was only him and Kane in this room, observing that there were other people inside and outside the room who could see what was going on in the room.