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Chapter 884 Fog Area
Chapter 884 - Fog Area
After 14 hours of subsonic flight, the giant flying ships of the First Flying Fleet Combat Cluster pushed aside the thick cumulonimbus clouds and slowly fell to the ground amidst fine rain and occasional flashes of thunder.
The huge ship cannot fly too fast in the atmosphere.
Looking down at the ground from the sky, the abnormal area was filled with strange fog, and colorful lights surged out from time to time. The height of the fog area reached more than 6000 meters, forcing Chen Fei to instruct "Adam" to control the flying ship to maintain a distance of 500 and "scratch the edge" to descend.
The terrain around the abnormal area is undulating hills, sparsely scattered with low bushes and weeds. The vegetation is not lush, and only a few thin and narrow streams can be seen. Water resources are not very abundant.
Artificial intelligence AI "Adam" marked the distribution of ground personnel and vehicles for Chen Fei's AR visual assistance effect and identified them.
The ground personnel are basically official personnel of the local sovereignty, including officials, soldiers and technicians. The other are nomads living nearby, the latter numbering more than a thousand. Among them, many are smart and simply work as small vendors on the spot, spontaneously forming small markets, which add a bit of liveliness to this wilderness.
Seeing the giant flying ship breaking through the thick clouds, casting bright lights on the ground, and getting closer and closer to the ground amidst the flashes of lightning, many people even waved to the sky in the rain.
The ground is not flat, and it is difficult to find a suitable landing point in the hilly area full of gullies. The giant flying ship is too large. After several comparisons, the artificial intelligence AI "Adam" finally selected an area for the ship to land completely. The bow and tail parts happened to fall on the top of two adjacent hills, just like building a bridge.
At this time, two small flying ships flew over from a distance and slowly approached the giant flying ship.
The communication group of the command center far away in the waters of Midway Island sent instructions.
"'Rookie', the Persian Sovereign's supply ship has arrived and is ready to receive supplies. At the same time, they need to open up some cabins to allow the local investigation team to move in. They will also fully open up all the investigation information to you. The list of the investigation team has been sent."
"Understood, 'Adam', guide the two flying ships to land on the top deck, arrange for the robots and transport vehicles to receive the supplies, open the bottom hatch, arrange for combat robots and earth-type ability users to establish a 100-meter radius isolation zone, and pick up the new personnel on the list."
Chen Fei gave a response.
The command center communicates with each sovereign through the Blue Star Global Joint Defense Committee headquarters, and information is transmitted very quickly.
Several slender green light beams were projected from the top of the giant flying ship, forming a guide channel in the rain, guiding two small flying ships less than 50 meters in length to land on its back.
The 600-meter-long flying ship uses itself as a take-off and landing platform, which is enough to support the emergency take-off and landing of small aircraft, and even turboprop aircraft such as "Big Mouth Monster" will not be under any pressure.
With the guidance beams visible to the naked eye forming a channel, the subsequent take-off and landing operations only need to be carried out step by step. The two small flying ships, one after the other, quickly and steadily landed on the back of the giant flying ship. As soon as the front foot landed, the entire hull of the rear foot together with the landing deck sank into the interior of the flying ship.
The entire giant flying ship was under the control of Chen Fei's supernatural skills, and the temporary evolution of components was as easy as eating and drinking.
The two small flying ships not only brought food, drinks, daily necessities and other supplies for the hundreds of people on board, but also included supplies for the investigation team that was about to move in.
The arrival of such a huge flying ship naturally became the best base, saving the effort of setting up a camp on the spot. Tents and makeshift houses were no match for the cabin of a flying ship in any way.
Two reconnaissance drones rushed out from the flight hatch on the side of the giant aircraft one after another, and then plunged into the abnormal area where fog was swirling. Like the Galilee Peninsula and the Desert Peninsula in the northern continent of America, the external features of the abnormal area were thick fog and visibility was less than 10 centimeters.
But the fog is only the visible surface. Once you step in, the scenery inside is completely different.
Adam: Wireless connection lost!
On Chen Fei's AR visual interface, the signals of the two reconnaissance drones disappeared one after another.
However, he is not worried because the drone's AI is also a replica of "Adam". It not only has a preset action plan, but also has sufficient autonomy.
For actions like exploring unknown areas, "Adam", who is good at adapting to circumstances, is more suitable than a derivative of "Cybertrom".
A moment later, a drone flew out, the signal was restored, and a large amount of data was transmitted synchronously.
The air composition in the abnormal area is not much different from the data collected by the Persian Sovereign Investigation Team. During the period before the arrival of the giant flying ship, the environment inside has not changed. The air is mainly composed of inert gases and is not suitable for human survival. If humans want to set foot in it, they must prepare a sufficient number of high-pressure air cylinders instead of oxygen cylinders.
Only one of the two drones returned. The other one was not missing, but was smashed to pieces by a sudden unidentified object. Another drone not far away happened to capture this scene.
Now there is a new situation. The abnormal area within the sovereignty of Persia is not a life restricted area, but there live some creatures that are beyond the common sense of Blue Star civilization. They can not only fly, but also fly very fast. Otherwise, they would not be able to cause the loss of a drone.
In the optical images brought back by the reconnaissance drone that luckily "survived", the abnormal area was very desolate, with stone pillars of various sizes standing there in all kinds of shapes. The tallest one was hundreds of meters high, like a big tree without branches and leaves. The thickest one had a diameter of one hundred meters and looked like a high platform. The shortest one was about one or two meters high, like an inconspicuous pile of stones. The thinnest one was like a chopstick, no more than a foot long, and was inserted obliquely in the gravel.
Infrared thermal imaging could not find any heat radiation source from any life activities, even including the UFO that smashed another drone. The high-frame images captured instantly showed what looked like a manta ray, with a maximum cross-section as big as a tabletop. Its long, straight tail was thin and pointed, but it was able to flap its flat body in the sky. However, judging from the abnormally accelerated flow of fog behind it, its flying method was probably not as simple as flapping its wings.
"'Adam', establish a cable communication base station, release four reconnaissance drones and six combat drones, and enter again."
Chen Fei did not wait for the Persian sovereignty investigation team to enter the spaceship, but took action first.
Two armored vehicles drove out of the giant flying ship one after another, accompanied by more than 20 combat robots, all fully armed, and approached the foggy area of the abnormal region.
At the same time, the local nomads scattered nearby gathered towards the location of the giant flying ship. Fortunately, the rock and soil wall built by the ability users just surrounded the flying ship.
The wall is not high, only about three meters high. An adult can climb over it with a little effort, but the consequences of climbing over the wall without permission are hard to predict.
The more than 2,000-meter-long rock and soil wall exhausted the people responsible for constructing the isolation zone. It is not difficult to build a rock and soil wall made of local materials. It can be easily done by magic or supernatural skills. However, there are too many of them, and they have to be done in a hurry. If they are a step slower, they might let those tough nomads in, and then disputes would arise. This is not what everyone on the spaceship wants to see.
So once the rules are established, violators deserve to be shot on the spot.
There are only two gaps in the surrounding rock and soil wall, one facing the direction of the abnormal area, and the other facing the direction of the investigation team. The former is responsible for exiting and the latter is responsible for entering, with a clear division of labor.
Vehicles, equipment and robots controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) entered the foggy area directly without considering whether the air environment was suitable for human survival.
One of the two armored vehicles with antennas on top entered the fog area of the abnormal area, while the other remained outside. An optical cable with a total length of about one kilometer connected the two.
An optical fiber as thin as a hair is enough to transmit a large amount of data, not to mention an optical cable containing more than ten optical fibers plus wavelength division multiplexing. The transmission bandwidth is obviously in excess, but the benefit is that it can be squandered without restraint and used to transmit various real-time data.
This time, the swarm of drones that entered the abnormal area achieved real-time data synchronization through two wireless communication relay points physically connected by optical cables, without much technical content.
The situation in the fog area was transmitted in real time to Chen Fei's eyes and the three-dimensional holographic projection screen inside the bridge.
(End of this chapter)