Chapter 42 Some Major Discoveries
Qin Tianshuo and his group departed on the 26th and have been almost at the Central Plains Base No. 1 for two days.
The ship they traveled on this journey carried them.
The lower reaches of the Fenghe River have been navigable in the summer for 5 or 6 years. A medium-sized cargo ship of 100 tons can sail upstream at full power and reach the Zhongyuan No. 1 base in 3 days without any problem.
It's much faster than by land.
Since the start of the summer flood season, especially after the Fenghe Bridge of Zhongyuan No. 1 was bombed, many bulk materials from Beiyi were actually first transported by land to Beiyi No. 2, then by water to Zhongyuan No. 1 base, and then by land to Zhongyuan No. 3 base.
These past few days, the military has been preparing for the construction of the river channel, and the riverbank has suddenly become lively, with the base seeing the river section packed with people every day, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
In the past few days, besides handling official business, Yang Suning often went to the riverbank to stroll around, staring blankly at the broken Fenghe Bridge and the bustling crowds on the riverbank.
His bad mood was quite obvious, and the members of the Chilong team didn't dare to make a scene in front of him.
But Yang Ying didn't care and sat on his desk, laughing, "Today is the last day of the deadline. The people from Qunxing haven't returned yet. Even if they're not dead, things definitely aren't going smoothly."
She lowered her voice when she said the words "not dead".
The regimental commander's office was upstairs, and she was still a little intimidated.
Yang Suning grunted in response, then suddenly asked, "If Yang Yuning were here, would he have thought of building a bridge to connect the river?"
Yang Ying: "Huh?"
She pouted unhappily. We were just talking about the Star Guardians, how did we get sidetracked?
"Who knows? Maybe. Grandpa always says that we should step outside our own position and look at problems from a broader perspective."
Also, if it's something that's good for the base or the collective, don't be afraid to speak up if you think of it.
He grew up with his grandfather, so he's heard a lot about these things. Besides, he studied electronic information engineering, and he can modify a lot of things himself, so it's normal for him to think about engineering matters.
Yang Ying didn't focus on that question, but insisted on asking:
"If they don't return by the deadline, does that mean the people from the Stars have lost?"
"Probably, it depends on what intelligence they can bring back." Yang Suning was also somewhat perfunctory about this.
He felt that the group of people who were already prominent outside the entertainment industry were no longer worth paying attention to.
The day seemed to pass very slowly. Yang Ying and many members of the Chilong team waited until nightfall, watching the clock strike midnight, but there was still no news from Qunxing.
Those with mobile phones couldn't help but cheer in the group chat!
[Winning was a breeze!]
I want to see the handsome strategist next to the regimental commander get his face slapped.
[+! But the team leader getting slapped in the face is even more interesting! He still thought he could use the people from the Stars team to suppress our team!]
[Let's see if the stars can come back tomorrow. I bet a can of beef they can't!]
[So stingy! I'm betting two boxes, so they can't even laugh it off the day after tomorrow!]
The betting odds were actually set, but the guy who spent a huge sum of money on two cans of food lost.
On the 29th, the team returned.
Qin Tianshuo and his group arrived at the base that day, and Zhao Bohan personally went to pick them up.
When they returned, they saw the Minister of Planning, Ye Xuanming, and Chen Yuezhou meet on the road at the east gate of the military camp.
"Commander-in-Chief Ye has talented people under his command! Regiment Commander Chen has extensive connections and even greater ambition; he accomplished such a major task in no time!"
But besides road repair, does our Third Army Regiment also have the responsibility of killing the enemy?
"Commander Chen's gun should still be gleaming, right? Not rusted? Are there still people under his command doing anything productive?" The old man chuckled, but his words were quite sarcastic.
However, he slowly walked away with his hands behind his back.
Shortly after, a team of seven from Qi'an drove into the gate in a small truck with a layer of bird droppings on the cargo bed!
The car drove directly to the entrance of the military camp, and Chen Yuezhou and his companion had just entered.
A group of people got off the bus, and the commotion attracted the attention of those on guard at the gate and those who hadn't gone far on the main road.
Once Chen Yuezhou saw the car and the people clearly, he immediately turned around, took two quick steps past Yu Shuang and the others, and looked at Qi An.
Ye Xuanming glanced at them and said directly, "Put the car down, everyone upstairs!"
Yu Shuang: "...Yes!"
A group of people rushed into the courtyard and headed towards the main administration building.
The planning minister stood under a poplar tree by the roadside, stunned for a long time.
"Those are, a group of refugees?"
A group of seven people, worse off than refugees and with not a single intact piece of clothing or flesh on their bodies, entered the commander-in-chief's office.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief! Report to the Regiment Commander! The 3rd Regiment's Star Squadron has returned from a reconnaissance mission!"
"Has the commander received our squad's mission briefing?" Yu Shuang asked, taking a few deep breaths before saluting.
"Received," Chen Yuezhou said.
"In the northern section of the Kundu Mountains, a section of mountains rich in geothermal resources, another mother nest of the Northwest Legion of Fallen Insects has been proven to exist."
Several valleys and dozens of mountain peaks surrounding the mother nest are guarded by outposts of the Fallen Insect army.
There is at least a brigade of troops there!
We were unable to penetrate deep into the valley where the core of the mother nest is located, nor were we able to capture any footage of its environment.
However, this is a video we recorded from the outside.
Yu Shuang turned on the tablet, which had only 5% battery left, and dragged the progress bar of the half-hour video directly to the last two minutes.
The video shows a bright and sunny afternoon with lush green grass on the hillside.
The golden-green sloping carpet was covered with maggots, which vaguely formed an irregular but very tight protective circle.
The newborn worms, ranging in size from a fawn to a rabbit, resembled tiny, wet, gray or white sea urchins, huddled in small groups within their protective enclosure, screaming, rolling, and thrashing about.
The camera is a bit shaky, as if the person filming this scene is trembling inside.
It was truly breathtaking; every time the camera shifted and refocused, it revealed an anomaly among the "little sea urchins."
Those "oddities" were either covered in shiny carapaces or had a golden, gleaming interior in their spines. When they tripped and vomited, they spewed out golden molten liquid, which instantly scorched a large area of grass!
These "outliers," though called out as outliers, actually make up more than half of the normal "small sea urchins"!
In the last 30 seconds, the camera seemed to have discovered something and suddenly tilted sharply to the upper right.
The image shows a corner of a clear blue sky, a gentle mountain ridge, and a huge, abruptly erected white rock.
A large group of tiny insects of various shapes and sizes crowded together on the white stone, resembling a flock of little penguins, which was quite adorable.
But with a single tentacle, the fair-skinned humanoid fallen insect swept away the two smaller fallen insects at the front, sending them crashing off the edge of the cliff-like boulder!
The two little insects did not die from the fall; instead, they spread their translucent wings, screamed, and flew into the sky!
A large group of tiny insects flew into the sky one after another.
The screams turned cheerful.
The tiny insects in the air, like swarms of flies, densely filled the space on the hillside, as if they had eaten up a corner of the blue sky!
Suddenly there was a rustling sound of branches and leaves swaying, and the screen went black abruptly.
The video has ended.
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