Jacob held the hilt of the chainsaw sword tightly and looked around to see what others were doing.
No one in the company looked nervous or out of order, considering that this was their first mission since becoming Astarte, that was a good thing.
They were all watching Armin waiting for his orders.
But the other party seemed to be in deep thought now, so Jacob put his attention back on the surrounding environment.
The company is in a desolate place. Although the environment is not bad, it is still so barren that it will make most people stop thinking.
They stood in an open field in the woods in a long valley, and the towering peaks around them stretched their heads to the sky with snowy heads. Wherever they were far away, he could hear the sound of rapid flowing water. It must be the river they saw in the air just now, flowing down the hillside and rushing into the lake below.
The trees around him were dark and hazy. He could smell a faint smell of resin, and he could also hear the rustling of small animals in the bushes and the singing of birds.
The spear of morning light pierced the clouds and illuminated the earth. There were a few dark clouds gathering in the distance on the horizon. Jacob realized that there might be a storm in the future.
But this did not make him feel worried. He was already used to his reality as Astarte, and the deadly weather for ordinary people no longer poses a real threat to him.
He saw no threat at the moment, but it didn't prove anything. He had been taught to prepare for trouble.
Who knows?
Anything can be ambushed here, maybe this is what the missing mortal investigation team encountered-
The matter was not complicated at the beginning. Not long after the main force of the battle group began, some strange disappearances occurred in the village nearest to the Monastery Fortress.
At first, the Space Marines were not concerned about this because this kind of security incident belonged to the distant mortal world, not to mention that even the nearest villages and towns were actually three hundred kilometers away from the fortress.
But when the missing population spread to the servants of the battle group, Arming, the tenth company commander who was responsible for guarding the monastery, keenly noticed a breath of danger.
Afterwards, the Planet Legal Department was also alarmed. The legal officer led the team deep into the wilderness jungle to discover the truth. As a result, all the staff disappeared the next day and there was no news.
Aarmin, who realized that something was wrong, immediately closed and alerted the fortress, and then asked the Governor of the Planet to deal with the matter quickly.
The Governor of the Planet was also confused. Who would be so bold that he went to Astarte's territory to cause trouble?
Then hundreds of detectives and investigators came to the vicinity of the Knights Monastery fortress and began to investigate the successive disappearance cases, but the subsequent development became even more bizarre.
All the people who conducted the investigation continued to disappear, and in the end only a few people escaped, but they couldn't tell what they had encountered, or they had nothing at all, and they were completely scared away by the rumors they heard.
Now the Governor of the Planet also realized that there was not much, so he directly sent troops to start sweeping and searching the surroundings.
The army was dispatched for a whole month, but found nothing. No one was missing during this period, but the missing person could not be found. They almost dug three feet into the ground and found no trace.
Even the planet's star speaker came to check it out and confirmed that there was no sign of psychic energy, and it also proved that there was no possibility of being related to subspace.
After another month of stranding, the army withdrew, but as soon as they left, something worse happened.
The mortal auxiliary troops of the Astral Knights began to disappear, and blood-stained limbs of missing people began to appear in the forest, hanging on the trunk of trees, like a signal.
This is a naked provocation. Armin can't sit still at this time, otherwise the face of the battle group will not be there!?
He must find out the troublemaker!
Of course, Armin also thought of passing the news to Soshiyan in the distance, but someone in the company advised him that if he didn't even see the enemy and asked Soshiyan for help, the company would not be able to raise its head among the other brothers from now on, and everyone would think they were cowards and cowards.
Armin deeply agreed with this. He could not let other brothers think that he was a fussy company commander, a warrior without the ability to act independently.
However, he was not doing things with his passion. Considering that it might be hostile Space Marines or aliens at work, the other party responded quickly to the Scar of Victory's Suffering Alliance. More than one hundred Space Marines quickly entered the planetary orbit station and were able to land and support at any time.
Then, Armin ordered the battleships left by the battle group to enter combat equipment and be wary of possible invasion enemies at any time.
After making all the preparations, Armin went to see Queen Elena again and asked for the other party's advice. Elena told him that this might be the enemy's strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain, so he should do a good job in defending the fortress.
Armin also thought of this, so he arranged all the elite auxiliary troops to combat readiness duty positions, and activated all the fortress defense facilities, combat robots, and the fortress's teleportation arrays to remain activated at any time.
If the enemy wants to take the opportunity to attack the fortress, then friendly forces on the orbit will use the teleportation array to reach the fortress as soon as possible and give the enemy a head-on blow.
After confirming that everything has its countermeasures, Armin decided to lead the team to find out the enemies who are making trouble. No matter whether they are aliens or heresy, since they choose to cause trouble here, their lives are the price of provocation!
Jacob followed the barrel of his explosive pistol and looked for the target. Nothing jumped into sight, only a few squirrels gathered pine cones at the feet of the nearest trees.
There was no dark vicious power, maybe those mortals were just lost, or their communication equipment failed.
Then Jacob felt that he was so naive that he himself didn't think these simple reasons would be the real reason. A team of legal teams led by an experienced legal officer would be unlikely to get lost in the mountains. They had compass, locators and all instruments, and even armored vehicles.
Of course, the weather in the mountains may disrupt the locator and communication network, and failures may also cause the instrument to fail, but how likely is it that these two things will happen at the same time?
Then there is a fog that blocks all eyesight?
Basically impossible.
Something must have happened, and their task is to find out what happened.
Jacob looked at the chief, and he was observing many traces extending from the open space, but Jacob didn't think he could find anything.
It has been a week, and the last heavy rain probably washed away all other traces.
However, if they don't look for it, they will not find anything.
There were 120 people present, and another 100 recruits had been transferred to the White Temple. They would perform their duties in a brand new battle group. Since the details of the legion were instilled in the brainwashing stage, no one was discomfort about it.