All the contracted city-states in the city-state alliance have more or less set off a campaign to find high-level spies in the city-states after receiving information from the southern front, only the steel city-states are peaceful inside, and even their leaders have made speeches on the purification of the human population on several public occasions, thus further proving the possibility that some kind of deal has been reached between the steel city-states and the Normans.

In the south, the base camp of the small town has been greatly expanded into a brigade-level tactical defensive position in a short period of time. The brigade-level unit is the largest military unit agreed by each city-state in the Eden world, and even this unit has not been seen a few times in the history of immigration for more than two hundred years, and the most recent one appeared forty years ago, in the war between the metropolis and the agricultural and forestry city-states.

Even so, a steady stream of military supplies and supplies is still being transported to the base camp, and in addition to these, all kinds of military intelligence are also flying in like snowflakes.

When the Norman battle robots attacked the prison in Fort Town, their ferocious firepower and almost impregnable protection made it almost invincible. But after later disassembly analysis, it was found that this combat robot is not invincible, and from the perspective of installation and technology, it is also in a hurry, many parts and chips seem to be patchwork, although there are scientific and technological highlights, but there is no generation gap with the city-state alliance, and the patchwork of parts shows that Norman's material reserves are not rich.

The Norman Combat Robot is over two meters tall and has a good visual distance, its upper body can be seen as a rough humanoid, with a pronounced head and torso, and its maneuvering devices are crawler-like and capable of climbing stairs.

The main armament is a two-arm three-barreled rotating machine gun, and the outboard magazine can carry 6,000 rounds of full-power 7.62 mm machine gun rounds. Weapons such as ***, ** launchers, and ***** can also be mounted, but not all combat robots can be loaded.

The defense of the combat robot is equivalent to that of a light armored vehicle, and the main cuirass is immune to almost all 7.62 mm ammunition penetration (but the impact of the bullet still has more or less an effect on its internal mechanisms under a heavy blow). It's just that because of their small size, combat robots are tactically used as infantry or direct infantry support weapons, so they have a crushing advantage over ordinary infantry.

Engineers in Fort Town conducted recovery and strike tests on Norman combat robots, finding weaknesses and developing new ammunition and weapons, all of which were delivered to the base camp in the south as soon as possible.

Ah Jun is not too worried about the Norman battle robot, he is still worried about the lack of Norman information. Norman technologies are currently known to have clones, variants of the Blood Vine Tree, battle robots, and man-eating birds. However, compared to the level of technology possessed by the Normans, these species were still too few to support a human military civilization, and the real Normans have been hiding behind man-eating birds and have never really appeared.

So Ah Jun sent a request to the city-states to assist in the investigation, and the intelligence departments of the city-states happened to be looking for spies inside the city-states, so the two things were combined into one thing to do, but the effect was very small, generally speaking: can't stand it, those who are willing to confess are not clone spies, and the real spies will not confess at all.

Although the defense system of the base camp is being improved day by day, Ah Jun knows that at the same time, the Normans are also slowly accumulating strength and preparing to attack, and how many troops the Normans can participate in this time, what types of troops, and what new war machines will join, Ah Jun and all the senior officers of the base camp basically know nothing.

Now it is time to intensify reconnaissance.

The drones of the Ark Alliance, the scouts of the Dryad Clan are searching and reconnoitring day and night, constantly expanding the reconnaissance range, and even a reconnaissance team has arrived at the earliest outpost, but the strange thing is that not only is there no trace of the man-eating birds, but even the blood vine trees are far away, are the Normans afraid?

Although this was the outcome that everyone hoped for - it would be best to be able to surrender without a fight, no one believed that this would happen.

Maybe they'll bypass the Combine's positions and attack any of the city-states?

Some people speculate so.

This speculation makes a lot of sense. The base camp, while theoretically closest to Norman territory, was not a line of defense. Since the ancestors of mankind were all peace and environmental protectors, an agreement was signed that the largest human settlement would be in the form of a city-state, and the city-states would not build roads between them, but would use the unique levitating energy of the world of Eden to know the airship as the main transportation. Therefore, in the vast world of Eden, many city-states are only scattered on a small piece of territory, and there are no roads connecting each other, as long as they are not afraid of detours, through forests and wilderness, any army can strike at the target they want to hit without passing through the range of other city-states.

Yes, the Normans were not fools, and instead of going head-to-head with the powerful military base camp of the day, why didn't they take a detour and choose the city-state they wanted to fight? Didn't they attack the prison in Fort Town so easily last time?

This speculation once again caused panic in the city-states, where everyone reorganized their equipment, recruited defense forces and volunteers, new weapons were produced, and honest weapons were re-stocked, and even ordinary families, as long as the law and emergency permitted, bought at least one firearm, and in the end, guns became a stearful commodity, and even had no price.

After several days of discussion and bickering, the city-state alliance decided to reorganize the Coalition, reorganize the expedition and reconnaissance forces, and search for Norman territory in all directions.

Surprisingly, the steel city-state, which has always given the impression of being militaristic, has put forward the opposite opinion.

The Iron City-State believed that taking the initiative to reconnoiter the Normans was an act of aggression that could really lead to an all-out war. They proposed a Great Wall project, which was called "living behind closed doors".

The specific plan was to build a great wall along the borders of all the city-states, and send troops to garrison them, and then everyone would live in this circle of cities. Anyway, everyone follows the teachings of their ancestors, and they will not ask for more resources from the world too much, and they will protect the environment.

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.

Isn't that the same as building a big prison and locking yourself up? Although according to the agreement of the city-state alliance, all city-states should not easily take too many worlds outside of the established sphere of human influence, but the restrictions on individuals and small organizations and families are not so strict, especially for general adventure travel.

Therefore, the suggestion made by the steel city-state seems to be the truth, but it sounds uncomfortable for everyone.

Although the construction of the Great Wall can be slowed down, it sounds good to build a small city wall to increase the defense of their own city-states.

In addition to this, some city-states began to quietly withdraw personnel and equipment from their base camps. At first, it was quiet, because I was afraid that I would be said to be in collusion with the Normans like the steel city-state, but then everyone did it, so it became full of unscrupulousness. It didn't take long for the defense system of the huge base camp Combine Army to fall into a state of emptiness again, and many infantry detachments were reduced to less than a third of their due strength.

However, some people have analyzed that the Normans may have established an organization like the city-state alliance, the Normans are not a city-state, but also from the city-state alliance, so they fluctuate in foreign policy, so if you want to defeat the Normans, you must first find out the roots of the Normans, and to find out the roots of the Normans, you have to find data from the computer of the ancient immigration spaceship, but at present, the wreckage of the immigration spaceship is stored in the steel city-state, and the steel city-state refuses all query help.

Clearly, the steel city-state is hiding something. And all this led to a diplomatic war between the city-states, and the city-states, which were not fully united, began to fall apart again.

Ah Jun was also very helpless about this, looking at the empty trenches and barracks, he laughed at himself: "Before this starts, we have already lost." ”

Almost everyone in the base camp was worried, but Major Ti, who had already returned from the country, still maintained his original appearance. Although he was appointed as a military judge, since all the evacuees had orders from the city-state, he had nothing to do, so he ran the barracks every day and instructed the rest of them in tactical training.

Ah Jun felt that this was a good idea, so he didn't stay in the command headquarters, and mixed with Major Titanium every day to do tactical training. As soon as he left, Cheng Gang and Jin Junmei followed, and later Kekexi also joined in, and Meiya would follow when she was not on duty in the dark whistle rabbit hole, so that they became the only infantry squad in the base camp that was still training.

It was another early morning, and Ah Jun got up early and made an appointment with Major Titanium, wanting to go on a hunting patrol in the forest. Instead, he met a returning Dryad patrol.

The leader of the Dryad patrol was also an early member of the expedition, so he knew Jun well, and he had received a recall order from the tribe a few days ago, but he insisted on leaving after the last patrol.

Today was the day he returned from patrol, and it was also the day he led his subordinates to evacuate, so he was a little embarrassed to see Ah Jun.

Ah Jun was very free and easy, greeting him with a smile, but when the two passed by, Ah Jun suddenly saw a dandelion umbrella on his shoulder, so he smiled and said, "Someone has found you." ”

The Dryad turned around, plucked the dandelion's umbrella from his shoulder, and said, "Seed of the sacred tree." ”

Ah Jun took the dandelion-like seed of the sacred tree, held it in his hand and looked at it, and the corners of his mouth gradually showed a smile.

He opened his hand, released the dandelion, and said with a smile: "Do me a favor, let's go out to reconnoiter again, maybe there will be a discovery." ”