The convoy left the base and passed through the golden forest. Everyone got off the vehicles and equipped themselves with individual weapons. They carried light work equipment and entered the long-awaited light battleships. They charged into the clear sky and glided toward the dark red sunset in the distance. They landed in a remote corner of the Rocky Mountain Range.
Throughout the entire process, Team Seven was silent.
The lone military vehicle that entered the base and the black coffin on the vehicle seemed to be still in the eyes of all the members. Their minds were heavy and cold.
The high temperature and terrifying destructive power of modern warfare made it difficult for the brave soldiers to keep their dignity intact after death. Most of the soldiers' bodies would not be brought back to the main planet of the West Woods or the capital ring. Instead, they would be buried on these remote planets.
This was the usual practice of the Federal military. From the marshal to the ordinary soldiers, all the people of the Federation firmly believed that the place where they finally fell and died was the land of the Federation.
After leaving the light battleship, the hundred or so people rested for a while. Then, they began to follow the mission details they had just received. Under the cover of the twilight, they walked toward a deep valley in the Rocky Mountain Range. A slightly strange atmosphere still shrouded the silent Team Seven. Along the way, only the sound of military boots stepping on fallen leaves and the soft chirping of birds and insects could be heard.
Xi Peng carried the heavy workbench and followed the team with difficulty. His gaze passed through the transparent infantry helmet and fell on Xu Le's back. After staying on the frontlines for so many days, he could already erase the cold arrogance and tyrannical attitude of the Speaker's son. However, he still kept a lot of it in his bones. But for some reason, when he looked at Xu Le now, it was very difficult to summon the hatred that could spontaneously arise at any time.
There was indeed nothing to hate. In these days of missions and battles, Xu Le had kept his promise and always stood in the most dangerous place. Thinking of the black coffin ceremony he saw on the road, Xi Peng's expression became slightly solemn. The troops had a probing attack last night, and hundreds of comrades had died. Compared to the field troops, Team Seven, who had not lost a single person until today … was really very relaxed and lucky.
Because of the military vehicle and the black coffin, there were many new recruits who felt emotional and inferior like Xi Peng. That was why the team in the valley was so silent and calm.
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Xu Le turned his head to look at his teammates at the woodlands. He noticed that many of them were breathing heavily, but their expressions were more relaxed. He couldn't help but feel a little more relaxed.
After going through ten days of brutal training in the West Woods military camp, these guys also knew that they had taken the initiative to train more in the past two months. Their military qualities had improved a lot. These young men who were still young soldiers two months ago could now carry the technical components of the Bureau of Proclamation that weighed dozens of kilograms and march for one and a half hours on foot. This kind of progress not only won the silent praise of the veterans, but would also become a beautiful memory in their own lives in the future.
The temporary resting area was a gentle slope with trees covering the top. The sunset on the horizon had long been blocked by the mountains, and the world was filled with a slightly gloomy atmosphere.
Xu Le knew why such a remote place would become one of the areas selected by the Bureau of Proclamation to reconstruct the surveillance network. No matter whether it was in terms of geography or the military arrangements between the Federation and the Empire, this should be a forgotten area. The only exception was the simple and ancient road by the woodlands that seemed to explain some problems.
"Curly Hair just gave us the details of the mission at the top level." Gu Xifeng walked over and picked up the mini electronic booklet. "284. 822.13 square kilometers of the axis to lay a network over a 7.3 square kilometer area. It's a type-3 composite surveillance network. It won't be difficult to install it, but the key is that there are a few spots that might need to be installed on the rock walls."
"Just treat it as a vacation." Lan Xiaolong held a cigarette in his mouth and shrugged. "In this kind of place where birds don't shit, even if we go rock climbing naked, the Empire's patrolling soldiers probably won't see us."
No one paid him any attention. Bai Yulan took the electronic booklet from Gu Xifeng's hands.
A second ago, Xi Peng had quickly turned on the workbench and then obediently retreated to the woodlands in the distance. Only Xu Le, Bai Yulan, and a few others were qualified to access the specific mission details of the Bureau of Proclamation's seven groups of soldiers. He wasn't included.
The electronic booklet was connected to the workbench. Xu Le and the others huddled together and looked at the display on the screen. They couldn't help but furrow their brows. It wasn't because the mission today was too heavy or because they had to take risks behind enemy lines. On the contrary, it was because the mission this time was so simple and easy that it didn't seem to require all seven groups to be mobilized.
Xu Le narrowed his eyes and looked at the flashing dots on the screen. His finger tapped lightly to enlarge the field of view of the map. At the same time, he silently moved the fixed areas of the previous missions that he had stored in his mind through the back door. He gradually outlined a more complete map.
It was indeed the back door.
After every mission, the officials of the Bureau of Proclamation would destroy all the records left on the workbench of seven groups. The complicated data couldn't be remembered through the human brain … Xu Le went through the back door through the old man. He used the first-sequence authority that he didn't even understand to ask the central computer in the distant capital ring to send the data back through the back door of the chip behind his neck.
"Just now, they said that the general attack should be within a week … I think it will be earlier than we thought."
He pursed his dry lips and forced a smile as he voiced his judgment. In fact, the Federal Army had already gained an overall advantage on planet 5460. On planet 163, they had also begun to take the initiative. However, it was said that on planet 3320, the troops of both sides were still fighting fiercely.
"It's been more than two months. There are many teams like seven groups on this planet. I've calculated carefully. At least seventy percent of the surface area has been successfully rebuilt. But why hasn't the Charter been used in the recent military operations?" Lan Xiaolong said with a frown.
Xu Le glanced at the officials of the Bureau of Proclamation who were smoking silently by the rock in the distance and said, "If the electronic surveillance network is used in a small scale battle, the people of the Imperium will monitor it. As long as the location of the equipment we buried is confirmed, they will destroy it at all costs. The idea of the Ministry of Defense and the Bureau of Proclamation is very simple. They will slowly arrange the net neatly and fully activate it during the general attack … "
He smiled, held the cigarette in his mouth, and ignited the windproof lighter with a snap. There was a slight light in the dark mountain forest.
"When the time comes, the Bureau of Proclamation will say, 'Let there be light.' Then this planet will have light, and the evil ghosts of the Imperium will die when they see the light."
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In the last twilight, in the beginning of the night, between the slightly bald cliffs on both sides of an old road, the faint sound of drilling machines could be heard from time to time. Rocks were drilled away, soil was turned over, and trees were cut down. In the distance and near, if one looked carefully with the naked eye, one could see many Federation soldiers in colorful military uniforms silently but quickly. They were installing the electronic equipment of the Bureau of Proclamation, which was originally as strange as a monster but was now as familiar as a first love, into this seven square kilometer area.
The infantry suits on them had an automatic cooling camouflage effect. They could effectively hide from the Imperial expeditionary force's high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft that rarely escaped Federation's destruction. The team members were divided into many groups. They meticulously carried out the installation work in the cliffs, valleys, and forests according to the complicated and even tedious requirements of the Bureau of Proclamation.
At the outermost edge of the mission operation area, Xiong Linquan and a few other veterans were leading Yan Bingyan and the others. They vigilantly watched the movements in the distance. At the same time, they continuously sent out folding signal interference through the equipment to block the signal that might overflow later.
Xu Le sat under a large rock. With his sharp eyesight, he observed the image of the team members working furthest away. His fingers occasionally lit up the dense steel windproof lighter in his hand.
In the legends of the military camp, many veterans had their heads blown off by the Imperium's snipers because they lit up cigarettes at night. However, the Federation soldiers, including him, did not seem to believe in this legend. This was because this was a war that started within the Federation. The Federation had the absolute advantage in this war. All the mission operation areas were filtered countless times by high-altitude satellites to eliminate most of the dangers.
"Done. Prepare to debug." Gu Xifeng's calm voice sounded in his earpiece. At the same time, the curly-haired Bureau of Proclamation official not far away turned on his mini workstation.
Today's mission was completed very easily. Xu Le patted his butt and stood up. He looked at the team members who were busy with debugging and physical concealment work. He took a deep breath and realized that it was already midnight.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered that Year 68 of the Constitutional calendar had already ended a few days ago. Right now, he was standing in the spring of Year 69 of the Constitutional calendar, in a place incomparably far away from his hometown.
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When the troops returned to the safe zone transit base in the light battleship, Xu Le had just started to feel a faint sense of homesickness when he was successfully turned into silence by an email from his second hometown, S1.
This was an email that the Internal Affairs Department of the Federation of Defense had specially forwarded to him. The email said in a serious tone that two exceptionally fierce and powerful experts had snuck into the West Woods in the Hundred Mu Star Region. After a serious investigation, the Bureau of Investigation of the Federation determined that the target of these two experts was most likely him.
Experts were naturally experts in killing people.
Xu Le silently finished reading the email and then destroyed it. The powerful departments of the government were currently investigating this matter, but he knew very well that the people in the Federation who wanted to kill him and dared to kill him definitely had a way to help the two experts find a way to exist in the Federation. Although the only loopholes in The Glory Of The Charter were the uncle and himself to this day, those who lived in Bermuda did not necessarily have no chips behind their necks.
Someone wanted to assassinate him, but Xu Le did not have a trace of fear in his heart.
During the war, it was impossible for the two supposedly very powerful killers to enter the military camp and come to his side. The strength of the military and the professionalism of the Bureau of Investigation of the Federation were his safety barrier. Group 7 was a group of experts who were used to killing and arson. With a delicate man like Bai Yulan and a dozen or so men by his side, even the most powerful killers would pale in comparison.
Most importantly, Xu Le had to admit without humility that it was very difficult to kill someone like him.
But when he thought about how he had risked his life for the Federation on the frontlines, and how there were still some big shots behind the scenes who wanted to kill him, this feeling did not make him sad, but angry.
What made him angrier was what happened next.
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