Chapter 92: An Outpost That Isn't Quite Right
Hawke's leg wound was indeed well healed.
This greatly surprised Meng Lei and the other Blue Star people.
With Bluestar's level of medical care, there is certainly no problem in treating comminuted fractures.
However, most of the time, it is up to the patient to recover slowly.
However, due to the presence of alien plasma and a large number of alien-specific medicinal plants, the level of medical care here is not necessarily as outstanding as that of Blue Star.
However, the medicinal supplies here can greatly shorten the recovery time.
It allows people to achieve a significant recovery effect in a short period of time.
It can be said that as long as it is an indirect fatal injury, most cases can save you.
Through understanding, Meng Lei even discovered.
Here, even the permanent and continuous damage of nuclear radiation can be completely cured as long as it is detected in time and treated as soon as possible!
It's incredible!
By about 12 p.m., Hawke's left leg was swollen and his skin was no longer bleeding.
Even the wounds that were sutured after surgery are slowly healing.
Bones that could have taken three or four months to grow up, but according to Gina, they can heal completely in about a week.
Such a miraculous medical treatment was an eye-opener for Meng Lei!
Of course, this is also inseparable from Gina's superb medical skills.
From judging the injury, to open surgery, to bone suturing.
Gina did it almost in one go, without wasting a single moment of time.
If a half-hung doctor comes over, he may miss the best rescue period, causing Hawke to leave a certain degree of hidden dangers.
At the dining table, Huo Ye had a grilled fish in his mouth.
As she ate, she gave Gina a thumbs up.
"Dr. Gina, if nothing else, your medical skills are indeed excellent, admire, admire!
If it weren't for your help, Lao Huo's leg would be a waste! ”
Gina looked lazy and tasted the food on the table elegantly.
Hearing this compliment, she immediately put down the knife and fork in her hand, stretched out her slender fingers, and gently wiped the food residue from the corner of her mouth.
The ruddy tongue sticks out of the mouth and moves flexibly on the fingertips.
Seductive and sultry!
Eventually, he put his finger in his mouth and sucked it vigorously a few times.
After making sure that the food residue the size of a grain of rice was completely wiped out, he looked up at Huo Ye and showed a charming smile.
"Dr. Gina, be on call!
As long as you open your mouth, as the patron saint of the Sea Locust, she will meet all your needs! ”
The fluffy and messy hair covers most of the facial features, revealing only the fair and pointed jaw.
The delicate corners of the mouth, with a hint of ethanol fragrance, exhaled like an orchid.
"Remember, it's everything~"
With that, Gina stood up and stretched.
Under the loose white coat, it can be clearly seen that yesterday's thrilling red has become a mysterious temptation today. Confused black.
The sound of light footsteps faded away.
Several big men in the restaurant all subconsciously swallowed their saliva.
It wasn't until the sound of the shaft hatch closing that everyone came to their senses.
Simon's eyes burned with an inexplicable evil fire, and he desperately pulled a few mouthfuls of rice into his mouth, and muttered unclearly:
"This woman...... It's so demonic! Not a good stubble! ”
Meng Lei nodded thoughtfully, forcibly buried the mysterious black in his mind with nicotine, spit out a puff of smoke, and muttered:
"With her character, she has gone to sea so many times without encountering accidents?! There must be an unknown risk factor in the body! ”
After a pause, he looked around at everyone and said earnestly:
"Brothers, as your captain and employer, for your safety.
I'm here to advise you, don't follow her ways, and give me my share on the boat! ”
Hearing this, everyone nodded desperately.
In an extralegal place like the deep sea, as a woman, she is a woman who is very good in all aspects except for her mental state.
In front of a group of big men, he made undisguised temptations on a daily basis. Confused behavior.
It's the same as the sheep shaving their own fur and running to the wolves to show off.
If she didn't have any support, no one would believe it.
In other words, she is in nature the kind of extremely open style, and she doesn't care.
But in either case, no one can be sure what kind of medicine is being sold in her gourd.
For the sake of its own safety, it is better to do this.
"Okay, let's not talk about her, let's just treat her as an ordinary ship doctor, and usually have nothing to tease her."
Meng Lei waved his hand.
At this time, Hans had eaten his lunch on his plate, wiped his mouth, and asked:
"Captain, what are we going to do next?
Now that we are still sixty or seventy kilometers away from the outpost of Molten Rock, do you want to take another mission on the way? ”
Meng Lei took a puff of his cigarette and pondered for a moment with his eyes narrowed slightly.
Finally, he shook his head and said:
"Forget it, don't pick it up, Hawke's leg injury is not healed, and the efficiency of our combat missions will be greatly reduced to a certain extent.
For other types of missions, there are no too good options on the road.
And everyone didn't have a good rest last night, so let's go straight to the Molten Rock Outpost and sell the corpses of the Swift Dragon Eggs and Creepers first.
Then take a good rest and plan for tomorrow. ”
With a distance of sixty or seventy kilometers, with the speed of the Sea Locust, it can be reached in four or five hours.
The harvest is okay for now, and Meng Lei doesn't plan to make any more extraneous branches.
Wait until you get to the molten outpost and finish the chores at hand.
When the time comes, take a break and decide on the next itinerary depending on the situation.
However, the advance must be continued, and the Molten Outpost is only the first stop on their voyage.
This place is only more than 300 kilometers away from the city of Xi'er, and the depth of the sea is less than 4,000 meters.
So, there's no need to rush back, just go ahead and explore further.
After lunch, everyone returned to their respective jobs again.
Meng Lei held the tablet in the command room and got in touch with Chen Yu to learn about the fleet and the current situation in Xi'er City.
After the development of the past few days, most of the Blue Star players have integrated into the alien society.
Blue Star players can be seen in all walks of life in Sil City, including in every corner of the city.
Relatively speaking, people who are willing to stay in the city to work and work for a stable life still account for the majority.
Some of them are people who infiltrate various industries to collect intelligence at the behest of the major fleets with various purposes.
Among them, the heavy fleet also accounts for a part of the proportion.
However, for more important special professions such as energy zone engineers and city security officers, the league has temporarily blocked the employment threshold and prohibited Blue Star players from finding jobs.
Obviously, the alliance is still very wary.
In addition, in the past few days when Meng Lei set sail, the other members of the fleet have not been idle.
Everyone constantly receives various tasks through the town hall, although they are all ordinary tasks with low difficulty, and the money earned is far less exaggerated than that of Meng Lei.
It can add up to a lot, the base number of team members is here, and everyone's savings are added together, and it has also reached sixty or seventy thousand marks.
This money is enough to buy the cheapest ordinary exploration submarine.
But Meng Lei and Chen Yu were not in a hurry, because they had already understood.
Ordinary exploration submarines, both in terms of performance and firepower, have major flaws.
As a reclamation boat to explore the deep zone, it is seriously unqualified.
Only submarines of the Sea Locust level have the qualifications and capabilities to advance to deeper seas.
Therefore, the heavy fleet still needs a lot of accumulation.
At least 200,000 marks or so of reserves must be in place to consider expansion.
Judging from the current rate of making money, it is estimated that it will take more than a week or so for the second submarine to be released.
The development speed of several other major fleets also varies, but on the whole, the Chongming fleet is still one step ahead.
In addition, Chen Yu also revealed a piece of information.
This week's latest issue of Sil Weekly has been released, and the solo report on Meng Lei has become the hottest topic at the moment.
Although this report did not occupy the cover, it still attracted a lot of attention.
After all, this is the first time that a single report about a Blue Star player has appeared in a local Alien magazine, which can be said to be unprecedented.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Guixu and Meng Lei invisibly became popular again.
Now, many of the indigenous inhabitants of the alien planet also know Meng Lei's name.
And not only the first gathering place of the 66671 waterway, but also all the major cities of other waterways, also saw this report at the same time.
It can be said that
Meng Lei's name, with the publication of the Cyer Weekly, has now spread all over the world.
Even if people are just holding the mentality of watching the excitement at present, there is no real influence.
But at the very least, Meng Lei is also a celebrity.
And together with Meng Lei, there is also Huo Ye's daughter, Huo Xin.
Sil Weekly, a full-fledged magazine covering everything from entertainment gossip to political trends to global business, published its first report on missing person notices.
In particular, the protagonist is also a Blue Star player!
Such a practice cannot but arouse people's curiosity and concern.
For a time, the name Huo Xin was also known to Tia Indigenous and Blue Star players around the world.
Blue Star players, in particular, are going crazy in the channel communication channel, trying to find a target that matches the missing person notice.
Then provide clues in exchange for a high pay.
yes
Those who provide conclusive evidence have a huge reward, which Meng Lei deliberately added.
Otherwise, how easy is it to find someone?
But even so, it is not easy to find relatives among billions of people.
At least in the short term, I'm afraid there won't be anything to gain.
In order to reassure Huo Ye, Meng Lei didn't tell him the news for the time being, and planned to wait for clues to talk about it.
Sailing is boring.
In order to pass the time, Meng Lei chatted with Chen Yu with a ride.
During this period, Nona, the beautiful receptionist of the shipyard, would often send messages to Meng Lei.
Most of them invite Meng Lei to dinner, or go on a tour to a certain sightseeing outpost to experience the deep sea landscape or something.
In this regard, Meng Lei politely refused.
Nona can develop it superficially, maybe when she goes back to buy a boat, she can still ask her to help with a discount?
But when it comes to in-depth contact, Meng Lei has no such plans.
And he has arranged for Ning Wen to collect information as much as possible in the city and open up interpersonal relationships.
If you can get in touch with the higher-level person in charge of the shipyard, then Nona's side will completely lose its value.
While chatting, we sailed the boat.
Time passes slowly and imperceptibly.
After passing the small cavity, the sea area along the way gradually became wider, and Meng Lei also appropriately increased his speed.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Meng Lei was chatting with Chen Yu about future plans.
Suddenly, the handheld tablet was inexplicably disconnected.
The signal is no longer intermittent, but completely lost, as if it has entered a signal blind spot.
Meng Lei was full of doubts and asked about the situation through the headphones.
Hans disagreed, saying that this phenomenon is very common, and eighty percent of the nearby beacon stations have broken down, making the surrounding sea temporarily out of the signal network.
And the so-called beacon station is actually similar to the base station on the blue star.
It's just that one is on land and the other is built in the deep sea.
In addition, one is to transmit signals through radio, and the other is to use some kind of sound wave technology to transmit, both of which can achieve long-distance wireless communication.
However, due to the complex deep-sea environment, beacon stations often fail.
But often it doesn't take long for it to break, and the alliance will send someone to fix it.
If you really don't have manpower, you will also post a bounty during the bounty mission and ask nearby ships to rush over and do a small favor.
So, don't worry at all.
Meng Lei learned a new knowledge and happily remembered it in his heart.
Since the tablet could not be connected to the Internet, he simply stopped chatting and started the boat with full attention.
At this time, the Sea Locust was only more than twenty kilometers away from the Molten Outpost.
Meng Lei sped up his speed, stopped the ship early, and saved his worries as soon as possible.
As a result, the journey that normally takes two hours to complete was quickly completed in just over an hour.
Around half past four in the afternoon.
On the three-dimensional map presented by the sonar display, a green anomaly representing the gathering place finally appeared.
Meng Lei accelerated with some excitement.
This is the third alien building facility he has encountered since he traveled through time.
Judging from the magazines he reads, each Tia colony established in the deep sea has its own unique role and style.
In addition, the customs are also different.
Meng Lei was looking forward to what kind of different experience this Molten Rock Outpost would bring him.
Piloting the Sea Locust slowly approached.
A faint glimmer of light appeared in the infinite darkness at the end of the field of vision.
As we approach,
You can see the barren but flat seabed in the distance, and the dark red reef-strewn central area is dotted with several circular domes.
At least from the point of view of the scale of the building,
The lower industrial area of this lava outpost is by no means more than one level different from Sil City.
If Sil City is compared to a bustling first-tier metropolis on the Blue Star, then the Molten Outpost is not even a fourth-tier small city.
It's almost like a small town.
Goldfinger's regional tip indicates that there is nothing but a small shipyard for the maintenance and repair of incoming and outgoing submarines.
There is only a slightly larger snow storage area, as well as a central area and an energy area.
There are no planting areas, processing plants, cultivation areas, breeding areas, etc. in the city of Sil.
To put it bluntly, this is like a transit station for people to stop temporarily, and it does not have its own complete industrial chain.
It is estimated that even the basic necessities of life need to be replenished from other places.
The only thing that is similar to the city of Sil is probably the large shaft elevator that stands straight at the top of the rock formation, between it and the seabed.
At this point, not much has changed.
Meng Lei was suddenly a little interested.
Looking at this simple appearance, he faintly had the illusion of passing the service area on the highway, and suddenly lost the desire to get out of the car for sightseeing. Hope.
But it's all here, so I have to go down and have a look.
A random dock was found, and this time, the Sea Locust was not intercepted again.
After being registered by the Alliance, as long as the reputation of Captain Meng Lei is enough, the Sea Locust can be unimpeded in the waters controlled by the Alliance.
The ship came to a standstill.
Meng Lei called everyone to the deck outside the command room through the headphones.
"Brothers, the molten rock outpost has arrived, if you want to get off the boat and go into the city to relax, hurry up and sign up!"
Meng Lei shouted, like a conductor who arrived at the station to remind him.
"Me! I! I'll go! ”
"I'll go too, I'll go!"
……
In the crowd, the most excited were Huo Ye and a few of their Blue Star players.
Although they had seen the fantasy and prosperity of Ciel City, they still had great curiosity about these alien cities.
"Dear little captain, I'm not going, there's no fun in such a small place.
When you come back, remember to bring me some wine.
Otherwise, I'll enjoy the stock in the bar for myself......"
Gina refuses on the spot, uninterested, and makes an over-the-top request.
Meng Lei didn't bother to pay attention to her, but he had already made up his mind in his heart.
Wine should be bought, but not for this crazy woman, but to promote everyone's feelings.
Yes, for the rest of the crew.
That's all.
At this time, Gina didn't care about Meng Lei's reaction, and turned around and left after speaking.
But before she walked down the shaft, she suddenly turned around, tilted her head cutely, and smiled mysteriously at Meng Lei:
"Dear little captain, pay attention to safety after entering the city, the outpost is no better than the gathering place, it is very chaotic inside, come back early after buying wine!"
The sudden concern made Meng Lei a little confused.
He really couldn't figure out this woman's temper, so he could only wave his hand helplessly and respond:
"I know, I know~"
Then, Gina didn't say more, stepped on the brisk dance steps, and left flutteringly.
Meng Lei looked at the others again:
"Is anyone else going to get off the boat?!"
Eventually, most of the crew said they wanted to go into town to relax.
After all, the taste of being stuffed in this cramped submarine is really uncomfortable, and you will feel extremely depressed psychologically.
After some deliberation.
In the end, except for Hawke's inconvenient legs and feet, he stayed on the boat to look after his family.
Charlie, a mechanical engineer, didn't have much interest in shopping, and since he didn't sleep well last night, he was going to stay in the boat to catch up on sleep.
The others all chose to get off the boat and go into the city with Meng Lei.
"By the way, Captain, those swift dragon eggs, we need to bring one and find a buyer to ask for the price.
The market now fluctuates greatly, and the purchase price varies for each incubation stage.
It's best to let the buyer see it for themselves, negotiate the price and sell it together. ”
Before leaving, Hans reminded Meng Lei again.
Meng Lei thought about it and felt that it made sense.
So he found a large backpack from the warehouse that he used to purchase before, stuffed a Swift Dragon Egg into it, and let Huo Ye carry it on his back.
Then he went to the captain's room.
He took out the plasma pistol he had picked up on the Ceres from under the cabinet and carefully pinned it to his waist.
The plasma pistol is made of not made of metal, so it can be taken to the gathering place to avoid detection by the weapon system.
This was already tested when he was in Sil City.
Arms controls in Alliance City have always been very strict, not just for Blue Star players, but for everyone.
This has always made Meng Lei lack a certain sense of security.
So, considering the question of how to protect himself in case of emergency, he made several attempts with a plasma pistol.
Eventually, it was found that
This experimental product flowing from the deep zone military factory can perfectly avoid the scanning of weapons detection systems.
Therefore, every time Meng Lei goes out, he will take it with him in advance.
While it is used for self-defense, it can also bring a trace of comfort to the psyche.
Of course, this going out refers to going out of the cabin and into the city, not into the water.
Using an ultra-hot plasma weapon in the water, or holding a gun at close range, is almost the same as suicide.
Even if he didn't go to college, he still has this basic common sense.
Everything was ready, and the group set off in a majestic manner.
Huo Ye was carrying an oversized backpack containing a swift dragon egg, and Simon, who was bearded, was carrying Eugene, a clown who was anesthetized by drugs.
Everyone talked and laughed, walking on the road like a tourist group.
However, this is the strange behavior of the backpack and the carrying person, which attracted some people to look sideways and look at their team curiously.
Everyone ignored it and went straight to the area where the shaft elevator in the central area was located.
Along the way,
Meng Lei found that the inside of this molten outpost was much more deserted than before the Blue Star player arrived in Ciel City.
There are very few people encountered along the way.
Looking at the costumes, it seems that most of them are bounty hunters temporarily parked here, and there are almost no uniformed staff.
In addition, the buildings here are more filthy and decaying.
The metal hallway was littered with dirty water stains, the surrounding walls were rusty, and in some places the paint had oxidized and peeled off.
The overall environment doesn't look as good as the abandoned D12 outpost.
"Aren't these facilities normally maintained? How could a good outpost be ruined like this? ”
Meng Lei asked his soul.
He had been holding back this question for a long time, and he had been full of doubts since the first time he entered the city of Sil.
Hans, who was walking in front, sighed and said in a deep voice:
"Captain, you Blue Star players don't know anything.
Ever since our Tia colonists lost contact with their home planet, there has been no replenishment of personnel in this sea of ice.
Although there are also newborn births, the total population is declining every year.
in time
It is not easy for the existing population to sustain the major agglomerations and industrial outposts.
How can there be so much energy to maintain the internal environment of the outpost?
As long as the maintenance of the shell structure is completed regularly to ensure that the building does not collapse, no one cares what happens inside. ”
Hearing this, Meng Lei nodded thoughtfully.
At this time, Huo Ye next to him suddenly said suspiciously:
"No, I've seen the streets of Cill loitering all over the city.
They don't seem to have any intense work to do, and they spend their days wandering the streets.
Can't these people be used and moved to work where they are needed? ”
Hans shook his head and said:
"Those people...... You can't be called a normal person anymore......
Their mental aspect, more or less, has some problems, which they have had since childhood, and it is difficult to change.
These people are moths, and they are also the cornerstone of maintaining the false prosperity of the current Alien Alliance.
Let them go to work, and the probability of an accident will increase exponentially.
It's better to feed them with the most basic living materials and cause less trouble to the alliance......"
Meng Lei walked in the crowd with his hands behind his back, his eyes flickering.
It is not difficult to hear from Hans's words, if it were not for this crossing incident.
Sooner or later, these Tia colonists on the alien planet will completely collapse and disappear.
Did Tia's mother planet bring the Blue Star people here, and did she anticipate all of this, so she would use this way to save her own race?
It's not impossible.
Meng Lei thought as everyone came to the central area of the ground floor.
At this time, Hans suddenly frowned, and wondered:
"It's strange, why are there so few security officers today, and the stationmaster of Molten Rock Station is not afraid of being attacked by the rebels' armed raids?"
Hans's voice interrupted Meng Lei's thoughts.
He looked up, and sure enough, he found that even the central area was deserted.
Only two or three security officers with guns on their shoulders wandered aimlessly around.
And, with his keen insight, Meng Lei also discovered.
The faces of these security officers were very bad, as if they were weak, and they sat down on the benches beside them for a while, coughed a few times and drank some water, and then got up and continued to walk around.
It seems that the collective is infected with the wind and cold, and it is listless.
"What's the situation? It feels like something is wrong......"
Meng Lei frowned slightly, but he didn't think too deeply.
Under the habitual thinking, no one will associate this unusual phenomenon to a deeper place.
Meng Lei didn't, Huo Ye didn't, Hans didn't have all of them.
Although they felt strange, everyone didn't think there was anything wrong.
Finally, driven by curiosity, Hans ran over to a security officer and asked:
"Hey, friend, why are you just on duty? What about Old Jack, shouldn't he be patrolling below at this time? ”
Hans often travels with ships, and has more or less acquaintances at various outposts in the nearby seas.
Old Jack was a friend of his at the Molten Outpost.
Hearing this, the security officer waved his hand weakly and said:
"Hey, don't mention it, I don't know what those guys at the Security Department are up to.
An emergency meeting was held on an impromptu basis, and most of the staff was transferred, and many people who were on leave were temporarily put on top......"
Speaking of this, the man coughed heavily, and muttered scolding:
"Hell! I was fine in the morning, why did I suddenly start coughing?
Is it a cold...... Still is......
Do you want to get a shot of skin worm net?
No, I haven't eaten creeper meat with tattoos lately, have I? ”
The man muttered a few words, and suddenly remembered that Meng Lei and they were still beside him.
Then he raised his head again and said:
"If you want to find Old Jack, go up, he's on duty in the business district, so I won't accompany you......"
As he spoke, he walked into the distance.
In the empty central hall, there was a faint sigh:
"Hey, I'm so sad, what's going on......"
Meng Lei and the others looked at each other, a little confused, and always felt that the atmosphere here seemed to be a little wrong.
ultimately
Hans pressed the elevator button in the large shaft and beckoned to everyone:
"Let's go, let's go up first, wait until I find Old Jack and ask about the situation, and then hand over Eugene.
It's too inconvenient to always take him with you like this. ”
Meng Lei nodded and led the crowd into the elevator.
After a brief but impressive ascent of horror, the elevator slowly steadied in an overwhelmed thritter.
The hatch opened, and the crowd stepped out.
But at this time, a person suddenly came to meet him.
The man was holding a backpack in his arms, with a hint of panic on his face, and his steps were very hurried.
At the same time as the elevator door opened, he walked inside with his head stuffed without looking, and collided directly with Simon.
And the backpack in his arms also fell to the ground with a "snap".
The zipper came loose and something popped out of it.
A group of people involuntarily focused their gazes, and suddenly a big question mark floated on the door of their minds.
That seems to ...... Is it a large remote?