Chapter 360: A Major Accident
The cargo ship's cabin is loaded with thousands of tons of food, hundreds of tons of ammunition, more than 700 brand-new security planes, and 12 hammerhead chariots that are absolutely invincible in land warfare in this plane.
Next to the runway, the original lawn is covered with a large white background, which is densely packed with drones parked there waiting for take-off orders.
Shen Chao confirmed their preparations after arriving at the scene, and after confirming that they were correct, he gave the order to set off. And I didn't forget to give a few team leaders such a final explanation before leaving.
"Remember, when I get to the mission point, bring back as many survivors as I can, what I need most now is human resources......"
After explaining this, the three team leaders each saluted him, and then turned around and arranged for the team members to set off. They quickly entered their respective shuttles with their crews, and then a few minutes later, they took off almost simultaneously under the coordination of the tower.
Forty black-painted shuttles slowly left the ground in a long line, quickly closing the distance between them after takeoff. Split into three teams.
With the take-off of the shuttle, thousands of drones that were set up on the lawn next to follow the flight program also took off in batches under the control of the program.
These white-shelled drones take off in multiple successive batches from front to back like flocks of pigeons. After taking off, they flexibly set up various following formations in the air, guarding the shuttle group they followed.
Since each drone has the size of a small coffee table, thousands of drones take off with a bit of a cover. The soldiers who were watching the excitement from a distance couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamation.
They have not been in contact with these unmanned equipment for a long time, and the previous clean-up operations were all team activities, so this is the first time they have seen so many drones take off.
The last to take off was the medium-sized cargo ship. After a warning whistle and flashing warning lights, the spaceship, the size of a residential building, slowly left the ground and headed for the shuttle formation, which had already flown away.
Due to the large mass effect field of the spacecraft, it released a fairly strong take-off airflow during takeoff. A small sandstorm occurred near the blow.
Even Shen Chao and the others had to raise their arms to block the wind and sand that were blown up because they were too close. The wind and sand lasted for nearly 2 minutes before finally disappearing, and they were already covered with a lot of sand.
"Ahem... Don't call me next time you encounter something like this......" Dr. Neville patted his body after the ship was far away. And spit out a little sand in his mouth and said.
He didn't really want to see off the team in the first place, because he still had a lot of medical work on his hands, and it was not easy to rebuild the medical system here. He has a lot of work to do every day.
"That's impossible, Doctor. You are our voice in this plane. In the future, any ritual of re-enactment in this plane must involve you......"
Shen Chao said with a smile. As he spoke, he patted the sand on his body vigorously. He said that he didn't forget to remind himself. The next time a spaceship takes off on the ground, he won't be able to stand so close to see it off.
Although the blown sand and this kind of sonic boom will not cause them any substantial harm, it is not a comfortable thing to be blown in such sand.
As for why Dr. Neville had to participate in such a ritual? That's because they decided early on on the management model that they agreed on in the team meeting.
According to the management model they have determined, the final decision on the internal affairs of each occupying plane should be made by the Class A member from that plane.
Other words. Dr. Neville is the steward of the Earth of this plane that their entire team recognizes. He is the one who decides the major events of this plane.
Although it had been Shen Chao who had been directly managing their actions in this plane a few days ago, it was only because Dr. Neville trusted him and handed over the management to Shen Chao.
He believed that after handing over these management tasks to Shen Chao, the other party could do a better job than him. More importantly, this arrangement allows him to devote his energies to medical research and eradicating the epidemic in his maternal plane. That's what he's really concerned about. Management planes? That's not his specialty.
"Hey, I know. Dr. Neville sighed when he heard him say this, he knew that Shen Chao would return all the management work to him after completing the army construction of this plane.
At that time, his job will most likely change from saving lives to managing the various administrative tasks of this plane's earth. As soon as I thought of this possibility. He had a headache. Because if he had a choice, he would still choose to focus mainly on medicine.
"Don't worry, I'm already starting to screen assistants for you, if you don't want to take care of it, it's a big deal to arrange a deputy to help you manage the specific administrative work......"
Shen Chao knew from Dr. Neville's expression that he was struggling with this problem. So immediately give a solution, he has been thinking about this problem for a while.
According to his idea, after they occupy or conquer several planes in the future, Class A members do not necessarily have to directly manage the affairs of their parent plane.
It is entirely possible to outsource the management work as if he were an agent, and only to grasp the military and intelligence powers.
It's not that he had such a solution in mind for Dr. Neville, but that he himself was forced to find an assistant by the sheer volume of management work.
Although he doesn't have many people in charge now, please keep in mind that Shen Chao is in charge of coordinating every action of their team on Earth in this plane. Therefore, he is actually very busy every day, and he has long been thinking about how to reduce his burden.
Back to the present, after seeing off the mercenaries, they returned to the city, Shen Chao made a simple arrangement of the next day's schedule in his office, and then left the Burj Khalifa and went back to the living area to rest.
Tomorrow, the main members of the expedition who have just returned will be assigned new jobs. Until the plane is completely occupied, they will be so busy that they will rarely have time to rest.
The next day, as the sun showed his head on the horizon, Shen Chao reappeared at the Second Air Force Base, and at this time, he was in a former airport conference room in the base, waiting for the officers he had summoned to arrive with a stern expression.
He was originally going to get up to work later today, after all, he just got together with his girlfriend who had been separated for a month last night and wanted to give himself a little vacation.
But an urgent report an hour earlier dispelled that idea. The mercenary he had just sent out yesterday had discovered so quickly.
And because the mercenaries' report was so shocking, he immediately decided to come over and gather the army after a short period of consideration.
He wasn't waiting alone, Custer, Alice, Todd, and Dr. Neville were all present at this time, and their expressions were just as stern as he was. They were also the reports of the mercenaries they had just seen from Shen Chao, so their feelings were also quite complicated.
As Shen Chao's summoning order was issued, the senior officers of the First Marine Regiment who were arranging the morning exercises of the soldiers all put down their work one after another, handed over the training work to their deputies, and then ran over as fast as they could.
They all knew that Shen Chao was their highest sergeant chief, and the previous training was very strict, so no one dared to come over slowly to resume his life.
Soon the first officer arrived, then the second, then the third, and it took only four minutes for all 37 senior officers to arrive.
These officers were all senior officers of their newly formed First Marine Regiment, with ranks ranging from second lieutenant to major that Shen Chao had personally bestowed on them, and many of them were professional soldiers before the crisis.
After they arrived at the conference room in batches, they all saluted Shen Chao at the door first, and then entered the conference room to find a seat and sit down, waiting for the arrival of others.
Although they didn't know what Shen Chao had done to gather them so early in the morning, according to the experience of the last clean-up operation, they were about to receive a task again.
The thought that it was going to be a mission made these officers quite excited, because the past two years had already integrated their instinct to kill mutants.
Coupled with the successful experience accumulated during the last clean-up operation, they knew that their current strength was no pressure to torture mutants.
So, everyone is very much looking forward to the new task. Achieve the goal set by Shen Chao to clean up the global mutants as soon as possible. After the last officer arrived, Shen Chao finally began the mission introduction.
"Good morning, gentlemen. As many of you have assumed, I have a new assignment for you. Shen Chao's first sentence confirmed everyone's speculation, but he himself was not as optimistic as his officers.
"As you know, I sent your instructors out of our safe zone yesterday afternoon and sent them out to scout other places. ”
"But what you don't know is that they made a heavy discovery soon after they arrived at their destination. One of the teams has just discovered a large human settlement in China with more than 50,000 people. And our new task is to rush over and help them ......"
When Shen Chao said this, he thought of the shock when he just received the report an hour ago, more than 50,000 people! Such a large human settlement is in the imperial capital! And he actually found out now.
The problem is that, according to the number of human settlements that their previous satellites have detected, there are only three human settlements of this size, and all of them are in the Russian Federation.
When they originally used satellite scanning, they had only found a few hundred people in the imperial capital area, and it was precisely because of this strong contrast of expectations that Shen Chao was so shocked.
If the rest of the world had this error in the initial numbers, then their original population estimates would have been wrong, and if they did, the plan would have needed to be significantly adjusted. (To be continued.) )