Chapter 782: Silent City
Xia Xingcheng's worries were not unreasonable, since the Zerg could eat oil, natural gas, and even organic matter containing carbon, phosphorus and other organic matter as food, then why couldn't they live underground? So he ordered the drone reconnaissance of the wormhole to be terminated in order to prevent alarming the Zerg living underground and bringing them danger.
After giving the order, Xia Xingcheng pulled Mingyue aside and asked, "What else do you know?" β
Mingyue shook off his arm and asked, "What are you doing, it's like interrogating a prisoner!" Didn't you bring me with you? Now you know how important I am, right? β
Xia Xingcheng said: "Okay, it's almost done!" Hurry up and say. β
"Then you beg me?" Mingyue whispered, teasing him.
Xia Xingcheng glared: "It's over, isn't it?" It's on a mission, hurry! β
"Just say it, what's the anger," Mingyue said, and at the same time called up the electronic map fed back by the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, "The route you led us to, so far, the position is still correct." Did you see this? Point A. β
Mingyue pointed to a point in the electronic map, which was actually in the northern suburbs of the city, "There is a very well-fortified here, and there is a residual energy source, I suspect that this is an abandoned power plant, or a military facility or something." β
"Why here?" Xia Xingcheng asked.
Mingyue said: "You can see from the map, from the place where we got off the boat to the end of this point, there are a total of three street entrances, and each street corner has a decoration to resist horses. This shows that they attach great importance to point A, and set up three lines of defense on the route of the Zerg's attack, although they still failed to stop the Zerg in the end, they tried their best. β
"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Xia Xingcheng said, "We can land directly at point A." β
Mingyue said: "This route we took is the route of the Zerg's attack back then, shouldn't we scout carefully?" And there is a building at the corner of the street ahead, which has a lot of information, and neither drones nor soul waves can detect these materials, only our personnel go in person. β
"Facts? What kind of information? β
"Paper materials."
"Paper? You mean the library? β
"I don't know, but I don't rule it out."
"Well, the next target, the library! Everyone followed up, always provide vigilance! β
Five Tyno still flew in, and five land soldiers still walked through the snow. Quiet streets, snow falling, drones buzzing, TaΓtans flapping their wings, land marchers crunching on the snow, a row of desolate and apocalyptic scenes.
In a blink of an eye, I came to the second street entrance, and sure enough, there was a library-like building, and in front of the building was a high staircase. There is also a small square in front of this library, which is also cluttered with parked vehicles and armored vehicles.
If there was a fierce battle between humans and the Zerg in this city, then these buildings, roads and vehicles, as well as some facilities on the street, were not only corroded and dilapidated by the years, but also baptized by war.
But at the top of the stairs, before entering the door of the library, there was a row of columns, several of which were broken, and a corner of the front of the library had collapsed.
Before entering the library, Xia Xingcheng still sent more than a dozen drones to reconnoiter first, and through the picture fed back by the drones, it can be seen that it is a mess inside, and many books on the shelves have rotted due to age. There was also a large part of the roof of the library that had collapsed to expose the sky, and a large part of the surrounding walls had also collapsed to expose the sky.
Not only that, but there is snow in parts of it due to the open roof. While the drone went in to investigate, Xia Xingcheng did not forget to report to the headquarters, and at the same time asked the captain on the edge of the big pit: "How is the situation there?" β
The captain replied: "It was very quiet, nothing out of the ordinary. β
Xia Xingcheng muttered, "It's strange." β
"What's wrong?" Mingyue asked, "Isn't it good to be quiet?" Isn't it good to have no zerg to harass? β
"But have you thought about it?" Xia Xingcheng said his doubts, "When we landed, we were besieged by so many Zergs, crawling from the ground to flying in the sky. But after arriving in this area, I didn't see a single bug! β
Mingyue also nodded: "That's right, that's right." Do you think there will be any survivors of the Snow Star in this area? β
"Impossible!" Xia Xingcheng directly denied her speculation.
"Why can't it?"
"It's been more than a hundred years since they perished," Xia Xingcheng analyzed as he continued, "It's full of zergs outside, and in this lonely city, including the places around it, there is nothing to eat or drink in this entire area. Survivor? What do they eat? What to drink?
"Moreover, you have all seen that although there are no Zerg here, it does not mean that the Zerg will not come in, and that huge pit is an example."
Speaking of this, Xia Xingcheng suddenly paused and stopped talking. Mingyue asked, "What's wrong?" What do you think of? β
"You just said that although the food of the Zerg is not animals, they are absolutely not allowed to have living creatures?" Xia Xingcheng asked.
"Yes," Mingyue nodded, "This is based on my many soul wave investigations, and it has also been proven, there are no other animals on the entire planet except for the Zerg, this is good evidence." β
"No, no, no, the problem is not here," Xia Xingcheng interrupted him, "It's not the evidence of the argument, it's the result of the argument, the Zerg doesn't allow any living creatures to appear in its territory!" β
"yes, that's right." Mingyue affirmed again.
"The city we are in, and the high ground occupied by our Landing Brigade, this magnetite-rich area is the territory of the swarm! It's the territory of a large swarm. The reason why they didn't besiege us was that they had appreciated the power of our drone swarm, and second, they were gathering their team to gather all the surrounding insect swarms together to launch a final siege on us, a huge siege! β
"But the signal in this area is not good, and it will interfere with their brain waves."
"No, Mingyue, there is interference, that's the reason why they aren't stationed here, but it's not the reason why they don't encircle and annihilate humans! The remains of this city can be seen that a hundred years ago, the aboriginal humans were surrounded and annihilated by them. After the last human was killed, they all withdrew. β
Mingyue couldn't help but gasp when she heard him, "That means we're going to be in trouble." β
"Yes, we must contact the fleet as soon as possible to assist us in retreating."
"But I lost contact with the fleet in orbit!"
"Use your soul wave to connect," Xia Xingcheng said.
"The soul wave can't be contacted either, I tried."
"Then try again!" Xia Xingcheng said decisively, "Okay, let's start going in, searching for information, and ending this operation as soon as possible." β
(End of chapter)