Chapter 278 Xiao Qiao is missing
The battle is over.
When Liu Fei was fighting, more than a dozen sand-armored beasts appeared in the orchard.
The counting shows that two female passengers and a tour guide were missing, and ten hover vehicles were completely destroyed.
The result of the battle was that seven sand armored beasts were killed, four mechas lost their combat effectiveness, and a mercenary was slightly injured.
The atmosphere was so depressing that Liu Fei looked ashen, because among the two missing persons, Xiao Qiao, Liu Xiaofei kept lowering his head and dared not look at Liu Fei's eyes. The incident happened very simple. When a large number of sand-armored beasts appeared to fight with the mecha, Liu Xiaofei couldn't help but join the battle, forgot to protect Xiao Qiao. When the battle ended, he found that Xiao Qiao was missing.
Liu Fei did not blame Liu Xiaofei too much. The battle was chaotic at that time, and there were too many sand armored beasts. If Liu Xiaofei had not participated in the battle, it might have caused greater casualties. Judging from the battle records, Liu Xiaofei killed five sanded beasts one by one, and this record was brilliant.
Da Qiao didn't say anything from beginning to end. She seemed to be in extreme sorrow, and did not cry, and had no expression on her face. She just looked at Liu Fei with her empty eyes, as if she was a walking corpse without a soul.
Liu Fei also didn't say anything, but nodded. He understood the meaning of Da Qiao's eyes. Seeing Liu Fei's nodding expression, Da Qiao's dull and empty eyes recovered a little firepower. He sat in a corner, lowered his head and cried without saying a word.
"Sir, we have lost contact with the city of Kabaxing." Steel teeth's expression was heavy.
"Why?" A faint Xiao Sha appeared on the cold Liu Fei's face.
"The communication system of the hover truck was destroyed."
"Why don't you use a mecha?"
"This desert contains a strange mineral that forms pulses and can interfere with communication. After more than five kilometers, both holographic scanning and ordinary communication systems will lose their function. Only Kabasin's unique communication system will work."
"That is, we can't connect with the fleet in space through the mecha?"
"Yes. To be precise, our mecha can get out of here, but even if we leave here, we cannot locate it under the interference of pulses, because we do not have the map and coordinates of Kabastar. If our mecha flies into space and then sends a signal to Fox, it will only let them know what is going on. More likely, the rescue mecha is lost in the desert."
"What do you say to the tour guide?"
"They said it doesn't matter. If we don't return to the city today, the travel agency will send someone to check it out tomorrow."
"Why not today?"
"This is the legal provision of Kabaxing. Because Kabaxing's desert environment is special, it is not suitable to fly at night, so-"
“That is, we have to spend a night here?”
"Yes."
"However, we can also send a mecha to the city of Kabaxing for support, but it will take at least four hours to travel, or even more than five hours. In Kabaxing, aircraft are strictly prohibited from entering the desert at night. It is said that thick fog will cause a series of chemical reactions in the desert, and flight is very dangerous, so the law prohibits flying. Even if we send mechas out, from the current time, they cannot send a hover car—"
"Then stay overnight."
Liu Fei is not an indecisive person. After confirming that he has no choice, he immediately made a decision.
"yes."
"Concentrate all people and find a rocky sandy land to build a circle of defense."
"yes."
——
After a series of arrangements, the fiery red sunset had already covered the desert orchards, and the figures of the passengers in the desert were getting longer and longer. A faint mist appeared in the air, and people began to feel a little cool.
Ten damaged luxury levitation vehicles were dragged together by mechas and formed a huge circle like a steel city wall.
In order to make the city wall stronger, Liu Fei personally drove a engineering mecha to weld these suspended trucks into a whole. The four damaged mechas were demolished and welded to serve as support for the steel city wall. In this way, the entire steel city wall became more solid.
There is no doubt that this is a huge project, and almost every passenger is mobilized.
People do not understand why Liu Fei had to make a big move, and even caused dissatisfaction among many passengers. After all, people only stay here for one night, and the maximum time is no more than twelve hours. There is no need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to establish a line of defense.
For frightened travelers, they would rather sit down and rest.
Faced with the passengers' doubts, Liu Fei did not explain, but just worked silently. Liu Fei knew very well that his time was limited, and when darkness and thick fog covered the entire desert, the crisis would come.
Liu Fei has an instinctive sensitivity to danger.
After he personally determined the camp and the defense project, he spent all his time on the inspection of Xiao Qiao's missing place. He did not let go of every tree, every branch, even rocks and gravel.
Liu Fei believed that a living person could not disappear out of thin air.
Finally, Liu Fei discovered a space button for a mecha. Liu Fei knew this mecha button. This mecha button was hung around Xiao Qiao's neck, like a silver cross.
This mecha button is Xiao Qiao's only self-defense weapon at present.
Obviously, when Xiao Qiao was threatened, he had no time to summon the mecha.
Next, Liu Fei used the magnetic chain saw of the engineering mecha to dissect the corpses of several sand armored beasts. In the corpses, there were no animals or human bones—
——
As night falls, the desert is extremely quiet.
The huge fruit trees cast huge shadows under the moonlight, as if they were monsters lurking in the desert. The swaying branches were like changing fangs, ferocious and ferocious, making people feel chilled.
The thin layer of fog began to become thicker and heavier. Gradually, the steel Great Wall built by the suspended car was shrouded in thick fog, and the range of temporary lights was illuminated smaller and smaller.
Artificial fog began to fill every inch of the desert, and the air became colder and wetter.
A fear spread among the travelers.
Anyone will have a heart of awe for the dark and unknown fields. The heavy fog in the sky makes travelers feel like they are trapped in a bottomless abyss. People cannot see objects two meters away from them, and each person becomes an independent individual.
The mecha's analysis system shows that there is an ion with a special structure in the fog. These ions can not only stabilize the thick fog, but also shield and hinder electronic signals.
No wonder Kabastar law prohibits flying in desert areas at night.
In this environment, it is possible that the mecha hits the ground, let alone lose its direction.
In the middle of the camp, a raging fire broke out the cold and thick fog, and it also made people find a little sense of security.
——
Liu Fei had been thinking quietly for three hours. He had been combing out the information in his brain, and of course, it also included communicating with the little monk.
"The possibility of thinking is thirty percent, and I have calculated it hundreds of trillions of times-"
"Your calculation results often go wrong." Liu Fei shook his head.
"Hmph, let me tell you, this monk has come from--"
"So, how do you explain that the stomachs of those sander beasts do not have the bones of small animals?"
"Sanderbeasts are vegetarians."
"Why should the sand-armored beast hunt humans?"
"They also eat meat occasionally, just like rabbits-"
"Rabbits eat grass because they are not strong enough. After evolution, they begin to eat grass as their staple food. However, from an evolutionary perspective, the sander beasts are powerful enough. The key is that they are also very agile and not as clumsy as cows. According to the evolutionary theory of the strong prey on the weak, there is no reason why the sander beasts do not eat meat-"
"Dimme-I've been so immersed by you, what do you want to say?"
"It's very simple. Sand-armored beasts don't eat meat at all. They are completely vegetarians. They can't attack humans for hunting humans. Besides, they are not short of food. I have checked their stomachs and they are all full. Judging by the habits of beasts in the Zoer Star Prairie, carnivores generally do not actively attack other animals when they are full."
"Maybe - maybe they are really cruel humans, and they might even want to take revenge on humans-"
Chapter completed!