Li Mu gathered the second team and made an impassioned speech. What team honors, soldiers, honors, men, honors, balabala said a whole bunch. Everyone listened with enthusiasm, their eyes lit up, and they were about to cut down the first brigade from their horses.

Prior to this, the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade felt that the deputy captain was a student officer, polite and slow, and not enough of a man at all. But now everyone thinks that this deputy captain is still a bit bloody.

However, the soldiers didn't know that the bloodiness of their deputy brigade was only the tip of the iceberg, and the time for the real outbreak was still to come.

With the exception of Ship 2, the other starships were equally busy. The soldiers assembled, led the commander to give lectures, and the overall atmosphere was almost no different from that of fighting.

When all personnel were in place, a voice was heard over the communicator.

"Attention all combatants, enter Planet Nine in 13 minutes. Although the weather conditions have improved, the thunderstorms have not completely disappeared. The mission lasted only three hours, and when the time was up, it had to be withdrawn and completed. ”

The soldiers fastened their seat belts, and each one with serious expressions.

Although nominally a resource gathering, this hunt is no less than a war. Especially with this Planet Nine, it is not strange to be injured or even killed.

On the tarmac of each starship, there is a huge display that records the time digitally, down to the second.

"Pay attention, the mothership is about to open the hatches, and the ground crew will quickly evacuate ......"

"Pay attention, the mothership is about to open the hatches, and the ground crew will quickly evacuate ......"

The tower pilot continuously issued prompts and did the final clearance inspection. The countdown changed on the display every second, and all the battleship transports started their engines and slowly levitated.

"Let's go!"

The display time returns to zero, and the mothership's hatch opens wide.

Thousands of Ranger Attack Ships, like swarms out of the box, swarmed out of the eleven starships and swooped down on Planet Nine.

The time on the display also starts counting again, turning into a three-hour countdown.

Three hours is a very tight time, but due to the special circumstances of Planet Nine, this mission is close to the limit. And even if it's such a time, it actually has to be discounted again.

Starships do not land on planets, and can only use Ranger Attack Ships to carry out their missions.

The Ranger is an attack ship that can be used for space operations, is an escort auxiliary formation of the mothership, and has the ability to pass through the atmosphere. In the previous New Third District Campaign, except for the final battle in Nanhu City, the Rangers have always existed as the main warship.

However, the Ranger is a lot worse than the starship, and it takes a lot more time to travel through the atmosphere. Coupled with the thunderclouds in the atmosphere of Planet Nine, it is even more cautious.

Li Mu changed his relaxed posture, staring at the monitoring screen without blinking his two eyes, and quickly evaluated the route data.

"There is a large area of thunderclouds in the southwest direction, and all ships should pay attention to avoid ......"

"After passing, search and hunt in squadrons, don't be too scattered, and the range of activities should not exceed two kilometers within the radius of the No. 1 ship......"

"As soon as a large creature is found, all team members must return to the ship immediately and approach me as soon as possible......"

In addition to commanding the avoidance of thunderclouds, before entering the atmosphere, Li Mu re-emphasized some of the issued orders.

Thunderstorms combined with the effects of metal elements on the surface of the earth make it almost impossible for Planet Nine to communicate normally. If you exceed a two-kilometer range, even the most basic walk-to-talk communication cannot be used. As for the liaison with the space carrier, it is even more impossible.

Li Mu's voice was gradually replaced by a cacophony of noise, and the ten attack ships belonging to the second team plunged headlong into the planet's inner space.

"Captain, communication is out. Telegraph report.

Li Mu hummed, put down the intercom, and glanced out the window.

The battleship's shield had been opened, but there was still a lot of electric light jumping on the windows. The entire battleship was like a silkworm chrysalis wrapped in lightning, rumbling towards the planet's surface.

At this time, there was no need for Li Mu to do anything, as long as the battleship entered the atmosphere, there was only one way forward. Any attempt to reorient itself will lead to foreseeable disaster.

The battleship shook violently, and even the gauges and holographic screens began to be disturbed, as if they were about to crash at any moment.

There was not the slightest tension in the ship, and everyone's expressions were calm.

This is a normal phenomenon disturbed by thunderstorms, and everyone in the second brigade has long been surprised. Compared with these disturbances, everyone paid more attention to them, the new deputy captain.

In the past, when recruits encountered this situation, even if they were calm on the surface, they would be very nervous inside. Especially the student officers who came out of the military academy will be more or less ugly for the first time.

For example, Zhang Hai, the current captain of the No. 1 Squadron, graduated from the Infantry Department of the First Military Academy and is Li Mu's senior brother. When I first came to Planet Nine, I was very calm when I passed through the thunderstorm layer, and even pretended to be a light-hearted joke. But when he passed through, his feet were so weak that he almost fell. Later, it took Zhang Hai a long time and several births and deaths to wash away the shame of that time.

However, Li Mu obviously disappointed the soldiers, and that kind of calmness was not pretended at a glance.

I paid attention to it because of the command, but after entering the atmosphere, I didn't pay much attention to it. Except for instructing Zhang Hai, who was driving the battleship, to let him have a briefing, it seems that he doesn't even pay attention. Instead, his eyes wandered a little, as if he was thinking about something else.

"Our deputy captain is really big-hearted, and he doesn't seem to be worried at all. ”

"Do you feel that the deputy brigade seems to be really different from other student officers? ”

"I don't think it's any different, you forgot that he locked himself in his room to read before?"

"That's the difference, others are deliberately close to us. Only the deputy brigade is not, although it doesn't talk much, but it's more real, not pretentious at all. ”

"That's what I said......"

The soldiers quietly discussed, and invisibly raised their evaluation of Li Mu. There are places where you guess right and where you guess wrong.

For example, the threat of thunderstorms in the atmosphere, Li Mu is not unconcerned. It's just that the attributes of the top student are attacked, and the focus of attention is not the same as others.

According to Li Xueba's estimates, a thunderstorm of this magnitude will not cause direct damage to the battleship, but it will not be completely without impact. Three hours in and out of the atmosphere, there will definitely be some component loss. When you get back to the mothership, you have to overhaul it. Li Mu was distracted there, just thinking about this matter.

Of course, it is true that Li Mu is not afraid.

No matter how dangerous it is, it will not be more dangerous than when he drove a starship to dig a hole in the ground. After all, the threat of thunderstorms is only potential, and squeezing underground in an interstellar battleship is a real hard injury.

After traveling through the atmosphere surrounded by thunder and lightning for more than ten minutes, the battleship finally entered the inner space of the planet. The disturbed screen returned to normal, and the battleship no longer had a violent jitter.

"Thirteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Li Mu confirmed the time.

If you come in at this time, it will last a little longer when you return. In this way, the hunting time must be compressed into two hours to be safe.

Li Mu then turned his gaze to the earth.

Because of the thunderclouds in the sky, the ground here looks very dark. Although the thunderstorm has stopped for the time being, there is still a dripping rain, which adds another layer of water vapor to the dark earth. However, the appearance of the mountain topography and vegetation here is not much different from that of the thunderclouds, and at first glance it looks like it is in a rainforest area.

But Li Mu knows that behind this seemingly similar, there is a qualitative difference. The difference between this and the thundercloud star is not only manifested in the thunderstorm.

"Alright, it's time to get to work. Li Mu issued an order: "Hunting time." ”