Chapter 414: Handover
When leading a group of people out of the central control room and through the long corridor to the living area of the outer ring, Lu Feng almost immediately saw a space-time gate about 3 meters in diameter erected in a square not far away.
"It's coming pretty fast......" he thought to himself, thinking it was a metaphor when the command sent the message that the rear team would arrive at any time.
But now it seems that these people should have been prepared on the other side of the space-time gate, and they rushed over as soon as they waited for the departure order from the headquarters.
It can be seen that this space-time gate is not the door they have crossed over, but should be the sister door corresponding to the space-time gate they have passed through, because the stability of this space-time gate is on the side of the plane of Elysium.
As for why there was this door, and why they didn't see it before they came, Lu Feng also knew the approximate reason.
As mentioned earlier, based on Shen Chao's current research results, only when the target plane opens two space-time gates in opposite directions can the time flow rate between the target plane and the main plane be balanced.
Therefore, as long as there are no special requirements, the expedition team always opens two space-time doors to the target plane when performing tasks, one from the main plane to the target plane, and one from the target plane to the main plane.
The two space-time gates are fixed with a stabilizer, and the two realms have the same space-time flow rate and two round-trip passages. The way from the main plane to the target plane is called Gate A, and the one that leads back from the opposite direction is called Gate B.
Under normal circumstances, the team supporting the exploration mission is only informed of the location of Gate A and the specific location of the path, while the location of Gate B in the main and different planes is kept confidential.
Usually only when there is a difference in the original plan. Bs will only be activated, and even in that case, Command will not necessarily inform the ground team of the location of Gate B.
At this time, from this small space-time gate, a steady stream of people were coming out, but unlike what Lu Feng had imagined before, except for a small number of people who first passed through this space-time gate, they were all combatants, and the others seemed to be civilians.
There were only about 200 of the fighters who passed through the space-time gate, including a dozen or so official members of the expedition wearing nanoarmor, and the other few hundred looked like civilians, engineers, and scholars.
These people are dressed in different ways. Luggage and tools with all kinds of large bags and small bags. With the exception of a handful of people, none of the others had a single thermal weapon on them, and at first glance they looked like a large group of tourists.
After passing through the space-time gate, they were in the square under the command of a small number of official members of the expedition to sort out the queue a little. Several different arrays are formed that are scattered by the Hiss.
And Lu Feng also rushed to the square at this time. Find out Todd, the old boss in the training camp. Prepare to hand over work with him. However, Todd told him that the captain would come and hand him over in person.
After saying that, Todd arranged for the hundreds of people who had just been assembled to take over various key locations on the entire space station to see how skillfully Todd commanded. His knowledge of the Elysium space station is probably no less than that of Lu Feng himself.
Speaking of Shen Chao personally coming over to hand over the work, Lu Feng was not particularly surprised, after all, Shen Chao had just been "elected" as the president of a world with a population of more than 10 billion just a few minutes ago.
Although his election process was completely illegal and immoral, it was of the same nature as the kidnapping and theft operations that Lu Feng had been tasked with carrying out before. But morality has never been, and will never be, a thing that will prevent expeditions from achieving their intended goals.
Not long after Todd took the previous few hundred people from the square, a small group of engineers passed through the space-time gate, and it took them about 2 minutes to replace the small space-time gate stabilizer that had previously secured Gate B with a set of larger space-time gate stabilizers that they had brought over.
With the help of the new stabilizer, the opening of the space-time gate immediately widened several times, after which the sappers packed up the equipment they had brought and retreated. After that, a few dozen seconds passed, and a larger team of experts passed through the space-time gate under the leadership of Shen Chao.
That's right, it's the expert group, not the army. In addition to a few official members of the expedition, he was accompanied through the Space-Time Gate by a large group of people similar to the previous "tour group", the only difference being that this group was larger and more complex.
The team included not only thin science and engineering professionals with glasses, but also several beautiful young men and women with professional cameras and reporters shooting around.
Lu Feng was really incompetent when he saw this, although it was said that the main armed forces of this plane had been paralyzed a few minutes ago, but strictly speaking, this is still a war zone, okay, is it really okay to come with so many civilians as soon as possible?
Lu Feng really couldn't understand what Shen Chao was going to do with a team of reporters, but fortunately, after Shen Chao arrived, he didn't need to think about it himself, and they naturally completed the handover of command.
After that, Shen Chao took off his helmet, took Lu Feng's hand to the crowd to shake hands, and asked the reporters to take pictures and video recordings, and the reporters and their cameras were naturally very cooperative.
Many years later, the footage was regarded as a milestone event before the establishment of the Temporal Alliance, and was widely regarded as the most important step before the formation of the Alliance.
Of course, Lu Feng, who was brought in as a rare animal to take pictures at this time, did not have the excitement of participating in the historical event at all, only the feeling of egg pain due to unpreparedness, which was different from the handover procedure he had in mind!
After the photo was taken, Lu Feng stood aside and acted as a human background, while Shen Chao praised the outstanding performance of the students who participated in the operation in front of the reporters, especially bragging about how good their students were and how good they were and how they won the entire plane in two days......
Lu Feng, who was on the side with a human flesh background, only felt that there were hundreds of alpacas running around when he heard this, because Shen Chao's words were too exaggerated, just listening to him, he felt that the students were all possessed by Rambo.
This kind of image display and media propaganda lasted for more than 5 minutes, and then all the reporters and unrelated personnel were taken away, and Lu Feng led the way in front, taking Shen Chao and a few entourages to the central control room.
"You seem to have a lot of questions, if you have one, just say it, don't let me guess......" Shen Chao asked after seeing the strange micro-twitching on Lu Feng's face.
He is now very sensitive to other people's emotional fluctuations, because his perception ability has been greatly improved compared to before, and no small movements and micro-expressions of anyone can avoid his eyes.
"No, Captain, I just don't understand why the media was called, and why so many civilians were brought here? Why are the number of troops who will succeed us so small? ”
Lu Feng thought about it and raised the question, he really couldn't understand what the use of coming to the media for their exam, how good it would be to send more troops.
In the Plane of Legends, they already have an army of over 500,000 humans. It's not a problem to send a few thousand men to this newly occupied plane.
Of course, he had this idea mainly because he was still a student, and he knew too little about several of the expedition's large-scale plans, and he had only received the first part of the first phase of the mission plan in the Elysium plane.
With limited information and limited comprehension, he really couldn't connect these things together and give himself a reasonable explanation.
In normal times, Shen Chao might just smile at him mysteriously, bypass his questions, and let him concentrate on the exams later, but today Shen Chao's mood seems to be very good, at least much stronger than when the students set off, and after a little thought, he actually began to answer Lu Feng's question.
"You still don't understand, for you this is just a pre-entry exam, for our entire expedition, the occupation of this plane is an important event, although it is not critical, but many larger plans and ideas need to be verified by this plane.
The people you think are "irrelevant" that I just brought in are an important part of these plans. Among them are professionals from all walks of life, engineering specialists, agricultural experts, economists, sociologists......
The occupation of this space station and the armed forces of the CCB is only the first step, and it is our goal to study and transform this world. You and the rest of the squad will be handover in a few hours and you'll be back to recuperate and work on your new exam.
Our team of experts will stay here to comprehensively investigate this dimensional Earth, and try to reverse the chaos here in the shortest possible time by all means, so that this planet full of poverty and violence can become our development ......"
"But this requires a very large number of people to participate in the transformation, and we don't have so many people now......" After listening to Shen Chao's explanation, Lu Feng had an illusion that he was not dreaming.
Because no matter how he thought about it, he didn't think that the current expedition team was capable of doing the work that Shen Chao said. It's not a matter of ability, it's that there are too few people.
If only considered from the perspective of force, the strength of the expedition team can crush this plane quite easily, which can be seen from the fact that they can capture the "capital" of this plane with only a hundred people.
But defeating and governing are two completely different concepts, and although the CCB, the plane's own government agency, looks bad, it is the most powerful armed group in the plane after all.
And even this armed group would choose to hide en masse on the Elysium space station due to the lack of manpower and the chaotic surface of the earth, and with the current human resources situation of the expedition and its affiliates, it seems a joke to want to do better.
After all, they hadn't even completely cleared and occupied the Plane of Legends, which had a population of only tens of millions, let alone occupied and transformed this chaotic planet of 12 billion people.
"I know what you think, we don't have enough people to do this job. Yes, we don't have enough people to occupy this plane and turn it from a liability into an asset in a short period of time.
"But who says we have to use people? After feeling Lu Feng's doubts, Shen Chao suddenly turned around and patted him on the shoulder and said, as he spoke, he also sent him a small electronic text. Then he stepped into the central control room. (To be continued......)