Chapter 20: 2 enter the palace
Planet 5, a geological resource exploration base.
In the command room, Wei Haitao stood behind a row of electronic facilities with a gloomy expression, with two eyebrows twisted together on Qingjun's face.
"Not connected yet?"
The correspondent turned his head and nodded with a frustrated expression: "No, there is interference."
"It doesn't make sense..." Wei Haitao murmured. He suddenly felt a bad feeling when he was always cautious. It stands to reason that after the bald and the others complete the task, they will definitely get in touch with the base as soon as possible. It's been an hour now, why is there no news?
Has things changed and the bald head and others missed it?
Just as he frowned and thought hard, the radar operator suddenly said loudly: "The radar has detected an aircraft approaching the base. Is it... NS-035?"
At the same time, the earlier frowning correspondent also yelled strangely: "Commander, NS-035 has sent a pit stop request."
"Let them..." Wei Haitao said halfway, swallowing the rest of the words back.
He suddenly thought of a creepy possibility: "Order the base for second-level combat readiness, lock all artillery on NS-035, and then send a communication request."
The people in the command room were taken aback for a moment, and then there was a burst of flying dogs.
Everyone is not a fool, and with a slight turn in his mind, he figured out Wei Haitao's intentions.
One second, two seconds...
"Bah." Snow flickered on the video screen of the communication station, and Tang Fang's face appeared in front of everyone in the command room.
"Didn't the bald head mean that he is dead?" Wei Haitao's expression changed, his eyes were as cold as winter springs.
As for the others, feel at ease. After all, Tang Yan is a member of the base. Since he is in the helicopter, the situation may not be as bad as imagined.
Wei Haitao stared at the video screen coldly: "Where is Covas? Where are the others in the second row?"
The Kovas in his mouth is the bald guy whose head has moved, and the people in the second row, like Thomas and Conda, are his confidants.
"died."
Tang Fang's reply immediately caused an uproar. Everyone looked at each other. The flexible female intelligence officer couldn't handle the unfinished work at hand, and ran out quickly. Since humans entered the cosmic civilization, the army’s organization has been slightly reduced. Generally, 24-30 people are the standard configuration of a platoon. Today, a total of 27 people have died. If you add Thomas and Conda who died in the previous days, except for Tang Fang In addition, the second row was wiped out. If such a big event has happened, it must be reported to the base commander immediately!
Wei Haitao slowly narrowed his eyes, his whole temperament changed, his eyes looked like a poisonous snake locked in a prey. He doesn't know how Kovas and others died, but now it is a great opportunity to take this opportunity to kill Tang Fang: "Artilleryman, shoot me down the helicopter."
What does he mean? Is it possible to suspect that Tang Yan did this? Everyone in the command room was shocked.
The gunner hesitated and pressed the lock button of the fire control system.
On the other side, the sand scorpion armed transport helicopter.
Eva looked at the black hole defensive artillery on the high wall around the base, her face turned pale. Both Howson and Byron also had ugly faces, and they couldn't understand why he, the military himself, would be self-defeating and fall into desperation.
With the defensive power of the base, a volley of fire was shot down, and everyone in the helicopter was afraid that there would be no scum left.
"Wait, you take a look at this first, and then it's not too late to make a decision." In front of the cabin communication station, Tang Fang quickly passed a piece of video information.
An image flashed on the monitor of the base command room, dozens of alien-shaped jumps soaring, dividing and enclosing the marines in front of the helicopter. The spinning sharp claws look like a small meat grinder, but just a few breaths. , And all 25 Marines were killed.
The command room was quiet. The men frowned. Several female soldiers were pale, trying to endure the violent vomiting in their chests.
Wei Haitao's face was also not good-looking. He thought that Kovas and others were killed by him and the prisoners, but he did not expect that the real culprit was the aliens.
"Captain Wei, this time you know who the real enemy is." The screen flashed again, and Tang Fang appeared in the corner of the display screen.
Even if Wei Haitao wanted to get rid of him, he knew that it was impossible right now, so he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Open the landing platform and let them down."
Everyone in the helicopter breathed a sigh of relief. Byron squinted at the calm young man in front of the communication station. A chill suddenly appeared in his heart. This kid was too shrewd. It seems that the reactions of those in the base are all in his mind. As expected.
Killing the marines and grabbing the sand scorpion armed transport helicopter is the first step. The second step is to get through and enter the base. What is the third step, is it to occupy the entire base? But what to do afterwards? Without a space vehicle, it is a mortal situation.
Along the way, Byron thought a lot, but he couldn't guess what Tang Fang had planned.
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The authentic commander of the base is a 30-year-old, tall Germanic. After the nobles of the Empire, he has the rank of major and his full name is Clapham Christian.
The empire has been violent in recent years, and its territory has expanded extremely rapidly. With regard to sovereignty, economic zones, and the ownership of some resource stars, it has successively feuded with some neighboring countries, and then raged and wars continued. After a major battle, the total number of casualties amounted to hundreds of thousands, including a large number of middle-level and basic-level officers.
Take Clapham as an example. With his rank of major, the conventional configuration should be a battalion-level commander. However, he willingly nestled in this barren No. 5 planet as a company commander. After all, in this age of gunpowder, only living is the most important thing.
When Tang Fang took Aros, Zhou Ai and others down the sand scorpion armed transport helicopter, he was rushing over with a team of heavily armed marines.
"Hello Commander." When he approached, Tang Fang saluted him without squinting.
Clapham nodded expressionlessly: "Is the task completed?"
Tang Fang took out the PDA with the resource data: "Yes, the data is in it."
Clapham took it, and handed it to a scientific researcher behind him. When he glanced at Aros, Zhou Ai and others behind him, his face became a little gloomy: "What is the matter with those alien shapes?"
Just as Tang Fang was about to reply, Wei Haitao suddenly led two people over, pointing to Eva and said, "Don't say it, it's her."
Clapham frowned and said nothing.
Eva looked at Tang Fang, and then at Wei Haitao, who had a dead father expression in front of him. She twitched for a while, but said vaguely: "The sand...there are alien shapes hidden under the dunes, and those people are... all dead. Up."
"Then how did you survive?" Wei Haitao asked again.
"This..." Eva didn't dare to look directly at his murderous gaze, and said falteringly: "I...we hide far."
"You lied." Wei Haitao sneered: "You hide far away? Then what happened to Covas' report to the base before?"
Eva glanced at Zhou Ai next to Tang Fang, and suddenly Fuzhi said inwardly: "Everyone split up. We were the last to escape from the crypt. UU reading www.uukanshu.com was a step late, and happened to witness the alien smashing out of the yellow sand. Just escaped the catastrophe."
"Huh?" Wei Haitao's expression was stagnant. He was not there at the time, and he was not sure if she was among the people handing over with Kovas. When Eva said that, she really couldn't find a reason to refute.
"Commander, since the tasks explained above have been completed, is my punishment..." Taking this opportunity, Tang Fang changed the topic and brought him to the issue of the military department's punishment.
"Well, what about it..." Clapham and Tang Fang have no complaints, nor do they know the Xiao Jiujiu in Wei Haitao's heart. One thing more is worse than one thing less. He wanted to let this matter pass flat, but looking at the people behind Byron, Zhou Ai and others, he was a little embarrassed.
Brigadier General Ryan of the Langton Star System once vaguely stated to him that he did not want these prisoners to get out of Planet 5 alive.
On the one hand, in full view, as the commander of the company, he had no choice but to kill the donkey. On the other hand, due to the pressure of Shangfeng, he had to do it. Clapham was in a dilemma for a while.
Wei Haitao is not only cautious, but also a thoughtful guy. Without waiting for Clapham to speak, he directly ordered the soldiers behind him: "First take them to the prison area, watch them, and wait for the special operations team to finish investigating the battle scene and analyze it. As a result, it will not be too late to deal with them."
"Yes." He led his confidant behind him, stepped forward, and held the gun against Tang's waist.
"Humph." After passing a few people coldly, Tang Fang didn't say much, and walked towards the prison area.
Behind Clapham looked at Wei Haitao a little displeased, turned around and took the person away.
