When Chen Zheng walked out of the surveillance center, Xiaoxiao was jumping out of the Viking drone, shook her four hooves and rushed towards Chen Zheng.

"Woof woof woof!!" Xiaoxiao shouted excitedly and jumped up a little far from Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng caught the mechanical dog jumping into his arms.

Fortunately, this is Chen Zheng... If it were someone else, it would have to be knocked down by Xiaoxiao. Although it was wrapped in bionic skin, it was a real alloy bone under the skin. Although it looked about the size of an ordinary wolf dog, its actual weight was comparable to a big fat pig.

"Woom!"

Xiao Xiao stretched out her tongue and raised her mouth, smiling like a Samoyed.

"Good, good job, you did a good job." Chen Zheng touched its head twice and put it on the ground again.

Looking around, the already slightly prosperous town has long been devastated, with traces of acid corrosion everywhere.

Among them, the most severely damaged areas have become large pits with a diameter of about two meters. If you walk closer, it is not difficult to find that these pits were once very hidden turrets.

Scrapped robots are everywhere on the streets, streets, shops, houses... blue smoke is everywhere.

In addition to defense facilities and streets, the factory area suffered greater losses. Among them, the largest robot production base was the most severely damaged. Several connected factories had collapsed at this time. Many parts of the assembly lines and various instruments inside were corroded by acid and could not be repaired at all. It would be better to create a new one if repaired.

However, all the losses combined are not as much as those two Viking drones.

These flying dragons came too fast! If Xiaoxiao had not completed 70% of the training, if she had not built a shelter and a large number of defensive facilities early on... the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Judging from the situation at that time, even if Chen Zheng did not leave, the role he could play in the base was minimal - he was better at guerrilla warfare, and he had no effective means of attacking targets in the sky so far.

Therefore, it is a great blessing in disguise that he has only suffered such a small loss now.

After this failure, I believe that the next attack by those bugs will not be so hasty. At that time, both the sky and the ground must greatly strengthen their defense capabilities.

"Two Vikings are ready to take off at any time."

After comforting Xiaoxiao, Chen Zheng instructed the next action in the channel: "There are many pits of acids outside, and I'm not sure if these acids are volatile... Let the workers put on protective clothing and filter masks and come out to clean up... Prioritize the roads and the robot wreckage."

"Yes." The man in glasses responded.

Since the matter has been ordered, Chen Zheng doesn't have to worry about it. This time Chen Zheng's absence made Chen Zheng clearly know that even if he is occasionally absent, the power in the camp is enough to deal with general attacks - of course, this is when the other party does not have the "rune Zerg" appear.

The so-called "rune Zerg" actually has only one sample so far - the insect man killed by Chen Zheng.

However, in the subsequent attacks of corrupt creatures, Chen Zheng encountered many corrupt leaders who could use runes. And after killing these corrupt leaders, he could find some zero crystals in their bodies.

Based on this, it is inferred that the Zerg should still be able to produce some high-level "rune Zergs", but now, the cost of manufacturing these rune creatures is likely to be relatively high, and the conditions are also very harsh.

Of course, these conditions are inferred from the only example of the worm - it has hundreds of kilograms of zero crystals stored in its body, and the "material" that makes it is still a living human.

Therefore, "high consumption" and "harsh conditions" naturally refer to zero crystals and at least one intelligent creature that are hundreds of times that of corrupt leaders.

Fortunately, there was no "rune Zerg" this time. Otherwise, there would be no equal power to it. In the short time before Chen Zheng returned, perhaps the underground shelter would be breached by it!

At least, for Chen Zheng now, all the defense facilities are useless. It will take him less than a minute to break into the shelter.

After assigning the task, he showed his face in front of everyone to calm the hearts of the people. Then Chen Zheng took Xiaoxiao back to the small room in the shelter.

...

That night.

Everyone returned to the small room in the shelter to rest - the dormitory outside had been destroyed, and fortunately enough beds were set up in the shelter according to the number of everyone.

But that's just a "bed".

Compared with two-person dormitories with an average per capita area of ​​more than 40 square meters on the ground, the per capita area in the shelter is even less than 0.5 square meters, and its congestion is comparable to that of warships.

While people were uneasy and wandering on the strange bed, Chen Zheng gathered all the senior executives, including Lao Wang and Lao Xia, to have a meeting in the small conference room in the shelter.

"...The cleaning work takes about 30 working hours, the reconstruction of the dormitory requires about 300 working hours, the reconstruction of the factory requires 80 working hours, and the losses of various instruments and production lines... There is no confirmed statistics yet. It is estimated that it will be counted after the cleaning work is completed tomorrow."

Shen Jianjun, who was promoted by Chen Zheng and was responsible for the logistics work of the entire base, first reported. Lao Wang, who was once the leader, sat in the corner and looked at him with a slightly strange look.

"Well, how is the tracking situation?" Chen Zheng turned around and asked the man with glasses. Now all the surveillance and weapon control personnel are still under his command.

"The two drones that followed were destroyed, and the subsequent drones did not dare to follow too tightly, so they lost them." The man in glasses replied, "But based on the existing conditions, the nests of these flying dragons should be in the south, or even near the equator."

"Oh? Equator?"

"Yes." The man in glasses nodded, "We found that the more we flew to the south, the more frequent the various corrupt creatures appeared. Although the flying dragons were unable to command corrupt creatures for the time being, we all knew how corrupt creatures came from..."

"Well, no matter whether they will attack together or not, we will be prepared for a joint attack between the flying dragon and corrupt creatures next time." Chen Zheng nodded.

"Next, continue to search south until all the relay drones are used up and give up temporarily if they are not found. But in the south, there must be a certain amount of drones to patrol alertly."

"Yes." The man with glasses took the order and retreated.

"Lao Wang, I have heard of it. You did a good job this time." Chen Zheng said affirmatively.

"This... should be, ought." Lao Wang was kind.

"So, I decided to expand the authority of your department... Let's do this, the monitoring center sets up a location for Dong Jie. If there is any emergency, Dong Jie, you should promptly provide feedback to the leader." Chen Zheng said, looking at the dark horsetail.

"Yes." Dong Jie shook her hair and agreed.

"..." Old Wang looked at Chen Zheng helplessly and sighed deeply - I did a good job, what's the matter if you promote my subordinates!?

However, Lao Wang himself also knew that since he was labeled as "untrustworthy" by Chen Zheng, it was not something that could be saved by outstanding performance in one thing or two things.

Compared with Lao Xia who unconditionally supported Chen Zheng, Lao Wang's status is not only far inferior to his deputy, but even his treatment is not as good as his deputy. Although Lao Wang is a little better than his female secretary in other aspects, Dong Jie, as a woman, has special subsidies every month... Whether in terms of diet or other aspects.

Of course, no matter what Lao Wang thought, Chen Zheng turned around and asked Lao Xia: "Uncle Xia, how much has the theoretical preparations for the Tide Gate been completed? Have you understood all those techniques?"

"In addition to some questions about gravity waves, the other parts have been well studied. Some of the parts can be manufactured now." Lao Xia said, holding his stomach.

After experiencing the shock of the first arrival of alien stars, Lao Xia's life can be considered to be getting better and better.

At first, he could only rely on "spiritual food" and the occasionally provided earth-produced tobacco and alcohol. But even then he felt very happy - the topic he had studied for a lifetime is now placed in front of him like a primary school textbook. The kind of spiritual satisfaction can make him forget about the rough food and various life inconveniences.

Now, when the cafeteria starts to serve meat, Lao Xia’s life is even more comfortable. His originally big belly has become fatter recently as if he is blowing, and now it’s a bit difficult to get up.

"If I need to cooperate, I will send me an email." Chen Zheng finished speaking to Lao Xia and looked at the others around him.

"Let's go ahead, in addition to continuing to search for the Flying Dragon Nest, the intelligent command system must also be completed as soon as possible. Next time, Xiaoxiao can't fly into the sky to fight in person."

After saying this, Chen Zheng thought for a while and continued: "In addition, we must continue to develop the manned module of the Viking drone."

"Sir, have you developed a pilot? Please believe me, remote operation is far better than someone's operation! IMHO... Taking a pilot to the sky can only limit the performance of Viking drones!"

The man in glasses quickly explained.

"Well, I know." Chen Zheng nodded, "On the one hand, the development of the human posture pod is to deal with emergency situations, and on the other hand... I also need a vehicle that can pose a threat to the flying dragon."

"...Okay, I will put it on the development schedule." The man in glasses nodded.

So far, the man with glasses can be said to be the most powerful person under Chen Zheng. He needs to intervene in all aspects of the base except for logistics.

However... he seemed to have no ambition and worked diligently to complete Chen Zheng's various orders, and whenever he divided some responsibilities and rights, he felt relieved.

“…”

Chen Zheng sighed secretly at the simple-minded alien, and his eyes turned to Dong Jie with a dark horsetail.

Maybe, should I give her some chance?

The girl who was lowering her head and recording on her small notebook did not know how her fate would change in the near future.

...

An underground mine hundreds of kilometers away from the base.

Countless imperial soldiers were locked up here forcibly working. Unlike before, their labor was not supervised, but now... countless cameras and robots left them without any privacy. Every move and even every complaint would be faithfully recorded by the machine and passed to the monitoring room of the base through underground cables.

However, their living conditions have been greatly improved. Not only are they two prisons with iron railings, but they also have soft quilts and water loading and draining.

The prison transformed from the mine has been fully electrified, with lights, radio, and sometimes movies that speak the earth's language to watch - the signal is from the broadcasting base cinema, and whenever the simple cinema is on the holiday, it will put something on.

These videos were brought in various storage devices and electronic products by the Imperial soldiers. There were only a few of them in total. After a few months, some movies have been played for the third time.

However, for the Imperial soldiers, they couldn't understand the things on the big screen. Most people just thought it was a noisy background sound...

However, they are very interested in the new cards, especially the most common poker on the planet, and several ways of playing with poker coming.

The most popular way to play is "cockfighting" - that is a gambling method with not complicated rules.

There is no way. Among these soldiers, only gambling entertainment can be deeply rooted in people's hearts. No matter what planet the method comes from or whether the rules are complicated, as long as it is related to the word "gambling", they will definitely learn it once.

"…789 Shunzi! Haha… Kill! Kill! Give money..."

"Don't move! A pair of sharp men!"

"Depend on!"

"Why did you lose again!"

"You must have cheated!"

“…”

In the cafeteria, the Imperial soldiers gathered together from three or five friends, betting on small things—such as centimeters or food—and then shouted for an afternoon, and drank a few free sweet drinks. This is by far the most popular way of leisure.

But there are always people who are not interested in gambling.

The werewolf boy who was so badly taken down by the black-faced man, he had just come out of the mine and couldn't even catch up on taking a shower. At this time, he was lined up in sweat and lined up to receive food.

"…Huh? The side dish today has changed! What is this!?"

The werewolf looked at the stuff stuck in the compressed dry food in a daze.
To be continued...