Alien Relic Hunter

"What?!" Lieutenant General Maginot shouted in disbelief. He first stared at the soldier who reported the message with wide eyes for a few seconds, then suddenly turned around and turned on the holographic projection that had been turned off not long ago. map.

The dozen blue dots that were approaching the base in the northeast just now seemed as if they had never existed - if Maginot hadn't been staring at this supply convoy all morning, he would have thought that he had happened. Hallucination.

Those are urgently needed supplies for the base of more than a dozen vehicles! It also included fresh pork and vegetables that he could only eat once a week. He was really tired of eating this kind of canned synthetic meat that had been stored for who knows how many years... Of course, for someone who "professed to love his soldiers like his own son" For Lieutenant General Maginot, this personal material enjoyment is only secondary. What is more important is the contents of the more than ten vehicles left. That is what all the soldiers stationed at Mukach Base have to pay for a week. Rations!

There is no food synthesis factory in the Mukach base, only a very small hydroponic farm that can only grow some bean sprouts and white radish. If this truck of supplies cannot be delivered to the base, it will mean that the next period of time Here, the more than 10,000 people in the base must rely on emergency prepared dry food to survive.

Maginot had just checked the inventory list in the morning. The emergency dry food in the base included more than 2,000 cans and more than 5,000 bags of compressed biscuits... It sounded like a lot, but after being divided into more than 10,000 mouths, at most it was only Can last for two days.

If the supplies cannot be retrieved in two days, or if there is no support from Ark, the base will run out of food!

"Damn... Is the previous military director an idiot? A base of this size only has two days of food reserves... Even someone like me, who comes from the garrison, knows that front-line bases must have at least half a month's worth of emergency reserves. Ration... With such a huge material gap, could it be that that bastard had embezzled it?" The first time he saw this list, Magino thought that he had to report Mukah's previous job to his superiors. The military chief is suspected of corruption, but he has not yet written the report letter when the base's supply crisis suddenly befalls him.

"Send out the mobile reconnaissance company quickly and ask them to find the missing convoy! The supplies must be recovered!" Maginot ordered.

However, the soldier did not immediately turn around and pass on his order. Instead, he hinted something anxiously to Lieutenant General Maginot with his eyes.

"What are you looking at me for? Go and give the order quickly! If we can't find the supplies, everyone will starve in two days!" Maginot glanced at the other party's armband, and then he noticed that this man in combat uniforms and a steel helmet This guy was not an ordinary soldier, but an officer with the rank of major.

It's just that Lieutenant General Maginot has just arrived, and he hasn't fully recognized the names of the officers under his command. He can't name the major for a while. He only remembers that this guy seems to be the battalion commander of a reinforced battalion of the combat force.

Seeing that Maginot was completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem, the major took a deep breath and then said in a deep voice: "General! The location where the convoy signal disappeared is only thirty kilometers away from the base... The road conditions in this area are very stable. Now is not the migration period, and it is rare for large-scale indigenous creatures to appear... There is only one possibility for the convoy to disappear. They were attacked by a heretical sect! And there are definitely a lot of enemies!"

He took a breath and continued: "A small group of exiles or members of a heretical sect would not dare to attack our convoy so close to the base, because as long as the convoy signal disappears, in such an open plain, Zone, they won’t be able to run far before they are overtaken by the troops sent by the base... I think this may be a premeditated attack, and the target of the attack is not the supply convoy, but here!"

"You mean, they were coming to the Mukach base? The convoy was attacked, but they happened to hit it?" Maginot was stunned and asked hurriedly - he was sitting too comfortably in his seat. After a long time, his mind set has not changed for a while. When the convoy disappeared, his first reaction was the loss of supplies... But this major was different. He had stayed at Mukach Base for four full years. A real front-line elite veteran.

Several other units of the field corps have this saying to describe these soldiers stationed at the "Mukach" military base: These people never take off their coats and shoes when sleeping at night. They must hold their guns in their arms and carry bullets. It must be loaded, and the suicide note has been written and stored in the mailbox. Although it is inevitably a bit exaggerated, the high vigilance of these soldiers can be seen from this sentence.

"Yes! It's not enough to send out a mobile reconnaissance company. Please give the general's order and the entire base will immediately enter a state of first-level combat readiness! Recall all combat units on duty outside the base, and at the same time request support from Ark and the fleet closest to here!"

"This..." Maginot originally wanted to say, "This is too much of a mobilization of troops." According to the information he received, the large forces of the heretical sect should have been sent to the molten mine area. It is impossible to assemble a group of combat forces at this time. Come and attack the Mukach base. But then he thought again, what if the heretical sect really split up its forces? Or is the invasion of the molten mine area just a false shot, and the real target is the Mukach base where he is stationed?

It is always right to be cautious, as the saying goes: Be careful and you will sail forever. Magino would rather be ridiculed as a coward by his colleagues afterwards than lose his life because of his negligence.

"Just do what you say!" Maginot said, "By the way, isn't there our outpost outside the base? Let the outpost send a few drones to the place where the convoy disappeared to see what is going on. ?”

"General...not only has the signal of the convoy disappeared, but all four outposts in that direction have also lost contact." The major glanced down at the personal terminal strapped to the inside of his wrist and said solemnly.

"All four outposts... have lost contact? I remember that the one closest to the base is only less than 20 kilometers away, right?" Maginot frowned, "At this distance, you can see it from the watchtower of the base. When we arrived, the sentry on duty at the top of the tower didn’t see any movement?”

"The sentry reported just ten seconds ago and did not observe any abnormalities."

"What the hell, what the hell -" Maginot tugged at his collar irritably, "There's nothing abnormal. How could the outpost lose contact? Is it electromagnetic interference?"

"No electromagnetic interference was detected..." the major replied, "The four outposts lost contact in order according to their distance, with an interval of less than three seconds... Something is approaching the base quickly!"

[P.S. Thanks to Xiaoyou who stole melons for the 500 starting coins. 】