Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 99 The Crescent Moon Problem

Captain's room.

Qin Xie used a telescope to observe the distance.

A huge monster was floating on the foggy sea 4000 meters away from the heavy patrol ship "White Dove".

Its main body is shaped like a crescent moon, with three large black mouths and eight long, straight, sharp teeth.

It is extremely rare for an alien to be able to move autonomously on the Dead Sea without falling into a deep sleep.

Qin Xie’s biggest headache at the moment was how to write a good report and hand it in.

Commander Feng Ji issued an order to investigate the situation of the alien code-named "Crescent" and to do a good job of propaganda and appeasement to relevant friendly companies.

This alien creature blocked the Dead Sea trade route, which was the most important in the region during the winter. This caused many merchant groups to become very nervous and they had to take a long detour.

If you take a detour, you are likely to encounter monsters from other areas, run into dangerous areas such as light explosions, rapids and high-pressure whirlpools, and even run into territorial sea lords who are out fighting - they don't mind collecting some spoils along the way.

The Death Sea Knight, who was responsible for security, is also to blame for the losses suffered by friendly competitors. If the Seventh Fleet’s credit rating is downgraded as a result, the losses will be heavy.

Qin Xie knew.

Panic is more harmful than the disaster itself.

However, what can be done to convince competitors that although the "Crescent" is large in size and high in strength, it poses no threat to ordinary ships sailing on the Dead Sea?
He looked to his side, "Teddy, what do you think?"

On the table on Qin Xie’s left hand side stood a furry teddy bear half a person’s height.

The gray-brown teddy bear stretched its body. "I still suggest that you tell everyone that it is completely harmless, but due to some security and confidentiality principles, you cannot reveal too much."

"Let's first declare that nothing happened."

"If something does happen, we will say that maybe something happened, but we should not take any drastic action based on the current situation."

“After things got bad, we said maybe we should do something, but nothing could be done.”

"If things get completely out of control, it will be too late."

Teddy put his hands on his hips. "That's the process for solving most problems. Deny, delay, create obstacles, and shirk responsibility. Simple and effective."

Qin Xie felt somewhat helpless: "I admit that the method you mentioned is useful, but it cannot solve the current problem."

"Ah? You don't really want to solve this problem? Are you stupid?"

"If you really want to solve the problem, the entire Seventh Fleet should come over!"

Teddy Bear gave Qin Xie a cotton punch: "The commander asked you to come here just to let you say these words. Others are useless, but you have a family background, so if you say this, even if you encounter subsequent problems, the worst that can happen is that you will be transferred. The only difference is who is chosen to do this."

"A Xie, you know very well that the merchants, the Knights, and the sailors on the ship all know that what happened here is difficult to deal with. But they also need to explain to others. Everyone wants to get rid of the responsibility, but they are reluctant to give up the benefits."

The young captain said, "What I mean is that this method is too bad. It will be obvious at a glance that it is shirking responsibility. The report will not pass the Knights' Logistics Technical Assessment. At least we need to think of a convincing solution. It doesn't have to be a solution, but we have to show that we have tried to solve it."

"..."

Teddy Bear was a little impatient: "Then you have to move it away from here, can you do it?"

Qin Xie said, "Let me think about it again."

The two were about to start a new round of quarrel when there was a knock on the door.

"Captain, there's something going on near Crescent Blade!"

Qin Xie opened the door and found the knight Huo Bing outside with a nervous look on his face.

"Please come to the lookout! We found an unidentified object over there."

Qin Xie and Teddy Bear went all the way to the top of the cabin.

A C-class optical imaging device "telescope" is fixed here, which can see the real-time situation up to 4000 meters away. Although the light fog of the Dead Sea will affect the vision, the special components equipped can detect suspicious targets through the dead light.

Next to the telescope is an imaging silver plate engraved with direction and distance circles, which shows that a luminous object is approaching here.

Huo Bing said nervously, "Captain, this unidentified object is traveling at a speed of 45 kilometers per hour, which is faster than the two fastest supply ships here."

Qin Xie checked the mechanical watch on his wrist and immediately ordered: "Notify the Changfeng, Thornbird and two supply ships to enter formation 3 and prepare for battle."

"Yes, Captain!"

The order was given through a voice tube and passed along iron pipes into every cabin.

Soon, the two C-class medium patrol ships that were originally in line with the White Dove immediately retracted, forming a triangle with the flagship B-class heavy cruiser White Dove as the arrow and core. The two lighter supply ships sailed into the central protection area.

At this moment, Huo Bing suddenly said, "Captain... the unidentified object has disappeared."

After a moment, Qin Xie responded again. He looked at his watch again: "Switch the light printing track, prepare the "light blocking bullet" and "high pressure bullet", first high pressure, then light blocking, 3 seconds interval, after 40 seconds, open fire all around us."

The light-blocking bullet can block the light print from condensing into death light, and is a weapon that kills people.

Its drawback is that the intensity of the scattered attack is limited, and it can only weaken one round of the enemy's offensive. In addition, its shooting interval is long, so it is more used for blocking the first round or covering the last round.

High-pressure bombs are used to instantly increase the pressure in a certain area, temporarily destroying the stability of the local dead light and forming a special light and shadow phenomenon. This weapon is mainly used to identify hidden and lurking enemies.

On the mechanical watch, the hands are ticking.

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The sound of cannons roared!

The four secondary guns of the White Dove fired simultaneously in four directions, blasting out some strange light bands in the surrounding sea, like stretched auroras.

After the high-pressure bombs, light-blocking bombs followed, which dispersed part of the fog on the Dead Sea and also caused some splashing gaps on the optical fluid.

Huo Bing said: "We found the target. It's... on the other side of the 'crescent'."

Qin Xie looked through the observation mirror of the observation tower.

Next to the alien on the sea, there was a strange black ship.

The ship was not large, smaller than a medium-sized patrol ship, and its outline was very similar to that of an ordinary reinforced ship, with no weapons found on the deck or side. But Qin Xie observed it carefully and found that it was completely different from a normal ship structure, consisting of two black building units, square and spherical, and more like a stone ship.

The black ship had no flags and no sailors, but it was floating steadily.

The only good news is that its target is the alien "Crescent".

Suddenly, silver rings grew on the sphere on the black ship, as if some kind of light-printing structure or light-absorbing organ had been activated.

This black ship covered with silver eyeballs surrounded the "crescent", and the numerous silver eyeballs moved individually, as if the ship had opened hundreds of eyes and was looking at the alien.

The scene before him made Qin Xie feel a little numb.

What kind of monster is this?

He observed calmly, trying to recall similar things he had seen in his mind.

……

This image and organization is the victorious snake.

Qin Xie had more doubts.

Victory snakes are ferocious and powerful, and they are indeed social creatures, but I have never heard of them combining into a ship... This form of reinforced ship structure must be the result of someone giving them orders to maintain this unfamiliar appearance.

"Victory Snake?"

Huo Bing beside him was a little puzzled: "Captain, that's not right. It looks like there should be more than 200 of them. If such a large number of victorious snakes gather together, they usually deal with enemy invasions. But "Crescent Tooth" did not attack them..."

The knight showed a strange look: "Could it be that they want to hunt this alien?"

Qin Xie said, "Let's take another look."

About an hour later, it was confirmed that the Black Ship formed by Shengshe was indeed focusing on the alien, but was just circling around it, and this time the Black Ship could be seen diving under the Dead Sea, seemingly observing the "Crescent" from the bottom.

But the size of the "crescent" is similar to that of a small landmass, and the black ship is like a gerbil circling around the giant beast.

It is unlikely to pose any threat to it.

Shengshe's [Poison Break] is useless against the alien because the latter does not have the so-called light-absorbing organ.

Qin Xie saw that the black ship quickly docked beside the body of "Crescent Moon". They broke up into small pieces and began to enter the alien surface in the form of individual victorious snakes.

Is the winning snake going to settle on the "crescent"?

His head hurt even more.

Another group of victorious snakes appeared, and friendly competitors would probably be even more afraid to approach this side.

At this time, Teddy Bear suddenly said, "Forget it, I'll go talk to them and see what's going on."

Qin Xie frowned: "There are too many Sheng Snakes. You are not a combat unit, so you will also be in danger."

Teddy Bear patted his belly and said, "Victory snakes communicate through smell, but I am a master of dream stealing. I can talk to any life in a dream. Any creature that can dream is one that I can enter."

"Don't worry. Although Shengshe has a bad reputation, he is still quite reasonable to a neutral electromechanical life like me. The aliens rarely attack us."

Eventually, Teddy Bear sailed over alone in a small reinforced ship.

Qin Xie watched nervously, ready to take part in the rescue of his friend at any time.

The stuffed bear was indeed not attacked by the victorious snakes, but was just stared at by them all.

Teddy fell asleep.

Half an hour later, the teddy bear returned safely by boat.

……

"I figured it out."

Teddy Bear gestured to indicate that he wanted to talk alone.

When they got to the side of the deck, Teddy Bear said, "Those snakes belong to the Wasteland Development Company. They received an order from Chairman Zhou Yi to come and retrieve this alien."

Wasteland Development Company, Zhou Yi?

Qin Xie had an impression.

The Organ simply went to cause trouble for this man, and then never showed up again.

This matter was suppressed internally. But Qin Xie knew very well that it was because of the scandal behind this matter that the deputy commander He Ju was transferred away.

The commander did not have any comment on Zhou Yi. No comment meant that he was not an enemy at the moment.

but.

Recycling Aliens?

The alien "Emerald City" is indeed well-known in the Shagang area. It is said that because of the rescue, it has absorbed many homeless scavengers and even gave birth to the second generation of Emerald City... What is certain is that the chairman does understand aliens.

Could it be that "Crescent Tooth" really has something to do with the Wasteland Development Company?
Teddy added, "There is another one. There is a spine hunter in the sky. He is also an employee of their company. He came here to check the situation. We can talk to the spine hunter. It is an observer sent by the chairman."

Qin Xie thought.

There seems to be a solution to the "crescent" problem.

He immediately gave the order: "Communication station, contact the high-altitude hunters and tell them that we want to cooperate with the Wasteland Development Company."

"Yes, Captain."

Soon there was a response.

(End of this chapter)