Chapter 385 (Catching Bugs)
A9 star field, border planet Z-07, Tak.
The mecha entered the planet's military base from the warship's catapult channel.
After landing, Yunmian put away the mecha and gathered with his teammates and comrades to wait for his superior's orders.
"This place is very different from Xuanji Star." Jiang Yi sniffed the air that was everywhere on this planet and frowned slightly.
Ning Sang nodded: "The smell of gunfire and blood in the air is heavier than that of Xuanji Star. No wonder our warships are only anchored outside the planet. Maybe this planet is in danger of being besieged by a tide of alien beasts at any time."
"I didn't see many veterans." Huo Chuyi whispered, "A9 star field, it is estimated that many places have fallen, and a huge number of veterans have died."
Otherwise, their arrival would not have been so silent. When they first arrived at Xuanji Star, there was a welcoming ceremony. It is difficult to find an old soldier on Tak Star. Everyone is in a hurry, running tiredly on the brink of life and death.
Tang Paopao has mastered the art of keeping silent in recent years and will never speak unless it is necessary.
Yunmian didn't say anything either. She just kept her head down and kept sending messages to her mother. Unfortunately, she hadn't been in touch with her since three days ago, and she couldn't even receive a daily greeting from her anymore.
Although the base was quiet, someone soon showed up after they gathered to arrange their rooms. The base was fully equipped with basic facilities. There was actually not much difference for them coming here from Xuanji Star.
Because they arrived in the evening, they would have dinner and rest for a night, and then they would all be deployed to the battlefield tomorrow, either to support other planets on this border or to garrison this planet and fight against alien beasts.
However, at night, the recruits received orders from their superiors that their task the next day was to do logistics, which meant going to the battlefield to search for and bring back injured and unable to move personnel during breaks in battle, bringing back the seriously injured, bandaging and treating the slightly injured on the spot, and performing simple mecha repairs.
"...I thought we could go to the battlefield." Huo Chuyi was a little disappointed.
"This is already very good." Ning Sang said softly: "We are temporarily in charge of logistics... This only means that the previous logistics have been treated as soldiers and sent to the battlefield."
So this is also a way to take care of and protect the new recruits. We are afraid that these new recruits will never get off the battlefield, so we have to start with logistics and slowly adapt to the cruelty of the battlefield.
"Don't think that logistics is easy." Jiang Yi frowned and said, "Exotic beasts are not ordinary beasts without intelligence. On the battlefield, it is best for you to attack every exotic beast that does not have obvious fatal injuries. Otherwise, they may pretend to be dead and deceive you. When you are off guard, they will bite off your fragile neck without mercy."
"Not only that..."
Yun Mian pursed her lips and remained silent for two seconds before she said to her inexperienced teammates, "The most difficult thing to deal with is the requests from the wounded. Many of them... would ask the logistics department to help them kill themselves."
As soon as these words were spoken, all the recruits who were listening in the temporary dormitory fell silent.
After a long time, a hoarse voice was heard asking with difficulty: "Then, what should we do?"
Everyone looked at Yunmian.
Yun Mian was silent for a long time this time. After a long while, he took a deep breath and slowly said to them: "Don't help, even if they beg you, threaten you, or hate you... don't help, bring them back for treatment."
When they heard that they didn't need to help, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, with a hint of relief in their eyes.
Yun Mian looked around at their expressions and didn't say anything more.
She didn't say how much impact those hateful and hostile looks and those desperate and pleading words would have on a person.
She also didn't say that some of the wounded soldiers would try to commit suicide on the way back to the base.
Not to mention that even if they received treatment and survived, they would be like dying bones, confused and unable to find the meaning of the second half of their lives.
Many soldiers would rather die on the battlefield than retire with incurable injuries and then accept the pity and avoidance of others.
They will be a burden to their loved ones, become a nuisance, and live a life worse than death. They will dream day and night of returning to the battlefield with healthy bodies and normal mental strength, instead of being like madmen or fools who can no longer drive a mecha.
On the battlefield tomorrow, the new soldiers will face and encounter many more things...
When they were awakened by the emergency assembly bell, everyone understood why their superiors asked them to go to bed early and not stay up late when they were dismissed.
Because the night belongs to battlefields and strange beasts.
There is no moon on this planet at night. Instead, there are stars hanging high in the sky, quietly watching everything that is happening on this planet.
Yun Mian hurriedly drove the S-class mecha to meet up with his teammates. They were a small team and did not need to form another collective action on the logistics battlefield, so they still carried out logistics tasks according to the most comfortable and convenient team.
"Repair potions, injections, mecha repair supplies, and transport vehicles..."
Ning Sang calmly read out the supplies his team needed to prepare one by one. After Yun Mian and the other three took them all, they rushed towards the distant battlefield with the team of new recruits.
"Another wave of strange beasts."
Seeing the strange beasts and mechas fighting in the sky from afar, Ning Sang turned to remind his team members to be careful in the subsequent mission.
"Xiaoyi is responsible for vigilance, Chuyi is responsible for finding the wounded and the surviving monsters, and Paopao, protect Xiaoyi and don't let her act alone on the battlefield."
"What about you and Mianmian?" Tang Paopao asked worriedly.
"I can protect Mianmian." Ning Sang's mecha is a semi-tank auxiliary.
On the battlefield, the simpler and clearer the division of labor, the stronger the mobility and the less likely it is to cause chaos.
Ning Sang said nothing more, and he and other new recruits entered the rear battlefield left behind by the mecha division.
The veterans fought at the front, risking their lives to keep the tide of alien beasts outside the warning line. Only then could the battlefield in the rear be barely stabilized, so that the new recruits did not have to worry too much.
"Let's do it."
Huo Chuyi drove the stealth mecha and was the first to cross the corpses of strange beasts on the ground.
Mechas are easy to identify on the battlefield, but it is more difficult to determine the status of the mecha pilot in the mecha cockpit. Fortunately, the mecha system used is the military, and the key to open the cockpit of each mecha can be quickly found in the military system.
"Xiaoyi, the lizard behind me on the left side still has life functions!" Huo Chuyi quickly and clearly reported the location.
Yunmian took a look from a distance and reported: "Xiaoyi, the weak point is one inch above the back of the neck."
One second after the voice came out, a fire sniper bullet pierced the air and landed accurately one inch on the back of the lizard's neck, and quickly began to spread and burn.
Ning Sang looked coldly at the strange beast twisting, wailing and struggling on the ground, and told Huo Chuyi not to be distracted and to continue looking for a surviving mecha pilot.
The team was already accustomed to Yun Mian's ability to accurately tell the fatal points of various exotic beasts, because they had seen with their own eyes that Yun Mian had memorized the names and fatal points of all the exotic beasts recorded in the Federation for a full six months, and her level of concentration and hard work was even greater than that of Huo Chuyi and Tang Paopao when they were admitted to the expeditionary force.
In fact, Yun Mian no longer relies on the system to provide her with help in this regard. Unless she encounters an unfamiliar and unrecorded strange beast, she has to rely on herself for everything. She is consciously reducing the possibility of system violations.
"Here!" Huo Chuyi suddenly spoke.
Yun Mian and Ning Sang quickly rushed to the location he had just marked. A bloodstained mecha fell under the corpse of the alien beast, pinned down without any movement.
"Scan and query the key of this mecha." Yunmian gave the system command installed on his mecha.
The system's light ball flashed and quickly gave the accurate key.
Yunmian squatted over to connect to the mecha system and input the key and instructions to open the cockpit.
Two seconds later, Yun Mian and Ning Sang fell silent as they looked at the pool of blood and broken internal organs and bones in the cockpit.
"Let's go and find the next one."
Yunmian closed the cockpit again, stood up and left.
They didn't have time to collect the old soldier's body. No matter how many emotions they had, they could only suppress them in their hearts and continue searching for possible survivors.
Death is the most common and most frequently heard sad song on this battlefield. They have no choice but to abandon the dead and wait until those strange beasts have completely left the planet before they can return here to collect the bodies of the dead warriors and bury them on the spot.
"Kill me."
Yun Mian's wrist was held tightly. The old soldier who had just come out of the cockpit of the mecha tried to open his bloodshot eyes and begged her hoarsely: "Kill me, please, just give me one cut, it will be quick."
Ning Sang scanned him and came to a conclusion. He said to Yun Mian in the team voice chat: "His spiritual sea is severely overdrawn. Coupled with the serious injuries, he may not live long."
Yun Mian looked down at her wrist which was being held tightly and the blood that kept dripping down from her wrist.
She left her mecha and, under the protection of her teammates, carefully lifted the veteran out of the cockpit.
But he wanted to die.
He didn't dare to die by himself.
Yun Mian gently broke free from his wrist in the face of his pleading and desperate gaze, and said softly, "I'm sorry, please hold on a little longer, and when you get back... maybe you'll have a chance to write a farewell letter to your family and friends."
She and the veteran both knew the final outcome, but Yun Mian still wanted to force him with that little bit of concern.
And the other person's eyes, which were bloodshot and full of pain, did indeed become brighter because of this.
His right hand fell down weakly, and he no longer struggled or begged. Instead, he quietly let Yun Mian put him into the medical cabin to save his life.
"I will give you paper and pen as soon as I get back." Yun Mian promised him seriously: "As long as I am alive, this letter will definitely reach them."
The planet's external communications had long been destroyed, which was why Yun Mian sent so many messages before coming but never received a response.
What we are using now is an independent military star network within the planet. The soldiers have no way of contacting their families, no way of reporting their safety, and no way of saying goodbye.
"Let's go and find the next one." Yun Mian drove the transport vehicle and followed Ning Sang.
"Mianmian, I will tell this method to other comrades, so that their treatment may be much smoother." Tang Paopao has always been very careful.
"Okay." Yun Mian reminded him: "But it's not suitable for everyone. Let them adapt to the situation."
Tang Paopao nodded hurriedly: "Yeah, don't worry, I know everything."
The logistical treatment went smoothly, and as they went further in, they were getting closer and closer to the main battlefield.
"Xiao Sang, we have reached the logistics cordon. Should we get any closer?" Huo Chuyi stopped at the edge of the cordon.
I'm going to eat. See you tonight.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Depreciation of 28 bottles;
25 bottles of lying flat M.A.;
Shuchen 23 bottles;
It is Xiaoxi & Ya 15 bottles;
2 bottles of Dark Night Splendor;
Weeds 1 bottle;
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