Chapter 423: Pursuit Decision

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Got it!

But he was also politely "invited" out.

Regardless of whether the greenhouse's central control core was broken because of Bai'e, this unexpected visitor meant something ominous.

Satisfied, Bai'e walked through the somewhat bleak military camp and returned to the tent where his team was.

As soon as I returned to the barracks, I heard a slightly teasing and frivolous voice, "Bai'er and other outsiders are not allowed to enter."

Looking towards the voice, I only saw Rose's smiling face with obvious teasing meaning.

"I just went to take a look..." Bai'er said seriously, changing the subject, "Why did I see so few people in the barracks on the way back? What did they do?"

"The last big exercise." You, who was hiding in the corner, suddenly explained.

She was responsible for all matters of the handover between the team and the army, and was sensitive enough to the slightest movement in the barracks.

"Ah?" Shitou looked up with a confused look on his face and made a puzzled sound.

"The military is preparing to launch the final battle with the Black Rock Hive, so the training of all soldiers in the barracks is even more than before. The nearby threat points have basically been cleared, and the army, which is now divided into several teams, is clearing the opponent's "tentacles" everywhere around the hive."

With the recent multiple attacks on the Zerg, the military has enough knowledge of several new types of Zerg.

The cleanup of the hive is imperative, and the military's enthusiasm has never been as high as it is now.

"So we don't have much time left for free activities. When we accepted the mission just now, the commander said that we would have to return to our respective combat organizations in seven days at most."

The Bai'e team is indeed a special team, but Bai'e and Rose are also the chief pilots of the mecha company because of their special nature. This is the highest priority organization in the military camp.

The special team without the captain and the main combat force is in name only. On the front battlefield, it can only cooperate with other special teams.

"Hmm..." Bai'e frowned slightly.

The prelude to the counterattack was not known until this time, but it was not until now that there was a definite time limit.

'Seven days? '

It's enough.

Go to "Dawn Town" again, enough for me to build all the basic things for them.

I just hope that during my trip, the natives will work hard enough to restore some of the key functional buildings in the town, so that when I return, I can immediately start to build a modern food industrial production system.

A tiny voice sounded in the quiet tent.

"I don't know if it will work this time." Shitou sat on his bed, sounding like he was muttering to himself.

This is not only his thinking, but also the thinking of the five members of the team and even everyone in the barracks.

It is not surprising that the military has made plans for a decisive battle. The information in this era is not transparent. There is no war that is sure to win. You can only prepare with all your strength and then fight.

But no one knows whether you can win.

Even if you win, the Black Rock Hive is only the closest hive to the city, not all the Zerg in the world.

And the Black Rock Hive is not even the largest of the known hives.

Winning the battle in front of you does not mean that the world will be peaceful from now on, and humans will be safe from now on.

Now Bai'er, who has higher expectations for himself, is not only concerned about the present.

But the present should never be easily ignored.

"Do your best." Bai Er sighed softly, and his firm voice drove away the confusion for his teammates.

Individual strength always seems insignificant on a large battlefield, and in the final analysis, you can only do your best.

In the period when almost everyone in the military camp was carrying combat missions, the departure of a small special forces team did not cause any waves.

The team that simply returned to the camp to take a walk and then took a mission and then hurried away rushed to the wilderness ruins that were being developed.

The small task that was taken on was... cleaning up the intelligent mining vehicles.

The mining area is a resource that is difficult to regenerate in this world and that all forces need to compete for.

But from a racial perspective, the insects and orcs have no interest in the mining area, and only the intelligent machines and humans have direct conflicts in this regard.

Everyone takes turns to collect in a mining area, and is basically in a cycle of clearing mining points and stealing mining.

Especially now that most of the human power is concentrated on this general offensive against the Zerg, the armed forces in the mining area are seriously insufficient, and the mining team sent letters of help back to the military camp one after another.

The military region does not expect that a special team of only five or six people can directly clean up the large mining sites of the intelligent machines, but the intelligent machines have a mine car team specifically responsible for stealing minerals, which is the goal of the Bai'e team.

The mineral vein is located in the north of the city. A huge mountain range stretches endlessly, isolating the Arctic cold wind blowing from the north.

There are countless mineral resources under the entire mountain range, and even the mountain range has been permanently changed in shape during years of development.

The high ridges and the dark abyss are sometimes only separated by a line, and some areas in the mountains are like a large area of ​​neat gully lines combed out by someone.

It is by no means an easy task to find those thieves who steal minerals in such a complex terrain, but even if it is a task that is taken casually, there must be a result.

…

The off-road vehicle is shaking on the gray ground. Bai'e sits by the window, looking at the direction far away, a little absent-minded.

"What are you looking at?" Rose glimpsed from the rearview mirror in the car and asked curiously.

"Over there." Bai'e raised his chin, "That's where we met Nova and the others."

That's right, the road from Blackwater City to the mine is actually not far from the target point of the last mission: the signal base station or the intelligent fortress.

Both are in the north of the city, but the intelligent fortress is slightly west.

The close distance on the map is so close that it is difficult to reach even with sight in reality.

Although Bai'e looked in that direction, he couldn't see the familiar base station.

In that base station, he also left the highest authority for himself and Rose.

After they completed the mission last time, they didn't know whether the military sent troops to occupy there...or was it taken back by the intelligent machines?

The thought flashed through his mind, Bai'e raised his eyebrows, and suddenly said, "Go and have a look."

The direction turned sharply, and the off-road vehicle turned lightly.

Rose obeyed Bai'e's instructions unconditionally at the first time, and then asked, "What? Do you have an idea?"

At the beginning of the trip, they discussed how to complete the "small task" they took on this time, but according to the experience of their predecessors, they could only take their chances.

There must be a team of ore-stealing people, and those omnics are more stubborn than anyone else.

But whether you can run into them, when you can run into them, and the specific size of the team you run into, all depends on luck.

If they really come here just for the mission, then they can just try their luck wandering around in the mountains.

But they come out to do the mission just as a cover, and going to Dawn Town to develop their own business is the real business.

Miscellaneous matters other than the real business, naturally take up as little time as possible.

Bai'e now makes unexpected moves, and he must have some ideas of his own.

"Hmm..." Bai'e squinted his eyes and nodded.

A dangerous idea was brewing in his heart, and it was getting bigger and bigger.

Since we are going to do it, why not do it on a larger scale.

We are already going to cause trouble for the omnics, why just cause trouble for a ore-stealing car wandering in the wild?

Do you remember what you have that you want to get from the omnics?

Computing power resources!

After acquiring the virtual world, the virtual world's ability to replenish magic in battle is indeed strong, but at the same time... the virtual world's demand for computing power resources is also rigid.

Especially after the last battle with the orc war boss, Bai E felt more of the suction emanating from his soul... or the depths of his sea of ​​consciousness, the core of the psychic storage space.

That suction is gradually increasing. If he can no longer meet the other party's needs, Bai E doesn't know what the consequences will be.

Will it start to absorb his psychic energy or even his soul? Or will it completely break away from him, even if it is torn apart and both sides suffer?

I don't know, Bai E doesn't really want to wait until that day.

At the same time, it is impossible for him to live in the barren place of the server cluster ruins, so for those crystal cube-like "computing power resources" that can only be stably produced by intelligent machines, he must get them.

Where there are computing resources, there must be omnic structures stationed. When the time comes, just take some pictures of the battle with the omnics and some spoils back to report, and the mission will be completed, killing two birds with one stone.

So if the last base station is occupied by the omnics again, then take it down again.

Even if those omnics don't occupy it again, they can use that independent signal base station to make their virtual world full and relieve the embarrassment of being "hungry" for a long time.

After the off-road vehicle turned around, it took more than two hours to drive and the familiar outer wall of the base station could be seen from a distance.

At that time, they left in a hurry and did not destroy the basic buildings of the omnics. Now they come back, the bunker is still there.

The car stopped next to a rock pillar nearby. Rose climbed up easily, raised the telescope hanging on her chest and looked at the bunker, "It seems that there is no trace of the omnics... nor any trace of people."

No one?

"No!"

There are people... or traces of activity.

Traces of tracked vehicles, fresh.

Bai'er's pupils shrank and then expanded again, and he turned and jumped off the several-meter-high rock pillar.

"Let's go, take it back directly."

The military seemed to have no spare energy to send a large number of guards here. The traces of those tracked vehicles were exactly the same as the intelligent transport vehicles they killed last time, which meant that this base station had fallen into the hands of intelligent machines again.

But probably because they suffered a big loss last time, the first generation of omnics is obviously an extremely precious existence in the omnic tribe. This time, the omnic guards of the omnic fortress are quite weak, and they all retreated.

Playing a tug-of-war with humans is a bet that humans will catch fire everywhere and not have enough manpower.

This is a traditional art that can be said to be agreed upon between omnics and humans.

The Bai'e team, which intends to take back the base station again, is advancing fiercely.

Last time, the opponent had the first generation of omnics in charge, and even the defense force was extremely strong, and there were even traitors who wanted to eat them with them.

Now that the opponent's strength has been greatly reduced, their own strength has not decreased but increased. It can be said that taking down the fortress with only a small number of new generation omnics is as easy as taking something out of a bag.

Even without taking a car, Bai'e rushed into the fortress alone with a war insect knife, facing the omnic artillery that discovered the enemy.

Infinite psychic energy and the basic attributes that have just been suddenly improved make Bai'e like a real god of war.

When the off-road vehicle rushed to the front closely behind Bai'e, it only found that several sparks of explosion had risen above the bunker.

The highest authority was still there, and even the intelligent machines could not break the technical barriers of the golden age from the bottom.

Recognizing that it was Bai'e who came, the door of the base station opened automatically.

The room... was empty.

Only a few blank crystal blocks were quietly superimposed in the corner.

The fresh track marks seen before entering the fortress flashed before his eyes, and the scene of the transport convoy carrying the finished computing resources flashed before Bai'e's eyes as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"I'm a step late..."

The finished products have been transported away, and there is no point in asking for those blank crystal blocks.

"How is it?" Rose rushed into the base station first and came behind Bai'e.

Bai'e narrowed his eyes, and a dangerous light flashed in his pupils.

The target of the intelligent transport vehicle must be the intelligent base guessed last time.

There is a first-generation intelligent machine guarding a signal base station in the wild. Would there not be one or two first-generation intelligent machines in their hometown?

But if it is an intelligent machine base... there should be more computing power resources, right?

Bai'e doesn't want to bother these iron lumps for no reason. If they don't find it annoying, he will find it annoying.

Moreover, he is not absolutely free in the city. If he doesn't store enough supplies, what should he do when the virtual world is really "hungry" to the extreme?

Either don't do it, or do it big!

Of course, the almost unlimited burst of psychic energy now is his biggest source of confidence.

Bai'e made a decision, "Let everyone rest for a while, and then we will chase!"