It was already noon when the convoy arrived at the 36th monitor, but the sky was gray, this was not the rhythm of dark clouds gathering to rain, this area had already penetrated deep into the Taklamakan area, it would not rain easily, it was going to be foggy.

Before the Earth War, human beings had already planned to use ecological transformation technology to transform some uninhabitable places on the earth, turning sand into soil, grassland and forest, and so on. Coupled with the subsequent changes in the earth, the ecological environment on the earth has undergone great changes.

The Taklamakan area, where Monitoring Station 36 is located, has long been an oasis, and although it is covered by large areas of vegetation, the topography of the area makes it difficult for water vapor to enter and cause rainfall.

Taklamakan is a region surrounded by mountains, with the Tien Shan Mountains in the north, the Pamirs in the west, and the Tibetan Plateau in the south, which block water vapor from the Arctic, Atlantic, and Indian oceans. In addition, it is controlled by a hot and dry westerly wind belt, so even if there is an oasis, it is still difficult to rain.

"It's noon, let's go to the monitoring station and settle the lunch. After observing the surrounding environment, Jiang Li said to everyone.

Ye Ming and the others entered the No. 36 testing station, and the war machine was parked under the monitoring station. Before Screening Station 45, a team would be stationed at each testing station.

The task of this team is to pay attention to the surrounding conditions of each inspection station at all times, protect the safety of the passage, and provide security for the transportation of resources in the passage.

There were ten members of the resident team at the No. 36 monitoring station, who were guarding various posts, and at this time, their captain Zhou Mao stood at the entrance of the testing station to greet Jiang Li's team.

"Resident Captain Zhou Mao, welcome to your arrival, we will try our best to help you, I hope you have a smooth mission. Zhou Mao gave Jiang Li and the others a military salute.

Jiang Li also returned the salute. Jiang Li stepped forward and shook hands with Zhou Mao, and led the team members to follow Zhou Mao into the testing station.

Zhou Mao led the team to familiarize themselves with the environment in the No. 36 testing station, and then arranged accommodation for everyone. Because each mission is not something that can be completed in a day, it may take a long time to be here.

"You have a total of eight team members, six men and two women, due to the limited rooms at the testing station, we can't arrange a separate room for you" Zhou Mao explained the accommodation situation to everyone,

"It's okay, we're at your disposal. "There can't be a separate room, of course Ye Ming and the rest of the team members don't care, after all, the conditions for carrying out the mission must be limited.

"Well, I'll provide you with four rooms, each room can accommodate two people, and you can arrange it yourself. Zhou Mao led everyone to the room on the top floor.

"Xiao Wei, you can arrange a separate room. Jiang Li didn't want to spend time on this kind of thing, so he gave the task to Xia Xiaowei.

"Okay. Xia Xiaowei gladly accepted Jiang Li's proposal. "Ruoxue and I live in one room, Ye Ming and Jiang Li live in one, Li Yi and Sun Xiao live in one, Wang Kaihe and Zheng Dong live in one. I'm okay with that, right?"

"Nope. "The team members didn't complain about this room split.

"Okay, go back to the room and put your things away, and gather downstairs. After Jiang Li finished speaking, everyone went to their respective rooms, and after placing the things they carried, they came to the first floor to gather.

Zhou Mao was already waiting for Ye Ming and the others on the first floor, and after seeing Ye Ming and them go downstairs, he stepped forward and said to everyone: "The conditions are limited, the testing station can only provide you with automatic heating fast food, and we usually eat this, which is transported from the life network for us to eat." ”

The team members said that they had no opinion, and it would be good to have food outside the life network, after all, the river water is seriously polluted, the water resources are scarce, and the drinking water is all bottled water transported from the life network, and it is impossible for people to make their own food.

There were a few unopened self-heating fast food on the table, and Jiang Li and the members of the team went to the table and began to eat lunch.

After quickly solving the lunch, Zhou Mao took everyone to a monitoring room and played the video of the observation camera equipment of the reconnaissance machine and the inspection station in the past week to the team members.

"This is the latest monitoring footage, recently there have been a large number of mutant animals wandering within 10,000 meters of the testing station, and the main activity time is night and foggy weather. Zhou Mao introduced the testing situation to the team members while playing the inspection screen.

"Have you launched an attack on the testing station?" Jiang Li asked Zhou Mao.

"Not at the moment, but four days ago there was a small group of mutant wolves that came within 500 meters of the testing station and has been hovering around. In order not to disturb the mutants farther away, our garrison simply used light weapons to drive away the wolves. Zhou Mao said that the picture was adjusted to the picture four days ago.

The picture shows that in the dark night, seven or eight pairs of scarlet eyes are lit up a few hundred meters away from the camera. After zooming in and optimizing the picture through technology, you can clearly see that it is a huge mutant wolf with a length of three or four meters.

They have been loitering within five or six hundred meters of the monitoring station, and from time to time they make roaring movements towards the monitoring station.

Then we saw a fire strike from the direction of the monitoring station, which was fired by small batteries and light machine guns.

The wolves continued to roar at the station as they ran and dodged, but eventually dispersed and disappeared into the forest behind them after a long period of fire.

After watching this video, Jiang Li and his team members found some huge footprints and dense small footprints on the ground in the distance in other videos. However, compared with the huge footprints of the woman who were five or six meters wide in the middle of it, the larger of these small footprints was actually fifty or sixty centimeters wide.

"Footprints of this magnitude indicate that there are quite a lot of mutant creatures. Ye Ming looked at the footprints in the video and said to Jiang Li.

Jiang Li touched his angular chin, and then nodded approvingly: "Yes, this is obviously to launch an attack on the passage." ”

Jiang Li turned his head to Xia Xiaowei who was standing next to him and said, "Xiao Wei, contact the Jianmu Command Center to investigate the number of mutated organisms that appeared around other monitoring stations this week and which monitoring stations are mainly distributed. ”

"Okay. After receiving the order, Xia Xiaowei took out a black box, and after opening it, there was a sophisticated computer, which was a mobile device produced by Jianmu that could communicate normally outside the life network, but the cost was very high, and it was difficult to produce in large quantities. So each squad of this operation carried only one, and even a spare could not be provided.

Xia Xiaowei verified his identity information and then connected to Tongtian Jianmu's network to query the data of other testing stations on the network.

Soon, the results of the data analysis came out, Xia Xiaowei raised his head and said to Jiang Li about the analysis results: "According to the data, there are mutant organisms in various monitoring stations, and even the No. 1 monitoring station has found traces of several mutant wolves. ”

"The large number of mutant organisms is basically after the No. 30 monitoring station, and many of the time periods of large-scale mutant organisms appear coincide, indicating that it is not a large group of mutant organisms wandering between various monitoring stations, but many mutant organisms. ”

After listening to Xia Xiaowei's analysis results, Jiang Li frowned and fell into deep thought. Ye Ming and the other team members also fell silent.

The results of this data show are unfriendly, and can even be described as terrible. Such a large collection of mutant organisms was rare in the years following the completion of the tunnel.

When the passage was first built, it was attacked by a large-scale beast tide. That time, in order to protect the passage, the human race sacrificed nearly a thousand people who passed through the first secret realm, and these people are the elite of the earth today. Not only that, but the number of sacrifices of ordinary armies was even more terrible, and in the end the passage was protected after the human toll was dearly.

Such a price must be borne by human beings, because at that time, the Tiankeng Lifenet was already facing a serious shortage of resources, and if the resource problem was not solved, a large number of people would fall into famine, disease, and congestion. In the end, there were riots, and social order was seriously disrupted. It is possible that humanity did not perish in the hands of the Norva, but in the hands of the earthlings themselves.

Jiang Li finished his contemplation, walked back and forth in the room, and then said to everyone, "We must know where these mutant creatures will eventually attack so that the Earth Alliance can prepare. ”

"Each team will be scouting their own monitoring station, so we're going to have to scout the mutated creatures at Monitoring Station 36 as well. We'll have to start scouting in the afternoon, and we're running out for time to find out what the mutants are doing as quickly as possible. Jiang Li analyzed the current situation with a serious attitude towards everyone.

"Roger. Ye Ming and the others immediately stood up from their seats and seriously accepted Jiang Li's order.

"Everyone, go back to their rooms and get ready, get your equipment, and we'll be out of the testing station in ten minutes. Jiang Li waved his hand to let everyone hurry up and get ready, and then turned to Zhou Mao and said,

"Captain Zhou Mao, we will definitely not be able to grasp the movements of the mutant creatures in real time after we leave the monitoring station and enter the forest, so we need your garrison team to monitor this mutant creature at all times, and once something happens, it will be immediately conveyed to the life network, please." ”

Zhou Mao stood upright and saluted a military salute. "Guaranteed to get the job done"

Jiang Li also returned to the room he was in and took the equipment he was carrying. Ten minutes later, the members of Jiang Li's team all took their equipment and went to the first floor of the monitoring station to assemble.

"This time the situation is serious, we enter the forest and don't know when we will be able to return, so please unite and cooperate, do your best to complete this mission, and set off. After Jiang Li finished speaking, he led the team to leave the No. 36 monitoring station, taking advantage of the fog that had not yet completely spread, and touched in the direction of the forest, Zheng Dong and Wang Kai drove the fighting machine to follow the team.

The group slowly disappeared from the sight of the station's guards.