Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 481 Waiting patiently
On the vast wasteland, not to mention living people, there is not even a ghost.

"Wildland of Ten Thousand Beasts" was the name given by the later colonists. In fact, there are no wild beasts here at all, to be precise, there are no living wild beasts.During the first Greenwich War, Fengxing Mars was occupied by the Silicon Magic Alliance and was also transformed.At that time, this was a barracks for the army of silicon charms, and it was also a training ground for silicon beasts.During the entire war, the Silicon Magic Alliance cultivated and trained countless silicon beasts here.After the war, Beacon Mars was abandoned due to severe environmental damage.Although most of the silicon beasts were wiped out by the army of the Galactic Federation in the war, a few survived and gathered here.After the human legion occupied Feng Mars, it took decades to clean up the silicon beasts here.It was at this time that the unreliable name "Wildland of Ten Thousand Beasts" came into being.

For Wick and other residents on the Beacon Mars, the Wilderness of Beasts is no stranger.

The village where Wick lived was just a few hundred kilometers away, and most of the residents on Beacon Mars lived nearby, because the products of the Wilderness of Beasts were the main source of livelihood for almost all residents.For people like Wick, the most important thing in daily life is to go "treasure hunting" in the wilderness of beasts.Although most of the time they return empty-handed, as long as they find one treasure, even if they cannot make a fortune from it, the whole family will have no worries about food and clothing in the next few months or even years.In fact, those merchants who came to Fengxing Fire just wanted to buy the properties of the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Beasts, that is, the corpses of silicon beasts, or other useful things, such as the life crystals of high-level silicon beasts.

There are indeed many corpses of silicon beasts here, but there are not many corpses of high-level silicon beasts, and life crystals are even rarer.

The corpses of ordinary silicon beasts are not worth much, and even the corpses of high-level silicon beasts are not worth much, and can only be used for collection at most.What is really valuable is the life crystal, but the Silicon Charm Alliance occupied Feng Mars for a short time, and the transformation of Feng Mars was not thorough, and it did not cultivate high-level silicon beasts here during the period.The corpses and life crystals of high-level silicon beasts found here are mostly the vehicles of war kings or generals who died here during the war, and a few of them are the natural evolution of ordinary silicon beasts that survived for thousands of years.Although the Wasteland of Ten Thousand Beasts is very vast, as far as Wick knows, less than ten life crystals have been found here in the past thousand years.

Of course, Wick and the others are not here to find the life crystals of high-level silicon beasts.

The war has been going on for several months, and there are casualties every day.Three days ago, the leader arranged a mission for Wick, asking him to lead a small team to the Wilderness of Beasts, lurking there, and told him to take the reinforcements to the camp of the resistance organization immediately after encountering reinforcements.

This is the first time in months that the leader has mentioned reinforcements.

Although very excited, after coming here, especially after waiting for three days, Wick's mood gradually calmed down.

For at least the past three days, nothing has been found.Not to mention the reinforcements, I didn't even see a ghost.

In fact, after the Silicon Charm army occupied Fengxing, to be precise, destroyed the villages and towns of the aborigines, they did not go out frequently.Most of the time, the enemy hides in four large military bases located on four continents.Even if patrols are occasionally sent out to search for and attack the hiding residents, they will not go far from the base, and the duration of each search operation is very short, usually only a few days.In fact, this is also the main reason why Wick and others were able to survive.If the enemies occupying the Beacon Mars frequently launched attacks, Wick and the others simply wouldn't be able to hold out for so long.Among other things, the environment of Feng Mars is very harsh, and even the strongest people cannot live in the wild for a long time.If you go out, you must wear protective equipment, and you also need to bring an air purification device.That is to say, every time you go out, you must control before the air purification device consumes light and energy, that is, you must return to the camp before then.If you are surrounded by the army of silicon ghosts, you will not be able to stay in the camp for long, and you will not have enough time to charge the air purification device.Directly exposed to the toxic air of the beacon fire, a normal person would be poisoned and paralyzed within 5 minutes, and lose his life within 10 minutes.

Wick couldn't understand why the leader was so sure that reinforcements would come and appear on the Wilderness of Beasts.

You know, in the past few months, the army of silicon ghosts has rarely come to this ghost place.The reason is also very simple, the Wasteland of Ten Thousand Beasts is the place with the worst environment on the entire Fengxing Mars.In addition to more toxic substances in the air, unexplained natural disasters often occur here.

According to the legend that has been circulated for thousands of years, these unexplainable natural disasters are caused by a silicon beast that has survived for thousands of years and has been hiding in the wilderness. The toxic substances in the atmosphere of Feng Mars come from this silicon beast. Beast, and Feng Xingxing will eventually be swallowed by this silicon beast.

Of course, this is just a legend.

Although Wick has never been to the ground of the Wilderness of Beasts, and does not know if there is a huge silicon beast down there, no one has ever encountered a living silicon beast in the past hundreds of years.Besides, if there is a silicon beast under the Wilderness of Beasts, and it is big enough to pollute the atmosphere of Feng Mars through breathing, it may not only bring unexplainable natural disasters, but it must have collapsed Feng Mars long ago.

Because no one would hide in the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Beasts, the enemies occupying Fengxing did not send any legions over.

Of course, three days is not a long time.

According to the leader's instructions, Wick and the others had to wait here for at least ten days.If there is still no movement after ten days, they can return to the camp.

To this end, Wick and the others brought two sets of air purification devices.

On a full charge, an air purifier can last a single person for seven days.Two sets are fourteen days. Even if you encounter trouble on the way back to the camp, you still have four days to deal with the enemy.Of course, Wick didn't expect trouble on the return journey.

In fact, those army of silicon demons just occupied Fengxing Mars and did nothing else.

It is also understandable that although Beacon Mars is extremely valuable on the route across the Greenwich meteorite belt, the entire Greenwich defense line has been lost, the human legion has retreated to the home galaxy, and other civilizations of the Galactic Alliance have not yet made a decision to participate in the war .In other words, the invading army of silicon demons will not encounter real enemies in the short term, and this strategic route is not that important.

Besides, when the human legion launches a counterattack, I am afraid that the Silicon Magic Alliance will not need this route.

Of course, Wick didn't think that much.He was just carrying out the task assigned by the leader, and all he had to do was to wait in this ghost place for a few more days.

It would be great if reinforcements arrive.

Even if reinforcements do not come, the battle must go on, life must go on.Wick knew all too well that it was the leaders, not the reinforcements, that kept them going.

In fact, no one expected the federal authorities to send reinforcements.

It's very simple, Feng Mars is originally a barren land, and it is far away from the home galaxy.When the home galaxy is under attack and almost all the colonial galaxies have fallen, the federal authorities will first consider defending the home galaxy, and secondly, taking back the fallen colonial galaxies, especially those valuable colonial galaxies.Only after this would consideration be given to colonial planets like Feng Mars, which were not of much value.If the situation is bad, even after launching a strategic counterattack, the Human Federation may not immediately send troops to retake Fengxing.If it takes 50 years for the Human Federation to reverse the situation like the last Greenwich War, then there is nothing to hope for.

Hearing the sound behind him, Wick looked back.

Crawling towards him was Jaime, one of his men, from another village, but they had known each other for a long time, and had met here.That was a few years ago, and Wick still remembers it vividly.At the same time, the two discovered the corpse of a silicon beast and fought over it.As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other. After that, the two often went to explore the Wilderness of Ten Thousand Beasts together.

"Have you found anything?"

Wick shook his head and handed the primal detector to James.

This was given to them by the leader. According to the leader, the reinforcements are very strong, and there are many soldiers who will appear directly on the Wasteland of Ten Thousand Beasts.It cannot be found by the general method, and only the original energy detector can be used, that is, those soldiers who are hidden whereabouts can be found through the original energy fluctuations.

"Are you saying we're wasting our time?"

Wick glanced at James and said, "Why, do you think the leader is lying to us?"

"No, of course not." James forced a smile and said, "It's just, do you know the leader? I asked someone, but no one knew the origin of the leader. That's right, without the leader, we would have been finished .The question is, don't you think it's weird?"

"What's so strange?"

"Every time, the leader can accurately judge the enemy's movement, and then lead us to launch an attack. Although we lost many brothers because of this, we also won a lot of victories. What I have always wondered is that the leader never leaves the camp, How do you know the enemy's movements? Taking this mission as an example, why does the leader think that the reinforcements will come, and they will definitely appear in this ghost place?"

"A leader isn't a leader if we can all guess it."

James pursed his lips, and said, "I'm not the only one who has this kind of doubt, there are many people. Yanke even thinks that the leader is a retired soldier, and a soldier."

"is it?"

"Yang Ke said it himself. If you don't believe me, just ask him."

"Isn't this a good thing?" Wick said with a faint smile, "You also said that if there is no leader, we will be finished. Anyway, we should not doubt the leader. Since the leader thinks that reinforcements will come, and will come Here, we just have to wait patiently."

James didn't say anything more, he just felt strange, not suspicious of the leader.

"Okay, just watch, I'll go down and rest."

Before Wick got up, the ground shook slightly.He was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the original energy detector in James' hand.

James felt the shock too, and stared at the primal detector.

The indicator light did not light up, but the pointer on the panel was shaking violently, indicating that the original energy fluctuation was detected, and it was still a very powerful original energy fluctuation.

(End of this chapter)