One Thousand Five Hundred and Ninety-Seven Withering 0

The more Ye Han thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. This was clearly the hinterland of the country, but he had to worry about alien ambushes all the time. What the hell was going on?

The convoy drove out of the desert and into the Gobi Desert. The convoy quickly completed more than a hundred kilometers of travel, and a dilapidated road appeared on the horizon ahead.

At this time, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. A waning moon hung in the sky. The dim moonlight shone brightly in the night vision device, as if half of the sun was missing, illuminating the earth.

Finally reaching the highway, Ye Han's heart became even more uneasy. He always felt that the swarm of insects had opened their pockets in front of them, waiting for the convoy to drill in.

Not long after, the convoy drove onto the highway. The condition of the highway was worse than expected. No one had maintained it for many years, and only a few rusty pillars were left on the guardrails on both sides of the highway; the wind, rain and ice had already collapsed and cracked the originally flat road surface, and the weeds in the cracks were more than half a person tall.

Ye Han couldn't help but think of the situation when he escaped from Jingjiang. If it was in the prosperous eastern region, this road would be blocked by countless broken vehicles, making it difficult to move on this road.

Fortunately, this place is located in the northwest, which is famous for its vast land and sparse population. You may enter a vast and desolate uninhabited area at any point. Even before the insect plague, there were not many vehicles on this road. Expecting a traffic jam on this road? There is no way in the next life.

Ye Han's thoughts were scattered in his mind, but he didn't expect a bright beam of light to suddenly fall from the sky, landing not far in front of the right.

Ye Han almost jumped up: "Bridge, what's the situation?"

"Report, a swarm of insects was found 17 kilometers ahead!"

Ye Han was like a hammer on the head: "What you fear is really what you get, how many insects?"

"Less than 40, confirmed to be eliminated."

"How many?" Ye Han almost couldn't believe his ears.

The swarm of insects has always won by numbers. If they don't move, it's fine. Once they move, they are overwhelming. Why did they change their nature today?

"Thirty-four!"

"So few?" Ye Han was extremely surprised, and suddenly thought of a more important question, "Where did all these bugs come from?"

"In all directions, half an hour ago, the satellite found something wrong, and many bugs ran in one direction. As soon as they arrived, I killed them. There should be no escape."

"So that's how it is... I know, notify me immediately if there is any situation!"

"Understood!"

After the communication ended, Ye Han quietly breathed a sigh of relief. He had a hunch that this was just the beginning.

The actual situation was similar to what Ye Han expected. In the next few hours, Ningwuguan successively discovered several groups of giant bugs, but the scale of each group was not large, and they were all solved by the warships in advance. No group of giant bugs successfully ambushed the convoy.

Perhaps the aliens knew that they could not do anything to the convoy. After several consecutive failures, they finally gave up the attack and hid the few remaining swarms of bugs, and no longer rushed into the fire.

This matter made Ye Han regret for a while.

He was indeed worried about the attack of the swarm, but that was referring to large-scale swarms, or small-scale capture worms. If it was ordinary giant worms, a hundred or eighty would not be enough to fill the gap, not to mention that each wave only had thirty or fifty.

Ye Han also figured it out. It was not that the aliens did not want to send more worms, but that the natural environment here was too harsh. Not only was it a forbidden area for humans, but the worms also did not like it. So although the aliens sent worms here, the number was not very good. It was not a big problem to spy on intelligence, but they could not even think about launching a large-scale attack.

The aliens had a high IQ. If it were not for the objective conditions, how could they use such a stupid refueling tactic to deal with the convoy? Rushing in a swarm and burying the convoy with a bunch of worms was the style of the aliens!

It was enough to think about it. How much organic matter would be consumed to create so many worms? Did the aliens want to turn all the animals and plants on Earth into worms to be happy?

The convoy continued to move forward in a state of wild thoughts.

The road conditions were bad, and the team could not speed up.

Not only did they have to avoid potholes on the road, but sometimes the road was interrupted and they had to leave the road and go around for a while.

If the Gobi Desert was not more difficult to travel, Ye Han would have ordered the team to leave the road.

They moved forward slowly, and by the next morning, the team had advanced more than 600 kilometers.

When the sky was just getting light, a green area appeared on the left side of the road, and this discovery made the soldiers very excited.

Although they only stayed in the desert Gobi for less than a day, the environment was really uncomfortable. Seeing the green again, the joy almost came out from the heart, and the whole body was so transparent.

"There must be a water source nearby!" Gu Cheng said very confidently.

Ye Han couldn't help but complain in his heart: Do you need to say that?

This damn place is either a desert or a Gobi, where does the green come from without a water source?

He called up the satellite image and found that the road ahead was almost built along the lake.

Ten minutes later, the rippling lake water appeared on the left side of the road. Even with a helmet on his head, he could feel a cool and moist air blowing on his face.

Several members of the expedition team could not suppress their impulse and took off their helmets directly, feeling the morning breeze blowing in their faces, which was refreshing and pleasant.

According to military regulations, helmets must not be taken off during wartime unless there are special circumstances, so the soldiers could only watch helplessly, and at most they would turn on the external air circulation to relieve their cravings.

However, the crowd was only fresh for a while. After a while, the cold wind calmed everyone down. The scientific expedition team members put on their helmets to block the morning wind.

The convoy went east. After a while, several neat farmlands appeared on the right side of the road. A little further away, there was a ruined town.

Ye Han leaned on the car door curiously and looked to the right: "This place has been evacuated for many years, right?"

He turned on the telescopic function of the armor and pulled the town in front of him.

The buildings in the town are very modern. It can be seen that they were not built for a long time, but the surface of the buildings is mottled. The streets in the town are in a mess. The only machine gun tower outside the town is bare, leaving only the tower body.

Gu Cheng said: "Not too many years, about 32 years. Before the Tuwai Fleet came, the west has always been the focus of Beidu's development. Later, the Tuwai Fleet came, and the talents here withdrew to Qingtang."

Speaking of this, Ye Han also knew something.

When the giant insects first appeared, they were not very adaptable to the plateau climate, so the northern capital had been withdrawing its population to the west, which led to rapid development. This town should have developed at that time.

However, the arrival of the foreign fleet changed everything. Small towns like this either retreated to underground cities or to large cities with good defenses, leaving behind only the former glory, which gradually withered in the wind, rain, ice and frost.