The hot wind ruffled Lu Yuan's sideburns, accompanied by the smell of unfinished smoke blowing through his nose, he rolled down the window and looked at the Xiyun a few kilometers away with a complicated expression.

A few minutes earlier, he had crashed out of the escape pod in an all-terrain vehicle and rushed out along the landing deck. Just like the external scanning at that time, there was a vast desert outside the warship, and after the reconnaissance drone that had to be released gave a low-danger warning, Lu Yuan turned off the air circulation system in the car, jumped out, and stepped on the ground.

The dust under the boots was as fine as powder, occasionally mixed with dull grass-green broken crystals, Lu Yuan pinched a handful, and soon flowed down his fingers, but the vertical palm became a knife, and after inserting it into the sand only one or two centimeters, it was rough and large pieces of gravel. Lu Yuan built a pergola with his hands, covered his eyes from the hot and poisonous sun, climbed onto the all-terrain vehicle, and took the Xiyun into his eyes. Judging from the wreckage of the Yuyun's crash, it is likely that the hull coating burned off and peeled off into a fine powder as it passed through the atmosphere.

However, the reconnaissance drone also found a low ravine on the other side of the Yugumo that was only thirty or forty meters high, and it was speculated that the result should be a weathered mountain, and it was also this small ravine that slightly blocked the desert wind from the north, so that the hull of the Yuyun that was almost separated from the front and back did not catch the last straw. As this is the case, the facilities outside the ship have long been gone, and many of the smaller objects have been paved several kilometers away.

Hot sweat dripped to the side of the boots, and the portable thermometer had climbed above 40 degrees, and at this speed, no one could stand still for a long time like Lu Yuan.

I hope to see such an elegant and slender frigate again for the rest of my life. Lu Yuan took off his sunhat, stroked his chest with his palm, and finally bowed his head in silence for a minute. Droplets of water dripped down his chin and smashed out a puff of tiny soot.

Lu Yuan reflexively boarded the all-terrain vehicle, and the fuel gauge showed that it could still drive 1,500 kilometers, and the continuous off-road would only be shorter. Although there are seven spare fuel cells, if all goes well, based on the maximum off-road speed of 45 kilometers per hour of the all-terrain vehicle, it will be possible to reach the Liquan space base in the northeast in a week at most. As for what Murphy asked him to do when he arrived, that's a story for another time. As a paratrooper captain, he has become accustomed to being told a mission objective by his superiors, and the rest of the mission process is left to him to arrange freely.

In short, it is a blessing that the gun is loaded, the sword is sharpened quickly, and the yellow sand is buried in the bones.

The drone hung far ahead, slowly drawing a map of the vicinity, and Lu Yuan set the all-terrain vehicle to cruise, poked his head out of the roof turret, folded his hands and rested on the edge of the turret, and looked at the Xiyun that was moving away little by little with a complicated mood, there is no doubt that in less than 3 hours, this steel ship will be completely integrated with this desert, including more than 1,000 sailors, almost 100% and Zhang Yueyang. Lu Yuan didn't know where the other paratrooper brothers who shook out the Corona were, and whether they could bring back the death notices hidden in the captain's office?

Apparently not.

Within a quarter of an hour, the Sunset Cloud was hidden beyond the horizon. Lu Yuan's fists clenched, slammed down, his upper and lower teeth touched, and roared loudly, until the accumulated depression was swept away, Lu Yuan was still not happy, rhythmically knocked on the edge of the steel, and shouted in pain, those spreading pain, mixed with grief that could never be cleared away, finally precipitated into the heart, and buried in Lu Yuan's heart of steel that had not collapsed after thousands of tempers.

"Everything! Fearless! ”

The desert echoed the paratrooper motto, Lu Yuan kept roaring until his throat was astringent, he took a deep breath of scorching air, got into the back compartment of the all-terrain vehicle, wiped the beads of sweat, and through the grille, scorched yellow dust.

He decided to wait quietly until the end of the Sunset.

180 minutes flew by in the memory, and Lu Yuan stared at the watch and the timing jumped to zero. Immediately, a little tremor first rippled through the body, and then the flat sand surface suddenly rippled. The blue, pale sky suddenly rose into a perfectly diffused ring cloud, which reached the ground. After occupying the far field of vision of the land, it expanded to the extreme, and retracted, and the floating dust began to sweep back in reverse by this huge suction. After the last "buzz" sound that is enough to break the eardrum, the sky is still the sky, and the earth is still the earth.

Lu Yuan had no reason to delay anymore.

"Dust to dust, dust to dust." Lu Yuan said softly, no one knows the name, and the merits will last forever. Someone should bring back everything that happened.

Lu Yuan flipped down the small table in the carriage and said, "Murphy, transfer the terrain map of the ship that was detected before." ”

"Topographic maps have been transmitted, note that the chip will no longer be fully activated after this biological projection."

"Your consciousness is the chip, and it's going to go into hibernation?" He asked, holding a pencil in his mouth.

Lu Yuan took out the small locker under the passenger seat, and there was indeed a blank atlas in it, and a large number of intricate drawing lines appeared in front of his eyes, and he also invisibly grasped this specific content in his mind.

Murphy's answer is naturally certain, and Lu Yuan is not calm, after all, how many bloody battles in the past, how many school officers with chips died, and how fair the bullets are. So Lu Yuan bit the pen, stopped talking nonsense, and seized the time to record a sketch map of the terrain in an area of about 530 kilometers.

Stick figure drawing is a necessary skill for officers, Lu Yuan quickly sketched the whole picture, racing against time to supplement the terrain near the Liquan base, before drawing the contour line, Lu Yuan pulled out another corner of the atlas, and used the angle ruler to draw a short line, and before the soreness of the wrist was relieved, the retinal imaging was abruptly closed. Lu Yuan had no choice but to continue to forcibly rely on his memory to improve some of the specific canyons of the semi-circular mountain range that blocked the Liquan base.

"Note that the chip is no longer fully activated, and the bioelectric time remaining: 841 hours and 37 minutes." Murphy said that Lu Yuan was not interested in chatting with this warship-style AI that is difficult to set up a human nature module. The nasal "um" sounded and let it fall silent.

Blowing the map, Lu Yuan smoothed the folds of the map, rubbing his chin and thinking about the appropriate route to the Liquan base.

First of all, although the hare all-terrain vehicle is extremely durable, it does not mean that it can really drive for weeks without interruption in the desert mixed with sharp gravel, once the tire is in trouble, Lu Yuan is a paratrooper captain, he knows a lot of mechanical knowledge, but he can't do this kind of work to repair ground combat vehicles. The same is true for reconnaissance drones, which will eventually be left behind.

Secondly, in this vast area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, whether there are any human tracks is also two theories. For a long time, the citizens of the Celestial Alliance have been limited to a shallow description of the "ancestral star" Earth, believing that the Earth has long been left behind after the fall of the Earth.

There are thirteen planets that Lu Yuan has walked through, and any planet is much more tragic than the earth, don't look at the desert now, there is not a single weed in sight, but there is obviously moisture and moisture. Could this place, which can barely breathe without an oxygen mask, be worse than a gaseous planet? Especially in the northeast, there is a circular mountain range, and it is too normal for life to reproduce in the shade on the back of the mountain range, but there may be human beings on the earth in the old days, and it is not easy to say about the imperial outpost. rushed over rashly, no matter how fierce Lu Yuan was, he could only use a gun, and he could parry ten people, and a hundred people had to pull a glorious bullet.

If there really was an old human settlement...... To be honest, Lu Yuan couldn't think of how to contact it for a while, guessing by feeling, imprisoned on the ground for centuries, compared with Lu Yuan's interstellar humans who shuttle through the stars and wait for leisure, Lu Yuan is easy to associate with the enlightenment books, the group of cave-dwelling Homo sapiens. Lu Yuan has always had respect for flames and bullets, but he has never lacked the desire to understand people.

The vehicle seemed to have been crushed into a piece of broken rock, and it jolted hard, Lu Yuan held the crossbar, and looked along the armor plate hanging down outside the car door, there were vague iron-colored shadows undulating, probably a mirage. Lu Yuan shook his head, unscrewed the bottled water, and carefully drank a few sips to moisten his throat. Once you've checked the route, start counting the equipment inside the ATV.

This is a vehicle model that Lu Yuan is more familiar with, and during the Battle of Sentinel Star, it rode into the landing ship on a hare against the enemy's crane, the gas turbine engine was extremely powerful, the chassis was solid, and it was detonated ignoring several anti-infantry mines. The modified escape car also has a small radiation cleaning room, which is equipped with anti-radiation items, such as lead-core ceramic pieces of combat suits, high-specification gas masks, and potassium iodide tablets.

Even if it is handed over to the supply box in half, the carriage is not crowded, and at least the seat on the other side can stretch its legs. Lu Yuan sat down and dragged over an armament box marked with a skull. After sensing Lu Yuan's chip, it popped off with voice control.

Lu Yuan lifted a QF47 caseless bullet rifle and checked it, and with a "click" it was loaded and unloaded, although the lacquered body was matte, it still had a deterrent luster. This gun is the most used surface combat rifle by Lu Yuan. However, the paratrooper pulse rifle was changed to a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft pulse gun here. Others such as non-picky eaters, full-face assault armor, remote-controlled detection balls, and general-purpose microrobots are all available. It can be said that except for the absence of an exoskeleton, this Hare ATV is an out-and-out arsenal vehicle.

The life-saving supplies are naturally not far behind, and the drinking water package is originally configured for ten people, and Lu Yuan is enough to eat for more than six months when he lets go of his belly. Lu Yuan even found a spontaneous combustion grill, then he must be welcome, closed the armament box, hung up the lunch box and cooked barley beef soup first, spread a tarp after eating, and there was a drone to sentry, he took a nap directly on the box.

When Lu Yuan woke up, it was getting dark, he suspended the all-terrain vehicle to start self-maintenance, took back the daytime drone, released it for backup, kicked open the rear door, and peed in the cool desert breeze.

Lifting the crotch of his pants and lighting a cigarette, Lu Yuan habitually protected the cigarette butt with his palm, not because he was afraid of the wind blowing, but because he avoided the cigarette butt from being red and bright.

Lu Yuan smacked his lips, leaned on the back door, listened to the drone's rotor "whirring" flying away, and when he looked up, he suddenly saw stars in the sky, and infinite stars were shining.

Probably this is the only thing that countless planets in the universe have in common