The tired team was walking on the Biki Plateau in the early morning. Before and behind them, there were light yellow barnyard grasses, black gravel seas, dry riverbeds, and occasionally the bones of dead beasts.
As judged by Dongfang Yu, the index mark of the radiation detector is indeed high, but it does not exceed the level that the human body can bear. This is a very lucky thing, and the other is because of the existence of these radiations. Neither the Federation nor the Empire has sent ground troops to this wasteland. As for whether there are engineering mechas excavating in the depths of the plateau, it is something they cannot understand now.
For people, the real danger now is the blazing sun, the heat of the human body that pushes out of the water shortly after early morning, and the unfamiliar sky without a cloud. The bright light cast by the blue dome sprinkled down like a curtain of water, bounced off the black gravel ground, and distorted slightly in the near-ground area, giving the picture in the distance ahead a layer of unreality.
Xiong Linquan stretched out his hand to wipe off the salt line from his lower jaw, panted and looked at a shallow mine tunnel several hundred meters in front of him, and ordered in a hoarse voice: "All enter."
In order to slow down the speed of the federal military satellites finding traces as much as possible, and also to prevent attacks from the air, their team has been choosing to go out at night after entering the plateau. of the mine.
Although the radiation index in the mine is higher, it can still be supported, and they must take this kind of risk, otherwise the entire team will have to confess to this barren plateau if a federal fighter plane comes.
This abandoned mine has obviously not been in use for a long time. The alloy support members in the tunnel still shine after wiping off the floating ash on the surface. Xu Le squinted at the smooth metal surface under his fingers, thoughtfully. .
After a moment of silence, he looked back at the exhausted team members and said, "Everyone will hold on for two more days. As long as we reach the Golan Heights, a boat will come 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 they negotiated a plan to withdraw from Mohuaxing, so he was more confident.
"You have to make sure it's not an imperial ship." Dongfang Yu said hoarsely, staring at his face.
"I promise it's definitely not an imperial ship." Xu Le replied.
Gu Xifeng was infusing Da Vinci, and suddenly turned around and asked curiously, "Boss, was it the one who was so arrogant back then and held the middle finger above the Capital Special Administrative Region?"
"Yes."
Xu Le replied with a smile, and then threw the marching rucksack on him to Paul. He sat down next to the Dongfangyu stretcher and looked at him silently, without speaking 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 Dongfangyu's face and said, "This plateau, radiation, and these apparently new mines, Dongfang, you Is there something else to say?"
Dongfang Yu was silent for a long time, then coughed twice in pain, shook his head and said: "I don't know much, I only know that there should be a strange vein under the shallow graphite mine on the plateau, and the ore produced there. I've never seen them, or even heard of them, except that they have very strong harmful radiation."
I don't know if he recalled some very unpleasant scenes, he raised his eyebrows forcefully, and said in a hoarse voice: "More than two years ago, NTR was responsible for escorting the engineering mechs into this plateau. Since it was a top-secret mission, you all I don’t know, in fact, the team I led back then took adequate radiation protection measures, but afterward, two team members suffered from severe radiation sickness, and I heard that they died shortly after boarding the battleship.”
"So much radiation? What is that?"
The team members turned their heads to look at Xu Le in shock. They used to look for answers directly from him when they encountered this kind of question.
"There are many natural radiation elements in the universe, but it is relatively rare to form ore veins. But in my opinion, the key point of the question is why the Federation is mining such ore veins, and what is their purpose?"
"I don't know, everyone who can come back from the ground alive has signed non-disclosure agreements, and I think I'm lucky enough to not want to ask these questions."
Dongfang Yu frowned and replied, "But one thing I can remind you of is that this task is an order issued directly by the Ministry of Defense, without even going 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 and act on Planet Mohua."
Xu Le shook his head and said, "But now that you know about this, don't Du Shaoqing have any doubts about it? Others dare not ask Li Zaidao, he certainly dares."
"I said that I signed a confidentiality agreement, and I am no longer the direct subordinate of the teacher. According to the teacher's teaching, it is impossible for me to make a leapfrog report to him."
Xiong Linquan threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and said sarcastically, "What kind of people can bring out what kind of soldiers, I don't know if Du Shaoqing will regret teaching you too rigidly."
The discussion about the strange radiation veins under the Biki Plateau did not go any further. For this escape team, their most important and only mission now is to survive and then board the ship that came to pick them up. .
The upper echelons of the federal military, more precisely General Li Zaidao ordered the mining of that kind of ore, what kind of consideration did they take? It's not something 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, there is nothing they can do. In this tired and broken state, go deep into the plateau.
"A new alternative energy source or what?"
Xu Le walked to the end of the deep mine road and looked at the slightly wet rock wall. Some doubts had just arisen in his heart and he was overthrown by himself. According to the radiation intensity described by Dongfang Jade, he wanted to turn this ore into stable and reliable energy. source, very difficult.
Sitting down beside the stretcher, he looked at Da Vinci, who was still in a semi-conscious state, and felt his increasingly long and steady breathing, his eyes could not help narrowing, why in this low-level radiation environment, Did not feel any discomfort, or even felt a little comfortable
It's hard to describe the feeling, the faint invisible radiation in the rock wall, like layers of warm water waves, enveloped his body, making every cell excited from the inside out.
After a moment of silence, he gently held Da Vinci's wrist, adjusted his breathing longer and gentler, and slowly released the magical scorching power that diffused from somewhere behind his waist. transmission within the body.
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.