Hardcore crisis

"But we've been here for such a long time, you should have expected this."

Babs stared into Nicky's eyes: "Since we have chosen to sign the confidentiality document, no matter what, it is our own choice. I don't want to say anything. Even if the wormhole is closed, General Hunter can find a way to save him." It is absolutely impossible for us to go back, and everyone knows it. I never think that cheating is a good way to solve problems, it will only make things worse, so you still have the opportunity to choose to return... …”

"Sorry, I may be a little too nervous, but I have no intention of quitting."

Nicky apologized.

"No, I understand how you feel. In fact, we are all nervous, because no one wants to die on a foreign planet."

Babs patted Nicky on the shoulder: "But now that we have made this choice, we don't have to worry about it anymore. It will only make us gradually lose our courage until we become cowards." .”

"OK, I'm not a coward, I will choose to cheer up, Captain America."

Nicky slapped Bubbles' right hand away helplessly.

"You two, stop talking. Look, what is that?"

Aurora, who suddenly interrupted, made the two of them shut their mouths, and turned their sights to the windshield in front. The fly robot hidden in Aurora's hair also perked up, and focused on Aurora's gaze. ahead.

Compared to what they observed with their naked eyes, the fly robot focused directly on the end of the canyon, a spire that towered more than a hundred meters high.

Yes, it was a minaret. The bottom was based on a cylindrical structure. It rose to a height of a hundred meters and turned into a tall and sharp spire. This obvious artificial structure shocked everyone present. The scene was stunned, including Lu Yuan, who was thousands of miles away.

The fly robot has already hacked into the communication network of the US military. Thanks to this, Lu Yuan, like Hunter in the command room, can observe the delayed images from here, so when he sees this spire-like building , compared to the shock of Babs and others, he was more surprised and confused after knowing the inside story.

"Could it be that there are intelligent life forms in the misty world?"

Thinking of this possibility, Lu Yuan only felt more troubled. The existence of intelligent life was not a good thing. If the previous alien creatures had no intelligence and only relied on primitive instincts to act, they were already dangerous enough. , then the intelligent life on alien planets undoubtedly needs to attract a higher level of attention.

What level of civilization are they?

What characteristics does it have?

Friend or foe?

These are some issues that cannot be ignored.

Lu Yuan also realized another point. Judging from the distance, it was almost ten miles away from the "fault". This should be the boundary line of damage caused by the nano-bomb.

Babs and others were not only shocked by the existence of the artificial building, but also surprised by the fact that in front of the two cars, just a few hundred meters away, a fault similar to a geological structure appeared in front of them, which was as large as The terrain on their side is seven or eight meters higher.

It's like a sharp knife cutting the cake hard. It's hard to imagine that the neat fault plane is the product of natural geological movement.

"It's not a geological movement." Niqi glanced at the distant spire for a few times, then came back to his senses and began to pay attention to the existence of the fault plane.

"What?" Babs asked.

"I said this was not caused by geological movement."

Niqi pointed at the neat fault planes and frowned: "If we take the earth as an example, canyon fault planes like this are complex structural arcs formed due to strong deformation and fault displacement. They were formed over millions of years. According to calculations, weathering, subsidence and stratigraphic drift have made these fault planes uneven. And earthquakes cannot form such neat fault planes without any unevenness. You see, this cannot be erosion, denudation, and erosion caused by ice and snow. I dare say that this is the result of the action of nature. Do you, laymen, believe it?"

Without shaking his head, Nicky saw disbelief in the eyes of Babs and Aurora.

Indeed, this fault plane is so neat that it is completely similar to the ruins of the city of Saint-Annou.

"So, this is the same as the city of Saint-Annou?"

Babs asked after a moment of silence.

"I think it's the same reason."

Nicky touched the back of his head and found that it was covered by protective clothing. He could no longer touch the back of his head like before, so he had to worry: "I think General Hunter must know the detailed reasons for this, but you guys Understand, that is top-secret information, and General Hunter didn’t take the initiative to tell us, so we can’t know the reason.”

"Hmph." Aurora snorted coldly, thinking that she didn't like General Hunter's actions much.

"Okay, I understand. I'll make the report. You guys should get out of the car and prepare to set up a communication relay station here."

I thought I would need to explore hundreds of miles, but I didn't expect that such an unexpected incident would occur just ten miles away.

Everyone started to get out of the car. Except for Babs, the rest of the people prepared the communication relay station. After all, there is a canyon blocking the communication signal. If the distance is too far, the communication signal will be blocked and attenuated. Building a temporary communication relay station can effectively solve this problem. thing.

"General..."

Babs reported what he had just seen to Hunter. In fact, the cameras mounted on the two armored vehicles had already faithfully captured the scene in the distance and transmitted it back. Babs just needed a camera from Hunter. Just an order.

Obviously Hunter did not expect this kind of surprise. He hesitated for a moment and then said slowly: "Get ready. Leave one person behind, and the rest of you will go to the... minaret on foot to investigate."

"Yes, I understand."

Bubbles understood what choice Hunter would make. Not to mention other things, the reward of half a million dollars was not several exploration missions, but one round trip. Even if he was worthy of the reward, he could not let him. They only walked ten miles and then returned the same way.

Therefore, they must definitely go to the suspected man-made building in the distance.

"How's it going?" Seeing Babs coming back, Aurora asked first.

"Leave one person here while the others prepare to leave." Babs paused and continued: "We may not be able to use the car, so we have to be prepared to walk."

"on foot?"

Aurora estimated that it was about a few miles away from the spire. Walking there with heavy equipment was not an easy task.

"There is no choice, so we have to prepare for a two-day round trip."

Babs spread his hands and expressed his helplessness: "It's impossible for the people above to let us go back with nothing."

"What's the point?"

Nicki, who squatted on the fault surface for a while and took some soil samples and returned, couldn't help but ask when he heard this.

"Hopefully we won't get nothing," Babs said.

"Have more confidence, captain. I think General Hunter should let us keep moving forward, right? He is not a person who gives up easily. Anyway, he is sitting firmly on the earth, and nothing will happen to him after thinking about it."

Niqi put the samples in the incubator for storage and said without looking back.

"Your guess is right, we are going to move forward on foot."

Clara, who was in another car, also came over. Although she was not in the same car as them, nearly half a month of training together made the four of them somewhat familiar with each other, and they said without being unfamiliar: "How do we get up there?" ?”

It seemed that Babs didn't need to explain, she was already planning to go up.

"It's a bit troublesome."

Babs looked at the protective clothing he was wearing, "Maybe we need to take off this burden temporarily."

Wearing a bloated protective suit, they wanted to use ropes to climb to a fault level of seven or eight meters high. Except for Babs and three other elite soldiers, Aurora and the three of them could not do it without even thinking about it.

"It's okay to take off protective clothing for a short time. You may feel a little dizzy and nauseated, but that's a normal reaction to excessive carbon dioxide."

Aurora agreed with Bubbles' words, "Move quickly, and we will all be fine."

Ten minutes later, everyone taking off their protective clothing one by one began to take their first breath of air from an alien planet.

According to previous monitoring, except for slightly excessive carbon dioxide, there are no other harmful gases and bacteria and viruses in the air, but this still makes everyone feel a little subconscious fear.

(The sheath tendinitis on my finger has not healed yet, so I will update it tomorrow. The custom-made USB flash drive on WeChat will be shipped this week. Hundreds of people said they wanted to buy it, but only about 30 people actually decided to buy it. I was shocked. I was in a cold sweat. If I had ordered hundreds of finished USB flash drives in one go according to my previous idea, but only sold more than thirty, I would have become a dried fish... Fortunately, I calmly did not order them in one go, but used Booking method. Otherwise, Laoyu may not need to buy a USB flash drive in this life or the next.) (To be continued~^~)