Chapter 17: The Terrible Vine Plant

In fact, it was not only the expedition volunteer team of the lunar base that encountered the strong alien plants, but also the other eleven expedition volunteer teams, all of which were similar vine plants, showing the strength and toughness of the strong alien plants.

But there are some differences, most of the encounters are green vines, but there is also a group, the expedition party of the Ostellars, that encounters a kind of blue vine. Judging from the images that came back, the blue vines were much thicker than the green vines, with the thickness of a large bowl, and the strength and tenacity they showed were much stronger than the green vines.

But the same thing is that both green and blue vines are afraid of scorching flames, and the flamethrower in the hands of the expedition volunteers is a great restraint for them.

Just yesterday, two expedition volunteers went missing, lost contact, and their whereabouts are unknown. One of the two expedition volunteers is from Mars and the other is from Caiyunxing.

These are all the messages sent back by the Nimi in the sky above Wang Hengxing to the temporary base of the expedition volunteers the next morning after synthesizing the information sent by the various expedition volunteer teams.

In the afternoon of the same day, NASA's handling of the alien plant incident came back from the J26 base, and this time Daniel once again summoned everyone at the temporary base to the conference hall of the command post to announce the FEA's handling of the incident in public.

Daniel stood on the stage, with a calm face, and said solemnly to the ninety-nine expedition volunteers below: "Ladies and gentlemen, according to the opinions of the Federal Space Agency on the handling of this sudden alien vine plant transmitted from the J26 base, that is, the expedition activities of our twelve expedition volunteer teams are required to be carried out as usual, but we must pay more attention to safety, try to require collective action, and avoid single action." ”

"Moreover, the Federal Space Agency has requested that we have some physical specimens of this alien vine plant for the Federal Institute of Science to study. If this mission is completed, NASA will give you an additional heavy prize. ”

When he said this, Daniel's face was full of red light, and he looked very excited, apparently greatly stimulated by the extra heavy reward given by NASA.

Hearing the news announced by Daniel, the players below suddenly became a mess, and they exchanged words one after another.

Although some people are dissatisfied with NASA's request for expedition volunteers to continue the expedition, they cannot justifiably protest it.

In fact, although this green or blue vine is very powerful and terrifying, the current expedition volunteers are not without the power to resist, and the flamethrower in their hands has an absolute advantage to restrain the opponent, as long as they are careful, they can minimize the danger brought by this alien vine plant.

Therefore, it is logically untenable to refuse to continue the exploration on the grounds of the threat of this alien vine plant.

So when Daniel announced NASA's decision, although some people complained, no one offered to quit, because it would not only be regarded as a coward and become a laughing stock for everyone, but also equivalent to a trip in vain, unable to get the rich reward of the 1 million federal coins and the opportunity to immigrate.

The Federal Space Agency is also not a charity and does not spend large sums of money in vain and get nothing. As early as the time each expedition volunteer joined, the Federal Space Agency had signed a gentleman's agreement with everyone, and if someone quit the expedition, the Federal Space Agency would no longer pay any mission rewards, of course, due to some sudden danger, the cancellation of the mission issued by the Federal Space Agency, it was not within the scope of this agreement.

From this point of view, NASA also loses its role as a profiteer. …,

"Will NASA send us reinforcements?" Someone asked. Since the expedition is to continue, it is always a legitimate request to settle for reinforcements.

Daniel shrugged his shoulders and shook his head, "I'm sorry, but the message from the Nimi doesn't mention any reinforcements, and it seems that the Federation won't send us reinforcements for at least a short period of time." It seems that the Federation believes that the current situation is not bad enough to send reinforcements. ”

Hearing his words, many people began to scold, nothing more than scolding the Federal Space Agency for exterminating humanity, disregarding everyone's life, and letting everyone risk death, etc.

But this kind of abuse is just a pure vent, and it will have no effect on changing the facts.

When everyone was almost scolded, Daniel waved his hand, motioned for everyone to stop, and continued: "Since the order of the Federal Space Agency has come down, then we must resolutely implement it. Starting tomorrow, we will enter the official expedition. Our next task is to clearly detect the situation within a radius of thousands of miles of the temporary base, survey and map basic data such as geology, hydrology, meteorology, etc., collect various plant ore specimens, conduct various chemical analysis experiments, and find rare energy deposits......

Hearing him say this, many people secretly scolded a pervert! The horror of that kind of green vines has penetrated into the hearts of everyone, and if the green vines do not appear, it is already a great thing, and they can't avoid it, where do they dare to take the initiative to provoke?

Although the Federation will definitely have a great reward for getting a physical specimen of that kind of green vine, it also has to be fated to get it.

But Daniel apparently had something else in mind. That kind of green vine looks very terrifying, but it undoubtedly has a fatal weakness, afraid of scorching flames, as long as you target the other party's Achilles' heel, arrange actions, and complete this task is not impossible, and it is even very likely to be completed easily.

There are not many people who have the same idea as him, and the thought of the rich reward makes many people's eyes light up.

Daniel continued: "We have five space armored vehicles, each of which can carry up to twenty people, and then we will set off on an expedition in five ways. Tomorrow I will drive the first armored car, with Sergeant Smith as the co-pilot, and eight more people will be recruited......"

At this point, everyone had already understood that his goal was the green vine, and he only asked eight people to accompany him, obviously unwilling to recruit too many people, so as not to get too much of the reward for the task.

"The other four armored vehicles, led by four sergeants, each recruited twenty members of the team. The remaining ten people, led by Vice Captain Robinson, stayed at the temporary base to maintain communication with each group. ”

"I'm done talking, do you have any questions?"

Daniel's gaze swept across the crowd, and there was silence in the crowd, with no objections raised.

Seeing this, Daniel smiled and said, "Since there are no opinions, then it's decided." Then now the groups can be recruited. If you're willing to join me, you can come to me now. However, I would like to state one thing in advance, my group's mission is more dangerous, and you have to think clearly about signing up. And I only need strong players with a score of 95 or more in the physical fitness test, and those with a score of less than 95 will not come. ”

As soon as he said this, many members of the team walked up to him and applied to join his group. Obviously, these people are going for the rich reward of the physical specimen of the green vine.

The other four groups also began to recruit their own members. Because if you can get some valuable information during the expedition, you will get the corresponding additional rewards from the Federal Space Agency, so each group also has certain requirements for recruiting team members, especially for individual majors, such as some biology, chemistry, geology, energy and minerals, etc. …,

As an archaeology major, Jiang Ping is afraid that he will be listed as an undesirable object by various groups, and if this is the case, I am afraid that he will only become one of the ten left-behind personnel to stay at the temporary base. It's a little safer, but it doesn't take much extra credit and gets an extra bonus from NASA.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the expedition volunteers, the Federal Space Agency has formulated a very detailed reward rules in this regard, and some major discoveries will be rewarded heavily, even some small discoveries, and there will be some rewards to a greater or lesser extent.

Jiang Ping was unwilling to be one of the left-behind personnel, so he tried to go forward to sign up, Daniel's group, he naturally wouldn't go, it was purely self-inflicted. In the other four groups, the first three groups rejected him unceremoniously when they heard about his major, and the reply to him was, it is better to be a left-behind player with a major like yours.

Coming to the last group, he was already a little lacking in confidence. And the leader of the fifth group, a tall and burly white sergeant named Andrew, after hearing his professionalism and glancing at his slightly thin body, also shook his head unceremoniously and rejected him.

However, the deputy leader of this group is none other than the blonde beauty who had a little contact with Jiang Ping yesterday, Sergeant Catherine, a chemical analyst.

It seemed that yesterday's events moved her, and Catherine saw Jiang Ping coming to sign up, so she smiled and said to Andrew: "Andrew, I think we will accept him." ”

Andrew said disapprerovingly: "For what? I don't think we need an archaeology team member. ”

Catherine shrugged her shoulders and said, "Professionalism doesn't tell the whole story, and sometimes we need to get rid of some prejudices. ”

Andrew thought about it, but didn't insist anymore, and said indifferently: "You are the deputy team leader, since you say so, then let him join." Hi lucky boy, I agree that you joined. ”

Although he was very unpleasant to this team leader named Andrew, and felt that the other party was too dragged, in order not to stay at the temporary base, Jiang Ping had to admit it.

"Thank you, Sergeant Catherine." Jiang Ping thanked Catherine.

Catherine smiled and said, "Don't thank me. I think what you said yesterday makes a lot of sense. ”