On the endless wasteland, not to mention living people, there is not even a ghost shadow.
"Thousand Beast Wasteland" is the name adopted by the later colonizers. In fact, there are no beasts here at all. To be precise, there are no beasts alive. During the First Greenwich War, Feng Martian was occupied by the Silicon Magic Alliance and was also transformed. At that time, this was a barracks of the Silicon Magic Army and a domestication ground for Silicon Beasts. Throughout the war, the Silicon Magic Alliance cultivated and trained countless silicon beasts here. After the war, Feng Martian was abandoned due to severe environmental damage. Although most of the silicon beasts were wiped out by the Galactic Alliance forces during the war, a few survived and gathered here. After the human army occupied Feng Martian, it took decades to clean up the silicon beasts here. It was at this time that there was the unreliable name of "Thousand Beast Wasteland".
To the residents on Mars like Wick, the Thousand Beast Wasteland is no stranger.
The village where Wick lives is hundreds of kilometers away, and most of the residents on Beacon Mars live nearby, because the products of the Wild Animal Wasteland are the main source of life for almost all residents. For people like Wick, the most important thing in daily life is to "treasure hunt" in the Wasteland of Ten Thousand Beasts. Although most of the time I go back empty-handed, as long as I find the same treasure, even if I can't make a fortune because of it, it will make the whole family worry-free in the next few months or even years. In fact, those merchants who came to Feng Martian were to purchase the properties of the Wasteland of Ten Thousand Beasts, that is, the carcasses of Silicon Beasts, or other useful things, such as the life crystallization of high-level Silicon Beasts.
There are indeed many corpses of silicon beasts, but not many corpses of high-level silicon beasts. Life crystallization is even rarer.
The corpses of ordinary silicon beasts are not worth a few dollars, and even the corpses of high-level silicon beasts are of little value, and can only be used for collection at most. What is really valuable is the crystallization of life, but the Silicon Charm Alliance has occupied Feng Martian for a short time, and the transformation of Feng Martian is not complete, and no high-level silicon beasts have been cultivated here during the period. The corpses and life crystallizations of the high-level silicon beasts found here are mostly the vehicles of warlords or generals who died here during the war. A few of the ordinary silicon beasts that have survived have evolved naturally after surviving for thousands of years. Although the Thousand Beast Wasteland is vast, as far as Wick knows, fewer than ten crystals of life have been found here in the past thousand years.
Of course, Wick and the others are here now, not to find the life crystallization of advanced silicon beasts.
The war has been going on for several months, with casualties every day. Three days ago, the leader arranged a task for Wick, asking him to take a small team to the Thousand Beast Wasteland, where they lurked, and told him to take the reinforcements to the camp of the resistance organization immediately after encountering reinforcements.
This is the first time in several months that the leader 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 discovered. Not to mention reinforcements, I didn't even see a ghost shadow.
In fact, the Silicon Magic army did not go out frequently after occupying Feng Martian, or to be precise, destroying the villages and towns of the aborigines. Most of the time, the enemy hides in four large military bases on four continents. Even if patrols are sent occasionally to search for and attack hidden residents, they will not stay away 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 can survive. If the enemies occupying the beacon Mars frequently attacked, Wick and the others would not be able to hold on for so long. Among other things, the environment of Beacon Mars is so harsh that even the strongest people cannot be active in the wild for a long time. If you go out, you must wear protective equipment and also need to bring an air purification device. In other words, each time you go out must be controlled before the air purification device consumes photovoltaic energy, that is, you must return to the camp before then. If it is encircled by the Silicon Magic army, it will not be able to stay in the camp for a long time, and there will not be enough time to charge the air purification device. Directly exposed to the poisonous air of Feng Martian, normal people will be poisoned and paralyzed within five minutes, and lose their lives within ten minutes.
Wick couldn't understand why the leader was so sure that reinforcements would come and would appear on the Wasteland of Ten Thousand Beasts.
You know, in the past few months, the Silicon Magic army rarely came to this ghost place. The reason is also very simple. The Thousand Beast Wasteland is the worst place on Mars. In addition to more toxic materials in the air, unexplainable natural disasters often occur here.
According to the legend that has been circulated for thousands of years, these unexplained natural disasters are all made by a silicon beast that has survived for thousands of years and has been hiding under the wasteland of beasts. The toxic materials in the atmosphere of the beacon come from this silicon The beast, and the beacon Mars will eventually be swallowed by this silicon beast.
Of course, this is just a legend.
Although Wick has never been to the Ten Thousand Beast Wasteland, and I don't know if there is a huge silicon beast under it, no one has ever encountered a living silicon beast in the past hundreds of years. Besides, if there is a silicon beast under the Thousand Beast Wasteland, and it is big enough to pollute the atmosphere of Feng Martian through breathing, it may not only bring unexplainable natural disasters, it must have caused Feng Martian to collapse long ago.
Because no one would hide in the Thousand Beast Wasteland, the enemy who occupied Feng Martian did not send an army.
Of course, three days is not too long.
According to the leader's orders, Wick and the others have 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 them both brought two sets of air purification devices.
When fully charged, an air purification device can be used for seven days for one person. 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 think he would run into trouble on the return journey.
In fact, the Silicon Charm army just occupied Feng Martian and did nothing else.
This is also understandable. Although the beacon Mars has extremely important value on the route across the Greenwich Meteorite Belt, the entire Greenwich Line of Defense has been lost. The human legion retreats to the Garden Galaxy, and the other civilizations of the Galactic Alliance have not yet made a decision to participate in the war. . In other words, the invading Silicon Magic army will not encounter real enemies in the short term, and this strategic route is not so important.
Besides, when the Human Army launches a counterattack, I am afraid that the Silicon Magic Alliance will not need this route.
Of course, Wick didn't think so much. He is only performing the task assigned by the leader, and all he has to do is to wait a few more days in this ghost place.
If reinforcements arrive, naturally it would be better.
Even if the reinforcements do not arrive, the battle has to go on and life has to go on. Wick knows very well that it is the leader who keeps them going, not the reinforcements.
In fact, no one expects the federal authorities to send reinforcements.
Quite simply, Mars is a barren land, and it is far from home galaxies. When the homeland galaxy is under attack and almost all colonial galaxies have fallen, the federal authorities first consider defending the homeland galaxy, and secondly, retake the occupied colonial galaxies, especially those valuable colonial galaxies. Only after this, will we consider colonizing planets like Feng Mars that are not of much value. If the situation is bad, even after launching a strategic counterattack, the Human Federation may not immediately send troops to regain the Mars. If, like the last Greenwich War, the human confederation had to take 50 years to turn the tide of war, there would be nothing to count on.
Hearing the noise behind him, Wick looked back.
It was James who crawled towards him. One of his men came from another village, but the two had known each other a long time ago, and they met here. It was a few years ago, and Wick is still fresh in his memory. The two found a silicon beast body at the same time, and they had a fight for it. As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other. Since then, the two of them often went on expeditions to the Thousand Beast Wasteland together. Not only did they become friends, but they also had life acquaintances.
"Have you found it?"
Wick shook his head and handed James the Atomic Energy Detector.
This was given to them by the leader. According to the leader, the reinforcements are very powerful, and there are many soldiers who will directly appear on the wasteland of beasts. It can't be found in normal way, only the original energy detector can be used, that is, through the fluctuation of the original energy to find those soldiers whose whereabouts are hidden.
"You said, are we wasting time?"
Wick glanced at James and said, "Why, do you think the leader is lying to us?"
"No, of course not." James grinned reluctantly, and said, "Just, do you know the leader? I asked someone, no one knew the origin of the leader. That's right, if there was no leader, we would be dead. The question is, don’t you think it’s weird?"
"What's so strange?"
"Every time, the leader can accurately determine the enemy's movement, and then lead us to launch an attack. Although we have lost many brothers, we have also won many victories. What I have always wondered is that the leader never left the camp. How do you know the enemy's movements? Take this mission as an example, why does the leader think that reinforcements will come and they will definitely appear in this ghost place?"
"If we can all guess, the leader is not the leader."
James narrowed his mouth and said, "It's not just me who has this kind of suspicion. There are also many people. Yanke even thinks that the leader is a retired soldier and a soldier."
"Yes?"
"Yan Ke said this by himself. If you don't believe it, ask him."
"Isn't this a good thing?" Wick said with a faint smile, "You also said that if there were no leaders, we would be over. Anyway, we should not doubt the leaders. Since the leaders think reinforcements will come and will come. Here, we just have to wait patiently."
James didn't say much, he just felt strange, not doubting the leader.
"Okay, you stare, I'll go down and rest."
Before Wick got up, the ground shook slightly. He was taken aback for a moment, and then looked at the original energy detector in James's hand.
James also felt the vibration and stared at the original energy detector.
The indicator light is not lit, but the pointer on the panel is shaking violently, indicating that the original energy fluctuation is detected, which is still a very strong original energy fluctuation.