Chapter 270: Catching the Dragon' (Part I

Hayden Planet.

At 9 a.m. on February 21, Robin personally led an elite army team on a miniature armed landing ship to the Kanas Mountains, 1,700 kilometers away from the army fortress, where he conducted a reconnaissance mission.

An hour earlier, the commander of the fort, Colonel Mark, had noticed a sudden and dense lightning strike over the area. Although the lightning strike was short-lived, only 36 seconds, the intensity and coverage were rare in the past year. Therefore, Colonel Mark immediately reported the situation to Robin, and sent a large number of ground exploration teams to conduct a large-scale carpet search of this complex terrain and vast area.

The Kanas Mountains are one of the most extensive hilly areas on the planet Hayden, covering nearly six million square kilometers. Although there are no peaks above 3,000 meters above sea level in the area, the terrain in the area is extremely complex and steep.

In the geological survey report of the army fortress, there is a seismic zone directly running through the Kanas mountain area, so the topographic changes in the area are very active, which also makes the surface mountain drop extremely large, coupled with the development of lava in the strata, a considerable part of the mountains in the Kanas area show karst landform characteristics.

With the current scientific and technological means of human civilization, the satellite can directly photograph the entire Kanas Mountains from space, and can detect an accurate result for the height and depth of the mountains, canyons, and lakes in the valley in the region, and the real error will never exceed the range of 3 centimeters. However, satellite detection signals cannot penetrate deep into the ground, and the Insats and dragon chrysalis are very likely to hide inside the mountain or below the surface. Therefore, the only way to truly explore the area is to find out if the Insats are hidden.

By nailing a sonar device into the formation that can penetrate deep into the fracture of the formation, geologists can obtain the structure of the deep underground through the feedback of sonar, and if there is biological movement in the void of the formation, the sonar can also immediately feed back its movement data and body shape data, so that the ground exploration personnel can determine its location and number at the first time.

In terms of the effect of use in the past few years, this method is undoubtedly the most effective. Unless the Insats have penetrated deep into the lava layer, no matter how good they are at stealth, they will not be able to escape the tracking of underground sonar.

However, although this method of exploration is effective, it also has certain limitations. In addition to the need to use a lot of manpower and material resources in the exploration process, it is impossible to quickly survey hundreds or even tens of millions of square kilometers of land in just a few seconds like space radar. Therefore, the results obtained by using this method of exploration have a certain delay, and if the ground forces do not respond in time, it will be difficult to take action in the first place even if the enemy situation is discovered.

And it is precisely because of this that Robin insisted on personally leading the team to carry out this exploration mission despite everyone's opposition.

In his opinion, the complex topography of the Kanas Mountains was very suitable for the Insats to hide here. What's more, most of the terrain here is karst, and Robin had fought in this terrain when he was on the planet Wendini, so he knew very well that under this terrain condition, most of the mountains were actually hollow, and there were enough conditions to hide a large number of creatures. Moreover, the hollow area of the mountain is directly connected to the underground water veins, so the underground passages formed by these underground undercurrents that gradually spread downward, and the nearby mineral-rich water sources can undoubtedly become the best place for the Insats people to raise biological weapons. In addition, the dense quartzite stone forests of the Kanas Mountains and the strong magnetic field generated by the activity of the underground lava layers make the area itself a frequent area of lightning strikes

Thinking from another perspective, when Robin looked at this area from the standpoint of the Insats, he found that such a vast territory that could be attacked and defended was completely a strategic point tailor-made for them.

In such a complex area, the Insats can be well hidden. The vast area is also enough to meet the needs of the Insats to grow their population and raise biological weapons. In addition, the Kanas Mountains are an area with frequent lightning strikes, which makes it the best base in the eyes of the Insats.

Robin insisted on leading the expedition himself, because he was sure that the expedition would make a discovery. Moreover, as the Emperor who would make the Empire's strategic plan for the next hundred years, and the supreme commander of this expedition to the extragalactic system, Robin felt the need to have a close encounter with the Insats to fill in the fatal flaw of his lack of experience in fighting such extraterrestrial life.

However, after actually arriving in the area on a landing ship, he realized that he seemed to take it too far.

After his own personal verification, he found that the landscape of the Kanas Mountains was far more complex than he had imagined. According to the topographic data in hand, it is true that there is no peak above 3,000 meters above sea level in the Kanas Mountains, but there are large crustal fissures in the Kanas Mountains that are more than 1,700 meters deep. And when the mountains and fissures are combined, then the difference in height is as much as five or six thousand meters. In addition, most of the mountains in the Kanas Mountains are lonely and towering like sword peaks, which makes the exploration of the survey team very slow. With more than 30 survey teams dispatched and nearly 5,000 personnel, the exploration progress completed in one hour was less than 1 percent of the total area of the entire Kanas Mountains. In this way, it would take at least four days of 24-hour continuous work to explore the entire Kanas region in the field. According to Colonel Mark, judging from the scale of the lightning strike found this time, the cocoon breaking period of dragon chrysalis eggs is very imminent, and perhaps a larger-scale lightning wave will usher in the real cocoon breaking in two or three days. At that time, the high-density lightning strikes will not only cause life damage to the prospectors, but the dragon chrysalis larvae, which are only the size of loaches, will also have the ability to move on their own, and can abandon the area to really go deep into the earth's crust. In that case, it would completely lose the ability to capture it, and it would have to wait for it to completely eat the planet in a hundred years.

Robin couldn't help but feel anxious about this, but there was really no good way to speed up the progress at the moment. And if it was a complete gamble on luck, Robin felt that this probability was too small, and it was almost impossible for it to happen.

"Damn! How the hell can I find them......"

Standing at the top of the towering stone forest, looking at the dense forest-like stone forest in front of him, and the deep cliff that seemed to be able to go deep into hell at his feet, Robin's brow furrowed deeper and deeper.

As a soldier, Robin can be described as a battlefield veteran. Robin has been in the army for 12 years since he officially joined the army in 2078, and during these 12 years, he has experienced countless battles, large and small, leaving his combat presence in almost every galaxy in the galaxy. However, looking back at all the battles he had participated in, his opponents were his own kind. The only tentative confrontation he had with the Insats was in the well-defended laboratory of Hoffmann the Great, and his opponents, the Insats, had only been given the simplest biological equipment.

Through that tentative encounter, Robin gained a general understanding of how the Insat army fought and its characteristics. However, he remained only on paper about the overall operational thinking of the Insats, and how they mobilized their large forces.

It is clear that Robin, who has become accustomed to fighting with humans, is very unaccustomed to this completely different way of fighting the Insats.

Compared to the large-scale battles between humans and humans, the Insats are too secretive in their way of fighting. Only when there is a special purpose, Insats will take the initiative to show up to fight humans, which makes the dominance of the war completely determined by the other side. In addition, the means of conquest of humanity by the Insats were not entirely based on warfare. By breeding their own race and raising creatures like dragon chrysalis, the Insats were able to completely destroy the planet inhabited by humans within a hundred years. Without planets, human resources are limited, and they have to slowly give up their territory and compress their living space.

This is a kind of war thinking with a concept of more than 100 years or thousands of years, and human beings, who have only lived a short period of more than 100 years, are simply unable to accept this brand-new concept of warfare in a short period of time, and the war experience gained in the past 10 years or so is very limited. There is no doubt that at this stage, the Empire, or the human race, is completely at a disadvantage at the strategic level. If Robin wants to reverse this disadvantage, he must reverse the number of years of combat to the extent that humans can adapt, and only through a quick battle can humans have a chance to defeat the Insats.

"How can we solve it quickly?"

Robin looked at the staff who were drilling to set up sonar equipment, and listened to the noise of the laser drill bit drilling quartzite, Robin shook his head helplessly. In his opinion, although this kind of noise is not loud enough for human hearing, in a hollow environment, such noise will be greatly amplified, which is a natural warning for the Insats who are dormant underground. The Insats are not unintelligent beasts, they are highly intelligent alien beings. Then, if the opponent is regarded as a human being, or a being with a higher IQ than a human being, then it is absolutely impossible for it to stay where it is and wait for the enemy to find out.

"Robin, I have an idea." Just when Robin felt at a loss, Zhuo Luo, a field exploration expert, suddenly looked at the deep abyss under his feet and seemed to have an idea.

The reason why Robin brought Zro with him was, on the one hand, that he had super combat ability, and on the other hand, his innate keen tracking ability like a beast made Robin particularly valuable. Now, hearing that Zhuo Luo seemed to have some ideas, Robin suddenly perked up and asked anxiously: "What do you think, let's hear it." ”

"The development of the Insats requires the raising of a large number of creatures, and it is impossible for any kind of creature not to leave traces when it moves. So in my opinion, instead of relying on scientific and technological means to explore, it is better to focus on the creatures raised by the Insats, and if you can find those creatures through the traces left by these creatures, then you can naturally find the Insats. Moreover, the dragon chrysalis is still only an egg, and it does not have the ability to act on its own. With its importance to the Insats, it was impossible for the Insats to leave it alone in one place. So, I think that at least at this stage, if you find the Insat, you can also find the dragon chrysalis. ”

"So...... What do you mean......" Robin followed Zolo's gaze towards the bottomless abyss beneath his feet, gradually understanding his thoughts.