"I don't think it's that simple," Lothar still didn't feel easy, "should we do something?"

"How long will it take for reinforcements to arrive?" Rear Admiral Craig skipped Lothar's question.

Lothar was silent for a few seconds in the communication system, "There are about nine hours left, Inspector." ”

"I wonder what if there's a big trap ahead and we're in danger and reinforcements don't arrive in time?" asked Craig.

"What else, it's a big deal to die on this wild planet. "Lothar is free.

Craig was silent for a moment, "Colonel, are you married?"

"It's done. Lothar replied.

Although Craig and Lothar have been together for a few days, because they belong to different war zones and have almost no intersection, the two are not very familiar with each other, and their understanding of each other is limited to the overview of the record information obtained before the team is formed, and the family situation and life background are all unknown, and the entire "kitchen knife" team members are almost the same with each other.

"What about family," Craig asked, "on your home Earth?"

"No, I died in battle, my wife Chrissy died in the Battle of Tin Star. Lothar's voice was slightly pathetic as she replied.

"Uh, I'm sorry to make you sad. Craig said apologetically.

"It's all right, I personally think it's a good idea to die in battle, so I can go to heaven and be reunited with Chriss," Lothar replied, "Inspector, do you believe in heaven?"

"Heaven?" Craig asked, "what is heaven? ”

"Oh, I almost forgot that Your Excellency is a Trioccular......" Lothar's voice was apologetic, "Heaven is the Elysium of our earth mythology, and only gods or mortals who have done a lot of good deeds while alive can go there after death and enjoy endless happiness and happiness. ”

"Sounds like a great place," Craig said, "it's a great thing that your wife fought for peace and died to save the Galactic Alliance, and she's going to go to heaven." ”

"Thank you, Inspector," Lothar said, "Actually, I don't have the luxury of going to heaven after I die, and if I die in battle, I'm satisfied to have a whole corpse." ”

"Uh, this ......," Craig's voice suddenly lowered, "we all know that fighting these bugs and leaving a whole corpse is probably a lot harder than going to heaven......"

The two fell silent again.

"What about your children?" Craig changed the subject, "also to the Armada?"

"Chrissy and I don't have children," Lothar replied, "We're beasts and cyborgs, and the natural reproduction of cyborgs is still a big problem. ”

"So?!" Craig felt his guilt deepen.

"Toot toot!" There was another encrypted call connection request, and when Craig saw it, it was actually a call from Lieutenant General Zhang Jian of the front command, and he made a gesture towards Lothar that needed to answer the call, and then opened a new call connection request.

"Detective, where are you?" asked Lieutenant General Zhang Jian.

"I'm in Green Star Six Area 837," Craig replied, "what's the matter, sir?"

"Return immediately," Zhang Jian ordered, "The War Management Center will find you by name, and ask you to report back to the War Management Center immediately." ”

"What happened so suddenly?" asked Craigge.

"I don't know," Zhang Jian said, "I guess it should be the council secretariat or the Council of Elders confidential office looking for you, in short, the situation is more urgent." ”

Craig was silent for a few seconds, looked sideways at the front and back of the group, left and right, and then replied, "It seems a little late, sir, we've arrived near our destination, and we're about to start fighting." ”

"What?!" the lieutenant general said urgently, "Immediately lead the team to withdraw, and put the mission on hold first!"

"I'm afraid it's too late, sir, we've gotten into the bug-clothed 'pocket,'" Craig said, "I'll let UT-886 send you the battlefield situation." ”

With that, Craig began to operate the UT-886 drone to transmit the battle information back.

With just these few words, the "kitchen knife" team has already walked 300 kilometers of landmark boundaries.

"Didi!" As the siren sounded again, it could be seen that four bright spots of living creatures broke into the early warning radar screen, two of the four took over the two bright spots on the left, and the other two followed four or five kilometers behind the "kitchen knife" team.

"Detective, the bugs have outflanked us, and we really can't run if we want to!" Lothar teased.

"All of them are on first-level alert!" Craig ordered all the members of the "Kitchen Knife" team through the public channel, and then sent the battle information together with the destination coordinates to Lieutenant General Zhang Jian through UT-886 again, and also piggybacked: "Reinforcements are still on the way, but the battle is about to start here, I will not leave the brothers to return alone; if you want to send someone to pick me up, I'm afraid Your Excellency will have to send more people!"

"Detective, I think there's something strange......" Lothar questioned on the public channel.

"What?" Craig asked.

"I wonder if we are going to fight right now, but we can still communicate with the front command without any obstacles, but why can't the three teams take the time to report the danger to the front command when they are in distress?" said Lothar, wondering in his heart.

"I guess we haven't fully gotten into the 'pocket' yet, so the bugs aren't ready to get started, Colonel. A slightly stiff synthesized electronic voice came from the public channel of the communication system.

"Hi, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"Lieutenant Colonel HE, welcome to the discussion!"

The two greeted one after another.

"I agree with Lieutenant Colonel HE. Craig said.

"I don't approve of that," Lothar said, "and that's flawed." ”

"How?"

"Unless those bugs can kill all the members of a scout team in a very short period of time," Lothar said, "as long as there is a 'fish that slips through the net', the distress signal can be immediately sent out by the survivors, but, no, from the beginning to the end, none of the three teams have sent any distress signal, except for the distress signal that we are tracking now, of course." ”

"Please continue. HE-8 said.

"Well, I'd like to hear your opinion, too. Craig said.

"How to say it, I don't think those bugs have the ability to kill all the members of a reconnaissance team in an instant, after all, our individual early warning radar has been repeatedly tempered in countless battles, it is very reliable and credible, and the bugs can't easily get close, once the bugs try to get close or launch a surprise attack, they are also facing our fighters who are on alert, and it is even more difficult to kill a whole team of fighters on alert in a very short time, so I guess that the bugs used some means before launching an attack, shielding light, electricity, Magnetic and other signals make it impossible for our people to send out distress signals in time. Lothar said.

Craig reached out and gave Lothar a thumbs up, "I think that's the answer! I detected a spatial energy field anomaly at the disappearance site of Search and Rescue-1 earlier, and then detected a similar energy field anomaly at the disappearance site of the Slingshot. ”

"At first, I thought it was the turmoil of the space energy field caused by the explosion of a large-yield bomb, but I couldn't find the corresponding traces of a large explosion at the scene, not to mention any huge craters, and even the plants and shrubs at the scene did not have a large area of lodging or destruction, so it could not have been caused by a large explosion," Craig said, "Now listening to Lothar's words, I am reminded of some previous battles, after the explosion of the electromagnetic bomb, the space energy field will be abnormal, which will cause all communications in a certain area to be interrupted." ”

"That's true," Lothar said, "if this electromagnetic bomb is powerful enough to even paralyze your robots, I'm right, Lieutenant Colonel HE. ”

"You're right, but those are the old versions of the previous ones, and we are the new versions, and they are all equipped with anti-magnetic explosion devices, so they are basically immune to optical and electromagnetic attacks. Lieutenant Colonel HE-8 replied.

"Actually, I'm not so much worried about electromagnetic bombs as short-term electromagnetic suppression weapons, but more about electromagnetic launchers, such as electromagnetic cannons," Craig said, "which can form a long-term electromagnetic suppression of the target, which is more deadly." ”

"But in so many battles before, I haven't heard any information that the bugs have developed this kind of weapon," HE-8 said, "At least I haven't encountered it in the battles I've participated in." ”

"Most of the low-level alien insects have low intelligence and can only act as cannon fodder troops, but it doesn't mean that all of them are like this, a small number of alien insects that have evolved to the higher ranks, or insects who have been polluted by insect poison and transformed into insects, or the queen of the Zerg, all have extremely high intelligence, this battle has been fought so far, it is the thirteenth star year, and it is not surprising that the Zerg has developed several cutting-edge weapons......" Craig said.

When the three of them were talking one after another, the "kitchen knife" team had quietly crossed the 400-kilometer landmark boundary.