Chapter 254 The Empty Base
Starting from the first encounter with the sting snake, I met the sting snake one after another. However, when the army is prepared, the sting snake will not cause much damage to the convoy.
Every time there is a tide of insects that hit the convoy, the first wave must be a fixed-point bombing, killing the thorn snake, and then the remaining insects and beasts are not worthy of trouble.
For a whole day, the team walked forward along the cliff for nearly a hundred kilometers, crossed a river valley without drying water, and finally came to a certain mountain range, where the beacon was located.
The beacon was left by the previous exploration team. Since the previous exploration team entered this, they directly disconnected within a few hours.
Originally, the exploration team was fine when they entered, and they sent back messages every half an hour, but after the sixth hour, they suddenly lost contact and suddenly lost the information. The last message sent back was still normal, so this made the military department feel very strange, so the second exploration was to investigate the situation of the previous exploration team and support that team by the way.
But strangely, as soon as I entered this world, I immediately discovered the beacon position of the previous team, which was in the mountains ahead.
The beacon position has not moved, and the contingent has not responded to the call, which has cast a shadow on the insiders' hearts.
Well, Ye Qing is one of the insiders. The entire contingent, including the reincarnation master, only six of them knew about it, so there was a shadow in his heart that he was not very emotional along the way.
Especially as he approached the target location, the frequency of attack began to decrease, and his anxiety became stronger and stronger.
There are only two possible situations. One is that the nearby insects and beasts were killed by the previous group, so the closer they get, the fewer and fewer they get. The other is much more terrifying, that is, the previous group has died, and there are traps nearby to lure them to go.
This is not impossible. There are so many insects here that cannot be born, and there must be brainworms, such as brainworms. Brainworms have no less intelligence than humans, so it is entirely possible to use these to set up traps.
However, he guessed that, but he couldn't do anything. His guess had no basis and could not be believed, so he could only be careful.
As the team entered the mountains, the frequency of insect swarms that came to attack became lower and lower, and the number became smaller and smaller. It took only more than an hour later, and even long-range attack insects and beasts such as prickly snakes did not appear.
Across a mountain, the beacon's location appeared before them, a small base built in the valleys between several peaks.
That's right, the first exploration team was equipped with a large number of engineers and materials, and a small base was established here, with city walls and defensive facilities, and the entire area was a diameter of 200 meters.
From a distance, it seemed that the base was still running, but there was no one inside, at least from outside, and the whole valley was quiet, with only the rustling sound of the wind blowing through the sand.
Second Lieutenant Wente asked the team to stop outside the small base. After thinking about it, he sent a team of ten people to explore the small base, while others were waiting outside.
Seeing the ten plot characters entering the small base, Ye Qing watched them enter the unclosed door and frowned even deeper.
After thinking about it, his eyes turned to other places and saw many traces of battle. There were many damaged places on the base wall and some remaining insect corpses on the ground. However, this did not mean anything. It only meant that the base had been attacked by insect tides, and it was not seen that the base was captured.
Looking further away, there are several barren mountains hundreds of meters. The resources in this world are probably completely exhausted, and there is no green at all. Several mountains are barren mountains and no grass can be seen.
There were also some bullet holes and explosion marks on the mountain, but no insect corpses were seen. It was probably because the aftermath of the attack was swept, which was normal.
From the surface, there was no strange place. Ye Qing shook his head, wondering if he was thinking too much.
At this time, the ten people had already come out of the base. The captain didn't know what he reported to Lieutenant Went. Lieutenant Went thought for a while and waved his hand to let the convoy enter the base.
When Ye Qing entered the base, before he could observe the situation at the base, he was invited by Lieutenant Went to have a meeting, which made Ye Xing, who was with him, envious.
The meeting was held in a building in the center of the base. This building is five stories high and is the tallest building on the base. It is probably the command center of the base.
There were seven people participating in the meeting, except for six soldiers with military ranks above corporals, and there was also a soldier who seemed to be a clerk. Lieutenant Wente and others arrived. With a wave of his hand, a virtual light screen appeared out of thin air. The base and the surrounding map were on it, and the base was in the center. The surrounding terrain was clear, and the farthest part had reached a distance of hundreds of miles away.
Ye Qing carefully recorded the map while listening to Lieutenant Wente’s words:
"This base was built by the previous exploration team. It was not long after it was established, but there was no one in it, and there was no record of their departure. It can be said that it disappeared out of thin air."
Speaking of this, Lieutenant Went's tone became solemn, and he said:
"There are no traces of battle in the base, which means that it was not killed by insects and beasts breaking through the base. The base gate is open, which means that they are themselves and left and gave up on the base."
Speaking of this, he frowned and couldn't understand:
"What I wonder is why they left the base and voluntarily gave up their base without leaving any clues of leaving."
The officers of several plot characters didn't say anything, all looked thoughtful, and Ye Qing was the same. It was not that he didn't want to say anything, but that he himself didn't understand what was going on.
After a long time, no one spoke, Lieutenant Went had to disband the meeting and finally said:
"Don't sleep too hard at night, leave more people to watch."
It was getting dark, and it was getting dark when they entered the base. The sun sets in the west and it would probably turn dark in less than two hours. At that time, insects and beasts would probably attack the base.
It is much safer to have a base to watch the night. There are surveillance and detectors outside the base. As long as insects and beasts approach, they will find and issue alarms. There is no need to use human power to watch the night.
This time, Ye Qing did not sleep on the personal combat platform, but on the fourth floor of the base central command. Looking out the window, you can see the entire base.
Lying beside the window, he put one foot on the windowsill and his hands behind his head, but what he thought was the reason why everyone in this small base disappeared.
After thinking about it, he just couldn't figure out how these people disappeared. There was a thick layer of steel plate under the base, and it was impossible for bugs to emerge from the ground.
That's right, he would never believe that the people in the base left voluntarily. He always felt that there was another force to make them disappear, but he just couldn't think of what it was.
At this moment, there was a noise below, a group of soldiers drinking and chatting there, including a group of reincarnationists.
Reincarnationists always like to rush into camp and drink and chat with soldiers, which is also a way to increase relationships. He looked at it and found that the drinkers included two officers. It is estimated that they were the two officers who were planning to see if they could get benefits from it.
In theory, every plot character in the reincarnation space can gain some benefits. Generally speaking, the higher the status or the stronger the status, the more benefits you get from it, but the benefits will not be given to you in vain. The relationship between the reincarnation person and the plot character needs to reach a certain level before you can get it.
The relationship between a plot character with low strength or low identity is easy to get closer. The stronger the strength, the harder it is to get closer. Sometimes some difficult tasks are required.
These soldiers and officers have different status, and do not need to do many difficult tasks. They can get closer to each other in every detail. When they reach a certain level later, they can take on tasks from them and gain benefits.
Originally, Ye Qing relied on the rank of formal corporal to build a relationship, but he didn't have this idea.
The main reason is that the benefits of this world are not suitable for him. On the one hand, the current situation is too strange. He is not in the mood to do this before he figures out why the team suddenly disappeared in front of the base.
The sky was completely dark, and the stars in the sky proved that this was an unknown planet. The lights in the base were transparent and the exterior walls of the base were illuminated by lights for hundreds of meters. Even a mouse could not touch it quietly.
Ye Qing looked outside and fell asleep unknowingly. He was thinking about his worries, but he had nothing to do and fell asleep in a daze until
A shrill alarm woke him up, subconsciously lying to the window, seeing that the base was surrounded by insects and beasts.
Outside the base wall, there were overwhelming insects and beasts rushing towards the base wall. Thunderous alarms sounded across the base, and Lieutenant Vent's voice echoed in the base:
"The base is under attack, please enter the combat post!"
"The base is under attack, please enter the combat post!"
"The base is under attack, please enter the combat post!"
With the alarms, everyone woke up from their sleep, picked up their weapons and rushed to the exterior wall of the base.
Ye Qing quickly rushed to the exterior wall of the base. Before he could attack, he felt his scalp numbness and subconsciously lay down. He immediately passed by a strong acid column above him. If he hadn't lie down, the attack would just hit his body.
Many thorn snakes, but in a short while, he saw dozens of green strong acid columns spraying towards the base. Several unlucky guys were sprayed and immediately fell to the ground and screamed, struggling wildly.
The base immediately fought back, and there was a small ion cannon on the base city wall at any distance. After adjusting the angle, the cannon was fired at the same time, and it immediately killed more than a dozen prickly snakes outside the city.
At night, the wind and sand are not as strong as the daytime, and the visual distance increases greatly. Under the light, you can see sparse thorn snakes behind the overwhelming swarms. You can fire directly without detecting them first.
Chapter completed!