Before the troops set off, the headquarters conducted a comprehensive assessment of various unexpected factors that would affect the mission. Weather is also one of the key factors. However, the meteorological department believes that southern Siberia will be mainly cloudy and cloudy in the near future, and the possibility of severe weather is extremely small.
, I never expected to encounter such bad weather on the first day after leaving the country.
Military armored vehicles have good adaptability to various terrain types, and snow is no exception. However, the ice layer under the snow is the root cause of slipping. Ye Han has to consider the danger of continuing to drive on the road.
He is not a professional driver and does not know much about the performance of armored vehicles, but one driver said that there is no problem and that he can drive safely on the snow with just a little skill.
To be cautious, Ye Han contacted Tiangong and asked for the weather forecast. The news he received was that the clouds could last for up to two hours. Although the temperature dropped slightly, the daytime temperature basically remained above zero. It would take less than three days for the snow to fall.
All melted and the weather won't be a hindrance to the mission.
But Ye Han didn't think so. The weather just couldn't hinder the progress of the team, but Wolfworm was different.
Wolfworms revive in the spring, head south in large numbers in the summer, and prepare to hibernate in the autumn. Once the temperature drops below zero, the wolfworms will hide in burrows until next spring when flowers bloom.
Due to various reasons, humans still don't know whether wolf hibernation is like that of snakes, where they simply sleep all winter, or whether they are like ants who hide and spend the winter by reducing their activities.
In other words, this snow is likely to sound the clarion call for wolves to hibernate. Even if the team rushes to the No. 1 target, they will not be able to find the remains of wolves. As a result, it will be impossible to determine the location of the cave where wolves hibernated and destroy the nest.
Of course there is no way to talk about it.
In this case, it seems to be an inevitable choice to give up the search for insect nests and go straight to the areas where aliens are infested to look for aliens. However, the ice and snow plus the ice-white aliens...the aliens' disguises should not be too good.
After thinking about it, I was really unwilling to turn back in despair. After consulting the soldiers for their opinions, the convoy continued to move forward.
Ye Han was worried that the armored vehicle would cause an accident due to a slippery road, but he didn't know what the soldiers did. Except for the accident in the morning, the armored vehicle had never had a similar situation. It was just that the speed was slower than normal.
This is not surprising. The cold weather and slippery roads can be overcome, but the road under the wheels is an abandoned road, and the road condition is extremely bad. After driving for a certain distance, the convoy simply drove off the road and ran on the grass on the side of the road.
The dead grass that had been soaked in the rain was frozen by the low temperature. Although there was ice under the snow, it was not the smooth ice layer that lay on the road. The speed of the armored vehicle increased instead of falling, and it was actually a little faster than running on the road.
Ye Han was very lucky that there was a driver in the team who had received snow driving training.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the clouds finally dispersed, and the long-lost sun peeked out of the clouds. At this time, the convoy was already 1,780 kilometers away from the border, and finally arrived at the first target point.
The first target point is located at the junction of plains and mountains. According to the headquarters' analysis, there are likely to be a large number of underground caves in this area, which are natural overwintering grounds for insects.
As we all know, the winter in Siberia is cold and long. The wolfworm is essentially a kind of insect. Its body is born with a lack of cold resistance structure and has no resistance to temperatures as low as tens of degrees below zero. If exposed to the outside, even if it hibernates, it will be frozen to death by the low temperature.
, only by hiding in caves and other places can one have the possibility to withstand the cold winter.
There are many speculations about the overwintering method of wolf worms in the biological community. In addition to overwintering in caves, some people also believe that wolf worms, like most cold zone insects, use eggs to survive the long winter. In other words, wolf worms survive the long winter every autumn.
They must mate and lay eggs in time. Then the cold winter will come and freeze to death all the adult insects. The eggs will hatch in the next spring and form a new swarm.
However, this immature view has been criticized by the biological community.
The growth rate of mutated insects is indeed very fast. Newly born larvae can grow into adults in two or three months, but this period of growth cannot be omitted. If the adults do not have the ability to survive the winter, where do the swarms of insects that go south every spring come from?
The biological community therefore concluded that there must be a wintering ground for wolf worms in Siberia. If the nests hidden in Siberia cannot be destroyed, wolf worms will move south to attack the northern defense line year after year.
The four armored vehicles stopped one after another. Ye Han was the first to jump off the armored vehicle, stood on the snow and looked at the mountains in the distance, sighing involuntarily.
Where should he find the insect nest?
"Let's take a look!" Ye Han, who had no clue, called the soldiers together, "Everyone knows the situation, so I won't go into details. In front of you is the No. 1 target. Now start to spread out. If you find anything abnormal, report it immediately and set off!
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The four armored vehicles moved separately, circled along the foot of the mountain, and soon disappeared into the dense forest.
The low temperature froze the forest floor, and heavy armored vehicles crushed the ice, making crackling sounds.
Ye Han looked left and right, but couldn't find any trace of wolves.
Sighing helplessly, Ye Han made up his mind and asked the team to check the target area. If nothing was found, they would immediately withdraw and move towards the second target.
A voice suddenly came from the radio: "603 calling 601, please answer when you receive it!"
Ye Han immediately replied: "601 received, 603 please speak."
"601,603 found a cave!"
Found anything?
Ye Han was surprised: "Wait, I'll be there soon!"
The two armored vehicles were separated by two hills. The armored vehicles immediately turned around and took more than ten minutes to reach the end of the field.
The commander of 603 was named Xue Ju. He immediately jumped out of the car when he heard the roar of the engine. When he saw Ye Han, he quickly said hello: "Chief of Staff."
Ye Han nodded and said nothing. He raised his head and glanced around, and at a glance he saw an unusually conspicuous cave on the waist of the steep slope opposite.
There are no trees around the cave. The sloping entrance faces the sky, and there is ice and snow all around. It is supposed to be very hidden, but the bad thing is that the cave is like a volcano crater and is always steaming.
"What a great place!" Ye Han praised, "You can't even see it without the smoke."
"Chief of Staff, do you want to do some reconnaissance to see if there are any wolves in the cave?" Xue Ju asked.
"It's almost the same." Ye Han said, "A good cave can still emit heat for no reason? It must be because the temperature in the cave is high..."
Ye Han suddenly stared at the cave, stunned like a puppet.
Xue Ju didn't know what Ye Han was thinking, so he didn't dare to interrupt Ye Han's thoughts and kept his mouth shut tightly. It wasn't until another armored vehicle drove over that he woke up the stunned Ye Han.
"chief of staff……"
Ye Han waved his hand to interrupt Xue Ju's words and said excitedly: "I have a solution, I have a solution!"
Xue Ju looked confused: "Chief of Staff, what can we do?"
