The goat said with a very ugly face,
"Then Moston Planet is most likely the home of the Growth Hunters who entered this world this time."
Fang Linyan said thoughtfully,
"Actually, this may not be a bad thing."
The goat said with some surprise,
"This is not a bad thing?"
Fang Linyan smiled slightly and said,
"You will know when the time comes."
Half an hour later, Fang Linyan asked the receptionist KD018 to send the general situation of Moston Planet through his own channels.
It was probably because this receptionist had limited authority and access to limited things. So far, all he knew was that Moston was a small planet. Because it was in the meteorite belt, it was difficult for large starships to get close.
Assuming that the volume of the moon was 1, Moston was about 1.2. According to the information sent back by the initial explorers, after initial exploration at a huge cost, the final conclusion was to give up.
Because there seemed to be some resources on it, but the environment was very bad. The difficulty of development was evaluated as 5 stars. It was a planet that would only be mined as a last resort, so there were few people for a long time.
The terrain of this damn place was complicated, and the interference from the surface of the planet was extremely serious. There were thick clouds everywhere. Since the beginning of the expedition, 11 transport planes of various types had crashed!
Moreover, more than two-thirds of the surface of the planet was hills and swamps, causing the military's tanks and other large combat units to be useless most of the time. The search and rescue work progressed slowly.
Not to mention that Moston had been operated by the Red Shuttle Pirates and Capsule Technology for many years. Not only were there many beasts on the planet, but some of them were even modified by them. Therefore, it brought great trouble to the explorers. ,
It could be seen from this limited information that the Starry Sky Consortium's encirclement and suppression of the Red Shuttle Pirates headquarters had actually begun for a while. Calculating the time, it should have started when Fang Linyan and the others arrived at the Tortuga Starport, maybe even earlier!
Therefore, it was not difficult for Fang Linyan to speculate that the main mission of those Growth Hunters was to intervene in the battle between the Starry Sky Consortium and Capsule Technology, and then profit from it. And this was exactly what Fang Linyan wanted.
***
About 2 hours later, Fang Linyan and the others suddenly received a notice that they were to prepare immediately and board the ship in 15 minutes.
So the three of them immediately gathered in an emergency. Then, under the guidance of the receptionist, they came to the dock and saw seven or eight damaged shuttles slowly landing.
Take the one closest to Fang Linyan for example, there were obvious dent marks on its body surface armor.
Not only that, but there was also a broken thruster that was emitting thick black smoke, so when it landed, the fuselage shook quite a bit. Obviously, the journey here was not smooth sailing.
At this time, the goat had already found the information about these shuttles.
They were a modified version of the Rhinoceros Beetle II. They could perform vertical takeoff and landing, hover in the air, and other complicated movements. They could also perform some difficult maneuvers to paralyze the enemy during flying battles.
The main reason for this was that there were as many as six directional thrusters. Therefore, the Type II Beetle's maximum landing area only required 60 square meters of open space.
Not only that, but the original intention of developing the Unicorn Beetle Type II was to exist as a multi-functional mobile platform.
If it was mounted to perform a transportation mission, it could carry an electromagnetic rail machine gun that followed the pilot's neck as suppressive firepower while transporting a reinforced platoon (40 people). At the same time, it could carry 4 "hellfire" missiles.
Once the enemy swarmed over, it could also unload the transport cabin within 30 minutes, install a suppressive external device, and perform the suppressive firepower mission.
In this way, it could have as many as 24 "Amazon" laser-guided sub-bombs, 6 70mm all-over incendiary bombs, and 4 "Dragonfly 2" air-to-air missiles.
The survivability of the Type II Beetle was still remarkable because it could also wear a depleted uranium alloy armor with a thickness of 17 mm.
Yes, the Type II Beetle that appeared in front of Fang Linyan and the others at this time did this. It completely gave up its combat ability and rushed out directly with 2 layers of armor.
The protection provided by this armor was very amazing. It could even resist the main cannon bombardment of most self-propelled mecha, although this would sacrifice 20% of the speed and maximum range.
Because of this, even if the Type II Beetle had been retired from the army for so many years, its production company had always been able to receive a steady stream of orders.
It was like the AK47 in the earth era. Even if it was surpassed by similar products by many generations, it was still popular because of its simplicity, durability, sturdiness, few faults, easy to repair, and low price.
After this Type II Beetle stopped, the ground crew swarmed up. They first sprayed a lot of foam to extinguish the fire, then they eliminated the safety hazards before issuing the docking command.
After the shuttle docking was completed, the hatch was opened. The first thing they saw was a few seriously injured people being carried out on stretchers.
Some of these seriously injured people had their skin scorched, exuding the smell of burnt meat; some of their hands and feet were directly broken; they were struggling and wailing on the stretchers. Several stretchers were covered with white cloth. Without guessing, Fang Linyan knew that it must be a corpse covered with white cloth …
Seeing this scene, Fang Linyan and Goat looked at each other, knowing that the battle over there was also equally fierce. Obviously, the Red Shuttle Space Pirates also had the support of capsule technology behind them.
Moreover, the Red Shuttle Space Pirates were fighting in their nest, so they would inevitably occupy the geographical advantage. Moreover, there were also Growth Hunters on both sides, so it was really not surprising that the battle ended like this.
On the contrary, Vulture's mood was very fluctuating at the beginning. He felt that their behavior was too dangerous.
But he took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled. He quickly figured it out. As the saying goes, wealth comes from danger; risk and benefit are proportional!
However, despite witnessing the tragic situation of these pioneers, the morale of the rest of the native mercenaries was still quite good.
It turned out that mercenaries were nothing more than 4 words. They worked for money, and they also had to pay taxes for the government. The rest was all up to fate.
Fang Linyan realized from the casual chat of the people next to him that the guarantee of this mission was quite good.
Because the mothership was also equipped with top military doctors and medical equipment, anyone who was sent back with injuries, as long as they were still alive, most of them could be cured.
In the oval biological healing nest on the mothership, no matter if they were missing an arm or a broken leg, they could be connected, and the specially formulated healing liquid could accelerate the healing of the wound in a short time.
Of course, the more important thing was that these treatments were all free. If it was in the outside world, it would cost a lot of money. Usually, there were no such benefits at all. Even if they cut their hands, they had to buy band-aids themselves.
After some repairs and changing the armor, Fang Linyan and others began to board the shuttle one after another.
Just as they were about to take off, a guy in camouflage suddenly rushed up while shouting. His pockets were bulging with things, and he was carrying a big bag on his back.
This person was not tall, and there was a very strange long pink scar on his face.
Vulture told Fang Linyan in the team channel that this was the scar left after using the biotechnology on the mothership for emergency treatment. The wound on this person's face at that time must be deep and long, so the scar was so obvious.
Moreover, there was an indescribable sense of valiance on him. At first glance, he was a veteran who had been tested by war.
This person was the last to board the ship. Shortly after he boarded the ship, the shuttle took off. After it stabilized and turned on autopilot, a pilot in front left the cockpit and came over to greet this person directly.
"Hey, Mill, didn't your Porcupine Combat Team directly hand in the mission and disband? Why do you still want to go to that damn place! "
Mill threw a cigarette over and sighed, "House is lost.
"House is missing. I have to go save him."
The pilot said,
"Don't blame me for being a jinx. Going missing in that damn place is almost equivalent to death. Listen to my advice and go back quickly."
Mill shook his head and said,
"That won't do, Cannon. If House didn't push me at that time, the wound on my face would be at least 10 centimeters deeper! So as long as I don't see his body, I won't give up. "
Cannon gave a thumbs up,
"Nice!"
Mill took a puff of his cigarette and said,
"What's the situation in front now?"
Cannon said gloomily,
"What else can it be? Although we took the lead in the surprise attack and destroyed the opponent's landing base, the people of Capsule Technology are not to be trifled with. "
"They immediately used the advantage of being familiar with the terrain to fight guerrilla warfare with us. At present, our casualties are rising in a straight line."
"According to the internal report I saw this morning, out of the sixty-seven reconnaissance teams that have set off so far, only thirteen of them managed to return unscathed and received additional rewards. The rest are either still trekking arduously, waiting to be rescued, or have already … been completely wiped out."
Mill glanced at the rest of the people in the cabin and smiled,
"Hey, don't scare these rookies, the situation is not that serious."
"Due to the discovery of a rare Pandora mine on planet Moston, the previous strategic objective has changed. From wiping out the galactic pirates, it has become the construction of 20 permanent military bases."
"In such a way, we will be able to eliminate the space pirates on the planet and the wretched local creatures step by step. When peace is restored, the five to ten military bases will be transformed into mining towns as soon as possible so that they can quickly conduct in-depth exploration of the surrounding geology."
"These rookies are all logistics personnel, shouldering the task of constructing military bases. They won't participate in the war, what's there to be afraid of?"
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