Chapter 135: Changes in Africa (Part I)
"Ah sneeze~"
Zhao Wei, who was in a secret underground military base deep in the eastern mountains, sneezed.
"Commander-in-chief, are you alright?" The soldiers sitting around the conference table were concerned.
"It's okay, I'm fine, where did you just go?" Zhao Wei declined the tissues of the person next to him and continued the meeting.
"When it comes to the number of recruits."
"Yes, report on the number of new recruits."
"Report to the commander-in-chief, the first phase of conscription has now ended, and there are only six million new recruits, and there are still four million vacancies required by the United Nations document."
"Is that all?"
"Yes, commander-in-chief, you said that everything is voluntary, not deliberate publicity, so we are all passive recruitment among the appropriate age group, and you also know that the outside public opinion is very negative now."
"I know, it's actually very good, at least I know that there are still five million warriors among the people who know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to go to the tiger mountains, and these are the mainstays of our fight against the alien crisis."
"Commander-in-chief, what are we going to do in the second phase?"
"Maintain principles, enlist voluntarily, and properly publicize."
"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!" The officer in charge of recruitment walked away quickly.
"Who else needs to report?" Zhao Wei asked.
"Report to the commander-in-chief, the quartermaster, report to you that as of 9 o'clock today, military supplies, including guns, ammunition, and military uniforms, have been transported."
"What about heavy weapons?"
"On the way, the fleet of warships and fighter planes has reached the designated position, waiting for your review."
"Arrange for me to get a special plane to the dock and check the Navy queue first."
"Understood, Commander-in-Chief." The quartermaster gave a military salute and walked out of the conference room.
"Adjournment!" Zhao Wei waved his hand, and the rest of the people were busy with their own work, he lit a cigarette casually, and the smoke slowly rose under the bright light.
It's a full hundred meters above the ground, and he hasn't gone out to bask in the sun, and every day is a meeting, all kinds of meetings, which is really boring.
"Mr. Zhao Wei, I have to disturb you." The voice of the acting chairman suddenly appeared from Zhao Wei's mobile phone.
"What's the matter?"
"Mr. Liu Li, please go to the virtual conference room."
"The conference room is almost my home." Although Zhao Wei was reluctant, he still connected to the virtual conference room, and Liu Li had been waiting for a long time.
"Mr. Zhao Wei, hello!" Liu Li took the lead and asked, "I received a very bad report yesterday. ”
"Yesterday?"
"Yes, yesterday I received a distress signal from a ground battery construction base on the African continent."
"Is there any information mixed in with the signal?"
"No, I thought it was sent by mistake, but it happened that the weather was bad, the satellite could not scan normally, and I suspected that the communication was interrupted due to the weather, so we sent people nearby to check."
"Did you find anything?"
Liu Li shook his head and nodded, and he showed Zhao Wei a message marked as sent earlier today.
"The Heavenly Wolf Sect?"
"That's right, we lined up a professional rescue team to go over, because there was no signal base station on the way to the base, the sky there was still shrouded in thick dark clouds, and we could only use the enhanced communication device that was inconvenient to deploy, and maintain intermittent contact once every half an hour, and reported it once when we arrived at the location this morning, and there was no response after that, and there were only these words in the last message thirty-six minutes later, and the words were typed wrong, which is the result of correction."
"In other words, what happened to the rescue team that caused them to not even have time to send messages calmly, just as they were mistaken as a signal for the team to call for help before, and the reason why there was no note was because it was too late?"
"Whew~" Liu Li took a breath and nodded to affirm Zhao Wei's judgment, this incident made him feel cold behind him, and he always felt that there must be a horror in it.
"No other information?"
"Yes, after the rescue team entered, the base sent another video, which seemed to have been disturbed during the recording, and is currently being repaired and deciphered by Ivy Where."
"Can you report to me the interruption of the rescue team?"
"As you wish."
Lines of text appeared above the center of the conference table, which were the report records of the rescue team.
6.00AM: The team took a short break and prepared to continue to set off, counting the number of people, and all 19 members of the team arrived.
6.30AM: The road ahead is not smooth, the team must give up the ride, change to walking, after the inspection of the carry-on equipment, continue to move forward, count the number of people, all 19 team members are here.
7.00AM: Closer and closer to the camp, it seems that it has just been swept by a torrential rain and wind, the rain is slightly fishy, the preliminary judgment of the base should be affected by bad weather, count the number of people, all 19 team members have arrived.
7.30AM: It was difficult to trek on the muddy ground, one of the team members fell down, but there was no injury, and the equipment was not lost, we ate a little while marching, counted the number of people, and all 19 team members arrived.
8.00AM: You can already see the buildings of the base from a distance, oh, the construction is progressing very quickly, we see large reinforced concrete buildings, but the base seems to be a bit deserted, count the number of people, all 19 team members are here.
8.30AM: Ready to enter the base, strange, there seems to be no one in the base, the vegetation blown down by the storm is scattered all over the ground, judging that the base staff are hiding in the building, they should not know that the storm has passed, we searched separately, counted the number of people, all 19 team members are here.
9.00AM: Still no one has been found, no body has been found outside the base, I should have hid in the basement of the building, I will do the same if I want to, the scattered stones and building materials can be seen that the wind and rain are really strong, we are ready to continue to search inside, count the number of people, one team member did not respond.
9.36AM: @天狼≯ ...... Row %......
Zhao Wei took a deep breath, there are a lot of questions in this record, he taps the table rhythmically with his fingers, he always likes to do this when he enters the state of thinking, and the rhythmic tapping sound will make him more logical.
"Storm, the rain is slightly fishy, it should be sea water, what is the location of that base?" Zhao Weifa asked.
"It's not impossible to have a storm on the coast." Liu Li had studied it carefully when he finalized the construction site, and he had some impressions.
"I can't say that, acting chairman, please call up a copy of the precipitation records and satellite meteorological records of that place over the years."
"As you wish!" The acting chairman did not pause, and directly projected the information that Zhao Wei wanted on the stereoscopic image, which seemed to have been prepared for a long time.
This efficient action couldn't help but make Zhao Wei look twice, even if he used a top-notch computer to search such a huge database, it wouldn't be so fast.
But the most important thing now is to solve the immediate problem, and the rest should not be too much to think about.
From the precipitation over the years, there are few heavy rainstorms in the local area, and the precipitation is moderate, judging from the report records of the rescue team members, the situation caused by the storm is somewhat abnormal.
Crucially, the satellite's global weather records show that the clouds represented by the storm were created out of thin air without any warning!
(End of chapter)