"No. 1, No. 1, I am Lei Shan. Please answer if you receive it. Please answer if you receive it——"
"Leishan is calling Base No. 1. Leishan is calling Base No. 1. Please answer when you receive it——"
The low call spread to the surroundings along with the radio waves. The radio waves quickly passed by Base No. 1, but there was no response from the asteroid. There was a dead silence in the bridge, only the buzzing radio noise kept echoing.
Luo Qi reluctantly gave up calling and turned to look at Ye Han: "Sir, it's been more than two hours."
Since the surviving soldiers were injected with hibernation, the originally tight power supply has been greatly relaxed. Leishan regularly communicates with Base No. 1 every day to report the situation in the base.
Ye Han rubbed his eyebrows: "Keep calling, even if there is only one percent hope, don't give up!"
He sighed inwardly, as if there were countless tangled knots in his heart, and he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried to sort them out.
In the past few days, contact with various holes has been lost one after another, but no one knows why. As of yesterday, only hole No. 8 can still be contacted.
Ye Han had been worried about the situation in Cave No. 8, but he didn't expect what he was afraid of. Seeing that the battleship was about to reach the asteroid, Cave No. 8 failed to escape in the end.
"Yes!" Luo Qi agreed, setting his voice to automatically loop, and kept calling Base No. 1.
"Is there any news from Beidu?" Ye Han suddenly thought of something.
"No." Luo Qi replied very firmly.
Ye Han sighed helplessly: "Go on."
After waiting for three days, Leishan never contacted Base No. 1 again. On the morning of the fourth day, Leishan arrived at the asteroid and traveled side by side with a distance of several hundred meters.
The asteroid rotates slowly. Through the lens, you can clearly see the semi-buried antenna on the surface of the asteroid and the several large holes that exploded. If you look carefully, you can also find some debris floating near the asteroid.
"Is there no news yet?" Ye Han asked.
Luo Qi shook his head: "No, there is no signal at all."
"What about Ceres?"
"Still observing, no trace of aliens has been found so far."
"Fly around Base No. 1 a few times and observe the situation first."
"yes!"
Leishan flew around the asteroid as ordered and carefully observed the situation on the asteroid. Because the observation data needed to be archived, Leishan's observations were very careful. Even a suspicious shadow had to be observed repeatedly until it was confirmed that there was no danger.
Before the observation of asteroids was over, the observation results of Ceres came out first, and no signs of alien activity were found.
Ye Han was very surprised. Normally, given the conditions of Ceres, aliens should not give up. What was the reason that prompted the aliens to ignore Ceres?
Or is it that the aliens are just pretending and have actually secretly controlled Ceres?
After some time, Luo Qi reported: "Commander, no abnormalities were found on the asteroid. Should we send a drone there?"
Ye Han sighed: "No need, just land directly, I will personally lead the team, and you will command the battleship!"
"Yes!" He Lu agreed simply and immediately took over the battleship.
He Lu is the deputy captain of the Leishan and one of Ye Han's two lieutenants.
Ye Han knew how much he had. Although he knew how to command battleships, he didn't have much actual command experience, so he took the initiative to ask the base for a knowledgeable deputy.
After Gao Kai learned about the news, he took the initiative to recommend He Lu to Ye Han, saying that he was one of the reserve captain seeds that the fleet focused on cultivating. He would temporarily lend it to Ye Han for a period of time, and asked Ye Han to ensure He Lu's safety.
After Ye Han's repeated assurances, Gao Kai sent He Lu to Leishan, and together with Luo Qi, he became Ye Han's right-hand man... Luo Qi was mainly responsible for chores, and in terms of importance, the two were incomparable.
He Lu suddenly asked: "Captain, should we dock the warships or land directly?"
"Land directly. You command Leishan to be on alert. I won't worry if the battleship is not in the sky."
"Yes!" He Lu agreed and made arrangements immediately.
Ye Han took Luo Qi away, and a few minutes later, the two combat groups flew away from the Leishan under Ye Han's personal command.
The distance between Leishan and the asteroid was only a few hundred meters, but flying in the helpless space, with neither the sky nor the earth, I always felt very unsure. It wasn't until I got close to the asteroid that I felt better.
The entrance to Base No. 1 was chosen in a natural valley. According to the original plan, it would be transformed into an airport. However, now, there is only a natural cave here and an artificial cave leading to the asteroid.
There were a lot of equipment piled up in a hidden place near the valley, and Ye Han recognized their identities at a glance: "The super thruster used for asteroids is said to be the latest improved model, and I don't know what has been changed.
The gravity of the asteroid is very low, and everyone's actions cannot be separated from the propeller. Ye Han was the first to float near the entrance.
Luo Qi suddenly stood in front of Ye Han: "Commander, I'll go first!" According to the drawings provided by Base No. 1, there should be a trap with two grenades here.
"No need." Ye Han pointed to the wall in front of him.
Luo Qi took a closer look and immediately found several pieces of shrapnel embedded in the wall: "It exploded? Aliens have come?"
"What do you think?" Ye Han passed Luo Qi, but before he could fly in, Luo Qi got in first. As a result, when he turned, he bumped into a black figure head-on.
Luo Qi almost shot, but the black shadow hit him and flew backwards. Only then did he see clearly that the black shadow was a giant insect with half of it missing.
Looking past the giant insects and looking deeper into the cave, you can see the broken limbs of various giant insects, and the dust and gravel fill the entire cave. If you look carefully, you can also find a lot of frozen insect blood.
In addition to these, there are some tentacle-like things on the cave wall, which stand motionless and unruly like tangled grass.
Luo Qi didn't dare to get close. He stared at it carefully for a while and then said uncertainly: "Sir, this thing seems to be a tree root, right? How did it grow here?"
"It looks like it." Ye Han also felt this way, "Did you notice that the area near the tentacles is particularly clean!"
"Yes, that's what happened!"
Ye Han reached out and grabbed a piece of gravel of the specified size, and gently threw it towards the tentacles. The propeller automatically operated, neutralizing the backward momentum and keeping Ye Han in his original position without moving at all.
The gravel flew near the tentacles, and the originally curly tentacles suddenly and slowly rolled toward the gravel, pulling the gravel to the wall, making it look like it should have been there in the first place.
Luo Qi was so shocked that his jaw almost dislocated: "They are still alive?" The base spent so much effort and sacrificed so many lives to blow up the alien plant. How could this thing still be alive?
Ye Han's eyes were complicated: "The problem has been found."
