Xiao Jiang just wants to ensure that his own unit is not threatened, so he will do his best. What if all the other units die?
Margaret didn't know how capable Xiao Jiang was. She just felt that her superior was very powerful. She couldn't help but think of Xiao Jiang's promise to help her. Although she didn't know how Xiao Jiang was going to help her, her heart actually rose.
Somewhat trusting.
There was not a single living soldier within the 500-meter radius of the base. The huge army of soldiers detoured like a tide meeting a mountain. Soon the surrounding area became extremely quiet, with only flares fired from time to time and supply boxes dropped from the air.
It will make a sound.
Xiao Jiang glanced at Margaret who was a little tired and said:
"There are still a few hours until dawn. Let the troops take three rounds of rest. You can also take a rest. I will be on duty until dawn."
Margaret nodded and placed the communicator on the table. She dressed and began to rest on the camp bed in the command post.
"Sir, the soldiers themselves do not have the ability to identify danger, but now the army of soldiers chooses to take a detour, which means there should be brainworms nearby. I am looking for traces of brainworms."
The Red Queen's report came, Xiao Jiang nodded slightly and said consciously:
"Well, speed up, we will evacuate at dawn. The Federation Army's Sixth Fleet suffered heavy losses in this battle. Only about 100,000 people are left alive out of the 600,000-strong army. Those people always need someone to take the blame.
If we can complete the basic tasks first, the next work will be much easier."
Xiao Jiang is always focused on tasks plus collecting wool. If he is not interested in other things, he can just ignore them. He sits in front of the window and looks at the patrolling soldiers. Xiao Jiang takes out a cigarette and lights it. He looks back at Margaret. If it weren’t for Margaret
The body proportions are so weird, it is a pleasure to watch the beauty fall asleep like this.
Half an hour later, the Red Queen popped up a video screen and said:
"Sir, deep in a cave next to the base, the detector discovered a strange bug, which is different from all known bugs."
The picture shows a palm-sized insect with six claws like a fat spider. Because the claws are too short and the body is too fat, it crawls extremely slowly.
The Red Queen compiled all the information about the Zerg race from Starship Troopers and Starship Paratroopers. There was no record of this kind of bug in it. Xiao Jiang squinted at the little bug and said:
"Activate the detection robot to capture this thing alive. I feel this guy is more valuable than the brain worm."
The Red Queen immediately activated four detectors and turned them into robots. As a special black net caught the strange bug, the four robots quickly took off and flew out of the cave.
Xiao Jiang reached the wall and signaled the patrolling soldiers to go elsewhere. He pretended to adjust the automatic machine gun and quickly put away the bugs when the robot flew up the wall.
"Tick-tat, the mutated Zerg God larvae have been discovered. Extracting samples can earn 500,000 credit points, which can be completed as a submitted task."
Xiao Jiang's eyes narrowed. This little bug was actually a mutant insect god larvae, and it was even more valuable. This meant that this thing would be very terrifying when it grew up. He looked at the bug data scanned by the Red Queen in all directions. This thing only weighed about a kilogram.
, and the known insect gods are as huge as mountains.
"With a golden belly and a mutant insect god, is there any chance of evolving into a mutant insect king?
But let’s take the sample first, and just submit the task before leaving. Take good care of this thing, and you can exchange it for a sacred contract of 100,000 credit points to try it out. Something worth 500,000 points is definitely not easy.”
Xiao Jiang thought about it in his mind. He originally just wanted to catch a brain worm, but he didn't know that he actually caught such a thing deep in the cave.
From the surveillance screen, it can be seen that the diameter of this cave is less than half a meter, but the depth is three kilometers long. There are no other Zerg species in it. In other words, this cave was slowly dug out by the little fat worm himself. If the Red Queen hadn't let him go,
If you search any area, you really can't find such a small thing.
...Three and a half hours later...
The sky was getting brighter, and Margaret, who had woken up, kept sorting out the data. When an order came, she hurriedly shouted:
"Commander, there is an order from above. The 16th Group directly under the command will immediately take the transport ship to turn around the Carl Vinson. The commander will also serve as the captain of the Carl Vinson."
Xiao Jiang was stunned for a moment. In this federation where the air force is responsible for flying infantry, the captain has always been an air force official. How can he, a major of the motorized infantry brigade, be qualified to take over a battleship?
"The Captain of the USS Carl Vinson was killed by a Zerg ion attack when he went to the aircraft carrier for a meeting. The ships of the Sixth Fleet suffered heavy losses. The commander-in-chief of the Army Group, after seeking the opinions of the fleet commander, decided to let you concurrently serve as the captain of the USS Carl Vinson.
His position is the commander of the Special Operations Force of the Sixth Army, which is also the commander and captain of the 16th Group directly under the command.
According to the order, the Carl Vinson will be used as a carrying ship for our troops from now on, rather than us as a warship carrying troops. The specific situation will probably not be known until we return."
Xiao Jiang was a little surprised. He knew the huge difference between motorized infantry and air force. A battleship captain was equivalent to a major general of an infantry division. Although his military rank was much lower, his status was very high.
He is an infantry major, but he is also the captain of a battleship. This is impossible without some background.
"The commander-in-chief of the group army... asked me to concurrently serve as the captain of the special forces carrier ship. I don't know if this is a good thing, but I still inform everyone to pack their things and prepare to evacuate."
…
Because at dawn, space fighters began to break in and conduct large-scale ground bombings. The Zerg quickly evacuated after losing tens of millions. For the bugs, fighting at night was more advantageous. In the face of high-altitude bombing, the mother worms or brain worms as controllers knew that they could not directly compete.
.
As the soldiers retreated into the cave, transport boats landed on the surface of the planet. When a transport boat landed at the base, everyone in the 16th Brigade began to evacuate.
Returning to the Carl Vinson, Xiao Jiang immediately began to report merit to all personnel. At the same time, he promoted three sergeants and Margaret to second lieutenants, and the rest, including the worst, were promoted from third class privates to first class privates.
, more than thirty non-commissioned officers from the entire brigade appeared at once.
Anyway, the salary is not paid by himself. Xiao Jiang will be promoted according to his military merit. According to the federal reward rules, everyone will be rewarded with a large amount of credit points this time.
Xiao Jiang originally thought that when he returned to the spaceship, he would be notified of the meeting, but as soon as he confirmed that he was back on the spaceship, Margaret handed the communicator to Xiao Jiang and said:
"The emergency transfer order was sent by the headquarters, requiring the Sixth Fleet and the Sixth Army's battleship Carl Vinson to immediately station at Industrial Satellite No. 4076, and at the same time transfer a transport supply ship and a destroyer as auxiliary ships of the Special Forces Group 16
