At this time, in the synchronous orbit of Planet JNO.3, the huge Hope space colony spacecraft is still staying directly above the ground base and flying synchronously with the rotation of the planet.

After less than two hours of sleep, Leona, the young captain of the Hope, had to prepare to return to her job on the bridge once again.

Due to lack of sleep, a little mentally exhausted, and bothered by what was happening on the ground, Leona ignored the greetings of the other crew members she met along the way, frowning and staring at the deck in front of her, and hurriedly walked briskly through the passage.

Because, now there is a new situation in the base command center that has just landed on the planetary surface and has not been deployed for a long time, and she must deal with it herself!

Especially in this critical period, if there is any accident and the handling is not at a loss, it is not good, and the more than 100,000 earthlings on their colonial spaceship will face a sinister situation from which they will never recover!

"Ahh Captain Leona? You're coming. ”

After hearing the sound of the automatic hatch opening in the command center of the bridge behind him, and seeing Captain Leona walking in with a cold face, the second officer, who was acting as the captain, quickly stood up and saluted the other party, and quickly gave way to the position of the captain where he was originally sitting.

Now that the captain of the Hope has returned to the bridge again, the duties he represents have been automatically transferred to the captain, and now he is back in the position of second officer.

"The situation on the ground...... What the hell is going on now? ”

This is Leona's main concern, the base on the ground, especially the energy harvesting, is directly related to the survival of their space colony ship Hope.

If the matter is urgent, Leona is even thinking: should she invest a large number of SCV engineering vehicles, and then do her best to collect enough energy and materials, and then leave this dangerous star field as soon as possible?

"Report to the Captain, after Ghost Agent Anne killed the unknown alien creature, so far, no other anomalies have been found, and everything is peaceful! That alien creature should be just an ordinary creature on the planet that accidentally wandered to the seaside? ”

He was staring at this matter just now, so the second mate didn't think about it, so he gave an answer directly.

And Ghost Agent No. 01 is Little Annie's number, and he is currently the only ghost agent on the Hope, number NO.1!

So far, there don't seem to be any other immigrants with ghost potential on this Hope spaceship, and they don't seem to have a secret process and ghost school for training ghost agents on Earth, so it is foreseeable that for a long time in the future, they will only have little Annie, the only foreign ghost.

"Nope! Isaac, you are wrong, I have a hunch that this matter is definitely not as simple as you think! ”

Captain Leona walked to the captain's position and stood still, shaking her head a little tiredly, directly rejecting the conservative idea of the second mate Isaac, who had entered middle age and was old-fashioned and cautious.

Then, she sat down directly back in her captain's seat and rubbed her temples, which were swollen from lack of sleep, before breathing a sigh of relief.

After thinking about it, she stopped what she was about to say next, and simply began to call up the holographic panel, and carefully reviewed the events that had happened since the discovery and killing of alien creatures.

"Wait! Isaac, the ground base is currently in place, has the barracks been built? ”

This...... How could it be so fast?

After seeing one of the messages on the information board, Leona was slightly stunned, if it was carried out according to the original plan, there should be at least more than an hour of progress before the initial formation could be completed, right?

"That's right, Captain, after Commander Doug discovered that there were alien creatures on the planet JNO.3, he transferred back all the SCV engineering vehicles that were originally going to collect energy, and then joined the construction of the barracks."

Because, she believed, there was no way to protect the engineers who were far away from the base for collection operations in the absence of troops, so she let them participate in the construction of the barracks in the base.

Regarding this matter, Isaac's second mate felt that Doug had done a good job, which was a prudent approach and a wiser choice in the current situation.

“……”

Leona was silent for a moment after flipping through the information in the journal for a while, she was thinking and didn't say anything more.

"Dawn, how are the preparations for the departure of the recruits and engineers going?"

God is sorry, the current Hope, even the two marines with no real combat experience of Galen and Darius have become veterans? And those, the civilians who had only been recruited and trained for a few days, quickly took on their original recruits?

This is the task that Leona has already given when she was in the captain's lounge.

Now, presumably those people are almost ready, right? They're an army now, they're no longer civilians, and for a long time, they should be able to get dressed.

She has now made up her mind: send more men, send more troops! The acquisition and construction of the entire ground base must be accelerated!

Later, after she is busy with the current matter, she will train and recruit more recruits and more engineers from more than 100,000 immigrants, and she will develop the military force of the Hope with all her strength!

Then, the remaining other base command center of the Hope will be dispatched to the planets in the nearby star field or directly on the asteroid belt to collect various metal minerals, and after collecting more metals and other materials and smelting, they will be directly transported to the ground base of JNO.3, so that Doug and the others only need to concentrate on collecting crystals and gas energy.

She believed that the two command centers were deployed at the same time, and if they divided their labor, if they did, they would definitely reduce a lot of pressure on Doug and them?

"Your Excellency, the Viper Squad and the two hundred best recruits are currently on board two armored transport ships and ready to leave for the ground base of Planet JNO.3."

"And the second batch of SCV space engineering vehicles and the corresponding engineers have also been completed, and after the ground forces land and the two armored transport ships return, they can carry out the second airborne operation."

This matter, after Captain Leona gave the order before, the Dawning Intelligence Brain has been executed very efficiently, and under the efficient interstellar mode, it has not made any mistakes.

It's just that Shuguang Zhizhi still thinks that the group of recruits, instead of calling them the army, should be called armed civilians wearing armored power suits and holding electromagnetic rifles, so maybe it would be more appropriate?

"Now, it's time to order them to start landing on JNO.3! Then, give me access to Commander Doug at the ground base. ”

Once she had made up her mind, Captain Leona needed to speak directly with Doug in the Ground Command Center to assign some important tasks and change the previous base development plan once again.

"Captain, what do you command?"

SOON, AFTER LEONA HAD JUST SEEN THE TWO ARMORED TRANSPORTS LEAVE THE INNER AIRPORT IN THE BELLY OF THE COLONY SHIP AND BEGIN TO ACCELERATE TOWARDS PLANET JNO.3, COMMANDER DOUG'S HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION APPEARED IN FRONT OF HER, AND THE OTHER PARTY HURRIEDLY GAVE HER A MILITARY SALUTE.

"Doug, things have changed now, and I have a bad premonition...... Therefore, the original development plan may need to be changed appropriately. ”

Although, Leona also knows that changing the base construction plan at will will cause a lot of trouble.

For example, there is a disconnect between the work links of various units and matters, and it may cause a serious decline in work efficiency, resulting in unnecessary waste of human resources, etc., but now she has no better way.

"Instructions, Captain!"

Nodding, Doug in the ground base didn't ask anything.

She herself knows that after the appearance of unknown alien creatures, the necessary changes must be justified!

This is the same reason that she Doug gave an unauthorized order to let the SCV engineering vehicles that were carrying out the preliminary energy acquisition and survey withdraw to the vicinity of the base in advance.

"Doug, next, your task will be very heavy, the construction of the second and third islands will be stopped now! I need you to do your best to collect energy and supplies on this island now, and to complete the original plan to the fullest! ”

After talking about his arrangement, without waiting for the other party to respond, Captain Leona continued:

"Moreover, I also need you to transport half of the energy collected every day directly back to the Hope after you start large-scale energy extraction!"

This is a precaution that Leona has taken, and once she finds out that something uncontrollable is happening, it is likely that the Hope will go straight into warp speed, turn and evacuate this star field?

"Yes, Captain! However, if the construction of the second and third islands is abandoned, the metals or other minerals on this island will not be able to meet our later production and construction needs. ”

This is because most of the planet JNO.3 is covered by a sea of strong acid, and the rest of the land is mostly islands of different sizes.

The location where they landed now is one of the islands rich in high-energy crystals and high-energy gas, but the problem also arises that there are not many other metals or other mineral resources on this island.

If they really follow the order just issued by Captain Leona and stop the construction plan of the second and third bases, they will have many projects that will not be able to be carried out. At that time, even if they collect more energy, if they don't have enough metals to produce modules, neither buildings nor combat units will be able to produce them on a large scale.

"Our second command center will soon bring you all kinds of necessary materials from an asteroid in space, and transport them to the surface after smelting! Now, do you have any questions? ”

This matter, now she has asked Zhi Brain Dawn to record, and I believe it will be implemented soon.

Because, in space, on the side of the asteroid belt, large-scale mining and smelting of various metal minerals can be much more efficient than on the ground base with the influence of planetary gravity!

"No, Captain!"

Now that the captain had already arranged it, Doug didn't say anything more.

The next work of her is relatively clear: she herself only needs to devote herself to speeding up the production and construction of the main base.

And then, it seems, it is possible to develop a little more defense?

"Excellent! Now the first batch of 210 marines has begun to land on the planet, and later, the second batch will also give you support a large number of engineers and SCV engineering vehicles, which is the greatest support that the Hope can give you at present. ”

At this point, Captain Leona paused and stopped.

"Doug, as you must know, the Hope, doesn't have any supplies anymore......"

Now the materials on the Hope, at most, can still produce some individual equipment and SCV for marines. Moreover, the amount that can be produced is not too much, and she urgently needs Doug's ground base to be up and running as soon as possible, and a large amount of energy can be returned to the Hope as soon as possible, and then she can carry out other arrangements and work.

"Please rest assured, captain, I will definitely do my best!"

Doug, who had previously been the first mate of the Hope, could certainly understand the Hope's predicament now.

So, she decided that as soon as more Marines and SCV engineering vehicles came down, she would let go of her hands and feet and move on to the next step of leapfrogging large-scale construction!

At that time, all basic facilities will be built, which will not only be able to feed back a large amount of energy and supplies to the Hope, but also produce a large amount of military equipment.

Then, the Hope spacecraft in space only needs to provide the necessary personnel support to their ground base, and she believes that when the time comes, everything will be fine!

"Very well, now you can get ready to receive the new batch of Marines who have landed, good luck, Doug."

With that, Captain Leona closed the call and lay down deep on the back of the captain's seat.

After everything was done and everything was explained, now, she needed to squint her eyes a little here, barely sleep a little, and regain a little bit of energy.

……

"Hey, Galen, and little Annie, are you all right now? We're here to support you! ”

Galen, who was on duty on the ground, and Little Annie, who was silent, suddenly heard the loud voice of Darius.

Now the two armored transport ships they were on had begun to slowly descend next to the base command center and opened the heavy hatches, and they were running out of the crowded cargo compartment in an orderly manner.

Just now, on the Hope, after hearing that there are alien creatures on this planet, Darius can't wait to do it, he said: His electromagnetic rifle is now hungry and thirsty!

"Darius, you're in good luck...... How easy it is to get out of the spaceship? You don't know: before, the moment we landed, that damn old bastard Planck, that damn old drunkard, he just dropped us out of mid-air! ”

As soon as he remembered that at that time, his party was thrown from a height of thirty or fifty meters by Planck, an old drunkard, and Galen was angry!

Now, standing in Galen's position, he could easily see in the distance, the two armored transport ships next to the base's command center, which were now landing on the ground, and when they opened the hatch behind the belly, a large number of heavily armed marines came out of them.

"You're the old bastard! I'll tell you now, Galen, I swear: next time, you little cub will ride on my spaceship again, your jump height will definitely not be less than 100 meters! ”

It was now in the public communication channel near the base, but it was shared internally, so Captain Planck soon heard Captain Galen of the Cobra Squad slandering him.

Then, he scolded and yelled directly on the public channel.

The reason why he Planck landed honestly on the ground this time was just for the sake of that group of recruits who had only been training for a few days, and he couldn't bear to let their heads hit the ground first when they fell and cause unnecessary attrition!

A Cobra squad like Galen, a veteran Marine like them who has experience in high-altitude free-jump landing training, will definitely not be as simple as thirty or fifty meters when they land next time.

"Old wine cabinet, next time, I will never be your transport ship again! In the near future, I believe that the new spaceship of our base will also be manufactured, and by that time, your broken ship will no longer be the only option! ”

Galen also scolded and retorted.

If it weren't for the fact that there was really no choice, if it weren't for the fact that the Hope only had two armored transport ships now, how could he Galen choose to take this old drunkard maniac's spaceship?

Whether it was the rescue pod that captured Little Annie before, or when he landed on this planet, the other party's behavior gave him a lot of fright!

As soon as he remembered the situation when he almost crashed into the spaceship and dived to the landing planet, he was cramping his leg now! If you can drive a spaceship like the other party, I'm afraid, only a madman who doesn't want to die can do it, right?

"Haha! Very good! Here, I welcome you next time on the boat of those newcomers who have hundreds of hours of simulated flight experience and 0 hours of actual flight experience! Don't come to me next time, eh......"

With that, Planck burped again, and it seemed that he had just drunk quite a lot.

Planck has always been very confident in his flying skills!

You know, he's a well-known old driver! He has been driving a spaceship drunk for decades, whether it's in a dangerous gravel asteroid field, or on a desperate race with a smuggling boat team, he has never missed!

Ordinary people, no matter how long the other party's training time is, how can they have superb driving skills like him?

For example, if Planck's small spaceship piloting skills were S level before he was drinking, then when he drank high, his piloting skills would be at least SS+! Mortals like Galen, they would never be able to comprehend this master-level master-level master!

“……”

Hearing this, Galen was suddenly taken aback, it seems, he thinks, what the other party said seems to make sense?

Compared to this old madman who has been driving a spaceship for decades, it seems that ...... Riding on a ship with zero experience in actually maneuvering a spaceship is even more dangerous, right?

"By the way, Galen, why didn't I hear little Annie's response?"

It was just a moment of gloating on the panel, looking at the noisy Galen and Captain Planck for a while, that Darius thought about and asked about little Annie.

It stands to reason that he had already said hello just now, that little kid who likes to be lively, she shouldn't say hello at all, right?

"Hmm...... She seems to be lying on her vantage point now? ”

Galen also looked at the location of little Annie on the radar a little uncertainly, the orange sign that belonged to her, and it was still parked in its established position.

After thinking about it, Galen turned and walked past a pile of strange rocks and looked towards the location on the high ground.

That's right, little Anne is still lying in that position, she has not turned on the stealth mode, so Galen can see clearly with the naked eye.

"Hello? Little Annie? What are you doing now? We're ready for a shift change! ”

Now that reinforcements have arrived, there are still two hundred and ten men, so Galen decided to inform little Anne.

At this time, it was almost time for the shift change, and they could go back to the large barracks that had been built and take a good rest.

"Hey! Feed? Anne, are you listening? ”

Galen, who didn't get any reply, couldn't help but call out again and click the button on the virtual interface to link the video.

Didn't little Anne just now keep making a fuss about resting? They also said that they wanted to sleep, that they wanted to take a bath, and that they even said that they wanted to shout and so on, which made their Marines feel tight for a while.

But now, she finally received the arrival of support, and she could change shifts and rest, but why didn't she make a sound?

“……”

When he opened the video communication panel, Galen couldn't help but feel short of breath!

That little brat, she's asleep with her eyes closed? There are also slight snoring sounds from time to time, and even, saliva is about to flow out?

No wonder Darius didn't get any response when he called her just now, it turned out that this little kid, she was actually sleeping? Thanks to him, Galen always thought that she was lying there how hard she worked, and she was still lying there motionless, and he wanted to praise her a few words.

"Huh?"

Just as Galen was about to say something more, little Anne suddenly opened her eyes and became refreshed.

"Hey, little Annie, are you awake? Hurry down, we're ready for a change of guard, and you can go back to the barracks and get some sleep! ”

Thinking that he had woken up the other party, Galen breathed a sigh of relief, carried his rifle, and said to the red-and-white figure who was still lying on the commanding heights in the distance as he walked back.

"Wow! What a lot of enemies! The number is about ...... How many hundreds? Great, it's time to play! ”

Anne didn't pay attention to Galen's call, and now, she had received a reminder from her little bear Tiebs: ahead, still in that sea, there was a large wave of monsters attacking, and the number, about a thousand, was still the same as the one she had killed before?

Then, while quickly loading her weapon, Little Anne also turned on the stealth mode of her armor for the first time, and disappeared directly from Galen's sight.

It's just that in the radar display of friendly forces, you can still see that she is still lying in place honestly and has not moved.

"Little Annie, what are you doing here? Please don't mess around! ”

Seeing that the other party suddenly disappeared and said that there was an enemy, Galen frowned a little displeasurely.

She was still asleep just now, right? Moreover, she woke her up herself, how could she possibly find out that there was an enemy?

Lying about military intelligence is a very serious crime! Now, they're on military duty, and they can't joke like they did when they were on the Hope.

Galen didn't believe it, how could a little kid who had just woken up see an enemy as soon as he opened his eyes?

"I'm not kidding!"

Boom!!!

As soon as Anne's words were finished, a bullet from a large-caliber electromagnetic sniper rifle whistled over Galen's head.

Then, Galen, who was leisurely walking back, was horrified to find that behind him, there seemed to be some strange noise?

"Enemy attack! Everyone, get ready to fight! ”

When Galen found out that little Anne had shot him in the head, he wanted to reprimand him harshly and forbid the little boy to make such a dangerous joke again.

You know, it's a 20mm caliber electromagnetic rifle bullet, and it's not an exaggeration to say it's an electromagnetic gun! In case, if she accidentally misses it, she rubs it herself, then he Galen will be declared finished!

However, when he turned around and saw another monstrous monster as large as a calf a few hundred meters behind him, its headless corpse, sprayed with red-green blood and lying on the sand, Galen immediately retreated a long distance.

After finding an improvised bunker, he put his electromagnetic rifle over his shoulder and began to aim, shouting at all the public channels at the same time.

Because, he found, on the beach in front of him, he saw a dense crowd of monsters, which were silently crawling up from the sea.

"Enemy attack! Darius! Bring your Marines over to support, there are a lot of monsters on this side of the beach, hurry up! This is not ******** acting!!

"Repeat! There are a lot of enemies! We need support now! ”

Da Da Da ......

As he took a moment to speak, Galen began to fire violently.

The 8mm spike bullets in the electromagnetic rifle in his hand sprayed at those monsters with an ultra-high rate of fire as if they didn't want money.

As the bullets swept past like a chain of fire, they soon burst out with greenish-red blood on top of the bodies of the massive insect-shaped monsters.

Da Da Da ......

At the same time, the other members of the Cobra team, who were still on guard, also began to rely on their own favorable terrain and face the direction of the sea, and fired fiercely.

"Darius! Hurry up and come to support, we can't stand it! There are so many of them! ”

Galen was horrified to find that the fire nets of several of their Marines in this direction did not seem to be enough to fend off the huge four-legged bugs that were constantly climbing up from the sea?

And they're a little too durable, right? Sometimes, he discovered, they fired bullets that had gone through them, and unless they hit the head, it would take several shots to kill or incapacitate them.

Just now, after Little Anne killed the first monster that sneaked ashore, more than two hours had passed, and these monsters had begun to attack on a large scale again?

Could it be that the one at the beginning, it was just here to find a way?

"Hold on! Here we are! ”

After Darius replied to Galen in the channel, he quickly turned to the newcomers of the Marine Corps who had just run off the transport ship when he heard a battle and was in a state of blindfolding:

"Everybody! Hurry up, run, come with me over here! What are you doing over there? Hurry up! ”

After greeting him, Captain Darius, who had run a few steps, found out that just after he greeted, except for the nine members of his Viper team, who responded to the order as soon as possible, and the other two hundred marines, except for some who hesitated a little and ran along, the others were still looking at me and I was stunned when I saw you?

"Attention all Marines: Immediately go to the beach line to support the operation! Make no mistake! ”

At this time, the base command center, which discovered the situation, also issued a red combat order in the mission information panel of all the marines who had just landed on the planet after Commander Doug's order.

"Huh? Be! ”

"Which direction is the beach?"

"Good, good! We'll be right away! ”

Finally, under the urging and leadership of Darius, after Commander Doug gave the red battle order on everyone's panel, those marines, finally followed the Viper squad running at the front, like sheep, in a sparse and messy formation, swarming towards the direction of the beach.

"Wow! What are you doing when you hit Lao Tzu? Want to cause trouble? ”

"Ahh It was you who suddenly stood in front and did not move! Do you still blame me? ”

Suddenly, the two Marines who were running collided inexplicably, and then rolled into each other, and they fell to the ground and entangled, and they couldn't stand up for half a day?

"You crashed into it first! Just now, I just wanted to stop and study how to open the safety device of the electromagnetic rifle! ”

“……”

Hearing this on the public channel, Commander Doug in the base command center could only stare at the two Marines who were at the back of the line and were complaining to each other about to get up.

Now, Doug is very skeptical: they can't even walk well, they can still bump into each other when they run, and they don't even know where the safety device of the weapon is, how to open it? Can they really rely on this kind of marines, who can't even talk about new recruits, to gain a foothold on this seemingly dangerous planet with an unknown number of terrifying alien creatures?

For the first time, Commander Doug had the slightest doubt about his future at this ground base......