Chapter 8, Return to Base

The frontline bases were all boiling, because of the sirens of the approaching Zerg before, all the soldiers had come out and were ready to go. Looking at the armored vehicles that went out and returned, I noticed that they were there to pick people up. Thinking about the previous bad news, almost everyone thought that this was the survivor of the armored brigade, the hero who ran out of the mouths of those man-eating bugs.

The cheers were continuous, and Li De looked at him in amazement. The rest of the people also had mixed feelings in their hearts, and their eyes were moist. The brave soldiers, who had come and gone several times on the edge of hell, also wailed. Li De looked at the soldiers who came to welcome and congratulate him, his eyes fluttered, but he unconsciously fell on Karin. After taking a closer look at her for the first time, she found that Karin had big charming eyes, a tall nose, and sexy and plump lips. Coupled with brown hair, it looks very charming. Li De didn't know why he had such a reaction after experiencing a test of death, but he felt that this beautiful female soldier was more kind.

The cheering crowd continued for a while, then suddenly dispersed left and right. Forward Base Commander Allen walked over. This Allen is the image of a professional soldier, with a straight military uniform without a single pleat, and the brim of the hat is polished. Blonde hair, resolute eyes, and a mustache on his mouth.

"Well done, Clark, Kliman." Alan said. "You have a good rest tonight, and you will make a comprehensive report tomorrow!" Alan revealed a hint of cruelty. An armored brigade lost today, and now it has finally found the person responsible.

"Kliman, I need to talk to you, and you, Lide." Clark sensed that something was wrong, and Alan turned around and said to the two. But before he could say a second word, a squad of gendarmes came over and took the heroes who had just returned to the camp directly into the monitoring room.

It is said that it is a monitoring room, but in fact it is a separate cell. Li De simply washed his body, treated his wounds, and ate a little simple food in the army.

I found that the kettle of ale I was carrying with me was lost on the way back. The kettle was a parting gift from the one-armed old man on the edge of the garbage dump, and recalling his days on Planet Arkansas, Li De slowly fell asleep.

The next day, Alan "invited" Clark and Kriman to the interrogation room on time. At Clark's strong request, the video feed was also synchronized to General Douglas in the form of a live broadcast.

Allen knew that this Clark was a young officer whom General Douglas greatly admired, but according to the rules in the army, such an inquiry was a military mission report, and should be reported to the local supreme commander who signed the mission, and the signatory of the mine robbery mission was General Douglas.

"So you didn't find out in advance that this was a trap?" Alan asked.

"Yes, when we got there, we didn't find anything out of the ordinary. I also reconnoitred with drones in accordance with the combat instructions, and did not find any shadow of the Zerg. Clark replied.

"Really? And then what? ”

"Then I will give the order to set up a temporary command office and mine the crystal mines." Clark replied slowly. "These are detailed records in the combat records I uploaded."

"We've seen the records." General Douglas's hoarse voice was heard over the communicator. "There seems to be something interesting in there." After being silent for a while, he said, "The first person to shout the alarm was a miner named Li De, who was the first to discover the Zerg, right?" ”

"This, I don't know. He was the first to call us in an ambush, but the Zerg attack didn't seem to have started yet. ”

"So he stumbled upon an ambush bug?" Alan didn't give up.

"Probably not, I learned that the closest person to him at the time was Karin. With Karin's eyesight, she didn't find it, so no one should have noticed the bug in advance. Asked like this, Clark was also a little unsure, and found a problem.

"Karin? That granddaughter of Old Kent? General Douglas thought for a moment. Indeed, her eyesight should be much better than that of a miner. ”

"It seems that the guy named Li De is very problematic!" Alan smiled.

Throughout the morning, Clark was mentally tormented and walked out of the inquiry room knowing that it was lunchtime.

Alan followed behind, his eyes like eagles, staring at Li De, who had just been led out of the room by a military policeman, ready to go to dinner.

With short black hair and black eyes, he looked less than twenty years old, and a somewhat childish young man became infinitely suspicious in Allen's eyes. Li De's every move seems to be analyzed and used as a bargaining chip to offset his mistakes.

After a brief lunch, Li De returned to the monitoring room. After waiting inside for several hours, a gendarme finally came to his door and took him to the inquiry room.

On the way, Li De saw Kliman coming out of the inquiry room. The mine overseer looked decadent and walked listlessly past Li De.

Entering the inquiry room, Alan was still sitting in high spirits, as if he had not been questioned for a day. Under the instructions of the military police, Li De achieved his position.

"Name?" The communicator makes a sound.

"Li De."

"Hometown?"

"Arkansas, Area 6675."

After asking for some basic information, it was time for General Douglas to interrogate.

"You were the first to call the police, how did you see the Zerg?"

"I didn't see the Zerg, I found something unusual."

"Even Clark didn't see anything out of the ordinary, how did you know?"

"I found that the soil in the mines there is not the same as the soil composition of the veins, and Chief Clark said that when the Zerg attacked before, they didn't attack the front line with all their might."

"So what? It was a tentative attack by the Zerg. Alan chimed in.

"But this can't be said, this crystal mine is on the west side of the base, and every day when the sun sets, the sunlight reflected by the crystal must make the entire mine shine. There is no reason why the sentinels should not be invisible.

And the last Zerg attack, this was not the main battlefield, but there were corpses of bugs. Those bugs are extremely vigorous, and they can't be caused by stray bullets. So it should be the bugs who deliberately left the corpses for us to find here. ”

"And those crystal mines are naturally the bugs that just put them here? There is indeed some truth in your analysis. General Douglas let out a compliment, but Allen's heart tightened.

"And then? Kliman said that it was also you who predicted the losses of our armored brigade in advance? ”

"Yes, because at that time the bugs already had the strength to wipe us out, but all the bugs were surrounding us and had no intention of exterminating us.

Chief Clark should have been able to spot it, but he was setting up defenses at the time, and he just didn't think about it. Since the bugs have laid a trap tightly, it is also very likely that they will arrange another trap to let them reap more benefits. ”

"Who taught you these things? As a miner, you probably haven't read a tactical manual, and your data shows that you are an orphan and have no formal military education. Oh no, it's not even a formal education. ”

"This..."Li De seemed a little hesitant.

"How?" Alan seems to have found something to make a fuss about.

"I was living with a visitor on Planet Arkansas," says Lid, who began to talk about his past.

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The picture on the big screen was fixed on Li De's face, and an older officer turned to look at the others present. As can be seen from the medals and epaulettes on his military uniform, he should be a lieutenant general who has made many military exploits.

"What do you think?"

"It's hard to say, it's a little uncertain, but it's very likely." A shrill voice rang out.

"But this young man can be nurtured well."

"Well, it just so happens that my granddaughter is in Seleone."

"Kent, do you want to rob my man again?"

"He's still a miner, what can he do?"

The discussion continues.

After Li De came out of the interrogation room, he was not taken back to the monitoring room. Instead, he went back to the barracks where he had stayed for one night. He is now the only one living in this room, as none of the other miners have survived.

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"El, now you know where those bugs go, right?" The muffled voice of the High Priest came from the communication crystal.

"Yes, sir. The imagery that the probe detected in the west is telling. El knelt on one leg on the ground, and just now he saw the Zerg encircling and annihilating the human armored brigade from the footage from the probe.

The battle was not fought for a long time, but it was unusually fierce. After the battle, the Zerg withdrew.

This process shows that the Zerg here are all dispatched to ambush the humans, but instead relax the defense of their own brood. Finally knew the answer to the question that was bothering him, but El was still worried about the counterattack of the bugs.

"Looks like our human friends have done us a small favor."

"Yes, sir."

"Alright, those bugs have lost a lot, and it looks like your worries can be relieved. We've gotten word that the White family might send someone over. Do you know how to do it then? ”

"Yes, sir."

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The next day, Li De received a notice from Kliman that he needed to be transferred back to the rear base from the front line on the same day. Instead of participating in the work of the mine, it is on standby.

In the morning, Li De, Kliman and others stepped on the car back to the base. Many of the soldiers on the front line came to see him off, including Tank, who had met with Li De.

The brown-skinned young man also had a feeling of immortality, and he was still annoyed when he thought that he had not been selected to support Li De's armored brigade in the first place. It's like I'm dying.

In the car, Li De looked at the other side in surprise, looking at Karin with a pair of bright eyes.

At this time, she was dressed in a cool outfit, wearing shorts and a vest, showing her perfect figure. Her brown hair is coiled behind her head and she looks youthful and beautiful.

Li De's pure young man's heart was beating thumping.