On the planet’s synchronous orbit, in the captain’s lounge of the military zone, Leona was lying tiredly on her own single bed. After so many days of busyness, plus the scene last night In the fierce night battle, she has been on duty at the bridge and watching the battle. Up to now, she has felt a little physically and mentally exhausted...

But, no matter what, the humans of their Hope, the refugees who were exiled by UPL, finally saw a glimmer of hope of struggling to survive in this dark and dangerous alien universe.

Up to now, the ground base has defeated the large-scale insects' attacks twice in a row, especially last night, the extra-large burning can of their Hope was successfully thrown by Captain Planck until the insects got out and tried to attack After entering the underground caves of the ground base, they must have suffered heavy losses, right?

You know, the big fire last night, but it burned to the time when the sky was so bright, it gradually went out! Thinking about it this way, the bugs and monsters in the cave, as long as they didn't escape in time, must have been turned into ashes?

Moreover, based on rough calculations made by satellites, it is estimated that the number of insects that killed themselves on the ground has reached more than 10,000? And in the cave, there will only be more people burned by flames, right?

Calculating this way, after suffering such heavy casualties, within a short period of time, their swarms should not have more troops to sneak or attack again?

Then, they have now gained precious development time, plus enough high-energy crystals and those special high-energy gas that have been mined now, Leona believes that they will wait until the next time the swarms attack again. Wouldn't it be a large group of Marines and a few tanks?

call……

The hard work during this period was finally not in vain.

Thinking of this, Captain Leona, lying on his bed, opened his eyes suddenly and let out a long sigh.

In any case, even though Hope has made a lot of sacrifices now, they are finally getting better! The lives and sacrifices of those brave soldiers were not in vain!

Now, the human beings on the Nozomi are looking to the future...

These days, the heavy load on her shoulders has been pressing on her, and she even has no normal rest time!

At every moment, she will continue to urge herself, striving to do everything to perfection and to do her best, not only for her duty, but also for the more than 100,000 humans on the Hope. the future of!

Now, her efforts, as well as those of the soldiers and officers, and everyone else’s efforts have finally won a ray of life for their human beings. They not only obtained precious energy, but also created an opportunity for continued development. !

If she didn’t need to wait for Shuguang Zhinao to report to herself on the battle damage of the ground base, she now really wants to take a good night’s sleep regardless...

After opening her eyes for a while and looking at the cabin ceiling, which was only three meters high, she couldn't help but feel tired and closed her eyes slowly.

"..."

In any case, there is no war now, and it is okay to take a short break, right?

From last night to now, she hasn't had a chance to sleep yet...

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"Captain Leona, now the battle data on the ground base has been preliminarily calculated. Do you need to check it now?"

At this time, just a few minutes later, in Leona's captain's lounge, a holographic projection of Shuguang Zhinao suddenly appeared.

This dull artificial intelligence awakened Captain Leona aloud just before she was about to fall asleep.

So far, the light of the star in this planetary system has re-illuminated the ground base of planet JNO.3 and the synchronized orbit of Hope. It can also be clearly seen through the window glass of Captain Leona’s room. I saw the slightly dazzling light outside the window.

"Hey……"

When she was sleeping, she was awakened by the other party. Leona groaned helplessly, sat up with difficulty, and rubbed her swollen and beating temples.

call!

After taking another heavy breath, Leona raised her head and looked up at the dawn of the brain standing in front of her bed. This Sora has powerful logical calculation ability, but can never understand human emotions. Smart computer.

Couldn't it wink a little and let himself sleep a little longer?

"Just read it, don't show it to me yet!"

Seeing that Shuguang Zhinao had another plan to list that long holographic list, she waved her hand with a headache.

Now, Leona didn't want to look at the complicated and redundant data and lists, she just wanted to quickly know a general idea, and then, after explaining some things, she fell asleep badly!

She has decided: Today, she is going to skip work! Anyway, she is the captain of the Hope. Here, her official is the largest, and no one dares to make irresponsible remarks to herself!

"Okay, Captain!"

After responding, Shuguang quickly put away a few large holographic tables that were less than half the number listed just now.

"Last night's battle, so far, after preliminary statistics on the ground base, the personnel and material losses of our ground base are as follows:

Marines died in battle: 213, severely injured: 82, slightly injured: 208! There are fifty-two of them, even after their injuries are over, they should not serve in the army again! Another: According to statistics, most of the Marines who died in battle were recruits with insufficient training. "

Can't continue to serve in the army, it must be because of physical disabilities...

The fierce battle last night, the dawn of the ground situation was also known very clearly.

Especially after the emergence of that kind of snake-shaped bug, all Marines who participated in the battle on the front line did not have a few bone spurs stuck in their bodies!

Among them, lucky, the bone spurs did not penetrate the armor, but were only embedded in the metal armor, and did not cause any damage to the personnel inside. At most, it was only a certain degree of damage to the armored power combat uniform.

If you are unlucky, you will be directly pierced by the armor by bone spurs, pierce your body, or completely damage the armor, and then fall directly to the ground and die...

Having said this, Shuguang Zhinao looked at Captain Leona who was sitting on the bed silently, and when he saw that the other party's face was dim and did not make any statement, he continued reading.

It originally thought that when the captain heard these numbers, there would be greater emotional fluctuations. It also wanted to take the opportunity to study human emotions, but how did you know that Captain Leona was this silent expression?

Humans are really complicated creatures...

"The tank unit lost a tank. The three crew members in the tank were all corroded by the venom of unidentified flying insects and killed! The main base command center and some nearby buildings were also attacked by the poison sac of flying insects several times. , It’s just that the metal outer wall has not been eroded. At present, after the maintenance of the SCV engineering vehicle, the repairs have been basically completed, and there are no reports of losses in other buildings!

In addition, we also captured three puppy-shaped bugs, one snake-shaped bug, and a complete body of a huge mammoth-shaped bug. The number of bugs that were burned to death was roughly 60,000 per head! As for the specific figures, the ground cleaners said they could not count them! "

"The above is the statistical result of the battle last night!"

Soon, Zhinao Dawn reported the situation of the battle and the harvest, and then looked at Captain Leona, ready to wait for her next instructions.

"That cave... have you entered and explored it?"

Last night, the worms digged into the cave and infiltrated the base through that kind of giant earth-digger. Leona was a little worried about this.

If that cave is an underground world that leads to bugs, it would not be easy to deal with...

With their current strength of Hope, they are still reluctant to defend, but if they want to take the initiative to attack, it is estimated that they will appear weak.

"Yes, Captain! After the fire was extinguished, Commander Doug assigned a number of small unmanned detection robots to enter the cave for the first time, except for countless charred corpses and two corpses leading to the acid ocean. Beyond the fork, there is no gain!"

After speaking, Zhi Nao Shuguang wittily called up the section of the inclined cave.

It can be clearly seen from the holographic 3D map that this crypt dug out by bugs has a huge network channel underneath, as well as a huge underground cave-like Tibetan soldier area, where there are a lot of piles. Scorched bug carcasses.

In the end, these caves were divided into two forks leading to different directions, but these two forks lead to the ocean on both sides of the island where the base is located?

At this point, the reconnaissance robot can no longer go deep.

Obviously, these extraterrestrial bugs came through the huge ocean attack, not originally entrenched in the underground caves of the base. Is this probably good news?

These bugs, they have evolved, and it is estimated that they have the ability to move or survive shortly on the seabed?

"Well... if that's the case, then..."

After seeing that there was not much gain, Leona was about to nod her head, but when she just wanted to make Zhi Nao to withdraw, she suddenly remembered another thing.

"By the way, Shuguang, in the battle last night, is the list of those who made outstanding contributions listed?"

For soldiers who have died in battle, Hope has a complete set of procedures. Their bodies will be cremated, and then the ashes will be transported to Hope. Wait until they, humans, find a suitable for human habitation in the universe. After the new planet, they will be buried collectively on the earth belonging to humans.

Furthermore, for those who are still alive and have made outstanding meritorious services, they must also be rewarded and promoted by the senior leaders of Nozomi. This is what they deserve to fight and fight for the future of Nozomi mankind.

Regardless of which soldier, even the lowest rank of the Marine Corps, the Dawn’s intellectual brain detects their combat performance, and then after a manual review, they will get the corresponding accumulation of merits and finally get a promotion. For this, Hope also follows a set of rules of the UPL military system.

Of course, those who have made great contributions and performed particularly outstanding will receive special personal awards and leapfrog promotions from Nozomi.

"This list has also been counted, Captain!"

After hearing the captain's inquiry, Suguang Zhinao quickly made a series of lists next to it.

Among them, in the battle sequence of the USS Hope Marine Corps, there are Lieutenant Galen as the commander of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant Dreyus, and a few outstanding soldiers and non-commissioned officers.

Their performance in the battle has been initially recognized by Wisdom, and only after the approval of the senior officials on the Nozomi and the members of the Parliamentary Audit Office, corresponding awards and military rank promotions will be given.

In the heavy siege tank unit, the rookie Nolan interim commander has also been recognized for his performance!

If there are no accidents, I believe that soon, his temporary two characters will be directly converted and the corresponding military rank will be raised.

As for the SCV engineers, they did not directly participate in the battle this time, they could only accumulate merit points, and for the time being, none of them met the conditions for promotion or awards.

This is the case for logistical non-combat personnel. Although security is safe, it is also extremely difficult to obtain military merit. Only by honestly accumulating and earning qualifications can they hope to get ahead in the military system.

Then, it is Commander Doug of the ground base command center. Her performance and response are not bad this time. It is estimated that she can get a corresponding increase in military rank?

In the end... is the only ghost agent of Hope, Major Anne!

Seeing a large number of descriptions and specific explanations on the opponent's merit sheet, Captain Leona even doubted whether some of the above credits were written wrong?

Because when Leona looked over, she saw the hologram list clearly recording the other party's credit.

On the New Calendar of the Nozomi, on January 16th of the first year, the ghost agent, Major Anne Hasta, received the following merits:

Military record 1: Early warning!

When the worms on JNO.3 were digging the ground and preparing to raid the ground base, Major Anne gave a timely warning, gained valuable reaction time, and saved the base from being destroyed.

Reporter: One special class!

Military achievement record 2: Tank guns fight flying insects!

Major Anne created an unprecedented siege tank in the assault mode and high-speed driving conditions, using the 80mm caliber double-barreled gun, successfully killed three flying insects, the hit rate was 100%! She saved the remaining tank troops and made great contributions to the subsequent battles.

Reporter: First class work once!

Military record 3: Kill a huge bug!

The siege tank driven by Major Anne used the 120mm siege arc jar in the siege mode to kill a giant bug monster with two cannons. This helped the Marines stabilize the battle line and made a great contribution. Provide valuable practical experience for tank troops to kill large alien creatures.

Reporter: First class work once!

Military merit record 4: Help out the fire!

At the end of the battle, Major Anne used her ability to help multiple Marines put out the fire, successfully saving the lives of the other Marines.

Reporter: Third class once!

Summary: In the battle on the 16th, Major Anne, as the ghost agent of the Nozomi, made a special grade once, twice a first grade, and once a third grade. The contribution was huge. After accumulating achievements, it is recommended to leapfrog to the rank The rank of colonel and corresponding material rewards.

"..."

"Dawn, are you sure that the fact that the opponent's tank guns hit flying insects is true? Why did I never know that our siege tanks are capable of anti-aircraft artillery? If I remember correctly, they should not be equipped with air defense. Cannonball?"

She knows all these things about the early warning, the killing of the second big alien monster, and the use of abilities to put out the fire again, and she will not question these things.

But, the tank guns hit the flying insects?

I'm sorry, Leona has been in the army for many years, but has never heard of the Federation's ground combat tanks capable of anti-aircraft? As soon as I saw this incident, I thought it was fake...

100% hit rate? Do not make jokes! Even if it is a dedicated air defense tank, they can't achieve a 10% hit rate, right?

"Please wait, Captain!"

Hearing Captain Leona's questioning, Suguang Zhinao read the video file for the first time.

"Your Excellency, after my investigation, it was found that the tank artillery hitting the flying insect land is true. This is the video surveillance record of the base at that time. It has been entered into the tank soldier training materials of the Hope game platform. Now, please have a look."

Soon, Dawn released a video in front of Leona.

The above shows: a red painted tank, while rushing to the battle area of ​​C, suddenly discovered that the eight vehicles were being chased by three dragon-like insects near the base command center. He turned abruptly, drifted, turned and rushed wildly at high speed in the direction of the flying dragon.

On the way, its double-barreled 80mm double-barreled artillery was raised high, turning and aiming at the flying insects in the sky, and then one of the barrels suddenly burst out with a tongue of flame, the next moment , A flying insect in the sky exploded in the air, was directly hit by a shell and exploded into a pile of debris?

Then, before the remaining two flying insects had time to escape far, they were attacked by the next two and blasted down easily...

"This……"

Seeing the opposing team's aggressive tank operation, Leona couldn't help but stared blankly.

Then, she frowned, reached out and clicked the replay option on the holographic video, and watched it carefully from the beginning again.

"Dawn, if tank guns attack flying targets, is it possible to spread it?"

Thinking of this, Leona began to look at Zhi Nao with questioning eyes.

If it is really possible to popularize, do they even save the air defense force?

See, the tank can not only be used as a chariot in an assault with the team, but can also switch to the siege mode to provide strong fire support to the frontline troops. Besides, it is simply a perfect combat weapon!

Once there was the possibility of popularization, she remembered that when a large number of tanks and seas appeared, all enemies on land or in the air were within their attack range. At that time, the picture was simply not too beautiful?

"I'm sorry, Captain! Although this is possible in actual combat and theoretically, it requires strong computing power, personal response power, and a strong ability to predict the enemy!

In my simulation, even if the auxiliary calculation module is added, the hit rate is less than 10% when attacking an air target flying along a predetermined orbit 10,000 times.

When attacking a target flying along an unscheduled route, the hit rate is much lower than 3%!

Therefore, there is no possibility of popularization for the time being, this can only be an example of Major Anne! Or, blamed on her magical abilities? "

There is no need for Captain Leona to explain this matter. Sugon Brain has already used her powerful logic computing capabilities to simulate 10,000 times on the Hope’s game platform, so it quickly gave what it wanted to know. answer.

"Well, let's not mention this for now. Regarding the direct promotion of Major Anne to Colonel... Does her mental speed seem a bit too fast?"

A few days ago, after Xiao Anni sent out a fireball to destroy the huge alien monster, the Hope was promoted to a major officer based on her abilities and merits!

And now, how long has it been? She was promoted to colonel by leapfrogging her?

Is this a bit too fast? You know, Commander Doug of the ground base command center, her current rank is just a lieutenant colonel...

"Captain, this is the result calculated based on the opponent's military merits. I do not recommend that you make any changes to this!"

On Hope, it follows the entire set of military merit award system of the Earth Federation UPL, and Sugon’s calculation of Anne’s military merit is also consistent with the calculation method of the Earth Federation, and it has not seen anything wrong.

Military merit is a very important thing for a soldier!

It is an honor for soldiers, and it is also a recognition and reward for combat behavior. Once it is changed easily, the entire military system can easily be messed up!

In the UPL army of the Earth Federation, it is also a very serious crime to change the military merits of others at will!

"Okay, I see... you step back first and let me sleep first."

As a former UPL officer, Leona certainly knew what kind of consequences would be caused by randomly changing the military merits of others, and because of this, she felt a little difficult to handle.

Now, not long after landing on the planet JNO.3, there have been two high-intensity battles. The ghost agent, the opponent has already been promoted to colonel by virtue of his own ability...

If she fought a few more times and made great achievements a few more times, would she continue to be promoted to brigadier general?

A little girl brigadier general? This alone can make people feel incredible!

Moreover, even more terribly, Leona felt that with Little Annie's magical ability, as long as she continued to fight on the planet, it seemed that it was impossible to continue to be promoted to the brigadier general?

This is too ridiculous!

Is UPL’s military merit system a bit unsuitable for the special circumstances of the current Nozomi?

Just look at Galen and Dreyus, now they are barely able to be promoted to lieutenant at best!

With their abilities, if they don't die halfway, without several years of qualifications, they will definitely not be promoted to a high-ranking officer like a colonel!

It's normal to be like this...

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At the planetary ground base, in the canteen of a feeding station, Xiao Annie has used up her breakfast and is dangling her legs, sitting on the tall canteen chair, constantly peeling some nut-like things. After throwing the nuts in her mouth, she threw the husks on her dinner plate.

"Little Annie? What are you eating?"

Galen and Dreyus, who were carrying their own dinner plates to the recycling area, passed by Annie’s seat, wondering if they smelled something, but they soon returned. And with a shy face, he sat in two places opposite Annie.

Then, Galen asked curiously while picking up a shell from Little Annie's dinner plate.

"This seems to be some kind of nut? Are we capable of producing nuts on the Hope?"

Dreyus also stared at the hard shells scattered all over the tabletop with wonder. This kind of thing looks like melon seeds, but it doesn't look like it?

Then this should be Little Annie's own private goods. The current Hope, it is already very difficult to cultivate food crops, and it is absolutely impossible to waste resources to cultivate low-yielding perennial plants like nuts!

"This is pine nuts..."

Little Annie unhappily pushed aside a big pine nut and threw it in her mouth, and then directly threw the two empty shells onto the table.

This is one of the special offerings made by the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas of the High Elves to the lord of the Flame Alliance when she was in the world of Azeroth.

The yield of this kind of pine nuts is not too high. They are picked from the few unpolluted alpine pine forests in Quel'Thalas. All of them are huge pine trees of about a thousand years old, soaked in the Sunwell for many years. Among the light, the quality is by no means comparable to ordinary pine.

Originally, the places where the giant pine forests grew were full of active trolls. However, when the hapless trolls were surrounded by high elves, fire elements, humans and dwarves, they died long ago and ran away. Quel'Thalas could hardly find them anymore.

Then, the high elves were able to develop these high mountain areas that they didn't really appreciate, and successfully used these high-quality magic pine nuts that can only be picked by rangers or wizards as an elven specialty.

Due to the difficulty of picking, their output is not too much, and most people can't buy it!

"Pine nuts? This head and smell seem a bit different..."

Dreyus grabbed a bunch of empty shells and smelled it, which seemed to be different from what he had eaten on earth?

"Just eat it and you'll know it, come here, little Annie, you have a share! Can you give us a taste?"

Compared to Dreyus, Galen looked much thicker, and he stretched out a slap and unceremoniously spread it in front of Annie.

His meaning is obvious: I want Little Annie to give him some food!

"Oh! Please give me some too!"

Dreyus' big slap was also stretched out at the same time.

Little Annie has a lot of good things, he knows it, he has eaten it before, so this time he saw Galen stretched out his hand, he will definitely not fall behind!

"..."

Looking at the two big hands stretched out in front of her desk, and looking up at the two people opposite, Xiao Annie frowned her brows a little unhappily, and pursed her mouth in dissatisfaction.

"There is only one person! There can be no more!"

After thinking for a while, Annie still reluctantly placed a special pine nut almost the size of a thumb in the palms of the two of them.

She doesn't have much of this thing herself. In the space pocket, there are only two big bags, but she has to eat a little leisurely!

This is made by the high elves specially cooked by magic and added with many expensive Azeroth spices. It is especially dedicated to their high elves queen and the special offerings of her leader of the Flame Alliance, but money can’t buy it. Of it!

"Just one?"

"This is too stingy, right?"

Galen and Dreyus retracted their hands in dissatisfaction, looking at the pine nut in their palms, they were a little unsatisfied, this one, they couldn't taste it...

"!!!"

Then, when they carefully peeled off the shell and threw the pine nut the size of a peanut into their mouths and chewed twice, their expressions changed instantly.

When their eyes were about to go round, they instantly stretched out their palms.

"Little Annie, give me some more rewards?"

"That's right! Just one pill just now, and I didn't taste it. Give me more?"

At this time, not only Galen was pleading, but Dreyus began to lower his body with a shy face.

"No more! Go away!"

She knew it would be like this!

Every time, as long as she eats in public, they will always begging to give them a little bit, and they will never stop after eating one after another!

"Give me a little more? Or, grab another hand?"

"Sir, all right, can you give us a few more pills?"

Galen stretched out his hand while staring at the magical pocket of little Annie.

He knows that ~lightnovelpub.net~ is inside, there must be all kinds of delicacies that they have never eaten before!

"No more! Goodbye!"

Little Annie grabbed her empty dinner plate, jumped off the chair, and trot to the recycling area of ​​the canteen.

She has already decided, leave here early, go back to her officer's room, lie on the bed alone, eat whatever you want, so don't stay here again!

"..."

"..."

(Little Master Anne...Don't you still have two big pockets of pine nuts? Just grab two and send them away?-Tibbers is a little bit blind, isn't it just a bit of pine nuts? Must be so stingy?)

"Shut up! Tibbers! You know, these are just two pockets! They will be eaten up one day! At that time, will you run to Azeroth and pick them for me?"

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