1597 Withered
The more Ye Han thought about it, the more unpleasant it became, this is obviously the hinterland of the country, but he has to worry about the ambush of aliens all the time, what the hell is going on?
The convoy drove out of the desert and into the Gobi, and soon the convoy had completed a distance of more than 100 kilometers, and a ruined road appeared on the horizon ahead.
At this time, the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, a waning moon hung in the sky, and the dim moonlight shone brightly in the night vision device, as if half of the sun was missing, illuminating the earth brightly.
Finally arrived at the highway, but Ye Han's heart was even more worried, and he always felt that the insect swarm had opened its pockets in front of him, waiting for the convoy to drill into it.
After a while, the convoy drove onto the road, and the condition of the road was worse than expected, no one maintained it for many years, and only a few rusty columns remained on the guardrails on both sides of the road; The wind, rain and ice froze, and the originally flat road surface had already collapsed and cracked, and the weeds in the cracks were more than half a person high.
Ye Han couldn't help but think of the situation when he fled from the Jingjiang River, if it was in the bustling eastern region, this road would definitely be jammed with countless broken vehicles, making it difficult to move on this highway.
Fortunately, this place is located in the northwest, notoriously sparsely populated, maybe you will enter the vast and desolate no man's land when you go to which section, even before the insect plague, there are not many vehicles on this road, counting on this road traffic jam? There is no way in the next life.
The thoughts in Ye Han's mind diverged in various ways, and he didn't want a bright pillar of light to suddenly fall from the sky, and the landing point was not far in front of him.
Ye Han almost jumped up: "Bridge, what's the situation?" ”
"Report, a swarm has been found seventeen kilometers ahead!"
Ye Han was like a hammer on the head: "Are you really afraid of what, how many insects?" ”
"Less than forty, and it has been confirmed that it has been eliminated."
"How much?" Ye Han almost couldn't believe his ears.
The insect swarm has always won by quantity, and if it is not dispatched, it is already overwhelming, so why did it change its nature today?
"Thirty-four!"
"So little?" Ye Han was so surprised that he suddenly thought of a more important question, "Where did all these insects come from?" ”
"In all directions, half an hour ago, the satellite found out that something was wrong, a lot of bugs ran in one direction, they just arrived in the place, and let me kill it, there should be no leaks."
"I see...... I see, let me know what's going on! ”
"Understood!"
At the end of the communication, Ye Han quietly breathed a sigh of relief, he had a hunch that this was just the beginning.
The actual situation was similar to what Ye Han expected, in the next few hours, the Ningwuguan found several groups of giant insects one after another, but the scale of each group was not large, and they were all solved by the battleship in advance, and none of the groups of giant insects successfully ambushed the convoy.
It was probably the aliens who knew that they couldn't help the convoy, and after several successive failures, they finally gave up the attack and hid the few remaining swarms from moths to the fire.
This incident also made Ye Han regret it for a while.
He was indeed worried about the attack of the swarm, but that meant a large-scale swarm, or a small-scale captive worm, if it was replaced by an ordinary giant worm, one hundred and eighty would not be enough to stuff his teeth, let alone only thirty or fifty in each wave.
Ye Han also figured it out, it's not that the aliens don't want to send more bugs, but the natural environment of this place is too harsh, not only a forbidden area for humans, but also bugs don't like it here, so although the aliens sent bugs over, the number is not very good, it's not a big problem to spy on intelligence, and don't even think about it if you want to play a large-scale attack.
The aliens have a high IQ, if it weren't for the objective conditions, how could they use such a brain-dead refueling tactic against the convoy? A swarm of swarms rushed up and buried the convoy with a bunch of bugs is the alien way!
It's enough to think about it, how much organic matter does that many insects have to consume to make it? Do aliens want to turn all the animals and plants on Earth into bugs to be happy?
In a state of thought, the convoy moved on.
The road conditions are not good, and the speed of the convoy has not been able to improve, not only to avoid potholes on the road, but also to break the road surface and have to leave the road for a detour.
If it weren't for the Gobi Desert, which was more difficult to walk, Ye Han would have ordered the convoy to leave the road long ago.
In this way, it moved slowly forward, and by the next morning, the convoy had advanced more than 600 kilometers.
At dawn, a patch of green appeared on the left side of the road, a discovery that excited the warriors.
Don't look at the fact that I have only stayed in the desert Gobi for less than a day, but the environment is really uncomfortable, and when I see the green again, the pleasure is almost heartfelt and outward, and the whole body is called a transparent.
"There must be a water source nearby!" Gu Cheng said with great certainty.
Ye Han couldn't help but complain in his heart: Do you still need to say this?
This hellish place is either a desert or the Gobi, where does the green come from without a water source?
He called up satellite imagery and found that the road ahead was built almost along the lake.
Ten minutes later, the rippling blue water of the lake appeared on the left side of the road, and even with a helmet on his head, he could feel a cool moisture rushing to his face.
Several members of the scientific expedition team couldn't suppress the impulse in their hearts, and took off their helmets directly, feeling the oncoming morning breeze, which was comfortable and comfortable.
According to the regulations of the military, unless there are special circumstances, it is never allowed to take off the helmet in wartime, so the soldiers can only watch with their eyes, and the most they can do is to open the air circulation to solve the slander.
However, everyone was fresh for a while, and after a while, the cold wind calmed everyone down, and the members of the scientific expedition put on helmets one after another to block the oncoming morning breeze.
The convoy headed east, and after a while, a few neat fields appeared on the right side of the road, and a little farther away, a dilapidated town.
Ye Han curiously leaned on the car door and looked to the right: "This place has been evacuated for several years, right?" ”
He turned on the telescope function of the armor and pulled the town into view.
The buildings in the town are very modern, and it can be seen that they were not built very long, but the surface of the buildings is mottled, the streets of the town are in shambles, and the only machine gun tower outside the town is bare, only the tower remains.
Gu Cheng said: "It's not much, about 32 years, before the Tuwai Fleet came over, the west has always been the focus of the development of the Northern Capital, and then the Tuwai Fleet came, and the talents here withdrew to Qingtang." ”
Speaking of this, Ye Han also knows something.
When the giant insect first appeared, it was very unsuitable for the plateau climate, so at that time, the northern capital had been withdrawing its population to the west, and the west developed rapidly, and this town should have developed at that time.
But the arrival of the Terracotta Fleet changed everything, and towns like this were either retreated into dungeons or well-defended megacities, leaving only their former glory to wither away in the wind, rain, ice, and frost.