The weary procession walked on the Biki plateau in the early morning, and from time to time there appeared pale yellow barnyard grass, black gravel seas, dry riverbeds, and occasionally the white bones of dead beasts.
As Dongfang Yu judged, the index mark of the radiation detector is indeed high, but it does not exceed the level that the human body can bear, which is a very fortunate thing, and another luck is because of the existence of these radiations, neither the Federation nor the Empire have sent ground troops to this wasteland, as for whether there are engineering mecha digging in the depths of the plateau, it is something they can't understand now.
For people, the real danger now is the blazing sun, which instantly pushes out the heat of human moisture shortly after the morning, and then the sky that looks somewhat unfamiliar without a trace of clouds.
The bright light from the turquoise dome falls like a curtain of water, bounces off the black gravel floor, and distorts slightly in the near-Earth area, giving the distant image in front of it a layer of unreality.
Xiong Linquan stretched out his hand to wipe the salt line at the jaw, gasped and looked at the entrance of a shallow mine tunnel hundreds of meters in front of him, and ordered in a hoarse voice: "All enter." ” In order to delay the detection of traces by federal military satellites as much as possible, and more importantly, to guard against attacks from the air, their team has been choosing to go out day and night after entering the plateau, and after early morning, they must find a pit where they can hide in the shortest possible time.
Although the radiation index in the pit is higher, it can still be supported, and they must take this risk, otherwise a random Federation fighter plane will come and the whole team will have to be on this barren plateau.
This abandoned pit has obviously not been in use for a long time, and the alloy support components in the tunnel are still shining after wiping off the floating ash on the surface, Xu Le squinted his eyes at the smooth surface of the metal under his fingers, thoughtful.
After a moment of silence, he looked back at the team members, who were already extremely tired, and said, "Everyone hold on for two more days, as long as we reach the Golan Heights, there will be a boat to pick us up." ” After entering the plateau, with the help of Gu Xifeng, he had several intermittent contacts with Philip outside the atmosphere, and discussed with each other a plan to withdraw from the Ink Flower Star, so he was more confident.
"You have to make sure it's not an Imperial ship."
Dongfang stared at his face and said in a dumb voice.
"I promise that it will definitely not be a ship of the Empire."
Xu Le replied.
Gu Xifeng was giving Da Vinci an infusion, and suddenly turned around and asked curiously: "Boss, is it the one that was so arrogant back then that he gave the middle finger on the top of the Capital Special Administrative Region?"
"Yes."
Xu Le replied with a smile, and then threw the marching backpack on his body to Paul, and he sat next to the Dongfang Jade stretcher, looking at him silently, and did not speak for a long time.
Silence often represents a very clear attitude, but Xiong Linquan is obviously willing to choose a more direct way, he stared at Dongfang Yu's face and said: "This plateau, radiation, and these obviously very new mines, Dongfang, do you still have something to say?"
Dongfang Yu was silent for a long time, then coughed painfully twice, shook his head and said: "I don't know much, I only know that under the shallow graphite mine on the plateau, there should be a strange vein, the ore produced there I have never seen, or even heard of, I only know that they have strong harmful radiation." ” I don't know if he recalled some very unpleasant pictures, his eyebrows furrowed vigorously, and he said in a dumb voice: "More than two years ago, NTR was responsible for escorting the engineering mecha into this plateau, because it was a top-secret mission, so you don't know, in fact, the detachment I led back then, did enough radiation prevention measures, but afterwards there were still two team members who suffered from severe radiation sickness, and I heard that they died soon after entering the battleship." ” "The radiation is so strong, what is that?"
The team members turned their heads to look at Xu Le in shock, they were used to looking directly for answers to such questions when they encountered them.
"There are many natural radiant elements in the universe, but they are relatively rare to be able to form mineral veins.
But it seems to me that the point of the question is why the Federation is mining this vein and what is their purpose" "I don't know, the people who come back alive from the ground have signed non-disclosure agreements, and I think I'm lucky enough to bother with these questions."
Dongfang Yu frowned and replied, "But one thing I can remind you is that this task is an order directly issued by the Ministry of Defense, and it has not even gone through the headquarters. ” "At that time, Du Shaoqing was still the commander, and there was only one person in the entire federal military who could bypass him on the Ink Flower Planet."
Xu Le shook his head and said: "But since you know about this matter, doesn't Du Shaoqing have any doubts about it, others dare not ask Li Zaidao, he will definitely dare." ” "I said that I signed a confidentiality agreement, and I am no longer a direct subordinate of the division commander, and according to the division commander's teachings, it is impossible for me to report to him beyond the level."
Xiong Linquan threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and said mockingly: "What kind of people bring out what kind of soldiers, I don't know if Du Shaoqing will regret teaching you too rigidly." ” The discussion of the strange radiation veins beneath the Biki Plateau didn't go any further, and for the fugitive team, their most important and only mission now was to stay alive and board the ship that had come to pick them up.
The upper echelons of the federal military, more precisely, General Lee Jae-do ordered the mining of that kind of ore, for what kind of consideration, not a matter that they have the energy and ability to consider now, even if they have a strong sense of justice and decide to maintain the peace of the universe, they can't go deep into the bottom of the plateau in this tired and dilapidated state.
"Is it a new alternative energy source or something?"
Xu Le walked to the end of the deep mine road, looked at the slightly wet rock wall, and just had some kind of doubt in his heart and was immediately overturned by himself, according to the radiation intensity described by Dongfang Yu, it was very difficult to turn this ore into a stable and reliable source of energy.
Sitting down next to the stretcher, he looked at Da Vinci, who was still in a semi-comatose state, feeling his longer and more steady breathing, his eyes couldn't help but narrow, why in this low-intensity radiation environment, he didn't feel any discomfort, but even felt a little comfortable It's hard to describe the sensation, the faint invisible radiation in the rock wall, like layers of warm water waves, envelops his body, making every cell excited from the inside out.
After a moment of silence, he gently grasped Da Vinci's wrist, adjusted his breathing more long and gentle, and slowly released the magical burning power that emanated somewhere behind his waist, and transmitted it carefully and cautiously into Da Vinci's body through his arm.
He didn't know if it would work, but somewhere in his mind, he wanted to try it, maybe because the radiation in the mine was too warm.
To be continued: