Chapter 814

When Chen Xin was thinking about whether he could build a land ship for himself as his "special car", the land ship sent by the military to the Middle East for investigation had arrived at his destination.

Different from the domestic situation, the Middle East, like Europe, is still in the dark.

This not only provides a good cover for the reconnaissance task of land-based ships, but also increases the difficulty of the task.

After all, during the day, optical investigation can intuitively see the required information. In the dark environment, it needs the assistance of various instruments and equipment.

Fortunately, the land ship is a special type of investigation. It is not only equipped with a large number of instruments and equipment, but also equipped with reconnaissance aircraft and reconnaissance UAVs.

The ship is also responsible for the implementation of the investigation task of the elite in the army. With the cooperation of the two sides, the task can be said to be carried out smoothly.

However, the Middle East region is still so large. Although the land-based ships released the reconnaissance UAV after entering the Middle East region and began a large-scale search, it will take some time for them with only one ship to investigate the whole Middle East region.

"Captain, I suggest that we should change the investigation method and go directly to the Mediterranean coastal area for investigation, rather than the current dragnet investigation, which is too inefficient." in the bridge, a staff officer accompanying the ship put forward his own suggestions to the captain.

The captain did not immediately agree with the staff officer's suggestion, but thought it over carefully for a while before saying: "inserting directly into the Mediterranean can indeed save time, but our task is to find out the overall situation of the Middle East and whether aliens have launched a large-scale invasion of the Middle East, which needs a comprehensive investigation.

Moreover, if we plug directly into the Mediterranean, we are just a reconnaissance ship with limited arms. If we encounter alien creatures, we may encounter danger. It's better to be safe. "

As a captain, he should be responsible for everyone on and off the ship, and ensure to complete his mission and tasks. Naturally, he should act cautiously.

Although it is not impossible to take risks, he must comprehensively consider the proportional balance between the risks he bears and the possible gains, rather than making a rash decision in case of trouble.

When the captain said that he wanted to pursue safety, the staff did not object. His duty was only to put forward his own suggestions to help the captain find out and make up the deficiencies, rather than to interfere with the captain's decision when the captain made no obvious mistakes.

So when the captain didn't agree with his suggestion, the staff just frowned and said, "but the efficiency of our current investigation method is too low! It's too much work to investigate the whole Middle East region after such a carpet search."

Speaking of this, the staff officer did not forget to add: "it's true that our reconnaissance ship is nuclear powered, but the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft we carry still burn heavy oil. The oil consumption is very fast for such a large-scale investigation every day!"

The problem of fuel consumption mentioned by the staff officer made the captain frown slightly and asked the chief mate aside, "how much fuel do we have left?"

"When we came out, we brought a total of 20 tons of heavy oil, which has consumed almost 30% so far." the chief mate answered the captain's question and reminded the captain: "but so far, the areas we have scanned only account for 17% of the whole Middle East, and they are all distributed in the Iranian plateau.

Considering the purpose of our reconnaissance mission, I also suggest that our ship go out to the Mesopotamian plain and conduct targeted reconnaissance in the Red Sea and Aleppo, Syria, which is much more effective than our carpet search. "

The chief officer's words are actually a kind of support for the staff's suggestions, but the reasons and suggestions he gave are more comprehensive and stable than the staff's previous suggestions. Therefore, after considering it, the captain adopted the chief officer's suggestions: "In that case, we will go out of the two river basins and advance to the location of Babylon, Cuba. If there are still people there, we can also know the situation."

"Local people? It's unlikely that any local people will survive?" the staff on one side obviously had no expectations

During this time, they searched most parts of the Iranian Plateau in a carpet way. Of course, the areas with cities are the key search objects, but obviously all the cities are empty.

Such a result is not surprising. After all, this area has experienced war all year round. Although people's livelihood is not poor, it is not an economically developed area.

Although several oil producing countries have money, the money is mainly concentrated in the hands of the royal families and high-level officials of various countries. The gap between the living standards of the people at the bottom and the rich is so large that it is amazing.

How much response capacity such a country can have in the face of global disasters is really a difficult question to answer.

There is no problem for the rich to survive, but ordinary people may not be able to withstand the initial disaster.

Moreover, in this area, from fresh water to food, these basic living materials are basically scarce. In the past, there was nothing to import for money. Now where do they import from?

In a few years, even if there are survivors, they belong to few lucky people.

"In short, go and have a look. Babylon is at least one of the oldest cities in this land and the capital of a country. It should not even have no living people." the captain shook his head. Although he didn't expect anything, he decided to go and have a look.

After all, in his opinion, although the environment in the Middle East is bad, the temperature is not as low as that in China. In the tropics, someone should be able to survive.

The captain made a decision, and the staff and chief mate had no other opinions, so the reconnaissance ship began to adjust its course and move towards the city of Babylon, Cuba.

At the same time, the released unmanned reconnaissance aircraft also changed the flight route and the direction of investigation.

"Speaking of which place do you think the Red Sea and Aleppo will be the focus of alien invasion?" the captain ordered to adjust the course. Looking at the map in front of him, the captain suddenly asked the chief officer and staff a new question.

The staff officer thought about this question and said: "I think it's Aleppo. The Arab plateau is high on the side close to the Red Sea. From the perspective of terrain, it is not suitable for large-scale military attack. The whole Middle East region can be said to be surrounded by mountains. The only flat land is the Mesopotamian plain, and Aleppo is the only 'gap' in the Mesopotamian plain facing the Mediterranean , if you want to invade the Middle East from the Mediterranean region, this place is the most suitable place to attack. "

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