The 70-kilometer mountainous route that has not been developed for many years and is full of abnormal populations is an insurmountable chasm for ordinary people. But after rest and maintenance, the deep blue cluster, armed to the teeth, almost yawned and flew through this road.
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Meng Tu's conservative advice did not overturn the car, and the journey was uneventful. In just over half an hour, the destination was already in sight.
There was nothing to show for it. When he arrived at the base, Meng Tu became even busier. The external communications became more and more intensive, making him overwhelmed.
Senior officers of the Lake City Guards, colleagues in the military, old friends from university... I feel that almost everyone who is in Lake City or has a relationship with Lake City, named or not, has to come and ask questions.
sentence.
The nervousness and anxiety of some people can be seen through radio waves.
In addition, the person in charge of the advance base also asked him to discuss how to properly arrange personnel and equipment - there was no one there who could take charge of the situation alone. He asked for instructions and reports, which made Meng Tu's scalp explode.
This is a shitty job: I can’t push it out, and I won’t be worried if I push it out.
The origins of the thirty or so Burners in the Deep Blue Cluster are relatively complicated. Although the team under Meng Tu's direct supervision accounted for more than half, there were also about ten people, including Huai
The people sent by the city to assist in defense around the cave were not particularly clear about it.
Nowadays, the dispute between the "coreless flow" and the "burner" routes is gradually gaining momentum. Meng Tu is really afraid that there are some people who are not clear-headed, or are instigated by people with good intentions, and cause trouble again - I don't need to worry about that person's safety.
, it really offended people, and it might turn into a sensitive matter again.
Sure enough, the deputy’s life still depends on it!
It's one thing to have this awareness, but it's another thing to react mentally when the night wind blows the loud laughter from the side.
At this time, Meng Tu regretted not bringing Lang Zhihe. If that was the one who came out, at least he wouldn't have to worry about trivial matters. But the problem is, the deputy next to him is that bastard Frith.
This veteran ruffian is accustomed to maintaining a "broad and straightforward" persona, and only pretends not to understand when dealing with general affairs. For this reason, he dared to chat with Ronan. After the initial nervous stage, he was now talking and laughing freely.
It's just that there's no shoulder-to-shoulder support.
While Meng Tu was scolding his mother, he also wanted to secretly shout "admire".
In any case, before night completely enveloped the Golden Triangle, they temporarily left the high-risk mountain range behind, and today's journey was over.
The floating dark blue cluster began to lose altitude.
Although it has fallen into the night, the location of the advance base is still very conspicuous. Because the night obscures many details, it also highlights some things:
Such as lighting.
Just on the edge of the dark mountains, clusters of lights gathered in a limited area, forming a comb-like outline.
“This place has quite a sense of design.”
Zhao Xi and others were led by Fries, and after talking to Ronan for a long time, they became more and more relaxed. It was just like chatting in the team on weekdays, casually expressing their feelings: "Looking at it from a high position, it looks like a high-end hotel...
…It’s just that there are no people around.”
"Be content. Staying here for one night is better than living in the mountains and forests." Banner is a firepower, and the equipment load is much higher than others. Even if he floats to eliminate a large part of the burden, he will still feel more strenuous.
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Frith made a sound: "There will be no shortage of people. Even if they come here, it's hard to say whether they will die or not."
"Oh, those explorers, mercenaries... they only work for money, and there is no shame in making a living." As he said that, Banner suddenly remembered something: "Hey, I remember, boss, that you served in Lake City, close defense army?"
"No, don't push me. I am a field army, a serious main force in the East Asian theater."
"You have always stayed in Lake City."
"That's true."
"You're familiar with the situation, right? Then let me ask, what's going on with the 'teeth' on this 'comb'?"
"You have bad eyesight, didn't you see that the base is next to the river? Those are the berths for ships on the waterside."
"Arrived at the riverside?"
"Come on, do you have any clues? It's at least another forty or fifty kilometers away. This river can be considered a tributary. It flows twenty kilometers south and joins the main stream, and then twenty or thirty kilometers west it joins the river."
Fris paused and then said: "But when I was a soldier here, there were heavy rains for several years, and the old water conservancy projects seemed to be unable to hold on. Later, I heard that the main tributary water channels were pushed south again.
One section has flooded a lot of places, and it is connected with several lakes over there, and you can also enter the river from further upstream."
"Awesome, you know the geography of Lake City!" Banner flattered him smoothly.
"Can you reduce the prefix? Thank you."
At this time, the floating height of the Deep Blue Cluster is less than a hundred meters, and the number of people in the open air at the base below, as well as their vital signs, can be scanned through the detection equipment.
"There are indeed a lot of people." Zhao Xi was a little surprised, "There is a boat over there that has just docked."
"Then I came back late. It's very dangerous to sail at night here. The upper reaches of the river are in the mountains. When Mr. Baifeng sneezes, he might shake off something deadly and float down the river."
"Is that why we gathered thousands of people here to seek profit from danger?"
The person doing the questioning this time was changed, it was Ronan.
After being together for so long, Fries has become comfortable with it, and his tone of voice has not changed much:
"It's a small place here. Go west for about thirty kilometers to the old reservoir on the upper reaches of the main stream, and it's really lively. You rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, the water to drink the water, and the Baifeng Lord... If you don't get eaten by it, you can eat it to replenish your health.
chant."
"If we go to the main stream, we should also go from the forward base here?"
"Some people are like this, but many people set off directly from Babao City. It is the farthest satellite city of Lake City. Although it takes more than half an extra mile to travel, the purchase of equipment, recruitment of personnel, and information circulation are all very convenient.
Much. After all, that is where the southern and western lines of the Greater Golden Triangle meet."
While they were talking, the Deep Blue Cluster had already landed in the area arranged by the advance base. Although it was more lively and crowded than expected, after all, there were still some military purposes and corresponding areas, as well as the crowded "field professionals living area"
Isolated, it can still be considered clean.
After everyone landed, removed their armor and stood by, Meng Tu immediately came to Ronan again and asked for instructions on the next step. However, before he could speak, he heard Ronan ask again:
"The straight-line distance from Huaicheng to Huacheng is four hundred kilometers..."
While removing his armor, Fries continued to demonstrate his "geography" ability: "It should be four hundred and fifty. The actual distance is just an honest land march. If we take the old route, we will go to Guanglin on the western front and six hundred and fifty on the eastern front."
Eight treasures, seven hundred and five."
"But in fact, the satellite cities in the two places are already about a hundred kilometers away, and there are forward bases. If the two sides are squeezed, the area in the middle is just like that... The Golden Triangle is not big!"
Ronan's emotion must have hidden meaning, and Meng Tu didn't answer. This kind of thing is too sensitive.
Frith didn't care about that, curled his lips and sneered: "Not only is I not big, I am still a big-headed soldier in 80 years, and I don't have the Deep Blue Walkers or the like to accompany me, but as long as I am brave and familiar with the people, walking together with three or five people, carrying equipment,
Passing two or three homeless settlements on the way, you can travel across the city."
"What city? Hu City and Huaicheng?" Zhao Xi was shocked, "Can it still be like this?"
"In those few years, this place could still be used as a filming location for movies... Yes, I'm talking about this advanced base."
"But in the wilderness..."
"This is the hinterland of East Asia, not northwest or Northeast Asia. At that time, the trouble mainly occurred on both sides of the lower reaches of the river. If the sea city could be built, it would be no problem to seal it at the four corners. But it hasn't been built yet."
"What happened next?" Zhao Xi asked because he didn't understand.
"Isn't it what you see now? As a technical staff, you have to be technical in speaking and using your brain."
"I mean, how did it become...fuck!"
As for why it turned out to be like this, to this extent, even if Zhao Xi is the purest technician and has been immersed in the current environment, he knows that the answer is definitely not easy to say out loud.
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Ronan was quite interested, not to mention having nothing to worry about, and continued to ask: "Not to mention other things, you said that the trouble was on both sides of the middle and lower reaches of the river...
As for Mr. Baifeng, according to the information, Mr. Baifeng became popular in the late 1970s."
"Really? I didn't notice much when I was in the army. At that time, it was too far for me to take the Eastern Front, so I often took the Western Front. It was along the old road from Guanglin through the mountains. There are remaining railway tracks there.
With a metal detector or imager, you basically don’t have to worry.”
"So Mr. Baifeng..."
"At that time, I only knew that head abnormalities were serious in the mountains, but they were not so severe that they spread throughout the mountainous area."
Baifengjun, whose name sounds like an "individual", is actually an atypical deformed lair. He is the undisputed overlord of the large mountain range that Ronan and others just detoured. Its body is said to be an underground bacterial colony, just like
The aberration nest that the Deep Blue Cluster destroyed not long ago had similar properties.
However, as the research deepens, it is not so easy to judge the identity of "Baifengjun". We only know that it is very good at controlling the creatures in the earth through infection, parasitism, etc., acting as minions, ears and eyes, and the animal and plant populations are not stable.
It is limited. It also has some kind of "activation" ability, which can drive mountains, rocks, water bodies, etc. to exert incredible power.
In a sense, the hundreds of mountains within its sphere of influence are all "alive" and can carry out its will and become life-devouring Jedi - if it really has a clear will.
This is how "Baifengjun" got his name.
Lord Baifeng, Gray Traveler, and the Delta Lair Group are the most famous extraordinary-level aberrations (nests) in the Golden Triangle.
Among them, the Gray Traveler has no fixed abode, so it can be ignored. The Baifeng Lord stretches across the middle reaches and controls the lake city; the delta lair group erodes downstream and connects to the ocean. The long-delayed issue of the Great Golden Triangle is largely due to the influence of these two sides.
There is something wrong with governance.
Ronan and Frith were discussing the geography around Lake City and the history of "Baifengjun", but Meng Tu couldn't get in the middle of the conversation - let alone get involved.
Anyway, there is something more embarrassing than him: the forward base officer who came to greet him was already frozen there, neither advancing nor retreating.
Fortunately, at this time, someone sent a communication request to Ronan, interrupting this fatal topic.