Chapter 269 Demand from the Pioneer Army
Xu Dalong stood on the desert sand dunes, looking at the billowing smoke and dust in the distance, frowning slightly.
"Have the logistics not sent over the new wrong-toothed dog yet?" Xu Dalong asked the adjutant behind him.
The adjutant looked at Xu Dalong, who looked tired, and said: "Our consumption here is really too great. The wrong-toothed dog is not a spiritual beast that can be artificially cultivated. The logistics side can only send people to capture it in the A2511 secret realm. Listen. They said they even sent missions to major beast control academies in order to catch more wrong-toothed dogs.”
Hearing the words of the adjutant, Xu Dalong also smiled helplessly: "This group of logistics staff also thought of letting students go to the A-level secret realm."
"Without the Crooked Tooth Dog, I'm afraid we won't be able to move forward." At this moment, a young beast master came over.
He has a handsome face and a tall figure.
His dark skin, exposed to the sun all year round, gave him a hint of the iron-blooded aura unique to a soldier.
Lin Kexing, one of the most talented beast masters in history, had a fourth-level quasi-god beast the year he graduated from the beast master academy, and he was also a quasi-god trained by himself.
After graduation, he directly joined the Pioneer Army and started his own frontline exploration path.
Now, he has grown from a young boy to a determined soldier.
However, even such a powerful beast master was embarrassed when facing the sand in this unknown secret realm.
The sand and dust in the secret realm here seem to have some kind of special spiritual intelligence, which will cause the greatest harm to humans and spiritual pets who enter it in different ways.
So far, its powers have included squalls, sandstorms, legions of sandmen, quicksand traps, and mirages.
"If it is really a spiritual beast, it is at least a quasi-god level spiritual beast." Lin Kexing looked at the sand in the distance and frowned.
So far, only the Crooked Tooth Dog can avoid the sneak attack of sand and dust through its natural keen sense.
Therefore, the Pioneering Army urgently recruited the wrong-toothed dogs to the rear.
After a large number of malocclusions were sacrificed, they finally advanced to where they are now.
It was this advancement that made them more convinced that this piece of sand was intelligent.
It seemed to know that Xu Dalong and Lin Kexing were not easy to mess with, so it never had any head-on conflicts with them, but continued to use the environment to cause any trouble to the pioneering army.
Sha Chen was indeed very smart. Faced with such a tactic, even if they were all fourth-level beastmasters with quasi-gods helping them, Xu and Lin had no good solution and could only bite the bullet and continue to advance.
If it were normal, faced with such a dilemma, the Pioneer Army would usually choose to give up exploration temporarily and instead let the real-world R&D team at the rear develop new solutions to deal with the existing dilemma.
There is no need to increase casualties for things that can be solved with science and technology. This is the main concept of the modern pioneering army in exploring new secret realms.
You can say that this method lacks a trace of the passion and fearlessness of our ancestors, but it is indeed the most effective way.
And you really can’t say which one is more economical: giving subsidies to sacrificed beast masters or developing new technologies.
Just based on the existing information and data, R&D expenditures have begun to decrease rapidly since six years ago. R&D personnel at the rear can always find various unique angles to solve the various difficulties faced by the pioneering army.
The only problem is...
"General, we have eaten all the supplies we brought." The adjutant shouted to Xu Dalong with a look of despair.
Xu Dalong's expression changed drastically: "What did you say? All of them?"
The adjutant swallowed, then took out a bag of powdery stuff: "That's all that's left."
Seeing the thing in the adjutant's hand, Xu Dalong, who rarely had any mood swings even when faced with attacks from wild beasts, shouted angrily: "Why haven't you thrown this thing away from me yet!"
"But...it is indeed food." The adjutant murmured.
Yes, it is indeed food.
Food that tastes worse than shit.
This is the emergency food that logistics gave them with the latest equipment not long ago.
A kind of mushroom.
Although it is known as a delicious mushroom, it has a disappointing taste.
The crooked-toothed dogs in the army would look horrified when they saw them eating this kind of food.
And this is just a microcosm of countless outrageous scientific research in the real world over the years.
Among the frontline troops of the Pioneer Army, many people are discussing whether there is a mushroom fairy in the real world and why so many research and development products appear in the form of mushrooms or fungi.
Xu Dalong sighed and said: "Let's retreat to the initial camp first."
If this thing is really to be distributed as food, Xu Dalong is really worried that there will be a mutiny in the army.
When Xu Dalong retreated to the camp with his troops, he happened to catch up with the logistics troops coming to deliver supplies.
Everyone looked saved.
Looking at the various cans that made me want to vomit, they all expressed their desire.
Compared to those damn mushrooms, these canned luncheon meats, which are full of starch and sewage fragments, are simply the most delicious food on earth!
Along with these supplies, there were also batches of mistoothed dogs.
Looking at the cages of the wrong-toothed dogs that were being removed from the transporting pets, Lin Kexing said with some surprise: "Are there so many this time?"
"We didn't expect it either." The beastmaster in charge of escorting them also smiled helplessly.
"It seems that you are working really hard for our needs." Lin Kexing said moved.
"No... In fact, the logistics department has almost forgotten that you have this need." The escorting beast master had a good relationship with Lin Kexing, so he told the truth.
Lin Kexing was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then said helplessly: "Okay, I don't seem to be surprised by this at all. Our logistics masters are like this."
"So, where did so many cross-toothed dogs come from?" At this moment, Xu Dalong asked.
"A student took over this task and handed it over to us."
"Students?!" Lin Kexing, who was organizing the reception of crooked-toothed dogs, opened his eyes wide when he heard these words. He pointed at the thousands of crooked-toothed dogs in front of him, "You said this was caused by students? Could it be that it was caused by students? All the students from the Beast Mastering Academy are mobilized, right? Ordinary students are not qualified to enter the A-level secret realm.”
"It's a student." The escort officer said, "It seems to be from the New Guangdong Beast Control Academy, called Zhou Lu. Because this kind of thing is so incredible, I went to find out more about it."
"Zhou Lu?" Xu Dalong was stunned for a moment when he heard the name.
Lin Kexing also noticed something strange about his boss and asked: "Old Xu, do you know him?"
"It seems that he is my brother's classmate." Xu Dalong recalled, "I saw his performance in the first beast control exam last time, and he is indeed very talented as a beast control master."
"Didn't your brother just take the exam for the first time last year?" Linking said, "What? This boy named Zhou Lu has the strength to enter the A-level secret realm in just one year? And isn't your brother from Xin'an Beast Control Academy? I guess they have the same name?”
Lin Kexing's words made sense, but Xu Dalong felt that there shouldn't be so many coincidences in the world, so he silently wrote down the name in his heart, planning to ask Xu Wuhu when he went back this time. If it was really the Zhou Lu he knew, then this talented boy must fight for him.
It would be a pity if such talents were wasted on the field.
"That's right." Xu Dalong suddenly looked at the escort officer and said, "We have new needs here."
"Are there new demands? Come on, you are really my uncle." The escort officer showed a desperate expression.
"Then you can ask the logistics to reject our request." Xu Dalong said with a cold face, "It is nothing more than losing the mineral deposits under this desert."
This sentence made the escort officer's expression change.
The reason why Xu Dalong led the pioneering army to confront an unknown sand and dust spirit beast of at least the fourth level here is because there are various non-renewable energy sources under this desert that are urgently needed in the real world?
According to official calculations, as long as the resources under this desert are fully developed, the pace of human modern technology replacing spiritual pets will be greatly accelerated.
Is this a good thing for beast masters? No one knows.
But it is a good thing for the officials.
As long as this mineral deposit is mastered, the official will at least have a card in their hands to "comprehensively implement the plan to replace spiritual pets with technology." Whether it will be used depends on the performance of the major beast-controlling families that have been constraining the official before. .
These beast-controlling families relied on their early monopoly on the cultivation methods of some special spiritual pets, and used their spiritual pets to monopolize many industries. Therefore, official reforms and management were often affected by them.
Xu Dalong is a soldier and he resolutely carries out any orders issued by the official.
If there really is a wave of technology replacing spiritual pets in the real world in the future, he doesn't see any problem with this.
This is the necessity of the times.
Someone once said that there are only two paths for future beastmasters.
One is to become a competitive player, a star of the competition that attracts much attention, and drive your spiritual pets to compete in various competitions to gain popularity and bonuses.
The other option is to join the pioneering army and various exploration organizations, go to endless unknown secrets to search for various mineral resources, and inject continuous power into the technological engine of human society.
In fact, officials have indeed begun to prepare for these two roads.
On the one hand, we vigorously promote various competitions, and on the other hand, we allow the pioneering army to step up their exploration of various mineral deposits.
This is also the main reason for the current manpower shortage of the logistics force.
At the same time as Xu Dalong, there were more than a dozen pioneering armies exploring different secret realms, and they needed to meet the supplies of these pioneering army troops at the same time.
"Tell me, what do you need?" the escort officer sighed and asked.
Xu Dalong said calmly: "We need helpers who can fight against large spiritual beasts, and who can also break up large unknown spiritual beasts into sandstorms, at least level four."
Hearing that they were not here to ask for supplies, the escort officer breathed a sigh of relief and said: "I will convey it."
"There is no need to look for it in the Pioneering Army, go to the nursing team or the Invalids Hospital." Xu Dalong stopped the escort officer who was about to leave. "I understand that within the Pioneering Army, no one is suitable to fight against this spiritual beast."
"You want to use the divine beast? This is impossible." The escort officer shook his head and said.
Although in theory, the Pioneer Army still retains the opportunity to apply for assistance from mythical beasts, due to various events in the real world and the fact that several of the mythical beasts in the Invalides have entered the preliminary steps of hospice care, the official will not easily The one who sent the mythical beast to the secret realm.
Xu Dalong naturally knew this: "Ask more, maybe there will be a suitable candidate."
The escort officer said: "I can only help you convey it. As for whether you can find the person you need in the end, it depends on luck."
With that said, he took his spiritual pet and left.
"I said... what to do with these crooked-toothed dogs?" Lin Kexing pointed to the pile of crooked-toothed dogs not far away and said with a wry smile, "There's a lot of food for this day, right? Those damn logistics old men don't either Give us enough dog food.”
"Aren't there still a lot of those delicious mushrooms? Let's use them as dog food."
"No dog will eat this thing!" Lin Kexing complained.
Xu Dalong's face was expressionless: "I ate when I was too hungry. Isn't that how you ate in the first place?"
As soon as he heard this, Lin Kexing showed a desperate expression: "Can we stop talking about this? I feel desperate when I think about it now."
Xu Dalong finally couldn't stand it any longer: "You think I'm not desperate?"
It has to be said that the destructive power of delicious mushrooms is indeed powerful. As long as the frontline members of the Pioneer Army are mentioned, their expressions will change drastically.
On the other side, Zhou Lu cleaned up all the remaining immortal souls he could find in the secret realm and returned to New Guangdong College.
As soon as he arrived at the temporary residence, he saw Ye Qingyu sitting in Wu Xiaoqing's laboratory.
"Sister Qingyu, why are you here?" Zhou Lu asked in surprise, "Is there any result in the investigation of Immortal Kingdom?"
"No." Ye Qingyu smiled bitterly and shook her head, "It was taken over by someone else."
This was not beyond Zhou Lu's expectation.
"So, you just took a vacation?"
"It would be great if it could be this easy." Ye Qingyu said helplessly, pointed at Wu Xiaoqing and said, "Isn't there a new research and development task for Xiaoqing?"
"New R&D tasks?"
This time it was Wu Xiaoqing who answered him: "It was sent from the Pioneering Army, requesting the development of a product that can suppress sand and dust, and it is the kind of large-scale sand storm."
"Suppressing sandstorms? Is this almost becoming a weather weapon?" Zhou Lu asked in surprise, "Is it really possible?"
"Is it impossible?" Wu Xiaoqing asked directly.
Um...if it's Sister Xiaoqing...
"Actually, Xiaoqing has completed this task."
"Ah?" Zhou Lu was immediately shocked, "Isn't it the mission just issued?"
"It's true that the mission is just below." Wu Xiaoqing chuckled, "But the thing doesn't have to be newly developed. I searched among the previous research samples and found a suitable product."
"Again, mushrooms?" Zhou Lu asked abruptly, and immediately felt that his question was in vain.
But Wu Xiaoqing gave an answer that surprised Zhou Lu: "It's not a mushroom, it's moss."
With that said, Wu Xiaoqing showed Zhou Lu a glass bottle: "A type of moss that can reproduce quickly in the desert."
(End of chapter)