Volume 4: Evolution Chapter 11 To the Great Desert
The origin of the name of the Qianghan Kingdom is very simple, the Han Dynasty is the first and strongest unified dynasty in Chinese history, and the Qianghan Kingdom was also determined to restore the former glory of the Han Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the country, so it was named Qianghan.
The administrative division of the Qiang Han State is also the administrative division of the Han Dynasty, and there are 13+3 prefectures and 3 municipalities directly under the central government in the country, namely: Youzhou, Jizhou, Bingzhou, Yanzhou, Sizhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, Yangzhou, Liangzhou, Yizhou, Jiaozhou.
The three extra prefectures are Beinezhou (the territory of Xianbei during the Han Dynasty), Xiyu Prefecture (the entire Great Northwest) and Qiangnan Prefecture (the northwest of Yizhou).
Among them, Jingshi is in the hinterland of Youzhou and is the first municipality directly under the central government, Linhai is in the coastal area of Yangzhou and is the second municipality directly under the central government, and Shencheng is in the coastal area of Jiaozhou and is the third municipality directly under the central government.
With the addition of municipalities, county-level cities and county-level cities, the Qianghan Kingdom has a total of 628 cities, but because of the riots of mutants, so far, there are less than 300 cities still in the hands of humans, and most of them are county-level cities.
Only a handful of county-level cities have been spared because they have big names in the country.
Some people may ask, don't places where there are no big people deserve to be occupied by mutants?
If you want to hear the truth, then this is the inevitable trend of historical development, the world is never fair, and the most valuable people must of course be protected with the highest priority, such as the hometown of Dr. Yin Yichen we mentioned above.
Because Dr. Meng Wen's hometown is in the countryside, his village was eventually abandoned, and the country did not deliberately protect a small village because of his noble status.
Because Meng Qingxiao's active attack on Wansui Mountain achieved a complete victory, the Qiang Han Kingdom made up its mind to start the second phase of the battle and complete their battle layout of "cutting and encircling, breaking through at multiple points, and fully flowering", in a word: the era of compressed defense has passed, and it is time to launch a full-scale general attack.
So what is Meng Qingxiao's legion mainly used for?
He exists as the captain of the firefighting brigade, and he will go to support wherever he is needed, and he will appear wherever there are more mutants.
And his first battle as the captain of the firefighting brigade was to rescue his old unit, the 72nd Reinforced Brigade.
Before the Spring Festival, when Meng Qingxiao was just about to give his army a holiday, Zheng Weiguo received a distress signal from his loyal old subordinate, Zhang Chao, the head of the regiment, who was in great trouble in the depths of the desert and urgently needed rescue, so Zheng Weiguo did not hesitate to lead the entire 72 Brigade to the desert.
Director Zheng and the others took a plane to a large county town called Jimo County in the Western Regions Prefecture, and then plunged headlong into the depths of the desert, and the entire army has not been heard from since.
Satellite observations show that a dark cloud has suddenly emerged in the depths of the desert, covering an area of several kilometers in a radius of several kilometers, making it difficult for even radar to detect what is going on inside.
What is certain is that the clouds are not natural, and the data collected by the meteorological department show that the clouds contain a lot of methane.
All of this is strange, but no one knows what is going on inside, and the Qiang Han Kingdom has sent several scout troops to reconnoitre, but so far no feedback has been received.
In the end, after thinking twice, the government of the Qiang Han State decided to hand over this arduous task to Meng Qingxiao.
It was undoubtedly a stupid decision to directly send a large force over, but fortunately, Meng Qingxiao had a spaceship in his hand, so he decided to drive the spaceship over to check it first.
There are now some personnel changes inside the ship as well.
First of all, the two brothers and sisters of the Bai family, Bai Shudie did not come to work directly and asked for a long sick leave, Bai Shuhao came, but he only took half a day of work and asked for leave, and the strange thing is that Lu Caishi approved them all.
Then there were the rest of the staff, because they were going to the desert, which was a very dangerous operation, so Lu Caishi asked them to stop the unit for the time being.
Lu Caishi also wanted to follow, but Meng Qingxiao refused very resolutely, because she was no longer alone, and she was still pregnant with a baby in her belly, how could Meng Qingxiao let her go into danger.
But Lu Caishi didn't worry about Meng Qingxiao, especially when there was no technician in the spaceship, if there was any failure, he couldn't solve it at all.
So before leaving, Lu Caishi summoned Bai Shuhao back.
Bai Shuhao was very happy, he went to ask Meng Qingxiao about the daily life of the red-haired Meng Yuxin as soon as he was free on the spaceship, as well as her personal hobbies, it seems that he is really ready to pursue the red-haired Meng Yuxin.
And Meng Qingxiao was also happy to see it, so he didn't refuse, in short, he knew everything.
Everything in this spaceship is designed to be simple, including piloting a spaceship, just like driving a car, and it doesn't require much skill, and after training, ordinary warriors can do it.
Meng Qingxiao was going to collect intelligence this time, so he didn't plan to bring too many people, so he took Bai Shuhao and eight ordinary soldiers who temporarily acted as drivers.
The speed of the spaceship was very fast, they quickly flew into the dark cloud shrouded area, Meng Qingxiao ordered to slow down, they had just flown a few kilometers inside, and everyone suddenly smelled a heavy rancid smell, accompanied by a slight nausea.
Bai Shuhao hurriedly turned on the air purification system on the spaceship, then returned to Meng Qingxiao's side, and said to him with a serious face: "There is a problem with the air outside, and the dark clouds are not formed by ordinary water vapor. ”
Meng Qingxiao nodded, he thought of the information given to him by the military, this smell is probably the smell of biogas, but it is obviously a dry desert below, where does the biogas come from?
"The radar is so jammed that it can't be used, only the optical mode can barely see a little, about 10 meters." ”
Meng Qingxiao nodded, ordered to slow down again, and descended from the clouds, at this moment there was no difference between their normal running speed and ordinary people.
Reducing speed wasn't entirely without benefits, at least they could see what was going on on the ground.
In particular, Meng Qingxiao's dynamic vision is very good, he sees things that no one else sees, a corner of his clothes.
It was the clothes of the soldiers of the Qiang Han Kingdom, it was covered under the sand, but it was not completely covered, and a little bit of the corners of the clothes were exposed.
Meng Qingxiao hurriedly shouted: "Stop, stop!" ”
Of course, they were not driving, but the driver understood, immediately stopped, and hovered in mid-air.
"Jeremy Pak, teleport me."
"That's not good, Commander, there is a high probability that there will be danger below."
"It's okay, I'm relieved to have you on the spaceship."
Although this is not a compliment, but he is still very happy to be believed in this way, so he no longer hinders him.
Meng Qingxiao was teleported to the desert, where the air was very turbid, and there was a faint smell of corpse decay.
This is obviously not a smell that should be smelled in the desert, and even if there are corpses in the desert, they should be blown into dried flesh by the wind, and it is difficult to emit this smell.
And more likely, it will be eaten by the carnivorous insects that live in the desert, leaving only a skeleton intact.
The sand under his feet was very soft, Meng Qingxiao walked quickly to the place where the clothes were buried, and when he just wanted to reach out to grab the clothes, he suddenly felt the abnormality of the sand under his feet.
Meng Qingxiao's heart moved, he reached out and grabbed a handful of sand, and then rubbed it with his hand, he felt the abnormality of the sand.
The sand is not damp, it is dry, it is naturally air-dried, but the sand here is not loose, but forms a shell, as if a very sticky liquid has been watered here.
Meng Qingxiao put the sand under his nose and smelled it, and immediately smelled a strong fishy smell.
Meng Qingxiao hurriedly threw away the sand, and he realized that the sand was likely to be poisonous.
Could there be something terrible hiding under the sand?
Meng Qingxiao's vigilance in his heart increased greatly, so he didn't dare to grab the clothes directly with his hands, but took out the pistol from his arms and gently picked up the clothes with the barrel.
As the clothes were provoked, an even more rancid smell came to his nose, which did not match Meng Qingxiao's conjecture, he thought that there was a corpse buried here, but there were only clothes, and there seemed to be nothing else under the sand.
Meng Qingxiao gestured, and soon he was teleported to the spaceship along with his clothes, and appeared directly in the medical cabin.
Meng Qingxiao praised Bai Shuhao for his cleverness, and even thought of him wanting to come here in advance.
Bai Shuhao smiled: "Hehe, from the small piece of sand you picked up, I knew that you definitely wanted to come here for testing." ”
"It's been a pleasure working with you!" Meng Qingxiao admired it sincerely, and he lifted his clothes and said, "It's likely to be poisonous, so I want to test it, but we don't have a doctor, if only my sister was here." ”
"Simple." Bai Shuhao said, "I can operate the instruments here, I just don't know medical skills, we can video with your second sister remotely, and she will guide me step by step." ”
"Our spaceship actually supports holographic projection, but you also need your second sister to have the same equipment that supports projection."
Meng Qingxiao sighed sincerely: "Now technology is becoming more and more developed, and those scenes that have appeared in movies can finally be seen in reality." ”
Bai Shuhao wanted to make a video call with Meng Qingxiao's second sister, in fact, he had a private purpose, because when he asked for leave to go on a blind date with the red-haired Meng Yuxin, the red-haired Meng Yuxin seemed to look a little disdainful of him, anyway, from the look of it, it was quite cold, of course, the red-haired Meng Yuxin was also very polite, and did not directly refuse him.
The current red-haired Meng Yuxin is very famous, that is a goddess on top, an unprecedented strong woman, is this kind of woman something that ordinary men can control?