General Leitner leaned half out of the armored car and looked to the left and right. This convoy has a total of dozens of main combat vehicles, several heavy mechs, and dozens of various heavy armored vehicles. The entire force was about a thousand people. Compared to the more than 6,000 people at the time of departure, the strength at this moment seems extremely thin.

The old general involuntarily thought of the abandoned soldiers again, and sighed secretly. At that time, it was not he who gave the last order, and the overwhelming beast tide really shocked him, and in the end he had to make the decision to give up on those who could not keep up.

Leitner sighed again, calculated the strength of his hands, felt deeply insufficient, and decided that the first thing he would do when he returned to the base was to ask for more reinforcements and equipment. After the Shadow Fortress of Doom and the lancers fought against this beast tide, Lightner knew very well that with this few men in his hands and scattered in two bases, he would not be able to stop this level of beast tide no matter what.

He had no complaints about the departure of Looney and Hathaway, knowing that was the case. Looney and Hathaway couldn't really be in this place for years. They have to do the hard work of holding on and pioneering.

Just as he was thinking, the outline of the forward base was faintly seen in the distance. Lightner frowned and said to the crew in the car, "I have seen the base, why didn't I hear from them? Are all the sentinels asleep today?"

"I've sent confirmation messages several times, starting from 10 kilometers away, but there has been no response. ”

The old general's eyebrows were already locked together, and he ordered: "All first-level alert, in battle formation, slow down, release the mecha, and slowly approach." ”

The armored convoy then slowed down and scattered in all directions, and several heavy mechs also stepped down from the transports and approached the forward base surrounded by tank troops.

The base was silent, there was no one, not even a light to be seen.

The van in the vanguard had approached a few hundred meters away, and there was still no movement in the base.

At this moment, a warrior suddenly exclaimed, "Beast tide!!"

In an instant, the troops blew up. They were really frightened by the overwhelming sea of beasts. All of a sudden, the barrel of the chariot pointed around, and the mecha spun in circles, looking for the enemy's traces.

However, Shino was silent.

Finally, a strange beast appeared on the fortress wall, and when it saw the armored troops outside, it was startled, turned its head and jumped off the wall, and ran away. Several guns were aimed at it, and they watched it go all the way, but no one fired.

A moment later, another timid voice sounded in the channel: "The reaction signal of the war beast...... That's gone. ”

Lightner was so angry that he didn't have the strength to scold, and ordered: "The first team will go to the base to see what is going on, and the second team will answer." ”

More than a dozen combat vehicles started up, opened the hidden gate of the base, and drove into the base. Suddenly an exclamation rang out in the communication channel: "The people are gone! The things are gone!"

A moment later, Lightner stood in the center of the base, his face grim.

The staff officer next to him was puzzled, "Are these guys defecting? Where can they escape? And why should they flee?"

The really hard thing to understand is the last question.

At this time, the communication vehicle brought back the news of another base, and as here, the people were gone, and all the equipment was gone, leaving only the empty building shell.

Lightner looked at the broken walls and turrets and said, "Spread out and collect all the clues for half a day." Let's see if there's anything else you can use, and bring them all. We...... Back to the shadow of the apocalypse. ”

This is a last resort, there is no energy and no food here, and the more than 1,000 of them will not survive for long. And only the Shadow of Doom Fortress has the equipment to communicate with the orbit.

A day later, William looked at the armored convoy outside the fortress in amazement, and couldn't react for a while, why did they come back again?

At the moment, the No. 2 base is busy, and there are more than ten two- and three-storey small buildings around the main base, all of which are spliced together by residential modules. Viewed from the sky, they resemble blooming daisies.

These are temporary living quarters, half buried underground, to guarantee a shooting angle from the main base. The transmission and communication of signals is still a problem, and the distance between the weapon stations that Chu Jungui can accurately control cannot exceed 100 meters.

In this sortie, not only did I get the materials of the pirate flag, but also got a lot of technology. However, after thinking about it, Chu Jungui and Lin Xi still decided to focus on the technology of the agent, the technology of the pirate flag is not complete, and it is not suitable for Planet 4. It is also impossible for the two petty agents to receive a steady stream of equipment and raw materials from the federal side in the future.

Two special transport ships are now the focus of Chu Jungui's research. They are able to repeatedly traverse storm clouds with the help of new ion-protected armor attached to the hull. This armor continuously ejects tiny fragments, emitting powerful electrical currents and creating a protective layer of ions around the ship, dispersing the storm of ions within the storm clouds.

Needless to say, this layer of armor is extremely expensive at a glance. The more resistant a material is to extreme environments, the exponential increase in price will be. For example, the price difference between materials that can resist 5,000 degrees and 50,000 degrees of high temperature is more than ten times.

Moreover, this layer of armor is still a semi-consumable item, and the cost is even more expensive.

Based on the degree of attrition during the descent, the two transport ships were able to safely pass through storm clouds about three times. This is a remarkable achievement, and at least it gives hope to those who landed on Planet Four. However, Chu Jungui will not use them to escape from Planet 4 now.

In the outer planetary space, the pirate flags and lancers monitored all the airspace, and the slow transport ships could not outrun the battleships, so leaving Planet 4 would be dead.

Chu Jungui obtained a lot of information from the Pirate Flag base, including the location of the orbital bases of the two major legions, as well as the troops deployed in the galaxy. Seeing the number of troops, Lin Xi was also taken aback, because the Federation had almost put an entire legion here, and its strength was on par with the Ninth Fleet of the Tang Dynasty.

This kind of strength is enough to suppress several star fields, how can they all be piled up in such a small galaxy, waiting to open up the surface of the planet?

You don't need a high IQ to smell the extraordinary smell inside. Whatever the Federation wants to do, it is not something that two small agents can meddle in at this moment.

After learning of the Federation's true military strength, the test subject decided not to leave Planet 4 for the time being. Storm clouds actually become their natural umbrella.

There's still a lot to do on Planet 4, like pulling out the Doomsday Shadow Fortress again?

The two bases of the Pirate Banner had already given the test subject a taste of sweetness, and he was now curious about what was in the Lancers' fortress.

In the distant valley, in the new beast's nest, four groups of black shadows were surrounded by them, and there were several smaller black shadows on the periphery.

The largest black shadow in the center is educating the other black shadows, "You have to raise Kou to fatten yourself!"

A small black shadow in the outermost circle was fiddling with a virtual balance, but no matter how it put weights on the end of the war beast, several giant rhinos were placed in the clouds, but it still couldn't hold down the scale.

It couldn't help but mutter, "How can Kou be fatter than us?"