The drone used infrared mode to transmit back the slightly blurry silhouettes of people on the mountain road, as well as the outline of the machine.
"The straight-line distance is 3 kilometers, the actual path is 7 kilometers, and the forward speed is 0. There are 15 exposed personnel, 4 medium and large equipment engine heat sources, including 1 outdoor load-bearing multi-legged mechanical platform and 3 off-road vehicles; in addition, suspected weapons are
There are 2 pieces of equipment... I guess they are old-style exoskeletons. Gee, the equipment is much more complete than ours!"
Long Qi leaned over and took a look: "What an old-fashioned exoskeleton? It's the standard 'Wu Wu' model for the military and police. The production line is still iterating."
Zhao Xi said "cut": "I can make ten modifications of 'Wu Wu' with my eyes closed. But now, you can only play these in 'Ten Days in the Wilderness'."
Long Qi was upset and said casually: "Be a good boy and don't mention 'Ten Days in the Wilderness' in front of anyone, especially after the revision, you will have a lot of opinions."
"Thanks for the reminder. But please remember, I have also watched the live broadcast... Boss Luo is annoyed by the 'abnormal evolution' route, and the classic human hero equipment does not offend him."
"Then he never uses Dark Blue Walker, you know?"
Seeing that the topic was about to go too far, Fries came over in time to correct it: "Do you see what the answer is?"
Zhao Xi analyzed a few words casually: "It's a bit like an expedition team, but with fewer weapons; it's also like a transport team, with too many off-road vehicles, and the heavy-load platform is a bit empty. But in reality, everything cannot be reasonable.
Configuration.
"Under normal circumstances, if there is a drone flying overhead at night, I will most likely not be so excited..."
The infrared image sent back showed that the other party must have discovered the drone and was waving to the camera frequently, looking quite excited.
"What if there is a transmitter mounted under the drone, wouldn't it be a disaster?" Zhao Xi was puzzled and simply asked Lao Yao, "Are the people of Lake City so big-hearted, uh, enthusiastic?"
Lao Yao made no progress in identifying the remains of the people buried in Tuling, so he took the opportunity to come over to change his mind.
After observing for a while, he started talking about another thing: "I'm afraid this road is really impassable. The mountain road in front of this group has also collapsed, and the extent is quite serious. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a heavy-duty platform.
We still have to stagnate in such a dangerous area. There are two landslides less than five kilometers away. With this density, even if we take a detour, we cannot guarantee the situation further ahead."
"Are we going to abandon the car now?"
Even though Zhao Xi kept shouting about "being a coolie", there were actually extraordinary beings in charge. Driving on the wilderness mountain road was quite comfortable, and he was a little reluctant to part with it for a while.
Lao Yao said a conservative approach: "Why don't we wait for the latest release of the Lake City Cloud Atlas? I guess the incident happened suddenly, and the information about this area has not been updated on the Cloud Atlas... Just as this group of people passed by the landslide area in front of us
Soon after."
Fries gave a rough estimate: "Half an hour at most?"
"Pretty much...they're quite unlucky."
This convoy fell into the embarrassing situation that Lao Yao said, with landslides in front and back. Moreover, where they were, there was no other way out, making it impossible to advance or retreat.
"It's not just bad luck, it's bad luck that caused it."
After some further observations, Zhao Xi added some professional advice: "It's possible that their equipment is broken... and it's a heavy-duty platform. The surface temperature of the large heat source on the side continues to drop. Looking at the outline, it looks like it's on the platform.
If you dismantle the heat pump at this time, you wouldn’t think about temporary maintenance, right?”
In Lao Yao's initial route suggestion to Ronan, he mentioned a heavy-load platform, that is, a multi-legged structure load-bearing system. It can be regarded as a "travel artifact" in harsh wilderness mountainous areas. Under normal circumstances, it can transport supplies, ammunition,
Once you encounter high-risk areas such as mudslides and landslides, you can rely on its strong traffic and load capacity to move other vehicles there.
Apart from high energy consumption and slower speed, there is basically nothing wrong with it.
But now, in this unreliable place, the heavy-duty platform is lying down, and everyone will have a huge headache.
Liu Fengming shook his head: "They can call for rescue."
Long Qi suddenly realized: "Maybe they have already called for help... and then they are so enthusiastic."
Almost in sync with Long Qi's judgment, in the pictures returned by the drone, the body movements of those humanoid hotspot outlines were obviously tense. They all looked for bunkers on the spot, and the two standby exoskeleton armors were also rapidly increasing their power.
Soon, the drone sent back a warning that it was locked by radar.
"It seems that I got the wrong person."
This is a normal reaction after encountering an unexpected situation in a wilderness area.
Fries lacked the apology for accidentally scaring others, and just rubbed his chin and thought: "It also takes a process from asking for help to feedback. If Lao Yao's analysis is correct, it didn't take long for them to get here, and it didn't take long for the equipment to be damaged... Oh
, it’s not far from the supply point, right?”
Lao Yao understood: "The supply point is by the Changwei River, about ten kilometers away. It is indeed not far away. There is indeed a drone reconnaissance and rescue service there. It is probably because of this that I misunderstood."
"Long Tail River? It sounds familiar."
Lao Yao looked at him and smiled: "You should have been here before. This river is quite long. Walking along the river, you can almost go all the way to Huaicheng... It is one of the most dangerous roads in the middle line of the Golden Triangle, and it is also the hottest road in recent years.
One of the smuggling routes.”
Fries smacked his palm: "It is indeed here, what a big change!"
The memories of that year were suddenly aroused in him. He turned around and tried to find the memory point of that year, but finally gave up and asked more realistic questions:
"Is there a way to take the car to the supply point? I mean, we can also call for rescue or something, isn't this a good idea?"
In fact, everyone knows that abandoning the car and walking is the most efficient way now. But the real world is like this. Even though we know that this method exists and it is even listed in the plan, as long as the BOSS does not speak, everyone will instinctively follow the established pattern.
Continue.
Whether it's persistent inefficiency or futility.
Well, it's a matter of attitude.
Of course, people like Long Qi also heard it, and Frith's voice was very loud - enough to be noticed by the big boss who was whispering to the beauty under the umbrella more than ten meters away.
Before Ronan could respond, Zhao Xi reported the new situation: "Those 'good Samaritans' who want to talk to us should have seen the military coating of the drone... Do you want to connect the channel?"
Frith's lips curled up, and his voice became louder: "BOSS, there's someone in front of you requesting a call, do you want to answer it?"
Long Qi gave him a thumbs up.
Under the umbrella, Ronan turned around and responded simply:
"Let's go there."
The question and the answer are irrelevant. However, Lieutenant Colonel Frith has always been full of subjective initiative and immediately understood it as:
I didn’t object to the phone call, and at the same time, I went over to “meet” that group of people.
He signaled Zhao Xi to be more direct, and then clicked on the external function, and he took the initiative to take on the communication responsibility:
"I am Lieutenant Colonel Frith, commander of the Wilderness Action Team of a special operations brigade in the East Asian theater.
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page.) We were ordered to perform a mission and are conducting a temporary inspection in accordance with the provisions of the "Wild Wartime Military and Civilian Authority Management Act."
"The drone will descend in half a minute. You scan the authority code on the fuselage, transfer to the temporary channel A2, and report your city, department, unit, and valid identity and authority certificates, the source of military and police-grade weapons and equipment, and
License number, ready for inspection. I repeat, transfer to temporary channel A2..."
"Is the military so cruel?"
Long Qi asked knowingly, but Frith glared at him, turned off the external broadcast function, and looked at the watch: "Give them two minutes, during which the security personnel will be armed. If they send documents and certificates, Major Liu and Captain Zhao Xi will be responsible for inspection;
Also, Lao Yao, please do some hard work and do some personnel screening to see if anyone looks familiar."
Lao Yao nodded cheerfully, but when he saw that the big-headed soldier back then looked so capable now, how could he not feel emotional in his heart?
After making arrangements here, Frith went over and asked Ronan for instructions: "BOSS, we are going to abandon the vehicle in two minutes and move forward to cross the landslide area. Please give us your instructions if it is appropriate."
Ronan looked at Fries and laughed: "I have no objection. We will arrange the next steps after we arrive at the supply point."
Fries heel together, loudly should be.
But he also knew in his heart that Ronan must have received a signal of his slight "dissatisfaction" - there was no way, although soldiers had to obey orders as their bounden duty, they also had a natural instinct for orders that were secretive and had unclear strategic and tactical directions.
Disgusted.
After all, there are too many real cases of "selling teammates" that have occurred among them.
Ronan didn't necessarily mean to cover it up, but the level of the issue he was considering was far beyond what they, the "security guards," could understand. Once no explanation was given, the people below would be extremely passive.
Then again, isn't "security and security" one of the most passive jobs?
Frith didn't like the work.
He was covering it up deliberately, but sometimes he couldn't help but show a little thorn. Otherwise, how could he be called "thorny head"?
When he turned around and walked back, he had to sigh with emotion and said something that was almost unspeakable:
Boss Luo has a really good temper.
At least, the big man definitely has the magnanimity.
Returning to the edge of the collapsed road section, we met up with the people in the car in front of us. At this time, the group of people on the opposite side had been very cooperative in handing over relevant certificates.
There was no way, Frith, a "soldier", really understood the privilege clauses in the management of military and civilian authority. He was condescending and suppressed the eggs, so that the unlucky people on the opposite side could not resist at all.
Seeing Fris come over, Zhao Xi reported to him as if he had discovered a new world: "It's true that evil people are running into the mountainous area today. Half of them are people from Chuncheng. To be precise, they are the person in charge of a factory in Chuncheng. They ran
Why do you come to the wild mountainous area of Lake City to inspect the project?"
"Where's the other half?"
"Local cooperative companies in Lake City, security personnel, professional heavy-duty platform drivers and guides."
Fries frowned when he heard this, while Lao Yao raised his hand and said, "There is someone here that I recognize."
"who?"
"That guide, Xiao Jin, Jin Youjie. Count him as one of my apprentices. He is a native of Lake City. A few years after returning to the city, the abnormal products were extremely profitable. He found me and I took him with me for two years. He has been traveling around since then."
He hesitated for a moment and then said: "This Lake City enterprise, Lei Peng Trading, seems to be related to Mao Yan... the one who used excessive masks."