Chapter 10: Re-entry into the Rainforest
87_87057 identified their respective targets, and the temporary team leaders gathered their team members, announced information, and discussed future battle plans.
Zilong also gathered the team to the corner of the tent and spread out a map he had brought back on the ground.
In the center of the map, a red cross marks the location of the crash of the alien spacecraft, and on the periphery of the map is a large circle marked in blue, which is the encirclement that humans have cleared with bombers.
The Nelson base is located due east of the encirclement, and within the large circle, in a 90-degree fan facing due east, there are seventeen red dots.
Zilong pointed to these red dots and said: "These red dots are the seventeen alien nests that Major Miller said have special terrain and cannot be clearly identified by bombers, which is our goal this time." ”
With that, he moved his finger to the red dot closest to the center of the map and said, "This is the target assigned to our team, US-17 Xenomorph Lair. ”
"The encirclement of the human army, the diameter of this tropical rainforest enclosed is about three hundred and twenty kilometers, and the straight-line distance between the US-17 nest and the Nelson base is eighty-seven kilometers."
"I'm sure you've all experienced the hardships of trekking through the rainforest when you first entered this space, so I can only conservatively estimate that it will take us three days to reach US-17 Base, which means that we have about seven days to clear this lair."
"The good news is that we got news from Major Miller that the four bases and nearly eighty teams will set off together tomorrow, so we don't have to worry about the lair we are attacking, we will be rescued by other lair aliens, and we can clean it up slowly, but the bad news is that the nest we are responsible for is too close to the spaceship crash site, and it is possible to encounter rescue from the alien lair."
"Of course, we don't need to worry too much about this, in the next ten days, the United ** will dispatch a large number of bombers to carry out carpet bombing near the alien spacecraft, so it is not very likely that we will encounter reinforcements from the nest."
Speaking of this, Zilong spread his hands and said, "Okay, that's all the news I got, everyone can raise any questions, and I will try my best to satisfy everyone." ”
A white man named Abel asked, "Can you tell us about your specific plans?" ”
Abel is a paladin, an officially inaugurated paladin, he is wearing a green iron-blooded battle armor, with a shield and war spear in the light blue iron-blooded warrior suit, and his strength is also considered to be a middle-class storage among the space soldiers in the entire camp, and the reason why he was rejected by other teams is the same as Bai Qi, except that he has more men than Bai Qi.
Able is the captain of a team called "Falcon", and there are a total of five people under his command, all of whom are far inferior to him, and they are all dressed in light green iron-blooded armor.
He obviously underestimated the difficulty of this mission space just as much as Bai Qi.
As the captain, Abel is of course reluctant to part with his subordinates, his subordinates are poor in strength and large in number, and other teams weigh the pros and cons and refuse him to join.
Zilong saw that the person who asked the question was Abel, and he didn't dare to slack off, in Zilong's eyes, except for the team led by Abel and a formal professional named Earl, the others in this team, like Bai Qi and the others, were all newcomers who didn't know the height of the sky.
The Viper Squad had to put themselves in such a disadvantageous situation in order to calculate Bai Qi, but this did not mean that they would give up the mission, and in order to complete the task in such an unfavorable situation, the two official professionals, Abel and Earl, were their only hope.
In order to entrap these two full-fledged professionals, the Viper Squad even gave up two of the positions of temporary team leaders.
According to the Catch-rules of the Tower of Babel, this kind of temporary team formed in order to complete the task can have a different number of temporary team leaders according to the number of people, and after completing the task, the team leader will benefit much more than the ordinary members.
Zilong smiled and said to Abel: "Since the military doesn't know the specific situation of those nests, we haven't made too detailed plans, but considering the uneven strength of the personnel in our team, I think that the large-scale breakthrough is obviously not suitable for us, we can only draw out the elite forces in the team, form several elite squads, and use the bloodletting tactics of boiling frogs in warm water, using seven days, little by little, to weaken the alien forces in the nests to a certain extent, and then fight." ”
Zilong's appearance is sunny and handsome, coupled with a warm smile and sonorous voice, which makes him quite charming, although the tactics in his mouth are general, but they are substantial, reasonable, and make the low morale of the team slightly shocked.
Listening to Zilong's words, both Abel and Earl couldn't help but have their eyes lit up, and even Bai Qi couldn't help nodding slightly, the tactical plan that Zilong said might be the only tactic they could adopt at the moment.
Speaking of this, Zilong suddenly changed his words and said: "However, this tactic also has a drawback, that is, it takes too long, once a team near us completely fails, those aliens in the lair may come to the rescue." ”
Hearing Zilong's words, Abel turned his head to look at the other strong teams, shrugged his shoulders and said, "If even those teams fail, then what reason do we have not to admit defeat?" ”
Zilong smiled slightly, and said, "Actually, I don't think it's very likely that other nests will come to the rescue. Speaking of this, he raised his head, pointed to the team leaders who were in a meeting over there with his chin and said: "These team leaders are all veterans, if you want to say that you will encounter some setbacks, I think it is possible, but if you want to say that you will be defeated and wiped out, the possibility is not very large, as long as it is not a complete failure, then they can continue to drag the aliens in the lair and wait for the other winning teams to come to support, this is better than a complete failure, and the winning team will never refuse the opportunity to harvest the fruit, right?" ”
Zilong's words made many team members smile easily.
Looking at this scene, Bai Qixin said, this Zilong is a talent, and he unconsciously boosted the morale of the team.
Although Zilong's spear team is strong overall, because the poisonous snake hides its identity, so from the bright side, this team does not have the existence of formal professionals, and the name of the lancer is also very unfamiliar, obviously not a famous team, at the beginning, Abel and Earl, who are formal professionals, looked down on this team.
However, after listening to Zilong's words, the two were quite impressed by this person, so they had less different thoughts and more willingness to cooperate.
Such a situation is naturally what Bai Qi is happy to see.
Early the next morning, more than 300 space soldiers, divided into seventeen teams, left the Nelson base in a mighty way, and under the gaze of the soldiers, they burrowed into the tropical rainforest, and disappeared in a moment, like a handful of sand spilled into the sea.
With the experience of trekking in the rainforest after entering this space before, this time you can already connect the knowledge input into the brain of the rainforest survival knowledge with the actual situation in front of you.
In the dense tropical jungle, people's line of sight is limited to more than ten meters, and as the team deepens, everyone soon does not feel the existence of other teams.
Although we are in the jungle that covers the sky, we are always in the right direction because of the GPS positioning provided by the military.
On the first day, when the sun was about to set, Bai Qi turned on the GPS, and they only walked thirty-two kilometers, of course, this distance was a straight line. In this obscured jungle, in order to avoid various obstacles on the way, it is impossible for them to walk in a straight line, Bai Qi estimates that the distance he actually walked should be sixty or seventy kilometers, in the tropical rainforest, this speed is almost impossible for ordinary people to reach.
For ordinary people, a river with crocodiles may be an insurmountable moat, but to powerful space soldiers wearing sturdy full-body armor, crocodiles are not a threat at all.
Zilong led everyone to find a relatively open flat land, raised a few bonfires, and after arranging the order of night duty, everyone took out moisture-proof sleeping bags and put them on the ground, and fell down to rest.
For ordinary people, sleeping on the ground in the rainforest is almost synonymous with looking for death, which will attract the attack of jaguars, and even space soldiers dare not take off their battle armor.
We were lucky to have been undisturbed that night.
Early in the morning, everyone extinguished the bonfire and continued to follow the GPS instructions and headed deeper into the jungle.
Not long after leaving, Bai Qi suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere of the team, and several powerful priests all showed vigilant looks.
Bai Qi turned his head to look at the yellow hair beside him, only to see that he also seemed to be looking around consciously.
Bai Qi asked in a low voice, "Jun Qiang, what do you feel?" ”
Huang Mao whispered, "It seems that something powerful is peeping at us. ”
Bai Qi asked, "Is it an alien?" ”
Huang Mao said: "It doesn't seem to be, there is no cold feeling like an alien...... However, I can't be sure either, I feel very light, and if there is none, I can't determine the direction. ”
Bai Qi nodded, as if he had a hint of understanding.
Huang Mao saw Bai Qi's expression and knew that he had guessed something, and asked, "Boss, what is it?" ”
Bai Qi said: "Do you remember the introduction of this mission space?" In addition to the aliens, there are also escaped Predators, and since the Predators have vowed to recapture the ship, they must be in this jungle. ”
Qin Qing, who was walking beside the two, asked, "Then what should we do?" ”
Bai Qi thought for a while and said: "It stands to reason that we have the same enemy as the Predator and should be able to be allies, but for this Predator race, it can't be measured by our human thoughts, so whether it is friend or foe is still unclear, but I think that at this time, these surviving Predators should not be in the mood to hunt us." ”
"Let's pretend that we don't know anything, follow the team, don't fall behind, and let Zilong and them deal with it."
Zilong and their thoughts seemed to be the same as Bai Qi's, and the whole team fell into silence and moved forward quickly.
This solemn atmosphere lasted until noon, when Huang Mao told Bai Qi, and the feeling of being watched had disappeared.
Soon after, Zilong waved the team to a halt.
After trekking in the rainforest for most of the day, there was no chance to catch their breath, and even the space soldiers with strong physiques felt very tired, and everyone looked for a slightly dry place to sit down and rest.
Zilong and the leaders of Abel and Earl got together and discussed something in a low voice.
Twenty minutes later, Zilong stood up and waved his hand, and the team moved on.
For the next half a day, Huang Mao never had that feeling of being watched again