"What is this?" General Baker asked, confused.

"I don't know, it looks like it's man-made, huh...... Looks like a rut in a car? ”

"Follow these marks and look for them, raise the camera a little higher, yes! That's it, there's still over there. ”

Soon, these broken ruts from time to time revealed the direction of the vehicle, which looked like the remains of a giant vehicle.

Those places that are not buried by sand are difficult to see if you don't look closely at them.

The sand blowing from the direction of the desert will soon bury these marks completely, and it will not take more than 20 hours. If they had found out later, they would never have seen that there was such a big secret hidden on this ground.

"That's the traces of being run over by a heavy vehicle, General, please check, is there a base of ours around here?" Colonel Foucault immediately sorted out the idea in his head.

Soon, the screen showed several nearby bases, the nearest of which were hundreds of kilometers away, and this place was too remote.

The drone was still searching all the way, and the giant tracks were intermittent, but the direction of travel was clear.

Further on, there is a desert area of nearly 100 kilometers of uninhabited desert, and the traces are already very faint, and even a large section is no longer recognizable, whether it is a rut mark or not.

The trail was almost broken, and the sand dunes here weren't moving fast, but they were surprisingly fast compared to those places just now. Perhaps, in less than an hour, the yellow sand will completely swallow up those traces.

If those people were a little more cunning, they deliberately set up a few puzzles to hide people's eyes inside, and it would be even more difficult to find their traces.

"Well, these people are obviously evading tracking, and I'm going to investigate this desert thoroughly!" General Baker immediately ordered the search force to change direction.

"No! It's too slow, and we have to track it down in several ways. ”

Foucault shook his head and said in one breath: "First of all, send these rut trace materials to the Investigation Bureau, so that equipment experts and tracking experts can identify and figure out what kind of vehicle it is; on the other hand, more drones will be dispatched to carry out carpet searches of the area; There is also an investigation of the wrecked ship on the sea, and an aircraft should be sent to let the troops board the ship to search for it. Oh, General! What do you think? ”

Colonel Foucault suddenly realized that he seemed to have overstepped his authority, and hurriedly added another sentence, as if it were an order issued by the general himself.

However, his worries were obviously unnecessary, and the general did not hesitate in the slightest, and showed him an affirmative expression.

He said to the signal soldier: "Very good, I have no problem with this!" Now, attention, units! Follow this plan, now! ”

Everyone sighed at General Baker's attitude, and it was clear that the speed of the military's execution of such a major task was not so dogmatic and resolute.

"General Baker!"

"Huh?" As soon as the general turned around, he saw a secretary hurrying from the door, muttering in the general's ear.

"Ahh What did you say? How is this possible? ”

I saw the secretary nod his head definitely, his blonde hair trembling over his shoulders, as if waiting for his reply.

But the general bit his lip and looked at Dr. Su.

General Baker's somewhat startled eyes made Su Zhe a little flustered: Could it be that there is something that involves him again?

"Okay, I have some urgent matters to attend to, and that's all for this meeting for now. I don't need to stress the principle of secrecy to you, please don't leave the base and wait for the further outcome of this matter. ”

After the general finished speaking, he suddenly walked towards Su Zhe.

Yes? That's right, they came for me! He thought to himself.

"Dr. Su, someone wants to see you, let's go!" The general had already spoken, and his tone was like an order, and he could not shirk it.

"Looking for me? Specifically here to find me? Su Zhe wondered.

"Yes, it looks like you know a lot of big people!"

"Big shot...... What's going on? ”

"Okay, don't talk about that, let's go!" With that, he strode out the door.

Although Su Zhe had doubts in his heart, he had to follow quickly. An electric car has been parked in the parking lot of the base.

"General Baker, don't we want a driver?" After getting into the car, Su Zhe saw that the general himself was sitting in the driver's seat and spoke.

"Don't say so much, I'm the driver."

Along the way, the guards saluted with serious expressions when they saw the car passing by, and the general himself drove to amaze them.

The other person sitting in the car, although they didn't know him, was obviously a powerful big man.

"Huh? Didn't you say you were going to meet someone? This is the way out of the base, huh? Su Zhe wondered.

"Yes, it's going to be a meeting, but I didn't say it's in the base." The general replied stiffly.

In an underground parking lot in the base, the two changed into a military car driven in the city.

This car is not necessarily very luxurious, but it is obvious that the whole car is modified.

Su Zhe could see at a glance that its internal structure was replaced with a stronger alloy beam, and the in-wheel motor was not the kind of general-purpose motor on civilian vehicles.

The city at night is gradually coming towards them, and this new city, called District 33, seems to have just entered the time to wake up.

The street suspended above the building is covered by the previous street, and so on.

All the lighting systems seem to be turned on at the same time, the colorful shop windows are replaced by the noisy street stereo light screens, and the city is instantly covered with a thin halo of light.

Only the buildings that stand on the ground are real antiques and look no different from the cities of the first century AD.

But the whole urban planning of the new buildings is developed towards the poles, like a giant iron bucket erected at the vertical height of the earth, including the underground space and the above-ground space.

The entire perimeter of the city is covered by a force field, and from every angle in the city, you can see squares arranged like patches - it is a huge projection advertisement.

In this era, the new city is strictly limited in size, and in order not to destroy nature, reduce pollution emissions, and control all human resources as carefully as possible.

The "Urban Mine" project is a concept proposed by a scholar a hundred years ago.

This project aims to use the huge computing power of the "Smart Brain" to maximize the rational allocation and recovery of all recyclable resources in the enclosed space.

In the city, everyone seems to live in a super-giant column.

Even CO2 emissions are strictly limited in the city and can only be emitted after centralized purification by a central treatment plant.

As with most new cities of this era, each city has been underneath in recent decades with modules similar to those found in Space City.

At some point in the future, these cities can achieve the same maneuvering conditions as the space station - splitting and combining into new space cities to minimize the damage to the planet's ecological resources.

The largest and most luxurious hotel in the city, the Continental Hotel, looks like an old-fashioned building from hundreds of years ago, but its interior is completely renovated.

Hill Terry Group, the owner of this ancient hotel chain, is one of the largest hotel groups on the planet's surface.

General Baker parked the car in front of the hotel and threw a glowing key to the smiling waiter.

"Let's go, let's go inside."

After the general finished speaking, he took a step, seemed to be familiar with this place, and went straight to the VIP high-speed elevator in the hotel lobby.

For a scholar who was born in a small remote city and has spent most of his life in the laboratory, he is not very familiar with the mundane life outside.

Su Zhe began to constantly look at the various furnishings with luxurious interior decorations.