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Volume 4 Chapter 270 Catching the ¡®Dragon¡¯ (Part 1

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    Chapter 270 Catching the ¡®Dragon¡¯ (Part 1

    Planet Hayden.

    At 9 a.m. on February 21, Robin took a miniature armed landing ship and personally led an elite army team to the Kanas Mountains, 1,700 kilometers away from the army fortress, to conduct a survey mission.

    An hour ago, the fortress commander Colonel Mark discovered that there were sudden dense lightning strikes over the area.  Although the lightning strike lasted only thirty-six seconds, its intensity and wide coverage were very rare in the past year.  Therefore, Colonel Mark immediately reported the situation to Robin and sent a large number of ground exploration teams to conduct a large-scale carpet search of this complex and vast area.

    The Karnas Mountains are the most extensive hilly area on the planet Hayden, covering a vast area of ??nearly six million square kilometers.  Although there are no peaks with an altitude of more than 3,000 meters in this area, the terrain in this area is extremely complex and steep.

    According to the geological survey report of the Army Fortress, there is an earthquake zone running directly through the Kanas Mountain area. Therefore, the terrain changes in this area are very active, which also makes the surface mountains have great height differences, coupled with the lava in the formation.  Due to its rapid development, a considerable part of the mountains in the Kanas region exhibit karst landform characteristics.

    With the current scientific and technological means of human civilization, satellites can directly photograph the entire Kanas Mountains from space. It can detect the height and depth of the mountains, canyons, and lakes in the valley with an accurate result, and the true error is absolutely not the same.  will exceed the range of 3 cm.  But after all, the satellite's detection signal cannot go deep underground, but the Insat and Dragon Chrysalis are very likely to be hidden inside the mountain or below the surface.  Therefore, if you want to truly explore whether there are Insat people hiding in this area, the only method currently is artificial exploration.

    By nailing a sonar device into the stratum that can penetrate deep into the gaps in the stratum, geological experts can obtain the structural conditions deep underground through sonar feedback. If there are biological movements in the stratum gaps, the sonar can also compare its movement data with  The body size data is fed back immediately, allowing ground surveyors to determine their location and quantity at the first opportunity.

    Judging from the results of use in the past few years, this method is undoubtedly the most effective one.  Unless the Insat have penetrated deep into the lava layer, no matter how good they are at hiding, they will not be able to escape the tracking of underground sonar.

    However, although this method of exploration is effective, it also has certain limitations.  In addition to the large amount of manpower and material resources required during the exploration process, it is impossible to quickly survey hundreds or even tens of millions of square kilometers of land in just a few seconds like space radar.  Therefore, the results obtained using this exploration method are subject to a certain delay. If the ground forces do not respond in time, it will be difficult to take action immediately even if the enemy situation is discovered.

    And it was precisely because of this that Robin insisted on leading the team to carry out this exploration mission in person, despite everyone's opposition.

    In his view, the complex landscape of the Kanas Mountains is very suitable for the Insat people to hide here.  What's more, most of the terrain here is karst. When he was on Undine's planet, Robin had conducted actual combat under such landform conditions, so he knew very well that under such landform conditions, most of the mountain interiors were actually karst.  It is hollow and has enough conditions to hide a large number of creatures.  Moreover, the hollow area of ??the mountain is directly connected to the underground water veins. Therefore, the underground channels formed by these underground undercurrents that gradually spread downward, and the nearby mineral-rich water sources, will undoubtedly become the best way for the Insat people to raise biological weapons.  Great venue.  In addition, the dense quartz stone forest in the Kanas Mountains and the strong magnetic field generated by the active underground lava layers make this area itself an area prone to lightning strikes.

    Thinking from their perspective, when Robin looked at this area from the perspective of the Insat people, he found that such a vast area that could be advanced, attacked, retreated, and defended was a strategic strategic hub tailor-made for them.

    In such an area with complex terrain, the Insat people can hide very well.  The vast area is also enough to meet the needs of the Insat people to grow their population and raise biological weapons.  In addition, the Kanas Mountains are an area prone to lightning strikes, which makes it the best base in the eyes of the Insat people.

    Robin insisted on leading the team to conduct the exploration in person because he was convinced that something would be discovered during this exploration.  Moreover, as the emperor who will formulate the empire's strategic plan for the next hundred years, and the supreme commander of this extragalactic expedition, Robin feels that it is necessary to have a close contact with the Insat people to make up for his lack of contact with this extragalactic system.  The fatal flaw of star life combat experience.

    However, after actually arriving in this area on a landing ship, he realized that he seemed to have taken it for granted.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Through personal verification, he found that the landforms in the Kanas Mountains were far more complex than he had imagined.  Judging from the terrain data at hand, it is true that there are no peaks above three thousand meters in the Kanas Mountains, but there are large crustal cracks in the Kanas Mountains that are more than 1,700 meters deep.  And when the mountains and cracks are combined together, the height difference is as much as five or six kilometers.  In addition, most of the mountains in the Kanas Mountains are in the form of quartz forests towering like sword peaks, which made the exploration team's exploration operations proceed very slowly.  With more than 30 survey teams and nearly 5,000 people dispatched, the exploration progress completed within one hour was less than one percent of the total area of ????the Kanas Mountains.  Calculated in this way, it would take at least four days of continuous 24-hour work to complete the entire Kanas area.  But according to what Colonel Mark said, judging from the scale of the lightning strike discovered this time, the time for the dragon chrysalis eggs to emerge from the cocoon is very close, and it may be ushered in by a larger-scale thunder wave within two or three days.  A real cocoon.  At that time, high-density lightning strikes will not only cause life-threatening damage to exploration personnel, but after successfully breaking out of the cocoon, the dragon pupa larvae, which are only the size of a loach, will also have the ability to move on their own, and can abandon this area and truly penetrate into the depths of the earth's crust.  In that case, you will completely lose the ability to capture it, and you can only wait for it to completely eat the planet in a hundred years.

    Robin couldn't help but feel anxious about this, but there was really no good way to speed up the progress.  And if it was a matter of luck, Robin felt that the probability was so small that it was almost impossible to happen.

    "Damn! How on earth can I find them"

    Standing at the top of the towering stone forest, looking at the dense forest-like stone forest in front of him and the deep cliff at his feet that seemed to go deep into hell, Robin's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

    As a soldier, Robin can be described as a veteran on the battlefield.  Since officially joining the army in 2078, Robin has been in the army for 12 years. During these 12 years, he has experienced countless battles, large and small, and has left his fighting presence in almost every galaxy in the Milky Way.  However, looking back at all the battles he participated in, his opponents were all of his own kind.  His only tentative confrontation with the Insat was in Emperor Hoffmann's well-defended laboratory, and the Insat as his opponent only received the simplest biological equipment.

    Through that tentative battle, Robin had a general understanding of the Insat army's combat methods and characteristics.  However, he still only stayed on paper as to the Insat's overall combat ideas and the way they mobilized large-scale troops.

    It is obvious that Robin, who is used to fighting humans, is very uncomfortable with the completely different fighting method of the Insat people.

    "Compared to the large-scale battles between humans and humans, the Insat's fighting method is too secretive.  Only when there is a special purpose, the Insat will take the initiative to fight against humans, which makes the initiative of the war completely determined by the other party.  In addition, the Insat people's method of conquering humans did not entirely rely on combat.  Through the reproduction of their own race and raising creatures like dragon pupae, the Insat people can completely destroy the planet inhabited by humans within a hundred years.  Without planets, human resources are limited, and they have to slowly give up their territory and compress their living space.

    This is a concept of war that lasts for hundreds or thousands of years. Human beings with only a life span of more than a hundred years simply cannot accept this new combat concept in a short period of time. What has been gained so far in these ten years  War experience is also very limited.  There is no doubt that at this stage, the empire or the human race is completely at a strategic disadvantage.  If Robin wants to reverse this disadvantage, he must change the duration of the war to a range that humans can adapt to. Only through quick battles can humans have a chance to defeat the Insat.

    "How can we achieve a quick victory?"

    Robin looked at the workers who were setting up sonar equipment through drilling, and listened to the noise made by the laser drill drilling the quartzite. Robin shook his head helplessly.  In his opinion, although this kind of noise is not loud enough for human hearing, in a hollow environment, such noise will be greatly amplified, which is simply natural for the Insat people dormant underground.  warning.  The Insat are not unintelligent beasts, they are highly intelligent alien beings.  Then, if the opponent is regarded as a human being, or a being with a higher IQ than humans, then it is absolutely impossible for it to stay where it is and wait to be discovered by the enemy.

    "Robin, I have an idea." Just when Robin felt that there was nothing he could do, field exploration expert Zoro suddenly looked at the deep abyss under his feet and seemed to have an idea.

    RobinThe reason for choosing Zoro is that on the one hand, he has super combat ability, and on the other hand, his natural and sharp tracking ability like a beast makes Robin particularly value him.  Now, hearing that Zoro seemed to have some ideas, Robin immediately cheered up and asked anxiously: "What are your ideas? Tell me."

    "The development of the Insat people requires the raising of a large number of organisms, and it is impossible for any organism to leave traces during its activities. So in my opinion, instead of relying on scientific and technological means for exploration, it is better to focus on the Insat  If you can find the creatures raised by the Satyrs through the traces left by these creatures, then you can naturally find the Insats. Moreover, the dragon pupa is still just an insect egg and does not have the ability to move on its own.  . Given its importance to the Insat people, it is absolutely impossible for the Insat people to leave it in one place and ignore it. Therefore, I think that at least at this stage, it is possible to find the Insat people.  Find the dragon chrysalis.¡±

    "Sowhat do you mean" Robin followed Zoro's gaze towards the bottomless abyss at his feet, and gradually understood his thoughts.

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