"Well, we really have to go into the tropical rainforest. I hope there are no pythons in it." After getting off the shuttle, Tychus complained as he looked at the unusually dense forest in front of him.
"Relax, even if there are, those primitive creatures are no match for powered armor." Renault patted his shoulder armor.
"Looking on the bright side, if there is any, we can taste another Haiwen delicacy." Jimmy looked at the jungle eagerly.
"That's not the point." Renault shook his head and looked at Ariel, who was only wearing a set of jungle adventure equipment: "Ms. Hansen, I think I reminded you that if there really is a federal secret base, it is likely to exist there.
Dangerous biological weapons."
"After entering the jungle, communication will fail, and without a guide, you will get lost in the jungle." The botanist held up his hat and showed a confident smile: "Although I don't have your armor, I am confident about Haiwen Star.
Every plant and tree on the mountain is very familiar."
"If you insist." Raynor checked the equipment again and signaled Tychus to protect Ariel, and Jimmy would lead the way first.
Previously, in their capacity as agricultural consultants from other planets, they visited and searched potentially problematic farms and plantations, but found nothing.
The reason why live poultry in farms are particularly aggressive is because the breeders do it deliberately to give buyers a healthy impression. However, the materials used in vacuum packaging and canning still use the previous breeding methods. What is ridiculous is that they
I still want to cover up this.
As for the decrease in the plantation's output, it is because it plans to open up downstream industries. After meeting Renault and others, it actively invited them to taste the new products. This is the standard meat bun beating dog... Well, that's what it means in a word.
Then, after excluding some other slightly suspicious locations, Renault believed that if there really was a federal secret research base, it could only be in a primeval forest.
But as a result, new problems arise. Those federal agents are hiding in the virgin forest, with no interaction with the outside world and have never been photographed by satellites. How did Ariel discover that there was a problem there?
"These stupid bushes and vines! I have to repaint the armor when I get back!" Tychus yelled dissatisfiedly on the channel.
"It's because you are too big that I won't be tripped." Jimmy said in a brisk tone, as if the investigation went smoothly.
"That's called plating," Renault corrected, then tilted his head to look at Ariel: "Has our course of action deviated?"
Ariel pinched the frame of her glasses and paused for two seconds before responding. "Not yet. If the route needs to be adjusted, I will explain it in advance."
In the process, she naturally walked around a group of thorns and turned her head to avoid a hanging vine.
Either she wasn't reading the information on her glasses at all, or she was well aware of these obstacles.
If it weren't for the impromptu decision to come to Haiwen Star this time, Renault would almost suspect that she was a mole.
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"Hey, Commander, look at this."
After hours of trekking through the jungle and battling wits with plants and wild animals, Jimmy finally found evidence that convinced Reno that his journey was in vain.
A completely scrapped and rusty alloy cylinder.
"Is this... a terrazine can?" Renault flipped the cylinder and easily found the federal logo on it.
"Hey! So there's a war to be fought?" Tychus immediately touched the gun.
"This at least proves that terazine is indeed produced here, and it is also targeted by the federation, but it is not yet certain whether it is a psychic research institute." Renault stood up and looked into the depths of the jungle: "We came all the way, there is such a big movement,
The other party should have discovered it long ago."
"They even threw the containers containing terrazine around," Ariel's voice rarely sounded a little angry: "That's why the growth conditions of this jungle are so abnormal."
"Anyway, let's get into combat mode," Renault drew his gun: "Ms. Hansen, you stay behind and stay away from us."
Ariel nodded, stepped back slightly and slowed down her pace.
In view of the possibility of encountering the enemy at any time, Jimmy did not continue to explore forward. According to Renault's instructions, he kept moving cautiously at a distance where he could be rescued by Renault and Tychus at any time.
However, until they followed the increasing number of unnatural traces and found the expected secret research base, there was no battle. Moreover, the appearance of that base made Renault feel a bit familiar.
"Hey, boss, do you think this place looks like-"
"Yes, a federal base at Blackwater Outpost, but there are significant differences."
What appeared in front of several people was a completely abandoned federal base, complete with command center, supply station, and research facilities. The most obvious one was a terazine collection station that was still leaking green gas.
Unlike the situation at Blackwater Outpost that was covered in "silt", almost all objects in this base were entangled and climbed by various plants, and those plants seemed to adapt well to the steel and plastic. Architecturally
Some of the obvious signs of trauma even looked like plants had sprouted from the inside and burst it.
"This doesn't look like it was done by bugs," Tychus tried to tear off a few vines and opened the door to the research facility. "There are no traces of erosion like they do."
Could it be that the federal research project here is a plant? Renault tried to contact Tosh who stayed on Bucephalos, but the communication was still disrupted.
"What bug?" Ariel appeared from behind Renault and asked curiously.
She must have been far away from him before? Renault raised his eyebrows, but still answered: "It's the kind of biological weapon I mentioned before, but now it seems that something went wrong. There is nothing we are looking for here.
thing."
"Obviously, the research they conducted angered the jungle and was swallowed by the jungle," Ariel looked around the abandoned base, her glasses flashing slightly.
In the end she...
"[Hey, boss, look at this -]" Jimmy's voice came from the communicator: "[Here is a record of the scene when the base was destroyed~]"
Before Renault could respond, the commander's interface received the first-person perspective shared by Jimmy. Apparently he found a video record of an independent power supply in a monitoring room.
Although the picture is not clear, Renault can still tell that it is the radar perspective of the command center. On the picture, a large number of monsters composed of thick vines and branches are attacking the federal army in the base, and the counterattack of the federal soldiers has no effect on them.
It was useless. Soon, after a black shadow passed towards the camera, the picture was completely interrupted.
"[Boss, these federal soldiers seem to call them——]" Jimmy dug out a few more document notes: "[Solian]?"
