Chapter 62: A Deadly Hurricane
After an encounter, Yang Fan led the group back to the spaceship, and although there were no casualties in this battle, it gave him his first glimpse of the horror of the bugs on the planet Hult.
After the Ika people loaded the "K-Source Star" into the spaceship, all the systems of the spacecraft shut down by themselves, and Fang Hu, who had just arrived on the planet Hoth, became their veritable "watchdog".
When the spacecraft was close to the planet Hult, in order to prevent the target from being exposed, Zhao Longhai flew directly to the South Pole at the suggestion of Guapi, and the spacecraft landed on a desolate ice field.
When everyone first set foot on this planet, they were shocked by the ice field in front of them.
Yang Fan has witnessed the ice fields at the South Pole of the Earth, but they are nothing compared to here.
The elevation of each iceberg is almost entirely higher than that of the Earth's north and south poles.
After the spacecraft landed, it was quickly camouflaged, and all the soldiers rushed to the command room of their respective detachments after receiving the order to assemble.
Yang Fan conveyed the tasks assigned by the command center to his subordinates, and he stood in front of the big screen, on which was a map of the distribution of the base.
"Next, I will convey the tasks assigned by the superiors, first, we will fly to Base 1 with the other two detachments in spacecraft to clear the surrounding bugs, second, search and rescue survivors, and third, repair communications and life support systems to use the base as a temporary base."
After Yang Fan conveyed the mission, he analyzed the terrain around Base 1, as well as the possible insects, and formulated a detailed action plan.
"According to the time of the planet of Hult, we will leave on time at 8 o'clock tomorrow, and everyone will be ready when they go back."
The plan made by Yang Fan was detailed and thorough, and everyone had no opinions, and after they went back, they began to prepare for tomorrow's action.
The next day, after saying goodbye to Li Na, Yang Fan flew to Base 1 with his teammates.
This is the first mission to reach the planet Hort, and it is unknown what kind of danger it will face.
The three detachments of Team A, Team B2, and Team C each set off from Antarctica on a spacecraft and nearly 200 staff members.
After several hours of flying, they reached the location of Base 1, and through aerial reconnaissance, the entire base and the residential area here were almost completely in ruins, and strangely did not find a single bug.
Three spaceships slowly landed near the base, and soldiers wearing special protective armor and helmets, carrying weapons and equipment, rushed down from the spacecraft.
They surrounded the staff in the middle and quickly approached the base, and entered the base without any problems.
The Base Command Center is a free-standing building, about three stories high, but it occupies a very large area.
Yang Fan led his detachment into the command center, and the other detachments entered the nuclear power tower and supply warehouse to repair the damaged systems and hardware.
After three days of hard work, the main facilities have been almost repaired, and the main systems can be restored as long as the nuclear tower is able to transmit power normally.
In order to avoid nuclear radiation, the nuclear power tower was built in a col ten kilometers away from the base, where Team C is working hard to repair it, but fortunately, the nuclear power tower has not suffered much damage, and everything is going well.
There wasn't a single bug attack in those three days, and they disappeared like evaporated from them.
Two days later, the good news finally came from Team C, the nuclear power tower had been repaired and could provide power normally.
With the power supply base, all kinds of support systems can operate normally, but the communication system cannot be restored, let alone get in touch with the earth, or even with the command center through the base.
This is because the base's communications tower, which is located on top of a hill five kilometers northwest of the base, has failed.
The terrain around the base is basing, and the communication tower can only be selected on a high mountain in the distance.
The inability of the communication system to recover is like a deaf person, and the impact and risk are incalculable, and the communication between the three teams is now only through wireless headsets.
After some deliberation among the three captains, it was decided that Team A would go to the mountain to repair the communication tower, and the other two teams would search for survivors in the residential area.
After the task was assigned, the detachments began to operate, and Team A had a total of 50 people, and it was not necessary to repair a communication tower.
Yang Fan decided to take one group to the spaceship, and the others were on standby, and after they successfully reached the top of the mountain, they began to repair the communication tower, but who did not expect a super hurricane to suddenly hit without warning.
On the planet Hult, due to the instability of the atmosphere, severe extreme weather is frequent, and for Category 12 hurricanes, it is commonplace.
At this time, there were still two soldiers working on the tower, one was named Chen Xing and the other was called Ma Chao.
Yang Fan saw that the weather had changed, and told the soldiers through the headset to temporarily stop the operation because of the change in the weather.
"Team Yang, this kind of weather will not affect the operation, give me another ten minutes to repair the communication tower." Chen Xing's voice sounded in the headset.
"This is an order to hurry down!" Yang Fan urged again.
Chen Xing and Ma Chao did not disobey Yang Fan's orders, because now the communication tower can be repaired soon, and if they go down, they don't know how much time it will take, but the two never expected that a disaster would happen in this short period of ten minutes.
The weather on the planet Hult is faster than changing faces, because the weather satellite has failed, and any weather changes can only be judged by humans now, and Yang Fan and they have just arrived on the planet Hult.
Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, the wind raged, and the dust had already submerged the entire communication tower.
The two soldiers clung to the guardrail of the communication tower, they wanted to go down now, but as soon as they let go, they would be blown away by the hurricane.
"Boss, let's fast forward to the ship!" Zhou Tian shouted loudly.
"No! The two of them are still on the tower, and they must be rescued. ”
Zhou Tian didn't answer, grabbed Yang Fan's arm and pulled him into the spaceship.
Now that the communication tower has been repaired, Chen Xing and Ma Chao are trapped on it, and the two of them try their best to slowly descend along the guardrail to the ground.
"Ma Chao hold on, we're almost to the ground." Chen Xing shouted.
"I'm afraid I can't hold on, fuck I'm a headwind."
The two happened to be facing each other, and Chen Xing happened to be tailwind, and the solid communication tower blocked his body, while Ma Chao was just the opposite.
Under the powerful hurricane, Ma Chao still didn't hold out to the end, only heard a whoosh, and his body floated up like a flag.
"Ma Chao hold on!"
Chen Xing wanted to reach out and grab Ma Chao's hand, but because the distance was too far, he couldn't do anything at all.
"Lao Tzu is going to die before he comes here to kill insects, Chen Xing, you must help me get my share back!"
"Ma Chao ......"
Chen Xing watched Ma Chao being swept away by the hurricane, and kept shouting in pain.
Ma Chao's last shout, Yang Fan and the others heard it clearly, and their hearts were like knives, and they were heartbroken.