The Most Powerful Brain in the Interstellar Space

Chapter 645 Alarm
Verifying personnel is not difficult, especially for commanders with control panels, it can be done very easily.

Wearing a robe with a green lining, 1002 sat atop the tower. He was a commander, the branch commander of this 759th base tower.

He was among the first group to come from the west, but his abilities were unremarkable. Compared to the other commanders, he seemed rather ordinary and lacked any special talents. That's why he was assigned to Tower 759. The official reason was to guard the border, but in reality, they just thought he was useless and sent him to an unimportant location to occupy space.

However, 1002 himself felt he wasn't particularly skilled and was happy to be left idle. Even if he couldn't dominate and score points like others, he was still leading a base tower, and as long as he fulfilled his command responsibilities, his score and ranking wouldn't be low.

Moreover, the risks of stationing himself in this desolate area are relatively low. He only needs to manage his own men; how fierce the fighting is at the front is none of his concern.

Despite his seemingly indifferent demeanor, and the fact that he kept his post separate from everyone else, he was actually very attentive to controlling the entry and exit of patrol personnel, strictly guarding those entering the tower.

However, upon closer examination... without a unified standard and without a unified information gap, it is easy to make mistakes.

As he watched another person return, he casually counted them: one, two, three… Suddenly, he felt something was off. Six? Aren't there seven people in a squad…?

1002 sat bolt upright, his hand gripping the windowsill tightly, his gaze sharp as he looked down at the squad waiting below. One, two, three… That’s right, there are seven people in total: three individual fighters and four support members.

He sensitively opened the control panel to check the situation of the seven people, and then his expression turned serious. He immediately ordered his subordinates not to let them in.

The returning squad was still waiting outside when the half-open door suddenly changed. Spikes rose from the top of the gate, and the surrounding fence suddenly tightened. The personnel who had been standing guard had somehow set up their guns and were pointing them in their direction.

What's going on? What happened?
Upstairs, a soldier who appeared to be relaying orders lowered his head and looked down at the crowd, asking, "What's going on with you all?"

The team leader below is also confused, right? What happened... How do they know what happened? They just came back normally, and then suddenly their teammates pointed guns at them, but they didn't do anything.

In an instant, everyone broke out in a cold sweat, and the squad leader stammered, unable to say anything.

The people at the top instantly became suspicious upon seeing their expressions. If these were truly enemies who had infiltrated... then the people they had chosen were utterly useless, unable to even utter a word of rebuttal. Moreover, he recognized the leader; he had been assigned to the same group as him, and the man seemed honest but not particularly bright.

However, their problems are obvious and cannot be ignored.

"You don't seem like a mole to me. If you're being forced, just say it here. We outnumber you, so don't be afraid of any threats."

Big Captain: ...

No, it's not that he didn't want to talk, but this whole thing was so inexplicable and nonsensical—who could tell him what had happened? He returned from patrol to be inexplicably attacked by his own men, but he really hadn't done anything. Seeing that his men seemed confused and stubborn, the messenger finally couldn't hold back and said bluntly, "Do you even know that your team has an extra person? You didn't just bring back a spy by accident, did you?"

The squad leader, who had initially looked completely wronged, suddenly seemed to remember something and exclaimed in realization, "I was wondering what it was all about, no wonder..."

His appearance immediately attracted everyone's attention, including the one who had been watching from above.

Judging from the other person's expression, it seems like they have some reason, and perhaps they've misunderstood?
But 1002 wouldn't let his guard down so easily. When he investigated the seven people, he discovered that one of their auras, which should have corresponded to the mark, was directly drawn to a certain place in the forest, and one of the seven people in front of him was clearly out of sync with the other six.

This is a big problem.

All commanders who enter the inner perimeter can activate this control panel, which is somewhat like a control panel and can replace various communication devices to assist commanders in personnel deployment.

Initially, the control panel has limited capacity and functionality. However, as the number of teams the command accepts increases, the capacity will naturally expand, and more functions will be unlocked.

Only 1002 was not highly valued in the team from the west. The members assigned to him did not even exceed the capacity of the first layer and could only perform simple tag connection communication and another check function.

Furthermore, the connection markers, needless to say, help them identify members of their own team. The checkboxes are an extremely powerful auxiliary function, allowing users to edit and select their marked and connected subordinates as a specific group. This enables unified management of the group, which is far more convenient than managing each member individually.

Xi Lai also made good use of this function so that he could remotely control the ownership of all the base towers and more than 2,000 people.

The seven members of the returning squad were indeed all within his range, but the problem was that when he checked his view, he found that the marker he was looking at did not correspond to the actual location of the other side.

This might be a bit hard to understand. To put it simply, he discovered that the original location of one of the seven people did not correspond to his current location. Even though the person was right in front of him, 1002's investigation traced one of them back to a place far away in the forest.

This change and disorder was abnormal, and 1002 had reason to suspect that someone might have infiltrated the group with the intention of entering Kivita. As for what he wanted to do after infiltrating, it was self-evident.

The standoff below continued in a chilling atmosphere. The burly team leader explained, somewhat helplessly and with a wry smile, why there was an extra person in his team with a different perspective. It was because he wasn't actually from their team; he belonged to another squad.

According to this person, a minor accident occurred when the two teams met in the forest. Although they immediately separated due to scheduling issues, they each took one person with them.

This man was said to have collapsed from exhaustion more than a dozen times, severely impacting patrol operations. His team leader, seeing that he couldn't go on any longer, and having heard that they were going back to rest, asked them to take him along. Otherwise, if he stayed here, let alone maintain martial law, it would be a miracle if he didn't cause trouble.

(End of this chapter)