Returning from the abyss

Chapter 524 Base Station No. [-]

The structure of the base station is simpler than that of the outpost, and there are not so many underground layers.With full authority, Lu Ning easily came to the data archive room.

The log file here has already been called by Mo Lianren's team once. If there is any superficial information, Mo Lianren would have noticed it a long time ago. Lu Ning first called up the historical data of the warehouse. Even if the warehouse has been cleared, the previous Inbound and outbound information is also retained.

"Mixed nutrient solution, high-compression oxygen tank, semi-permeable crystal blocks, genetically modified fast-growing seeds..."

Looking at the storage list of the previous warehouse, in addition to the basic water, food and ammunition, there are many things that need to be produced in large quantities.After these things were extracted, the related production orders were also cancelled, leaving only those basic materials.

"It seems that the environment of Outpost No. [-] is relatively harsh...or did they deliberately choose a relatively harsh area?" Spider Silk also saw it from the side, "These things can quickly build a green belt, which is basically necessary for the rapid generation of green space. thing."

Indeed, although the vegetation on the phantom star is luxuriant, it does not lack extreme terrain such as volcanoes and deserts. From the pictures seen on the landing craft before, there is a long desert group near the equator on this continent.

"But why did they take so long to plan for a desert?"

Hearing the discussion here, Spade and the others also came over.

"I think...it might not be a trivial matter. The people at Outpost No. [-] should not stay so long for the greening of an area. It must be a large-scale collective action to need so many supplies." Bayonet lowered his head in thought, "Could it be... Did they find something unnatural? Or a Class A hazard?"

Lu Ning was a little surprised. She hadn't told these team members about the discovery of the building of an unknown civilization, but the sharpness of the bayonet's information was really extraordinary. No wonder the higher-ups arranged for her and Spades to be scouts.

"It's possible!" Clarinet shouted, "They may have entered a certain building and encountered an A-level Eudemon inside..."

"Don't mix everything up, clarinet." Spade sighed helplessly, "And if there really are A-level phantom beasts, then they would be finished when they tried it, so there is no chance for them to do it later. The command? Although the records here are only for such a short time, there was communication from the No. [-] outpost in our outpost until the disaster happened."

"It's impossible to confirm those guesses now." Lu Ning transmitted this information to her terminal, and then opened the log file, which contained information manually entered by some personnel.This base station has not been used for a long time in total, so apart from the updated information written by Mo Lianren, the rest are records left by people from that year, very few.

The first comes from the completion of the base station.

[Captain of the No. [-] outpost construction team, Zeng Xiaorong: According to the order of Chief Zheng Heng, the No. [-] base station will be completed here.The production index has been entered, and it is expected to accumulate to the predetermined target resources after five months of the phantom ephemeris. 】

The next one is one month later.

[Captain of the No. [-] outpost construction unit, Ren Ju: Captain Zeng was attacked by poisonous creatures during a mission and failed to return to the base.Since then, I have been in charge of checking the progress every month.The No. [-] base station was working normally, and a few robots were damaged by underground phantom beast attacks, and they were automatically replenished.This problem will be reported to Mr. Pang Xu, so as to avoid the reduction of resource accumulation caused by it. 】

This is followed by fixed monthly information.

[Ren Ju: The second inspection shows that the total amount of resource accumulation is in line with expectations, or even exceeded.Mr. Pang Xu should have taken this matter seriously.Base stations No. [-] to No. [-] have also been established, but No. [-] base station is still the focus, and I am deeply honored. 】

[Ren Ju: On the third inspection, it seems that there was an accident. The reason is suspected to be the threat of natural disasters caused by the passage of B-level phantom beasts, and even spread underground.The accumulation of resources this month is not satisfactory, and the data of B-level Eudemons should be reported. 】

[Ren Ju: Check for the fourth time, the damage has been repaired, and everything is back to normal.The supplies should have reached the quota next month, you can ask Mr. Pang Xu to check.Considering the importance, perhaps we should apply for a group of manpower to be stationed here. 】

The information before the extraction of materials is more intensive.

[Ren Ju: The fifth inspection, Mr. Pang Xu's scheduled pick-up time is seven days after the Phantom Ephemeris, and we are ordered to guard here to ensure that the supplies are normal.After the production of this batch of materials is completed, this base station will be converted to a common material production block, and I will be responsible for order adjustments. 】

[Ren Ju: The material collection team is about to arrive tomorrow. I have summoned all the team members to stay inside the base station. There is no need for guards outside, and the robots will do a good job of guarding.Best not to go wrong. 】

[Ren Ju: The materials have been extracted, and the relevant orders have been removed. This base station will produce ordinary supplementary materials.The detailed list of previous production can be viewed in the registration records of the warehouse. Since then, the No. [-] outpost construction team has completed the task of No. [-] base station. I hope future generations can benefit from this, and I wish you well. 】

There aren't many logs, and they're all very brief.After all, this part is not required by the military. Those are all taken care of by machines to prevent artificial fraud.The part here is more like a diary. This officer named Ren Ju just wrote down the important things he saw and heard.

"It doesn't look like a problem." After a while, Spade spoke first, "The establishment of the base station at the No. [-] outpost must be to meet its own needs first, and then the authorization qualification was released, and the relevant records also correspond to the entry and exit records of the warehouse. right?"

"The problem is serious." Spider Silk and Lu Ning spoke at the same time.

"Uh... I don't understand." Bayonet was also a little puzzled, and Clarinet didn't read the log carefully at all, and couldn't find any problems.

Lu Ning looked at the spider silk: "You talk about it first."

"Good captain. I really didn't see anything else. I just felt that the captain at the beginning, Zeng Xiaorong, had some changes after his death." Zhusi said cautiously, "What Zeng Xiaorong said was ordered It came from Zheng Heng, but in Ren Ju's records later, it was completely ordered by Pang Xu. Generally speaking, the highest commander of a project will not be easily replaced, not to mention that we all know that Pang Xu and Zheng Heng have lived at least for a long time Isn't it? Why is there a change here?"

"Building and collecting supplies may be two orders." Clarinet said.

"No, clarinet, if we want to divide, Pang Xu belongs to the military research organization, and Zheng Heng belongs to the standard army organization." Lu Ning said.

"Oh?" The clarinet raised its tone.

"It's true that such an ultra vires order is impossible. Although it's just a personal log, the army's subordinate system is very strict. Pang Xu and Du Heng are at the same level, just like us. If a different captain comes to give you an order, you will not obey it." They will not be condemned by the military. Soldiers are born to obey their superiors, which is the rule of the alliance, unless all the superiors directly under them are dead." Lu Ning looked down from the log line by line, and continued to think The situation inside.

"That is to say, there has really been a change of power at Outpost No. [-]?" Spider Silk asked.

"It is almost certain that something happened that caused Pang Xu's status to be higher than that of Zheng Heng in some sense, and this formed a superior-subordinate relationship. This relationship will be reflected in ordinary soldiers, because the orders they receive must be Signed directly from Pang Xu... If Zheng Heng becomes a subordinate, it must be an order from the highest level. Pang Xu probably didn't try to hide this matter, so is Zeng Xiaorong's death normal?"

"We can't find out about this kind of thing. We don't even know where he died." Spades said.

Lu Ning nodded: "But changing people always makes people feel wrong. This Ren Ju may not be the person who can involve many secrets at the beginning, so both Pang Xu and Zheng Heng are superiors to him. But this kind of Will the accident be undetectable? Wait a minute, what he wrote is..."

She looked carefully at the log.

General command changes will be left in the system's automatic records, and no one has the right to modify them, they can only call them.It is also because of the existence of this process that soldiers simply mention a sentence and leave a date when they update the base station, just like what Mo Lianren did before.But Ren Ju clearly mentioned it twice here.

No need twice.This is not a rule, it's just a tacit convention of the lower-level soldiers, so those who have served in high-level positions will not know about it, that is, Lu Ning himself has been promoted step by step from the army to captain. Only then did I understand the habits of many ordinary soldiers.

The deleted things will naturally not be displayed in the log, so is it true that Ren Ju just deleted a command?No one has used this base station for such a long period of time. What if it was the last arrangement made by the captain before leaving to avoid repeated reading and writing after a long time, making the deleted part irreparable?
Lu Ning immediately exited the reading interface, exported the recovery program from her personal terminal, and began to repair the log. She had no goal and could only find it hard. Fortunately, the advancement of technology has made her terminal function more excellent, and the process did not cost too much. long time.

A long list of material names and model drawings corresponded to the warehouse list, followed by two deleted log contents.

The first is after the third look.

[Ren Ju: Regarding the death of Captain Zeng, there have been more discussions in the team, and the situation has even become a little complicated.I have to talk to each team member to appease their emotions... This is my duty as the captain.But what is strange is that there is no problem with the site selection or construction template of this outpost. Captain Zeng has been in charge of rushing to build various supply facilities for more than ten years, but this time the damage is too much, as if there is a Like a fatal omission. 】

The other one was deleted immediately after recording before the last message.

[Ren Ju: The only way I can think of is this, I hope someone will have the opportunity to discover this record.I will set up a system bug that will last for about five years, to ensure that no one can write logs here within five years, and if there is such a problem, five years is enough for people to form the habit of not leaving words here.

Sorry, I dug up Captain Zeng's body.

Anxiety has been rooted in every soldier. We can't follow a commander who we can't understand what they are doing. They won't even give us a false comfort. We have to figure out our own way.

With our rough inspection methods, we can judge two results: First, the cause of Captain Zeng's death was poisoning, but it was not the biological toxin that poisonous Eudemons.Second, Captain Zeng's body did not decompose, even though it had been buried in the soil for nearly five months.

There are microorganisms in phantom stars. We don't think that this thing will be picky about alien life, so the only explanation is that kind of poison—very toxic that can even prevent the decomposition of microorganisms.We don't know who is crazy, whether it is Pang Xu, Zheng Heng, or even ourselves.Looking at the weird creatures in the laboratory, sometimes I even think that I will become like that.

I may not live long either.

But someone must know that Pang Xu and Zheng Heng are no longer right.They murdered their soldiers, a crime worthy of a court-martial.But the people who judged them did not exist. Whether it was power, intelligence or force, Outpost No. [-] was the top of the planet, and they were the ones standing at the top.

I can die, but soldiers should die on the battlefield, we will fight to the end. 】

"...how do you say it?" After reading the long log, Spade's tone was full of doubts, "The two people carefully selected by the alliance, Pang Xu and Zheng Heng, the top two of the advance team conspired against each other, and they were cheated." Everyone else?"

"Correction is to eliminate dissidents. They have obviously discovered something, and they are planning a major operation. Before that, they must eliminate all the people in the No. [-] outpost who are not loyal to them." Spider silk said with a bit of gritted teeth, "Yes , loyal to them . . . not to the Alliance."

Lu Ning sighed: "Shusi, control your emotions. What we have seen now is just a diary, and we still don't know the original appearance of the matter."

"Captain, don't you think we should respect a soldier's idea of ​​desperately trying to convey it?" Clarinet rarely expressed his point of view, "He has made up his mind to fight to the end, and he still uses this method, which is considered meticulous for him. method to leave clues, and I think he did a good job."

"En." Lu Ning nodded.

"But... this diary also shows that he is indeed a little soldier who doesn't know anything and obeys orders. Then he made a wrong judgment under the circumstance of incomplete information...it seems...it's normal." Bayonet hesitated Rebutted one sentence.

"Bayonet, they are already dissatisfied. The fact that soldiers have such dissatisfaction originally shows that there is something wrong with the management of the officer." Spade shook his finger, "For example, when we were mercenaries, those who paid the money knew that we had to do something. It’s a life-threatening job, so the shots are very generous. After all, no matter who we try to kill, it’s the same for us, and they are also afraid.”

"Uh... I don't quite understand. That means that Pang Xu and Zheng Heng don't have the corresponding management skills?" Bayonet still didn't agree.

"How could they not? They are all high-ranking people who have worked in the army for so many years." Spider Silk was still resentful. But when the phantom star is left unattended, it starts to swell—power is the culprit that leads to out-of-control desires, and it has always been like this!"

"Spider silk!" This time Lu Ning's voice was a little harsh, "I know you have experienced some unfair things, but you think about everything you experienced when you came here. Even if the military department chooses you this way, if any Soldiers like giants have this kind of awareness, so is it true that higher-ranking officers are completely untrustworthy?"

"Subordinates are strictly selected, and superiors are good..."

"I'm also an officer, and I think I know better about the military's behavior than you do." Lu Ning said coldly, "I won't punish you for this, but you must remain calm, otherwise I won't dare to entrust you with any important things." work."

(End of this chapter)