When the Victory received the order from the TPC leadership, it was already a month later.

"I suppose you know all the details about this mission, right?"

Sitting on the command platform, Megumi Kurama rarely posed as a captain, and asked with a serious and serious expression.

"We've seen it, and it seems to be a little bit worse than we thought."

First of all, the topic is Munakata, the vice-captain and conductor.

I saw him frowning and looking at the data file in his hand, trying to find some favorable information from it.

As you can imagine, this file has expired, and the description of the specific process of this incident is very vague.

"Is there any difference between reading and not reading this information?"

casually throwing the information in his hand on the table, Xincheng's performance was not much better than Zongfang's.

He was a qualified fighter, but not a veteran politician.

For the vague description of this information, Xincheng felt only deep disgust.

Obviously, they have already chosen to ask the victory team for help, but even the most basic information is described so vaguely.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the Space Development Agency does not know the specific situation.

But this only made Xincheng hate their stupidity even more.

"Aside from knowing that the people from the Mars Project Immigration Department are missing, isn't there more detailed and effective information?"

This time it was Horii who spoke, and as the chief scientist and researcher of the victory team, he seemed to see some secrets in this information that could not be known to outsiders.

"Do you see anything?"

With a curious tone, Lina took the conversation and looked at Horii in time.

The woman's intuition made her aware of a certain meaning hidden in Horii's words.

"I saw a little, but not much......"

Reaching out and scratching the back of his head, Horii said with a slight headache.

"The Mars Project Migration Development Agency has launched a lot of projects and programs on how to immigrate to Mars."

"This scientist named Xiao Bing is one of the more famous ......"

"All I know is that she is in charge of a project to modify the Martian atmosphere, and she is one of the first projects to produce results."

After a slight pause in his tone, looking at Lina, who still seemed to be a little dazed, Horii explained further.

"To put it simply, she is responsible for delivering some kind of substance or weapon to Mars, changing the structure of the Martian atmosphere in a short period of time, and forming a complete atmospheric environment that can self-circulate."

After Horii's simple explanation, everyone present immediately understood the meaning of this information.

It's just that they still don't understand why Horii has such an expression now.

Suddenly? Regretful? Seems to be hiding some fears?

"Is that kind of substance or weapon dangerous?"

At this moment, Dagu's voice came from outside the door.

Coming to the conference room with Dagu, there was also Ye Rui, who was holding the computer tightly in both hands.

"That's not a question of danger anymore......

"Because the kind of base that Xiao Bing and they are trapped in is the highest-level protection base built during the former Earth Defense Force."

"Theoretically, even if there is a global nuclear war, the base can be preserved intact."

"If it is divided according to the defense level, that base and our headquarters are of the same level!"

The headquarters of the Victory Team is the center of the Far East branch of the TPC, which is lurking underwater all year round.

At the beginning of its birth, this base was an ark built by the TPC top management for the purpose of "saving the world".

Even if the end of the world comes, this base can continue the existence of human civilization and is a real "ark of salvation".

From this, we can make a horizontal comparison, and we can know how important Xiao Bing's base is.

"On top of that, that base is sealed with all kinds of dangerous weapons from the former Earth Defense Force."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present instantly fell silent.

All of you here are more aware of the madness of humanity in the face of the fear of force majeure during the pre-Earth Defense Force era.

It is no exaggeration to say that some of the products made during the former Earth Defense Force period still belong to the category of "black technology".

After all, those are things that are made up purely with resources and human lives.

Unless it is really forced into a desperate situation, it is absolutely impossible for TPC, which adheres to the "concept of peace", to reproduce those dangerous black technologies.

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"That...... Although it may be a bit inappropriate to say these at this time. ”

didn't let the silence last long, Ye Rui, who suddenly raised his hand, attracted the attention of everyone present with one sentence.

"Just now, a bird-like monster that suddenly appeared was flying in the direction of that base."

I saw Ye Rui as he spoke, while projecting the intelligence and information he had just collected onto the big screen.

After a period of focusing and adjustment, a video that seemed to be playing in real time appeared in front of the eyes of everyone on the victory team.

It was a strange bird with blue pupils and a carapace-like structure all over its body.

It appeared near Mt. Rausu in Hokkaido and is now flying at high speed at 1,500 kilometers per hour.

Rao was only able to barely capture the remnants of this strange bird with the performance of a high-altitude satellite.

Ye Rui is now capturing the direction and whereabouts of this strange bird from time to time, and reconstructing its route through cameras or personal devices along the way.

After some complex adjustments and calculations by the computer, the final target of the strange bird was successfully located.

"Its goals...... That's the base! ”

At this moment, anyone who is not blind can see that the target of that strange bird is the base of the former Earth Defense Force.

"Can't let it get any near there!"

Quickly recovering from the shock, Munakata showed his decisive side as a commander at this moment.

"No matter what happened to Xiao Bing and the others, they must not let this strange bird approach that base!"

Xiao Bing, let's not talk about what happened over there.

The mere fact that the base is stocked with all sorts of dangerous weapons from the former Earth Defense Force era means that no malicious presence is allowed to approach it.

"Victory Feiyan 1 and Shengli Feiyan 2 will attack immediately!"

Xincheng, Dagu, and Lina, who received the order, immediately gave a military salute, and then turned around and ran in the direction of the hangar.

"Ye Rui, you continue to monitor the trajectory of that strange bird, you must not lose it!"

Closely following Xincheng, Dagu, and Lina, Munakata, who also attacked as a driver, did not forget to give a word of advice until the last moment.

"Understood!"

Commuter/Referral Passes

(End of chapter)