Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 657: Full of Mysteries
Ke Lan held her breath and opened the document with excitement.
[Mission number: Special A-902-6-133517 (Secrecy level: Highest)]
[Mission execution unit: All members of the 776th Special Forces Team, including Commander Ken, a total of 57 people.]
[Equipment configuration: 55 sets of B-class standard field equipment, two sets of Fearless Warrior reinforced armor, one prototype engineering mecha "XTC-003", and four tactical-grade small hydrogen bombs. ]
[Mission location: The remains of Engine No. 92.]
[Transport unit: 7th Independent Army Aviation Brigade, four Wild Deer-class transport aircraft (numbers: LU-7-096, LU-7-097, LU-7-099, LU-7-106). ]
[Route arrangement: The mission execution unit will be transported to a location 340 kilometers away from the target location by a Wild Deer-class transport aircraft, and then the mission execution unit will drive a ground vehicle to the target location. ]
[Mission objective: Destroy the wreckage of Engine No. 92 and erase all traces.]
[Mission start time: June 30th, 902nd year of the New Era.]
[Task time limit: 168 hours. ]
【 Task Result: Objective achieved.】
[Status of the mission execution unit: All members MIA]
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After reading these dozen lines of text, Ke Lan kept repeating one sentence in his mind: "That's it? That's it?!"
For a mission with the highest level of confidentiality, how could the mission file be so brief? This is absolutely unheard of...
Even if a garrison post lost a few bullets, the report document that needs to be submitted to the superiors will probably have more words than this.
"Although there are few clues, it's better than having none at all..."
Ke Lan was not comforting herself. At least, these short dozen lines contained a lot of information.
First of all, what attracted Ke Lan's attention the most was the mission location of the 776 Special Forces Team - or in other words, the mission target.
"Site of Engine 92 Wreckage".
Judging from the literal meaning, this should be a technological creation of the Alpha civilization. As for what kind of engine it is, Ke Lan doesn't know for the time being - but from the numbering, one thing is certain, there are at least ninety-one other "engine wreckage sites" like this.
"Could it be some kind of relic? Did they give it such a name just to hide it from the public?" he muttered to himself.
The B-class standard field equipment and the Fearless reinforced armor can both match Ke Lan's discoveries on the nameless island. As for the prototype engineering mecha "XTC-003", it should be the tool used to transport and deliver tactical-grade small hydrogen bombs.
Hydrogen bombs are different from atomic bombs. One is nuclear fission and the other is nuclear fusion. The energy released during the explosion is also very different. No matter how tactical or miniaturized the hydrogen bomb is, its power will not be small. For a military base of the size of Mukah, only one small hydrogen bomb is needed to flatten all the buildings on the ground. As for the underground part, it depends on the thickness of the thermal insulation layer and the anti-nuclear layer.
And the 776th Special Forces Team actually brought four of these small hydrogen bombs at once? !
What kind of engine is this? Is it the engine of another "Aguna Kotor"?
But if such a thing really exists, why not bring it back to the Ark for research, but destroy it directly?
Even if we can't bring it back, can't we just build a base on the spot and move the research department there? Isn't that what Ark did in the Molten Mine District?
Moreover, Liao Xing and his team not only had to blow up the wreckage of the engine, but were also required to erase all traces... This mission requirement was a bit intriguing.
Is there anything shameful about that thing?
At that time, the heretical sects should not have appeared yet, which means that on this planet, the Ark's only enemies are those aggressive indigenous creatures and the harsh natural environment. They don't have to worry about some powerful Alpha civilization creations being used by the enemy. They have plenty of time to digest and absorb these technologies...
But why don't they do this?
And... the mission was clearly completed, so why did all the members of the 776 Special Forces Team disappear in the end? Why did they appear on that strange nameless island?
The soldiers of the 776th Special Forces Team were not affected by the hydrogen bomb, and they did not suffer any losses in the process of completing their mission objectives - judging from the remaining ammunition, they had not even encountered any battle before being "sent" to the nameless island.
Judging from the clues we have now, this last mission they are carrying out... does not seem to have any direct connection with the Nameless Island.
Ke Lan still remembers the process of arriving at the nameless island - when he fell into the liquid cliff and plummeted towards the dark seabed, a strong white light enveloped him completely, and when he woke up, he was already on the beach of the nameless island.
When he was leaving the Nameless Island, he also saw a similar white light... This "special effect" should be some kind of means of teleportation. As for his coma when he got on the island, it was purely because Ke Lan was seriously injured by the water pressure on the seabed and fainted.
When he returned, he remained conscious throughout the whole process... but even so, the information he obtained was still pitifully little, which was not much different from fainting.
The only thing they have in common is probably... "falling".
If I have to add one more word, it would have to be "water".
"Falling - entering a body of water - leaving the water" Whether arriving or leaving, it basically follows this order.
Could it be that this is how the 776 Special Forces Team came to the Nameless Island?
The explosion of the hydrogen bomb created a huge crater...and they fell over the edge of it?
No, no, no... this is a bit too far-fetched. It doesn't seem reliable just by thinking about it. If they were at the edge of the pit, the shock wave generated by the explosion at this distance would be enough to completely destroy them, leaving nothing behind, and there would be no chance for them to slip and fall.
If we have to come up with a relatively reasonable explanation, it would be that the explosion triggered an earthquake, the ground cracked, and the sudden crack swallowed them all up...
But that wouldn't mean the entire team would fall into it, right?
Judging from the level of the mission they were performing, if someone fell into the rift, the remaining team members would immediately record it and report to the Ark, and then wait for the arrival of a professional rescue team - such a plot where someone jumped into the abyss in a fit of rage to save someone is something that only appears in mindless and sensational 50-cent film and television dramas.
The members of the 776 Special Forces Team are all professional soldiers with extremely high professional qualities. If they did this, it can only mean one thing - they are all crazy.
But judging from the black box records, at least the commander still maintained some "rationality" in a certain sense, otherwise Ke Lan would have heard only strange and meaningless mumblings.
